The flowering period of mandarin duck grass is about 12 days, and it will slowly grow fruit when the flowers are gone. It is green at first, but after about two days it turns bright red, and when the fruit turns red, the skin is just a thin red film, and inside is a yellow seed the size of a millet grain. If you accidentally break the outer membrane when picking, then the seeds will be scattered, and the scattered seeds will not be used, and they must be dried with the membrane before they can be used or planted as seeds next year.

Everyone had picked the seeds behind the Zhuangzi before, so they all had some experience, and they saw that each of them hung a flat curtain with a brim around their waists, and carefully took off the fruit and put it on it. Ling'er was not idle, and she also started to move like them.

"Girl, don't do it, there are so many of us. If you really can't stay still, go and watch them plant. After Zhao Kang waited for Ling'er to work for a while, he stopped her, how could the girl let her work if she was different from them?

"It's okay, I'll take these with me when I'm done." Ling'er understood what Zhao Kang meant, anyway, she was just on a whim.

After harvesting the seeds, they began to plough the ground, pick up the roots and wash them, and mash them into a mud with a stone mortar, and then put them into small cakes in a cool place to dry naturally. After all this is done, it is October, and at this time, the seeds must be sown in the ground, and they will grow on their own when the spring thaws next year. At this time, Ling'er also left Zhuangzi and went home with the dried root cake and seeds.

When Min'er saw that truckload after cart of sacks filled the four warehouses at home, she was really shocked.

"Ling'er, why are there so many?"

"Sister, this is only half of it, in addition to the seeds left, I am afraid that there are more than these in Zhuangzi." Ling'er didn't expect that there were so many, but now I don't know what their dosage is, it shouldn't be too much, after all, it's just a wine lead, not the main ingredient.

"It's okay, more is better than less, if we succeed, then we will have to open a winery next year." Min'er was very excited at this time, completely forgetting that she and Ling'er were in a cold war period, and Ling'er would certainly not remind her.

"Sister, when are we going to start work?" Seeing Ling'er's eager appearance, he couldn't help but chuckle.

"Look at your anxious look, we have to wait for Xiaobao to sleep, or we can't stop doing anything." Min'er said helplessly and sweetly.

"Okay, let's start in the evening, I'll go get ready now." Ling'er was about to get up, but was stopped by Min'er.

"What are you going to prepare, I've already prepared, you go back to your room to rest, you probably have to stay up late today." Min'er wasn't sure she could succeed in one attempt.

"Sister, let's go rest for a while, by the way, where is Xiaobao?" Ling'er always felt that something was missing, so she remembered that she hadn't seen Xiaobao.

"He went to the Qi family next door, and his family has two children who are not more than a few months away from Xiaobao, so he came to invite him in the morning." Min'er explained that she didn't want Xiaobao to go, but it was hard to say anything when the neighbors came to invite her.

"That's good, making more children will save Xiaobao from being bored, do you want me to pick him up?" Ling'er didn't seem to like the way he went when she saw Min'er.

"No need, I should be back in a while, I told my mother-in-law to let her bring Xiaobao back for dinner." Min'er doesn't know why she doesn't like the Qi family's wife very much, and she always feels that she is different from the outside.

"Then I'll go back to my room and sleep for a while, and wait for Xiaobao to come back and call me." Ling'er barely slept last night because of excitement, and now she is really tired.

"Go ahead, your eyes are dark." Min'er sent Ling'er into the room, sat down on the swing in the courtyard, looked up at the sky and thought about all this, many things had been forgotten, and many things seemed to have happened yesterday.

"Madam, the little boy is back." As soon as the mother-in-law carried Xiaobao into the yard, she saw Min'er sitting on the swing.

"Why has it been so long? Come to the little treasure lady to hug. Min'er took Xiaobao and took her son to swing gently.

"The little boy and the two little sons of the Qi family had a good time, Mrs. Qi left the little son to eat at her house, and I pushed it." The mother-in-law's expression was a little unnatural, Min'er didn't say much, but just told Lan Xin and Chunyue to tell Ling'er to get up, and the other to inform the kitchen to prepare for dinner.

At night, Xiaobao finally fell asleep in Min'er's arms, and Min'er gently put her son on the kang and covered the quilt, and whispered to Lan Xindao:

"You sleep with him here, I might be back late tonight." Seeing Lan Xin nodding, Min'er went out, she didn't go directly to Ling'er but went to her mother-in-law's room.

"Madam, why are you here so late?" The mother-in-law didn't expect Min'er to come to her room at this time.

"What happened in Qi Mansion today?" Min'er gets straight to the point.

"Well, this ......" The mother-in-law was a little embarrassed.

"I only listen to the truth." Min'er's attitude was very tough, and it was the first time for her mother-in-law to see her like this, and she couldn't help but be a little scared.

