Defeat natural disasters with farming

In the end, only one catty of beef jerky was made out of three catties of beef tendon meat. Even if Chu Xufeng and the others were added, it was only half a catty more.

At this time, Ye Yu knew that those cows were not specialized milk cows, but traditional agricultural cattle. They were strong, adaptable, and hardworking. Even the meat was extremely tender, which was very suitable for breeding.

If the herd of cattle reproduces well, the village may be able to eat beef once a year in the future, and the dish of killing pigs may become a dish of killing cattle?

Thinking of this, Ye Yu couldn't help showing a smile on his face. There are treasures everywhere on a cow. Even the gallbladder stones in the cow's body are blindly made of a Chinese medicinal material called bezoar. Pain and other diseases.

Not to mention beef and beef offal, different parts of beef have different eating methods, but the same thing is that it tastes great.

Sautéed Beef Tongue, Braised Beef Brisket...

Ye Yu wanted to drool just thinking about it, but luckily he had a freshly peeled chestnut in his hand, and he put it in his mouth, the soft and pink chestnut kernel seemed to be coated with honey, it was shockingly sweet .

Among all the nuts, Ye Yu likes chestnut the most, not only because of its delicate and sweet taste, but also because of its high starch content, as long as you eat a few nuts, you will feel a strong sense of fullness. When he was hungry, but it was not time to eat, he would take out a bowl of chestnuts to fill his stomach.

Of course, you can't eat too much chestnuts. If you eat too much, you will easily become constipated, and the feeling of not being able to go to the toilet is really worse than death.

Sitting in front of the stove in the howling cold wind, eating roasted chestnuts and drinking hot goat's milk, it is the warmest time in winter.

Ye Yu took a sip of hot goat's milk, and after swallowing, there was no fishy smell in his mouth, only the strong milky fragrance.

Father Ye said: "When opening up wasteland in the coming year, I plan to reclaim all the land near the Liuhe River and transform it into a paddy field for planting rice, as well as the wasteland under the Songshan Mountain. After reclaiming, I will plant some wheat beans and the like, Brother Bao. What do you think?"

It was Ye Yu who he asked, and Ye Yu thought for a while and replied: "It's good, the Liuhe River is near the water, and it is indeed a suitable place to grow rice. The barren land may not have a good harvest at the beginning, but it is good for breeding. After a few days The annual harvest will increase."

"That's good." Father Ye lowered his head and ate the chestnuts in his mouth, then slapped off the broken bits and said, "Although our village's grain production was low in the past few years, it is enough to save some food. In addition, the veterans all said that judging from the current situation, next year's grain harvest should be bumper."

Mother Ye said with emotion, "The harvest is good. Even though I can go hunting in the mountains and have meat to eat every day, I still feel that I can't eat enough without food. I always feel that something is missing."

Ye Yu can understand his mother's feelings, because he is also like this. He must eat staple food for meals, whether it is rice noodles, sweet potatoes, potatoes, or corn, otherwise he will not be full if his stomach is full.

There is also a reason for this. There is no dietary fiber in meat, which makes it difficult for people to feel full.

Father Ye said: "We didn't stop cooking during the most difficult time, and we won't run out of food in the future. The worst case is just saving food and money, and we will definitely not starve to death."

"That's true." The life in their village is already pretty good, not to mention, the villagers in other villages that were just merged into them a while ago are far from being as stable and warm as they are.

They were chatting, and the sky was getting darker. At this time, it was time to make dinner. Mother Ye stood up and said, "I'll make egg pancakes for you to eat at night. What do you want to drink? Gnocchi or corn grits?"

"Maize and grits." Ye Yu said.

Corn grits are also called corn grits. As the name suggests, corn grains are crushed into granules. The coarse ones are called ballast, and the finer ones are called grits.

The porridge made from corn grits is thick and sweet. Ye Yu prefers grits porridge to grits porridge. It doesn't hurt the throat and can be swallowed in one bite, very smooth.

"Okay." Mother Ye responded.

So when they ate at night, a pot of corn grits, a plate of egg pancakes, three eggs and two dishes of side dishes were placed on the table, which were capers and dried pickled radish.

There are a lot of ingredients in Yuanyuan’s omelette. Yemu specially sprinkled some diced carrots and diced sausages into the egg liquid when making pancakes, which made the formed omelette colorful and richer in ingredients.

