SFS Chapter 163 Purple Flower Sea
Chapter 163 Purple Flower Sea
The next morning, when Shen Youyou woke up, the adults had almost finished cutting the wild artemisia at the foot of the mountain and had all returned.
Just think about it, the adults only rested for a few hours last night.
Breakfast was the big bones stewed last night, and a bowl of hot kudzu starch porridge.
What I want to say is that I haven't eaten big bones for a long time. There is no seasoning, not even soybean paste. There is only a little salt on the big bones, and everyone still enjoys chewing them.
After breakfast, I packed up and ate again.
Shen Youyou, carrying a bamboo basket, helped his father push the cart. Yes, Shen Zhiqiu also pushed the cart because his wife's aunt came to visit again.
He couldn't bear to see his wife having a stomachache and carrying so many things on the road, so he pushed a small cart to push his wife.
Li Jingshu covered her face and said, "I said I wouldn't sit down, but others came and I walked as usual. You two made me feel like I was in trouble."
Shen Zhiqiu had a sweat towel on his neck and was bending over to push the two-wheeled cart: "Are you someone else? They are used to the hustle and bustle, so just sit still."
Shen Youyou also advised: "If you can sit down, sit for a while longer. This mountain road is not very smooth to begin with, so don't shake."
Li Jingshu froze at this sentence. She really thought, isn't it just a period? If others can walk, she can walk too.
Look at all these women, when she was on her period, Lao Shen and his daughter either asked her to ride a horse or a cart. She was embarrassed.
Anyone with a discerning eye could probably tell that as long as she wasn't allowed to walk, it meant she was having her period. Although no one said anything, it was still embarrassing no matter how you thought about it.
Li Quan carried Shen Luming on his back, his eyes full of worry: "Son-in-law, can you hold on? How about I switch with you?"
Shen Zhiqiu didn't even raise his head and said directly: "It can be done!"
But what I was thinking in my heart was, this is my wife, and I should push her by myself. I wouldn’t feel safe if anyone else pushed her, for fear that she would fall!
Shen Luming spoke in a babyish voice, but his words were full of manliness: "Grandpa Li, please put me down. I can walk too. I can walk fine now!"
Shen Luming, whose legs had just touched the ground, followed Shen Zhiqiu's cart with his short legs: "Mom, you sit still, I'll help Dad hold on!"
Emma, Shen Zhiqiu really wanted to say: Son, please stay away from me, or you will be knocked down by the cart!
It was difficult to reject his son directly. Luckily, Father Shen was also worried that his grandson would get hit by the stroller, so he quickly said, "Lulu, come on, Grandpa can't walk a little bit, please help him."
Shen Luming heard it and asked Shen Youyou seriously, "Sister, can you hold it by yourself?"
Shen Youyou suppressed a smile: "Don't worry, little man, sister will be fine, go and help grandpa!"
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I have been leading the way all along, but today I have fallen to the back.
Shen Youyou was helping Shen Zhiqiu push the cart, while she was holding her grandmother with one hand.
He also took over the orders from his father, telling everyone when to rest and eat.
Even she herself sighed: "Sometimes if you don't push yourself, you don't know how capable you are."
After walking for most of the day, the sisters picked a lot of wild vegetables. These sisters who grew up in the village were much more familiar with various wild vegetables than Shen Youyou.
Picking wild vegetables is sometimes like picking mushrooms. The more you pick, the more addictive you become. The adults also mean that while you are in the mountains, you should pick whatever wild vegetables you can find, save food as much as possible, and dry the excess.
Just look at Shen Erya, who was looking for wild vegetables and sighed to Shen Youyou: "That's great, there are so many wild vegetables, we can pick whatever we want, they are all ours, there is no need to fight for them."
Although Shen Youyou was panting from exhaustion, she was also intrigued by her sister's words: "Why? In the village, people still have to rush to pick wild vegetables?"
Shen Erya deliberately whispered, "Of course not. At this time in the past, it was the lean period. Last year's food was almost eaten up, and new food was planted. In spring, every household would go to the mountains to dig wild vegetables when they had nothing to do. If they could eat more wild vegetables, wouldn't they be able to save a lot of food?"
Then he asked, "Have you seen the locust tree? The locust flowers will bloom in a few days. Steaming locust flower dried food will be very fragrant. It can also be used to make porridge."
Shen Youyou giggled: "I know this! The pistil of the Sophora japonica flower is still sweet!"
Shen Daya also stepped forward and sighed: "Yoyo, you have a very good memory. I only took you to eat pistil once, and you still remember it!"
Shen Youyou coughed lightly, feeling somewhat guilty: "Hehe!"
She had no memory of it at all. She had only eaten it when she was a child.
Shen Taohua praised her grandmother, Old Lady Wang, with one hand, and also interrupted: "I wonder if when the locust flowers bloom, we will walk to that hilltop again, and there will be no locust trees for us to pick locust flowers!"
Shen Youyou also quickly responded, mainly wanting to change the subject: "Sophora japonica trees are quite common, there should be some!"
At this time, Erya and Daya ran over and squatted down, looking for a lot of dandelions. The dandelions now were very small and had never bloomed.
There are a lot of dandelions in this mountain, they are very green. They are super refreshing when picked and mixed with cold vegetables. They just have a slightly bitter taste, but most people who like to eat this wild vegetable love its bitter taste the most.
Like chicory, it has the effect of clearing away heat and detoxifying!
After picking the dandelions, Shen Erya was about to return to the team when she seemed to see a patch of purple and quickly turned around to look.
What greeted her eyes was a sea of purple flowers. They were now on the hillside of this road.
"Oh, look, it must have turned into a radish, and now it's blooming!"
Shen Youyou also followed Erya's gaze, but it was a bit far away and she couldn't see clearly.
All she could see was a patch of purple, and she had never expected that there would be flowering plants in February.
Old Lady Hua took a look and sighed, "We came at the wrong time. The radishes are just blooming in this season. If it were June, we could dig up the rhizomes underneath and eat them. Just like radishes, we can boil them or stir-fry them."
Shen Youyou was stunned: "Grandma, is this turnip, also known as Zhugecai?"
Old Lady Hua was suspicious: "Where did you hear that from? We are called Turnip!"
Shen Youyou could fully understand that in ancient times and in previous lives, plants might have different names. Moreover, this world was not the ancient world of their original world.
This is a dynasty they have never heard of. It is normal that the plants are different from the Ming Dynasty.
So he asked in a different way: "Grandma, is this radish you mentioned white, with a special smell, and with many whiskers growing on its rhizome, very similar to ginseng?"
Old Lady Hua rolled her eyes and said, "Look at your grandma. Does she look like someone who has seen ginseng? She does have a special smell, and there are indeed many whiskers on her rhizome, but she doesn't have anything to say. Let's hurry up. It's not the season for ginseng to mature."
Shen Youyou quickly grabbed her grandmother who wanted to continue following the team, and picked up the gong from Shen Zhiqiu's car: "Clang, clang, clang!"
Knocking three times means that everyone will stay where they are.