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- After lunch, Zhang Qian led the two lesbians into the house to look at photos, while Liu Junhao took Pang Xu to play chess under the tree.
"Liu Junhao, do you think it's strange that those magpies are gathering on the roof of your house on such a hot day? Could it be that there are insects on there Look, what is that magpie holding in its mouth?" Pang Xu accidentally said I turned my head and found a large group of magpies flying around on the roof of the second floor.
Liu Junhao quickly raised his head when he heard what he said, "It's broken. I dried the horse fruit for two days."
The horse fruit vine is a relatively rare plant in Liujiagou. This vine looks like a creeper, with tentacles at the end of its stems that can be used to absorb and wrap around other things. However, its branches and vines are much thicker than those of ivy, and it usually grows on tall trees or steep rock walls.
Horse fruit is a wild fruit grown on vines. It has a dark brown appearance and looks very inconspicuous. This thing is not very tasty when it is first picked. It tastes astringent and sweet. It needs to be stored for a period of time to wait for the moisture to dissipate before it can be eaten. Whether you eat it raw as a snack or roast it in the fire, of course you can't eat too much of it. If you eat too much, it will be particularly uncomfortable in the stomach and difficult to digest. There is another way to eat horse fruit, which is to dry it in the sun and grind it into powder, then rinse it in water several times to filter out the impurities. The remaining water is the essence of horse fruit. It only takes half a day to settle out the milky white starch. This starch can be made into "pink skin" and eaten.
In the early years, the food station in the town would go to the countryside to collect horse fruits in the summer, and it was said that they were sold as "pink skin". The purchase price was very cheap, in Liu Junhao¡¯s impression, it was less than 20 cents per pound. But people were poor at that time and there were many people picking horse fruit. Every summer, villagers carrying sickles and bamboo baskets go to the mountains to look for horse fruit vines. If they are lucky, they can pick more than a hundred kilograms of horse fruit vines that have not been discovered in a day.
Of course, it is not easy to pick horse fruit, because the leaves of this thing are very strange, and human skin will feel a tingling sensation as long as it comes into contact with it. The more I scratched, the more itchy it became. The scratches became even more painful when stained with sweat. People can't stretch their arms and legs on the tree at all, and they inevitably have to touch the leaves when picking the fruits. Therefore, when they were picked from a vine, their arms were covered with red marks. In addition, this thing usually grows too high, so people often look at the "vine" and sigh. Later, someone adopted a method of fishing from the lake, cutting the horse fruit vine directly from the ground, and then pulling it down from the tree, so that the horse fruit can be easily picked without going up the tree.
This method is quite easy. If you cut it, I will cut it too. As a result, the fruit vines will be reduced rapidly. When Liu Junhao was a child, vines like these were everywhere on the mountain, but now they can only be found in some inaccessible places.
Two days ago, Liu Junqi went up the mountain and accidentally discovered a horse fruit vine under a stone nest. There happened to be areas on both sides of the stone pedal nest, so the man picked hundreds of kilograms of fruit effortlessly. After getting it back, he thought it was a rarity, so he sent a lot of it to Liu Junhao.
Zhang Qian was very interested when she first came into contact with this thing, but after tasting one, she shook her head and said that Wukong could eat them all. Unexpectedly, monkeys are also very picky eaters. They only took one bite and threw the other half into the basket.
Liu Junhao thought that it was a pity to throw it away like this. In the morning, he saw that the weather was very good, so he thought of spending some time drying this thing to make "pink skin" to eat. Because he was afraid of being eaten by other birds, Liu Junhao specially sent his own Doudou to watch on the roof.
Thinking of the tabby cat, he hurriedly barked toward the roof of the building.
"Meow" a lazy cat meow came from the shade of the tree, and the guy stood up and stretched, and then squinted his eyes.
This guy, I don¡¯t know when he left.
Liu Junhao couldn't sit still at the moment. He quickly threw the chess piece away and ran towards the roof of the building in three steps and two steps at a time. I hope this group of magpies will slow down their mouths so that I can still harvest some fruits.
"Boom" When the magpies saw the coming person, they flapped their wings and flew up. One of them was very brave and even had one in his mouth before leaving. Damn, Liu Junhao picked up a half-brick from the side while eating and taking it, but he thought it would be bad if he threw the brick and didn't hit the magpie, but hit the chickens and ducks in the yard. In the end, he could only put the brick down in frustration.
"This is horse fruit?" Pang Xu thought it was something delicious when he heard the name, but when he saw the real thing on the roof, he was disappointed.
¡°Don¡¯t look down upon it, you¡¯ll know it¡¯s delicious once it¡¯s made into vermicelli.¡± Liu Junhao hasn¡¯t eaten this food for several years, but he misses it a bit. Seeing that the horse fruit had been dried, I called him over to help put it into the basket.
"Oh, the sun, it's so hot today." The two of them had been on the roof for less than five minutes, and sweat was pouring from their foreheads.
Present??Liu Junhao finally understood why Huamao left his account. He really couldn't stay in love.
When the fruit was brought downstairs, Xu Xiaoli and others heard the noise and came out to check. They were not interested in the fruit, but they were very interested in the fruit, and they all agitated to go to the village to grind the fruit into powder.
