Xu Zifan and the villagers worked hard for several days and finally harvested all the crops!
When they were working these days, Xu Zifan and Yang Wanyun could always feel Su Qing's hostility, but when they looked at it, Su Qing was working as if nothing happened. Now that the busy work is over, Yang Wanyun breathed a sigh of relief as soon as she returned home, "Fortunately, Su Qing doesn't know why she's going crazy, she's weird."
Feng Yuying frowned and asked, "What's wrong? What did she do?"
Xu Zifan said thoughtfully, "She always stared at me and Wan Yun, and she didn't let others find out. Everyone is anxious to harvest crops, and it's not easy for me and Wan Yun to go over and say anything, I think she seems to hate us both. "
Feng Yuying laughed when she heard it, "What am I doing? You guys didn't chat with others, you don't know about her. She was originally scheduled to marry the old Wu family after the autumn harvest, but Wu's family ended up a few days ago. Sister-in-law said that Wu Zhigang has a mission in the army and will not come back to visit relatives until the Spring Festival. Can she not hate her if she fails to marry?"
Yang Wanyun wondered, "What does that have to do with me? Can you blame us?"
"Sister Wu said that he has a task. What kind of task can he have? Isn't it because of Su Qing's poor character that he made an excuse to drag it? The last time you two had a fight with Su Qing to let everyone know about it, she can't hate you two. This kind of person is selfish. She blames others for her own fault. We are not afraid of her. If she dares to make trouble, I will spoil her marriage! Sister Wu and I are still distant relatives."
Yang Wanyun hurriedly said, "Mom, don't meddle in other people's affairs. If they don't live well in the future, I can't rely on you? Anyway, Aunt Wu knows what kind of person Su Qing is, and she will definitely consider it herself."
"Don't worry, I'm measured." Feng Yuying waved her hand, she doesn't like to meddle in other people's affairs, but if Su Qing provokes her daughter again, she will not be polite.
Knowing that Su Qing was because of this kind of thing, Xu Zifan and Yang Wanyun didn't take it seriously. As long as Su Qing still thinks about marrying Wu Zhigang, she will not dare to make trouble before the Spring Festival.
After the autumn harvest, everyone was idle, and there were not many jobs in the village. Xu Zifan told Yang Yongqing and shared his and Yang Wanyun's jobs with others. The more work points you earn, the more food you earn, and naturally there are diligent people who are willing to take over. Then Yang Wanyun was busy with family affairs every day and wrote articles at other times. Xu Zifan ran to the mountains every day, started picking wild fruits and mountain treasures, and caught a lot of fish.
Locals can handle mountain treasures. Feng Yuying helps Xu Zifan clean up the mushrooms and fungus when he is free and dry them in the yard. He tried to make a can of wild fruit as Xu Zifan said, which was expensive and expensive. Feng Yuying kept nagging, but she still thought about making a can with Yang Wanyun.
There are several kinds of wild fruits, among which Shanlihong and Shandingzi are the sweetest, and they are also delicious when made into cans. Shaguo is sweet and sour, and the slices are marinated in sugar and dried and eaten directly as a snack, which is both appetizing and sweet. Hawthorn slices are sun-dried and soaked in water is both delicious and good for the body. These are all easy to deal with, but no one has ever bothered like this before. When the neighbors saw it, they muttered that Jin Gui came from this city, and they said so much after eating a wild fruit. What a waste.
Then Xu Zifan asked them to start making canned fish, which would be troublesome. Feng Yuying and Yang Wanyun were completely clueless and could only try it bit by bit according to the taste described by Xu Zifan, making a lot of them blind. Forget about the fish, anyway, it’s white from the river, but all the oil, salt, sauce and vinegar at home has been used up, so I have to buy it, and some have to buy it with a ticket!
This is really a waste. People in the village gradually spread that the Yang family were fools. Xu Zifan listened to this kind of thing. In order to keep his son-in-law for his daughter, he really sacrificed everything. Xu Zifan also gained a reputation as a prodigal.
After failing to make the eighteenth fish, Feng Yuying said in frustration, "I think I'll pull it down. I haven't eaten any canned fish, so how do I know what to put in it? It tastes weird if I don't make it, and I can't even eat it. It hurts to see me."
Xu Zifan quickly cleaned up a few fish, put them in a bowl and brought them to Feng Yuying, and said with a smile, "Mom, try again, today's really pretty much it, do you want to put some tomatoes in the sauce and put less sugar?"
"Why do persimmons make sauce? Oh, you're thinking too much. Cheng, I'll try again. If it still doesn't work, I'll leave it alone. It's too wasteful." Feng Yuying washed her hands, holding a pot of fish Into the stove.
Xu Zifan looked at the dried hazel mushrooms and black fungus in the yard, and then looked at the fried pecans and pine nuts, and felt that it was almost the same. In the beginning, there is no need to show all the good things, just let the president know that this road can really be taken.
Yang Wanyun went to the warehouse and took out two tomatoes. Xu Zifan saw it and said, "Are you calling tomatoes persimmons? What do you call the yellow ones?"
"Yellow? Did you say that?" Yang Wanyun entered the barn again.
Xu Zifan followed directly and saw that she took out a yellow persimmon and an orange persimmon in the basket, but they were not the ones he had eaten before. He shook his head and said, "I mean the figure-eight one on the persimmon tree, isn't there one here?"
