Chapter 33 There is no cave in the mountain
Jian Ning looked sideways at the third sister, and none of the ten fingers of one hand were spared cracks, swollen like carrots, miserable.
Is this a full set of rotten feet?!
In this era, there are no rubber fishing pants or anything, and they go into battle barefoot directly with the corners of their trousers.
Facing the fourth sister's indifferent eyes, Jian Mingyu was entangled, her father's cotton clothes are important, and earning work points is also important, the moon is cold and the sky is in the water, and the full work is 10 minutes a day.
She looked forward to Ai Ai and said, "Fourth sister, why don't I work overtime at night to sew?"
"What kind of overtime, the kerosene lamp doesn't cost money, I can't sleep when the lamp is lit, I'm going up the mountain in a while, and there is a sick person at home. Jian Ning said to the old lady: "Milk, the third sister will not go if she wants to leave the house to sew cotton clothes." ”
"Okay, then leave home. The old lady didn't enter the house, turned around and went home, busy arranging people at home, and there were not many opportunities to earn full work in winter.
She doesn't have to be a jade girl to go out to work, it's just a matter of habit. The old lady is well-informed, and as soon as the brigade headquarters has a heavy job, she will notify Jian Mingyu first when she gets the news, so as not to miss the opportunity.
Over the years, Jian Mingyu has been used to heavy work, and he never picks work.
Carry manure water, dredge river silt, and lay foundations...... As long as the work is high, you can do anything.
This will Jian Mingyu is silently distressed at 10 o'clock, standing alone under the eaves at a loss, habit is a terrible thing.
When I suddenly unloaded my heavy responsibilities, I felt that I had become a useless person in this family, and I couldn't find the value of survival.
Confused.
"Third sister, help me carry out the two old urns in the firewood room, and find out the baskets and flat poles. Jian Ning didn't give her a chance to feel melancholy, and arranged the work with a crackle: "You smoke the rabbit in a while, I won't come back to eat at noon, you steam two tender eggs for Comrade Jiang, and then steam some fine grains, and go to the bamboo forest to dig a few winter bamboo shoots after eating." ”
There's a lot to do.
"Well," Jian Mingyu's wilting mood visibly recovered, "Fourth sister, why are you taking all those things up the mountain?"
"I'm useful, you don't care. Jian Ning thought to herself, I want to tell you, I'm going to go up the mountain to hunt wild boars, and you can't eat until you have to put aside your family's panic.
The two large urns are dozens of catties, and they contain wooden barrels, clay pots, cutting boards, straw mats, ropes, iron hooks, kitchen knives, machetes, salt, large materials, and chaff..... The total weight is hundreds of pounds.
What the hell is the fourth sister going to do?Jian Mingyu's face wrinkled: "The fourth sister is too heavy, or I'll help you pick it up the mountain." ”
Jian Ning didn't answer her at all, and only said: "At noon, you go to the nurse's house to borrow a kitchen knife, and I will try to come back as early as possible in the afternoon and go to the brigade to divide the fish." ”
The big urn was placed in the basket, the flat shoulder was worn, the trousers were tied tightly, and Jian Ning carried two baskets on his shoulders to beat the hills and detour up the mountain.
In the era of collective labor, everything on the mountain belongs to the state, and after hunting wild boars and dragging them back to the village, as a meritorious hero, they will be rewarded with a few catties of meat for free at most, and they will have a priority in adding a choice, and don't think about anything else.
If you want to buy two more catties of meat and go home, you have to pay out of your own pocket.
Therefore, Jian Ning plans to make bacon and lo-mei directly in the mountains and package it to Liuzi to make money and enrich the small treasury.
Chizhu can't collect things for the time being, so she can only use stupid methods to get some pocket money.
After an hour and a half, we arrived at the cave where we had stepped on the spot yesterday.
The cave is high and naturally formed, and the water seeping out of the rock crevices forms a puddle in the cave, and due to the humidity, there are no wild beasts inhabiting it.
