The grand lady who time-traveled became a hot mom

Chapter 21

Sweet potato flour is actually not difficult to make, but it is extremely cumbersome.It takes at least 8 days to process finished sweet potato flour through six processes of "cleaning, beating, filtering, steaming, drying, and shredding".

After lunch, Aunt Chunhua brought her strongman Lin Damin over to help Fang Yumin make sweet potato noodles.Lin Damin even brought the stone mortar over here, and after greeting Fang Yumin, he pounded the sweet potatoes in silence.Aunt Chunhua poured out the pounded sweet potatoes and added water to make a slurry. Fang Yumin washed the big bucket and pushed it out, and then helped Aunt Chunhua put pots of sweet potato slurry in the big wooden bucket to filter the residue and make it into a sediment paste. You're done.

"Uncle Damin, that's enough. These sweet potato flour pastes need to be soaked for three or four days before proceeding to the next step." Fang Yumin hardly did anything, and Lin Damin and Aunt Chunhua took care of all the work.

"Okay, just tell your aunt if you have any heavy work." Lin Damin smiled innocently, and he was an honest farmer uncle at a glance.

"Okay, thank you, Uncle Damin."

"Don't, hehe, you gave us so much meat, it's just a little effort, we have plenty of strength." Lin Damin took the things to the river to wash after he finished speaking.

Fang Yumin was about to stop her, but was stopped by Aunt Chunhua: "Let him go. Xiao Lian, your method is a bit like making cassava flour. Tapioca flour is also very good. It is dried and preserved. I want to eat it." Soak it in water to make a paste and then fry it into pancakes to eat.”

"I haven't done that before, and I will try it in the future. This one needs to be steamed after soaking." Fang Yumin said.

"Okay, I'll come back in two days."

"it is good."

The two moved the things into the ear room again, and covered the barrel with wooden boards.

Lin Damin also came back with clean wooden basins and wooden sticks, and Aunt Chunhua said to Lin Damin, "Father, find a time to move a big stone slab for the toilet in Qiulai's house."

"Okay, I'll pick a piece of corn and move it here after filling the corn field today." Lin Damin smiled honestly, and then said to Fang Yumin: "My daughter-in-law Qiulai, the dishes you cook are really delicious, much better than spring flowers. Teach her."

"Naturally. Don't worry." Fang Yumin also smiled, and Aunt Chunhua opened her mouth to scold Lin Damin, but she didn't say anything in the end, but laughed instead.

In the next few days, Fang Yumin went to the paddy field in the morning to check the water level so that the water would not overflow the seedlings. It seemed that the little fish had settled down in the paddy field and was swimming happily.Fang Yumin was quick that the fish had no food, so he fished the duckweed from the other two seedling fields and put them into the fish seedling field.

At noon, Fang Yumin was drying vegetables at home.Vegetables in this season grow very fast, but she and Xiao Ming are the only two people in the family. There are no pigs and hens have no nests, so they can't eat so much.In line with the principle of not being wasted, Fang Yumin dried all the vegetables that could not be eaten into dried vegetables and stored them for winter eating, and also made pickles and sauerkraut in large vats.

In the evening, Fang Yumin took Xiao Ming to his cornfield with a hoe on his shoulder. Fang Yumin worked, and Xiao Ming accompanied his mother to work.

Lin Qiulai hasn't come back yet, but the corn field can't be left alone.Seeing that everyone was about to finish irrigating, Fang Yumin didn't want to waste the water that had already been pumped up from the river with a water truck, and it was almost flowing into her own field, so she decisively carried a hoe and went into battle by herself.

Because the corn field has not been dug (in fact, the land of other villagers has not been dug), Fang Yumin must irrigate the four acres of land by herself, it will kill her.So Fang Yumin decided to bear the pain and shovel away some corn seedlings first, so as to dig out shallow ditches. When the foundation of the field is dug to attract water, it will naturally flow in. She can also use bamboo to make a water drain for irrigation.Fang Yumin wanted to wait until all the corn seedlings had been irrigated, and now almost all the corn seedlings were wilting, and she couldn't tell the good from the bad.

"Little Lian, why didn't you tell me?" Aunt Chunhua came over with Ah Qing carrying a hoe, and when she saw Fang Yumin in the cornfield, she yelled.

"No, I don't want to waste this water." Fang Yumin straightened her waist, yo, she almost couldn't straighten up: "Your land hasn't been irrigated yet."

"It's almost there. Huh? Xiaolian, why did you dig the soil like this? Why did you shovel away all these corn seedlings?" Aunt Chunhua saw that the corn field was already neat and full of pits, and the ground was full of corn. Seedling.

"This... work first, and I will tell you when I rest later."

