Chapter 171 beaten(1/2)
At around ten o'clock in the morning, Chen Ling bought pork and made a delicious meal of shredded melon and pork dumplings. After the meal, Wang Susu was cleaning up in the kitchen, so he went back to the house and took out the juicer and started squeezing juice. This machine is very convenient recently.
Soon, the two of them became accustomed to having a glass of fruit drink after meals.
After squeezing it, Chen Ling mixed it with the goat milk left in the pot in the morning and tried it. The taste was a bit strange, but after drinking it, he smashed it and tasted it in his mouth. It was sour and sweet, but it still had a different taste.
"Susu, I've left a bowl of juice for you, come over and drink it quickly."
After calling his wife, Chen Ling cleaned up the remaining fruit juice and poured it for the chickens and ducks to eat.
Seeing the chickens and ducks fighting over each other around the stone trough, Chen Ling suddenly froze, "I only remember the juice. I haven't brewed the fruit wine yet."
I have gone into the mountains to pick wild fruits so many times, and also taken out a lot from the cave, that I actually forgot about this.
It can be seen that once this person becomes lazy, he will easily forget things.
So after cleaning the juicer, Chen Ling took two bags and went up the mountain. When he got home in the evening, he moved out two large vats without stopping, tidied them up and washed them, and was busy.
The wild fruits picked today are mainly wild grapes and kiwis. Chen Ling is quite familiar with these two kinds of wine. His grandparents made some at home every year since he was a child. He saw a lot of them and drank a lot.
First, pour the wine and wild grapes into a large basin and rinse them twice, then start putting them into the large vat. When the bottom of the vat is covered, start sprinkling white sugar, one layer of grapes and one layer of white sugar, until the vat is filled.
At this time, mash the grapes and mix well, so that the fermentation after storage will be more complete.
But at the same time, you must also remember that the wine vat should not be too full, leaving about a quarter of the room.
Otherwise, there will be gas during fermentation and it will overflow. Sometimes the gas will not come out and the tank will explode.
After Chen Ling crushed the jar full of wild grapes, he took some white wine and mixed it with it as a starter. Then he packed the mouth of the jar tightly, wrapped it in a torn quilt, and put it in the warehouse. It was basically done.
One vat is wild wine, and the other vat is kiwi mixed with goat's milk fruit, 'Tangpaozi' and other mixed fruit wines. The latter is Chen Ling's test product.
In particular, he didn't know what kind of wild fruit this tangpaozi was, but eating too much of it could make you drunk, so he couldn't help but be curious. He planned to try mixing it in to see how the wine would be compared to ordinary wild kiwi fruit.
How does it compare when it comes out?
At the same time, in order to differentiate, he brewed a small jar of pure sugar bubbles in the cave. He also wanted to try how strong the wine could be if brewed with sugar bubbles alone.
"Brother-in-law, we agreed that if I am obedient and finish my homework, you will cook crab porridge for me tomorrow."
"You're still awake, can you get up tomorrow?"
Listening to his constant tinkering in the courtyard, Wang Zhenzhen opened the window and shouted.
"Okay, okay, I'm going to sleep now."
Chen Ling waved to her, looked at the remaining pile in the yard, and simply waited until tomorrow morning to clean up.
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The next morning, not only crab porridge was cooked, but also a lot of peanuts and soybeans were steamed.
Before the harvest, these two items are quite delicious whether steamed or boiled. Both adults and children like to eat them, and they can't stop eating them.
Wang Susu couldn't eat crabs or drink porridge.
I drank goat's milk and peeled peanuts and soybeans with my sister. After a while, the ground was covered with shells.
After eating like this for several days, it’s time to dig the peanuts and harvest the soybeans.
When shaving peanuts and cutting soybeans, it is best to get up early when it is not yet dark. After a night of dew and moistening of the earth's atmosphere, the soybean pods will be soft and not prickly.
The most important thing is that the pods are not easy to crack, which can reduce unnecessary losses.
Otherwise, the soybeans would have matured by this time and the pods would have dried up. If the pods were touched even slightly, they would explode and the beans inside would fall all over the ground.
If you're not careful, go pick up the soybeans that guy has all over the floor. It can make people cry.
Therefore, the soybeans cannot be fully cooked. If they are not harvested in time when they are fully ripe, they will crackle and fry in the ground. "Burned wheat fried beans" refers to the fried beans.
Early that morning, Mr. and Mrs. Chen Ling found their work clothes, grabbed their sickles and hoes, and drove the bullock cart to the fields.
Taking advantage of the early weather and heavy dew, the two went to harvest soybeans.
Soybeans were scattered all over the ground, arranged in horizontal and vertical rows, with long bean tips covered with dense pods, and light yellow leaves hanging sparsely on the branches, almost falling off.
