Villager of Daming

Chapter 930: Acid-base balance: two phases dissolve

The children ran around in the field where chickens and ducks were not kept. Each of them carried a basket with a lid and put a grasshopper in it after catching it.

Originally, they wanted to use wheat straw to pierce the grasshoppers on the spot, grabbing one and piercing them one by one, and piercing a bunch of grasshoppers at a time.

However, the grasshopper will spit out water as soon as it is pierced, and the meat in the pierced area will not taste good if the grasshopper is penetrated. It needs to be fried together at night and left for an afternoon to ensure that there is change in the wound area.

“Does lime need to be put on this land before planting sorghum and soybeans?”

Seeing the children catching grasshoppers excitedly, Zhu Fan resisted the urge to rush up to play with them and asked about adding lime.

The head of the village shook his head: "Your Highness, the local soil is weakly alkaline and neutral. You cannot put lime in it, as it will increase the alkalinity. This is good now. If you have to put something in, you should put potassium sulfate.

Growing soybeans and sorghum both require acidic soil. There is not so much potassium sulfate now, so the sorghum planted this year needs to be sweet sorghum.

After the sweet sorghum is planted, even if it is too late to wait for maturity, it is good to extract sugar, which can also alleviate the alkalinity of the soil.

When the soil turns to below 7, then sweet sorghum will not be planted, but normal sorghum will be planted.

In fact, the soil in many places in Taiyuan Prefecture is alkaline or neutral, with very little acidity, so everyone is willing to be jealous! This vinegar..."

Li Chang talked about acid-base balance from crop cultivation. Most places in Shanxi have alkaline soil, and the water in wells and rivers is naturally alkaline.

So how do you adjust after eating so much alkaline water? Of course I’m jealous! Eating vinegar makes you feel good, so people throughout Shanxi love making vinegar.

Whether vinegar is acidic or alkaline does not depend on the part that is absorbed last, but when mixed with other food and water, it can neutralize the alkali in it, and it is neutralized before it is absorbed.

It’s not that you drink some vinegar after eating and wait until digestion is almost complete, that’s just to see how it’s absorbed.

When eaten together, the alkali is weakened in the process, which is good for the human body.

Drinking water containing a lot of alkaline for a long time will cause problems in people's gastric secretion. People who live in alkaline soil do not know the principle, but know what is comfortable to eat.

The surrounding officials were happy to hear this and learned something new, which they would later tell others about.

Continuing to walk along the field, there is a ditch next to it. There are frogs in the ditch. Now is the frog breeding season.

Dry land can only be found in river ditches. For example, there are paddy fields in Jinci Town. After transplanting the rice, you can see many tadpoles swimming in it without waiting for the rice to grow up.

Also included are horseshoe crabs, commonly known as water turtles. No one eats them, but ducks like them, and so do tadpoles.

There are generally two types of tadpoles, one with a smooth surface and one with spots, namely frogs and toads.

The smooth-surfaced tadpoles eventually turned into toads, while the speckled ones turned into frogs. It was quite speechless, as poles cannot be distinguished by their appearance.

"Your Highnesses, do you want to eat frogs?" Guo Lingzhong, the magistrate of Qingyuan County, remembered that His Highness King Wu wanted to eat grasshoppers just now. After seeing the frogs, he asked.

The four people shook their heads at the same time, and the second child Zhu Xi said: "Frogs are good for people. They eat pests, and of course they eat dragonflies, but they always eat other bugs. There are more frogs and toads in the paddy fields, so the rice suffers less insect damage."

If the king and the others eat frogs today, the people will surely catch a large number of frogs in the future. King Chu has such a slim waist!

Grasshoppers don't matter. People can catch them if they want. If they don't want to eat them after catching them, they can also feed them to chickens and ducks. Piglets will grow faster if they eat grasshoppers! If you give it enough weight, you can easily gain four or five pounds a day. "

Zhu Fan then said: "The main reason is that the frog meat is small and needs to be processed, otherwise it will be fishy. Just wash the grasshopper with water and fry it directly. It is fast.

We have eaten frogs, braised and cooked by the village. It was okay when we ate it with our eyes closed, but uncomfortable when we opened our eyes. If it weren't for the village, but for Guanglu Temple, we would have the intention to kill people.

Unless you remove all the frog meat, you can't see its original appearance. If you cook it like that, you won't know what kind of meat it is. "

The officials thought about it and found that it was indeed difficult to swallow. They had never eaten frogs before. There was little oil and seasoning. How could the frogs be boiled? Even if you only boil the frog legs and eat them with salt, they still taste fishy.

Of course, if you are hungry to a certain level, you can eat it raw even if there are parasites. If you don't eat it, you will die.

Zhu Wentian looked at everyone's expressions and gave up the idea of ​​catching frogs for everyone to eat, but he thought of something else and planned to talk about it that night.

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The evening came soon, the sun set, and the people dragged their tired bodies back. Men and women gathered together to take a shower with water from the water pump provided by the team.

This is the fastest. You can also wash your hair, then rub it and put it up first, then open it to dry after eating, or blow it with a hair dryer.

There are 500 hair dryers in the team, and an average of thirty people use one. However, the guards all have short hair and no long hair. The hair is too long to get in the way and is inconvenient to clean.

As a combatant, you should look like a combatant. It will be pleasing to the eye even if you look at it, and it will not make people think there is anything wrong with it.

Many men in Xiaqiu Village also have short hair. They don’t need their hair to keep warm in the winter, but they cover their hair to keep them warm in the summer!

Women look beautiful with long hair, and they can have many different hairstyles. Zhu Wentian had long hair, and if he cut his long hair, he would look energetic and not like a fool.

People can borrow the team's hair dryer to dry their hair, and they can do it before going home and going to bed anyway.

It was still dumplings in the evening. The people did not go to harvest wheat, but they were also out of energy and did other work. They could not eat dumplings in vain.

The grasshoppers caught by the children were brought over, washed first, and then fried in oil. Prepared pepper noodles and refined salt, no MSG.

A large number of grasshoppers were fried and distributed to the children first. The children were not afraid at all. Obviously they had all eaten grasshoppers. The possibility of deep-frying was small. Generally, grasshoppers could only be eaten by putting them on sticks and making a fire to roast them. Neither is needed.

Now it's fried and eaten with salt and pepper, it's so delicious! Chewy and crispy.

Zhu Fang and others ate normally and drank wine, while the officials looked at the grasshoppers and were mentally building up.

"You didn't eat it when you were a kid?" Zhu Fan wondered, what's so hard about grasshoppers? I... never ate it when I was a child.

I only ate it when I met Xiaqiu Village later. Several palace maids and eunuchs couldn't eat it. There were less than ten people in the entire harem because they were allergic to protein.

Eggs cannot be eaten, shrimps and crabs cannot be eaten, milk cannot be drunk, cocoons cannot be eaten, and grasshoppers are naturally on the rejection menu.

We are currently undergoing desensitization treatment, which is to give small doses of allergens and gradually adapt to them. We must control them well, otherwise it will kill people.

"Your Highness, I thought that when I was a child, I had no meat to eat, so I could only eat some grasshoppers. Grasshoppers are not available all year round. Therefore, when I saw grasshoppers again, I felt emotional. I ate them."

Magistrate Guo said these words against his will, giving himself a reason for not eating just now, and then ate quickly, two at a time, chewing hard, and while chewing, he encouraged himself: If you don't eat, you will die, if you don't eat, you will die...

"The same goes for me!" Tongpan Tian Jiang followed, and after eating, it was crunchy and crunchy.

"The same goes for you!" Others can't help it, come on!

(End of this chapter)