Chapter 11: Cloud Shadow in June 1993
Cloud Shadow in June 1993
In my spare time, I wandered around the village and carefully observed the flowers and plants, which made me realize how slow I was before, and I never noticed that there were so many wonderful creatures in the place close at hand.
The wild flowers hanging like small trumpets in the stone gaps in the low-lying places are very beautiful. After the breeze blows, they sway from side to side like cute little skirts. You can smell the faint fragrance when you get close to them. The dark green lines on the long, narrow and thick leaves are straight and straight. The parallel shows an almost stereotyped seriousness, and the clusters are more beautiful than the best flowers sold by the flower shop in our county. I liked it at first sight.
There are also bushes with flowers, small white flowers dotted on the emerald bushes, some flowers have withered, and small green fruits the size of fingernails are dotted on the branches like crystal emeralds. The villagers know that the fruit of this "Yellow lilac" shrub will ripen in late summer, and it tastes sweet and sour. It is a favorite snack for children, but "Huang liuzi" can't be eaten too much, and the teeth will be sour if you eat too much. .
They also said that in the woods on the other side of the river, sometimes they could see a shrub that looks very similar to the "Yellow lilac", which bears fruit in early spring, and the fruit is bright red, bigger and sweeter than the yellow lilac. It's called "Red Delicate".
Everyone in the village knows the delicacy of "red liuzi", but most people rarely eat it once, because the river water will separate the woods on the other side from the village after the thawing every year. Can't get through at all.
Hearing them say that the deliciousness of the red lilacs makes my mouth water. I think if the river becomes shallow this fall, I'd better go across the river to the other side and transplant a few "red lilacs". In the village, you can also eat delicious "red lilac".
I liked not only flowering plants and berry-bearing shrubs, but also the variety of wild herbs picked by the women in the village, which also opened my eyes to all kinds of edible mushrooms collected from rotten wooden stakes, watching them put some of them together. Putting colorful mushrooms in a simple pocket made me sweat coldly. In my impression, eating wild mushrooms is a very dangerous thing, especially colorful mushrooms, which are very likely to be highly poisonous and will kill you if you eat them.
Fortunately, the women in the village are really capable. They have very rich experience and complex skills to distinguish whether mushrooms are poisonous or not. Although they do not hide their secrets from me, I still cannot understand those complicated descriptions, such as they will It is said that a certain type of mushroom can be eaten on the first day after the rain, but once the rain passes and the sun shines, the mushroom will be highly poisonous and must not be picked again.
Some mushrooms are not poisonous if they grow in a ventilated place, but if the ventilation is poor or they are drenched in the urine of any animal, they will become poisonous and people will vomit and have diarrhea after eating. Animals have urinated, and they shared a lot of experience and experience, but I was completely confused, nodding blankly, and finally only secretly wrote down, no matter when you are, don’t pick this beautiful mushroom that looks like a lollipop .
I have followed the women to pick mushrooms five or six times, and every time I can pick a small pocket, but so far I have never eaten even the safest mushrooms they say, I only help, which makes them feel I'm sorry, but I sent me a lot of wild vegetables to add to my own meal.
My favorite wild vegetable around the village is a broad-leafed low plant, which usually grows on the silt near the shallow water. The dandelion’s thick, toothed leaves stretch out, and the soft heart of the cabbage in the middle curls up like a small ping-pong ball. very cute.
This kind of plant, which is called "beet" by the villagers, tastes really good. The thick leaves have sweet juice. It is delicious when eaten raw, even more refreshing than cucumber. Once boiled, the whole pot of soup has that kind of sweet fragrance, and even the sour taste of ginseng and potatoes can be covered up. As long as you sprinkle a little salt in the soup, it will become a pot of deliciousness. If you can add two more small A fish or a piece of meat is cooked in it, and the taste is so tongue-in-cheek.
It's a pity that "beets" are rare. They can only be seen occasionally in slow-flowing rivers and tidal flats. It is estimated that this has something to do with the seeds they spread in the water and let the river flow to the distance.
"Beetroot" is a perennial plant. Its fat, tender and succulent roots are buried in the silt. Its roots have an unpleasant astringency and cannot be eaten. As long as no one "desperately" uproots it, it will take ten days In half a month, another lush "beet" will appear on the beach again.
The villagers say that sugar beets can only grow by the water and cannot be planted, but I still tried it. I dug up a “beet” tree far from the village from the silt, wrapped it in the mud and transplanted it to the edge of the village. Next to another "beet" on the river bank, I hope that it will slow down and take root and sprout in a new place.
"Beetroot" is also a very favorite food of the villagers. I moved it so close to the village. Even if it grows again in the future, I may not have my share, but I just want to try it, because if it can really be transplanted, then In the future, I can transplant all the "beets" I found further away near the village, maybe it will become a small waterside vegetable garden.
Taking a step back, even if I fail to transplant, I still plan to find another beet for research, collect its seeds and try to grow it myself, because it is really delicious, and once it is successfully planted, it will greatly improve my meal.
Wild vegetables other than "beets" are also very tempting, and I'm ready to collect seeds of all kinds of wild vegetables and shrubs in the fall, and then try to plant them to make these cute little things into my future meals on the plate.
The big dog in the village has a very good relationship with me. When the weather is good and the sun is shining, I will even sit on the stone flat ground in front of my hut to smooth its hair and do a massage to please the only "patrol captain" in the village. .
