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Chapter 31 Fruit Queen
Guangxi is a well-known fruit province in my country. In Bobai County, May and June of the lunar calendar are the peak fruit seasons. Lychees, longans, pineapples, star fruit, mangoes, guavas and other fruits are all ripe and on the market.

At this time, Deng Shirong was using a knife to cut into a wooden pineapple weighing more than ten kilograms.

Pineapple, also known as jackfruit, is the largest and heaviest fruit in the world and is known as the "Queen of Tropical Fruits".

There are two types of wood pineapple: dry package and wet package. The texture of wet package pineapple is similar to durian, but in terms of taste, dry package is inferior to wet package.

Moreover, the same dry packaged pineapple tastes very different.

The dry-packed pineapples of poor varieties taste bland and tasteless, while the dry-packed pineapples of good varieties taste very sweet and crisp, and everyone who has tasted them will praise them.

However, the wood pineapple is indeed delicious, but the mucus is so annoying. If someone who doesn't know how to handle it gets this mucus on their hands or knife, they will probably have a headache for a long time.

However, as a southerner who grew up eating pineapples, Deng Shirong naturally knows what to do to avoid getting stained by mucus.

Just put some oil on your hands and knife before cutting the wooden pineapple and you can solve this headache!

Deng Shirong neatly cut the pineapple in half horizontally, revealing the golden flesh, and an alluring fragrance filled the air.

Deng Yunzhu couldn't help but his eyes lit up when he saw this, and said: "The ha (the first sound) inside refers to the silk thread wrapping the pulp, which is also the young fruit of the wood pineapple. The white thread cannot be eaten, but the mature yellow thread is not only edible, but also The taste is even sweeter and more refreshing than the real fruit pulp) are all ripe, this wood pineapple must be very sweet."

Deng Yunzhen answered with a smile: "Our pineapple tree is of good variety, and the fruits it produces are not much different."

Deng Shirong continued to cut the wood pineapple in his hand and said: "This is when your grandfather went to Longtan to sell firewood. He was lucky enough to eat such a sweet and delicious wood pineapple, so he brought the leftover core back and planted it, which is how our family came to be. This wooden pineapple tree.”

The children did not expect that their pineapple tree, which they had grown up growing up as a child, had such an origin.

The core of the wood pineapple can not only be planted, but also cooked and eaten. It has a powdery and glutinous texture, which has a better taste.There is also raw water, which tastes worse.

The core is rich in starch and is called the "rice tree" in Sri Lanka and can be used as a substitute for grain.

Deng Shirong cut the pineapple into eight pieces, then cut off the heart of the pineapple, and saw a layer of mucus emerging from the top of the pulp.If it is in the future, you can take a few plastic bags and wipe them, and all the mucus will be wiped away.

It's just that in rural areas of this era, there was no such thing as plastic bags, so Deng Shirong could only use some clean rags to wipe them.

After wiping away the mucus, Deng Shirong said: "You can eat it!"

After hearing this, all the children took action one after another. One person picked up a piece of pineapple, and then couldn't wait to dig out the pulp inside and eat it.

Although Guangxi is a fruit-prosperous province, there were not many fruit trees in Naye Village in this era. Fruits like pineapples were quite rare, far from being everywhere like they were in later generations.

"This pineapple is so sweet!" Deng Yunzhu was full of praise after eating it.

Deng Yunsong responded: "Pineapple ha is sweeter, it's really delicious!"

Deng Yunhua ate the sweet and delicious pulp and suggested: "The core that grandpa brought back can be planted into a tree. Otherwise, we can plant a few more trees. When the fruit trees grow up and bear fruit, we will not have to worry about not having pineapples to eat in the future." !” Deng Shirong nodded and said: “If you want to grow some pineapples, you can plant them on our family’s private land first. After the production team allocates the fields and mountain slopes to each household, we can transform the mountains allocated to us into Orchard, transplant the pineapple seedlings to the orchard, and then plant lychee, longan, yellow peel fruit and other fruit trees. In this way, not only can you achieve fruit freedom, but you can also sell the fruit to make money. This is also a way to get rich. .”

Deng Yunzhu held a piece of yellow silk and asked curiously: "Dad, what does it mean to achieve fruit freedom?"

Deng Shirong smiled and said, "It means you can eat any fruit you want."

The children all looked yearning when they heard this. Fruit is loved by almost everyone and is a popular thing no matter what age it is.

How happy it would be if one day I could achieve fruit freedom like my father said!
"Dad, are you serious about this orchard idea?" Deng Yuntai asked after swallowing the fruit pulp in his mouth.

Deng Shirong said: "Of course I am serious. The orchard must be established. How to do it will be decided after the production team allocates the hills to each household. We don't know how many hills our family will be allocated yet!"

In fact, Deng Shirong knew that if nothing unexpected happened, their family would be allocated a medium-sized mountain, which could probably plant [-] fruit trees.

In the previous life, after the mountains were distributed to households, no one thought about planting fruit trees in the first few years. It was not until the first person who tried to eat crabs appeared that everyone began to follow suit. Within three years, every household planted fruit trees on the mountains. All are lychee trees.

At that time, Deng Shirong's family was also one of those who followed suit. Father and son worked hard for more than half a year to plant more than 1000 lychee saplings.

It's a pity that I didn't have much knowledge at that time. When I was choosing lychee saplings, I didn't choose those saplings of good varieties. Instead, I chose those varieties that were not very affordable.

In the end, this Litchi Mountain, which cost a lot of manpower and material resources, failed to make much money. It was completely tasteless and it was a pity to abandon it.

Now that Deng Shirong has been reborn, everything has become different. He already knows which variety to choose when planting lychee trees, and he will definitely not be in the same dilemma as in his previous life!

When Deng Yuntai heard what his father said, he did not continue to ask. Just as his father said, the fields have not yet begun to be divided, and it is still early to divide the mountains!
There is no point in discussing it now.

Next, the father and son chatted while eating pineapples. Deng Yuntai reported to his father the progress of the first batch of goods from the tile factory.

There are now more than a dozen workers working in the cylinder tile factory. If the weather is good, the first batch of goods will be out of the kiln around the beginning of the seventh lunar month.

It will be revealed by then whether the contracted cylinder tile factory can make money!

Deng Yuntai, a vat master and small owner of a vat and tile factory, is looking forward to this.

Deng Shirong, on the other hand, is relatively calm. After all, he has experienced it in his previous life, and he knows how much money he can make from a batch of goods.

With the profits from the tile factory and the salary of the eldest son, as well as the matchmaking gift from Deng Changfu and Guan Yongying after their marriage, their family can put the matter of building a new house on the agenda.

This is what Deng Shirong deserves to look forward to.

　I have been accustomed to using computers to code for more than ten years, and suddenly I am using my mobile phone to code. It is really unaccustomed to me.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)