Chapter five hundred and thirty-one rat bites the mallet
After rubbing the pants, pour them in clean water several times, then wring them dry and put them in a basin. Just take them out to dry in the morning.
No one hangs clothes out to dry at night, there's no such rule.
After washing the pants, Su Anying had already picked up all the mushrooms in the basket and put them on the fork, waiting to be taken out to dry in the morning.
Underneath the mushrooms are soft dates covered with big leaves. I pick them up and wash them with water in a small basin, then bring them into the house for the children to eat.
The Xu family has no shortage of food, but wild fruits like these in the mountains are rarely seen.
Soft dates are very sweet and have a special aroma. Xu Haiqing and Xu Jinhui both like to eat them.
Over there, Xu Haiyuan picked out some walnuts with rotten skins from the walnut pile, knocked off the skins with a stick, picked some and threw them into the pit at the bottom of the pot to burn them.
In the evening, Xu Chenghou had nothing to do, so he used a hammer to crack walnuts for the children. The children each found an awl or something to pick out the walnut kernels.
At this time, the walnuts are not yet completely dry, and the walnut kernels also contain water, giving them a unique and sweet taste.
The children are all very beautiful, especially the three who work in the mountains. The fruits of their own labor taste particularly delicious.
It was agreed that they would go to pick up ginseng seeds tomorrow, and Xu Shiyan and Su Anying were preparing things there.
Ginseng seeds are not as good as the original ones, they are too tender, and they have to be planted in the ground again, so you have to be very careful.
Inside the sack is a layer of plastic film that seals the window.
The plastic film itself is in the shape of a barrel, just tie it up at the bottom and put it into the sack.
There aren't many seeds per ten feet, so two or three sacks are enough.
The children were actually tired after going up the mountain for a day, so they went to bed early in the evening and got up early the next morning.
Zhou Guilan was cooking pancakes in the kitchen and bringing food to Xu Shiyan and others up the mountain.
The fragrant noodle pancake has a lot of green onions in it, and the aroma of green onion pancake fills the room.
In addition to scallion pancakes, Zhou Guilan also cut a piece of beef with soy sauce.
The beef was given to me by someone a while ago. I was too busy to eat it, so it was frozen in the refrigerator.
Doesn't this mean going up the mountain to plant seeds? Yesterday, Zhou Guilan took it out of the refrigerator and put it in the stew pot with sauce.
Just cut it out at this moment and put it in the lunch box.
In addition to these, there are also pickles and homemade chili sauce.
Zhou Guilan bakes a lot of cakes. When she wakes up in the morning, she eats scallion cakes and potato soup.
Just eat the homemade chili sauce, pickles, pancakes and hot soup. It's a delicious meal.
After breakfast, Xu Shiyan and Su Anying threw their tools into the trunk of the car, and the three children sat in the back seat of the cab.
I don't have much time to live today, so I won't let Xu Chenghou go up the mountain. The old man is too old to go up the mountain continuously.
Xu Shiyan drove, Su Anying sat in the passenger seat, and the family of five drove straight to Shendi at Kaifeng Road.
At this season, the ginseng leaves have withered and turned yellow.
After removing the ginseng shed, use a four-pronged pick to scratch the ground several times.
The ginseng seedlings themselves are small and will disappear as soon as they are pulled. Just don't delay planting.
Xu Shiyan dug with his four-tine blade, and Su Anying and the children quickly went out to pick up seeds.
Not to mention, this piece of land is really long. After two years of sowing seeds, the seeds have grown really well.
The good ones are as thick as an adult's little finger, have good strips, and don't show any rust.
Xu Shiyan paid special attention to every move, fearing that the seeds would be damaged.
Su Anying led the children and picked them up very carefully.
The Xu family's balls are quite uniform, the big ones are about the same size as a finger, the small ones are about as thick as a cigarette, and they are almost never too small.
