"Auntie, let's talk about this when we have a break for the New Year, it's too cold at night in the county, and I don't want to be frozen here." Mu Xiu hurriedly waved his hand and refused.

"Yes, let's go back to the village for the New Year." Zhou Dujuan nodded.

Mu Xiu sat in Chen Jianqiang's ox cart, and the two returned home, and as soon as they arrived home, Mu Xiu saw two jars of red hawthorn fruits piled up in the yard......

"This.... Where did this hawthorn fruit come from?? Mu Xiu pointed to the hawthorn with a look of surprise.

"In October, Xiaohua was greedy and accumulated food every day, and the doctor in the village asked him to get some hawthorn to eat, saying that hawthorn would eliminate food, and Xuhui came back to help with the work, and he said that there were a few hawthorn trees on the mountain that were just ripe, so he took your father to pick the trees bald..... This hawthorn is really good, Xiaohua eats a few a few a day, and she never accumulates food again......" Zhou Shuilian explained.

"There are more than 20 jars of hawthorn fruit, which are stored in the cellar, and the family is making pickles today, and the jars are not enough, so two are freed up." Aunt Chen said on the side.

"And what about this hawthorn?" Mu Xiu asked.

"This hawthorn tastes good, sweet and sour, just eat two teeth to pour, except for the small flowers, we have no one to eat, next year will not pick so much, strange good things, no one eats is a waste." Zhou Shuilian didn't think about what to do with these hawthorns, and it was a pity to throw them away, so many of them at home if they weren't thrown away......

"Let's make rock sugar gourds!" Mu Xiu clapped her hands excitedly, she just saw the hawthorn, and she remembered the rock sugar gourd.

"I want to eat rock sugar gourd!" Li Hu had the sharpest ears, and as soon as he heard Mu Xiu finish speaking, he ran over and shouted happily.

"I'm going to eat it too!" The foodie Xiaohua ran after him.

"Second aunt, second aunt, I want rock sugar gourd!" Mu Chunfeng also shouted.

Lu Ruomeng also came over, although she also wanted to eat, but she didn't speak, just looked at the pitiful baba, revealing that she also wanted to eat......

"It's all there! There are so many hawthorns, enough for you to eat. Mu Xiu promised.

"Xiu, do you still make rock sugar gourds??" Zhou Shuilian leaned over and asked curiously.

"Yes, there are so many hawthorns, let's send them to the city to sell if we can't finish eating! You can also earn money for your journey! Mu Xiu replied with a smile.

"That's the reason, how to do it? What do you say we need to do? When Zhou Shuilian heard Mu Xiu say this, she was also interested.

The vermicelli made at home this year, all the people in ten miles and eight villages came to buy, saying that the vermicelli made by themselves tasted better, and by selling vermicelli, it added a lot of income to the family.

This time, I learned with Mu Xiu, and I can also sell rock sugar gourds at home in the coming year, so I can make a lot of money in a year!

Mu Xiu arranged for a few people to clean the hawthorn, and after the hawthorn was cleaned, Mu Xiu took out six cylindrical long pipes that shone with silver light and gave them to everyone one by one.

"It's ???" Chen Xuhui took the long tube and looked at it, this tube looked really strange, one-third of the tube was hollow, one end was with a round handle, and the other end was sharp and jagged.

"Look at how I do it, this is a tool to go to the hawthorn core." Mu Xiu lifted a tube, put the section with the serrated teeth in the middle of the hawthorn, and gently pierced it in, the pipe passed through the hawthorn, and a round hole immediately appeared in the middle of the hawthorn, and the core inside appeared in the hollow place of the tube.

Mu Xiu took down the hawthorn at this time and held it up for everyone to see, only to see that the originally full hawthorn had become a hollow ball hawthorn at this time.

"This thing is good! The rock sugar gourd that comes out of this way doesn't need to spit out the seeds, and you can eat it directly! Zhou Shuilian looked at the hollow hawthorn ball, and her eyes suddenly lit up.

"Yes, the hawthorn is pitted like this, and walnuts can be placed in the hollow position, or some other wild fruit, and the rock sugar gourd made is delicious and beautiful." Mu Xiu originally bought the tool because he thought that the rock sugar gourd outside was not to his liking, and planned to make it himself.

Unexpectedly, this set of core-removing artifacts has not been used a few times before, but now it can be used.

"I want to eat, I want to eat!"

"Hurry up, I want to eat!"

After listening to Mu Xiu's narration, several children became even more excited, and everyone shouted and yelled, and they all wanted to eat sugar gourds immediately.

"If you want to eat it, quickly pit the hawthorn, and I'll boil the syrup." As soon as Mu Xiu's words fell, several people couldn't wait to learn what Mu Xiu had just done.

"Dad, you make some bamboo sticks, and you will wear rock sugar gourds later." Mu Xiu explained to Mu Shui.

"Okay." Mu Shui turned around and went to sharpen the bamboo sticks.

Because the family sometimes had to help Zhou Dujuan make some snacks, so he saved a lot of sugar, Mu Xiu took out the sugar, put it aside for later use, and then came out to start picking up hawthorns.

"Brother Chen, I remember that there should be kiwi in the mountains now, right?" Mu Xiu asked Chen Xuhui while cleaning up the hawthorn.

"Yes, I saw it two days ago." Chen Xuhui thought about it and replied.

"What about pecans?"

"Seems to have been."

"Brother Chen, let's go, let's go pick kiwi and pecans!" Mu Xiu stood up suddenly.

"Okay." Chen Xuhui has always listened to Mu Xiu's words, and when Mu Xiu said it, he immediately implemented it.

"You pick some and come back, it's getting dark early, don't run around." Zhou Shuilian told the two.

"Got it."

The two of them went into the mountain together, and when they were picking kiwi and pecans, the two of them encountered a large piece of sea buckthorn fruit, Mu Xiu was overjoyed, he didn't expect that this was already frozen, and there could be this.

By the time the two of them had picked all this and returned home, the processed hawthorns had been piled high, and the wood water had also made a lot of bamboo sticks.

"Second aunt! Come and make rock sugar gourds! Li Hu saw Mu Xiu and said with his saliva.

"It's coming, it's coming." Mu Xiu finished answering Li Hu, and said to Chen Xuhui again: "Brother Chen, you pick out the kiwifruit that you can eat, and put it first if it is particularly stiff, and some pecans are also smashed out, and some of this sea buckthorn fruit is also washed out." ”

"Okay." Chen Xuhui went to work after he was done.

Mu Xiu put the hollow hawthorn with a bamboo skewer to wear well, the hollow hawthorn is not as easy to wear as a solid hawthorn, the hollow hawthorn is easy to wear crookedly, or the position is not right, swaying from side to side, then it is necessary to choose a good position for it, which can not affect the appearance and can not destroy the overall structure.

Mu Xiu picks the smallest and most inconspicuous fruit bunches at the bottom, and puts the red and big ones at the top, so that the rock sugar gourd that comes out is beautiful.

After stringing the hawthorn, Mu Xiuping put it in the basin and drenched it with water to dry, otherwise she always felt a little unclean......

After watching Mu Xiu do it, these Zhou Shuilian, Aunt Chen and Lu Ruoshi followed suit, and a few small ones continued to go to the hawthorn core, Mu Xiu freed his hands at this time and began to boil the sugar.