Farmer's happy event

Chapter 68 Wild Fruits

If you want to sell beans, you have to go to the dental shop in the town, but in the dental shop in this town, Lianzi's family doesn't know anyone, so it's not easy to do things.

Unexpectedly, one day, Lianzi and Liu Jingren went to the tooth shop together, trying to find out the real price of soybeans, but unexpectedly, they ran into Hu Yongcheng who came out to buy grain.

Since Hu Yongcheng called "Fujulai" to deliver groceries, he has had a lot of leisure time, so he will be free during the day, and come to this dental store to buy some things.
He heard that Liu Jingren came to inquire about the purchase price of soybeans, so he said, "Brother, you have to be careful, this place is full of lies, and will lower the price for you." He thought for a while and said, "I know A person, I used to buy food from him, how about I ask for you?"

Of course it couldn't be better, Lianzi and Liu Jingren hurriedly expressed their thanks.

With acquaintances around, the purchase price will naturally not be kept low.In the end, at the price of three Wen a catty, Lianzi's family took [-] catties of soybeans.

I sold the 30 mu of soybeans and got less than [-] taels of silver. Although it is not much, I have almost earned back the money for buying the land.

After the soybeans on the [-] mu of land over there were harvested, Lianzi and Liu Jingren bought sweet potato seedlings and planned to plant sweet potatoes.Sweet potato is also a worry-free crop. It can grow no matter where it is planted, and it can best meet the problem of food and clothing.

Compared with planting sweet potatoes and harvesting beans, planting sweet potatoes is much more complicated.Ridges must be dug, and seedlings must be planted one by one, and watered scoop by scoop at the end.

Hiring Liu Ping'an and his wife would definitely not be able to finish the work on the [-] acres of land, so Lianzi's parents decided to hire a few more people.

Who should be hired this time, before Yang Shi and Liu Jingren need to worry, someone has already signed up.

The last time when Liu Ping'an and his wife went to plant beans, many people in the village began to blame them, saying that Liu Laoer's family had earned some money and was so full that they had to spend money to hire people to do the work in the field. The Ping'an couple yelled five and six.They still looked fair and strict, and said: "You said that they all belonged to the same Zhuangzi, so what's the matter?"

Fortunately, this remark was stopped by Mrs. Yang and Lianzi before it reached the ears. Otherwise, according to their fiery temper, they might explode again.

Mrs. Zhang told Jingren's second elder brother and second sister-in-law about giving them 150 Wen a day, and how well they were treated by them. Breakfast, lunch and dinner were all taken care of, and what they ate was either fish or meat.

As a result, many people were envied, so this time when Yang Shi and Liu Jingren wanted to hire someone again, sometimes two or three people came to them in one night.

In the end, Yang only selected a few honest and strong offspring, and spent two days planting [-] acres of sweet potatoes.

Spring peanuts are due to be harvested shortly after sweet potatoes are planted.

There is only one acre of spring peanuts in the family, so the family slowly harvested the spring peanuts on this acre of land in just one day.It took another day to drop it, lift it up, and dry it in the sun, and this is the end.At the same time, the Mid-Autumn Festival is coming soon.

Lianzi kept thinking about the wild fruit, and finally waited until Xiumu, carrying a small basket, went to Mrs. Zhao's house, called Huzi, and went up the mountain with him.

Lianzi found that since Huzi went to school, he has become more calm, but for some reason, he still doesn't like reading.

"Do you want to find wild fruit?" Huzi asked, seeing Lianzi nodded, and said, "I know where it is, I will take you there." As he spoke, he walked like flying, and dropped the lotus seeds for a long distance.

Lianzi's face twitched slightly, she had just finished praising her stability, why did she suddenly become like this?
She followed Huzi closely, and saw him walking further and further into the mountain.

Although she often comes to this mountain, almost all the places she has been to are at the foot of the mountain, and there is no danger at all.Now we have to go inside, what if something unexpected happens?
"Hey, why did you walk so far?" Lianzi shouted from behind.

Huzi looked back at her and said, "There are wild fruits here, they are very pretty, but they are not edible."

I can't eat, why did you bring me here?Lianzi cursed in her heart, but Huzi shouted again: "Come here quickly, it's right here, it's so beautiful.

Lianzi couldn't help the temptation, so she passed.

"Where? What?" Lianzi walked over and asked.

The mountain road was a bit uneven, and Lianzi was having a hard time walking. Huzi walked down a few steps, helped her up, pointed to a tree that wasn't too thick in front of her, and said, "Look at the top, the fruit looks pretty, right? It’s big, but that’s inedible, it can make your teeth astringent.”

Lianzi didn't answer, she was carefully looking at the inedible fruit that Huzi mentioned, why did it look so familiar?

She came closer and took a closer look, and found that these fruits were hanging on the tree, with orange skin, one was as big as a baby's fist, and there were obvious layered lines up and down.Obviously, isn't this a persimmon or something?
"This is a persimmon, you can eat it," Lianzi said.

Hu Zi hurriedly said: "This is not edible, I have picked it before, it is very bitter."

Lianzi chuckled, and said, "That's because the persimmons haven't mellowed yet. If there are no flaky persimmons, it's no wonder they aren't astringent!"

