i have a mountain

Chapter 99

Yu Fei, who returned to the farm early in the morning, found that it was not very pleasant to lie outside leisurely in the current weather. After thinking for a long time, he finally thought of the standing stove used for weddings and weddings in the village when he was a child.

Staying in the house all the time is not a solution. If you set up two stoves, turn on the fire, stew big bone broth or something, and boil water at the same time, you can have hot water to drink at any time besides eating. The most important thing is, You can pull a recliner and stay by the stove.

Standing Stove is what Yu Fei’s hometown calls it. In fact, it is an earthen stove built with bricks, and the outside is covered with mud, leaving vents and stove openings. It can be used for burning wood and coal.

When I was young, sticking to the stove meant having delicious food that could last for a few days. At that time, it was not like treating guests to dinner, booking a few tables at any restaurant, and leaving after eating.

Even in rural areas, mobile restaurants are popular nowadays. As long as you tell the boss how many tables there are guests, you don’t need to worry about it. On the day of work, mobile restaurants will cover everything for you.

At that time, as long as there was a wedding or a wedding, half the village would come to help, hire a chef, and start buying vegetables, meat, chicken, fish, etc. two or three days in advance according to his instructions.

The women are in charge of choosing vegetables, washing them, and peeling them, while the men start borrowing tables, benches, plates, etc., because the chef only brings his own set of cooking equipment, and the rest is up to the owner. Method.

If the host prepares a lot of dishes, and if there are many dishes to borrow, the helpers who serve the dishes on the day of the banquet will start to fold the dishes. When you come back, give it to the person in charge of washing the dishes. After washing, serve the dishes again.

I still remember that when I borrowed someone’s table and bench, I wrote their name on the bottom, so as not to make a mistake when I returned it, including the names of various families on the bottom of the table and bench in many homes, but it gradually changed. blurred.

On the day before the work, I found an open space in the yard of the main house, built a shed with plastic sheeting, and then set up a standing stove under it. After the fire started, the chef put the big pot on the top and started various preparations .

Many women helped chop vegetables and stuffing, blanch the water instead of oil, fried meatballs, braised pork, whole chicken, whole fish, whole elbow, and the whole village was filled with a scent.

In the evening, everything that should be prepared is almost ready, and the host will set up a few tables in advance, so that the chef and those who came to help today will have a meal first, and then the children will be on stage.

They shuttled back and forth between the stoves, and then they ate their meals one by one amidst the laughter and scolding of the adults.

When doing business the next day, all kinds of dishes are continuously produced from the station stove. When the adults are busy helping to serve dishes and tea, Yu Fei likes to stay by the station stove.

Standing next to the stove is a big case. The chef pours the stir-fried vegetables into a basin, and several dexterous women divide the dishes. If you are not careful, the extra part will fall into the stomachs of several people.

So in Yu Fei's impression, standing at the stove is always accompanied by warmth and delicious food.

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"Do you want to eat big pieces of meat every day?" Yu Fei said to Ao Wei who had just returned from the medicine capital.

Aowei looked at him vigilantly: "Is there any condition?"

"There are no conditions. If you like to eat or not, you will get it." Aowei's expression hurt him very much. Is he so untrustworthy?
Aowei immediately put on a doggy expression: "Eat, eat, why don't you eat? What do you want me to do?"

"Go, first pull a cart of bricks." Yu Fei waved to him and said.

"..." From the look on Aowei's face, I knew it wasn't such a simple expression.

"Oh, just use that cart that pulls cow dung." Seeing this, Yu Fei explained, otherwise this guy would definitely want to pull a big cart back.

"Oh, that's fine." Ao Wei's expression immediately turned cloudy when he heard that he only needed to use a small cart to pull it.

There are still a lot of unused turns from the last time I built a house. As long as I pull a little in the past, I can eat meat every day, which is very cost-effective.

When Aowei was looking for a cart to pull bricks, Yu Fei was not idle, he cleaned up the underside of the arbor, and later put the standing stove under the arbor.

Seeing Yu Fei busy working under the arbor, old man Zhang came over: "You are like a blind donkey, why are you wandering around here?"

