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When he was almost at the door, he met Mr. Li coming out of the yard with his hands behind his back. Seeing Zhang Taiping leading so many babies and picking out a lot of things, he asked curiously: "What are you doing, Marshal?"

Gone?"

Zhang Taiping smiled and replied: "I went up the mountain to shoot chestnuts."

"Is this the Maolizi from the mountains?" Mr. Li also lived here for a while and knew that the villagers called the chestnuts from the mountains Maolizi.

Zhang Taiping nodded: "Well, it's the hairy chestnuts on the mountain. They are ripe at this time. I took the kids to hit some on the side of the mountain."

Li Laoye nodded and left with his hands behind his back.

Back in the yard, Zhang Taiping first asked Cai Yazhi to kill two big watermelons for the children to quench their thirst.

After eating the watermelon in a noisy manner, Zhang Taiping let the little ones take their own bags, gave each of them some pecans, and sent them home quickly. What happened after dark would cause the family to worry.

Cai Yazhi came over and looked at a bag of half pecans and two bags of chestnuts and asked: "Where did you pick them?" Cai Yazhi used to go to the mountains to pick these things, basically in those places. If you pick them this year, you will come back next year.

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Zhang Taiping didn't know where he used to pick them, and said: "I found it under the leadership of Xiao Xi and Xiao Zi. The general direction is to the west, and the specific direction is not recorded."

Finally, there was only one bag left, and Cai Yazhi asked: "What's in this?"

"Wuling'er."

"All red?"

Zhang Taiping nodded: "When I was looking for chestnut trees, Xiao Xi actually found a piece of Wuling'er vine, so I picked some by the way. There was also a wild grape tree at that time, but it didn't bear many grapes, and it wasn't good either.

I brought it back, so there is no mesh bag to put it in."

Cai Yazhi touched Xiao Xi's feathers and praised it: "It's also Xiao Xi's contribution." Then she said to Zhang Taiping, "What are you having for dinner tonight?"

Zhang Taiping waved his hand and said, "You should ask someone else this question. I don't have any requirements. You can eat whatever you want." Seeing Cai Yazhi about to turn around, he said, "By the way, there is one more thing. I actually saw it in Bianshan today."

If you know the black blind man, don’t go into the mountains easily."

"Did the Black Blind Man run out?" The memory of the last time the Black Blind Man caused her was still fresh. She nodded and said, "I won't go into the mountain. Nothing will happen if I go in."

"Well, that's good."

Fan Ming and Yaya came around and asked, "Brother, how do you peel off the prickly skin on the outside of chestnuts?"

Zhang Taiping said: "I will do this later. You first take out the Wu Ling'er from the bag, clean some, give some to the old man behind, and give some to Mu Hongyu and the two."

Fan Ming followed Zhang Taiping's instructions. When he came back, Zhang Taiping had poured all the chestnuts into the yard and patted them gently with the back of a shovel.

Yaya and Fan Ming squatted nearby and watched.

Zhang Taiping said with a smile: "Aren't you two tired? What's so interesting about this."

The two girls smiled and did not leave. Zhang Taiping shook his head and said nothing more. After patting it once, he turned it over and patted it again. Then he gathered all the chestnut buds into a pile and said to the two girls next to him:

"If you are not too tired, stick the stick inside these chestnut buds and see if there are any chestnuts that have been broken down."

After cleaning up, Zhang Taiping asked Fan Ming to take out a plastic bag and said, "You two put some in a bag and send it to Tiantian."

Fan Ming took out another bag and said, "Send some to Da Nier too?"

Zhang Taiping nodded and said, "It's up to you."

After the two girls led the lion out, Zhang Taiping put all the chestnut kernels into a dustpan, frying some at night and giving some to others, so there was no need to worry about storage.

Then I dug a hole in the orchard with a shovel, laid a layer of bricks underneath and around it, poured all the pecans into it, filled it with soil, and after four or five days, I took it out and dried it in the sun before eating.

When Fan Ming came back, he brought the chestnuts back, and his goddaughter Tiantian came with her.

"What's wrong?" Zhang Taiping asked.

"Sister Lu said she didn't know how to fry chestnuts, so she helped us fry them." Fan Ming replied.

Zhang Taiping nodded: "That's fine."

Fan Ming asked: "Brother, when will we speculate?"