The two men wore sleeves on their arms, raised their sickles and began to harvest.
Although Chen Ling is lazy, nothing in the field is sown haphazardly.
The path of the soybeans is very neat, and it is obvious that after the heavy rain and strong wind, they have been supported one by one, so the branches and vines more than two feet deep are basically upright, so there is no need to trim the branches during harvesting, and it is effortless.
Grasp a bunch with your hands, cut it hard with a sickle, and then stack it smoothly.
Knowing Wang Susu's temperament, Chen Ling couldn't persuade her, so he got in front and worked quickly.
More than two hours passed and the sun came out before it stopped.
Looking back, I saw that half an acre of soybean shoots had been harvested.
The two of them carried the soybeans on their backs and carried them in their arms, loading the soybean shoots from the fields onto the oxcart and taking them back home.
After breakfast, I went to peel peanuts again.
Planing peanuts requires more effort than cutting soybeans, so Chen Ling refused to let Wang Susu do it anymore.
So he bent down and dug, and Wang Susu followed him to collect them, beat the soil away, and then piled it up.
After working hard on the ground, Chen Ling's skills also improved. When digging peanuts, the hoe danced up and down, bang bang bang, swish, swish, and he worked very vigorously.
But don’t dare to go too fast, because there is a lot of clay in some places, and the peanuts are firmly bonded to the soil. If you are careless, the peanuts will break into the soil along with the roots, and you will lose a lot of money per acre of land.
Fortunately, Wang Susu was attentive and followed him collecting peanuts, paying attention to these.
So when the work was done for the day, the two of them raked the ground again. The fallen soybeans and peanuts gathered into piles, regardless of whether they were mixed with soil or dead branches and leaves, and they put them all into bags.
Just go back and pass it through a sieve twice to avoid having to pick it up after it falls on the ground, which is more annoying.
In this way, it took three days to finally get all the peanuts and soybeans home.
Divide it into two areas and dry them in the yard.
Wet peanuts are dug out. They are fresh and have too much water. They need to be dried in the sun for a few days.
Soybeans are different. When the sun comes out and the wind blows, they make a crackling sound. In the local dialect, they are dry and crackle. So whenever you have free time, you can use wooden forks, sticks, or flails.
, hammer over and over again, beat over and over again.
Until the pods all burst open and the beans pop out.
When it is completely dry and hard in the sun, you can press the oil.
...The mountain breeze is blowing. From Chen Ling's fruit grove to the west, walk three to four hundred meters on the mountain road. You have to climb up the steep gorge with ditches and rocks to see the boundary of Yerengou.
The soybeans and peanuts were taken back home, and once they were dried and sold, there was nothing left to do. Chen Ling simply brought two dogs to Yerenggou to have a look. This land was too close to his own property.
You have to figure out what's going on inside.
However, the mountains here are too steep, and there are towering sharp rocks and strange rocks everywhere. Although Chen Ling and the two dogs are not tired on this journey due to their physical fitness, it is extremely difficult to walk up.
There are cliffs, broken rocks, disorderly trees, and some disturbed snakes and insects running out from time to time.
After walking for some distance, the loud and clear cry of cranes came from the sky.
Chen Ling raised his head and looked up, and suddenly there was a "snap" sound, and a white object rubbed his cheek tightly and landed vertically on his shoulder.
Chen Ling suddenly became depressed.
"Good guy, I'll just take a look, okay?"
It's quite acceptable, even bird poop falling from the sky can happen.
Fortunately, it's just a little bit worse.
Otherwise, this shit would have landed on his forehead.
The more I thought about it, the angrier I became, so I picked up a stone and threw it at these bad guys.
The two dogs also barked into the sky.
And jumped up to chase after it.
"Hey, you two idiots, what are you chasing after? Be careful, you will fall into the ditch."
Chen Ling shouted and chased after him.
Because going further, after climbing over the cliff, there is a section of the road that is very dangerous. There are big cracks everywhere, which are connected to the valley where the Savage Valley is located. It is bottomless. The widest one is sixty or seventy centimeters, and people and animals can easily fall into it.
Don't even think about coming up again.
As a result, when they climbed over the cliff, one person and two dogs were stunned.
Chen Ling also subconsciously held his breath.
I was shocked by the sight before me.
Just because they didn't see the rumored big crack.
And the terrifying Savage Ditch that lingered in my memory many years ago is gone.
The original deep and dangerous valley was magically filled with a lake and turned into a beautiful body of water.
At this time, the sun was shining, the lake was rippling, and it looked particularly quiet under the reflection of the tall trees and towering green mountains.
Countless migratory birds are basking in the warm sunshine, playing in the water, looking for food, and flying around.
To be continued...