Farming in Primitive Society

Chapter 48 Eat Together
"Sister, are you awake?"

Shi turned over tapioca flour from the outside and came in, saw Mu Xiaohua sitting on the bed in a daze and asked with a smile.

"Yeah." Mu Xiaohua looked at him and nodded with a smile. She woke up refreshed after a nap, stretched her waist and got out of bed, "Did the cassava flour dry a little?"

"Dried a lot." Shi's eyes sparkled in wonder, "The dried starch is white, so fine and slippery."

Mu Xiaohua smiled and rubbed the head of the next world and walked out. Standing at the entrance of the cave and looking at the bright sun shining outside, squinting and stretching, she walked towards the cassava starch that was drying, and flipped through it casually.

It was almost noon, "It's time to make lunch." Mu Xiaohua murmured, and called to the cave: "Shi, bring out a big bowl."

"Oh!" Shi Ying said, immediately put down the bamboo basket, took a big bowl and ran out of the cave quickly, "Sister, what do you want the bowl for?"

"Pack a little dry starch to make something delicious."

"What delicious food?" Shi Shi's eyes lit up when he heard that Mu Xiaohua said to make delicious food, and he squatted beside Mu Xiaohua and handed her the bowl.

Mu Xiaohua took the bowl, grabbed the dried starch on top, put it into the bowl, and said, "Pumpkin glutinous rice balls and pumpkin cakes."

"It must be delicious." Shi smiled expectantly.

Mu Xiaohua smiled: "How do you know it's delicious?"

Shi proudly said: "Everything my sister cooks is delicious."

"Yeah." Mu Xiaohua nodded immodestly: "That's true."

After filling the cassava starch and going back to the cave, the two of them got busy, Shi was in charge of lighting the fire, Mu Xiaohua went to cut some raw pumpkins first, and Shi waited for the fire to cook pumpkin soup.

Boil the pumpkin soup, then use another small earthen pot to boil water, Mu Xiaohua takes half of the steamed pumpkin and mash it into a puree, sprinkle some dry starch in a clean and dry pot, put the pumpkin puree in the pot Inside, add tapioca starch in proportion and start kneading until the starch and pumpkin puree are kneaded into a uniform and flexible mass.

Mu Xiaohua makes glutinous rice balls first, glutinous rice balls are very easy to make, just knead the balls to the desired size.

Because there were only two people, the glutinous rice balls were too much to eat, and Mu Xiaohua didn't make many glutinous rice balls. Each person made about ten thumb-sized glutinous rice balls, and made pumpkin pancakes for the rest.

Originally, some glutinous rice flour should be added to the pumpkin cake, which will make it more firm, but now there is no other way.

The pumpkin soup and the water are not boiled yet, knead the glutinous rice balls and put them aside, knead the remaining dough balls again, put them on the chopping board and knead them into long strips, cut them into the required size with a knife, and knead them into balls one by one Make it into a cake, and for the convenience of Mu Xiaohua, round the dough and then flatten it directly with your hands.

Pumpkin pies can be fried, deep-fried or steamed. Mu Xiaohua is ready to fry, because she prefers to eat fried pumpkin pies, so she pressed the pies thinner. Looking at the pressed pumpkin pies, Mu Xiaohua thought to herself, if there are Shredded coconut is fine.

After the preparations are completed, Mu Xiaohua concentrates on boiling the pumpkin soup. It takes a long time for the earthenware pot to heat slowly. Without sugar, Mu Xiaohua has to boil the pumpkin thoroughly to ensure that the fragrance and sugar of the pumpkin are completely boiled out, which will take longer .

But for the sake of deliciousness, there is time anyway, so there is nothing wrong with waiting.

"Sister, how long will this take?" Shi looked at Mu Xiaohua who was stirring the pumpkin soup and couldn't help but ask, "The water in the pot over there has been boiling for a long time, when will the glutinous rice balls be cooked?"

"Don't worry." Mu Xiaohua stirred the pumpkin soup calmly, "I have to boil the pumpkin soup, and then cook the glutinous rice balls in the pot. Add some water to the pot over there."

