Chapter 506 Candles

When he was idle, Li Junge went to peel the pig's face, poured resin on the pig's trotters and pig's face, and Ayin went to restore the stove, bake the mushrooms, and use both sides of the stove, and hang the dried mushrooms on both sides through the bamboo silk.

There are many things, since it is not a pure wild boar, there is still a little bit of oil on the side plate corner net, and the lard must be fried.

The two beards were stunned for half an hour, and then poured some sour horn water, and the blood returned from the digestive system to the nervous system and motor system, and got up to follow the photo.

After frying the oil, Li Junge and Ayin lit torches and took the chili, star anise and other spices baked on the stone platform to the grinding trough to grind them into powder.

After a long period of use, a groove was carved out of the stone, and the mill became a flat drum-shaped standard circle.

Grind the spices first, then the peppers, and then put them in clay pots after grinding.

When I came back, I mixed all the cured meat with spices, smeared the roughly cleaned pig's face and trotters with salt, pressed it on the bottom of the cured meat for bacon, and then the two of them cleaned up and went to sleep.

After a day of excitement and fatigue, everyone was very tired, and after a while, they fell asleep.

Day 35.

When they got up early in the morning, the two ate some leftovers from yesterday and started working.

First of all, stuffed sausages.

Half of the marinated meat strips are sprinkled with chili noodles, and the other half is drizzled with syrup, and after mixing well, Ayin takes out a rattan ring, a few thin bamboo skewers, and a bundle of twine, and begins to stuff sausages.

Li Junge put away the dried mushrooms first, re-spread the remaining half-dried ones, opened the two pots of broth, boiled water, and began to deal with the beehive.

The beehive has been dealt with a lot, or the old routine, the bee chrysalis is taken out and put in a basket, the part with honey is packed clean and squeezed in a sack, the honey is squeezed into the jar, the remaining part is thrown into the water and stirred, and then the large residue is removed with a fence, and the remaining liquid is poured into the sack and filtered into the big foot basin to dry until it is warm, and finally moved into the large water tank.

The honeycomb residue is also dried, which is also a traditional Chinese medicine that is effective in treating allergic boils.

This resulted in six or seven pounds of honey, and a pound or two of beeswax.

Then Li Junge began to continue to clean up the sheds and vegetable patches that had been messed up by wild boars.

The fence was restored and the remaining crops were replanted. Come back and stuff sausages with Ayin.

Hanging the sausages above the stove, Li Junge smiled at Ayin: "This is the early New Year on the island!"

Ayin said with a smile: "I also said that I ran for two days to lose weight, and I brought back so much meat and so much honey!"

Li Junge said with a smile: "With so much meat as a base, the next thing is a leisurely slow life." ”

After lunch, Li Junge asked Ayin to rest, and then he began to pack up the things he brought down from the mountain.

Now on the outside of the shed, the waste bamboo has built a simple shed, and the roof is covered with hay, about two and a half meters high, six square meters. Dig the gutters as well.

The shed has a firewood door, and the wooddoor is a one-meter-high fence inside.

At the bottom of the shed, a ridge of earth is piled with soil, and behind the ridge are several compartments, each of which is figured out through a thick bamboo tube buried in the ridge and the activity area outside.

Then use hemp straw and put it over the compartment to form a small shelter.

The activity area outside is divided by a thin bamboo fence, and a nest of quails is prepared.

The quails were released, and as soon as they came out of their cages, they went straight to the shelter.

After putting the quails, Li Junge put two thick bamboo short tubes in each circle, one for the trough, the other for the trough, and put some cassava pieces and pockmarks for food, and then came out and closed the firewood door.

Then cut the two hardwoods cut down from the mountain in half and put them behind the stove to bake.

Untie the bamboo leaves of the dendrobium and check the effect.

Dendrobium has been fixed into a compressed spring-shaped, in the shape of a small spindle, which is the famous "maple bucket".

Ayin has been tired in the past two days, plus she was nervous twice yesterday, and she slept comfortably when she got home, and she overslept unconsciously.

When she got up, she saw that there was another shed behind the shed, and said, "Ah, Erpi is where quails are raised?"

Li Junge was soaking the twine in miscanthus salt, and then drying it, and when he saw her get up, he smiled and said: "It's hard work, Ayin, I said that I went out to play, but it turned out to be very hard." ”

Ayin came behind him and hugged his waist, blushing and said, "Are you laughing at me for sleeping lazy......"

Li Junge said with a smile: "How can it, I'm almost cleaned up here, and there's nothing to do now, let's go, go pick some humus, and we'll raise the flowers." ”

After following Uncle Wangcai for so long, raising orchids is not a matter for Li Junge now. Together with Ayin, I picked a handful of humus from the back mountain, made four rough bamboo strip squares, planted four budding orchids into it, and watered them with some water.

After doing this, Li Junge took out a few small chairs and small stoves and set them up, and said to Ayin: "Come, play together." ”

Ah Yin came over and sat down and said, "What are you playing?

Li Junge smiled: "Make candles!"

Raise the stove to a charcoal fire, wait until the fire is up, close the door, take out the solidified bee wax from the water tank, wipe the linen cloth dry, and put it in a pottery bowl to boil.

Then soak the twine in saltwater and then dry it.

Take two small bamboo pipes with suitable inner diameters, cut a section with knots under sawing, and wipe the inner chamber with a rag, which is the two halves of the wax model.