It tastes delicious too. The omelette skin is soft, the diced carrots are crunchy, and the diced sausages have a salty aroma. The combination of the three is very harmonious.

The corn grits have a simple taste of corn, but it is very suitable to be served with a piece of dried radish that has been marinated until it is wrinkled. The radish is so dry that you can bite it by yourself.

Ye Yu ate without raising her head, Ye's mother hurriedly said: "Eat slowly, no one will grab you, be careful of stomach upset."

"Okay." Ye Yu swallowed the egg pancake in his mouth, "Isn't it because your cooking is so good that you can't stop once you eat it."

"That's because you're hungry. I told you to eat a sweet potato pad just now, but you still said you're not hungry." Mother Ye complained, "Eat when you're hungry, don't wait."

"I'm not eating chestnuts, a few grains are enough."

Ye Yu rubbed his stomach as he spoke, "I just finished eating these, I'm full."

Their family's life has been like this recently, eating three meals a day on time, chatting a few gossips, and Ye Yu often reads and writes with Chu Xufeng.

In these days, except for sometimes going out to shovel snow, almost everyone stays at home honestly.

Such a stable life lasted until one day before the Chinese New Year, when a group of heavily armed people suddenly came to the entrance of the village. The first thing they did after seeing the tall walls of Yejia Village was to send someone to knock on the door.

Today, Ye Hai and Ye Zhouyuan are guarding the gate. After vigilant discussions, they decided that one would notify the village chief, while the other held a cone-shaped wooden speaker and shouted down: "Who are you? Come here!" What's the matter?"

There were about a dozen people under the wall, each of them was tall and burly, and the leader was the tallest among them. However, it was not him who answered, but a rather round figure inside.

"It's me, Deputy Han of the Morning Glory Caravan." He pulled off his scarf and said.

Ye Hai, who was shouting, was taken aback when he heard the words. After realizing it, he looked at the man's appearance carefully, and quickly matched his memory. He really was Deputy Han who had dealt with him before.

But even so, Ye Hai didn't let them easily let them into the village, who knows if they have any evil intentions, there are many women and children in the village, once something happened, it would be a big deal.

It wasn't until Father Ye brought people over that he breathed a sigh of relief.

After Father Ye understood the situation, he decided to take Ye Zhong and the others out. Before going out, he specifically instructed: "Hide your hands/crossbows in your sleeves, be careful."

Ye Zhong nodded solemnly, "Understood."

After they went out, Father Ye smiled and said, "Why is Deputy Han coming here at this time? The weather is so cold, and it's freezing and snowy outside. Even if you want to do business, you shouldn't come here in winter."

Deputy Han waved his hand, sighed and said: "Don't mention it, we are here to do business, we are here to suffer. Some time ago, people who came to the south said that there was a new Wangsi city in the capital, so we wanted to go and have a look. , do some small business by the way."

When Father Ye heard this, he had doubts, "It's freezing and snowy, why are you coming here at this time, and it will be more suitable to travel when the weather warms up in a few months."

"Where?" Assistant Han replied, "We set off two months ago. When we set off, we wanted to go back early, but we didn't expect that winter would come so early this year. Wasn't it hot and high in the past few years?"

"It was even more unlucky on the road. The caravan passed through a vast ocean, flooded, and a wind blowing tens of meters high hit our caravan. With the roaring ocean, the entire caravan had hundreds of people, only a dozen of us One survived, and the rest were either swept away by the wind or soaked in the ocean."

When talking about this matter, Deputy Han's expression was very dazed, and all his subordinates also bowed their heads in silence, their expressions were numb, as if they were already walking dead.

Only now did Father Ye take a closer look at them, and found that they were all in a state of distress. Their heads and faces hadn't been washed for an unknown amount of time, and they were so dirty that they stuck together. There were white particles left on everyone's clothes.

This made him believe more than half of what Deputy Han said.

"I originally wanted to go back, but our map and luggage were also lost. Fortunately, the place where we were washed up was relatively close to your village, so I simply took my men to your village to rest first." Deputy Han thought for a while and then Added: "The seeds you asked our caravan to look for before are still there, but I don't know if they can germinate after being soaked in water."

