Chapter 242: Harvest (2nd Update)

After breakfast and sending the children to school, Qiu Chen took Qingxing Yufeng to visit Mrs. Lin in the West Courtyard, and then went to Lan Ying's house, the third grandmother's house, and the village Zheng Liu Yugui's house to sit down and say hello. After that, he sent Daxing's family to Liu Zhanxiang's house to visit Liu Zhanxiang's daughter-in-law.

There are three or four families in total, and it only takes half an hour to walk down, looking at the sun that has just risen in the sky, the sun is shining, and the sky is blue, Qiu Chen asked Yufeng Qingxing to carry the basket and go straight to the chili field in the east of the village.

At the end of September, many of the leaves are yellow and peeling, and the red, red, green and green peppers are hanging all over the branches.

The pepper plant Qiu Chen found was not high, and the pepper was not big, similar to her little thumb, slightly larger than the modern Chaotian pepper, but it was not born in the sky, a bit of a small Hangzhou pepper.

As soon as he saw the red, green and green peppers in the field, Qiu Chen became happy, even happier than when he saw the tomatoes in the morning. With these chili peppers, it means that she will have chili peppers to eat all year next year, and she can also make chopped peppers, chili sauce, pickled chili peppers, and oil and spicy peppers...... By extension, you can make chopped pepper fish head, spicy fried chicken, spicy rabbit meat, boiled fish, beef hot sauce, spicy kimchi...... The oil and spicy seeds are even more useful, and the noodles are used as toppings, cold noodles, rice noodles, and mixed with various cold dishes...... Just thinking about it, Qiu Chen was already full of saliva.

"Go, go, pick the red one!"

And he said, "Separate the shriveled from the fresh......

Qiu Chen greeted the two girls with a happy face, and he couldn't help but bend down and start picking.

So the three of them brought two blues, and before they reached the end, they were full. Qiu Chen smiled and waved his hand: "Let's go, let's go back first, and bring more people to pick it up in the afternoon!" ”

When I got home, it was not yet noon, and the big kitchen had just started to prepare lunch, Qiu Chen took a handful of fresh chili peppers into it without hesitation, but in two quarters of an hour, he made a sharp pepper beef tenderloin and a spicy chicken nugget out, and the chopped pepper fish head was also steamed in the cage drawer.

Let Yufeng and Qingxing serve two plates of vegetables and carry two baskets of chili peppers back to the backyard. Qiu Chen deliberately scalded a pot of old wine, beckoned Yang Shumeng and Old Man Yang, and drank a pot together.

Afraid that the family would not be used to eating chili peppers at the beginning, Qiu Chen reduced the amount of chili peppers very little, and there were only one or two chili peppers in a dish to taste. In order to neutralize the spicyness, she also mixed a plate of white sugar tomatoes and served it on the table, and then took chopsticks for Liu and herself to taste the new dishes together.

Yang Liancheng tried to clip a piece of beef tenderloin, before the beef tenderloin was put into the pot, Qiu Chen used egg white and water starch, tender and not woody, with a slight spicy taste, after the old man tasted it, he frowned slightly, and then he liked it all of a sudden, pointed to the dishes on the plate and asked, "What kind of seasoning is this begonia?" This smell is spicy and spicy, a bit like dogwood from the south, but it is more flavorful than dogwood...... It's spicy enough. If you go out early in the morning in winter to eat such a meal, your stomach is hot, and you won't feel cold! ”

Somehow, as soon as Old Man Yang Liancheng's words came out, Qiu Chen couldn't help but feel sad. The old man has been driving a big car for decades, and Zuihou has also hitched a ride...... I am afraid that there are many more hardships and hardships in this than others imagine!

Looking at Yang Shumeng in a blink of an eye, while eating chili vegetables, he nodded approvingly: "Well, if you eat a few bites outside overnight, it's also very good!" ”

Yang Shumeng has also driven the car for more than ten years, and sure enough, both of them know the hardships and difficulties in it!

Blinking, suppressing the sourness in his heart, Qiu Chen smiled: "This thing is good for keeping out the cold, and it also treats old cold legs and rheumatism, my father and my two brothers can eat some, but they have to eat less, this thing is too dry, and if you eat too much, you will get angry!" ”

Yang Shu squeaked the wine, looked at Qiu Chen with a smile, and said disapprerovitically: "I know, I know, I know that you are small, and you love to nag!" ”

Qiu Chen was blocked and fell on his back, pulling Liu's arm for help: "Mother, if you look at the second brother or the elder brother, you will know that you are bullying me!" ”

Without waiting for Liu to speak, Yang Liancheng knocked on the top of Yang Shumeng's head with a chopstick, and scolded: "Your sister said that you are also for your good, and you don't know what to do!" Yang Shu glared at Qiu Chen with a bitter face, but Qiu Chen laughed unceremoniously with Liu.

