Raiders of peasant girls

Chapter 181 How to Preserve Fresh Lychees

This seemed enthusiastic, especially these thick-skinned people were a little overwhelmed, especially the unspeakable weirdness in the eyes that looked at them one by one.

"Girl, why do I think these people are weird?"

"It's okay, don't think too much, I think it's too hospitable." Jing Yao patted Miao Cuilan's hand as if comforting.

They didn't go far into the village, and they almost arrived at the house of the uncle Wang, and the uncle Wang greeted him early.

"Yo, Miss Wang, I didn't expect you to come here!" Uncle Wang greeted him and said with a smile.

"Of course I'm going to come!" Jingyao looked around again and smiled, "You really have a lot of lychees in your village, Mr. Wang." She walked all the way just now and found that there are several lychees at the door of each house. The lychee tree is a bit like the feeling that there are two peach blossom trees at the door of every house in Lihua Village.

"Haha, it's not so much. If there were not many, our village wouldn't be called Litchi Village. What you see is not much. If you go to the yard of every house, there are also litchi trees. Some people even have litchi trees on the ground. It's everywhere." As he spoke, he arrived at Uncle Wang's house.

Jingyao smiled and said, "So it's called Lychee Village. The name of the village is quite appropriate. It's hard to be embarrassed by so many litchis." She glanced at Miao Cuilan as she spoke.Miao Cuilan stepped forward and delivered the few packs of pastries she had brought to Uncle Wang.

"Uncle Wang, this is a little care of my girl, I hope you don't dislike it."

However, because of a chance encounter, I didn't expect to bring a gift, and Uncle Wang was immediately overwhelmed by flattery. "Oh, you can't do it, you can't do it, how can I take your things."

"Uncle Wang, you're welcome! It's just a few packs of pastries!" Jingyao smiled, and told Uncle Wang that there was nothing valuable inside, it was just something to eat, so you really don't need to be polite.

Hearing that it was a few packs of pastries, Uncle Wang didn't say anything, and accepted it happily. The eyes of the young man and two children behind Uncle Wang lit up immediately.Especially those two children were staring straight at the paper bag of snacks, which made Uncle Wang a little embarrassed.

"Uncle Wang, I mainly want to see the lychees in your village! I want to buy some to take home!" Seeing that Uncle Wang was a little uncomfortable, Jingyao directed the conversation to the lychees.

But Uncle Wang still explained, "Ms. Wang laughed at the ignorance of the children in the family." After saying this, Uncle Wang felt a little awkward again, because he found out that the other party was only about the same age as his grandchildren.So he paused and then said, "Okay, what are you buying? There are lychees everywhere in the village. If Miss Wang wants to, just pick them back. Look at the backyard of my house. There are more than a dozen lychees. They all fell to the ground and rotted."

"Haha, this is impossible. I came here to buy lychees on purpose, and I bought a lot of them. How can I get them for nothing?" This is also a rarity for the people of Lihua Village.Those people are almost all from the North, so naturally they haven't eaten this food much. Since she bought it, she can't give it to every family, and it's not expensive.

"You can get angry if you eat too much of this stuff. Girls just buy some and go home. Next time you want to eat it, you can buy it again." Uncle Wang said this sincerely. He thought that Jingyao lived in Fucheng. Can't you buy it when you want to eat?At the beginning, when he saw Jingyao really came to the village, he was still thinking that she really came.

"Uncle Wang, my family doesn't live in Fucheng. I'm from another place. I don't have these things in my hometown. When I saw them, I wanted to buy more and give them to my family to try."

When Uncle Wang heard it, he suddenly realized, "It turns out that this is the case. The little old man is still wondering why Miss Wang has to go to the village to buy lychees. There are all of them in the prefectures and cities. You don't have to travel so far to buy them and bring them back to your house."

"Haha, the family is far away, so I hope that Uncle Wang can teach me a way to preserve the lychees for a longer time, so that the family members can also eat fresh lychees."

Regarding Jingyao's request, Uncle Wang didn't think too much about it. He also heard that people wanted to buy their own lychees, so it was like pouring beans, and he explained his own preservation methods, including ice preservation, but Uncle Wang said that ice preservation is something that rich families will do.

But there is a method that has been preserved for the longest time, and it is also the one that Jingyao thinks is the most suitable.

"Uncle Wang, does your method work? Don't look back, I'm all broken when I get home." She still asked for confirmation, because the method that Uncle Wang said seems to be very simple, and if you follow this method of Uncle Wang, it will be true. If it can be done, there should be no lychee in the north.

Uncle Wang said, as long as the mature lychees and leaves are picked together, the diseased fruit should be removed, and the branches and leaves should be put into a clean ceramic pot, then take an appropriate amount of lychee honey, boil it and cool it, then add it to the ceramic pot. Finally, cover and seal. It is best to use candle wax to seal the mouth of the jar, and store it in a ventilated and dry place. And Uncle Wang said that according to this method, it can be kept fresh until the New Year.And it is said that the lychees are still fresh and taste as sweet as ever
Uncle Wang sighed and said, "It works, why doesn't it work? This is a method passed down from my ancestors. The old people used to do this, but the situation has been bad these years, and there is no money to buy lychee honey, so Nothing was done."

After thinking about it, Jingyao couldn't help but asked, "Uncle Wang, since you have a way to preserve lychees, why haven't you thought about transporting lychees out of Lingnan? There are no such things in other places, and everything should be rare and fresh, sure. You can earn a lot of money."

She thought that since it was an ancestral method, she'd better ask more details, lest people don't think of using it to make money, and when she goes into this business, it will appear that she is taking things from them.

But Feng Er on the side didn't understand why Jingyao asked such a question. If she didn't expect to do litchi business like this, wouldn't she just remind him in disguise?

"Hey, it's hard to do business. Who has the big capital? How far is it from us to the north? How much does it cost to hire a carriage?" Upon hearing this, Uncle Wang waved his hands again and again, " Not to mention how it was shipped out of Lingnan, but to say that there is a lot of lychee honey needed to preserve lychees. How can people like us have the money to buy it? Besides, we don’t have the money for the ceramics museum? Just say I kept the lychees in my family a few years ago, but I didn’t use ceramic jars, so the ordinary jars can’t keep them long enough.”

"So that's the case, but do everyone in the village know how to preserve lychees, Mr. Wang?" Jing Yao asked again with no change in expression.

"How can it be? Don't tell me, my little old man. This is from my family's ancestors. I heard that my family's ancestors also had some money, but they became lonely later on."

(End of this chapter)