Go back to the valley to farm

Chapter 505 Candles
Chapter [-]: Candles
Having nothing to do, Li Junge went to peel the pig's face, poured resin on the pig's trotters and pig's face to remove the hair, and A Yin went to restore the stove and bake mushrooms. side.

There are many things to do. Since it is not pure wild boar, there is still a little oil in the side plate and corner net, and lard must be fried.

The two beards were stunned for half an hour, and then poured some tamarind water, and the blood returned from the digestive system to the nervous system and motor system, and got up to follow the shot.

After frying the oil, Li Junge and A Yin lit the torches and took the chili, star anise and other spices roasted on the stone platform to the milling tank to grind them into powder.

After a long period of use of the milling groove, a groove was driven out of the stone, and the roller became a flat drum-shaped standard circle.

Grind the spices first, then the peppers, and put them in clay pots after grinding.

When they came back, they mixed all the bacon with spices, put salt on the pig's face and trotters, and pressed it on the bottom of the bacon.

After a day of stimulation and fatigue, everyone was very tired and fell asleep in a short while.

No.30 five days.

Waking up early in the morning, the two ate some leftovers from yesterday and started working.

First, the stuffed sausage.

Sprinkle half of the bacon strips with chili flakes, and the other half with syrup. After mixing well, A Yin took out a rattan ring, a few thin bamboo sticks, and a bundle of twine, and began to stuff the sausages.

Li Junge put away the dried mushrooms first, and spread the remaining semi-dry ones on top. He opened two pots of broth, boiled water, and began to process the honeycomb.

The honeycomb has been treated a lot, and it is still the old routine. Take out the bee pupa and put it in a basket, put the part with honey in a clean sack and squeeze it, squeeze all the honey into the jar, throw the rest into the water and stir, and then use Use a strainer to remove large pieces of residue, pour the remaining liquid into a sack and filter it into a large foot basin to dry until warm, and finally move it into a large water tank.

The hive residue is also dried in the air, which is also a traditional Chinese medicine, and it is effective in treating allergies and boils.

This yielded six or seven catties of honey, and one or two catties of beeswax.

Then Li Junge continued to tidy up the work sheds and vegetable fields that had been messed up by wild boars.

The fence was restored and various remaining crops were replanted.Come back and fill the sausage with Ayin.

Hanging the sausages above the stove, Li Junge smiled at A Yin: "This is the early New Year's Eve on the island!"

Ayin laughed and said, "I also said that I ran on the mountain for two days to lose weight, but in the end I brought back so much meat and so much honey!"

Li Junge said with a smile: "With so much meat as a foundation, the next step is to live a leisurely and slow life."

After lunch, Li Junge asked Ayin to rest, and then he started to pack the things he brought down from the mountain.

Now outside the work shed, a simple shed was built with waste bamboo, and the roof was covered with hay. It is about two and a half meters high and covers an area of ​​six square meters.Dig the drainage ditches as well.

The shed has a firewood gate, and the firewood gate is a one-meter-high fence to enter.

At the bottom of the shed, a soil ridge was piled up. Behind the soil ridge are several compartments, each of which communicates with the outside activity area through a thick bamboo tube buried in the soil ridge.

Then use hemp stalks and hay to cover the space above the compartments to form small shelters.

The activity area outside is divided by a thin bamboo fence, and a nest of quail is prepared for a circle.

All the quails were released, and as a result, the quails went straight to the shelter as soon as they got out of the cage.

After stocking the quails, Li Junge put two short thick bamboo tubes in each circle, one as a food trough and the other as a water tank, and put some cassava cubes and pockmarked seeds for food, and then he came out and closed the chaimen.

Then two hardwoods cut from the mountain were cut in half and placed behind the stove for baking.

Untie the bamboo leaves of Dendrobium and check the effect.

The dendrobium has been fixed into a compressed spring shape, which is in the shape of a small spindle, which is the famous "Maple bucket".

Ayin was tired these two days, plus she was nervous twice yesterday, and she slept comfortably when she got home, and she overslept before she knew it.

When she got up, she saw another shed behind the work shed, and said, "Oh, Erpi is where the quails are raised?"

Li Junge was soaking hemp thread in Glauber's salt, and then drying it up. Seeing her get up, he smiled and said, "Thank you, Ayin. She said she was going out to play, but it turned out to be quite hard."

Ayin came behind him and hugged his waist, blushing and said: "You are making fun of me for sleeping late..."

Li Junge smiled and said: "How can I? I have roughly tidied up here, and there is nothing to do now. Let's go and pick up some humus. Let's grow the flowers."

Having been obsessed with Uncle Wangcai for so long, growing orchids is no longer a problem for Li Junge.Together with Ayin, they picked a piece of humus soil from the back mountain, weaved four rough square frames of bamboo strips, planted four budding orchids in them, watered them, and it was all done.

After finishing all this, Li Junge took Xiaozhu, a few chairs and a stove out and set them up, and said to A Yin: "Come, let's play together."

Ayin came over and sat down, and said, "What are you playing? Playing chess?"

Li Junge laughed and said, "Make candles!"

Put the stove on a charcoal fire, and when the fire is on, close the stove door, take out the solidified beeswax from the water tank, wipe it dry with a linen cloth, and put it in a pottery bowl to boil.

Then take the hemp thread that was soaked in Glauber's salt water and then dried.

Take two small bamboo tubes with appropriate inner diameters, saw off the section with joints and cut them open, and wipe the inner chambers with a rag. These are the two halves of the wax model.

