Chapter 34
"Dad, don't worry, I washed my hair outside. This one is so uncomfortable that it's so refreshing now."
Yang Ruoqing laughed. In order to relax her father, she even tweaked a few bangs on her forehead and blinked playfully.
Yang Huazhong and Sun were both slightly stunned by their daughter's actions, and the couple then laughed happily.
Caiyi entertained her relatives. Seeing her parents' depressed face, she finally showed a smile. Yang Ruoqing also felt that she was accomplished.
"Dad Qing'er, you lie down and rest for a while. I'll go to cook. Qing'er, you ran for a while and were exhausted. Go back to the house to rest for a while. My mother has finished cooking. She called you." Sun stood up straight, said, turned around and walked out hurriedly.
"Dad, I'll help my mother, you can rest." Yang Ruoqing said to Yang Huazhong. After getting Yang Huazhong's nod, she jumped and went to the kitchen.
In the stove, a bean oil lamp was lit on the stove. In the corner of the wall, Sun stuffed firewood into the temporary stove built by Uncle Chang Geng and others. Just now, a fire broke out.
Sun was not idle at home after the afternoon of the day, so he scooped out about ten kilograms of rice that Lao Yang had divided when he was splitting the family. He went to Changgeng's house, borrowed their stone mortars, and pounded more than seven kilograms of white rice. The remaining rice husks were also brought back and piled at the stove.
When Yang Ruoqing came in, she was squatting there washing rice. Then the fire from the stove picked out the layer of rice husks floating on the water surface, then rubbed the rice for three or two times before adding water again, covering the lid, putting it on the stove, adding a handful of pine hair underneath to make the fire more prosperous.
"Qing'er, why are you here in the kitchen again?" Sun turned around and prepared to pack up the basket Yang Ruoqing brought back. Seeing that Yang Ruoqing had already brought the basket over.
"I'm not tired, come and see me cook." Yang Ruoqing said with a smile.
"Hi, what's the good thing about this? I grabbed a handful of freshly pounded rice. I cooked some porridge at night. In the day, your aunt Osmanthus brought the eggs and dried spicy food. When the porridge is ready, I will make a dried spicy food and stir-fried egg for you two to give you porridge," said Sun.
Thinking of the spicy and spicy hot chili, Yang Ruoqing's saliva couldn't help but slip down
Yang Ruoqing then shook her head, "Mom, don't you scramble eggs at night. Didn't we agree to keep the eggs for my father's water to boil, let's talk about it, my father's wound is not suitable for eating too spicy food, it's exciting."
Sun suddenly realized, "What should I do? I didn't add any ingredients in white porridge, how can I swallow it?"
Yang Ruoqing blinked and pushed the basket in front of Sun's face. "When the porridge roars, we will put the wild vegetables in. I dug a lot of wild vegetables in the afternoon, enough for us to eat for two days."
Sun took the bamboo basket from Yang Ruoqing's hand, found a sieve to spread it on the ground, and poured the basket into the sky.
"My goodness, shepherd's purse, mother-in-law, okra, what a fresh matsutake." Sun looked at it the same time, with an expression of excitement and surprise on his face, especially the matsutake, which was full, fat and tender, and had the fishy smell of soil.
Suddenly thinking about something, Sun raised his eyes and stared at Yang Ruoqing with a nervous look on his face. "Qing'er, you're going to the forest behind you."
Yang Ruoqing nodded and said with a smile, "Not mentioning wild vegetables on the ridge of the field, the wild grass is almost pulled out. I will go to the woods behind the village to try my luck. Hey, luck is really good."
"Hey, you kid." Sun didn't know what to say, and looked scared, "I'm not allowed to go again."
"Why, mother?"
"If the forest is not clean, all the people in our village have to go in together. Even if we adults dare not, Sun said.
"What's wrong with it is just a big forest. It's raining and fog that makes you get lost easily," Yang Ruoqing said in a little puzzled manner. "Besides, there are a lot of wild vegetables in it, and there are also a lot of fresh matsutake."
"Good daughter, don't ask so much. Just listen to my mother's words. Don't go to the forest any longer, I won't harm you."
There was an earth kiln deep in the forest. I heard that more than ten years ago, the earth kiln was burned in the earth kiln. Later, I didn’t know what happened. The earth kiln collapsed and a few people who had no time to escape were buried alive inside.
After that, no one dared to go to the earthen kiln. I heard that it was a bit haunted
Further behind, any child in the village died, and they were wrapped in straw curtains and threw them away from the earthen kiln. The woods connected the Mianniu Mountain behind. The beasts in the mountain were so hungry that they went to the earthen kiln to find food. As time went by, no one dared to pass through the forest.
Even the middle-aged people in the village have to be together in groups of blue sky and sun to dare to go in and collect pine hairs. Even so, they dare not walk inside.
A few days ago, my daughter was so sick that she was dying, so my mother-in-law said that if she couldn't stand it, she would wrap her daughter in a straw curtain as soon as possible and send it to the earthen kiln from the back door.
Sun decided not to tell his daughter about these things.
Seeing Sun like this, Yang Ruoqing knew that no matter how she asked, she would not be able to find out any name, and she would not force her. She also squatted down and picked up wild vegetables with Sun with the flames from the small stove.
She washed these dishes in the stream water. She only needed to pour them with water and chop them into the pot, so it was not a waste of time to make them.
The mother and daughter were tidying up the wild vegetables and matsutake, while lowering their heads and whispering.
Shepherd's purse is a bit old and tastes a little bitter. Sun rinsed the shepherd's purse, kneaded the bitter water inside, chopped it up, and evenly spread it on the sieve. The air-dried shepherd's purse foam, made dumplings, made shepherd's purse cakes, or mixed them directly with chili sauce, are all very delicious dishes.
The fresh watery mother-in-law Ding was washed and chopped, then washed two matsutake mushrooms, cut them into thin slices, and put them in a boiling small pot. Sun put a little salt star in it, stirred gently with a spatula, and then covered the lid.
Yang Ruoqing was fiddling with the shepherd's purse and said to Sun, "Mom, this shepherd's purse is almost done. I will go back to the house to get the chili sauce sent by Aunt Dayun and mix it with shepherd's purse."
"Okay, you go"
After a while, Yang Ruoqing came back, holding a small sauce-colored jar in her hand, but her face looked a little bad.
"Daughter, what's wrong with you?" Sun came over and asked.
"Mom, look at this jar." Yang Ruoqing handed the jar to Sun.
Chapter completed!