The whole mountain is my hunting ground

Chapter 783 Zhao Family Workshop Meilan Kiln
From Yongxing brigade to Yongantun, one hundred and twenty miles.When Xie Chen drove, Zhao Jun and the others arrived in just over an hour.

But today Zhao Youcai took Wang Dalong with him, and the two of them walked and stopped, and Zhao Youcai had to carry Wang Dalong on his back from time to time.Fortunately, they rubbed the sledge twice on the way, and then rushed back to the village at this time.

Otherwise, with Wang Dalong's state, he would definitely not be able to spend the night outside.

As soon as they approached the entrance of the village, Xiaoxiong, Xiaohua, Qinglong, and Heilong who were also tired all day regained their spirits in an instant, left Zhao Youcai behind and ran home.

At this time, Zhao Youcai supported Wang Dalong who was leaning on a stick in the other hand, and said to him: "All right, I'll send you home."

"Uncle." Wang Dalong opened his dry and cracked lips slightly, and said in a low voice, "You have to cover me for a while when you get home, or my wife will have to divorce me."

Zhao Youcai twitched the corner of his mouth, sighed helplessly, and said, "Okay, let's go."

After saying that, Zhao Youcai helped Wang Dalong into the village, and first walked to Wang Dalong's house.

At the same time, Zhao Jun's family laughed and laughed, and women and children gathered together.

Although Zhao's father and son were not at home, Wang Meilan and her two daughters lived happily ever after.

At this moment, in the east room of Zhao Jun's house, the old lady Jiang Liushi is sitting in the kang, with Zhao Hong on the left and Zhao Na on the right.

Zhao Hong turned to the left, followed by Xiaolingdang and Yang Yufeng, while Zhao Na turned to the right, followed by Li Xiaoqiao and Jin Xiaomei.

In the center of the Kang table is a discarded basswood cutting board, which Wang Meilan brought back from the back garden.They used this cutting board when chopping cabbage in autumn.

This kind of basswood cutting board must be used as a good thing if it is to be placed in ordinary people's homes.

But can Wang Meilan's family lack this?At this time, she put the cutting board on the table to use as a brazier.

On the cutting board, there was a brazier. This brazier was made of mud, with a triangular mouth and a concave notch on each side.

In the brazier, there is charcoal drawn from the stove pit.And on the mouth of the brazier, there is a flat casserole.

In the casserole, boiled cabbage with pork belly!

The heat from the brazier made the cheeks of the people around them flush, and everyone was wearing single clothes, but their foreheads were covered with sweat.

"Coming!" Suddenly, just hearing Wang Meilan's greeting, she came in from the outbuilding carrying an enamel basin.

Wang Meilan walked quickly to the front of the kang, put the basin in her hand on the edge of the kang, took out the soaked vermicelli from it, and put it into the open casserole.

Seeing this, Jin Xiaomei and Yang Yufeng on the side hurriedly picked up their chopsticks and dipped into the pot, pressing the sticky vermicelli into the soup.

Wang Meilan sat sideways beside Yang Yufeng, glanced at the vegetable soup slowly bubbling in the pot, and showed a satisfied smile on her face.

Then, Wang Meilan reached out to pick up the iron basin on the edge of the kang, and said with a smile: "Let's eat big pancakes and boiled cabbage first, and then we'll bake two potatoes to eat!"

Hearing the brazier baked potatoes, everyone from the old lady to little Zhao Na's eyes lit up.

"Ma'am!" Li Xiaoqiao looked at Wang Meilan eagerly, and said, "I don't want to eat big pancakes, I just want to eat baked potatoes."

"You wait for a while." As soon as Li Xiaoqiao finished speaking, she was pulled by Jin Xiaomei, only to hear Jin Xiaomei say: "This is stewed vegetables, why are you roasting potatoes?"

"Xiaomei!" Seeing this, Wang Meilan hurriedly raised her hand to stop Jin Xiaomei, and said, "Don't talk about children, why don't you eat?"

