Chapter 108 Day 3
Today’s lunch is stewed rice. The vegetables are ferns picked along the way. After boiling them in salt water, stir-fry them in oil, and then cook them with canned braised pork and luncheon meat. Add water and salt and bring to a simmer.
The fern moss has a slippery slime. Pour a ladle of it on top of the rice in the lunch box. Even the fern moss braised pork rice bowl is delicious.
This is another dish that is rare to eat at home, and everyone ate it with praise.
Everyone had already played a hide-and-seek game before eating, and Yan Xiao was already addicted to it: "Eat quickly, eat quickly, and then come back after eating! I thought of a good place to hide the bamboo sticks!"< br>
Zhou Zhi found it funny: "Although I said that the bamboo sticks represent us who have shrunk, but is it too much for you and Yongmei to drill a hole for this? You will be picked up as soon as you look for it!"
"That's because he is too thick-skinned!" He Yongmei's expression and tone were seriously out of touch, and her inner joy had long been exposed.
"That cliff is so dangerous. I want to protect Yongmei. When the enemy comes, I will go up first!" Yan Xiao said it with as much righteousness and sternness as possible.
Zhou Zhi looked at the cliff where he had just played the game. For the little bamboo sticks, it was indeed a cliff and an abyss.
“You turtle deceived people into saying one thing after another!” Zhou Zhi couldn’t help but dumbfounded: “You are the one who should write a book!”
The reason why I don’t take girls to drill in the bamboo forest is because the spider webs in the bamboo forest and the small hairs on the bamboo shoot shells will make people very uncomfortable, and the place where the bamboo shoots emerge may be dangerous. After all, everyone loves to eat good food, including wild boars and black bear.
Good bamboo shoots are best grown in shady wetlands. There is a saying in Jiachuan called "Yinshan bamboo shoots".
The Qingzhu forest is connected to the mountains and grows very densely. It is not only suffocating but also easy for people to get lost in it, so they cannot enter randomly.
The method is to find a mountain road, get in and only go uphill. In this way, even if you get lost, just go downhill when you come back, and you will eventually get back to the road.
Of course there is no need for it now. I dug up a small pile of bamboo shoots along the way, which is a road sign in itself.
However, the airtight bamboo forest is very humid and hot. In addition to preventing the above, there is also a very important one - preventing heat stroke.
Zhou Zhi, Mu Ruyun, and Yang He all carry spring water, golden elixirs, and benevolent elixirs in their mouths at all times.
Swinging the kettle, Zhou Zhi felt that he was almost drunk. He sat on the slope and cut down the bamboo, cut it into strips, and then began to slide down the mountain.
I tied up the bamboo shoots in bundles and pushed them down the mountain. When I emerged from the forest and returned to the road, my soaked shirt was blown by the mountain peak, and I suddenly felt cool everywhere in my body.
I sorted out the harvest at the foot of the mountain. Here it is only forty or fifty pounds.
After a while, Mu Ruyun and Yang He also slipped out. Mu Ruyun's weight was sixty or seventy pounds, and Yang He's weight was about the same.
Although half of it is a bamboo shoot shell, you cannot peel it, otherwise it will break.
"A bit too much." Yang He felt regretful: "Where can there be so many bamboo shoots in our countryside..."
"Baimi Township is close to the city, and you can exchange money across the river." Zhou Zhi Said: "It doesn't work here."
"That's right, the smoked bamboo shoots can only be sent to Fubao Town." But Mu Ruyun did not feel sorry for the specialty of his hometown, and even felt a little disgusted: "I don't like this very much. I really ate it when I was a kid. Sad. ”
This should be the truth. What can be regarded as delicacies in the city can only be regarded as home-cooked food here in the forest farm. During the bamboo shoot season, almost all meals are like this from morning to night. Sour bamboo shoots, pickled bamboo shoots, cold salad, stir-fried bamboo shoots, bamboo shoots in soup...
Zhou Zhi also experienced this kind of life. Mr. Qiao took him back to his hometown once, and in half a month, he ate all the ways to make corn.
Because there was no entertainment, Wu Yaoda not only cooked corn in various ways for dinner, but also cooked a large pot every morning and placed it on the stove.
The children came back from playing wildly. If they wanted to eat, they would pick it up and eat it; if they couldn’t finish it, they would feed the pigs at night.
After coming out of the mountains half a month later, Zhou Zhi basically stopped touching corn.
When someone asks Zhou Zhi, he will say: "I have eaten all the corn in my life in half a month."
That would make anyone sad.
The three people tied the bamboo shoots again, chopped some thick bamboo tubes to use as poles, and carried the bamboo shoots back.
When I came back, I found that a large area of moss had been removed from the side of the cliff where the water was heavy.
That was Yan Xiao’s masterpiece.
Everyone hid the bamboo sticks in the moss, but Yan Xiao acted like a cat and scraped off the entire moss. The remaining small holes were filled with pebbles.
Because he was considered a loser if he could not be found. In just two minutes, Yan Xiao had all the people hiding there wiped out.
This is killing people crazy, even using this large-scale inhumane killing method.
The first thing the three of them did when they returned to the cliff was to take off their clothes, stripping down to their underwear. They hid behind the water tank and poured water on themselves, first washing away the cobwebs and bamboo shoots. , the three predators finally felt comfortable.
On the parts of my body that were exposed in the bamboo forest, except for the better part of my face, there were red scars made by bamboo branches everywhere.
Then I went to look for dry clothes, changed into them behind the cliff, and came back to start peeling bamboo shoots.
