Farmhouse Pastoral Notes

Chapter 23 Yuan Shi
Since I came back earlier this time, the sun has not yet set.The rest of the family went out except Gu's two sisters-in-law. Chunhua put the things in her hands to the east and ran back to her room. She was hungry and wanted to go back to find her mother to eat.

Chunqiu and Huzi first dumped the two baskets of Polygonum multiflorum in the dustpan, and then went back to Yuan's house, but Chunqiu was still holding the basket in his arms.

"Third Sister, why are you still holding her?" Huzi was a little confused.

"I'll show it to my mother, go and play." Chunqiu couldn't explain it, so he had to find an excuse to dismiss Hu Zi.

"Hey, I'm going to find Goudan, you tell mother." After Huzi finished speaking, he ran away without a trace. Chunqiu looked back at his younger brother who disappeared at the door, a little speechless. After a day's work, he still has so much energy. Goudan is the youngest son of Uncle Wang's family at the west end of their village. He is the same age as Huzi and the others, so they play together every day. It’s good not to have too many classes.

Pushing open the door of their room, Chunqiu saw her mother sitting on the kang, embroidering a pouch with mandarin ducks playing in water, with a serious look, Chunqiu just stood on the ground watching, and didn't make a sound to bother her.

"Niuniu, what's the matter?" Yuan Shi had noticed the little girl beside her a long time ago, but she didn't speak when she came in. What happened?
"It's okay, mother." Chunqiu shook his head.

"Really?" Yuan put down the embroidery in her hands, and looked down at Chunqiu.

"Hey hey hey" Chunqiu smirked.

"Snacks, let's talk." Yuan Shi gave Chunqiu an angry look, is her daughter hungry?

"Mother, look, what is this?" Chunqiu rolled his eyes, picked up the basket under his feet, put it on the edge of the kang, and looked at Yuan Shi with a mysterious face.

Yuan Shi looked at the little girl's appearance, then at the basket wrapped in cloth, looked at the mysterious Spring and Autumn, and raised her eyebrows curiously, "Niu Niu, what good stuff is here?"

"Mother, you'll know when you open it." Chunqiu made Yuan Shi laugh as if you saw it for yourself.

Yuan Shi smiled and stretched out his hand to tear off the cloth in front of him, "What else is there, it's just that you like to eat..." Yuan Shi suddenly got stuck.Then he looked at the tea leaves in front of him with his eyes wide open, a little surprised, this. . .Isn't it tea?How did the girl pick it? Suddenly, a huge question arose in Yuan's heart. She raised her head and looked at the girl in front of her with a serious tone, "Niuniu, tell mother, how do you know this?"

Chunqiu looked at the serious-looking mother in front of her, and it was time to test her acting skills. Chunqiu opened her big cute eyes, and said with the best expression on her face, "Mother, you said it yourself, there are leaves that are very similar to this one in there." Ah, I picked it up and gave it to my mother when I saw it, and I picked the tender ones specially, mother, are you unhappy?" Chunqiu looked at Yuan Shi with a trace of doubt, this was an excuse she had thought all the way, and Yuan Her literacy has long been known in this age, so she believes that Yuan shi will definitely know this tea.

After Yuan Shi heard Chunqiu's explanation, a big smile appeared on the corner of her mouth, and her long-lost peach blossom eyes were rippling, "Mother is so happy." Yuan Shi smiled from ear to ear. Looking through her book, it turned out to be looking at the pictures, but looking at the basket full of top-grade or even top-grade tea in front of her, Yuan Shi was happier. It was all money. But don't worry.

"Well, as long as mother is happy." Chunqiu nodded and clapped his hands in his heart, Yuan's serious face frightened her.

"Come up and sit down!" Yuan Shi pushed the basket aside, and hurriedly pulled the girl who was on the ground up.

"Tell mother, where did you find this thing?" Yuan Shi looked at the ignorant girl in front of her, feeling a little anxious.

Chunqiu said "it's in the back mountain"

"Houshan?" Surprised, Yuan Shi hurriedly said to Chunqiu, "Would you like to take your mother with you tomorrow?"

Chunqiu was a little embarrassed when he heard it. "But I picked all the young leaves and gave them to my mother, why don't we go there in two days." There is nothing to pick now, Chunqiu added in his heart.

When Yuan Shi heard this, she couldn't help but feel annoyed, why did she forget this, or the girl knows better, thinking of this, Yuan Shi looked at Chunqiu with even more light.

"Mother, are these leaves edible?" Chunqiu still interrupted Yuan's gaze, and changed the subject by the way, her mother, hurry up and dry it.

"I can't eat it, but I can drink it." Yuan Shi smiled, why did her daughter want to eat.

"How about drinking it?" Chunqiu praised herself in her heart, she was so witty.

When Yuan Shi heard her daughter's funny question, she blurted out, "Of course, let's dry it first, now..." Yuan Shi said something wrong here, looked down at Chunqiu's clean eyes, and remembered that she hadn't While drying the tea, Yuan Shi patted her head, she was so happy and confused, "Qiuer, you sit in the house, mother, go and dry these tea leaves." Yuan Shi quickly put on the tea without waiting for Chunqiu to answer Shoes ran out, still holding the basket in his hand.

