"Let the child eat what they want!"
Seeing this, Grandpa Xu quickly picked out a large cucumber from the basket and handed it to Xu Lai.
Although this cucumber looks similar to a regular cucumber, it is plumper and more tender. It tastes exceptionally crisp and refreshing when served cold, and it is also delicious when eaten raw.
My two kids don't like cabbage or radishes, so eating more green vegetables and gourds can help them get more vitamins, as young people often say.
"Second Uncle, you're just spoiling them!"
Looking at the five dishes on the table—two meat dishes and three vegetable dishes—Song Qiu'e complained to Grandpa Xu with a hint of helplessness.
She dares to say that their family's current standard of living is definitely higher than that of 90% of families in City C. Even so, their two children can eat whatever they want every day.
After the meal, apart from Song Qiu'e who had to clean the kitchen first, everyone else in the family went to pick fruit.
Before lunch, Grandpa Xu and Xu Haiguo picked cucumbers and cantaloupes from the corners of the vegetable garden.
In the afternoon, besides the melons and cantaloupes by the pond, the main produce was watermelon and grapes.
Picking melons, cantaloupes, and watermelons is easy. You can simply wear gloves, use scissors to cut off the stems, and then sort the melons into different baskets.
But picking grapes is much more troublesome.
Xu Lai's family grows three types of grapes: Sunshine Green Grape, Kyoho Grape, and Beauty Finger Grape.
Grapes have thin, easily broken skins, making them not only difficult to preserve, but also unable to be stored in large quantities like other melons, otherwise they will be crushed.
Xu Lai and the others had no choice but to lay the picked grapes flat on the snakeskin bag.
After cleaning up the kitchen, Song Qiu'e joined them in picking fruit.
"These grapes are so plentiful, but some of the vines have climbed way too high!"
When the grapevines were planted, Grandpa Xu built trellises for all ten vines.
Unfortunately, some grapevines, after climbing the trellis, continued to climb onto the trees next to it.
At this time, some ripe grapes were also hanging on the tree.
"Second Uncle, Mom and Dad, you pick the grapes from the trellis, and leave the ones on the tree to me and Xiao Chao!"
Xu Lai called Xu Chao to go to the warehouse and get two stools. The brother and sister placed the stools under the vine with ripe grapes hanging on them, and then stood on the stools to start cutting the grapes.
Although the work was tedious, there were many of them, and by 5 p.m., they had picked all the ripe fruit.
In addition, Xu Lai went to a corner of the vegetable garden and picked half a basket of water spinach and half a basket of eggplants, which were then divided into two bags. She also took two bottles of pickled cowpeas and put one bottle in each bag.
She plans to return the favor of Chen Cheng giving her the plaster powder tomorrow.
After all, only through give and take can a business relationship last longer.
The temperature inside the space was less than 20 degrees Celsius at night, so Xu Lai put all the picked fruit into the space.
She then took out the five bowls of cranberry ice cream she had made at noon from the freezer and distributed them to her family members who were resting at the kitchen table.
"Quickly try the ice cream I made at noon!"
After sitting down in an empty seat, Xu Lai couldn't wait to unwrap the plastic wrap from her bowl of ice cream, then picked up a spoon, scooped out a spoonful, and put it in her mouth.
"Sis, I never expected your ice cream to be so delicious! It's even better than the ice cream sold elsewhere before!"
Xu Lai was just about to savor the first bite of ice cream when a compliment from Xu Chao to her left disrupted her rhythm.
So she had no choice but to scoop out another large spoonful of ice cream and put it in her mouth.
The ice cream is icy cold, with a delicate texture and a rich milky flavor.
With a little more chewing, you can enjoy the sweet and sour, chewy texture of dried cranberries.
This tastes really good!
"Mmm, Lai Lai's is really delicious. It's not cloyingly sweet like the ones sold in stores. This sweetness is just right!"
Grandpa Xu and Xu Haiguo don't like overly sweet food, so the ice cream their eldest granddaughter (daughter) made this time wasn't too sweet, which they both really liked.
Watching even her second uncle and father scooping up spoonfuls of ice cream, Xu Lai felt incredibly satisfied.
"Lai Lai, what do you think about us making and selling this ice cream?"
As Song Qiu'e ate, she even had the idea of making and selling her own ice cream.
Finally, when her daughter was making ice cream, she watched the steps from the side.
Although there are many steps involved in making ice cream by hand, it is not complicated. She could roughly understand it after watching it once.
"Mom, you're probably itching to do the same because you see Grandpa Lu making money selling ice cream bars, aren't you?"
Xu Lai glanced at Song Qiu'e with amusement.
"That's right. Your Grandpa Lu's family has earned quite a few work points in this short period of time by selling ice bricks. When you left today, he returned more than half of the 1,500 work points he had borrowed from our family."
Song Qiu'e said with an envious look.
If she learns how to make ice cream, her business will surely be very good in this hot weather.
But Xu Lai thought differently: "Mom, making ice cream requires pure milk and eggs, as well as sugar and various dried fruits or fruits. It's fine to make these things for our own family, but selling them would be too expensive!"
The residents of this community are all ordinary people. If the price of the ice cream is too high, no one can afford it; if the price is too low, they will lose money because they use high-quality ingredients. That would not be worthwhile!
Song Qiu'e looked disappointed after hearing her daughter's analysis.
"Sigh, I originally thought that when I had nothing to do, I could make some ice cream and sell it in my space to earn some work points for my family. Now it seems that I can't do that business!"
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