"Dad, don't worry. I washed my hair outside. It felt so uncomfortable. Now it feels refreshed."

Yang Ruoqing smiled. In order to make her father relax, she even lifted a few strands of bangs from her forehead and winked playfully.

Yang Huazhong and Sun were both slightly stunned by their daughter's move, and then they both laughed happily.

Caiyi entertained her, and when she saw her parents' depressed faces, a smile finally appeared. Yang Ruoqing also felt that Beier had a sense of accomplishment.

"Qing'er, father, you lie down and take a rest while I cook. Qing'er, you have been running for a while and are exhausted. Go back to the house and take a rest. Mom has cooked the meal and calls you." Mrs. Sun stood up straight and said,

After saying this, he turned around and hurried out.

"Dad, I'm going to help my mother. You have a good rest." Yang Ruoqing said to Yang Huazhong. After getting Yang Huazhong's nod, she jumped up and followed him to the kitchen.

In the kitchen, a soybean oil lamp was lit on the stove. In the small temporary stove built by Uncle Chang Geng and the others in the corner, Mrs. Sun stuffed the firewood into it, and as soon as it was lit, a flame came out.

Mrs. Sun was not idle at home in the afternoon. She scooped out ten kilograms of the fifty kilograms of rice that the old Yang family had distributed when the family was divided. She went to Chang Geng's house and borrowed their stone mortar to pound seven kilograms.

There was a lot of white rice, and the remaining rice husks were brought back and piled at the mouth of the stove.

When Yang Ruoqing came in, she was squatting there washing rice. Then the firelight of the small stove picked out the rice husks floating on the water, and then washed the rice three or two times before adding water again and covering the lid.

Put it on the small stove and add a handful of pine hair underneath to make the fire more intense.

"Qing'er, why are you in the kitchen again?" Sun turned around to pack up the basket Yang Ruoqing brought back, but saw that Yang Ruoqing had already brought the basket over.

"I'm not tired, come here and watch mom cook." Yang Ruoqing said with a smile.

"Hey, what's so nice about this newly pounded rice? I grabbed a handful and let's cook some porridge at night. In the morning, your aunt Guihua brought eggs and dried chili peppers. Later, when the porridge is ready, we'll make some dry ones.

I'll make porridge with spicy scrambled eggs for you two," Mrs. Sun said.

Thinking of the spicy dry spicy food, Yang Ruoqing's saliva couldn't help but slide down.

Yang Ruoqing immediately shook her head, "Mom, we don't want to scramble eggs at night. Didn't we agree to keep the eggs for my dad to boil? Besides, my dad's wound is not suitable for eating spicy food because it is irritating."

Mrs. Sun suddenly thought, "Then what should I do? There are no ingredients in the porridge, how can I swallow it?"

Yang Ruoqing blinked and pushed the basket in front of Mrs. Sun, "When the porridge starts roaring, we'll put these wild vegetables in it. I dug a lot of wild vegetables in the afternoon, enough for us to eat for two days."

Mrs. Sun took the bamboo basket from Yang Ruoqing's hand, found a sieve, spread it on the ground, and turned the basket upside down.

"My dear, shepherd's purse, mother-in-law's dices, okra, oh, these are so fresh matsutakes." Mrs. Sun looked at them all the same, with an expression of excitement and surprise on her face, especially the matsutakes, which were plump and tender, and also had a tinge of excitement.

It smells of earth.

Suddenly thinking of something, Mrs. Sun raised her eyes and stared at Yang Ruoqing nervously, "Qing'er, you are going to the forest behind."

Yang Ruoqing nodded and said with a smile, "Not to mention the wild vegetables on the field ridge, the weeds were almost plucked out, so I went to try my luck in the woods behind the village. Hey, my luck was really good."

"Hey, you kid." Mrs. Sun didn't know what to say, with a scared look on her face. "You won't be allowed to go there again tomorrow."

"Why, mother?"

"In that forest, if it's not clean, all the villagers have to go in together. Even us adults don't dare to go in alone," said Sun.

"The only thing that's not clean is that the forest is so big. After it rains, there's rain and mist inside, so it's easy to get lost." Yang Ruoqing said a little puzzled. "Besides, there are a lot of wild vegetables in there. If you go in, there are quite a few."

Where are the fresh matsutake mushrooms?”

"Good girl, don't ask so many questions. Just listen to mother. Don't go into the forest again. Mother won't harm you."

Deep in the forest, there was an earthen kiln. I heard that more than ten years ago, earthen bricks were fired in that earthen kiln. I don’t know what happened later. The earthen kiln collapsed and a few people inside didn’t have time to escape.

People are just buried alive inside.

After that, no one dared to go to that earthen kiln. I heard that it was even haunted.

Further back, if any child in the village died young, they would be wrapped in straw curtains and thrown to the earthen kiln. The woods are connected to Mianniu Mountain at the back. The wild beasts in the mountain are so hungry that they go to the earthen pit to look for them.

As time went by, no one dared to pass through that forest.

Even the middle-aged men in the village would have to go in and gather pine hair in the company of a group of people under the clear sky and daylight. Even so, they would not dare to go inside.

A few days ago, my daughter was very sick and she was dying. My mother-in-law said that if she couldn't survive, she would wrap her up in a straw curtain and take her to Tukiaozi through the back door.

Mrs. Sun was determined not to tell her daughter these things no matter what.

Seeing Mrs. Sun like this, Yang Ruoqing knew that no matter how much she pressed, she wouldn't get anything out of it, so she didn't force herself. She also squatted down, and together with Mrs. Sun, they picked wild vegetables by the light from the small stove.

She has washed these vegetables in the stream, and only needs to be poured with water before they can be chopped into pieces and put into the pot, so it takes no time at all to prepare them.

While the mother and daughter were picking up the wild vegetables and matsutake mushrooms, they lowered their heads and counted in a low voice.

The shepherd's purse was a bit old and tasted a bit bitter, so Sun rinsed the shepherd's purse with water, rubbed out the bitter water, chopped it, then spread it evenly on a sieve to air-dry. Use the dried shepherd's purse foam to make dumplings.

Shepherd's purse cake, or mixed with chili sauce and eaten directly, is a great side dish to go with rice.

Wash and mince the fresh and juicy mother-in-law dices, then wash two matsutake mushrooms, cut them into thin slices, and put them into a small boiling pot. Sun put a little salt star in it and gently stirred it evenly with a spatula.

, and then close the lid.

Yang Ruoqing was tinkering with the shepherd's purse and said to Mrs. Sun, "Mom, the shepherd's purse foam is almost ready. I'll go back to the house to get the chili sauce Aunt Dayun sent to mix with the shepherd's purse."

"Okay, go ahead"

After a while, Yang Ruoqing came back, holding a small brown jar in her hand, but her face looked a little ugly.

"Daughter, what's wrong with you?" Mrs. Sun came over and asked.

"Mom, look at this jar." Yang Ruoqing handed the jar to Sun.
Chapter completed!