Chapter 24 Fish Balls Fill the House
The next day, Qiao Xi hired ten birds, led by the great-footed sand goose, as the first employees of the small workshop.
Let’s get started!
The brown-headed vulture helped Josh cut large pieces of fish. The birds chopped the fish paste and whipped the meringue in batches. With their tacit cooperation, they worked much faster than yesterday.
The most time-consuming part was making the fish balls. Josh first cooked a pot to prepare lunch and the birds' portions, and then he started to slowly make the fish balls after he had a good rest.
The weather was getting warmer, and there were tender green grass and colorful flower buds everywhere. Josh pinched them slowly, feeling very comfortable.
Tomorrow is the 10th, so I can take some fish balls to the street to try it out.
But what to put it in? Origami leaves won’t work. Qiao Xi was pinching the fish balls while thinking about various problems for tomorrow.
Put the cooked fish balls in ice water to cool them down and increase their elasticity. Take them out and let the brown-headed vulture blow a gust of wind to dry the moisture on the surface, and then let the big-tailed yak freeze the fish balls quickly.
Although fish balls will shrink after being frozen and then thawed, Qiao Xi has no choice but to do this to maintain their freshness. Besides, how would someone who has never eaten fish balls know whether they have shrunk or not.
As for the container for the fish balls, Qiao Xi thought about it for a long time but couldn't find a solution. He will go to the market tomorrow to have a look. If it doesn't work, he will buy a few bowls and wash the dishes.
After thinking about a lot of random things, Qiao Xi realized that the frozen fish balls had filled all the containers in the house, and the whole house was filled with fish balls and their fresh fragrance.
Qiao Xi took a deep breath. It was so delicious. Unfortunately, no matter how delicious something was, she couldn’t eat it every day. Now she couldn’t eat fish balls anymore.
I'll have to eat something different tonight.
While it was still early, Qiao Xi planned to go to the fields and orchards, which he hadn't been to for several days.
The taro bamboo is growing vigorously, with tender and crisp taro buds hanging all over the leaves and purple-red taro flowers blooming. If they are not broken off, large taro beads will grow soon.
Qiao Xi listened and heard no complaints. The poop of the big-tailed yak was still very good. The birds that came to eat the fish balls passed by in the past two days and also helped to remove insects from the taro and bamboo fields. There was no problem.
The broad beans covered the entire farmland and began to bloom small blue-purple flowers. Occasionally, he would encounter a few white-velvet bears saying hello to Josh. It would take some time for them to produce beans, and now all they needed was time.
The first stop on the way to the orchard was the bitter candy forest. I hadn't visited it for a while, and the trees were filled with dense bitter candies, weighing down the branches. Everyone was tired, and it seemed like it was time to pick the bitter candies.
The giant lemon forest also has new pink buds on its branches. Although the fruits are few, each one has grown to the size of a watermelon. Not only are they larger than the previous fruits, they are even larger than their normal size.
Maybe it’s because the ash from the previous burning of weeds and branches has served as fertilizer for them, so the trees are growing well.
Qiao Xi also saw the carapace of a voracious longhorn beetle and several remains of its young at the edge of the woods, which should have been left over by the brown-headed vulture.
What the Iron-billed Woodpecker said was right. There are so many insects near the forest. Zongzong is really amazing. He got rid of so many insects without making any noise.
Qiao Xi glanced at the few remaining sun oranges and sweet persimmons and left. It was no big problem. They were not fruit trees of this season and there was no change.
However, on the way back, Josh heard the call of the slender-legged bee, so he walked over to the hive and took a look. It would have been fine if he hadn't looked, but when he did, he was shocked.
The honeycomb was filled to the brim and was even dripping.
"Josh, please take some honey away quickly. Our beehive is almost full, buzz," urged the queen bee of the slender-legged bee.
The white fur bear next to him also complained: "In order to slow down the speed of filling up this place, I haven't been out to collect pollen for a long time. Qiao Xi, please take some away."
It was spring, and Josh had not expected that the cooperation between the two groups would be so effective. They actually produced so much honey that the giant beehive was filled up.
Their hives have already been expanded large enough. If they continue to expand, there will not be enough bees to maintain the hives, and the excess honey will be wasted.
Qiao Xi carefully cut off pieces of honeycomb with a knife and placed them in the temporary refrigerator made by the big-tailed yak. It was true that there were too few large containers on the farm. He must purchase a batch at the market tomorrow.
After harvesting about one-fifth of the harvest, the refrigerator made of big-tailed yaks was full. Qiao Xi put the boxes into the space and thanked the little bees: "Thank you for your honey, white-velvet bumblebee and slender-legged bee. I will plant more flowers and fruit trees on the farm for you to collect honey."
“Buzz” Josh, it’s you who gave us the right to harvest on the farm, this is our reward.
"Buzz buzz", that's right. Moreover, since the big black bird came these two days, no bad tiger bees dare to bully us.
The little bees chattered a lot about Josh's good points, but after listening for a long time, it seemed that Josh praised the brown-headed vulture more.
I didn't expect that in addition to killing insects, the palm tree also maintains the law and order of the orchard.
After saying goodbye to the little bees, Qiao Xi found a stone at the edge of the orchard, sat down and thought about the big box of honey. He felt a little distressed. How could he maximize the value of the honey?
It’s time to pick the fruits. I’m too busy! Wait! Fruits!
Josh had an idea in mind.
Back in the orchard, Josh called the Brown-headed Vulture who was catching up on his sleep and asked it to help blow a gust of wind to bring down many ripe bitter candies. Josh picked them up under the tree. They fell densely on the ground, and it was effortless to pick them up. He had nothing to put them in, and the refrigerator would easily freeze the fruits. Josh simply stuffed them directly into the space backpack, taking as much as he could.
Josh stuffed several ripe giant lemons into the little remaining space. Now, the space backpack was overweight again and its lifespan was reduced by one.
In the end, Qiao Xi could only use his hands to open his clothes to hold the freshly dug potatoes, and then sit on the big-tailed yak and slowly return to the farm hut with a large bundle of wild onions cut from the orchard.
It's not that it can't run fast, but Josh was holding a bundle of things in his hands and a bag of things in his clothes. If he ran fast, these things would fall to the ground, so he could only slowly walk back home.
It just so happened that the fire that was burning today was still going out, so Josh dug a hole in the fire and threw the potatoes and beans in, so that he could have something natural to eat tonight.
While waiting for the onions to mature, Qiao Xi took the wild onions to the faucet, washed them carefully, and cut them into chopped green onions. He would sell them with fish balls tomorrow to add some color to make them look better.
Then, he threw two-thirds of the fruits in the space backpack into the shipping box to lighten the backpack, and kept the rest for other uses in the market tomorrow.
Finally, he took out the big refrigerator containing honey from the space and asked the big-tailed yak to reinforce it. If it was left there for a long time, the ice attribute power would dissipate and the box would be gone. Then, Josh would have no place to cry.
Thank you for correcting my mistakes. I have corrected them. Thank you so much for correcting my mistakes! I don't know if you can see this chapter. Thank you! 28/12 22:30
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