Xing'an Mountains 1984: Starting from climbing mountains to support the family

Chapter 197 The Little Devil
Luo Dahe said: "Oh! It's over! It's over! Li Xiaotao, I remember now,
She is the little devil of Jiuqu Village. She used to be called Erni, but now she changed her name to Chen Shuyao. I heard that even Wang Xiaoqiang, Gousheng, Da Laba, Er Gouzi... in our class have been beaten by her!"

"Ah! How can she be so powerful! Then, then, then..."

"Why didn't you tell me earlier! I hope she won't bully us every day in the future!"

Li Xiaotao blinked and didn't dare to mention revenge again, especially when he heard that so many people were beaten up. Moreover, Wang Xiaoqiang in their class was in the third grade, taller and stronger than his brother, but he couldn't beat him. If he called his brother over, they would probably be beaten together.
As for telling grandpa, that was just to scare Chen Shuwan. If he really told him, he would probably be whipped first! Although Li Xiaotao was naughty, he was not stupid at all!

"It's all your fault. Why bully her sister for no reason?" Luo Dahe immediately looked sad when he heard Li Xiaotao asking if Chen Shuyao would bully them every day.

"I didn't know her sister was so powerful!" Li Xiaotao said aggrievedly.

"What should I do?"

The two of them came up with an idea that Li Xiaotao would go home and steal some candy and bribe Chen Shuyao when he went to school tomorrow. Then Li Xiaotao and Luo Dahe left in shame.

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Chen Shuwan and three little girls were walking on their way home.

"Big sister, if they dare to bully you in the future, just tell me! I will beat them up every day."

Chen Shuyao said while clenching her fists.

"But Li Xiaotao, what if we tell Grandpa Li?"

Chen Shuwan was still a little worried.

"Sister, what are you afraid of? He was the one who bullied us first. Daddy said he would help us!"

"Can……"

"Okay, big sister, let's go home and tell dad!"

Chen Shuyao said.

"All right!"

Chen Shuwan also nodded.

On the other side, Chen Weidong held a bundle of grass and led Baihu, Erlong and Sanlong to another room in the farm and covered the room with grass!

"Baihu, Erlong, Sanlong, you will live here from today on and take good care of the farm!" Chen Weidong called.

"Wang Wang!"

The dogs were used to living at home and were obviously unwilling to move to another place. They did not stop until Chen Wei and others took out dog food.

After comforting the dog, Chen Weidong just returned to the yard and saw the little kids in the house bringing Da Ni and Er Ni back.

"Dani, Erni is back from school!" Chen Weidong greeted.

"Dad, we were the ones who brought the eldest and second sisters back!" Wu Ni said in a baby voice.

Xiaoliu now jumped into Dani's arms and wanted to stretch out his little hands for her to hug him!

"You little clingy boy, your sister hasn't even put down her schoolbag yet!" Liu Xueting smiled and hugged Xiaoliu into her arms and took him into the kitchen.

"Dad, I beat up Li Xiaotao and Luo Dahe from our class!"

Dani, Erni had just put down her schoolbag, when suddenly Erni threw herself into Chen Weidong's arms and said to Chen Weidong cautiously.

"Uh~ What's wrong? Did he bully you?" Chen Weidong asked. He knew that Da Ni and Er Ni were sensible and would not bully others like Sini did.

"Well, he was the one who bullied my elder sister first! So I beat them up!" said the little girl.

Chen Weidong touched the little girl's head and praised: "They were the ones who bullied your sister first! Good fight! My daughter is great!"

"Really? But Li Xiaotao from our class is Grandpa Li's grandson. He said he would tell Grandpa Li that my sister and I are in school! Or Daddy will find...!"

The little girl was happy at first, for she didn't expect that even after she hit someone, her father still praised her. But she was also a little worried, after all, her father and grandfather had taken them to ask Li Guomin for help in school!
"Dad, it's all my fault!" Dani lowered her head and came to Chen Weidong.

"Haha, two silly girls!"

Chen Weidong could naturally see the worries of the two little girls. He had to say that the two little girls were too sensible, especially Dani. It was not that she was soft-tempered, but that she thought too much and too complicatedly! Sometimes it is not good for children to be too sensible.

In the eyes of the children, it is probably not easy for Chen Weidong to send them to school, and they don’t want to cause trouble for him! This concept should be changed as soon as possible.

"Go ahead and sue! You helped Grandpa Li teach his grandson a lesson, he should be grateful to you. Besides, your Grandpa Li is not so unreasonable. Even if he is unreasonable, there is still Dad! Dad will punch them all!"

Chen Weidong said with a smile.

"Dad, you're so awesome!" Si Ni praised in a baby voice.

"Dani, you are a big sister. Dad knows you are a good kid, but being a good kid doesn't mean you can't be bullied by others, do you understand?"

"understood!"

Dani nodded!

"Er Ni, you did the right thing this time!"

Chen Weidong praised, then thought for a moment, and reminded him: "Of course, Dad is not encouraging you to fight. We don't bully others, and others don't want to bully us. Just don't bully others like Xiao Si!"

"Wow, wow, wow~ Dad, I didn't bully others!"

Upon hearing this, Si Ni immediately became unhappy and retorted with a pouty voice.

"You haven't bullied anyone yet. Forget how you got beaten last time. Your mother and I have heard that all the children under five in the village are afraid of you!"

