She chewed a chestnut in her mouth. The crisp raw chestnut made a crunchy sound. After being placed in a cool place for a few days, the taste of the chestnuts became even crisper and sweeter.

"I heard my parents coming back, so I won't talk about it for now."

Xu Fuqiang came back with a chicken in his hand, and Wang Yanmei went to the kitchen to boil water.

Xu Qingzhi brought the peeled chestnuts into the kitchen. "The chestnuts are all peeled. Mom, do you have any other instructions?"

"Scrape the ginger and get some red dates." Wang Yanmei was busy boiling water, and then picked the celery leaves that she had just picked from the field.

Xu Qingzhi took out some dried red dates and put them over there. She obediently used a small iron spoon to dig ginger. Then she saw the celery leaves that had been picked in the trash can. "Mom, why do we have to remove the leaves from celery?"

Wang Yanmei replied: "You can't eat celery leaves."

"Why can't we eat it?" Xu Qingzhi remembered that celery leaves were non-toxic.

Wang Yanmei's patience was worn out, and she felt that her daughter was talking too much. "These celery leaves are never eaten. Do you want to eat them? I'll fry a plate of them for you. Go away, go out, don't stay in the kitchen and keep me from cooking."

Xu Qingzhi put the shaved ginger on the chopping board and was ruthlessly driven out by her mother.

After the water in the kitchen was boiled, her mother called her to get it out again. Hot water was needed to pluck the chicken.

Put the chicken in a big iron bucket and pour hot water over it. While it's still hot, use your hands to push the chicken feathers and they will fall off. It's really hot though.

Since she was little, she discovered that her father was like a pair of iron hands, and he was the one who did everything hot at home.

Xu Qingzhi was so burned that she screamed, but her father remained calm.

So her father was the only one who took care of the chicken feathers. Xu Qingzhi picked up the shed chicken feathers nearby and made a chicken feather shuttlecock by herself since she had nothing to do.

I did this when I was a kid, and now that I’m grown up I still remember it and it’s easy to do.

Wrap the chicken feathers with a rope, take three circular iron blocks that you found from some corner of the house, wrap them with an unused cloth, and secure them with needle and thread.

She was playing shuttlecock on the dam in the yard. She dropped it after three kicks and then heard her father's mocking laughter.

"Why are there only three?"

When Xu Qingzhi was a child, he was a master of shuttlecock kicking. At that time, everyone would compete in playing anything, whether it was catching stones, skipping rope, or kicking shuttlecock. There was always someone who was the best.

She is just good at kicking shuttlecock.

Xu Fuqiang prepared the chicken, chopped it into pieces and brought it to the kitchen. He came out and looked at the shuttlecock and wanted to try it, but he couldn't bring himself to do it because he thought it was something only little girls played with.

Xu Qingzhi kicked the shuttlecock in front of her father, and her father kicked it back.

No one can resist the urge to kick the flying shuttlecock!

Xu Qingzhi kicked again, and her father kicked back again.

The two of them kicked each other back and forth for more than ten rounds, and neither of them was at a disadvantage.

In the end, it was Aunt Zhou and a few others who brought over the vegetables they had picked today and prepared to pack them for express delivery. When Xu Fuqiang saw someone coming, he felt embarrassed to kick them away, so he didn't take the call.

Xu Qingzhi immediately raised his hands in triumph: "Yeah! Dad, I won this round of shuttlecock kicking!"

Xu Fuqiang, who didn't want to show off to outsiders that he had just kicked the shuttlecock, said, "Okay, you're awesome."

Aunt Zhou at the side said with a smile: "Did you make this shuttlecock yourself? It's really beautiful."

Xu Qingzhi looked at the chicken feathers that were not completely dry yet.

This shuttlecock really can’t be called beautiful.

She responded, "It was just made."

Today's vegetables were also affected by public opinion. The vegetables that usually sold out in seconds were sold out in five seconds today, so the impact was not that big.

Xu Qingzhi went to fill out the order, while Aunt Zhou, Xia Liannan and Aunt Ma cleaned the vegetables, wrapped them in paper and put them into cardboard boxes.

Xia Liannan thought of something important and said, "Oh, Qingzhi, my uncle came to see me today and selected a few places to put the beehives. He knows you can't do it, so he will take care of it. It will be ready this week."

Xu Qingzhi nodded: "Okay, then I'll transfer the money to you tonight, and you can help me transfer it to him. I'll trouble you and your uncle for this matter."

Xia Liannan: "It's not a problem at all."

Qingzhi has helped her so much, this is not a big deal.

Xu Qingzhi thought that honey would be free in the future, and the next step would be to... raise something else, such as cows.