Xanadu space

() "Haha, Sister Yaqin, these walnuts are not edible, I have tried them before! These walnuts are said to be used for medicine!"

Ximei was delighted to see Yaqin's appearance. She was greedy when she was a child, and she had already tasted the taste of walnuts.

"The yield of walnuts is high. These two trees may weigh two to three hundred catties, and they can be exchanged for more than 1000 yuan. It's a good deal!" Ximei often helps her family harvest and sell walnuts, and she knows this very well.

Zhang wanted to listen to Ximei's words, holding a walnut in his hand.This walnut is really different from the walnuts sold in supermarkets. It is oval in shape and dark green. In order to prevent the green color from getting on their hands, both Yaqin and Ximei wore gloves.

The walnuts sold outside are light brown in color with uneven hard shells. When you open them with a clip, the nuts inside have a very good taste and taste very fragrant, and they are definitely not green and astringent.

"What the hell is going on?" Zhang Xiang really couldn't figure it out, since it's different, why is this also called a walnut?

Zhang Xiang is already at the second level of Qi Cultivation, and the strength in his hands is much stronger than that of ordinary people.

Just as he was holding the green-shelled walnut and examining it carefully, he exerted a little force, but didn't want to make a "pop", the green-shelled walnut split into several pieces, exposing the ruddy kernel inside.

"Yaqin, look, this is a walnut, but it's just covered with a thick green skin!" Zhang Xiang's eyes lit up, and it turned out to be the same.

Yaqin took a look at the broken walnut, and smiled. She didn't expect that this walnut is like a peach. The walnuts sold in the supermarket are actually walnut kernels, and the green skin may be the pulp.

"I've gained a lot of knowledge. I always thought that the walnuts in the supermarket are picked like this. It turns out that there is a layer of peel on the outside!"

Yaqin giggled and said, she also picked up a walnut and squeezed it like Zhang Xiang did, only to see that the green walnut skin was deformed, but there was no sign of cracking at all!

Ximei was taken aback, and quickly found a stone, and knocked open the walnut in front of her hard. Under the heavy blow, the green juice of the walnut splashed, staining her clothes with many green spots, but the walnut was still intact. movement.

Zhang Xiang smiled, then cracked open a walnut easily, and handed it to Ximei.He didn't expect that at the second level of nourishing qi, it would be as easy for him to squeeze green walnuts with his bare hands, just like peeling peanuts.

"The walnut dealer lied. Our green walnuts are not used for medicine at all, don't they just have a layer of green skin?" Ximei's indignant voice sounded, and she only found out today that she was cheated.

"Yes, it's just that there is an extra layer of skin. Others' walnuts sell for 50 yuan, but yours only sell for a few yuan a catty. You are still complacent!" Zhang Xiang said leisurely, but he was wondering what to do with this layer of skin. Can it be removed?

"No, I'm going to tell my dad and other villagers that this year's walnuts are not to be sold for the time being, but to be kept for now!" Ximei became more and more angry, threw the gloves, and ran out in a hurry, leaving behind a piece of walnut. I want to look at Yaqin and smile.

"Ximei is so impatient!" Yaqin chuckled.

"Yes, she has a good heart, and she is afraid that the villagers will suffer!" Zhang Xiang laughed. It seemed that he had to check on the Internet how to peel the walnuts. If it didn't work, he was thinking of other ways.

"Well, you are kind to her!" Yaqin glanced at Zhang Xiang, pouted on purpose.

"I'm good to you too!"

Zhang Xiang reacted quickly, and immediately said something with a smile.But seeing Yaqin turned around and went to the front yard, he muttered to himself, as if he did not say anything wrong!

Zhang wanted to see that there was no one in the backyard, so he stuffed several baskets of fruits into the small wooden cabin in the space, and then slowly followed Yaqin to the front yard.

After walking around, she saw Yaqin sitting in front of the earthen stove in the kitchen worrying. Her hair was a bit messy, and her purple skirt didn't fit in the kitchen, making her look very abrupt.

"I'll do it!" Zhang Xiang sighed, expecting this young lady to cook a meal for him, fearing that he would starve to death.

"Why don't you come and light the fire, and I'll make you pizza, okay?" Seeing that Zhang wanted to come in, Yaqin was a little embarrassed. She wanted to make some cakes to prove that she could cook, but unfortunately she couldn't burn firewood.

"It's okay, I'll make whatever you want to eat, if you're bored, just watch from the sidelines!"

Zhang Xiang likes to eat. Eating out in the past was too expensive. Huang Huanhuan said that a woman's skin would get old if she was exposed to oily smoke, so Zhang Xiang took care of everything in the kitchen!

