Return to the small mountain village in 1986

Chapter 451 Sour~Sweet~Yangmei is delicious!

Dongkui bayberry matures later than the local wild bayberry. The wild bayberry trees in the mountains have already turned red before and after the Dragon Boat Festival. As long as it rains, the trees will be covered with fallen leaves. bayberry.

Because it was so sour, even the children in the village ate less.

It's early July now, and the sun is very bright near noon, but people can still feel the coolness when they walk under the shade of the trees.

"Little Shitou, do you want to eat bayberry?" Gao Mingcheng hugged Zhang Chengyuan's son and picked a bayberry to tease him.

"Sour..." Xiao Shitou looked at the bayberry and didn't reach out to take it, but said something sour in his mouth.

This made Gao Mingcheng laugh.

The bayberry in his hand is quite big and bright red in color. It has just matured. If it takes a few more days, the color will turn into dark red.

Gao Mingcheng threw the bayberry into his mouth. As soon as he took a bite, a burst of sweet and sour juice burst out, making his mouth water.

After eating one bayberry, Gao Mingcheng's eyes lit up. He looked at the largest bayberry tree and felt very good.

The tree was already bearing fruit the year it was first planted. This year it was managed well and there were a lot of fruits hanging on the tree, and the taste this year was slightly better than last year.

It can be seen that the taste of fruits is related to the variety and management.

Fertilize and remove insects frequently to ensure that the fruit trees grow healthily, and the fruit trees will reward you with sweet fruits.

The bright red bayberry was not so sour, so Gao Mingcheng put down the small stone, jumped up and picked a dark red bayberry. The acidity of this fully mature bayberry was even lower, and the taste was quite good. Gao Mingcheng They picked several in a row and ate them.

Xiao Shitou was originally afraid of sourness, but now that he saw his uncle eating so happily, he reached out to ask for it.

"Here, here you go." Gao Mingcheng picked off a dark red bayberry and handed it to Xiao Shitou.

Xiao Shitou had small hands, but the bayberry was big. He used both hands to hold the bayberry firmly, and then imitated Gao Mingcheng and started eating.

After one sip, the juice stained his mouth red.

"Sweet...sour..." the little gourmet commented in poor language, making Gao Mingcheng laugh.

"Wait for me here while I go to the foot of the mountain to get a bamboo basket." Gao Mingcheng said to Little Shitou. Little Shitou was already over two years old, or three years old. He was already walking very steadily and could understand speech.

He stood there obediently and gnawed on the bayberry, eating with relish.

Gao Mingcheng hurried down the mountain and took a bamboo basket from the shed at the foot of the mountain.

These bamboo baskets were woven by Zhang Chengyuan and Chen Dasong. After weaving, they were placed directly in the shed for later use. This way, when picking fruits, they can save time and energy spent on the road.

When Gao Mingcheng returned to the bayberry tree, he saw that the little stone had sat on the grass, and the bayberry in his hand had finally been chewed clean.

"Uncle... I still want more." Xiao Shitou pointed to the fruit on the bayberry tree and motioned to Gao Mingcheng to pick it for him again.

"Okay." Gao Mingcheng responded, reaching out and picking one for him.

He let Xiao Shitou eat bayberries under the shade of the tree, while he began to pick bayberries.

Not all the bayberry fruits ripen at once, but they turn red and ripe little by little, first on the top of the tree, and then under the shade. If the tree is big and has many fruits, then one tree can be harvested for several days. Can be completely removed.

This bayberry tree is not very big, but it is still a bit difficult to pick the top bayberry.

Gao Mingcheng tried it, but he could only climb up the tree trunk to pick it.

It seems that for future harvesting, he has to ask Zhang Chengyuan to make a simple scaffolding so that people can stand on the shelf and harvest.

In addition, you can also tie a rope to the branches of the bayberry, then pull it down little by little, and tie the other end of the rope to a big rock.

Over time, the branches will grow in all directions instead of upward due to the force.

Such a tree shape makes it easier to harvest fruits later.

Gao Mingcheng decided to start trimming the tree shape after all the fruits were harvested.

He was busy alone and picked half a box of bayberries. After picking the ripe ones, he did not pick those that were not completely red.

"Hey, you've eaten so many bayberries? You're not afraid of losing your teeth! If you can't eat them, my uncle will take you to your mother! Let her spank you!"

When Gao Mingcheng was picking bayberries, Xiao Shitou was sitting by the bamboo basket, eating happily alone. After eating, he would throw it away after one bite, which was a lot of waste.

The corners of his mouth were all filled with red juice, and even his clothes and fingers were stained red.

Upon hearing the word spanking, Xiao Shitou immediately covered his butt with his hands, as if this would prevent him from being spanked. "Let's go down the mountain." Gao Mingcheng picked up the small stone and carried the bamboo basket in one hand, and hurried down the mountain.

