Xiao Qiao enters the farm gate

Although this kind of handbag is made of bamboo, it is beautiful and elegant, and the weaving method is also the most basic. The most difficult thing is probably to close it.The tutorial is very detailed, and it is estimated that it is easy to get started. After it is done, it will go to the town or county later, and it is also convenient to pack small items such as pastries.

Once you have made up your mind, carefully write down the production steps and wait to go back and try it out.

When he was young, Lin Zhenghui came back, picked a few sticks of bamboo that were neither old nor tender, chopped them, and loaded them into the cart.

It didn't take much time to cut this bit of bamboo, and then I picked up some dead branches in the forest and dug some wild vegetables.

There are a lot of wild vegetables in spring. Although the farming is busy, wild vegetables are indispensable in the fields, and they can be picked easily when working.A few days ago, Qiao Mo picked a lot of shepherd's purse, which was very tender. She wanted to make dumplings, but because she was busy, she ate it with cold salad.There are also a lot of wild vegetables, which Qiao Mo looked familiar to when he lived in the countryside, but he didn't know they were still edible, Lin Zheng told him all about them.

Because it was in the mountains, I dug up some tender dandelions, scientifically named dandelions, and found a piece of wild onion.When I was young in the countryside, I used to eat scrambled eggs with wild onions, and they could be used as seasonings. Qiao Mo happily picked two handfuls.

Seeing that it was almost time, Lin Zheng explained to check the trap, and when he came back, he had two gray rabbits in his hand.The rabbit is not big, but it is fat and fleshy.

"I ate rabbit meat today." As soon as Qiao Mo saw the rabbit, various dishes for cooking rabbit meat automatically flashed in his mind, and finally decided to make spicy rabbit diced first. He was really greedy.

"Just hold on to the ears." Lin Zheng handed him the rabbit, brought the horse back and harnessed the cart again, and went down the mountain to go home.

Back home, Lin was unloading the bamboo in the yard, while Qiao Mo was cooking.

First prepare all the auxiliary materials needed for making rabbit meat, such as chili, star anise, pepper, garlic, soy sauce, salt, sugar, without cooking wine, just use white wine instead, anyway, the function of removing fishy smell is the same.Then I picked up the wild vegetables, peeled a small handful of wild onions, washed them, cut them into sections, put them on a plate for later use, and kept the rest for use at night.Grandma Ding picked off the flower stems and roots, washed them, and put them aside to drain.

Lin Zheng brought in one rabbit that had been treated, and kept the other temporarily.

"Let's start the fire first." Qiao Mo said and started to get busy.

After dicing the prepared rabbit, Lin Zheng's side was already on fire.Measure the temperature by hand, pour the oil, when it is hot, add star anise and garlic and sauté until fragrant, add diced rabbit meat, chili, Chinese prickly ash, stir fry, then add white wine, soy sauce, appropriate amount of salt and sugar, when it comes out of the pan Sprinkle some wild onions.

A dish of spicy rabbit diced is ready, both in color and taste, it is very mouth-watering.

Clean the pot, turn on the water, then pour the washed rice into it, cover the pot and steam the rice.

Taking advantage of this time, take a bowl, put an appropriate amount of sugar, vinegar, a little homemade chili oil, and a little salt, then pour it on the drained mother-in-law and mix well.This cold mother-in-law is refreshing and delicious. It is just right to eat with spicy rabbit.

After eating, Qiao Mo played with the bamboo.

He didn't know how to use a knife, and Lin Zheng didn't feel at ease, so he gave verbal instructions, and Lin Zheng actually operated, splitting the bamboo with a chopping knife, and then split it into thin bamboo strips.In order to prevent hands from being hurt during weaving, the bamboo strips should be simply polished.

Qiao Mo was in trouble because there was no sandpaper, but Lin Zheng went to the warehouse and came back with a hemp rope.While he was wondering, he saw that he was at the base of the wall, simply removing impurities from the small pile of sand left before, and then rolled the hemp rope into it.After going back and forth several times, I stopped.

"What is this for?"

"Wrap the hemp rope with fine sand, and use this to polish the bamboo strips smoothly." Lin Zheng said as he started.

Qiao Mo looked at it for a while, then asked for help.So Lin Zheng kept scraping with a knife to do the preliminary polishing work, and he followed behind to polish it carefully with hemp rope.After finishing all the bamboo strips, I sat on the ground at some point, and my hands were sore.

Then, with a big effort, a pair of handles were cut out with slightly thicker bamboo slices. The bamboo slices at the ring mouth were divided into two parts, which were glued together during installation.Finally, two thin bamboo strips are made, which are in the shape of "u", which can support the whole handbag, which not only increases the stability, but also adds beauty.

Because dyeing is too troublesome, he plans to bleach the bamboo strips and weave a handbag, which is also very beautiful and generous.

He specially kept the rice washing water when cooking, and used it to soak the bamboo strips.

In order to soak the bamboo strips, the bathtub was specially used, and the rice washing water was poured into it less than an inch high.There is no way to do this. We can’t keep washing rice for this. People in the village don’t eat white rice every day.

The bamboo strips are very tough, and after they are all stuffed in, they can barely soak.

The bamboo strips need to be soaked for a day and a night, for a full twelve hours. In the evening, rice porridge was cooked, and some rice washing water was added to the basin.I have to wait for the rest, and I can’t rush if I want to weave.

Nothing happened the next day, Lin Zheng went to the field to see how the wheat was growing, and Qiao Mo went to the oil mill in the village.

The oil mill in the village belongs to Uncle Lin's family.

