My village can't be like this

Chapter 430 Peach Gum Candy

"Okay Da Mingzi, it's time to stop. Don't beat people to death."

Seeing Huang Ming come up and beat the guy into a pig's head, Zhang An still opened his mouth to stop Hu Huangming who continued to attack.

After all, Huang Ming had been fooling around outside for so many years, and he was really good at it, and he was really capable of being ruthless.

If you don't stop him and let him beat him, then this pig's life may not be saved.

And now that we are a civilized society governed by law, civilization must be the main priority. It is not worth risking your life for such a person.

"This kind of guy who blackmails people into our village can be killed directly. He will hang out for a few days without thinking about his own things. He has gone wild here."

Although Huang Ming was a gangster before, he, like Zhang An, hated pickpockets, thieves, and kidnappers.

When he was still hanging around in the city, every time he saw such people, he often took action with his brothers.

Zhang An still remembers the time when Da Mingzi met an old man in the city. The pocket on his trousers was cut open by a pickpocket with a razor blade, and all the money inside was taken away.

He didn't have much money at that time and was just hanging out. If he didn't steal or rob, it was normal for him to go hungry for nine meals in three days.

But he forced himself to collect the fare with a few people around him and gave the old man a ride home.

Because of this, he is quite well-known in the local police station, so as long as they don't commit any serious crimes, the police station will just give them a few words of verbal education.

And this is also the reason why Zhang An was willing to make friends with him later, because judging from these things, Huang Ming is not a bad person in nature, he just took the wrong path during his rebellious period.

"If you want to blackmail someone, don't open your eyes. Knowing how much my uncle's cherries and strawberries can sell for, I really think that anyone can take a fancy to your little money."

Although Zhang An stopped him, Huang Ming did not let go. He reached out and slapped him a few more times.

"Brother, brother, I was wrong. The price was mine and it was not exchanged. It was my lard that deceived me and wanted to extort some money. I know I was wrong. You also beat me. You don't remember the little ones." It’s my fault, please let me go.”

He has long been very skilled at blackmailing people with fake money. He just saw Wang Fang, a woman here, collecting money, so he wanted to make a fortune.

Because he thought Wang Fang had sold strawberries for so much money, so she would definitely not argue with him over a hundred yuan and affect the business.

Unexpectedly, Wang Fang wanted to fight him to the death just because of the one hundred yuan, which caused such a big fuss. He now regrets it very much.

Moreover, Huang Ming's words about killing him made the man suddenly remember that this was a village in the mountains.

Although they are not the Miao cottages in the deep mountains and old forests, in this era of strong folk customs, these mountain villages are not far behind.

What he did was tantamount to banditry and was not accepted by the mountain people in a place like this.

Although I have never seen it with my own eyes, I have often heard that many people in the mountains now beat to death, maim, and hang up bandits when they catch them. Sometimes even the police station may not be able to help.

Seeing the surrounding villagers holding guillotines and hoes staring directly at him, he shuddered suddenly in pain and quickly knelt down to beg for mercy.

"It's boring. This is too soft. I thought they would be like those two people last time and wouldn't let go, so I could practice."

Seeing this guy kneeling down and begging for mercy, Huang Ming looked bored.

In his opinion, although this man was in his thirties, he was not as strong-boned as the two young men who went to Zhang An's house to steal pigs with Li Laifu last time.

Although the two guys were beaten hard by Huang Ming last time, they didn't say a word of submission or mercy.

"Okay, everyone, please help bring this guy to the village. I'll call the police station."

There are a lot of people waiting here to buy strawberries, and Zhang An doesn't want to waste time and waste everyone's time.

"Brother, just let me go. I'm willing to pay. As long as you don't call the police, I can pay."

Hearing that Zhang An was about to call the police, the guy who was pinned to the ground by Huang Ming panicked.

At the current police station, once you go in, it’s hard to say when you will come out.

"You really value the dirty money you have on you. I think it's dirty even if you give it to me. Take it away."

If it were someone else, he would definitely be willing to take the money for himself. After all, this is an opportunity for the lion to open his mouth.

But he was very unlucky today. The person he met was Zhang An, who was not short of money.

"Okay, leave it to us."

At this time, two young men holding ropes walked out of the crowd. They were both of the same generation as Zhang An.

After Xiaohehe finished speaking, he immediately tied up the person.

