"Grandma Lian, is this with milk?" Qiao Jiayue said in surprise.

"Yes, you try. Gao Yulian nodded.

Dried sweet potatoes are different from natural drying, the color will not be dark and black, and it will not attract flies or anything, which is healthy and hygienic.

She pinched it with her fingers, it was a little elastic and not much moisture. When you bite into it, the dried sweet potato is very elastic, not hard, and it is full of aroma when chewed, and it will not be all sweet potato dregs.

Qiao Jiayue gave Gao Yulian a thumbs up, "It tastes good, but it's a little troublesome to preserve, if it's damp, it's going to be in vain." ”

Gao Yulian nodded, "There is still some plastic film left in the dried shiitake mushrooms, and when the heat dissipates, I will have people seal it with plastic film." ”

Gao Yulian looked at these dried sweet potatoes, and couldn't help but sigh in her heart, the taste is good, but it is too tossed, labor-intensive and firewood-intensive, after these two pots are done, they can't be made anymore, and the loss of sweet potatoes is too great.

Qiao Jiayue is a small person, I don't know how easy it is to eat in the canteen, if all the sweet potatoes are made into ripe dried sweet potatoes and sold to the supply and marketing cooperatives, what about the rations of the members?

Qiao Jiayue had never been in charge of the food of so many people, so she naturally didn't know that looking at the abundant food now, she would not be able to last next year's summer harvest at all.

"Yue'er, since you're in the cafeteria, let's get a job. Qiao's mother came out of the stove room with a pot of freshly fished out sweet potatoes in her hand.

Qiao Jiayue looked around and shook her head, she didn't want to do these jobs.

She doesn't like to dry the sweet potato skin in the cafeteria, because the juice oozing from the sweet potato skin is sticky, sticky to the skin and difficult to wash, gray and uncomfortable.

And cutting sweet potatoes with a thin line looks very interesting, people who operate well, you can cut a piece of sweet potato in a few seconds, the thickness of the sweet potato slices is uniform and will not be scattered, placed on the bamboo sieve, bright red and red, but beautiful.

But Qiao Jiayue knows her own level, so don't make a mess.

"Yue'er, big brother is looking for you. Qiao Hongliang stood outside the cafeteria and shouted.

Qiao's mother put down the sweet potato in her hand and waved her hand at Qiao Jiayue, "Go, don't run around." ”

"Third brother, where are you going?" Qiao Jiayue glanced at the cloud on Qiao Hongliang's head, well, the shape is a bit like a turtle.

She found that the current cloud spell, the clouds on everyone's head change every once in a while, and it is related to his recent state.

So what has the third brother been thinking lately?

"On the hill. Qiao Hongliang replied briefly.

Qiao Jiayue pondered in her heart for a moment and asked, "Third brother, what have you been thinking about lately?"

Their brother and sister almost went in and out together, and she didn't see him do anything.

"Oh, it's getting cold, I think it's time for me to hibernate. ”

"......" Listening to Qiao Hongliang's serious words, Qiao Jiayue was stunned, why did the third brother think so?

She wondered in her heart, and asked the question.

"My eldest brother took me to the temple to see the turtles, but they didn't move. The eldest brother said that they are hibernating, which saves food. So as long as you hibernate, you don't need to eat. ”

Hearing Qiao Hongliang say about the temple, Qiao Jiayue remembered that in addition to the ancestral hall, there was a temple in their village, which was dedicated to the ancestors of their Qiao surname, which was on the edge of the team.

The age has passed for too long, she has forgotten, remembering that in the previous life, this temple was demolished, and it is said that the statue of the god was almost burned down, and the old people in the village desperately protected it, and there was a lot of trouble at that time.

Because of opposition to feudal superstition, the temple was closed, and the ancestral hall was not allowed to worship, and after Qiao Jiayue came back from rebirth, she didn't think about going to see it.

"Third brother, we can't hibernate. Qiao Jiayue was really afraid that Qiao Hongliang would go to hibernate and starve to death.

