Bamboo Fragrance

Chapter 28 Candied Haws 2
When Li Kongzhu went up the mountain again carrying the basket borrowed from Mai Yaer, he was in an unprecedentedly good mood.

Ignoring the ugly look on the face of someone walking behind because of bad legs and feet.She happily turned over one hill after another.

When she just borrowed the basket, Mai Ya'er knew that she was going to go up the mountain to pick mountain reds, so she pointed out a few places that were not dangerous.Let her be careful, she was going to come with her.She didn't want to have some work at home for her to do, so she had to give it up.

Li Diaozhu also has no shortage of people to accompany him up the mountain.Bringing Zhao Junyi was entirely because he knew martial arts. The wolf in the previous one scared her enough, and she was afraid that she would encounter something later, at least someone who knew martial arts would stand by her side, so she could feel at ease.

When we arrived at the outskirts of the forest in the northwest area, we saw a few Shanlihong trees that were growing well.

Now that it is the time of frost, the whole mountain is so red that it makes people feel refreshed.

Li Kongzhu put down the basket, rolled up his sleeves and began to climb up the tree trunk.

A trace of embarrassment flashed in the eyes of someone who was following up with a stick.Looking up at the woman who climbed the tree neatly, she couldn't help feeling a little annoyed.

Li Diaozhu found a more stable branch, took off the outer jacket, stretched out his hand and began to violently grab the clusters of fruits.

When the fruit in the jacket was full, she yelled at Zhao Junyi who was standing under the tree: "Master, come and pick it up. Put it in the basket."

Zhao Junyi raised his head coldly, the light in his eyes flashed away.

Li Kongzhu pursed his lips, "Since I agreed, even if it's just a show. I beg you to behave like this!"

It's just a life with a partner, do you really think he is an uncle?If it weren't for the condition of not being able to establish a female household that tied her up, he thought he could make do with him by being wronged?

Zhao Junyi didn't reply, but walked directly to the place under her tree, stretched out his hand, and said lightly: "Let go!"

When Li Kongzhu heard this, he tightened the mouth of the burden, and carefully threw it down with his arms outstretched.

"Hoo!" Before the burden reached its destination, the man stretched out his hand and slipped the mouth of the burden.

Li Kongzhu shrugged his nose and snorted, "Playing cool!"

Someone who was pouring the fruit looked up at her, only to see her turn around and start picking the fruit again...

After half an hour passed, Li Diaozhu slid down from the tree.

Looking at the half-basket of fruit in the basket, she clapped her hands and said, "It's done, let's pull a thicker branch." If possible, she would like to use bamboo, after all, it grows fast and is easy to cut.

Afterwards, the two of them searched for the shrubs in the mountain forest, found a tree that was not tall, looked for the branches of the tree, and then found a branch that was as thick as an elbow.

"Just this one!"

Li Kongzhu stood under the branch and compared the height, and found that it was not high from the ground.He put down the basket on his back, rolled up his sleeves, and jumped up with his hands raised high.

The whole person was hanging on the branch like that. She was hanging on the branch, gritted her teeth fiercely, and used all her strength to break it down, "Ho, ha!"

"Crack!" The branch broke.She successfully fell to the ground, and the branch also successfully broke off and scratched her body.

The man who had been watching coldly, saw this scene, raised his brows, and unconsciously moved forward.

"Hiss~" Li Diaozhu grabbed the tree branches wrapped around his body with his hands, gasping for air in pain while rubbing his buttocks, and sat up.

Standing up, he stroked his messy hair.I saw that although the branch was broken, there was still a small half of the bark stuck to the tree.So, she grabbed the branch with her hands again and pulled it down hard.

"Crash!" The whole branch was completely detached from the branch.

Li Kongzhu took the big branch that was broken off, and broke off the excess branches with his hands.A bare straight stem and a little branch and leaf under the tail remain.

With a sharp resistance to the body, he turned his eyes to someone who looked like an outsider and said, "Okay! The master can help carry the half basket of Shanlihong!"

The nerves at the corner of Zhao Junyi's mouth twitched, and a strange light flashed in his eyes.

Seeing that she was resisting the not-so-small branch and swaggering past her after speaking, she twitched the corner of her lower lip.Stepping up to the side of the pannier, with a flick of one hand, he lifted the pannier to his left shoulder to resist.With a stick in his right hand, he followed her, walking down the mountain step by step.

When the two returned from Beishan, it was already nightfall.

Li Kongzhu was busy cleaning the pot and preparing dinner.During this period, she handed the kitchen knife to the man who put down the basket.