Father Ye pondered for a while, discussed with Ye Zhong and the others for a while, and then let them in, but he didn't let them enter the inner wall, but let them live in the house where the people who came to help expand the village lived.

Those few houses were all built with heated kangs, anyway, it was more than enough to accommodate a dozen of them.

Father Ye asked someone to bring over the steamed multigrain buns, and served them with a pot of corn porridge and a few plates of pickles.

Immediately afterwards, they ate up the big basket of steaming steamed buns. Ye He was dumbfounded and wondered if they hadn't eaten for a long time.

Deputy Han said in shame: "Brother Ye, don't worry, we will definitely not eat for nothing."

Father Ye waved his hand and said indifferently: "No one has any difficulties when going out, so don't worry about it." But he didn't refuse their request for help.

"You guys have a good rest first, and we will talk about the rest tomorrow. Oh, by the way, the water in the lake outside is running water. If you want to get water, you can get it from the ice that was cut open. If you want to boil water, you can just use it on the stove. "

After Ye's father went out, he whispered to the patrolling people in the village to pay more attention to this area during the night watch, to be more vigilant, and if there is anything wrong, come and notify them immediately.

Seeing Ye Zhouyuan and the others nodding seriously, he was a little relieved. Although there were various indications that what Deputy Han said should be true, he still had to be vigilant.

Father Ye went home and told his family about this matter. After hearing this, Ye Yu was thoughtful, and Deputy Han and the others should have encountered tornadoes and tsunamis, but there is no such thing as the sea. Or Yuan, and Wang Yang is the depth of the sea, and it can also refer to the sea.

But in this cold winter, where do tsunamis and tornadoes come from by the sea?Especially tornadoes, which belong to strong convective weather, and the air pressure does not change much in winter, which is really incomprehensible.

But he changed his mind and thought again, in this world today, there is nothing that will never happen, just like their side has been hot and hot for several years, such things would not have happened before.

"If it's true, their caravan is also unlucky. Fortunately, the snow in the past two days has been light. If it was bigger, they probably wouldn't be able to reach our village." Father Ye said.

Ye Yu nodded, "No, I'll go and have a look tomorrow."

The night was calm, and when Ye Yu woke up the next morning, she followed the villagers who brought them food.

Deputy Han still remembered him, and greeted him with a smile, "Oh, brother Ye, you're here."

After finishing speaking, he took out a small cloth bag from his pocket, "This is the seed you asked us to find before, but it was soaked in water, so I don't know if it can still germinate. You should try it first, oh, there are three different seeds in it. The seeds of lychee, taro and sugar cane are all common fruits in the south."

These seeds have been soaked in seawater, so it may be difficult to plant them. Moreover, it is so cold that it may not be able to germinate successfully. Even if they germinate, they may not be able to grow alive. Although Ye Yu thought so, he still reached out and took the cloth. Bao, anyway, there is nothing going on recently, let's plant it first and try it out.

The taro surprised him a bit. When there is no staple food, the taro can be eaten as a staple food after steaming and roasting. It can also be made into taro cake and taro sweet soup. It would be a good thing if it can be grown.

At this time, a few people suddenly came in from outside, each of them was holding a basin, Deputy Han explained: "Yesterday, the village sent us some clean clothes, and we are going to take out the clothes we were wearing before and wash them." .”

Ye Yu took a closer look and saw the dried white marks on the dirty clothes. He went over and buttoned them up, rubbed them on his fingertips, and smelled them again. It should be dried salt.

"Is the place where your accident happened far from our village?" Ye Yu asked.

Deputy Han thought for a while and replied: "It's really not far away. It takes about three or four days to walk."

He was quite puzzled and said: "It's also strange. We walked that road two or three times and never met Wang Yang, but this time we did. Could it be that Wang Yang will expand?"

Ye Yu knows a little bit. Although it is rare for seawater to submerge the land, it is not impossible. If the high temperature in the past few years caused the ice and snow in the North and South Poles to melt, and immeasurable water flowed into the sea, it is possible that the sea level will rise.

But this is the worst situation. If it really happens, they have nothing to do. It's better not to think so much, and the most important thing is to live the current life well.

After Ye Yu left from them, she felt relieved. All indications showed that Deputy Han should not have lied. They had indeed encountered a tornado and a tsunami.