"Madam, in fact, there is nothing, it's just that Mrs. Qi is asking about you in a different way. I said I didn't know if she didn't believe it, so I said a few words that didn't sound good, and nothing else. At this time, it was Lu who spoke, she was always by Xiaobao's side, and Wei's was by Min'er's side most of the time.

"You should know why I put it next to Xiaobao, from where the Wei family is more suitable than you, but it is because of the same I chose you, do you know which one?" Min'er didn't let up.

"Please make it clear, ma'am." Lu Shi fell to his knees all of a sudden.

"Faithful." Min'er whispered, and the Lu family on the ground was shocked when she heard it, and immediately told the whole story of the morning.

It's not a big deal, but it's like a fly, it doesn't bite but it's very responsive. Mrs. Naqi next door saw that there were only two sisters in their family and there were no men, so she wanted to inquire, and whoever wanted to be the subordinates of Min'er's family was strict-mouthed. It's that Wei likes to talk about it, but she knows too little, so Mrs. Qi thought of Lu, and she felt that the people Min'er valued must know more. I thought that if I gave her a little favor, I would be able to find out what I wanted to know, but it turned out that this Lu family was a stuffy gourd-type who didn't know anything. Mrs. Qi felt that the Lu family was embarrassed, it must be Min'er who was talking about herself behind her back, otherwise how could a subordinate dare to do this to her? So he said that Min'er gossiped a lot of nothing more than that there was no man, and he had a child or something, and Lu had stayed in a big family and knew that he couldn't argue with her, so he made an excuse to come back, but he didn't expect to see Min'er as soon as he entered the hospital and was startled, which made Min'er see the clue.

"In the future, if anyone asks me about it, you will say that my father-in-law went to the border gate to serve as a soldier soon after he got married, and we sold our family property and planned to go to the border gate to do some small business, and by the way, I would inquire about the news of my father-in-law. Unexpectedly, she was pregnant, so she had no choice but to settle down here, and when the child was older, she might still have to go. Min'er left after speaking, she didn't say whether Lu did right or wrong from beginning to end, Lu waited for Min'er to leave before standing up, only to find that her back was soaked in cold sweat. I didn't expect my wife, who is usually amiable, to be so strong in her self-esteem? It seems that she is betting on the right treasure, and that Mrs. Qi is also stupid, she will take the rest of her life for the sake of those three melons and two dates? As long as you treat the little boy sincerely, you can't be wrong.

"Sister, why are you going, I've been looking for you for a long time." Ling'er saw Min'er coming out of her mother-in-law's house, a little strange.

"It's nothing, just ask Xiaobao about the situation during the day, let's go." Min'er didn't say much, Ling'er had too many things to worry about, and she couldn't block her anymore.

The two of them came to the barn on the edge of the wing, and after letting Kageichi let the wind outside, the two began to soak the seeds and roots of the mandarin duck grass.

Although they have a recipe in their hands, after all, they have never seen the real thing and no one has introduced them to the experience, so the two plan to experiment more and finally make comparisons. First, they gently pinch the dried fruit, put the seeds inside into an iron pot for roasting tea, and collect the thin skin of the fruit in a jar. Then two people start to fry one pot at a time, one person stir-fry quickly over high heat, and the other person stir-fry slowly over low heat.

The seeds slowly turn dark orange when heated, which means that the frying is successful, and the two of them put their fried seeds into different jars and mark them. Then the small cakes made of the roots are cracked into small pieces with a small wooden hammer and placed in the jar for later use.

In the end, the two of them poured the soju that Zi Yingyi brought back from his cousin a while ago into these jars, and the seeds could be poured directly, but the root cakes were not good, and they had to be stirred while pouring. Finish until the crumbling pieces are completely spread out into powder, and finally cover the mouth of the jar and seal it with water.

When they finished the last altar, it was almost the end of the day (1:00), and the two of them were so tired that they were covered in sweat, and neither of them cared whether the floor was clean or not, and they sat on the ground panting.

"Sister, will we have to do all this work ourselves in the future?" Ling'er thought that if there was a mass production in the future, the two of them would not be exhausted to death?

"Let's talk about it later, you can't tell anyone about this recipe." Min'er said faintly that she doesn't believe anyone except Ling'er now.

"Hey, if it doesn't work, let's transfer people from my hometown, right?" Ling'er still believes in Mr. Wei very much, and in the past two years, he has taken his family to secretly process the mountain products she listed.

"No, it's too easy for people to find us, not yet." Although Ying Yi found out that the Ding family was currently busy, who knew when she would think of them? It's better to be on guard.

"It's a really bad feeling to be scared...... Ling'er said helplessly. (To be continued.) )