Chapter 35 The squirrel helps pick lychees

"Wen Yazi, are you sure you're not joking?" Mr. Zhou didn't react for a while after hearing this, and was still in a daze, Yang Yong's father stared at Liu Wen and asked with a serious face.

"Uncle Yang! I'm sober, okay! I'm serious, and I'm not joking with everyone. Liu Wen stretched out his hands helplessly and explained.

Liu Wen then talked about his discovery, of course, he made up a white little lie, saying that he saw Xiangxiang's eyes were very beautiful, dark and full of agility, and it seemed to be bottomless. Once when I was bored, I tried to keep staring at Xiangxiang's eyes, and I fell asleep unconsciously when I looked at it.

"Since Mr. Zhou can't sleep because of insomnia, then it's okay to try!" Liu Wen suggested again after explaining.

"Wen Yazi, you ......" Yang Yong's father obviously didn't believe it, and was interrupted by Mr. Zhou when he wanted to say more. "The world is so big, there are always some things that science can't explain, just like this little brother said, it's okay to try!" Mr. Zhou promised to come down and try it.

When he came to Mr. Zhou's room, Liu Wen picked up Xiangxiang and put it on the table, and Mr. Zhou was lying on his side on the bed and kept staring at Xiangxiang's eyes. A minute passed, and nothing happened, and two minutes passed, and there was still nothing. Liu Wen looked at Xiangxiang and wondered if this hypnosis had failed, but when he turned around, he found that Mr. Zhou had closed his eyes and fell asleep quietly.

Liu Wen gently covered Mr. Zhou with a towel quilt, picked up Xiangxiang and Yang Yong's family and carefully exited the room.

Yang Yong didn't speak, just stretched out his thumbs with both hands to express his appreciation and admiration, Yang Yong's father stared at Xiangxiang in disbelief and muttered: "I didn't expect it, I didn't expect it, I didn't expect it at all, I really can, I really can!"

"Xiangxiang, is hypnosis effective for you to refine your skills just now?" asked Liu Wen when he went back.

"It worked! ”

"That's good. ”

In the early morning, Mr. Zhou was awakened by the crisp birdsong in the yard, and after getting up, he pushed open the window and took a deep breath of the air with the fragrance of nature.

"How long has it been since I've slept like this?" asked Mr. Zhou. After breakfast, Mr. Zhou couldn't wait to find Liu Wen and put forward his wish to buy Xiangxiang, but Liu Wen refused, and said that Xiangxiang, like his family, would never be able to sell.

Mr. Zhou's bid became higher and higher, and finally he offered one million, and he still showed no sign of changing his mind when he saw Liu Wen. Mr. Zhou had to regret the disappointment and prepare to return, and when he left, he heard Liu Wen say that Xiangxiang could not be sold, but Mr. Zhou could come to Xiangxiang for help at any time when he needed it, and Mr. Zhou knew that this was already the best result, so he thanked him and left. Since then, Mr. Zhou has always come to Liu Jiachong every weekend, just to have a comfortable sleep.

The lychees are ripe, and this year, the big lychee tree of Liu Wen's family has produced a lot of lychees, and the fruits are abundant, and many branches have been bent down, and the fruits of the tree are full of fruits, and the whole lychee tree has been dyed with a shallow layer of red glow.

Liu Wen occasionally secretly poured some space spiritual water, which made this year's lychee fruit taste extremely delicious, and when the fruit was still green, Yaya always asked the little squirrel to help pick some fruit and eat it secretly. Xiao Haohao also loves to eat after tasting it, and he can't pick it himself, so he uses other snacks to exchange it from Yaya, and Yaya is also happy to trade.

This year is different from previous years, in the past to pick lychees, Liu Wen's father carried a long ladder, carefully climbed up, and slowly picked lychees, after picking there are always some lychee fruits left.

This morning, when Liu Wen's family was picking lychees, they picked up two heavy rain cloths and built a sloping shed around the big lychee tree, which was high inside and low outside, and the edge of the shed was rolled higher in reverse.

Liu Wen greeted, and the red fire quickly rushed down from the big dragon farmer's eye tree, quickly climbed up the lychee tree, and came to the small branch bearing fruit. The two little squirrels snapped off a twig with fruit hanging from it, and the branch fell with the fruit onto the tarpaulin, and then slid to the edge and stopped.

Liu Wen's family only needs to easily pick up the branches with fruits and put them in the bamboo frame on the side, which is many times easier than in previous years.

Liu Wen picked up the fruity branch and threw it into the bamboo basket, picked a lychee and peeled off the husk, the flesh was crystal like ice and snow, put it in his mouth and tasted it, the flesh was crisp and tender and extremely sweet, and there was no dregs at all.

"Not bad, delicious!" Liu Wen nodded, not in vain for the hard work of secretly pouring the space spiritual liquid several times. After Liu Wen's parents tried it, they said that this year's lychees were more delicious than ever, and the old man and Qing'er also said that they were very delicious after tasting them. Yaya and Xiao Haohao kept stuffing their mouths, and when Liu Wen's mother saw it, she quickly stopped the two little guys. Lychees are easy to catch fire, but they can't eat more, which makes Yaya and Xiao Haohao raise their mouths, and they look very unhappy.

Seeing this, Liu Wen said that if he ate too much lychee, his teeth would be very painful at that time, and he had to let the two little guys understand that it was for their good that adults didn't let them eat more. He also said that he would dry more dried lychees this year, and the dried lychees would not catch fire, so they could eat more, which made the mood of the two little ones clear after the rain.

