Chapter 8 The little girl picking mushrooms
There were still tears on her cheeks, but a childish smile had already bloomed in the corners of her lips, and she looked at Wei Chi with a look of expectation. She looked at Wei Chi like a puppy. Seeing this made Wei Chi unable to help but smile. As she wished, she reached out to rub her little head, and was not stingy, and sincerely praised her: "Xizi is such a good child, but you can't make yourself too hard. You are in good health and happy, so that everyone will be happy, and I will be happy, do you understand?"
"Um!"
After he focused his head, he leaned against Wei Chi's legs and looked at him with a reluctance. Wei Chi thought for a while and smiled and said, "According to the past, good children always have to give some encouragement, right?"
Wei Zi's eyes lit up when she heard this, and she looked at Wei Chi with expectant face. Her two small fists were clenched tightly. Wei Chi touched her little head again and said, "The day after tomorrow, our medical school pharmacy class is going up the mountain. Can you take you with me, okay?"
"I'm going! I'm going!" Yizi said excitedly. The proposal he said received a positive response from the invitee, which made Wei Chi feel quite happy and asked with a smile: "Have you gone to climb the mountain?"
Wei Zi shook her head honestly, with a pitiful expression on her face and said, "My father said I was too young and wouldn't let me follow you. Will Master Wei think Wei Zi was too young and wouldn't let me follow you?"
Wei Chi's head was shaking like a rattle. It was because the young man had to take him with him. At least the small one was not too hard to carry. If it was a big one... Wei Chi thought of an unpleasant memory. He made a decision with Wei Chi, and Wei Chi ran to find someone's mother, Empress Changsun, and asked Empress Changsun's consent, and came to take the little loli up the mountain the day after tomorrow. Then he left in the reluctant eyes of Wei Zi. The little loli, from Empress Changsun's bedroom, followed him all the way to the palace gate, was thinking about the thing that he had to go up the mountain with Wei Chi the day after tomorrow, and kept asking. Wei Chi's chest slapped, letting the little loli eat and sleep well these days, maintain good energy, and wait until he went with him the day after tomorrow. The little loli agreed obediently.
"Why did you come back so late?"
When he got home, the food was already arranged at home and the two little ghosts had already eaten and drank. Zhaodi and Li Er were taken to play in the game room. Xie Jiu was waiting alone at the dining table. When Wei Chi came back, he opened his mouth. Wei Chi told the reason while eating, sighing: "That child is too sensible and too cute, it's not a blessing."
Xie Jiu said: "Isn't it good to be sensible? It's easy to raise a child if you like her virtues. You want to be our child."
Wei Chi smiled embarrassedly: "Everyone likes cute and sensible children, okay? But if it is my own child, I would rather she be a little bit petite and willful as a girl. When she is not as good as her, she can cry and act coquettish. Never be like a rhino. A child who is too sensible, even if his parents love her, sometimes she will inadvertently neglect her and inadvertently hurt her. My point of view is that the child's heart is like a crystal, easily hurt and frustrated. If you are not careful, the child's personality will change greatly due to some negligence, which is not good."
Xie Jiu looked at him with emotion, pursed his lips and smiled, "But it would be great if he had a daughter like that, wouldn't it?"
Wei Chi smiled: "Yes, if there is one, it's not objecting."
The next day, Wei Chi ran to find Carpenter Zhou, mysteriously and didn't know what he was doing. He spent a long time so he could go to school, and everything he did came and went in a hurry.
There is a folk saying that it is July, and the child's face changes as soon as he says it. Everything was fine, everything was planned well, and I just waited for the next morning to pull the large army to go up the mountain. The afternoon before, it suddenly became cloudy. As soon as Wei Chi drove his horse to the office, he heard a loud "crackling" sound, and it suddenly started to rain heavily, with lightning and thunder.
After Wei Chi finished his business, he was about to get off work, and the rain stopped. So he moved a chair, climbed in the window and watched, muttering: "Meow, is it because the toilet of the Jade Emperor's house leaking? Why didn't the rain stop? If you can't go tomorrow, Yizi will be disappointed!"
"Master Wei, what are you... doing?"
