Framed at the beginning: Female educated youth forced to marry disabled military officer

After the three people left, Xiao Xiangdong packed up the pots and pans.

Meng Xiaoman was checking the drying situation of persimmons in the yard.

When drying the persimmons, pinch them with your hands to flatten them. This will speed up the drying and make the persimmons firmer and chewier.

When the persimmons are almost dried, put them in a vat with persimmon skins covered with frosting. After applying the icing sugar, the persimmons are ready to be dried.

After Xiao Xiangdong washed the last bowl, he thought of the notification from the team today and said to Meng Xiaoman: "When I asked you for leave this morning, the team informed you that you will not go to the fields tomorrow and will go to the mountains to collect walnuts and chestnuts. Everyone is asked to go there. Always bring along your backpacks, bamboo baskets, bamboo clips, etc. from home.”

Harvesting chestnuts, walnuts and other mountain products is a major event in the village every year. Mountain products grow naturally and require no labor, which can be regarded as additional income for the team. Besides, collecting and picking up is much more fun than working in the fields, so everyone is very enthusiastic.

"Okay, then the back mountain should be very lively tomorrow. Do you want to go over and have a look? You are quite bored at home." Meng Xiaoman asked. Being bored at home every day can make even a good person depressed. "Tomorrow we will Get a stool, and when the time comes, I will pick up chestnuts and you can just sit there and peel them."

There is a layer of needle-pricked shell wrapped around the outside of the chestnut. When mature, the prickly shell will crack, and you need to use bamboo clips to take out the chestnut inside the shell.

Xiao Xiangdong thought it was feasible and agreed.

After cleaning up, Meng Xiaoman went into the mountain with a basket on her back and a sickle.

It has been frosty recently, and the jujubes on the mountain have become ripe and sweet after the frost. It is the best period for them to be eaten. She plans to pick more and eat them as snacks.

People in the Qinghe Brigade are not used to eating jujubes. The tall jujube trees are covered with gray-brown fruits, and no one comes to pick them.

Meng Xiaoman climbed up the tree with a basket on her back and fastened her safety rope before going to pick jujubes.

When she came, Xiao Xiangdong repeatedly told her not to climb high. Meng Xiaoman repeatedly assured her and even brought a safety rope before Xiao Xiangdong let her go out.

The thing about picking persimmons last time did scare her a little. She is not the heroine, she does not have the aura of a heroine, but a cannon fodder female supporting character who has been cursed by cannon fodder. She may block the gun for the heroine and the second heroine at any time, just in case. If you accidentally fall from the tree, you will definitely be cannon fodder immediately.

In fact, what you eat when eating jujube is not its fruit, but its plump fruit stalk. It can be eaten raw or used to make wine.

Meng Xiaoman looted all the guaizao fruits he could get, and also collected many guaizao fruits and put them into the space.

After experiencing the apocalypse, Meng Xiaoman developed a bit of a hoarding habit. Regardless of whether the things were useful or not, she wanted to hoard some just in case.

After picking jujubes, Meng Xiaoman went to pick wild chestnuts and wild walnuts.

Chestnuts and walnuts are wild products that the locals like, and people from the village often come to pick them up. The place she noted last time must have been picked up by someone. There is not much left, only half a basket.

Therefore, Meng Xiaoman walked deeper into the mountain.

However, she didn't dare to go far.

I found walnut trees and chestnut trees, picked up two or three baskets, and headed back.

But on the way, he came across a hazel tree, which dropped a dense layer of hazelnuts. Meng Xiaoman picked up a lot of them.

She didn't pick the wild persimmons again. The ones she picked last time were still in the space without being taken out. She could just take them out later.

In addition to making porridge and eating as snacks, these wild fruits can also be used to obtain favors.

This is how neighbors get along in the countryside. Today you do me a small favor and I will give you two handfuls of vegetables. Tomorrow I owe you a favor and you give me a few handfuls of walnuts.

As we move around, we will become more familiar with each other and our feelings will become deeper.

Although Meng Xiaoman is a person who doesn't like to be involved in human relationships, living in the countryside must handle human relationships well in order to live a better life. Therefore, in some aspects, it is inevitable to follow the local customs.

I was thinking about what kind of snacks these wild beasts could make, and my eyes flashed red inadvertently.

Meng Xiaoman stopped, peeled off the branches and leaves, and took a closer look. It turned out to be a wild hawthorn tree bearing numerous fruits.

The red hawthorn fruits are crowded together, looking festive and pleasant.

Meng Xiaoman couldn't wait to pick one and took a bite. It was sour and sweet. It was a bit sour when eaten empty-handed. Wrap it in some sugar syrup and it was perfect for making candied haws.

I picked a basketful of hawthorn fruits that were ripe and plump and had not been pecked by tits.

In addition to making candied haws, wild hawthorn can also be sliced, dried and used to make tea to relieve greasy food and strengthen the spleen and appetite.

The wild onions used for frying snails at noon were good. On the way down the mountain, Meng Xiaoman dug some and planted them in the space. In addition to the wild onions, he also found a lot of young shepherd's purse growing on the ground. Meng Xiaoman transplanted a few and dug some more. I have a few handfuls and plan to go back and fry them.

Meng Xiaoman originally thought that shepherd's purse was only available in spring, but after asking Xiao Xiangdong, she found out that shepherd's purse is available all year round, and winter is the best time to eat wild shepherd's purse.

It even has the reputation of "the most delicious food in winter", and radish and cabbage have to be sidelined.

