"Okay, we are not in a hurry, just slow down and be careful not to cut yourself with the sickle in your hand." Zhao Feng also replied loudly, then turned to Zhang Yu and introduced: "That belongs to Uncle Zhao's eldest son.
My child is nine years old this year."
They waited for the boy to finish cutting the pig grass and hand it over to the person responsible for feeding the pigs and cleaning the pig pen, and watched him put a check mark under the boy's name.
At this time, Zhang Yu found out that his name was Zhao Fei. After delivering the pigweed, he returned the tools and then ran towards them, "Uncle Feng, I've packed it up. Let's go. We won't be able to do it if we're late."
Got something good."
Then he introduced them to them as he walked: "Let me tell you, I am the most familiar with this mountain. I know everything everywhere. I also have several secret bases with good things in them. I will wait for you later."
I’ll take you to see it.”
Zhang Yu and the others followed Zhao Fei and walked and stopped, taking detours from time to time. Because they were not going very fast, Zhang Yu also enjoyed the scenery here. Spring has come, and the mountains have become green. They are no longer green.
Following Zhang Yu's hand, several huge elm trees in a hidden valley were covered with fruit.
Because it was already the end of April in the lunar calendar, all the elm coins at the foot of the mountain had been exhausted, and we could not eat them for a long time. But when we ran to the small valley, we saw several huge elm trees, and the beautiful elm coins were all slurping.
It was hung on a branch, swaying flamboyantly in the warm wind. "It's true, hurry up and pick more, and let mother steam them for us when we go back."
Zhang Yu thought that before he experienced this series of rebirths, when he was still young, he was only a seven-year-old child. Although his parents were unwilling to have him after their divorce, he was pampered by his sister-in-law and was still at the age where he was crazy about playing.
, so he often gets into trouble.
At that time, I was bold and reckless. Whenever elm coins hung on the branches, I loved to hide from my sister-in-law and brothers, secretly climb up the elm tree, and pick elm coins to eat.
Yuqianer is the seed of the elm tree. It has thin round edges and a bulging middle, which looks like a green round coin.
The elm leaves are green in color and fragrant. Each cluster has many elm leaves hugging each other tightly. They are tender and sweet, with a slight mountain flavor. Pop it into your mouth and enjoy the taste.
Zhao Feng and the others looked at the strings of elm coins hanging on the branches of Fat Dudu. They couldn't stand anymore. Regardless of themselves being adults, they rolled up their sleeves, climbed up the elm tree, and sat on the tree.
, I picked off the elm money while it was fresh, stuffed it into my mouth and swallowed it in big gulps.
Then break off the small branches and throw them down. The big branches cannot be moved. These small branches will be fine if broken. More will come out next year.
Others were picking it up below and stuffing it into their mouths from time to time. When Zhang Yu saw it, he also picked one up from the ground, shook it, blew it again, and put it in his mouth. It was tender and sweet.
"Uncle Feng, throw it at me, throw it at me." Zhao Fei shouted loudly from below holding the beetle on his back.
"Okay! You catch it!"
"Catch it, catch it."
"Second brother, throw it this way, throw it this way." Seeing this, Zhao Xiaoping also shouted at Zhao Lei who was on the tree.
"..."
In this way, the top was throwing away quickly, and the bottom was picking up quickly. In a short time, the basket was full, "Brother, second brother, come down, the back is already full."
"Come down now," he said, and the eldest brother did not forget to pull some more when he came down. Although they were in Beijing these days, due to the lack of vegetables and food, they often dug wild vegetables during their breaks.
Good for subsidizing food.
Compared with those unpalatable wild vegetables with an indelible bitter and astringent taste, Yuqian is obviously more in line with their taste.
Since they had gone up the mountain, they had no intention of going down so early. It was now the lean season, and there were not many dried mustards, pickled radishes, and pickled cabbage left at home last year.
The family has been eating Wowotou for a long time, and there is always a shortage of food in spring. If it is mixed with wild vegetables, the food is even more difficult to use, so they took advantage of the free time in the past two days and found a good place today. They dug a lot of shepherd's purse, and then
On the way down the mountain, I found a clump of wolfberry, which had already sprouted buds.
They were very lucky. Although the wolfberry bush was very close to the bottom of the mountain, no one had picked it yet. They were not polite at the moment and put it in the basket after picking it.
They kept walking and walking like this, and the things they brought with them were already full enough to hold things. When they were about to enter the village, they even got two handfuls of grass and put them on top.
After all, strictly speaking, their household registration is no longer in the village, so it's better to hide away, lest anyone get jealous and cause trouble.
I met a villager on the road and said, "Xiaofei took his relatives up the mountain. Let's see there are quite a lot of things."
"Uncle Liu, I'm taking Uncle Feng and the others up the mountain for a walk. They haven't been to the mountain for a long time." Then he seemed to have thought of something and said loudly: "My father asked me to take Uncle Feng and the others home for dinner early.
I’ll leave first.”
After saying that, he pulled Zhang Yu and the others and walked away quickly. When no one was around, he stopped and breathed a sigh of relief: "Fortunately, I didn't let them see it, otherwise I would be jealous again."
Where they didn't see it, the group of villagers they met just now were also talking about them, "You said that the old Zhao family is really lucky. When he wanted to raise that boy Zhao, many people in the village were not optimistic about it.
He said that his efforts were in vain, and in the end he had to take care of Zhao Xiaozi's marriage."
"That's right, who would have thought that Mr. Zhao would be so prosperous now. He not only settled in the capital, found a good job, but also married a good wife." Another villager said with envy. He regretted it now.
Now I wish I was the one who proposed raising Zhao Xiaozi in the first place.
"That's right, that's right, now the old Zhao family has also taken over. You didn't see it. Even if one of the younger generations got married, Mr. Zhao rushed back. I guess a lot of the big and small bags he took were for the old Zhao family.
"
"That's right, I saw them carrying a thermos yesterday. It's probably for Lao Zhao's family too."
"That's not true. You said that Mr. Zhao is now living outside. Will he arrange work for the old Zhao family?" One of the people who was talking suddenly lowered his voice and said.
"That's impossible. It's so hard to find a job now. You know the captain of the next village? He spent more than 300 yuan to send his son to the factory. How could Mr. Zhao give up?"
"That's not accurate. Look at how many times in these years has Mr. Zhao come here with a lot of stuff and maybe even get a job for the old Zhao family." The speaker was almost jealous.
He was jealous, why didn't this good thing happen to him.
