Chapter 32: Autumn Pear Paste
Tiehua Tie Lock ran in and out of the fence yard to steal bird pears to eat, and found that the bird pears picked by Jinxiu were particularly delicious, so they publicized it, and Feng Liang took a basket to scoop half a basket.
Jinxiu was "writing a recipe" in the house, Tian helped peel the peel and remove the pear core, Jinyu was licking the pear flesh, Jinyun who was watching the fire couldn't stop Feng Liang, and watched her take the pear away, angry but helpless.
How can the bean pears grown in the cave not be delicious? The flesh is crisp and sweet, and the taste is many times better than that of serious pears, Feng Liang's mother and daughter eat very well, thinking that they can scoop more and stay at home to chew and satisfy their hunger from time to time, even if they can get the gift to relatives and friends, Feng Taohua wants to give some to her fiancΓ©'s family, and Liu Hua wants to take a few for her good sisters to taste.
So Feng Liang came again!
This time it won't work, there is no door in the fence yard, and you can't stop people with other things, Tian was in a hurry, and moved two bundles of firewood to the door to burn a fire, and didn't do anything, just burn those pear pits and peels, and the simmered protes and peels exuded a sweet fragrance, wafting all over the yard.
Feng Liang's couldn't get in, so he pointed at Tian and scolded her, scolding her for not even giving a bird pear to the old man, not filial piety and immorality, and scolding her for being ruthless and vicious, that drupe peel would rather be burned than given to two pigs!
Tian was accustomed to hearing these scoldings, so he didn't take it seriously, so he quietly added another bundle of firewood to the fire to make the fire more intense, and then walked away to continue working.
Firewood, her daughter chopped a lot of firewood, burned it casually, and when the firewood was gone, her body was strong enough to go up the mountain to pick up more firewood!
Sick like a mountain, sick like a thread, took a few medicines, ate four or five chickens, white noodles every day, and the wild game picked by his daughter, Tian now feels very good!
The daughters seem to have grown up suddenly overnight, and they are more courageous and stronger than being mothers, with such daughters, what is she afraid of? Now she can't wait to leave the Feng family quickly, take her daughter to live in her own house, live her own life, and never see these Feng family members again!
The firelight and Feng Liang's shouting and scolding led Old Man Feng out, walked to the edge of the fence courtyard and asked Jinyun what is this for?
Jinyun told him: "My sister wants to make pear paste, but milk and iron flowers always come to grab bird pears, and it will not be enough to make pear paste if you grab it again!" My mother couldn't stop it, so she burned a fire, and there was nowhere to throw the pits and peels on the left and right, so it was good to burn them to make fertilizer! β
When Old Man Feng heard this, he felt sorry for the firewood, but also felt sorry for the peel and the pitβthe two pigs in the pigsty were hungry, how good it was for the pigs to eat!
went to scold Feng Liang for not being a man, Feng Liang handed him a bird pear: "Look, they don't give us such delicious things, they take them and spoil them!" I'm her mother-in-law, shouldn't she honor me? Take a few more and set fire to me, and turn her back! β
Old Man Feng took a bite of the bird pear, his eyes suddenly widened, and he took the pear and looked left and right: Is this a bird pear? Why is it so delicious? Sweet and soft, a bite of sweet juice, serious June pears can't compare to it!
Old Man Feng's gaze at the fence yard was a little deeper.
All the processed pears are poured into the iron pot and boiled into a paste, and Jinxiu asked the mother and sisters to stop and go back to the house to make dinner.
At noon, he sent snacks to Mr. Feng, and Tian didn't let him deliver the two dishes in the evening, so his daughters had a good time.
Aunt Tian asked for plum cabbage button meat and scallion and ginger roasted beef tenderloin, and what was left for the splendid sisters was salted osmanthus chicken and sweet and sour fish.
Put the osmanthus chicken into the pot and steam it, and when it comes out, it only feels fragrant, Tian is afraid that Feng Liang's will come to make trouble again, and he is a little nervous to urge the children to eat quickly, Jinxiu said funny: "Don't worry, now the master doesn't want us to move away, so he won't let them make a lot of trouble again, if he really wants to come, then the master will come alone, just give him two pieces!" β
As a result, Old Man Feng did not come, and the mother and daughter ate happily.