"If any kid complains, I will definitely beat you up. Dad, I told you in advance!"

Chen Weidong smiled and pinched Si Ni's chubby cheeks, reminding her. "Woo woo woo, I'm a good kid now, I gave them candy!"

Si Ni said aggrievedly.

"You little foodie! You're so protective of your food, yet you're still willing to give them candy!"

Chen Weidong smiled and didn't take it seriously.

"Weidong! It's time to eat!"

Before Si Ni could say anything else, she heard Liu Xueting's voice in the kitchen.

"Sister, eat!"

Xiaoliu also ran out of the kitchen panting!
Chen Weidong did not continue to educate the child. Of course, Chen Weidong would definitely ask about it tomorrow, as he could not bear to see his precious daughter being bullied.

"Okay, wash your hands and go eat!" Chen Weidong called.

"it is good!"

The little girls, panting, rushed to the kitchen in a swarm.

A family of eight, after dinner, simply washed themselves and lay down on the kang.

Chen Weidong and Liu Xueting were also happy listening to the little girls chatting in their baby voices.

After a while, the little girls fell asleep. Chen Weidong and Liu Xueting tucked the little girls' quilts into their arms and then fell asleep too.

The next day.

It’s just dawn!

Chen Weidong was woken up by the noise outside.

"Who is this! It's too noisy so early in the morning!" Chen Weidong muttered.

"From the sound of her voice, I think it's Aunt Liu! I don't know what it's about."

Liu Xueting said slowly. In the countryside, quarrels are common. While she was talking, she had already gotten up and prepared to prepare food for the deer, roe deer, dogs, chickens, and donkeys raised at home.

I have so many pets at home, but it’s tiring.

Chen Weidong also got up and helped. Dani, Erni, and Sanni also got up.

Si Ni and Wu Ni were still sleeping and could not be woken up at all.

Xiaoliu woke up babbling.

Sanni went to take care of it.

Da Ni and Er Ni helped their parents with the work. With the division of labor and cooperation, they quickly fed the chickens, dogs and deer, and then started to prepare food for people.

Chen Weidong laughed and said, "This really shows that people live worse than animals!"

Liu Xueting smiled and patted him, "What nonsense are you talking about all day long!"

After dinner, Dani and Erni went to school.

Liu Xueting was a person who couldn't sit still, so she tidied up the chicken coop and the yard.

Chen Weidong sat on a wooden stool, holding a piece of rabbit skin and wiping five or six half parts.

Chen Weidong cleaned the new gun very carefully, cleaning each part one by one, and then assembled them.

After assembling the 56-and-a-half, Chen Weidong pulled the bolt, put the butt of the rifle on his shoulder, aimed around, and checked the gun's sights.

After wiping it, Chen Weidong felt that it was almost done, so he put away his gun, picked up a piece of meat, and went to find Zhang Dagui's father.

Chen Weidong went to Zhang Da Kui's father to make wine. You should know that Zhang Da Kui's father,

The winemaking technology in Yushugou is one of the best. Chen Weidong had nothing to say when he drank the wine sent by Zhang Da Kui last time. Naturally, Chen Weidong wanted to learn from him.

Although making home brewed wine may seem simple, it only requires an earthen stove, two large pots and a few barrels, but it also requires skills. Some people brew wine with a mellow taste, while others are not so good.

Although Chen Weidong mainly brews deer blood wine, the white wine he brews is more basic. If the white wine tastes good, the deer blood wine he brews will not be much worse.

In his previous life, Chen Weidong had heard many people say that homemade wine was not good to drink. In fact, that was because they had not experienced that era.

Chen Weidong has tasted a lot of authentic "home-made wine", such as sorghum wine, corn wine, and sweet potato wine.

However, thirty or forty years later, it is rare to taste the authentic flavor. Many people drink homemade wine, which mostly uses edible alcohol, edible spices, and even industrial alcohol as additives.
Add water to make low-quality bulk wine, mix it with good-quality homemade wine and sell it in bulk.

Although it tastes fresh and stimulating for a while, drinking too much can easily lead to dry mouth and intoxication, and the taste is naturally not as good as authentic homemade brew.

Nowadays, the raw materials for homemade wine making are not as sophisticated as those in later generations. They are all made from a few acres of sorghum and sweet potatoes grown at home, and some barley or wheat to make koji, and at most some corn,

Peas or rice are used as fermentation agents. Apart from grain and water, there are no other additives. And this is just the basis. If you want it to taste better, you need the guidance of a master brewer who is good at brewing.

The steps of making homemade wine are very simple, mainly divided into selecting grains, steaming and brewing.

First, the barley is soaked and germinated to produce the finished malt.

Then cook the sorghum rice, cool it down and mix it with the finished malt. According to Zhang Dagui's father, the raw materials should be about five parts sorghum rice and one part barley. Keep warm and ferment (depending on the temperature difference of the season, usually three to ten days)
Afterwards, the fermented material is heated in the pot drum. The drum is a wooden drum about one meter high surrounding the pot. The pot is placed on the top of a wooden slip and filled with cold water.

Heat the bottom of the fermentation pot, and then slowly boil it until the wine comes out.

Chen Weidong came back from Li Dagui's house and, with the help of Liu Xueting, weighed the rice, poured it into a wooden steamer to steam it, then poured the steamed rice into a large pan, spread it out to dry, sprinkled it with soaked barley, and mixed it evenly.

(End of this chapter)