Chapter one hundred and sixty seventh annual banquet
"Guo Guo, after taking a bath, my whole body feels comfortable. In fact, I was very afraid of taking baths when I was a child. Let's change into new clothes quickly, we have to go out soon."
Chujiu climbed out of the barrel and pulled me towards the room upstairs.
Unexpectedly, he and Chujiu lived in my uncle's house, and there were four guest rooms on the second floor.
My luggage and backpack were in Chujiu's room. Chujiu put on white sneakers and sportswear. He asked me to wear the same clothes as him.
After changing clothes and going downstairs, Lanxi just woke up. When she saw Chujiu and me, she rushed out of bed and held Chujiu and me's arms.
"Brother, your and Chujiu's clothes are so beautiful. I've seen tourists wearing this in the county before."
I think of the cow in the United States. She gave us these two sets of sportswear. She has really good taste and they fit very well.
While Lan Xi was happily chatting with us, he suddenly remembered something urgent. He waved to us, said he would come back to us later, and ran out of the house.
"On the ninth day of the Lunar New Year, I brought breakfast for everyone."
As soon as Lan Xi left, a beautiful figure rushed in from outside the house.
My eyes lit up. I was carrying a bamboo basket of rice, wearing a hoodie, jeans and sneakers. My long and beautiful legs looked no less than the models in Zhang Feng fashion magazine.
"What are you looking at? Am I ugly dressed like this?"
"Ah! It's so beautiful! I didn't expect my sister to look like a celebrity when she's not wearing Miao clothes."
Chu Jiu happily praised Mi Li, and no matter how I looked at his expression, I felt that he was praising him for his good sense in choosing clothes.
Mi Li happily took Chujiu's arm and handed the bamboo basket to Chujiu. With a slight smile on her lips, she said thank you. At the same time, she told me that at the annual banquet, the other girls would thank me.
"Guo Guo, do you want to eat flower cake? Sister Mi Li makes it, it's super delicious."
Chujiu came out of the house with two flower cakes in his hands. Others were still sleeping, so Chujiu put breakfast on the dining table without disturbing them.
"I haven't eaten, and I'm not hungry at all. It's strange that I haven't eaten for three or four days, but I don't feel hungry at all."
When Chujiu heard what I said, she immediately took back the flower cake that was stretched out in front of me and stuffed it into her mouth.
"Guo Guo, those medicinal materials are all found by an old man. It took him many years and many trips to find them. When I was a child, he beat me to death because he refused to take a bath."
When Chu Jiu mentioned the dates of several medicinal materials, I was completely shocked.
This should be out of the scope of medicinal herbs. It is not an exaggeration to call it a treasure of heaven and earth.
If it is more than a hundred years old, it can be used as a treasure in any traditional Chinese medicine store.
I used to have dinner and chat with Uncle Ding, Gu Yongnian, and Deng Deyou. I learned that Gu Yongnian, as the leader in the medicinal material market, only had one or two medicinal herbs that were more than a hundred years old.
My uncle really spent a lot of money to save me this time. Just looking for these medicinal materials would cost a lot of money.
I felt warm in my heart and looked back at the bamboo building. I could hear the sounds of snoring coming from upstairs.
"Guo Guo, let me take you around the stockade. You fainted as soon as you entered the stockade."
I looked at the dense woods in the distance, and it was really time for me to walk around. This paradise-like fairy residence is a rare place to visit, so I really want to experience it.
I pointed to a large bamboo forest in the distance and told Chujiu to go there and have a look first.
"Guo Guo, how come you can tell at a glance that it's the most fun place?"
"Haha, we don't have bamboo on the high loess slopes. I just want to take a look there."
On the ninth day of the lunar month, I returned to the house and took a shovel that looked like a hoe, and told me that since I was going to play in the bamboo forest, I could dig up two bamboo shoots.
The bamboo forest is much larger than I imagined. It seems that the land we came to is more than ten acres.
A faint fragrance of bamboo wafts out, smelling it in the nose, and being in the green bamboo ocean, the whole person feels relaxed and happy.
Suddenly I understood why Su Shi said: "It is better to eat without meat than to live without bamboo. Without meat, one will be thin, while without bamboo, one will be vulgar."
Only when you are in it, you will suddenly understand: proud, noble, bamboo forest, lush forest, green, graceful, straight into the sky, pure and pure, proud snow, blowing in the wind, fragrance overflowing, branches and leaves are sparse.
, Bamboo shadows whirling, fresh and elegant, unique in appearance, tall and straight, straight and vigorous, strong in the wind, full of life, graceful and graceful. These words about bamboo are definitely the ceiling of praise for a person.
Chujiu held a shovel on the bamboo pole, knocking it here and taking a look.
"On the ninth day of the lunar month, why are you banging bamboo poles like this? Do you need to knock bamboo poles to dig bamboo shoots?"
"Hey, let me see if I can find the wine they hid in the bamboo tube."
Chujiu rubbed his head in embarrassment, changed the subject, and asked me if I knew how to dig bamboo shoots? After thinking about it, I really didn’t know.
Chujiu took advantage of the situation and started to explain to me the precautions for digging bamboo shoots.
Before digging bamboo shoots, you need to choose suitable bamboo. You should choose plants that are one or two years old, and do not choose bamboo that has grown for too long.
How to determine the age of bamboo requires observing the color of the surface of the bamboo. The darker the color, the longer the bamboo has grown, while the surface of bamboo that is one or two years old is generally green.
There is also the soil. You should choose land with relatively soft soil and observe the cracks on the ground.
The extension direction of the lowest bamboo branch of the bamboo is roughly parallel to the direction of the bamboo whip. If you look at the ground along this direction, you will see bamboo shoots wherever the soil on the surface is slightly raised, loose and cracked.
The last step is to dig the bamboo shoots. Do not use excessive force to prevent damage to the bamboo shoots.
Just dig downwards gently along the tips of the bamboo shoots, and you need to scoop up the soil while digging. When you get to the bottom of the bamboo shoots, you need to hoe hard to make them fall off more crisply.
According to what Chujiu said, I found two places and dug out fresh bamboo shoots.
After digging up a few bamboo shoots to satisfy their appetite, they discovered that the two of them had not taken the basket containing the bamboo shoots.
Finally, on the ninth day of the lunar month, the outer skin of bamboo shoots was peeled off layer by layer, leaving only the tender core. The two of them took two in each hand and walked back along the path.
"Yeah, sister!"
Chujiu suddenly excitedly stuffed the bamboo shoot cores in her hands into my arms and ran forward.
It turned out that a tall girl was walking from the far side of the path. The girl was wearing the same clothes as Mi Li. She walked cautiously, apparently because she was afraid of getting her sneakers dirty.
Chujiu rushed to the girl and gave her a big bear hug. The girl smiled and touched Chujiu's head, leaving Chujiu hanging on her like a koala.
After looking at the sisters on the ninth day of the lunar month, except for Lanxi, who is only a few meters above the ninth day of the lunar month, the others are much taller than the ninth day of the lunar month.
After seeing me walking in, the girl smiled, her face turned red instantly, she pointed to her clothes shyly, and said softly: "Adai."
I stood there for a moment, smiling awkwardly. Chujiu told me that she called me brother and thanked me for buying her clothes.