Everyone had eaten half of their dumplings, and then Xu Shiyan came home.
"Oh, the machine at the venue broke down this afternoon. It took a lot of effort to fix it."
Xu Shiyan walked in and quickly explained.
Xu Shiyan was busy with work and nothing else, so no one could say anything.
When Zhou Guilan saw that the dumplings were cold, she asked Su Anying to bring two plates to the pot to heat them up.
Xu Shiyan waved his hand, "No, no, no, I'm going to starve to death today. It's good to have something to eat."
If you are hungry and grunting, you don't care whether it's hot or cold. It's good if you have a stutter.
Xu Shiyan went to wash his hands, came back and sat down. He didn't care about that anymore, picked up dumplings and started eating.
"Well, the dumplings are quite delicious, the ones made with mustard tassels, right? These dumplings are really delicious."
"Well, yesterday the children and I pulled mustard greens, pickled half a jar of mustard greens, and pickled some tassels.
There is still quite a bit left, so tie it up to dry some dried vegetables and keep the little tofu for the Spring Festival. The tender ones are perfect for making dumplings."
Zhou Guilan brought a plate of uneaten dumplings to her son.
The Xu family grows mustard greens with chopped leaves, mustard lumps and pickles, and mustard tassels can also be pickled and eaten.
Pickled mustard tassels can be used to stew potatoes or tofu, both of which are very good.
If you don't want to pickle vegetables, tie the mustard tassels with a rope and hang them on the wall or in the warehouse. It's also good to dry them in the shade and keep them for making spring pancakes.
Of course, the most delicious ones are the dumplings made with mustard tassels.
Blanch the mustard tassels in boiling water, chop them into pieces, mix them with the meat filling, and make the dumplings the most tender.
Xu Shiyan was indeed hungry. After two plates of dumplings, he seemed not yet full.
He didn't dare to eat anymore. He ate too late in the evening, and if he ate too late, he would easily accumulate food.
"The dumplings served tonight are really good and delicious." Xu Shiyan said very satisfied.
Since I started making ginseng, my family has been too busy to take care of anything, and I really haven’t made anything delicious.
"Daughter-in-law, how is the ginseng soil on the mountain? Can you plant some seeds recently?"
After eating, I finally found some time to ask what was going on on the mountain.
"The ginseng soil is almost done, but the soil clods, grass roots and other things have been cultivated again.
Shen Zaizi can get up in the next two days. See if you can take a leave or something if you have time.
Let's go up the mountain and bring back those ten dozen ginseng seeds."
When the fields were first divided into households, each household did not have many ginseng seeds and seeds.
Xu Shiyan harvested the seeds from the ginseng field that year. He kept the ginseng seeds the next year and scattered them on the ginseng field on the Kaifeng fork road.
Ginseng seeds are sown in the ground for two years and are called five leaves. You can also plant ginseng, and the growth of five leaves is better than that of Erjiazi.
But there is something wrong with the five leaves. It cannot help you stay in good health.
Last year, 20,000 feet of ginseng seeds were planted on the Liumao River side, and Xu Shiyan planned to keep the ginseng seeds for three years.
So this year we won’t sow seeds in the 100 feet, and we will plant them all with sticks.
First, I brought back my own ten-foot-long ginseng seeds and planted them. Then I had to find another place to buy the rest.
"Then let's do it the day after tomorrow. The day after tomorrow is Sunday. It's okay if I take a day off."
Xu Shiyan calculated that the processing plant has not been as busy as it was a few days ago. It should be okay for him to take a day off on Sunday.
"Dad, we don't have classes the day after tomorrow. We can go together and help pick ginseng seeds."
Upon hearing this, Xu Haiyuan immediately said that they could go up the mountain to help.
It just so happened that he had finished all his homework. Xu Jinping was even better. She didn't even have any homework. What else could she do if she didn't go to work in the mountains?
Xu Shiyan thought. Children should be trained from an early age to let them know how difficult life is.
