LIGHTNOVELWORLD The happy little days of the Ye family
Chapter 87 Making Persimmon
Autumn is the harvest season, and various fruits are ripe one after another. The persimmons and dates in Xiaohoushan are also ripe.
Early in the morning, Mr. Ye, Mrs. Ye and Ye Qingqing came to Xiaohoushan to pick persimmons. The persimmon tree in Xiaohoushan is very tall. Mrs. Ye visually estimated that it is four meters high.
The branches were covered with bright yellow persimmons, and the heavy persimmons as big as fists bent the branches.
The persimmon tree is too tall, so Mr. Ye specially prepared two 3-meter-long bamboo poles, and used small sticks to open a hole at the top of the bamboo poles.
When picking persimmons, align the branches with the small opening of the bamboo pole, and use force to break off the branches full of persimmons, so that you can easily pick the persimmons from high places.
The grandfather and grandson spent a whole morning picking all the persimmons on the tree.
There seemed to be a lot of persimmons, but after picking them off, I found that there were even more persimmons than they looked on the tree. The persimmons on the ground were piled up into a hill.
Mr. Ye brought eight large bamboo baskets to pack the persimmons, but he didn’t expect that they couldn’t fit them all in. Fortunately, there were two spare sacks on the donkey cart, and he used the sacks to fill two sacks full of persimmons. Only then did he put all the persimmons in. .
"The dates are ripe too, let's go get some dates to eat." Ye Qingqing said with a smile.
"Let's grab some and try it. I don't know if it tastes good."
She said she wanted to try it, but Mrs. Ye didn't have much hope. Most of the wild jujube trees growing on the mountain were wild jujube trees, which were sour and astringent. People in the village used them to feed pigs.
The dates on the tree were bright red and big. Ye Qingqing felt that these dates must be particularly delicious.
Mr. Ye was holding a long bamboo pole under the tree and beating the dates on the tree. The ripe dates fell one after another, like a rain of dates.
Mr. Ye stopped after slapping a few times, and the three of them picked up dates under the tree.
Ye Qingqing picked up a big, round date, rubbed it on his body, and put it directly into his mouth.
"This date is so unpalatable. It has no taste and very little moisture. It's like eating wood."
Ye Qingqing frowned and swallowed the dates that were like wood in his mouth.
Old Mrs. Ye originally thought it was a wild jujube, but she didn't expect it to be worse than a wild jujube. It had grown so big in vain.
"It's okay, it's good to take them back to feed the pigs." Mr. Ye picked up all the dates on the ground and put them into the basket in his hand, and said with a smile.
Mrs. Ye saw that it was getting late and urged the two of them to go home.
The cart was filled with persimmons, and Mrs. Ye and Ye Qingqing had no place to sit. Mr. Ye drove the donkey cart, and the grandfather and grandson had to follow behind and walk home slowly.
The grandfather and grandson picked more than 600 kilograms of persimmons from Xiaohoushan. The old lady planned to make persimmon cakes from these persimmon leaves.
The first step in making persimmons is to peel off the hard skin on the outside.
After lunch, Mr. Ye, Mrs. Ye, Mother Ye and Ye Qingqing sat around peeling persimmons.
Several people were chatting and laughing, and the atmosphere was very harmonious. The greedy Ye Qingqing even secretly ate a piece of persimmon that looked ripe, but was so bitter that he stuck out his tongue.
The three people on the side laughed happily.
The four people moved very quickly and peeled all the persimmons in less than an hour.
Peeled persimmons should be dried in the sun for two or three days. When the flesh becomes soft, you can start to make cakes.
There are also particularities to pinching persimmons. Don't use too much force the first time to avoid breaking the skin. After pinching for the first time, after 2 to 3 days, when the persimmon fruit surface gradually dries out and wrinkles appear, you can pinch it for the second time.
The second time you pinch it, use more force than the first time to soften all the hard lumps in the pulp. Then after another 2 to 3 days, when thick wrinkles appear on the fruit surface, pinch it a third time.
In the third time, the fruit surface should be flattened, the pulp should be soft, and flattened in time.
Squeeze and dry while drying, turn and dry for 10 to 12 days, until the persimmons are half dry.
Put the flattened persimmons in a bucket, wait until around the Frost Festival, take out the persimmons and spread them in a cool place, being careful not to expose them to sunlight.
Let it dry in the morning and put it back into the bucket in the afternoon. After repeated processing several times, the sugar content of the persimmon will overflow and white frost will appear on the surface, which means the persimmon is ready. The prepared persimmons are soft, glutinous and sweet, and will ooze honey.
When I was kneading the persimmons for the second time, the rapeseed flowers in the small back mountain were blooming.
The branches are covered with buds of all sizes, and several small yellow flowers bloom on the branches. The industrious little bees stop at the stamens to happily collect nectar.
Little did they know that the food they had worked so hard to collect had already been targeted.
Father Ye scattered 6 beehives in the rape field.
A few days before the autumn harvest, the sweet and soft persimmons are finally ready.
Mrs. Ye took out 7 persimmons and divided one into each person.
