Chapter 39: Chestnut Cake

Chen Mofan struggled to bring the ox cart back, and he pulled the ox cart over.

"I'll help you get the ox cart down!" Sheng Rong said, he looked at the group of excited people behind him, glanced at Chen Mofan, and smiled helplessly.

Put the cart behind from the back of the ox, and put the cart aside, not afraid that others will steal it, and the ox will be trapped in the tree, for fear of being led away. A cow is worth a dozen taels of silver, which is not very little.

Bustling to take out all the things in the three baskets, a group of people are not polite, one by one is hungry, take something to eat, snoring and eating more than half of the things, they began to be in the mood to look around, said that it was late, in fact, it was to walk around, ran to the village to find a family, ate their village's unique stuffy fish, and then ran to the river to play, the drinking water is crystal clear, six or seven meters wide, from a hillside, the water tinkling, Just standing by the river and listening to the sound makes me feel very comfortable.

In fact, it is more of a pleasure to come to an unknown place to play, people who have been here say that it is fun, but what is fun, they don't know, they just like the water here, like the sky here.

There is a large chestnut orchard on the mountain here, which is planted by the farmers themselves, surrounded in a place, a person can go in for fifteen yuan, and can knock chestnuts by himself in it, if you want to take chestnuts away, a person can only take one catty, and it costs money to spend money outside one catty, fifteen wen a catty.

After paying the money, a group of people walked to the chestnut orchard with sticks specially used to beat chestnuts and protective hats.

The trees are full of chestnut balls, and there are many naturally falling thorn balls on the ground, the thorn balls exploded, revealing the chestnuts inside, Jiang Yuanyuan took a stick and knocked on the tall tree, and the knocking hands were a little soft, and only three or four chestnut balls fell.

"Why did you only drop so little!" Jiang Yuanyuan was a little frustrated, but she still ran to pick up these chestnut balls, and the ones that could fall were already grown, and they exploded slightly.

Put the chestnut balls into the basket, Jiang Yuanyuan didn't believe in evil and ran to knock again.

"Little ancestor, if this tree can't be knocked, change it to another tree!" Sheng Rong was helpless, ran over and grabbed Jiang Yuanyuan, the chestnuts on this tree can't be beaten, they are all uncooked, no matter how much you knock it, it's useless, even if it falls, it can't be eaten if it's not cooked.

"Oh~" Jiang Yuanyuan held the pole and looked left and right, found a tree, raised the stick in her hand and knocked it violently, and fell down more than a dozen one after another, Jiang Yuanyuan felt that there was a blow on her head, fortunately with a hat, otherwise the head would bloom.

"Yuanyuan, if you see it, knock it again, it's hard to beat it indiscriminately." Chen Mofan didn't walk on the side, he didn't go, Jiang Yuanyuan beat them all the way, so they didn't dare to go forward, for fear of smashing the fallen chestnut ball. Jiang Yuanyuan stuck out her tongue embarrassedly, she put down the bamboo pole and raised her head to look at the place, Chen Mofan pulled Jiang Xuan and hurriedly ran to the front.

"Forget it, I'll pick up chestnuts and I'll beat them!" Sheng Rong walked over and said, he stretched out his hand and motioned to Jiang Yuanyuan to give him the bamboo pole in his hand, Jiang Yuanyuan was a little reluctant, she wanted to fight by herself, and reluctantly handed the bamboo pole in her hand to Sheng Rong with a pout.

Sheng Rong looked at one place, and the stick hit the ball on the tree, bang, bang, and after a while, many chestnuts fell from the tree, some fell to the ground and scattered directly, and the small chestnuts inside rolled out.

"Wow wow! Many, many, many! Jiang Yuanyuan instantly forgot her unhappiness, and hurriedly rushed over to pick it up, she packed all the ones she had knocked down and Sheng Rong knocked down, and the basket was soon full.

"Sheng Rong Sheng Rong, I can't fit it!" Sheng Rong changed the tree to fight, but Jiang Yuanyuan was distressed, she shook her basket, and the chestnut balls in the basket didn't move.

Sheng Rong put down the bamboo pole and looked at Jiang Yuanyuan, he silently took his bamboo building and handed it to Jiang Yuanyuan.

"Let's use this first, and then go to the front and peel all the chestnuts out." Sheng Rong said, he just saw some people outside with chestnut balls, and some people came out with bare chestnuts, the boss didn't say anything, and directly took the things you took out and weighed them, the layer of thorn balls outside is not light, it is still very proportional.

"Good!" Jiang Yuanyuan nodded, jumped next to Sheng Rong like a rabbit and brought the basket, she poured all the chestnuts in her clothes into it, and started another round of searching.

Sheng Rong looked at it and didn't fight anymore, and after helping to pick up all the chestnuts, they began to walk forward slowly, and from them, they could see that Jiang Xuan in front of him was waving the bamboo stick in his hand and beating hard, and Chen Mofan was hiding and picking it up.

"Brother!! Jiang Yuanyuan shouted from afar, she staggered to Jiang Xuan's side, Jiang Xuan stopped panting, saw Jiang Yuanyuan, and proudly showed her the basket he had filled up.

"Look! I'm not good, I'm all playing it myself, and I've got a basket full of it! Jiang Xuan said proudly, his head slightly raised, and he almost praised me on his face.

