Go back to the valley to farm

Chapter 515 Pipi Shrimp, Nameless

Chapter 510 Pippi Shrimp, Nameless
No.30 eight days.

That day Li Junge got up early and took out all six pottery bowls from the pottery kiln.

Then I went to the vegetable field and dug out the bones left over from eating a few days ago from the nutrient soil.

These bones were buried intentionally by Li Junge. After a few days, only Bai Shengsheng's bones remained.

Wash the bones, dry them with fire, select three pottery bowls, fill them with plant ash, bury the bones, and put them in the pottery kiln again.

Then put the remaining three pottery clay embryos into it, and fired another kiln.

Next, start to boil the noodles, cut dried bamboo shoots, dried mushrooms, dried cassava, and fresh wild onions and galangal.

Mince all the ingredients and stir them together with the minced bacon that was cut yesterday, and then poured in a spoonful of lard. After stirring gradually, Li Junge began to wrap the pig's cake.

Spread banana leaves on the bottom of the steamer, and set up a basket for steaming.

This is when Ah Yin also got up, and the two of them went to wash up first, and then began to practice archery.

Ayin's athletic talent is very strong, and he can easily throw Li Junge several blocks away before the Lingquan renovation. In addition, he climbed up and down the hanging cliff when he was young, and his arm and finger strength are not weak. It is also similar to aiming and shooting, and it is also very fast to play bow and arrow now.

Thirty paces away, twelve arrows were released, and nine of them hit the target.

Li Junge was dumbfounded. Except for fishing, he finally had one sport better than this girl, but in the end he was about to be surpassed in a blink of an eye.

Ayin turned around and said to Li Junge while taking out the gloves and armguards: "Erpi, there should be a wind flag. If it wasn't for the wind, I should be able to hit the target."

The girlfriend's order was that there should be no delay for a minute. This matter was too simple for Li Junge. In a blink of an eye, he used a bamboo circle and pasted a few pieces of paper to make a long tube.

Tie twine on the three equally divided points of the bamboo circle, then tie the twine together, erect a long bamboo pole, and hang the air duct on it, and the air duct will blow and flutter when the wind blows.

Li Junge smiled triumphantly at A Yin and said, "How is it? Can this work?"

A Yin clapped her hands and laughed, "It's true that nothing can stop you!"

When the two returned to the work shed, Li Junge scooped out some broth and threw some sunflowers into it. Breakfast was pork cake with broth.

But I didn't eat much, I drank a bowl of soup, and each person ate only one. Then Li Junge used the compound feed made of bee pupa powder, pockmarked seeds, and dried cassava to feed the quails, and A Yin cleaned the courtyard, watered the flowers, and the vegetable field.

After packing these, the two packed their bags and started jogging every day.

They ran all the way to the beach, and at about nine o'clock in the morning, the two of them took off their shoes and rolled up their trousers, and went into the water to catch Pippi shrimp.

This activity is both food collection and entertainment. The two laughed and laughed while catching shrimps and fighting on the tidal flat.

A Yin used to live in the mountains, and was rarely exposed to such water-friendly activities, but now he can't stop playing like crazy.

The bigger the Pippi shrimp, the deeper it drilled, like the palm-length one, and the hole was as deep as an arm. In the end, the two simply let go of the small ones, and knelt on the tidal flat to search for the big ones.

But this person couldn't see it, he was like Da Dai and the others who rolled back through the mud.

After a while, the two caught more than a dozen prawns, put them in the fish basket, and found a clean seawater to raise and spit mud.

Then the two went to the reef to wash the mud.

A Yin was only wearing a small vest, and while washing her arms and legs, she stuck out her tongue at Li Junge: "It's so fun! But next time I have to bring a change of clothes."

Li Junge smiled and said: "Yes, the waterside is very fun. The children in Lijiagou basically spend a summer vacation by the waterside, and one vacation is not enough for them to finish all the tricks."

After packing up, the two of them put on their luggage again, carried their bags, collected vegetables and fruits all the way, and returned all the way.

Li Junge chose to return along the stream today, picking stones by the stream and throwing them into his backpack.

Ayin felt very strange: "Erpi, why did you think of looking for stones again today?"

Li Junge said: "The holiday is over in ten days. I am going to make another thing, and I don't know if it will be successful."

A Yin said, "Is it a stone tool?"

Li Junge said: "No, Ayin, you also help me keep an eye on it, look, like the ones in my hand, the ones that are not hard, the color is strange, or some crystals, you can collect them when you see them."

Ayin tilted his head and thought for a while, then said, "When I was looking for pebbles for riprap, I found a strange stone..."

Li Junge became interested when he heard it: "What is it like?"

Ayin said: "It's some stone bumps in the soil layer. It looks like a mud ball on the outside, and it can be cracked with a light tap. Inside are some crystal lines like the one on the grandfather's coal sander, but it is much larger. It's full..."

Li Junge's heart moved, and he thought of something, and said to A Yin: "Hurry up! Take me to see it quickly."

The two started to leave the stream and walked up the mountain.

Coming to the edge of a cliff, A Yin pointed to the foot of the cliff and said, "Here, there!"

This is a piece of fractured sedimentary rock, the bottom is severely weathered, and the rocks have turned into mud. Li Junge dug down along the foot of the cliff, and found the kind of mud-wrapped stone ball that Ayin said not too deep.