Zhang An took a look and felt that the binding was okay, and the binding technique seemed to be quite skillful, as if he had been trained.

After returning to the village, Zhang An called the police station.

It is very convenient to drive here in town now. After waiting for a while, people from the police station arrived.

The man who came from the police station was named Wang Wei. He often came to several surrounding villages, so he was an old acquaintance.

"Hey, the beating was quite light today."

When Wang Wei came over and saw this guy tied up at the door of the village committee, he was in a daze.

Although this guy has been beaten into a pig's head by Zhang An and Huang Ming in turns, this is really the least injured criminal he has ever injured.

He has worked here for so many years and has long known that these mountain people are not a good person.

He is really easy to talk to at ordinary times, but if he gets into their hands, hey, he is not a good person.

But they all turned a blind eye, as long as they didn't beat anyone to death.

To put it another way, even if someone is really beaten to death, there will be no serious consequences as long as the person is justified. After all, the law does not punish everyone, especially in mountain villages with strong clan and collective consciousness.

"Don't talk nonsense, we are all good citizens who abide by the law."

They were all old acquaintances, so Zhang An handed them over directly to Wang Wei.

"I've already told you about the matter on the phone. If you want to find witnesses, they are in the strawberry field by the river at my home. You can still find a bunch of them in the past."

"Is your strawberry already on sale? Then I'll go over and ask someone and buy a few kilograms back."

Although Wang Wei did not think Zhang An would be wronged, the necessary procedures were still indispensable.

However, he went there not only to find someone to ask questions, but also to buy a few kilograms of strawberries.

In the next few days, everything went smoothly and nothing happened again.

However, the cherry picking speed this time was much faster than last year, and it was completed in only five days.

This is because Lu Cheng came to Zhang An to urge him. Because he drove a big truck this time, the picking work must be faster.

As soon as the servant Ding felt that the speed was slow, he went to find someone to pick it himself.

But Lu Cheng was different. He was not familiar with the village, so he still came to Zhang An.

After all, he is the one who pays, and in this world, giving money is the boss, so Zhang An could only agree to him, so Zhang An found another twenty people to pick cherries together.

"Okay, I'll send the cherries back first and come back in a few days."

The cherries were picked, and Lu Cheng was very happy. This year, Zhang An's family had more cherries than last year.

Even though the price he paid for Zhang An was high, he sold it to others at a higher price, so he definitely made a lot of money.

But when he goes back this time, he will definitely come back within a few days, because it's almost time to pick the peaches in Zhang An's family.

The quality of Zhang An's peaches is no worse than that of cherries, and he will definitely not let them go.

It's just that when he came to talk last year, he only talked about cherries with Zhang An.

Because of the hailstorm last year, Zhang An's family had very few peaches left, and they were all sent to Ding Yi's supermarket.

But it doesn’t matter. As the saying goes, first come first, first served. If we didn’t talk about it last year, let’s talk about it this year. When I was harvesting cherries these days, I took the opportunity to negotiate the purchase of peaches with Zhang An.

So he would have to come back with someone in a few days.

"Yeah, I'll call you in advance then."

The yield of peaches in this area is not large, and there was no hail this year. Even if Ding Yi opened a few more branches this year, he would not be able to eat them at all.

Zhang An is also a person who is afraid of trouble. Lu Cheng took the initiative to accept him, so he was naturally very willing.

After seeing Lu Cheng off, Zhang An was going to the orchard to collect some peach gum.

It is normal for peach trees to ooze gum, but in most cases, peach gum will ooze out when they are infected or damaged.

At this time, you need to pay attention, because if the gumming phenomenon caused by insect diseases is not treated, the symptoms will gradually become serious and may lead to death.

Moreover, peach gum is a nutritional part of the peach tree and is generally delivered directly to the peaches.

Once the peach tree is gummed, it will affect the yield of the fruit and reduce the yield of the peach.

However, Zhang An’s peach trees were not infected by bacteria or fungi, nor were their branches damaged.

It's because they have excess nutrients and cannot be used up after being delivered to the peaches, so they overflow, causing glue flow.

Ordinary peach gum is actually not a very good product, and it is not as magical as many people boast.

Its main component is macromolecular polysaccharide, which is difficult to be absorbed by the human body.

However, after being processed into small molecule polysaccharides, it can be used as a supplement.

Of course, the effect is not that magical, but the price will be more expensive.

After the peach trees were found to be gummy last year, Zhang An only harvested a small part.