Chunqiu lay on the window sill and looked at Yuan Shi who was not far away, with a big smile on the corner of her mouth, she was so smart.

Yuan took out a small fan from the back room, and then put all the tea leaves picked in Spring and Autumn into the fan, and then began to dry them according to the steps she remembered before.

The picked tea leaves are directly killed, rolled and dried.The taste is fresh and mellow, refreshing and pleasant.

Yuan Shi was the first to put the tea leaves in the sun to dry out the water, and then repeatedly fried them to make tea.

"Mother, what's for dinner?" Chunqiu ran out thumpingly, squatting beside Yuan Shi, watching Yuan Shi dry out step by step.

"Why did you come out? Don't wait any longer?" Yuan Shi didn't answer this question.

"I'm not tired, I still have to wash the Polygonum multiflorum." Chunqiu shook his head.

"What do you want to eat tonight? Mother will make it for you." Yuan said to Chunqiu with a smile.

"I want to eat braised pork." Chunqiu thought of the fist-sized, moderately fatty, fragrant braised pork, and she became greedy, and she hasn't eaten meat for a long time.

"Okay, it just so happened that your father just bought a piece of high-quality pork belly yesterday, and today mother will cook braised pork for you." Yuan Shi nodded, she didn't need to look up to know the little expression on her daughter's face, she must be a greedy cat.

"Yeah, put more meat," Chunqiu ordered while drooling, it's best to cook all the meat that Dad brought back yesterday.

Yuan Shi stretched out her hand to pinch Chunqiu's little cheek, and said dotingly, "Got it, go little greedy cat"

"Hey" Chunqiu didn't get angry at all, "I'm going to work" Chunqiu ran away after saying that.

Yuan Shi shook her head helplessly and smiled, her daughter's eyes lit up when she mentioned meat, and when she sold these tea leaves, she would definitely make up for her daughter.

On the other side, Chunqiu on the other side started to work seriously when he wanted what he wanted at night. After moving out a basin of water from the kitchen, Chunqiu sat on a small bench and repeated yesterday's actions. Although the mother and daughter were far away, they looked But it is unusually harmonious.

Because of Chunqiu's unique research on food, he had already told Yuan Shi the process of making simple cooking wine and the placement of some condiments, otherwise Yuan's cooking would not be as delicious as the modern Chunqiu.

However, the Yuan family is even more powerful than Chunqiu, and after a few times, they fully mastered it, and the green is better than the blue, and the same is true for Gu and Yang Chunni, so that the food cooked by the Yang family is very delicious, and the comparison between the spring and autumn feels very satisfy.

Because the farming work in Yangjia Village is all over, and there is no work for this month, old man Yang took his three sons to Montenegro to hunt, and then drove them to the town to sell, and sold them for a lot of money. Li's smile has never stopped recently.Moreover, the Yang family is allowed to have private money, just like the Polygonum multiflorum dug up by the three of Chunqiu. After selling it, it will be the pocket flowers of the three, and Yang Li will not want it. The tea picked by Chunqiu today will be sold by Yuan The private money of this house was only picked by themselves, so why Yuan Shi is so happy today can also be explained.

When it was time for dinner, Old Man Yang and his three sons also came back. Today’s harvest was good. There were seven or eight pheasants and hares. By the way, they also shot a wild deer. Chunqiu took a look curiously, yes, that long Long horns, very nice.

"Let's take this to Wu Shanren tomorrow." Mrs. Yang stood at the door and said to old man Yang.

"Well, there are these pheasants and hares. If Wu Shanren doesn't use them, I'll go to the restaurant to sell them." Old man Yang squinted his eyes while smoking a cigarette.The recent harvest is good. It may be because of the good rain this year, the animals are extraordinarily fat, and the selling price is also high. Old man Yang is also in a good mood recently. According to this form, they can still buy two more acres of land today.

Mrs. Yang and Li obviously thought of this, looking at the animals as if she was looking at her own grandson, wishing she could make them all look like pigs, so that she could earn a lot of money.

"Okay, you'll be watching after dinner. Is the meal ready? The sons are all hungry." Old man Yang interrupted Mrs. Yang and Li's association. The old lady couldn't walk when she was looking at money.

"Okay, okay, eat quickly"

"You three hurry up and eat in the house, you have to get up early tomorrow." Old man Yang gave an order, and the three Yang brothers hurried into the lobby.

Tonight's dish is braised pork. Yuan's fulfilled Chunqiu's wish and chopped all the pork belly into fist-sized shapes. Each one looked fragrant and tender, and the entrance was medium fat and tender, and it melted in the mouth. Chunqiu was full of praise, her mother is really talented as a chef, there is no other adjective for this dish except delicious.

Ever since Chunqiu invented those condiments, the food of the Yang family has been getting better and better every day. Even the old man Yang who has always had gastrointestinal problems has eaten a lot, and he is not worried about getting sick at all.

In the evening, Yuan Shi and Chunqiu decided on the next time to go to Houshan, and asked Chunqiu to keep this matter a secret. If the tea really sold well, Yuan Shi would consider telling Yang and Lishi, after all, it was a fortune. Big income.

　For tea, it’s also Baidu. Don’t be too serious, because every kind of tea is made in a different way. I’m just learning from it~~ Then, I hope you like it

　　
　
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