Beginning Backpack [Farming]

Both of them tacitly never mentioned the impulse of that night.

The bamboo on the stove had finally been steamed for eight days. Shen Huaijin put out the fire, took out part of the completely loose bamboo fiber, put it on the wooden mortar, and beat it continuously with a wooden pestle.

Although it is not too tiring, Shen Huaijin still feels that the efficiency is not enough. After walking for so long to step on such a small amount of bamboo fiber, it is not known when it will be smashed.

Shen Huaijin thought of a way. He added a branch to the wooden pole with a mortise and tenon structure, so that the original wooden pole became a connected "Bu" shape, which is very suitable for a strong man like Li, who can hammer it at one time. Two wooden mortars.

Shen Huaijin of Shui Dui did not let it go, although the frequency was slow, he could still contribute.

Shen Huaijin herself was not idle, doing some trivial things on the sidelines.

The good news is that Shen Huaijin has been stirring the fish sauce for more than half a year, and finally the fermentation is complete.Shen Huaijin scooped out the fermented liquid, and added appropriate amount of powdered sugar, garlic and lemon juice to it for seasoning, thus making real fish sauce.

He scooped up a small spoonful of fish sauce and sent it to the workshop for Li to taste. The other party praised seriously: "It smells delicious, and it tastes very fresh."

Shen Huaijin left contentedly.

After discarding the slag, there was less than one tank of fish sauce left. Shen Huaijin specially dug clay and burned a batch of bottles with big bellies, small mouths, handles and slender spouts to hold the fish sauce.

With fish sauce as the top seasoning, Shen Huaijin couldn't help but cook something delicious.Shen Huaijin soaked the bamboo shoots, thinking that he would use fish sauce to make fried pork with bamboo shoots to try at night.

Li was sweating profusely in the work shed. Shen Huaijin went to have a look and saw that the bamboo fibers in the wooden mortar had been pounded into mud. Shen Huaijin took the bamboo mud away and told Li to rest for a while before continuing to pound new bamboo fibers. .

Shen Huaijin poured batch after batch of bamboo mud into the pulp tank, added water and stirred evenly to become qualified pulp.He used the bamboo curtains he made two days ago to pour materials in the pulp pool. The bamboo materials suspended in the pulp formed a thin layer and attached to the bamboo curtains, and the excess water flowed out from the four sides of the bamboo curtains.

He covered the bamboo curtain, let the wet paper fall on the wooden board, and it became a sheet of paper.Repeating the steps of slopping and covering the curtains in this way makes hundreds of sheets of wet paper piled up.

These thousands of wet papers are topped with wooden planks to squeeze out most of the water.

Shen Huaijin not only needs paper for writing, but also toilet paper. Therefore, it is necessary to control the degree of bonding between fibers by controlling the pulp concentration to make the paper softer. That is, the strength should not be too weak so that it is easy to break when used, and the strength should not be too good so that it is easy to use. Sometimes too hard.

He needs a single-ply toilet paper that is as thin as a cicada's wing and has a lot of mesh, which means that there is a lot of air between the fibers to replace the original hydroxyl bonds, so that the paper will become soft and meet the requirements of toilet paper.

Because the paper had to wait until it was dry before manually uncovering the paper one by one, Shen Huaijin couldn't be in a hurry, so she just put the two stacks of paper with different functions on the spot.

It was getting late at this time, Shen Huaijin asked Li to rest and prepare for dinner.At this time, the advantage of the water reel is reflected. Although the frequency is low, it does not require manpower and can continue to work endlessly.

Li was so affected by Shen Huaijin that he felt uncomfortable without taking a bath for a day. Unlike Shen Huaijin, he was afraid that he would catch a cold if he took a cold shower directly, so he carried two buckets of water, walked to the back of the house where no one could see, and took a quick shower. cool.

Shen Huaijin was already cutting the soaked bamboo shoots. Seeing him come out of the shower, he instructed: "Dry your hair quickly, and then help me slice the meat. The fish sauce is ready, we will use it tonight." Make bamboo shoots fried meat and try something new."

Responding sharply, he casually wiped the silver hair a few times with the dry and absorbent animal skin. Seeing that the black hair around Shen Huaijin's ears couldn't help falling down when he lowered his head, he tied a ponytail for him with a rope.

Shen Huaijin smiled at him sideways, and asked warmly, "Are you tired from pounding bamboo today?"

Amidst the chirping of insects, the red clouds and the evening wind, his smile was extraordinarily gentle. Li felt that as long as he looked at Shen Huaijin's eyes covered with stars, his exhaustion seemed to be swept away. He hooked the corners of his lips, "I'm not tired. Whatever you do around you is good."

Shen Huaijin added starch, ginger and a little fish sauce to the processed meat slices and stirred them for marinating.

After marinating for about 15 minutes, turn on the fire and heat the slate, add oil to the meat slices, stir-fry them over high heat and serve them out.Stir-fry the ginger and garlic with the remaining oil on the slate, then add the dried bamboo shoots and stir-fry evenly.

He added half a bowl of water to it, added fish sauce and a little lemon juice, then added sliced ​​white radish and fried sliced ​​meat and stir-fried.Stir to coat evenly.

