Affection for Sidaogou during the Famine

Chapter 343 "Click"

After the incident, everyone dispersed and continued to work.

The walnuts are now ripe, and the green skin can be easily removed by stepping on them. When the walnuts just fell from the tree, they fall to the ground and the cores pop out directly, which is a test of eyesight when picking them up.

There are weeds everywhere under the tree. Due to the drought, they are not very tall. Walnut kernels with their green skins peeled off and a yellowish brown color are mixed in with them, and they are easy to miss if you don't look carefully.

The only pity is that there are not many walnuts this year, less than one-third of last year.

Niu Xiaolian: "During this period, the food factory is buying walnuts, and they are paying more than 30 cents per pound. If we pick them all today, can we harvest 500 pounds?"

Uncle Niu: "Almost. I see that three sacks have been filled. If I look carefully, I can still fill three more sacks.

After drying, a sack can weigh more than 80 kilograms, and actually weighs 500 kilograms.

If we sell them all we can make 150 to 160 yuan, and each of us can get about 10 yuan on average.

Not bad, not bad, this income is quite considerable, equivalent to half a month's salary of a first-class worker!"

"Dad, let's save some more walnuts this year. Zhao Zhao said that eating walnuts can nourish the brain. The three of us are all studying, so eating more walnuts can make us smarter."

Niu Xiaoyun also tried her best. In order to leave more food for her, she used the joke Han Zhaozhao had made against her father.

"Really? How come I haven't heard of this? Don't lie to me. I was thinking of selling the walnuts and asking someone to exchange them for some grain from the food factory.

I heard that one pound of walnuts can be exchanged for two and a half pounds of cornmeal, or one pound of white flour!"

Niu Xiaomin and Niu Xiaolian didn't dare to say anything, but Xiao Sanzi next to them was in the same camp as Niu Xiaoyun, "Uncle Niu, it's true. What do you think walnut kernels look like? Does it look very similar to human brains?

Don’t old people always say that you need to replenish what you lack? If your feet are injured, eat pig’s trotters. If you are old, eat all kinds of whips. Walnut kernels look like brains, so eating them will definitely replenish your brain.”

"That makes sense!" Grandpa Guan laughed. "That makes a lot of sense. In the past, wealthy families even ate monkey brains to supplement their brains!"

Uncle Qian's face turned red. Did this naughty kid eavesdrop on their conversation again? He walked around behind Xiao Sanzi and kicked him: "Naughty kid, where did you hear these nonsense?

You are so smart, it's really Mu Guiying who is in charge, and you will not be left behind in every battle?"

The third kid was kicked to the ground and was still confused when he got up!

"What's wrong? How did I offend you? Why did you kick me?"

Several grown men laughed and joked, "Oh, what did Old Qian do at home? Did the kid find out and he can't save face anymore?"

"What's the matter? Shuangxi, do you have any more? Give some to me, an old man. I've been feeling my kidneys haven't been very good lately, so I need some supplements." Grandpa Guan stared at Grandpa Qian.

"No, really, where can I get that good thing? This naughty kid must have eavesdropped on my conversation with his mother.

Last time we went to Northeast China, our team leader accidentally got a deer penis and came back to show off. I was just joking with her mother.

This child is like this, he listens to adults talking, but he cuts off the beginning and the end, and he can't learn a word clearly."

Grandpa Guan and Grandpa Niu looked at each other and smiled, and it was unclear whether they believed it or not.

After picking the walnuts, they dug two sacks of kudzu roots under the guidance of Han Zhaozhao.

Pueraria root is very difficult to dig, as it grows in the rocks. They first pulled the rocks apart and then used a hoe to dig it out bit by bit, which took quite some time.

But I heard that Pueraria root is not only a medicinal material, but can also be used as food if processed properly, and is especially popular among women.

If you don’t become a householder, you don’t know how expensive firewood and rice are!

The food supply was not enough, and they had a hard time feeding the whole family every day.

Having one more kind of food can help them solve some of their problems.

Han Zhaozhao led his friends to dig Polygala tenuifolia, Salvia miltiorrhiza and Stemona buds, and would pick the densely grown sour jujubes.

"Zhao Zhao, why did you pick so many sour dates? They make you hungry quickly and are totally useless!"

On the way home, Qi Mudan saw them picking half a sack of sour jujubes and asked in confusion.

"This sour jujube kernel is also a medicinal herb, used to treat physical weakness, excessive sweating, palpitations and insomnia.

My grandma is old and can't sleep easily if there's a little noise, so it doesn't hurt to have some at home."

"Then give me some of what you've prepared. I sometimes have trouble sleeping."

"Okay, since we can't sell these sour dates anyway, we can divide them among ourselves after they're cooked.

Drinking sour jujube kernel tea can nourish the heart and liver, and reduce sweat and promote body fluid. Drinking more of it is good for your health. "

"No wonder Zhao Zhao is so interested in learning Chinese medicine. I've discovered that Zhao Zhao has really become more skilled.

When I pinched Xiaojun's bones, I didn't react at all. I was startled by the "crack" sound. Unexpectedly, Zhaozhao actually pinched his bones well!"

Aunt Qian pointed at Niu Xiaojun who was running happily in front of her, and she felt both scared and relieved.

As we walked to the outskirts of the mountain, we saw more and more people coming.

Seeing a group of them carrying several large sacks of heavy goods, I felt a little jealous.

"Hey, lady, what good stuff did you get? Where did you find it?" a woman asked the old lady with a shameless face.

"Nothing, just some herbs we dug. If you want to dig them, you have to go deep into the mountains. There aren't many around here."

"Herbs? Forget it. I would like to dig them, but I'm afraid they recognize me. But I don't recognize them!

Are you from a pharmacy or a hospital? You're amazing. You dug so much, you should be able to make a lot of money, right?"

Grandpa Guan pretended to be profound: "Well, you can't dig randomly if you don't know what it is. Otherwise, not only will you waste your efforts, but you may also dig up poisonous herbs and get poisoned.

But there are more wild vegetables there than here. You can walk inside and dig more.

Well, it’s getting late, we have to go home quickly. We still have some herbs to clean up!”

A group of people rushed down the mountain and headed straight for the place where the tricycle was hidden.

"Hmph, do you need to tell me? Don't I know that the further you go, the more wild vegetables there are? Doesn't it take more effort to walk farther? Now we can't even get enough to eat, so who would walk so far just to get wild vegetables? I'm not stupid!"

The woman watched the group go down the mountain, grumbling as she dug wild vegetables. She had to go down the mountain too, or she would miss dinner and the head of the household would scold her when he got home from work.

"Hey? What are you guys doing? This is our tricycle, get off quickly!"

Xiao Sanzi ran fast and saw several children jumping around on the tricycle. He felt so distressed that he started shouting from a distance.

When Han Zhaozhao and the others arrived, the four children had already been pinned to the ground by Xiao Sanzi.

Among them were two girls aged seven or eight, a boy aged five or six, and a girl aged three or four. They were wearing open-crotch pants, exposing their dark buttocks.

I don’t know where they got the dust on their butts, they are so dirty that people don’t want to get close to them.

“Don’t hit us, my brother and sister have never ridden in a rickshaw like this, we are just sitting there to play for a while.

If you don’t let us sit, we’ll just get off!”

Xiao Sanzi checked the car and nodded to Han Zhaozhao, indicating that the tricycle was not damaged.

Throwing the key to Niu Xiaomin, Han Zhaozhao asked him to unlock the door. Han Zhaozhao took the kids aside and asked, "Where are you from? Who are you with? What are you doing here?"