The little girl from a farm family has a big wish to make a fortune by farming and picking mushrooms

Chapter 440 Wild Vegetables

Zhou Mingshu carried a small basket to the vegetable garden. She originally wanted to pick some pea tips to blanch.

Unexpectedly, she discovered an even more interesting wild vegetable, chicory!

Chicory is cold-resistant and frost-resistant. Even in such cold weather, it remains green, with only the older leaves turning red or yellow.

We had everything at home before, so we naturally looked down on these little wild vegetables.

Now he didn't care about being disgusted anymore. Zhou Mingshu moved the small shovel in his hand back and forth twice, and a few chicory plants went into the basket.

But these few are not enough to eat, I will go dig some dandelions later.

I ate too much meat and fish a while ago, and some of the supplements I took were left over, so this is just the right thing to do to relieve the internal heat.

The peas in the vegetable garden were growing well, a large patch of lush green. Zhou Mingshu picked some tender ones and pinched some.

Looking at the small basket in my hand, it is enough for at least one dish.

Just as I was thinking about going home, I saw a few horses galloping past on the path. Wasn’t the one leading the way Lightning?

Zhou Mingshu's attention was instantly drawn to it, and he even jogged two steps toward the road.

She thought the adult was coming to look for her, but the horse didn't even stop and ran away quickly.

Well, it looks like the adults are busy with other things.

Qi Rui saw Zhou Mingshu at a glance, but he had important things to do and couldn't delay.

The two could only look at each other from a distance across the vegetable garden.

Zhou Mingshu returned to the yard with the small basket of vegetables, full of questions in his mind. He wondered what the adults were going to do in such a hurry.

"Saya, what happened outside just now? I was just about to go out and take a look."

"Nothing, a few horses galloped past the door."

"Oh, I thought so."

"I dug up a few chicory plants when I was picking pea tips just now. I want to go to the foot of the mountain to see if I can find some dandelions. I can stir-fry them together with the chicory plants to help relieve internal heat."

"Okay, then go ahead. It's just in time for you to come back with Xiaojie and the others."

"Here we go."

Zhou Mingshu upgraded his equipment and picked up an empty basket door.

After two seasons on the mountain, the fallen leaves and dead branches were two inches thick, and in some places the thickness was four inches.

These elves of nature hid under the dead branches and leaves, using the ground as their mattress and the dead leaves as their blankets, and spent a warm winter.

"How's your digging going?"

Zhou Mingshu glanced at his brothers' baskets, which contained a few crooked bunches of wild onions, with their green leaves looking very withered.

"Um... maybe I need to dig a little more to have enough to eat."

Zhou Mingyuan smiled embarrassedly.

This little bit is not enough to fill his teeth.

"Haha, it's still early for noon, so if you want to eat, just dig more."

Zhou Mingshu took an iron hook and just bent down slightly to use the iron hook to hook away the dead branches and leaves on the ground, making it easy to find the wild vegetables on the ground.

Because she has the system in her hands, every tick is accurate!

Zhou Mingyuan and Zhou Mingjie behind her were both shocked. They didn’t know what the third sister’s eyes were like. How could she be so accurate in her predictions?

It's only been a short while since I arrived, but the bottom of the basket is already full.

On the other hand, the two of them dug for such a long time and only dug up such a small amount.

It can be seen that the third sister is a talented player.

"Come over here, there is a patch of wild onions."

Zhou Mingshu cleared a slope, on which there was a patch of wild onions, which, facing the sun, grew more luxuriantly than elsewhere.

If we dig all of these out, there will be enough wild onions to eat for lunch today.

The two brothers were so excited that they quickly took shovels to dig.

Zhou Mingshu was digging dandelions on the side. Seeing how surprised they were, he smiled too. After digging all these, they could go home.

But not long after, Zhou Mingjie exclaimed was heard.

"There's a snake~"

The kid didn't stand firmly and fell on his butt.

"Where is it? Where is it?"

Zhou Mingyuan, who was standing next to him, came forward to look in surprise.

"Here~"

Zhou Mingjie picked up a small stick from the ground and poked the creepy scales.

"Oh my god, it's so thick!"

Zhou Mingjie was shoveling the wild onions on the slope. He just accidentally dug a little more downwards. Who knew he would dig out a snake hole!

Zhou Mingshu also hurried over to see. Logically speaking, there would be no snakes wandering around in this month. Could it be that it was frightened by seeing the snake skin?

When she got closer and took a look, she realized that it was not snake skin, but a real snake, and it was alive and well.

And he was sleeping soundly...

"Don't poke it, bury it quickly, it's hibernating."

After hearing what she said, Zhou Mingjie filled the excavated soil back into the pile and even stepped on it a few times before doing so.

"I don't know what the snake was thinking. Why did it sleep in this place? I hit it right away. If the shovel had gone a little deeper, there would have been blood."

"The location of that slope just now is really good. It didn't expect to be dug. Hahaha. Let's dig somewhere else."

"If it weren't too much trouble, I would have asked someone to pull it out and kill it. It would come out again in the summer and scare people."

"Hurry up and dig the vegetables. Everything in the world has its reason for existence. Rats eat crops, and snakes eat rats. If we kill the snakes, the rats will have no natural enemies. Then the rats will increase in number, and our crops will decrease. So let's not forcibly change their existence. We are all grasshoppers in the same boat."

Zhou Mingjie was quite shocked when he heard what his third sister said. What his third sister said made a lot of sense. It was he who was narrow-minded just now.

He nodded thoughtfully and continued to dig wild onions, but the more he thought about it, the more he thought about it.

There are so many examples like this around me, and it is interesting to draw inferences from them.

There were enough wild vegetables in the basket, so the three siblings packed up their tools and went home.

"I heard from grandma a few days ago that you will start school soon. When is it?"

"Let's wait for another half a month. The teacher said it's too cold for us to study. We might as well stay at home with our family and wait until the weather warms up before going."

"That's right. It's different outside than at home. At home, there are adults to take care of us so we won't be cold or hungry. But it's different in school. How can the cooks and teachers take care of so many children? Going to school during the day is tiring enough, and we can't get a good rest at night. It will become a vicious cycle day after day."

Zhou Mingjie and Zhou Mingyuan felt that what their third sister said made a lot of sense, and every conversation gave them something new and refreshing.

"Third sister, you are right, the teacher said the same thing."

The three of them went home chatting and laughing, and soon they packed up and went to the restaurant.

Old Mrs. Zhou originally wanted the children to have a good sleep and rest, but when someone came, they came back with two baskets of wild vegetables.

"Oh, you guys really can't sit still. It's a rare day for you to take a vacation, but you still don't have anything to do."

Although she was blaming me, her face was full of smiles.

The grandmothers beside also smiled and said

"Sister-in-law, you are so lucky to have such good grandchildren."