Chapter 373 Drunk
Chen Xuhui led everyone back along the same route, and picked wild fruits like loquats, plums, green plums, apricots, etc., all filled with cloth bags. The group carried large and small cloth bags and packed them back with loads of bags.
When I got home, I took out all the bayberry in my backpack. In fact, I saw that there were a lot of baskets, but I didn’t think much was poured out.
Mu Xiu took out some bayberry and soaked it in salt water for a while. If there were small insects inside, they would run out after soaking like this.
But the bayberry is not easy to preserve, and Mu Xiu is going to try to make the remaining fruit into candied fruits, which can be delivered to the snack shop for a while.
Mu Xiu first picked out the bayberry that was bitten by insects or pecked by birds, and had badly grown bayberry. The remaining bayberry with good quality was simply washed away the dust with water, put it in boiling water and rolled it, then took it out and put it on a bamboo sieve to dry it.
After these bayberry is processed, Muxiu began to process other fruits. The loquat is a bit sour and astringent, and the taste is not very good. Muxiu directly makes loquat paste, and the apricot tastes pretty good. Stay it as a fruit to eat. Green plums can be made into green plum wine, green plum sauce, and crisp green plums can also be made into green plum vinegar, which will remove the fishy smell and bring a refreshing fragrance.
Zhou Shuilian made a move aside, watching Mu Xiu sort all kinds of wild fruits, remove the kernels, pickle them or steam them. She was so dazzling and stunned. After Mu Xiu finished all of them, she exclaimed: "Xiu, you all learned from books?"
"Yes, there are many recipes in the book. If you look at it more, you will know everything." Mu Xiu glanced at Zhou Shuilian and continued: "Mom, you go into the house to rest. I can finish these Chinese toons alone."
Yesterday, when Mu Xiu transplanted the toon tree, she picked a lot of toons. Now she saw that the toon buds were a little scarred and needed to make them quickly.
"I put all these in the cellar first, the temperature is low there." Zhou Shuilian said, looking at the pile of bottles and jars on the ground.
Mu Xiu nodded, turned around and began to drain the Chinese toon water, took it out and placed it next to drain the water.
Here, put the disinfected jar on the steamer, wipe it clean with clean gauze, then spread a layer of Chinese toon, sprinkle an appropriate amount of salt, and spread it layer by layer. Repeat this process until the jar is full and sealed. In just one week, the Chinese toon pickles will be prepared.
On weekdays, it is stored in the cellar at low temperature. When you need to eat, take it out, wash it with clean water and chop it up, add soy sauce, vinegar, sugar, etc. and season it slightly. If you drink porridge, it will be very delicious in the noodles. If you want to eat, you will be served.
In the following time, every two days, everyone would go up the mountain to pick bayberry together, and all the green plums, apricots and loquats were picked back. All the Muxiu bayberry was made into candied fruits, and the remaining fruits were made into candied fruits, fruit wine and fruit vinegar.
Mu Xiu dug two small fruit saplings on the mountain and brought them back and planted them on the ground. After all, you cannot plant too many fruit trees in the yard, otherwise too many roots will affect the foundation.
"Have you not done your job yet?" Xu Yan asked impatiently as she looked at Li Xingzhi, who was drinking wine with her legs crossed her legs at home.
"I will be notified after it is done. It's a matter of time. Don't worry." Li Xingzhi lowered his head guiltily.
"It's been more than a month, and I don't have any letter at all. Could it be someone else who coaxed you?" Xu Yan began to walk around the house impatiently.
"How is that possible? No, don't worry." Li Xingzhi said as he poured another glass of wine.
"Drink, drink, drink to death, I'm so relieved. At most, half a month, if there is no news, I will give me the money back. Have you heard of it? The surname Li?" Xu Yan slapped the table vigorously.
Li Xingzhi felt even more depressed. He nodded and drank the wine.
In the evening, Li Xingzhi, who was drunk, returned to his home in the village staggeringly. As soon as he entered the house, he heard Li Hu asking Zhao Xiaoqin.
"Grandma, why don't my father go home every day? I haven't seen him do so many farm work in the fields." After Li Hu came back this time, he suddenly discovered many things he had not paid attention to.
For example, why did you have to do things when you were in the Mu family, no matter how old or old, even Mu Xiaohua was under 2 years old, put all the shoes of adults in the family neatly. But at his own home, from what he remembered, it seemed that everyone would wait for their mother and sister to do it when they returned home...
After my mother left, my grandmother and grandfather came to work at home, but the house was no longer as clean and refreshing as before. The food was not delicious and the room was dirty. I used to hold his intimate father when I came back, but now I always get angry at him when I come back.
Especially after marrying his stepmother, his father treated him worse and worse. He even beat him a few days ago... This is the first time he was beaten by his father since he can remember...
"Your father is a man, he is a man who does big things, how can he go to the field? It's all because of this policy. It's so good to earn work points in the past, and he had to do some distribution of land to households, forcing us to go to the field to work when we are old." Zhao Xiaoqin said angrily.
Since the implementation of the distribution of land to households, many people have chosen to plant their own responsible fields. In the past, Zhao Xiaoqin and Li Fengshou relied on Li Xingzhi's position and were both doing leisurely jobs with full work points. Now, after the distribution of the fields, they can only work hard on their own. Mu Xiaoshu is gone again, and the new daughter-in-law is even more unlucky. Zhao Xiaoqin has been very tired in the past two years.
"Is my dad doing a big deal? Is it like my mom doing big things?"
"Bah, what's your mother doing a big thing? A little nose and little eyes don't know a rural woman. She deserves to compete with your father? I tell you, just a person who is unfilial and unconscience like your mother will die sooner or later." Zhao Xiaoqin immediately cursed when she heard Li Hu mention Mu Xiaoshu.
"Then why is our life not as good as my mother's side? My mother has a two-story house, a tractor, a bicycle, and a cow..." Li Hu thought of these rare things in the Mu family, and his tone was full of doubts.
"Your mother's life is so good, she didn't say she wants you. If you really want your life there, then you go to your mother's place. No one stops you, your mother doesn't want you anymore. You still think of her. You are such a slut!" Li Xingzhi couldn't listen outside, so he pushed open the door angrily and yelled at Li Hu.
Li Hu was so scared that he shivered all over and immediately crawled into Zhao Xiaoqin's arms. Zhao Xiaoqin hugged Li Hu's head and said dissatisfiedly to Li Xingzhi: "I won't come back for a few days, and I will get angry at Huzi as soon as I come back. What are you doing?"
Chapter completed!