This mountain is mine

Zhao Yixin went to the kitchen to have a look, and took out the stick and utensils when he thought it was almost done.

"Chengzi, put it down!" Yu Jia saw Zhao Yixin reaching for it, and he yelled, "You are pregnant now, don't move around!"

"It's okay, I can still do these things." Yu Jia had already come over, and Zhao Yixin reluctantly gave up his position.

"I'll just do it." Yu Jia said while picking up the contents of the pot.

"Okay." Yu Jia put the sticks and utensils in the basket and prepared to take them there.

"I'll take some too." Zhao Yixin said, there was a full basket of sticks and utensils, which looked very heavy.Yu Jia is small, a head lower than Zhao Yixin.Zhao Yixin was afraid that he would not be able to carry it.

"No, I have great strength!" Yu Jia said proudly.

"Yeah, Yu Jia has great strength. Don't look at him, he is stronger than us." Lin Cheng came in to help, and happened to overhear their conversation.Although Lin Cheng said that Yu Jia was strong, he still helped Yu Jia share some of the burden.In his opinion, Yu Jia is like a younger brother, no matter how strong he is, he needs to be taken care of.

Zhao Yixin didn't need him to take anything, he just had to follow behind them obediently.The three of them arrived under the pagoda tree that had just processed the cherries.

"Here we come!" The adults and children who were waiting for the tools came forward to pick up tools to smash cherries.Although they picked a lot of cherries, a dozen of them finished it in less than two hours.Among them, Yu Jia was the one who hit hardest. He was so strong that the cherries were almost rotten with one blow. Zhao Yixin finally opened his eyes.

After the cherries are crushed, some sugar is added and put into large wooden barrels for fermentation.There are many large wooden barrels in the village, which are usually used by the third uncle to brew medicinal wine.Zhao Yixin and the others washed the wooden barrel, rinsed it with boiling water, put the crushed cherries and juice in it, added sugar, and finally sealed it.The cherry wine came to an end first.

After making the cherry wine, everyone did not rest, but continued to make dried cherries.

The method of drying cherries is simpler. Everyone destems the washed cherries, soaks them in light salt water, and then heats them in a pot. When the juice appears in the pot, take them out and put them on a clean bamboo plaque, and then take them out to dry in the sun. That's it.

After finishing these, everyone had a simple lunch, and then brought food to the man who planted medicinal materials on the mountain.Zhao Yixin didn't need to go, he went back to his room to take a nap.Now he, because of pregnancy, has become a little lethargic, but not very serious.

When I woke up after taking a nap, it was already two hours later.Zhao Yixin didn't expect that he could sleep so well.He got up to wash up, and then went to have a look in the kitchen.

They still had some cherries left, which were purposely reserved for cooking.In fact, in addition to being eaten as a fruit, cherries can also be used for cooking.Cherries are rich in nutrition, have the functions of regulating the middle and replenishing qi, invigorating the spleen and stomach, and dispelling rheumatism.It is beneficial to loss of appetite, indigestion, rheumatism and body pain.

When they arrived at the kitchen, Lin Cheng and the others had already started cooking.

"Chengzi, you're here!" Everyone greeted him.

"Is this cooking jam?" Zhao Yi nodded with a smile, and then his eyes fell on the big pot that was cooking.

"Yes." Lin Cheng replied.Hearing Zhao Yixin say that cherries can also be made into jam, they couldn't help it. Jam sounds very good, put it in a small jar, and dig a spoonful when you want to eat it. It tastes sweet and sour. My mouth is watering just thinking about it.

Usually there are no snacks in the village, and their mouths are dry. They really hope to have delicious and durable snacks.

According to Zhao Yixin, Lin Cheng and the others removed the stems and pits of the cherries, and then marinated them in fine sugar for half an hour. After the cherries came out of the water, they put them in a pot to boil.

"It's time to put maltose in." Zhao Yixin looked inside, and found that the jam had already congealed.This means the cherry jam is ready to serve.

"Okay!" Lin Cheng's voice was full of excitement.He scooped a spoonful of maltose into it and stirred it with the cherry jam, and boiled it for a while until the maltose and jam were fused together, then turned off the fire.

"Everyone, come and taste." Lin Cheng put a bowl of jam on the table, everyone picked up their chopsticks and tasted it.

"Well...it tastes really good!" Putting the cooled jam into your mouth, the sweet and sour taste spread in your taste buds, and because of the addition of maltose, the cherry jam is even sweeter.

"It worked!" Lin Cheng also took a sip, and it was just as imagined.

"Then let's make more!" Daughters-in-law especially like this kind of sweet and sour food.

"You can't do too much, these can only be used for a week, and they will break after a long time." Zhao Yixin shook his head.

"Then what should we do?" Thinking that such a delicious jam can only be kept for a week, everyone suddenly felt bad.

"Isn't there still in the mountains? When the jam is gone, go to the mountains to pick it up and make it. When summer and autumn come, there will be other fruits, so you can eat whatever you want!" Zhao Yixin said.

"We have a lot of fruits in Yunyin Mountain, such as grapes, apples, pears, plums, apricots, persimmons, hawthorns, red dates, cherries, etc..." Yu Jia said a lot in one breath. He has traveled all over the nearby mountains, and he knows where there are fruits.

"I really want to be able to eat it now!" Yu Jia aroused Zhao Yixin's greedy stomach.Living in Yunyinzhai is really blissful. There are fruits that you can't usually eat in the capital here!

"Me too!"

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"It's time for us to cook, the men are coming back soon." Everyone was making jam while chatting, not noticing that it was getting late.

"That's right, we have to hurry up." Lin Cheng quickly fished out the freshly boiled jam, and the others started to wash the vegetables and light the fire.

"Is the rice stewed?" The village uses a very large pot for cooking, and one pot is enough to feed the whole village.

"It's stewed." Wang Jie replied.

"Where did you put the tofu?" Lin Cheng asked again, they had cherry tofu tonight.

"Here it is." Yu Jia brought the tofu for him.

"Did you buy this tofu from the town?" Zhao Yixin asked, since no one in the village made tofu, it was probably bought from the town.

"I bought it from the town, but we rarely eat tofu because it is troublesome to transport it from the town." Lin Cheng said.Tofu is delicious and cheap, but it is just bad luck to go up the mountain.

"We can grow beans and make tofu by ourselves." Zhao Yixin thought that there were still many open spaces in the mountains.

"this is okay!"

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