Hard times have room

Chapter 516 Scooping Rice

Now that the decision was made, the family immediately got busy, taking out the food from Paulin's house, and drying the food that had just been brought home. These are all things to do immediately, just today The weather is good enough, the rice is spread out on the mat today, and it can still be dried for at least two hours.

There is nothing to do this afternoon, so I have time to guard the dried rice.

You know, this rice man likes it, and so do other animals, and some bugs will come over to harm it.

If you don't care, the ants will come in groups to carry it, and the flying grasshoppers will come to take care of it from time to time, especially at this time, when drying is indispensable.

That is to say, this year's sparrows and the like have been killed in large numbers. Otherwise, once the food is dried, this person can't leave the food stall a few steps away. The sparrows are very courageous and gluttonous. , no wonder it is regarded as the four evils.

In addition to the new grains that have been spread out, the old grains have to be scooped up immediately, and the shells have been removed. I haven't had a good meal for many days. Today, I have to relieve my cravings and feed my stomach.

In recent days, the family of the person who has the rice scooping tool in the village will be very busy, and it has been busy for a long time.

Going to another house to scoop up rice, you only need to give some chaff, the meaning is enough, of course, if you don't give chaff, you can also get some dried mushrooms and wild vegetables by yourself.

When Wang Jiandang was carrying [-] catties of old rice to scoop up rice, Bao Lin and Su Hongying were busy drying new grains.

At this time, there are not so many insect control methods, and the most common and effective method is to bask in the sun.

Once there are small white spots on the millet or beans, they should be taken out immediately and exposed to the sun, because the white spots are the eggs of insects. If they are not dried in time, these eggs will be dried. After ten and a half months, the bugs in it hatched, and they began to smack at the food.

These worms are very viable, plus their own stomach and five catties of beans, from the discovery of the worm to the end of finding a single intact soybean, it only takes a short month. If the temperature is right and the environment is suitable, Not even a month, half a month is enough.

These worm eggs are not only found in a few special grains. In fact, most of the grains have them, only the rice that her family brought back today, a hundred kilograms, and there are insects on this hundred kilograms of rice. Eggs account for the vast majority, it just depends on how to deal with them.

Of course, although there are worm eggs, most of the previous drying has killed most of them. This time, drying at home is to be more secure, but also to reassure her parents. Anyway, she will definitely put these grains in her space. Inside, when the time comes, the bug will basically be gone.

After drying the rice, Paulin scooped out a large bowl of dried grasshoppers from her parents' house, and slowly fried the dried grasshoppers with embers over a small fire. This is unlikely for the dried grasshopper in her hand, after all, it's dried out by the sun, and it's still tender!

Unless you use fresh grasshoppers, just blanch the water with salt, put it outside to dry the moisture on the shell, and then slowly dry it with a small fire, it is possible to achieve a state of coke on the outside and tender on the inside, but she has not yet Try it, just think about it.

After all, there is still a big difference between wet and dry cooking. It takes time to try it. What she lacks now is precisely time.

She has been home for more than ten days, and she has been busy all the time, picking mushrooms, digging wild vegetables, fishing for fish, catching frogs, loaches, and eels. She is really busy.

Besides, the taste of this kind of dry fragrance is also very good now. It is crispy on the outside and chewy on the inside. To her, the taste is already amazing. Yes, her requirements have become so low now.

It seems that she hasn't eaten pork since last August. To be honest, she misses it very much. Now she misses the taste of big fat meat that she didn't like to eat before.

I used to think that the fat was greasy and not tasty at all, but now it is almost the taste of her dreams.

Of course, there is pork in her space, but not much. Twelve spare ribs, nine pig trotters, eight barrel bones, and some internal organs. These are all stored before, but she is not willing to eat them. Take two tube bones and boil the soup.

If you really want to eat meat, you can make porridge or soup with sea fish or conch in the space mixed with miscellaneous grains, wild vegetables, mushrooms, and the taste is also very good.

Well, it's actually because of porridge or soup, one fish or two fish can cook a large pot, enough for her to eat for a long time, after all, she eats normally in the school cafeteria, these porridge or soup, she I only fill my stomach when I'm hungry.

As soon as Paulin fried the grasshopper, Wang Jiandang came back with the scooped rice, took out [-] catties of rice, and brought back only [-] catties of rice and [-] catties of bran. There are unclean rice husks and a lot of small broken rice, but this is not a problem, the rice here is like this.

In addition to the fourteen kilograms of rice, Wang Jiandang also carried a bag in his other hand. The bag was not big, but it was filled to the brim with bran that had come off the rice.

This time Wang Jiandang went to his good brother Xu Tao's house. As soon as he went there, he saw Xu Tao scooping rice at his own house. When his family finished scooping, it was his turn.

When he left, there were still people in his family sitting there with rice bags.

"How's it going? How many pounds?" Su Hongying asked eagerly as soon as she saw Wang Jiandang, dropping the stick she was holding.

"Fourteen catties, and six catties of bran. I left one catty for Taozi, and I still have five catties in the bag." Wang Jiandang said with a smile.

This is how this rice is. Ten catties of rice can yield six to seven catties of rice, and three to four catties of bran. How many catties of rice and a few catties of bran are produced depends on the strictness of the check.

At this time, he didn't have anything to pick. Some bran was mixed into the rice, and he didn't even see it. He had to eat it. Therefore, only [-] jin of rice could come out of the [-] jin of rice he brought.

When Su Hongying heard this, she quickly took the two bags that Wang Jiandang was holding, opened the bags, and checked: "Not bad. Not bad."

"This white rice is so beautiful!"

She grabbed a handful with her hand. Although the rice was a little yellowish, in her eyes, the rice was incomparably fair and beautiful, and it was pleasing to the eye no matter how she looked at it.

Although there are still some rice husks that have not been completely taken off, only half of them have been taken off. In addition, there are also some rice that are very complete and have not taken off their husks at all. These need to be carefully selected before cooking porridge. However, it's all small issues.

(End of this chapter)