There was a layer of white frosting on the outside of the persimmon. Ye Qingqing licked it and it was sweet. Then I took another bite of the soft and waxy persimmon, which filled my mouth with sweetness.
The persimmon cakes made by Mrs. Ye were well received by the family.
In order to eat one more persimmon, Ye Xilin praised Mrs. Ye in various ways. Mrs. Ye happily agreed, but it was impossible to get one more persimmon.
Only 600 kilograms of persimmons were made from more than 260 kilograms of persimmons. Mrs. Ye kept 50 kilograms and planned to sell the rest.
Of the 50 kilograms of persimmons, 10 kilograms are reserved for New Year gifts, another 10 kilograms are reserved for eating during the Chinese New Year, and the remaining 30 kilograms are reserved for snacks.
Excluding the 50 kilograms of persimmons left aside, the family has 210 kilograms of persimmons left to sell. Mrs. Ye plans to sell them at the end of the year, mainly because the price can be higher at the end of the year.
At this time, Ye Mu had been working on the embroidery for more than four months, and finally reached the final finishing stage.
Mother Ye’s embroidery this time was of the Eight Immortals celebrating their birthdays, which was both festive and grand. Grandma Ye was full of praise after seeing it.
This embroidered picture is as tall as Ye Mu's. It is not an exaggeration to say that it is the most embroidered picture by Ye Mu. The embroidery thread alone cost several taels of silver.
And Ye Qingqing's first embroidery picture is about to be completed.
Ye Qingqing has been embroidering the picture for more than two months. It is a picture of Guanyin. The picture is not big, only one third of the size of Ye Mu's birthday picture.
The mother and daughter have not left home for the past two days, hoping to finish the embroidery before the autumn harvest.
On the day before the autumn harvest, Ye Qingqing, her daughter, and Grandma Ye went to the county to sell embroidery together with their second aunt Li and their second cousin Yue Ya.
The second aunt and cousin also embroidered pictures. The second aunt embroidered the picture of admiring the moon, while the cousin embroidered the picture of hundreds of flowers.
The second aunt's moon-viewing picture is as big as Ye Mu's embroidery picture. Whether it is the painting technique or the color matching, it has greatly improved compared with the first time I came to the county, and it is also made of fine silk and embroidery thread.
Cousin Ye's embroidery of hundreds of flowers is also good. Although the embroidery method is a bit immature, it is more aura.
Ye Qingqing's Guanyin picture is comparable to her second cousin's Hundred Flowers picture. Although the embroidery is immature, it has aura.
A few people were chatting and laughing on the donkey cart, and the laughter and laughter along the way was very lively.
Early in the morning, Mr. Ye, Mrs. Ye and Ye Qingqing came to Xiaohoushan to pick persimmons. The persimmon tree in Xiaohoushan is very tall. Mrs. Ye visually estimated that it is four meters high.
The branches were covered with bright yellow persimmons, and the heavy persimmons as big as fists bent the branches.
The persimmon tree is too tall, so Mr. Ye specially prepared two 3-meter-long bamboo poles, and used small sticks to open a hole at the top of the bamboo poles.
When picking persimmons, align the branches with the small opening of the bamboo pole, and use force to break off the branches full of persimmons, so that you can easily pick the persimmons from high places.
The grandfather and grandson spent a whole morning picking all the persimmons on the tree.
There seemed to be a lot of persimmons, but after picking them off, I found that there were even more persimmons than they looked on the tree. The persimmons on the ground were piled up into a hill.
Mr. Ye brought eight large bamboo baskets to pack the persimmons, but he didn’t expect that they couldn’t fit them all in. Fortunately, there were two spare sacks on the donkey cart, and he used the sacks to fill two sacks full of persimmons. Only then did he put all the persimmons in. .
"The dates are ripe too, let's go get some dates to eat." Ye Qingqing said with a smile.
"Let's grab some and try it. I don't know if it tastes good."
She said she wanted to try it, but Mrs. Ye didn't have much hope. Most of the wild jujube trees growing on the mountain were wild jujube trees, which were sour and astringent. People in the village used them to feed pigs.
The dates on the tree were bright red and big. Ye Qingqing felt that these dates must be particularly delicious.
Mr. Ye was holding a long bamboo pole under the tree and beating the dates on the tree. The ripe dates fell one after another, like a rain of dates.
Mr. Ye stopped after slapping a few times, and the three of them picked up dates under the tree.
Ye Qingqing picked up a big, round date, rubbed it on his body, and put it directly into his mouth.
"This date is so unpalatable. It has no taste and very little moisture. It's like eating wood."
Ye Qingqing frowned and swallowed the dates that were like wood in his mouth.
Old Mrs. Ye originally thought it was a wild jujube, but she didn't expect it to be worse than a wild jujube. It had grown so big in vain.
"It's okay, it's good to take them back to feed the pigs." Mr. Ye picked up all the dates on the ground and put them into the basket in his hand, and said with a smile.
Mrs. Ye saw that it was getting late and urged the two of them to go home.
