Chen Xuhui took everyone back along the same road, stopping and picking wild fruits along the way, such as loquats, plums, green plums, apricots, etc., all filled with cloth bags, and the group returned with large and small cloth bags and baskets.

When I returned home, I took out all the bayberry in the back basket, in fact, I looked at a basket of a lot, but poured out, and there were not many.

Mu Xiu took out some bayberry and soaked it in salt water for a while, if there were small insects inside, they would come out after such an invasion.

It's just that bayberry is not easy to preserve, and the remaining fruit, Mu Xiu is going to try to make candied fruit, which can be sent to the snack shop to sell for a while.

Mu Xiu first picked out the bayberry that had been bitten by insects or pecked by birds, as well as the bayberry that did not grow well, and the remaining bayberry with good quality was simply washed off with water, then put it in boiling water and rolled it, and then fished it out and put it on a bamboo sieve to dry.

After these bayberry were processed, Mu Xiu began to process the other fruits. Loquat is a little sour, the taste is not very good, Mu Xiu directly made loquat paste, the taste of apricots is not bad, stay as fruit to eat, green plum can be made into green plum wine, green plum sauce, crisp green plum can also be made into green plum vinegar, to the fishy with fragrance.

Zhou Shuilian put her hands on the side, watching Mu Xiu classify all kinds of wild fruits, remove the pits, pickle or steam, she was really dazzled and dumbfounded, and when Mu Xiu finished all of them, she exclaimed: "Xiu, you learned this from books?" ”

"Yes, there are a lot of recipes in the book, just read more and you'll be able to do anything." Mu Xiu glanced at Zhou Shuilian and continued: "Mother, you go into the house to rest, I can pick up these toons alone." ”

Yesterday, when Mu Xiu transplanted the toon tree, she picked a lot of toons, and then she saw that the toon buds were a little wilted, and she needed to make them quickly.

"I put it all in the cellar first, where the temperature is low." Zhou Shuilian looked at the pile of bottles and cans on the ground and said.

Mu Xiu nodded, turned around and began to drain the toon water, take it out and put it aside to drain the water.

Put down the sterilized jar on the steamer here, wipe it clean with clean gauze, then spread a layer of toon, sprinkle an appropriate amount of salt, spread it layer by layer, repeat the process until the jar is full and sealed, only a week later, the toon pickles are ready.

On weekdays, it is stored in the cellar at a low temperature, and when it is necessary to eat, it is taken out, washed and chopped with water, and slightly seasoned with soy sauce, vinegar, sugar, etc., and when you drink porridge, it is very delicious and goes well with the noodles.

In the following time, every two days, everyone will go up the mountain to pick bayberry together, and all the green plums, apricots, and loquat will be picked back, and all the bayberry will be made into candied fruit, and the rest of the fruits will be made into candied fruit, fruit wine and fruit vinegar.

Mu Xiu dug up two small saplings of each fruit tree on the mountain, brought them back, and planted them in the ground, after all, too many fruit trees cannot be planted in the yard, otherwise the roots of the trees will be too many and the foundation will be affected.

"Haven't you done your job yet?" Xu Yan looked at Li Xingzhi, who was drinking wine with Erlang's legs crossed at home, and asked impatiently.

"I'll be notified when it's done, it's just a matter of time, don't worry." Li Xingzhi lowered his head a little weakly.

"It's been more than a month, and I don't believe it at all, so it shouldn't be someone else who coaxed you." Xu Yan impatiently began to walk around the house.

"How is it possible, it won't, you can rest assured." Li Xingzhi said and poured another glass of wine.

"Drink and drink, drink to death, I can rest assured, at most half a month, if there is no news, return the money to me, have you heard, the surname is Li." Xu Yan slapped the table vigorously.

Li Xingzhi was even more depressed in his heart, and after he nodded, he drank the wine down.

In the evening, the drunken Li Xingzhi staggered back to his home in the village, and as soon as he entered the house, he heard Li Hu asking Zhao Xiaoqin.

"Grandma, why doesn't my father come home every day, I haven't seen him do so much farm work in the field." After Li Hu came back this time, he suddenly found many things that he hadn't paid attention to.

For example, why when he was in the Mu family, regardless of gender, age or age, he had to do things, even Mu Xiaohua was less than 2 years old, and he would put the shoes of the adults in the family neatly, but in his own home, since he can remember, it seems that everyone is waiting for his mother and sister to do it when they return home......

After the mother left, the work at home was grandma and grandpa, but the house was no longer as clean and refreshing as before, the food was not delicious, the house was dirty, and the father who used to always hug him as soon as he came back was very affectionate, and now he is always angry with him when he comes back.

Especially after marrying his stepmother, his father treated him worse and worse, and even beat him a few days ago...... This is the first time he has been beaten by his father since he can remember......

"Your father is a man, he is a man who does great things, how can he go to the ground? It's all to blame for this policy, how good it was to earn work in the past, and we had to do something to divide the fields into households, forcing us to go to work in the fields when we were old. Zhao Xiaoqin said angrily.

In the past, Zhao Xiaoqin and Li Fengshou relied on Li Xingzhi's position, and they were all doing idle work with full work, but now after dividing the field, they can only work hard by themselves, Mu Xiaoshu is not there, and the new daughter-in-law is a master who can't be provoked, Zhao Xiaoqin is really tired enough in the past two years.

"Is my dad doing something big? Is it like my mother to do big things? ”

"Phew, what kind of big thing is your mother, a small nose and small eyes who don't know rural women, she deserves to be compared with your father? Let me tell you, if you are an unfilial person with no conscience like your mother, you will not die well sooner or later. Zhao Xiaoqin heard Li Hu mention Mu Xiaoshu, and immediately cursed.

"Then why is our family's life not as good as my mother's? My mother's house has a two-story house, a tractor, a bicycle, and a cow ......" Li Hu remembered these rare things in the Mu family, and his tone was full of doubts.

"Your mother's life is so good, she didn't say she wanted you, you really want to live a good life over there, then you go to your mother's place, no one stops you, your mother doesn't want you anymore, you still think about her, what a cheap bone!" Li Xingzhi couldn't listen anymore outside, he angrily pushed open the door and yelled at Li Hu.

Li Hu was suddenly frightened and trembled, and immediately got into Zhao Xiaoqin's arms, Zhao Xiaoqin hugged Li Hu's head, and said dissatisfiedly at Li Xingzhi: "If you don't come back for a few days, you will be angry at Huzi as soon as you come back, what are you doing here?" ”

"Why, you all dislike me, dare not take me seriously? Why, do you think I'm incompetent? Li Xingzhi squirted wine in his mouth and pointed at the two of them.

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