, wonderful and free of pop-ups! "Dad, don't worry, I washed my hair outside. It felt so uncomfortable. Now it feels refreshed!"
Yang Ruoqing smiled. In order to make her father relax, she even lifted a few strands of bangs from her forehead and winked playfully.
Yang Huazhong and Sun were both slightly stunned by their daughter's move, and then they both laughed happily.
Caiyi happily kissed her, and when she saw her parents' depressed faces, a smile finally appeared. Yang Ruoqing also felt that Beier had a sense of accomplishment!
"Qing'er, father, you lie down and take a rest, and I'll cook some food! Qing'er, you've been running around for a long time and are exhausted. Go back to the house and take a rest. Mom has cooked the food and calls you!" Mrs. Sun stood up straight. "Come on," he said, turned around and hurried out.
"Dad, I'm going to help my mother. You have a good rest." Yang Ruoqing said to Yang Huazhong. After getting Yang Huazhong's nod, she jumped up and followed him to the kitchen.
In the kitchen room, a soybean oil lamp was lit on the stove. In the small makeshift stove built by Uncle Chang Geng and the others in the corner, Mrs. Sun stuffed the firewood into it, and as soon as it was lit, a flame came out.
Mrs. Sun was not idle at home in the afternoon. She scooped out ten kilograms of the fifty kilograms of rice that the old Yang family had distributed when the family was divided. I went to Chang Geng's house and borrowed their stone mortar to pound more than seven kilograms of white rice. I also brought back the remaining rice husks and piled them at the mouth of the stove.
When Yang Ruoqing came in, she was squatting there washing rice. Then the firelight of the small stove picked out the rice husks floating on the water, then washed the rice three or two times, then added water again and covered the lid. Put it on the small stove and add a handful of pine hair to the bottom to make the fire more intense.
"Qing'er, why are you here in the kitchen again?" Mrs. Sun turned around to pack up the basket Yang Ruoqing brought back, but saw that Yang Ruoqing had already brought the basket over.
"I'm not tired, come here and watch mom cook." Yang Ruoqing said with a smile.
"Hey, what's so good about this? I grabbed a handful of newly pounded rice and let's cook some porridge at night. In the morning, your aunt Osmanthus brought eggs and dried chili peppers. Later, when the porridge is ready, we can make some I’ll make porridge for you two with some spicy scrambled eggs!” Mrs. Sun said.
Thinking of the spicy dry spicy food, Yang Ruoqing's saliva couldn't help but slip down!
Yang Ruoqing immediately shook her head: "Mom, don't scramble the eggs at night. Didn't we agree to keep the eggs for my dad to boil? Besides, my dad's wound is not suitable for eating spicy food. It's irritating!"
Mrs. Sun suddenly wondered, "What should we do? There's no other ingredients added to the plain porridge, so how can we swallow it?"
Yang Ruoqing blinked and pushed the basket in front of Mrs. Sun: "When the porridge starts roaring, we'll put these wild vegetables in. I dug a lot of wild vegetables in the afternoon, enough for us to eat for two days!"
Mrs. Sun took the bamboo basket from Yang Ruoqing's hand, found a sieve and spread it on the ground, and then tipped the basket upside down.
"My dear, shepherd's purse, mother-in-law diced, okra... oh, what fresh matsutake!" Mrs. Sun looked at them all, with an expression of excitement and surprise on her face, especially the matsutakes, which were plump and tender. , with the smell of earth.
Suddenly thinking of something, Sun raised her eyes and stared at Yang Ruoqing nervously: "Qing'er, are you... going to the forest behind?"
Yang Ruoqing nodded and said with a smile: "Not to mention the wild vegetables on the field ridges, the weeds were almost plucked out, so I went to try my luck in the woods behind the village. Hey, my luck is really good!"
"Hey, you kid!" Ms. Sun didn't know what to say, with a frightened look on her face: "You're not allowed to go there again tomorrow!"
"Why, mother?"
"That forest is not clean! Everyone in our village has to go in together. Even us adults don't dare to go in there alone!" said Sun.
"What's so unclean? It's just that the forest is big, and after it rains, it's easy to get lost because of the rain and mist!" Yang Ruoqing said a little puzzled: "Besides, there are a lot of wild vegetables in there. If you go in, you can still get lost." There are a lot of fresh matsutake mushrooms!”
"Good girl, don't ask so many questions. Just listen to mother. Don't go into the forest again. Mother won't harm you!"
Deep in the forest, there is an earthen kiln. I heard that more than ten years ago, earthen bricks were fired in that earthen kiln. I don’t know what happened later. The earthen kiln collapsed and a few people inside didn’t have time to escape. People are just buried alive inside.
After that, no one dared to go to that earthen kiln. I heard that it was even haunted!
Further back, if any children in the village died, they were wrapped in straw curtains and thrown into the earthen kilns. The woods are connected to Mianniu Mountain at the back. The beasts in the mountains are so hungry that they go to Tuyaozi to look for food. As time goes by, no one dares to go through that forest.
Even the middle-aged men in the village would have to be in small groups in broad daylight before they dare to go in to pluck loose hair or anything like that. Even so, they don't dare to go inside!
A few days ago, my daughter was dying of illness, and her mother-in-law told her that if she couldn't survive it, she would wrap her up in a straw curtain and take her to a tuyaozi through the back door...
Mrs. Sun was determined not to tell her daughter these things no matter what.
Seeing Sun's behavior, Yang Ruoqing knew that no matter how much she pressed, she wouldn't get anything out of it, and she didn't force her. He also squatted down and picked wild vegetables with Mrs. Sun based on the firelight coming from the small stove.
She has washed these vegetables in the stream. She only needs to pour water over them before they can be chopped into pieces and put into the pot, so it takes no effort at all to prepare them.
While the mother and daughter were picking up the wild vegetables and matsutake mushrooms, they lowered their heads and counted in a low voice.
The shepherd's purse was a bit old and tasted a little bitter, so Sun rinsed the shepherd's purse with water, rubbed out the bitter water, chopped it, and spread it evenly on a sieve to air-dry. Use the dried shepherd's purse foam to make dumplings, make shepherd's purse cakes, or eat it directly with chili sauce. It is a great side dish to go with rice!
Wash and chop the fresh and juicy mother-in-law dices, then wash two matsutake mushrooms, cut them into thin slices, and put them into a small boiling pot. Sun put a little salt star seeds in it and gently stirred them evenly with a spatula. , then close the lid.
Yang Ruoqing was tinkering with the shepherd's purse and said to Mrs. Sun, "Mom, the shepherd's purse foam is almost ready. I'll go back to the house and get the chili sauce Aunt Dayun sent to mix it with the shepherd's purse!"
"Okay, go ahead!"
After a while, Yang Ruoqing came back, holding a small brown jar in her hand, but her face looked a little ugly.
"Daughter, what's wrong with you?" Mrs. Sun came over and asked.
"Mom, look at this jar!" Yang Ruoqing handed the jar to Sun.
Before Mrs. Sun took it, she saw at a glance that there was a circle of hot sauce left on the mouth of the jar and the body of the jar. She took the jar into her hand and weighed it: "Oh, why is it so light?"
