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Chapter 76 Persimmon

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    Winter in the north is always so long.  The cold makes people who seek advantages and avoid disadvantages more willing to curl up in that small room.  Yes, it is really small. If there are so many people in Li Changqing's family, when the whole family is squeezed on the kang, it may just fit down.  People often say that when the stage is big, people can make a difference.  Because there is a lot of space to display.  So, in the same way, it is really difficult for people to make a difference in such a small world.  They can only repeat the same labor mechanically, and then use it to prepare for the coming year to give themselves some psychological comfort.  Yang Yi always said that people in the north are generally not as smart as people in the south.  It is because of the coldness in the north, which restricts their activities, so that they can only circle around in this small warm place. What's more cruel, it also restricts their thinking.  Without flexible thinking, it is naturally difficult to become a master.  So throughout history, most of the leaders are from the south, of course only the majority, and there is no shortage of heroes who rose from the cold in the north.  further afield.

    In such an era when transportation, economy, and technology were underdeveloped, the most difficult thing for ordinary people in winter was the lack of fruits and vegetables.  Their technology is limited, and vegetables and fruits in summer and autumn are basically only available in season, and there is no way to keep them until winter.  Therefore, the vegetables that each family can eat in winter are basically the same cabbage and radish.  Basically, every family has to store hundreds of catties of cabbage at the beginning of winter. These cabbage will be made into stuffing, fried and eaten.  But no matter how you eat it, it actually tastes like cabbage.  That's the essence.  Li Changqing's family is better, because of Yang Yi's diligence, they can always eat sauerkraut pickled with radish leaves in winter, as well as pickles made of celery and cauliflower, which adds a lot of joy to their days of single seasoning.  color.

    Sweetness is a luxury in winter.  Apart from the sweet potatoes and brown sugar steamed buns, it is really hard to find other sweet foods.  Of course, there are many kinds of sweets in the small shop, but they don't have extra money to buy them.  They must try to be self-sufficient in terms of food, just to save money.  Yang Yi's purpose of saving money for the family is very clear. She needs to support her four daughters to go to school.  She firmly believes that education is the only way to change the fate of this poor family.  Everything she does is for the future. Although the present is a bit bitter and she can't enjoy more things in her mouth, she is satisfied spiritually.  She is willing to endure any hardship when she thinks that her daughters will be baptized by education.

    Peasants often have a saying called watching the sky and eating.  It is true that their crops and harvests throughout the year are all in the eyes of God.  Only when it gives rain, sunshine, and temperature at the right time can they harvest, fill their stomachs, and sustain their lives.  Godsend is such a beautiful word that allows them to reproduce in this ordinary land for generations.

    Persimmon is also a godsend food, especially in this winter.  Persimmon is a food that is both sweet and satisfying. The soft persimmon juice and the chewy and satisfying persimmon tongue are the magic of nature that created this heaven-sent food.  Most importantly, it is free for the villagers of Qingxi Village.  Qingxi Village is located in the northern plain, which has a distinct northern climate.  And persimmon trees can be seen almost everywhere in the north.  Almost every household in Qingxi Village has at least one persimmon tree.  Persimmon trees don¡¯t need to be taken care of, just give them a shelter in the courtyard, they will grow vigorously, absorb nutrients, and then in autumn, they will give the farmers who have worked hard for a year a lot of fruit with the trees full of fruits.  comfort.

    Chen Yao's family picked persimmons in the days before winter after busy autumn.  Although persimmons are easy to grow, they are not easy to pick.  The connection of the fruit to the tree is so strong that they often break a lot of branches when picking the persimmons, but this does not have much effect, and they will still be full of fruit next year.  The freshly picked persimmons are hard, and if bitten, they will have an astringent taste, and they are not fully ripe at this time.  If you want to get the essence of persimmon, you need the experience of the farmers to turn it into a delicacy in their mouths.

    Today is the day of the market. There is only one market in the ten miles and eight villages near Qingxi Village. Every first and sixth day is the market (the first day, the sixth day, the eleventh day, the sixteenth day, the twenty-first day, the twenty-sixth day)  , every new year will be added on the twenty-eighth day of the twelfth lunar month.  Most of the markets here sell necessities.  After all, here, people have no extra money to enjoy a higher level of life except for the necessities of life.  They get the necessities of life from here, adding a little spice to an already difficult life.  Yang Yi took Chen Yao through the market.  In the past, she brought her older sisters to the market one by one. Later, as she grew older, her older sisters either caught up with school on the day of the market, or were busy with homework on Sundays, and seldom came.  Only Chen Yao, who is still in elementary school, lost one?, the family is so poor because she was fined for family planning, how can she have the right to be picky eaters?  For lunch, she simply ate less than ten dumplings and started peeling peanuts.  It's winter vacation now, except for the sisters who are in junior high school who are busy with homework most of the day, she spends most of her time peeling peanuts.  These peanuts are the seeds to be used next year and their tuition fees, and they must be peeled this winter.  During the day, they would peel a bag full of peanuts with unseparated fruit and skin, and then when Li Changqing returned home at night, they would use a large dustpan to separate the fruit and skin. The fruit was put into a special bag, and they had to go through Yang Yi's  One round of screening.  The bad peanuts will be picked out, and then they will be processed into peanut oil when the year is approaching. The good peanuts will also be divided into two batches.  The best ones are the seeds for next year, and the next ones will be sold and turned into money for their tuition and living expenses.  When Chenyao is hungry, she will find a plastic bottle, fill it with half a bottle of water, and put a handful of peanuts in it. After two hours of soaking, they will become the fresh appearance just unearthed, which is their own  The invented snacks are also delicious and not hungry.

    Their winter is under such conditions of material scarcity, they repeatedly work day after day, and then eat simple meals, and try their best to enrich their food under the gift of nature.  (Remember the site URL: www.hlnovel.com
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