Time flies, the Qingming Festival has passed, and the wild vegetables on the ridges and on the mountains are getting more and more lush. Tang Xiaonan has eaten shepherd's purse dumplings several times.

Malantou has to be paired with meat to taste good, and it needs a lot of oil. Otherwise, it is astringent, bitter, and unpalatable. Now it is basically fed to pigs. Even shepherd's purse is not eaten by many people. To fill their stomachs, they have no shortage of vegetables, but only oil, water and meat. No one really looks down on wild vegetables.

But at this time, tiger roaring bamboo shoots (thick bamboo shoots with a thick finger and delicious taste) are all over the mountains, and any one you pick is a basket. Every year, the purchasing station in the town comes to collect dried bamboo shoots. This is also a good time for the villagers to earn extra money.

And the spring ploughing is almost busy. The whole village, men, women and children, go to the mountains to pluck bamboo shoots, thin tiger roaring bamboo shoots, and hairy bamboo shoots weighing a dozen or 20 pounds. Now is a good time. Stir-fried in red, it is more delicious than meat, dried and stewed with duck is delicious, old duck bamboo shoots soup is a must, bamboo shoots are much better than duck meat.

The bacon soup stewed with bamboo shoots is also a special dish of Yuecheng. It is so fresh that the tongue can fall off. The Tang family has a lot of bacon, and Xu Jinfeng has to stew a large pot every three or five years. Tang Xiaonan only drinks soup, and does not eat meat and bamboo shoots. Dragon meat is not replaced.

The uneaten bamboo shoots are used to dry the bamboo shoots. After peeling the shells, cut them into slices, add salt and cook them in the sun. They can be kept for a year. However, drying bamboo shoots is a conscience. Going in, it was shoddy, so that the dried bamboo shoots in the whole village were downgraded, and the income was naturally less, but it was impossible to find out which black heart did it.

Therefore, in the past two years, the village chief has led the village cadres to personally supervise and inspect each house. When purchasing, they have to check one by one. Once they are found to be bad, work points will be deducted, and they will be rejected by the whole village. In this way, the quality is obviously improved. Going up, no one dared to take the risk of the whole village.

Mopanshan has several opportunities to earn extra money every year. Spring tea, Yuqian tea and Mingqian tea are the most precious, and the purchase price is also high. Tea after Qingming can also be sold for money, and if you work hard, you can earn hundreds of yuan. But it's very hard work, and a layer of skin will be tired in just a few days.

After the tea leaves, there are bamboo shoots, and you can earn dozens of dollars. In summer, you can chop bamboo, which is even more physical work. However, in order to earn money, many women will follow men up the mountain with bamboo on their backs. Tang Laifu and Xu Jinfeng go up the mountain every year, and the couple is very strong. , make more money.

After that, there won’t be too many flowers, unless like Huang Yingchun, he goes up the mountain to dig for medicinal materials, but this is a technical work, and few people understand it, Tang Baishan understands a little, but he uses it for himself and earns it for treating people. With more money, Tang Baishan is very good at abacus.

During this time, Mopan Mountain was calm and peaceful. The villagers worked at sunrise and rested at sunset, repeating the same life every day. However, Huo Jinzhi suddenly came back with a brand-new bicycle, which broke the peace of this small mountain village. They were all boiling, and went to Huo's house to watch the fun.

The new permanent bicycle was parked in front of Huo's house. It was bright and bright. The eyes of the villagers were glowing, and they were more excited than later generations to see Mercedes-Benz BMW.

"How much is this car? About two hundred yuan?" someone asked.

There was also Huang Shilin in the crowd. He was envious of him. He was worrying about where to get a sewing ticket. When he saw Huo Jinzhi's new car, he regretted it even more. If he knew that this wild breed had the ability, he would not rob others. The land is gone, alas!

"No, one hundred and fifty yuan, I bought it from the county department store." Huo Jinzhi replied.

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