The good conditions at home were earned by their parents working hard, not by their laziness.
Children should learn that things are difficult in the world as early as possible, otherwise, they will easily breed assholes.
The two eldest children in the family are very sensible and study well.
No matter how good they are at studying, they cannot ignore moral education. They must know that it is not easy for their parents.
"Okay, then you can go up the mountain together the day after tomorrow." Xu Shiyan nodded and agreed.
"Dad, I'll go too." Upon hearing this, Yang Haoyu immediately said that he was going to work in the mountains too.
"Xiaoyu, if you don't do your own work and come to work for my family, aren't you afraid of your father punishing you?"
Xu Shiyan looked at his godson and deliberately teased him.
"Don't be afraid, what's wrong with me staying at my godfather's house and doing some work?"
In recent days, Yang Haoyu simply stayed at Xu's house instead of going home.
Why is he going home? His parents are away from home during the day and only come back at night.
He went back and had to run back early in the morning. He might as well stay at his godfather's house and play and study with his brothers and sisters.
"Listen, how good is this kid at talking? Then let's go together.
Anyway, I don’t expect you to do much work, just go and have fun. There are walnuts, hazelnuts and the like around the field over there.
If you like the work, you can do it; if you don't, you can just pick walnuts and mushrooms.
There seems to be a lot of hazelnut mushrooms on that end. I saw people taking a break during lunch today and picked up a basket full of mushrooms.
It’s good to pick up some mushrooms and dry them in the sun. It’s also good to stew chickens in winter.”
Su Anying smiled and touched Yang Haoyu's head. This child is sensible and obedient, and is very rare.
"Actually, there should be a lot of hazelnut mushrooms around our new ginseng site.
I see there are a lot of hazelnut trees over there, and there are quite a lot of Gastrodia elata growing there in summer.”
Hazel mushrooms are actually the fruiting bodies of Armillaria fungi. They usually grow in broad-leaved forests, especially hazel trees, which are what Xu Shiyan calls hazel trees.
When they heard that there were hazelnut mushrooms, walnuts, etc. on the mountain, Xu Haiyuan and Xu Jinping's eyes widened.
"Dad, if you hadn't told me earlier, if you had known, we would have gone up the mountain with mother today.
I have five days off. It’s too boring to be at home all day.
Mom, are you still going to work in the mountains tomorrow? Let’s go with you.” They wanted to go up the mountains to pick up walnuts and mushrooms.
Su Anying thought about it for a while, and found that there was nothing going on at the new ginseng field. The ginseng soil she had left had almost been sorted out.
Those that were sold were paid and the balance was paid, so this crop of ginseng soil made a lot of money.
After a while, all the work will be done, and it will be time to settle the accounts and give everyone this year's dividends.
On the other hand, on the Kaifengcha Road and Liumao River side, the sheds should be removed from the ginseng area.
"It's time to remove the shed from the ginseng field. You guys are not good at it. You can't do it."
Nowadays, plastic sheets are used in ginseng fields. If the plastic sheets are still on them in winter, the snow will not fall off, and the sticks will be frozen.
[To be honest, I have been using Yeguo to read and catch up on books recently. I can switch sources and read aloud with many sounds. www. Android and Apple are available.]
Another thing is that plastic sheets age quickly due to wind and other factors in winter, so they need to be removed in winter.
Some take them home, and some just dig a hole in the ground and bury them, and then dig them out in the spring.
The task of removing the plastic sheet is not that tiring. All you have to do is untie the wire on the bead and peel off the plastic sheet.
But the children are not tall enough, so they cannot do this job at all.
"Mom, then take us up the mountain and let's go pick up the mushrooms."
Xu Jinping still refused to give up. She had no homework during the five-day holiday and had finished harvesting the little land at home.
It's too boring for them to just be idle like this. Why not go up the mountain to pick up some mushrooms or something? It's quite fun.