Chapter Seventy-Four: Chestnut

There are chestnut fruits, naturally there are chestnut trees, and under the careful search of Cai Xiaoxiao and Zhao Kangcheng, the two finally found three chestnut trees! Cai Xiaoxiao excitedly asked Zhao Kangcheng to call Zhao Wu, Zhang Mu and Li Yuan to prepare to transplant chestnut trees.

When Zhao Wu and the three of them arrived, they saw the thorn fruit on the tree that they had never seen before, and the three of them looked at Cai Xiaoxiao and Zhao Kangcheng with a puzzled expression, and asked with their eyes: "Madam, it seems that this is not a fruit tree ......?" Zhao Wu said.

Cai Xiaoxiao nodded: "Well, I know." ”

So what does transplanting it do? The three of them were even more puzzled.

Zhang Mu asked, "Sister-in-law, is this to take back for ornamental use?" "It's not a fruit tree, so they can't think of any other use than to take it back for ornamental use.

"Haha!" Hearing him ask, Cai Xiaoxiao smiled and said, "No, although it is not a fruit tree, it can be eaten." ”

"Can you eat it?" Zhao Wu and the others looked surprised, looked up at the thorny fruit growing on the tree, and were very suspicious, "How can you eat this?" "It'll hurt your mouth if you eat it!

Not only the three of them were suspicious, but Zhao Kangcheng was also deeply suspicious.

"You'll know when you go back~" Cai Xiaoxiao smiled mysteriously, then turned to Zhang Mu and Li Yuan and said, "You can eat at our house today." ”

"Well, what's so embarrassing?" Facing Cai Xiaoxiao's invitation, Zhang Mu and Li Yuan glanced at each other a little embarrassed, scratched their heads, and said.

"What's so embarrassing, didn't you help us so much, that's it." Cai Xiaoxiao waved his hand and said.

Zhao Kangcheng also said: "It's just a meal, what to do." ”

"Then bother." Zhang Mu and Li Yuan said in unison.

"You're welcome, get this chestnut tree back." Cai Xiaoxiao commanded the four of them to start getting the three chestnut trees back.

When the five people carried three chestnut trees full of thorn fruits down the mountain, some villagers who came to watch saw it, and they were all puzzled: Thorn fruit? Three thorn fruit trees? Do you want to go back to the viewing area? But if you want to do ornamental purposes, shouldn't you get some flowers?

But this time, no one came to answer their questions.

The five of them came to the new house, and there was a wide road between the wall of the new house and the new house, and at this time the passage on the left side of the wall had been planted with many fruit trees.

She asked Zhao Kangcheng and the four of them to put three chestnut trees in the front passage of the wall, across the left side of the gate: "Just put it there, you get it first, and I'll go back and cook for you." ”

Cai Xiaoxiao went back with a bag of thorn fruits.

"I'm back." Zhao Wang sat in the courtyard, holding a needle and cloth and didn't know what he was embroidering, and when he saw Cai Xiaoxiao coming back, his eyelids raised slightly, and said.

"Hmm." Cai Xiaoxiao walked over and looked at what Zhao Wang's hand was sewing, it was not clothes, it was really just a piece of cloth, and she asked suspiciously, "Mother-in-law, what are you sewing?" ”

"Blind seams." Zhao Wang said, and then glanced at what was wrapped in Zhao Kangcheng's coat in Cai Xiaoxiao's arms, and she asked curiously, "What is that?" ”

"This......" Following Zhao Wang's gaze, Cai Xiaoxiao looked into his arms, smiled slightly, and said, "Good thing." As he spoke, he opened his coat to reveal the thorn fruit inside.

"Good stuff?" Zhao Wangshi looked at those thorn fruits, with a look of suspicion, "Thorn fruits? ”

"Yes!" Cai Xiaoxiao nodded, and then glanced at the courtyard, looking for stones that could be used.

Zhao Wangshi reached out tentatively to touch those thorn fruits with a puzzled face—a little prickly, and she asked, "What can this do?" ”

"It's edible!" Cai Xiaoxiao replied, and then finally found a stone in a corner, and when she was about to walk over to get it, she thought about it, and then turned around and walked towards the kitchen, "Mother-in-law, wait for me." ”

"Ah......" Zhao Wangshi looked at her back in a daze, but he was thinking in his heart: That ...... Can you eat it? There are thorns all over the body, how to eat them? Is it to pull out the thorns? But looking at that cyan, I feel that even if I pull out all the thorns, it shouldn't be very delicious, right?

Zhao Wang was very skeptical, but she also knew that Cai Xiaoxiao had always studied food, so although she was suspicious, she still had expectations.

Cai Xiaoxiao found the basket in the kitchen, then poured all the thorn fruits in his arms into the basket, put Zhao Kangcheng's clothes aside, and then returned to the courtyard with the basket and small bench, put the basket and small bench beside Zhao Wang's side, and ran to the corner to get the stone.

"Mother-in-law, look." Cai Xiaoxiao took out a chestnut fruit and put it on the ground, raised the stone with his right hand, and then stared at it, and quickly smashed the stone at the chestnut fruit.

When Cai Xiaoxiao lifted the stone again, she would find that the chestnut fruit had been smashed and a crack had been opened, Cai Xiaoxiao picked up the chestnut fruit and held it up to Zhao Wang's eyes to show her: "Mother-in-law, look, is there a black part exposed in this crack?" ”

"Uh-huh." Zhao Wang nodded, "And then?" ”

"Then, that's it......" Cai Xiaoxiao peeled off the green shell on the outside, completely revealing the chestnuts inside, "That's it, this can be eaten!" As she spoke, she gently knocked the shell of the chestnut with a stone, then peeled out the meat inside and handed it to Zhao Wang, "Mother-in-law, taste it." ”

"Hmm." Zhao Wang took it, hesitantly put it in his mouth, chewed it a few times, and swallowed it.

"How does it taste?" Cai Xiaoxiao asked.

"It's kind of sweet." Zhao Wang said, and at the same time surprised that he didn't expect this to really be edible.

"Hey, hey." Cai Xiaoxiao smiled, then picked up the stone, and said while tapping the other chestnut fruits, "Although you can eat it raw, you can't eat too much, it's better to fry it." ”

"Stir-fry? Can this be fried? Zhao Wang said in surprise.

"Well, this one can be used for cooking, it can also be used to make all kinds of pastries, and of course it can also be used for stir-frying on its own, so it's a very good thing." She had already imagined several chestnut pastries in her mind, and the town would be able to add new varieties of pastries.

"That's a good thing." Zhao Wang didn't expect that what originally looked like a thorn fruit could have so many things, "What is this called?" ”

"What's it called?" Cai Xiaoxiao paused for a moment, then raised his head, smiled and said to Zhao Wang, "I don't know what it's called, but I call it chestnut myself." "Hmm...... Wouldn't he be the first person in history to name a chestnut? Cai Xiaoxiao complained in her heart.