Chapter 30: Picking Wild Fruits
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The three brothers and sisters of the Yang family carried a wooden bucket and walked towards the river violently, in fact, Yang Yun walked in front alone, and the brothers who followed her were at a loss, especially Yang Xuan ate steamed buns with scum on his face, the expressions of the three brothers and sisters were too stark contrast, as long as they saw them, they all felt very funny.
After the three of them arrived at the river, Yang Yun commanded the two brothers to pick up the snails and sand mussels. Halfway through the pickup, Yang Yun ran home to find an extra pot to hold the sand mussels, the sand mussels are not easy to pick up, and they have to open the sand layer to find them, while the snails are directly rummaging under the stones. Because no one knew that they could eat these things for the time being, the three siblings quickly picked up a large bucket of snails and half a pot of sand mussels.
Halfway Yang Yun went home to get the pot when she told her grandmother, and when her grandfather finished watering the vegetable field, she came to the river to help them carry a few snails back, a bucket of snails was too heavy, Yang Yun and they couldn't lift it at all, and Yang Yong's other hand was injured and he didn't dare to let him lift it. After the three of them picked it up, they waited for their grandfather to come and pick up the snails by the river. Yang Yun and the villagers also saw it when they were picking up snails, and some of them came over to persuade them not to pick up this thing, but most of the people still felt pity in their hearts that the Yang family had to eat such dirty snails in order to eat meat.
Yang Yun looked at the pitiful eyes of the villagers and only pretended not to see it, and thought silently in her heart, when the old lady made money selling fried snails, you will look at the old lady with envious eyes. After a while, grandpa came to the river to help Yang Yun and they carried the snails home, and the villagers saw that grandpa was self-righteous and persuaded him, and grandpa only nodded and thanked him after hearing it, but still couldn't stop grandpa from helping Yang Yun and them carry the snails back to Yang's house.
After grandpa helped Yang Yun and them carry the snails home, they went to do their own work, not caring about what Yang Yun and them did, Yang Yun felt that grandpa was like a free-range to her now, and she could do whatever she liked, Yang Yun also liked grandpa's attitude, and he didn't stop her by doing anything, and at the same time silently supported Yang Yun. Because judging from what Yang Yun did a few times before, he knew that everything Yang Yun did was for this family.
Yang Yun cleaned the snails and sand mussels a few times, and then raised them with clean water, so that they could spit out the sediment, and they could be fried and eaten at noon tomorrow. The two brothers dug up for Yang Yun early in the morning to work by the river, and finally went home after picking up the snails, but they told them that the snails could not be eaten now and would have to wait for tomorrow, and they were immediately disappointed.
There are a lot of wild fruits in autumn, especially Zhoujia Village is surrounded by mountains, there are many wild fruit trees on the mountain, but most of them are because the quality of the trees is not good, many fruits are sour and astringent, and the difference between them and the sweet and big fruits grafted in modern times is great. Therefore, even if the children in the village lack snacks, few people will pick and eat them, of course, such as those wild bananas and pears in the mountains.
Yang Yun took Yang Yong and Yang Xuan around the mountain for a while, and saw orange trees, persimmon trees and hawthorn trees, and found a soil longan tree after turning around, only sporadic fruits were very small on the tree, Yang Yun picked one and tried it, it was very sweet, although the variety was small, but the fruit was very sweet.
Yang Yun remembered that she also planted such a longan tree at the door of her grandmother in her previous life, and every autumn when the fruit was about to ripen, she was afraid that the children in the village would pick it secretly, so she surrounded a circle of thorn trees under the tree, but there were still many children who took bamboo poles to knock on the longan to eat. Yang Yun remembered that when she was a child, she chased these children who stole longan many times, and at that time it was more than nine years, and there was a shortage of materials in the countryside, so in her memory, the fruit of the earth longan tree was the best snack in autumn.
Yang Yun picked the last few fruits on the longan tree, some of which were too tall, so he found a stick and knocked them down. There are too few longans, there are only about twenty of them all down, a few are left for grandparents, and the others are all divided between the two brothers, Yang Yun found a wild banana tree again, and there are rows of bananas on the tree, all of which are relatively small, a few of them are a little yellow and ripe, and the others are still green, Yang Yun decided to cut them down and take them home to eat them in a few days. also picked more than a dozen oranges, Yang Yun opened one orange, broke one petal and put it in her mouth. Grit your teeth, phew! It was too sour, Yang Yun hurriedly spit out the oranges in her mouth, and her teeth were about to sour.
"Sister, that wild orange is too sour, why did you eat it, and you still picked so much." Yang Xuan was worried about her when she saw her sister eating the wild oranges.
"You little villain, you know that oranges are very sour, why didn't you just remind you that you can't eat them."
"Xiao Xuan thought that his sister loved to eat oranges, and Xiaofu in the village loved to eat this orange, and his father bought a lot of them in the town, and Xiaofu said it was delicious." Depend on! Can this be compared, the ones bought in the town are all artificially grown, of course, they are not as sour as these wild ones, Yang Xuan, this little fool, thinks that the oranges bought in the town are the same as this wild orange. Xiaofu is Uncle Wednesday's youngest son.
"If it's too sour, I won't eat it, pick some and go back and peel off the orange peel to dry it so that you can cook it and eat it."
"Sister, this can still be boiled and eaten, won't that be very sour?"
"The orange peel is not sour, and it can be soaked in water when it is dried." Tangerine peel, also known as tangerine peel, is one of the ingredients of thirteen spices. Yang Xuan believed his sister's promise that he could cook and eat it, and his sister always used strange things to cook delicious things. Yang Xuan was very convinced of this.
In addition to cutting a bunch of wild bananas, Yang Yun also picked some pears and hawthorns, and the hawthorns went back to boil some syrup and wrapped them outside, which is the famous sugar gourd. Yang Xuan and Yang Yong will definitely like to eat it very much, and now that the weather is dry in autumn, it is also good to boil some mountain pear water to moisten the lungs. As for how the persimmons are ripe, Yang Yun forgot, so he didn't dare to pick persimmons this time, and if he didn't get it right, he would spoil things, although there were many wild persimmons on the mountain, but in this era of material scarcity, any food should also be cherished. The three brothers and sisters returned to Yang's house with a good mood to return.
After the three of them went home, Yang Yun first went to change the water of the snails and sand mussels, and then found a jar in the house to cut the bananas into a small bunch, and then put them in the jar, a row of bananas just filled the jar, and then lit a stick of incense in the jar, and then sealed the mouth of the can, and the bananas would be suffocated in three or five days.
After the orange is taken home, the pulp and the skin are separated, the orange peel is washed and taken directly to the yard to dry, the pulp Yang Yun is reluctant to lose, directly put the pulp in a small pot and mash it and cook it, add a lot of salt, and then take a jar and seal it, so that it can be stored for a long time, although it is a little sour, but there are many benefits, if the appetite is not good, the scoop is pointed out and added some sugar, flushing and drinking is very appetizing, and cooking things can also put some into the seasoning, especially some fishy seafood, Yang Yun remembers that in her previous life, she liked to cook sea fish with pickled salted green bamboo and plums.
Hawthorn waited for the afternoon to be free to deal with it, and there was no sugar at home and I had to go to the grocery store to buy some back, grandma watched Yang Yun have been tossing these and that since she came back from the mountain, she didn't say anything about her when she saw that she was tossing and eating, and helped her wash the orange peel and take it to the yard to dry, Yang Yun felt that grandma was the person who loved her the most in this world.
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