pastoral woman doctor

Chapter 13 Making Persimmon

The village head is an amiable old man. After completing the formalities, he came out of his place. Bai Caohe went straight to the entrance of Huicun. .

I took the road in the morning, and the ox cart was slower than the No. 11 car. When I got to the persimmon tree, it was getting late.

The two of them went up the tree one by one to pick it up, and tried their best to load the persimmons onto the car. The third uncle looked at the two little girls suspiciously. The persimmons were not yet ripe, so it would be a pity to pick them off. The old man always cherishes things in his heart, so he stopped : "This persimmon is not yet ripe, and it cannot be eaten. It is a pity to pick it."

"Third Uncle, it's not a pity, it will be useful." Bai Caohe smiled and caught the persimmon thrown by Bai Huihua, and then threw it on the car.

"Alas..." The honest third uncle sighed and didn't say anything else. The young man just didn't listen to persuasion. The persimmons are still edible when they are ripe. It's a pity to pick them now, but the persimmons don't belong to his family, and the two girls aren't his children either. , he can't say it's serious.

"Third uncle, don't worry, Xiaocao'er promises not to waste it."

Half-ripe persimmons are just used to make persimmons. Not only are they delicious, but the layer of persimmon frost on the persimmons can also cure coughs. Persimmons are easy to carry, and they are also good products for home travel!But it is impossible for her to tell her third uncle about this, at least if she does not tell him this year, she can sell an exclusive and earn a share. Although she has 300 taels now, it is still too little. After building a good house, there will be a lot left too much.

The third uncle Dang Baicaohe said casually, but didn't take it to heart. The two girls continued to work hard to pick persimmons, and soon filled a large cart of persimmons.

Go empty-handed at sunrise, and return with full load at sunset.

The sky is full of clouds, and the golden glow shines in through the thin straw on the roof, adding a bit of vividness to the dilapidated pigsty hut.

The two girls unloaded the persimmons into the house, and a large cart of persimmons filled the small hut to the brim.

"Little Cao'er, the persimmons are not yet ripe, why did you pick them back?"

Bai Liang was already familiar with Bai Caohe's various strange behaviors. Looking at the pile of persimmons, she couldn't resist her curiosity, so she asked, did Xiao Caoer come up with some weird ways to make money.

"Make dried persimmons!" Bai Caohe answered neatly.

"Persimmon?"

"What it is?"

Bai Huihua and Bai Liang's spoke in unison, especially Bai Huihua, who had been picking persimmons for a long time and forgot to ask Xiaocao'er what they were used for.

"Delicious food, you will know when it is ready." He said, he took out the only blunt knife at home and began to peel it, "Peel it like this, leave this handle (the calyx of the persimmon), and take it out when you are done peeling it." Go out and bask..."

Speaking of sun drying, Bai Caohe suddenly remembered that she didn't even have a place to sun dry!

She wants money like crazy!You will forget the most important thing!
"Hua'er, do you know where there is a spacious place where you can dry things?"

Huihua shook her head. It would take a lot of sieves to dry this thing, otherwise it would not be possible to dry it.

"Why don't you take it to Sun Valley Ping to dry it." Bai Liang suggested.

Sun Valley Ping, as the name implies, is a flat for drying rice. It is paved by farmers mixing lime, rammed earth, and sand to make it easier to dry rice. It is a building material called Sanhe mud. In ancient times without cement, this The three-in-one mud is considered the most advanced technology.

Bai Cao closed his eyes and brightened, there is no more ideal way than this.

"It still doesn't work." Bai Liang denied his method again, "Right now the neighbors are drying the rice, and there is no extra flat for us to use, and your uncle has taken over the place in our house, so we can't use it. "

Bai Caohe turned his eyes to Bai Huihua.

"My family is also drying rice!" Bai Huihua said.

"Why don't we spread a layer of straw in the field and let it dry in the field!" After thinking for a while, Bai Caohe thought that the flat field was empty after harvesting the rice, and it happened to be a natural drying ground.

Now that there is a drying yard, two people have to be asked to help peel the skin, otherwise, the three of them will not be able to peel it all in one day.

Bai Huihua suggested that her mother, Bai Liushi, come to have one. Xiaocao'er paid ten cents a day, and it was an easy job. Let her old mother know that she didn't call her, and Bai Huihua's ears would be bombarded for another day.

Baicao agrees, anyway, everyone is asking for money, and it is better to help others than to help others.

After agreeing, Huihua went home.

Before he got home, he heard her mother Bai Liu yelling at someone from a distance.

Sigh, hide for a while, and go home after her fire subsides, Bai Huihua shrinks her neck, trying to escape.

"Bai Huihua! Stop, old lady!" Bai Liu's eyes were sharp, seeing Bai Huihua's thin back from afar, he yelled loudly.

"Mother." Bai Huihua was sweating coldly, and was mentally prepared to be scolded.

"You said you hang out with weeds all day, and you got to hang out with the sixth concubine of Feng's family, why can't you hang out! Get me to be Wang Erleng from Wang's Village!"

Isn't it up to you!Bai Huihua thought aggrievedly, her mouth opened, but in the end she didn't say it. Her deepest pain was this marriage. She had seen Wang Erleng before. He was dumbfounded and stupid. She didn't like him at all. She wanted to escape but didn't have the courage. !

"You said that you are not at home these two days to be a female celebrity, and you are running around with her!"

As soon as Bai Liu's anger got angry, the words she cursed began to be neither serious nor serious, extremely unpleasant.

In the feudal society, the word running coquettish was used very seriously, but the one who cursed was her own mother, she didn't dare to talk back, Bai Huihua lowered her head, feeling uncomfortable, and walked home silently.

"Damn girl, I'm still angry with my mother when you say a few words about you, the wings are too hard..."

"Mother, Xiaocao'er wants to hire someone to peel the persimmons for ten cents a day, do you want to go?" For the first time, Bai Huihua mustered up the courage to interrupt Bai Liushi's chatter, hoping that Bai Liushi would not beat her.

"What?" Bai Liu wanted to scold the girl to death for eating leopard guts today, but she dared to talk back. When Huihua said that Bai Caohe wanted someone to peel the persimmon skin and pay ten cents a day, her eyes widened, "Really?" of?"

Helping the third aunt to cut the rice is only ten cents a day, and peeling persimmon skins is only ten cents a day. She can't believe it.

"It's true, mother, do you want to go?"

"Go, go, of course, ten cents, why don't you go!" When Bai Liu thought of money, it was as if he had been beaten with chicken blood, and his eyes glared.

Bai Huihua walked into the room speechlessly, her mother would forget everything when she heard that she was making money, even if she forgot to scold her, she could have a peaceful night.

An elegant little courtyard two kilometers northwest of Chongwen Town.

Feng Qianxun held a small porcelain bottle, raised her delicate chin, and proudly showed off to the man who was lazily leaning on the imperial concubine's couch: "I'm not bragging, I'm the only one who can afford so much in the entire Yunkong Kingdom." soothing oil!"

Her nose was straight and her eyebrows were as thick as ink, and the black pupils in her long and narrow Danfeng eyes flashed a flash of light, but soon, the triumphant Chihiro Feng returned to normal before she even caught it. A sentence floated out of his lips without warmth, "Oh? Do you dare to be more than the royal family?"

(End of this chapter)