Chapter 258: Picking Wild Fruits in the Mountains



After everything was prepared, he took out the steamed rice and a few steamed cornbreads from the pot and put them in rice bowls, put them all on the table, and called the people outside to eat.

After eating the cold-mixed pork liver, Mr. Zhang said: "This is the first time I know that pork liver can be eaten like this. Only Xiaoya knows how to make it. It tastes really good this way."

"Master, if you like it, ask Shi Nian and the others to bring back pork liver from the town next time, and I will make it for you again," Tong Yiya said when she saw that he liked it.

"It's really delicious. Not only does the chef like it, I also like it this way. Next time we come back, we will go to the butcher shop and see if it has it, we will buy it back," said Fu Shinian

"Okay, I won't bother you," said Mr. Zhang with a smile.

After they finished their dinner, Fu Shinian and the others continued to collect the prey, while Tong Yiya cleaned the kitchen and came out to steam medicinal herbs for Mr. Zhang.

After cleaning, he brought the prepared marinade outside to Fu Shinian and the other man, and asked them to marinate all the processed meat, put it in a large wooden basin, carry it into the kitchen and cover it.

After everything was ready, Mr. Zhang watched over the steaming of the herbs while he asked them to go back next door to boil water for washing.

That night, when they washed up and lay down on the kang, it was already past eleven o'clock in the evening. Yuanyuan could no longer resist the sleepiness and fell asleep on the kang early.

Tong Yiya covered the child with a thin blanket, then she and Fu Shinian lay down to rest, and slept until early the next morning.

When I woke up in the morning, the child and his father were no longer around.

It was a rare opportunity for her to wake up and lie on the kang for a while, so she didn't get up to wash immediately.

She lay on the kang for a while until Fu Shinian came to see if she had woken up, holding Yuanyuan. When he entered the room, he saw that she had woken up, but had not yet gotten up. Fu Shinian walked to the kang and sat down and asked, "Are you still sleepy? Why don't you get up and eat something before coming back to sleep for a while?"

"No, I'm just too lazy to stay in bed, so I just wanted to stay for a while. You've already prepared breakfast, so is it very late?" When Tong Yiya heard that he had prepared breakfast, she thought it was very late, so she sat up from the quilt and asked.

"It's still early. There's nothing we need to do early. Don't worry," Fu Shinian said.

"Yes, are you going to the mountains today?" Tong Yiya asked

"We came across some fruit trees yesterday and saw that the fruits on them were ripe, so we decided to go get them today. Don't you like eating fruits? Why don't you dry them and eat them as snacks?" Fu Shinian said.

"Really? What kind of fruits are there?" Tong Yiya asked

"There are some plums, wild peaches, and a wild apricot tree, the fruits on which are all red," Fu Shinian replied.

"There are so many, and I don't know if there are any persimmons. I don't know if the trees I picked fruits from in previous years have any fruit. How about I go up the mountain with you this afternoon to see if there are any fruits on the persimmon trees? If there are, I'll pick some and bring them back to dry in the sun. When I stay at home in the winter, I can eat them to kill time," said Tong Yiya.

"Okay, do you want to get up now? Wash up and have a good breakfast, then we'll set off," Fu Shinian asked

"Get up. I've slept enough. I just want to be lazy for a while." Tong Yiya got up with a smile, picked up her clothes from the side and put them on.

In this hot summer, she still wears two pieces of clothes, but the fabric is very thin and the sleeves are three-quarter sleeves. It is not very hot to wear like this at home. Mainly because in this era, girls are not allowed to dress too revealingly.

After putting on her clothes, Tong Yiya went out of the house and fetched water from the well in the yard. After washing up, she went next door with Fu Shinian to have breakfast.

It is a little after nine in the morning and the sun has risen outside, but it is not as hot as it is at noon.

They were going out today and were planning to come back more often, so they thought about leaving early.

After breakfast, Tong Yiya held Yuanyuan in her arms and coaxed him for a while, asking him to play with Mr. Zhang at home. Then they went out to pick some delicious fruits for him.

After coaxing Yuanyuan, they handed him over to Mr. Zhang to play with. The three of them put a basket on their backs, some ropes and hatchets for hunting, and went out.

Today they went to the mountain where Fu Shinian and his companions had hunted yesterday. They walked from the foot of the mountain into the mountain and after walking for about half an hour, they arrived at the location of the first fruit tree they saw yesterday.

This fruit tree is a plum tree. Plums are relatively crisp fruits. Tong Yiya asked Fu Shinian to pick one for her to taste under the tree. After taking a bite, her expression changed immediately because of the sour taste.

She wanted to say that she didn't want this fruit because it was too sour, but she thought that fruit was hard to find here, so she could take the plums back and pickle them to eat. If that didn't work, she could peel them and dry them in the sun, and they would definitely not be so sour anymore.

Thinking of this, she decided to finish the plum in her hand, then pick the ones at the lower parts with the basket, while Fu Shinian and Guard Dong climbed up the tree to pick those at the higher parts.

After a while, the three of them had plucked all the plums from the tree, and each of them only had one-third of their baskets filled. They prepared to go to the next place to pick some more, and when their baskets were full, they would carry the fruits back home.

As they walked, they set up many snares in the grass nearby, waiting for their last trip home to see if they could get any harvest.

The next one they went to pick was from a peach tree. The wild peaches were very hairy and small in size, but fortunately the fruit was sweet. After they picked all the peaches here, their backpacks were full. They found a secluded place to put the tools they brought, and the three of them went down the mountain carrying the fruit.

He also picked up a lot of dry firewood on the way, tied them up and placed them on the basket. This way, it could cover the fruits in the basket. When the villagers saw him, they said he was going to the mountains to pick firewood.

The reason they did this was because they were afraid that after the villagers knew that they had picked fruits in the mountains, they would all go to the mountains to look for fruits.

The places where they encountered fruit trees were all deep in the mountains. After all, the villagers had already figured out where and what kind of fruit trees there were outside the mountains.

The only people who could go to the mountains during this period were the children who were still in school. If something happened to a bad child who went to the mountains, their parents would blame them, so they let others know that they picked fruits in the mountains.

The three of them took the fruit back home and put it in a cool room, and then went to the mountains to continue picking fruit.

The three of them went back and forth in the mountains four or five times a day, carrying down a lot of apricots, peaches, plums, and some persimmons, but not many. This year they went late, and many persimmon trees had been picked by others.

When they went down the mountain for the last time, they checked the traps they had set earlier and actually caught a few small prey, mostly pheasants and rabbits.

When she returned home, it was not yet dark outside. Tong Yiya rested for a while and then went to cook dinner.

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