"What? Can't wait?" Zhang Taiping asked with a smile.

Fan Ming nodded and said, "Yes, I have eaten sugar-roasted chestnuts before, and now that I think about it, the taste is delicious."

"Cooking is being done in the pot right now. We can't stir-fry until the pot is cleared away after dinner." Zhang Taiping said with a smile.

Before eating, Zhang Taiping poured the chestnuts to be fried into a large basin, submerged all the chestnuts with water, then added sugar and let the chestnuts soak in the sugar water.

The original method of frying chestnuts is to cut each chestnut with scissors and add sugar during the frying process. However, now that there are so many chestnuts that are so small, it is a bit too hasty to cut them one by one with scissors, so

Zhang Taiping used this method to let the sweetness penetrate into the pulp.

During the meal, Zhang Taiping gave the small amount of wild grapes he brought back to the old man and said, "I'll give you these wild grapes to see if you can use them."

The old man looked at the quality of the wild grapes in the basket and said, "It happens to be needed these days." Then he asked, "Did you go into the mountains today?"

Zhang Taiping nodded and said, "Well, I brought a group of children around today."

Fan Ming, who had never taken the initiative to wash the dishes after eating, was very active in helping wash the pot today, and then urged Zhang Taiping to do it quickly.

"Look how anxious you are." Zhang Taiping stood up from the chair helplessly, poured the sand fished out of the river into the pot, and then baked it over a high fire.

Fan Ming asked in confusion: "Brother, what are you doing?"

Zhang Taiping replied: "Dry the sand in the pot first. When frying chestnuts, you cannot pour the chestnuts directly into the dry pot and fry them. Otherwise, the skin of the chestnuts will be easily scorched but the flesh inside will not be cooked properly.

Adding sand can spread the heat and stir-fry slowly, thus avoiding that problem."

When the sand in the pot was burned red and the heat wave could be clearly felt outside, Zhang Taiping picked up the chestnuts soaked in the sugar water and poured them into the casserole.

Cai Yazhi wanted to help stir-fry, but Zhang Taiping said: "I'll do it. Although it's working beside the stove, it's physical work." He was right. Every time the shovel went down, he had to shovel all the chestnuts and the sand.

Getting up and going back and forth without stopping is really a strenuous exercise.

Half an hour later, there was an explosion from the pot.

Fan Ming asked nervously: "What's wrong? What's wrong?"

Zhang Taiping shook his head and said: "It's okay, it's almost ripe." Then he said to Cai Yazhi who was lighting the fire below, "Turn down the fire." He took out a chestnut and handed it to Fan Ming and said, "Peel it and taste it for ripeness."

Are you sure it's hot?"

Fan Ming picked it up with her hands and put it down, blew on it and then peeled it open. The small kernel was divided into three parts and stuffed into the innermost parts of the three people.

Cai Yazhi tasted it and said, "It's almost done."

Zhang Taiping nodded and said, "Don't put any more fire inside, just let the firewood finish burning."

After turning off the heat, Zhang Taiping stir-fried for another two minutes before stopping. Fan Ming wanted to pick it up in the pot with his hands. He quickly stopped and said: "The sand on top is still hot at the moment. This is much higher than the temperature of boiling water."

If you touch it, it will burn off a piece of skin on your hands."

Fan Ming said sheepishly: "I'm just going to be the one at the top."

"What should I do if I accidentally touch my hand?" Zhang Taiping deliberately said with a straight face, "It won't be too late to separate the sand and chestnuts after a while."

After the sand inside returned to normal temperature, Zhang Taiping separated the sand from the chestnuts and said to Cai Yazhi: "Send some to Mr. Li and Mr. Tang across the street later. I will send them back every day and give them to the village."

The chief also sent some over."

Zhang Taiping first sent Tiantian home, along with a pack of freshly roasted candied chestnuts.

Lu Feng was still a little uncomfortable seeing Zhang Taiping alone at night, so she took the chestnut without saying anything. Zhang Taiping understood what she was worried about and didn't stay any longer. What he didn't know was that after he left, Lu Feng

Looking at his back was indeed a bit trance-like.

Zhang Taiping was walking towards the old village chief's house with a large bag of unroasted chestnuts in his hand.

ps: Here comes the third update, there is another chapter to follow!