Portable space

The busy farming is still going on, and most of the people I meet on the road are pulling their carts. Although they are sometimes exhausted and out of breath, the expressions on their faces are joyful, because this year is indeed a bumper harvest year.

Walking up to the gate of one's own courtyard, looking back, the whole village is full of golden yellow. On the trees in the courtyard of every family or on the shelves in front of the courtyard, there are rows of corn that glow charmingly in the setting sun.

The same is true in my own yard. The trees near the ground are surrounded by piers, strings are hung on low trunks, and even a few strings are hung on tall branches, but that is Wukong's masterpiece.

When I entered the house, I found that there was no one in the house, only Zhang Xiuxiu and Xiao Yuer were weaving rope with corn husks under the eaves of the door.

Zhang Taiping backed out, only to see Zhang Xiuxiu demonstrating to Xiao Yu'er, the little girl Zhi Lan Xinhui would be able to see it, her little hands were twisted up and down like braids to weave a long rope.

This season, little dolls, especially little girls, like to use this to weave this kind of rope for skipping.

"Uncle, when did you come back?" Xiao Yuer asked with a smile when she found Zhang Taiping standing beside her.

Zhang Taiping touched the little girl's shaved head and said, "I just came back."

Zhang Xiuxiu asked: "Mr. Marshal, do you want to eat something, I will do it?"

Zhang Taiping shook his head and said: "No need." After speaking, he also squatted down beside him.

"Can uncle weave rope?" Xiao Yu'er asked while holding the long rope she was braiding in her hand.This rope is already more than two meters long. In fact, this kind of rope can continue indefinitely as long as you want.

"Of course I will." Zhang Taiping nodded, "However, uncle will teach you to weave a small figure."

After he finished speaking, his corn husks started to work up and down, showing and explaining to Xiao Yu'er while knitting, and a girl in a skirt appeared in a short while.

He said to Xiao Yu'er, "What kind of soft shell do you use to weave a few thin ropes?"

The little girl did so and handed it to Zhang Taiping.Zhang Taiping wrapped the braids around the tied straw man's head to form several braids, which made the image of the girl more clear.

"Here you are." After finishing it, I handed it to Xiao Yu'er who was watching carefully.

"Thank you uncle!" The little girl thanked happily after finishing the result.

Zhang Taiping couldn't help feeling pity again, what a cute, sensible, and lovable little girl, but she was tormented by a frightening illness.

"This is really complicated, I don't even understand it." Zhang Xiuxiu said next to him.

Zhang Taiping asked Xiao Yuer: "Do you understand?"

"Understood." Xiao Yu'er nodded.

Then carefully put the grass figurine that Zhang Taiping sent to him on the bench next to him, and picked up the corn husks to weave again. While doing it, I thought that the speed is not fast, and the weaving is not good-looking, but it is finally done. .

"The girl is still smart, not like me with a lumpy brain." Zhang Xiuxiu praised with a smile.

Zhang Taiping also nodded in agreement.Although this is just an ordinary straw man, the winding process is not simple. It is nothing to memorize three or two steps, but it is not easy to remember all the dozens or even hundreds of winding processes.From this, it can be seen that Xiao Yu'er is not only ingenious but also has a strong memory.

Zhang Taiping thinks that this kind of situation is perfect for learning to sculpt, and her temperament is also suitable for sculpting.Thinking about finding a time to lead the little girl into this door, if he can persist in the future, it can be regarded as shaping a talent, and at worst it can also be a way for the little girl to pass the time during this period.

He stood up and asked Zhang Xiuxiu, "Where did the rest of the family go?"

Zhang Xiuxiu replied: "Sister Cai and Sister Xing went to the field to harvest rice, and Miss Fan and Miss Mu took the two guests to the hot spring."

Zhang Taiping found that Zhang Xiuxiu's names for the people in the room were very interesting, so he smiled.

Looking up to the sky, it turns out that Xiao Jin and Xiao Feng were hovering in the blue sky and monitoring the movement on the ground, and there were no traces of a few big dogs in the yard. As expected, they were all summoned by Fan Ming to defend themselves. These are the defenses that they dare to soak in hot springs during the day.But I don't know how she drove Xiao Jinhe Xiaofeng to the sky.

Since someone was soaking in the hot spring at the back, it was inconvenient for Zhang Taiping to go in, so he turned around and walked out of the yard.

When Zhang Taiping came out of the courtyard, Zhang Xiuxiu said to Xiao Yu'er: "Mr. Zhang looks fierce and scary, but he has a good heart."

"Uncle Zhang is naturally a good person." Children are more sensitive than adults to this kind of love from the heart.

Although Zhang Taiping walked out of the courtyard, he could still hear the conversation between the two, touched his face, shook his head with a wry smile and said to himself: "So it's a vicious spirit."

