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When he was about to reach the door, he met Mr. Li who came out of the yard with his hands behind his back. Seeing Zhang Taiping leading so many little dolls and picking up a lot of things, he asked curiously: "What is the commander doing?" went?"

Zhang Taiping replied with a smile: "I went up the mountain to hunt chestnuts."

"Is it the Mao Lizi in the mountains?" Mr. Li also lived here for a while, and he also knew that the villagers called the chestnuts in the mountains as Mao Lizi.

Zhang Taiping nodded: "Well, it's the hairy chestnuts on the mountain. This season happens to be ripe, and I brought the little dolls to hunt some on the side mountain."

Li Laozi nodded and left with his hands behind his back.

Back in the yard, Zhang Taiping asked Cai Yazhi to kill two big watermelons for the dolls to quench their thirst.

After eating the watermelon noisily, Zhang Taiping let the little ones get their own bags, distributed some pecans to each of them, and hurriedly let them go home. What happened after dark caused the family members to worry.

Cai Yazhi came over and looked at a half-bag of hickory nuts and two bags of chestnuts and asked, "Where did you pick them?" Cai Yazhi used to go to the mountains to pick these things, basically those places, pick them this year and come back next year .

Zhang Taiping didn't know where they picked it before, and said, "I found it under the leadership of Xiaoxi and Xiaozi. It was probably in the west, and I didn't remember the exact location."

In the end, there was only one bag left, and Cai Yazhi asked, "What's in this?"

"Five spirits."

"It's all red?"

Zhang Taiping nodded: "When looking for chestnut trees, Xiaoxi actually found a piece of Wuling'er vine, so she picked some along the way. There was also a wild grape vine, but it didn't produce many grapes, and it was not good. Bring it back, so there is no net bag to put it in."

Cai Yazhi stroked Xiaoxi's feathers and praised it: "Xiaoxi's contribution." Then she said to Zhang Taiping, "What's for dinner tonight?"

Zhang Taiping waved his hand and said, "You should ask someone else this question. I don't have any requirements. You can eat whatever you want." Seeing that Cai Yazhi was about to turn around, he said, "By the way, there is one more thing. I saw it in Bianshan today. Don’t go into the mountain easily if you’re black and blind.”

"Hei Xiazi ran out?" The memory of Hei Xiazi's memory of her last time is still fresh, and he nodded and said, "I won't go into the mountains, and there is nothing wrong with going in."

"Well, that's fine."

Fan Ming and Yaya gathered around and asked, "Brother, how do you peel the prickly skin off the chestnut?"

Zhang Taiping said: "I'll get this in a while, you first take out the Wuling'er in the bag, wash some, give some to the old man behind, and then give some to Mu Hongyu and the others."

Fan Ming did as Zhang Taiping ordered, and when he came back, Zhang Taiping had dumped all the chestnuts in the yard and patted them lightly with the back of a shovel.

Yaya and Fan Ming squatted beside and watched.

Zhang Taiping smiled and said, "Aren't you two tired? What's so interesting about this?"

The two girls smiled and refused to leave.Zhang Taiping shook his head and didn't say anything else. After patting once, he turned over and patted again, then packed all the chestnut buds into a pile, and said to the two girls next to him, "If you don't feel tired, you can Put the stick in these chestnut buds to see if there are any chestnuts that have been crushed."

After tidying up, Zhang Taiping asked Fan Ming to take out a plastic bag and said, "You two put some in the bag and send it to Tian Tian."

Fan Ming took out another bag and said, "Give some to Da Nier too?"

Zhang Taiping nodded and said, "It's up to you."

After the two girls led the lion out, Zhang Taiping put all the chestnuts into the dustpan, so he fried some at night, and it would be finished after giving some to others, so there was no need to think about storage.

Then I dug a hole in the orchard with a shovel, laid a layer of bricks on the bottom and around it, poured all the hickory nuts in it, filled it with soil, and took it out after four or five days to dry it and eat it.

When Fan Ming came back, he brought the chestnut back, and his goddaughter Tian Tian was also with him.

"What's wrong?" Zhang Taiping asked.

"Sister Lu said she doesn't know how to stir-fry chestnuts, so she asked us to stir-fry chestnuts by the way." Fan Ming replied.