She was a little worried, the third brother's thoughts were always different from everyone's, maybe it was not an accident that he disappeared in his previous life.

"Oh!" Qiao Hongliang replied and walked forward.

When he arrived at a hill, Qiao Hongzhi was waiting with a few children, and when he saw that his younger brothers and sisters had arrived, he waved his big hand, "Follow me." ”

Qiao Jiayue thought that Qiao Hongzhi was going to do something big, so she went to take a look and found that it was actually picking fungus.

"Big brother, is this what you planted?" Qiao Jiayue said in surprise, of course she didn't ask again after giving Qiao Hongyuan the spores of the fungus.

She hadn't seen him plant, and she thought he wasn't interested.

"Yes, Yue'er, how about it, let's be amazing. Qiao Hongzhi laughed twice, "Naturally grown, the taste will be better." ”

A child grabbed a piece of fungus and was about to stuff it into his mouth, Qiao Hongzhi slapped it off, "What to eat, I haven't dealt with it yet, be careful of poisoning." ”

Qiao Jiayue followed Qiao Hongzhi to run all over the mountains of the fourth team, and only collected half a cloth bag of fungus, and the yield was too low.

"Big brother, the yield is too low to be cost-effective. Qiao Jiayue shook her head and said, "It has to be the same as growing shiitake mushrooms." ”

"Xiaoyuan doesn't have time to study, anyway, we play with it, it's a good thing to grow out, forget it if it doesn't grow, anyway, there's no loss. ”

Qiao Hongzhi said indifferently, and the second brother also said that scarcity is expensive.

Qiao Jiayue thought about it, it was better to be greedy and chew more, and it was better to concentrate.

When I was in the mountains during the day, I didn't feel it, but after returning home at night, Qiao Jiayue sneezed, her throat was a little sore, and it seemed that she had a cold.

"Why did you catch a cold?" Mother Qiao muttered, handing Qiao Jiayue a bowl of ginger soup.

"Abba, you're back. Qiao Jiayue drank half a bowl of ginger soup, and when she looked up and saw Qiao's father, she was so frightened that the bowl almost fell.

Father Qiao's head was covered with a dark cloud, not thick enough to be a black cloud, but it was foreseeable that he would be unlucky at some point in the future.

Qiao Jiayue saw the dark clouds on the heads of her family for the first time, and she was so frightened that she couldn't sit still.

"Abba, do you have any plans for tomorrow?" As long as Father Qiao doesn't go out, there is nothing to worry about in the team.

"Tomorrow I will go to the commune, and I have to return the grain I borrowed before. "Father Qiao still remembers these things.

He didn't dare to forget the kindness of the brigade that lent him grain, and now that the autumn harvest is over, it's time to pay it back.

Qiao Jiayue jumped off the stool, "I'll go with you." ”

Qiao's father was also drinking a bowl of ginger soup, and when he heard Qiao Jiayue's words, he couldn't help choking, "No, you're sick, stay at home." ”

"No, Abba, you won't go out this time, let me follow. Qiao Jiayue stared directly at the dark clouds above Qiao's father's head.

Father Qiao didn't do anything wrong, so this dark cloud was definitely not a punishment, there must be something else.

"Well, you're sick, stay home. Father Qiao still didn't let go.

Qiao Hongyuan suddenly said, "Abba, let Yue'er follow." ”

"Well, it's really up to you. Father Qiao drank the ginger soup in one gulp and agreed.

That night, Qiao Jiayue didn't dare to fall asleep, and when she woke up the next day, fortunately, she didn't have a fever, but her voice was still a little hoarse.

She looked at the clouds on Qiao's father's head, which obviously had a tendency to deepen, she panicked, grabbed Qiao's father's thigh, and wanted to follow anyway.

"Abba, if you take me, you will go to your relatives. "In short, she won't leave Father Qiao.

The three brothers watched their sister play helplessly, looked at Qiao's father together, and silently expressed that they also wanted to go.