The whole family travels through time: escape from famine! No cheat codes yet!

Chapter 159 Too noisy

Wild artemisia is rich in oily aromatic components, which is the source of its strong aroma.

Stir-frying it with bacon and Chinese sausage can bring out an extremely tempting aroma. Especially when wild quinoa is paired with smoked bacon, it is a perfect match.

At this time, the Artemisia selengensis has a crisp texture and is fragrant, with a unique sweet taste; while the bacon has a salty and fragrant taste with a mellow taste.

On the flat mudflats beside the lake, what you can see is a group of wild Artemisia selengensis. They grow in the east wind, like a large green ocean.

Shen Youyou thought that picking with her hands was too slow, so she asked her grandmother for a sickle.

When everyone saw Shen Youyou's actions, they followed suit and looked for their own sickles. If they didn't have enough sickles, they used kitchen knives, and some used machetes.

Just like cutting leeks, harvest them from the bottom of the wild leeks, and then neatly stack them in bamboo baskets.

It is also easy to clean up when eating.

Wild Artemisia selengensis grows very fast. The higher the temperature, the faster it grows. Wild Artemisia selengensis in February and March is the tenderest.

As the weather gets warmer, the wild wormwood will grow upwards, and its stems will become woody, greatly reducing its edible rate.

Therefore, it is best to pick and eat wild wormwood early, and when its stems grow about 3 inches above the ground, it will be crispy and tender when eaten.

Although they still have a lot of food left, they will not miss such a good opportunity to harvest wild vegetables. It is definitely not possible to eat so much wild wormwood in a short time.

However, wild artemisia can also be made into dried vegetables like purslane, and the preparation method is also very simple.

Just pick the edible part of the wild artemisia, wash it with clean water, blanch it, drain the water and dry it in the sun to make dried vegetables.

The blanching time should not be too long. Generally, it is blanched in boiling water for a few seconds to a minute.

The purpose of blanching is to remove the bitterness and oxalic acid in the wild wormwood while keeping its bright green color.

It is best to add a small amount of cooking oil when blanching to keep the wild argan oil fresh.

It is even easier to eat. Just soak the bacon and bacon in hot water and stir-fry them directly, they will be very fragrant.

Of course, this is a later story. Today, Shen Youyou plans to encourage her mother to stir-fry the remaining bacon with wild artemisia.

Thinking about the delicious food, Shen Youyou's hands moved more quickly, and before she knew it, her basket was full again.

Looking at the neatly stacked green Artemisia selengensis, it seemed as if the numbness in my legs from squatting to cut them just now was nothing.

Shen Youyou is like this, let alone others.

The old ladies were also working on the ingots, holding a shiny sickle, burying their heads and cutting the crops. They were tired and sweating, but they were reluctant to stop and rest.

The old men just squatted down, and gave the sickles to the old ladies, women and girls. They held machetes and kitchen knives in their hands.

There is an old saying: "If you want to do your work well, you must first sharpen your tools."

A sickle is the best way to cut wild vegetables and weeds. Using a machete or kitchen knife is not only more laborious but also more likely to cause injury.

However, for the old men who have done farm work, their speed is not much slower than Shen Youyou who uses a sickle.

Even the old Taishan of their Shen family, Grandpa Shen, was no less impressive. The little old man squatted with his buttocks touching the ground.

At this time, his waist and legs didn't hurt, and he could crawl at least 500 meters in one breath.

Even Mrs. Hua filled another basket of wild artemisia. This was the fourth basket she had cut today. When she stood up,

By chance, Shen Youyou looked up and saw that her grandmother tried to get up but didn't get up all of a sudden. She half-squatted and paused for a while before standing up straight.

He pounded and blew on his sore and numb legs, then went to pull the bamboo basket again.

Shen Youyou hurried over and helped her grandmother drag the bamboo basket with both hands.

When Grandma Hua saw her little granddaughter, she said, "Go do your own thing. You can't drag this."

Why can't I drag it? Because the old lady was afraid that the wild artemisia wouldn't be able to be decorated more, so it was really placed tightly,

First, they were laid out in a circle around the bamboo basket, and then the gaps in the middle were filled tightly.

In fact, whether she is a skilled person at work can be seen from the way she arranges the wild vegetables. Grandma Shen Youyou is definitely the type of person who is meticulous and skilled at work.

Shen Youyou's eyes fell on grandma's legs, and then looked at the old people, women, and children who were squatting or sitting.

Even her parents were so busy that they didn't even look up. They felt a little sad, but she understood better than anyone else and advised them, "Don't do it. It's already a lot. It's enough to feed us for a long time. That's definitely not feasible."

The old lady noticed the look in her granddaughter's eyes and gave the answer:

"Oh, there are so many mugworts. Even if we can't eat them all now, we can dry them. Even if we go to the north, where we don't have houses or land,

Even if they give us some land, we probably won't be able to plant it this year. We should dig up some wild vegetables while there are so many of them. We'll have to spend money on food and drink later, so at least we can save some money by stocking up on the road."

As expected, after so long, the old lady also understood Shen Youyou. If it was her who was in trouble, she would probably insist on doing it, but it was her grandparents who were in trouble.

Then Shen Youyou is like this, this is too much suffering, let's stop doing it, the old people should take a rest, and let the young people do it again.

So she pursed her lips and held back the words.

When Old Mrs. Tian heard the conversation between her sister-in-law and Shen Youyou, she just sat down on the ground and started cutting wild artemisia. After cutting one piece, she moved her butt and cut another piece.

This shows that she really couldn't squat any longer, and she didn't even care about the pig blood on the ground.

But the smile on his face was real: "If you pinch the wild artemisia with your fingernails and it's crispy, you can blanch it in water and mix it with some fruit vinegar and garlic, and add a few drops of oil. It's refreshing and appetizing, and it goes well with rice."

The eldest daughter-in-law of Mr. Shen's family also followed up: "Oh, you usually drip oil, let me tell you this, for this dish, I don't even need to drip oil for them, they eat it very deliciously, a big bowl of cold dishes is not enough to eat, it's too much."

The word "too noisy" brought back memories of Shen Youyou's past life. She still remembered that when she was a child, her grandmother disliked her for being picky about food. As a child, she loved meat but not green leafy vegetables, so she told her a story.

That story is also true. When her grandmother was young, there was a neighbor who was very poor. He had nothing to eat or drink, and even vegetables were not available.

The old man from the neighboring house came up with a good idea. He dropped a pickled radish on the beam of the house. The neighbor would take a look at it while eating the steamed bread and think it was a vegetable.

But grandma's little friend was still young, and he really wanted to eat the pickled radish, so he raised his head to look at the beams while eating the steamed bread.

As a result, the old man couldn't stand it anymore, so he knocked him on the head with a chopstick and scolded him: "Are you going to eat or not? You are making such a fuss about the food, and you don't even feel choked."

When I heard this story as a child, I really took it as a joke. I felt that it was so funny that they were making trouble for the food even though they didn't get to eat it.

But Shen Youyou, who has experienced so much, can only feel how difficult life was for the people at that time.

This is also the reason why she feels sorry for her grandparents but cannot persuade them to stop doing this.