Chapter 430 Peach Gum Candy
“Okay Da Mingzi, it’s time to stop, don’t beat people to death.”
When Huang Ming comes up, beat that guy up Having become a pig's head, Zhang An still opened his mouth to stop Hu Huangming who continued to attack.
After all, this guy Huang Ming has been fooling around outside for so many years, and he really has some tricks up his sleeve, and he is really capable of being ruthless.
If you don't stop him and let him beat him, then this pig's life will probably be hard to save.
And now that we are a civilized society ruled by law, civilization must be the main priority. It is not worth risking your life for such a person.
“This kind of guy who blackmails people to come to our village can be killed directly. He hangs up for a few days without thinking about his own things, and he goes wild here.”
< br>Although Huang Ming was a gangster before, he, like Zhang An, hated pickpockets, thieves, and kidnappers.
When he was still hanging out in the city, every time he saw such a person, he often took action with his brother.
Zhang An still remembers that one time, Damingzi met an old man in the city. The pocket on his trousers was cut open by a pickpocket with a razor blade, and all the money inside was taken away.
He didn't have much money at that time and was just hanging out. If he didn't steal or rob, it was normal for him to go hungry for nine meals in three days.
But he forced himself to collect the fare with a few people around him and gave the old man a ride home.
That's why he is relatively well-known in the local police station, so as long as they don't commit any serious crimes, the police station will just give them a few words of verbal education.
And this is also the reason why Zhang An was willing to make friends with him later, because judging from these things, Huang Ming is not a bad person in nature, he just took the wrong path during his rebellious period.
“If you want to blackmail someone, you don’t open your eyes to see how much my uncle’s family’s piece of cherries and this piece of strawberry can be sold for. I really think that anyone can fall in love with your little money.”
Although Zhang An stopped him, Huang Ming did not let go. He reached out and slapped him a few more times.
"Brother, brother, I was wrong. The price was mine and it was not exchanged. It was lard that deceived me and I wanted to extort some money. I know I was wrong, and you fought me too. , As long as you don’t remember the faults of villains, please let me go.”
He has long been very skilled in blackmailing people with fake money. Just now he only saw Wang Fang, a woman here, collecting money, so he Thinking of making a fortune.
Because he thought that Wang Fang had sold strawberries for so much money, so he would definitely not argue with him over a hundred yuan, and it would also affect the business.
Unexpectedly, Wang Fang wanted to fight him to the death because of a hundred yuan, which caused such a big fuss. He regrets it very much now.
Moreover, Huang Ming's words about killing him made the man suddenly remember that this was a village in the mountains.
Although it is not the Miao village in the deep mountains and old forests, in this era of strong folk customs, these mountain villages are not far behind.
His actions, which are equivalent to those of bandits, are not accepted by the mountain people in a place like this.
Although I have never seen it with my own eyes, I have often heard that many people in the mountains now directly beat to death, maim and hang up bandits when they catch them. Sometimes even the police station may not be able to help.
Seeing the surrounding villagers holding guillotines and hoes staring directly at him, he shuddered suddenly in pain and quickly knelt down to beg for mercy.
"It's boring. This is too soft. I thought that just like the two people last time, they wouldn't let go, so I could practice."
Looking at this guy kneeling down Huang Ming looked bored as he begged for mercy.
In his opinion, although this man is in his thirties, he is not as strong-boned as the two young men who went to Zhang An's house to steal pigs with Li Laifu last time.
Although the two guys were hammered hard by Huang Ming last time, they didn't say a word of submission or mercy.
"Okay, everyone, please help bring this guy to the village. I'll call the police station."
There are a lot of people waiting here to buy strawberries, and Zhang An doesn't want to waste time and waste everyone's time.
"Brother, please let me go. I am willing to pay. As long as you don't call the police, I can pay."
Hearing Zhang An wanted to call the police, the guy who was pinned to the ground by Huang Ming Panic.
In the current police station, once you go in, it’s hard to say when you will come out.
"You value the dirty money you have so much. I think it's dirty even if you give it to me. Take it away."
If it were someone else, he would definitely be willing to take the money for himself. After all, this is This is an opportunity for the lion to open his mouth.
But he was very unlucky today. The person he met was Zhang An, who was not short of money.
“Okay, leave it to us.”
At this time, two young men holding ropes walked out of the crowd. They were both of the same generation as Zhang An.
After Xiaohehe finished speaking, he tied the person up immediately.
