Chronicle of Farming in Muxianfu

Chapter 213 Sugar Squeeze
After finishing all this work, I washed my hands and looked around the chopping board. The children’s breakfast today is milk, a few plates of cakes of various flavors, served with peanut butter, strawberry jam, apple jam, and of course the must-have meat sausage , very close to modern western breakfast.

In fact, there are no cows in this time and space. Although she has always insisted on giving the children soy milk, she is still worried that the children will be undernourished and their growth will be delayed, so she sent Mu Simu Wu to the Sibian village to find two cubs that had just given birth. When the dairy goats come back, they can get six or seven catties of goat milk every day. After cooking, add honey. If the breakfast is Chinese style, drink it before going to bed at night. If the breakfast is Western style, drink it with cake.In short, every child must drink a large bowl a day.

At the beginning, the children were too fishy and refused to drink it. In desperation, she not only set an example and drank with them, but also let the girls in Kexin choose the thinnest pig intestines and sheep intestines to wash clean. , filled with seasoned meat stuffing, steamed and smoked, and laboriously made dozens of catties of sausage, only then did they coax them to persevere.Now nearly a month has passed, and the children have fully adapted to it, and their bodies are as strong as a little tiger.

The family had a lively breakfast as usual, and then they started to get busy.Because Shuan Shuan was busy with her muskmelon field for the past two days, she dropped out of the female red class, and dragged Dong Zhi to continue studying the tailoring of her New Year's shirt in a frizzy manner.Xia Zhi and Xiao An took advantage of the fact that the children were all in class in the East Wing, and began to quickly clean the rooms and wash the clothes of the masters.

Spring Equinox went to teach with his wife as usual. Mu Ai wrote a song "Thinking of a Quiet Night" with simple lime chalk and pinyin on a large blackened wooden board, and explained the meaning to the children in detail, and the other children were fine. The eye circles of Caiyun Chasing the Moon and the two little girls turned red.

Mu Ai read aloud to the children a few times, and then asked them to copy carefully, thinking in her heart that although the two little girls are young, after observing these few months, they have devoted themselves to serving Xing'er, maybe they will come again next time. When they are in the city, let them go home and have a look when they get a chance.

After the children had memorized the whole poem by heart, their addition and subtraction were also tested. Except for the younger Simba Chenger, Xinger, who was a little sloppy and made a few mistakes in small questions, the rest of them were all confused. Nothing wrong.

After telling the children to rest for a quarter of an hour, Mu Ai looked at the sky, wrote out the multiplication formula, and handed it over to Xia Zhi who had just brought the tea, and told her to take care of the children and recite it for half an hour, and then get out of class could be over. up.After all, they are still children, and she doesn't want to push too hard, so that the children lose the right to play happily, and feel resistant to learning.Of course the children knew that their mother had left them half an hour to play, so they followed Xia Zhi and began to recite the multiplication table with a smile on their faces.Xia Zhi has always been keen on becoming a husband, and she is good at arithmetic, so she happily accepted it.

Mu Ai had this free time, so she took the spring equinox to look around the field. Watermelons, peanuts and sesame seeds had all been planted, only the chili field was vacant, because the chili seedlings were still growing hard in the shed covered with linoleum beside the field. Just waiting for it to grow to a high enough height before moving it into the ground.

Ah Da is often invited by the village to guide the planting of new vegetables these days. Only Ah Er and Mu Ya Mu Ten Mu Eleven are left in the field to dredge the canals, while Guo Huai leads Mu Si Mu Wu and a few others. Mr. Zhou's grandson, who was invited from the city, surrounded the pond for the final finishing work.

Considering that the children might play in the water in summer, Mu Ai drew detailed drawings. The road from the corner gate of the third courtyard to the southwest side of the pond was paved with bluestones, with one-meter-square flat boulders lined up side by side.On the shore a few meters away from the pond, a wooden bridge wide enough for two people to run side by side began to be built with roughly processed wooden boards, leading straight to the center of the pond, and four thick pillars were erected for support, and a The simple and firm four-corner pavilion is surrounded by fences and crossbars for people to sit on. In the middle of the pavilion is a large Eight Immortals table. It is very convenient to have snacks and tea when enjoying the cool, or to practice calligraphy with a brush.Two sets of stone tables and benches are also placed on the bank of the pond. Later, some large locust trees or osmanthus trees will be moved over, and you can also play chess in the shade of the trees and sit for a while.Of course, these are only plans for the time being. The carpenters have just started work, and the planks are not ready yet.

Mu Ai's master and servant did not bother Guo Huai and the others who were busy, and walked westward for a few steps.I saw Shuan Shuan, who was just now yelling to rush to work to make spring shirts, was walking around in her acre of melon fields with Miao Miao and Ruyi in a coarse dress.Seeing her sister coming, she hurriedly greeted her with a slightly red face.Mu Ai has nothing to do with her, this girl has no intention of doing anything now, and she hardly sleeps in the field every day.

