Return to the small mountain village in 1986

Chapter 248 Preparing to Make Sweet Potato Flour

Many jade has no parents, no parents-in-law, no elders in the family, and only a younger sister, many beautiful, is by her side. Confinement is a big deal for women, so the matter of serving the confinement falls on many beautiful.

Recently, many beautiful women have to take care of many confinement children, so it is inevitable to neglect the family, but Gao Mingcheng expressed his understanding, sisters love each other deeply, and the child's surname is not Zhang, but Xu. Mei was also happy to take care of her.

Therefore, many beauty only take care of three meals a day at home, and stay at many Yu's house most of the time, until many jade's body is almost recovered, and then go less.

Nowadays, most of the women in the village give birth naturally, and because they have to work all the time, they give birth very quickly after the mobilization. It is only troublesome if the fetus is in an abnormal position.

The mothers who had a normal delivery recovered faster than those who had a caesarean section. Generally, they recovered almost in about three days. They can get out of bed and walk around, and they can take care of themselves, but their bodies are still a little weak.

Gao Mingcheng contracted the work in the field. Fortunately, he is in good physical condition, and the labor-intensive work of farming is not too tiring for him.

He sowed zi vetch in his own field and in the field of Grandma's house. As for his parents' house, there were not enough seeds, and his father thought it was like a weed, which would take away the fertility of the soil. , which originally grew wild, his father wanted to tear it off, let alone sow it.

But Grandma and Gao Zhuang will obviously listen to his opinion and approve of his behavior.

In Grandma Xi’s words, weeds are grown anyway, so it’s good to plant milk vetch, the flowers are beautiful, and when the milk vetch is very tender, it can still be eaten as a vegetable.

There was no major event today, so Gao Mingcheng found some free time and went to Grandma Xi's house for a sit down.

Since he moved to Niuweiling, he has been less frequently at Grandma Xi's house, but fortunately, Grandma Xiao's house has a new wife, and this daughter-in-law is still very strong, and she became pregnant soon, so this little grandma The small courtyard is full of laughter and anticipation for the future every day.

It is completely different from the dead air and gloomyness of the previous life.

This change of fate put Gao Mingcheng in a good mood.

Grandma Xi's house is almost too busy. Recently, the main thing is to plow the ground, sow the seeds, plant the winter vegetables, then water them, and wait for the seeds to break through the soil and germinate and grow up.

Grandma Xi looked at Gao Mingcheng with a sad face, and said, "Mingcheng, how is your well? Is there a lot of water?"

The water in the old village is tight, and a line of water needs to be used several times. If you can not take a bath, then you will definitely not take a bath.

Therefore, if you smell it carefully, you can smell a smell from the villagers.

Gao Mingcheng thought Grandma was worried about running out of water, so he said: "My well is very good, there is a spring below it, the water quality is good, and there is a lot of water. How about this, if I am free, I will carry two buckets of water for you every day Come here, or let Gao Zhuang go to my place to fetch water at any time."

Gao Zhuang quickly said: "Brother Mingcheng, don't ask you to mention it. I'm really short of water. I'll carry it myself. The water at home is barely enough. Grandma is thinking about making sweet potato flour. I planted a lot of sweet potatoes in the first half of this year. The sweet potatoes are all stored in the cellar, but after a long time, there will be spoilage, so I want to make sweet potato flour."

As soon as Gao Mingcheng heard it, he understood that it takes a lot of water to make sweet potato flour. With the current situation of the well in the old village, it is impossible to supply fine grandma to make sweet potato flour.

But his family has a small population, and there is a well with a lot of water, so it is enough to make sweet potato flour once, and he also likes sweet potato flour, so he said decisively: "Okay, let's make it today! Now make it The sweet potatoes are taken out from the cellar, and then they start to grind and settle! You can make sweet potato flour tomorrow!"

When Gao Zhuang heard this, he was happy.

Grandma has been worrying about sweet potatoes for the past few days.

The original plan was good, but due to the lack of water in the second half of the year, many things were difficult to do.

Because of the dry weather, they dug out the sweet potatoes in advance and piled them up at home. It would definitely not work, but the people here would dig a cellar in the mountains to store sweet potatoes, potatoes and other vegetables.

