Today's lunch is stewed rice. The vegetables are ferns picked along the way. Boil them in salt water, add oil and stir-fry them. Then they are cooked with canned braised pork and luncheon meat, add water and salt, and stew in a big pot.

The fern moss has a slippery slime. Pour a ladle of it on top of the rice in the lunch box. Even the fern moss braised pork rice bowl will taste delicious.

It is another dish that is rarely eaten at home, and everyone ate it with praise.

Before eating, everyone had already played a game of hide-and-seek, and Yan Xiao was already addicted to it: "Eat quickly, eat quickly, and then come back after eating! I thought of a good place to hide the bamboo sticks!"

Zhou Zhi found it funny: "Although I said that the bamboo sticks represent us who have shrunk, but is it too much for you and Yongmei to even drill a hole? You will be picked on as soon as you look for it!"

"That's because he is too thick-skinned!" He Yongmei's expression and tone were seriously out of touch, and her inner joy had long been exposed.

"That cliff is so dangerous. I want to protect Yongmei. When the enemy comes, I will go up first!" Yan Xiao said with as much righteousness and sternness as possible.

Zhou Zhi looked at the cliff where he had just played the game. To the little bamboo sticks, it was indeed a cliff and an abyss.

"You turtle deceived people into saying one thing after another!" Zhou Zhi couldn't help but laugh and cry: "You are the one who should write a book!"

The reason why I don’t take girls to drill in the bamboo forest is because the spider webs in the bamboo forest and the small hairs on the bamboo shoot shells will make people very uncomfortable, and the place where the bamboo shoots come out may be dangerous. After all, everyone loves to eat good food, including wild boars and

black bear.

Good bamboo shoots are best grown in shady wetlands. There is a saying in Jiachuan called "Yinshan bamboo shoots".

The bamboo forest is connected to the mountains and grows very densely. It is not only suffocating but also easy for people to get lost in it, so they cannot enter randomly.

The method is to find a section of mountain road, get in and only go uphill. In this way, even if you get lost, just go downhill when you come back, and you will eventually get back to the road.

Of course, there is no need for it now. I dug up a small pile of bamboo shoots along the way, which is a road sign in itself.

However, the airtight bamboo forest is very humid and hot. In addition to preventing the above mentioned things, there is also a very important one - preventing heatstroke.

Zhou Zhi, Mu Ruyun, and Yang He all carried spring water, golden elixirs, and benevolent elixirs in their mouths at all times.

After swaying the kettle and feeling that he was almost drunk, Zhou Zhi sat on the slope, cut down the bamboo, cut it into strips, and then began to slide down the mountain.

I tied the bamboo shoots in bundles and pushed them down the mountain. When I emerged from the forest and returned to the road, my soaked shirt was blown by the mountain peak, and I suddenly felt that every part of my body was not cool.

After sorting out the harvest at the foot of the mountain, here it is only forty or fifty kilograms.

After a while, Mu Ruyun and Yang He also slipped out. Mu Ruyun's weight was sixty or seventy pounds, and Yang He's weight was about the same.

Although half of it is a bamboo shoot shell, you cannot peel it, otherwise it will break.

"It's a bit too much." Yang He felt regretful: "Where can we find so many bamboo shoots in our countryside..."

"Baimi Township is close to the city, and you can exchange money across the river." Zhou Zhi said, "It doesn't work here."

"That's right, the smoked bamboo shoots can only be sent to Fubao Town." But Mu Ruyun did not regret the specialty of his hometown, and even felt a little disgusted: "I don't like this very much. It really made me sad when I was a kid.

"

This should be the truth. What can be regarded as delicacies in the city can only be regarded as home-cooked food here in the forest farm. During the bamboo shoot season, almost all meals are like this from morning to night, sour bamboo shoots, pickled bamboo shoots, cold salad, stir-fried bamboo shoots in soup...

Zhou Zhi also experienced this kind of life. Mr. Qiao took him back to his hometown once, and in half a month, he ate all the ways to make corn.

Because there was no entertainment, Wu Yaobao not only cooked corn in various ways for dinner, but also cooked a large pot every morning and placed it on the stove.

The children came back from playing wildly. If they wanted to eat, they would pick it up and eat it; if they couldn't finish it, they would feed it to the pigs at night.

After coming out of the mountains half a month later, Zhou Zhi almost never touched corn again.

When someone asks Zhou Zhi, he will say: "I have eaten all the corn in my life in half a month."

That would really make anyone sad.

The three people tied up the bamboo shoots again, chopped some thick bamboo tubes to use as poles, and carried the bamboo shoots back.

When I came back, I found that a large area of ​​moss had been removed from the side of the cliff where the water was heavy.

That is Yan Xiao's masterpiece.

Everyone hid the bamboo sticks in the moss, but Yan Xiao behaved like a cat and scraped off the whole moss, leaving the few small holes filled with pebbles.

Because he was considered a loser if he couldn't be found. In just two minutes, Yan Xiao wiped out everyone who was hiding.

This is killing people like crazy, even using this large-scale inhumane killing method.

The first thing the three of them did when they returned to the cliff was to take off their clothes, stripping down to their underwear. They hid behind the water tank and splashed water on themselves. First, they washed away the cobwebs, bamboo shoots and shell hair all over their bodies. The three predators

I finally felt relieved.

The parts of the body where the flesh was exposed in the bamboo forest, except for the better part of the face, were full of red scars made by bamboo branches.

Then I went to look for dry clothes, changed into them behind the cliff, and came back to start peeling bamboo shoots.

