Carry a fountain with you

Chapter 222
Liu Junhao didn't dare to delay, and immediately rode back to the village. He almost went door-to-door to notify.

There are no mixed surnames in Liujiagou, and this matter can be said to be a matter for the whole village.Of course, after he had informed in the village, he also told Professor Zhao by the way, and asked the two old men to follow and have a look.

The matter was far bigger than he had imagined. After hearing that something belonging to the ancestors had been dug up by the river, all the idlers in the village rushed over, and the usual meetings were not so well attended.

When Liu Junhao approached again, he couldn't get in front of him at all, so he could only watch from a distance on his horseback.You can vaguely hear Liu Wuye giving a lecture there: "I heard from the older generation that our village was first built on the river beach. Later, the big river often flooded and the village was flooded several times before it was changed to the current place. It is said that the nearby There is also a big stone tablet, on which it is written about Liu Erwa, the ancestor of our Liujiagou. There used to be a genealogy, and there are also records on it, but it is a pity that the four old ones were burned in six years or so..."

There really is a genealogy, Liu Junhao was also taken aback when he heard it, saying that he always thought that the seniority in Liujiagou was just passed down from generation to generation in oral form.It's a pity that it was burned early, and I don't have a chance to see it now.

To be honest, not many people in the younger generation want to hear Liu Wuye talk about ancient times. Although Liu Erwa is an ancestor, it has been more than 20 generations, and that feeling has long since faded.

Most people are thinking of digging up the stone slab to see what good things are in the well.

After the old people confirmed one by one, everyone agreed to dig the well to have a look.Of course, this time is much more grand than before. Before excavation, yellow paper was burned to worship the ancestors.

All the men present in Liujiagou lined up in several horizontal lines according to their seniority, and then the man with the highest seniority led them to kowtow.

"It's as if it's real, it's pure superstition. Xiaohao, don't you think so?" Liu Junliang who was next to him approached in a low voice and said.

Before Liu Junhao spoke, Liu Junliang's old man, Liu Laosan, had already hit him on the head with a crisp chestnut: "You boy, don't talk nonsense..."

This guy immediately became honest, and followed behind with a low eyebrow and kowtowed.

In fact, Liu Junliang's words represent the thoughts of most young people, who feel that the ancestors are too far away, counting with their fingers, it is hundreds of years older.

Besides, the ancestor's grave has been washed away by the flood long ago, and now he is gnawing on a big stone slab, and the stone is not the ancestor.However, with the example of Liu Junliang first, no one dares to raise objections at the moment.

After kowtowing, they offered incense one by one. After a while, the bowl of the incense burner was full.

After all the procedures were completed, Liu Guangju asked a few young men to lift the large stone slabs, and this time Liu Junhao also stepped forward to help.

After the big stone slab was lifted, people felt disappointed. The ancient well had already collapsed, and there was really nothing to see at the well mouth except for a large pile of blue bricks and sludge.

Thinking about it, the well has been abandoned for hundreds of years, and it can be regarded as a vicissitudes of life. It is very good to keep it like this.

After the old people stepped forward to check again, they continued to dig.Pieces of heavy Mawu bricks were moved out, and the underground space gradually expanded.However, with the extension of the space, people's disappointment is also growing. The ancestors did not leave anything good in the well for future generations.

"What do you think this is?" At this moment, Liu Qihua suddenly found a blue object in the soil.

Hearing his call, everyone cheered up and gathered around the edge of the pit to watch.

When this thing was unearthed, I lost interest again.It was just half a rusty piece of rotten copper that was passed around in the hands of the old people before being thrown to the ground.

"Let me see..." Mr. Wang is a knowledgeable person. He moved closer to him and said, "This should be an ancient bronze mirror with ruffled leaves. People used to use this mirror to comb their hair."

Hearing that it was a bronze mirror, a few old people hurriedly put it on the table and offered it... It is very likely that it was used by the ancestors.

Then a lot of broken pots and jars were dug out. Mr. Wang speculated that they were used to dig well water.However, the workmanship of these rotten jars is very rough, no different from those in the abandoned kiln beside the forest, and they have no collection value.

After busying for a long time, except for the half piece of bronze mirror, nothing of value was dug out.Not reconciled, everyone searched around again, but they didn't find the stele Liu Wuye mentioned.

But this matter is not over, and several old people began to ask for a ancestral hall.

The building of the ancestral hall cannot be done overnight, but can only be done slowly.

Zhang Qian just came home from school and heard about it. She kept complaining that she was not there at the time, and said that she must go and take a look if she had time, and it would be best to take some photos.

"What's so interesting? I didn't dig out anything, but I dug out half of the bronze mirror, and it was rusty." Liu Junhao dismissed her idea.

In fact, the matter about the ancestors of the Liu family was only lively for a few days, after which few people except the older generation mentioned it.

Life was still going on as usual, and Zhang Qian went to Liu Wunai's house to learn how to dry sweet potatoes while she was free.She was well prepared and specially brought a notebook to record the steps.

After figuring out all the steps, she began to experiment with enthusiasm at home.

Zhang Qian was busy up and down, so Liu Junhao would not be idle, he picked up a lot of smaller sweet potatoes, washed them and put them in the pot.According to my wife, only tender sweet potatoes can make syrup, and the dried sweet potatoes produced in this way are delicious.

