The cool autumn wind swept across the courtyard, rolling up a few golden fallen leaves.
Shen Mo sat by the window, holding a thick volume of "Practical Internal Medicine" in her hand, but she was a little absent-minded, with her delicate brows slightly furrowed.
"What's wrong? Are you feeling uncomfortable?"
Shen Mo shook her head and licked her lips a little embarrassedly: "I'm not feeling uncomfortable...it's just...I've always felt that my mouth is very bland and tasteless recently. I always want to eat something fragrant and crispy."
She paused, her eyes filled with nostalgia and longing, "Qingyang, I remember the pecans you fried for me last autumn... They were so fragrant, crispy on the outside, and oily and fragrant on the inside, and a little nostalgic... Thinking about it now, my mouth is watering."
Hickory nuts? Lu Qingyang was stunned.
The pecans that were removed were indeed fried well, and the refined salt exchanged in the space was fried with plenty of spices, and the heat was also well controlled.
But the problem is that fresh wild pecans are only available in late autumn. Now, not long after autumn begins, the skin of the walnuts on the trees is still green, and it is still too early for them to mature and fall naturally.
There were roasted nuts for sale in the space mall, but how could the taste of industrially produced nuts compare to the ones he personally roasted with the scent of the forest?
My wife wants to eat it, and it’s the special period of pregnancy, so this request must be met!
"Want to eat walnuts? That's easy!" Lu Qingyang immediately patted his chest, "It just so happens that the team is not busy these days, I will go to the mountains tomorrow! I remember the locations of those walnut trees, I promise to pick the freshest ones for you to fry!"
At dawn the next day, Lu Qingyang set out with his tools.
He came to the hillside where he went to pick walnuts with ease and familiarity, and sure enough, he saw those tall walnut trees.
The branches were full of green, spherical fruits, which were heavy but had hard, green skins, and it was obvious that they had not yet reached the stage where they would naturally crack and fall off.
There were a few green fruits scattered under the tree, some of which had been blown down by squirrels or strong winds.
Lu Qingyang picked up a fallen green fruit, squeezed it, and found it was very hard.
He tried to use the back of the hatchet to knock off the thick green skin on the outside, revealing the brown walnut shell inside.
He took great pains to crack open the walnut shell and took out the walnut wrapped in a thin yellow-brown coating.
When he put it in his mouth and chewed it, a strong, astringent taste with a hint of rawness rushed into his head. It did not have the oily and sweet taste of being ripe at all. Instead, it was so astringent that he frowned.
"Tsk, it really doesn't work. It's too raw." Lu Qingyang spat out the astringent taste in his mouth and looked at the plump but unripe fruits on the branches, feeling a little troubled.
If they were picked and fried forcefully, the taste would surely be unsatisfactory and would not meet Shen Mo's expectations.
At this moment, an idea flashed through his mind: space! The magical spiritual field in the space can even accelerate the growth of ginseng, so this must be able to do the same.
Instead of thinking about going into the mountains to pick them every season and worrying about the weather and animals destroying them, it is better to transplant a few trees directly into the space!
With the nourishment of spiritual spring water and special soil, it may soon bear fruit, and the quality is definitely better than wild ones! In the future, when Chen Mo wants to eat it, she can always have the freshest one!
Just do it! Lu Qingyang immediately started to choose from several walnut trees.
He chose three trees: one that bore the most fruit and the fullest fruits;
A tree that looks younger but is growing vigorously and has luxuriant branches and leaves;
There is another one that is a little special. Although it is not tall, its trunk is gnarled and shows a kind of tenacity. The walnuts it produces are not big in size, but their shells are thin and they are fragrant.
After digging deep enough, he moved his mind and locked onto the huge soil ball wrapped around the roots of the selected walnut tree!
In an instant, the entire tree, along with the soil, disappeared out of thin air and was moved intact into the position reserved in advance in the space spiritual field!
A deep pit and scattered soil were left in its place.
Lu Qingyang took a breath and felt the situation in the space.
The walnut tree stood firmly in the moist, dimly glowing black soil of the spiritual field. Its branches and leaves seemed to stretch out instantly, making it look more energetic.
The spiritual field seemed to automatically adjust the size of the pit to allow the tree roots to fit perfectly.
"It's done!" Lu Qingyang was delighted and followed the same method to successfully transplant the other two selected walnut trees into the space spiritual field.
The three trees are distributed in a triangular shape, and their branches and leaves seem to appear greener and more shiny in the space.
After finishing this, Lu Qingyang was exhausted, but his heart was filled with a sense of accomplishment.
He looked at the three large holes left there, thought for a moment, and then took out some ordinary soil and gravel from the space to fill them back, trying his best to restore them to their original state and avoid attracting attention.
Although the main purpose was to transplant trees, it would be difficult to explain if I returned empty-handed since I was already here.
Lu Qingyang also walked around the area and picked some ripe hawthorns, which were sour and sweet and appetizing, and a few handfuls of hazelnuts. He also picked some common herbs such as fangfeng and bupleurum, which were commonly found in Shenmo, and filled his backpack.
When I returned to the courtyard, the sun had already set.
Shen Mo was sitting in the yard, reading a book while waiting for him. When she saw him, she immediately put down the book and came to greet him.
"Are you back? Are you exhausted? Take a rest." She looked at his backpack curiously, "Where are the walnuts? Did you find them?"
Lu Qingyang put down the backpack, revealing the red hawthorns, a small handful of hazelnuts, and various herbs inside, but there was no sign of hickory nuts.
He scratched his head and showed a "regretful" expression: "Wife, I'm sorry, I went to the old place, and the walnuts were not hanging, but they were still green and hard. I cracked one open and tasted it, it was bitter and astringent, and it was inedible. It seems that I have to wait another month or so."
Although Shen Mo was a little disappointed, she couldn't bear to say anything when she saw Lu Qingyang's exhausted face, so she quickly said:
"It's okay, it's okay. I'm really hungry now. Go wash up. Grandpa has already prepared the meal. Hawthorns are also good. My appetite has been low recently, so I'll eat something sour to stimulate my appetite."
Lu Qingyang quietly sensed the three walnut trees in the space.
He could feel that, under the nourishment of the spiritual spring water, the originally green and hard fruits on the branches were quickly changing their skin from dark green to yellow, and then from yellow to brown.
Some ripe walnuts even fell down with a "crackling" sound.
Lu Qingyang specially selected a few of the largest walnuts with the most complete shells, and carefully peeled off the dried and cracked green skin, leaving behind clean brown hard-shelled walnuts.
I secretly roasted the pecans using the old method and placed them by the bed.
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