It was mid-March, and the temperature in the northern land gradually began to rise, and precipitation also increased, which was one of the best times for animals and plants to grow.

This is the best time to pick bitter vegetables and shepherd's purse. At this time, bitter vegetables and shepherd's purse, which have just broken through the ground and appeared for a while, the largest time has grown to the size of a palm, and the most tender and delicious, you can just blanch them in hot water and eat them. But if you wait for a month or two, when these wild vegetables grow up, the oxalic acid content in the wild vegetables will increase accordingly. At this time, not only will it be very difficult to cook, but it will also become very sour and astringent.

When Zhang Ran was a child, he followed his grandparents to dig wild vegetables in the fields. He was also very familiar with various wild vegetables such as bitter vegetables, shepherd's purse, pig's wool vegetables, etc. in the north, so he quickly took his sister to find a small hill covered with shepherd's purse and bitter vegetables.

And her sister Zhang Sui'er is even a little expert in digging wild vegetables. When it comes to digging wild vegetables, she is far more proficient than Zhang Ran now.

The brother and sister grabbed the hoe and climbed up the hill one by one and the other, launching an "attack" on the shepherd's purse and bitter vegetables all over the mountains.

The root system of wild vegetables is not very developed at this time, so it is easy to dig. Just use a light shovel of hoe to shovel the entire wild vegetables.

However, correspondingly, the wild vegetables are very small, and even if seven or eight plants are caught together, they are not worth much. In addition, Zhang Ran took the only two baskets of the brother and sister to make a "fish cage"...

Therefore, Zhang Ran could only temporarily gather the shoveled wild vegetables together, wait until the number was a little more, then tie them up with longer grass leaves and put them aside, and then continue to dig new wild vegetables. When the dig is almost done, collect all the wild vegetables together when they are about to go.

Compared with the weeding work that consumes a lot of physical strength, digging wild vegetables is much easier, so Zhang Ran can also support it with great physical strength. Moreover, during the process of digging wild vegetables, Zhang Ran also found that most of the grass was active with a large number of grasshoppers and various small insects.

So when he saw the hunting, Zhang Ran also took some attention and grabbed some. However, since it was mid-March and the grasshopper was still in the larval stage and was relatively small, Zhang Ran used a large string of ponytail grass to string, which was only about one or two taels.

"The grasshopper is also meat when it is small! Take it back and have a meal!"

Zhang Ran planned to finish digging wild vegetables and roast the grasshoppers directly on fire. In this way, even if he couldn't catch fish at night, he would not go hungry.

Of course, if the grasshopper is fried, it tastes better. But...there are very rare types of vegetable oil now, and ointment oil (animal oil) is even more expensive. Only the children of the landlords and powerful people can afford it...

The gluttons are the gluttons of sorghum, and the gluttons of sorghum. The mutton oil and sorghum rice are the top food that only rich people can enjoy. If the family has a slightly thinner, they dare not eat it every meal!

Therefore, the locusts are flying (fried grasshoppers) and so on. Zhang Ran dares not expect it. It is already very good to be roasted on fire.

The happy time always feels a little short. Gradually, as time passes by, the sunset sets in the west and the sky is approaching dusk.

At this time, after several hours of unremitting efforts, Zhang Ran and his sister dug up a large number of wild vegetables, and even the grasshoppers caught in their spare time were as many as five or six strings.

Because the basket had been made into a "fish cage" by Zhang Ran and threw it into the river, the wild vegetables dug by the two had nowhere to be filled. In desperation, they could only tie a large bundle of wild vegetables with willow branches, hold it in their arms, and walked towards the direction where their fields were located with difficulty.

Back to the ridge where his own fields are, he poured the wild vegetables in his arms to the ground. Then, Zhang Ran couldn't wait to raise the strings of grasshoppers in his hand and said to his sister beside him: "Sui'er, go pick up some firewood, brother, let you see how we roast grasshoppers!"

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Unexpectedly, after hearing Zhang Ran's words, my sister not only did not look happy, but instead gave her brother a blank look and asked disdainfully on her little face: "How to roast it? Brother, have you brought the fire to the broth?"

"Fire..." Zhang Ran couldn't help but look down at the linen clothes on his body, and then he remembered that it was no longer the era when "it turned out to be" that could light cigarettes anytime and anywhere with just a lighter in his pocket...

"Forget it, forget it, let's talk about it when you go back later..." Zhang Ran waved his hand irritably and threw the strings of grasshoppers in his hand under his feet...

Looking up at the sky around him, Zhang Ran found that the sun was about to set at some point. So he couldn't help but stretched, patted the soil on his body, and said to his sister who was also like a mud monkey beside him: "Sui'er, when my mother comes back from the ground, you can hand over these things to her!"

"Oh!" Sui'er nodded obediently, gathering the wild vegetables scattered around her, and subconsciously asked: "Brother, what about you?"

"Me?" Zhang Ran raised his head and smiled slightly, pointed to the front, and said mysteriously: "Brother, I'm naturally going to the river to take a look! Have you forgotten that we haven't collected the two fishing traps yet!"

Hearing Zhang Ran’s explanation, Sui'er suddenly realized. The little girl tilted her head and thought for a while, then clapped her palms, stood up and said, "Then I'll go with you!"

As he said that, he couldn't say no to refuse, so he took the lead and grabbed him. Half a warning, half a begging: "My mother told me that I must take good care of you. The riverside is so dangerous, how can I let my brother take risks alone! So we have to go together! OK, brother~"

"Uh" Seeing that the little girl actually used her killer move, Zhang Ran couldn't bear it anymore, so he could only raise his hand to surrender and compromise and said, "Okay, okay, let's go together, let's go together!"

"It's great. Let's go while my mother hasn't come back yet!" After receiving the affirmative reply, the little girl jumped up excitedly, grabbed Zhang Ran, and was about to walk towards the river.

"You girl~! You're too impatient!" Zhang Ran sighed with his forehead.

"Hey, don't rush to leave first. You have to put away these wild vegetables first!"

"Hurry up, hurry up, don't worry about the wild vegetables. If you put this thing on, you can't run away without long legs. But the fish are alive. If you go late, the fish will run away!"

...

Under the constant urging of his sister, Zhang Ran could only temporarily pile wild vegetables and a few strings of grasshoppers under the big tree where he was resting at noon, and pressed one end of the ponytail grass with a few stones he found. Then he took his sister to rush to the river.

As the sun sets, the surroundings of Xiaoqing River become more and more vivid. The sound of insects and frogs are everywhere along the way. A layer of mist is slowly shrouded in the vicinity of the river bank, making everything around it look a little hazy.

After Zhang Ran took his sister Sui'er to the riverside, he first came to the section where the trap was placed, found the small tree with vines tied, then grabbed the vines and pulled them up with the clues.

"So heavy!" Perhaps it was because the basket was too big, so it became very heavy after sinking into the water, so Zhang Ran took a lot of effort to pull the basket out of the water.

Seeing the basket floating out of the water little by little, Zhang Ran hurriedly called his sister to help, and then took a few steps forward, came to the shore and grabbed the edge of the basket, dragging it to the shore.

"Huh~, I finally got it! No matter what, let's see if there is any gain!"

After the basket was loaded ashore, Zhang Ran didn't care about the still wet basket, so he quickly grabbed the edge of the basket and pushed the willow branches covering the mouth of the basket to the side and looked down at the basket.

"There are fish!"
Chapter completed!