kingnovel Chapter 493: Salad with Raw Walnuts
Chapter 493: Salad with Raw Walnuts
The old man was eating walnuts and choked when he heard this.
Zhou Gu frowned and counted with his fingers for a long time before he figured out the order. He felt it made sense, "Then don't fight. Leave some for them."
Zhou Guo patted the old man on the back and said with a smile, "Master, you are really something. You can even choke when eating a walnut. I can pick at least two sacks of walnuts. When I go back, I will dig some fine sand from the river and bury them in the sand. They can be kept for a long time and I can eat them slowly until the weather freezes."
The old man said, "That's great. It's best eaten raw with wine."
Zhou Guo and Zhou Gu also sat down to eat. After each of them had eaten five or six, they opened the sack and started picking.
Rummage through a pile of green leaves to find the green-skinned fruits, which are lying heavy in the pile of fallen leaves and are easy to find.
Zhou Gu was more direct, he just kicked and kicked one by one.
The two sacks were full, and half a sack was still full.
It was still early, so a few people carried walnuts down the mountain and tried to fish by the pond. Unfortunately, they only caught two grass carps weighing three or four pounds, and they didn't even see the shadow of the shadowless fish.
Zhou Guo also searched in several nearby mountains, and searched several hilltops, but only found half a basket of pine mushrooms. In fact, there are a lot of these at home now. She has collected all the mushrooms in the village. After all, one kilogram is so expensive, no family is willing to keep one for home.
She had eaten enough mushrooms recently and just wanted to find the joy and satisfaction of picking mushrooms.
Thinking of the sour pear tree I found last year, I made a detour to take a look and discovered that there were only two fruits left on the tree, with a hole here and a bulge there on it. I picked only one, and it tasted just the same. I ate it bite by bite, then carried the basket back.
The fish is already grilled.
Several people scraped out the pine mushrooms, cut them into slices, roasted them, and put them into the fish meat, then simmered them for a while. In this way, the whole fish would have the aroma of pine mushrooms.
She peeled some walnut kernels, found some fresh shepherd's purse nearby, washed it, mixed it with the walnut kernels, added salt, vinegar, and pine mushroom oil, and the taste was already very good.
Several people held the chopsticks made of nitrate, and ate with great pleasure, with one chopstick of fish, one piece of pine mushroom, and one piece of fragrant and crispy walnut kernel.
The old man sighed as he ate, thinking that this was the life that real people should live. What was he living like before? He was either on the road or preparing to travel all day long. Although he earned a lot, he was also very tired.
Zhou Guo thought the same way. She was more tired than others, both mentally and physically. But to be honest, she was tired in a very fulfilling way and was very motivated, because she knew that as long as she transported the goods safely, she would get the money.
Zhou Gu didn't have any special thoughts. He ate happily. After eating a piece of cold walnut, he said happily, "I didn't expect that walnuts can be used in cooking. The taste is so good. It's as delicious as if they were dried."
The few of them finished the meal slowly. Zhou Guo packed the bones and took them back for Hei Dadan to eat.
Before leaving, Zhou Guo caught two crucian carps as big as an adult's palm on several fishing rods on the shore. They weighed only a little over one kilogram. He strung them together with a straw rope and carried them away. There were mostly grass carps in this pond, and there were quite a few crucian carps to catch. Although they were a little small, they were enough to take back and try.
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The family was very happy when they saw the two sacks of walnuts on the ground. After all, they had picked them up from the mountain without spending any money.
Li looked at Zhou Guo and said, "Didn't you say that when the walnuts come down, you'll send a few kilograms to the shopkeepers?"
"Ah?" Zhou Guo was dumbfounded, and after a while he said, "Mom, forget it. What kind of gift is this for a festival? How about picking up something and sending it to them before the New Year? It's not easy to go back and forth, and it's not good to just send some walnuts. Besides, I sent them gifts on my last trip. Although it's not much and not expensive, my thoughts have been conveyed."
Zhou Xing smiled and said, "One white little rabbit that's not even one month old for each person?"
Zhou Gu and the others all laughed, it was indeed a bit embarrassing.
Zhou Guo also laughed, "Although there is not much meat, I am not giving it to them, but to their families. They must have children and grandchildren, right? This big rabbit, I specially picked a pure white one, without a single stray hair on its body, which will please them the most. It is also a pleasure for them to raise it as a toy."
Li muttered, "What's so fun about little rabbits? They'll just grow up and be eaten as meat. There's no fun in that."
Zhou Guo said, "Mom, you don't know this. Rich people are different from people like us. They have enough money at home. If they have nothing to do after dinner every day, they have to find some fun, otherwise they will get bored."
Li was very puzzled. "How can there be nothing to do? There are so many things to do at home and outside. How can there be no work to do?"
Zhou Xing and the others nodded. Yes, they could find housework to do with their eyes closed. It was such a big house, and it would take a long time just to sweep the house. How could they have nothing to do?
Zhou Guo smiled and said, "They have servants to do the work. Although the shopkeepers are just shopkeepers, they are servants of certain families. But such big shopkeepers always have one or two maids or servants in the house to help with the work. They are people of status anyway."
People couldn't imagine what life would be like with servants in the house, but they felt that even if there were servants, they still had to work. They couldn't just eat and do nothing. What was the point of living like that? Wouldn't they be the same as pigs in the pen?
She said a few words and then took Zhou Gu to the river to carry sand. The walnuts would be preserved longer if buried in the sand.
Zhou Su and the others had nothing to do, so they came over with baskets to help carry the load.
After burying two sacks, there was still half a sack left.
It was a rare leisure day for the family. They sat in the yard drinking tea and eating walnuts. While they were eating, someone came to the door. Chen walked into the yard with her shoe soles in her pocket and saw the family eating happily. She smiled and said, "Oh my god, I'm so lucky to have come at the right time. What delicious food are they eating? I'll try it too."
The family warmly invited her to sit down, took a teacup and poured her a cup of tea. There was a large plate of melon seeds on the table and a pile of walnuts with green skins removed on the ground. Zhou Xing and the others each took a stone and hammered the shell lightly, breaking it. They then tore off the thin outer layer and could eat it.
Zhou Guo peeled a handful and put them on the shabby plate on the table. Soon the plate was full.
Li warmly invited Chen to eat.
Chen picked up a piece and looked at the white and tender walnut petals on the dark earthy plate. She smiled and said, "Don't mention it. The plate your family bought looks better and better the more I look at it. I also thought it was ugly before."
Li looked at it carefully and said, "Really? I didn't realize that. Have you harvested the beans? Why are you so free today?"
"Not yet, but it will be soon. It's only a few days away. There are no more pine mushrooms in the mountains. I came to see what you are doing at home. Who sent you these walnuts?"