Mingheng became more and more curious when he saw that his sister was chattering away, looking carefully around the tree stumps, stamping on the ground from time to time, and sometimes tapping on the tree stumps with a hatchet.
"Sister, what are you doing? What's so good about this tree stump?"
Qiao Mingjin looked at him, smiled, and said mysteriously: "This is all money."
"Money? Where did the money come from?" When Mingheng heard this, he also looked around the tree stump, but after looking at it for a while, he still didn't know why.
He stood up and asked, "Sister, did you say that this tree stump can be exchanged for money? If you build it and sell firewood, one can load half a car. But this tree stump is not easy to raise. I don't know how deep it is buried, and there are many tree roots."
, this is not easy to dig.”
Qiao Mingjin looked at her younger brother and smiled, but he could see that she thought of this tree stump. Not bad.
But now she has no money, no energy, no leisure, and most importantly, no ability. Although this thing is a good thing, she can't do it now, and she has to find another suitable opportunity.
Seeing Mingheng's curious face, waiting for her answer, she just smiled. She didn't want to say what she would use these tree stumps for, as children speak quickly. Of course, it didn't mean that she didn't trust Mingheng.
Heng, this tree stump doesn't bother anyone here. When she is ready, she might be able to make a fortune from it. She doesn't want to make wedding clothes for others.
She smiled at Mingheng and said that these tree stumps are of great use, but they don't have the ability now. Mingheng looked at her sister and didn't ask any more questions.
Several people walked towards the mountains again.
Qiao Mingjin looked at the sack in Mingqi's hand. In just a moment, he picked out most of the black fungus. Even if it shrinks when dried, it will not swell again after soaking. This half of the sack is enough to last for a while.
Already.
I was very happy and praised the two children again and again, but they were extremely happy.
Xiao Wan'er was even more happy. She didn't need anyone to carry her on her back anymore. She jumped forward and ran forward, bending her little body from time to time to look for black fungus. Qiao Mingjin felt happy and sad at the same time...
After a while, a few people walked to a mountain stream.
The river is four to five feet wide, and both sides are covered with dense bulrushes. There are also footprints of hares and pheasants on the ground beside the river. They must have found this place to drink water.
If you make some traps here, you might be able to catch some wild animals.
Qiao Mingjin stopped here with her three children and asked them to stay where they were while she walked along the stream.
When she walked to a place with particularly dense water plants, she was startled by a few wild ducks, which flew high into the air, startling her to the core.
When the three children saw the frightened wild duck, they quickly ran over: "Sister, sister, stop it quickly!"
As soon as he finished speaking, the shadow of the wild duck disappeared.
When several children saw the fun of hunting pheasants, they wanted to catch everything. This wild duck is much heavier than the pheasant, one can be worth two or three pheasants, and the price of selling it is more.
"Hey, why did you run away?"
Ming Qi and Xiao Wan'er looked at the rippling stream and the swaying grass, feeling very discouraged.
Qiao Mingjin looked at them, smiled, and said, "The wild ducks are gone, maybe there will be wild duck eggs in the grass."
"Mom, is it true? Will there be wild duck eggs?"
"Sister, let's go look for it."
"What are you looking for? It's on the opposite side. How do you get there? There's no bridge." After Mingheng finished speaking, he glanced at Mingqi, looked at the grass opposite, and sighed.
Qiao Mingjin glanced at the three little things and said to Mingqi: "Give the bamboo pole to sister."
He took the bamboo pole from Mingqi and poked it into the middle of the stream. He poked it all the way to the bottom and hit the flat river bed. He poked it harder and the bamboo pole went down a little further. It was a bit laborious to press it down again.
It seems that there is not mud underneath the river bed.
Qiao Mingjin poked the bamboo pole in several places on both sides, and then lifted the bamboo pole up. He pressed the wet spot at the top of the bamboo pole with his hand and checked it on his body. Fortunately, it was below the shoulders and could not reach the top.
The river is not very deep yet.
Then he compared the bamboo poles sideways, and then he knew what he was doing.
He said to the three children: "You three stay here, sister, go to the other side and have a look."
"Sister, the river is so wide, how do you get across?"
Qiao Mingjin smiled and said, "Then you should keep an eye on it."
As he spoke, he took about ten steps back, holding up the bamboo pole and started trotting. The river was not very wide, so there was no need to run too fast. When he reached the river, he used a bamboo pole to stick on his side of the river, and his whole body flew into the air.
, taking advantage of the inertia, he jumped to the other side of the river.
On the other side, I jumped forward, but luckily I didn't fall to the ground. Hey, I haven't played for many years, and I couldn't stand firm even when I jumped over.
When she stood firm and looked back at the three children, she found that all three children had their mouths wide open and looked at her blankly.
Qiao Mingjin smiled with her mouth raised.
"Wow, sister, how did you do it?"
"Wow, my mother can fly!"
"Sister, I want to go there too!"