As she said that, Wang Meilan pointed down at the kang, and said: "We have so many braziers, let's make another one next to it, and bake potatoes for these children."

Looking in the direction of Wang Meilan's finger, I saw thirteen braziers placed under the window.

These braziers have triangular mouths and round mouths. This is the result of Wang Meilan and the others' hard work all day!

This morning, just after Wang Meilan and her two daughters finished eating, Yang Yufeng came with the little bell.And after the Li family's father and three went to work, Jin Xiaomei led Li Xiaoqiao over the wall and came to Zhao's house.

Then, little Lingdang went to school with her three little aunts, and Wang Meilan took her right and left arm to make mud in the yard.

They spread the large plastic sheet on the ground, pressed the four corners with bricks, and then mixed the loess and dry wheatgrass evenly on the ground beside them, and then added water to make mud.

After pinching the mud onto the plastic sheet, the three of them stepped on it wearing boots.

This is to step out all the air bubbles in the mud to stimulate the stickiness of the yellow mud. This process is very time-consuming and labor-intensive. The three women stepped on it for two hours.And when the boots stepped into the mud and then pulled out, it was quite strenuous.

When the three of them were busy, the old lady came with a small basket.

Zhao Jun was not at home recently, and no one provided Wang Meilan with roe deer, wild boar, etc. Wang Meilan did not set up a banquet. The old lady took advantage of her free time and worked at home for a few days, and finally embroidered the pillow and pillowcase to be given to Zhao Jun. .

But as soon as she entered the hospital and saw Wang Meilan's operation, the old lady rolled her eyes twice and said to Wang Meilan: "Girl, do you want to build a shed? There is no man here. Can the three of you do it?"

It's no wonder that the old lady has no eyesight. Wang Meilan's cleaning of the pile of mud is not enough to build a house, but it is definitely enough to build a shed or a few woodcut dog kennels!

"No shed." Wang Meilan shook her hand and said, "We don't fix anything else, just make a few braziers. I'll take you back at night, get you one, and put it on the kang to warm it up."

Then, Wang Meilan told the old lady that Wang Qiang hunted a wild boar in the mountains yesterday, and saw that there was still a little pork belly on the old sow's stomach, so Wang Qiang cut a piece of pork belly, a small loin and a hind leg, and sent them to Wang Meilan. up.

Seeing that piece of pork belly, Wang Meilan suddenly wanted to eat pork belly with boiled cabbage.

What's more, the pork belly boiled cabbage that Wang Meilan wants to eat is not the usual method. It needs to be boiled in a casserole and the soup must be kept bubbling to be delicious.

In this way, the big stoves in the countryside will not work.But Zhao Jun's house didn't have a stove, so Wang Meilan wanted to burn a brazier.

"Ah, this... this is fine too." The old lady took another look at the pile of mud that three women stepped on together, and couldn't help thinking that ten braziers would be enough with this old mud, and this girl couldn't Are you going to sell it?
But no matter what she thought in her heart, when she saw Wang Meilan and the others preparing to forge, the old lady stopped her and said to Wang Meilan: "Girl, you can't leave it here to fight!"

"Huh?" Wang Meilan was startled when she heard the words, but she heard the old lady say, "For the blank, you need a place with sunshine, otherwise it will be damp when it rains."

"Really?" Wang Meilan asked in surprise, "What else is there?"

"That's not right!" Seeing that the three juniors were all looking at her, the old lady straightened her back, walked over with a small basket on her shoulders, and pointed out: "If it's not good, it will grow hair!"

As the saying goes: If you don't listen to the old man's words, you will suffer in front of your eyes.

Wang Meilan hurriedly asked Jin Xiaomei and Yang Yufeng to move the table out of the warehouse, and put the table in the sun.

In this way, Zhao Jun's family set up three tables.There were balls of yellow mud on the three tables. Wang Meilan, Jin Xiaomei, and Yang Yufeng stood in front of each table, beating the mud with big sticks.

