Go back to the valley to farm

Chapter 472 The Great Harvest

Chapter 470 Three Great Harvests
Putting away the fish card and paddling the raft to the shore, Ah Yin was rubbing his sleeves and beating the numbness. He raised his head and said with a smile: "Er Pi, what you did is really effective! I just saw you collect fish!"

Li Junge said with a smile: "There are too many fish in this lake. I can't run away with sixty or seventy catties this time! I don't need to fish anymore!"

After speaking, he laughed again: "You should have a good taste, your favorite smoked fish, you can catch enough in one sitting!"

Ayin clapped her hands happily: "Okay! Your favorite kimchi, my favorite smoked fish, that's it!"

Next, Li Junge began to dissect the fish by the water. He knocked his head unconscious with a wooden stick, removed his nails and gills, and cut them open from the back, connecting their stomachs. After washing them, they made ropes from palm leaves and hung them up one by one.

With so much harvest, today's plan to make rope will be postponed. Li Junge went to collect the cassava chips washed the day before yesterday, and first picked the fish and cassava back.

He spread the cassava with a dustpan, marinated the fish with green onion, ginger and herbs, and then went back to the lake to help Ayin wash the hemp, and then returned with the hemp and water.

Back at the camp, Li Junge picked out the one with the pattern of bamboo shoot shells and the one similar to the army fish from the fish in the yard, and said to A Yin: "These two look good, and they are absolutely delicious when steamed. ! It's them at noon!"

The one that looked like a military fish was too big to fit on the plate, so it had to be cut into two pieces.

Boil water in a pot, put a bamboo rack, put the fish dish on it, pour a spoonful of coconut oil on it, cover it with a bamboo hat-like lid and start steaming.

After the bamboo shoot fish was steamed, Li Junge brought the fish to the bamboo table, and when he came back, he steamed the elephant fish as well, and then the two began to taste it.

Both of them had eaten a lot of seafood, and one of them picked up a chopstick, and couldn't help saying: "This one is pretty good! Not to mention tender and sweet, it doesn't have many thorns, it's delicious!"

When the fish was steamed, when the lid of the pot was lifted, a scent came out, and another head of the fish in the bamboo shoot shell was pressed down.

Li Junge yelled and brought the plate to the table: "This, this! This is better than the one just now! It smells good!"

Ayin tasted the chopsticks and said hesitantly, "Why did I taste like crab meat?"

Li Junge also lowered his chopsticks: "Hey, there is also a fruity scent! It's really good! This fish has suppressed all the fish in my Lijiagou!"

The two started talking non-stop with one chopstick and the other.

Halfway through the meal, Li Junge inexplicably felt a sense of resentment, and when he raised his head, the bearded man was looking at him eagerly.

"Damn!" Li Junge had no choice but to put down his chopsticks, picked another fish of this kind, and steamed a plate for the two beards.

Looking at the two beards who were wolfing down food in the distance, Li Junge murmured, "I feel like I have two pets..."

Ayin spat out a mouthful of fish meat, and bumped Li Junge with his elbow: "Save some morals!"

Li Junge turned his head and said to A Yin: "Isn't it? I usually don't talk or open my mouth. I just know to walk around you; they will watch you when you eat, and they will come to them when you eat; which one do you think is sniffing your mouth?" Isn't that what dogs look like?"

Ah Yin really couldn't find fault with what she said, she laughed so hard that she was lying on the armchair.

Today, I stayed by the water for too long, and Ayin didn't rest at noon. The two took advantage of one noon to shake out two more balls of rope and three balls of thin thread.

The discarded hemp silk was also not discarded casually. Every day, Li Junge collected it and put it in the lye tank where the discarded bamboo silk was soaked.

When Ayin went to collect in the afternoon, Li Junge reminded her: "The method of cassava collection needs to be changed. When you collect Ayin, first remove the main branch, leave a few buds and twigs, and then leave two cassava at the root. Don't dig it up, bring it back together."

Ayin said: "Why do you want to do this?"

Li Junge smiled and said, "I'm going to open up a piece of cultivated land around it. When I leave, I will plant it back and thank nature."

Ayin smiled and said, "Your idea is really good!"

After Ayin left with the baskets on his back, Li Junge began to prepare the stove.

First take out four sharpened wooden nails and mallets, together with the twine, break out a regular rectangle on one side of the bamboo shed.

Then he began to nail bamboo poles to the ground with the twine.

A total of one meter wide and one and a half meters long.

Then divide the rectangle into four equal parts and turn it into a Tian character.Also nail bamboo poles on the two midlines.

Then I started to take the bamboo materials that are usually discarded, mainly the peeled bamboo strips, and weave them between the bamboo poles to make four frames.It is half a meter high.

Then take the baskets and go to the edge of the collapsed grass to collect soil.

Come back and pour it into the middle of the frame for compaction.

The subsoil does not need to be mixed into mud. There is already some water in the soil, which is enough.

One cubic meter of soil will raise the hearth to a height of half a meter.

Then, at the place where the mud was made for the first time, I picked two picks of soil as usual, formed a circle, added water, stepped on the mud, and added dried bamboo leaves to mix it evenly.

Take two diabolo tubes that are as thick as a calf, saw one end into a 45-degree opening, and spread a thick layer of mud on the outside to make a mud tube.

Put the clay pot on the side of the firepit to bake, then return to the stove, take the waste bamboo and weave three vertical bamboo fences between the bamboo poles, and then weave the bottom of the stove, this time it is [-] centimeters high.

