Go back to the valley to farm

Chapter 143
Chapter 140 Four: Grinding

Ayin said: "I guess they will have cracked mouths when they arrive at noon, and they may not be able to drink alcohol. Let's make them some blood rice soup. I'll find some Caulis Spatholobus and boil water for them to soak their feet."

Li Junge said: "Just leave the grinding of soybean milk to us, Ayin, let's stew the chicken first, and then you can pour the beans for me."

Stewing chicken soup is simple, put hot water in a large coal sand can, beat a piece of ginger, then put the scalded and washed chicken nuggets in, cover the mouth of the can with mulberry paper, and put it on the briquette stove to simmer slowly.

After finishing the chicken soup, Li Junge picked up the bucket of soaking soybeans and said to A Yin: "Go, A Yin, help me water the beans."

I came to the big stone mill by the side of the house. This mill has been around for a long time. The upper mill is one-third shorter than the lower mill. This is because the teeth of the mill are continuously ground and then chiseled out again, and the upper mill is chiseled back and forth. up.

The upper grinder is turned upside down and hung on the edge of the lower grinder with a brown rope. Li Junge took a brush to clean the inside and outside of the grinder, then put the upper grinder down, carefully aligned the grinding core, and put the upper grinder on.

The upper grind is seventy or eighty catties, this job can only be done by men.

The upper grinding is like a Taiji picture, but the Yinyu side is recessed, and there is a stuffing hole in the position of the Taiji fish eye.

There is also a large square wooden wedge on the side of the upper mill, with a round hole perpendicular to the ground on the wedge, which is used for the pusher of the grinding mill.

The fader is a T-shaped wooden frame nailed with big wooden sticks, and a slanted wood is installed on both sides to fix it. The overall look is like a horizontal line under the word "hu", which is also fixed with brown rope and suspended in the air.

Put the mortise on the pusher into the wedge of the upper mill, and Ayin put a clean large wooden bucket under the diversion port of the mill to receive the soybean milk, then wet the inside and outside of the mill, and began to pour water into the feed port beans.

There is also a knack for pushing the grinder. After each push, the wedge of the grinder should not be on the straight line formed by your body and the grinder core, but must be pushed past a certain angle, otherwise the next push and pull will not be able to exert force.

In Lijiagou's nursery rhyme "Push the mill, smash the mill, push the bean flower, please grandma..." In fact, the word "揺" has already revealed the trick of grinding the mill.

The soybeans were soaked last night, each one was swollen and swollen, each spoonful of more than ten beans was half a spoonful of water, when the mill was turned, fine soybean milk soon flowed out along the grinding crack, It gathers in the ditch, and finally flows into the large wooden barrel below along the diversion trough.

A fresh fragrance of raw soy milk permeated the air.

Li Junge pushed and pulled the mill evenly while chatting with A Yin.

Li Junge said: "Ayin, you sang me a song that day, and I will sing you one too."

A Yin stared at the feeding port, said while adding beans, "Well, you sing."

Li Junge followed the rhythm of the grinding mill and sang in the tune of "Railway Guerrillas": "The sun in the west is about to set, and the bachelors in Lijiagou are coming. Playing my beloved bamboo dart, it can't be in vain." let go..."

Ayin laughed so hard: "Well, I can't let it go, a dart will go through the pot, and I will have a fat Mid-Autumn Festival!"

Li Junge said embarrassingly: "How can you just put it in the pot, it's too wasteful! Anyway, let's put it in the pot after it's used up!"

Ayin laughed loudly, and lightly tapped Li Junge's forehead with the tip of a spoon: "Don't make trouble! It made me unsteady."

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The two changed the subject, and Li Jun said again: "The old saying of Dingshan Loess facing the sky, Jiachuan Bean Curd Rice means rice at the foot of Dingshan, beans on the loess ridge, and chili peppers facing the sky. It's the best."

Ayin asked, "Where is Dingshan?"

Li Junge said: "Dingshan, in the other direction of Jiachuan, the mountain god of Dingshan had a bet with the mountain god of Bifengshan, who could grow taller in the competition, but it turned out that Bifengshan couldn't grow taller, so I came up with an idea to take advantage of Dingshan in the middle of the night. He fell asleep, and secretly put a millstone on his head. Since then, Dingshan has stopped growing, but Bifengshan has grown to its current height."

A Yin laughed loudly: "I know who you learned your lazy, naughty temper from. It turned out that you learned from Shan Shen."

Li Junge also said solemnly: "This is true. Go to Dingshan now and see that there is a big millstone on the top of the mountain. That mountain looks like a character 'Ding', so it is called Dingshan."

The two of them were chatting and working, and it wasn't boring, and they finished grinding half a bucket of beans before they knew it.

After cleaning the stone mill, and re-hanging the upper millstone and faders, Li Junge took the big wooden barrel to the kitchen and handed it to Mama Ni.

A Yin picked up a Chi Erjian knife and hung it on his waist, and said to Li Junge: "Erpi, let's go, let's get some vines for Zhu Erchong and Er Zhun."

The two of them left the stockade and walked to a small road on the side. After a short walk, they came to a stream. There were virgin forests on both sides, and many vines climbed on it. Some even climbed from the stream to the mountain. over there.

