Chapter 53: Yuyang Jujube
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In Taoyuan Village in September, the weather was still very hot, Ye Quan found a bamboo deck chair from the attic, and after thinking that it could still be used, he washed it and exposed it to the sun. (To read the latest chapters of this book, please visit the biquge.info of Wรจn Aishang Novel Network)
After the recliner was dry, Ye Quan put it on the stone table under the longan tree and lay down comfortably, the dense branches and leaves of the longan tree completely blocked the sun's rays, blowing a cool breeze, feeling very comfortable.
Since learning that the longan tree has mutated, Ye Quan has gradually discovered some of the magic of this old tree, the most special point is that it is very "clean".
Generally speaking, there will be some insects on a big tree, including ants, spiders, caterpillars, etc., but this longan tree is completely invisible, and I don't know why?
Grabbed a handful of lychees from the space and put them on the stone table, Ye Quan tasted slowly, on the Shennong Mountain in the space, more than 1,000 fruit trees were planted at the beginning, in addition to the four varieties of apples, pears, fragrant pears and pomegranates that hung fruit late, fruits such as longan, lychee, sugar orange and date were already ripe.
The least of these fruits was planted forty trees, and the most were more than a hundred, and he and his family naturally couldn't eat them all, so they gave Chen Hao and the Mu family and others some, and the rest were supplied to Yihua Zhai.
was eating with relish, and suddenly a few little heads appeared from outside the gate, which were the most mischievous boys in the village, headed by Ye Wenqi, who was the grandson of his uncle Mingshan, and his parents were working outside, following his grandparents at home.
Ye Quan then remembered that today was Saturday, and the school was on holiday, and he had said a few days ago that he was going to make dates today, and beckoned at the moment: "Wenqi, come here." โ
Ye Wenqi grinned, walked in with six or seven friends, and shouted, "Uncle Ye Quan, what are you eating?" โ
"Lychee, have you eaten it?"
Ye Wenqi and the others all shook their heads.
"Wait, I'll get some." Ye Quan got up and walked into the house, then filled a bag of lychees from the space, put it on the stone table, and said, "Let's try it." โ
After a few days of contact, Ye Wenqi and the others knew that Ye Quan was very talkative, and he was not polite, so he grabbed it from the table and ate it.
The lychee planted in Yequan is a double-shouldered jade purse variety, the kernel is very small, the taste is delicious and juicy, sweet and delicious, a bag of two or three catties of lychee is eaten by several people in three or five times.
After eating, a little boy who was only four or five years old and still had two snots said, "Uncle Ye Quan, are you going to beat dates today?" โ
"Go, why not? Wait for me to get the bamboo pole. โ
Ye Quan found a bamboo pole six or seven meters long, a pair of fruit picking scissors and a few snakeskin bags, folded a five-meter-long colored striped cloth, picked two dung baskets, put on a straw hat and set off.
Ye Wenqi and the others got into the carriage together and made a fuss on it.
Five acres of Ye Quan's eight acres of dry land in Laomiaoqiu are orchards, with several kinds of fruit trees such as persimmons, black plums, yellow plums, peaches and mandarins, and the other three acres are planted with cedar trees.
Because Ye Quan's family rarely came back, the fruit forest was taken care of by Ye Mingcheng, and Ye Mingcheng was too busy, but only managed some fruit trees with good economic benefits, plus these fruit trees are generally aging and strict, so most of the fruit trees do not have many fruits, and the children in the village often run over to pick wild fruits.
Yuyang long jujube is the most famous specialty of Yuyang County, it is an ancient local planting variety, the fruit is larger, and it is famous for its thick meat, thin skin, small kernel and fresh taste, very similar to a cow, so it has the nickname of "milk jujube".
Yuyang long jujube can be eaten fresh, dried for red jujube, can also be processed into candied jujube and Ejiao jujube, Yuyang candied jujube has been famous as early as the Han Dynasty, entered the court during the Qing Daoguang period, and is also exported to the United States, Canada, Japan, Southeast Asia and other countries and regions.
Long jujube was brilliant in the first ten years, Yuyang County opened thirty or forty jujube factories, with an annual output of more than 1,000 tons, sold at that time to four or five yuan a catty, and the output of an adult jujube tree can reach hundreds of catties, in that era, it can be said that it is the cash cow of the villagers.
It's a pity that the good times didn't last long, because of the spread of jujube madness, jujube trees were infected and died in a large area, and the planting area of jujube in Yuyang County has been sharply reduced from 50,000 or 60,000 mu to more than 3,000 mu now.
Ye Quan's family had nearly 200 jujube trees back then, all of which were big trees that were more than 30 years old, and the income at that time was higher than that of ordinary people in the city.
The body of the jujube tree is taller and larger, the branches and leaves are denser, and there are still three jujube trees left in the orchard, all of which are more than 40 years old, with a height of ** meters and a crown diameter of more than seven meters.
Two of the three jujube trees have not many hanging fruits, sparsely pulled, if they are not different from the color of the jujube leaves, they are difficult to see, but the remaining one hangs a lot, Ye Quan only visually inspected, it is estimated that there are about two hundred catties, and several branches are bent over by the dense long jujubes on it, and they hang down, which is very worrying that it will break at any time.
Ripe dates are long cylindrical, with an average fruit weight of between 15 and 20 grams, and the skin is yellowish-white, many of which have been colored, and the skin is dyed with a deep ochre red, which is extremely shiny.
A few people are not in a hurry to beat the jujubes, but stand under the tree, pick the red long jujube and stuff it into the mouth, the flesh of the long jujube is fine, very crunchy, the juice is less, and it tastes sweet and delicious.
After eating more than ten and comforting his stomach, Ye Quan spread the colored striped cloth under the jujube tree with the most fruits, and then held the bamboo pole and smashed it on the branches with many jujubes.
Just listening to the sound of "pop", the long jujube and some leaves fell on the colored striped cloth like rain, and several impatient boys, regardless of the pain of the long jujube smashed on the head, squatted down and began to pick up the long jujube.
Ye Quan smiled: "Don't worry, let's finish first and then pick it up." โ
After beating dozens of bamboo poles, the long dates on the trees have become scattered, and the colored striped cloth is covered with a layer of long dates and broken leaves.
It wasn't until the long jujube was no longer visible on the branches that Ye Quan stopped, piled the long jujube on the colored strip cloth together, Ye Wenqi and others picked out the branches and leaves, put the long jujube into the basket, and occasionally picked a half-red or all-red jujube and wiped it on his hand and threw it into his mouth or pocket.
This jujube tree weighed about two hundred and thirty or forty catties, and the other two added up to only forty or fifty catties, containing four snakeskin bags.
After picking a bag of pears and dozens of persimmons in the orchard, the group drove back to the village in a carriage.
When he returned home, he saw that the sun was just noon, Ye Quan spread out a drying mat on the threshing field outside the gate, and poured the long dates on it.
Sun-dried red dates can be eaten directly, or they can be used to make soups, medicinal meals, and soak in wine.
In the Book of Rites, it is said that "jujube chestnut and honey are sweet", and it is also believed that jujube can be used in dishes to make zuรฒ.
Jujube has the effect of nourishing qi and nourishing the kidneys, nourishing blood and beauty, and treating deficiency and strain, which is recorded in detail in books such as "Yellow Emperor's Neijing" and "Compendium of Materia Medica". There is also a folk saying that "eating three dates a day, the red face does not show old".
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