Remove the two horizontal partitions in the middle of the field, and spread the three vertical bamboo fences into three soil ridges with thin mud.

Then, on this basis, start to paste the hearth with thin mud, the hearth is surrounded by thin mud, the middle is empty, and the bottom is round, like two water droplets cut off from the head and tail, lying side by side.

Then Li Junge went back to the stone platform where he was doing pottery and took bamboo mats and fine mud. The bamboo strips made a square frame, and he rolled out a square frame about One meter, about half a meter wide, and about two centimeters thick.

Then use hemp thread to cut the clay board into three strips, one forty centimeters wide and two thirty centimeters wide, so that they can be fired in the pottery kiln at the same time.

A fire was fired at the bottom of the stone slab to bake the clay slabs, and Li Junge continued to carry the baskets to pick mud and mud.

Come back in the middle, and scrape out a semicircle with a radius of [-] centimeters in the middle of the [-] centimeter board with bamboo circles.

On the forty-centimeter board, a ten-centimeter semicircle is drawn out from one side.

After doing this, the surface of the hearth began to dry. Li Junge sprinkled some dry sand inside, lit two fires with thin wooden branches, and baked the hearth.

When he came back, the clay slabs were also dry. Li Junge put the clay slabs aside, removed the charcoal fire, watered the stone slabs little by little, pressed another big clay slab, and cut it into small clay slabs measuring 25 by [-].

He lit the small clay board and baked it. When he returned to the stove, the soil around the hearth became drier and firmer. Li Junge began to use thicker branches to fuel the fire.

Li Junge began to install the chimney while the soil of the stove embryo at the bottom of the hearth was still relatively thin.

In fact, the easiest way is to erect two large bamboo tubes to pass through the roof tiles, but Li Junge was reluctant to destroy the bamboo building, so he decided to install them horizontally.

Put two mud tubes side by side at the bottom of the hearth, one mud tube passes through one hearth, then hollow out the side of the hearth and bury them.

The clay cylinder protruded half a meter from the right side of the stove. Li Junge dragged a wooden horse under the bed and put the clay cylinder on top.

As for the tall chimneys, that's a matter for the future, let's just make do with it.

Before returning to the stone platform, the small clay tablet was also baked dry.

Li Junge opened the pottery kiln, took out the cooled cups and jars and put them on the bamboo table, without bothering to check, he began to insert all the large clay panels and half of the small clay panels into the kiln to start firing.

When I came back here, I took the remaining small clay tablet aside, made three more like the big clay tablet, and baked them in the same way.

At this time, Ayin came back, looked at the stove, and said, "Erpi, you made two stoves? It's so long, you prepared four fire holes?"

Li Junge was checking the burnt cups, so he hurried over to help Ayin get out of the basket, and said, "It is necessary, in case there are visitors, the stove can also be turned on..."

It was only after I finished speaking that I realized that ghosts are guests in the wilderness!

Seeing Li Junge's recollection, Ah Yin laughed so hard: "Oh... I laughed so hard... You still expect guests to come... Hahahaha..."

Li Junge scratched his forehead and said embarrassingly: "It's all ready, so I won't let me dismantle it, er, there are many stoves, which indicates that the family is prosperous! Auspicious, picture auspicious..."

A Yin gave him a blank look, and went to boil the sesame to dry it.

Finally able to rest, Li Junge began to admire the cups he made.

I am very satisfied, this cup is similar to the daily cover cup, and it can be used to make tea.

Putting the teacup and several jars on the storage rack, Li Junge took the cassava brought by Ayin and threw it into the bucket, ready to fetch water.

First go to the place where the cassava is washed by the stream and put down the bucket, and Li Junge goes to collect the paint first.

The production of lacquer far exceeds Li Junge's expectations. It is estimated that one is that the old trees produce a lot of lacquer, and the other is that no one has ever collected lacquer. There are about ten lacquer trees in the forest, and they can receive about three taels a day.

After collecting the raw lacquer obtained today, Li Junge went back to scrape and wash the cassava, sliced ​​it and threw it into the bamboo basket tied there for brewing.

Then he went home with an empty bucket to fetch water.

Ayin had finished packing the lint, and when Li Junge came back, he began to steam the fish.

The fish tasted so good that both of them wanted to have another meal.

I also didn't forget to steam a plate for the two beards.

After dinner, Li Junge smiled at A Yin: "I have to work overtime tonight, smoke out the fish, there is a stove, hang it on the stove to roast, the taste is not afraid of spoilage."

Ayin has been salivating over smoked fish for a long time. Of course, the sooner he can eat the better, he has no objection at all.

Pines and cypresses are not found around, but this is not a problem for the two of them, as long as it is fragrant and oily firewood, there are plenty of coconut shells and coconut palms, coconut hemp stalks, dried herbs, cattails and reeds.

The steep pyramid-shaped ladder built during the construction of the wooden building last time can be used again, and it happens to be used as a smoking shed.

Put the marinated fish on palm leaves again, spread the fish into pieces with bamboo strips and hang them up. The outside of the ladder is covered with plantain leaves, and a fire is lit underneath, and then covered with sawdust and bamboo shavings collected from sawing wood and bamboo for more than ten days. The smoke came out.

Sprinkle with a handful of shredded coconut, add some vanilla, and the smoke billows.

Ayin took care of the smoke shed, and Li Junge went to take out the pottery panels from the kiln, put the rest in, and started another kiln.

Then I brewed two cups of Ophiopogon japonicus mint tea in a newly fired cover cup, took the pottery embryo from the wooden stand, and continued yesterday's work.

(End of this chapter)