"Hey, this is amazing. How did this vine get there? This is really incredible." Li Junge asked A Yin, scratching his forehead.

A Yin said: "The vine is the Papilio vine, and I don't know how to lead it there. Anyway, it has a name called 'Guoshanlong'."

Li Junge was amazed, and followed Ayin to a vine with thick wrists.

The vine has leathery heart-shaped leaves and climbs up a wild tree, occupying one-third of the living space of the wild tree.

Ayin scraped the bottom of the vine with a knife, and then listened attentively.

Li Junge smiled and said, "Oh, are you still guarding this legend?"

Ayin smiled and said: "Haha, it doesn't take much to scrape, what if someday there is a movement?"

Li Junge nodded, and said with a smile: "Yes, there was a mistake, and I didn't let it go!"

Ayin gave Li Junge a kick and said, "Don't laugh at me, this is a habit I developed when I was a child."

Li Junge said: "I'm really not kidding you. When I was a child, I heard people say that drinking water immediately after eating plums would make me sway. But I still dare not drink water for a long time after eating plums."

A Yin drew out the knife, squatted down and stabbed at the bottom of the vine, then stood up and stabbed a person, cutting a person's height.

Turn the section across and show it to Li Junge: "Erpi, look at this section."

Li Junge held the bottom with one hand, and saw that the cross-section was light brown, with the center as the center, and several blood-red circles were distributed.

Red liquid is oozing out from several circles, it really seems to be bleeding.

Li Junge said: "In the past, they were directly chopped up as crutches. I really didn't notice how the chicken blood was distributed in circles like this."

A Yin said: "It is also called 'five layers of blood', which is the characteristic of it."

The two began to pull down the cut vines with all their strength. According to the rules of mountain runners, since the vines are cut off, don't waste it if you can.

Fujiko clings very tightly, and it took a lot of effort to pull it down.

Cut the vines into sections of more than one meter, tied them into two bundles, and made a pole with bamboo tips to carry them back to the stockade.

Back in the stockade, he threw the vines on the open dam to dry. Li Junge entered the main room. There was a huge teapot on the table filled with brewed Laoyin tea. Mother Ni also put honeysuckle and fat sea in it.

Li Junge filled a kettle with herbal tea, came out and said to A Yin: "Why don't we wait for them, and collect the chicken on the way back."

A Yin agreed, and the two went to find a big cage that could hold bamboo chickens, and went to the top of the slope behind the village to wait for their arrival.

I was bored, so I just picked a handful of lawsuit grass and played with it.

After playing for a while, I heard muddy footsteps on the stone road, it was Zhu Chaoan and Si Xingzhun.

When Zhu Chaoan saw the two of them, it was like seeing a savior. He lost all strength to get angry, and waved his hand straight: "Huffling...quick...take off my bag...puffing..."

Si Xingzhun was similar, he put the camera bag on the stone road, sat down on his ass, and said: "Damn Erpi... huh huh... If the Miao Village is not as good as you said...you can just recite me." Go down... puff and puff..."

A Yin took the bag down for the two of them, and Li Junge handed them herbal tea, saying, "Don't talk, let's get your breath back. You can't sit for a long time, Er Zhun, hurry up and walk slowly."

The two of them took the herbal tea and drank it vigorously.

It was windy on the top of the mountain, and Li Junge took out towels from their backpacks, wiped their bodies, and changed into dry clothes.

It was not easy for the two of them to return to their souls, and Si Xingzhun said: "I haven't seen anything good along the way. The scenery is far worse than our Lijiagou side."

This kid stayed in Lijiagou for three months and regarded himself as a Lijiagou person.

But Zhu Chaoan is a foodie, holding the cage to the point of crying: "Where's the bamboo chicken? Where's the agreed bamboo chicken? It's good to have a mouthful, after climbing for so long, it's all supported by the bamboo chicken. Show me an empty cage!"

Li Junge said: "Hahaha, in order to let you experience the fun, I haven't closed the hall yet."

Zhu Chaoan immediately regained his energy: "Ah? Hahaha, what are you waiting for, let's go!"

Li Junge said: "Aren't you going to take a break?"

Zhu Chaoan said: "All the gods worshiped 99, and you let me take a break after seeing the real Buddha for the last time? I told you that if you can catch bamboo chickens today, you will be fine. If you don't, Er Zhun and I will really strangle you to death."

Li Junge picked up the backpacks of the two and said: "It should be no problem, there are many chickens in that hall. It's not far from the road back."

Si Xingzhun said: "A hundred birds in the forest are not as good as a bird in the hand, pig and worm, hurry up, I haven't seen a bamboo chicken before."

The two carried the birdcage and limped in front, while Li Junge and A Yin watched from behind and laughed.

The four chatted and walked, Li Junge said with a smile: "Zhu Er Chong, your weight loss is more effective than staying in Lijiagou for three days."

Si Xingzhun said: "I thought my physical strength was pretty good, why don't I feel that I'm not as good as a pig worm?"

Li Junge thought that although Zhu Erchong hadn't completely lost weight yet, he had drunk the Lingquan water a few times. When it comes to physical fitness, Erzhun might not be able to match him.

He said in his mouth: "You guys are doing pretty well. We estimated it would take four hours, but you guys arrived pretty fast."

(End of this chapter)