Zhang An took a look and felt that the binding was okay, and the binding technique seemed to be quite skillful, as if he had been trained.
Back in the village, Zhang An called the police station.
It is very convenient to drive here in town now. After waiting for a while, the people from the police station arrived.
The man who came from the police station was named Wang Wei. He often came to several surrounding villages, so he was an old acquaintance.
“Hey, the beating was quite light today.”
Wang Wei came over and saw this guy tied up at the door of the village committee, and he was suddenly in a daze.
Although this guy has been beaten into a pig head by Zhang An and Huang Ming in turns, this is really the least injured criminal he has ever injured.
Having worked here for so many years, he has long known that these mountain people are not a good person.
Usually, he is really easy to talk to, but if he gets into their hands, hey, he is not a good person.
But they all turn a blind eye, as long as they don't beat people to death.
To put it another way, even if someone is really beaten to death, there will be no serious consequences as long as the person is justified. After all, the law does not punish everyone, especially in mountain villages with strong clan and collective consciousness.
"Don't talk nonsense, we are all good citizens who abide by the law."
We are all old acquaintances, so Zhang An handed the person over directly to Wang Wei.
"I have already told you about the matter on the phone. If you want to find witnesses, they are in the strawberry field by the river at my house. You can still find a bunch of them in the past."
"Is your strawberry already on sale? Then I'll go ask someone and buy a few kilograms of it."
Although Wang Wei doesn't think Zhang An will unjustly accuse someone, the procedures that should be followed are still indispensable.
But he didn’t just go there to find someone to ask questions, he also wanted to buy a few kilograms of strawberries.
In the next few days, everything went smoothly and nothing happened again.
However, the cherry picking speed this time was much faster than last year, and it was completed in only five days.
This is because Lu Cheng came to Zhang An to urge him, because he drove a big truck here this time, and the picking work must be faster.
As soon as the servant Ding felt that the speed was slow, he went to find someone to pick it himself.
But Lu Cheng is different. He is not familiar with the village, so he still has to come to Zhang An.
After all, he is the one who pays. In this world, giving money is the boss, so Zhang An could only agree to him, so Zhang An found another twenty people to pick cherries together.
"Okay, I'll send the cherries back first and come back in a few days."
The cherries are picked, Lu Cheng is very happy, Zhang An's family has more cherries this year than last year .
Although the price he paid for Zhang An was high, he sold it to others for a higher price, so he must have made a lot of money.
But when he goes back this time, he will definitely come back within a few days, because it is almost time to pick the peaches from Zhang An's family.
The quality of Zhang An’s peaches is no worse than that of cherries, and he will definitely not let them go.
It’s just that when he came to talk last year, he only talked about cherries with Zhang An.
Due to the hailstorm last year, Zhang An’s family had very few peaches left, and finally they were all sent to Ding Yi’s supermarket.
But it doesn’t matter. As the saying goes, first come first, first served. If we didn’t talk about it last year, let’s talk about it this year. When I was harvesting cherries these days, I took the opportunity to negotiate the purchase of peaches with Zhang An.
So he will have to come back with someone in a few days.
"Yeah, I will call you in advance then."
The yield of peaches in this area is not large, and there is no hail this year, even if Dingyi has more blooms this year Several branches are completely unbearable.
Zhang An is also a person who is afraid of trouble. Lu Cheng took the initiative to accept him, so he was naturally very willing.
After sending Lu Cheng away, Zhang An was going to the orchard to collect some peach gum.
Peach tree gum flow is a normal phenomenon, but in most cases, peach gum will flow out due to infection or damage.
At this time, you need to pay attention, because if the glue phenomenon caused by insect pests is not treated, the symptoms will gradually become serious and may lead to death.
And peach gum is a nutritional part of the peach tree and is generally delivered directly to the peaches.
Once the peach tree is gummed, it will affect the yield of the fruit and reduce the yield of the peach.
However, Zhang An’s peach trees were not infected by bacteria or fungi, nor were their branches damaged.
It is because they have excess nutrients and cannot be used up after being delivered to the peaches, so they overflow, causing glue flow.
Ordinary peach gum is actually not a very good product, and it is not as magical as many people boast.
Its main component is macromolecular polysaccharide, which is difficult to be absorbed by the human body.
However, after being processed into small molecule polysaccharides, it can be used as a supplement.
Of course, the effect is not that magical, but the price will be more expensive.