"Hey, hey! Awesome, great, great! Jiang Yuanyuan smiled and took one out of Jiang Xuan's basket, she raised her hand, carefully peeled off the thorn ball outside, and took out the three chestnuts inside.

"Brother! Help me peel it off and eat it. Jiang Yuanyuan handed it to Jiang Xuan unceremoniously, with anticipation on her face, Jiang Xuan looked at the three small brown chestnuts in front of her with a smile.

"Why don't you eat your own!" Jiang Xuan said angrily, his body still honestly took the chestnut handed to him by Jiang Yuanyuan, he bit it open with his teeth and then fished out the chestnut that was divided into two petals inside, there was a layer of hairy clothes on the outside of the chestnut, this was very difficult to tear open, Jiang Xuan didn't want to pull it, and handed it directly to Jiang Yuanyuan.

Jiang Yuanyuan looked at the chestnut in front of her speechlessly, she just let Jiang Xuan help her peel it because she didn't want to talk about it.

"Haven't peeled it off yet!" puffing out her mouth angrily, Jiang Yuanyuan was not happy.

"I'll eat it." Jiang Xuan peeled off another chestnut, and there was also a loss of fluffy clothes, and the chestnut was still white, which was quite cute.

handed all the chestnuts in his hand to Jiang Yuanyuan, Jiang Xuan hurriedly ran away, Jiang Yuanyuan looked at a few chestnuts in his hand that were still wearing sweaters, messy in the wind.

"Alas! They don't love me anymore. Jiang Yuanyuan said melancholy, she took a bite of the chestnut in her hand, chewed it for a long time and then spit out the hairy place, walked directly to the tree and sat down, looking at the chestnut in her hand, and breathed a melancholy breath.

"I want to eat and peel it myself!" Sheng Rong slowly swung over, he sat next to Jiang Yuanyuan, put down the things in his hand and began to peel the prickly ball.

The cyan thorn ball was quickly peeled off, and it was a little unskilled at first, but slowly it got faster and faster, and it didn't take long to peel off all the thorn balls in the basket. Lost the thorn ball, the basket was half empty, Sheng Rong trembled, and his voice was crisp.

"Are you done peeling?" As soon as Sheng Rong looked up, he saw Jiang Yuanyuan, who had eaten hard, Jiang Yuanyuan was still holding the chestnuts and eating again, the chestnut balls in the basket were half peeled by her, she ate while peeling, and a bunch of fruit cores fell on her clothes.

"Forget it, I'll peel it for you!" Sheng Rong took Jiang Yuanyuan's basket and peeled off Jiang Yuanyuan's remaining chestnut balls in three or two clicks.

Jiang Yuanyuan took her basket with a hippie smile, she pondered for a while, and estimated that it was almost two catties, too much to eat, and it would be a waste to buy it back, thinking like this, she didn't plan to continue to fight, just eat while walking, and dangled with Sheng Rong.

"Yuanyuan! This way! When she walked to the edge of a house, Jiang Yuanyuan heard Jiang Qian's shouting, she looked over, Jiang Qian shouted in front of a window, except for her and Sheng Rong, the other four people were sitting here early.

"Sister Qian!" Jiang Yuanyuan beckoned, she pulled Sheng Rong to Jiang Qian's side, and as soon as she got closer, the strong smell of chestnuts intoxicated her.

"What a taste! Well, the saliva is coming out. Jiang Yuanyuan sniffed hard, and the aroma of chestnuts with the smell of oil wafted in the air, sweet and numb.

"Go in first, they seem to have ordered something to eat." Sheng Rong also smelled it, this smell made people can't help but drool, fragrant, and seductive.

"Hmm!" Jiang Yuanyuan hurriedly followed Sheng Rong into the house, and Jiang Qian happened to walk out.

"Come on, we've been waiting for a long time, why are you here so slow!" Jiang Qian said, she pulled Jiang Yuanyuan to the back room, the curtain opened, and when she walked in, she slowly saw that the room was full of this sweet chestnut flavor, the source of the taste, and the cakes on the table!

"Granny Zhang!" Jiang Qian shouted at her mother-in-law who was making cakes in front of the pot.

"Huh! Little girl, little boy, sit down, sit down! The old man wiped his hands on the cloth, and she smiled and walked over and pulled the two of them to the bench and sat down.

Sheng Rong looked around, this is a kitchen, there is a table in front of the window, Jiang Xuan and they are drinking water and eating chestnuts, seeing the two of them coming in and waving with a smile, the kitchen is very big, but there are not many things, the two baskets on the ground are chestnuts, and there is a basin, the inside of the basin is boiled, the chestnuts that are opened, the color of the chestnuts is very dark, and they are sunburned.

"Sister Qian, what is this?" Jiang Qian looked at Jiang Qian suspiciously, she thought that this was an inn for rest, but she didn't think it was someone's home.

"This is Granny Zhang, the mother of the boss here." Jiang Qian introduced, she smiled and pointed to the things in the pot, "When Sun Hui and I just passed by here, we used the excuse of drinking water and smelled this fragrance, so my mother-in-law pulled us in to eat the cakes, which are delicious, soft and sweet." ”

Jiang Yuanyuan's saliva was about to flow out when she was hooked by Jiang Qian, she couldn't help but stretch out her head to look at the things in the pot, the oil pot was full of bubbles, and she could only vaguely see the round cakes rolling in it, and she couldn't see anything else.

"Wait a minute, it'll be right away!" Granny Zhang smiled and said, "Wait ten more!" ”