It is really ugly, the long hair is always tangled together in a mess, and it does not look like a little bit, a pair of black eyes are hidden under the long hair, and the mouth is open to reveal the sharp teeth.
However, if you are patient enough to go to the trouble of combing its hair with your hands over and over again, straightening out knots and smoothing out stray hairs, then you will find that it is unexpectedly good-looking.
I have known it for more than half a year, and only recently discovered that it has eyelashes, and the eyes are beautiful reddish brown.
When I was in another world, I always dreamed of having a small pet, even a hamster or a sparrow. Now I can touch the big dog in the village, and I am in a very good mood. The twine net will be grilled until the fish is fragrant and then divided into most of the fish.
It is also about loyalty. Besides wandering around and patrolling the village, it also helps me look after my house and precious fields.
In a few months, my ginseng potato field has grown very dense, and each ginseng potato is like a small bush that cannot be hugged. Unplugged to prevent them from robbing nutrients and getting sick.
My act of pulling out the already grown seedlings made the other farmers in the village sigh, they couldn't understand why I pulled out the ginseng potatoes that seemed to have grown very well. In their words, there are a few more The month is about to produce ginseng potatoes. Those seedlings that look strong and strong can produce at least five or six large ginseng potatoes. I pulled them out and wasted all of them.
Although they reprimanded me a lot, and even condemned my actions, thinking that I was ruining the crops, I still only kept less than half of the ginseng plants, because I wanted to make sure that each plant had sufficient light, and also With the best ventilation, I want them to have the most abundant nutrients and moisture, without worrying about sultry heat and disease, and to produce the most plump roots in the best state.
My ginseng and potato field is now the best field in the village. Forty-nine ginseng and potato seedlings are arranged in seven horizontal rows and seven vertical rows. , The shape is full, and the "fields" outside the village are simply barren weeds compared to mine.
There are big dogs to help guard my fields, and my peers in the village can't see how they can't come to destroy them. I am very confident in the harvest of my fields.
You see me working so hard to farm and find food on this side of the world, and you can see why I don't mention what's going on in the other world.
My family opened a small shop, and my parents went to the wholesale department in the county town to bring in a lot of snacks and daily groceries, but I have to say that neither of them are business materials. The price is always wrong. The business that was not booming in the first place is even more shabby when the two of them are tossing it. When they go out to buy goods, as long as I am at home, I have to help look at the store. Remembering the prices of those goods gave me a lot of headaches.
The good news is that although the business is bleak, there is still money to be made, at least not to the point of not being able to make money for the next purchase, but to be honest, they owe a lot of debt to open this store, I really doubt that Can the commissary afford them to pay those people back?
I was really forced to think of doing business with almost "no cost". I plan to wait for the harvest of the ginseng potatoes in the world opposite the door this year to ship a batch to this world, make snacks and put them in my small shop Sell.
I thought very simply, the ginseng bread is not very tasty, but the taste is still special. If it is used as a kind of multigrain snack, some people may like it, and to be honest, although the ginseng has a sour taste, it is very durable. Eat, I have been eating this stuff for more than half a year. Not only is it not boring to eat, but I can still taste the special aroma from it, so I really think this stuff can be sold for money.
Besides, let’s take a step back, I can definitely sell ginseng bread cheaper than steamed buns. There are many people around me who are poorer than us. Even if a piece of ginseng bread only sells for 50 cents, I still have it. Gotta make money, because the ginseng is worthless across the door, and I have as many as I want.
The ginseng and potato bread is not bad, and there will definitely be a market.
Not only ginseng potatoes, but also the wild vegetables around the village are also under my attention. If I can receive seeds and grow wild vegetables, then I will dry the wild vegetables and bring them to my small shop to sell them, which will definitely increase the number of vegetables. profit.
Tossing, tossing, and so on, it’s summer vacation, and the final exams in the second half of the second half of junior high school are also so-so. My grades actually improved a little bit, and I barely made it to the middle of the class. In mathematics, I got 70 for the first time ever, which surprised me.
My parents and my mother naturally didn't know about my grades, and they didn't feel in the mood to know. They did the most things every day while waiting for people to come to the store. Occasionally going out to buy goods was like letting go. It was a rare pastime.
Now they finally understand how difficult it is to do business, and why two small shops on the same street have closed down one after another.
The business is bleak, they frown, they give me less money for food than before, and sometimes they forget to give me the money for food for several days, but I never starve them. Potato bread, boiled noodles and sprinkled with garlic sprouts, green vegetables or simply dried wild vegetables brought back from the other world at the middle and end of the month, in short, they are enough to eat comfortably.
There are many cans in my house now, most of which I picked up from outside.
After washing it and scalding it with boiling water, the canning bottles were taken to the opposite world to hide first. After I picked the wild vegetables, I washed them with water, dried them until half wilted, and then cut them into small pieces and marinated them in the canning bottles with coarse salt. Keeping fresh for many days, ten cans can solve the problem of buying vegetables for our family for half a month. When cooking, the dried wild vegetables are taken out of the cans, just rinse off the salt with water and soak for a while before eating, different Wild vegetables have their own flavors and are very good for meals.
Under the pressure of life, I really learned a lot of skills. I even started to learn how to make kimchi from the elderly around me. If I didn’t have the money to buy kimchi jars and vegetables, I might have sauerkraut at home in a few days. .
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