After processing, the taste was very good. It was chewy and bouncy, just like QQ candy.

So Zhang An added honey to peach gum and made peach gum candy. Su Ying liked it very much.

So while it is still early this year, he plans to collect more peach gum and make all of it into gum candies for snacks.

After all, these peach gums are the excess nutrients in the peach trees. Now they are flowing out. If you don't collect them, they will be eaten by other insects and wasted.

Zhang An didn't ask for help this time. He harvested the peaches slowly by himself and took a look at the condition of the peaches.

It took two days to collect a total of about one hundred kilograms of natural peach gum.

That's it, it's not finished yet.

Because one tree can harvest one to two taels of peach gum, there are thousands of peach trees in their orchard.

After all harvesting is completed, at least a few hundred kilograms can be recovered.

But Zhang An is not in a hurry now, because it is only May and it will take a long time to harvest peach gum.

Zhang An put the peach gum he picked directly into a large basin and soaked it in water for at least half a day.

Cleans out the impurities and dirt inside, and at the same time makes it foam bigger and softer.

Since Zhang An is used to make sugar, there is no need to dry it in the sun.

Instead, chop it into small pieces with a stubble knife, crush it with a roller, then mix it with sweet potato flour and put it in a pot to cook at high temperature.

Only this kind of peach gum will form a colloid. If it is put into a pot and cooked as a whole, the macromolecular polysaccharides cannot be cooked in the pot.

When boiling, you need to constantly add water so that the peach gum candy will be soft and not hard.

At the same time, add the syrup water prepared with honey and stir evenly.

Now the cherries at home happened to be ripe, so Zhang An picked some cherries, squeezed them into juice and added them in together.

In this way, you can make cherry-flavored peach gum candies.

Finally, when the cooking is completed, pour it into the mold to cool and set, and it is ready.

I don’t know who spread the news about Zhang An’s making sweets. The group of kids in the village, led by Zhang Yan, all ran to his yard.

While Zhang An was still cooking, they each stood guard at the door and never left.

Because they know that the peach gum candies made by Zhang An are very delicious, no worse than the [-] cents a pack of QQ candies.

And fifty cents is already a huge amount of money for them, but they are reluctant to spend it on that thing.

It happened that Zhang An wanted to make peach gum candies, so how could they let this opportunity pass.

"Daddy, are the candies you made ready? My mother will call me back to do my homework later."

Li Yao is also very pitiful now. Because of his playfulness, Zhou Lan confiscated all his pocket money.

In the past, he was the rich brother among the children, but now, the eldest brother, not to mention the second brother, everyone is about the same.

What they took out of their pockets was cleaner than their faces, although their faces were not that clean.

As soon as Li Yao opened his mouth, the other kids raised their heads and looked at Zhang An.

"Then you wait, I'll go take a look."

Looking at their longing eyes, Zhang An definitely couldn't bear to refuse.

I guessed that it was almost time to cool down and set, so I got up and took a look.

Opening the mold, I found that it had been shaped, but there was still a little bit of residual warmth, but it was no longer hot.

"Come on, come on, the candies are ready. Everyone is lining up and coming to get them."

As soon as the children heard this, they immediately lined up in a long line. They were so obedient that they had never behaved so well in school.

Zhang An handed out candies to them one by one, and each of them grabbed a handful, which could be used as several packs of QQ candies.

"Everyone has it, but you are not allowed to rob others and eat your own. If anyone dares to rob, I will not give him a share of what he eats in the future."

Some stupid kids will steal other people's things. This is what Zhang An discovered by accident.

But there are only a few, and they all happen between brothers and sisters.

Some of the older brothers and sisters got snacks from Zhang An every time.

After they finish eating their own food, they will turn their thoughts on their younger brothers and sisters.

The younger children, who were threatened a few times but did not dare to complain, could only be robbed in vain.

This is not a good habit, so Zhang An wants to put an end to this phenomenon.

"Okay, Uncle An, we understand."

A group of furry kids replied in unison.

It's just that some of the little boys in the crowd had red faces and didn't dare to look at Zhang An.

Because they are what Zhang An calls people who rob others of their food.

"Hey, Zhang An, what delicious food are you sharing with them today?"

While Zhang An was distributing peach gum candies to the furry children, Zhou Lan came over from her house, apparently to call Li Yao back to do his homework.

(End of this chapter)