frightfiction Chapter 285: Never Be Afraid of Arguing
Chapter 285: Never Be Afraid of Arguing
The brave girl told Shen Youyou that her name was Tang Xin, and asked if she could go to Shen Youyou's house to learn how to make this dish in the evening.
He also told Shen Youyou that there were more of these ground vegetables in other places than near the river.
Shen Youyou liked the girl's personality very much, so she nodded and agreed, saying, "We don't have time at noon because we are very busy just after arriving in the village. You can go to our temporary residence before dinner and I will teach you."
Tang Xin blushed, then nodded and made an appointment to learn how to cook ground cabbage in the evening. She also called on her friends to go to other places to look for ground cabbage.
Arya said, "Not bad, at least she knew not to fight with us by the river."
Shen Youyou smiled and said that it was okay to rob. The river was so long that it would take a while to finish picking up everything. It looked like there were already three or four baskets.
She took a few sisters to wash them directly with river water.
Then let my brothers carry it back first and then get other bamboo baskets.
After seeing that they had enough food for the day and still thinking about the goat's milk, they took their brothers and sisters who had exchanged for new baskets and continued to walk towards the foot of the mountain.
She completely forgot that she was dressed like a tomboy. And at this age, her voice is hard to tell whether it is male or female. Tang Xin is blushing and her heart is beating fast.
"I didn't expect that handsome boy could cook."
Although the thatch was very high, the strong laborers of the Jiu clan had cleared a path from the river to the foot of the mountain, which was exactly in the middle.
Of course, there are many longitudinal forks on this new east-west road, which were also cleared by the people of Shenjia Village, just to make it more convenient to cut down the trees first.
It’s true that the foot of the mountain is quite far from the river. Shen Youyou felt that it was at least two miles away.
"arrive"
Shen Youyou pointed at the bushes in front. Although there was still more than ten meters away, the bright red color of the goat milk bushes was already visible.
As I got closer, I saw clusters of red goat milk fruits on the branches. They were bright and plump and looked delicious.
Sheep milk, also known as March date, sour mimi, and Elaeagnus, is an evergreen upright shrub of the genus Elaeagnus in the family Elaeagnaceae.
The berries are sweet and sour, contain 7 kinds of amino acids and vitamin C, can be eaten raw, provide pigments, and can also be used to make wine, beverages and jams.
Its buds, fruits and young branches can be used as medicine, and its flowers are a source of nectar, so raising bees in this area is a good choice.
This plant can grow up to 3-4 meters tall. It has sparse thorns at the top of its stem or in the axils of its leaves. The thorns are about 2-4 centimeters long.
Its leaves are tough, it blooms from September to December every year, and its fruits ripen from April to June of the following year.
At this time, the goat milk fruit has fully matured, and the fruits are hanging down from the tree, which is quite beautiful.
Even Shen Daya and her friends in her hometown often pick it to eat, because it grows on trees and in the wild, so it is very clean and can be enjoyed directly after picking. It is very sweet and sour and delicious.
The young branches of the goat's milk plant are angular, slightly flat, and covered with rusty scales.
However, as the branches grow older, the scales will fall off and the color will become darker and more shiny.
Its leaves are leathery, generally oval in shape, 5 to 10 cm long and 1 to 5 cm wide. The edges of the leaves may curl or be wavy. Its flowers are snow-white and very beautiful.
But its fruit is more beautiful. It is oblong and looks like "goat milk", so it is commonly called "goat milk".
Its fruiting period is very long. It is light yellow at first, slowly turns green, and finally slowly turns yellow. When fully ripe, it is bright red.
"Wow, there are so many."
Shen Erya exclaimed.
Shen Youyou nodded. There were indeed a lot of them! As he got closer, he could see strings and strings of them everywhere.
Shen Erya picked a few and put them into her mouth, smiling as she ate: "These fruits are ripe and very sweet."
Shen Youyou also went up to pick a few. They were indeed sour and sweet, and probably the ones were riper, so the sweetness was greater than the sourness, and they were very delicious.
Pick a few and put them in your mouth, and you will feel the juice bursting in your mouth. It is so satisfying and very thirst-quenching.
In addition to being eaten raw, it can also be used to make sugar.
Shen Dabao picked a handful of them and stuffed them into his mouth. His cheeks were bulging from eating so much. It was really satisfying to watch.
We were all family, so there was no need to be polite. Everyone started picking and eating the fruits.
Anyway, there are so many.
Guo Daya saw her elder sister putting goat milk directly into the basket and bamboo basket, and reminded her: "Lay a layer of straw in the basket first, the fruit will break easily."
Everyone thought this was a good idea, and they could get some hay to cover the fruit on the way back.
Shen Youyou and her friends were busy picking fruits, but they didn't know that a few old ladies in their hometown had already started quarreling with a few old ladies in Tangjia Village.
As for why, it was because of salt refining today that the water was used up quickly. The men went out, and Shen Mazi's wife took a few other wives and pushed a cart to fetch water in the center of the village.
I happened to meet a few women from Yangjia Village fetching water. I saw that the things they used to carry water were not wooden barrels, but seemed to be made of oilcloth, which was smoother than oilcloth. I wanted to get closer to them.
But you can just look at it, why do you have to touch it? Even if you touched it, it wouldn't be a big deal, but it's already full of water and you have to tear a hole and look inside.
The pockmarked wife was not a good-tempered one, so she started quarreling. It was only right that the two young wives could just curse at each other a few times and then vent their anger and leave.
As luck would have it, when Mrs. Hua and Cui Fen came over to help, they happened to hear the young wife from Tangjia Village say:
"What can I do if I take a look? If you don't let me take a look, then don't fetch water from our village. You fetch more water in the morning and at noon than we fetch in our own village."
Many people standing around were also talking at the same time, saying, "That's right, what can we do? This well was dug by our village. It's good enough that we didn't make you who didn't pay for it drink river water. Why are you newcomers making a fuss?"
The old ladies thought this was a warning to them: "Why are you so calculating in the village? Not only is the wasteland extremely expensive, but we have to pay for even a sip of water. Why don't you just go after the money?"
Besides, it's almost noon. Why don't you go back to eat? Instead, some of you are standing by the well watching the fun. You are teaming up to bully them.
Didn’t you see that the pockmarked wife said a few words, and the old women around them helped to fight back?
Old Lady Hua: "What are you doing? What are you doing? Are you bullying the minority?"
The old ladies on the opposite side looked at him and said, "Oh, you powerful people are all like beggars. You are going to live on the other side of the river where we don't want to go. You are still talking so arrogantly. Are you new here to rebel?"
The two groups were separated by a well, and they were flashing death rays at each other at the same time. You could tell from their eyes that none of them were good people.
He was even more eloquent, and he spoke in a rapid succession, and suddenly the center of the village seemed like a vegetable market.
Cui Fener even fought with an old lady on the opposite side for several rounds and still had the upper hand. There was no way she could quarrel with her sister-in-law over the years, and she had never been scared, even with her eldest sister-in-law.