Rebirth: My story with my ex-husband

After Jiang Qiandu went back, Fat Brother never bothered Yang Xin again.

Su Xinmi has been collecting grass for pigs recently. She picks up wild hawthorns, wild oranges, and mulberries when she sees them on the mountain and takes them home to dry.

In autumn, most of the leaves have fallen, and sometimes you can still see squirrels.

squirrel?

Then you might encounter nuts, that is, chestnuts.

Chestnuts have a sweet taste and a soft and chewy texture.

There are also pine nuts, which are also a kind of nuts, and you can take them home and eat them.

Su Xinmi looked carefully and indeed found them, "Goudan, come quickly."

There were chestnuts all over the ground in front of her, and her eyes lit up when she saw them.

Goudan thought it was something good, so he brought a group of friends to see it. Yang's mouth corners slanted down, "Sister Su, this is what squirrels like to eat. Do you want to compete with squirrels for food?"

"Can this thing be eaten? There are a lot of them every year."

Goudan looked at Su Xinmi as if she had found a treasure and was extremely disgusted.

"You don't understand. If this thing is delicious, you can't stop eating it." Su Xinmi likes it the most, and her family buys it every autumn.

Su Xinmi had already started picking up the trash. Although Goudan had some doubts, he had no choice but to help Su Xinmi pick up the trash.

This thing is prickly, and its surface is covered with hard and sharp thorns of different lengths and densely distributed. Goudan looked at it with disgust and asked his younger brother to help pick it up.

Soon Su Xinmi's backpack was full. "Okay, you guys go get the pig grass first, I'll carry it back and come back later."

She wasn't so stupid as to actually go back, put the things into the space, and ask Duobao to check if there were any pine nuts nearby.

Ripe pine nuts grow on trees, so one has to climb trees, but Su Xinmi has weapons, so she doesn't need that.

The Northeast pine nuts are relatively large, but the shell is hard. The kernels are milky white, rich in oil, and have a strong pine flavor.

Soon they found a few pine trees. There were some pine nuts on the ground, but most of them were on the trees. Su Xinmi bought a pair of shoes and climbed directly up the tree.

There was a squirrel hole on the tree. The squirrel was still working hard to move things, but when it saw Su Xinmi, the pine nuts in its hand fell to the ground with a "pop", and its two little feet ran away very quickly.

Su Xinmi laughed and said, "Sorry, little squirrel, I came to steal your food today."

She thought about putting some wild fruits from the space in the cave. She had a lot of these things in her space, and Duobao couldn't sell them all.

Put all the pine nuts in your pocket, and finally move them into the space, then go find Goudan and the others.

I put the remaining chestnuts into the backpack and gave each of the children a few candies. "I'll go back and prepare these and bring them to you guys to eat."

The kid was much more interested in candy than chestnuts, and didn't take Su Xinmi's words to heart.

I went back and started working, peeling the chestnuts.

I'm already thinking about how to cook it. Chestnuts can be stir-fried with sugar, boiled in water and stewed with chicken. Chestnut braised chicken is also delicious. You can also make chestnut and red date porridge, which is nutritious and delicious.

Let’s make some sugar-roasted chestnuts today so I can share them with my little brother.

Prepare the ingredients, find the sugar jar and cooking oil.

Process the chestnuts, put them in a bowl, add salt, and then wash them.

Next, make the sugar water. Heat a pot and add a little cooking oil. Then put the sugar in. It needs a lot of sugar, otherwise it won’t taste good. If someone else were here, they would definitely say that Su Xinmi doesn’t know how to live and is really reluctant to put in so much sugar.

Melt the sugar until the bubbles turn from large to small, dense bubbles, and then turn into the color of sesame oil. Pour in clean water and bring to a boil over high heat.

Pour in the chestnuts, add water to cover them, cover and continue cooking.

When the moisture is almost reduced, you can stir-fry so that every chestnut is coated with sugar liquid. You can remove from the pan when the moisture is completely dry.

Su Xinmi tasted one and found it tasted good. "It's delicious."

She packed the jars and put two bottles in the cabinet, because she often put the finished things in the cabinet. Now the cabinet was full, and she felt a sense of happiness and accomplishment just looking at it, so she locked the cabinet.

Put all the rest into the space so it will be convenient for her to take them later.

The weather has gradually become cooler recently, and Jiang Yinqiu has passed. Everyone is not too busy and is preparing things for the winter.

When Su Xinmi was collecting grass for pigs, she often saw villagers going up the mountain. Some were hunting, and some were collecting firewood. The winter in Northeast China is too cold. If you don't prepare early, it may be too late when winter comes.

So the mountain has been quite lively these days. Since Jiang Yinqiu became a broadcaster, she has been smiling more often and often comes to Su Xinmi's place to play after get off work.

She had nothing to do today. After eating Su Xinmi's chestnuts, she planned to pick some on the mountain. This winter, she had only picked cabbages, radishes and the like, and she wanted to change the taste.

Goudan and his friends also ate chestnuts. They didn’t expect that they were so delicious. He took his younger brothers to the mountains to pick them every day.

But they can't make sugar-roasted chestnuts, and they are reluctant to eat the sugar at home.

Su Xinmi told him other ways to cook chestnuts, and now Goudan also likes to eat chestnuts.

An aunt saw Su Xinmi picking up something and asked curiously, "Su Zhiqing, why do you keep picking up these things recently?"

"There are a lot of these things every year. The skin is thick and has thorns on it. It's hard to clean. No one wants them. I saw Goudan and my child picking them up. He said they were edible and delicious, and he asked me to cook them for him."

The resources on the mountain belong to everyone, not just hers. She didn't mind telling her aunt about this method. She had picked up so much, and there were plenty of them on the mountain. "Aunt, this is delicious when it's ready. There are many ways to cook it."

"You can make sugar-fried chestnuts, which uses a little sugar. You can also boil chestnuts and stew chicken with chestnuts. Of course, you can also braise them. Chestnut braised chicken is also delicious. It's simple. Chestnut and red date porridge is also good."

Su Xinmi looked at her aunt who was in a daze. "You can eat whatever you want. Just put some in the dishes when you cook. It's not bad to have one more food."

"Besides, this thing strengthens the spleen and stomach, replenishes the kidneys and strengthens the tendons, stops bleeding and reduces swelling..."

Finally, Su Xinmi warned, "Even if this thing tastes good, you can't eat too much. Eating too much may cause indigestion."

When the aunt asked Su Xinmi, other aunts in the village also came over curiously and listened attentively.

"Su Zhiqing, how do we do this specifically?" asked an aunt.

Su Xinmi did not hide anything and told them the recipe. Of course, she kept the seasonings simple. Even if there were seasonings now, she was reluctant to use them.

Jiang Yinqiu had been picking chestnuts while Su Xinmi was talking. Now all the aunties and grandmas in the village knew that these were good things, so she had to grab them quickly.

After learning from Su Xinmi that this thing was edible, the mountain became lively for a while.