Liu Junhao almost fainted when he heard this. If you go to the village in this kind of weather, there will definitely be something wrong with your head. He shook his head repeatedly and said he didn't want to go.
"We don't expect you to push the roller. Three female generals can't beat you alone? Besides, my husband has a lot of strength, right?" Xu Xiaoli turned around and looked at Pang Xu. An e, proudly showing off his non-existent biceps.
¡°Sister, do you think this is a snack-eating competition? Girls like them, who can't lift their shoulders or resist with their hands, will be very good if they can push the empty roller later.
Everyone was interested, and Liu Junhao didn¡¯t want to discourage them, so he reluctantly followed them. He has made up his mind that if his wife doesn't speak, he will never do anything.
When he arrived at the village, Pang Xu put the bamboo basket on the grinding plate, then blew into his hands twice to prepare for a fight.
"Wait a minute, we haven't rinsed the grinding plate with water yet." Liu Junhao stopped urgently. Although the grinding plate was very clean, there was definitely a lot of dust on it. If he started pushing the grinder directly, he would not be able to eat the ground starch later.
After the grinding plate was washed with clean water, Pang Xu impatiently pushed the grinding wheel around. It was the first time he came into contact with this thing, and he found it very new. He asked Sunana to help him take two photos next to it.
As the stone roller rotates, the horse fruit is quickly crushed to pieces, revealing the first off-white powder inside. These are starches, but they still contain a lot of impurities.
When Xu Xiaoli saw her husband moving, she immediately picked up the brush and followed behind to sweep. The two of them really looked like a husband and a wife.
Liu Junhao saw that this guy was very energetic, so he turned around and found a shaded place to enjoy the shade, preparing to take over when he felt dizzy. You must know that pushing the roller means turning in circles. If you push it for a long time, you will feel dizzy and have no strength at all. People with a weak sense of direction can sit on the ground for a long time after getting off and still feel that their legs are limp.
Zhang Qian and Suna Na were unable to intervene at all, so they stood over to rest.
"Uncle, bamboo rat one dollar." Pang Xu and his wife were pushing vigorously when suddenly a squealing child ran over, holding a plump little bamboo rat in his arms.
"Hey, the bamboo rat is cuter than ours." When Xu Xiaoli saw the bamboo rat in the child's hand, she immediately threw the brush away and approached it with surprise on her face. She planned to buy it and keep it as a companion with the one in Liu Junhao's courtyard. My bamboo rat has lost several pounds in recent days. I guess that in addition to dietary problems, it is most likely that he is too lonely.
"How much does this cost?" Pang Xu stopped what he was doing when he saw someone selling bamboo rats.
"One dollar" When the little guy saw the possibility of doing business, he immediately handed the bamboo rat to Xu Xiaoli's hand, but he didn't take it seriously at all.
"How much?" The couple didn't hear clearly just now, and now they couldn't believe their ears after knowing the price. Is there such a cheap bamboo rat? They all felt that they heard wrongly.
"One pieceor fifty centsI'll eat candy." The child hesitated, and the price dropped again.
"Little Daddy, does your family know if you took out the bamboo rat?" Xu Xiaoli asked again.
"Yeah" the little guy nodded happily.
"How can this thing be so cheap?" Pang Xu still couldn't believe it.
"Maybe there are a lot of bamboo rats in the mountains, so the price is so low." Xu Xiaoli speculated from the side. It seemed that Xiaopi caught one without any effort last time.
"Let me ask Liu Junhao." Pang Xu always felt that spending such a small amount of money to buy a bamboo rat from a child was a bit overwhelming. After all, a mouse can now be sold for one yuan.
"What's wrong?" Zhang Qian and others hurried over as soon as they heard their call.
"Uncle Xiao HaoTeacher Zhang." The little kid shouted in a low voice as soon as he saw the villagers. This little guy is Er Mazi's grandson, and he hasn't started school yet this year.
"What are you doing, you naughty kid? Aren't you afraid of being spanked by your father?" Liu Junhao pinched the little guy's face and asked.
Before he could answer, Pang Xu had already told the story.
"What, you kid is immoral or not, but you only gave me 50 cents for a bamboo rat?"
"It's the price paid by this kid, don't you believe it?"
"Really fifty cents?" Liu Junhao turned to lookLook at this little guy.
"Well, fifty cents, you can buy me two bubble gums." The little guy wiped his nose and shouted excitedly.
It¡¯s like the waves behind the Yangtze River push the waves ahead. This little guy is only three years old and he already knows how to steal things from home and exchange them for food. Liu Junhao suddenly felt funny and deliberately took out 50 cents and handed it to him, then said: "It's really 50 cents a piece does the money I gave you count as mine?"
After he finished, he turned around and walked home with Zhu Lizi in his arms. After taking two steps, the little guy suddenly rushed forward and stopped him, shouting: "Where are you going?"
"Why do you regret it again? You just nodded and sold it to me. I want to take it home?" Liu Junhao raised his hand high, not letting the little guy reach it.
"It's not for sale take photos and take photos together, fifty cents!" the child explained anxiously.
Zhang Qian and others were stunned for a moment when they heard this, and then they all laughed. Especially Pang Xu, who almost stopped laughing.
This naughty kid couldn¡¯t speak clearly, so Liu Junhao handed the bamboo raccoon to him. (!
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