"Isn't it cold? I'm going to get a standing stove here. Isn't it convenient to make tea?" Yu moved the table from the arbor.

Old man Zhang curled his lips after hearing this: "If you want to make tea or something, then there is a kettle, if you can't, there is a gas stove. If you really have nothing to do, there is a firewood pot in the house, so you have to work hard." What?"

"Don't you have to run indoors? It's so convenient here. When it's colder, wrap it on three sides with plastic sheets. It's so comfortable to stay in the south to bask in the sun." Yu Fei said.

"Just mess around." Old Zhang walked away with his hands behind his back.

"Rang Rang." Aowei pulled a cart of bricks and pushed them directly into the arbor. It was really difficult for him, and he was sweating on such a cold day.

Aowei saw Yu Fei picking up the brick and gesturing there, but he didn't make a move, so he couldn't help but asked, "Can you know it?"

"I won't you come?" Yu Fei felt like sweating a little at the moment, and he only had a vague childhood memory of the stove at the branch station.

Glancing at Ao Wei who was waiting to see the joke, he said angrily, "Go and get some mud."

"Ah!" This time it was Aowei's turn to be dumbfounded. He looked at his hands and said, "It's so cold that you let me and Ni, isn't it killing me?"

"Are you stupid?" Yu Fei said, "Who told you to mix the mud with your hands, don't you know how to use iron catalpa?"

"Oh! That's right, I haven't turned around. Seeing you using your hands, I subconsciously thought I would use them too." Aowei laughed.

"You can't get out with a crowbar with your brain, hurry up and make mud." Yu Fei waved to him and said, drive this guy away, so that he can experiment slowly, otherwise it will be a big shame.

"Well!" Aowei didn't care about his teasing, he was used to it anyway, ran to the warehouse to find a shovel, and went to the field. The soil in the plowed field for planting platycodon was already soft. Just pour some water and it will work.

"Don't forget to mix some wheat straw into it, it must be blended evenly." Yu Fei shouted at him.

"Oh, I see." Ao Wei responded.

Seeing him start to look around and look around, Yu Fei turned his eyes back. Although there are a lot of gas in rural areas, earthen stoves are still used for steaming buns, so there are many flammable and cost-free fuels like wheat straw.

First lay a layer of bricks on the ground, then put the turner upright and place it in a circle as the bottom, leaving a punch distance between each brick, and start laying bricks on it in circles. hit base.

Slowly shrinking inward as he built it, and finally when it was almost up to his waist, it formed a shape of a kiln mouth, thick at the bottom and thin at the top. Yu Fei looked around and ran back to the house to find a pot to put Tried it out, perfect! ! !

He took the pot away and put it aside, and looked into the mouth of the stove. It seemed that something was missing?I slapped my head and remembered that there is one missing grate. Anyone who has lived in the countryside knows that the interior of the earthen stove is divided into upper and lower parts. The upper part is the hearth for burning firewood, and the lower part is the place for storing ashes.

The middle is separated by a grate, and the ashes produced by the firewood burning in the upper stove will fall to the ash storage place below, and the space vacated above can be filled with new firewood, and the space under the grate can serve as The role of ventilation.

In the early days, it was welded with a few iron rods, and it was not very forbidden to burn. Later, it began to be welded with steel bars. When you want to change to a new stove, the grate can still be used.

Yu Fei found a few short steel bars left over from building the house in the warehouse, and took off the stove that had just been built, and built a grate shape with steel bars at a place about one foot above the ground, and then put the stove After leaving the door and the air vent above it, it began to paste mud upwards.

"Go get some firewood and try to burn it." Yu Fei said to Aowei while making mud.

"Oh oh oh!" Ao Wei seemed to have just reacted, watching Yu Fei's hand slapping back and forth in the mud he brought in: "Brother, don't you freeze your hands?"

"It's a hot moment, how can we talk about freezing hands." Yu Fei was still struggling to put mud on the stove, trying to make it airtight.

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When the fire in the standing stove started to rise and steam began to rise from the stove, Yu Fei proudly accepted Aowei's compliment.

(End of this chapter)