Liu Junhao naturally didn't believe it, it was the same as the joke made by her little nephew.

When Xiao Zeyu came over last time, Liu Junhao handed him a big sweet potato, but this guy was not satisfied, so he insisted on taking a small one, and gave Jianhui the big one.

At first, I thought I knew how Kong Rong made pears, but the little guy said: "The big ones are old and not tasty." At that time, everyone almost didn't laugh.

But baby sweet potatoes are good too, being easy to cook.Liu Junhao's side is about to catch fire, while Zhang Qian is watching the time.

It took more than an hour to steam a pot of sweet potatoes, and the water in the pot was almost boiled dry.

I thought that Zhang Qian was a novice, and this sweet potato would definitely not be able to cook the syrup.Unexpectedly, the effect is very good. The skin of the sweet potato is thin and a little transparent, and you can clearly feel the water coming out of the inside.

Liu Junhao picked one up with chopsticks and put it in his wife's bowl, and then made another one himself. He resisted the burning heat and stuffed it into his mouth. Suddenly, the sticky sweet potato syrup rushed into his mouth with boiling hotness, and his mouth was full of sweetness.

You don't need to chew with your teeth at all, just lick it with your tongue a few times, and the sweetness has penetrated into the abdomen and lungs, which is really delicious.

After eating a sweet potato, Liu Junhao felt that his stomach was full of affection, and the sweat pores all over his body relaxed.

He smacked his lips and fished another one out of the pot.

"Well, I'll just say it's worth the extra effort, right?" Zhang Qian felt a sense of accomplishment seeing how delicious his food was.

"Well, it's certainly worth eating by yourself, but you don't want to do it every day, do you? We spent almost two hours on this half pot of sweet potatoes. There are still several thousand catties piled up in the backyard."

Liu Junhao said casually, and his wife immediately became depressed.

The dried sweet potatoes made in this way are delicious, but it takes a lot of work.According to the method in front of me, it is estimated that it will not be finished in a day.

After the sweet potatoes cooled down, Liu Junhao put them on the chopping board to peel and cut them into strips one by one.

Taking advantage of the good weather, put the sweet potatoes in the dustpan to dry.In order to prevent flies, a layer of window screen is specially covered on the top.

At this point, the production of dried sweet potatoes is more than half of the process. The next thing to do is to turn over the dried sweet potatoes occasionally and change the position, so that each one can fully enjoy the moisture of the sun.The drying time of sweet potatoes must be well controlled. If the drying time is too short, the water will not evaporate completely, and it will easily become moldy during storage.If the time is too long, the dried sweet potatoes will become hard and taste bad.

After drying, it needs to be frosted, that is, put the dried sweet potato in a jar and seal it for half a month.A layer of milky white frost will naturally grow on the surface of the sweet potato, which is the syrup overflowing from the inside.

Zhang Qian lost her energy after steaming two pots of sweet potatoes, and never mentioned the rhetoric of selling dried sweet potatoes.

As for the things that were exposed in the sun upstairs, they were all handed over to Liu Junhao, saying that he would keep them at home to eat.

Liu Junhao tossed about dried sweet potatoes upstairs for a long time, and then returned to the house to rest after seeing that everything was fine.

Just after a while on the Internet, the phone rang.

He didn't recognize the human voice at first, and he didn't recall it until he introduced himself: it was the client Dr. Wang introduced last time. His name was Ma Jun, and he opened a restaurant in the city. At that time, he was given a ticket What about business cards?

"Boss Liu, I have some good news for you..." After exchanging pleasantries, Ma Jun started to talk about the business, "Last time I bought a few catties of rice field eels from you to entertain the guests, and the guests were very satisfied after eating them. We then went to the fishery department A friend of mine appraised it and found that you are an eel..."

In the middle of speaking, this guy suddenly stopped.

"What's wrong with my eel?" Liu Junhao followed up and asked.He wasn't worried about the side effects of rice eel after eating it. After all, he had eaten it for so long, and there was nothing wrong with his body. On the contrary, he was getting better and better.

What he was worried about was that people engaged in aquatic products researched something unusual, and when it caused a sensation, his stone lock might be exposed.

This is contrary to the comfortable life he expected. Now he insists on being a low-key person, doing things in a low-key manner, and earning money in a low-key manner...

"The result of the appraisal is that although your rice field eel is domesticated, it has kept the living habits of wild rice field eels to the greatest possible extent, and its quality is exceptional... I said why didn't you respond?" Ma Jun talked for a long time, but found that the other end of the phone was not happy at all. look.

"Oh... special class, what else?" Liu Junhao came back to his senses at this moment, he already knew that the rice field eels raised in the backyard were of good quality.Soaked in spring water, can the quality be bad, otherwise there will be so many repeat customers.

However, it is not bad to have an appraisal, which is recognized by the authoritative department.

"Our restaurant wants to cooperate with Boss Liu for a long time. The eels you raise..."

"Stop it, I have no intention of expanding breeding for the time being." Ma Jun was stopped by Liu Junhao as soon as he finished speaking. He has heard the following words many times.

"Hehe, I've also heard from Dr. Wang about this. It's just a suggestion. If you want to cooperate in the future, just call. In addition, prepare ten catties of your rice field eel for me. I'll pick it up tomorrow..."

(End of this chapter)