Chapter 122: Picking persimmons and cooking taro rice
The persimmon tree is not very tall, on a small piece of excess soil slope, it is considered to be a seam and a needle planted two, and it looks like there is no big tree, and the number of years that should be planted is not very long.
But there are a lot of persimmons growing on it, all of them are fist-size, full of branches, and some of them are already a little red, it seems that there is no less fertilization, and the management is in place.
Ye Yaodong looked up at it, "So many, where is this little sack enough!"
"That's enough, you can hang these on the tree for a few more days, and if you pick too much at once, they'll be ripe through, and they'll spoil if you can't finish eating. The fruits we have here are not valuable, and when the persimmons are ripe, they are easy to crush and are not easy to sell."
"In previous years, most of them picked and dried persimmon cakes, which can also be sold for some money, or pickled to make crispy persimmons, and adults and children in the family also like to eat pickled persimmons."
"The typhoon was knocked out a lot in the first two days, otherwise there were even more. Pick a little bit back to pickle it today, and when you leave the day after tomorrow, let you take it back, and then I will get up early and pick a little raw for you to bring back, whether it is soft persimmons or dried persimmon cakes."
The old man is too thoughtful!
The persimmon cake is good, and it can be used as a snack at sea. Pickled persimmons Ye Yaodong also likes, no one in their village can do it, they are all directly picked and ripened into soft persimmons, and there are people pickled on his father-in-law's side, and they are often sent to them in previous years.
"We don't need too much, just bring a few pounds."
"It's okay to pick more, we don't need money for our own things, we can't eat them all, and few people want to send them, and the whole village grows them."
"Hehe, pick first, pick first, a few rabbit cubs can't wait to jump up and down to climb the tree", Ye Yaodong hurriedly went over and hugged the eldest son who was climbing on the tree, "It's going to fall, you just wait under the tree, I'll throw it down for you to pick it up later."
As he spoke, he climbed the tree with his hands and feet, he hadn't climbed a tree for decades, and his skills were not yet rusty.
He stood firmly on the trunk of the tree, broke off a branch, and then plucked the persimmon and carefully threw it at his son's feet.
"Huh? Daddy, it's broken!"
"Cracked?"
He was so careful that it cracked.
"Then I'll lower it a little and throw it in the grass."
He picked three more at once and put them in the palm of his hand, then squatted down to lower his weight and gently threw them into the grass.
"It's not broken now!"
"That's good."
Father Lin stood under the tree and picked it, and handed it to a few children to put in a sack, while the two eldest brothers went to another tree to pick it.
The three little children were like industrious little bees, running around as porters, and they were having a lot of fun, and their faces were red and fluttering.
But at some point, the ground was full of persimmons, and no one picked them up, and Father Lin picked them were temporarily thrown on the ground.
Ye Yaodong stood on the tree and looked around for a while, only to find that Ye Chenghu ran to the grapefruit tree next to him at some point, dragging a branch with grapefruit growing on it and throwing it there.
This bunny!
"Ye Chenghu, get me back to work, what are you going to do there?"
….
"Oh, here we are."
He trotted over again, and when he stepped on the dirt slope, he accidentally slipped a little, and the whole person lay on the dirt slope and ate a mouthful of dirt.
"Bah, Bah, Bah......"
"Hahaha~My cousin is a fool~"
"You're stupid, I'm just careless, phew~"
"You're stupid!"
The three children were childishly scolding there, but Ye Yaodong was too lazy to care, so he didn't run around.
He bent down the branches and picked everything he could reach, and in other high places, he could only count on the long hook on his uncle's side.
Jumped down and picked up the persimmons all over the ground into the sack first, and after picking it up, he looked at half a bag
Finish.
"How many have you picked there?" There's half a bag here, don't pick too much and don't have enough to fit."
The two brothers-in-law also stopped when they heard this, and after they put all the persimmons they picked in, they were almost seven or eight points full, and everyone just stopped.
lest you pick too much, and the rope will not be easy to tie.
Several children felt a little unsatisfied, Ye Chenghu saw that he was going back, and reluctantly said, "We have only been out for a while, are we going back?" Why not play a little longer? When can I pick it again? Can I pick the grapefruit over there? I want to eat yuzu!"
"As long as you can get up the morning after tomorrow, I will bring you to pick it again, the grapefruit is not ripe yet, and it will be next month."
"Oh yes yes yes ~ I'm sure I can get up! Then we'll come back the day after tomorrow."
Ye Chenghu happily jumped directly from the dirt slope, and he was not afraid of falling!
The other two boys did the same, jumping down one after another, and it was too late to stop them.
"Grandpa, Dad, we'll come and pick it the day after tomorrow."
"I'll talk about it when you can get up."
Father Lin tied up the sack with a rope, and was about to carry it himself, but was stopped by Ye Yaodong, he lifted the bag, tried the weight, and originally wanted to help carry it.
As a result, he was snatched away by his eldest brother, and he couldn't help but say that he carried it directly on his shoulder, "This is still a little heavy, I'll just come."
Ye Yaodong had no choice but to follow behind, looking at Ye Chenghu by the way, saving him from walking without a trace.
But he didn't look at it, but he ran to a vegetable field at the foot of the mountain with a few rows of ear peas, and picked up a large handful of ear peas.
Children are cheap!