Tang Jian looked at Wei Chi with a dull expression on his face and asked in confusion. As soon as he came in, he saw a handkerchief hanging in the window, wrapped in a round thing, tied with a rope to hang it on the window. By the window, Wei Chi led Yin Andao, and the two of them clasped their hands together, muttering something in their mouths, not knowing what they were doing.
Wei Chi turned his head and said, "I have made a simple sunny doll and pray that tomorrow will be sunny. Lord Tang will come to pray together? There are so many people, and the power is great. Maybe there are so many people, and tomorrow will be sunny."
Tang Jianjiong said with a strange face: "Uh...no need, it's enough to have nephew An Dao and Lord Wei. Who... Come here? He was sent from the palace. If you have a letter, I'll say goodbye first."
After saying that, he hurriedly left, looking at his steps, as if something was chasing him behind him. Wei Chi shook his head and smiled. Old Man Tang couldn't stand the teasing. His eyes moved to the person, dressed in an eunuch, and saluted in a regular manner: "I have seen Lord Wei, and I have been ordering Master Zheng to send a message for Princess Jinyang, and asked Lord Wei to see him."
A piece of letter paper stacked into paper frogs. Wei Chi took it and opened it and looked at it. He couldn't help but smile. The whole text of childish words were all worried that it would rain and could not go climbing the mountain. He wrote a naive word to him, which was very scary. As for the words, Wei Chi thought he wrote better than him. After reading it, Wei Chi smiled and said to the eunuch: "Princess Jinyang said that it's hard to ask you to send her a message, and asked you to wait until the rain stops before going back. When you go back, you tell the princess, saying that if it gets up early tomorrow, you won't go. If the rain stops, you still have to go. It's best to make her prepare and hear it clearly?"
"Yes, Lord Wei, I remember it." The eunuch agreed quickly, and repeated Wei Chi's words. After saying that, he was about to leave, saying that Yizi had asked him to wait for the rain to stop before delivering the letter. As a result, he was anxious and could not bear to delay Princess Jinyang's orders, so he ran in the rain.
When Wei Chi came home from get off work, the rain was still rushing and the horse could not be ridden. Xie Jiu was careful and had no classes today. Seeing that the rain was heavy, he sent a carriage to pick up Wei Chi. Yin'andao was a young man in the capital. His brother was outside and became a senior official, and he was alone in the capital. Wei Chi saw that he was holding an umbrella and was about to go home, so he took him back.
Looking at the heavy rain outside, Wei Chi said, "It seems that it will be impossible to go up the mountain to collect herbs tomorrow. However, if the rain stops tomorrow, you can go and pick mushrooms."
When Yin Andao heard this, he said happily: "Can you go with me?"
Wei Chi smiled and said, "Okay, let's go together."
Perhaps the heaven really heard the prayer, or perhaps the sunny doll made by Wei Chi with a handkerchief worked. It rained all day long, but stopped in the middle of the night. When Wei Chi got up in the morning, the fresh and moist air after the rain was filled with the breath of rain and grass. This kind of weather is not suitable for climbing, but it is suitable for picking mushrooms. It seems that you can add vegetables today.
He laughed and greeted Dahu. Xia Sheng followed him, brought a basket and rushed to the school. Princess Gaoyang's carriage was parked there. When she heard the sound of horse hooves, three little heads were poked out, but it was Niu Niu, Gao Yang and Yizi.
Wei Chi got off the horse, hugged Yizi, who was spreading her arms at him, and let her hug her neck, and smiled and said, "Is Yizi waiting anxious?"
Yizi shook her head and asked anxiously: "Can you still go climbing the mountain?"
Wei Chi said: "It's not okay to climb the mountain. It's raining heavily, and the soil is pineapple, and the pharmacy class can't go. We can go and pick mushrooms, hehe."
“Picking mushrooms?!”
The three little little girls asked together, with a puzzled look on their faces. Wei Chi looked at them in wonder and suddenly realized that the situation in the Tang Dynasty was exactly the opposite of that in modern times. In modern times, rich people ate wild vegetables and poor people ate meat. In ancient times, rich people ate meat, and poor people ate wild vegetables. The three little lolita were all born in good families. It seems that this is the first time I have been picking mushrooms by myself.
