Feeding more than 200 pigs, planting corn, and building pig farms, although things were complicated, Tian Fei suddenly found that he was idle.

After four or five days of sowing by more than 100 villagers, Bald Mountain was already full of corn, and everyone began to plant in the cedar forest. Tian Fei's father and some elders are there, and Tian Fei doesn't want to go there to watch today.

In the morning, together with Sun Yonglin, after feeding the pigs, Tian Fei planned to walk around the village. It's been two months since I went home, and I've been busy with this and that, and I haven't taken a good look at the village where I have grown for more than 20 years.

Shuanghe Village is no different from today's rural China. A road that runs through the village, flanked by two rows of houses of varying heights, but not as neatly planned as the streets in the city, basically whoever owns a piece of land will build a house. There are bungalows, tiled houses, large ones, small ones, some built next to the road, and some with a large courtyard in front of them......

In short, it looks messy.

As for the houses on both sides of the road, not to mention, most of the east and west buildings are also tiled houses. If you look down from the sky, the whole village is like a big broken tile, scattered, gray and black.

Most of the young and middle-aged people in the village have gone out to work, and most of the remaining laborers are also helping Tian Fei to grow corn in Baltou Mountain. Therefore, the village gave Tian Fei the feeling of tranquility and desertion. There are only a few old ladies at home with their grandchildren, and the school is good for summer vacation children, otherwise it is even more deserted. Tian Fei had heard such a saying, "If a tiger enters the village, it may eat all the people in the village." ”

"Xiaofei, why didn't you go to the mountain today?" It was an old woman who spoke. Seeing Tian Fei walking at the door, he was warmly beckoning Tian Fei to come in and sit down.

"Second grandma, sit down, don't get up!" As he spoke, Tian Fei moved a stool and sat next to him.

The second grandmother is sitting on a chair cleaning ramie fibers, commonly known as yarn clearing in Shuanghe Village. It is the main means for many rural old ladies to make money.

Ramie fiber is the raw material for making ramie cloth, and in Shuanghe village, several households grow ramie. It is also a common crop cultivated in the Yicheng area. In autumn, when the ramie is ripe and the leaves are yellow, the villagers cut down the ramie stems. Through acid leaching, boiling, degumming, fiberning, bleaching and other treatments, ramie fibers can be extracted.

After that, the old lady and the housewife will break and clean the handfuls one by one, and close and connect each yarn together, and then roll the connected yarn into a melon shape, and some will also use the yarn in the middle of the melon-shaped yarn to make a gourd shape several times.

In each village, there are a few traders who buy ramie yarn, and they usually come to collect it, and they can sell it for about ten or twenty yuan a catty.

"Second grandma, I don't have anything to do today, so I went to the village for a walk, the mountains are all working, and I can't do anything. How are you doing? ”

"There is food and drink at home, but Delin works outside, it would be better if you could earn money at home like you." The old lady misses her son a little.

"It will be better in the future, I can't say that one day my Uncle Delin will do some business at home." Tian Fei comforted.

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After chatting with the old lady for a while, Tian Fei took his leave.

Tian Fei thought that when he made money raising pigs in the future, some people who worked outside would follow his example and go home to raise pigs. In Tian Fei's view, this is also a good thing.

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On the road in the village, several children passed by Tian Fei with baskets, all of them were children, and Tian Fei didn't know them. Seeing the things in the children's baskets, Tian Fei stopped them.

"Fine, where did you get the cold powder fruit? Sell it to me no. Tian Fei asked, and took out another five yuan from his pocket.

I saw two of them in their baskets with green fruits, a bit like figs, but a little bigger than figs. The scientific name of this fruit is split lily, which is an original ecological fruit used to make cold powder. Tian Fei hadn't eaten the cold noodles made at home for many years, and after seeing it, he was a little hungry, and Tian Fei wanted to buy his own cold noodles to eat.

"We want to eat these ourselves, not sell them to you." The child is not willing to cede.

But when he saw Tian Fei's five yuan, he hesitated and said, "You give us the money, and we can take you to the mountains to pick it, and there is still one on the vine." "The kid is a bit cunning.

So Tian Fei took a bag and asked the children to lead the way.

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In rural areas, there are generally two ways to make your own jelly.

The first is to use Liangfen grass, a kind of Lamiaceae plant that grows in the field, commonly known as cactus grass, cactus jelly, and black jelly. Take the jelly grass and put it in a large iron pot and boil it with water, and after about an hour, the water in the pot will turn into dark green jelly water. At this time, the grass is scooped up, and then slowly mixed the boiling cold powder water into the sticky rice noodles, and then stirred with a spoon while mixing, and when it is stirred until it is thin and paste, pour it into a large bucket or basin and let it cool naturally. Stumbling with vinegar or sugar, it becomes a delicious food to cool off.

The second is to use the jelly fruit, which is the kind of fruit that Tian Fei saw just now, which is made of white jelly.

Tian Fei followed a few children to the mountain, which is a forbidden mountain in the village, which is not allowed to be cut down, and there are all kinds of old trees inside. Less than ten meters into the mountain, the children stopped under an old camphor tree.

Tian Fei looked up and saw a green vine climbing on top of this old camphor tree, which was as thick as a child's arm. The green vine has round leaves, slightly larger than copper coins, and in the leaves, some fruits can be faintly seen, which should be the fruit of Liangfen.

Tian Fei asked the children to watch under the tree, and he climbed the tree to pick it himself. I saw Tian Fei take a few steps back, then rushed forward, kicked on the trunk of the tree, and with the help of the power of the kick, jumped up, and grabbed the bottom branch with both hands. Then wrap your feet around the trunk and climb up with both hands. This kind of tree is easy as long as it climbs the first branch, Tian Fei's tree-climbing skills are still good, and he climbed the tree in two minutes.

Standing firmly on the tree, Tian Fei grabbed the branch with one hand, and began to pick the fruit with the other hand and throw it down. The jelly fruit is a bit tough, you have to pull it hard, and there will be sticky juice, Tian Fei took a lot of effort.

After a while, after picking twenty or thirty, Tian Fei stopped. It's just to eat it yourself, there's no need to pick it all up.

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Back at home, Tian Fei first cut all the fruits, and then took out the seeds inside, two of the seeds were kept for later to make cold powder, and the rest were spread out on the newspaper and dried for later use.

After beating a basin of cold well water, Tian Fei wrapped the seeds of the two fruits in gauze and rubbed them repeatedly in the clean and cold well water, and then slowly pulled out the mucus, and after a while, the water became very thick.

In order to speed up the condensation speed, Tian Fei put the thickened well water into the refrigerator and let it stand.

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After eating lunch, Tian Fei opened the refrigerator and saw that it had condensed into lumps.

Scoop out three bowls with a spoon, then add sugar and serve one bowl to each member of the family. Tian Fei tasted it first, and he was very tough.

It's cold and cold, which makes Tian Fei so cool that the cold hair comes by himself on a hot summer afternoon!