Traveling through the 60s, living a life of wealth and prosperity

Chapter 42 Villagers Go Up the Mountain
In one afternoon, Wang Yuanchao used the vitality of the spiritual spring water to quickly restore his fatigue-damaged muscles and bones. He gritted his teeth and persevered, digging up a total of six camphor trees and transplanting them into the space.

As the sun was setting, Wang Yuanchao looked at his watch and it was already five o'clock in the afternoon.

So I planned to continue transplanting the camphor trees tomorrow. I picked up the bamboo basket and started going down the mountain, picking wild vegetables and transplanting some mint into the space.

Mint is highly adaptable and has low soil requirements, but it spreads quickly and is highly invasive to other plants.
It spreads easily on the ground and forms a large patch. If planted in the garden, you will soon have a mint lawn.

Wang Yuanchao remembered that in his previous life, plants were generally grown in potted plants.

But Wang Yuanchao planted mint mainly to repel mosquitoes. A mint lawn is just a mint lawn, and Wang Yuanchao doesn't care.

While going down the mountain, picking wild vegetables and transplanting mint, Wang Yuanchao returned to the educated youth camp when it was already dark.

Wisps of smoke rose from the chimneys of every household in the Red Flag Brigade.

Standing at the gate of the educated youth site, Wang Yuanchao looked at the green mountains in the distance, the clear water beside, and the wisps of smoke from cooking. He was mesmerized by the beautiful scenery of perfect harmony between man and nature.

After returning to the kitchen and placing the bamboo basket filled with wild vegetables in the kitchen,

Wang Yuanchao took advantage of the light dawn and came to the house he was repairing.

At this time, the people who helped him build the house had already finished work, and this place was so remote that there was no one there.

Wang Yuanchao looked at the foundation that had been exposed to the sun for a day and found it was almost dry. He should be able to start building the wall tomorrow.

He walked to the Qingyu River at the foot of the mountain, put his hand into the cold river water, and began to fetch water from the large channel in the space.

As Wang Yuanchao's hand reached into the Qingyu River, it seemed as if a hole was opened in the Qingyu River, and the river water kept flowing along Wang Yuanchao's hand and into the large spatial channel.

Many small fish and shrimps flowed into the space along the river water.

Wang Yuanchao saw this and paused, and quickly poured a mouthful of spiritual spring water from the space into his hand that was stretched into the Qingyu River water, to try to attract some big fish into the space.

Not long after, Wang Yuanchao saw a miraculous scene.
Countless big fish, small fish, white shrimps, long-arm shrimps, and turtles rushed towards Wang Yuanchao's hands like crazy.

Wang Yuanchao did not dare to be careless when seeing this, and he gathered all the fish, shrimps and turtles that rushed over into the large space in the canal.

All of a sudden, dense crowds of crucian carp, grass carp, silver carp, bighead carp, mandarin fish, loach, yellow eel, taimen and turtles all poured into the large space channel.

After a while, Wang Yuanchao collected a lot of water plants on the river bank and filled the canal with water. Then he stopped decisively.

After scanning with my consciousness, I estimated that there were tens of thousands of kilograms of various river fish in the space.

So we hurried back to the educated youth point before dark.

Looking at the sparkling canal in the space surrounding all the black soil in the space, Wang Yuanchao smiled unkindly.

A consciousness picked out a grass carp weighing more than 6 kilograms from the canal, slaughtered it, scraped off its scales, put the fish entrails and scales into the space, crushed it with consciousness, and threw it into the trough to feed the pigs.

Wang Yuanchao picked up the grass carp, put it on the table and started to cut it into pieces.

When it comes to cooking freshwater fish, people from Hunan province rank second, and no one from other provinces dares to claim to be first.

In Wang Yuanchao's opinion, there are two best ways to cook grass carp: one is salt fish, and the other is braised grass carp.

Wang Yuanchao was going to make a braised grass carp that night. After chopping the grass carp into two pieces and trimming the cuts, Wang Yuanchao first took out five pounds of rice that he had brought home from the brigade and washed it.

Wang Yuanchao is tired of having to cook every time.

This time, Wang Yuanchao planned to cook a big pot directly, put it in the space, and take it out and eat it directly when it was time to eat.

Light the stove, put the rice in the pot, and start cooking.

Wang Yuanchao dug out a piece of ginger, a few garlic leaves, a handful of millet peppers, a handful of perilla, and a dozen chili peppers from the space, and after cutting them, he found half a pound of celery from the bamboo basket, washed it, and cut it.

When the rice is cooked, put all the rice into a basin and put it in a still space.
After washing the pot and heating it up, pour in rapeseed oil and salt, then fry both pieces of grass carp until both sides are browned, pour in soy sauce, add shredded ginger, chili rings and hot peppers and stir-fry until fragrant, pour in well water, adjust the taste and start to simmer it.

When the soup was almost done, Wang Yuanchao added the basil and stirred it to bring out the fragrance. Then he took out two large bowls, filled them up, and put a bowl of braised grass carp into the space.

Wang Yuanchao continued to stir-fry some millet peppers and celery, poured cold water into the pot, filled a bowl of rice, and started today's dinner.

One meat and one vegetable, healthy and delicious.

In his previous life, Wang Yuanchao often cooked at home and knew most of the homely Hunan dishes.

Today, Wang Yuanchao was particularly satisfied with the braised grass carp he made. One reason was that he had better control over the heat, and the other was that the water quality in the country was very good now, and the fish in it was very fresh, tender and energetic, and much more delicious than fish polluted by industrial water.

After washing the dishes and tidying up the stove, Wang Yuanchao rested for a while and then continued to practice standing meditation, boxing, soaking in hot springs, reading and sleeping.

There was no entertainment at night in those days. When Wang Yuanchao was tired, he would just lie down and fall asleep. He would wake up every day feeling extremely energetic and had excellent sleep quality.

After washing up early in the morning, Wang Yuanchao ate a few fried dough sticks, drank a few sips of spiritual spring water, and then walked towards the camphor forest halfway up the mountain, facing the sky full of rosy clouds.

It took a whole day to transplant 12 camphor trees into the space. There were a total of 18 camphor trees in the space, and Wang Yuanchao was finally satisfied.

After the yard is built, Wang Yuanchao will plant mint and camphor trees in his yard one after another. Then he will no longer have to worry about mosquitoes.

On the third day, Wang Yuanchao carried a bamboo basket on his back and prepared to go up the mountain to pick mushrooms and wild vegetables early in the morning.

As soon as I went out, I saw the villagers in the team, carrying baskets and hemp ropes, big and small, men and women, old and young, walking towards the hills behind the village like Japanese invaders entering the village.

For a moment, the entire outskirts of the Red Flag Brigade mountain were filled with people.

Since Wang Yuanchao had already come out, he naturally followed the main force up the mountain.

"Hey, is this the educated youth who just joined our team?"

"Hey, yes, auntie, hello, I'm Wang Yuanchao, the newly arrived educated youth."

"Oh, you are so handsome, you are here to pick wild vegetables, right? Do you know the wild vegetables in the mountains? Do you want me to teach you?"

"No, no, Auntie. I can probably recognize edible wild vegetables. There are so many people on the mountain now, so I won't cause any trouble for you. Otherwise, it would be bad if I delay you from picking wild vegetables."

"Well, if you don't recognize any of the wild vegetables and mushrooms on the mountain, just come find me and I'll tell you how to identify them."

"Okay, thank you, Auntie."

(End of this chapter)