"You guys must have eaten mushrooms?"
The three little girls nodded together. Wei Chi said: "The mushrooms grow in the mountains, and there are a lot of them after it rains. If you go to pick them today, the harvest should be good."
After Wei Chi finished speaking, Wei Zi still looked confused and knew that she could only follow Lord Wei. Gao Yang looked surprised and said, "It turns out that the mushrooms were picked from the mountains, and I always thought they were grown in the ground."
Niu Niu glanced at Gao Yang with contempt and said, "It turns out that the mushrooms you eat are grown in the ground."
Gao Yang's face turned red, he snorted, and ignored her. Niu Niu smiled so happily. Wei Chi looked funny. Many things may not be known because of the growth environment. By the way, he didn't know until he was in junior high school that he knew that the rice was cooked. He always thought that it was brewed with rice and then it was shameful. The growth environment and experience of this kind cannot be compensated by intelligence and wisdom.
Wei Chi smiled and said, "In overseas countries, there are few mountains and forests, and some mushrooms are cultivated by farmers in the fields themselves. Gao Yang said it is not wrong, but I didn't have one in the Tang Dynasty."
Wei Chi's words freed the little loli Gaoyang. The little loli snorted Niu Niu and twisted her head. Niu Niu glanced at her, wrapped her around, took Wei Chi's hand and asked, "Then can we grow mushrooms by ourselves?"
Wei Chi said: "It's very difficult, little girl. Mushrooms don't bloom and bear fruit, and they don't have seeds, so how can they plant them?"
Niu Niu blinked her big eyes and became interested: "How did mushrooms grow without seeds?"
This little girl is curious and is most interested in these strange things. She often asks small questions that seem to be tricky and weird to others but very interesting to Wei Chi. They are all popular science knowledge that cannot be explained clearly by current science and technology. If Wei Chi knows, she will give answers, and if she doesn't know, she will tell her honestly and leave it to her to study it slowly.
Wei Chi frowned and thought hard, saying, "Mushrooms belong to fungi in plant families, and are considered relatively low-level plants. They have no seeds and are reproduced by spores. I will go up the mountain later. If you can find older mushrooms, I will show you."
"My master is so nice!"
Niu Niu clapped her hands happily with anticipation. As she was talking, Yin Andao finally came, and an unexpected guest was followed by him - Qin Zonghan.
"Sir (Fourth Uncle)." The two saluted each other. Yin Andao said: "Last night, my brother Zonghan came to my house to play. I heard that we are going up the mountain to pick mushrooms today, and we also want to go together."
Qin Zonghan smiled shyly and said, "Fourth uncle, little nephew take the liberty."
Wei Chi waved his hand casually and said, "It's okay, let's go together, it's more lively."
The group of people, big and small, were in a row of hunting clothes, and they were easy to walk. They took the guards behind them to take care of a few little loli. Wei Chi led the wicked zi and picked her up when he saw the difficult places. I have to say that the environment in ancient times was so good. In modern times, if you want to go to the mountains to pick mushrooms, you not only have to climb a long mountain road to pick them after the rain. There are also many people entering the mountains, and those who are not familiar with the location may not be able to pick them. In ancient times, as long as you enter the mountains, you can pick them without much distance. It is the kind you choose.
Wei Chi gave a few little loli each with a small basket, and there was also a rhizi. She asked her to carry it on her back and lead her, and the two of them picked it up together. In terms of mushroom picking, Dahu grew up in the mountains and was very familiar with him. With his guidance, he was not afraid of picking poisonous mushrooms.
"Wow! So many!" Niu Niu cheered, jumping over and putting it in the basket on her back. As a result, she threw it a lot because she was too anxious. Wei Chi sighed that she didn't know how to take care of her. In modern times, many people who live in the mountains only rely on the rainy season to find mushrooms to sell them diligently, and they can earn a year's harvest at home. Back then, when he was young, he would go to the mountains to pick mushrooms during the holidays, and hand them over to my mother half of the money for their own consumption. Before the rainy season, what he most hoped for was to pick mushrooms.
Chapter completed!