The surface of the stone ball is brown, and it is covered with a layer of yellow oxidized powder. Li Junge picked up one and tapped it lightly with the back of a knife, and the stone split into two sides, exposing the purple-brown cryptocrystalline structure inside.

Li Junge dropped the knife, hugged A Yin and turned around in circles: "Hahaha! God help me too! A Yin, you are really my lucky star!"

Ayin was dizzy from being turned by him: "What is so happy!"

Li Junge said excitedly: "This is a Chinese herbal medicine called Wumingyi, also known as Tuzi. I saw it at Uncle Yaoshi's place, but whether it is true or not, you can only find out when you go home!"

Ayin was surprised: "Is this also medicine? I look like minerals?"

Li Junge smiled and said: "There are many mineral traditional Chinese medicines, such as cinnabar, realgar, mirabilite, and talc, but I don't think it is used as traditional Chinese medicine. It is recorded in ancient books that this thing has another use."

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

Li Junge shook his head: "Don't tell me, I don't know if it will work yet. I'll tell you if it succeeds. It's better to have no books than to believe in books. The ghost knows whether the methods mentioned in this book are feasible or not."

A Yin laughed and said, "You just like to make troubles, I don't want to bother you, go home quickly, I still want to try to make bread!"

Li Junge said: "Wait, wait until I collect them all."

There are a lot of stone balls here, and the two dug up twenty or thirty of them in a short time, weighing six to seven catties.

The two started walking back.

Back home, Ayin raised the Pippi shrimp in salt water first, and then started to heat up the food, while Li Junge went to open the kiln.

Taking out the pottery bowl, Li Junge began to inspect the burnt bones and ashes.

The organic matter burned extremely thoroughly, the bones turned blindingly white, pure calcium oxide, the plant ash turned off-white, and the carbon was almost burned away.

I took all kinds of stones collected today, including those unknown, and smashed them one by one with a flint hammer, spread them on the bottom of the pottery pot by category, put them in the kiln, and fired another kiln.

After eating, Ayin went to rest, and Li Junge took the burnt bones and plant ash to the stone mill to grind them into fine powder
Then the finest powder suspensions were obtained by water flying method, put into pottery pots, and baked on the kiln.

After finishing these, start the final process of processing the pigskin.

Spread the pigskin on a pottery table, sprinkle with tapioca flour, first polish it with a wooden square, and then wrap it with a rolling pin while rolling it. After doing it in all directions, the pigskin has become very soft.

Then hang up the pigskin and beat it with a wooden stick to shake off the cassava flour.

Then I took the bucket and went to the lake to fetch water, and soaked the pigskin in the water inlet to rinse the excess Glauber's salt.

After fetching water and returning, he planted the collected plants in the vegetable garden, made two pots of tea, and placed a plate of small biscuits on the table. Ah Yin also got up.

Then Li Junge removed the fire from the kiln to let it cool down. When he came back, he took out the medium clay to make pottery embryos, and A Yin took out the coconut meat to make coconut milk.

When the coconut milk is ready, add water, honey, and salt to a boil. Ayin takes tapioca flour and starts kneading the dough.

After the dough is kneaded, knead the fluffy old noodles, take out a ball, put it back in the old basin and cover it with a damp cloth, pour the rest with baking soda and coconut oil, and continue kneading.

After kneading, cover it with a damp cloth and put it behind the stove to ferment. Only then did Ah Yin wash her hands and come back to watch Li Junge make pottery.

Li Junge made bowls this time, but not ordinary rice bowls, but the most common bucket bowls on Lijiagou banquets.

The caliber is fifteen centimeters, the bottom diameter is eight centimeters, and the height is eight centimeters.

The tools are complete and the size is standard, and the bowls made are uniform. I have already made four in a while, but none of them have bottom rings.

Ayin smiled when he saw it: "Erpi, are you planning to make nine?"

Li Junge laughed loudly: "Do you know what I'm going to do? I'm afraid I won't be able to make nine of them, and I'm afraid half of them will be unqualified after being burned. At least eighteen must be made."

Ayin was free, so she was playing with mud while smiling, and made some small clay funnels with sharp mouths, punched holes with bamboo thread, rubbed some clay balls, and drilled holes with bamboo thread.

Li Junge was curious and asked, "What is this?"

A Yin said: "Fire them into pottery, hang the funnel upside down, and hang a pottery pellet inside a funnel, when the wind blows, the pottery pellet hits the inside of the funnel..."

Li Junge laughed loudly: "Feng Ling! A Yin, you are really exquisite!"

After another hour, the dough was ready. Ayin rolled the dough into the size of a ping-pong ball, sprinkled with shredded coconut and soaked seaweed, and put them into the pot one by one.

Li Junge opened the roof of the kiln, took out the clay pots one by one with a hooked bamboo clip wrapped in thick mud, put the bread pot in it, and put the lid back on to bake bread.

The temperature in the kiln is still more than 200 degrees, only a few pieces of bamboo charcoal need to be added in the middle, and it will be no problem to keep it for half an hour.

Then the two squatted down together to examine the stones in the pot.

After selecting a few stones with rounded sharp edges and corners, Li Junge said to A Yin, "Look, these stones have a significantly lower melting point, and they are what I'm looking for."

A Yin said: "Then where did I find that kind of stone? Let's see how it goes."

Li Junge opened another pottery bowl, and the stone inside has been fired and has changed into several colors.

(End of this chapter)