Well, if people who don't know it, they will be able to think what kind of farm workshop it is after seeing this scene.

The three of them hammered for another hour, seeing that the mud was sticky, Wang Meilan and the others divided the mud they pounded into several portions.Then, they went into the house together and took out many pots.

There are not only pots, but also three small stew pots.

Next, each of the three people took a piece of mud and put it on a plastic sheet, and rolled it into a mud cake with a large round wooden stick.Then hold the plastic sheet and paste the mud cake to the outside of the pot and stew pot.

In the next step, even the old ladies started to beat the mud cakes in the paste pots and stew pots.

This is called blanking!
Then, a few people pinched mud to grow strips, and circled the bottom of the basin and the bottom of the braised pot, which became the bottom of the brazier.

At this time, the mud was formed, and Wang Meilan and the others dipped their hands in the basin and wiped the surface of the mud continuously.This touch smoothes the surface of the mud.

The old lady did not participate in this step.But she was not idle either. She gathered firewood and lit the two large stoves in Zhao Jun's courtyard.

For a moment, two wisps of green smoke drifted into the air with the wind.Then I saw Wang Meilan and the others carrying mud bricks one by one towards the stove. Those who didn't know thought they were firing a kiln!
After the mud is dried, the basin or small pot wrapped in it can be taken out, so that the brazier is roughly formed.

The last step is to seal the brazier, this step is also called the long (zhǎng) edge.Wang Meilan fired braziers in batches this time, mainly to make two kinds of braziers.A kind of triangular mouth, on which a casserole or copper pot can sit. Wang Meilan said that such a pot is suitable for boiling sauerkraut, cabbage, or mutton.

The brazier with a round mouth is the most common brazier in the Northeast, and basically every household in the countryside has it.Put it on the kang in winter, take a shovel of charcoal from the stove pit and pour it into the brazier, which can keep warm and bake potatoes.But Wang Meilan said that this kind of brazier with iron nets on it can barbecue meat!

It's just that her family's supply team leader was not at home, so Wang Meilan could only "deal" with boiled cabbage.

Cut the wild boar pork belly into thin slices, heat the oil in a pan, cook the chopped green onion in a pan, and stir fry the pork belly.

Such a thin slice of meat will be cooked after a few stir-fries. At this time, I took the thermos pot and poured the boiled water into it.As the water level rises, a smear of oil floats on the surface of the soup.

No need for other condiments, just grab the salty noodles and sprinkle them in.As the fire burned, the soup quickly soaked.

At this time, put the chopped cabbage into the soup, and when the hot soup boils, the fire that has just been suppressed will soon boil again.

Finally, as Wang Meilan poured in the vermicelli that had been soaked for a whole day, the boiled soup was suppressed again.But when the soup is opened again, the meal can be served.

At this moment, Li Xiaoqiao yelled to eat baked potatoes, Wang Meilan, who was always used to children, didn't say anything, she went down to the ground and pulled a round brazier, carried it to the kang, and put the brazier on the kang.

At this time, the little lynx jumped down from Zhao Hong's legs, jumped up in front of the brazier, put a pair of front paws on the edge of the brazier, stepped on the kang with its two hind legs, and fell directly into the brazier.

When Wang Meilan came back, she was holding a shovel head and a shovel of red-hot charcoal.

"Hey! Hey!" Wang Meilan looked at the little lynx with a smile, she shouted twice, but the little lynx didn't move, and Zhao Hong had to take it away.

Wang Meilan held the shovel head in her left hand, and rubbed the small lynx's head with her right hand. Hearing the little lynx's cry, Wang Meilan smiled and said, "You are too young for us to roast."

Amidst the laughter of the crowd, Wang Meilan poured the charcoal into the brazier. At this time, Xiao Lingdang took the enamel basin from Yang Yufeng, threw the potatoes in the basin into the charcoal, and used the stove hook Wang Meilan gave to bury the potatoes in the charcoal. .

