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Chapter 277 This thing is called lychee
On the surface, he looks gentle, elegant and righteous, but in fact he is a despicable and treacherous villain.
Therefore, most people would rather offend Jiang Dichen, the evil star, than to provoke someone like Jiang Qing.
After all, Jiang Dichen is daring and he is just a coward.
Shen Ruolan was silent for a moment, then instructed Shen Jing: "Send two people to Cang Ling City and tell them that I'm back. I'll go to Cang Ling City in a few days. If he can't wait, let him come by himself."
She has a lot of things to do now, and she doesn't want to confront Jiang Qing for the time being. He just wants to see her for medical treatment. As long as he gives her enough money, there is no reason for her to refuse.
"Yes, I'll arrange it right away." After Shen Jing finished speaking, he turned and left.
Shen Ruolan returned to her own courtyard and called out to Aunt He in the kitchen, "Aunt He, come out for a moment."
He Gu and several servants from the kitchen came out and said, "Master, we are here."
Shen Ruolan tore off a palm leaf rope, picked up the tail of the red pepper and held it in her hand, and said to He Gu and the others: "You guys should tie these red peppers into small clumps like I did, so that it will be convenient to dry them in the sun and smoke, and it will also be easier to pack."
Her house is small and filled with a lot of things, so there is no extra space to dry and store the peppers, so she tied the peppers up like this, which makes it easier to smoke and dry them, and also prevents the peppers from going bad easily.
After hearing what Shen Ruolan said, He Gu and the others started tying peppers in the same way she did.
Shen Ruolan joined everyone in tying a few small clumps. When she saw that the amount was almost enough, she gathered the peppers together into a large clump and hung it on a piece of wood in the yard to dry.
Ji Ning came back from outside. She looked at the hanging peppers and said with a smile, "Oh, these peppers tied like this look like a big red flower. They are really beautiful."
He Gu and the others smiled and replied, "That's right, our master has many ways to do things, and the things he does are beautiful and cool."
Shen Ruolan saw Ji Ning coming back, she looked at her and asked: "Have you found everything I asked you to find?"
Ji Ning reported to his master truthfully: "Master, I found the large earthenware jar you mentioned, but there are many clean large wooden barrels in the kitchen. Can this one be used?"
Shen Ruolan said: "Okay, let's boil some clean, oil-free water and wait for me."
"Yes," Ji Ning replied.
Shen Ruolan followed He Gu and the others to tie peppers for a while until Miao Wei came back and told her that the cowpeas had been picked. Only then did she get up and go to the kitchen.
However, before she reached the kitchen, she heard Shen Hui shouting to her, "Sister Lan, look what I brought back for you?"
Shen Ruolan looked back at her third cousin and saw that he was holding a large basket of lychees. She looked at him in surprise and asked, "Third cousin, where did you pick the lychees?"
After Shen Hui heard what Shen Ruolan said, he looked at the lychee and asked Shen Ruolan, "This thing is called lychee?"
After Shen Ruolan heard what her cousin said, she realized that she had said the wrong thing. She said vaguely to Shen Hui: "I heard others say that before."
Shen Hui didn't care. He handed the lychees to Shen Ruolan and said, "Sister Lan, I found these when I was picking herbs. They are very sweet. I thought you would like them, so I brought some back for you to try."
Shen Ruolan smiled and thanked Shen Hui, "Thank you, third cousin."
After she finished speaking, she peeled a lychee and took a bite. Instantly, her mouth was filled with the sweet fruity aroma. The flesh was tender and smooth, sweet but not greasy. It was a long-lost taste that she really liked.
After Shen Ruolan finished eating a lychee, she said to Shen Hui: "Third cousin, this fruit is delicious. Thank you."
After a pause, she continued, "But I can't eat that much by myself, so you can send some to grandpa."
As Shen Ruolan spoke, she divided it in half and handed the rest to Shen Hui.
Shen Hui looked at the lychees in his hand and said with a troubled look on his face: "Sister Lan, you should give these lychees to Grandpa yourself."
If he went over with a bunch of wild fruits, his grandfather would probably mistakenly think that he was going up the mountain to play, and he wouldn't know how to punish him then.
Shen Ruolan looked at her third cousin's tangled expression and thought of her grandfather's strictness towards them. She immediately understood. She took the lychee and said, "Okay, I'll give it to Grandpa later."
After saying that, she said to Shen Hui, "Third cousin, go and do your thing. I'm going to the kitchen."
Shen Hui followed Shen Ruolan and said, "Sister Lan, what are you doing in the kitchen? Are you going to make something delicious?"
Speaking of food, he continued to say to Shen Ruolan: "By the way, I just caught two rabbits, they are in my second brother's backpack."
Shen Ruolan felt helpless listening to her third cousin talking about food every other sentence.
However, compared with her other cousins, Shen Ruolan likes this lively and cheerful cousin more.
Because it's so easy to get along with him.
After hearing that he had caught two rabbits, she thought for a moment and said to him, "Third cousin, I understand. I'll go back and make you spicy rabbit later."
It’s not that Shen Ruolan would agree to every request from her cousin, but she herself was also greedy and wanted to eat some delicious food if she had the conditions.
Although Shen Hui had never eaten spicy rabbit, when he heard Shen Ruolan say it was spicy, his intuition told him that it would be delicious. He smiled and said to Shen Ruolan, "Okay, I'll go clean the rabbit right away."
As soon as Shen Hui finished speaking, he disappeared without a trace.
Shen Ruolan ignored him. She handed the lychee in her hand to Ji Ning and said, "Ji Ning, send this fruit back. Leave a few for me and give the rest to Grandpa and the others."
Shen Ruolan paused, then continued, "If you want to eat, you can save some for yourself."
They were deep in the mountains, and if they wanted to eat fruit they had to go up the mountain to find it. Otherwise, even if they went out to buy some they couldn't bring any back, because many fruits couldn't be eaten after two days. It would take them at least five days to get to the nearest city, Cang Ling.
After hearing what her master said, Ji Ning looked at her unnaturally and said, "Master, I have eaten a lot of this fruit recently, so I'd better leave some more for you."
Every time Bai Zhen went into the mountains, he would bring her some edible wild fruits, including the one picked by Shen Hui.
Shen Ruolan heard that Ji Ning had eaten a lot, which reminded her of last year, when a villager was bitten by a tiger for eating lychees. She guessed that the villagers must have picked them for her, so she didn't ask any more questions and just replied, "Okay."
Shen Ruolan came to the kitchen. The hot water for everyone was already boiled. Aunt Wang, the kitchen manager, saw Shen Ruolan coming and hurried forward to ask respectfully, "Village leader, what are you going to do with these cowpeas?"
Shen Ruolan said to Aunt Wang, "I'm going to pickle some sauerkraut. Hurry up and scald those buckets and large earthenware jars with boiling water."