Fleeing the wasteland and farming: don't panic, the family's metaphysics boss

Chapter 211
After Zhu Feng and Wen Ya went shopping with their neighbors in Tao Yaju, old man Xu also went out with his own birdcage, but he had already made an appointment with other old friends.

Xu Lan watched old man Xu go away, feeling very relieved.Grandpa has been busy all her life, and now that one foot is in the coffin, she has learned to enjoy life. She is really happy from the bottom of her heart.

In the courtyard, He Yunshen and Si Wenzhi were still practicing, and their young fellows stood beside them, chatting about their young masters boredly.

Unexpectedly, they hit it off right away, and the more they chatted, the more speculative they became, so they cheekily asked Shi'an for tea, fruit and melon seeds, and enjoyed it.

Hongtao surrounded Qingyu, handing her something from time to time, holding the ladder and so on.

Shi'an took care of the flowers and plants in the yard. Some needed pruning, some loosened the soil, and some needed watering. It was not an easy job.

Seeing that everyone was busy with their own work, Xu Lan thought about it and came up with an idea.The summer heat of June is the time to compose music.

There are Jiuqu, Divine Comedy and Danqu, and the usage and preparation methods of the three are different.Distiller's koji is used to make wine, Divine Comedy is used to make medicine, and Danqu is used to preserve freshness. Especially in summer, food is perishable. If maggots and flies dare not approach it when it is smeared with Danqu, the color and taste of the food can last for more than ten days. Change is the most commonly used thing for ordinary people to keep fresh food in summer.

Anyway, there was still a long time until night, and Xu Lan didn't want to go to the streets alone, so she planned to compose several kinds of tunes.First is Mai Qu.She took a sack of wheat, washed the grains with well water three times, and spread them in a dustpan to dry for later use.

Then there's the face song again.Xu Lan takes five catties of white noodles and five liters of soybeans, boils them with Polygonum juice, then adds five taels of spicy Polygonum powder and ten taels of almond puree, mixes them and presses them into a cake shape, and finally wraps them with mulberry leaves and hangs them on the ventilation.

And when she finished her work here, the washed wheat had already been dried.Xu Lan crushed the wheat again with a stone mill, then mixed the wheat flour into balls with scouring water, pressed them into cakes, wrapped them with mulberry leaves, and hung them in a ventilated place.

"What are you doing?" Hearts took the time to come over and look strangely.

"Make a tune." Xu Lan said with a smile.

Heart is a little strange, pointing to something wrapped in mulberry leaves, "This thing can make wine?"

"It doesn't work now." Xu Lan explained: "It needs to be ventilated for seven to 49 days. The wheat koji has to wait for the inside to turn yellow, and the noodle koji has to wait for yellow hair to grow before it can be used."

Hongtao nodded unconsciously, seeing that there were still a bunch of things, she asked curiously: "Then what are these for?"

"It's still a song, but it's just a divine song, and it's used to make medicine." Xu Lan smiled, while setting up a pot in the yard, "boil Artemisia annua, Polygonum cocklebur, and Cocklebur to make juice, then mix it with flour to make cakes, and after compacting, use The mulberry leaves are stored, and when the inside turns yellow, they can be dried and stored for medicinal purposes. Many medicines are mixed with this divine comedy, and the effect will be much better."

Hongtao was slightly taken aback: "You also know medicine."

Xu Lan shook her head again and again, "I don't really understand it, it's just that Grandpa grows medicinal materials, so I just know a little bit."

Seeing that there was still a bag of indica rice, Hongtao asked again, "Then what is this rice used for?"

"This is the raw material of Danqu. After washing the rice, soak it in water for seven days, then rinse it, then add ordinary rice and mix it with steamed rice. Steam it until it is half-ripe, take it out, and pour it with cold water.

After cooling down, the rice is steamed until fully mature, then mixed with koji, Polygonum juice and alum water and stirred, and finally placed in a ventilated place, continuously stirred for seven days and seven nights, until the color of the koji rice turns from black to red. "

Hongtao opened her mouth in surprise, "Still stirring for seven days and seven nights? Don't sleep?"

Xu Lan chuckled, "You can sleep, but you can't sleep soundly, especially at the beginning, you have to stir it every hour. Danqu is not easy to make, but if it is made, it is the best fresh-keeping product."

