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  Chapter 123 Picking persimmons and cooking taro rice

  The persimmon trees are not too tall. On a small piece of extra soil slope, I planted two persimmon trees. They don’t look very big, and the planting years should not be very long.

  But there are quite a lot of persimmons growing on them. They are all the size of a fist, and they are covered with branches.

  Ye Yaodong raised his head and looked, "There are so many, how can this small sack be enough!"

"Enough, these can hang on the tree for a few more days. If you pick too much at once, they will be overripe, and they will go bad if you don't eat them all. The fruits here are worthless, and the persimmons are easy to crush when they are ripe. , not easy to sell."

   "In previous years, most of them were picked and used to dry persimmon cakes. This can also be sold for some money, or pickled to make crispy persimmons. Adults and children in the family also like to eat pickled persimmons."

"Two days ago, the typhoon knocked out a lot, or more. Today, I will pick some and go back to marinate. When you leave the day after tomorrow, I will let you take it back. At that time, I will get up early and pick some raw ones for you to take back. It can be soft persimmons or dried persimmon cakes.”

  My father-in-law is too thoughtful!

   Persimmon cakes are good, you can go to sea as a snack. Ye Yaodong also likes pickled persimmons. No one in his village knows how to make them. They just pick them and ripen them into soft persimmons. Only his father-in-law's family picks them. They often give them away in previous years.

   "We don't need too much, just bring a few catties."

   "It's okay to pick more. We don't need money for our own things, and we can't eat them all. Few people want to give them away. The whole village grows."

"Hehe, pick first and pick first, these **** can't wait to jump up and down to climb the tree." Ye Yaodong hurried over and hugged the eldest son who was climbing on the tree, "I will fall, you guys are waiting under the tree , I’ll throw it down for you to pick up later.”

   As he spoke, he quickly climbed up the tree. He hadn't climbed a tree in decades, and his skills were not unfamiliar.

  He stood firmly on the tree trunk, broke off a branch, picked the persimmons, and carefully threw them at his son's feet.

   "Huh? Dad, it broke!"

"Cracked?"

  He was very careful, and it even cracked.

   "Then I'll lower it a bit later and throw it into the grass."

  He picked three more and put them in the palm of his hand, then squatted down to lower his center of gravity, and gently threw them into the grass.

   "It's not broken now!"

"Well."

  Father Lin stood under the tree and picked them. After picking them, he handed them to several children and asked them to put them in sacks, while the two uncles ran to another tree to pick them.

  The three little kids are like hardworking bees, running around in front of the porters, and having a great time playing, their faces are flushed when they run.

  But at some point, the ground was covered with persimmons and no one picked them up. Father Lin also threw the persimmons on the ground temporarily.

  Ye Yaodong stood on the tree and looked around, only to find that Ye Chenghu ran to the grapefruit tree next to him at some point, and swung a branch with grapefruit there.

  This bastard!

   "Ye Chenghu, get the **** out of here and go back to work, what are you doing there?"

   "Oh, here we come."

  He trotted over again, and accidentally slipped while stepping on the dirt slope. The whole person lay on the dirt **** and ate a mouthful of dirt.

   "Bah bah bah..."

   "Hahaha~ my cousin is an idiot~"

   "You are the idiots, I was just careless, bah bah~"

   "You're an idiot!"

  The three children were arguing childishly there, Ye Yaodong didn't bother to care about it, as long as they didn't run around.

  He bent down and plucked the branches that he could reach. For the other high places that he couldn't pick, he could only rely on the long hooks of his uncle.

  Jumped down, picked up the persimmons all over the floor and put them into the sack, half of the bag was gone.

   "How much did you pick there? There's half a bag here, don't pick too much to fit."

  The two brothers-in-law also stopped when they heard the words, and after putting all the persimmons they picked in, it was almost seven or eight points full, so everyone just stopped.

   In order not to pick too much, the rope is not easy to tie.

Seeing that they were going back, Ye Chenghu reluctantly said, "Aren't we going back soon after we come out? Don't we want to play a little longer? When can we pick them again? Is it possible?" Go pick grapefruit over there? I want to eat grapefruit!"

   "As long as you can wake up the morning after tomorrow, I will bring you to pick it again. The grapefruit is not yet ripe, and it will be next month."

   "Oh yeah~ I'm sure I can get up! Then we'll come back the day after tomorrow."

  Ye Chenghu happily jumped directly from the slope, not afraid of falling!

  The other two boys followed suit, jumping down one after another, and it was too late to stop them.

   "Grandpa, Dad, we will come to pick them the day after tomorrow."

   "Let's talk about it when you wake up."

  Father Lin **** the sack with a rope, and was about to carry it by himself, but was stopped by Ye Yaodong. He lifted the bag and tried the weight. He originally wanted to help carry it.

   In the end, the uncle snatched it, and he couldn't help but carry it directly on his shoulders, "This one is still a bit heavy, so I'll do it."

  Ye Yaodong had no choice but to follow behind, looking at Ye Chenghu by the way, lest he walk away and disappear.

   But one of them missed him, so he ran to a vegetable field at the foot of the mountain with several ridges of ear beans, and grabbed a large handful of ear beans.

  Children are cheap!