Jian Ning found a relatively flat place, poured out the urn, washed the urn, and placed it at the mouth of the cave to dry.
Turn around and build a stone stove, and then go down with a machete and rope to collect firewood, pine and cypress, incense, etc.
Everything is ready, only the east wind is owed.
After squatting in the wind for more than two hours, I finally waited for a wild boar of more than 300 catties in that wild potato field.
After several twists and turns, the wild boar fell to the ground.
The tiger and the bear died in her hands, and the wild boar was still handy, but the wild boar in winter was a bit fierce and took some effort.
He dragged the wild boar to a mountain stream, disemboweled, and took the internal organs and cleaned them one by one.
After all, the cave is a long-term base area, and it is difficult to pollute the water source and carry the water.
The wild boar cleaned up the seven, seven, eight, eight and dragged back to the cave, lit the fire and boiled the water, scalded the pig hair and scraped the pig hair, and directly peeled the skin Jian Ning was reluctant, the wild boar exercised a lot, the fat was already less, and even the skin was peeled off, and the bacon was not fragrant.
Shaved, shook off the straw mat, clattered the limb pork, first reserved fifty catties of sausages, the rest were all cut into palm-sized, small arm-long strips of meat, smeared with salt and various large ingredients to knead hard for a while to make it taste, and then a barcode into the big urn, the mouth of the urn was covered with oiled paper leaves and tied tightly with hemp rope, a layer of thick branches was placed on it, and finally pressed with stones.
If you don't tie it tightly, for fear of being harmed by animals such as rats, the meat in the urn will be marinated for a day and a night, and it will be smoked tomorrow.
After the bacon is processed, the next step is the offal.
The large intestine and small intestine are rubbed with salt and cleaned again, the small intestine is put aside for later use, and the large intestine and other internal organs are put into the clay pot to open the brine, in addition to pig ears, pig trotters, and pig head meat.
The amount is relatively large, and the score is three halogens.
The meat in the jar only needs to add a handful of firewood from time to time, Jian Ning has his hands to puff the small intestines, and fills the sausages with the fifty catties of meat left.
It is best to marinate the meat with salt and spices for a day or two, then let it dry for a few days.
The conditions did not allow, Jian Ning only marinated for a few hours, anyway, as long as it was meat at the moment, even a few grains of salt were enough to entice people.
After the year is closed, these things are in short supply in the city.
The first pot of meat was marinated, Jian Ning opened it and ate a hot braised pork, the sauce was fragrant, and the thin but not firewood braised meat was pressed into the nest head, two bites and one bite, so fragrant that people couldn't wait to swallow their tongues.
When the second pot of meat came up, the sausages were filled with bubbles one by one, and hung on the iron hooks at the entrance of the hole to dry.
On the lower right side of the cave grew a thorn forest more than a man high, and the thorns on the branches were sharp and sharp, longer than a human finger, and pointed like sharp needles.
The bars criss-cross, forming a natural barbed wire fence, and there is a wide clearing in the thorn forest, which extends to the cave wall.
Deep and hidden.
It is very suitable for the development of agriculture.
Yes, Janine was ready to plant wheat in the mountains.
The reason why flour is expensive is because of the low yield and long cycle.
The growing season of wheat in the Yangtze River basin varies from 220 to 270 days, so in some areas, the production teams use a clear amount of land to grow wheat.
Sorghum, corn, sweet potatoes, potatoes, and other crops with high yields and short cycles are mostly planted in the fields.
And every household is allocated a few points of self-reserved land, generally planting some vegetables, but also points out to plant high-material beans, the conditions are better to plant a ridge of peanuts has reached the sky, no one grows wheat, Jian Ning just wants to make a fortune in a low-key manner, naturally will not come out of the top.
Moreover, the family only has a few points of land, and I am afraid that it will be enough to plant fifty catties of wheat.
It is completely impossible to meet the needs of Jian Ning.