Chapter 11 A bumper harvest of thorn balls
The thin slices of beef and mutton were cooked twice after being rolled in the pot. After eating two boxes of meat in a row, the siblings slowed down their eating speed.
I put several ingredients and grass-like vegetables into the pot that I had never seen before, and started waiting eagerly.
Lin Erhu picked up a piece of chrysanthemum and asked, "Sister, can this grass-like taste taste good?"
"The soup base is so fragrant that it smells delicious even if you put a shoe mat in it. We also cooked the meat, so the dishes have a meaty taste."
Lin Erhu sipped his saliva. When he saw that the dish had changed color, he immediately put it into his bowl and took a bite without caring about the heat. It made him inhale and he was reluctant to spit the dish out.
"Smells! Sister, this dish is so delicious. I just ate too much meat and it was a bit greasy. This will relieve the greasiness, so you can eat it too."
Lin Xiaoman also picked up a few vegetables and put them in his mouth. Although it didn't taste like meat, it was rolled in the oil soup and the vegetables were stained with the aroma of meat. It was not at all like the astringent and bitter vegetables they had eaten before.
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Meat balls, fish balls, shrimp balls, pee beef balls, the siblings nodded repeatedly as they ate, "Erhu, do you think it would be possible for us to set up a stall in the city to sell this in a few days?"
Lin Erhu thought that if they set up a stall to sell this, he could keep eating, nodding like a chicken pecking at rice, "Okay! That's great, sister, let's go set up a stall tomorrow."
Lin Xiaoman was also very excited, but he thought that the ingredients for meat slices and leafy vegetables were difficult to get, so he still hesitated. He couldn't just use ingredients from there, right? When others asked where the ingredients came from, they couldn't tell clearly.
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However, in her words, the soup base will be fragrant even when boiled to the soles of shoes. If they don’t do this, they can just buy a few chickens and chop them into smaller pieces to make hot pot chicken, right?
Lin Erhu ate so much that he almost forgot who he was, but Lin Xiaoman thought about the business he wanted to do while eating.
After finishing the hot pot, there was no soup base left in the pot.
The two siblings began to sort out all the things they bought today, and locked the packaged items into boxes. When using, they had to unpack them before taking them out.
Food that is not packaged and is afraid of spoilage is put into the well in a bucket, so that it can be stored for a few more days.
It's the end of August right now, and it's already a bit cold at night, but you can still get really hot from the sun during the day.
This work lasted for an hour, and the siblings almost fell asleep on the bed.
When they got up early the next day, the villagers didn't come to call them when they went up the mountain. They slept until about three o'clock in the morning and didn't wake up until about three o'clock in the morning.
Seeing that it was too late to go up the mountain, the siblings planned to go there after breakfast.
I had hot pot last night and made instant noodles this morning.
Instant noodles are easy to make. The siblings cooked two bags of spicy beef flavor and put two eggs bought in the supermarket inside.
After it came out of the pot, each person filled a bowl and carefully picked up a chopstick to taste it. They choked and coughed for a while, but the spicy and exciting taste seemed to explode in their mouths. The siblings exhaled to relieve the pain in their mouths.
Spicy, I quickly ate the whole bowl of noodles.
"Erhu, help me remember some. When I go there, I'll see what the peppers are. If we can grow them, we'll grow some too. Otherwise, when people ask us what we put in our hot pot, we won't be able to explain clearly.
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"Sure, I have a good memory and can't forget it."
Both siblings can eat. A bowl of noodles with two eggs is not enough, so Lin Xiaoman cooked two more bags of shrimp and fish noodles.
It's not spicy this time, and anyone who takes a bite of it will have their eyebrows flying.
Lin Erhu praised it while eating, "Sister, this instant noodles is so delicious and easy to make. Let's just eat this from now on."
Lin Xiaoman refused, "I think there are a lot of new delicacies over there, don't you want to try them all?"
"Think! Then let's eat something different every day?"
Lin Xiaoman nodded at him approvingly, "Well, listen to our two tigers!"
Lin Erhu shook his head beautifully.
After eating two bags of instant noodles, Lin Erhu was almost full, but Lin Xiaoman was still half full. He ate three more steamed buns with the soup base, and then he felt that his stomach was not so empty.
They don’t know what to buy, but shopping in the supermarket is really fun. They plan to go shopping again today and study what each product is used for.
I wandered around until noon, and when I came out of the supermarket with big and small bags, I also bought the peppers that Lin Xiaoman had been longing for. I also inquired and found out that peppers are grown from the seeds inside. However, every spring, someone will cultivate pepper seedlings and plant them.
Just water the ground and it will survive.
The siblings kept this in mind and thought about going back and trying to plant some from seeds. If they couldn't grow them, they would wait until next spring to buy some seedlings.
When passing by a noodle shop, one person went inside and ordered a big bone noodle shop, and also ordered a large plate of sauced bones.
Who would have thought that the big bones that the rich people despise over there would be so delicious when cooked? Thinking that there are big bone sauces sold in the supermarket, Lin Xiaoman planned to buy some bones and make the sauce himself when he comes back next time.
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Their bones are cheap and no one wants them. They ask the butcher shop owner to save some meaty bones, which can save a lot of money.
Lin Daqiang led people up to Wutian Mountain, and finally cleared all the thorn balls on the mountain within the boundaries of Hedong Village. Further afield, there were also villages over there who knew that thorn balls were edible, and they all went up the mountain to pick them.
Not wanting to conflict with other villagers over picking thorn balls, Lin Daqiang decided to end the task of picking thorn balls.
There are more than 300 people in the village, and they have harvested more than 400 bags of fruits in these days. One bag weighs more than 100 kilograms. Lin Daqiang decides to give each person a bag. The remaining more than 100 bags will be sent to the clan ancestral hall first. Who will do it later?
When the family's food is gone, they can spend money to buy it from the clan, and the money they get will be used to repair the ancestral hall.
Everyone in the village agrees. More than one hundred kilograms of thorn balls is equivalent to more than one hundred kilograms of grain. A person can eat for more than three months if he eats sparingly. At least he can survive this winter.
Because it was Lin Xiaoman and his brother who discovered that the thorn cones were edible, even though they did not go up the mountain for several days, when Lin Daqiang said that they would be given an extra bag, few people in the village expressed dissatisfaction.
There are still some bits and pieces left on the mountain, so Lin Daqiang did not organize the villagers to pick them again. Anyone who is willing to go up the mountain will let them pick it by themselves. Whoever picks it will count as their own.
In the next few days, the villagers continued to go up the mountain every day, not only to pick thorn balls, but also to pick mushrooms and wild vegetables.
Lin Xiaoman agreed to trade salt with everyone, a jar of salt for a basket of mushrooms, and showed everyone the salt she took out.
This salt is fine and white, and is better than what is sold in the county town. In the county town, a jar of fine salt like this costs tens of cents, but a basket of mushrooms that holds the sky can sell for more than ten cents.
After the autumn harvest, every household in the village had little to do, so this time more people went up the mountain.
Lin Xiaoman and Lin Erhu harvested a lot of mushrooms. They went to several places every day, but they couldn't sell them all. When they saw someone selling dried mushrooms there, they wanted to ask someone to dry them and then sell them slowly.
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Chapter completed!