Reborn under the White Mountain

Chapter 131
July [-] should be the full moon of Yun Hua's son.But now the family has just been separated, the house has not been done yet, and Qin's family hates Yun Hua for not wanting to live with her, so she doesn't give it up.When Yun Hua got angry, she said that when they moved, we should forget it together, so I didn't make any fuss that day.Someone from Zhang's family came to pick up Shuzhen and the child, and moved to confinement, just to go back to raise for a while, and then just move to the new house when it's time to move.

After July 50th, the autumn harvest begins, and every household is very busy.Yunsong's family has [-] acres of good land and more than [-] acres of newly opened wasteland, so they are naturally very busy.Yuan Qingyun has suspended classes for the children for the past few days, and they all went to the field to harvest.Originally, Yun Song had already found a school and wanted Erlang and the others to study in the town, but Erlang insisted on waiting until after the autumn harvest, and Yun Song couldn't handle Erlang, so he agreed.This year, there are too many people, so the Fang family will not go to the farm anymore, and cook at home.Yuxian led Chuntao and the others to the autumn harvest.At this time, if you rush home one day earlier, you will harvest more, otherwise it will not be easy to harvest if it rains or something.We should harvest the beans first. This year, we planted [-] acres of soybeans, and it took five days to harvest them.Next is millet, millet, and corn. These are all planted on good land, a total of [-] mu, and harvested for another four days.Next came some sweet potatoes, late potatoes, small beans and so on. It took five days to collect these, and it took a total of [-] days to take all the land back home.When collecting potatoes, Yu Xianrang picked up the very small ones, and Xiaosan looked at them and said, "Little sister, that one is too small, it's not as big as an egg, just pick it up and put it away, it's gone." , what's the use of it?"

"Third brother, you can wash it and cook it to feed the pigs, and it can also be used as starch. It has many uses." Yuxian couldn't bear to throw it on the ground.

"Okay, if you say it's useful, we'll pick them all up. However, we have to keep them alone, and don't have to pick them up again, which will be troublesome." As he said that, he really found a sack and put those small ones Packed separately, these small potatoes also picked up two sacks.

After returning home, Yuxian found a large vat. There are quite a few large vats at home, which may have been used to grow lotus.After washing a sack of potatoes with water, put them in a tank, add water, and soak them like that.

"Yuxian, what are you doing?" Fang asked when she saw it.

"Mom, I want to try making starch with these small potatoes." Yuxian remembered that her grandmother in her previous life said that she used to use this stupid method to make starch. "When these potatoes are soaked to the point of rotten, and when the potato skins are broken when pinched, stir the inside, and then remove the potato skins. Then wash the starch at the bottom twice, and control the water. Get out, and it will be done."

"Your method is new. In the past, sweet potatoes were used, crushed and then made into starch. If your method works, it will be quite easy." Fang trusted her daughter, so she no longer cared about it.

This year's beans were not too dry, so Yun Song wasn't in a hurry to thresh the beans. He just picked out the corn first, tied the hangers, and put them on the pre-built racks.Then the millet and millet were beaten out, and the work was done in three or four days.Naturally, Yu Xian couldn't stay idle, she and Da Lang went up the mountain again, now the mountain is full of treasures, so it's a waste of time.Walnuts, pine cones, hazel mills, and winter mushrooms are all picked up at home.Chuntao and the others also followed up the mountain. Yuxian didn't want them to come, but Chuntao said that seeing Yuxian and the others go home like this made her feel very happy, so they all followed.But Erlang and Bowen asked Dalang to go to the town to study. This is a business and cannot be delayed.

This time of the year is the most tiring, but also the most rewarding.Infected by this atmosphere, Yuan Qingyun stopped the afternoon class and followed everyone into the mountains, counting down his happiest every day.

Tong's house is at the southernmost part of the village, there are no residents in front of it, and Linzi is two or three miles away from Tong's house.Yuxian remembered that this is a good time to catch toads, because toads will come down from the mountains in autumn and spend the winter in the river.So Yuxian talked to Fang's, and took out twenty pieces of cloth from home to keep the toad from walking.In previous lives, people used plastic film to keep toads from walking, but now of course there is no plastic, only cloth.Fang's heart ached, but she couldn't shake Yuxian, and besides, she knew that Yuxian wouldn't mess around.So cruelly, I took out twenty bolts of primary-colored cloth.

Yuxian led Dalang and the others to sew the cloth on the small wooden sticks on the outskirts of the forest near the river, and then forcefully inserted the small wooden sticks into the soil.In this way, the cloth is used to block the toads that are far away, and the soil is pressed under the cloth so that there will be no gaps underneath.A piece of cloth is three feet long, and twenty pieces is sixty feet, which is only 200 meters away.Yuxian shook her head when she saw it, it was still too short, but she dared not ask her mother for it anymore.So be it, when mother tastes the sweetness, she will agree.

