The days when I am farming in the last days

Chapter 37 Postpartum Care of Sows

When they got home, Tang's father and Tang's mother had already woken up and were boiling water to cook noodles. Seeing Tang Han carrying a basket of Sophora japonica flowers, they couldn't help but ask, "What are you going to do?"

"Mix it with flour to make a paste, and then bake it into cakes." Tang Han said, "It's very fragrant, you should smell it."

"You found my flour again?" Tang Ma smiled, "Then why don't you get it again? I don't know how to do this. I will leave the heavy responsibility of cooking to you today."

As he said that, he quickly brought down the burning pot, "Come on, I'll give you the venue."

"Don't take it," Tang Han said hastily, "Your water will continue to boil, and I will blanch this Sophora japonica flower later, and then do the rest."

She poured out the Sophora japonica and rinsed it under the tap.This thing is easy to attract small insects, and it is not easy to find it hidden in the stamen, so you must be extra careful when washing, and the washing time should be longer.

Seeing her washing the flowers one by one, Tang's mother couldn't help but feel disgusted, "What do you do, wait for dinner after you finish it?"

"Then why not cook the noodles first." Tang Han rubbed his nose and felt that it would take a lot of time to wash the afternoon.

"Let me help you." Hearing this, Jiang Dai walked to her side and reached out to help.

Two people are crowded next to the sink, sharing the same basin and the same faucet. The place is so urgent that fingers will inevitably touch it.

In fact, it is a very normal thing, but for some reason, Tang Han thought of watching "Water Margin" when he was a child: Ximenqing wanted to hook up with Pan Jinlian, and asked Wang Po to be a matchmaker. She ate with Ximen Qing.Before the meal, they poured water into a small teapot to let them wash their hands. Ximen Qing went to touch Pan Jinlian's hand, and the two had a tacit understanding and quickly hooked up.

So this action of you rubbing against me and I rubbing against you seems somewhat ambiguous.

She thought for a while, then came back to her senses, and couldn't help shaking her head violently, thinking that she was crazy, why did she suddenly think of this, and put herself and Jiang Dai in it?

"What's wrong?" Jiang Dai turned around and asked because her movements were too big.

Tang Han felt guilty for a while, and quickly denied, "It's okay."

Jiang Dai smiled and didn't ask any more questions.But Tang Han himself had ghosts in his heart, so he paid special attention not to touch Jiang Dai's fingers, but the space is so big, it is inevitable to touch it.At this time, Tang Han would definitely move his hand aside quickly, and Jiang Dai would taste a little bit more often.

Is this hiding from her?

Fortunately, although there are many Sophora japonica flowers in half a basket, two people can wash them

It also gets up quickly, and it's almost done in a while.Tang Han breathed a sigh of relief, and carried the Sophora japonica flower over to blanch the water.

It looked a lot in a basin, and when it was scalded by boiling water, it shrunk to only a ball.Tang Han fished it out with a colander, squeezed out the water, chopped it on a cutting board, and then put it in the basin, poured the flour and noodles, and beat two eggs to increase the stickiness of the flour.

Because the Sophora japonica was chopped, Tang Han made the noodles a little dry.After reconciling, cover it with a wet veil and put it aside for noodles.

Here, pour water to brush the pot, cover the stove, and dry the water in the pot with low heat.When the noodles were almost cooked, Tang Han moved the cutting board to the stove, rolled the noodles into small balls, rolled them into pancakes one by one, dipped vegetable leaves with vegetable oil, brushed the bottom of the pan, and then pasted the pancakes on , the other side is also brushed with oil.

"Let me do it." Seeing that she was too busy, Jiang Dai took the initiative to take over the work of pancakes.

When one side of the cake was baked golden brown, he carefully turned it over with a spatula and chopsticks, and continued to bake the other side. At the same time, he made room for the middle of the bottom of the pot, wiped it with oil, and asked Tang Han to put down another piece of cake.

The two cooperated tacitly. After a while, several pieces of pancakes came out of the pan one after another. The aroma of Sophora japonica is still very strong, because the flower has a sweet taste, so there is no need to add other seasonings, and no additional dipping sauce is needed. It tastes good when you eat it empty .

There are a lot of people in the family, and if each person divides a piece, it will be gone. This is not counting the two busy people Tang Han and Jiang Dai.