After eating, brushing and washing the dishes and chopsticks, the mother made a few needlework, talked for a while, and then washed and slept.
In the middle of the night, Jinxiu had to go into the cave to practice the Heart Sutra for two hours as usual, and by the way, bring the pot of pear fruit paste into the cave, and then supplement the processing to complete the final process.
Then I made some shampoo and shower deterioration, and put it into the ordinary white porcelain bottle bought back in the town today, the bamboo tube is too primitive, and the blue and white porcelain bottle in the cave is too high-end and precious, so it is better, easy to use and easy to give away, of course, to send only to those close and worthy of sending.
After tidying up a little in the yard and outside the house, and sweeping the ground where there was no dust or fallen leaves at all, I went out of the yard to see the small walnut grove (only six trees in two rows), and the lemon trees were put into the miscellaneous woods, and they also grew very well.
I walked to the orchard and picked two bunches of lychees to eat, looked at the trees full of fruits, and thought that I had to take a time to pick all the fruits and let the orchard grow new fruits.
So many fruits, you can make preserves, fruit sherup, preserved fruits and everything is good, the stone kernels have to be squeezed for oil, grapes can also make wine, the handicraft workshop has an oil mill and a winemaking room, and there are detailed records in the notebook, in short, it is convenient to deal with it and put it into the storage room, and it is convenient to eat it when you want to.
Eating lychees all the way to the field, Jinxiu was surprised by the situation in front of her: the things she planted had grown so tall!
There is no experience, the seeds are in a mess, and the plants are all growing, but they are one in the east and one in the west, a handful here and there, and it feels like you can play with it - drag this and that similar piece together, and then classify the same dots as this one......
Rice, sorghum, wheat, beans (I don't know what beans are, there are pods anyway), peanuts, corn, potatoes, sweet potatoes, taro, and ...... Cotton!
It's cotton! Definitely cotton! She's seen it!
Jinxiu is excited - grow cotton by yourself, plant a few plots of land, and this winter you can have cotton clothes and quilts to cover!
Cotton cloth in the market town is more expensive, from the words of the proprietress of the cloth shop, cotton is still in the south in this era is still planted in the area of Hainan Island, cotton seeds and planting technology has not yet been introduced to the Central Plains and the north, but coarse weaving, fine weaving cotton cloth and even cotton quilts have been sold by merchants one after another, cotton cloth is breathable, warm and soft is known to people, relatively wealthy people can also afford cotton cloth to wear, but cotton clothes and quilts made of cotton, many people can not afford to use!
Rich people can cover silk quilts in winter and wear silk jackets or fur clothes, poor families and middle-aged families with better family backgrounds can only wear cotton clothes filled with kapok and wood wool to keep out the cold, and the same is true for quilts, and even the quilts used by people are made of straw processing, and the outer cover is covered with a linen sleeve, and the cover is made of a sound, according to Jinyu Jinyun, Tian's mother and daughter cover this kind of thing in winter!
With cotton, you can cover it with a warm and soft quilt this winter!
As for the cotton clothes, you still have to buy and wear them first, and wait until you have carefully studied the textile process in the cave notes, take your time!
The empty and fertile field was only planted with such a small corner, and Jinxiu felt that she was useless, so she ran back to the small courtyard, grabbed some more seeds, and carried the hoe to work!
Farm today, come in tomorrow, and concentrate on studying and studying, otherwise you will know everything half-understood, and you will not be able to do anything, which is too bad!
Jinxiu thought to herself.
Early the next morning, Jinxiu was still sleeping in the cage, Jinyu got up first, combed her hair and washed, ran to open the lid of the pot, and suddenly a warm aroma filled the entire thatched house, and gradually dispersed out of the house!