"I don't know when Ximei will come back, let's eat something simple, okay!" Yaqin smiled at Zhang Xiang.

"Well, I'll make it for you to eat!" Zhang Xiang said while skillfully lighting a fire.

When I was at home, my father would always light the fire under the earthen stove, and my mother would cook vegetables in the pot. The two chatted without saying a word. At that time, the two of them cooked together, which was really a happy thing.

In the morning, I sweated a lot from persimmons. At noon, Zhang Xiang cooked pimple soup, fried ground cowpea with bacon, then boiled it in a small pot, and fried a few palm-length white fish with pouty mouth.

That kind of ground cowpea is a kind of cowpea that rural people live on the sloping land in front of and behind their houses. The skin of that kind of cowpea is patterned, thick, full of seeds, not long but as thick as a little finger.

The cocked mouth whitefish is a kind of whitefish, good at jumping, white and tender, delicious but not fishy, ​​it is a very common fish in Xujia Lake.

These two dishes are very ordinary, but Yaqin is full of praise. The skin of the cowpea melts in the mouth, and it has the smell of bacon.

The white fish is burnt golden, crispy and delicious, with a tomato, sour and delicious, which Yaqin likes very much.And Zhang Xiang prepared the chili oil for himself. Sprinkle a little chili on the dishes he likes, which makes it refreshing.

"Zhang Xiang is so good at your craft that you can become a chef!" Yaqin smiled, and Zhang Xiang gave him too many surprises.

"I learned it from my mother. My mother's cooking is delicious!"

Zhang Xiang chuckled, but he felt that this dish was as exaggerated as Yaqin said, and the dishes made by his mother were the most delicious dishes in the world.

"My mother's cooking is also delicious, but she seldom does it! Hee hee, I want to eat more!" Yaqin's appetite is good, which makes Zhang Xiang feel a sense of accomplishment.

After dinner, Yaqin offered to help wash the dishes, and said that she would go to the county town once in the afternoon, telling Zhang Xiang not to worry, but to save her dinner for the evening.

Sending Yaqin away, Zhang Xiang searched on the Internet, how to peel walnuts with green shells, who knows how to peel walnuts with green shells, who knows how to search for a long time, but there is no information about this, just like the walnuts sold in the market, they are naturally like that, there is no undergo any processing.

"How do I get rid of that layer of bitter skin so that it can become a real walnut?" Zhang Xiang was thinking in his heart, remembering the way he sold almonds when he was a child.

At that time, I would pick up moldy apricots under the apricot tree after the rain.

Zhang would like to bury those apricots in the ground. After more than ten days, the skin of the apricots would rot, and then dig them out of the soil and wash them in the river. Only clean almonds remained, which could be sold after drying.

This method takes a long time. Those who are impatient will pick off the green apricots and put them in a pot to cook. After the apricot pulp is soft, they will be washed and dried in the sun.

Zhang wanted to look at the green-shelled walnut in his hand, waiting for it to rot off its skin, it took too long, why not try steaming it in a pot to see if the pulp can be removed?

Zhang Xiang was tinkering with those walnuts in the kitchen, but he heard footsteps coming from outside. There should be more than one person coming.

When Zhang wanted to get out of the kitchen, he saw Ximei, Baoshan, and a few villagers he didn't know, and they all surrounded him.

"Good brother, I heard from Ximei that you have a way to sell the walnuts at a high price, so that the villagers will not sell the walnuts, right?"

Baoshan grabbed Zhang Xiang. At first, he was suspicious of Ximei not letting the villagers sell walnuts, but he didn't expect that Ximei's yelling was Zhang Xiang's meaning.

For his cousin, he is very admired now. Hearing that it was Zhang Xiang's intention, he immediately persuaded the villagers not to sell walnuts, and then excitedly brought people to Zhang Xiang for advice.

Zhang Xiang glanced at Ximei who was hiding in the crowd, and knew that she was using her name to fool people, but she was also afraid that the villagers would suffer, which is understandable!

"Brother Baoshan, I have some ideas. The walnuts shouldn't be sold so cheaply. I'm still trying to find a way to remove the green shell of the walnuts!"

Zhang Xiang expressed his thoughts and planned to go to the kitchen to see the effect and see if he could really get rid of the green shell!

"Xiangzi, but the dealer said that the green-skinned walnuts here are a kind of medicinal material, and those with rotten skins can't be used as medicine!" A villager in his 50s and [-]s said hesitantly.

His name is Li Xiaoshun, and he has stayed in Zhangjiadian all his life. His family has a lot of walnut trees, and he was just about to sell walnuts today. If Ximei hadn't said it was Zhang Xiang's idea, he would have sold all of his 1000 catties of walnuts.