Tang's father was still not satisfied, "The cake you baked, one bite at a time, when will you be full?"

"It's good if you have something to eat." Tang Ma said deliberately, "You guard the pot and eat a piece of Huang. There will always be a time when you are full."

When this stalk was mentioned, everyone laughed, even Ozawa understood it, and laughed while holding half a pie.

Father Tang couldn't help laughing when he saw this, "It's okay for me to eat one piece, but I'm afraid you won't have anything to eat." He glanced at the remaining noodles in the basin, "You guys made too little of this, it must not be enough eat."

"It's not enough to eat, so the cook won't eat it." Tang Ma said, "Tang Han, isn't it?"

"Why doesn't the cook eat it? The cook has to eat first." Tang Han said, seeing that a piece of cake was almost cooked, he reached out and scooped it up from the pot, and took it to the cutting board in front of him.Although it was so hot that she couldn't help shaking her hands, she still took a bite first and tried the taste, "It's okay." Then she said to Jiang Dai, "Shall I get you one?"

Jiang Dai raised her chopsticks, "Did you mess it upside down?" Why use your hands when you have chopsticks?

however

Father Tang overestimated this family, and underestimated Tang Han's pot of noodles.Although pancakes are delicious, they are dry after all and very filling.Tang Han's noodle cakes have not been rolled out yet, and everyone has almost eaten them one after another.

But this thing can't be put away, everyone, you can barely eat another one, and I can barely eat another bite, but in the end I ate all of them.

When you are full of food and drink, people start to be lazy.Not long after she woke up, she started to feel drowsy again.Tang Han was thinking about whether to go back to sleep, when Ozawa grabbed the hem of his clothes, "Sister, aren't we going to pick that fruit on the mountain?"

"...Do you still remember?" Tang Han remembered the promise he had made before.

Since I don't have time to sleep, it's also good to go out for a stroll and refresh myself. She stood up, "Then let's go."

After a good night's sleep and another big meal, the others couldn't sit still.Tang's father simply found a bunch of sickles, "You guys are going uphill, just come back from cutting some grass."

"...Where are you going to cut it?" Tang Han couldn't help but support his forehead.

Father Tang said, "Let's go to our family's field. Those who grow potatoes, the grass is probably higher than the seedlings, just clean it up."

So taking a good walk up the mountain to pick fruit has turned into working in the fields.But this is considered a very leisurely job, so no one protested.Father Tang sharpened the sickle on the whetstone, polished the edge until it was shiny, then carried the pick basket, and a group of people set off.

Although he was going to work, Tang Han still fulfilled his promise and first took Ozawa to find a nearby goat granny tree.

She grew up in the village since she was a child, so she can naturally control all the fruits around her.Although I haven't been in the village much these years, there are always children in the village, so the parents will tacitly keep this kind of thing that can be used as a toothpaste for children and not cut it down.

After a while, they found a plant with orange-red fruits. Ozawa cheered and rushed over, reaching out to pick the fruits on the short branches.

This was originally a small piece of forest, but it was surrounded by land. When the forest grows, it will cover the sunlight of the crops, so all of them have been cut down, leaving only one or two useful plants.A few clumps of hairy ferns grew between the roots of the trees that had been cut down. Seeing this, Tang Han told Ozawa to pick them.

By the time Ozawa went back to the field to find other people contentedly holding the fruit wrapped in leaves, Tang Han had already picked a large handful of ferns.She was thinking that the ones that were dried last time seemed to have dried up, and she could fry them to eat at night, and she thought that she could pick some more, but when she came back here, she found that other people had also picked a lot.

Tang Han put down his things and picked up the sickle.

As Tang's father said, the grass in the field has grown very tall.There is no way, the vitality of these weeds is much stronger than that of crops, as long as a rain passes, they can grow a piece.

Tang Han squatted down next to Jiang Dai and said, "Be careful, slow down, and don't cut your hands."

This is all from her experience. Although mowing grass requires a knife, the technical content is not very high. Tang Han started mowing grass with adults when he was six or seven years old, and he is considered a senior skilled worker.But for a child, accidents are inevitable when using a knife. She has many scars left on her hands at that time. It is a lesson learned in blood.

Before Jiang Dai could speak, Tang Ma heard her words from the other side, and scolded, "Don't be crowed, you've let things happen to you when nothing happened."

