Go back to the valley to farm

Chapter 525 Preliminary Work
Chapter 520 Preliminary Work

A Yin went to feed the birds, water the flowers, tidy up the vegetable fields, clean the vegetable fields, and pack up his luggage. After everything was done, Li Junge turned off the kiln fire, and the two ran to the beach.

Passing by the water outlet of the small lake, the two stopped. Li Junge tied a basket to the rock by the stream, and Ayin peeled off the cassava skin, cut the cassava into pieces, soaked them in the basket and rinsed them.

When they came to the beach, Ayin went to the tidal flat to catch shrimps, collect and clean seaweed and sea cabbage, while Li Junge went to the forest to cut down thin bamboos and weave long bamboo traps for catching strange crabs.

The two of them were busy until three o'clock in the afternoon, except for a meal of coconut milk, bread biscuits and seaweed in the middle, there was no rest.

After arranging the five long cage traps properly, Li Junge split the coconut and threw it on the ground according to the old method, and then went to the tidal flat to find A Yin.

Seeing him coming, Ayin smiled and said, "Er Pi, are you done with it?"

Li Junge said: "A total of five traps have been set up. Whether there is such a stuttering fortune or not depends on the luck of the guests themselves!"

Ayin said: "I caught fifteen Pippi shrimps here, is it almost enough?"

Li Junge said with a smile: "I don't know if they will fight if they are put in a cage, but let's just find a puddle to raise and spit mud."

Carry the big fish crate containing Pipi shrimp to the edge of a puddle, and tie it firmly to a fixed reef with hemp rope, so that even after several times of high tide and low tide, the cage is not afraid of being washed away by the waves.

Then they came back to help A Yin wash the mud on his arms and legs. The two went back along the road, collecting coconuts, papayas, loquats, and snake skin fruits for hospitality. Of course, they did not forget the ripe peppers.

Back home, Li Junge opened the kiln to get the bowls, and then fired the last kiln.

A Yin began to scrape and wash the pork skin with a knife in hot water.

Li Junge peeled off the thin bamboo shoots dug in the morning, boiled them in water, shredded them, and soaked them in clean water.

Unable to hold back his mouth, he mixed a portion of mushroom oil, wild onion, red oil and salt for himself, and prepared to enjoy his mouth first.

Then boil a large clay pot of water, add ginger slices after boiling, put sausage, bacon, pig ears and other cured meat into it and cook.

After half an hour, take them out and put them in the Shakei to dry, and you can cut them as you like in the next few days.

The soup from the cooked bacon and sausages was kept, and Li Junge also sprinkled some dried mushrooms and a few slices of dried bamboo shoots into it to boil.

If you can get a pheasant bamboo mouse tomorrow, you can make a pot of nine buckets of soup.

Dinner is mixed bamboo shoots, bacon sausage, bread and cassava porridge.

A Yin has already cleaned the skin and meat, and came over to eat together.

After eating and feeding the quails, the two of them practiced archery for a while, and it was almost dusk.

Li Junge removed the fire from the kiln, took two big fish baskets, and went to the lake with A Yin to play, fishing and setting wild duck traps along the way.

On the side of the reeds opposite the lake, there is a soil slope above the water surface, extending to the middle of the reeds and connecting to a small island. That area is the habitat of various waterfowl, and Li Junge has been optimistic about it for a long time.

The wild duck trap is also similar to the pheasant bamboo mouse trap, but you need to bring your own bamboo pole as an elastic device.

After inserting the bamboo poles, Li Junge set up five traps along the soil ridges outside the island, sprinkled bait, and used reed leaf tips as camouflage.

Then go to the water outlet and use chicken feather bait fishing to deceive Jiluo fish.

Dusk is also the peak window period for fish activities, and it is the best time to collect catches.

It almost made Li Junge go to the pole, except for Jiluo fish, military fish, and dace also scrambling for food on the water surface.

Dace meat can be added to meatballs. Li Junge kept one big one. Junyu can be used as sweet and sour fish with chopped pepper fish. Li Junge kept two about two catties. A lot of catties.

Every time she slipped over one, Ayin stretched out the net and picked up the fish laughingly: "Erpi, you are really good at fishing, and this fish is waiting in line!"

Li Junge said: "That's why I don't like to come to this lake to fish in the morning and evening. It's like a vegetable market, and I don't have any fun fishing..."

Having said that, it took the two of them three hours to catch these catches, and it was already dark.

Li Junge took out the fire twig and lit the torch, propped the bamboo raft to the edge of the well and stopped, put the Jiluo fish into a single basket, army fish and dace into a basket, hung the fish baskets on ropes, and the first few catfish. Put the fish basket in one place.

When he came back, he smiled and said to A Yin: "There is a guarantee, if you can't catch the strange crab, pheasant, bamboo mouse, and a whole fish feast!"

A Yin also laughed: "That's right, we can't lose face as the number one foodie in Lijiagou!"

The two laughed and laughed all the way back home, played flute with folk songs, and played two games of chess. Li Junge threw all the elbows and pig's trotters into a big clay pot and got up, and then went to bed.

No.40 In the early morning of the [-]th, Li Junge got up before dawn, and went to the back mountain bamboo forest with a torch to inspect the trap.

To catch the live ones, the hemp rope must be kept long, but the pheasant is not afraid, if the bamboo mouse does not go early, it may bite the rope and run away.

I came to the mouse track to check the results. Of the ten traps, four remained silent, two missed, one rope was bitten off, and three ropes were dragged under the roots of small bushes.

