Chapter 31: Queen of Fruits

Guangxi is a famous fruit-producing province in China. In Bobai County, May and June of the lunar calendar are the peak seasons for fruits, with lychees, longans, jackfruits, carambolas, mangoes, guavas and other fruits all ripening and available on the market.

At this time, Deng Shirong was using a knife to cut a jackfruit weighing more than ten kilograms.

Jackfruit, also known as jackfruit, is the largest and heaviest fruit in the world and is known as the "Queen of Tropical Fruits".

There are two types of jackfruit: dry and wet. The taste of wet jackfruit is similar to durian, but in terms of taste, the dry one is far better than the wet one.

Moreover, the same dried pineapple can taste very different.

Poor quality dried pineapples taste bland, while good quality dried pineapples have a very sweet and crispy taste, and everyone who has eaten them will praise them.

However, jackfruit is indeed delicious, but its mucus is so disgusting. If someone who doesn't know how to use it gets the mucus on their hands or knife, they will probably have a headache for a long time.

However, as a southerner who grew up eating jackfruit, Deng Shirong naturally knew what to do to avoid being stained by mucus.

Simply put some oil on your hands and knife before cutting the jackfruit to solve this annoying problem!

Deng Shirong neatly cut the jackfruit in half horizontally, revealing the bright yellow flesh and an enticing aroma filled the air.

Deng Yunzhu's eyes lit up when she saw this, and she said, "The jackfruit inside is fully ripe. This jackfruit must be very sweet."

Deng Yunzhen smiled and continued, "The jackfruit tree in our home is of good variety, and the fruits it bears are not bad at all."

Deng Shirong continued to cut the jackfruit and said, "When your grandfather was carrying firewood to Longtan to sell, he was lucky enough to eat such a sweet and delicious jackfruit. He brought the remaining fruit core back to plant, and that's how we got this jackfruit tree."

The children never thought that the jackfruit tree that they had grown up with had such a history.

The core of the jackfruit can be used for planting and can also be cooked and eaten. There are two types of texture: the soft and sticky one, which tastes better, and the raw one, which tastes worse.

The kernel is rich in starch and is known as the "rice tree" in Sri Lanka, where it can serve as a substitute for food.

Deng Shirong cut the jackfruit into eight pieces and then cut off the core of the pineapple, and then he saw a layer of mucus coming out of the flesh. If it were in later times, he could just take a few plastic bags and wipe it off to clean off all the mucus.

However, there were no such things as plastic bags in rural areas at that time, so Deng Shirong could only use some clean rags to wipe it.

After wiping off the slime, Deng Shirong said, "It's time to eat!"

Upon hearing this, all the children took action. Each of them picked up a piece of jackfruit and couldn't wait to dig out the flesh and eat it.

Although Guangxi is a major fruit-producing province, there were not many fruit trees in Naye Village at that time. Fruits like jackfruit were still quite rare, and were far from being as ubiquitous as they were in later generations.

"This pineapple is so sweet!" Deng Yunzhu praised it highly after eating it.

Deng Yunsong continued: "Pineapple ha is sweeter, it's really delicious!"

Deng Yunhua ate the sweet and delicious flesh and suggested: "The fruit core that grandpa brought back can be planted into a tree. Otherwise, we can plant a few more trees. When the trees grow up and bear fruit, we will never have to worry about not having jackfruit to eat in the future!"

Deng Shirong nodded and said, "You can plant more jackfruits if you want. Plant them in our private plots first. When the production team distributes the fields and hillside land to each household, we can transform the hillside allocated to us into an orchard. Then we can transplant the jackfruit seedlings to the orchard and plant lychee, longan, kumquat and other fruit trees. Not only can we have fruit freedom, but we can also sell the fruit to make money. This is also a way to get rich."

Deng Yunzhu pinched a yellow silk and asked curiously: "Dad, what does it mean to achieve fruit freedom?"

Deng Shirong smiled and said, "It means you can eat as much fruit as you want."

Upon hearing this, the children all showed longing looks. Almost everyone likes to eat fruits, and they are always popular in any era.

If one day we can achieve fruit freedom as my father said, how happy we will be! "Dad, are you serious about this orchard?" Deng Yuntai asked after swallowing the fruit in his mouth.

Deng Shirong said: "Of course we are serious. We must build an orchard. We will decide how to do it after the production team distributes the hills to each household. We don't know how many hills our family will get yet!"

In fact, Deng Shirong knew that if nothing unexpected happened, his family would be allocated a mountain of moderate size where they could plant about 1,300 fruit trees.

In the past life, after the mountains were divided into households, no one thought about planting fruit trees in the first few years. It was not until the first person to try it out appeared that everyone started to follow suit. Within three years, every household planted fruit trees on the mountains, and they were all lychee trees.

At that time, Deng Shirong's family was also one of those who followed the trend. The father and his sons worked hard for more than half a year before they planted more than a thousand lychee seedlings.

Unfortunately, I didn't have much knowledge at that time. When selecting litchi seedlings, I didn't choose those with good varieties, but instead chose those that were not very profitable.

In the end, this Litchi Mountain, which cost a lot of manpower and resources, did not make much money. It was completely useless and a pity to throw it away.

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Now that Deng Shirong has been reborn, everything has changed. He already knows which variety to choose when planting litchi trees. He will definitely not face the dilemma of his previous life again!

Deng Yuntai didn't ask any more questions after hearing what his father said. Just as his father said, the fields haven't been divided yet, and it's still a long way to go before the mountains are divided! There's no point in discussing it now.

Next, the father and son ate jackfruits and chatted, and Deng Yuntai reported to his father the progress of the first batch of goods from the tile factory.

There are now more than a dozen workers working in the tile factory. If the weather is good, the first batch of goods will be ready to leave the kiln around the beginning of July of the lunar calendar.

Whether the contracted tile factory can make money will be revealed then!

Deng Yuntai, a master maker and small boss at a tile factory, is very much looking forward to it.

Deng Shirong, on the other hand, was relatively calm. After all, he had experienced this in his previous life and knew roughly how much money he could make from a batch of goods.

With the profits from the tile factory and the wages of their eldest son, as well as the thank-you gift from the matchmaker after Deng Changfu and Guan Yongying's marriage, they could put the matter of building a new house on the agenda.

This is what Deng Shirong should look forward to.

I have been used to typing on computers for more than ten years. Suddenly I am not used to typing on my phone.

(End of this chapter)