Chapter 256 244: Fool
In autumn, a pea-sized spherical fruit is produced on three leaves. When ripe, the fruit is dark purple, shiny and round, like a girl with green gauze on her shoulders wearing a pearl on her head, hence the name "a pearl on the head".
Because its fruit grows on the upper part, it is also called "sky bead".
The root tuber of Taro is also relatively large, oval in shape, dark brown in surface, and has many fibrous roots underneath. When processing it into medicinal materials, herbal farmers often weave them outside the oval root tuber, making it look like beads.
Because the tubers grow underground, they are also called "earth beads".
Seeing that she was just looking at him, Zhou Huaian stepped forward and said, "Yan'er, what are you looking at? Dig it up and scatter it!"
Yang Chunyan looked around and saw that there were about ten trees growing in this area. "Leave the four that grow together and dig up the rest."
"Got it!" Zhou Huaian picked up the hoe and dug up a taro with a few hoes. He pulled apart its long roots to reveal the tuber inside. "It looks a bit like an onion."
Zhou Yiding also came over to take a look and said, "I never noticed it before. It turns out there is such a thing growing by the ditch?"
"You don't collect herbs, so how would you recognize these things?" Zhou Huaian said as he handed the taro seven to Yang Chunyan, "Wash it, and I'll dig up the others."
"I'll help you." Zhou Yiding also picked up the hoe to help.
When Yang Chunyan was squatting by the ditch washing taro, she suddenly remembered that in her previous life, after the forest was cut down, the forest farm contracted the forest to employees who were responsible for planting trees. It was at that time that Zhou Yiding took a leave of absence from his job and went home to do a side job.
She turned around and said, "Yiding, if this forest farm needs to be contracted out in the future, you can take it over."
Zhou Yiding looked back and said, "Why would I take over the land? In a few years, all the trees on the mountain will be cut down. If I take over the land, I will have to plant trees myself. By the time the trees grow big enough to sell, I will be old."
Yang Chunyan smiled and said, "The soil in this forest is loose and fertile. If the forest farm really wants to be contracted out, we can use it to grow herbs and mushrooms. These things will only become more and more valuable in the future."
Zhou Huaian also said: "Your sister-in-law is right. When the time comes, you can take the salary from the forest farm and grow mushrooms and sell herbs in the forest. There are so many wild animals in the mountains. When the time comes, they will all be yours. Just thinking about it makes me feel comfortable!"
Zhou Yiding shook his head. "This area is at least several thousand mu. If the forest farm is contracted to an individual, the annual contract fee must be high. I can't do it alone."
Zhou Huaian patted him on the shoulder and said, "That's what we are talking about now. How about you make some plans later when the forest farm is really going to be contracted?"
Zhou Yiding thought about it and said, "Well! When the forest farm really wants to be contracted out, I will discuss it with you first."
The two of them dug out the remaining few, Yang Chunyan cleaned them, and then walked back up the mountain.
When they were almost at the gate of the forest farm, Dahei, Wangcai and Laifu came to greet them, wagging their tails.
Wangcai and Lai Fu barked, wagging their tails and circling around Zhou Huaian.
Zhou Yiding rubbed his big black head and said, "Let's go home and kill some rabbits for you to eat."
"Woof woof!" Dahei licked his hand happily.
Zhou Yiding opened the gate and went in. He lit the lantern and hung it on the steps. He picked out a fat rabbit from the basket and said, "Youngest, you take it and peel the skin. I'll go to the cave and get some pork ribs to stew with papaya."
Zhou Huaian took the fat rabbit and asked, "Did you really bring papaya up here?"
"Of course!" Zhou Yiding winked at him, "If I don't bring it up to eat, I'll be scolded by Mrs. Xu for nothing."
“That makes sense!”
Yang Chunyan poured out the herbs and hung them on the eaves to dry, while Zhou Huaian hung up the rabbit to skin it, and the two of them started working separately.
Zhou Huaian killed the rabbit, Zhou Yiding chopped the ribs, and put the rabbit on the stove. "You can chop the rabbit as well. I'll call your sister-in-law to cook it."