The cart was filled with persimmons, and Mrs. Ye and Ye Qingqing had no place to sit. Mr. Ye drove the donkey cart, and the grandfather and grandson had to follow behind and walk home slowly.
The grandfather and grandson picked more than 600 kilograms of persimmons from Xiaohoushan. The old lady planned to make persimmon cakes from these persimmon leaves.
The first step in making persimmons is to peel off the hard skin on the outside.
After lunch, Mr. Ye, Mrs. Ye, Mother Ye and Ye Qingqing sat around peeling persimmons.
Several people were chatting and laughing, and the atmosphere was very harmonious. The greedy Ye Qingqing even secretly ate a piece of persimmon that looked ripe, but was so bitter that he stuck out his tongue.
The three people on the side laughed happily.
The four people moved very quickly and peeled all the persimmons in less than an hour.
Peeled persimmons should be dried in the sun for two or three days. When the flesh becomes soft, you can start to make cakes.
There are also particularities to pinching persimmons. Don't use too much force the first time to avoid breaking the skin. After pinching for the first time, after 2 to 3 days, when the persimmon fruit surface gradually dries out and wrinkles appear, you can pinch it for the second time.
The second time you pinch it, use more force than the first time to soften all the hard lumps in the pulp. Then after another 2 to 3 days, when thick wrinkles appear on the fruit surface, pinch it a third time.
In the third time, the fruit surface should be flattened, the pulp should be soft, and flattened in time.
Squeeze and dry while drying, turn and dry for 10 to 12 days, until the persimmons are half dry.
Put the flattened persimmons in a bucket, wait until around the Frost Festival, take out the persimmons and spread them in a cool place, being careful not to expose them to sunlight.
Let it dry in the morning and put it back into the bucket in the afternoon. After repeated processing several times, the sugar content of the persimmon will overflow and white frost will appear on the surface, which means the persimmon is ready. The prepared persimmons are soft, glutinous and sweet, and will ooze honey.
When I was kneading the persimmons for the second time, the rapeseed flowers in the small back mountain were blooming.
The branches are covered with buds of all sizes, and several small yellow flowers bloom on the branches. The industrious little bees stop at the stamens to happily collect nectar.
Little did they know that the food they had worked so hard to collect had already been targeted.
Father Ye scattered 6 beehives in the rape field.
A few days before the autumn harvest, the sweet and soft persimmons are finally ready.
Mrs. Ye took out 7 persimmons and divided one into each person.
There was a layer of white frosting on the outside of the persimmon. Ye Qingqing licked it and it was sweet. Then I took another bite of the soft and waxy persimmon, which filled my mouth with sweetness.
The persimmon cakes made by Mrs. Ye were well received by the family.
In order to eat one more persimmon, Ye Xilin praised Mrs. Ye in various ways. Mrs. Ye happily agreed, but it was impossible to get one more persimmon.
Only 600 kilograms of persimmons were made from more than 260 kilograms of persimmons. Mrs. Ye kept 50 kilograms and planned to sell the rest.
Of the 50 kilograms of persimmons, 10 kilograms are reserved for New Year gifts, another 10 kilograms are reserved for eating during the Chinese New Year, and the remaining 30 kilograms are reserved for snacks.
Excluding the 50 kilograms of persimmons left aside, the family has 210 kilograms of persimmons left to sell. Mrs. Ye plans to sell them at the end of the year, mainly because the price can be higher at the end of the year.
At this time, Ye Mu had been working on the embroidery for more than four months, and finally reached the final finishing stage.
Mother Ye’s embroidery this time was of the Eight Immortals celebrating their birthdays, which was both festive and grand. Grandma Ye was full of praise after seeing it.
This embroidered picture is as tall as Ye Mu's. It is not an exaggeration to say that it is the most embroidered picture by Ye Mu. The embroidery thread alone cost several taels of silver.
And Ye Qingqing's first embroidery picture is about to be completed.
Ye Qingqing has been embroidering the picture for more than two months. It is a picture of Guanyin. The picture is not big, only one third of the size of Ye Mu's birthday picture.
The mother and daughter have not left home for the past two days, hoping to finish the embroidery before the autumn harvest.
On the day before the autumn harvest, Ye Qingqing, her daughter, and Grandma Ye went to the county to sell embroidery together with their second aunt Li and their second cousin Yue Ya.
The second aunt and cousin also embroidered pictures. The second aunt embroidered the picture of admiring the moon, while the cousin embroidered the picture of hundreds of flowers.
The second aunt's moon-viewing picture is as big as Ye Mu's embroidery picture. Whether it is the painting technique or the color matching, it has greatly improved compared with the first time I came to the county, and it is also made of fine silk and embroidery thread.
Cousin Ye's embroidery of hundreds of flowers is also good. Although the embroidery method is a bit immature, it is more aura.
Ye Qingqing's Guanyin picture is comparable to her second cousin's Hundred Flowers picture. Although the embroidery is immature, it has aura.
A few people were chatting and laughing on the donkey cart, and the laughter and laughter along the way was very lively.
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