Haitang immediately put the lychees on the carriage. When they returned, the carriage was full of lychees. Haitang couldn't help but eat a few more, and they tasted really good.
Lychees are not only delicious when eaten fresh, but they also taste amazing when dried.
Haitang took the tree outside and planted it. "Sister, what's this?"
"Lychee tree, the fruit you eat is called lychee, how does it taste?" Haitang asked Xiaohe, who nodded and said it tasted delicious.
"Delicious! This is the first time I've ever tasted such delicious fruit," Haitang smiled, noting how sweet and juicy it was.
"Take this to Changning... By the way, if Second Aunt and Third Aunt want to eat it, they can eat one or two, but not too many, otherwise it will affect the child." Upon hearing this, Xiaohe and Xiaolu nodded.
Two people carried a basket to Xiuxiu's house. When Xiuxiu saw it at home, she asked, "What is this?"
"Lychees are delicious, but my second aunt said you can't eat too many, just one or two, otherwise it's not good for the baby." Hearing this, Xiuxiu nodded.
However, she accepted two-thirds of it, and then Xiaohe took it to Xiaocao. When Xiaocao heard this, she was slightly taken aback. "Yes, I know... I told your third uncle," Xiaocao said, sounding quite nervous about the child.
"By the way, I'm due to give birth in a few days, and I'd like to ask Tangtang to deliver my baby." My last child, Xiaocao, almost had a difficult labor, and it was Haitang who delivered her.
Having experienced some psychological trauma during childbirth this time, and also wanting to find Haitang again, Xiaohe nodded upon hearing this. "Yes, I'll tell my sister,"
In my sister's words, it's important to maintain good relationships with the brothers in the family, because the second and third uncles' families, as well as myself and Xingxing and Yueyue, will all need to interact with each other in the future to ensure a good relationship.
Haitang watched as Xiaohe returned. After Xiaohe spoke to Haitang, Haitang nodded. "Dry the remaining lychees. Go again tomorrow and bring back more." Dried lychees can last for about a year without any problem.
"We can make snacks or treats later, which is perfect since there are so many kids in the family." Hearing this, Xiaohe nodded. "You can't eat too many, they're easy to get a sore throat. Xiaohe, you're a girl, three is enough. If you want more, eat them tomorrow."
"Hmm," the lychees are quite large now, and a few bites are enough to satisfy the taste. After they were dried, Haitang went to cook some rice and vegetables.
As soon as the food was cooked, they smelled blood. They saw Dongfang Long and Shi Hu dragging several pigs back in another cart.
"Why are there so many today?" Haitang asked. Dongfang Long smiled, and Haitang looked at the arrows dripping with blood.
"The bow and arrows were especially effective today, hitting the target every time, so I shot too many. Tangtang, I gave them to Uncle to be taken to the river to be cleaned," said one of the four wild boars, all of them quite large.
In this situation, we need to clean it up quickly. Hearing this, Haitang nodded, and Xiaolu and the others followed. Haitang originally planned to cook something else, so she just asked Dongfanglong to clean a pig's head and then bring it back to roast.
Under such circumstances, Haitang also prepared a hot pot, or rather, it was already cooked at the beginning. She took it to the riverbank, where some orcs were returning to wash themselves and were watching Haitang and the others' wild boars.
"You guys did well today, such a good harvest," several orcs said as they looked at the wild boar.
"It's all because of that brat Xiaolong, his bow and arrow skills are too good. We didn't even want so many," Shi Hu said with a smile, as several orcs looked at him.
Thinking of that expression on his face that said, "My son-in-law, even though he's a human, he's no less skilled at hunting than you," the orc felt a bit disgusted and resentful.
Shi Hu watched the people leave and couldn't help but laugh. "Everyone says I can't dance the son-in-law dance, but my son-in-law is great." It's one's own problem if one dislikes someone, but it's unacceptable for others to dislike them.
The roasted pig's head by the river was prepared with all the spices and tasted absolutely amazing. Dongfanglong and Shihu each ate one, Xiaolu was more reserved and ate about half a head, Xingxing and Yueyue each ate one, and the rest were Haitang and Xiaohe, but neither of them could finish half a head.
They could only feed it to the fawns. After the fawns ate the pig's head, they started chopping meat, making sausages, and drying the pork.
Sausage and pork are still the most common ways to store meat in this tribe. Almost every family will store meat this way if they have too much meat. If they don't eat last year's meat, they will eat last year's cured meat and hang it up this year.
Just like Haitang said, sausages won't spoil even if they're hung up for a year or two, making them easier to make.
There were plenty of sausages at home, so Haitang and Dongfanglong gave some meat to the two wolves to prevent them from eating the sausages later.
I spent the whole day sorting sausages, and it wasn't until late at night that I finished and took them back to hang them up. By the time they were hung up, it was already broad daylight.
Haitang also went to sleep. Dongfanglong and the others closed the door and fell asleep. The next day, when Haitang woke up, Dongfanglong and Shihu went out again. Haitang also took Xingxing, Yueyue and the others to pick lychees.
Because lychees are delicious, Xiuxiu asked Changning to go with her. Haitang didn't object, since there were so many lychees on that tree that she couldn't pick them all in a short time.
Now that we're asking Changning to get it fixed, it's actually lightening the burden. Changning's foot is healed, and he can walk without much trouble now, though he's a little lame. The injury was too severe; it's good that his foot was saved. Now, a little lameness won't cause too many problems.
Since their bones were of different lengths, it didn't hinder their walking too much. Haitang and Changning and the others went up to the lychee tree and began to pick the fruit.
Changning hadn't brought any food today, so she ate lychees instead. "They taste great," she said. A younger sister was following behind her, and as she looked at the tree, she understood why Haitang hadn't told her not to come along.
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