When they came to the ground, three people inside were busy.Lu Feng was also among them. Her family only had corn. After Cai Yazhi and others helped clean it up, she just waited for the wheat to be planted after a rain, so she came to help Cai Yazhi harvest the millet.

There is not a lot of grain in the land, and the three people have already cut it all, and they are now tied up with ropes.

Zhang Taiping walked in and said, "Why didn't you call me?"

Cai Yazhi wiped the sweat from her forehead and raised her head and said, "If you have business to do, do it first. There are not many grains, so the three of us can do it."

Zhang Taiping shook his head and said: "It's not a serious matter." Then he told about Wang Feng's marriage in three days.

Xing Rushui said with a smile: "This Wang Feng has a quick mind."

Lu Feng also wondered: "It has never been said before who gets married and rides a horse."

Zhang Taiping smiled and said: "There are precedents for this, not to mention the ancient ones, even now there are places where people still ride horses to carry sedan chairs when they get married. I plan to make a big sedan chair in a few days, and then I can rent it out."

"Is anyone renting one?" Cai Yazhi asked. In her impression, when people get married nowadays, the more cars the better.

But Zhang Taiping has a different view: "There must be, especially when the richer people get married, they don't need cars to show off their status. Instead, they are interested in such retro and novelty things. I have heard of a construction worker before. When the boss of the team got married, they all used excavators, and the bride and groom stood on the front excavator."

"Is there such a thing?" Cai Yazhi and Lu Feng were quite incredulous.

With Zhang Taiping's help, they packed a lot more, and the bundle was finished in a short while.

Cai Yazhi looked up at the sunset hanging on the top of the mountain, took out his mobile phone and looked at the time, and said, "It's past five o'clock, Yaya and Tiantian are out of school, you go and pick up the child, the three of us can take it back gone."

Zhang Taiping shook his head and said: "Let me pull it." Then he said to Xing Rushui, "You should drive there to pick it up."

"Okay." Xing Rushui took off the white silk gloves on his hands and walked towards the house.

Zhang Taiping said to Lu Feng again: "Let's have dinner at home together in the evening."

Lu Feng brushed her hair and nodded.

The threshing floor is already full of corn, and there is no open space for a long time.Zhang Taiping had no choice but to pull Gu Zi back into the yard, only the inside of the yard was still flat.

When they returned to the yard, Yaya and Tiantian had already been picked up, and they were about to run towards the orchard behind.

There is a saying that goes, "Morning glow does not go out, and sunset glow travels thousands of miles." Zhang Taiping looked at the sky, and the top of his head turned into a deep blue as the sun set, while the west was dyed a fiery red by the afterglow. Very nice sunset.

Expecting another sunny day tomorrow, Zhang Taiping put the millet off the car and spread it out in the yard.

Seeing that Zhang Taiping was busy, the two little girls obediently prepared to come over to help.

Zhang Taiping waved his hand and said, "Go and play."

Yaya said: "Then let's go to the orchard, the persimmons are ripe."

"Oh? The persimmons are ripe, let's go, but be careful not to get them on your clothes when eating, or your clothes won't be clean."

"En!" The two little girls responded and ran towards the back.

After getting all the millet out of the car, Grimace, Shishi and Ah Huang had already returned to the yard, presumably the people who soaked in the hot spring had already come out, so Zhang Taiping stretched his arms and twisted his body to go into the orchard. I also wonder why the persimmons are ripe at this moment. It is reasonable to say that the persimmons only turn yellow when they are harvested in autumn. They are hard and cannot be eaten at all.

After entering the orchard, several people, big and small, were standing under the persimmon tree. Wukong was on the top of the tree and slowly picked the softened persimmons and put them into the basket.

A piece of persimmon cover and peeled off thin translucent skin had already been thrown under the tree.

After Wukong sent the basket down, Zhang Taiping also took one. It was indeed a ripe soft persimmon, the size of an ordinary tomato, but it was considered a very large crystal persimmon among the persimmons.I don't know whether it's the special climate this year or the spring water in the space that caused the persimmons to ripen earlier, but I guess it's the latter.

Seeing a group of people eating happily, Zhang Taiping still reminded: "Don't dare to eat too much of this food, be careful of constipation if you eat too much."

"Constipation?" The woman among the guests, who was somewhat similar to Fan Ming, was a little shocked, and then said with a flushed face, "You are so vulgar, you can even say some words." I don't know if I really dislike Zhang Taiping Vulgarity still hides its embarrassment.

Zhang Taiping shrugged his shoulders without arguing.

Now there were two little girls, and everyone stopped eating persimmons in their hands.

Looking at the persimmon lids scattered on the ground, Fan Ming asked with some fear, "Is what brother said true? If you eat too many persimmons, you will really do that. What is that?"

Zhang Taiping nodded and said: "Can you still cheat?"

Fan Ming's face immediately became bitter, and he threw half of the persimmon in his hand, and immediately a group of chickens and ducks came up to snatch it.