If this is from his own village, Ye Yaodong may be able to cover for his son, but this is his father-in-law's family, so it is not good to be ashamed to throw people here.
He quickly stopped with a headache, "Other people's beans, you don't owe it, you will be beaten when you are caught!"
"Isn't it my grandfather's?"
"It's planted by my grandfather, you can pick it casually, cook taro rice at night after picking it, plant some taro at the back door of the house, and hoe it when you go back." Father Lin said with a smile, it is rare for a son-in-law to come to the door, and he must be entertained well.
"Whoa~ I want to eat taro rice, I like taro rice the most."
Taro rice is also called salty rice locally!
On the Double Ninth Festival in September, their custom here is to climb the high picnic to cook taro rice to eat, and now it is not far away, and when you go back, you can cut a little pork belly and cook taro rice to eat.
In the past, it was sweet potato shredded porridge every day, and everyone could only eat it once during the Double Ninth Festival in September, so now they should eat it in advance.
….
When the other two children heard that they could pick the boiled taro rice, they rushed up in a hurry, for fear of falling behind.
"My family, you pick less, I want to pick more."
"It was my grandfather who planted it, and you didn't plant it, so much, you pick yours, I pick mine......
"That's our family too!"
"It's my grandfather's!"
"You're not from our family......
"Yes...... You can only pick a little bit, the beans were planted by my grandfather, my father and my second uncle, and it has nothing to do with you......
The three boys picked beans with an uneven division of labor, and they quarreled, don't look at their young age, they are all well organized.
Ye Chenghu was squeezed by the two cousins and was angry that he didn't pick it, looking at the cabbage growing in the vegetable field next to him, he simply put the ear peas on the ground and ran to pull the cabbage.
But where is the Chinese cabbage so easy to pull, everyone has always used a knife to cut at the root, he is still holding a Chinese cabbage, using the strength of milk to pull out the young and young there, it looks a little funny, and it is not a radish to pull.
The other two boys did the same, but all three of them overtried and fell to the ground.
Several adults hurriedly stepped forward to pick them up, patted the soil on their bodies, and saw that they had not played enough and had to pull out, so they hurriedly stopped. It's okay to play, but it's not wasteful, it's enough to eat for two days, and you can't eat cabbage all the time.
he
Only then did they pout, holding the cabbage and turning back one step at a time.
"Grandpa, do you still plant anything in your family? Do you need to pick it up?" After speaking, without waiting for Father Lin's reply, he said again, "Dad, grandpa's fruit mountain is so fun, let's pick it again tomorrow, shall we?"
Ye Yaodong patted the back of his head and took the cabbage in his hand, "I don't have anything to pick for you, I'll pick some persimmons the day after tomorrow and go back."
The wrinkles at the end of Father Lin's eyes narrowed into a line, "Haven't you picked enough?" Then you just stay for a few months, and I will take you up the mountain every day. If you want to pick it tomorrow, I will take you to pick pumpkins, artemisia, and by the way, pick a little more sweet potato leaves and feed them to the pigs."
"Okay, good~yesyesyes~I'll have fun again tomorrow~" Ye Chenghu jumped three feet high excitedly.
"Go back, play with the dirt, it's time to scold your mother when you go back."
"I can say that my dad took me to play! It's good to let my mother scold you, what does my little child know?"
The old man and the brother-in-law laughed, "It's quite clever."
Ye Yaodong rolled his eyes, he didn't know, it turned out that his eldest son seemed to be quite smart, right? also knows that let him take the pot, and he can talk in a set.
"Believe it or not, your mother didn't beat you, I'll beat you first? Give me an honest home, and if I get into trouble again, I will take off my pants and beat me up first."
"Slightly~"
Ye Chenghu was not afraid at all, and ran forward with a grimace.
Father Lin hurriedly chased after him, for fear that the child would run away and fall, and the old people were all relatives of the next generation.
There are many people and there is a lot of strength, and it didn't take long to be on the mountain, but it was quite late when they went, and when they returned to Lin's father's house, it was already past four o'clock, and Lin's mother began to be busy with dinner.
There are more guests at home, and they must be well prepared, so for this reason, Mother Lin killed a chicken.
When they came back, she was defeathering the chickens, and Lin Xiuqing and her two sisters-in-law were also helping to pick vegetables and wash taro.
Originally, I planned to cook the taro directly, and eat it after it was cooked, peel the skin and dip it in fish sauce, but when she saw them picking the ear peas and coming back, Mother Lin immediately changed her mind, and just went to the village to kill Zhu Bin and bought a leftover pork belly.
Taro rice is also their local specialty, the pork belly is cut into small thin strips, put some minced ginger in the pot to fry the oil, and then pour the taro and ear beans cut into small pieces and fry them, then put some shrimp, put the flavor, put the washed rice, stir-fry and add water to spread the ingredients, and then wait for it to be cooked.
Super fragrant!
You can also add some dried scallops, oysters and so on depending on the situation.
Ye Yaodong sat at the door and chatted with his neighbors and his father-in-law's family, asking about the autumn harvest some time ago, and how many fruit trees were planted this year......
As he spoke, he smelled the smell of taro rice in the house......
Back to 1982 small fishing village.
A glass of iced lemonade reminds you: remember to collect [] w w w.. com, next time I update you to continue reading, look forward to the wonderful continue! You can also use the mobile version: wap... com, you can read it anytime, anywhere....