"Okay." Shi obediently went to scoop up water.

After adding water to the pot for boiling water several times, the pumpkin soup is finally ready. Filter out the dregs and pour the soup into two small bowls. One small bowl is half a bowl of soup, and the rest is placed in a large bowl, and then boiled. sweet dumpling.

The glutinous rice balls cooked very quickly, and with the small size made by Mu Xiaohua, the glutinous rice balls that sank in the pot quickly floated up. Mu Xiaohua took out the small bowl containing pumpkin soup, scooped the glutinous rice balls into the bowl, and handed it to The long-awaited Shi: "Come, eat, be careful of being hot."

Shi carefully took it, and the orange pumpkin soup was served with the clear golden pumpkin dumplings. The heat that floated up was the sweet and fragrant pumpkin, which was delicious in color and fragrance.

Shi, who had long been greedy for the pumpkin fragrance in the air and made his stomach growl, took the bowl and looked at the glutinous rice balls in the bowl, his eyes stared straight. He obviously wanted to eat it very much, but he didn't move his spoon.

Mu Xiaohua took another small bowl of pumpkin soup, and asked strangely while filling the dumplings, "Why don't you eat it?"

Shi Chongmu Xiaohua smiled, and said a little shyly, "Wait for my sister to eat together."

When Mu Xiaohua heard this, her heart felt melted, "We are the warmest in the world."

The two ate glutinous rice balls together, fried pumpkin cakes, and after eating these sweet, greasy, Mu Xiaohua roasted the last piece of wild boar.

A wild boar is divided into the whole tribe, and each family gets not much. The food of each family mainly depends on the small prey caught privately when the collective enters the mountain.

Lunch ended like this. After eating and drinking enough, after a short rest, Mu Xiaohua sewed a bag out of animal skins, and then the two of them were ready to go out.

Shi said that there is still less than half of the cassava on the hillside of Xishan that has not been dug, and the cassava at home is gone, so Mu Xiaohua plans to dig some more.

Filling water with a gourd, carrying a hoe and a sickle, the two headed towards the west mountain.

"Shi, do you know where there is a valley near here?"

The advantage of primitive society is that the land is sparsely populated and the land is unowned. Mu Xiaohua is going to find a good place with beautiful mountains and rivers to build a house, of course not too far away from the tribe.

Well, it's better to live in groups.

"Let's go down the mountain and turn right, and there's one on the mountain behind."

"Is there?" Mu Xiaohua asked in surprise, "What kind? Is it big?"

"Yes." Shi definitely nodded, "It's big! There is a large lawn, and there is a small river in front of the lawn, and there is water flowing down from the mountain over there, and there is a pool below, and there are fish in the pool. We have all gone to catch them. Fish, but there will be snakes in the water pool, we have encountered a few times and have not gone fishing."

Mu Xiaohua nodded, "Is there a lot of water flowing down from the mountain?"

"It's not very big." Shi opened his arms, "It's just one column wide."

Mu Xiaohua probably imagined the appearance of the valley in her heart, and decided to go and have a look after digging the cassava.

While chatting, about an hour later, the two came to a small hillside with cassava. After digging a bundle of cassava, Mu Xiaohua asked the world to continue digging, and entered the miscellaneous forest next to it for convenience.

After walking hard for a certain distance, Mu Xiaohua made sure that no one entered the space. She picked eggplants, tomatoes, peppers, aged beans, green beans, and the rest of the mung beans. When a pack is full, the space is released, and I return to find the world.

When Shi Jian Mu Xiaohua came back, the originally deflated bag became bulging and asked suspiciously: "Sister, what's in your bag?"

Mu Xiaohua smiled contentedly and patted her bag, "I came across a lot of good things in the mountains, I'll show you when I go back."

"Okay." Shi smiled and nodded without further questions.

The two dug up two bundles of cassava and were about to head back home. They had just walked a few steps down the mountain when they suddenly heard a shrill scream coming from the mountain behind them.

(End of this chapter)