Nongmen Jinfeng: Cold-noodled husband and little daughter-in-law

Chapter 279
"..." Uncle Lin looked at Fang Xiaofu in embarrassment.Let her say everything.

"Uncle, okay? It would be even better if you have fifty or sixty. I want to pack fruit to give away, and the small basket is not enough."

"..." Uncle Lin really wanted to talk about a few baskets, no money needed, but there were fifty or sixty of them, which was enough for him to spend a day in the market.

"Little Qi'er, since you want to buy it, you can just give me ten coins, and you don't need twenty coins." Finally, Uncle Lin spoke.Twenty Wen is the market price, so he just needs to charge the cost of some bamboo.

"Haha, Uncle, when Xiao Qi'er is in the county town to discuss business, he always wants to sell at a high price. You are so good, you want to ask for money. You will suffer a lot if you do business."

"Okay, uncle, I'll order fifty pieces first, and I'll use these few first, and ask Lin Shuqi to deliver the rest to my house when they're ready." Fang Xiaofu took out a tael of silver and insisted on paying the price of twenty cents. price to buy.

"If uncle refuses to charge a fair price, Xiao Qi'er won't dare to buy it. The family doesn't have enough, so just hold it in your hands and give it away, hey." Fang Xiaofu stuffed the banknote into Uncle Lin's hand, still talking annoying.

When Uncle Lin saw this, he really didn't accept it, and he didn't accept it.

Aunt Lin on the side laughed and smoothed things over: "Okay, the head of the house, Xiao Qi'er has said so, so you can accept it. We still have more than [-] in the house. If there are still a few, you can make up quickly." come out."

So, Fang Xiaofu brought some food, and when he came back, he led the three brothers and sisters of the Lin family together, and brought back a total of forty small bamboo baskets.

Of course, she once again displayed her unceremonious and noble style, and took the three brothers and sisters to give gifts together, helping to carry the small bamboo basket.Each small bamboo basket is filled with peaches, plums, apricots and loquats, and they will pick if there are not enough.

Regarding the fact that they gave fresh fruit as a gift, except for the old lady at home, the other adults were busy outside and didn't know.

As a result, they had to toss about for a whole morning and moved the orchard forest a little.The leftovers can be used to make preserved fruit.

Fang Zijian picked up a load of empty baskets and went to the grocery store at the entrance of the village to buy pottery jars. He bought dozens of them, large and small, and emptied the magazine store’s inventory. He also bought more than a dozen catties of salt. sent back.

If you let him pick it up, you have to pick it many times, and if you don't get crushed to death, your foot will be broken.

At noon, when the brothers who were going to school came back, as soon as they heard that sister Xiaoqier was going to make preserved salted fruit, they immediately rolled up their sleeves and asked for help.There are not enough fruits left at home, so they consciously carry baskets and baskets to pick them.

Seeing that they were so active, Fang Xiaofu didn't stop them, but only told them what kind of things they wanted to bring back.So when Fang Zizhan and the others came back from giving gifts, everyone had already done the fruit picking.

Fang Xiaofu stayed with the brothers and sisters of the Lin family for dinner, but they refused, and ran away like a gust of wind, as if they had walked all the way to help carry the basket and give gifts, it was all fake.

During the meal, the adults only knew that they gave back gifts and made salted dried fruit, and they all said that it was so good that the fruit was not wasted and everything was used to its full potential.

In the afternoon, Fang Xiaofu led his brothers to clean the crock pots at home, while Lin Xiaodi wiped them with a dry cloth and placed them under the eaves to ensure they were absolutely dry.

The Lin brothers, together with Zixu who came over in the afternoon, were responsible for cleaning plums and apricots. Today Fang Xiaofu mainly used them to make salted preserved fruits.

There was not enough water at home, so Fang Zijian immediately took a bucket to pick it up.Fang Zizhan and Fang Ziwei carried an Eight Immortals table from the main room to the yard, and went to the kitchen to get a knife and a cutting board and put them on the Eight Immortals table.

Fang Xiaofu washed his hands, and then ordered Fang Zizhan to clean up the pan, wiped it with a clean wet rag, and left it to dry in the sun.Then she started to hold the knife, cut the plums and apricots into four pieces, and picked out the core.

She has done a lot of this kind of work, and she does it very neatly, and so many people listen to her instructions, and put the flesh she cut out on the pan to dry.

There are six pan-pans at home. I have raised silkworms before, and this year I have dried fungus, which is just right for use.

The six pans were placed on the bench, occupying a large space in the yard.

Fang Xiaofu was tired, so he called two sisters who were working in the house to come out, and used two kitchen knives, so the speed was faster.In the end, the pan was not enough, so I went to the second master's house and got four more.

Everyone divides the work and cooperates, just like a production line, there is no delay in time, and the time of most sisters is not used.

An hour later, the job was done.Everyone gathered around the Eight Immortals table that had just been vacated and put peach meat in honey sauce, each holding a bamboo stick, enjoying this kind of delicacy after labor.

This May day is very clear, the air is warm, and the breath in the wind carries a burst of summer.

But this is an ancient countryside after all, without the hustle and bustle of the city, no crowded rooms, no crowded people, so the temperature is not too high, it is still cool.

And the air quality is also very good.

After dinner, when everyone came back from a walk, the brothers secretly stuffed Fang Xiaofu with a birthday present. After Fang Xiaofu accepted the gift with a smile on his face, he began to direct them to continue working.

The pulp needs to be dried for a little while, and it doesn't need to be too dry, which will affect the taste.Then use a clean end basin to spread a layer of pulp first, sprinkle a layer of salt, and then spread a layer of pulp until the entire end basin is full.

The pulp that has evaporated some of the water has become much slimmer and no longer occupies so much space, so the pulp of the ten pans can only hold two large end basins.

After another hour of marinating in this way, Fang Xiaofu used a long spoon to stir them vigorously to let the salt seep in more evenly, then scooped them up one by one and put them into large and small earthen jars.

In the end, only one-third of the pots were installed, which means that today's assembly line will continue tomorrow.However, after today's hard work, everyone is much more proficient in doing things.

Fang Xiaofu's 12th birthday was spent in a busy day.Of course, it's all for cooking and eating, and there are a bunch of brothers and sisters to accompany, it's very lively and happy.

The next day, I was so busy all day again, but this time I specialize in making preserved fruits, so I picked more and made more, and finally filled all the pots, and there are still some unfinished, which I gave to Brothers and sisters of the Lin family.

This time they were not too polite, and happily accepted it. They had an empty earthenware jar at home, so they could put it in directly. According to Fang Xiaofu's method, seal it with the gauze cloth she gave, and then put the lid on the jar.

Although so many preserved salted fruits have been made, there are still many fruits that are gradually ripening in the orchard.So Fang Xiaofu announced domineeringly that he would continue to buy pottery and continue to make salted preserved fruits.

Everyone was shocked when they heard it, and they still do it?
"Of course, it will be used to make money at that time, so hurry up and do it well." Fang Xiaofu directed everyone to work as a matter of course, and no one should be left behind.

(End of this chapter)