When the tables and chairs came, Qi Ning asked Zhu to sit down and count them one by one. Three hundred and twenty acres of land were snatched up in less than an hour. Only Sister-in-law Zhu didn't rent it, and she had already rented ten acres of paddy land by herself, so she really couldn't do much. Even Zhu Datou rented ten acres.

Sending Zhu Xiuwen back to the city, Qi Ning asked Handong to call Qi Zhong to help move the luggage and bedding to the bamboo house, she planned to live here with Handong for a while and have a good rest.

A few days later, Qi Ning, who had breakfast, was drinking tea on the terrace in front of the bamboo house, and Han Dong, who went down the mountain to get bamboo shoots, came over to show her the basket happily: "Girl, the crab that Zhu Shufang's son touched gave us half a basket." ”

Qi Ning looked at the large and small crabs in the basket, and suddenly remembered the drunken crabs made by his grandmother before: "You drink some water, and then ask the children in the village if they can catch it, I want to collect them for a catty of five wen for a bigger one." But be sure to let them stay safe and don't go to the river in the depths of the water. ”

"When it comes to eating, the girl is the second, and no one dares to say the first." Han Dong smiled, put down the basket, poured the bamboo shoots he was carrying on the edge of the spring, and went.

"Stinky girl, you learned to make fun of me." Qi Ning carried the basket and washed the crab roe by the spring water, put everything in the middle, put it in the jar, put a layer of crab roe, a layer of green pepper and green onions, and finally put fine salt and sugar, some ginger, poured rice wine, covered the jar and put it in the shade of the shed.

Qi Ning was ready, and Han Dong came back with a little nose: "It's so fishy." ”

"Now you say fishy, you will watch me eat it when you eat it in a few days, don't be greedy." Qi Ning pinched Han Dong's little nose with a hand full of crab roe.

"Girl, you're going to bully people."

"Okay, okay, I won't tease you, did you tell the children?"

"Say it, if you catch them, send them in." Han Dong took the basin to the spring to wash clothes.

Qi Ning went to the duckshed to find Qi Zhong and asked him to use some bamboo to open the joints and lead some spring water to the roadside canal at the bottom of the mountain, and build it with stones, so that those in the village who are willing to drink the spring water can pick it up. If you can't drink it, you will water the ground.

"If you want me to say that there is no place in the world to find such a kind owner as girl, you are, we can follow you is really a blessing in the previous life."

"Alright, stop, let's go. I'll go see your daughter-in-law. Qi Ning carried a bag of brown sugar down the mountain and went to Qi Zhong's house.

Qi Ning knocked on the door for a long time, but no one answered, she pushed open the hidden courtyard door, and Qiao Niang came out from behind: "The girl is here, I just worked in the back." ”

"Don't do too tiring work with your body, take care of it, and when you are about to give birth, I will let your mother-in-law serve you." Qi Ning sat on a small stool in the courtyard and handed the brown sugar to Qiao Niang: "I'll use it in a few days, just say what you don't need, and I'll buy it for you." ”

"Girl, sit down for a while, I'll wash some plums for you." Qiao Niang went to the house and brought a basin of plums to wash, and put a stool in front of Qi Ning.

Qi Ning looked at the red plum, and suddenly a stream of sour water surged in his mouth: "Sour or not?" ”

"It's not sour, girl. I went to the mountain behind us the other day to pick it up. ”

Qi Ning took a small bite gently: "It's really not sour, it's delicious." ”

"The girl likes to eat, I'll pick more for you."

"Don't, you can't go right now, you can't eat much of this now. Just pick plums and I'll go with Handong. ”

Qi Ning ate three or four plums and didn't dare to eat them anymore, as the old saying goes: peaches raise people, apricots hurt people, and bury dead people under plum trees. It is said that plums are warm in nature, and excessive consumption can cause fever and sweating.

Asked Qiao Niang to ask for two bamboo baskets Qi Ning carried up the mountain on his back, and called Shang Handong to go to the mountain behind him from the back door of the fence, the mountain was rich in vegetation, many unknown wild fruits, and Qi Ning who didn't know didn't dare to eat it, so he picked the plums he knew, apricots and peaches that he picked two big baskets, but the two of them couldn't carry them, and they reluctantly threw some away, so they reluctantly returned to the bamboo house.

After resting for a while, he sent Han Dong to tell Zhu Xiuwu that when he went to pull the wine lees tomorrow, he would go to Wu's shop to buy fifty twenty-pound jars and one hundred ten-pound jars and come back.

