Chapter 142: Chestnut
"Haven't you seen the appearance of taking off the shell?" Yang Yu asked in surprise. I thought to myself: You all know this is a burr, why haven't you seen it peeling off.
Qiu Ju picked up the chestnuts on the ground and put them in the basket, "I've never seen it before. I know it's called a burr or it was stained with firewood in the mountains. I saw that it was a thorn and then threw it away." Afraid that she would not believe it, she continued. He said again, "Many people in our village know it." Yang Yu thought to himself that such a good thing has been ruined, and now let me play its role!
"Yeah, but this is a good thing, let's pick it up quickly." Yang Yu said excitedly.
Qiu Ju heard that her hands had not been idle, and desperately picked it up in the back basket, "Do you still want this?" Qiu Ju asked, pointing at the chestnut with a thorny shell.
Yang Yu: "Yes, go back and eat as if you took off the shell." After thinking about it, it would be easy to be found when you take it back, so he said, "Why don't we take off the shell here."
"Okay." Qiu Ju is now determined to listen to Yang Yu in everything. Yang Yu and the others picked up all the chestnuts that had shed their shells and put them in the back basket.
They piled the rest of the thorns together, found two stones and sat down with a wooden stick in one hand, and kept pounding them with their hands. At this time, the chestnuts were well cooked, and the openings were slightly larger. Smash it twice and the chestnuts come out.
Qiu Ju and Yang Yu were responsible for the smashing, and Xixi picked it up in the back basket of the house that had fallen on the ground. Smashing chestnuts is a slow job, and it took them an hour to get a basket. Seeing that it was too late, everyone did not miss it, and spread some wild vegetables on the back basket to prevent others from looking at it.
The way back was not easy, because it would get dark earlier in the mountains, and they discovered this place by accident, so neither she nor Qiu Ju knew the way, so they could only go back based on their memories.
Xixi was also a little scared, and kept leaning against Yang Yu, maybe because she saw Yang Yu carrying something, she didn't call for her to hold it. Fortunately, Yang Yu had a strong sense of direction, so they didn't get lost in the woods.
"Finally back on the road." Yang Yu breathed a sigh of relief. They rested on the side of the road for a while before continuing to walk back.
Qiu Ju: "Tea lady, I'll put things in your house soon, and I won't take them back to save the trouble of going back and forth."
"Okay, let's sell it together."
When I got home, I found that the door had been opened. It was obvious that Zhou Ze and Zhou Rui had returned from the school. As soon as they entered the door, Zhou Rui gathered around and asked, "Mother, you are going to the mountain."
Yang Yu: "Well, let me put the things down first." Then he went to the kitchen with Qiu Ju, put down the things, and Qiu Ju didn't even bring a basket, so he hurried home to cook, his man is iron Zhu is also helping Yang Yu build a house.
Zhou Rui followed Yang Yu into the room, looked at the chestnut in the basket, and asked curiously, "Mother, what is this."
"Chestnut." Then he took one out of the back basket, bit it open with his teeth, removed the shell, carefully peeled off the thin layer of skin inside, and handed it to Zhou Rui: "Try it."
Zhou Rui took it and put it in his mouth, "Mother, it's crunchy."
"Take a few out to eat, Zhou Ze that? Going to hunt birds again." Yang Yu said.
Zhou Rui took some chestnuts, "I didn't go, I copied books in the house, and the teacher punished me."
Yang Yu: "What did he do again?"
"He broke the teacher's ruler." Zhou Rui said, chewing on the chestnut.
Yang Yu has become accustomed to it now, because Zhou Ze went to a private school and has made many mistakes, big and small.
Yang Yu put away the chestnuts and went to get the two turtledoves that Zhou Ze beat yesterday. These two turtledoves were very fat, and Yang Yu was reluctant to throw them away, so he planned to stew them for the children to drink.
Handling turtledoves is not difficult, just like handling chickens, except that the turtledoves are relatively small.
Yang Yu put the de-haired turtledove in a basin, cut a slit along its belly, took out the internal organs and washed them, and blanched them in a pot to remove the blood.
Then I went to the bag where the mushrooms were placed and picked a few mushrooms, washed them, and prepared to use them when making soup for a while.
Seeing that it's almost done, wash the meat and put it in a casserole to stew with the mushrooms.
Then I fried a pot of shredded potatoes and cabbage vermicelli.
Zhou Wei also came back after finishing the meal. When he came back, he carried a piece of wood. Yang Yu knew that he was going to prepare furniture.
"Come and try it, this is the turtledove soup that I simmered for half an hour." Then he gave each of them a bowl.
"Mother, why is there no meat in your bowl." Zhou Rui looked at Yang Yu's bowl with only soup, and asked suspiciously, and while asking, he wanted to give Yang Yu the meat in his bowl.
Yang Yu: "You can eat it yourself, my mother doesn't like it."
Seeing that Yang Yu refused to answer, Zhou Rui just stretched out the small hand that was sent out.
Zhou Wei looked at the meat in his bowl and thought that Cha Niang was reluctant to eat it, so he gave her the meat in his bowl without hesitation.
Yang Yu looked at the extra meat in his bowl, and immediately gave it to Zhou Wei, and said seriously: "Don't give it to me, I really don't like it."
Zhou Wei stared at her for several times, seeing that she didn't seem to be lying, so he didn't force it.
After dinner, Yang Yu gave Zhou Wei the sofa she had painted. Because the painter was really ugly, Yang Yu took Zhou Wei to describe it again, and then let Zhou Wei do it.
Yang Yu himself was not idle, and tried to make candied chestnuts in the kitchen. In the past, her grandma used to fry some peanuts and chestnuts at home, so Yang Yu knew a little about these things.
In the past, when frying peanuts, they used sand to fry them, so that the peanuts would be heated evenly and they would be fragrant when fried, but now their house is all soil and there is no sand, so Yang Yu had to make a home version.
Wash the picked chestnuts, cut a hole on the chestnuts with a knife, put them in a pot, pour in water, add a little cooking oil and sugar, and wait for the water to dry up.
After a quarter of an hour, Yang Yu felt that it was almost the same, the pulp had burst open, and the fragrance had come out.
Yang Yu couldn't help but pinch it open and taste it, "It's so delicious, it tastes like the one she bought on the street before." He couldn't help giving himself a thumbs up.
"Mother, what are you doing so delicious?" Zhou Ze ran in and asked, followed by Zhou Rui and Xixi, and even attracted Zhou Wei.
Yang Yu was happier when she saw that her sugar-fried chestnuts had attracted so many people, "I just made the sugar-fried chestnuts, is it fragrant or not."
Zhou Ze and Zhou Rui had already reached for it without waiting for Yang Yu to speak.
Zhou Wei also stepped forward, took one from the pot, and said, "Fortunately, we live far away, otherwise you would have to lure half the villagers."
Looking at the thing in his hand, he asked, "What is this called?"
Yang Yu: "Chestnut. It's a burr."
"You mean the fruit in the burr is this thing." Zhou Wei asked.
Yang Yu nodded, "How about it, you didn't find out before, did you?"