After discovering gum flow from peach trees last year, Zhang An only harvested a small part.
After processing, the taste was very good. It was chewy and bouncy, just like QQ candy.
So Zhang An added honey to peach gum and made peach gum candy. Su Ying liked it very much.
So while it is still early this year, he plans to collect more peach gum and make all of it into gum candies for snacks.
After all, these peach gums are the excess nutrients in the peach trees. Now they are flowing out. If you don’t collect them, they will be eaten by other insects and wasted.
This time Zhang An did not ask for help. He harvested slowly by himself and took a look at the condition of the peaches.
It took two days to collect a total of about one hundred kilograms of natural peach gum.
That’s it, it’s not finished yet.
Because one tree can harvest one to two taels of peach gum, there are thousands of peach trees in their orchard.
After all harvesting is completed, at least a few hundred kilograms can be recovered.
But Zhang An is not in a hurry now, because it is only May, and it will take a long time to harvest peach gum.
Zhang An put the peach gum he picked directly into a large basin and soaked it in water for at least half a day.
Clean out all the impurities and dirt inside, and at the same time make it foam bigger and softer.
Since Zhang An is used to make sugar, there is no need to dry it in the sun.
Instead, chop it into small pieces with a stubble knife, crush it with a roller, then mix it with sweet potato flour and put it into a pot to cook at high temperature.
This kind of peach gum will form a colloid. If it is put into a pot and cooked as a whole, the macromolecular polysaccharides cannot be cooked in the pot.
When boiling, you need to constantly add water, so that the peach gum candy will be soft and not hard.
At the same time, use honey to make syrup and add water to it, stirring continuously.
The cherries at home happened to be ripe now, so Zhang An picked some cherries, squeezed them into juice and added them in together.
In this way, you can make cherry-flavored peach gum candies.
Finally, when the cooking is completed, pour it into the mold to cool and set, and it is ready.
I don’t know who spread the news about Zhang An’s making sweets. The group of kids in the village, led by Zhang Yan, all ran to his yard.
Since Zhang An was still cooking, they each stood guard at the door and never left.
Because they know that the peach gum candies made by Zhang An are very delicious, no worse than the 50 cents a pack of QQ candies.
And fifty cents is already a huge amount of money for them, and they are reluctant to spend it on that thing.
It happened that Zhang An was going to make peach gum candies, so how could they let go of this opportunity.
"Daddy, are the candies you made ready? My mother will call me back to do my homework later."
Li Yao is also very pitiful now, because he is playful, So Zhou Lan confiscated all his usual pocket money.
In the past, he was the rich brother among the children, but now, the eldest brother let alone the second brother, everyone is about the same.
Taking it out of their pockets is cleaner than their faces, although their faces are not that clean.
As soon as Li Yao opened his mouth, the other kids raised their heads and looked at Zhang An.
"Then you wait, I'll go take a look."
Looking at their longing eyes, Zhang An definitely couldn't bear to refuse.
I guessed that it was almost time to cool down and set, so I got up and took a look.
Open the mold and find that it has been shaped, but there is still a little bit of residual warmth, but it is no longer hot.
"Come on, come on, the candies are ready. Everyone is lining up and coming to get them."
As soon as the furry children heard this, they immediately lined up in a long line. They were extremely obedient. I have never performed so well in school.
Zhang An handed out candies to them one by one, and each of them grabbed a handful, which could be used as several packs of QQ candies.
"Everyone has it, but you are not allowed to rob others and eat your own. If anyone dares to rob, I will not give him a share of what to eat in the future."
Some Zhang An accidentally discovered that stupid kids can steal other people's things.
But there are only a few, and they all happen between brothers and sisters.
Some older brothers and sisters get snacks from Zhang An every time.
After they finish eating, they will turn their thoughts on their younger brothers and sisters.
The younger children, who were threatened a few times but did not dare to complain, could only be robbed in vain.
This is not a good habit, so Zhang An wants to put an end to this phenomenon.
“Okay, Uncle An, we understand.”
A group of kids replied in unison.
It’s just that some little boys in the crowd had red faces and didn’t dare to look at Zhang An.
Because they are what Zhang An calls people who rob others of their food.
“Hey, Zhang An, are you sharing something delicious with them today?”
When Zhang An was giving out peach gum candies to the furry children, Zhou Lan came from her house He came here, apparently to tell Li Yao to go back and do his homework.
(End of this chapter)