"Yes!" Zhou Yiding picked up the rabbit and started chopping it.
Zhou Huaian went to the steps, "Yan'er, Yiding and I will pick herbs, you go roast the rabbit and stew the ribs."
"Yes!" Yang Chunyan responded, pointing at the bone-cutting pine, "Just pick the leaves and rub off the fluff."
"Oh!" Zhou Huaian took over and started working.
Yang Chunyan got up and went to the kitchen. Zhou Yiding had already chopped the rabbit meat, but the pieces were a bit big.
"Sister-in-law, leave these two legs for Da Huang and Da Hei."
"OK!"
Yang Chunyan went to the vegetable garden to pick a handful of green and red peppers, pulled out a few green onions, went back to the house, washed the ginger and peeled some garlic cloves, cut the ginger into shreds, cut the green and red peppers into small pieces, and crushed the Sichuan peppercorns for later use.
Go to the stove, light a fire, scoop water into the pot, blanch the ribs, then take them out and put them in a colander.
Wash the pot and add two scoops of water. Add rice and bring to a boil, then filter out the rice soup. Put oil and shredded ginger in the pot and stir-fry the ribs several times. Scoop a scoop of water in it, bring to a boil, then pour the peeled and diced papaya into the pot, put the rice steamer on it, roll the half-cooked rice into the steamer and steam it.
Peel the papaya on the table and cut it into long pieces for later use.
Papaya is warm and sour in nature, soothes the liver and stomach, relaxes the tendons and tendons, activates the muscles and bones, and lowers blood pressure. The stewed spareribs taste sweet and have the effect of nourishing the middle and strengthening the spleen. It can also restore the body of the mother and relieve the situation of no milk or little milk after childbirth.
I took some firewood and lit the stove inside, added water to the pot, put the rabbit meat in and boiled it, then took it out, washed it, removed the dirt inside and drained the water.
Heat the rapeseed oil in a pan, add the Sichuan peppercorns and green and red pepper segments until fragrant, then add the rabbit meat and stir-fry for a few times. Pour a little white wine, and stir-fry the shredded ginger and onions until the moisture in the rabbit meat is fried out.
Add a little soy sauce, sugar and salt, and continue to stir-fry the rabbit meat until the soup is dry. Sprinkle some coriander and stir-fry for a few more times, then scoop up and put it on a plate.
At this time, the rice and papaya ribs in the pot outside were also cooked.
Zhou Huaian walked in sniffing, "It smells good, is the food good?"
"Okay! Call Yiding to come for dinner."
"Ding Ding Cat, it's time for dinner!" Zhou Huaian yelled outside, then went to get the bowls and chopsticks to prepare for dinner.
Yang Chunyan took the rice steamer out of the pot, and the aroma of papaya and pork ribs soup filled her nose. "There are papayas grown on the mountain?"
Zhou Huaian smiled and said, "No, I stole it from Xu Hongbing's vegetable garden yesterday afternoon. Mrs. Xu chased me up the mountain and scolded me."
Yang Chunyan sprinkled some chopped green onions into the pot, turned around and glared at him in reproach, "He stole things from his family, why do you steal from him too!"
"It's him!" Zhou Huaian pointed at Zhou Yiding who came in, "It's not me, it's him who wants to eat!"
Zhou Yiding scratched his head and smiled embarrassedly, "The old woman of the Xu family is so fierce. When the youngest and I were little, we stole a papaya from her and she chased us until we almost died. Now she is old and can't run anymore. When she sees us picking it, she can't catch up with us."
Yang Chunyan looked at the two of them with amusement, "You two are strong young men, and she is over sixty years old, of course she can't catch up!"
Zhou Huaian: "I just want to see her jumping up and down and being unable to do anything to us!"
Zhou Yiding looked at Zhou Huaian and said, "How about a drink?"
"Yes!" Zhou Huaian went to the cupboard to get the wine glasses, and Zhou Yiding went to get some wine.
Yang Chunyan put the remaining rabbit legs into the pot and cooked them for the two dogs.
(End of this chapter)
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