The man looked at it with raised eyebrows, and she took out a chopstick and said, "Can the head of the family help to break the branch into a chopstick length of one and a half, and then cut it into a small stick that is more than half thinner than this?"

Seeing that the man didn't speak, she said again: "The bed is too small. If you have money, you can build a new kang when the winter snow comes. Then you don't have to always sit cross-legged at night when you are the head of the house!"

In the past few days, when she woke up inadvertently at night, she saw him sitting on the other side of the bed, meditating cross-legged.It was too dark at that time to know what was going on.But seeing his abnormally pale face the next morning, it seems that there must be some old disease hidden!

The man took the kitchen knife, and only said lightly, "You don't need to coerce me, it is a woman's duty to take care of the family and obey the husband!"

The corners of Li Kongzhu's eyes twitched, he really wanted to slap him.

From husband?Gu family?Nonsence!If it weren't for her inability to establish a female household, she would have kicked him to the Pacific Ocean and left him alone.As for the one with facial paralysis and disfigurement, it's good that she didn't dislike hurting his self-esteem, but he was really arrogant and narcissistic.

Li Kongzhu snorted secretly, turned around and went into the house to scoop rice for cooking without being bothered to reason.

Zhao Junyi looked at the kitchen knife in his hand, and then at the branch on the other side.He made a gesture, didn't say much, went straight over, and split the branch in two with a single knife...

Dinner is a simple noodle steamed bun with water rice.

After eating, Li Kongzhu carried the broken firewood into the hut. There was a small stove in the corner by the door, and he cleaned the small iron pot and put it on it.

Pick a big ruddy Shanlihong, remove the stems, and wash it.Then take the sharpened wooden skewers and put them on a smooth curtain.

Then brush a layer of clear oil on the coming iron plate, put it aside and wait for a while.

Wait until everything is ready.She breathed a sigh of relief, added a small amount of water to the pot, and finally added firewood to the stove to start a fire.

When the water in the pot boiled, Li Diabolo took out the white sugar and put in about 200 grams.Then, holding a shovel made of wood, he kept stirring the sugar water in the pot.Until the sugar water thickens, lift up with a shovel and there is a slight discoloration in silk.

Pick up the fruit skewered on the curtain, and turn it gently with the tumbling foam, and a layer of crystal clear icing is wrapped on it.

When done, set it aside on a spare iron plate.Then the second string, the third string... until all the sugar in the pot is hung up, and the small iron plate is also neatly covered.

Turn off the fire and wash the pot.After waiting for the candied haws to cool down, Li Kongzhu held back the saliva from his mouth, took a bunch and took a bite.

Well, sweet and sour.

The sugar in the mouth is crunchy, mixed with the sour taste inside.After eating, she squinted her eyes in satisfaction, "That's the taste!" Although it's not as good as the one sold in the previous life, it's not bad!
Zhao Junyi, who had been watching her doing all this, just looked her over carefully.Seeing that she was satisfied with squinting her eyes and puffing her mouth to bite the fruit, she couldn't help but reach out and take a bunch.

The fruit in his mouth is moderately sweet and sour. Although he doesn't like it very much, it is still more than a little strange.

"It's delicious!"

Li Kongzhu, who didn't know when to open his eyes, saw that he was eating skewers, so he couldn't help but smiled and asked for praise.

"Shang Ke!" After finishing speaking, he took a second bite.

Li Kongzhu pursed his mouth in secret, but smiled on his face: "Then, from the perspective of the family, can this fruit be bought at a high price?"

"It can be bought for two days if you are curious for a while, but it is not a long-term solution." The method is too simple and easy to imitate.I'm afraid that as soon as it is released, there will be imitations in less than two episodes.

Of course Li Kongzhu also knew this, but she shrugged her shoulders indifferently, "I don't rely on it at all!" If someone imitates, then it is enough, and she will find some other method at that time.

Seeing that it was getting late at night, she stretched herself and yawned.He took the standing washbasin from the door, walked out, and prepared to fetch water to clean his face, wash his feet and go to bed.

Zhao Junyi sat alone at the table silently and finished eating the bunch of candied haws, and saw that the woman had already washed and turned on the bed.

He stood up, lifted his foot and walked out.

Li Kongzhu glanced at the open gate, the figure of a man stood a few steps away from the wall in the darkness, with his hands behind his back, looking up at the sky, he didn't know what he was thinking.

Suddenly, "Ahem!" Two low coughs sounded, and Li Diaozhu pulled the quilt up to cover his face.

Emma!I was so excited for a while, I forgot to light a fire in the house, and there was smoke.No wonder the dead man went out of the house and dared to hide from the smoke!
(End of this chapter)