Looking at the moisturizing paste that had condensed into a translucent shape, Jinyu shouted in surprise: "Sister! Sister! Autumn pear paste is completed! β
Tian and Jinyun also got up, and Tian stopped: "Whisper, whisper!" It's not afraid of people coming to rob you, right? β
Jinyu hurriedly covered her mouth, but her eyes were crooked with a smile.
Tian and Jinyun were also busy looking at the pot of autumn pear paste, their faces full of surprise and joy.
Jinyu went to push Jinxiu up, Jinxiu squinted and said, "Didn't those white porcelain bottles be washed and dried yesterday?" Pour the autumn pear paste into it and stuff it with a cork, just like the one sold in the pharmacy! β
Jinyu went to pour autumn pear paste, and when he saw that Tian and Jinyun were happy to stand next to him, he smiled and asked them to take a bowl to eat while it was hot:
"The autumn pear paste sold by Shopkeeper Liu is very valuable, and a bottle costs 600 yuan! This autumn pear paste can cure cough, moisturize the lungs and nourish it! You see that my sister put sugar and honey, and added a few herbs that nourish blood and qi! Our home-made is definitely much better than the pharmacy, and it doesn't cost money, you can eat a bowl a day! β
Tian laughed protrusively, Jin Yu didn't feel that he was selling melons in Huang Po at all.
Jinyun brought the bowl early, and Jinyu scooped a spoonful for each of them, one big and one small, and nodded again and again:
"Delicious! I can eat it as a sugar cake! β
Jinyu smiled: "It's naturally delicious, nourishing and nourishing and preventing diseases!" Mother, you have to eat every day! β
"Good. Make it home, you eat it too! This autumn pear paste can't last long, right? β
Jinyu thought for a while and replied: "Only bird pears are easy to pick in autumn, and autumn pear paste is only done in autumn, the weather turns cold in autumn, and it snows and freezes in winter, so you can put it in February and March!" β
Tian said: "It's so delicious, wait for your aunt to come and send her some." β
Jinyun said: "Send two bottles to my grandfather too!" β
Tian and Jin Yu just wanted to agree, but the door of the house was slammed, and Feng Yuzhen shouted outside: "Uncle! Sister! My lord asked me to ask: Is the autumn pear paste boiled? Let me taste it! β
Jinyu and Jinyun pursed their lips and looked at Tian together, Tian sighed: "If we can't go out for a day, we have to be filial, after all, it is your lord!" Open the door and scoop a bowl! β
Jinyun opened the door and let Feng Yuzhen come in, Feng Yuzhen had a big bowl, and Jinyu had a headache!
In the end, it was given to her, Feng Yuzhen walked out carefully, and as soon as she arrived at the gate of the fence courtyard, she was taken away by Feng Taohua.
Feng Yuzhen cried: "Third aunt, do you want to be shameless?" What do you do to rob me? β
Feng Taohua kicked her and scolded: "Just want you to take the name of your master to cheat to eat and drink, don't you want me to rob it?" Dead girl! β
"This autumn pear paste is what my aunt and I want to eat for my mother! My mother's body is weak, eating this can make up for her body! β
"I want to make it up to your grandmother's house!"
"You give me back my autumn pear paste!"
"Get out of here!"
With a bang, Feng Yuzhen didn't know what she had smashed, and then she rolled to the ground and cried, and Feng Liang ran out and screamed and scolded...... The Feng family's courtyard is a mess again!
The mother and daughter in the thatched house were also silent: they were deceived by Feng Yuzhen and took a big bowl of autumn pear paste, but it turned out to be not for Old Man Feng, but ......
Jinyu was angry and helpless, Tian asked Jinyun to close the door: "No one will open it this time!" β
But she broke her promise, and half an hour later, Old Man Feng personally knocked on the door and saw twenty bottles of autumn pear paste lined up on the kang table, he took two bottles in one hand and four bottles!
When he walked to the door, he turned his face to look at the room, and said to Tian: "Tell the eldest sister to get up, don't be lazy, what should I do if I get used to sleeping and marry my in-law's family in the future?" β
A dignified father-in-law and grandfather, but Tian couldn't get used to this old man for the first time, and felt panicked in his heart.