"No." Qiao Mingjin restrained Mingheng.
She has been playing this kind of game since she was a child. Their home is a water town with many rivers. If you want to walk on a bridge, you sometimes have to take a long detour. She is impatient, so she often pole vaults like this. As long as the river does not exceed
It can easily jump over two meters.
Mingheng was inexperienced, and the river was not as tall as her, but if Mingheng accidentally fell in, she would be completely crushed.
"Sister!" He looked at her sister and she seemed to be having an easy time. She ran a little, stretched her legs on the bamboo pole, and jumped over. There was no reason why he couldn't.
Qiao Mingjin glared at him: "You should practice on the ground over there first."
After Mingheng heard this, he didn't care about anything and started practicing with his own pocket. In the future, when he encounters a river like this, he will be able to jump across it as easily as his sister without walking on a bridge or running into water.
Sister looked like she was flying just now. He wants to do that too.
Qiao Mingjin glanced at him, said nothing, and let him go. She walked towards the place where the wild duck had just started. She poked around in the grass, but did not see any wild duck eggs.
She straightened up and searched around again. After checking several places, she was lucky enough to finally see two light blue wild duck eggs. She was very happy when she saw them.
I hurriedly chopped some cattails with a hatchet and made egg trays. I made a string of five and three strings before I was done. Then I jumped to the other side.
When Xiao Wan'er and Ming Qi saw the wild duck eggs, they were already excited and waiting on the opposite side. As soon as Qiao Mingjin jumped over, the two children took the eggs and happily held them up to look at them again and again.
Mingheng was still jumping up and down, and Qiao Mingjin couldn't laugh or cry when she saw it.
Said: "Okay, let's practice again when we have free time. There are still many things to pay attention to here. I will teach you later when I have free time. Now pull out these cattails first."
After hearing this, Mingheng put away the bamboo pole and came over: "What are you doing pulling out these water plants?"
After hearing this, Ming Qi and Xiao Wan'er also put the duck eggs away and followed.
"Cyperus is as tough as silk. This cattail is a good thing. It can not only weave straw ropes, but also straw mats and baskets. It can be used to make many things, and it can also be eaten. It is a kind of wild vegetable."
"Can this waterweed be eaten?" Mingheng and Mingqi didn't quite believe it.
"That's right. Our vegetables haven't sprouted yet, and we can't always eat the vegetables they send us. We owe a lot of favors, and we won't be able to pay them back in the future. If we buy them with money, firstly, it will cost money, and secondly, they won't be able to pay for it.
Harvest. Now let’s pull out the cattails and cook them for dinner at night. No one else knows that the cattails are edible, so maybe we can sell them for some money tomorrow.”
Mingheng became interested when he heard that he could sell it for money: "Sister, is this cattail grass really edible? Can it still be sold for money?"
"Yes. It's edible. This cattail grass is actually a kind of wild vegetable. The grass on it cannot be eaten. What can be eaten is the part under water and in the mud. Let's sell it to a wine shop. Maybe others will find it fresh and spend money to eat it.
I bought it."
As he spoke, he moved his hands.
"Wan'er, don't come over here, don't fall into the water. Watch the pheasants over there, don't let them run away."
"Well, Wan'er is watching the pheasant."
She wasn't happy at first, but when her mother told her to watch the pheasants, she ran to the basket. Afraid that the pheasants would escape, she squatted in front of the basket, and the two of them spread their arms to protect it.
Qiao Mingjin glanced at her daughter and then told Mingqi and Mingheng how to pull out the cattail grass.
After a while, the three of them pulled out a huge pile.
Even the mud in the water was brought out. It was three or four feet long.
Qiao Mingjin cut off the green grass above with a hatchet, leaving only the white tender stems below. Even if others saw it, they wouldn't know what it was.
The edible part below is also called cattail or cattail. It is very delicious when fried. She often ate it in the countryside in her previous life. Sometimes it was also sold in the vegetable market.
Three people tied three large bundles with straw ropes, freed up the pheasants, and stacked them in baskets...
I didn’t know if I could sell it, so I didn’t want to pull more out, so I just packed up three big bundles.
The three of them dug a few more traps by the stream, thinking that if they could catch some hares or something, they could sell them for some money.
In the afternoon, Qiao Mingjin led her three children to cut most of the load of firewood in the front mountain.
At sunset, Qiao Mingjin was a little exhausted, so she had to let Mingheng go home and bring the oxcart. Before leaving, he took a look at the traps by the stream. They were lucky today, and four hares fell into three traps.
But they are all gray mountain rabbits. If they are white rabbits, they can be sold for more money just because of their white fur. However, these mountain rabbits are quite fat and can be sold for a few copper coins.
After covering four hares and seven pheasants with pine feathers, the family of four took most of the truckload of firewood to the house...
ps: Thanks to "Xinji" and "dy99" for the reward. Thanks to "Tao Lao Yao" for the five evaluation votes.
