Chapter 67: Canned Fruit
One type of apricot is smaller, but when ripe, it is orange-red and has a very sweet taste, and almonds are bitter and slightly toxic.
The other is called large apricot plum, which is orange when ripe and has a sweet taste, and almonds have no bitter taste and are edible.
In order to make the child in Yun's belly nutritious, Xue'er will give almonds to Yun's every time she eats the big apricot plum, which is called to make her younger brother smarter.
The first peaches to ripen are the local ones called May Red.
Although it is called May Red, it actually ripens in late May and early June, and this peach is very large, the largest is the size of an adult's fist, and there is a layer of fine peach hair on the surface.
When ripe, the whole body is blood-red, and the skin on the surface can easily peel off, revealing the bright red flesh inside, and even the mouth and tongue can be dyed red when you eat it.
Because it is inconvenient to transport the May red when it is ripe, there are not many May red varieties in Dong Changhe, and they are all eaten by his own family.
The most planted by the Dong family is peaches, which are divided into spring honey and autumn peaches.
The spring peach ripens in June to July, and the autumn peach plays more than a month than it.
Now the early ripening has begun to ripen, this kind of peach is very sweet, the ripe peach powder is white, less hairy, juicy, sweet taste, sugar content is quite rich, Xue'er likes the taste of this peach the most.
In modern times, you can't eat such delicious peaches.
After doing housework every day, Cher picks peaches that are about to ripen with Yun's.
Although the days are busy, but every day when she sees the Yun family sitting on the kang and counting the silver at night, Xue'er feels how happy she feels.
Cherries can be sold for as little as ten cents per catty, and sometimes even more. Because the cherry trees have not yet reached a good yield, the yield is not high, and each tree can only pick a few catties at present, about 200 cherry trees, which are also sold for nearly 20 taels of silver.
There are about more than 1,000 peach trees, and because the age of the trees is not large, each tree maintains a yield of about 10 to 20 catties, and it can be picked about 200 to 300 catties a day.
Peaches can be sold for a minimum of one catty and five cents, and the daily income will be maintained at one to two taels of silver.
Xue'er calculated, not adding the last ripe peach, but the two fruits of peach and cherry, the Dong family can earn about sixty or seventy taels of silver.
During this period, there were also those who were not in good condition, Xue'er picked some half-ripe ones and made canned peaches herself, which was originally intended to be eaten by Yun's pregnant woman, but this made Yun's and Dong Changhe very happy.
Originally, this kind of peaches with poor quality were generally given away or eaten at home, but now they can be made into canned food, and Dong Changhe soon found a business opportunity.
In this way, Dong Changhe has one more thing to do, that is, when he comes back every evening, the carriage is no longer empty, but pulls back the peaches that are not in good condition in Shuijiazhuang, and then the family makes canned peaches at night.
Dong Changhe himself is a decisive person, and he has a wide range of doors, and he personally went to the pottery kiln to customize 1,500 five-pound clay pots, with sealed lids.
The canned peaches are sealed and placed in the cellar.
He said that if he sells it before the Spring Festival, he will definitely sell it at a good price.
Until finally the peaches were out of season, about 500 cans of canned peaches were made, and a small amount of canned sweet apricots.
The remaining clay pots were not wasted in the later period, and canned sand fruits, canned plums, canned yellow peaches, canned hawthorns, canned grapes and so on were made.
Almost all of these fruits were crooked melons and cracked dates eliminated by Shuijiazhuang, which he bought back for a penny and a catty, and all of them were canned and put in the cellar.
Fortunately, the cellar built by the Dong family is very large, otherwise there is really no place to store it.
If you can't make canned food, Yun's will wash the fruit, and then you can make it dry, and you can do it dry.
Xue'er invented canned food, and Yun and Dong Changhe both gave Xue'er a credit, not only verbally praising Xue'er for being smart, but also making a meal of dumplings with leeks and salted meat to reward Xue'er.
In fact, Xue'er didn't want to be in the limelight, but she was worried when she saw those peaches that couldn't be eaten, and she thought of the canned fruits in her previous life, so she did it once, but she didn't expect Dong Changhe to react immediately. It can be seen that it has business acumen.
Of course, he is also quite a good person, every time a fruit is ripe, he will be the first to send it to Feng Xianling for him to taste it.
The rest of the time asked his subordinates to send fresh fruits to Feng Xianling on a fixed date.
What exactly he was thinking about, no one really knows.
Dong Changhe is also a filial piety, and he also piggybacks on the fruits of the Dong family in Sanjiagou and sells some of them, not all of them are eaten by the Dong family.
In Dong Xueer's memory, she really didn't know about it.
In fact, the days pass very quickly in the busy.
When the summer is at its hottest, the more rain falls. Cher likes it to rain the most, because after the rain, she can go to the woods to pick mushrooms and make mushroom soup, which is also Cher's favorite.
The pregnant Yun family also loves this mouthful.
This day has just rained yesterday, and the early-maturing spring peaches have been almost picked in the past few days, and Xue'er carried a small basket to the mountains to pick mushrooms.
She is small, and she is a little girl, Yun was worried, and told her not to enter the deep mountains, just walk around the back mountain, and don't go far.
Xue'er responded, and then led the tiger into the mountain.
Huzi is a female dog, she was too young when she gave birth to a child for the first time, and she crushed her two children to death, and Huzi has been pregnant again since then.
But it's lively and smart.
The summer grass and trees are deep, and Xue'er is a little panicked when she goes up the mountain alone, so most of these times she takes Huzi with her.
I've been busy picking peaches lately, and I haven't seen those potatoes and sweet potatoes for a long time, so when Cher wants to pick mushrooms, she goes to the secret base to have a look.
The mushroom soup is served with shredded potatoes, chopped green onions and coriander, and the taste is the most authentic.
Because there are more people who go into the mountains to pick mountain goods in the summer, she is worried that her secret will be discovered, and her plan will be ruined.
First, I picked mushrooms all the way and walked all the way to the mountains.
Hu Zixu was used to following her into the mountains, wagging his tail and running in front, and turning his head from time to time, as if urging her to hurry up.
Cher also had to make Huzi run slower from time to time.
After the rain, many mushrooms grow newly, and there are not many people in the village, and the mushrooms on the mountain cannot be harvested.
There are many kinds of mushrooms on Jiupan Mountain, in summer, the locals generally call the chicken leg mushroom, which is a kind of white mushroom, the mushroom cover is like an umbrella, the umbrella cover is slightly gray, and the mushroom leg is long.
She has the same appearance as the two poisonous mushrooms, and is about the same color.
One of the poisonous canopies will have light gray spots on the top.