Early the next morning, Qi Ning came in and called her before Han Dong got up: "Girl, the children in the village are all here with crab roe, there are too many, I guess we can't finish eating." ”

"Silly girl, if you can't finish eating, you won't put it in the shop to sell." Qi Ning hurriedly got up and washed his face, and seven or eight half-sized children outside the door were waiting under the bamboo bushes with baskets and baskets.

"Handong, go to the duck shed and get the scale."

Qi Ning just looked at them one by one, and there were not many, but they were not small.

"Girl from the owner, we chose the big one to send it, and the small one to eat for ourselves." Zhu Wanfu's two grandsons both carried baskets.

Han Dong weighed the money one by one, and the total was less than twenty catties.

"Can you catch it?" Qi Ning asked dissatisfied.

"Yes, it's very easy to catch."

"Okay, you keep catching, but you must pay attention to safety, and don't go to deep waters."

"Don't worry, the crab is under the stones by the river, and you can't catch it in the depths."

"Alright, let's all go back." Qi Ning waved his hand.

A group of hairy boys roared down the mountain excitedly with copper plates.

"Girl, you didn't say you wanted to make fruit wine, why didn't you ask them to pick it?"

"The road in the mountains is not easy to walk, and if there are wild things, it will be troublesome. Children cannot be allowed to go. ”

"The girl is good to people and thinks about others everywhere, but in fact, the children in the mountains are not afraid of those at all."

"Are you afraid I'll tell you to pick it again, little lazy cat."

"Girl, people just can't carry it." Han Dong twisted his body and was coquettish.

In the afternoon, Zhu Xiuwu got all the wine lees ready, carried the jar and sent it up, and sent it back and forth with Qi Zhong seven or eight times before it was finished.

Qi Ning instructed Zhu Xiuwu to take a few bamboo baskets and follow him to the back mountain, Qi Ning and Han Dong picked them, and let Zhu Xiuwu carry them down one by one.

After picking the nearby mountains for two days in a row, Qi Ning and Handong were so tired that they couldn't stand it, so they had to stop.

Let Zhu Xiuwu go to the village to find a few idle men, and let Zhu Xiuwu take them up the mountain to pick wild fruits from tomorrow, whether it is apricots, plums, or peaches, all of them will cost three cents per catty, and the mountain grapes will be picked back when they are ripe in a few days. Billed daily.

I went to the bottom of the mountain and told my sister-in-law Zhu that she would come up every day to help weigh and wash the fruits, and give her twenty yuan a day.

Qi Ning got up early in the morning and took Handong and Sister-in-law Zhu to wash all the fruits by the spring and dry them on the terrace.

Then cut and pickled the crab roe soaked in the spring water in a bamboo basket, and these days can collect more than ten or twenty catties of crab roe every day, Qi Ning repeatedly told the children to pay attention to safety, gave them the copper plate, and each gave a basket of wild fruits to send them back.

A few children called their friends home to ask for credit.

Qi Ning told Zhu Xiuwu to bring back thirty packs of dim sum the next time he went to the city and distribute them to the children in the village. These children think that they rarely get snacks or anything like that.

When the moisture on the fruit was dried, Qi Ning and Handong washed it and crushed the fruit one by one, and put it in the jar separately, with a layer of fruit and a layer of sugar.

It was sealed and placed in the shed behind the house. Although she believes that Sister-in-law Zhu will not leak secrets, the process of making wine also avoids her, after all, human nature cannot stand up to consideration. A few geese paced over in square steps, tilting their heads to see Qi Ning working.

Qi Ning smiled and threw them a few fruits: "These geese have become refined, and every time there is something delicious, they all come running." ”

When Handong was cooking in the evening, Qi Ning took out a few drunken crabs and washed them, then poured a little vinegar and soy sauce, sprinkled with some shredded green onions, and brought them to the table.

Han Dong saw Qi Ning licking his fingers vigorously, swallowed his meal and asked, "Girl, is it delicious?" ”

"It's delicious, fragrant and spicy. If there are dried chili peppers and sesame seeds fried into oil, sprinkle some more delicious, but unfortunately, some people are fishy. Qi Ning deliberately smacked a few times.

"Girl, you'll make fun of me." Han Dong swallowed saliva with chopsticks.

"Eat, little gluttonous cat, more gluttonous than an iron bull." Qi Ning took a courier to her bowl.

Han Dong hurriedly picked it up and tasted it: "Well, it's delicious." It turned out that there was a river in our hometown, and my father often took my younger brother to catch fish, and these crabs were too hard and meatless to take back, so they dried them and fed them to chickens and ducks. ”

"Tyrannical creatures." Qi Ning glanced at her.