At this time, Yaya poured oil on the fire: "Father never lies. Heizi used to eat persimmons so much that he couldn't pull himself out. His stomach hurts so much that he cried, but his mother used a stick to pull it out." of."

"Eh." After hearing this, the other people quickly threw out the half-eaten persimmon in their hands, as if it was some kind of poison.

"Yaya, you're disgusting!" Fan Ming felt a chill when he thought about what Yaya said.

Yaya looked at her with aggrieved eyes, not knowing where she felt disgusted again.

Fan Ming said viciously: "Just eat, I hope you will eat like Heizi!" After speaking, he left.

The others also left, even Mu Hongyu, who had always been calm, left with blushing and pale faces.

After everyone left, Zhang Taiping laughed out loud, and the two little girls also giggled.Although persimmon has the side effect of causing constipation, it is not as terrible as what Zhang Taiping said, it was just a prank.

Wukong looked at the three of them and laughed, although he didn't understand the reason, he also grinned.

The ripe soft persimmons on the top of the tree have almost been picked by Wukong. The higher the position, the earlier the ripening, but the lower ones are still hard.Zhang Taiping conveniently picked some unripe hard persimmons.

"Is the godfather preparing warm persimmons?" the little girl Tiantian asked.

Zhang Taiping nodded: "Tiantian is really smart."

Persimmons are not only a way to eat after they are soft, but they can also be eaten with warm water.It is astringent when it is hard, but after the water temperature is over, the astringency can be removed, leaving only the sweetness, and it is crisp and refreshing.I remember when I was in school when I was young, there were always warm persimmons sold at the gate of the school in this season, and they cost [-] cents each.

After the soft persimmons were brought back, only Cai Yazhi and Ye Ling ate some, while the others were afraid to avoid them.

Cai Yazhi couldn't help asking strangely: "Why don't you eat it? This persimmon is already soft and very sweet."

The others all showed embarrassment and shook their heads.

When Cai Yazhi and Lu Feng were puzzled, Yaya leaned on Cai Yazhi's ear and whispered: "Mom, they are afraid that they will not be able to pull out after eating too much."

After hearing this, Cai Yazhi opened her mouth with a strange expression.Knowing that Yaya hadn't said anything good, Fan Ming wanted to go over and pinch her ear, but Yaya dodged her, and two people, one big and one young, chased after her in the room.

In the end, there were still some soft persimmons left.

Zhang Taiping said: "Later, bake these persimmons into cakes."

"Ah!" Yaya and Tiantian shouted happily, "The persimmon bun is the best."

In fact, the cake baked with pure persimmon and noodles is delicious, but it is a bit sticky to the teeth, and this thing can only be eaten while it is hot. Once it is cold, it will become hard and hard to bite.

"Well, I'll do it in a while." Cai Yazhi nodded.

Zhang Taiping added: "When the time comes, we won't just use persimmons for kneading noodles, but put two eggs in it, some oil, and some sugar. The pancakes baked in this way will not stick to your teeth, but will be crunchy and delicious."

Cai Yazhi's eyes lit up, she hadn't tried this method yet.

Immediately after the eggs and persimmon cake came out, the aroma filled the whole room. Not only Wukong jumped up and down, but even birds of all sizes and several big dogs came back.For a while, the house was full of people running on the ground and flying in the air.

Fan Ming sniffed and resisted the urge to go up and have a taste. Among the guests, the girl who had a temperament similar to Fan Ming also sniffed and resisted the same.The consequences that Zhang Taiping said are really scary.

Zhang Taiping cut the pancakes and took them out, and distributed a piece to each of the several people watching TV.

Fan Ming held back her face as if someone owed her 500 million, pouted and said, "I won't eat."

Zhang Taiping handed it to others, but also shook his head and dared not accept it.

"Actually, it won't have that effect after it's cooked." Zhang Taiping said with a smile.

"Is it really gone?" Mu Hongyu tilted her head and asked.

"Why did you lie to you?" Zhang Taiping nodded affirmatively.

Seeing that Zhang Taiping didn't look like he was joking, Mu Hongyu picked up a piece and tasted it.Although Fan Ming was sitting in front of the TV, his eyes kept paying attention to the situation here. Seeing that Mu Hongyu had taken a piece, he also went all out and quickly grabbed a piece.The two guests and Fu Hongtao also took a piece each.

The crunchy and sweet taste immediately conquers everyone's appetite.

The old man praised: "This is a mixture of persimmon and eggs. It's really good."

After the meal, Zhang Taiping put the picked persimmons in hot water of [-] to [-] degrees to warm them.This time is not short, it takes at least seven or eight hours to succeed, and the water temperature should not change too much, if it is too low, the persimmons will turn black, if it is too high, the persimmons will lose their sweetness and become stiff and uneaten.So you have to get up from time to time at night to set a fire under the stove to keep the temperature, and it will be warm the next morning.