When Yi Luo saw her grandma come in, she quickly stood up and said, "I will forget it if grandma doesn't tell me. Are there any bad ones?" Grandma handed Iluo a red persimmon and said, "It's bad, but it's not bad."

Yes, but you picked too many and I couldn’t even put them away after looking at them for a few days.”

Yiluo took the persimmon and said: "I have seen someone peel this persimmon before and hang it up to dry it into persimmon cakes. The dried persimmon cakes are delicious and last a long time."

Grandma smiled and said, "That's great. Let's make some of them. It will also be a kind of food in the winter."

Yiluo also said: "That's what I thought. Now that I mentioned it, I'm going to pack up those persimmons now to avoid forgetting them again."

Grandma also agreed: "Okay, I have nothing to do, let's go together."

Immediately, the grandfather and grandson went to the woodshed where the sundries were stored. Iroh dragged out the small half basket of persimmons. At this time, grandma also found two sharp knives, which seemed to be suitable for peeling persimmons.

Considering that the front yard is often crowded with people and inevitably has a lot of dust, Yiluo removed the rope used to dry clothes in the backyard, found some thinner ropes, and wrapped them up and down a few times, only cutting the

Just leave a handful of good persimmons and hang them on a string.

Grandma said: "You can get sunshine all day here, it's a good place to dry things." Then she said to Yi Luo: "Luo'er, go to the front yard and bring all the persimmons here, we'll peel them here.

It’s easy to hang up.”

Iloben also planned this, so he went to the front yard to carry the persimmons to the back yard. Grandma also went to the front yard and brought two stools with her.

But Iluo had only seen this sun-dried persimmon before, but he was a layman when it came to making it. Therefore, the first few persimmons were all failed to peel, but Grandma only listened to Yiluo's words, and the ones she peeled were even in size, like molds.

Decent.

However, everything is cooked once and twice, and Ilo slowly became more comfortable peeling it. When there were enough peeled persimmons in the small bamboo basket, Ilo stood up and hung them up. He repeated this for about an hour.

, Yiluo and grandma packed up the small half basket of persimmons.

Looking at the rope full of persimmons, Yiluo nodded secretly, it looked like that. Grandma said: "Luo'er, can these persimmons just be left in the sun like this?"

Yiluo said: "No, after two or three days, when the persimmons are dry, they will be pinched again, mainly to remove the astringency. They have to be pinched every two or three days, and about three times will be enough.

Now. Grandma, don’t forget to remind me then, lest I forget again.”

Grandma smiled and said, "I'll be at home all day. When the time comes, you can tell me how to make it, and grandma can come over." After a pause, grandma said again, "It's not too troublesome to make these persimmons."

Yiluo continued: "No, you can't see cloudy weather or rain during the drying period. And after drying, you have to put it in a wooden box for four or five days to soften, and then you can take it out during the day.

Spread it out in a cool place and put it away at night until a layer of white persimmon frost appears on the persimmon cake."

Grandma laughed after hearing this and said: "It seems that making this food is really not cheap. You can tell grandma how to make it in detail later, and grandma will just watch it."

Iroh thought that this was not a heavy job, and that he was easily careless, so he nodded in agreement.

Unexpectedly, grandma asked again: "Where have you seen this kind of food, Luo'er? It's hard for you to remember so clearly step by step." Yiluo smiled awkwardly: "I just like these snacks, so I remember it very clearly. I

I have never seen how people make it. When I went to town a few years ago, I saw an outsider selling this persimmon cake. I ate it so delicious that I pestered him to ask how to make it."

After telling this little lie that quickly formed in his brain, Iroh couldn't help but sigh that it felt really bad to make up lies. Grandma didn't have any doubts after hearing this. She looked at the sky and said to Iroh: "It's not too early today."

I'm afraid Qingshan won't be able to make it back in time. Whatever you want to eat for lunch, grandma will do it."

Yiluo really likes the noodles of this era, which are smooth and chewy. People here usually use fragrant soup to mix the noodles. The steps are a little more complicated than those in later generations, but they are really delicious. So I met grandma

After asking, Yiluo said without hesitation: "Then let's go down at noon."

"Okay." Grandma agreed with a smile and turned around to go to the front yard. Iroh said to grandma: "Grandma, I'll go to the kitchen to help you after I take a look at the rabbit."

Grandma then said, "Hey, I'll pick some beans when I come here."

Iroh walked to the rabbit nest to look at the mother rabbit who was expecting to be pregnant. Then he picked two cabbage leaves and stood by the rabbit nest to feed them for a while. The hare was no longer as afraid of people as it was at the beginning.

, but happily ate the vegetable leaves in Ilo's hand.

After waiting for a while, Iroh went to the vegetable patch to pick beans. It was autumn now, and the beans were in their late stages, and there were very few of them, but the cabbage and radishes were growing vigorously.

When they arrived at the front yard, Iroh went to help grandma prepare lunch.

As expected, Qingshan didn't come back in time for lunch, so Iroh and his grandparents ate first. After washing the pot and leaving rice for Aoyama, Iroh went back to the house.

Ilo lay in the room for a while, then got up. She took a sewing basket and a few feet of white cotton and went out to look for her grandma. It was said that she had not participated in the pre-production of these insoles. So Ilo decided to look for her grandma.

Help, when I left the room, I saw my grandma doing needlework under the shade of the trees in the yard.

Yiluo stepped forward and explained the purpose of his visit to grandma. Grandma immediately put down her work and went to the room to get the leftover quilt from making shoes.

Note that this quilt is not a cover quilt. At that time, rural people often tore off some tattered clothes that could no longer be worn, boiled some glutinous rice paste or the like, and then dipped the pieces of cloth in the paste and layered them layer by layer.

Brush it on the wooden board. After drying, it forms the so-called quilt for making shoes and insoles.

Grandma cut out the shoe pattern according to Qingshan's pattern, and Yiluo took the insole cut by grandma and cut it against the white cotton cloth, and then sewed the cloth on the original insole in circles.

Grandma cut off the insoles and said, "When Qingshan comes back, we have to let him make a scarecrow in the backyard." Iroh was a little curious and said, "There shouldn't be many birds at home."

Grandma said: "There are a lot of birds at this time of year, and our home is close to the mountains. If we don't make a scarecrow, I'm afraid all the persimmons will be pecked out in two days." Yiluo thought to himself, Grandma, a local, must have it.

She knew the situation better than a "foreigner" like her, so there was no longer any doubt.

When the sun's shadow faded, Qingshan arrived home. Iroh went to the kitchen to bring him a glass of cold water, and Qingshan drank it. Grandma said: "You haven't eaten yet, so go and eat the food first."
Chapter completed!