I washed all the freshly picked chili peppers and poured them directly onto the drying mat. They looked like they were piled up quite thickly.
Anyway, the moisture can be dried in a morning, and then it can be stored away. It doesn't matter if there's a little more or less moisture.
Pour all the water from washing the chili peppers into the ditch, then fill another basin halfway with cold water and use it to wash the hawthorns in the space.
After washing, you can slice it directly and then lay it on a mat to dry in the sun. Once it's dry, you can steep it in water to drink.
If you just soak it in water and drink it, it will definitely be very sour. Yunxi thinks that one day when she goes deep into the mountains and forests, she must go and see if there is any wild honey to harvest.
There are quite a lot of wild honey in the deep mountains and forests. As long as you have the ability to subdue them, you can harvest their honey.
For Yunxi, harvesting honey is a very simple matter. She can simply find the beehive, put the whole thing into her space, and then do whatever she wants with it!
After washing all the hawthorns, it looked like a little over 100 jin (50 kg), but in reality, it wasn't much more than that; at most, there were only five or six hundred fruits.
After washing the hawthorns, I didn't cut them up right away. Instead, I took out two chopsticks and poked out the pits in the middle of them.
At first, I wasn't very skilled, and it took me several seconds to poke the core out of the middle. But once I got the hang of it, it only took me two seconds.
After quickly finishing packing all the boxes, Yunxi felt that next time she picked hawthorns, she would be able to pack them up much faster.
I went to the kitchen, took out the cutting board, knife, and the wooden basin I used to cut green beans last time, and started cutting them right away.
As for the area between my thumb and forefinger where I held the cleaver, the blister from last time had disappeared by the second day, leaving behind a small, thin callus.
This time she wasn't afraid. Even if blisters formed, she didn't need to worry because the all-purpose plant extract would heal by the next day.
Yunxi cut each hawthorn into six slices, which only took five cuts. Each slice was just the right size.
Even though I hadn't eaten any, I smelled that odor while I was cutting it, and my teeth started to ache.
They even kept swallowing their saliva, which meant it was indeed quite sour.
I quickly shifted my attention, stopped caring about what I was doing, and focused on cutting, looking elsewhere, deceiving myself into thinking that as long as I wasn't looking, it wouldn't matter.
It took me more than an hour to cut five or six hundred fruits. After I finished, I felt like my hands weren't even mine anymore.
It was so stiff it looked like it was about to cramp up.
Looking at the pot full of hawthorns, Yunxi felt quite accomplished.
I quickly moved the basin to the side where the mat was drying. Instead of carefully placing each mat on it, I just grabbed a handful and scattered it on the mat, spreading it evenly.
This is much faster than laying them out one by one.
After all the hawthorns have been sprinkled on, it feels a bit thick, since there are quite a lot of them. But given time, the sun will dry them all eventually.
After finishing all the work, I glanced at my watch and it was almost one o'clock in the afternoon.
It seems I was so engrossed in my work that I missed my mealtime and didn't even seem very hungry.
I was still cutting hawthorns when the work bell rang, so I didn't pay attention to it.
Now that the work is almost finished, it's time to treat myself to a good meal.
I picked a few green peppers, and I'll stir-fry a bowl of green peppers for lunch, stir-fry an eggplant, and cook some white rice.
Eggplant would have tasted better stewed with salted fish, but we didn't have any fish at home, so we just stir-fried the eggplant on its own.
By the time we ate, it was almost 2 p.m.
Before eating, Yunxi glanced at the chilies. All the moisture on their surfaces had dried out. She had harvested two-thirds of the red chilies, which she planned to use to make chili sauce. The rest she would let them continue to dry in the sun until they became dried chilies.
Yunxi didn't waste the little space left on the drying mat. She took out the mushrooms from her space and dried them, figuring that drying a little bit was better than leaving it empty.
After everything was ready, they started eating. Once they were full, they placed a chair in the hallway and sat down.
After eating and drinking my fill, I sat down and felt much more relaxed.
I was originally planning to chop up those chilies this afternoon, but seeing that we didn't have much salt at home, I had to give up on that idea.
I plan to buy some coarse salt when I go to the market. I'll use that coarse salt to pickle vegetables, and I'll keep the fine salt for myself.
After sitting for a while, Yunxi seemed to be unable to stay still, so she went to check on the herbs that were drying. They were already quite dry on the surface, but she knew it was definitely not enough, so she flipped them over and dried them alternately on both sides, which would speed things up.
After turning them over, I also turned over the green beans that were drying on the rack. These green beans were already half-dried, and today was the third day.
After airing them out for a few more days, they should be ready to be packed up. I casually touched the clothes I had washed that morning and found they were already dry, so I quickly put them away.
If it's left to dry in the sun any longer, it won't be long before it tears easily with just a gentle tug; the fabric is just that bad.
Thinking that I hadn't gone to collect the eggs today, I wondered if the four hens would give me a surprise.
I found four eggs yesterday, but I don't know if it was because the hen that doesn't like to lay eggs was worried about its own life, but it managed to lay one.
He went straight to the chicken coop in the backyard, took out four eggs, and nodded in satisfaction.
It seems that they only lay eggs diligently when their lives are threatened.
If it can lay four eggs a day, it can have 120 eggs a month. Each egg costs about nine cents, so that's about ten dollars.
Of course, she also knew that there couldn't be that many in a month. Hens always lay eggs very frequently for a period of time, and then don't want to lay eggs anymore after a while. That's normal.
After coming out of the backyard, I took out two round dates from my spatial storage, washed them, and sat down on the bench in the corridor. While eating the dates, I wondered what I should do next.
The jujubes were sweet and sour, and the taste was absolutely delicious. At least Yunxi thought she liked them.
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