Chapter Seventy-Nine: Peaches
"Sister Chun Tao, you..." As soon as September and October heard the footsteps, they saw Chun Tao with a wooden face, approaching the two, and before they could finish asking about Chun Tao's situation, they saw March coming over angrily.
"Sister, you..."
"We, what are we! We have nothing. After coaxing Chun Tao for a long time, I didn't see her mood getting better, so March ran out of patience and began to get angry.
"Sister! Sister! After March finished speaking, he went down the mountain angrily, and he couldn't stop screaming in September.
"Let's go!" With a greeting, Chun Tao also went down the mountain with two wooden barrels.
"What's wrong? Sister Chun Tao? Chun Tao suddenly stopped walking and walked, and October stood beside Chun Tao and looked in the direction she could see.
"Isn't that Brother Zhou? Who's next to it? "September also stopped by the side of Chun Tao.
"March, you wait." Chun Tao shouted and stopped March.
"What's it called!" March was still angry, and turned around and roared.
Seeing that Chun Tao didn't speak, he kept staring in the direction of the mountain, thought about it, and stood next to September, and poked September. "What are you looking at?"
September glanced at March and pointed in the direction down the mountain. "Brother Zhou doesn't know who to talk to."
March looked at it carefully, "It's really true! Who is that man! Let's go down and have a look! Spring peach. ”
"Hmm!" Hearing March call herself, Chun Tao finally came back to her senses. "Not angry?"
March turned her head awkwardly and said in a strange voice: "It's not that I'm angry." ”
"Let's go check it out!" Chun Tao glanced at March lightly and slowly descended the mountain.
"How did you go?" As soon as the four of them arrived at the foot of the mountain, the person next to Zhou Kuiruo left.
"Brother Zhou, who was that person just now?" March kept staring at the back that disappeared into the woods, but didn't see anything.
"Passing by."
"Passing by? So how do I..."
Chun Tao secretly poked and pushed March, "What's wrong?" ”
"Nope." Chun Tao handed the barrel in his hand to March, "You can get into the car!" My hands were sore, and I couldn't hold them anymore. ”
"You're not..."Didn't you hug all the way? Why are you still at the foot of the mountain now? March took the barrel in a fog and put it in the car.
"Let's go back!" Finally blocked March's mouth, Chun Tao was afraid that she would say something again, so she urged to go back.
"Hmmm! Let's go! March took the donkey around the corner, beckoned a few people to get into the car and went home.
When the spring peach comes home, wash the rotten peaches, boil hot water, steam them in the basket, and when the peach skin can be automatically peeled off, they will be put out of the pot and out of the cage. Peel and remove the pit, add sugar to the peach pit and make another one, and the surface of the peach is also smeared with sugar, and placed in a sieve for two or three hours.
After two or three hours, it is then cut into thin slices and baked over charcoal for an hour.
When Chun Tao was washing peaches, Aunt Zhou walked in. "Mother will help you wash."
Chun Tao handed the small stool to Aunt Zhou and asked her to sit down. "What are you doing with such peaches?"
"Make dried peaches, sweet, and put them in a jar for you to eat later."
"So much? It's all for my mother! Aunt Zhou looked at buckets of big peaches and opened her mouth slightly.
Chun Tao scratched her head embarrassedly, "The March birthday is coming, give her some, and give some Lamei." ”
"This March is her birthday, you give her food, and you give her this plum on her birthday, so you are not afraid that March will not be happy?"
After Aunt Zhou finished speaking, Chun Tao noticed this. At that time, I just thought that I hadn't seen Lamei for a long time, so I just sent her something.
"That...", but Lamei shouldn't be angry!
"You kid is smart and smart, but you don't know how to deal with these people."
"Wouldn't it be better for you to give her this later? I heard that the village chief was thinking about recruiting his third son and Ramena! ”
"Recruitment? This is? "When Chun Tao got married, everything was simple, and all the processes were handled by March Niang.
"Nazheng is a dowry gift, and at that time, I also asked March Niang to give you a pair of bracelets as a dowry gift!" Thinking of the previous incident, Aunt Zhou couldn't help but feel a little guilty.
"By the way, why didn't I see you wearing a bracelet?" Aunt Zhou looked at Chun Tao's thin arm and didn't have any jewelry.
"Oh~" Thinking about the bracelet that was still lying in the suitcase, Chun Tao wiped the non-existent sweat on her forehead with the back of her hand. "I'm doing things with a lot of smoke, and I'm afraid of getting dirty."
Chun Tao's words are reasonable, and Aunt Zhou didn't find anything wrong. "Yes."
As soon as Aunt Zhou mentioned this bracelet, Chun Tao forgot to ask about Lamei.
Chun Tao put the washed peaches into the steamer and prepared to carry them to the pot. Aunt Zhou hurriedly stopped her. "Chun Tao, you put it, it's so heavy, I'll call Kui'er."
"I can." Chun Tao hugged it to the stove and couldn't lift it.
If you had known, you wouldn't have been able to do it. Chun Tao, who stood in place with a steamer, regretted it.
When Zhou Kuiruo followed Aunt Zhou to the stove room, he happened to see Chun Tao's embarrassment.
What a laugh! Can you help me first! Hearing Zhou Kuiruo's laughter, Chun Tao intuitively felt aggrieved.
Aunt Zhou held back a smile and reprimanded Zhou Kuiruo beside her. "What are you laughing at! Why don't you help your lady yet. ”
However, Aunt Zhou said with a smile, without any majesty.
Zhou Kuiruo was said by Aunt Zhou, and finally found out in conscience, took the steamer in Chuntao's hand, and put it in the pot.
Although there was nothing left in her hand, Chun Tao still stood in embarrassment.
Looking at Chun Tao's appearance, Aunt Zhou silently returned to her room.
"What about your crushed peaches?" Zhou Kuiruo couldn't help but smile, glanced around the stove room, and happened to see the peaches that had been picked out and crushed.
"Didn't do anything!" What was just made fun of, Chun Tao hasn't forgotten it!
Pick up the damaged peaches and put them in the pot, and the spring peaches start to wash again.
Zhou Kuiruo understood that Chun Tao was a little embarrassed, so he stopped teasing her, and sat in Aunt Zhou's position just now to help wash it together.
"It is said that the gentleman is far away from cooking, but you don't care about this."
"If I cook far away, the people in the village may not know what to say about me!"
"Didn't you say you don't have to care about the gossip of the people in the village?"
"What the hell are you going to do here?"
"Who are you talking to at the foot of the mountain today?"
"You care about me?" Zhou Kuiruo didn't mention the afternoon's events, and was stunned to change a question that Chun Tao was not easy to answer.
Chun Tao didn't answer directly, "Actually, I saw it halfway up the mountain, it seems to be an old man living in a bamboo forest." ”
"Yes!" Now that he saw it, Zhou Kuiruo generously admitted it. "And what are you doing here?"
Zhou Kuiruo admitted it so happily, Chun Tao didn't want to ask anymore. "Make peach juice, peach marinade."
With the hot water left in the pot just now, Chun Tao put the crockpot in it, threw the whole peach into it, and took a wooden stick that he found out of nowhere and kept stirring it.
"You can help me get some firewood." Chun Tao made Zhou Kuiruo more and more proficient.
The flesh of the peaches was almost mashed, and the spring peaches added sugar to the crockpot and continued to boil until the firewood was extinguished.
After it cooled down, Chun Tao asked Zhou Kuiruo to help carry the crockpot down.
"Where do you put this?"
"Put it in a cool place, and after four or five days, filter out the skin and core, and seal it for more than 20 days."
"Then I'll put it for you."