Tang Han had no choice but to shut up and concentrate on mowing the grass.Take these grasses home and feed them to pigs and cows, which can be regarded as killing two birds with one stone.

Compared with high-intensity farming, this work is indeed very light.The only problem is that the legs will become numb after squatting for a long time, and I have to change positions from time to time, which is very torturous.Fortunately, the land was not big and there were so many people, they managed to finish off the potato field before dark.

When he got home, Tang Han found out the hair fern that had been dried before, and soaked it in hot water.

When dinner is cooked, it will be almost soaked.The locals are used to frying everything with bacon, and this hairy fern is no exception.Tang Han fried a bacon, hairy fern, and then made a bacon stir-fried tempeh, and then cooked a spicy soup hot pot, prepared sliced ​​meat, spinach and pea sprouts, and there is a kind that is not coriander but is called "coriander" by Tang's mother vegetable.

And on the way home, Tang's mother picked a small handful of ash vegetables. The leaves of this kind of vegetables seem to be covered with a layer of bright ash, hence the name, and the taste is very tender.

At dinner, the whole family sold Amway to Jiang Dai again and asked her to try the fried tempeh.In fact, after drying, the taste of fermented soybeans is not as strong as that just after fermentation. Once fried, it is fragrant and crisp.But Jiang Dai always felt that it had a smell of stinky feet, which was really unacceptable, so she flatly refused again.

On the contrary, the fern is unexpectedly popular. After oiling, it has a special fragrance, because it is dry and chewy, the taste is very outstanding, and it goes well with rice.

There was no power outage that night, but the TV signal was getting worse.Having nothing to do, Tang Han simply turned over the cards again, playing until ten o'clock before going to bed.During this time, I went to bed very late.But thinking about how often I used to stay up until one or two o'clock, I can't help but sigh.

They actually pay attention to the latest news on the Internet every day, as well as various notices from the government, but there is very little they can do other than that, so they rarely bring it up for discussion.

……

In the middle of the night, Tang Han was awakened by a tragic cry.

As soon as she opened her eyes, she noticed the movement around her. It was Jiang Dai who sat up.Seeing that she woke up too, Tang Han simply turned on the light, "What was that sound just now?"

"There seems to be movement at the door," Jiang Dai said after listening for a while, "Go out and have a look?"

"Go and have a look." Tang Han thought for a while, and felt that there should be no danger in the village, so he nodded.

After they got dressed, they came out of the room and saw that the lights in the outer yard were on.The voices of Tang's father and Tang's mother came from the pigsty, Tang Han breathed a sigh of relief, walked over and asked, "What's wrong?"

"The sow has given birth." Tang Ma stood at the door of the pen, looked up at them in the midst of her busy schedule, "It's nothing to do with you, go back."

Tang Han let out an "ah" before remembering that the sow at home was about to give birth.This child was conceived before the Chinese New Year, and it is about the same now.But after giving birth to this baby, no one came to give injections to conceive, so I don't know when the next baby will be.

Seeing that she and Jiang Dai were still standing still, Tang Ma said again, "Go back to sleep, what are you doing standing here? There's nothing you can do."

Tang Han understood what she meant, giving birth to unmarried girls is always taboo.Among local relatives and friends, when a child is born and confinement, often only women go to congratulate and visit, and girls are not allowed to go.

Although she didn't agree with this idea, it was obviously useless to argue with her mother about this kind of issue.

And... Tang Han turned his head and glanced at Jiang Dai. She herself was rough since she was a child, but she didn't care much about it.But Jiang Dai may not have experienced such a battle.So he said, "Then shall we go back first?"

Seeing that she really couldn't help, Jiang Dai nodded in agreement.

The two walked back a few steps, and saw Qin Yu open the door, obviously woken up.Tang Han conveyed the truth in a few words, and advised him to go back to sleep directly.

It's just that he is already awake, even if he lies on the bed again, it will be difficult to fall asleep for a while.

"Do uncles and aunts want to keep watch all night?" Jiang Dai asked from the side.

Tang Han nodded, "The main thing is to watch the sow, lest it directly trample or crush the piglet to death." This situation sounds funny and scary, but it is actually very common, so people need to watch , Pick up the piglets and place them in time, and after the production is over, postpartum care must be given to the sows.

Jiang Dai only knew that the Tang family had a sow before, but it was only at this moment that she felt real, and she was shocked, "Auntie really...can do everything."

