Prosperity through farming

Chapter 86

Seeing that Jingzhe seemed to have something to say, Xiaohan rolled his eyes at him, "It's not too short of time, and, for four people's meals, three of them have started, and I'm the only one who eats and doesn't work. That face, besides, you don’t want me to not know how to use kitchen utensils until I enter the village school, do you?”

The two elder brothers looked at each other and stopped raising any objections, "Okay, then, let's work quickly."

Jing Zhe went into the kitchen first, Han Lu walked to Uncle Tie Li's next door, and Xiao Han went back to his room.

But she didn't start to do her homework. After much deliberation, she took out a box from the storage bag. Inside this box, which was similar to a magic weapon storage, was a large pile of thin, curly shapes with a strong smell of the sea. Like a duck intestine, the color is gray and a little black.

This is sea intestine, or Xiaojin brought it to her today, and I don’t know if the saying in the previous life that “sea intestine can be dried and ground can be used as monosodium glutamate” is correct. After all, in Xiaohan’s era, sea intestine had already become extinct. As for these in her hand, Xiao Jin gave her the communication symbol of the business key before leaving today in order to get the business key earlier.

She only mentioned it to Xiao Jin once before, and it was only a vague question - after all, as long as you enter the village school, you can get to know the students in Tianyao Village. The surnames Hai and Gui are all monsters living in the sea or by the sea. It would be more reliable if they inquired.

And Shenlong either flies in the sky, and once it enters the sea, it will go deep into the Dragon Palace in the center of the seabed. How can it be possible to pay attention to the shallow sea near the shore?But in order to start the sugar business as soon as possible, Xiaojin actually found him!Let Xiaohan also have to admire it.

This point is actually Xiaohan's overthinking. With the power of the Dragon Clan, all creatures with enlightened intelligence in the sea are its subordinates. As long as Xiaojin wants something, as long as it is in the sea, if you order it, there will naturally be subordinates looking for it. give her.

But how to use it?Wash it first, and then she will be gone. With her runes, it is easy to burn it to ashes, but it is difficult to dry it.

Among the current people, only Han Lu can do it. However, she is not sure whether the Zhang family's exercises will conflict with this thing, and it would be miserable if the cultivation base is damaged for the sake of appetite.Although Mr. Jun has said that river fresh seafood will not have any effect, I will ask her tomorrow and then study again. If it is really possible, we can unite with Tianyao Village, and Xiaotian Village can also start an additional seasoning business—from If the mortal world makes sugar, there must be corresponding trading goods. Xiaotian Village is all practitioners, and gold and silver are of no use to them. It would be too stupid to exchange spirit stones for gold and silver. Intestines can really make umami seasonings, so Odamura doesn't have to worry about the bargaining chips needed to buy sugar.

Sighing, Xiaohan closed the box again and put it away. Let Mr. Jun see it tomorrow and try again.

As an inertial sequelae of the codewords in her previous life, no matter what she does, she is used to planning as comprehensively as possible. Although it cannot be said that there are no dead ends, she must always complete the cause and effect, otherwise there will be a kind of obsessive-compulsive worry—— I made too many outlines in my previous life, and if the logic is not complete, I will not be able to sleep.

After dinner, it is Xiaohan's homework time, and now, she is copying and writing symbols in the school dormitory in the morning, but all kinds of books in the study hall are also the focus of children's learning in the private school. Now she has no time to read books every afternoon, so she can only use The reason is to move it to the evening so that the time spent going to Ruiqi's will not become a stumbling block in her studies.

Moreover, both her husband and her parents have pointed out to her that staying with Rui Qi for a whole afternoon will increase her cultivation level a little. Although it is not much, it is much better than her sitting in meditation for the whole afternoon—staying with the beast Around me, the meridians in the body circulate continuously, and the spiritual power absorbed must be much thicker than in ordinary environments, almost equivalent to the spiritual energy absorbed in the best spiritual center.

