This is the time when the sun is at its hottest, so it is not suitable for picking grapes.
The best time to pick grapes is usually in the morning. After the dew on the grapes has dried, you can pick them until before noon.
The second time is from the afternoon till evening. These two time periods avoid the strongest sunlight in the day, which can prevent the loss of water in the grapes and keep them fresher.
Tian An didn't allow Peng Zhang to mention the tiger, and picking grapes had to wait until the afternoon, so Peng Zhang couldn't stay any longer.
He glanced and saw something in the dustpan beside him. After thinking about it, he pestered Tian An to make him love jade jelly.
Tian An thought that the weather was hot and that he could eat it when Da Niu came back, so he happily went to the kitchen to prepare it.
During this period, the farm would deliver a watermelon and some grapes to Tian An's home every day. Tian An would chill them with well water so that he could take them out whenever he wanted to eat them.
The ones used were the aiyu seeds he had taken from Qin Yalan’s house before. Tian An had only made it a few times, so there were still quite a few left!
The ones made before were all pure agar-agar jelly. Tian An looked at the grapes steaming in the cold air beside him and thought, why not make one with grape flavor this time.
They got to work right away. After washing the grapes, Tian An and Mangzhong separated the grape skin and pulp.
Then use the grape skins to boil water. After the water is boiled, remove the grape skins and leave the grape water to cool for later use.
After the grape water has cooled, I put the gauze-wrapped aiyu seeds into it and rub them to make grape aiyu jelly. After it is finished, I put it in the well to cool it down.
Then prepare the small glutinous rice balls, cook them and let them cool.
Oh! This was the inconvenience of not having refrigerators in ancient times. The waiting time was too long.
Peng had been asking for payment several times, and his eyes almost saw through the kitchen, before Tian An came out with two bowls of grape and agar-agar jelly.
He couldn't wait for Tian An to put down the tray, so he picked up the bowl and took a bite eagerly.
After taking a bite, Peng Zhang tasted the ice-cold liquid. He said with a look of enjoyment, "It's so comfortable! It's worth waiting for so long."
Tian An took a bite and said with some regret: "It's a pity there is no milk, otherwise it would be even more delicious."
It is in the space, but there is no source, so she can’t explain it clearly if she takes it out!
While eating, Peng Zhang said, "You are talking about milk! That stuff has such a strong fishy smell, how can it be delicious?" Anyway, he didn't believe it at all.
Tian An was a little excited. Could it be that this guy had drunk it before? Even if he hadn't drunk it, he must have seen it!
Tian An asked tentatively, "Have you tried it? Do you know it has a strong fishy smell?"
Peng Zhang shivered at the thought of milk and said quickly, "No, I've never drunk it. The smell makes me want to vomit."
Is it really that exaggerated? But Tian An thought that the milk sold in the world is all processed, so it doesn't have that fishy smell. This unprocessed milk...
Tian An also shivered.
But think about it, cakes, egg tarts and so many other delicious foods all rely on milk!
Tian An's two most important things in life are eating and making money. He even studied medicine to earn money to buy delicious food.
In her previous life, after she made money, she kept watching food shows and tried all kinds of food. Later, she felt that the food others made was not authentic, so she bought the ingredients and made it herself.
The reason why she is still single at the age of 29 is because she spends all her time except for work studying food, so she can cook so many delicious foods.
Tian An said persistently, "You can smell it, so you must have seen it before. Just find a way to get some! I'll make something delicious for you!"
Peng Zhang refused to do it: "I think this is quite delicious."
Tian An continued to tempt, "Things made with cow's milk are even more delicious than this."
What could possibly tempt a foodie more than something that tastes “even better”?
Sure enough, Peng Zhang finally raised his head from the jelly bowl and looked at her.
“How delicious can it be?”
Tian An thought for a moment, raised his left hand and extended his little finger, saying, "This is the Aiyu jelly you are eating now."
Then he raised his right hand and extended his thumb and said, "This is made of milk."
Peng Zhang looked at Tian An's thumb and little finger. Hmm! The gap was still quite large. He thought he could still look forward to it.
He looked at the crystal clear jelly in the bowl and the ugly aiyu fruit in the winnowing basket. When it came to food, Tian An had never let him down.
Then he said cheerfully: "Okay, no problem, I'll get you some milk."
Tian An quickly reminded him: "Make sure it's fresh." It will be useless if it goes bad.
Peng Zhang was busy eating jelly and said impatiently, "I know."
Making the jelly took quite a while, and by the time Peng Zhang had finished two bowls, the sun was almost setting. It was time to pick the grapes.
Tian An went to the homestead to find a farmhand, took some scissors and a bamboo basket, went to the lotus field to pick some lotus leaves, and then took Peng Zhang to the grape field.
Grapes are delicate, so you need to put lotus leaves at the bottom of the bamboo basket before you can put the grapes on it.
An hour later, Peng Zhang looked at the ten bamboo baskets with only a shallow layer of grapes in each basket and felt unwilling to do so.
"Why is there only this much? It's not enough to give away, where else can I buy it?"
Tian An also thought it was a little too little, but the grapes still needed a few days to ripen in large quantities! What could she do?
"Or, you can pick some more watermelons," Tian An suggested.
Peng Zhang frowned: "But the man surnamed Yu came to pick them a few days ago, can he pick them again?"
It would have been fine if watermelon wasn't mentioned, but when watermelon was mentioned, Peng Zhang looked at Tian An with resentment.
Tian An felt a little guilty and took the initiative to mention the tiger: "Think about the tiger, and you won't be angry if you think about the tiger."
Thinking of the tiger, especially the tiger skin, Peng Zhang felt a little calmer.
She turned her head away proudly: "Let's go! Let's pick watermelons."
Watermelons are ripe now and can be picked every few days.
After carefully selecting two hundred watermelons, Peng Zhang let someone take the watermelons and grapes away, while he himself stayed for dinner.
When I returned home from the fields, Daniu had already returned. He had brought four or five strong men with him into the mountains, each carrying at least 200 kilograms of Aiyu fruit. They were piled up like a small hill in the warehouse.
When Zhangzhang saw Da Niu sitting in the yard to rest, he became active again. He openly and secretly wanted Da Niu to fight the tiger again.
Daniel was so annoyed that he said, "If you want to fight the tiger, we can go together. Otherwise, forget it."
Peng Zhang was confused: "I don't know how to hunt, what am I going to do?"
Tian An, who was standing by, suppressed a laugh and explained for him, "You can't hunt, but you can be used as bait! Tigers love to eat plump, fat, tender and oily creatures like you. They're very filling, and one of them will send them straight to hibernation."
Peng Zhang felt a chill and suddenly didn't want to eat at Tian An's house anymore.
Tian An shrugged and went to the kitchen to busy himself.
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