Li Junge carefully followed the rope, and took out two big bamboo rats, one small and three bamboo rats from under the tree roots.

Bamboo Mouse and Li Jiagou had a temper, and after being caught, they threatened Li Junge with "ha--" "ha--".

Li Junge laughed loudly, let go of the younger one casually, and put the older two into the cage.

Two bamboo rats weighed seven or eight catties, and with the winter bamboo shoots, it would be enough for a pot.

After destroying all the traps, Li Junge went to check the chicken hall again.

I caught two chickens, not small in size, but the breed made Li Junge smile bitterly.

It turned out to be a white pheasant.

There is also a female one, I don't know what species it is, and this season is the season for beating males and not females, so Li Junge had no choice but to let it go.

After tying the wings and feet of the white pheasant with hay, Li Junge restored the trap. In the morning, the pheasant came out of the hall, and there was still a wave of noise. If luck is not enough, then the only option is to use a torch to illuminate the tree at night to play with bows and arrows.

Taking both the white pheasant and the bamboo rat with him, Li Junge returned home.

A Yin is shooting an arrow, and now four black and white circles have been drawn on the target. A Yin's archery skills are getting better and better.

Seeing the big red-faced, black-bellied, white-backed and long-tailed chicken in Li Junge's hand, A Yin said in surprise, "Erpi! This is a white pheasant! You don't mean to eat it, do you?!"

Li Junge smiled and said: "How is it possible! You haven't seen the white pheasant up close, so I just brought it here to show you."

Ayin touched the black crown feather on the top of the white pheasant's head with her small hand, and then touched its long tail, and said, "It's so beautiful, the tail feathers are so wide and long..."

Li Junge said: "This can be regarded as a fellow villager. Originally, a mother was arrested. I don't know if it is her daughter-in-law, so she was released at that time."

Ayin laughed and said, "Then hurry up and let other couples reunite! Maybe they are also protected animals in Thailand."

Li Junge cut off the hay rope on the white pheasant's wings, and then let go of its two feet. When the white pheasant flapped its wings, he waved his hand like flying a hemp head. The white pheasant was like a beautiful kite, and went to the back of the house. The bushes flew away, and after landing, they ran all the way and disappeared into the woods.

A Yin exclaimed: "It's so beautiful!"

Li Junge shook his head: "It's beautiful, but the chicken soup hasn't arrived yet, and the Jiudou bowl is not complete without the chicken and duck..."

Ayin couldn't laugh or cry: "Should we be so serious! They don't understand, a dozen dishes are not enough for them to eat?!"

Li Junge thought about it too, he really followed the rice noodles from his hometown, when it comes to eating, why did he become so serious?

With a dumb smile, he said: "I'm stunned, but I caught two bamboo rats, so there's another dish!"

He fetched two pottery jars, put the bamboo rats in them, put wooden planks and stones on them, and said to A Yin with a smile: "If they can run away tomorrow, they will be lucky!"

After breakfast, Li Junge took the pork knuckles out of the soup pot. The knuckles were already soft, and the hoofs had to be fried to show tiger skin patterns, and then boiled.

Burn the pork belly with the skin on, then soak it in cold water to remove the salt, then raised his head and said to A Yin, "How about adding some cherry meat?"

A Yin said with a smile: "The teams don't know how they are doing these days. You are suddenly full of oil, sugar, and fat. I'm afraid they will have diarrhea after eating!"

Li Junge thought about it for a while, and said with a smile: "You still want to be seated. Different guests have to arrange different dishes according to their habits and tastes. This is Jin Laoer's instructions."

Before leaving for the beach, Li Junge went to Houshan Bamboo Forest again.

Perhaps it was because the pheasants had been hungry all night, and when they came out of the hall, they were in a hurry, and out of five traps, they got two pheasants.

Li Junge brought the pheasant back and laughed at A Yin: "A Yin, when you no longer have hope, surprises often follow. There is no reason to go!"

After tying up the pheasant, they put the basket upside down in the quail shed, and the two set off for the beach.

It was late today, and the two of them had breakfast at the edge of the forest and wandered along the rocky beach.

Seeing Li Junge groping around, A Yin couldn't help asking curiously: "Er Pi, what are you doing?"

Li Junge said: "You said that the little octopus you caught last time tastes the same as squid cuttlefish?"

Ayin laughed loudly: "Could it be that you want to make cuttlefish stewed chicken?"

When Li Junge came to the edge of a steep reef, he took out a shiny thing and said, "I'll just throw it five times. If it doesn't work, we'll give up this dish and change it to clear chicken soup! Then check the strange crab cage. "

Ayin turned her head to take a look, and it turned out to be a pottery pendant, slightly S-shaped, like the body of a shrimp, covered with sequins, reflecting the dazzling light in the sun.

A Yin was shaken so that he squinted his eyes: "What are you, why are you still shining?"

Li Junge said with a smile: "It's very simple. Take the shell like a knife, grind the edge and cut off the narrow line of pearl layer on the edge of the shell, then chop it and sprinkle it on the pottery pendant coated with raw lacquer. That's right, I learned this hand from Uncle Bamboo Carpenter!"

Ayin said: "It's incomparable, the mother-of-pearl inlays of my uncle's bamboo strip maker are so beautiful, you... are like a glowing fat leech!"

Not only is Li Junge not angry, but he is very happy: "Even you said that you look like a fat bug, so I like things in the sea!"

(End of this chapter)