peasant girl wedding

Chapter 9 Fruits
Children who grew up in the village, regardless of gender, are good at climbing trees.

Tong Duo'er and the others hugged the trunk, climbed up the tree slowly, sat on the branch, reached out to pick a fruit, opened their mouths and bit it down with a bang, who would have thought it would be...

"Bah, bah, why is it so unpalatable?" Xinghua's sour cheeks were about to fall off, and he threw the fruit down angrily.

Lan Hua, Tong Duo'er, and Tong Zhu'er had tears in their eyes. Tong Zhi'er moved a little slower than everyone else, so she was the luckiest of them all.

Xinghua curled her lips, and said with a mournful face: "Zhi'er, did you know that this fruit is sour, that's why you were so slow?"

"...I don't know." Seeing Tong Duo'er, Tong Zhu'er, and Lan Hua's piercing eyes, Tong Zhi'er was sweating, and she asked, "Is it really so sour?"

Xinghua clutched her cheeks fiercely and nodded.

"We are really happy for nothing," Tong Duo'er said with a smile.

Tong Zhu'er had a bitter face, and looked longingly at the plump and round fruit on top of her head.

"That's right, I was so happy when I found out that there are fruit trees here. Who would have thought that the fruit would be so sour. Oh, let's not talk about it. My teeth hurt badly just thinking about it."

Tong Zhi'er looked at the full-colored and round fruits on the tree, and was really unwilling. After thinking for a while, he said, "We can pick these fruits, mash them, add sugar, and make them into candied fruit."

Lan Hua's eyes lit up, "This is a good way."

Tong Duo'er and Tong Zhu'er also agreed, but Xinghua had doubts in her heart.

"Can such a sour fruit be delicious when made into candied fruit?"

"Try it, anyway, so many fruits will rot after being placed here, or be eaten by the birds."

Xinghua thought it made sense, and reached out to pick the fruit on top of her head.

Tong Zhu'er is the youngest of them, and when Tong Zhi'er said that she wanted to make candied fruit, she was overjoyed, and she was the most energetic when picking the fruit.

"Let's pick less. If it tastes delicious after making candied fruit, it won't be too late to pick it later." Tong Zhi'er added.

Everyone nodded, and each of them picked five or six fruits and threw them on the ground before they fell from the tree. There was grass on the ground, and the fruits were not hurt when they fell.The five people picked up all the fruits thrown from the tree and put them together, Xinghua couldn't wait to say: "Zhi'er, let's make candied fruit."

"You glutton." Lan Hua nodded her head and said with a smile.

Xinghua sticks out her tongue, staring straight at Tong Zhi'er.

Tong Zhu'er also looked at her second sister eagerly.

"Well, but we want to do the preparations well. Lanhua, you and Xinghua go to the house to get some white sugar, and bring a knife by the way." Tong Zhi'er looked at Lanhua and Xinghua and said.

The two nodded.

Tong Zhi'er looked at the elder sister Tong Duo'er again, "Eldest sister, we have Usuki in our yard, so please trouble elder sister to go home."

"Hey."

"Second Sister, what should I do?" Tong Zhu'er said crisply.

Tong Zhi'er smiled, "You and I take these fruits to the river and wash them, and when the orchids, apricot blossoms and eldest sister come, we will start making candied fruit."

"Ah."

After the division of labor was completed, Lanhua and Xinghua turned around and walked home, while the eldest sister, Tong Duo'er, returned to Tong's house with three baskets containing wild vegetables.Tong Zhi'er and Tong Zhu'er each carried fruit in their coats and walked to the nearby river.

After walking for about a quarter of an hour, Tong Zhi'er heard the sound of water.

"Second Sister, we're here." Tong Zhu'er said happily.

Tong Zhi'er nodded, and the two speeded up. Sure enough, there was a long river at the end of the tall grass.The river water is very clear, crystal clear, the blue sky and white clouds are reflected in it, interweaving with the swaying aquatic plants in the river to form a beautiful picture.

After working for such a long time, Tong Zhi'er was a little thirsty.

In ancient times, unlike modern times, there was industrial pollution, and the river water was directly drinkable.

Tong Zhi'er put the fruit on the haystack by the river, squatted down, washed his hands, moved two steps upstream, took the clear river water in his hands, and lowered his head to drink it.

Well, it's tasteless, but it's very thirst-quenching.

"Zhu'er, I'll wash the fruit, just stand on the shore and pass it to me." After all, Tong Zhu'er is two years younger than herself, and Tong Zhi'er, as an elder sister, should protect her as a matter of course.

Tong Zhu'er nodded obediently, and handed Tong Zhi'er a fruit.

When the two washed all the fruits for the second time, Orchid and Xinghua came to the river.

"Zhi'er, I'll help you." Lan Hua rolled up her sleeves and was about to squat down as she spoke.

Tong Zhi'er raised the last fruit in his hand and said: "No, I'll be fine soon." The last fruit was washed and put together with the dripping fruit, Tong Zhi'er stood up and said: "You move so fast."

Xinghua raised her head and said triumphantly: "We took sugar and ran all the way here, so the speed is naturally faster, Zhi'er, do you see if this sugar is enough?"

Xinghua raised the paper bag in her hand.

Tong Zhi'er looked at it and guessed that there were about four taels of white sugar in the paper bag, and nodded with a smile.

"Pearl, go wait for the elder sister there just now, and bring her here." There is water here, so it is more convenient to make candied fruit.

Tong Zhu'er nodded and smiled and ran away.

"Second Sister," Tong Zhu'er's excited voice came out after a while, Tong Zhi'er raised her head, and Tong Duo'er followed behind with a mortar.

"Second sister," said again, but it belonged to a little boy, Tong Zhi'er saw a small face behind Tong Duo'er, "Ah Fu!"

Tong Zhaofu ran to Tong Zhi'er with a smile, looked at the orchids and apricot flowers, then at the washed fruits on the haystack, and finally fixed his gaze on Tong Zhi'er's face, and said, "Second sister, Eldest sister said you want to make candied fruit?"

Tong Zhi'er smiled, touched Tong Zhaofu's soft head and said, "Did you bring food to Daddy?"

"Ah."

"Zhi'er, what are you going to do now?" Tong Duo'er put the mortar on the ground and asked Tong Zhi'er.

Tong Zhier looked at Xinghua and said, "Did you bring the knife?"

"I have it with me," Xinghua smiled and took out a dagger from her purse, and handed it to Tong Zhi'er.

The scabbard was inlaid with ribbons, Tong Zhi'er pulled out the dagger, the sharp blade gleamed with a cold light, one could tell it was coming soon.

She squatted down, peeled the fruit into small pieces and put them in the mortar. Tong Duo'er felt that it was almost done, so she smashed it with a pestle, and pounded orchids, apricot blossoms, and Tong Zhu'er.

Tong Zhaofu squatted beside Tong Zhi'er, watching her peel the fruit.

The mortar is not too big, but it is just enough to hold about thirty sliced ​​fruits.

Half an hour later, the pulp was basically mashed into a puree, so Tong Zhi'er put the sugar in, stirred it evenly with a pestle, and then continued to mash it.

The sound of pounding and pestle reverberated by the river, and the fresh and tender taste of the fruit could not stop drilling into the big guy's nose.

"It should be fine." When Tong Zhi'er said this, Tong Zhu'er, Tong Zhaofu and Xinghua's eyes were frighteningly bright, but none of the three made a move.

Xinghua was hesitant because of the sour fruit that was in his mouth before, while Tong Zhuer and Tong Zhaofu had to wait for their sister to open their mouths before eating.

(End of this chapter)