The whole family travels through time: escape from famine! No cheat codes yet!

This harvest season was originally the time to harvest wild fruits, but unfortunately there was a drought. They encountered wild fruit trees on the road, but their branches and leaves were all withered and yellow, with only a few small and astringent fruits hanging on them, or no fruits at all.

Small, astringent fruits are a blessing at this time.

The first thing Shen Youyou and his friends encountered was a walnut tree. There were only three of them. The trees were very large. The drought had also affected the three trees. There were not many fruits on the trees, and they were sparsely distributed.

But there was a layer of walnuts fallen on the ground, a lot of them, but they were much smaller than normal walnuts.

They were still surprised to see the walnuts on the ground.

Shen Yaya, the granddaughter of the great grandfather, stared with wide eyes: "I saw them from a distance and thought that these were the only ones on the tree. I was disappointed!"

Shen Youyou also smiled as she looked at the densely packed walnuts on the ground. All she could think about were candied walnuts and dry-fried walnuts. Woohoo! It was a pity that there was no sugar left.

Shen Daya picked up one that had fallen on the ground. Walnuts usually mature from July to September and can be picked. Now it is November and most of them have fallen to the ground.

Fortunately, there was a drought and no rain this year, otherwise the walnuts would have become moldy and rotted long ago.

These are the walnuts that have their green skins naturally crack and fall off after they mature.

Shen Youyou also picked one up and wanted to smash it open with a stone, but Erhu took it and squeezed it open directly. The peel was very thick, and a group of little girls looked at him in shock with their mouths wide open.

Erhu blushed again, but no one noticed. Haha! He got really tanned.

Although the fruit inside is a little smaller, about three-quarters the size of a normal walnut, it is still a pleasant surprise.

However, there were also some broken walnut shells and wild boar footprints. These walnuts were probably the wild boar's food reserves.

"Let's get started, sisters. Let's all go back."

Shen Youyou stared at the walnut tree with her bright big eyes. She waved her little hand and everyone took action. They took bamboo baskets and started picking up the fallen walnuts on the ground, but Erhu climbed up the walnut tree in no time.

Shen Youyou followed closely behind and climbed up a tree. It seems that the effect of training with Grandpa Li is very obvious. It must not have been so easy for her to climb trees before.

"Yoyo, be careful!"

Wang Taohua was standing below to remind her. She was terrified when she saw her sister climbing the tree.

"Got it!"

Shen Youyou was already hitting the trash with a stick, bang bang. The sisters below started picking up the trash while wearing straw hats. They had brought them with them because they were afraid they would get hit on the head.

Even if there aren't many left hanging on the trees, but their Shenjia Village has always followed the principle of clearing out everything as they go along, so even those on the trees cannot be spared!

"Wow, there are so many on the ground. Most of them don't need to be peeled." Shen Xingya from Dahai's family exclaimed in surprise.

Cui Ya, who is not talkative, said for the first time: "The wild walnuts that grandpa roasted with sand are so fragrant."

Shen Youyou had no memory and didn't expect that someone was using sand to fry walnuts now, so she asked Shen Cuiya under the tree.

"Sister Cuiya, does Dahai still use sand to fry walnuts?"

Shen Cuiya didn't expect Shen Youyou to talk to her, because she didn't like to talk and always followed her sister. Now Shen Youyou talked to her and called her sister, her face turned red.

It can be seen that she was really blushing, because the women were all covered tightly on the road, unlike the men who were almost walking shirtless.

"Well, my grandfather would fry some chestnuts, peanuts and walnuts during the New Year and take them to the town to exchange for money. We don't eat much ourselves."

Shen Youyou felt sad after listening to this. They planted peanuts, picked wild chestnuts and wild walnuts, and had to exchange them for money. Life in Shenjia Village was really poor!

Although Cui Ya didn't look disappointed, she still comforted him, "It's okay. We've picked some walnuts this time, so we'll ask Grandpa Dahai to fry them for us. We'll definitely have enough to eat!"

There are indeed a lot of them. Not counting the scattered fruits hanging on the tree, there are many green ones that have fallen below, or have been dried out of the skin. Some of the green ones are half rotten, revealing the thick hard skin of the walnut, but the fruit inside is fine.

Shen Erya picked up a walnut that was mostly rotten, peeled the other half skillfully, and threw it directly into the basket.

He continued to bend over and pick up the walnuts, saying without raising his head: "Sister, stop thinking about good things. Believe it or not, the grandmas can still grind them into walnut powder for you, haha!"

This reminded Shen Youyou that this was very likely. Last time, Shen Youyou got two chestnuts from her grandmother, her brother Shen Luming left two for her, and Shen Yuanbao also gave her one, for a total of eight.

She gave each of the four sisters one, and peeled the remaining four and stuffed them into their mouths when their grandparents, parents weren't paying attention.

What's even funnier is that she actually spit it out and told me to wash it and let her eat it herself.

Shen Youyou's eyes were red at that time. She was so sad. She had ground hundreds of kilograms of chestnuts into chestnut flour to make pancakes, but she was reluctant to bake a few more to eat.

Shen Youyou can understand this mentality, but she does not agree with it!

Shen Youyou secretly made up her mind: she must stock up more food so that the adults can eat these walnuts as snacks.

In fact, compared to dried walnuts, she prefers to eat green-skinned walnuts.

“Walnuts in July and hazelnuts in August”

I remember when I was young, every seventh month of the lunar calendar, I would call my brothers to go to my uncle's house. There was a century-old walnut tree outside the yard, which was about the same size as these three, with many fruits and dense leaves.

She asked her brother to pick large green-skinned fruits, open them for her and eat the tender white kernels. The fresh fragrance of the walnuts filled her lips and teeth, making her unable to stop eating!

Dried walnuts have an oily and fragrant taste, but because the yellow skin cannot be removed, they have a slightly astringent taste. Fresh walnuts with green skin are different. The yellow skin can be torn off, so the taste is crisp, tender and sweet.

Peel off the skin and take a bite. It is so tender and delicious, with rich moisture. You don’t have to worry about getting irritated or greasy.

Green-skinned walnuts are crunchy, so besides being a snack, they can also be eaten in salads, stir-fried dishes, made into soups, and used to make pastries.

Just thinking about it makes my mouth water. I just don’t know what it’s like to eat the few fruits on the tree. Although they are still hanging on the tree, the green fruits are gradually turning yellow.

He couldn't help it, so he stood on the tree and picked the one closest to him. He drew out the small dagger from his waist, which was a gift from Grandpa Li to him as his apprenticeship gift. He peeled the walnut carefully, being careful not to get the juice on his body as it could not be washed off.

But the walnuts are too thick to be opened.

"Sister Erya, smash it open with a stone!"

Shen Erya picked up the walnut that her sister had thrown down, found a stone to smash it, and handed it to her sister: "Be careful, it's hard to wash off on your hands."

Why are you still being careful? There is already black on your hands. Haha, the black on your white and tender little hands is more obvious, but this does not affect Shen Youyou's mood at all.

She deftly peeled off the yellow nut skin and put it into her mouth. Shen Youyou chewed the walnut, her eyes sparkling. This was the taste, this was the taste, exactly the same as what she ate when she was a child.

Fresh, sweet and crisp, with a light fruity aroma without any astringency and not greasy at all.