Reborn under the White Mountain

Chapter 46
As soon as this summer is over, all kinds of fruits in the forest begin to ripen, such as jujubes, schisandra, hickory nuts, Shanlihong, mountain grapes, etc., all kinds of fruits are full of branches.At this time, Yuxian brothers and sisters are like little mice, moving things to the house non-stop every day, busy and happy, in Yuxian's words, they are happy like mice.Because the autumn harvest is coming soon, there will be no time to make these after the autumn harvest, so everyone hurry up and go up the mountain.

This morning, Da Lang led his younger brothers and sisters into the forest. Today's main purpose is to pick jujubes.Jujube is also called Chinese kiwi fruit, which is much smaller than the kiwi fruit sold in modern times, and probably slightly smaller than the modern cherry tomatoes. The green fruit has the same shape as kiwi fruit and tastes much better than kiwi fruit. , sweeter and more fragrant.In the era of lack of snacks, it is simply a favorite of children.This thing is a kind of vine, which usually climbs to other trees. It is very easy to distinguish whether there are jujubes on the mountain. From a distance, there are small bags on the mountain, which are vines of jujubes. A jujube tree is a bag.Dalang and the others go to the mountains all the year round, so they know where there are soft dates.

When we got to the place, everyone got busy. It’s better to get some in the short places, just pick them directly, and you have to climb the trees in the tall places.Xiaosan was the best at climbing trees, and climbed up after a few babbles.The jujubes were so densely tangled with vines that it would be fine even if they were standing on the vines, so Xiaosan was on top, and Da Lang and the others were on the ground, picking them down together.Yuxian was the smallest and couldn't reach it, so she was responsible for picking up the things thrown down by the mistress. "Third brother, throw it lightly. If you throw it too hard, it will break and you won't be able to let it go." Yuxian told her brother while picking it up.Xiaosan heard it, and when she threw it down, she was lighter.A large jujube tree can pick more than 20 kilograms of fruit, and six brothers and sisters picked a tree in a short time.

"Brother, do you think this stuff can be sun-dried?" Yu Xian asked Da Lang, because she had never gotten so much in her previous life, and a little bit was not enough to eat fresh.

"I don't know, I haven't dried it before. In the past, I just made some and put them there to cover. When they are cooked, I pick them up and eat them. I eat them when they are fully cooked." Da Lang shook his head.

"Then let's try it, if it can be dried in the sun, it will be great, and there will be something to eat in winter." Yuxian remembered that in her previous life, she sold dried kiwi fruit, so this soft date should be about the same.

"Okay, anyway, there are many, you can do whatever you like." Da Lang didn't care about this at all.Looking up into the distance, "Sister, look at the sorbet tree in front of you. Shall we bring some sorbet back home? That stuff is too astringent, and it tastes better after covering it thoroughly."

"It's okay, brother, we can cut the sorbet and boil some water in winter. It's sour and sweet. It's much better than eating it now." Yuxian said, her saliva was about to flow out.

"Okay, then let's go and hunt some sorbets." Dalang led his siblings to the sorbet tree.

It was Xiao San who went up the tree, and after he went up, he hooked the branch and threw the pear down.There are several mountain pear trees in this area, Dalang and Erlang climbed each of them. Although they are not as fast as Xiaosan, they are still okay.The older ones all went up the tree, and the three younger ones were picking up the pears thrown down from the tree.After a while, there were a lot of pears on the ground. There was no way to pick them up as fast as throwing them away. Da Lang and the others got down from the book and helped pick them up.

As Yu Xian picked it up, she saw piles of pears in front of her. The pears had turned yellow, as if they were ripe. "Who picked this mountain pear?" Yuxian asked.

Dalang heard it, and came over to have a look, but he didn't have any of the pears. Dalang's face changed and he said, "Go home, I'm afraid a bear has been here." Xian went out of the forest, Erlang and the others heard it, and hurriedly carried their things on their backs and went out.

Yu Xian was dragged by Da Lang, and she also remembered that she had heard someone say before that you can't pick up the pear without the handle. It was the black bear that ate the pear and then pulled it out.The black bear eats whole. Its digestion is not good. After the sorbet is fermented in the black bear's stomach, it will become ripe.Someone once picked up an unhandled sorbet and tasted it, and it tasted very good. Later, I found out that it was pulled out by a black bear, and I regretted it.It seems that the piles we saw just now were pulled out by black bears. "Brother, do you think the black bear will still be here? It should have left long ago, right?"

Da Lang didn't speak, but Xiao San spoke up: "Don't care if you're still here or not, we all have to go out first, I didn't bring any guy with me today, come out later to remind me to bring out Daddy's hard crossbow, even if we really meet a black bear I'm not afraid anymore."

"Well, it should be. It seems that we haven't encountered a big beast in the forest during this period of time. We are a little careless. From now on, Xiaosan must bring the crossbow at home." Da Lang also agreed. "Okay, this morning's harvest is not small, and it's time for us to go home for dinner." The brothers and sisters walked home.