That's why even though going to Ruiqi's place all afternoon would slow down her study progress in the private school, neither her family nor her husband objected, and it greatly benefited her cultivation.

In addition to cultivation, Xiaohan can't let Xiaohan down in other aspects of learning. She is special. She can borrow books from the school to read at home. Of course, Han Lu brought them back for her. Every day after school, those books It's also in the study for nothing, so it's better to let Xiaohan take a look at it at home, so as to make up for some homework that I didn't miss in the private school in the afternoon.

As for before dinner, it was Xiaohan's own time to sneak in from her busy schedule. This was the only time when her mind was free and she could think of something other than homework to entertain herself.

Ordinarily, after entering the Foundation Establishment, the spiritual thoughts will gradually become stronger and condensed into spiritual consciousness. This process is very similar to the changes in the spiritual power in the dantian when entering the Jindan stage.

The smoke gradually becomes thicker, and when it reaches a certain level, the center will change like crystals in an over-concentrated salt solution or sugar solution. The precipitated crystals will absorb the scattered spiritual matter and spiritual power around them, and truly become small round beads suspended in the marrow sea and dantian.

However, Xiaohan looks inside now, although the meridian circulation center in the body will emit purple smoke-like spiritual matter upwards into the marrow sea, and downwards condense colorful mist-like spiritual energy into the dantian, but both are still so shallow that Xiaohan dissatisfied.

She has built the foundation, but the divine sense in the marrow sea is still thin, and there is no thickness that can be condensed...

Condensation of spiritual thoughts is a sign of entering the middle stage of foundation establishment. The eldest brother should not be far away from that. As for the second brother, he is still a little bit worse. Thinking about it this way, it is not surprising that her younger sister is much worse.

It's just that if it's much worse, she can't use kitchen utensils, let alone learn the basic techniques of alchemy. All she can do is to read more about alchemy materials such as the alchemy materials encyclopedia and the illustrated book of ten thousand kinds of spiritual plants. Basic books such as introductions and instructions.

Xiaohan cares about the speed at which her consciousness condenses because of her "portable farm" plan. Ruiqi obviously emptied the bottom layer of the stone gourd, but she still can't use it. Why, it's because she doesn't have consciousness yet.

If she wants to use it now, unless the stone gourd is moved into Ruiqi's body, then she can use her body to enter the stone gourd, operate it manually, and dig the soil.Otherwise, you have to take the fertile soil out of the pot, add mud and water to mix in proportion, and then put the mixed soil into the stone gourd—but this will let the aura in the fertile soil disperse in the air, Very wasteful.

If she has spiritual consciousness, because the stone gourd is in her soul, she can collect the soil into the stone gourd just by thinking with her spiritual consciousness, and mix the fertilizer and soil with her thoughts, and give the land to the stone gourd. Well leveled.

This is the reason why Xiaohan is anxious to condense her spiritual consciousness as soon as possible - she asked Ruiqi, if she moves the stone gourd to Ruiqi, she will never get it back, and it will also have damage to her soul. hurt.

If she wants to own the stone gourd herself and wants to use her physical body to enter the gourd to operate, at least in the middle of her distraction, she can let one of her Nascent Souls support the stone gourd and jump out of the top door. Only with another Nascent Soul can she use it The flesh enters the gourd for labor and adventure.

Well, after understanding all this, she finally understood how unreliable the so-called portable space text in her previous life was.

If like her, the soul is bound to the treasures of the portable farm, and it is said that it can enter physically, how is it possible?The body is the container of the soul. If she wants to put the body into the stone gourd, she can do it now, that is, use the stone gourd as the container of the soul, but in this way, her body will become vegetable.Although the goal of putting the body into the artifact has been achieved, two more problems have arisen. The vegetative body is also paralyzed after entering the stone gourd. How can it be possible to work?The second problem is that the magic weapon that can contain a portable farm-style space is the lowest level of the magic weapon. If the magic weapon becomes the container of the soul, then there must be a catastrophe, and the soul contained in the magic weapon will be refined into a weapon monster. So far - it is equivalent to completely breaking the connection between the soul and the body, and turning to cultivating demons.

