Chapter 473: A Great Harvest

After putting away the fish card and rowing the raft to the shore, Ayin was rolling his sleeves and pounding hemp, looking up and smiling: "Erpi, what you did is really effective! I just saw you collect fish!"

Li Junge smiled: "There are too many fish in this lake. I can't run away with sixty or seventy pounds this time! I don't have to fish anymore!"

After speaking, he smiled and said: "You should have a mouthful, your favorite smoked fish, you can catch enough at one time!"

Ayin clapped her hands happily: "Okay, good! Your favorite kimchi, my favorite smoked fish, that's it!"

Next, Li Junge began to cut the fish at the water's edge, knocked his head unconscious with a wooden stick, removed his nails and cheeks, cut it from his back, connected his belly, and washed it and used palm leaves as a rope, hanging them one by one.

The harvest was so much, the plan to make the rope today was about to be postponed, and Li Junge went to collect the cassava chips that had been washed the day before yesterday, and picked the fish and cassava back first.

He took a dustpan to dry the cassava stall, and pickled the fish into a pot with green onions, ginger and herbs, and then returned to the lake to assist Ayin in washing hemp, and then came back with hemp and water.

Back at the camp, Li Junge picked out the one with the bamboo shoot shell pattern and the one similar to the military fish from the stacked fish, and said to Ayin: "These two are good things at first glance, and they are absolutely delicious when steamed!

The one like the military fish was so big that it couldn't fit on the plate, so it had to be cut into two pieces.

Boil water in a pot, put a bamboo rack in it, put the fish plate on it, pour a spoonful of coconut oil, and take a bamboo leaf pot in the shape of a hat and cover it and steam it.

After steaming the bamboo shoot shell fish, Li Junge brought the fish to the bamboo table, and came back to steam the one like a military fish, and then the two began to taste it.

Both of them have eaten a lot of river fresh, and one of them picked a chopstick, and couldn't help but say: "This is quite good! Not to mention the tenderness and sweetness, there are not many thorns, it is delicious!"

When the fish is steamed, as soon as the lid of the pot is lifted, a fragrance comes to the nose, and the bamboo shoot shell fish is pressed down again.

Li Junge shouted and brought the plate to the table: "This and this! This is even more powerful than the one just now! It smells good!"

Ah Yin tasted a chopstick and said hesitantly, "How did I get the taste of crab meat?"

Li Junge also put down a pair of chopsticks: "Hey, there's a fruity flavor! Sure enough, this fish has suppressed all the fish in my Li Jiagou!"

The two of them started with one chopstick, and I kept talking with one chopstick.

Halfway through eating, Li Junge inexplicably felt a resentment, and when he raised his head, the big and small beards were looking at him with blank eyes.

"Damn!" Li Junge had no choice but to put down his chopsticks, picked out another fish of this kind, and steamed a plate of the two beards.

Looking at the two beards who were gobbling up and eating in the distance, Li Junge muttered: "Lao Tzu feels like he has two pets......

Ah Yin squirted out a mouthful of fish meat, and hit Li Junge with his elbow: "You can keep some virtue!"

Li Junge turned his head to Ayin and said, "Isn't it? I usually don't speak or open my mouth, just knowing that they revolve around you; they are staring at you when you eat, waiting for you to give them some too; which sniffing dog do you say is not like this?"

Ayin really couldn't find fault with this, and he was smiling and sobbing when he was lying on the chair.

Today, I stayed by the water's edge for too long, and Ayin didn't rest at noon, and the two of them took advantage of one noon to shake out two balls of rope and three balls of thin wire.

The discarded hemp silk was also not discarded casually, and it would be collected by Li Junge every day and put into the alkaline water tank where the waste bamboo silk was soaked.

In the afternoon, Ayin went to collect, and Li Junge reminded her: "The collection method of cassava should be changed, Ayin, when you pick, first remove the main branch, leave a few buds and twigs, and then leave two cassava at the root to keep not to dig up, and bring them back together." ”

Ayin said, "Why do you want to do this?"

Li Junge said with a smile: "I'm going to open a piece of cultivated land around. When I leave, I plant it back, which is a thank you to nature. ”

Ayin smiled: "Your idea is really good!"

When Ayin went with the basket on his back, Li Junge began to prepare the stove.

First, take out four sharpened wooden nails and mallets, and together with the twine, break into a regular rectangle on one side of the bamboo shed.

Then he began to stick twine to the ground and nail bamboo poles.

In total, it is one meter wide and one and a half meters long.

Then divide the rectangle into four equal parts and turn it into a Tian character. Nail bamboo poles to the two midlines as well.

Then he began to take the bamboo materials that are usually discarded, mainly those peeled bamboo meat strips, and weave them between the bamboo poles to make four frames. The height is half a meter.

Then take the basket and go to the edge of the collapsed grass to get the soil.

Come back and pour into the middle of the box to compact.

The subsoil does not need to be mixed into mud, and there is some moisture in the soil, which is enough.

A cube of dirt that cushions the cooktop half a meter high.

Then I started to make two picks of soil in the place where I made the mud for the first time, and formed a circle around it, adding water, stepping on the mud, adding dried bamboo leaves and evenly.

Take two calf-thick empty bamboo tubes, saw one end into a 45-degree opening, and apply a thick layer of thin mud on the outside to make a mud tube.

Put the mud tube on the side of the fire pond and roast it, return to the stove position, take the waste bamboo and weave three longitudinal bamboo hedges between the bamboo poles, and then weave the bottom of the stove as well, this time it is 30 centimeters high.

