The Second Brigade has a total of 2,600 acres of land, and fortunately there are many people working on it.
During the spring plowing season, regardless of gender, even schools take advantage of the May Day farm holiday, so even though there is a lot of land, planting is not slow.
In a few days, a large area of land will be planted, and there will be some leftover land. Just leave a few people to finish the work.
After the team's land was planted, it was each family's turn to keep their own land.
In contrast, private land is more laborious, because there is no plow to plow the land, so you have to dig it yourself with a pickaxe.
It took Xu Shiyan more than three days to plant half an acre of the Xu family's land.
There is no other way. One person is plowing the ground to make furrows, and plowing and planting. It is too tiring to go back and forth.
Millet, millet, and two rows of red beans were planted.
The place is small, so I can only plant a little bit of everything so that I can’t afford to eat it myself, otherwise I won’t have room to buy anything.
The Xu family's private land is in Xiaonangou, also south of Fortress Mountain. It is farther than the field of the second brigade and close to the root of the mountain.
After working on his little plot, Xu Shiyan saw that it was still early, so he went into the woods to pick celery.
At the beginning of spring, every household is short of food, so they have no choice but to go to the mountains to gather wild vegetables.
Early May is a good time for all kinds of wild vegetables in the mountains. You can eat anything from big leaf celery, Yan'eryi, Huazijian, mountain millet, mountain spinach, etc.
Among them, Daphne chinensis is the most popular.
Celery, also known as mountain celery, is a perennial herbaceous plant with green or lavender stems.
The leaves are three obovate compound leaves, with bright backsides and small white flowers, which are very similar to celery flowers, and celery has a very special aroma.
Celery can be fried, mixed, or dipped in sauce. The most delicious thing is to make dumplings.
Before Xu Shiyan was reborn, all kinds of wild vegetables had become purely natural and pollution-free green food.
Every spring, there are piles of wild vegetables for sale in the market, and celery costs more than ten yuan a pound.
Even so, many people buy it.
Moreover, some people regard wild vegetables as gifts for relatives and friends.
At this time every year, we either buy them or go to the mountains to gather some wild vegetables such as celery and send them to relatives and friends far away.
At that time, the express delivery industry was developed, fresh food could arrive in two days, and people from far away could also taste the delicious food of the Northeast.
But right now, eating wild vegetables is just a helpless choice.
Who told the vegetable garden to have nothing but green onions and leeks? What else can we eat if we don’t eat wild vegetables?
All the dried vegetables in the autumn have been eaten, and the potatoes are still sprouting. Who dares to eat them?
No one can stand eating pickled vegetables and scallions dipped in soybean paste all day long. Who doesn’t get red-eyed when they see wild vegetables?
At this time of year, the weeds in the forest are growing wildly, and little purple, white, and yellow flowers are dotted in the forest, swaying in the wind.
The young leaves on the branches have just sprouted new green and have not yet fully unfolded. There are still some yellow buds, and there is a breath of spring everywhere.
I don't know what kind of bird it is in the forest, but it is chirping on the branches, and its chirping is quite pleasant.
On the hillside in the distance, the pink azaleas bloomed just right, bright and moving, as bright as clouds.
Xu Shiyan was not in the mood to enjoy the beautiful scenery, so he just lowered his head and searched among the trees.
Sure enough, not far into the forest, there were several piles of big leaf celery in front of us.
In this day and age, everyone has no choice but to go to the mountains to pick up a few vegetables to eat at home, and no one is trying to make money by selling celery.
Therefore, the wild vegetables have not been harvested yet, and they are all very thick.
Wait for another thirty years, and there will be more people gathering vegetables on the mountain than the vegetables, and the vegetables will be as thin as strings, and they will all be single plants.
Use your hands to pull aside the grass around the celery, then grab the root, shake it from side to side and pull it down hard, and you will have a handful of celery.
After two or three dungeons passed by, I couldn't hold them anymore.
Just peel off a strip of bark, or find a piece of grass from the ground, also called eldergrass or pencil grass, tie up the celery, throw it into the bag with food, and continue walking.
Xu Shiyan was walking forward with his head down, when suddenly a big bird flew up from the grass in front of him.
When Xu Shiyan saw the feathers, he knew it was a hen pheasant.
Most pheasants build nests in bushes or grass. This is the time when pheasants lay eggs and hatch chicks.
It is estimated that Xu Shiyan came over to pick vegetables and startled the hen pheasant in the nest, so it flew away.
Xu Shiyan quickly walked to the grass where the pheasants were flying, searched carefully nearby, and sure enough found a nest.
Inside lay six or seven wild eggs with light green shells, which were slightly smaller than domestic eggs.
The pheasants have flown away and cannot be chased away. It is not winter at this time and it is not easy to catch the pheasants. So just take away the eggs. Anyway, the pheasants will lay eggs again.
Xu Shiyan was not polite and directly picked up the eggs and put them in his pocket.
After picking up seven wild eggs and moving forward to pick up a few handfuls of celery, the diagonal bag could no longer hold anything.
Xu Shiyan had no choice but to walk back. As a result, after taking a few steps, he saw a cluster of grass in front of him.
The grass is very similar to clover, but much shorter. The light red stems are very tender and slightly transparent in the sun.
Three small triangular leaves, a bit like a hoe for shoveling the ground.
This kind of grass is called sour hoe ban'er by the locals. The whole plant is edible. It tastes sour and sweet, and children like it very much.
Xu Shiyan squatted down, picked off the cluster of sour hoe boards, and took them back to Lao Liu to eat.
That girl has loved eating these things since she was a child, and it hasn't changed as she grows up.
After walking a few steps further, he saw a few more clusters. Xu Shiyan didn't care about them, picked them all, and put them carefully into his pocket.
A trip into the mountains was a fruitful experience, and Xu Shiyan was satisfied and carried his bag down the mountain to go home.
When Xu Shiyan got home, he found that Xu Shiqin was also at home. He couldn't help but be a little surprised, "Why did you get off work so early today?"
Xu Shiyan remembered that it was usually almost six o'clock when Lao Liu came home. It was only five o'clock now, so why did he go home?
"Third brother, I have been back at this time for many days. If the store is not busy, the master asked me to go home early.
You've been busy all day long and haven't come home until very late, so you don't know."
Xu Shiqin had a small piece of clothing in his hand, which was being sewn stitch by stitch. You could tell without looking that it was made for that little guy Xu Haiyuan.
Su Anying's milk supply is good, but Xu Haiyuan was fat when he was born, and has grown a lot these days, and the clothes he originally made are too small.
When Zhou Guilan and Su Anying were making clothes, they had hair extensions.
But no one expected that the child would be so fat when he was born, grow so fast, and the clothes were not made big enough, so he would have nothing to wear now.
Xu Shiqin took a worn-out piece of clothing from Su Anying and cut it to make a small suit for his nephew.
It just so happened that the weather was getting hot, and I couldn’t wear a jacket or trousers, so I simply made it a single item.
"I forgot about it this morning. If I had known, I would have brought it to the store. There is a sewing machine in the store. This thing will be gone in just a few clicks."
Xu Shiqin said as he sewed the last few stitches and then bit off the threads.
Xu Shiqin's words immediately reminded Xu Shiyan.
"I remember that I had a sewing ticket at home. I just bought a sewing machine when I had time. It's convenient to use."
When Xu Shiyan went to give gifts to Guo Shouye a few years ago, he got a stack of tickets, including a sewing ticket.
At that time, I was thinking about moving, but it was too troublesome to buy it. I was busy moving here, and Su Anying didn't know how to use it, so I forgot about it.