In the bamboo forest a little in front of the old village, a dozen or so cellars were dug in a small bamboo forest, including the cellar of Gao Zhuang's family.

After the agreement was made, Gao Mingcheng and Gao Zhuang went to the bamboo forest cellar to get sweet potatoes.

The cellar here is not deep, only about three meters long. He is taller and thinner, so naturally he will go down to the cellar to carry the sweet potatoes.

He stepped on a simple homemade ladder, went down to the cellar, and then began to put the sweet potatoes inside into the bamboo basket. When it was full, Gao Mingcheng lifted the bamboo basket up.

A thick rope was tied to the handle of the bamboo basket, Gao Mingcheng followed the rope and lifted the bamboo basket up.Then he piled the sweet potatoes inside into a bigger basket, and threw it down for Gao Zhuang to load it.

The two worked together and worked for a long time before moving almost all the sweet potatoes. Gao Zhuang walked up the ladder and said, "There are still about 30 catties left. Grandma said that I want to save it for winter to cook porridge."

"Okay, you can arrange it." Gao Mingcheng said, and then went directly to his house with sweet potatoes on a shoulder pole.

He picked a load, and Gao Zhuang also picked a load. When he arrived at his house, Gao Mingcheng took two buckets of water from the well, found out the big basin, and said to Gao Zhuang, "You pick sweet potatoes here, and you pick the bad potatoes. Throw away the good ones, wash away the mud. I will pick the rest.”

He is stronger than Gao Zhuang, so he gave Gao Zhuang a relatively easy job.

Gao Zhuang agreed, took a small bench to sit on, and started working.

Not long after, Gao Mingcheng came over with another load of sweet potatoes, along with Grandma Xi and He Xiuman.

He Xiuman's belly is getting bigger and bigger, but she is still very mobile and can do some light work.

Gao Mingcheng went back and forth again before picking out all the sweet potatoes from Gao Zhuang's family.

Of course, there are more than these sweet potatoes in his family. Except for the ones kept in the cellar, the rest are eaten one after another. Since the sweet potatoes mature, the breakfast at home is basically sweet potato porridge.

"Mingcheng, where's your sweet potato? Let's take it out and make it together!" Grandma Xi said while cleaning the sweet potato.

Gao Mingcheng was embarrassed for a few seconds. There are too few sweet potatoes in his house.

He didn't grow much in the first place, so he made another batch of dried sweet potatoes for snacks. The rest would be about a hundred catties at most. For this, he himself was impatient to make sweet potato flour.

Sweet potato flour is delicious, but the process is also very troublesome.

Now most people are self-sufficient, and they can make whatever they want to eat by themselves, but in the future, they will take sweet potatoes to special workshops to make sweet potato flour instead of doing it themselves.

Although there are few sweet potatoes in his family, it is okay to mix them together and then divide some sweet potato flour.

So Gao Mingcheng went to get his sweet potatoes back.

Gao Zhuang's family had a cellar, so Gao Mingcheng naturally dug a cellar, and his cellar was dug in a forest at the foot of Niuwei Ridge.

When he picked the sweet potatoes back, the sharp-eyed Gao Zhuang exclaimed: "Brother Mingcheng, why are your sweet potatoes so big! They are twice as big as mine!"

Grandma Xi and He Xiuman also looked over quickly, and they found that the sweet potatoes picked by Gao Mingcheng were indeed bigger than theirs.

Sweet potatoes are drought-resistant crops, but the dry weather will still affect the yield. This year, the weather is dry, and the Gao Zhuang family lacks labor, and they are not so diligent in watering and fertilizing, so the size of the sweet potatoes is not very large.

But there is no shortage of water here in Gao Mingcheng, so the watering is diligent, and the sweet potatoes naturally grow better.

"This shows that I'm good at farming!" Gao Mingcheng smiled, piled the sweet potatoes on the ground, and started working together.

If you want to eat delicious sweet potato flour, you start with cleaning the sweet potato.

Clean the sweet potatoes first, there is no need to peel them, just peel off the unsightly scar marks, and rub the rest on an iron plate.

Of course, this iron plate has another secret. Use iron nails to drill a lot of holes on the iron plate, so the back of the iron plate will be uneven. Use these uneven positions to grind the sweet potatoes into slag.

(End of this chapter)