Farming and reading family

This kind of thing is quite embarrassing, so we have to put the blame on others.

No one benefits from this kind of thing, but if it comes to light, someone will be punished.

Bashang Village brought people here, so Baotou Village was in a weak position, but the Wang family was shameless enough, so this matter caused a stir.

Even if Zheng Fengan wanted to drive the Wang family out of Baotou Village, he had to stand on the Wang family's side at this moment.

So this matter turned from a matter between two adults into a matter between two villages.

Gao E found it boring after listening for a while. This kind of thing was just nonsense.

Only after Chen Qing and Chen Jie came back did they stop talking about this matter.

"Why is it taking so long?" Lei went over to help carry it.

"There are two." Chen Jie was tired but happy.

There was indeed one when he went there, but when he came back and asked his elder brother to help move it, another one got stuck in the water. Fortunately, the one that got stuck was not very big, so two people had to carry it back at once.

"Really?" Lei was excited.

"Let's not eat yet, let's deliver it first." Chen Qing suggested.

Chen Jie nodded: "It's already dead. What should I do if I don't send it away and it gets stuck in my hands?"

Gao E immediately went to prepare some bread after hearing what they said: "We have some ready-made bread at home. We'll have a bite to eat after a long journey."

"Okay." Chen Jie responded.

The two brothers hitched up the cart and loaded the pig onto it.

"Cover it with something. There are a lot of people in the village today. It would be bad if someone saw us." Lei came over with some hay.

"What happened in the village?" Chen Jie looked gossipy.

Lei briefly recounted the story of the Wang family.

Chen Jie was furious: "You damn Wang family, you think I'm easy to bully."

"Evildoers will be punished by God. After this incident, Uncle Zheng will not be kind to the Wang family in the future." Lei mocked.

Chen Jie was still angry, but he didn't say anything.

"Let me go with my brother and the others." Chen Ke asked in a low voice when he saw Gao E preparing to eat.

Gao E was puzzled: "It's just two pigs, there's no need to send so many people."

"I wanted to buy some food and it was getting dark now," Chen Ke explained.

Gao E suddenly realized: "Okay, be careful on the road."

Chen Ke nodded.

Gao E prepared some meat-filled pancakes for them to eat on the way, and the three of them set off together.

After lunch, Gao E had a rare moment of free time. After moving up here, she either repaired the yard or smoked something, or went to the city. Her every day was fully scheduled.

"By the way, is the bamboo forest in our village far from here?" Gao E thought that Chen Ke often went to the bamboo forest before.

"It's not far, just a few steps out the door and you'll be there." Lei said nonchalantly.

Gao E couldn't believe that the steps they said were really just a few steps: "Let's go and take a look."

"Okay." Lei thought it was okay.

Gao E seldom went out. She always took a carriage to the city and had never seen the village with her own eyes.

This was originally an old village. Some important people lived here when Yutou Dam was built. The road is well built, but now there are fewer people walking here, and a lot of thin weeds have grown in the middle.

The scenery here is really nice, otherwise it would not have been developed into a scenic spot in later generations. It’s just that the current transportation conditions cannot be compared with those in later generations.

Gao E walked along and saw oak trees on all sides. No wonder Chen Ke could pick up so many acorns so easily.

After walking for less than ten minutes, the valley was full of bamboo forests, and there was more than one variety. Some were tall, while others looked thin but very tough.

Under the bamboo forest, there are small streams less than a foot wide, flowing quietly.

"This is the bamboo forest in our village," Lei said. "I heard that my second uncle wanted to buy it, but gave up because the price was too high."

This bamboo forest is very large. Anyone in the village who needs bamboo can come and cut it. There are also people who make bamboo weaving. Over the years, the bamboo forest has not only not decreased in size, but has expanded a lot.

Gao E actually saw bamboo shoots and asked, "No one is picking bamboo shoots to eat?"

"Who would eat this?" Lei said with disdain. "It's edible, but it has a bitter taste after cooking. It makes my stomach uncomfortable. Adding salt is a waste of salt."

"Cook it and eat it?" Gao E looked at Lei.

"What else?" Lei spread his hands.

Of course they can cook, but cooking requires oil, so they only eat that way during festivals.

Gao E thinks that those who cook and eat bamboo shoots directly are heroes.

To make bamboo shoots delicious, you need to use plenty of oil, otherwise the high oxalic acid and fiber content will make people feel uncomfortable.

With the current living standards in Batou Village, it is indeed difficult to cook bamboo shoots deliciously.

"Stir-fried bamboo shoots with meat is a rare delicacy." Gao E said with a smile.

"Really?" Lei didn't doubt it at all. "Then let's pick some and fry them when we get home."

Gao E was in a dilemma.

"Second sister-in-law, just wait for me." Lei said and went to pick it.

It was inconvenient for Gao E to bend down, so she didn't help.

The terrain here is lower than their cave. Gao E looked around and found a long and thin leaf where the streams converged. She squinted her eyes but didn't look carefully, so she decided to go over and take a look.

"Second sister-in-law." Lei found that the second sister-in-law was about to go downstairs. "Where are you going?"

"What's growing there?" Gao E pointed at the leaf.

Lei looked back and said, "That's wild rice. It doesn't produce rice anymore."

"Wild rice?" Gao E's eyes lit up when she heard Lei's words. "Let's go and take a look."

"What's so good about wild rice?" Lei pulled some dry grass and twisted it into a rope, and tied the picked bamboo shoots into a bundle.

Autumn bamboo shoots are slender and will not fall off if they are tied tightly.

"You'll know when you get there." Gao E said and left.

"Second sister-in-law, slow down." Lei hurriedly followed.

My second sister-in-law never went out of the house before, but now she runs around everywhere as soon as she goes out.

The place looked close, but it took a long time to walk around it.

When we got closer, we saw dense aquatic plants all around, and it was still some distance away from the place where wild rice grew.

"My father said that there used to be a lot of wild rice planted in this area of ​​He County, but later it stopped producing rice and no one planted it anymore." Lei saw a large area of ​​wild rice with only a few plants producing seeds.

The villagers would pick some to take back, but there was too little, so only those who were having a hard time would pick them.

"Please help me pick one, don't let it produce seeds." Gao E wanted to make sure.

Lei didn't understand, so he went around and found a relatively dry place and pulled one out.

After Gao E got it, she pinched the place near the root, and then began to peel it. She peeled out a white and tender water bamboo shoot, and she was immediately a little excited.

There are so few vegetables to eat recently that I didn’t expect there is a vegetable garden in the village.

Mrs. Lei looked at her second sister-in-law's excited expression and asked, "Can this be eaten?"

"Yes, and it's delicious." Gao E nodded.

Lei just didn't understand why everything became edible in her and her second sister-in-law's hands?

She immediately pulled some more, but when she couldn't carry it all, she went home with her second sister-in-law.

I returned home and called Chen Yuning and Chen Hanyue to come out and peel bamboo shoots and water chestnuts together.

"This one is small to begin with, and after peeling it, it's just this much." Lei looked at the bamboo shoots that were as thick as her thumb. "The shoots are bigger in spring. If Second Sister-in-law wants to eat some, I'll dig some more for you."