If it is just a place to grow plants, like the one in Zhutian held by Dad, it is possible, but a portable planting space like Zhutian is absolutely unable to support animals, and it is absolutely impossible to absorb spiritual power from the environment.

Like daddy's two bead fields, they consume a lot of spiritual stones every month—maybe they don't need so much to grow vegetables. Who told daddy to plant all high-level spiritual plants for alchemy?

In those ordinary farming texts, if you get a space, you will have an endless stream of spiritual springs, spiritual soil, and aura-how can it be possible, it is a divine weapon, and when Xiaohan's cultivation base is so low, it is impossible to activate such a function, let alone without cultivation. For ordinary people.

Not to mention the function that can adjust the proportion of time, such a function can only be found in artifacts, and even immortals can only control time by slowing down or stopping it. To speed up the proportion of time flow, it must be refined In the magic weapon, it is impossible to have such great supernatural powers if you are not at the level of a god!
It is estimated that after Xiaotian Village has a spiritual vein, Dad will apply to work in the medicine garden. He really likes planting, whether it is Lingmi or Lingzhi, if it is slowly sprouting and growing in his hands, and flourishing, Dad will be sincerely happy.

Xiaohan wanted to learn planting and alchemy, probably because he was influenced by his father's precepts and deeds. In addition, the existence of such a heaven-defying artifact as a stone gourd is an additional advantage, so he has such a future practice career plan.

It's a pity, at present, she can't use the stone gourd at all, let alone plant anything.

Finding out the "Common Alchemy Auxiliary Spiritual Planting Guide and Planting Key Points" that her elder brother brought back for her, Xiaohan looked at it and his hands were itchy, or, after a while, he would also apply for a Zhutian from his father, and then get some low-level elixir See all kinds?

Well, this is a bit extravagant, why don't you ask daddy for a vegetable pot to grow some common spices or something, she found that there are many spices used in the kitchen in the previous life, but now they are all classified in the weeds, if collected and planted , after she can cook, she can also have more seasonings to use!
That's right, spices like thyme are the shrubs that grow at the foot of Shenqi Mountain. If it wasn't for the elder brother who didn't have other spices other than green onion and ginger when cooking fish a few days ago, she wouldn't have thought of running to the foot of the mountain to pick them. Yes, the fish soup that time really had a strange mellow aroma and an excellent flavor.

But the original recipe was steamed fish. Xiaohan thought about it before steaming the fish in a basket, and thought that at least marinate the fish with pepper to remove the fishy smell. Steamed fish is the most afraid of fishy smell.It turned out that the elder brother had never heard of this thing at all, and later he took the opportunity of the cooking exchange to ask Mr. Jun, and she had never heard of it, and Xiaohan suddenly realized that people in this world may not have started to use pepper as a spice.

Since then, Xiaohan began to pay attention, only to find that not only pepper, but also mustard, mint, lemongrass, cumin, curry, etc. have never been heard, not to mention nutmeg, Amomum, woody, Angelica dahurica, rosemary and the like.

Even the oil in Mr. Jun's kitchen is meat oil. This time, Xiaohan finally knows why even his mother seldom uses stir-frying in cooking. The three of them cannot eat meat oil. All the dishes on the table, But all fried fish oil is used, this is because of the care of the uncle and the second uncle, there is always some fish oil in the house-fish oil is not good, if it is not for the convenience of the uncle and the second uncle, they can collect it every day Some unfinished fish heads and fish bones can only be refined to a small amount of oil if they accumulate too much.

Xiaohan eats more dishes now, some are boiled and then poured with seasoning sauce, some are steamed with crushed chili and fermented soybeans, and some are baked on a thick iron plate. To be honest, my mother’s cooking skills are very good Yes, there are so many kinds of vegetables at Daddy's place. Xiaohan has never gotten tired of eating them, so he ignores the three methods of cooking and frying.

