Reborn under the White Mountain

Chapter 49 Grape Cake
After the Mid-Autumn Festival, Tong's family began to get busy again. The food they had brought home needed to be processed, so Tong Yunsong led his three younger brothers to beat beans.Unwrap the bundles of bean straw, lay them flat on the open space, and then use a bull to pull the roller to press back and forth on the bean straw. After pressing several times, use a fork to pick up the bean straw, turn it over, and then press again.In fact, working with oxen really saves a lot of effort. People without oxen will use something called Lianjin (I don’t know which word it is) to beat on the bean straw.By the afternoon, the beating was almost done, and the beans were popping out of the pods.Turn over the bean stalks and see that there are all yellow beans. At this time, I pick the bean stalks into a pile, put the beans on the bottom with a dustpan, and blow them along the wind. The beans sink and fall straight away. The skin and bean hair are light, and they fly forward with the wind before falling, so that the beans and pod skins can be separated.Of course, there will be some bean stalks and pod skins mixed in the beans, so just pick and choose them at that time.The Tong family has more than 200 acres of soybeans, and this year's yield is good, more than [-] catties per mu, and a total of [-] catties of soybeans were harvested, which took three days to finish.After threshing beans, I started threshing millet and so on. It took me more than ten days to finish everything.Tong's family has a big barn, and they put all the beaten grains in the barn, and when they want to eat, they go to the village mill to grind out rice.The Tong family has a large population, and the old and the young add up to nearly twenty people. They really need to eat a lot of food every year, and this year, the fourth child is going to get married, so Mr. Tong means to wait for the fourth child to get married, and then spend the extra Sell ​​some food.

Da Lang naturally leads a group of small corn cobs. The corn cobs will be covered with multiple layers of skin. The outermost skin must be peeled off, leaving a small amount of soft inside, and then the two cobs of corn will be tied together. This is called tying a sling, and then put the tied corn on the rack, so that the corn dries faster.When some corns are peeled off, they are placed in a corn grid. The corn grids are usually built off the ground, so that the four sides can breathe and the corn can dry quickly.There are a lot of corn planted this year, and the yield of this thing is large. The average yield of corn on 25 mu of land is about 1 catties per mu, which means that corn alone can harvest more than [-] catties, which is higher than the yield of millet and millet. much higher.The children did not work regularly. After peeling the corn husks for a while, the younger ones couldn't sit still and got up one after another to watch the adults beat the beans.There was too much corn, and Qin and his daughters-in-law were also peeling corn husks. At this time, the whole family was mobilized, and even the cooks had to come to work after finishing the meal.In this way, it took eight or nine days for all the corn to be picked up.

As soon as the corn was picked, Yuxian and her brothers went into the mountains again.At this time, there are too many good things waiting for them in the forest, such as hazel mills, winter mushrooms, hazelnuts, walnuts, pine cones and so on.In autumn, people who specialize in buying mountain products will come to the mountain to buy hazelnuts, walnuts, pine nuts and other things.Seeing that Dalang and the others brought back a lot of things every day, Mrs. Qin was jealous, so she pushed Junjie and the others to go too, and said that according to the rules of the Tong family, these mountain products purchased by others must be handed over to the public for money.Yuxian and the others heard it, and it was not as fun as picking it up at the beginning, "Brother, let's buy less of the things grandma said, anyway, the money will not be returned to us, let's see how much Junjie and the others pick up, and we will buy them back." Just do that."

"Well, that's fine. We'll be less tired this way." Da Lang agreed.

"Brother, look at the schisandra tree in front, there are so many schisandra. Let's pick more of these and go back to dry and sell them for money. The shopkeepers will want these herbs." Yu Xian happened to see a schisandra tree.

"Sister, is this also a medicinal material?" Xiaosan asked.

"Yeah, this stuff is sour and astringent, nourishes the lungs and kidneys, and nourishes the liver. It's a very useful medicinal material." Yu Xian told her brother.

"Okay, little girl, as long as you say it can sell for money, let's pick it up. There are plenty of these things in the forest." Xiaosan didn't understand Yuxian's pharmacology and medicinal properties, as long as it could sell for money.

So the brothers and sisters started picking schisandra, and after picking a basket, Dalang saw that it was getting late, so he said, "Let's go pick some walnuts, and we can't just go back with schisandra, so grandma will know that we don't like it." Go home and earn money."

Everyone agreed, so they went to a place with many walnut trees to pick up walnuts. Without much effort, everyone picked up a basket of walnuts, and then went home.When they got home, Jan Jia Junjie and the others only picked up a basket and came back. Da Lang smiled and dumped the walnuts in the corner.

"Why did you pick up so few? Didn't you have several baskets the day before yesterday?" Qin asked when she saw it.

"Grandma, who doesn't know that this thing can be sold for money? You go and see, every family's children go to the mountains to pick it up, it can be like two days ago." Da Lang said.

"What's in your back basket? Why don't you pour it out for me?" Qin Shi saw that Xiaosan was still carrying a back basket.