"Persimmons are still on trees? Are they true? All the persimmons here are from persimmon seedlings in the ground."
"So these are all called persimmons, not classified?"
"No, oh yes, this green one has a nickname, 'thieves don't steal', because the green one doesn't seem to be cooked. But this one is very delicious and very flavorful. Would you like to try it?"
Xu Zifan took one and washed it and took a bite. It was really delicious. It had a different taste from tomatoes, and it was not found in other places. He ate yellow persimmons again, which tasted not as good as tomatoes and thieves did not steal, but during dinner, Yang Wanyun scrambled eggs with yellow persimmons, and he found that this was better than scrambled eggs with tomatoes. Tomatoes and eggs will have a little sour taste if they are not well-fried, but yellow persimmons will not be fried at all.
Anything that is not available elsewhere is a specialty product and can be sold for money. Xu Zifan also put this on the sales list, but this will be discussed later. People in the vicinity have eaten these, because it is easy to get hungry and not very fond of eating. It will be too late to talk about it when it can be sold to other places in the future.
The canned fish made by Feng Yuying was put on a plate and placed in a cool place. She got up early the next morning to taste it, and was pleasantly surprised to find that it was delicious this time! She hurriedly slammed on the door and called Xu Zifan and the others up.
Yang Wanyun rubbed her eyes and stood up and said, "What are you calling Mom? You're done?"
Xu Zifan took a coat and put it on her, put on his shoes and got off the kang, "I heard from my mother that the canned fish is ready, you stay here, I'll take a look first."
This time, the canned fish made by Feng Yuying is really delicious. Although the taste is not the same as Xu Zifan's memory, it is delicious enough. He packed everything up. The canned fish and wild fruits were packed in small jars. The others, including hazel mushrooms, black fungus, pecans, pine nuts, dried sand fruits, and dried hawthorn, were all wrapped in paper. , tied with a string.
Yang Yongqing had to go to the county to report the autumn harvest to the president, and Xu Zifan planned to go with him this time. The Yang family has a bicycle, but this time there are many things, and it is a little far from the county. Xu Zifan borrowed the bicycle from Zhishu's house. The two of them rode a bicycle each, tied everything to the back seat of the car, and set off in the morning before the neighbors got up.
Yang Yongqing never stopped worrying along the way. Seeing that Xu Zifan looked like a normal person, he wondered: "Fanzi, what do you say? If before, these things in the mountains were taken advantage of by the state. Even if they don't care now, these are also the state. Yes, we want to open a factory to sell these things, can't we?"
Xu Zifan replied: "If the president said that the land belongs to the state, then we can contract it. Just like the crops grown in our fields have to be handed over to the state, isn't the rest for the village? The mountains are the same as the fields. It's all done like this, and the country has no precedent, we don't have to pay so much yet, it's all negotiable."
Yang Yongqing glanced back at the things in the back seat, and said worriedly: "These seem novel, but they are actually quite simple. Others will figure it out after thinking about it. "
Xu Zifan raised the corners of his mouth and smiled, "No, we have to let others see, not only let them see, but also let them think that we are fanciful. The more this is, the better we can negotiate the price, after all, the things that are despised are in the president. It's worthless in his eyes, and he doesn't care about this interest. As long as the foundation is laid for the first time, it will not be so easy for him to share the interests in the future. "
Yang Yongqing glanced at Xu Zifan, and then looked back at the things. He couldn't figure out what the benefits would be. But he felt that he didn't understand because he had never seen the world. Xu Zifan said so eloquently and confidently, maybe he could really do it? After all, this son-in-law came from the capital, Beijing, and had seen the world.
Even if it doesn't work, at most it's just being scolded by the boss and being laughed at by other teams, it's no big deal.
Thinking of this, Yang Yongqing made up his mind, and the two quickly rushed to the commune unit, carrying things to find the president. When he met the captains of two other battalions, Yang Yongqing brought Xu Zifan forward to say hello and introduced him. Xu Zifan was polite and smooth, but the two captains gave him a high look and felt that he was different from the other educated youths who came here.
The two of them had already seen the large and small bags in Xu Zifan's hand, and they asked curiously after chatting for a while.
Xu Zifan smiled and said, "I see that no one likes to eat wild fruits in the mountains, and many are waiting to be rotten. It's a pity, I just wanted to ask the president if he can exchange something with other units."
The two of them were delighted when they heard it, "How can anyone like this stuff, it's not too sour, so I occasionally eat two as a snack. If I eat too much, I'm still hungry, what can I change?"
Xu Zifan smiled and said, "I'll just try it, if it doesn't work, forget it. I still have mushrooms and fungus, at least I can make a dish, and fried cabbage with fungus is good. I let my mother cook this fish and I can eat it right away. There are also dried fruits, which women and children should be happy to eat. I think there is still a lot to do, and food can be popular anywhere."
The more they listened to his introduction, the more they felt about Coke. Yang Yongqing's village was on the west side of the river, called Hexi Village. The villages of the two of them were on the left and right of him. Although they were far away, they were not as rich in things as they were in the mountains, but they still had various things. There are no such strange things here, what is there to see? Sure enough, he is still young and eager for quick success.