Joe's Farming

If Qiao Yu wants to roast chestnuts, Gu Feng will definitely support her with all his strength.

He was best at making fire, making it strong but smokeless. Qiao Yu had always been puzzled by this.

Every time he made a fire in the mountains, not only would there be smoke, but the smoke would also follow him, blowing in the direction where he hid.

When the fire started to burn into charcoal, Qiao Yu grabbed two handfuls of chestnuts and threw them directly into the fire, then covered it with the charcoal.

After a while, the chestnut skins began to crackle due to the high temperature.

The children were shocked.

After a while, Qiao Yu took out the chestnuts with a branch, patted the dust off with grass, and said to the children, "You can eat it now."

The freshly roasted chestnuts have a sweet chestnut aroma coming from the popped skin.

Unlike the crispy texture when fresh, cooked chestnuts have a softer texture and are sweeter when cooked than when eaten raw.

Xie Tianyu's eyes lit up, and Qiao Yu asked him, "How is it?"

After Xie Tianyu finished eating all the chestnuts in his mouth, he said affirmatively: "It's delicious."

Gu Xiaoyan: "And dried peanuts are also delicious when roasted."

Qiao Yu nodded in approval.

Back when his family didn't grow peanuts, he used to go to Aunt Shi's house often to eat them. Wen Ge'er and Aunt Shi knew that he loved them, so they would roast a lot for him every time.

"Come to our house later to eat roasted sweet potatoes, roasted peanuts, and sweet milk tea. Oh, and roasted potatoes, too."

Qiao Yu began to miss the pleasant times when she and Xu Yuan and others sat around the fire and brewed tea together in winter.

Xie Tianyu was not a person who liked to be in a crowd, but he was inexplicably infected by the atmosphere that Qiao Yu described, so he nodded and agreed.

Father won't blame me for agreeing without my permission, right?

When the time comes, just ask him and his mother to come together.

After eating the roasted chestnuts, Gu Feng put out the fire and covered it with soil to ensure that there would not be any sparks.

Then everyone started picking chestnuts again.

When they got home, lunch was already ready.

These are all home-cooked dishes that the Gu family often eats. The meat is from the chickens and ducks raised at home, and the vegetables are picked from the fields. They are all very fresh.

Xie Tianyu thought it was delicious, probably because there were many people eating together, and the people in the Gu family had big appetites, so everyone ate very happily, which led to Xie Tianyu eating two bowls as well.

He usually ate one bowl of rice at home, but when he saw that Gu Xiaoyan, who was younger than him, ate two bowls, he also ate two bowls.

After lunch, Qiao Yu took Gu Heng to take a nap.

Xie Tianyu followed Qiao Xing to take a nap.

He had eaten a little too much, and had been climbing the mountain and working all morning, so he was really feeling very tired.

Xie Tianyu fell asleep almost as soon as he touched the bed.

Qiao Xing tilted his head, turned around and climbed onto his grandfather's bed. After lunch, his grandfather liked to wander around the village or the villa. He said that he was old and didn't sleep much, let alone take a nap.

When Xie Tianyu got up, Qiao Yu had already taken out all the ice jelly seeds and dried them.

"Are you awake? I'm going to start making ice powder. Do you want to help?"

Xie Tianyu nodded.

Li Xin was rubbing his hands in anticipation, but Qiao Yu stopped him and said, "Let the children have their fun today."

Li Xin pouted: "Okay then. Next time I come, I've always been curious about how to make hand-kneaded ice jelly."

Qiao Yu smiled and said, "Don't you know how to wash your own clothes? Just rub them like that."

In fact, Li Xin’s clothes were washed by Huang Guihua just like Qiao Yu’s family’s clothes. However, Li Xin was embarrassed to let others wash his underwear, so he learned to wash it himself.

"Ah, really?"

Qiao Yu nodded.

As they were talking, the children came over with their hands clean.

"Little Daddy, what should we do next?"

Qiao Yu prepared a clean large basin for them, poured an appropriate amount of ice powder seeds into it, and then added cold boiled water.

"Okay, rub it."

At Qiao Yu's command, the children sat on the small stools prepared in advance and bent down to rub the ice jelly seeds.

Ice powder seeds become slippery when they come into contact with water.

The four little ones raised their heads and looked at each other. After realizing that it was not their illusion, they buried their heads and continued rubbing.

Qiao Yu looked at the four little heads close together and said with relief: "It is my blessing to have children like this."

Li Xin ruthlessly attacked: "Strictly speaking, these four children are not yours."

Qiao Yu glared at him fiercely: "Except Tianyu, the other three are mine!"

Gu Feng happened to be holding Gu Heng and watching the children making ice powder. He also heard what Li Xin said, and said seriously: "Xiao Xin, don't talk nonsense."

Li Xin immediately backed off: "Brother, I was just joking with my brother. I won't dare to do it next time."

Gu Feng nodded and stopped talking.

He was also curious about what the ice jelly that Qiao Yu was talking about was. It seemed that the children had been rubbing it for quite a while, but there was no change in the water.

Gu Feng was not the only one who was curious, Bai Lan and the others, even Hong Xiu and Gu Gang came from their own houses to take a look.

Qiao Xing's waist was a little sore from rubbing the ground, so he asked Qiao Yu: "Daddy, how long are you going to rub it?"

Qiao Yu: "I think the ice powder seeds are not so slippery."

"Oh."

Xie Tianyu breathed a sigh of relief and pulled his hand out: “Uncle Qiao, that should be fine.”

Qiao Yu thought that there was strength in numbers and they could rub it much faster than he could alone.

"Okay, then you guys take a break, I'll take care of the next steps."

Qiao Yu went to wash her hands, then came back with the clean gauze and another basin.

Use gauze to filter the ice powder seeds and get a basin of transparent ice powder water.

"Hey, has the water become thicker?"

Qiao Yu nodded and said, "Yes, it will become thicker after a while."

Before washing his hands, Gu Xiaoyan licked his hands after rubbing the ice jelly, but there was no sweet taste. He asked Qiao Yu anxiously: "Little Daddy, why is this ice jelly tasteless?"

Qiao Yu smiled mysteriously: "You'll know later."

"Okay. Brother Tianyu, where else do you want to go? We'll take you there."

Gu Xiaoyan trusted Qiao Yu very much, so she stopped thinking about why the ice jelly had no taste and went to find Xie Tianyu instead.

While the children were playing, Qiao Yu let the ice jelly water sit in the mountain spring water.

It can solidify in half an hour at low temperature.

Then start preparing the ingredients.

Fry the crushed peanuts and white sesame seeds, cut the pears and kiwis into small cubes, and prepare the honey and thick brown sugar water.

I have made fruit leather with hawthorn before, so I took out some and chopped it up.

Li Xin: "Brother, where's the glutinous rice cake?"

Qiao Yu: "I'm too lazy to make it. If I were to eat it myself, I'd just add some ice and brown sugar water."

Li Xin shut up immediately.

After a while, Li Xin asked again: "Brother, can I bring two bowls for Xiaoyu and Linglie later?"

Qiao Yu squinted at him: "I've been wanting to ask you for a long time, when did you and Ling Lie get along so well?"