"It's like this in the village." Tang Han said, "You have to do everything yourself, so you know a little bit about everything."

In fact, this is very inefficient. Compared with the assembly line, the self-sufficient small-scale peasant economy does not have an advantage, so it is almost eliminated.However, people from that era are still used to doing everything by themselves, which makes them feel safe.

"Very powerful." Jiang Dai sighed again.This is not a survival reality show, but actual survival.The wisdom of the working people is truly remarkable.

If she hadn't come here, it would be hard for her to imagine what she was doing now, and would she still be able to maintain this stable state of mind?

The two of them talked again, and they felt sleepy, and they fell asleep without knowing it.

Probably because they were thinking about something, they woke up very early the next morning. The genius had just been polished, and the two of them opened their eyes at the same time with a cock crowing, each got dressed and got out of bed, and went out to see the pigsty. situation.

He was facing the tired Mama Tang.She was a little surprised, "Are you waking up again? There is nothing to do today, so go to sleep again."

"How many piglets were born?" Tang Han asked curiously.

"This litter is quite large, with thirteen." Because it was discovered in time, none of them died.Although there may be accidents in the process of raising her, Tang Ma's mood is still quite happy.Just talking about this, I still couldn't help frowning slightly, "If no one comes to catch it then, how can we afford to feed it ourselves?"

Thirteen pigs, how much food does it take to feed them every day?

"Someone in the village should want it?" Tang Han said.

In the past, people in the village could go to other villages to buy piglets in the market, but this year, it is estimated that they have no choice.On the contrary, the Tang family's place is very convenient, even if the price is not high, at least it won't fall into your hands.

Tang Ma nodded, "I hope so. I'll go back to sleep first, and if you don't sleep, go and start the fire."

"understood."

As soon as the fire was finished, Ozawa also woke up. He heard that a piglet was born last night, so he ran over there several times to see it.It's a pity that the piglets were all blocked by the sow and couldn't see anything.

I have eaten breakfast, because Tang's parents and Tang's mother are still resting

, No one arranged, and they couldn't think of what to do for a while.Tang Hansi thought about it, and decided to pull a weed in the vegetable garden.Grass grows fast in the field, and the vegetable garden is no exception.

The vegetable field looks small, but it is a big project to uproot the weeds bit by bit.When they are almost done, it will be almost lunch time.

Tang Han saw that the radish vegetables in the lower left corner were growing well, so he prepared to cut some radish plants to pickle sauerkraut.

When I walked over, I saw the tree growing in the corner, and some memories came out of my mind.Tang Han smiled and beckoned Ozawa to come over, "What are you looking at?" She said as she picked a leaf from the tree and tore it apart at will, but the leaves were still entangled with filaments and did not break off.

Ozawa's eyes widened in shock, "Wow! Sister, what is this?"

"This is a leaf of Eucommia." Tang Han picked another leaf and handed it to him, "For you to play."

Ozawa held the leaves and took them back to show his father.

"Why is there a Eucommia here?" Jiang Dai asked in surprise, having never seen such a plant that can be used as a medicinal material.

Tang Han said, "It's quite normal, right? There are three treasures in Guizhou, Eucommia Tianma and Ganoderma lucidum... By the way, I can take you to pick Ganoderma lucidum in summer. This thing is like a mushroom, it will grow in a specific place, Remember the place and you will find it.”

"Okay." Jiang Dai agreed casually, but she was still observing the eucommia plant, "Is this made of leaves as medicine?"

"The medicinal material is bark." Tang Han said, "But the silk inside the leaves, you would never have imagined that it can be used as a raw material for submarine cables."

"Awesome," Jiang Dai admired, and then asked, "Won't the tree die if the bark is stripped?"

She seldom has such a curious baby state, so Tang Hanzhi said everything, "No. Generally, it is peeled every two or three years. As long as you are careful, it will not hurt the mother tree. ——But the Eucommia ulmoides in my family has not been peeled yet. After peeling, it usually takes ten to 20 years to peel off the skin. This plant should have arrived, but no one in the family knows how to process medicinal materials, so it has been left there."

She turned her head and saw Jiang Dai thoughtful, so she asked, "What are you thinking?"

"It's just... a wonderful feeling." Jiang Dai said, as if no matter what she saw here, she shouldn't be surprised.

The author has something to say: Make up for the update the day before yesterday.

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