"You have done a lot!" The pile of more than a hundred kilograms of fresh bamboo shoots was quite spectacular, and everyone had been watching it for a while.

"What's wrong with your hands?" Jiang Shuyi noticed the scratches on Zhou Zhi's wrists and neck and asked worriedly.

"It's okay, it'll be ready tomorrow." Zhou Zhi didn't feel it was worth it at all, and said with a smile: "I've been carrying the canned braised beef all the time, just for this one bite?"

But this dinner was indeed worthy of praise. Although it was only one dish, because she would arrive at her destination tomorrow, Feng Xueshan used all the remaining oil, and together with all the braised beef, made a large pot of fresh beef.

Braised beef with bamboo shoots.

This is for two meals. I don’t think there will be any beef left, but I’ll put the leftover soup in a water vat on ice for a meal of beef noodle soup tomorrow morning.

The rice and noodles that Zhou Zhi asked everyone to prepare were somewhat redundant and could be eaten tonight, so after dinner, everyone realized that...well, they seemed to be able to hold on.

Tonight was the most comfortable night we stayed, mainly because it was very dry here. Before going to bed, I carefully put up the tarp to block the wind, so everyone could sleep more comfortably.

After a comfortable night's sleep, and after finishing the last noodles the next day, everyone started walking back to the road and headed towards the forest farm.

This is the last section of the road, and when we get here, the scenery finally turns into a real virgin forest.

Artificial forests and natural forests alternate with each other. Every time you walk through a section of strange trees and vines full of primitive style, you will enter a pine forest or fir forest.

When we arrived here, Mu Ruyun left the road where the forest farm car was taking and took everyone through the path.

The forest floor was covered with thick needles, and fallen dry pine cones were everywhere.

Squirrels, painted magpies, turtle doves, and wild thrushes were everywhere. At first, they surprised everyone, but later they were no longer interested.

"What is that?!" A group of birds flew over. Some of them were white, and together with several others with blue heads and brown bodies, they dragged long tails. Zhang Xinyi was very excited: "It's so beautiful!

"

"That's called a flower. We call them a flower here. I don't know the scientific name." Mu Ruyun asked, "Do you know about elbows?"

"This bird is commonly seen in Chinese paintings, the ribbon bird." It was also the first time for Zhou Zhi to see a live ribbon bird, and he couldn't take his eyes off it: "It is often accompanied by peonies, which means longevity and wealth. We are very lucky to be able to see them."

After he finished speaking, he added: "Just looking at the painting, I thought their tails wouldn't bend so much, but it turns out they can float very beautifully!"

After walking for a while, the scenery suddenly opened up. Everyone returned to the road and discovered that this was a valley halfway up the mountain.

The forest farm management office is located in the col. In addition to the brick and wood green-tiled house, there is also a parking lot, a work shed, as well as corn fields and vegetable fields.

A truck drove down the road, and the truck was filled with wood piled high. Everything seemed very novel to the friends from the city.

"Ruyun is back? Your mother came out to see you just now." The driver clicked on the brakes on the side of the road: "Hey, there are so many classmates? Welcome! Lao Mu has cooked all the bacon. You bamboo shoots are really here.

Gotta be on time!”

"Uncle Qiu is sending wood?!" Mu Ruyun greeted the driver: "We came from Dazhangkou, where we stayed last night!"

"Take your classmates back quickly!" After Uncle Qiu said hello, he discovered that Ye Xin was also in the crowd: "Hey, this is Xinxin's first time coming to our mountain, right? Then we agreed, wait for me to come back for a drink in the evening!"

Ye Xin smiled and said: "Hello, Uncle Qiu, then come back early."

The big truck drove away, and Zhou Zhi asked Mu Ruyun: "Do they call your dad Lao Mu?"

"ah."

Damn it... Zhou Zhi quickly greeted his classmates: "We will call Lao Mu Ruyun for a while, and his father is also called Lao Mu! Don't be said to be impolite by others, thinking that we are calling Lao Mu his father!"

"You made a mistake!" Yan Xiao immediately corrected: "You just said Lao Mu's father!"

"Okay, okay, you're right..." Zhou Zhi didn't bother to follow the guy: "It's really hard to change your words at this moment... Anyway, everyone just pays attention."

It is rare for outsiders to come to the forest farm. Now a dozen children arrived, and everyone around them came out to greet them with great enthusiasm.

Such a situation may not be seen again after some time.

"Dad! Mom! I brought my classmates back!"

"Welcome, welcome!" Mu Ruyun's father looked like a strong-boned man, with long steps and a cloth military cap on his head. His gestures were military-like, and he walked forward with a smile: "

Visitors to the forest farm are rare, but you are very rare!"

The word "rare" is pronounced "rare", and the pronunciation of "rare" is very close to Cantonese.

He stretched out his hand and shook it with Fang Wenyu first, then patted his shoulder with his big hand: "How's this young man? Your old man was born in the military, right?"

"Hello Uncle Mu, my name is Fang Wenyu, and I am from the Armed Forces Department."

"You see, I can't be wrong!" Mu's father laughed heartily: "Lao Fang's children are already so old!"

"Uncle Mu knows my father?"

"That's necessary. We served together in Songpan, and I changed careers a few years before him. Back then, I ate grouse stewed with mushrooms in the same pot!"

"There was also turtleless fish. My dad still can't forget the taste."

"That's right!" Mu's father was so happy: "I really didn't expect that among Daman's classmates, there is also the son of an old friend. Come on, let's go home and chat."
Chapter completed!