This is the advantage of spreading dry seeds. After a year of dormancy, ginseng seeds have a high opening rate and good germination.
This will not work if it is water-seed. The opening rate is not enough, and some ginseng seeds will germinate and be unearthed a year later.
As a result, there were many three-flowered ginseng seeds mixed in among the five leaf ginseng seeds.
So later, some people used gibberellin to soak ginseng seeds before spreading them, which can increase the opening rate.
The ginseng seeds were good, and everyone was very happy. While laughing and chatting, they picked up the ginseng seeds and put them together smoothly.
When Su Anying saw that there were too many piles, she put the ginseng seeds into the sacks one by one.
There is also something to be careful about when dressing up. The beard should be facing out and the reed head should be facing in.
This one needs to be replanted in the ground. If the reed head falls off, it will not be able to germinate.
There is a plastic sheet inside the sack to ensure that the moisture of the ginseng seeds will not be lost by the wind, especially the reed heads will not dry out.
The seeds were small and dense, so Xu Shiyan dug them alone, and Su Anying led the three children to pick them up.
By noon, it had already risen seven or eight feet.
If Xu Shiyan and his wife went up the mountain, they would definitely finish their work before eating.
But they have three children here. Children are prone to hunger, and after working all morning, they are already hungry.
How could we let them go hungry? So we took the children to see the little house for dinner.
The pancakes she baked early in the morning were already cold now. Su Anying was worried that the children would feel uncomfortable eating them, so she warmed them up in the pot.
Fragrant scallion pancakes, rolled with thin slices of soy beef, and some homemade chili sauce, take a bite and it will be very satisfying.
There is no hot soup on the mountain, but the ginseng watcher boiled hot water for me to eat cakes and drink hot water. This meal was quite comfortable.
After having lunch and resting for a while, Xu Shiyan saw that the sky was very cloudy, so he said to work quickly and go home early.
So the couple led the children to plant seeds again.
As a result, after just a few digs, a hole was revealed in the ground, and some seeds were dug out with four teeth, but there was no beginning or end, only a bare pole.
"Oh, this is a rat."
When Su Anying saw it, she felt heartbroken. At least two or three kilograms of seeds were dug out from this nest.
And the most harmful thing about mice is that they specialize in picking out big ones to gnaw. This is done by pinching off the head and tail in order to store up food for the winter.
Xu Shiyan also sighed. What are the most afraid of in this farmyard? One is bad weather, and the other is pests and rats.
This rat is so harmful to people that it bites off the head and tail with a mallet and hides it in a hole.
"It's okay, isn't it an old saying? If a mouse bites a stick, the price of the stick will go up."
Seeing his wife's distressed look, Xu Shiyan could only offer words of comfort.
Her man said this deliberately to forgive her, could Su Anying know?
Su Anying could only smile, "Well, it would be great if the price really increased.
Let’s get to work, let’s get out of here quickly, pack our things and go home.”
Xu Shiyan dug out all the mallets in the hole.
Even if you can't plant it, you can still clean it and make goods. You can't leave it to mice as winter food.
It didn't take long in the afternoon, so I got up quickly and packed three loose sacks with ten feet of ginseng seeds.
The ginseng seeds were not packed too tightly, mainly because they were afraid of crushing the seeds.
All in all, these are the things that have happened, so don’t put them in the trunk of the car. What if you accidentally knock them over?
Su Anying and her daughter were sitting in the passenger seat, her son and Shen Zaizi were sitting in the back seat, and Si Tezi and other household items were placed in the car compartment.
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Just like that, the family of five drove back.
After lunch, the sky became a little cloudy. It started to rain while they were loading the car. Halfway through the car, it started to rain heavily.
Su Anying sat in the car and watched the wipers keep brushing the windshield. She was very lucky that they had a ginseng day today.
Otherwise, this rain will delay the trip for several days.
"It's a good thing our family has a car, otherwise we'd all be in trouble."