“You’ve done a lot!” The pile of more than a hundred kilograms of fresh bamboo shoots was quite spectacular, and everyone had been watching for a while.
"What's wrong with your hands?" Jiang Shuyi asked worriedly when she noticed the scratches on Zhou Zhi's wrists and neck. "It's okay, it'll be ready tomorrow." Zhou Zhi didn't feel it was worth it at all, and said with a smile: "I've been carrying the canned braised beef all the time, just for this bite?"
However, this dinner is indeed worthy of praise. Although it is only one dish, because she will arrive at her destination tomorrow, Feng Xueshan used all the remaining oil and made it into a big pot with all the braised beef. Braised beef with fresh bamboo shoots.
This is for two meals. I don't think there will be any beef left, but the leftover soup from tonight's meal will be put on ice in a water tank. There will be a beef noodle soup tomorrow morning.
The rice and noodles that Zhou Zhi asked everyone to prepare were somewhat redundant, and they could be eaten tonight, so after dinner, everyone realized that...well, they seemed to be holding on.
Tonight is the most comfortable night I have stayed here, mainly because it is very dry. Before going to bed, I thoughtfully put up the tarp to block the wind, so that everyone can sleep more comfortably. .
After a comfortable night's sleep, and after finishing the last noodles the next day, everyone started walking back to the road and headed towards the forest farm.
This is the last section of the road. When we get here, the scenery finally turns into a real virgin forest.
Artificial forests and natural forests alternate with each other. Every time you walk through a section of strange trees and vines full of primitive style, you will enter a pine forest or fir forest.
Arrived here, Mu Ruyun left the road where the forest farm car was taking and took everyone through the path.
The forest floor is covered with thick needles, and fallen dry pine cones are everywhere.
Squirrels, painted magpies, turtle doves, and wild thrushes were everywhere. At first, everyone was surprised and exclaimed, but later they were no longer interested.
"What is that?!" A group of birds flew over. Some of them were white, and together with several others with blue heads and brown bodies, they dragged long tails, which made Zhang Xinyi very excited. : "So beautiful!"
"That's called a flower. We call them a flower here. I don't know the scientific name." Mu Ruyun asked, "Do you know the elbow?"
"This bird is commonly seen in Chinese paintings, the ribbon bird." Zhou Zhi also saw a live ribbon bird for the first time, and looked at it intently: "It is often accompanied by peonies, which means longevity and wealth. I We are very lucky to be able to see them.”
After that, he said: “I thought their tails wouldn’t be curved just by looking at the painting, but they can actually float beautifully!”
After walking for a while, the scenery suddenly opened up. Everyone returned to the road and discovered that this was a valley halfway up the mountain.
The forestry management office is located in the col. In addition to the brick and wood blue-tiled house, there is also a parking lot, a work shed, as well as corn fields and vegetable fields.
A truck drove down the road. The truck was filled with wood piled high. Everything was very novel to the friends from the city.
"Ruyun is back? Your mother came out to see you just now." The driver clicked on the brakes on the side of the road: "Hey, there are so many classmates? Welcome! Lao Mu has cooked all the bacon. You guys arrived in time!"
"Uncle Qiu sent wood?" Mu Ruyun greeted the driver: "We came from Da Zhangkou. That's where we stayed last night!"
"Take the students back quickly!" After Uncle Qiu said hello, he realized that Ye Xin was also in the crowd: "Isn't this the first time Xinxin has come to our mountain? Then we agreed, wait for me to come back for a drink tonight!”
Ye Xin smiled and said, “Hello, Uncle Qiu, then come back early”
The big truck drove away, and Zhou Zhi asked Mu Ruyun: "Do they call your dad Lao Mu?"
"Ah."
What the hell... Zhou Zhi hurriedly greeted his classmates. : "We are calling Lao Mu Ruyun for a while, and his father is also called Lao Mu! Don't be said to be rude and think we are calling Lao Mu. Where's Mu's dad!"
"You made a mistake!" Yan Xiao immediately corrected: "You just said Mu's dad!"
"Okay, okay, you're right..." Zhou Zhi I didn't bother to follow the guy's lead: "It's really hard to change my words at this moment... Anyway, everyone just needs to pay attention."
It is rare for outsiders to come to the forest farm. Now a dozen children arrived, and everyone around them came out to greet them with great enthusiasm.
Such a situation may not be seen again after a while.
"Dad! Mom! I brought my classmates back!"
"Welcome, welcome!" Mu Ruyun's father looked like the kind of man with strong muscles and bones, walking very fast Big, with a cloth military cap on his head , with a military demeanor in every gesture, he walked forward with a smile: "Visitors to the forest farm are rare, but you are very rare!"
This rare is pronounced "rare", and the pronunciation of "rare" is the same as in Cantonese. Very close.
He stretched out his hand and shook it with Fang Wenyu first, patting him on the shoulder with his big hand: "Hello, young man, your old man is from the military, right?" "
"You see, I can't be wrong!" Dad Mu! Laughing heartily: "Lao Fang's children are so old!"
"Uncle Mu knows my father?"
"That's necessary, we served in Songpan together, I was older than him I changed my career a few years ago and ate grouse stewed with mushrooms in one pot! ”
"There is also turtleless fish. My dad still can't forget the smell."
"That's right!" Dad Mu was so happy: "I never thought that among Daman's classmates, there are old friends. Son. Let’s go home and talk.”
Zhou Zhi and Yan Xiao looked at each other and realized that Lao Mu’s nickname had changed!
(End of this chapter)