When I got home, I poured out the walnuts and piled them together with the ones I picked up before. Walnuts have a thick green skin on them. The green skin on the top needs to be soaked first, and then the common walnut shells become ours.

Xiao Xiangdong saw that she had picked up a lot of walnuts, and immediately opened some fresh walnuts for her to eat.

Meng Xiaoman has only eaten dried walnuts and has never seen this kind of operation.

Xiao Xiangdong opened the walnuts, carefully peeled off the yellow coating on the walnut kernels, put them in a bowl, and pushed them in Meng Xiaoman's direction, "Here, have a taste, it's quite delicious."

Meng Xiaoman doubtfully pinched a piece of fresh walnut kernel and put it into his mouth. It was crispy and raw, with the unique fragrance of walnuts and a bit of sweetness. To sum up, it is fragrant and crispy, with a unique taste.

Meng Xiaoman quite liked the taste. After eating one, she couldn't wait to pinch another.

Seeing that she liked it, Xiao Xiangdong added: "You can also dip it in sugar or salt. You can try whether you like it."

Meng Xiaoman got some sugar and salt, tried them both, and felt that she preferred the ones dipped in sugar.

The original owner brought the sugar at home from Haishi, only a small handful. I used more than half of the braised pork at noon, and Meng Xiaoman dipped the rest in walnuts and ate it.

Xiao Xiangdong was afraid that she would eat too much and tried to persuade her to stop talking, but she still had more to say.

I didn’t expect that fresh walnuts are tastier than dried walnuts!

The consequence of eating too many fresh walnuts is that she is not hungry at all when it is time to make dinner.

Meng Xiaoman took out ten kilograms of white flour and rice in the space at noon. She said she bought them, but she didn't take too much, otherwise she would look a bit too spendthrift.

She had rice for lunch, and she planned to use flour to make pimple soup in the evening.

After boiling evenly sized gnocchi, sprinkle with two free-range eggs. When serving, sprinkle with chopped wild onions. It's a pity that I don't have sesame oil at home, otherwise I would sprinkle a few drops on it and it would be perfect!

Blanch the wild shepherd's purse picked in the afternoon with boiling water, squeeze out the water, add salt, vinegar, soy sauce, and chili noodles, drizzle with hot oil, and mix. It is sour and spicy, and is very refreshing when paired with egg pimple soup.

The next day, when Meng Xiaoman and Xiao Xiangdong arrived at the back mountain, many people were already there.

Although Xiao Xiangdong is in the same team as Meng Xiaoman, he has never worked before. Everyone was surprised to see him coming today.

Many people looked at him overtly or covertly.

Team leader Zhang Mancang was also surprised. He wanted to make a mockery of him, but after seeing Meng Xiaoman, a powerful woman, and thinking of what his grandfather said, he held back his voice.

But as the team leader who assigned tasks, he still walked up to the two of them and said, "Comrade Xiao, the team's task distribution has been done. You haven't been to work before, so there is no work for you today, and it seems that there is no work for you. A job you can do.”

"It's okay, Xiaoman and I will do her work together."

"That can only count as her own work points, up to eight work points."

Because of the difference in physical strength between men and women, the full work points for male members of the Qinghe Brigade are ten work points a day, while for female members, it is eight.

"Ok, I know."

Seeing his reply like this, Zhang Mancang said no more, divided the tasks, and left.

Meng Xiaoman's task is the same as that of female team members such as Xiao Mu and Xiao Xixi, picking up walnuts and chestnuts. Just pick the walnuts directly, and peel off the burrs on the outside of the chestnuts.

Meng Xiaoman was originally assigned to pick walnuts, but in order to give Xiao Xiangdong a sense of participation, she and Sister Fang in the same group switched to picking chestnuts.

While others picked chestnuts and peeled the burr shells at the same time, Meng Xiaoman picked up the thorny shells of the fruits as well, and picked up half a basket for Xiao Xiangdong to peel.

Seeing the two men's operations, Xiao's mother next to her sneered disdainfully, "It's just a trick. It's easier to pick and peel at the same time, and it's two people doing it separately. It's really unnecessary to take off your pants and fart."

"It must have been that woman's idea. Third brother obviously had bad legs, but she still brought people to the mountain. Not only was it embarrassing, but she also tortured people." Xiao Xixi said angrily.

Mother Xiao glanced at the two of them dissatisfied, "Just wait, the third child will know that the family is good when he is tortured by this wife. The thing with the elbows turned out is really a waste of time." ".

Zhou Xinghua still remembered that she had suffered a loss at the hands of the two of them last time. Seeing that her mother-in-law was dissatisfied with the two of them, she came over to add fuel to the fire, "So, it is better to let the children raised in front of you know how to love others. Look at Xixi, And my family, Xiangbei, is very fond of you. Two days ago, Xiangbei told me that when I have time, I will go to the mountains and try to catch a pheasant to feed my mother."

Zhou Xinghua was sharp-tongued, and Xiao's mother had taken a fancy to her cleverness. After hearing what she said, she felt even more dissatisfied with Xiao Xiangdong and Xiao Xiangbei. At the same time, she was also more satisfied with her and Xiao Xiangbei, "Mother knows that the second child has always been a You are also good at being filial to your children. When my second son catches the pheasant, he will definitely need your bite."

Liu Zhi'er listened to the conversation between the two without saying a word, thinking to herself that the second brother-in-law and the second brother were really made for each other. They all said nice things but did nothing in practice.

Liu Zhi'er has heard about Xiao Xiangbei's intention to catch pheasants no less than three times, but every time, Xiao's mother was coaxed very happily.

I have to say that coaxing people is also a technical job.