"Come on!" Wang Meilan sat sideways on the edge of the kang, and greeted everyone, "Let's eat first."

After finishing speaking, Wang Meilan raised her head and asked Jin Xiaomei who was sitting opposite her, "Should I not wait for Dayong and Baoyu?"

Today Li Ruhai is on duty, he lives in the mail room at night, but Li Dayong and Li Baoyu have to come back.

"Don't wait for them!" Jin Xiaomei turned her head and glanced at the wall, and said, "The two of them will be home in an hour, and the vermicelli will be lumpy before then. Let's eat our food, and wait for them to come back. I'll get them some noodles when I get home."

These days, it is considered a good thing to put dried noodles in other people's homes.Hearing what Jin Xiaomei said, everyone stopped being polite, and moved their chopsticks to pick up vegetables. They just had big pancakes and garlic cloves, and they ate deliciously.

But at this moment, the dog in Zhao's courtyard barked!
Zhao Jun took away five dogs at home, Zhao Youcai took away three, and now there are Hualong and Huanglong left in Zhao Jun's yard.

Let's not talk about whether these two dogs can hunt, but housekeeping is definitely no problem.At this moment, when the two of them barked, Wang Meilan frowned, feeling something was wrong.

Immediately afterwards, the barking of the dogs became more intense, and Wang Meilan hurriedly put down the pancakes and chopsticks, and was about to go outside after getting off the kang.

"Girl!" At this time, the old lady called her, "Tie on your bosom, put on a hat, and don't sweat."

Eat around the brazier, and eat soup, which is always hot!At this time, Wang Meilan's temples were covered with sweat, wouldn't it be easy to catch a cold after going out like this?

There was no man at home, so Jin Xiaomei and Yang Yufeng put down their chopsticks and walked out with Wang Meilan.

The three of them were startled when they went out to see it. Through the light coming from the house, they could see four dogs confronting Huanglong and Hualong.

To be precise, it was Qinglong and Heilong who were fighting with Huanglong and Hualong, while Xiaoxiong and Xiaohua stood aside to watch the fun.

But when Wang Meilan came out at this time, Xiaoxiong, Qinglong, and Heilong came straight to her.As for Xiaohua, she ran towards Jin Xiaomei.

"Oh!" Wang Meilan is also a dog lover. She hasn't seen these dogs for several days, and she sometimes misses them.Especially the little bear, who was still pregnant with the cub, although Zhao Youcai said it was fine, but Wang Meilan still missed it very much.

Wang Meilan squatted down, hugged the dog for a while, then suddenly remembered something, turned to Jin Xiaomei who was holding Xiaohua next to her, and said, "Is your elder brother back?"

"The dogs are home, and the people are coming soon!" Jin Xiaomei said, and took Xiaohua home.But after she tied Xiaohua up, she returned to Zhao's house, ready to continue eating.

After Wang Meilan settled the three dogs, she brought Jin Xiaomei and Yang Yufeng into the house together.As soon as she heard that Zhao Youcai was back, the old lady put down her chopsticks. No matter what Wang Meilan persuaded, the old lady, Jin Xiaomei and Yang Yufeng would wait for Zhao Youcai to come back to eat together.

This is necessary, because this is Zhao Youcai's family after all, and they are here as guests.Zhao Youcai will be home in a while, and they have to wait for Zhao Youcai to come back.

But they waited, and Zhao Youcai didn't come back!
Half an hour passed, and the vermicelli in the casserole had soaked up the soup, and Zhao Youcai didn't come back.

Wang Meilan couldn't help frowning, and muttered: "What did this wicked person do?"

At this moment in Wang Dalong's house, Wang Dalong was lying on the kang with a bruised nose and swollen face like a dead dog, and his wife Wei Xiaojuan was sitting on the edge of the kang wiping tears.

Zhao Youcai, on the other hand, stood aside and rubbed his hands.At this time, Zhao Youcai was neither standing nor sitting; neither walking nor staying!
(End of this chapter)