"Huh? What's wrong?" Hu Zi asked

Lianzi said: "Just use hot water." As she spoke, she walked towards the persimmon tree, apparently wanting to pick it.

Seeing that she wanted to pick persimmons, Huzi said, "I'll climb a tree and pick them for you. How many do you want?"

"The more the better." Lianzi was never polite.

She admitted that she was really excited to see the persimmon.Because although persimmon is not suitable for making preserved fruit and candied fruit, it can be used as persimmon cake.In her previous life, she loved eating persimmons. Every time she went back to her hometown, she would go to the mountains to buy a large bag of persimmons to take home.

Thinking about it, Lianzi suddenly became sad.How is everything in my hometown?

"Hey, continue." Huzi climbed up the tree twice, picked the fruit and was about to throw it to Lianzi, but unexpectedly saw her distracted.

Lianzi quickly recovered and caught the persimmon thrown by Huzi.

The persimmons are still very hard, and some are still green, but it doesn't matter, as long as they are smashed, the taste will be completely different.

I picked off all the persimmons that were almost ripe on the tree, and picked more than half of the basket.

"Are there any other wild fruits?" Lianzi asked again,

Huzi walked forward again, pointed to a clump of plants in front of him and said to Lianzi: "Look at this one, it's also very beautiful, but my mother told me that this thing is poisonous, so I won't be allowed to touch it."

Lianzi thought that Huzi had found something good again by accident, so she hurried over to have a look.

"This is a raspberry, you can eat it," said Lianzi, and added, "It's sweet and sour, and it's delicious."

"Are you sure you can eat this?" Huzi seemed a little distrustful of lotus seeds.

Lianzi ignored him, picked a small bright red cone, wiped it on his sleeve, and started eating.

Raspberry is a good thing. Not only can it be eaten, but it also has high medicinal value.

The taste is still the same as before, but I don't know how many years have passed between them.

While eating, Lianzi kept observing the raspberry.This thing looks quite beautiful. It is not suitable for making candied fruit. If it is made into candied fruit, it is perfect.

"Pick some for me." Lianzi said to Huzi, and started to pick raspberries by herself.

There are not many of these things, but fortunately, it can bear several crops of fruit within a year, which can be regarded as the best use of everything.

The two picked all the raspberries in the bush before returning home.

Seeing her coming back, Mrs. Yang asked, "What are you doing with these things? You can't eat or drink."

These things are available on the mountain, but they look good, but they don’t taste good.When she was a child, she always liked to pick this mountain of persimmons to play with, and put them on the kang to watch.Sometimes she couldn't bear it anymore and would take a bite, but the astringent taste always made her wrinkle her nose.

"Mother, this is edible." Lianzi explained.

"Nonsense again, you can't eat this, just watch and play with it." She still can't forget the astringent taste.

Seeing that Yang Shi didn't believe her, Lianzi didn't argue too much. Anyway, when she cooked it, she would definitely let her eat sweet persimmons tomorrow.

She put the basket directly into the stove, and as she walked, she picked up a bright red raspberry and put it in her mouth. The sweet and sour taste made her want to eat it again.

Just now the tiger cub didn't dare to eat it, saying it was snake eyes and poisonous.

Lianzi ignored him and just ate it by herself. He wouldn't eat such a delicious thing, but she just happened to eat more.

Later, Huzi saw that the lotus seeds were eating sweetly by himself, and he didn't see anything wrong, so he plucked up his courage and tried to eat one. It tasted really good.

Lianzi scooped a few ladles of water into the cauldron, pulled the firewood again, and covered the pot to start the fire.

Yang Shi heard her tinkling and busy in the kitchen, put down the dustpan in her hand, and walked over.

"Spit it out!" Yang shouted.

Lianzi was startled by her cry, and the raspberry next to her mouth made a muffled sound and fell to the ground.

Before Lianzi caressed her frightened heart, she saw Yang came over in a hurry, held Lianzi's waist, and asked her to bend down: "Spit it out!"

While patting her on the back, Yang said anxiously: "Why do you say you eat this snake eye? Didn't mother tell you before that this thing is poisonous!"

But this thing is not poisonous, why do you say that raspberries are poisonous?

"Mother", the lotus seed was pressed down by Yang Shi, and then patted on the back, and said with some difficulty, "This is a raspberry, it's not poisonous. I've eaten it better just now."

"What?" When Yang heard that the lotus seeds had been eaten better, she became even more anxious now, and patted the back of the lotus seeds even harder to make her spit them out, while calling for Guzi to come over and boil mung bean water.

Lianzi struggled a lot before breaking free from Yang's grasp, and explained: "Mother, this thing is also called raspberry, it's not poisonous, and it's delicious."

She was afraid that Mrs. Yang would still not believe it, so she said, "I read it in medical books, this thing is not only non-toxic, but also a medicine, it can cure diseases, nourish the liver and improve the eyesight."

Yang Shi was a little skeptical at first, but when she was a child, she was told that the snake eyes were poisonous and could not be eaten.

"I ate it last year. Look, haven't I been fine?" Lianzi said again.

(End of this chapter)