Knowing that her sister doted on her, Shuan Shuan began to ask impatiently without saying a few words with a smile, why the melons hadn't sprouted yet.

Muai knelt down and dug two seeds out of the soil. The sprouts had already grown an inch long, and the surrounding soil was also very moist. Knowing that there must be nothing wrong with the seeds moistened by spiritual power from the space, she released them. Xin, comfort Shuan Shuan and wait a few more days, and then don't force her to go back together, leaving her to carefully plant the seeds she just dug out.

After eating at noon, the children took a nap for half an hour. They happily changed into the loose exercise uniforms they had just made yesterday, with wide belts tied around their waists. They were neatly tidied up and followed Ouyang to go out to practice martial arts.

Regarding how Ouyang trains, even though the two are so close now, Mu Ai never asks, because when she first asked Ouyang to be a martial arts master, he once proposed that he should not interfere with all his arrangements, and Mu Ai The only requirement is that the training should not affect the physical and mental growth of the children. The two have reached a tacit understanding and have been teaching each other.

During these days, maybe it was for the purpose of disclosing the relationship between the two of them with the children in the future, or it might be because of the love of the house and the crow. Ouyang did not know what tricks he showed to make the children practice martial arts even more desperately, and the eyes he looked at their master were also quite fanatical.Especially that boy Simba, he can't wait to talk about how powerful his master Ouyang is all day long, making Mu Ai jealous and sad. For boys, their father is definitely an indispensable and important figure in their childhood , some things, about ideals, about goals, about worship, are not something a mother can do.The so-called precepts and deeds, a boy becomes a man, first of all starts with imitation.

The yard was quiet, and Mu Ai was sitting on the bed, wandering around in the space with her mind, and then suddenly remembered that the spring was already blooming, and it should be time to take out the bee box.The rice in the paddy field was ripe again. She harvested the rice casually, put the rice grains in sacks and put them in the storage space, so that they might be used by Xiao Heng in the future.On the other side of the fruit garden, a batch was harvested in the first month, and now most of the new batch of fruits are about to ripen again, so it may be necessary to arrange for manual weaving of willow baskets.This made her a little depressed. If these fruits were taken out, I don't know how much gold and silver they would turn into, but it would be too eye-catching. Now that they have been remembered, if they cause more trouble, she really has no confidence. Can handle it.So I can only watch them pile up more and more, but fortunately, they will not rot in the storage space.

The people in the house have been with her for two years, and they are already very loyal, so let's share more with everyone in the future.I only picked two crops of walnuts, chestnuts, etc. Now the third crop has been ripe for two months. I have to find a time to take it out and tidy it up. It will be a snack for the children to nourish the brain. Over there at the dim sum shop It's time to add two new varieties.

Over there in the storage area, there are still more than ten catties of white sugar left, which has been consumed a lot to coax the children to drink goat milk.Therefore, some sugar cane in the planting space should also be cut off to try to squeeze some sugar out.

I vaguely remember seeing it on the Internet before. Brown sugar is rolled from sugarcane. To turn it into white sugar, it needs to be absorbed by charcoal, but the specific operation needs to be tested.There are only a few hundred or so trees in the small medicine garden by the pool. When the weather is hot, when the medicines on the mountain grow up, the medical center will be able to collect a lot of them. At that time, the fruit trees will have to be crowded. Squeeze and expand the territory of the pharmacy.She is used to pouring spring water three times a day. She thinks she will grow old in a few months and absorb a lot of spiritual energy. She will use it for gifts during the New Year at home or at the medical center.

Looking around like this, there are really many things that need to be done in the space.

Fortunately, Guo Huai took care of the affairs in the field, and she didn't have to worry about these trivial things that required patience, and she had time to lead the maids in the inner courtyard to do some chores.

He simply called the vernal equinox to come in, and asked her to order Mu Shi and Mu Shi to pack their things, and send them to the store tomorrow to exchange Qing Feng Ming Yue and Qing Feng Ming Yue. After all, only those two boys are familiar with beekeeping at home. A few more boxes of bees should be distributed, and according to the crazy love of honey by the officials and ladies in the city, maybe selling honey for a year is enough for the hospital's expenses.

The spring equinox answered and went out to spread the word, and the summer solstice went to call all the girls in the family who didn't have important jobs to come over.Mu Ai cut a dozen sugarcane trees from the space, directed a few people to use sharp knives to break open the purple-black skin, then chopped them into fine pieces with a heavy kitchen knife, and then grind them into pulp with a small millstone, and then grind them all together. Put it into a fine gauze bag and squeeze out the cane juice.Place in a large wooden bucket and stir with crushed charcoal.

Chun Equinox waited for a few girls, grinning while stirring, their hands shaking with distress, for fear of spoiling something good.Just now they tasted this sugarcane, which looks very similar to corn stalks, it is hundreds of times sweeter.How can they pour black and dirty charcoal into it? Although the few of them trust their mistress very much, they still feel a little reckless.

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