When they returned, the two of them did not take the rough and steep road again, but changed directions. Although I have to go around in a big circle, I am not in a hurry anyway, I just walk slowly, just so that I can hunt some prey, pick some wild vegetables and fruits.

Turning a bush of wild honeysuckle, Xue Wu caught a glimpse of a golden oblate object hidden in the bush of flowers, and looked at it, "Pumpkin!" ”

It was a pumpkin the size of a millstone.

Wu Qi looked, "What is a pumpkin?" Is it OK to eat? ”

Xue Wu nodded, "You can eat it, it's delicious to cook and make snacks." ”

Wu Qi's eyes suddenly changed when he looked at the pumpkin, and he took it out and held it in his arms.

Xue Wu touched the pumpkin vine, a tall tree appeared in front of her, the thick pumpkin vine was wrapped around the trunk, and the pumpkins the size of muskmelons fell, which were not yet ripe, and under the trees, there were old pumpkins that were as big as wheels.

This area is all occupied by pumpkins, and it is simply a natural field of wild pumpkins.

Pumpkins are good stuff! It can be used as a dish or as a meal, and the yield is amazing! An acre of land can reach thousands of catties, and the most important thing is that it is easier to plant than sweet potatoes.

Xue Wu hadn't seen a pumpkin before, not only Fengchi, but also nowhere else.

She issued a reward order in the pawnshop of the world, looking for potatoes, corn, sweet potatoes, pumpkins and other crops, but no one completed it.

The sweet potato was also found by accident in He Shen's yard.

Several others have not received news, and she guesses that they may not have been transmitted to Daqi, or they have been transmitted but have not been taken seriously and promoted.

The pumpkins in front of me have been growing here for several years, and the main vines are all thick wrists, and from a distance they look like a python entrenched in a big tree.

Xue Wu guessed that the pumpkin seeds were probably brought over by birds, who ate the seeds and then excreted them, took root in this place, and grew into today's scale.

But the pumpkins apparently went undetected.

It's not surprising to think about it, after all, this is a deep mountain, and there are few people, and even if someone finds it, I am afraid that they will not dare to try new things that grow in the wild.

Xue Wu called Wu Qi: "Come and help me pick these pumpkins." ”

There are so many pumpkins, it's a pity to put them here for nothing, it's better to take them back and use them as food for the people in the cottage.

The two of them picked together for a long time, and finally picked all the ripe pumpkins, piled them together, and they all became a small mountain.

As soon as Xue Wan waved her hand, all the pumpkins on the ground were collected into the space by her.

She dug up another vine and put it in.

"Big brother, what are you holding in your hand?"

Xue Wu and Wu Qi each held a big pumpkin in their arms, and when they arrived at the mouth of the village, a little boy asked her curiously.

Xue Wu smiled: "This one, called pumpkin, is a good thing we found in the mountains, and it can be made into something delicious." ”

As soon as he heard the delicious food, the child became greedy and couldn't help but put his finger to his mouth and puffed.

The child was playing with mud just now, his hands and face were dirty, but his eyes were bright, looking at the big pumpkin in Xue Wu's arms, revealing a desire that was close to greed.

Xue Wu put the pumpkin down and pulled down his hand, "There is mud on your hands, you can't put it in your mouth, otherwise your stomach will hurt." ”

She took out a jar of sugar from her purse, a fist-sized delicate porcelain jar, inside which were snow-white sugar balls, wrapped in candy paper made of maltose, and could be eaten directly.

She took one out and fed it to the child.

The sweetness melted in his mouth, and the child's eyes narrowed with happiness, he had never eaten such delicious sugar! It should be said that the number of times he has eaten sugar when he grows to such a big age is only a handful, and the sugar he ate before was the brown sugar that his mother secretly dipped her fingers in for him to taste.

The brown sugar is very sweet, and he has to smack it repeatedly for a long time.

But now the sugar that this big brother gave him was hundreds of times better than brown sugar!

The child was reluctant to swallow it, spit it out again, held it in the palm of his hand, ran to his mother quickly, and handed it over: "Mother, eat sugar!" ”

Xue Wu did not favor one over the other, and fed each of the other children a piece of candy.

The children were delighted.

Seeing the children laughing so happily, the adults couldn't help but smile.

Xue Wu went to the kitchen with the pumpkin, and Lu Jinyao came over, holding a booklet in his hand, which recorded the situation of everyone in the cottage.

"Childe, take a look."

Xue Wu sat on the bench in the kitchen and looked at it, the handwriting on the paper was neat and neat, and the font was in block letters, which was refreshing to look at.

The situation of each person is also well documented.

She flipped through it and had a general understanding of the situation in the entire cottage.

"Good job, come, reward you with candy." Xue Wu took out a lollipop and handed it over with a smile.

Lu Jinyao was a little blushing by her laughter, and he was a little at a loss, looking at the candy and not knowing whether to take it.

Xue Wu realized that she was pretending to be a man now, and she was still a handsome young man, and her behavior just now probably embarrassed Lu Jinyao, so she restrained her smile and handed the candy to her, "Take it." ”

Lu Jinyao put the candy in his sleeve pocket.

Xue asked her to call a few women who were good at cooking.

Several people didn't know what she called them over for, and their faces were a little apprehensive, Xue Wu said gently: "Don't be nervous, I called you over to ask you to help make a snack." ”

said that he wanted them to help, but in fact, he taught them to make it, and Xue Wu planned to teach them to make pumpkin pie, which is a sweet, soft and glutinous snack suitable for all ages.

The practice is not complicated.

Hearing that they were asked to make snacks, several women were down-to-earth, and according to Xue Wan's guidance, they first washed the two large pumpkins, peeled them, and cut them into small pieces.

Then put it in a steamer basket and steam it over water.

After steaming, mash the pumpkin with a spoon while it is hot, add glutinous rice flour and knead into a ball.

Before, when the cottage was still a bandit, the second master was a glutton, plus there was money in the cottage, and the standard of living also came up, so there were a lot of ingredients purchased from outside in the warehouse, sugar, oil, glutinous rice flour and so on.

There were four women who came, and Xue asked three of them to knead the dough and the other to make red bean paste.

Xue Wan stood aside and reminded: "You don't need to add water, just knead the dough until it doesn't stick to your hands, and then add a spoonful of oil, so that the surface of the finished dim sum will be more shiny at that time." ”

Wait for the dough of the three people to be kneaded, and the red bean paste on the other side is ready.

Xue Wu fried some white sesame seeds and put them aside to cool for later use.

She took a dough the size of an egg, rolled it round, flattened it, added red bean paste to it, gently kneaded it into a round ball, flattened it, and made it into a small round cake, which was coated with a layer of white sesame seeds on both sides, so that a pumpkin pie was wrapped.

"That's it, have you learned?"