My mother has never done frying, frying and frying. Basically, she has never eaten fried dishes since she grew up. Maybe, because vegetables are not delicious when fried with fish?

When talking about it in the private school, the food in the village school is more meat than vegetarian, and fried sweet-scented osmanthus meat is a famous dish.Those who have older brothers and relatives in the village school speak more clearly - at least they have smelled the fragrance...

But Xiaohan obviously saw olive trees on the other side of Shenqi Mountain?After so many years, has no one thought of harvesting olives to press oil?Also, peanuts are not a rare thing. The eldest brother and the second brother dug them from the ground a month or two ago and ate them raw with friends—why didn’t you think of trying to extract oil from them?Another one, there are apricots every year—although they are bigger than the apricots eaten in the previous life, and the color is white instead of yellow, but the core is exactly the same, it’s terrible, even she didn’t think of almond oil—— The kernels in the apricot core can also be used to extract oil after peeling them off. Where did those cores go?It would be a waste if it was all lost.

It's already very cold, and it's almost November. I don't know if those peanuts can be dug out to press oil. However, generally speaking, olives can be harvested from November to February of the next year. Oh, yes, in the previous life The information is based on the solar calendar, and there will always be a difference of two months between the solar calendar and the lunar calendar. According to the current calculation, it can be harvested from October to December, and it is still in the olive harvesting period.

But the three of them can't go to Shenqi Mountain yet, the olives she saw are some distance away from the foot of the mountain, that idea... go to Mr. Jun's kitchen tomorrow, and discuss it with her.

If you can get olive oil, you can eat fried vegetables, fried rice noodles, and even make pancakes and fried rice cakes. Well, even if it doesn't bring any benefits, eating fried vegetables with oil is the biggest benefit.

"Xiao Han, come out and see what to do." Han Lu's voice sounded from outside.

The rice balls are pressed with spiritual rice, because of the presence of spiritual energy, they are particularly sticky, but they are still very dry. When Xiaohan touches them, they are hard and not soft enough.

"Do you have vegetarian eggs (eggs from hens without roosters, which are not considered meat)? Beat two, knead them into the rice balls, make the rice balls softer, and make them the size of each small bowl. Don’t make the skin too thick, it’s only a little thicker than the wonton skin you ate this morning.” Xiaohan went to look at the pot filled with fillings again, and laughed, “Brother, it’s true that you actually made all the fillings for the wontons from Mr. The ingredients are all prepared." Although the portion is not large, it is troublesome enough. "These are all seasoned? Are you ready to mix salty and light?"

"It's ready," Han Lu responded while directing the rice balls to float in the air with two beaten plain eggs, "I think Mr. Jun's wonton fillings are boiled. Don't cook them? I just pass them through a line of water."

Xiao Han looked at it, and it was okay, although he didn’t cut it, but these vegetables are small trees and small flowers. I think Mr. Jun didn’t dare to use more troublesome vegetables as stuffing for the first time. What kind of chopped and mixed big vegetables, if they don't taste good, that's a waste of time. "It doesn't need to be overcooked. Dumplings can be cooked longer than wontons, and the filling is completely vegetarian, so there will be no problem."

Seeing Lu Zesen's puzzled face, Xiaohan let out a "huh", where was this guy just now?Why did it appear all of a sudden?

"Xiao Han," Jing Zhe was holding another big cauldron to make soup with fish head and fish bone in his hand, and then asked, "The ingredients for dumplings and wontons are the same, why do they have to be made in such different shapes?"

"Who told us not to eat meat?" Xiaohan pouted, "The dumpling skin is a little thicker and can be cooked longer than wontons. Compared with wontons that can only be filled with less filling, dumplings are used We don’t have any meat stuffing to eat, but if you remove the spines of the fish, chop it up and mix it with vegetable stuffing, it should be delicious too.”

(End of this chapter)