Chapter 76: Dying
Make wine from wild grapes and soak it in wine with wild chrysanthemums. You can enjoy the delicious taste in two or three months.
There are many wild grapes in the mountains, entwined in the woods and shrubs, climbing in large patches.
When ripe, the wild grapes are pure black, each grape barely the size of a little finger. The bunches aren't large, usually no larger than four fingers. Each black grape has a thick skin and a large core, and the fruit is so compact and firm that you can throw it into a basket without spoiling.
The taste is unexpectedly good, very clean, sweet and fragrant, with the "original taste" of grapes.
They spend half a day in the mountains, picking the grapes in the morning and processing them in the afternoon, putting them into wine jars, sealing them and waiting for natural fermentation.
Wash the wild chrysanthemums, dry them, put them in the wine and seal it. You will have clear chrysanthemum wine to drink next year.
After four days of hard work, they filled four or five jars of wine that were above their knees, as well as two jars of wild chrysanthemum wine, and placed them in a row in the storage room.
It feels particularly fulfilling.
Zhao Liya was also lucky enough to discover several wild osmanthus trees.
Fortunately, the sweet-scented osmanthus has a strong and easy-to-identify fragrance. Just by smelling the scent, you can easily find the golden flowers all over the tree.
There were just a few osmanthus trees missing in and outside the yard, and I didn't expect to find them now.
There are tall osmanthus trees in this area that cannot be transplanted, but there are also a few saplings as thick as wrists or two fingers, which are just right for transplanting.
It's just not the right time.
Zhao Liya had no choice but to remember this place and come back to dig it back in early spring next year.
At this moment, she collected a lot of osmanthus flowers.
I took them home to dry in the sun. The dried osmanthus flowers can be used to make tea and stuffing. I also had some honey left, so I made a small jar of osmanthus honey with the fresh osmanthus flowers.
Luo Shuyan was particularly active in helping in various ways, and he was stunned and suddenly enlightened.
So many things can be made into food? This really opened her eyes.
Once a talented person is enlightened about her talent and suddenly sees the light, she will be able to apply what she has learned to other areas.
Luo Shuyan's mind was full of fresh and exciting ideas, and he couldn't wait to try them out one by one.
The rice from each household has finally been stored in the warehouse. The busy farming season is over, and Luo Shuyan is planning to go home.
Aunt Li Shiyi also felt very sympathetic towards Luo Shuyan, and she patted her chest to help connect Uncle Ruan Gui and others and help put on a play.
So, Luo Shuyan, who was "dying", was found by the people of Zaihu Village and sent back.
Everyone in Yan Village suddenly realized: No wonder they couldn’t find the person, it turned out that Luo Shuyan ran to the mountains near Zaihu Village.
She was also lucky. At this time of year, the mountains were full of wild fruits, which could fill her stomach. Although it was a bit chilly at night, it was fine during the day. But even so, she had been wandering alone in the mountains for so many days, and she was almost dead and looked very bad. This was easy to fake. Yu Xiaofang was a professional. No one knew what medicine Luo Shuyan had taken, or what she had applied to her face and hands. According to his own boasting, even the best doctor would not be able to diagnose her.
In this way, Luo Shuyan was sent back home.
During this period, the Luo family was in a mess like a pigsty. The whole life was terrible and everyone was feeling irritated.
When they heard that Luo Shuyan had been found and sent back, the family's first reaction was overjoyed: That's great, the worker is back!
I didn't expect Luo Shuyan to be so weak and pale. She seemed to be breathing out more than breathing in. How could we expect her to work? She even needed someone to wait on her!
If you are unlucky, you might die at any time.
The whole family was greatly disappointed.
Qi's face turned as black as the bottom of a pot on the spot.
But Aunt Li Shiyi was still being kindhearted. She acted like an outsider and kept nagging at the child, "Oh, this child has suffered so much. Luckily, she's lucky, otherwise she might not have come back. Now that she's finally back, you must take good care of her. Call a doctor and get her some medicine. Don't scare her in the mountains! Make her some delicious food, meat, eggs. Don't be stingy. She needs to nourish her body, otherwise if she damages her foundation and loses her vitality, it will be a lifelong problem!"
Mrs. Deng was kindhearted. She had been dragged to the Luo family home by Aunt Li Shiyi and Widow Qu to watch the fun. Upon hearing this, she nodded in agreement: "That's right, this child has suffered a lot. As parents, we must take good care of him!"
Upon hearing this, Qi glared at Deng with resentment.
If it weren't for the Zhao family that day, things would never have turned out like this.
How dare the Zhao family, the culprit, still have the nerve to speak so much?
Qi sneered and said coldly, "Our girl has a worthless life. Since God has confiscated her, she will not die. I think she is fine. There is no need for you to worry about her!"
Aunt Li Shiyi screamed, "Oh my, what are you talking about? How cruel! Even if she's not my biological daughter, she should at least call you mother. How dare you treat her like this? Aren't you afraid of retribution? If this were my daughter, I wouldn't know how much I'd love her."
Qi was even angrier, and said sarcastically, "You're good at talking cheap words. If you have the guts, take the person away and keep him as a pet! No one in our family has the time to wait on anyone."
Widow Qu curled her lips and said, "With people like you, no wonder Lin Mo is discussing marriage with someone else! Oh, I didn't say anything!"
Uncle Luo and Mrs. Qi were shocked.
The villagers who were watching were also excited and talked about it in a flurry.
No one said Lin Mo was wrong. Instead, they all showed expressions of approval, saying, "We knew it would happen sooner or later."
Uncle Luo stared at Widow Qu with his cloudy, dark eyes. "What did you just say?"
Widow Qu felt guilty, so she avoided his gaze and hummed, ignoring him.
Aunt Li Shiyi said, "Why shouldn't I tell you about this? There's a family in our village who has an only daughter. They don't want her to get married, so they've taken a fancy to Lin Mo and want to marry him into their family! Oh, that girl is so beautiful, like a fairy, and she has a good temper. She speaks softly and is also very good at work. You can't find such a good thing even with a lantern."
Although it was a marriage of sorts, given Lin Mo's status, it was not a loss at all for him to marry into a good citizen's family.
Everyone thought that as long as Lin Mo was not a fool, he would naturally know what to choose.
Uncle Luo's face suddenly turned pale, and even Mrs. Qi was a little dumbfounded.
But Qi quickly recovered and sneered, "That's because our little girl is unlucky. She might as well stay at home forever! If she wants to hate someone, she should hate that heartless, cold-blooded man!"
Everyone was shocked and stunned.
"Ah, this—"
"well!"
"Shuyan's life is so miserable!"
"Let's go. Hearing this kind of talk too much will shorten your life."
"That's it, go, go, go!"
Widow Qu spat on the ground, "How shameless!"
(End of this chapter)
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