Zhou Xiaoyun’s Happy Life

Chapter 147: Digging Wild Vegetables

 Zhou Guoqiang’s business has become even busier since he built a new pigsty and bought a new tricycle. Nowadays, Zhao Yuzhen is basically allowed to go to the vegetable market alone. He is busy driving a tricycle to collect pigs and deliver pork. This year, two more restaurants came to make verbal contracts with him on how many kilograms of pork they would deliver every day.

He is busy spinning like a top, but as long as he can make money, it doesn't matter if he is busy or miserable.

Seeing that one person was too busy killing pigs, Zhou Guoqiang simply spent some money to hire people from the village to help. The wages are settled on the spot, and some pigs are often sent to the water for people to take home. Who wouldn't be happy to come here to help? Who wouldn't want to come when they have wages and stuff?

Later on, there were only two people who often came to help. One was Xu Dashan, the younger brother of Xu Dashan from the same village, and the other was Wang Jingjing’s father, Wang Kang.

Wang Jingjing is happy that her father works part-time for the Zhou family. She often goes to Zhou Xiaoyun's house after school and goes home with Wang Kang.

However, the girls hid and did not dare to watch the spectacular scene of pig killing. Xiaobao is not much more courageous than a girl, and he can run faster than Erya at this time.

The whole yard was filled with blood and monsters, and it was scary. I didn’t dare to leave the house until I had cleaned up the children.

There are several pigs raised in the pig pen at home ready for slaughter. The pigs in the pig pen are now collected from various villages and kept in the pen for a while before being slaughtered.

 Eating pig food every day has become a big problem for the family. The sweet potatoes are boiled in pots to feed the pigs, but there is always a time when they are finished. The bran and rice bran used in the rice milling process are also a good material for feeding the pigs. If you add some rotten vegetable leaves or something, the pigs will enjoy it even more.

Don’t underestimate the days before slaughter. If the pigs eat well, they can produce a lot more meat!

Zhao Yuzhen saw that spring flowers were blooming, the weather was getting warmer day by day, and the fields were full of wild vegetables, so she thought about digging some and feeding them to the pigs. I definitely don't have time in the morning. I can only make some time in the afternoon when the children have gone to school.

Erya followed Zhao Yuzhen to the field and picked some wild flowers to play with. When Zhao Yuzhen dug a basket full of wild vegetables, she jumped back with him.

 With the availability of fresh and tender wild vegetables, the pig food tastes much more delicious.

Zhao Yuzhen felt very pleased after seeing it, but regretted that she didn’t have enough time to dig more.

Zhou Xiaoyun began to volunteer to help. I don’t have time to do homework on weekdays, but I have a lot of free time on Sundays. Just grab a big bamboo basket and a small sickle and you’re ready to go!

The locals call digging wild vegetables "picking pig vegetables", which is quite vivid when you think about it. Isn't it just picking wild vegetables that pigs like to eat?

Many girls help their families dig wild vegetables to feed the pigs in their spare time. They often go together in small groups. They dig wild vegetables, chat and laugh together, and even chase and play in the fields. It’s really a lot of fun. !

At this time, almost every household was raising pigs, so on Sunday morning, Zhou Qianqian, Sun Min and Wang Jingjing came to Zhou Xiaoyun with a basket and a small sickle to set off together.

A few people set out after breakfast and refused to come back until noon.

Zhou Xiaoyun was thinking about going home early to help make lunch, so he urged him to go home quickly. If Zhou Xiaoyun hadn't followed behind to urge them, they would probably have had lunch at home by the time they got home.

Zhou Xiaoxia was envious of the girls laughing and joking together. She also asked Shen Huafeng for tools, saying that she would go dig wild vegetables in the fields with Zhou Xiaoyun and the others and keep them at home to feed the pigs.

Shen Huafeng was moved and thought: My daughter is sensible after she entered the first grade of junior high school!

Boys disdain to participate in such activities, especially Dabao, who is currently working **** practicing calligraphy and is said to be participating in a calligraphy and painting exhibition held by Qiming Middle School.