At noon, the children came back, a chopped pepper fish head spicy little mouth red and red, a table of hissing inhalation, but no one refused to stop chopsticks, even the youngest Aman and Junli, also held their own plates, a little bit of Qiu Chen to give them fish lips and gills to eat, but to eat a bite of fish meat to eat a few mouthfuls of steamed buns, and then drink a large mouthful of warm rice soup......

Without waiting for the dishes to be cleaned up, Junyan asked Qiu Chen for advice: "Auntie, today's fish head is really delicious, can we do it well at night?" ”

Liu smiled and patted the back of the boy's head, and said with a smile: "I haven't swallowed my throat and eyes for lunch, so I'm thinking about dinner!" ”

Junyan rubbed his head, flattened his mouth to dodge, and muttered, "I just want to say that the fish made by my aunt is delicious...... Hit me again, you're stupid! ”

Junshu slapped him again next to him, and scolded with a smile: "It's stupid, but you're afraid of fighting?" Okay, let's go wash up, and I'm going to class in a while! ”

Looking at Junyan's grievances of being 'bullied', Qiu Chen couldn't help laughing, raised his hand and touched Junyan's head and said, "Okay, okay, we have a lot of chili peppers this year, and you can eat them whenever you want." Listen to your second brother at this time, hurry up and wash up, come back and drink two bowls of water, and then go to the school! ”

As soon as he heard that he could eat as he wanted, Junyan's grievances disappeared in the blink of an eye, and he grinned happily and rushed into the ear room to wash.

After lunch, he sent the children to the school, let Yang Liancheng and the old Liu family take a lunch break, and Qiu Chen beckoned the girls and servants of the family to go down to the field to pick peppers together.

In the blink of an eye, Zhao also grabbed a basket and followed, Qiu Chen was startled, and hurriedly stepped forward to stop: "Second sister-in-law, you can't go to this job......"

Zhao smiled honestly, waved his hand and said, "Don't be afraid, now ...... Sit tight, it's okay to do such a light job...... When I was eight months pregnant with Junzhang, it was the autumn harvest, and I went to the field with your second brother to cut grain. The daughter-in-law in our village is down-to-earth, not so delicate, don't worry, what's wrong, I'm the first to know! ”

Don't look at the mother of a pair of children now, but Qiu Chen himself does not have experience in pregnancy and childbirth, and he does not know much about this aspect and knowledge, but what Zhao said also has some truth, as long as the woman is pregnant, she should move more appropriately, so as to enhance the physique and health of the pregnant woman, which is beneficial to the development of the fetus, it seems, and it is also beneficial to childbirth......

What Zhao said is also true, women in the countryside are not so haode conditions, many women have to work in the field when they give birth, and therefore, many children in the village are named 'Lusheng', 'Ditou', 'Bazi', 'Tianlai'......

After thinking about it, Qiu Chen sent Qingxing to the workshop to find Yang Shumeng and say, originally thinking that Yang Shumeng would follow, who knows, after a while, Qingxing turned back, and whispered to Qiu Chen with an embarrassed face, saying that Yang Shuyong was busy watching the finished soap loading car, and he didn't even raise his head, and sent her back with a wave of his hand!

blinked, hiding the surprise and dissatisfaction in his heart, and had to deal with it himself.

Originally, people were set up in the car, but the road was rugged and bumpy, Qiu Chen didn't dare to let Zhao sit, so he simply put Yufeng Qingxing and other girls into the car, took Zhao's hand, and walked to the ground slowly.

The pepper trees are relatively short, and it is inconvenient for the Zhao family to bend over to pick, but fortunately, there is no shortage of Zhao's manpower, and when they arrive in the field, the girl and several family members have already begun to pick, and a man saw Qiu Chen coming over, walked out of the field, and greeted him with a smile: "The lady of the East Family, you are here!" ”

"It's Brother Sanhe," Qiu Chen looked at Liu Sanhe, who was much cleaner and tidy, and his face was much better, and responded with a smile, "I came to see the peppers picked up in the morning, and I forgot to say hello to you......"

"Look at what the lady of the owner said, the peppers in this field belong to the owner, when will the owner pick them......" Liu Sanhe still looked a little slippery, but in the past two years, he has taken care of the work in the field very well, whether it is last year's sesame seeds or this year's peppers, they have taken care of it very dedicatedly.

