The daily farming life of the black-bellied young lady

Chapter 13
Chu Ying got up and rubbed the medicine and it was a little better. Split the bamboo with a stone axe, take a piece that was about the same height as Chu Ying, bake it in the middle part with fire, bend it slowly, and then bake it to bend it. The U-shaped bamboo is tied at the fold, which becomes a clip.

Chu Ying went to the bushes that had been burnt yesterday, and put the larger pieces of charcoal on the ground into a basket, and poured them into the basket when the basket was full.The range of motion is not very large, and you can move more, which is much better than staying at home.

From morning to evening, Chu Ying finally packed all the large charcoal from the bushes into the back basket. Looking at the bamboo shoots and whips all over the floor and the charcoal in five back baskets, Chu Ying thought that she could chop less firewood in winter. Charcoal is also a good fuel.

On the second day, Chu Ying peeled off the bamboo shoots and cleaned them, steamed the whole root in a clay pot, then took it out and put it in the pot. Add a layer of salt to one layer of bamboo shoots.

Then wrap the soft bamboo shoot leaves on the mouth of the clay pot, tie the mouth of the pot with hemp rope, and then spread a thick layer of wet mud on it and put it in the corner of the wall.Except for a clay pot for rice, Chu Ying made 9 of the other 8 pickled bamboo shoots.

Chu Ying also washed the remaining bamboo shoots and cut them into finger-thin strips, steaming them in clay pots.Chu Ying took out 5 bamboos from the yard, tied two of them crosswise, inserted them into the soil, and did the same on the other side, then set up a bamboo pole in the middle, tied two long strips of cloth on the bamboo pole, and placed them on the ground. A bamboo pole is tied to the lower end of the strip, and finally there are three bamboo poles under the above bamboo pole.In this way, you can have 3 more bamboo poles without building another shelf.

After cooking a part of the shredded bamboo shoots, take them out and hang them on the bamboo poles. By the afternoon, all the bamboo shoots are ready, and the remaining bamboo shoots will be eaten.

Chu Ying cooked rice, took the 5 ready-made noose traps, and explored the woods.

Strictly speaking, this is not a forest, because the trees in it are planted according to different types, and they do not grow randomly. Some smaller trees are irregular, and they should grow out of the trees that have not been managed for a long time after planting.

Soon Chu Ying saw the north stop engraved on the standing stone pillar.This should be the northern boundary, and then Chu Ying found the eastern boundary. It can only be said that this small forest is not very big, only about 2 acres, but the tree species planted are very practical, including pine, chestnut, sumac and elm .

Chu Ying took some pine resin and smelled it on the tip of her nose. Seeing that there were no pine nuts in the pine cones that fell from these pine trees, Chu Ying did not plan to find pine nuts on these towering pine trees. Sweat is a tower, and the pine trees grow vertically, so climbing is difficult, and I don't have the strength yet.

It’s almost winter, and the chestnuts on the ground are all dried up, and there is some noise when you shake them when you pick them up, but this discovery is great news for Chu Ying, as chestnuts are easier to get than pine nuts, and they can be measured in more quantities Allay your hunger.

Chu Ying hurried home and took the back basket and bamboo clips, and picked out the chestnuts from the fallen leaves and threw them into the back basket. If she had found out earlier, she could still receive plump chestnuts. Now that the chestnuts have been dried in the sun, they are much lighter without the moisture.

When you see so many chestnuts, can you sell some when you go to the city? If you can’t sell them, it’s also a good choice to buy a small millstone to grind the chestnuts into powder.Chu Ying walked out of the grove with a basket of chestnuts on her back.

After walking through the scorched bushes with about 4 acres of land, Chu Ying thought that it was really hard to expect these economic trees in the bushes, because the bushes were too big, and these trees were also close to the back mountain. The trees are integrated into one, and there is no difference.

Chu Ying thought that this must be the original owner's father's plan for the original owner, because those trees were at least 10 years old, and they planted such a large bush to hide them, it was really well-intentioned, although Chu Ying and the original owner Parents have no contact, but still feel their deep love.

Mu Nuqian, no evil year, these trees are the last protection given to the original owner by the original owner's father.If it weren't for the scorched bushes, the uncle that Brother Wang was talking about would never have given this land to Chu Ying and the others.

Chu Ying looked at the firewood and charcoal piled up at home and the chestnuts she had just carried back, they almost had nowhere to stay.It seems that I have to expand it, but I don't have any extra money, so I can only build one by myself.

Chu Ying smashed chestnuts with a stone axe and put them in clay pots. She often said, "Pears in August, hawthorns in September, and chestnuts in October." There is nothing better than fried chestnuts with sugar, but I don't have extra money to buy sugar to satisfy my appetite.

The most economical way is to cook and eat. Chestnut itself is rich in protein, and it is sweet after chewing for a long time.Chu Ying is very happy that besides rice, she has this king of dried fruits to satisfy her hunger. She was worried that the food would not be enough until the beginning of spring, but now it seems that it should be possible.

But I really have no place to put the chestnuts I picked up at that time. When Ming went to Lu Meng's house to help and came back, I had to put expansion and chestnut picking on the top of my agenda, because there were still squirrels fighting with me in the grove, and if When it rains, chestnuts will break if left on the ground for a long time. Some of the chestnuts I just broke open are already broken.

Chu Ying herself didn't like this kind of activities where everyone got together when she was a child, but now she feels very lively and popular, probably because she has lived alone for a long time, and there are no familiar neighbors around, except for Big Brother Wang .

"Let's lift together." Chu Ying watched as several big men lifted a large pig out of the barrel, and shaved off the pig's hair with a knife.

"Uncle Han, are you alright?" Lu Meng helped a big man with his hands covering his fingers and walked out of the room.

This burly man with a swollen belly looked at the wrapped fingers with some pain. "This pig is too fussy. The one who killed Han Da got his hand cut off, but fortunately he didn't break it. Otherwise, we can only find Sun Da from the next village for the pig slaughtering feast in the future."
"Yeah yeah."
Although Han Da was cut on his hand, he still picked up the knife and prepared to open his belly, but the movement was much slower, and he had to take a rest after cutting. "When will I be able to eat this meal? Hey, this pig is too tempered."
"Han Da, let me help you, your hands are still bleeding." Chu Ying stood in front of a group of strong men and shouted loudly.All of a sudden, those who washed the vegetables, washed the dishes, and moved the low tables all looked at little Chu Ying.

"Whose family's child, hurry up and take him away." Chu Ying looked at Han Da's finger, it must have been seriously injured, otherwise this man would not have shown embarrassment.

Standing on the low table, Chu Ying picked up a kitchen knife and started to attack the undisemboweled pig. Since the blood of the pig was almost drained, Chu Ying took out the internal organs step by step and handed them over to the vegetable washers.Then let a few strong men rinse the pig's body with water and put it on a wooden board.

Then Chu Ying began to pick the pork, quickly removed the pig's head and four legs, cut the meat into long strips, and pierced a double seam at one end of each cut, so that it was convenient for Lu Meng and the others to make cured meat

Han Da looked at Chu Ying, who was about the size of a pig in front of him, standing on the wooden board, and disassembled the pig in a decent manner.And the movement is smooth, without using brute force, to cut the knife in the gap of the pig bone, although it is not as easy as myself, but it is not easy for this little girl to do so.

"Whose family's child is this? You're quite courageous." Chu Ying wiped her hands with the face towel that Lu Meng handed over. "I'm Chu Ying. Han Da, this is your knife." Chu Ying obediently sat among the women washing vegetables and helped wash the vegetables.

(End of this chapter)