When he got home, before lunch was ready, Da Lang went to the barn and found a big wooden barrel, poured the soft dates into the wooden barrel, then went out and cut a large handful of Artemisia arvensis, and covered the soft dates , and finally put the wooden barrel up, let the jujubes cover it, and it will soften in a few days, and it will taste delicious at that time.

Yuxian sat in the yard, took a knife and was peeling pears.This peeling pear mound is to peel several sides of the pear to form a football-like shape, and then spread it on a bamboo curtain to dry until it is half dry.Afterwards, they will be steamed in a pot, and the steamed sorbet mounds will be threaded with fine hemp ropes and hung in strings to dry.In fact, the taste of steamed pears is very good. When the pears are dried, they will be put away, and they will be taken out in winter, especially during the Chinese New Year, and steamed with some water. Pears with water are the most appetizing and greasy.

"Hey, this is the sorbet you made? Yuxian, why don't you cover the sorbet? Why are you peeling it like this? Can it be eaten after drying?" Zhou asked when she saw it.

"Third Aunt, I don't know either. Let's try it. It doesn't take much anyway?" Yuxian didn't say anything, and the Zhou family didn't necessarily believe it, and would have to spend more time talking.

"Xian'er, can you cut it yourself?" Mrs. Fang also came out, and saw two baskets full of pears in front of her daughter.Entering the house, he took out a knife and helped to cut it.

The harvest season is always very busy, and Yuxian and the others bring different things to the house every day.There are some things that even Fang doesn't know how to deal with, but Yuxian can always think of a way.Like tangli, now the tangli is ripe, Yuxian asked her brothers to pick a lot, and then found a small basket, put the ripe tangli in the basket to rub.Ripe tangli has a lot of flesh, and the pulp leaks into the pot under the basket, and the seeds of tangli stay in the basket.Put a little starch in the rubbed pulp and mix it well, then steam it in a pan, knead the steamed pulp into small round cakes and dry it, and it becomes a small snack.

There is also Shanlihong, which is a small deciduous tree in the Rosaceae family. In autumn, Shanlihong is very attractive, so it is also called red fruit.The shanlihong fruit is much smaller than the hawthorn fruit, the flesh is thinner, and the taste is sour and slightly bitter.Its medicinal effect is the same as that of hawthorn. It can invigorate the spleen and eliminate food, promote body fluid and quench thirst. It has good curative effect on treating fullness, hyperacidity, food accumulation in children, and indigestion diarrhea.So Yuxian also focused on letting her brothers pick Shanlihong, and a large part of the harvest was directly dried by Yuxian and sent to the pharmacy of shopkeeper Fang.Leaving a small part, Yuxian is going to make some more food.Put the plucked Shanlihong in boiling water and scald it gently, then quickly fish it out.Pinch off the part of the calyx in front of the scalded Shanlihong, which Yuxian calls the navel, and then squeeze the seeds inside out, and dry the remaining pulp for storage.

The jujubes had already been covered, and Yu Xian kept some fresh to eat, and asked her to cut the rest in half and dry them in the sun.Seeing that her daughter had dried everything on it, Fang made fun of her for storing food for the winter like a little squirrel.

Seeing Dalang and the others keep taking things back, and Yuxian thinking of ways to store them, Qin felt a little uncomfortable.The children of the old family are too capable, but the things they got back are not her share, which makes this old lady who has always been stingy and money-loving angry and hateful, so her words start to sound bad again. "Hmph, tossing around all day is full of useless things. If you have that time, why not do more work for the family?"

"Grandma, the autumn harvest is about to start. Who will have time to make these at that time. Besides, these are also prepared for winter. After the Chinese New Year, there will be a guest at home. Who can guarantee that there will be no children, and neither will our family. Use that money to buy delicious food. You don’t need to spend money to make something now, and it will be new stuff when you get it out, and your old face will be bright, right?” Yu Xian has learned to behave now, holding Qin’s in everything and saying , so that the Qin family will not have many opportunities to find fault.

When Qin heard what Yu Xian said, she felt a little happier, "That's right, I think you made these things, children should like to eat them. When your aunts come back during the Chinese New Year, give them a taste .” The old lady still thinks about her daughter in everything.

Yuxian didn't say anything after hearing this, thinking that you can say whatever you like, and I won't argue with you.At that time, I will take it out if I like it, and eat it up if I don’t like it, and you can’t do anything, it depends on the behavior of those cousins ​​at my aunt’s house.

Mrs. Liu heard it from the side, and said, "Yuxian, don't forget to give some to your second aunt when you get these things. Second aunt tasted the candied pear cake you made, and it tastes really good." , grabbed another handful of Shanli red skin, "I didn't expect this thing to make Yuxian so whole, it's not bitter, and the taste is pretty good."

Qin Shi saw that Liu Shi kept eating. Since she wanted to feed her daughter's children, she could be grabbed by others. "If you want to eat, why don't you ask your family to get it home? They just want to be greedy and don't want to work." Liu's face changed after a few words, put down the Shanli red skin in his hand, and left.

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