The size of this bamboo forest is large or small, long or short, and it occupies about one or two acres of land.
Entering the bamboo forest, the air suddenly became humid, and there was a smell of fermented bamboo leaves in the forest. It felt soft when you stepped on it.
It is now early April, and many of the spring bamboo shoots have grown more than one meter high. My aunt is very familiar with them and avoids them, choosing only the small and tender ones.
After taking aim, he went down with the hoe and pried out a fat bamboo shoot.
For Qiaoqiao, this is like a treasure hunt. He also holds a hoe and digs out the fat ones.
My aunt was still laughing when she saw it: "Our Qiaoqiao is becoming more and more capable now!"
"That's right," Song Tan said proudly, "I taught them all."
She actually taught most of it.
With Qiao Qiao like this, if Wu Lan and Song Sancheng are at home, you should let him do some washing and washing, so as not to be a little spoiled.
What's more, they also have a lot of work to do every day, and they rarely have free time to teach their sons bit by bit.
If they can't teach each other a few words, they will collapse.
But Song Tan is different. If nothing else, she has very good patience now. She doesn't do it twice once, and she doesn't do it four times... Farm work actually needs to be done more.
He takes him with him in everything he does. As time goes by, Qiaoqiao himself becomes much more flexible.
While digging bamboo shoots, my aunt lamented: "I hated this bamboo forest when I was little."
"Why?" Song Tan was puzzled.
Her memory of this bamboo forest was probably when she was a child. Song Sancheng tied two pieces of hemp rope to the bamboo, and put a wooden board in the middle to make a simple swing for her to play here.
If it's older, you can even pull a hammock in it in the summer. That hammock was bought for two yuan and accompanied Song Tan for many summers.
If it hadn't been for the one time when I was swaying above, a chubby caterpillar shook from the bamboo leaves and landed on my face... I'm afraid this beautiful memory would last for a few more years.
The aunt sighed: "Life was better when you were a child, and there were many ways to make money, but before you were born, there were people who wanted bamboo like ours, and it cost eight cents a piece."
"Your grandpa is responsible for cutting bamboo in the bamboo forest, and your grandma chops off all the branches on the bamboo branches."
"As for me, I don't have to do any strenuous work, but I have to drag this long bamboo all the way to the place where people receive the goods."
"Even though the bamboos here are not as thick as the bamboos in the south, they are also heavy. I can only drag two or three at a time... At the end of the day, my legs are so swollen that I can't lift them up."
This is real rural life.
Song Tan was silent for a while and then asked: "What about my dad and the others?"
Song Hongmei burst out laughing: "Can your dad and the others still run away? They are responsible for loading bamboo onto the truck for others. It is really strenuous work. At the end of the day, they can't even straighten their backs."
"Tantan, don't look at how annoying your aunt is. She also suffered hardships with your uncle in the early years."
Song Tan said "hmm".
She has seen a lot, and everyone has a different role in the eyes of different people. There is no need to force it, just ask for what you want.
She originally thought that her aunt was going to say something more sensational, but she didn't expect that her attitude changed:
"It's just that your eldest aunt is getting older now and her brain is getting worse!"
"You have planted three fields of lettuce. There must be fifty or sixty lettuces in total. Looking at her posture, I even thought about pulling them out - how is she going to eat them?"
"I'm just saying, when you get older, you can't take care of your children every day and do housework at home. If you have nothing to do, go out to dance in the square or set up a stall. It's better than squatting at home. There's no quality at all..."
The aunt was obviously very resentful and muttered: "Is it easy for your grandma to grow some vegetables?"
Song Tan laughed:
"Yes, my aunt is still familiar with it. If you blanch the spring bamboo shoots and dry them at home, you can still eat them for a long time!"
"Yes." The aunt looked at the bamboo forest with nostalgia: "No one has bought bamboo in the past twenty years. You see, the bamboo forest is densely grown. Too much is not good. When you see spring bamboo shoots, dig more. Make room for them too.”
At the same time, he was still thinking: "I cut the tender bamboo shoot hearts diagonally and blanched them, then stir-fried them with pickled peppers and some beef. Oops, this is ready for dinner!"
Think again: there are lettuce leaves too!
"Let's eat these pickled pepper bamboo shoots tonight, add stir-fried lettuce leaves, and Sophora japonica steam an egg first, and make Sophora japonica cake tomorrow..."
After thinking about it this way, it seems that I will have food for half a month and save hundreds of dollars in food expenses!
After the aunt figured out the calculation in her mind, she swung the hoe with more and more heart!
Song Tan originally didn't think much about the spring bamboo shoots. It was difficult to practice and she wasn't willing to give too much of her spiritual energy this year. But when her aunt said this, she couldn't help but feel a little greedy.
Just when I was thinking about asking Qiao Qiao to dig two more and go home, I saw this silly kid had already emerged from the other end of the bamboo forest and came over with a handful of rape flowers:
"Sister, give it to you."
On the other hand, he broke off a piece of vegetable moss and ate it.
Song Tan also laughed: "When I was a child, my mother always fried the buds and moss of rapeseed flowers, and I didn't like eating them."
The aunt laughed: "When you were a child, you had to think twice about eating meat at home. You were still farming, how could you have the time to cook it carefully? It will definitely not taste good."
"Eating is different now. What do you mean by that? Keep in good health!"
My aunt has been setting up a stall in the city for decades. I don’t know how perfect she is at making egg pancakes, but her cooking skills have obviously been honed by his stingy spirit.
Now looking at the handful of rapeseed flowers, I thought of several dishes:
"I'm telling you, pull a handful of rapeseed flowers, then go to the mountain to see if there are any wild onions, dig one back. Blanch the rapeseed flowers and cook them, then cut the onions, mince the ginger and garlic, and take them Add some chili powder, soy sauce, vinegar, sugar, MSG, etc., and when it’s cooked, add the green onion, pour some sesame oil...it’s delicious!”
This describes...
Song Tan was drooling just thinking about it, but...
"Auntie, the way you mix vegetables is so delicious that even the soles of your shoes are delicious."
The aunt burst out laughing: "Then it's delicious if you use this to make poached eggs. Cut the rape flowers into small pieces and mix them with the eggs..."
"If it still doesn't work, boil the rice soup you cook at home, then put the rapeseed flowers in it, sprinkle some chopped green onion, pepper noodles, etc..."
When it comes to budgeting carefully, my aunt is really an expert. None of the ingredients used here are expensive, but she can make the food delicious.
Song Tan sighed: "Auntie, you know so much..."
The aunt laughed: "What am I talking about? You have never seen the person who cooked banquets in our village before. That master was amazing!"
"I can make good dishes with whatever I have on hand. One spring, we cooked fish tail stewed with rapeseed flowers for the banquet. Oops, that made everyone praise it!"
"I've remembered it for decades."
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