"Dad, don't worry, I washed my hair outside. It felt so uncomfortable, but now it feels refreshed!"

Yang Ruoqing smiled. In order to make her father relax, she even lifted a few strands of bangs from her forehead and winked playfully.

Yang Huazhong and Sun were both slightly stunned by their daughter's move, and then they both laughed happily.

Caiyi entertained her, and when she saw her parents' depressed faces, a smile finally appeared. Yang Ruoqing also felt that Beier had a sense of accomplishment!

"Dad Qing'er, you lie down and rest for a while, and I'll cook some food! Qing'er, you've been running around for a long time and are exhausted. Go back to the house and have a rest. Mom has cooked the food and calls you!" Mrs. Sun stood up straight.

"Come on," he said, turned around and hurried out.

"Dad, I'm going to help my mother. You have a good rest." Yang Ruoqing said to Yang Huazhong. After receiving Yang Huazhong's nod, she jumped up and followed him to the kitchen.

In the kitchen, a soybean oil lamp was lit on the stove. In the small temporary stove built by Uncle Chang Geng and the others in the corner, Mrs. Sun stuffed the firewood into it, and as soon as it was lit, a flame came out.

Mrs. Sun was not idle at home in the afternoon. She scooped out ten kilograms of the fifty kilograms of rice that the old Yang family had distributed when the family was divided. She went to Chang Geng's house and borrowed their stone mortar to pound seven kilograms.

There was a lot of white rice, and the remaining rice husks were brought back and piled at the mouth of the stove.

When Yang Ruoqing came in, she was squatting there washing rice. Then the firelight of the small stove picked out the rice husks floating on the water, and then washed the rice three or two times before adding water again and covering the lid.

Put it on the small stove and add a handful of pine hair underneath to make the fire more intense.

"Qing'er, why are you here in the kitchen again?" Mrs. Sun turned around to pack up the basket Yang Ruoqing brought back, but saw that Yang Ruoqing had already brought the basket over.

"I'm not tired, come here and watch mom cook." Yang Ruoqing said with a smile.

"Hey, what's so good about this? I grabbed a handful of newly pounded rice and let's cook some porridge at night. In the morning, your aunt Guihua brought eggs and dried chili peppers. Later, when the porridge is ready, we can make some

I’ll make porridge for you two with some spicy scrambled eggs!” Mrs. Sun said.

Thinking of the spicy dry spicy food, Yang Ruoqing's saliva couldn't help but slip down!

Yang Ruoqing then shook her head: "Mom, don't scramble the eggs at night. Didn't we agree to keep the eggs for my dad to boil? Besides, my dad's wound is not suitable for eating spicy food, it's irritating!"

Mrs. Sun suddenly asked, "What should we do? There is no added ingredient to the plain porridge, so how can we swallow it?"

Yang Ruoqing blinked and pushed the basket in front of Mrs. Sun: "When the porridge starts roaring, we'll put these wild vegetables in it. I dug a lot of wild vegetables in the afternoon, enough for us to eat for two days!"

Mrs. Sun took the bamboo basket from Yang Ruoqing's hand, found a sieve, spread it on the ground, and turned the basket upside down.

"My dear, shepherd's purse, mother-in-law diced, okra... Oh, what a fresh matsutake!" Mrs. Sun looked at them all, with an expression of excitement and surprise on her face, especially the matsutakes, which were plump and tender.

, and also has a fishy smell of earth.

Suddenly thinking of something, Mrs. Sun raised her eyes and stared at Yang Ruoqing nervously: "Qing'er, are you... going to the forest behind?"

Yang Ruoqing nodded and said with a smile: "Not to mention the wild vegetables on the field ridge, the weeds were almost all plucked out, so I went to try my luck in the woods behind the village. Hey, my luck is really good!"

"Hey, you kid!" Mrs. Sun didn't know what to say, with a frightened look on her face: "You won't be allowed to go there again tomorrow!"

"Why, mother?"

"That forest is not clean! Everyone in our village has to go in together. Even us adults don't dare to go in there alone!" said Sun.

"What's so unclean? It's just that the forest is big, and after it rains, it's easy to get lost because of the rain and mist!" Yang Ruoqing said a little puzzled: "Besides, there are a lot of wild vegetables in there. If you go in, you can still get lost.

There are a lot of fresh matsutake mushrooms!”

"Good girl, don't ask so many questions. Just listen to mother. Don't go into the forest again. Mother won't harm you!"

Deep in the forest, there was an earthen kiln. I heard that more than ten years ago, earthen bricks were fired in that earthen kiln. I don’t know what happened later. The earthen kiln collapsed and a few people inside didn’t have time to escape.

People are just buried alive inside.

After that, no one dared to go to that earthen kiln. I heard that it was even haunted!

Further back, if any child in the village died, they would be wrapped in straw curtains and thrown to the earthen kilns. The woods connected to Mianniu Mountain at the back. The wild beasts in the mountains were so hungry that they went to the earthen pits to look for them.

As time went by, no one dared to pass through that forest.

Even the middle-aged men in the village would have to be in groups of three or five under the clear sky before they dare to go in to pluck loose hair or anything like that. Even so, they don't dare to go inside!

A few days ago, my daughter was dying of illness, and her mother-in-law told her that if she couldn't survive it, she would wrap her up in a straw curtain and take her to a tuyaozi through the back door...

Mrs. Sun was determined not to tell her daughter these things no matter what.

Seeing Mrs. Sun like this, Yang Ruoqing knew that no matter how much she pressed, she wouldn't get anything out of it, so she didn't force herself. She also squatted down, and together with Mrs. Sun, they picked wild vegetables by the light from the small stove.

She has washed these vegetables in the stream, and only needs to be poured with water before they can be chopped into pieces and put into the pot, so it takes no time at all to prepare them.

While the mother and daughter were picking up the wild vegetables and matsutake mushrooms, they lowered their heads and counted in a low voice.

The shepherd's purse was a bit old and tasted a bit bitter, so Sun rinsed the shepherd's purse, rubbed out the bitter water, chopped it, then spread it evenly on a sieve to air-dry. Use the dried shepherd's purse foam to make dumplings.

Shepherd's purse cake, or eaten directly with chili sauce, is a great side dish to go with rice!

Wash and mince the fresh and juicy mother-in-law dices, then wash two matsutake mushrooms, cut them into thin slices, and put them into a small boiling pot. Sun put a little salt star seeds in it and gently stirred them evenly with a spatula.

, and then close the lid.

Yang Ruoqing was tinkering with the shepherd's purse and said to Mrs. Sun, "Mom, the shepherd's purse foam is almost ready. I'll go back to the house and get the chili sauce Aunt Dayun sent to mix it with the shepherd's purse!"

"Okay, you go!"

After a while, Yang Ruoqing came back, holding a small brown jar in her hand, but her face looked a little ugly.

"Daughter, what's wrong with you?" Mrs. Sun came over and asked.

"Mom, look at this jar!" Yang Ruoqing handed the jar to Sun.
Chapter completed!