This A Yin can understand at a glance. After the wax is boiled, scoop in the beeswax with a spoon, then cut a section of hemp thread and paste it in the middle, then pour the other half of the bamboo tube, and finally, while the newly poured half has not yet solidified, Press the half with the twine up and set aside to solidify.

Finally, the bamboo tube was cut and peeled off, and a yellow candle was placed in front of him.

Although it is a small handicraft, there are many places to pay attention to.

For example, if the speed of wax pouring is too slow, the solidification will be uneven and the wax will be layered. The best way is to wrap the bamboo tube with twine in several places after closing it, and then put it on the fire and bake it back and forth.

Another example is that the wax liquid has tension. If it is not filled enough, it will be concave, and if it is too full, it will be convex. It is best to have one concave and one convex to fit perfectly.

But this will cause the candle wick to deviate from the core. Once the old problem is gone, a new problem will come again.

However, both of them regarded it as playing, slowly groping for experience in practice, just like this while teasing each other, they finished the handwork easily and happily.

The two chatted while doing it.

A Yin said: "Erpi, there are still so many days left, what should we do?"

Li Junge said with a smile: "There's more to do, but it's not physical work anymore. It's better for us to live a more refined life."

A Yin tilted his head and thought for a long time, then said: "I can't think of it, what kind of life is exquisite?"

Li Junge said: "Just give me some examples... By the way, can we make two hammocks out of sackcloth? How about hanging them under the coconut trees and lying on them, enjoying the sea breeze and drinking coconut juice?"

"Could it be possible to make a bamboo raft and go for a walk on the lake? There are many birds by the lake, and most of them are the kind of gaudy ones. I can't get enough of them..."

"For another example, make two exquisite teapots, one for you to make fruit tea, the other for me to make dendrobium, put a plate of biscuits next to it, drink tea and play chess, do you feel comfortable?"

"Besides, the small stove burns firewood, and there is smoke. The master Guoshan uses pine cone charcoal, but we don't have pine cone charcoal. How much bamboo charcoal do you need..."

"For another example, now that you have paper, ink and time, don't you always want me to translate You Fangge? Sing it to me, and we'll refine the words together..."

"For another example, you are good at baking biscuits, can you study baking bread? If you have baking soda, then baking soda is not a problem..."

"and also……"

Ayin quickly stopped: "Enough is enough... When it comes to playing tricks, you have more tricks than anyone else..."

Li Junge laughed loudly: "How do you call tricks? It's called the joy of life, cultivating sentiment, and the transformation from material life to spiritual life. This is a greater and higher-level pursuit of human beings!"

A Yin pursed her lips and said with a smile: "Come on, you just want to play all day long!!"

Li Junge smiled and said: "Who said that, I don't think about playing all day long! Another thing I was thinking about just now!"

A Yin said: "What's the matter?"

Li Junge pouted: "I was thinking, what to eat tonight..."

In the end, I really can’t eat whatever I want. I haven’t finished eating the cold rat meat I brought up the mountain. Although this food can be kept for a long time, it’s best to eat it as soon as I can.

In addition, there was no food for the slaughtered pigs yesterday, and the oil and water were a bit too big, so in the evening, it was fried sour taro stems with lard residue, cold rat meat, cold salad with ear roots, and cassava porridge.

The simmering broth in the two large pots has not been moved, which is actually a way to keep fresh, and the simmering broth will not go bad.

After eating, Li Junge put away all the dried mushrooms, which was another ten catties of food reserves.

Four long bamboo troughs were tied on both sides of the stove, and Li Junge began to divide the clay.

Take out the aged clay, gradually add water and stir to get a jar of extremely dilute mud.

The slurry is then left to settle.

Soak the pigskin and fish skin in another jar, then go to see what Ayin is doing.

A Yin was watching the quail through the gap in the wood shed.

Seeing Li Junge approaching, A Yin said, "Why didn't you see any of them?"

Li Junge smiled and said: "They are all hiding in the pile of hemp stalks. They will come out when you leave them. You are not familiar with the environment yet. Wait a few days and you will be fine."

Holding Ayin's hand and leaving the firewood shed, the two of them prepared to go to the lake to play before the sun set.

After tying a bamboo raft and two bamboo horses, Li Junge supported the raft and drove to the other side of the lake.

Ayin sat on a bamboo horse, looked at the surrounding scenery, and said to Li Junge: "So this lake is so beautiful. Every time I come to the lake, I always beat hemp to carry water. I have never looked at it up close."

Li Junge smiled and said: "Now you can take a look at it slowly. There are many birds on the other side of the lake. Those who used to be on our side have now moved here."

The small lake is not too big. Li Junge came to a place close to the reeds on the opposite bank, hid in the corner of the reeds, and anchored a stone with a rope to fix the bamboo raft. The two sat together. , looking towards the junction of the reeds and the grass.

Li Junge said to A Yin: "I have been optimistic about it a few days ago. This is the best place for bird watching."

A small bay was formed between the edge of the reeds and the grassland, and a few stones emerged from the shallow water in front of the grassland. Behind the grassland was a bush, and there were many birds hiding in the bush.

Behind the bushes are several tall trees, on which there are many bird nests, and some egrets and herons are parked on them.

After a while, a beautiful bird flew over the rocks on the shore.

Ayin's eyes were fascinated all of a sudden: "This, this is definitely the most beautiful bird on the island, right? There are such beautiful birds in the world!"

(End of this chapter)