Chapter 61: Plums

After eating yellow clams, half of the summer was over, because Yan Shaojie had to prepare for the exam, and Yang and Yan Qingshan prepared for farming early. The seedlings are planted first, and then the rice is harvested.

Because there were only two people, both the Yang family and Yan Qingshan went out early in the morning, and Yan Yan had to hurry up to do the work at home, then cook the rice, cook the mung bean soup and put it in the well water to ice, and send the rice to the field for the Yang family and Yan Qingshan to eat. Then I went home to clean the yard, which was to be used to dry the grain, and when it was almost time to send the mung bean soup to the fields.

Yan Yan was picking up rice in the field, Yan Yan didn't want Yan Qingshan and the Yang family to be too tired, so he went to borrow the ox cart by himself, and the time was staggered with others. This saves the effort of picking rice to go home, and it is already tired of bending over for a day, and the iron man can't stand picking rice anymore.

The two of them spent three days harvesting the rice, except for the first day when Yan Yan came to the field to help, the rest of the time was spent drying the rice, always worried that it would rain, which made Yan Yan's nerves highly tense.

Yan Qingshan and the Yang family are even more tired, just after harvesting the rice, they have to wash the fields and rush to plant the seedlings, Yan Yan's work at home is also inseparable from people, especially drying rice, Yan Yan prays every day to hurry up.

Fortunately, this kind of farming was only about ten days, Yan Qingshan and Yang were really tired, and after finishing their farm work, they took a hot bath comfortably and slept well. Yan Yan was too, and when the rice was put into the warehouse, he breathed a sigh of relief and slept hard.

Yan Shaojie is even more difficult, he reads comfortably, but his family is tired, but because of this, he has to work harder. Fortunately, the farm was over, and he was relieved, and quickly calmed down and studied hard, this time he must succeed!

After the farm was busy, Yan Yan found that the plum tree in the yard had borne fruit, "Mother, the plum tree has borne fruit." ”

"It's time for the results, and you can pick them in a few days." Yang looked at Meizi and said.

"Do you like to eat? It's sour, right? "Yan Yan doesn't like to eat plums directly, and always feels a kind of sour and astringent.

"Your father and your brother don't like sour food very much, so let's send some to someone else's house." Yang saw that the plum tree had borne a lot of fruit.

"Okay, I'll make something delicious for everyone to taste." Yan Yan wanted to eat crunchy pickled plums.

When the plums can be picked, Yan Qingshan goes up the tree to pick some yellow ones first, and then slowly picks the green ones. Yan Yan divided the plums into different levels: the yellow ones were used to make crisp plums, the smaller ones that were not so ripe were used to make plum wine, and the larger ones that were not so ripe were used to make plum wine; The rest can be used to make plum sauce.

Plum wine is easy to make, wash and drain, put it in the jar and add white wine and sugar, if you like sweeter, add more sugar, and pay attention to the degree of liquor. Yan Yan thought that he would drink this plum wine, and the degree was a little lower.

This plum sauce is not difficult, marinate it with salt, wash off the bitter and astringent taste, soak it in water for a few hours, chop it and add sugar, soy sauce and boil it. This plum sauce is a good match for cooking, Yan Yan feels drooling when he thinks about it.

The more troublesome is the crisp green plum, first soak it in salt, alum and water for two days, then pierce the plum hole and soak it for another five days, and then pour the plum into the alum liquid and soak it until the salt is removed and slightly salty; Next, pour the plums into the marinating vat, add sugar and water, do not move for the first two days, add two catties of sugar every day and turn it from time to time to dissolve the sugar, if you don't like sweet, you can add less sugar; Pay attention to the fermentation time, not more than one day, otherwise the plums will be soft but not crispy, and the time before and after is about two months.

This plum is also laborious, first soak in salt water for more than a month and then dry, after drying, then wash with water and then dry, and then soak in sugar water and then dry, repeat many times. It can be described as "ten steamed and nine dry, a plum in a few months", and finally you can eat the plum if the meat is thick and crisp, sweet and sour.

Although it is very troublesome, Yan Yan loves to eat it, and plum wine takes more than four months, but plum sauce can be faster. For the sake of food, Yan Yan can also afford to wait. For other people's homes are generally picked and sent over, some people love to eat green plums, but you can have a good time.

"Plum blossoms, my plum tree has borne fruit, send some to you," Yan Yan sent plums to plum blossoms' house.

"Sour or not?" Although the plum blossoms are greedy, it is better to ask first.

"It's okay, it's up to your taste." Yan Yan felt that some were still good.

"It's not bad, it's delicious." Plum blossom ate one casually, which is good.

"Plum blossoms, you eat plums, do you know plum trees?" Yan Yan asked coldly, Meihua was stupid on the spot, Meihua Niang and Meihua sister-in-law were laughing backwards.

"Yan Yan, you bully me." It took a long time for Meihua to react, and she pouted and didn't dry it.

"Okay, okay, just a joke." Yan Yan always habitually protects her sisters, although her body is younger than them, her mental age is mature. She always unconsciously spoils and indulges these girls, hoping that they can maintain this innocence.

"Yan Yan, what delicious did you make with plums?" The plum blossom has a greedy face.

"I'll give you plums, but you're still worried about my family, go back and do it yourself." Yan Yan poked Plum Blossom's forehead.

"That's it, learn from Yan Yan well, it's better to let people take care of you than others." Plum Blossom Niang also pinched the tip of the plum blossom's nose, with an expression of "hating iron does not become steel".

"Meihua has a new sister-in-law, but she can learn from it." Yan Yan looked at Li Duofu's daughter-in-law and said.

"Isn't that the way to teach my sister-in-law?" Duofu's daughter-in-law's face stiffened for a moment, and then said with a smile, it could be seen that she was still not on the same page as the plum blossoms. It is estimated that Li Duofu did not discipline his daughter-in-law well, and I hope that the relationship between the plum blossom brothers and sisters will not be affected because of the conflict between the sister-in-law, especially the relationship of the family.

"In the end, Yan Yan is capable, comparing his daughter-in-law to plum blossoms, I really envy your mother." Plum Blossom Niang sighed and said. Thinking about it, Mei Niang didn't expect her daughter-in-law and sister-in-law to be on the bar, which is really difficult to deal with.

It is impossible to help the plum blossom and help the daughter-in-law, after all, she is at fault first, and she should start with Li Duofu. Plum blossom girl is so shrewd, I think there will be countermeasures, this matter is not big or small, in short, it must be dealt with well, otherwise it will become an enemy.

Yan Yan sighed, it's better to take care of other people's family affairs, my brother is still preparing for the exam, let's have a snack, Yan Shaojie is the hope of the Yan family, and you have to think about countermeasures if you don't pass the exam.

Time slipped away with the change of plums, seeing that there were still a few days before the exam, the Yan family began to fall into inexplicable tension again, the Yang family even went to the temple to offer incense, Yan Qingshan was also impatient, but in front of Yan Shaojie, he pretended to be calm, Yan Yan felt funny when he looked at it, as if he saw the reaction of his parents when he took the college entrance examination in his previous life.

Yan Yan was just preparing silently, this was a rare opportunity, Yan Yan was secretly happy in his heart.