Qiu Chen smiled: "You planted peppers well this year, and you can grow them like this in the first year, you can see that you have put your heart into it!" ”

After listening to too much sarcasm and even scolding, and unexpectedly being praised, Liu Sanhe was shy with a hob meat, rubbing his hands and laughing: "The owner's words are lifted...... Hehe, if it hadn't been flooded by heavy rain this year, this pepper would have been even better! ”

Qiu Chen agreed: "Well, this year you can be regarded as groping for cultivation and management, next year I will buy a few acres of land, allocate two people, and hand them over to you...... You can't let me down! ”

"Oh, you're fine, I'll keep it and fiddle with it!" Liu Sanhe's face was full of red light excitedly, and he agreed repeatedly.

Buy land, and then assign someone to him, then won't he become a manager? The steward of the Lin family will have to pay two and a half taels of silver at least a month! Thirty taels of silver a year...... It's enough to start a house and marry a daughter-in-law for a year! When he also marries his daughter-in-law, he will have a big fat son...... Thinking about that kind of hot day, he was a little excited and couldn't find the north!

"You don't have to accompany us, go pick peppers with those people, talk to them, and separate the dry and fresh! Don't break the branches......" Qiu Chen sent Liu Sanhe away.

Liu Sanhe immediately agreed and went back to the field, inspected the peppers picked by everyone very imposingly, and told everyone to be careful, don't break the branches, there are still many tender peppers on the pepper tree!

More than three acres, nearly four acres of chili peppers, quickly picked five or six baskets, Qiu Chen greeted the cart, and did not stay in the field, holding Zhao and slowly turning back with the carriage. Then let the peppers be unloaded in the courtyard, she and Zhao moved two small benches, brought needles and threads, skewered the peppers into strings, and then hung them in the verandah and under the eaves, so that they could be dried into dried peppers, and they didn't care about it.

Fresh chili pepper Qiu Chen was ready to make chopped pepper and chili sauce, but these two kinds of work were heavier and more tiring, so Qiu Chen didn't dare to let Zhao do it.

Not long after, Liu also woke up from his lunch break, and also moved the bench to come over.

Before Shen Shizhong, the man who had gone to the field to pick chili peppers returned, and brought back a cart full of chili peppers.

This time, Qiu Chen had the manpower to chop chili peppers, so he threw the work of stringing chili peppers to the Liu family and the Zhao family, and took two large wooden basins with the Daxing family and a few women, and put a small willow board in each wooden basin, washed and dried the chili peppers, picked the stems and put them in the wooden basins to chop. At the same time, Qiu Chen took a few girls to wash the jar, washed it with boiling water and dried it, and chopped a small half pot of ginger, a large bowl of minced garlic, and the pears she brought back this time.

When they prepared these auxiliary materials, the other side of the Daxing family with a few daughters-in-law also chopped the chili pepper, put several materials together, add salt and sugar, stir evenly, put it into the scalding and drying jar, zuihou poured a cup of highly steamed wine on the top layer, sealed the jar and put it in the shade behind the house, chopped pepper is done, just wait for ten days, and wait for it to ferment naturally before eating.

Because there are no protective gloves, people who chop chili peppers will be spicy to their hands, Qiu Chen has already prepared the scalding medicine, and after the Daxing family finished chopping the chili peppers, let them soak their right hands in it, soak for two quarters of an hour, and the feeling of burning fire will basically disappear.

Peppers and tomatoes were successfully planted, and there was a harvest, Qiu Chen was naturally very happy, and he specially cooked a boiled fish in the evening, and steamed a salted fish with peppers, one was fresh and smooth, and the other was salty and appetizing, and it was well received by the family.

After dinner, Qiu Chen instructed Yufeng: "In the future, when you stew supplements for the elderly and children in the morning and evening, remember to add one to the second sister-in-law." She's pregnant, so pay attention to some cold things! ”

After eating, when they gathered in the West House to talk, Qiu Chen mentioned the Double Ninth Festival again, but Old Man Yang still didn't pay much attention, so Qiu Chen changed the topic and talked about fishing and digging lotus roots in the pond. The embankment of the pond here is neat, there is no beach, and there are no water chestnuts, only a small amount of water chestnuts and water chestnuts are planted, when Qiu Chen is not at home, Yang Shumeng led people to pick lotus seeds, seeds, and water chestnuts, and now there are only some lotus roots and fish in the pond.

When it came to fishing, Yang Shumeng was also very excited, and the children didn't even want to do their homework, so they were slapped a few times by Yang Shumeng.