After blocking the toads, every morning, before it was too bright, Yu Xian and the others took the cloth bags and came to the place that blocked the toads.When I got there, I saw, my God, on this side of the cloth, there are densely packed toads.It turned out that this toad has a characteristic. It walks forward by jumping and jumping, and it has to jump over when it encounters obstacles.Yuxian and the others used a whole piece of cloth, two and a half feet wide, and there were still more than two feet left after covering it.The toads couldn't jump that high at all, but kept on jumping there, so they gathered more and more.The children were very happy when they saw this situation, and they frantically picked up the toad in their pockets, which was really good.Yuxian shouted: "Let's pick up the big ones and not the small ones. Let them grow for another two years. Catch more females and less male dogs. Females can pick up toad oil, but male dogs can only eat it."

After hearing this, the children have a choice when they pick it up.The male and female of this toad are also easy to distinguish. The female is generally larger with a yellow belly, and the male is smaller with a white belly.One morning, at such a place of 200 meters, five bags full were picked up. This is a bag that can hold a hundred catties of grain.Everyone was so excited that they hurried home with their pockets on their backs.When I got home, I had work to do again, so I had to put on all my mother's arms. Naturally, there was no wire at this time, so I could only use hemp rope.Pass the hemp rope through the big needle, and then use the big needle to pierce the toads. It should be threaded from the mouth of the toads, so that the stomach can be well sun-dried when drying, and the toad oil is of course in the stomach.When Fang saw it, he thought it was cruel, so he couldn't do anything. It was boys like Da Lang who neatly threaded the toads into strings, and then took them outside to dry.Yuxian had asked Dalang to make some shelves a long time ago. There were many nails at both ends of the shelves, so it was enough to tie the two ends of the hemp rope to the nails.On one shelf, more than ten rows can be dried.

The female toads were all put on, and there were some male ones left. Yuxian remembered her promise to Boss Yue, so she went with Dalang and the others to catch some crickets as a reward, then packed them up and went to the town.Arriving at Boss Yue's restaurant, Boss Yue happened to be there, so Yuxian took the things in and taught the chef to make cricket tofu and braised toad. , delicious, this toad is more delicious than chicken, and this cricket tofu is fresh enough. Good, delicious."

All the chefs in the restaurant came to taste it, and they thought the taste was really good. Boss Yue said, "Yuxian, you just taught me these two dishes? Then I got a big deal. How about I'll give you some money, even if I bought the method, so?"

"Uncle Yue, I didn't count on this to make money. You and my master are good friends, and this is my tribute to you, as long as you can accept the things we send in the future." Yu Xian wanted to win over this person.She still has bean sprouts, and if she wants to make tofu, of course she needs to find a buyer.I heard that Boss Yue still has a lot of businesses. Among them is a vegetable seller. Most people in the town buy vegetables from him.

"Look at that little mouth of yours. The words you say are so sweet. Let Uncle Yue listen to the irony in my heart. Okay, if there is anything in the future, just send it here. I have an ice cellar here, even in summer. I can store things. Besides, my restaurant is the first one in the town, and the business is booming every day, and I don’t have to worry about selling things.” Boss Yue agreed without hesitation. "However, you have to send me some toads and crickets recently. I want to introduce these two dishes."

"Yes, the toad is easy to say. It can be kept in the tank for a while, but the cricket will soon die. After a while, the river will be gone. By the way, the cricket can also be cooked directly in salt water, and it can be eaten with some chili. OK." Yuxian nodded in agreement.

"It's okay, won't it be there next spring?" Boss Yue didn't care either. "It's better to win the appetite of the customers, won't my business be better next year?"

"Okay, I'll deliver it to you tomorrow." Yuxian bid farewell to Boss Yue, and then went to Jishitang. Fang Yun hadn't come back yet, so they returned to Yanjiang Village.

When I went home and told Fang that Boss Yue wanted a toad, Fang was also very happy, "Yuxian, do you want me to find some more cloth for you, anyway, I'm done with it, wash it, and it can be used next year."

"Mother, let's do this first, and use these for experiments this year. If the toad oil is pulled out and sold well, next year we will get more cloth and keep it farther along the river." Yuxian didn't want to take risks.

"That's okay, we'll be like this this year. It's just that wearing a toad is a bit too cruel." Thinking of that scene, Fang felt a little disgusted.

"Mother, there is no other way. If you want to extract the best toad oil, you have to do it this way." Yu Xian has no other way.

"Well, mother understands, mother will try to help in the future." Fang also understood.

In this way, every morning, everyone went to pick up toads, and then went home to wear the mother's toad and give the father's toad to the shopkeeper.Da Lang delivered it every other day, including the crayfish.Toads cost thirty renminbi a catty, and crickets cost 25 renminbi, which can bring in more than one or two taels of silver each time. Fang left this money to the children and let them buy whatever they want.

(End of this chapter)