I am Xu Lingjun, who is full of love in the courtyard

Chapter 11 11. Fudge
The rotten prickly pear pulp cannot be used directly, and must be boiled for a while.Originally, Xu Lingjun only had one box of matches at home, and it was almost used up.This time I brought a little too much matches, and I have no shortage of matches at home.

Outside the kitchen are picked bamboo branches, which are specially used to ignite the fire.The bamboo in the mountains will die naturally when it gets old.Bring this dead bamboo down from the mountains, and no one will say anything.The firewood placed outside Xu Lingjun's house is all this kind of naturally dead bamboo.

It's just that this kind of firewood is used to burn fire and is not resistant to burning.As a last resort, Xu Lingjun took his broken hatchet up the mountain to cut firewood.

Looking at the watch in his hand, the time has come to 11:30 noon.After taking the casserole, Xu Lingjun started cooking.There is only a little rice left in the house, and it will be gone after this meal.

The only barrels are filled with fish, and there is no water in the house.However, the current stream is very clean.The water in it is also edible, at least it is cleaner than modern tap water.

I took out the only little rice from the cellar, put it in a casserole, and took it to the stream outside to wash it. In early September, Hualin Mountain was still very cold.Hualin Mountain in summer is a summer resort.The temperature has dropped in autumn, and the cool air in the mountains is even worse. I have already put on thick clothes.The water temperature is a bit low, but it is acceptable.

The water in the creek is very fast, and the fish in it can be seen clearly.This is an era of rich products.There is a small pond here for washing things, which Xu Lingjun dug specially.A few large stones were also found and placed here.

Originally, he used it here alone. Later, the educated youths saw him washing things here, so they followed him to have a look. Gradually, this place became a place for everyone to wash clothes. Gradually, the small pond became wider. There are more slates placed.

No, educated youth Qiu Yingying and Guan Juer are also washing rice.The previous original owner was afraid of causing trouble, so he didn't talk much when he saw the educated youth.

However, now that they have changed, Xu Lingjun looked at the two beauties and said with a smile, "Hello."

Qiu Yingying looked at Xu Lingjun in surprise, and said with a smile, "Xu Laoyou, hello. What's your name?"

When Guan Juer heard Qiu Yingying speak like this, she felt that something was wrong, so she gently pulled Qiu Yingying, and whispered to her, "Yingying, why are you talking like this?"

Qiu Yingying didn't care, and said in a low voice, "But, I really don't know what his name is. Do you know?"

Guan Juer shook his head helplessly, and whispered, "I don't know either."

Qiu Yingying said with a smile, "Just ask someone's name, it's not a big deal."

After finishing speaking, Qiu Yingying looked at Xu Lingjun who was washing rice with her head down, and said, "Hey, what's your name?"

Xu Lingjun was going to answer just now, but seeing the two girls whispering, he lowered his head and went to wash the rice.This time I heard the girl's voice, it sounded like it was coming towards me.He looked up and followed the voice.

Qiu Yingying was waiting for Xu Lingjun's answer, watched him look up, and continued, "Hey, what's your name?"

"Me?" Xu Lingjun asked uncertainly.

"Yes, it's you."

"My name is Xu Lingjun."

"My name is Qiu Yingying. I have seen you so many times before, why haven't I heard you speak?"

"You all know what happened to me before. One more thing is worse than one less thing. I have no choice."

"Ok."

The two of them glanced at each other, they were speechless, and they both bowed their heads and went to do their own things.

Not long after Xu Lingjun finished washing the rice, he left.When he left, he greeted the two of them.Holding the casserole, Xu Lingjun returned home.

After Xu Lingjun left, Qiu Yingying couldn't help but said, "Guanguan, this Xu Lingjun actually eats rice. Isn't he very poor? I heard that he can't even eat enough in the cafeteria, and he is excluded everywhere."

"He is also quite pitiful. I heard that he was knocked down when he was a few years old. His parents are not around, and he has lived alone until now. Isn't he also sharing the food? Don't look at people with strange eyes in the future. "

"I haven't discriminated against him, I just feel strange, I haven't eaten rice yet."

"You still have the nerve to say, everyone takes care of you so much, and the rice given to you is less, and you eat all of it. After so long, have you watched him eat rice? No. So, people want to eat it It’s hard to get full after a meal of rice.”

"Oh yes."

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On the other side, Xu Lingjun, who came home with a casserole, placed the casserole on a small stone stove.Entering the cellar again, Xu Lingjun threw some hard firewood outside, and felt that it was almost ready to burn, so he climbed up.

Some dry bamboo branches ignited the fire, and it burned quickly.Xu Lingjun put some hardwood in, and it caught fire in no time.He looked at the burning hardwood and left with confidence.

The original stove is still there. This is a stove with a front pot and a back pot.There is a casserole in the back pot, which can be used to heat water.The casserole of the front pot is now cooking rice on a simple small stove.

Xu Lingjun went down to the cellar, and carefully brought out an iron pot filled with prickly pear pulp.Fortunately, the iron pot is very big, the kind of rural iron pot with 10 stamps. 20 catties of prickly pear pulp was put in, and it only took up half of the size.

Taking it out of the cellar carefully, Xu Lingjun put the iron pot on the stove.Start the fire from a small stove, and it boils quickly.Xu Lingjun deliberately kept the fire low, and then brought his own casserole to the stream to fetch water and pour it in.

Xu Lingjun swears that next time he can travel back, he must solve this problem.Buy more plastic buckets.

With water in the pot, Xu Lingjun is not afraid of burning.Before the water was added, Xu Lingjun added some firewood.Then keep stirring with bamboo chopsticks, the pulp is already crushed into a mud, after heating and stirring constantly, the sugar inside is boiled out.

After the water in the pot is much less, at this time, it is necessary to filter the residue.

At this point, Xu Lingjun was able to take the cloth bag of rice and start to filter the residue.The casserole of the back pot can be used to hold the filtered prickly pear syrup at this time.Xu Lingjun scooped up soup from the iron pot bowl by bowl, and filtered it through a cloth bag.The filtered soup flows into the casserole of the back pot.

Bowl after bowl, until there was nothing in the iron pot.

Xu Lingjun washed the iron pot quickly with a brush made of bamboo, and then poured the soup in the back pot into the iron pot again.

Xu Lingjun, who was seriously making prickly pear jelly candy, didn't know that the fragrance here had already drifted to the creek along the breeze.Qiu Yingying, who came to wash the vegetables, smelled the fragrance.Then he said to Guan Ju'er beside him, "Guan Guan, it tastes like sugar."

(End of this chapter)