Chapter 4

Confused, noisy birds came from all around. Soon, the sound of the radio came, and the program "news and newspaper abstract" of the Central People's radio station was about to start. Long Jianhua bounced up from the floor, then glanced at his hands and feet suspiciously, "it's good to be young. He fainted for two days, ate a meal, and recovered when he woke up."

Grab two eggplants and gourd scoops, throw them into the iron bucket, put the towel on your shoulder, open the door and carry the iron bucket to the roof; The clouds on the top of the mountain ahead are golden and dotted with fish scale clouds in the blue sky. Today is another good weather.

Go to the ditch on the left side of the house, put down the iron bucket, cross the small ditch, take a bath of urine in front of the woods, shiver and feel comfortable.

Turn around and squat down to test the water. It's cool and refreshing.

Rub the two eggplants up, down, left and right in the ditch and throw them into the iron bucket; Use a ladle to scoop up half a ladle of water, continuously suck several mouthfuls of "Gulu Gulu" gargle, then rub the towel in the ditch, wash your face, and return to the house with a bucket of water.

He opened the small wooden box lent to him by Chen Daniu. The situation inside made him feel a lot worse. For young people who jump the queue, the state will provide a year's living expenses and rations in the first year. The monthly rations are 18 kilograms and the living expenses are 8 yuan. However, due to the actual situation, the rations are only 20 kilograms of rice, and the remaining 16 kilograms are dry sweet potato rice. After eating several dry sweet potato rice, I can hardly swallow it. I don't know how I came over that year in my previous life.

No way, in order to fill his stomach, he still used a small bamboo tube to put a tube of rice and two tubes of sweet potato rice into an iron pot, add water, cover the pot, and make a fire to cook. According to Chen Daniu, this bamboo tube can hold four or two meters or more sweet potato rice.

After the smell of rice with dust wafts out, throw the broken eggplant into the pot and sprinkle it on the rice. Just then, he felt colic in his stomach and saliva gushing in his mouth. He was very hungry.

After a while, a little burnt smell came out, and the fire in the stove quickly retreated.

After no smell came out of the pot, open the lid, and the soft gray eggplant appeared in front of you, revealing the gray dry potato rice in the gap. It's rice. In fact, there's almost no white rice on it. It's all gray potato rice. All the rice has sunk to the bottom.

Sweep your tongue around your upper lip, turn around, pick up the lunch box, divide the food in the pot into two halves with chopsticks, pull out half of them, pour more than 20 drops of oil, then open the paper package, grab three grains of coarse salt by hand, put it on the food, and stir it quickly with chopsticks.

The first few mouthfuls were swallowed quickly. I felt my throat burning. Next, chew slowly. The dust smell generated by the chewed dry sweet potato rice masks the fragrance of the rice, like swallowing dry powder; The strong smell of rapeseed oil is very uncomfortable, but I can't stand the hunger. I still continue to chew and swallow.

When the broadcast stopped, long Jianhua's last meal also entered his mouth, chewed it slowly and swallowed it, then stood up, "in order to survive, people's endurance is really infinite. I want to be extravagant in my mind, but I can be thrifty in action. It seems that I can stick to it. However, we have to change this situation very quickly. If we want to grow a body, it is less than one meter seven, which belongs to secondary disability. The next first step is to solve life problems, eat white rice, cook meals separately and eat meat. "

Holding the lunch box, I went outside. The sun was hanging on the top of the mountain in the distance, golden. The sun shines on the roof through the trees, and the shadow of the trees covers most of the roof.

"Today is the sun again."

After washing the lunch box in Xiaogou, put it back in place, find the scabbard, insert the firewood knife, put the knife and scabbard into the basket, and then carry it to the roof.

Think about it, put down the basket, go back to the house, put the food in the pot into the lunch box, sprinkle more than ten drops of oil, sprinkle a handful of salt, cover it and put it into the basket.

Take lunch with you. If you encounter anything good, you can save time

After locking the door, he walked up the path on the south side of the hut with a basket. Not many people walk here. The path is basically occupied by thorns and shrubs.

