Riding the wind of rebirth

Chapter 1939 Early Swim
"Why are you making such weird noises?!" Zhou Zhi interrupted the little girl's joke: "Go brush your teeth quickly. You don't have to wash your face. We still have to go swimming after dinner."

"Why don't we swim now?"

"That won't work. If you don't have something in your stomach, you'll get low blood sugar. Go now."

You can't eat too much before exercise, so the three of them each drank a bowl of porridge and prepared to go swimming.

Ah Zi suggested again: "Brother Elbow, how about we bring some food with us?"

"How do we carry it?" Zhou Zhi asked, "The basin over there is still in the water, with fresh ingredients frozen in it. Can we take the food out and put it in that basin?"

"How about you build a raft?" Ah Zi thought her idea was great: "Put the food on the raft and push it over."

"You are quite good at assigning tasks." Zhou Zhi said with a smile: "That's a good idea!"

A lot of firewood was collected yesterday, and Zhou Zhi spread it all around the fire pit yesterday. Now it has become quite dry, and it is easy to use two spare ropes from the tents to make a small raft of one square meter in size.

Of course, people cannot sit on this raft, but the buoyancy is enough for food. Ah Zi put the basket of mushrooms she picked yesterday on it, and put apples, buckwheat cakes, some barbecue leftovers that were reheated from yesterday, and the blood sausage that Zhou Zhi cooked this morning. If it wasn't for the fact that porridge was a little inconvenient, she would have wanted to bring porridge over too.

"Forget it, forget it..." Zhou Zhi hurriedly persuaded, filling a pot of milk tea with a canteen: "One pot of milk tea is enough for us."

"Should we call Brother Renzhong and the others?" Everything was ready here, but there was no movement in the tent over there, so Jike Azi asked Zhou Zhi for advice.

"Forget it. Renzhong is very irritable when he wakes up. Let him get enough sleep and we can play by ourselves."

The three of them pushed the raft into the water, followed the current with the most comfortable temperature, and began to swim towards the other side.

The forest in the early morning of late autumn is actually very cold, and it is precisely because of this coldness that soaking in hot water is doubly comfortable.

White mist was floating on the water, shrouding Mai Xiaomiao and Jike Azi, who were nearby, in a hazy beauty. The only sounds around them were the sound of the stream and the chirping of birds.

"It's like a fairyland in a dream." The sky was already bright and the sun was shining on the top of the mountain. The breeze occasionally dispersed the mist on the water surface, revealing the beautiful colorful forest on the hillside. Mai Xiaomiao looked around at the beautiful scenery around the pond and couldn't help but sigh.

"There should still be a lot of fish in this water." Zhou Zhi pondered as he stirred the clear pond water.

"We found it yesterday." Mai Xiaomiao was very happy when talking about it: "Azi brought us here yesterday. As long as you sit quietly, many small fish will come to suck your hands and feet in a short while. It's fun!"

"You really know how to enjoy yourself." Zhou Zhi said with a smile.

"After the soaking is warm, we will go pick some wild vegetables." Ah Zi said excitedly, "If I had known that Brother Elbow's barbecue was so delicious, I should have picked some deer ear chives leaves to make barbecue yesterday!"

"You are also a foodie." Zhou Zhi expressed doubt: "Are the deer ear chives too old at this time?" "The ones in other places are too old, but the ones here are still very tender." A Zi said: "It's just too far away. It's a pity that there are so many of them in the mountains and valleys."

"Well, let's go pick some to eat later!" Zhou Zhi said with a smile.

The three of them found a place with a suitable water temperature. Zhou Zhi tied a stone with two tent ropes and tied the other ends to the two corners of the raft. He threw the stone into the water, and the raft drifted a little and then stopped automatically.

Zhou Zhi felt that the exercise was not enough, so he took the two girls to swim for a while. Then the three of them returned to the raft and started eating around it.

This is definitely a wonderful enjoyment. Everyone leans on the rocks, lets the warm hot spring wrap themselves, drinks milk tea, eats apples, occasionally throws a piece of barbecue into their mouths, breaks off a piece of buckwheat cake, it is as comfortable as it can be.

Buckwheat cakes are stuffed with oil residue, salted dried vegetables, dried tofu and dried mushrooms. They are fried in oil and then baked. Although the shell is a little damp after floating on the water for so long, it is still delicious.

Mai Xiaomiao liked eating this very much, but she couldn't finish one, so she asked Zhou Zhi to spread out his hands, open the baba, and let the loose stuffing fall into Zhou Zhi's palms. She and Jike Azi shared the baba and ate it shell by shell.

Zhou Zhi actually liked eating stuffing, and said with a smile: "If I had known that you were so easy to feed, I would have fried two pancakes and brought them over, and just give them to you to eat."

"It's not tasty if it's just plain." Mai Xiaomiao refused to eat tasteless pancakes: "The crust with the fillings tastes the best."

"I actually like to eat vegetables as well as meat." Zhou Zhi said, "In the beginning, Uncle Tu and the others praised me for being modest."

By now, Mai Xiaomiao has understood the overall situation of Lianhe Township. He knows that when Zhou Zhi first arrived here, Jike Azi's family was actually not much better off than the other families in the township that have not yet escaped poverty. One can imagine what life was like at that time by looking at the homes of several poor classmates.

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Thinking of this, Mai Xiaomiao felt a little distressed for Zhou Zhi for some reason: "Everyone says that the village has changed a lot this year. It's all thanks to the projects you brought in. The gap between the village and the surrounding towns has widened suddenly."

"In fact, I hope Lianhe Township can play a leading role," Zhou Zhi said, "and can drive the surrounding townships, towns, and even counties to make cherries and pomegranates into real industries."

"Only then can the reputation of Meigu cherries and pomegranates be established. Only with a reputation can there be a market that attracts customers. Only with a large-scale market and no worries about sales can everyone become truly wealthy."

"If we wait until there are more fruits, will we be unable to sell them?" Jilie Azi was still a little worried about the situation Zhou Zhi described. She took an orange from the raft and gave it to Zhou Zhi, and handed an apple to Mai Xiaomiao: "Just like these Leibo navel oranges and Yanyuan apples."

"The sales of these two products are actually not bad." Zhou Zhi said: "According to the data from the Autonomous Prefecture Agricultural Bureau, the main bottleneck is still the sales. The main road out of the prefecture is the Chengkun Line. Not only is the train traffic busy, but the speed is also slow. Even so, the sales of Leibo navel oranges and Yanyuan apples are much better than those shipped from other production areas. As long as they arrive at the Shudu Fruit Market, they are basically the first choice of customers. Why?"

"Because it's delicious and sweet!" Mai Xiaomiao took a bite of the apple: "I've never eaten an apple with honey in its flesh before!"

The "honey" in the apple that Mai Xiaomiao mentioned is actually a characteristic of Yanyuan apples. Because of sufficient sunshine and large temperature differences, a large amount of sugar accumulates in the apples. This sugar forms some darker and slightly transparent areas inside the apple, which are also sweeter.

This phenomenon will be quite common in some high-sweetness apple varieties in twenty years, but it is still rarely seen now. When the variety is not excellent enough, only excellent production areas can form such a phenomenon in the flesh.

The same thing happens with oranges. Leibo is an excellent producer of navel oranges. In fact, many fruits in Liangshan Prefecture are like this. After eating them, the juice will stick your fingers together, and there will be a tearing sensation when separating them. This is because of the high sugar content.