Vigorously gnawing on the branches, the branches with fruits fell one after another, and at this time, there happened to be six tourists who came to Liu Wen's house to ask for Taiqing liquid. Seeing this very strange scene in front of them, they picked up their mobile phones one after another to take pictures, and they forgot the main purpose of coming to Liu Wen's house for a while.

It didn't take long for all the lychees to be picked, and the fruits with the branches were full of five baskets, and Liu Wen estimated that the lychees could have 300 catties. When the tourists packed the liquid and left, Liu Wen gave each of them a ten pound and eight pounds of lychee for them to taste, and several tourists hurriedly said that they were very embarrassed to take the liquid for nothing, this lychee can't be free, and you must charge money.

Liu Wen waved his hand and said that the lychees in his yard are not used to sell, according to Liu Jiachong's customs, whoever touches the fruit when picking it is a blessing. It doesn't matter at all, and there is no need to be embarrassed! A few tourists happily took the lychee and left Liu Wen's yard happily.

Liu Wen moved a ladder to climb the big longan tree, adding enough space to the red bowl of spiritual water, and drank it happily. Today's two little squirrels are great contributors, and of course they deserve a good reward.

After picking the lychees, Liu Wen planned to give Professor Lin and Yang Yong's family dozens of catties each and invite them to taste them. His family also has to leave dozens of catties to try it, and the remaining 100 catties, Liu Wen plans to dry all of them into dried lychees.

Making dried lychees, in fact, is also very simple, first boil a large pot of water, sprinkle a little salt, after the water boils, put the lychees in and blanch them, the time can not be too long, and after seeing the lychee shell change color, quickly take it out.

The purpose of sprinkling salt is twofold, one is to make lychees easier to dehydrate and dry, and the other is to make dried lychees last longer.

Next, the lychee blanched with boiling water is placed in the bamboo plaque, exposed to the sun, only need to turn the lychee from time to time to make it evenly roasted on both sides, as short as ten days, the elder half a month of the dried lychee will be dry.

Dried lychees are sweet and sour, and they have a unique flavor to eat, which is quite different from the taste of fresh lychees.

At noon, Liu Wen's mother used fresh lychee to cook vegetables, a lychee fried grass shrimp, and the shrimp was fished by Liu Wen from the ditch in the courtyard (actually the space). Grass shrimp is a common kind of shrimp in Liu Jiachong, the adult shrimp is about ten centimeters long, the head is thick, a pair of pincers in front of the body is long, and the tail is thin and short, because the meat is not much to eat, it is generally cooked and peeled before frying.

A braised pork with lychee is fresh pork belly instead of bacon, and the method is similar to that of braised pork, just add lychees and stir-fry a few times when it is almost out of the pot. A stir-fried bok choy and a lychee white fungus soup.

Although most of these dishes are sweet and sour, they have the unique taste of lychee, and it feels really good to eat it once in a while. Especially Yaya, who eats with a bulging belly, and shouts to drink lychee white fungus soup, the old man feels sorry for his baby granddaughter, and is afraid that Yaya will eat to hold on, so he finally poured a small bowl of pure soup in a tangled way, and personally fed Yaya a small sip and drank it slowly.

Deng Hongxia also has two big lychee trees at home, and Deng Hongxia's family and her own tourists also picked lychees on the trees in the morning. Zhang Chi Chengyang, who came to pick lychees, and several tourists were happily eating lychees while excitedly picking them on the tree.

Cheng Yang still thought that the lychees hanging on the branches at the bottom were not red enough, and wanted to climb to the top of the tree to pick the lychees on the top that were red by the sun to eat.

Panicked, Deng Hongxia hurriedly stopped Cheng Yang's reckless behavior, and hurriedly asked her dog to climb up, holding a hook, hooking down all the lychees in the high place to satisfy Cheng Yang's wish.

Deng Hongxia will not sell any of this year's lychees, leaving some fresh and fresh lychees for her own tourists to try. The rest are all made into dried lychees, and before the overnight tourists leave, Deng Wenxia plans to give each person some dried lychees as gifts, on a first-come, first-served basis.

The changes in her own house are all brought by tourists, and Deng Hongxia feels that it is too appropriate to give back a little dried lychee to tourists.

Most of Liu Jiachong's lychee trees are of the same species, and many villagers in the village are also picking lychees today, but they are not used to dry dried lychees, but are sent to the village chief's house to sell to Boss Luo. Three yuan a catty, this is the purchase price given by Boss Luo, two days ago Boss Luo came to Liujiachong, and occasionally tasted the village chief's house not fully ripe lychee when fishing, and gave the purchase price of three yuan on the spot.

After the village chief announced the whole village on the radio, some villagers picked lychees today and sent them to the village chief's yard, where a pickup truck had been parked and could leave just after it was full of lychees.

Most of the lychee trees in Liujia Village are planted by the villagers inside and outside their yards, and most of them are old trees, which used to be used to satisfy their children's cravings, and they never thought that one day they would be able to sell them for money.

Liu Quanwang has two old lychee trees at home, and Liu Quanwang, who came out of the purchase point, touched the more than 500 yuan in his pocket, thinking about planting another ten or eight lychee trees outside the yard this year. In a few years, a tree can sell for two or three hundred, and ten trees will be thousands.