Go back to the valley to farm

Chapter 921
Chapter 920: Black Tree

The ebony fruit is only the size of a pea, and Ayin put one in his mouth first: "It's not as sweet as the ones in our village."

Li Junge made fun of her: "No matter how sweet it is, it is not as sweet as my Lijiagou, and the sweetest in Lijiagou is on the mountain behind Tiren Garden."

Ayin slapped him: "Oh, what I said is true!"

There are a lot of fruits, but they are not big. The two played around and picked all the edible ones, only a small bowl.

Continuing on the road, Li Junge did not find any traces of beasts and wild boars. It seems that the products here are not as good as Bifeng Mountain. The biggest ones are goats and the like. It is estimated that which one ran out from a large population.

Soon the two arrived at the top of the mountain, and there was a ridge stretching all the way to the top of the mountain, which could reach the cliff facing the river where they had been last year.

Ayin set up a tent to look over there, and asked Li Junge, "Do you want to go there again?"

Li Junge said: "I think it's better to go all the way down the valley to see what's cheap and fun. We haven't explored many places yet."

After thinking about it, A Yin thought it made sense, and said with a smile: "That's right, we'll gradually figure out this area, and it will probably take several years."

Li Junge said: "Overall, it's pretty good, but the variety of animals is not too rich, and the fish is not as good as the downstream. No wonder the ancestors didn't make their homes here."

A Yin said: "The soil layer is too thin to make fields. The trees are not tall enough. But the scenery is better, and it is much easier to walk than the thin bamboo forest, and the air seems to be drier."

Li Junge looked around and pointed to a trace of green in the red leaves in the valley: "That should be the starting point of the stream next to our camp. We haven't explored the other side of the stream. How about we go down from there?"

A Yin asked: "Then how do I get there when I get to the water's edge?"

Li Junge smiled and said, "Isn't it all right if I swim over and bring the boat over to pick you up?"

Ayin had no objection, the two found their bearings and began to choose their way down the mountain.

The most squirrels and hares along the way, Li Junge felt that they were about to become a disaster, and from time to time they would come out of the grass on the side of the road or jump on the trees.

All the way down, you can finally hear the sound of water, and after a while, you come to a shallow stream.

A relatively fertile soil layer began to appear by the stream, and pine forests and pine-oak mixed forests began to appear. This place is obviously another mushroom nest.

I took an engineering shovel and pushed aside the pine needles, and mushrooms appeared on the red soil. It was a matsutake that hadn't opened its umbrella yet.

Li Junge looked at the mushrooms on the ground, and smiled at A Yin: "Why don't you forget it, it's too far away from the camp, and wait until next year to build a shed here."

Ayin laughed and said, "That can't be let go like this. Let's look around to see if there are any big nests, and mark them with oak sticks."

Li Junge thought it was funny, it was a squirrel and a hare, it was raining, and it would be hell if he could find oak sticks again next year.

But I didn't want to disturb Ayin's good spirits, so I listened to her and went to sharpen the stick.

When he came back after peeling a few sticks, he heard Ayin shout: "Er Pi, come quickly, there is a big kudzu tree here!"

Li Junge went over to look, and sure enough a big kudzu had strung up vines between a pine tree and an oak tree, and the kudzu leaves completely robbed the oak tree of its space, tossing the oak tree to death.

The trunk of the kudzu vine is thicker than that of the small oak tree, and it has been lignified.

Li Junge patted the trunk of the kudzu vine, looked up at the height of the kudzu vine, and said, "Ayin, kudzu root powder is delicious."

A Yin smiled and said, "Is it troublesome?"

Li Junge waved the engineering shovel in his hand: "With the magic weapon in hand, it is much easier than the fern root. My daughter-in-law likes to eat it, so why worry about trouble? Dig!"

A Yin covered her mouth and smiled: "Then Mr. Lao will be here."

Li Junge unloaded his backpack, changed the engineering shovel into a hoe, and began to squat down to dig the ground.

After digging until you can see a main root, change it to a shovel again and clean it along the main root.

It has been cleared to a distance of three meters before the tap root is finished.

Finding hay and burning a pile of ashes, Li Junge took a 1.5-meter-thick calf and chopped it into three sections with a shovel, looked at the port, and said, "It's a good time to produce flour. Look at this one, how good the quality is."

Ayin found the big leaves and thin vines, wrapped up the two ends of the kudzu root to prevent the outflowing slurry from dirtying the backpack, and then put the kudzu root away.

Li Junge used plant ash to paste the location where the kudzu root was broken, and then restored the ground.

He patted the vine trunk again, and Li Junge exclaimed, "If it's all dug out, it might weigh two or three hundred catties!"

Ayin laughed and said, "It's enough to eat something, it's really troublesome to carry two or three hundred catties."

The section just cut off weighs about [-] jin, which is about the thickness of a forearm. Miao Village is now growing kudzu root to sell to tourists. It is rare to see such a thick and solid one, which makes Ayin very happy.

The two stopped to rest by the pine forest, and by the way, they dug out pancakes and canned chicken soup for a lunch.

After washing away the soil from the kudzu root, and walking down for a while, the humus layer on the ground began to thicken, and evergreen crops, bamboo, and fern vines gradually increased.

Birds also began to increase significantly here. Li Junge suddenly stopped walking, pointed to a tall tree and said, "Ayin, look."

