CH 71.1

Shen Xuanqing put down the cart leaning against the wall, tidied it up today, and they could leave directly tomorrow morning.

Lu Gu had already woven two long chicken coops, which were about the same length as the cart, and seven ducks and eight chickens could squeeze inside, and if they couldn't fit, they could be carried down in bamboo baskets.

Put the chicken cages on the cart first, and grabbed the chickens and ducks tomorrow morning and stuffed them in.

There was still a gap in the cart, Shen Xuanqing picked up the sack containing wild bath beads and put it on, Lu Gu picked two baskets and poured them into the sack which was more than half full, it was really heavy.

Although this thing was not very valuable, one copper coins could buy a lot, but every family couldn't live without it. In winter, the wild bath bead tree had few and small knots. They could sell ​​it for some money.

After tying up the mushrooms bag, Lu Gu looked at the wild vegetables he had dried, and Machicais were the most. He dried a full sack, not to mention six people, ten people would be enough to eat it.

There were also other dried wild vegetables. There were not too many sacks to separate them, so they were packed together.

Dipicai and black mushrooms were rarer than the wild vegetables. Lu Gu packed them in clean cloth bags separately, but black mushrooms was less. He picked up dipicai many times after the rain, and the cloth bag was almost full after drying.

After the medicinal material Lu Gu was dried in the sun, the bundles that should be tied up had already been tied up. The most common one was a sack of mugwort leaves. Fortunately, it would become lighter after drying and not so heavy.

Goji berries and dogwood fruits were used as medicine so he put it in small bags. Goji berries had gradually faded during this period, and there were not so many. He put four small bags under the bamboo basket, and then put camellia and medicinal materials in it. A bamboo basket could carry a lot.

As for tianwogens, Lu Gu didn't dig much afterwards, and there were only six leftovers to eat in the past few days, and they were steamed when they were brought up at home, so you didn't need to take them out after eating.

"Do you want to take chestnuts and hazelnuts?" Lu Gu asked as he pulled out the bamboo basket containing medicinal materials.

Except for the chestnuts that they picked up with their family before, the two of them went to the forest to pick up some if they wanted to eat them, and there were still some left over to eat today.

"There are still some at home, how many do we have? If not too many, take them down." Shen Xuanqing walked over while talking.

"It's not many, there's only a little left, then I’ll pack it now." Lu Gu replied, he knew there was some at home, so he asked.

"En." Shen Xuanqing agreed, seeing that the bamboo basket was full of medicinal materials, he took it and said, "It's too cold at night, put it in the main room first, so you can see it anytime and you won't be afraid to forget it."

"Okay." Lu Gu nodded, and a few cloth bags from the low house were brought out.

A bag of dried mushrooms, half a bag of black mushrooms, a bag of dried dipicai, and a bag of wild tea. The dry goods were relatively light. He glanced at the cart. It was too heavy to pull. He simply put these four bags into the bamboo basket for him to carry.

Badgers, rabbits and pheasants would be taken down tomorrow, and put these wild animals into the sacks was fine, but there must be a gap, otherwise it would be difficult to carry.

Shen Xuanqing came to the low house to take a look again, and said: "Machicais and mugwort leaves are not heavy, put them on the top of chicken coop, and when the cart is loaded tomorrow, take a bundle of hemp rope, so you won't be afraid of falling."

After he finished speaking, he started. After getting out the two sacks, Lu Gu saw that there was only food left in the low house, and there was nothing else to bring, so he brought out the bamboo basket, closed and locked the door, and the low house was finished.

In the kitchen, you didn’t need to take salt, dry peppers and the like, but you had to take half a jar of honey with you. As for the jar of pickles, Lu Gu opened and looked at it, and there was still a smaller jar. He had pickled sour cress several times before, and he pickled it with salt instead.

Country people bought less, so they like to pickle more vegetables. But pickles needed a lot of salt, and most people couldn't afford them. Lu Gu only learned how to pickle pickles after he came to Shen's house. When he was in Lu's house, most of them were pickles. But the hot and sour cowpea pickled in lotus, they still kept on guard against him.

After the salty lumps (

咸 疙瘩) were marinated, they could be sliced​​and shredded. The sliced ​ones were usually eaten with steamed buns in the hand, and shredded ones were eaten with chopsticks when eating.

Last time they went home, Ji Qiuyue also cut the salty lumps into small cubes, then chopped some ginger, poured hot oil on it, and then mixed the ginger and pickles evenly, it was delicious and salty. Broke open the hot white flour steamed buns and put them in. It was delicious to eat only with this and without vegetables.

Ginger was a good thing to dispel the cold and warm the stomach, but there was not so much minced ginger, and the taste of ginger was quite light.

The pickles used a lot of salt, which was precious. Last time they went to a restaurant, although they only ordered meat, Lu Gu heard that someone in the restaurant was asking for pickles to go with wine. He couldn't hear the noise clearly. It seemed that it was fifteen copper coins or so, which was precious.

He was a bit reluctant so he squatted in front of the jar, and when he saw Shen Xuanqing coming in, he said: "We can eat it today and tomorrow, and I want to take it with me."

He looked reluctant, and Shen Xuanqing couldn't help laughing, and said: " Just take it with you."

The mountain road was far away, Dahui and Dabai had to run for a while back, Shen Yaoqing and the others had to walk up for a while, Lu Gu made more for lunch, and they would eat first.

In the afternoon when Lu Gu was packing the clothes of the two of them, he heard Dahei barking in the yard and ran out.

He hurriedly went outside the courtyard with Shen Xuanqing, and soon they saw Wei Lanxiang, Shen Yaoqing and Shen Yan. Dahei and the other dogs running beside them, wagging their tails happily.

"Mother, brother." Shen Xuanqing shouted, and Lu Gu also shouted.

Dahui and Dabai didn't keep up, and the dogs were tired from running back and forth for such a long distance, so they were left to rest at home.

Tired and hungry after walking all the way, with the food in the pot, Lu Gu first went to the kitchen and lit the stove to heat it up. It was better to eat the warm ones when it was cold, so it wouldn't hurt your stomach.