Remove the two transverse partitions in the middle of the field character, and use the thin mud to lay the three rectangular longitudinal bamboo hedges into three soil ridges.

Then, on this basis, begin to paste the stove with thin mud, which is surrounded by thin mud, empty in the middle, and rounded at the bottom, like two water droplets with their heads and tails cut off and longitudinally separated, lying side by side.

Then Li Junge returned to the stone platform where he did pottery work, took the bamboo mat and fine mud, the bamboo strip made a square frame, took the mud that was placed on the first soil and rolled out a clay board with a bamboo stick with a length of about one meter, a width of about half a meter, and a thickness of about two centimeters.

The clay tablets are then cut into three pieces, one 40 centimeters wide and two 30 centimeters wide, so that they can be burned in the pottery kiln at the same time.

A fire was made at the bottom of the stone slab to bake the clay tablet, and Li Junge continued to carry the basket to pick up the mud and mud.

Come back in the middle, and in the middle of the 30-centimeter board, take a bamboo circle to scrape out a semicircle with a radius of 10 centimeters.

On a 40-centimeter board, a 10-centimeter semicircle was pulled out on one side.

After doing this, the surface of the hearth began to dry, and Li Junge sprinkled some dry sand into it, and took fine wood branches to build two fires to bake the hearth.

When he came back, the clay slab was also dry, Li Junge put the clay slab aside, removed the charcoal fire, poured water little by little to cool the slate, and pressed a large clay slab and cut it into some small clay slabs of twenty-five by fifty.

The small clay tablets were also baked on the fire, and when they returned to the stove, the soil around the hearth became drier and harder, and Li Junge began to thicken the branches to burn the fire.

While the soil of the stove embryo at the bottom of the hearth was still relatively thin, Li Junge began to install the chimney.

In fact, the easiest way is to erect two large bamboo tubes through the roof tiles, but Li Junge is reluctant to destroy the bamboo building, so he still decided to place them horizontally.

Place two clay cylinders side by side at the bottom of the furnace, one through the other, and then hollow out the sides of the furnace and bury them in.

The mud tube protruded from the right side of the stove for half a meter, and Li Junge dragged a wooden horse under the bed board over and put the mud tube on it.

As for the tall chimney, that's for later, so let's make do with it for now.

Back in front of the stone platform, the small clay tablets were also roasted.

Li Junge opened the pottery kiln, took out the cooled cups and jars and put them on the bamboo table, didn't bother to check them, and began to insert all the large clay tablets and half of the small clay tablets into the kiln to burn.

When he came back from here, he took the rest of the small clay tablets aside, and made three more pieces like the big clay tablets, and baked them as well.

At this time, Ayin came back, looked at the appearance of the stove, and said, "Erpi, you made two stoves?

Li Junge was checking the burned cup, and hurriedly came over to help Ayin carry the basket, and said, "It must be, in case someone comes to visit, the stove can also be ......opened."

After speaking, I reacted, in the wilderness, the ghost came to be a guest!

Seeing that Li Junge had come back to his senses, Ayin smiled and leaned back: "Oops...... I'm laughing to death...... You're still counting on guests coming to your door...... Hahahaha......"

Li Junge picked at his head and said: "This is all built, it won't let me dismantle it, uh, there are many stoves, it indicates that the family is prosperous......!

Ayin gave him a blank look, and went to boil and dry hemp.

Finally able to rest, Li Junge began to appreciate the cups he made.

Very satisfied, this cup is similar to the daily lid cup, and it can be used to make tea.

Receiving the teacup and a few jars on the storage shelf, Li Junge took the cassava that Ayin brought back and threw it into the bucket, ready to fetch water.

First go to the place where the cassava is washed by the stream and put down the bucket, and Li Junge will go to collect the paint first.

The output of lacquer far exceeds Li Junge's expectations, it is estimated that one is that the old trees produce a large amount of lacquer, and the other is that no one has ever taken lacquer, and there are more than ten lacquer trees in the forest, and they can receive about three taels a day.

After putting away the raw lacquer obtained today, Li Junge went back to scrape and wash the cassava, slice and throw it into the bamboo basket that had been tied there to brew.

Then he went home with an empty bucket of water.

Ah Yin had finished cleaning up the floc, and when he saw Li Junge coming back, he began to steam the fish.

The fish tasted so beautiful that both of them wanted to eat it again.

I also didn't forget to steam a plate of beards for the two of them.

After eating, Li Junge smiled at Ayin: "I have to work overtime tonight, smoke the fish out, there is a stove, hang it on the stove and roast it, and the taste is light, and I am not afraid of spoilage." ”

Ayin has long coveted smoked fish, of course, the sooner she can eat it, the better, and she has no opinion at all.

The pines and cypresses are not found around, but this is not difficult for the two, as long as there is a fragrant smell of oily firewood, coconut shell coconut palm, coconut hemp stalk, sun-dried herbs, cattail reeds that are more.

The steep pyramid-shaped ladder that was erected during the last wooden building can be used again to make a smokehouse.

Put the pickled fish back on with palm leaves, use bamboo strips to stretch the fish into pieces and hang them, hang plantain leaves on the outside of the ladder, make a fire underneath, and then cover the sawdust and bamboo chips collected from sawwood and bamboo for more than ten days, and the smoke will come out.

Sprinkle with a handful of desiccated coconut and some vanilla, and smoke billows in.

Ayin took care of the smoking shed, and Li Junge went to take out the pottery plate in the pottery kiln, put the rest in it, and fired another kiln.

Then I brewed two cups of wheat dong mint tea in a freshly burned lid cup, removed the pottery embryo from the wooden frame, and continued yesterday's work.