Ayin looked and found nothing.

Li Junge asked her to search along the trunk through the digital telephoto lens, and stopped at a branch.

Ayin raised the camera and searched upwards, and when he found the location of the branch, he exclaimed excitedly: "Owls! Two little owls! They are the same color as tree bark. If you don't tell me, you really didn't notice it!"

Li Junge smiled and said: "This saves another 300 yuan. It seems that this bird has not been found in Lijiagou."

A Yin clicked the shutter with her fingers: "It's so cute, they are crowded in the tree hole and looking out! Ha, their heads are so flexible!"

Li Junge said: "The big bird must have gone out to look for food. These two should be able to fly soon. There are so many squirrels here. It is estimated that owls will soon form a population."

Ayin put down the camera: "They are very interesting birds, why do you say they are unlucky night owls?"

Li Junge shook his head: "I really don't know about this. It may be that birds can travel at night, which violates people's common sense that birds are night blind."

"However, there are very few owls here, because in our area, it is said that pregnant women can clear away fetal poison by eating owl stew soup. In the old days, there were many troubles for them."

Ayin looked up at the tree branch: "It shouldn't be possible now, right?"

Li Junge smiled and said: "Probably not. Besides, owl stew soup is not necessary for clearing fetal poison. Stir-fried goose eggs with goose sausage and stewed pork belly with bitter gourd are top grade. Why bother with owls?"

Ayin laughed and said, "I really hope they live here as happily as the pock-headed golden retriever."

All the way down, I soon came to the pond where Ge Xianmi was found.

The area of ​​the pond has indeed expanded a lot as Li Junge expected, and now it has an area of ​​[-] to [-] square meters.

Continuing to go down, the ravine is getting deeper and wider, and there are more and more streams.

There are also a lot of useful plants here. In addition to those on the other side, Li Junge also found a few succulents and a few konjac.

These two are also in season, and Li Junge likes to eat them, so he can't let them go.

As for konjac, there are simply too many konjacs in Lijiagou, so I just dug up the roots and took a few lumps, also called konjac seeds, and prepared to transplant them to the camp.

All the way to the stream, Ah Yin looked at the small boat on the other side of the bay, and said with a smile, "Look, you're asking for trouble."

Li Junge began to unpack and take off his clothes: "What's the trouble? It only takes a few minutes!"

Ayin stomped her feet and said, "Oh, why did you take off your underwear? It's so ugly!"

Li Junge laughed and said, "What are you afraid of? There are no outsiders here."

Ayin rolled her eyes: "Shameless! You're so proud! Hurry up and get the boat over and put it on...why are you still swimming outside?!"

Li Junge turned back and said: "Just kidding, what should I do if the fish nest that has been raised for a few days is startled?"

Ayin couldn't help covering her eyes with her hands, not knowing whether to laugh or cry: "You can't forget fishing after all this!"

His Excellency Li Jun went into the water and made a big circle before he reached the opposite bank, untied the boat and drove over.

When the two returned to Wangnian, Li Junge wiped his body indiscriminately, and A Yin took out half of Jiulixiang and half of ordinary rice.

Then take the pestle that has been mashed with garlic, and grind the washed blackwood leaves into a leaf pulp.

Li Junge took out two pieces of brown silk stripped from the mountain two days ago and tore them apart as a filter. A Yin poured the leaf slurry into a small basin, added water and mixed it thoroughly, and filtered out the blue leaf juice through the brown silk funnel.

Pour the leaf juice into the rice bowl, submerge the white rice, stir well, and let it soak there.

The operation method of Li Junge is also similar, first wash and peel the kudzu root, then cut it into pieces, put it in a pestle and pound it into a pulp.

But his funnel is made bigger, made of bamboo frame and five or six pieces of brown silk.

The pots needed are also large, so Li Junge directly dragged two large storage boxes over to serve as containers.

There are a lot of fibers wrapped in the pueraria pulp now. The next step is to add water to one storage box, mix and wash it, and then filter it into another storage box. Then take the kudzu root fiber out of the big funnel and put it into the original one. In the storage box, repeat the process just now.

After several times of filtering and washing, the fiber and starch were completely separated, and a storage box of light brown fine pulp was obtained, just like very clear mud.

This is just a coarse filter. The reason why the fine pulp is light brown is because there are cellulose residues in it, so it needs to be finely filtered.

The next step is to throw away the first fibers and re-make the brown silk funnel. The brown silk will be thicker. After several times, the pulp will become whiter and whiter.

Finally, let the pulp in this large storage box slowly settle.

It was almost evening.

Ginkgo has been concocted for three days, and today it is considered ready.

Ayin was cooking tonight, so Li Junge went to the sand bed to collect ginkgo fruit.

Put out the fire, shovel the sand and ginkgo nuts in the sand bed into a thick basket, sift the sand, and get small white nuts—ginkgo.

Generally, many ginkgo fruits sold in the market are raw and sun-dried, and have some toxicity. The ginkgo obtained by Li Junge’s method is ripe, and the toxicity is eliminated. It’s okay to eat directly in this way, and the moisture is even removed, so it can be stored for a long time.

The drying bed was useless today, so I went to the hillside to find a place to plant konjac seeds and succulents. Li Junge returned to the boat with a basket of ginkgo fruits on his back.

(End of this chapter)