Mr. Yang was also very interested, and the family discussed, seeing that the weather was getting colder day by day, and the fishing was fine, the work of digging lotus root should be done as soon as possible.

Manchu and Qingshan, Lin Zi is a few skilled fishers, the Yang family a few people discussed, the next morning, and the Manchu Qingshan found, even Linzi, Qin Li Qin Yong and others called together to discuss, soon lay down, Manho and Lin Zi have fishing nets, Qin Li Qin Yong went to the workshop to pick a dozen strong young people, to block the pond inlet, put the drain to the maximum, and plug the fishing net on the outlet to prevent the fish from escaping with the water. Qiu Chen arranged for the Daxing family to cook ginger soup and hot and sour soup in a big pot, and moved several large jars of highly distilled liquor from the warehouse to ward off the cold for the young people who went into the water.

Everything was laid out, and the sun was rising in the air.

At the beginning of the year, the temperature rose a lot, and the water level in the pond dropped by half a meter. The young people who chose haode drank a bowl of white wine, pulled up their trouser legs with red faces, took off their shoes, and went into the water barefoot.

After the initial discomfort, I gradually got used to it, and two or three people worked in a group to push a large wooden basin and walk towards the lotus root bush in the water.

These people are digging lotus root for the first time, and they are a little rusty at first, and they will break the lotus root. If the lotus root is broken, it is easy to pour mud, and the quality of the lotus root will be greatly affected. Fortunately, the Lin family's lotus root is not going to be sold, just eat more and wash it yourself, and it is not much of an obstacle. Gradually, the people who dig the lotus root will touch some rules, a whole fat lotus root dug out of the mud, washed a few times with the pool water, and the white round lotus root is revealed, shining with a faint white rhyme in the sun, which is very gratifying!

There is not much farm work in the fields at this time, and the younger people in the village either work in the Lin family, or go to the town to do odd jobs, and some go into the mountains to pick schisandra and other medicinal materials, but few people are idle at home, but the old people and children are moved by the sound and come to the Lin family's pond to watch the excitement. Seeing the lotus roots dug up one by one, these old people and children were even happier than they had it, and they all cheered. Qiu Chen looked at the old people and children standing on the edge of the pond, and couldn't help but sweat a little. If you don't pay attention to it, you won't be shocked if you don't drown!

So, she quietly found two old men, Liu Dachuan and Yang Liancheng, who were full of hoards, and asked them to go to the pond to maintain order.

The two old men really lived up to the trust, Shi Shiran walked to the shore, and as he spoke, he led the old people back a little, and the old people restrained their children and stepped back a little. Qiu Chen looked at it and secretly breathed a sigh of relief, and secretly admired that the old men still had a lot of energy, turned around and went back to the yard, washed and cleaned the broken lotus root that had just been dug up, took the big bone and meat pieces together, put them in a big pot and stewed them, and instructed the Daxing family to chop up two pots of meat filling, fry a few pots of lotus root boxes, and when the lotus root was dug and fished, let the people in the village taste it.

There were not too many lotus roots in the pond, and they had been digging for a whole day, and Qin Li and Qin Yi picked another group of people in the middle and replaced the people in the water.

The young and strong people are strong, shivering in the water, their lips are purple, they come up and rinse them with hot water, and then one person drinks a bowl of hot and sour soup, sweating out, and the whole person is alive again. In the afternoon, they didn't need to continue to work, one person gave 200 yuan, two lotus roots dug by themselves, and went home to rest.

Near the middle of the unitary hour, the lotus root is basically dug up, the water in the pond has been left for a day, the water level has dropped a lot, and in the shallow place, you can even see the black backbone of the big fish. provoked the big children and the little children to exclaim one after another.

Qin Yong and Qin Yi led people to block half of the water outlet of the pond, leaving only a relatively small water outlet to slowly discharge water outside.

Those old people and children who watched the excitement got two lotus root boxes before leaving, and the family got a bowl of lotus root stewed with big bones and meat pieces, and they were all happy and happy to go home.

On the second day, the water in the pond was basically drained, and many fish struggled in the shallow muddy water.

Qiu Chen sent Chengzi and Junwen to bring the children, and let Lan Ying and the Qingshan family lead them to send a big fish and two lotus roots to the elderly people over sixty years old in the village.

In the second half of the morning, Qin Li and Qin Yong caught forty or fifty big fish, and Qiu Chen asked them to wash and peel them and chop them into pieces and marinate them. At this time, there were no quick-freezing conditions, and pickling became an indispensable way to preserve food.

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