Chapter 114 Oil Palm Fruit
The fruits of this oil palm tree are grown very low, less than half a meter from the ground.
Mu Xi took out the small knife he carried with him and cut off a large palm fruit.
It's a bit like a jackfruit, a big fruit from which you need to take out the small edible fruits one by one.
The small fruits are dark red mixed with orange. The largest one is about the same size as a large red date. The skin is relatively hard and shiny.
There are hard thorns as long as fingers between the small fruits. Mu Xi pinches out the fruits one by one with his hands.
The small oil palm fruit was squeezed out, and golden oil emerged from under the fruit.
In addition to eating, the main use of this fruit is to extract oil from its pulp, and the oil yield is nearly ten times higher than that of soybeans.
Zhao Yeqing poured out the mushrooms from the basket, placed the oil palm fruits at the bottom, and put the vegetables wrapped in green onions with large leaves into the basket.
She didn't want to be eating oil palm fruit and suddenly see the villain.
The two of them did not come out to look for supplies. She only carried a small basket, which was full of fruits after picking one palm tree.
Mu Xi memorized this location and said, "I'll come back another day and take the others back."
After hearing this, Zhao Yeqing walked forward reluctantly.
They walked to the middle of the mountain. Zhao Yeqing looked down the mountain and found that the road down the mountain was mostly covered with ground vegetation and there were few tall trees.
Even if there are trees, they are all small trees, and the only big trees are a few banyan trees.
Maybe these banyan trees are too big, and it takes three or four people to hug the smallest one.
This is why no other trees can grow around it.
Huhu and Xuebing don’t like playing in places without trees, and they have long since disappeared.
Without the obstruction of the trees, Zhao Yeqing found a protruding rock, stood on it and looked down.
The scenery below the mountain is unobstructed.
Amidst the green there is a small river flowing from west to north.
The geographical location here is higher. Zhao Yeqing reasonably guessed that one of the water sources of the Houshan Lake in Meishan comes from this small river.
The source of this small river may also come from the lake on the meadow.
After watching for a few minutes, Mu Xi pulled her down. The protruding rock had easily become loose after the recent series of shocks, and it was too dangerous to stand on it.
Zhao Yeqing was already very satisfied with this trip. He got the information he wanted and gained a lot of things.
"Let's go home."
Going up the mountain is different from going down the mountain, it is not that dangerous.
Zhao Yeqing lay on Mu Xi's back with confidence and promised to give him the first oil palm fruit she had roasted herself when she returned.
Mu Xi originally thought that the change in their relationship would make her feel a little uncomfortable, but now it seems that she was worrying too much.
Zhao Yeqing adapted very well. He lay on his back, humming a tuneless song, under the pretext of cheering him up.
The way back was not the same as the way here. Zhao Yeqing waved her hand and said that she wanted to go up the mountain towards the lake to see if the small river flowed out of the lake.
Mu Xi walked in that direction without saying a word.
He knew that this was just another of Zhao Yeqing's spur of the moment ideas. They both knew that the lake was larger than an ordinary small town. Even if the river flowed from the lake, the probability of finding it was very low.
Zhao Yeqing looked around on Mu Xi's back, and as expected, he saw no trace of water.
When they were about to walk out of the forest, Zhao Yeqing pointed to the side and said, "Look!"
Mu Xi turned around and saw that there was still no water source nearby, only a large clump of lush ramie.
Zhao Yeqing had an expression that said I knew this all along, "I said before that I wanted to make a rope, and look, I found it now."
Mu Xi couldn't see her expression, but just from her tone he knew what this woman looked like.
He lifted her up with his arms, and walked straight home.
"I'll come back another day."
The two men and two leopards went out, and when they came back the leopards were nowhere to be found.
Zhao Yeqing jumped off Mu Xi's back and walked into the kitchen, pouring out the mushrooms and oil palm fruits in the basket.
For safety reasons, she washed the fruit carefully several times with water.
Mu Xi cleaned himself up and walked in. Zhao Yeqing pressed his shoulders and asked him to sit on the bench.
All the way up the mountain, except for the time when she came down and walked for more than twenty minutes, Mu Xi carried her back almost the entire way.
"You take a rest, I'll cook."
After saying that, he lit the fire first.
There is an iron tripod on the fire pit, and we usually put the pot on it when cooking.
Zhao Yeqing took the pot down and lit a fire in the fire pit.
While waiting for the fire to start, she went to the tool shed and got a roll of wire left over from the grass fence.
Cut the wire into small strips and twist it into a small grill.
The fire in the fire pit slowly burned up. Zhao Yeqing controlled the fire and placed the grill on a tripod.
Place the washed oil palm fruits on top and slowly turn them over with chopsticks.
In less than five minutes, the fragrance of the oil palm fruits slowly wafted out.
Through the broken end of the tail, you can see the golden palm oil sizzling inside.
Ten minutes later, the whole kitchen was filled with a strange aroma.
Zhao Yeqing put the first roasted one on a plate and handed it to Mu Xi.
Then he turned around and continued to roast the largest one carefully.
She kept urging him with her eyes.
Mu Xi put the palm fruit into his mouth. After being roasted, the palm fruit was no longer hard, but became very soft and sticky.
He gave her feedback before he even swallowed the pulp, "Delicious."
Zhao Yeqing was full of expectations for his biggest fruit.
As soon as he was sure it was done, Zhao Yeqing picked it up, blew it to cool it down, and then put the whole thing into his mouth.
The flesh is like a combination of chestnuts and sweet potatoes that have been stewed for a long time. It has the softness of sweet potatoes and the fragrance of chestnuts, but it tastes much better than chestnuts.
There are a lot of coarse fibers in the flesh. After eating the soft and glutinous flesh, the coarse fibers need to be spit out along with the black core.
Zhao Yeqing washed off the fibers on the fruit core and cracked open the core with a hammer that he had prepared long ago.
The black core is white inside and can be eaten. It tastes like coconut meat.
It was just a bit too much effort, so Zhao Yeqing only tasted one and didn't plan to eat the rest of the core.
Although Zhao Yeqing was the one who cooked, Mu Xi still drove her out of the kitchen.
"Go take a shower first, and you can eat when you're done."
Zhao Yeqing roasted half a basket of palm fruits by the fire. His head was covered with sweat, so he didn't refuse to take a bath.
After finishing the meal, Zhao Yeqing couldn't help but finished his dinner with the last palm fruit kernel.
Mu Xi carried the basin filled with dishes to the back of the house to wash the dishes.
Zhao Yeqing cracked the core of the fruit and savored the coconut aroma, eating it as an after-meal snack.
After the two men fed the sheep and horses, brushed their teeth and entered the room.
Mu Xi sat on the edge of the bed, weaving a straw mat in her hands, and asked her what she wanted to eat the next morning.
Zhao Yeqing suddenly sat up and pointed at him with wide eyes!
"You, you, you! Why are there subtitles when you speak?!"
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