Zhou Xiaoyun never expected that his initially joking behavior would actually make Dabao insist on practicing calligraphy for more than two years. From the beginning of being unsightly to the present, Dabao's writing skills have undergone earth-shaking changes. .

It seems there is room for improvement in the future, which is great!

Xiaobao is ten years old, but he still loves to cling to Zhou Xiaoyun and insists on following him.

Zhou Xiaoxia teased her: "Are you embarrassed that a boy is following us girls to dig wild vegetables?"

Xiaobao replied seriously: "I also want to dig more wild vegetables for my mother to reduce her burden. What's wrong with the boy? Can't the boy do more for the family?"

Look at this high-sounding appearance, the follower also talks a lot of truth. Everyone present didn't know that Xiaobao was Zhou Xiaoyun's tail. Wherever Zhou Xiaoyun went, they all laughed at Xiaobao's words.

Xiaobao didn't take it seriously. This little battle didn't matter. Let's go, pick up the basket and let's follow.

Erya caught up behind him: "Sister, brother, I want to go too."

Xiaobao had a serious face: "You are a follower, you have to follow me wherever you go. You are only seven years old and you can't hold a sickle. Why are you following me?"

She was a complete follower but she still had the nerve to say Erya. Zhou Xiaoxia laughed in spite of herself.

Zhou Xiaoyun estimates that the end result of the entanglement will definitely be to take Erya with him, so don’t waste that time, let’s go!

Erya happily sang a song.

There were wild vegetables everywhere on the country roads. Zhou Xiaoxia couldn't help but squat down and wanted to dig a few, but Zhou Xiaoyun stopped her: "Sister Xiaoxia, the road here is too narrow. How can there be so many of us squatting down?" Let’s go forward and find a wide field where we can dig wild vegetables and have a place for Erya to play.”

 Others nodded in agreement.

Zhou Xiaoxia felt a little unconvinced when she saw that everyone thought Zhou Xiaoyun was following his lead. Why should she listen to Zhou Xiaoyun, who was three years younger than herself?

Reluctantly, everyone kept walking forward, so Zhou Xiaoxia had no choice but to follow them.

  Within a short while, I found a suitable place.

There is wheat growing in the fields, so the children cannot go there, as the wild vegetables will ruin the wheat in other people's fields without digging up a few plants.

So I found a sloping **** where no crops were planted. Below it was a shallow ditch, which was used to drain water when planting rice. Now there is no water, and the bottom of the ditch is full of fresh wild vegetables.

 The children cheered and started to work.

 A few people spread out and chatted while digging wild vegetables, having endless fun.

Zhou Xiaoyun originally wanted Xiaobao and Erya to play on the sidelines, but Xiaobao insisted on showing off his talent and joined the army of digging wild vegetables, and also showed off his speed to show his ability.

Zhou Xiaoyun thought that it was rare for Xiaobao to love working so much, so let him be!

There are many types of wild vegetables, the most common of which is tender shepherd's purse. Zhou Xiaoyun specially picked some fat, tender and large ones and put them aside. He planned to chop them up at home and add some meat to make dumplings.

 She loved eating dumplings with this kind of stuffing the most in her previous life.

There are wild vegetables everywhere, so there is no need to pick them, just cut them with a small sickle. After a while, everyone returned home with a full load. The better. After I came back in the afternoon, everyone went home.

 In the evening, Zhou Xiaoyun specially blanched the shepherd's purse with boiling water to remove the astringency and then chopped it into pieces. Then he used his own small meat grinder to grind more than a pound of meat filling, and added salt, oil and MSG to mix the filling.

Rolling out dumpling wrappers has always been Zhao Yuzhen's job, and her round dumpling wrappers came out one by one without stopping. Zhou Guoqiang and several children went into battle together. The dumplings made by Zhou Xiaoyun were small and beautiful. It was considered good if the dumplings made by Dabao and Xiaobao did not crack.

However, the dumplings taste so good! There is an indescribable fragrance.

 (End of this chapter)