At the foot of Yanliu Mountain, you can see villagers working in the fields everywhere, and small groups of children looking for wild vegetables on the field ridges, or gathering together to play in the mud.
These children all look thin overall, and many of them have patched clothes.
Although Lihua Village is surrounded by mountains and rivers, every household is not rich. Most people only have enough food and clothing to eat in the fields all year round. After paying various taxes, it is enough for the family to have two or three taels of silver in savings. Not bad.
Going up the mountain along the road that people in the village often take, Shen Zhiyao walked not long and asked Shen Yueya: "If you get tired later, just tell your sister, and we will look for wild vegetables after taking a rest."
"Sister, I can walk for a long time without getting tired." Shen Yueya patted her chest.
Shen Zhiyao hummed and smiled along with her words: "Our Yueya is the most powerful."
Shen Yueya giggled happily after being praised.
After walking for a while, they were far away from the foot of the mountain and there was no one around. Shen Zhiyao pretended to dig into his sleeves and took out two peaches from the space.
"Crescent Moon, these are the peaches my sister bought on the way here. Here, try them to see if they taste good."
Shen Yueya took it with bright eyes and took a bite: "Sister, it's delicious and sweet."
She had never tasted such delicious peaches.
Shen Zhiyao smiled and added: "Fortunately, grandma and the others didn't dig through my box when they were looking through it, so they didn't find the peaches I bought. I also left one for Bai Qiu. You can eat it slowly."
The things in her space, no matter how fresh they are when they are put in, they will still be the same when they are taken out.
However, the things in the space are consumed when eaten and will not be replenished automatically like some spaces. Only the well behind the house is always full of water, no matter how much it is used.
On the way back to Lihua Village, she drank the water in it. It was sweet and refreshing. After drinking it, she felt that her skin was more delicate and fairer, and some of the uncomfortable ailments on her body were gone.
So she guessed that the water in the well was spiritual spring water. Legend has it that the spiritual spring water could cleanse the muscles and cut the marrow, strengthen the body, and also have certain therapeutic effects on various diseases.
"Sister, this wild vegetable is edible."
After eating the peaches, Shen Yueya found some amaranth and hurriedly dug for it.
Shen Zhiyao also went over to pick amaranths and put some in the space while picking.
The villagers of Lihua Village often go to Yanliu Mountain to look for food. In the outer areas of Yanliu Mountain, almost all the wild vegetables are harvested.
Shen Zhiyao took Shen Yueya a little deeper and after walking for a while, he found a large field of wild mushrooms in front of him.
There is a small piece of it, that familiar gray-white color, shaped like a bamboo hat, which is actually more than a dozen nests of gallinobacteria.
There are traces of human activity around here, but no one has picked these mushrooms. They are particularly lush. If you look up casually, you can see a large area.
However, some of them are poisonous and inedible. Perhaps because the villagers cannot tell whether they are poisonous or not, no one picks them.
Hey, this is an advantage for her.
Shen Zhiyao reached out excitedly and picked off a gallinopsis fungus.
"Sister, you can't eat this, it will poison you." When Shen Yueya saw her picking mushrooms, she quickly reminded her, shaking her little hands from side to side.
When she picked some fungi and went back, her grandma scolded her for trying to poison everyone, saying that people in the village had been killed by eating this fungus.
"Crescent Moon, some of these mushrooms are indeed poisonous, but some are non-toxic and edible, and they are very delicious. My sister can tell them apart. We only need to pick those that are edible."
Shen Zhiyao raised the gallinopsis fungus in her hand: "This is called gallinopsis fungus. It can be stir-fried, fried, made into soup, etc. It is more delicious than chicken. My sister has eaten it before and it is not poisonous. Can you pick it with your sister?"
"It's more delicious than chicken..." Miss Shen Yueya was moved. She also believed in her sister, so she nodded heavily: "Sister, I'll pick it."
After saying this, I hummed and picked the gallinopsis mushrooms with great enthusiasm.
"Well, you just pick the gallinopsis, and sister will pick the other mushrooms." Seeing her immersed in picking the gallinopsis, Shen Zhiyao walked to the other side and quickly put the edible mushrooms into the space.
Picking for a while and resting for a while, the two of them stayed in the forest for more than an hour before picking almost everything.
During this period, Shen Zhiyao also quietly installed some gallinobacteria into the space.
"Sister, there are too many, I can't take them anymore."
More than a dozen nests of gallinophilia were picked and piled into a hill. Shen Yueya hugged them with his hands and could only move a small pile.
Shen Zhiyao pulled some tough grass, braided it into two long ropes and put them on the ground: "Use this to tie up the gallinopsis. We can take as much as we can. The rest, sister, will find a hiding place later." I’ll hide it somewhere and take it to town in a few days to see if I can exchange it for some money.”
"Yeah!" Shen Yueya nodded and helped Shen Zhiyao tie up the chicken fungus.
A total of two bundles were tied. After tying, Shen Zhiyao moved the remaining gallinobacteria bit by bit to a hidden pit and covered them with weeds.
Of course, in Shen Yueya's sight, Shen Zhiyao covered the gallinobacteria with weeds. In fact, Shen Zhiyao moved all these things into the space.
After taking care of it, the two of them went down the mountain happily, taking the gallinophilia and some other mushrooms, as well as the amaranth they had picked before.
As the sun gradually sets, the villagers working outside in Qinghe Village begin to rush home one after another.
Shen's house is located in the middle of Qinghe Village. Some villagers will pass by the door of Shen's house when they go home.
At this time, Mrs. Yang was holding a bench and sitting at the gate of the courtyard with the fence opened, crying:
"Old lady, I have a hard life. At this age, I have a granddaughter who is as difficult to take care of as my ancestors. I have only been back for a day, and one of the benches was broken, the shovel was also broken, and she is robbing the family of food!"
Old Mrs. Yang stretched out her bark-like hands and pretended to wipe away tears while howling.
On the roadside, villagers gathered after hearing the sound. These people had not seen Mrs. Yang in the morning and said that Shen Zhiyao was lying down as soon as she came back.
"Er Auntie, what's wrong with you? Are you talking about your granddaughter who came back today? Yueya's biological sister?"
The person who spoke was Bai, the daughter-in-law of one of Old Shen's younger brothers in the Shen family. She was about the same age as little Yang, and she was holding a vegetable basket in her hand.
"It's not her." Old Mrs. Yang continued to cry: "When we had breakfast in the morning, she took away most of a pot of wild vegetables, leaving only a little for a few elders and children. Poor me, Fuer and Guier. Sun Sun, I didn’t eat enough in the morning, and my face has lost weight.
This is nothing. She was asked to clean the pig pen and cut the pig grass, but she didn't go. She took Yue Ya and said she was going to dig wild vegetables, but she was there for more than two hours. This was not digging wild vegetables. She might even go there. Where are you hiding? "
The more Mrs. Yang talked, the sadder she became. When she raised her hand to wipe away her tears again, she saw Shen Zhiyao's figure appearing at the intersection ahead.