He walked slowly forward. Less than a hundred meters, he found something moving in a piece of awn grass on the right. He squatted down, picked up a small stone and threw it. Two huge rabbits ran out of it and ran to him in a panic; Seeing a man ahead, he turned around and ran away.

Long Jianhua was surprised and then very upset.

If you react quickly, throw away the firewood knife, maybe you can get one, which can solve the meat problem for a few days.

More than 70 meters further on, long Jianhua suddenly stopped, his face turned white and sweat flowed out.

Ten meters in front of him, a black snake coiled there, the diameter of which was wider than the path. In the center of the plate, the front half of the snake with thick forearms stood up. The snake head looked in this direction, and the snake Xinzi was huffing and puffing rapidly.

After a few seconds, he slipped back, came to a cluster of water bamboo, cut off one of the water bamboo with a thumb thick and six meters long, removed the bamboo branch, and then walked towards the place where the snake was.

This is meat!

When we returned to that position, the snake was no longer there. We could see that the shrubs and ferns on the left side of the front fell to both sides. It was the snake swimming.

"Mom, there are a lot of things here. They are all meat."

Inexplicable little excitement filled my heart

After that, when he came across places he couldn't see clearly, he would sweep them twice with bamboo to prevent them from being plotted by snakes and other things and frightening them away; Also cut down the shrubs on the path. The shrubs are firewood. The path without shrubs has a clearer vision.

When he lowered his head to cut off a bush blocking the road, he saw a cluster of Ophiopogon japonicus growing in the front right. He hurried over, stepped on it, hooked the soil around Ophiopogon japonicus with the tip of a firewood knife, then grabbed the Ophiopogon japonicus seedlings with both hands and slowly pulled them out, quickly shook off the soil and gravel in the root system, and the white Ophiopogon japonicus hanging under the root system made him dizzy.

Take off all the ones longer than one centimeter. As a result, there are 32, the longest one is more than four centimeters, and the total wet weight is about four or two. "If it is in the 21st century, there will be almost six yuan, but I don't know how much I can sell now. Two eggs should be there."

For Ophiopogon japonicus, his memory is very clear. When he was relaxing in several famous mountains, he picked Ophiopogon japonicus and asked the drug farmers about the drying rate and price. At that time, the price of Ophiopogon japonicus was 50 yuan per kilogram, and the drying rate fluctuated in the range of 3.3-4.1 due to different picking seasons.

Think of a chairman with an annual income of tens of millions. Now some are even proud of one or two Ophiopogon japonicus. It's really helpless to the extreme.

Put Ophiopogon japonicus into the basket and scan around. Except for single or several Ophiopogon japonicus seedlings, no more than five seedlings were found.

Walk along the path to the side of the small ditch. When you look left and right, there are continuous pieces of Ophiopogon japonicus on both sides of the ditch, both on the ridge and on the slope. Lying in the ditch, he drank a few mouthfuls of water and washed his face. I found Ophiopogon japonicus. It's worth the trip today.

In his previous life, he jumped the queue for more than a year. He had never been here before. When he saw so many Ophiopogon japonicus, he was not in a hurry to pick them. He simply walked upstream along the small ditch. After walking about two miles, he found that the source of the small ditch flowed from a huge rock above. As it flows down the steep slope, rainbows appear in the rising water mist.

Long Jianhua looked at the beautiful scenery and stood for a while before he looked away.

There were honeysuckle vines on both sides of the current, but it was past the season and there was no honeysuckle on the vine, which made him feel lost for a few seconds. Soon, he adjusted his mood to normal. Although this year's Honeysuckle season has passed, there will be some next May.

He turned his eyes to the bottom of the ditch, and the scene below made his heart beat quickly. In the valley below, there are a large number of small flowers, each with four two centimeter long calyx, covering an area of more than two mu.

That's clematis, beautiful Clematis!

The heart beat quickly, and the thick and powerful "bang" beating sound of the heart in the chest can be heard.