The meat fried with fish sauce has a unique salty aroma, and it is even a bit addictive to eat. The more Shen Huaijin chewed the meat, the more he wanted to serve it with rice, and he couldn't help sighing.

Sitting opposite Li was stunned, "Isn't it delicious, why are you unhappy?"

Shen Huaijin frowned slightly, "Delicious is delicious, but the more delicious it is, the more I think about better things. I don't know if I can get rice in exchange for the Dasen tribe's market this time."

Li leaned over and rubbed his head with his clean left hand, "Why do you keep thinking about bad things. Let's find and do things slowly, and life will get better day by day. You see, you have always wanted The paper is already made, and the cloth is not far behind, so are you worried that you won’t be able to find rice?”

Shen Huaijin thought so too, he has been here for more than a year, and the originally difficult days are getting better day by day, and Li is always by his side, so there is no problem that cannot be solved.

Thinking of this, he was also relieved and smiled slightly.

Although Li ate a lot, he ate fast, and Shen Huaijin finished his meal one step earlier, sitting on the stone bench and rubbing his stomach.He looked up at the two peach trees and sighed: "These two peach trees are growing well, and the peaches will be ready to eat soon."

Shen Huaijin also looked up, and saw that the peach leaves were full of heavy peaches, which were no longer green and astringent, with pink skin, and looked alluring. Shen Huaijin was very pleasantly surprised, "It looks like a soft peach, At that time, the leftovers can be made into peach jam and saved for the cold season.”

"I haven't tasted a peach yet."

Shen Huaijin also finished his meal, got up and paced, "It depends on the variety and how it grows. If it's good, it's juicy and tastes sweet. It looks like it's almost ripe. We'll pick a few in two days. Let’s have a taste. If it tastes good, let the collection team go to the peach forest to pick some peaches and come back.”

Li nodded, "Okay, I'll listen to you."

The two were finally able to sleep together in the house without having to keep watch.However, Shen Huaijin, who stayed up for several nights, couldn't adjust her biological clock for a while, thinking about what to do.Not long after, he used the light to weave shrimp traps with hemp vines in the house.

The size of the shrimp trap is not big, but it is composed of two parts, namely the cage body and the cage mouth. The cage mouth is inverted, which is easy to enter and difficult to exit.Shen Huaijin made a dozen of them in one go, so that he could harvest a lot of shrimps at one time.

Li picked up one and observed it carefully, feeling that it was really delicate, and asked curiously, "What is this used for?"

Shen Huaijin explained: "Shrimp pot, let's put it in the big river east of the valley tomorrow, and we can catch a lot of prawns in a day. Then I will make deep-fried prawns to eat."

Shen Huaijin didn't seek far away, it's just that there were no shrimps in the streams in the valley, he only saw a lot of them in the big river.

"Shrimp? Something similar to aquatic? Why haven't I seen you catch it before?" Li asked suspiciously.

Shen Huaijin smiled awkwardly, can he say that he has completely forgotten about this river.

"You have to go to the river for two days in a row to catch shrimp. It was not convenient before, but now it is much more convenient with you. It happens that I have fish sauce on hand."

Li didn't ask any more questions. Seeing that there were already a lot of shrimp traps, he fetched water and urged Shen Huaijin to go to bed and rest after wiping.

It was hot in the summer season, Shen Huaijin was impatient and stern, but the other party was not lying on such a big bed, but squeezed on top of him, causing Shen Huaijin to moan and groan while half asleep and half awake.

"Baby, baby, don't move around." Li took a board to fan Shen Huaijin, and coaxed softly.

Shen Huaijin felt the cool wind blowing in her dream, finally calmed down, was hugged obediently, and fell into a deep sleep again.

Early the next morning, when Shen Huaijin woke up, he was sweating profusely again. He brushed back his sweaty black hair and kicked Li Li's calf angrily, "I told you not to hug me to sleep on a hot day. , you don’t think it’s too hot, but I still don’t think it’s too hot!”

Li was woken up by this kick, yawned, and his eyes were sleepy, "Baby, you stick me so tightly in the cold season, kick me away in the hot season, I am the tool person you said. "

Shen Huaijin couldn't refute, her face swelled up with anger for a moment, "You also know that your body temperature is high, and you sweat so much all night, I have to take a bath again in the morning!"

Li got up and kissed him, his mind was muddled and he didn't notice what he was angry with, he kept begging for mercy, "Okay, okay, I'll get you some water to wipe yourself, don't be angry, baby."

Shen Huaijin looked at his back and couldn't laugh or cry, he didn't really hate being hugged to sleep by Li, but the agreed bath didn't start, it was too troublesome for him to take a bath under this condition.

Even if there is a bathtub, it is uncomfortable to sweat all over, Shen Huaijin even began to imagine the scene of using ice cubes to cool off.In the cold season, there is a lot of ice here, but it seems a lot of work to build an ice cellar to cool off the heat.

Shen Huaijin sighed resignedly, and wiped her body with the water that Li Ti brought in.

He still lives in a thatched cottage, what is he thinking about bicycle (ice) travel (cellar)?

The author has something to say: Seeing the characters in his works live seriously, I feel so happy in my heart -3-

Although I am a salty fish, my cubs work hard