"Grandma, we picked the medicinal materials." Da Lang knew that he couldn't hide it, so he told Qin Shi.

"What kind of medicine is it? Let me see." Qin took off the basket on Xiao San's back, and saw that it was some schisandra, "Isn't this the fruit of Zanthoxylum bungeanum? Is this also a medicinal material?" Shi knows that its vines can be used to stew meat or something, and it tastes good.But I don't know that the fruit is medicine.

"Well, my sister said yes." Da Lang nodded.

"Junjie, when you see this thing in the future, you will buy it back, do you hear me?" Mrs. Qin is not willing to let it go, "This thing can also be sold for money."

Junjie didn't make a sound there.

"Okay, let's all go in and eat. I've been getting more things from home these few days. Your fourth uncle is about to get married, and there are plenty of places to spend money at home." Qin walked into the room muttering.

The next day, Yuxian and the others changed places to pick schisandra. This place not only has schisandra, but also a lot of mountain grapes.Bunches of purple grapes hang on the vines, making people salivate.Xiaosan picked a few bunches and distributed them to everyone, Yuxian squeezed one and put it in her mouth, it tasted sour and sweet. "It's delicious, brother. Let's pick some back too. I want to make some wine from wild grapes." The wine she made from jujubes is already ready. She secretly made some wine yesterday, and it tastes really good.So when I saw the mountain grape, I remembered it again.

"Okay, I'll listen to you." It doesn't matter if the brothers are out, anyway, they can do whatever they want to go home, as long as the younger sister says it will be useful.A few people picked mountain grapes when they met mountain grapes, and picked schisandra seeds when they met schisandra. In one morning, they picked one basket of schisandra and two baskets of mountain grapes.In the forest where they came today, there are quite a lot of hazel mills, so they also picked up a lot of hazel mills, and there must be something to go back to take care of the Qin family.Hazelnuts usually grow in forests with many hazel trees. Yuxian looked up and saw a lot of hazelnuts on the trees.The hazelnut in the Northeast is called Maozhen. It is relatively small, and the outer skin is covered with burrs. You must pay attention when picking it, otherwise it will pierce your hand. "Brother, should we pick some hazelnuts and go home? Grandma said that hazelnuts can be sold for money." Yu Xian asked.

"Let's talk about it later. I think we should go and harvest some pine cones. They are big, they are more expensive, and the selling price is better than hazelnuts. Hazelnuts are still prickly." Before Dalang could speak, Erlang said.

"Well, that's fine. Pine nuts are indeed very expensive, and I think grandma will be satisfied." Da Lang also agreed.

A group of people went home first and put down all the things in the back baskets. Qin was not happy when he saw some hazel mills and came back, "I asked you to get some things in exchange for money, so I picked up some hazel mills and brought them back. A basket of mountain grapes, what's the use of that thing? I only think about eating, and I don't want to make money for the family at all."

"Grandma, we are going to dig the pine cones, so bring these back first, there is no need to carry the basket." Erlang said to Qin.

Qin's face brightened when she heard that she was going to smash the pine cones, "Well, those things are valuable, so bring back more." She didn't care if it was dangerous to hit the pine cones.

When Fang heard that the children were going to hit the pine cone, she was a little worried, "Da Lang, be careful when climbing the tree."

"Don't worry, mother, it's okay, we can all climb trees." Xiaosan waved her hand indifferently and walked out.

"Mother, I will take good care of them, Yuxian, don't go, and deal with the grapes at home." Da Lang comforted his mother and left.

Yuxian looked at the two mountain grapes in baskets at home, "Mother, do we still have jars at home?"

"What do you want the jar for?" Fang knew that her daughter might be poking something again. "There are no more jars at home. You used two jujubes last time. How can there be any more?"

Yuxian looked at these mountain grapes. Without jars, wine cannot be made, "Mother, tell Li's family later that his eldest son will bring back two jars. The bigger ones can hold more than 20 catties." .”

"Okay, mother will go in a while, so what do you do now?"

"It's okay, I won't make wine today, let's make some mountain grape cake, mother, do you still have noodles at home?" Yuxian changed her mind and wanted to do something else.

"Yes, I bought some a few days ago, starched laundry clothes. I'll find it for you." Fang got up and went into the house to look for starch.

Yuxian washed the grapes once, then put them in the pot, added some water and boiled them slowly.After cooking for a period of time, the grapes in the pot were rotten, so I took out the grape seeds and stems with a strainer, and then cooked again. When I saw that the grape juice in the pot was quite thick, I put some starch into it. Stir well.Then I ran to find some corn husks, and cut off two inches from the back, just like a little bowl.After the corn husks are washed, grape juice is poured into them. After the grape juice is dried, the corn husks are peeled off to form pieces of grape cake.

Seeing her daughter busy, Fang couldn't help but help her, "Yuxian, where did you learn such strange things?"

"Mom, there's no need to learn. I just love to eat and think about it. These things are rare now, but they will be good things in winter."

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