Zhang Taiping nodded: "That's fine."

Fan Ming asked: "Then big brother, when shall we fry?"

"What? Can't wait?" Zhang Taiping asked with a smile.

Fan Ming nodded and said, "That's right, I have eaten chestnuts fried in sugar before, and now I recall that taste is delicious."

"Now the pot is cooking, and it can't be fried until the pot is cleaned up after eating." Zhang Taiping said with a smile.

Before eating, Zhang Taiping poured the chestnuts to be fried into a large basin, submerged all the chestnuts with water, and then put sugar to soak the chestnuts in the sugar water.

Originally, the method of frying chestnuts was to cut a hole in each chestnut with scissors, and put white sugar in the process of frying, but now there are so many chestnuts that are so small, it is a bit too urgent to cut them one by one with scissors, so Zhang Taiping uses this method to let the sweetness enter the pulp.

During the meal, Zhang Taiping gave the old man a small amount of wild grapes he brought back and said, "I'll give you this wild grape, see if you can use it."

The old man looked at the wild grapes in the basket and said, "It happens to be used these days." Then he asked, "Did you go into the mountains today?"

Zhang Taiping nodded and said: "Well, today I took a group of children around."

Fan Ming, who never took the initiative to wash the dishes after eating, actively helped clean the pot today, and then urged Zhang Taiping to do it quickly.

"It makes you so anxious." Zhang Taiping stood up helplessly from the chair, poured the sand from the river into the pot, and then baked it on high fire.

Fan Ming asked very puzzled, "What are you doing, brother?"

Zhang Taiping replied: "Dry the sand in the pot first. When frying chestnuts, you can't directly pour the chestnuts into the dry pot for frying, otherwise the skin of the chestnuts will burn easily and the flesh inside will not be cooked well. If you add sand, you can spread the heat and stir fry slowly, which avoids that problem."

It was only when the sand in the pot was red hot that Zhang Taiping could clearly feel the heat wave outside that he scooped up the chestnuts soaked in sugar water and poured them into the casserole.

Cai Yazhi wanted to help stir fry, Zhang Taiping said: "Let me do it, although it is busy working next to the pot, but it is physical work." He was right, every time the shovel went down, he had to shovel all the chestnuts and sand Get up, going back and forth like this without a break is really a lot of physical work.

Half an hour later, there was a loud bang from the pot.

Fan Ming asked nervously, "What's the matter? What's the matter?"

Zhang Taiping shook his head and said: "It's okay, it's almost ripe." Then he said to Cai Yazhi who was burning the fire below, "Turn down the fire." He took out a chestnut and handed it to Fan Ming, saying, "Peel it and taste it." Be careful, it's very hot."

Fan Ming picked it up and put it down with his hands, and blew on it before peeling it off. The small nuts were divided into three parts and stuffed into the innermost part of the three people.

Cai Yazhi tasted it and said, "It's almost there."

Zhang Taiping nodded and said: "You don't need to build a fire inside, just let the firewood burn out."

After turning off the flame, Zhang Taiping stir-fried for another 2 minutes before stopping. Fan Ming wanted to pick it up with his hands, but he quickly stopped and said, "The sand on it is still hot right now, which is much hotter than boiling water." If it touches your hand, a piece of skin will be burned off.”

Fan Ming said indifferently: "I just go to the top one."

"What should I do if I accidentally touch my hand?" Zhang Taiping deliberately said with a straight face, "It's not too late to separate the sand and chestnuts and eat."

After the sand inside returned to normal temperature, Zhang Taiping separated the sand from the chestnuts, and said to Cai Yazhi: "Later, you can send some to Mr. Li and Mr. Tang on the opposite side. I will send Tian Tian back to the village. Send some over too."

Zhang Taiping first sent Tian Tian back home, along with a pack of freshly fried candied chestnuts.

Lu Feng was a little unnatural when he saw Zhang Taiping alone at night, and he didn't say much after taking the chestnut.Zhang Taiping understood what she was worried about, so he didn't stop there.What he didn't know was that after he left, Lu Feng looked at his back in a daze.

Zhang Taiping was still carrying a large bag of unfried chestnuts and walked towards the old village chief's house.