If you don't work hard to farm the fields, you will inherit the throne with the prince.

Chapter 78 Fun Arithmetic
Xie Mingzhu first went to check her nursery.

Not a single sprout came out.

And of course, no critters to move your own nursery.

When Xie Mingzhu left, she carefully closed the gate of the fence.

The honeysuckle that had been planted on the roadside were all alive, and even grew a lot taller.

Xie Mingzhu found Liu Guizhi, and the two of them walked into the deep mountains with a basket on their backs.

After walking for about half an hour, Xie Mingzhu and Liu Guizhi found a wild apricot tree.

Apricot trees with thick mouths grow in a lush forest.

Yellow wild apricots hang tremblingly on the branches.

"Sister-in-law, wait a minute!"

Liu Guizhi was stunned for a moment, and asked, "Mingzhu, what's wrong with you?"

"It's wild apricot, isn't it?"

Liu Guizhi nodded and said, "I can't eat it, it's very sour."

"Eatable."

Xie Mingzhu is really greedy. She has been here for so long, and she hasn't eaten any fruit yet.

Even if wild apricot is sour, it is still a fruit.

"Sister-in-law, I want to eat."

Liu Guizhi said very straightforwardly: "Okay, you wait, I will pick it!"

Unlike Xie Mingzhu who was not familiar with the climbing posture, Liu Guizhi climbed the tree extremely fast, and he climbed to the tree in the blink of an eye.

"Sister-in-law, you throw it, I'll pick it up."

Liu Guizhi quickly picked up the apricots and threw them into Xie Mingzhu's arms.

Xie Mingzhu caught it quickly, took a bite, her round face wrinkled into a ball with soreness, but she still didn't spit it out.

The apricots on the wild apricot tree are all ripe.

Xie Mingzhu wanted it, but Liu Guizhi didn't keep it, but picked all the apricots!
Apricots are small in size and look good, but they are actually very sour.

Xie Mingzhu is not afraid of sourness at all, add some sugar, make it into apricot jam, and eat it with steamed bun slices, not too delicious!
The two picked wild apricots and dug some herbs before walking slowly towards the academy.

When the two of Xie Mingzhu returned to the academy, it happened to be the end of the morning class. Xie Mingzhu put down the backpack in the wild apricot, and said to the students: "Students, it's time to test the knowledge you have learned. Everyone line up to receive Wild apricot."

When the students heard that there were apricots available, they lined up happily.

"Count from 1 to 10, and those who can count correctly will get a few apricots."

These days, the children don't have any snacks. If it wasn't for the wild apricot tree in the deep mountains, Xie Mingzhu probably wouldn't have had something to eat.

"1, 3."

Xie Mingzhu smiled and said: "It's 1, 2, 3, you only get 1 right, and you get an apricot."

The next classmate was Xie Zhiqin. Xie Zhiqin listened very carefully when Xie Mingzhu was in class.

“1、2 、3、4、5、6、7、8、9、10。”

Xie Mingzhu was taken away by Xie Zhiqin who counted ten apricots.

So did the rest of the students.

Some can count 1, 2, 3.

Some are only 1, 2.

There are rewards and punishments.

Xie Mingzhu clearly rewards and punishes.

She looked at the smiling faces of the children in front of her, and said softly: "Students, this is the first arithmetic fun class, and we will hold fun classes like this in the future. Students who take the class seriously will get unexpected rewards." Reward."

"Wow……"

"Grandma, is this true?"

Xie Mingzhu looked at the little girl who called her aunt, and said softly: "It's true, but in the academy, you should call me Mr. Xie uniformly. Now go home and tell your parents to ask them to come to you during class in the afternoon. Go to the academy for the first parent-teacher meeting."

"Good~"

"Good~"

The children held the apricots and rushed back to their home.

Seeing that there were so many apricots left, Xie Mingzhu and Liu Guizhi went to the stream with a basket on their backs, washed the fine fluff on the apricots with clean water, and picked out the apricot stalks and broken apricots.

There are many apricots.

Just making apricot jam is not enough, Xie Mingzhu also wants to make some snacks.

After thinking about it, she can make preserved apricots.

For preserved apricots, it's not that complicated.

Xie Mingzhu divided the selected apricots into two.

Half plan to make apricot jam and the other half can be preserved apricots.

She soaked the apricots that needed to be preserved in light salt water.

The apricots for making apricot jam were dried in the bamboo basket, cut into small pieces with a knife, and put into the wooden basin.

After a while, a small wooden basin full of them was cut.

She also bought some white sugar from Qiangguo Mall. In order not to conflict with this world, the white sugar was packed in a sealed clay pot.

Xie Mingzhu added sugar to the wooden basin, mixed it well with a wooden spoon, put it into a small clay pot, and put it on the fire to simmer slowly.

After simmering for a while, the sugar melted and became one with the apricot flesh.

The air is filled with the sweetness of apricot jam.

"Little aunt, what are you doing?" Xie Zhiqin asked.

Xie Mingzhu dipped a little bit with her finger, fed it into Xie Zhiqin's mouth, and asked softly, "Is it sweet?"

Xie Zhiqin smiled and said, "Sweet."

"There will be sweeter ones in a while."

After the apricot flesh and sugar in the jar fused together and became thick, Xie Mingzhu removed the clay pot and put it aside to cool.

She fished out the apricots soaked in salt water, drained them, and broke them into two pieces.

Put water in another earthen pot, add apricot meat and sugar, and stir slowly.

When the apricot flesh becomes translucent, take it out and drain the juice.

Put in a small bamboo sieve.

Just at this time, Mrs. Zhao didn't use the stove anymore, so Xie Mingzhu simply turned the fire in the stove to both sides.

Put the drained dried fruits neatly on a clean wooden board, put them into the stove, and dry them with the residual heat in the stove.

"Zhiqin, Zhiqi, take the apricot stones under the water, wash them, and dry them in the sun."

The wisdom of foodies is infinite.

There are ways to eat pulp, and there are ways to eat almonds.

However, Xie Mingzhu is not going to crack open the apricot core to take out the almonds today, but is going to use the apricot core as a teaching tool for arithmetic class.

There are ten students for each student, which can make the boring arithmetic class interesting.

"Okay, aunt~"

The two children went to wash the apricot stones.

Xie Mingzhu added boiled water to the boiled apricot juice to make a sweet and sour drink.

"Qin Che, try this."

Xie Mingzhu first gave Zhao Shi and Liu Guizhi a bowl, and then took another bowl to Qin Che in the study.

Qin Che tasted it, it was sour and sweet, and the taste was very good.

"Mingzhu, it's delicious!"

Xie Mingzhu smiled and said, "There are even better soft drinks!"

Xie Mingzhu suddenly thought that she had watched a short video, using pine needles to add water and sugar, you can make sparkling water!

She wants to try too.

Summer is suitable for drinking ice cold sparkling water.

Xie Mingzhu sighed again, it would be great if it was in the capital, she can still make ice, and the ice she makes can also be sold for money.

"I'll wait for you to make a better soda."

"Wait, I promise you will like it."

After lunch, Mrs. Zhao and Liu Guizhi took Xie Zhiqin and Xie Zhiqi to take a lunch break.

Xie Mingzhu and Qin Che were also going to take a lunch break. Xie Mingzhu had just fallen asleep when she heard the sound of horseshoes...

(End of this chapter)