After returning home, I found that under the busy work of Zhang Chengyuan and six other people, the old scalper had been almost dealt with.

Sure enough, there are many people and great power!
However, this cow is too thin. After cutting it, there is not much meat and it is all bones.

Gao Mingcheng looked at the mountain of bones and immediately said, "You two will get some more bones later."

Aunt Liu agreed with a smile and said, "Mingcheng, why don't you have dinner at my house today at noon? I'll bring some meat back to cook first!"

"Then bring more!" Gao Mingcheng said, stepping forward and taking two more pieces of meat to Aunt Liu. With the good meat, bones, and some water, the vegetable basket was almost full.

Aunt Liu found it difficult to mention it.

Chen Duofu immediately took the basket and said, "Mom, I'll carry it for you."

"Okay, you take it back first, start the fire, and steam the rice. I'll go to the fields to pick some vegetables." Aunt Liu said, and the two of them divided the work and cooperated.

Chen Dasong pointed to the cow's head and hooves and asked Gao Mingcheng how to deal with these.

In fact, this stuff is delicious, but it is very troublesome to make.

Gao Mingcheng said: "Just light a fire and burn the hair clean before washing it."

"That's okay, I'll go bring firewood to light the fire." Chen Dasong went to the place where the firewood was piled to get firewood. He piled it into a pile randomly, then took a handful of dry pine needles to light the fire. Once the match was lit, he threw it into the pine needles. Go and the pine needles will burn quickly.

This kind of pine needles are a good material for starting fires. People in the village will use homemade iron claw tools to collect fallen leaves in the mountains.

Not long after, the fire burst into flames. Chen Dasong threw the cow's head and hooves directly into the fire to burn off the surface hair, and then used iron tongs to pull and turn it over, allowing the fire to burn through all the hair.

The fire made crackling sounds from time to time due to the cow hair and grease, and there was a strange smell in the air, somewhere between a stink and the smell of meat.

Chen Dasong was burning beef hair, while Zhang Chengyuan went to the kitchen to boil a pot of hot water and wash it with hot water to make it cleaner. Also, some water needed to be boiled, then washed, boiled, and finally fried. The process is very cumbersome.

Gao Mingcheng kept some delicious offal, and those that were difficult to deal with were given to Zhang Chengyuan and Chen Dasong.

In addition to the internal organs, he also had eighty or ninety kilograms of good meat and about fifty kilograms of bones. The only thing left was a piece of cowhide.

If you sell this cowhide to a leather tanning workshop, you should be able to get more than ten yuan.

After busying for a long time, everything was finally done. At this time, the ground was full of blood, so Gao Mingcheng brought water to wash the ground.

Duo Duoyu also took Xiao Shitou back to cook a long time ago, but she was always very slow, and with a child to take care of, Zhang Chengyuan probably wouldn't be able to have lunch before three o'clock in the afternoon.

When passing by before, Gao Mingcheng found that Zhang Chengyuan's house was still the same, seemingly unchanged, so he asked: "Brother, your family is not planning to build a house this year?"

After Duoyu was criticized for borrowing firewood from Duomei to burn bricks, the two sisters had a grudge. In addition, Gao Mingcheng had been busy and had no time to keep an eye on Zhang Chengyuan's family affairs.

But it's already early July, and if we don't start work, it will be too late.

Zhang Chengyuan's house is in such poor condition that it leaks air in winter and water in rainy days. This winter will be colder than the previous two years, so Gao Mingcheng suggested that they build a house this year.

Zhang Chengyuan is not slow in his work and is practical, but he just doesn't have many ideas. He is the kind of person who can't beat him with three sticks.

Hearing Gao Mingcheng's question, he held it in for a long time before saying, "We won't build it this year."

Gao Mingcheng was surprised. When he proposed building a house before, Zhang Chengyuan obviously agreed and was very happy.

Zhang Chengyuan said with some embarrassment: "Something happened to my mother. She was caught stealing other people's goods and was beaten and told to pay compensation. A few days ago, my elder brother came and told me to get some money. "

Gao Mingcheng was stunned for a moment before he remembered that this was indeed the case in his previous life.

Zhang Chengyuan is the youngest son in the family. He has an elder brother above him, and his mother lives with his elder brother.

The place where they live is called Huangyang Village. The village is adjacent to the boundary mountain. There is a dirt road to other counties in the boundary mountain, so there are cars driving on the road all year round.

However, the hillside of Jieshan is steep, and the current tractors are not powerful enough, so when driving to pull goods, the speed will be very slow.

At this time, people can climb onto the truck body from the back and steal things.

The brave people in Huangyang Village would do this. Sometimes they stole some grain, sometimes they stole some fruits, and once, someone simply stole an old bicycle.

(End of this chapter)