It was inevitable that Fang Yumin would tell that theory again. In fact, she hadn't done it before, but she thought, anyway, her corn field is thin and the seedlings haven't grown well, so she might as well give it a try.

Aunt Chunhua was used to farm work, her eyes lit up when she heard what Fang Yumin said.But her land has been finalized, so she said: "This time I will see your corn harvest, and next year we will follow your example! Ah Qing, follow suit."

"Good."

After digging the furrows and bringing in water, Fang Yumin, Aunt Chunhua and Ah Qing used Fang Yumin's pattern theory, and Ah Qing started to irrigate with the water leak made by himself.

During this period, Uncle Gui sent two sets of pigs to the water, and Fang Yumin and Aunt Chunhua stewed them together.He took a big casserole and filled it up and sent it to Uncle Gui’s house as a thank you gift. Ah Qing took Xiao Ming and filled a small pot and sent it to Grandma Jin’s house at the end of the village. She helped Fang Yumin get two puppies, and Xiao Ming named them For Xiaobai and Xiaohei.

The rest of the pigs went into the water, Fang Yumin thought for a while and scooped up a small can to give to Fang Xiaolian's father-in-law, Lin Daniu. How should I put it, if Fang Yumin took Xiao Ming to leave Linjiacun in the near future, then there was no need to do so; but now They have to live here, and it is a fresh and hot topic in the mouths of the villagers.After all, they are Xiao Ming's grandparents, Fang Yumin still sent them for Xiao Ming's future growth.

She hates Zhang Shi, but Fang Yumin doesn't hate Lin Daniu.According to her analysis, Lin Daniu is still the one who talks about the Lin family.He doesn't take Zhang's petty fights to heart, but when big things happen, Lin Daniu gets angry!
Fang Yumin changed the water and stirred the sweet potato paste that had settled in the bucket from time to time every day to prevent it from going bad.Three days later, together with Aunt Chunhua, I turned the pasty sediment into a powder slurry, put it in a special bamboo drawer made by Ah Qing, and steamed it with a slow fire.

The steamed flaky sweet potato powder is placed in a cool place to air-dry. After about two days of air-drying, it can be collected and cut into shreds, and then thoroughly dried again for easy storage.

Fang Yumin is so busy every day that her feet don't touch the ground, hey, when will Lin Qiulai come back?The free labor is not here, she is the one who is exhausted, hum, if you don't come back, don't blame me for wearing Fang Xiaolian's skin and spending money to hire laborers.

Now Fang Xiaolian's house is much more beautiful than when she first passed through. I saw that the yard has replaced the original bamboo fence with emerald green thorns, and a circle of peppers has been planted along the thorns inside. The growth is gratifying, and it will bear fruit , The red pepper looks delicious.

The vegetable garden in the front yard was enlarged by Fang Yumin, and the neat ridges were full of melons and fruits. Xiao Ming picked up a lot of small stones and built a circle around the vegetable garden, making it look more neat and beautiful.

In the cowshed in the backyard, what used to be a small chicken coop has now become a large chicken coop. There are five small rooms in total, one of which is actually used for hatching eggs.The grass that Fang Yumin shoveled before has already settled down and taken root in the cowshed. Xiao Ming digs some earthworms in from time to time, and diligently catches vegetable bugs, and cuts vegetable leaves for them to eat. The egg basket has been changed again...

The pigsty is still empty, and it has been temporarily used as a nest for two puppies.The pit behind the latrine has been covered with stone slabs, and Fang Yumin also asked Ah Qing to take Xiao Ming to transplant some scented flowers around the latrine to remove the lingering fragrance.

There are also many bamboo poles in the backyard, on which steamed vegetables are hung, and the backyard is full of air.And a hut was temporarily set up next to the kitchen to dry the steamed flaky sweet potato powder (this cannot be exposed to the sun).

Aunt Chunhua and Fang Yumin were busy collecting the air-dried sweet potato powder and cutting them into strips in the backyard. In order to preserve them later, they had to be completely dried again, and then tied into bunches.

Xiao Ming was peeling edamame in the front yard, and two puppies were playing around him.Such a big puppy is the most lively and cute, and it always chases its own tail in circles, which makes Xiao Ming laugh from time to time, and can't help playing with them.

This is what Lin Qiulai saw when he got home.My son Xiao Ming happily chased and played with the puppy, not at all like the timid child I knew.And the family has also changed a lot, with red flowers and green grass, full of vitality.

The happy laughter of the children, as well as the voices and laughter of women from the backyard, make people feel that this home is very warm and happy.

Lin Qiulai put his hand on the wooden gate but didn't push it to go in. He stared at it with wide eyes, hesitating: This...is really his home?

(End of this chapter)