Hongtao looked at it for a while, then turned to Shi'an to watch Shi'an pruning flowers and plants.

In the afternoon, Xu Ying arrived at Taoyaju under the scorching sun.Seeing Shi'an here, I was quite glad, "I was worried that you might have left the house, fortunately."

It was only then that Shi'an remembered what Qingyu said to him in the morning, no wonder he was told not to go out in the morning, it turned out to be here.

The two chatted about the recent situation.Without saying a few words, Jiang Chenglan also came to Tao Yaju with onions.

Jiang Chenglan carried a basket of eggs and handed the eggs to Heart, "There are so many chickens at home, and I can't finish the eggs, so I wanted to send you some. It's not a valuable thing, so don't dislike it."

Heart happily carried the eggs to the stove and put them aside, then took Jiang Chenglan to the backyard to watch the carpentry work of Onion and Jiang Mu.

At that time, Qingyu was about to finish the work, and put away all the things around him.

Although Jiang Chenglan had heard about Congtou before and watched the production process, he was still shocked when he saw the finished product.As for the onion, it was just a pile of wood before, but looking at it now, the wood seems to be infused with a soul, even a producer like him can't tell the truth from the fake.

Jiang Chenglan touched Qingyu's head excitedly, "Shange will definitely attract the attention of the whole city tonight."

Qingyu smiled slightly.

Back in the inner courtyard, everyone had finished their work, and the sun was already westward, so Qingyu proposed to go to the street.

After all, they are all young people, and a group of people are interested.In the end, Xu Ying climbed Shi'an, carrying onions, and the three boys walked in front.

Hongtao held Qingyu's arm, Jiang Chenglan pulled Xu Lan, and followed behind talking and laughing.Jiang Chenglan and Xu Lan even had the word "Lan" in their names, and they were about the same age, so they seemed to want to marry Jinlan when they talked.

Of course, He Yunshen and Si Wenzhi are still cultivating, but they have their own companions, and they have already passed the alchemy ring, so Shi'an can rest assured that they will stay, as long as they wake up before asking Guan Wang Two people will do.

In Yinzhou City, after the sun set to the west, there were more people on the street.It is no exaggeration to say that people are shoulder to shoulder.

Qingyu was a little short, and Heart held Qingyu's arm tightly, for fear of being squeezed out.As for herself, she cheerfully dragged Qing Yu through the crowd, feeling that being crowded was extremely fun.

There are many snacks sellers on the side of the street. Hearts took Qing Yu and bought them as they walked, but finally they couldn't fit in their arms, so they handed them to Shi'an to carry.

Xu Ying shared a little for Shi'an, passing by a shop selling safety locks, Xu Ying thought about it, and walked in.

As soon as he entered, Shi An and Cong Tou couldn't leave him alone, so they followed him in.

Xu Lan and Jiang Chenglan, just for a moment, seem to have become close friends who have known each other for many years.

Xu Lan already knew about Jiang Chenglan's relationship with Congtou, and when she saw Congtou enter Ping'an's shop, she poked Jiang Chenglan's arm with a smile, "Your Congtou brother, followed him in."

When Jiang Chenglan saw that it was a shop of Pingan Lock, she didn't know what to think of, her face blushed, she turned her eyes away, and saw a small stall selling rouge, so she dragged Xu Lan to see rouge.

Shi'an Xuying and Congtou entered the lock shop and looked at each other curiously.

There were not many people in the shop, Shi'an looked at it casually, but Xu Ying looked at it seriously, there were gold locks, silver locks and brass locks, all of which were exquisite and beautiful.

He looked carefully, and finally, his eyes fell on a small silver lock, and asked the shopkeeper, "How do you sell this?"

The storekeeper said polite and warm words: "The guest officer has a good eye, this silver lock is made by the well-known Master Ran.

The workmanship is exquisite, and it usually costs three taels of silver, but today is the Guan Wanghui, if you buy it sincerely, I will only count you two taels of silver. "While speaking, he took out the silver lock, turned it over, and engraved a small word Ran on the back.

It's impossible to lose one tael of silver at a time, and Xu Ying didn't take this word to his ears, but two taels of silver is still suitable.

Holding the silver lock, he took a closer look and asked Shi'an, "What do you think?"

Shi'an nodded, "It's pretty nice."

(End of this chapter)