Uncle Lin is Father Lin's family brother, and Lin Zheng has already separated the family, so he and Lin Zheng are the uncles of the fifth service.Living in a village with the same surname, it is always more kind to call uncle.

Qiao Mo came here today to buy bean cakes.

There are two types of oil extraction in the oil mill, one is paid by the catty, and the other is free of money but has to keep bean cakes.Most of the villagers in the village raised poultry such as pigs and cows, and bean cakes were a good food for them. Besides, everyone knew that bean cakes were used as fertilizer, and the farmers grew up very well, so they usually paid for oil extraction.

Qiao Mo was just here to try his luck. He had told Uncle Lin a month earlier that if there was bean cake, he would leave it to him.He decided to use all these good fertilizers in the watermelon field, making up his mind to grow good watermelons.

From a distance, I could smell the aroma coming from the oil workshop. It was not peanut oil, but sesame oil!

"Uncle Lin, I'm busy." Qiao Mo greeted and came in.

After a while, an old man in his fifties came out. He was dressed in coarse cloth and his hair was a little gray, but his face was ruddy and he was in good spirits. This was Uncle Lin.A man in his thirties came out from behind, wearing only a coarse cloth waistcoat, his thick arms were still covered with sweat.Qiao Mo also recognized that this person was Uncle Lin's son, Lin Dali.

Lin vigorously wiped off his sweat, nodded in greeting with Qiao Mo, and left.

"Brother Qiao is here." Uncle Lin smiled and knew why he came, and said, "Brother Qiao is lucky, there were three families from other villages who came to squeeze oil before, and they gave you pancakes. I’ll keep the big sacks for you.”

"Thank you, Uncle Lin." Qiao Mo was quite surprised, but also very happy.

At present, the oil cakes are weighed, a total of 130 two catties.

Qiao Mo couldn't move it by himself. Uncle Lin asked his son and daughter-in-law to help him deliver it. Together with the leftovers from the previous family, it is estimated to weigh [-] to [-] catties.The watermelon field is two acres and three cents. This fertilizer does not need to be spread over a large area, but is applied directly to the roots of the seedlings, which is enough.

Seeing off Lin Dali and his wife, Qiao Mo saw that the sun was fine, so he spread a broken straw mat on the ground and poured oil cakes on it.Find stones, break the oil cake, and take two dustpans of plant ash from under the stove, and mix them in together.Now the watermelon seedlings are growing well, and it is estimated that they will spread out in ten days or so. They need a lot of nutrients, and these fertilizers are just used.

If it weren't for the fact that the melon-growing fields here are too far away, he would have wanted to steal his teacher, but now relying only on memory and guesswork, after all, he lacks confidence.

Just at this time Lin Zheng came back from the field and saw that he was making bean cakes, so he helped put them into sacks and put them in the barn.

"How is the wheat this year?"

"The tassels are very plump, and the yield is quite large. There must be three hundred catties." Lin Zheng's tone was brisk, and he was obviously in a good mood.

Qiao Mo knew that he was talking about the yield per mu. Unlike modern times, there was not so much fertilizer and pesticide in ancient times. They were buried in the soil all year round and relied on mountains for food.Three hundred catties per mu is not bad, and it can be said to be a bumper harvest.There are five acres of wheat in total, and the yield per mu is [-] catties, which is [-] catties in total.

Wheat is about ten cents a catty, which amounts to 15 taels, an average of three taels per mu.

However, this money is not the final money. Taxes such as land tax and small tax have to be thrown away. They are collected twice a year, and what is left is the money that actually falls into the hands.

"How about the peanuts? Where's the watermelon?" Qiao Mo asked again.

"It's all good. It looks better than the ones grown by other families." Lin Zheng was worried at first, but he finally felt relieved when he went to the sand field to have a look.Pay attention to top dressing in the future, if the field is well prepared, the harvest will not be bad.

Qiao Mo also breathed a sigh of relief, put down the work in the field, and prepared to weave the handbag.

It’s time for the bamboo strips soaked yesterday, take them out to dry, and then weave them.The style of this handbag is a cuboid, and the ratio of length to width is 2:1.5. First estimate the length of the bamboo strips, and then distribute them according to the warp and weft. According to the book, weave it using the method of pressing three and picking three.

Because the first time I did it, my hands were always slippery, and the bamboo strips ran around, loose and shapeless.

I persisted and tried again, and then edited it again, tightly pressing it tightly, and this time it turned out to be the same.Be very careful when folding the corners, and Lin Zheng is helping, and the speed of weaving the main part of the handbag is quite fast.

After editing, I remembered that the adhesive was not done.

"Ah Zheng, can you find Lime?"

"It's hard to find. Yellow mud is usually used to build houses here, or glutinous rice water mixed with sand mud. What do you need lime for?" Lin Zheng saw that he stopped halfway, guessing a bit.

Sure enough, I heard him say: "Make an adhesive. I heard that glutinous rice paste, egg white and lime are mixed together, and things stick together very firmly. I want to stick this circle. Since I can't find lime, let's cook some glutinous rice porridge." Try it with egg whites."

Originally, it was easiest to use animal skins to boil the glue, but he forgot earlier. The best thing to use now is pig skins, but that stuff has not been boiled, and he doesn't know how much it takes to boil it out.As for single rice milk or glutinous rice milk, I always feel that it is not safe to stick bamboo strips.

Lin Zheng didn't agree right away, he thought for a while and said, "I'll go to Li Zheng's house to have a look. I remember that his house was painted last year, and it seems to be lime."