  If this was his own village, Ye Yaodong might be able to provide cover for his son, but this is his father-in-law's family, so it's not easy to shame him here.

  He had a headache and hurriedly stopped, "Don't owe me other people's beans, you will be beaten up if you get caught!"

   "Isn't it from Grandpa's family?"

   "It was planted by grandpa, you can pick it casually, and cook taro rice at night after picking it. I planted some taro at the back door of the house, and **** it when I go back." Father Lin said with a smile, it is rare for the son-in-law to visit, so he must treat him well.

   "Aww~ I want to eat taro rice. I like taro rice the most."

   Taro rice is also called salty rice locally!

  September 9th, the Double Ninth Festival, their custom here is to cook taro rice for a picnic. Now they are not far away.

  Sweet potato shredded rice porridge is usually eaten every day, and everyone can only eat it once during the Double Ninth Festival on September 9, so let’s eat it in advance now.

  When the other two children heard that they could pick and cook taro rice, they rushed forward in a hurry, for fear of falling behind.

   "My family, you pick less, I want to pick more."

   "It was planted by my grandfather, not you, so many, you pick yours, I pick mine..."

   "That belongs to our family too!"

   "It belongs to my grandfather!"

   "You are not from our family..."

   "That's right...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 unevenly, and even quarreled. Regardless of their young age, each of them was still organized.

  Ye Chenghu was so annoyed that he was run on by his two cousins ​​that he stopped picking the cabbage. Looking at the Chinese cabbage growing in the vegetable field next to him, he simply put the ear beans on the ground and ran to pull the cabbage.

But the Chinese cabbage is so easy to pull out. Everyone always cuts it at the root with a knife. He still holds a Chinese cabbage in his arms, and pulls it out with all his strength. It's kind of funny, but it's not about pulling carrots.

  The other two boys saw and followed suit, but all three of them exerted too much force and fell to the ground.

  Several adults hurried forward to pick them up, patted the soil on their bodies, and saw that they hadn't played enough and wanted to pull them out, so they hurriedly stopped. You can play, but you can't waste it. These are enough to eat for two days, and you can't serve cabbage every meal.

  They pouted now, holding the Chinese cabbage and turning around every step of the way.

   "Grandpa, is there anything else growing in your house? Do you need to pick it?" After finishing speaking, before Father Lin replied, he said again, "Father, grandpa's fruit mountain is so fun, shall we pick it again tomorrow?"

  Ye Yaodong patted the back of his head, took the Chinese cabbage in his hand, "I have nothing for you to pick, pick some persimmons the day after tomorrow and go back."

Father Lin smiled and the wrinkles at the end of his eyes narrowed into a line, "Haven't you picked enough yet? Why don't you just stay for a few months and I'll take you up the mountain every day. If you want to pick pumpkins tomorrow, I'll take you to pick pumpkins and chrysanthemums." , by the way, pick some more sweet potato leaves and feed them to the pigs."

   "Okay, okay ~ yayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyahyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy-x t..." Ye Chenghu jumped three feet high excitedly.

   "I'm going back, I'm playing with dirt all over my body, I should call you a mother when I go back."

   "I can say that Dad took me to play! Just let mother scold you, what do I know as a child?"

  My father-in-law and brothers-in-law all laughed, "It's quite clever."

  Ye Yaodong rolled his eyes, he didn't even know, so his eldest son looked smart too? He also knows how to let him take the blame, and he speaks in the same way.

   "Believe it or not, your mother didn't beat you, I'll beat you first? Go home honestly, and if you mess with women, take off your pants and beat you first."

   "Slightly slightly slightly ~"

  Ye Chenghu was not afraid at all, and even made a face and ran forward.

  Father Lin quickly chased after him, fearing that the child would run away and fall, and the elderly are all intergenerational relatives.

  There are many people and strength, and it didn't take long 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 was busy with dinner.

  There are more guests at home, so you must prepare well. For this reason, Lin's mother even killed a chicken.

  When they came back, she was shedding chickens, and Lin Xiuqing and her two sister-in-laws were also helping to pick vegetables and wash taro.

  Originally, she planned to cook the taro directly, peel the skin and dip it in fish sauce to eat, but when she saw that they had picked the ear beans back, Mother Lin changed her mind immediately, and happened to just go to the village butcher Bin to buy a piece of leftover pork belly.

Taro rice is also their local specialty. Pork belly is cut into small thin strips, and some **** is put in the pan to fry the oil, then the taro and ear beans cut into small pieces are poured into the frying pan, and then some shrimps are added. Taste, put the washed rice, stir-fry, add water to cover the ingredients, and then wait for it to cook.

   Super fragrant!

  You can also add some scallops, sea oysters, etc. depending on the situation.

  Ye Yaodong sits at the door and chats with his neighbors and his father-in-law’s family when he has nothing to do. He asks about the autumn harvest some time ago, and how many fruit trees have been planted this year...

   While talking, I could smell the aroma of taro rice in the house...

   Three chapters combined into two chapters.

   You can’t eat persimmons when you eat crabs. The persimmons in the article were picked raw, and they were not eaten right away.

   I went out to play these few days, and I will go back on the 25th-26th to add more updates.

  (end of this chapter)