This Ayin understands at a glance that after the wax is boiled, scoop the beeswax into it with a spoon, then cut off a section of twine and stick it in the middle, and then pour the other half of the bamboo pipe, and finally press the half with the twine while the new half has not solidified, and put it aside to solidify.

Finally, the bamboo pipe was cut open and peeled off, and a yellow candle was placed in front of him.

Although it is a small handiwork, there are many things to pay attention to.

For example, if the speed of wax pouring is too slow, the solidification will be uneven, and the wax will be layered, the best way is to close the bamboo tube, wrap it in a few places with twine, and then bake it back and forth on the fire.

For example, the wax liquid has tension, and if it is not poured enough, it will be concave, and if it is too full, it will be convex, and it is best to match one concave with one convexity in order to fit the seams tightly.

However, this will cause the wick to deviate from the core, and the old problem will go away, and the new problem will come again.

However, both of them were playing, slowly groping for experience in practice, and in this way, in making fun of each other, they completed the manual work in a relaxed and happy way.

The two chatted as they did.

Ayin said: "Erpi, there are so many days left, what should we do?"

Li Junge said with a smile: "That's a lot to do, but it's not physical work, it's better for us to live a more refined life." ”

Ah Yin tilted his head and thought for a long time, and said, "I can't think of it, what kind of life is exquisite?"

Li Junge said: "Just give some examples...... By the way, can you make two hammocks out of sackcloth? When the time comes, hang them under the coconut tree, and then lie down on them, and drink coconut water in the sea breeze?"

"Can you make a bamboo raft and go to the lake if you have nothing to do? There are so many birds by the lake, and many of them are the kind of bells and whistles, and I can't see enough......

"For another example, make two exquisite teapots, one for you to make fruit tea, one for me to make dendrobium, put a plate of biscuits next to it, drink tea and play chess, is it comfortable?"

"Besides, the small stove burns wood and burns the scenery, and there is smoke. The master of Guoshan uses pinecone carbon, but we don't have pinecone carbon, and the bamboo charcoal is how much it wants......

"For example, now that you have paper, ink and time, don't you always want me to translate You Fang's song? You sing to me, and we will work on ......the words together."

"For example, if you have a good skill in baking biscuits, can you study baking bread? Baking soda is there, baking soda is not a problem......

"And ......"

Ayin hurriedly stopped: "Enough is enough...... When it comes to playing, you have more tricks than anyone else......"

Li Junge laughed: "How can you call it a trick? This is called the joy of life, the cultivation of sentiment, and the transformation from material life to spiritual life, which is the pursuit of a greater and higher level of human beings!"

Ayin pursed her lips and smiled: "Come less, you just want to play all day long!!"

Li Junge said with a smile: "Who said, I don't think about playing all day long!

Ayin said, "What's the matter?"

Li Junge smashed his mouth: "I'm thinking, what to eat tonight......"

It turns out that you can't eat whatever you want, and the cold rat meat brought up the mountain hasn't been eaten yet, although this thing can be stored for a long time, but it's best to eat it if you can eat it.

In addition, yesterday's pig killing vegetables had no rice, and the oil and water were a little big, so at night it was fried sour taro stalks with lard residue, cold rat meat, cold ear roots, and cassava porridge.

The broth boiling in the two cauldrons has not moved, which is actually a way to keep it fresh, and the broth that has been boiling will not spoil.

After eating, Li Junge put away all the dried mushrooms, which was another dozen catties of food reserves.

Tie four long bamboo troughs on both sides of the stove, and Li Junge began to divide the clay.

The aged clay is moved out, and water is gradually added and stirred to obtain a jar of extremely thin mud.

The slurry is then placed to settle.

Soak the pig skin and fish skin in another jar, and then go over to see what Ayin is doing.

Ayin was looking inside at the quail through the gap in the wood shed.

Seeing Li Junge coming, Ah Yin said, "Why haven't you seen any of them?"

Li Junge said with a smile: "It's all hiding in the hemp pole pile, and you will come out when you leave them, you are not familiar with the environment now, just wait a few days." ”

Holding Ayin's hand and leaving the firewood shed, the two took advantage of the fact that the sun had not yet set, preparing to go to the lake to play.

Set up a bamboo raft and set up two bamboo horses, and Li Junge supported the raft and drove to the other side of the lake.

Ah Yin sat on the bamboo horse, looked at the surrounding scenery, and said to Li Junge: "It turns out that this lake is so beautiful, every time I come to the lake, I pound hemp and carry water, and I have never seen it up close." ”

Li Junge said with a smile: "Now you can take your time, there are a lot of birds on the other side of the lake." What used to be on our side has now moved here. ”

The small lake is not too big, Li Junge came to a place near the opposite bank of the reeds, hid in the corner of the reeds, put down a stone tied to a rope as an anchor, fixed the bamboo raft, the two sat together, looking at the junction of the reeds and the grass.

Li Junge said to Ayin: "I was optimistic about it a few days ago, this is the best place for bird watching. ”

A small cove was formed between the edge of the reeds and the meadow, and a few stones had emerged from the shallow water in front of the meadow, and behind the meadow was a bush in which there were many birds chirping.

Behind the bushes are several tall trees, on which many birds' nests are hidden, and some egrets and herons perch on them.

After a while, a beautiful bird flew on the rocks on the shore.

Ah Yin's eyes were immediately fascinated: "This, this is definitely the most beautiful bird on the island, right?