Chapter 216: Snatching
Xiao Jingyu was stunned when she saw so many things: "You guys are going to clear this mountain, how can you bring so much out of the mountain?" ”
"There aren't many hunters here, and they only operate on the outskirts of the mountain, and there are many wild beasts in this circle. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info" Song Chen dispelled Xiao Jingyu's worries, "Fight some appropriately, and you can also prevent them from going out because of insufficient food, which will cause danger to the hunters." ”
Xiao Jingyu thinks about it, this mountain is so big! This bit of prey shouldn't be enough, right...... And with the breath of Xiaobai, it may be that many beasts are hiding.
Song Chen looked at the time: "They're almost there." ”
"Who?"
When Xiao Jingyu and the others were a little confused, they saw movement in front of them, and in the direction they entered, four young people about twenty-six or seventeen years old appeared, and they also drove two large ox carts over.
"It's coming!" Song Chen stood up and said, beckoning the four people to come over and carry all the things into the car. The cart is quite large, and the prey piled into a hill is loaded on it, and it becomes two hills, fortunately, this cow fat is fat and strong, and this is the way down the mountain, the mountain is gentle, and there are two people from the side to protect and guide, they are not only the first time to go up the mountain, so the way back to Zhuangzi is quite passing. At most, I met people who were inspecting the fields along the way, and attracted more attention.
Lin Jin and the six of them had already returned to Zhuangzi directly with the big snake with light skills, this ox cart was used to transport materials or food back and forth between the field and Zhuangzi on weekdays, and there was no cover, and the prey of the two carts was exposed, which looked extremely attractive, but there were four young and strong young men guarding it, and followed the majestic Xiaobai, so the eyes seen along the way were envious and jealous, but no one dared to think about it. They owe this rich harvest to Xiaobai's head, and they don't have the ability to raise such a lion, so let's rest their minds as soon as possible!
returned to Zhuangzi so smoothly, Kuai Yong had already taken a few people to help deal with the snake that Xiao Jingyu brought back, and as soon as the prey on the car arrived, it was also unloaded and immediately began to deal with it.
Originally, Su Miao and Song Chen wanted them to go back after the Mid-Autumn Festival, but although it was sunny this day, they didn't know how many days it would be clear, so they still decided to go back tomorrow. It is almost impossible to completely air dry the prey when they set off, of course, Su Miao can also use some means, but that is not necessary, and it is not as good as natural air drying or sun drying, anyway, there is stock in the warehouse, and then take out the previous stock from the warehouse and give it to Lin Jin and them. These fresh ones should be disposed of as soon as the weather is good, and it is best to dry them before it rains again.
At the same time, the peeled fur was also cleaned by others, and it was also to be dried on this rare sunny day. Originally, Liufu asked Song Chen if they wanted to sell it, but as soon as the fur was sold in the south, Song Chen let them stay, and it was better to take it from Hengqingtang to the north to sell it later! Now that this batch of goods has been cleaned up together, it can already be sent to Lily of the Valley City to be processed by Lin Jiu.
The next day, Lin Jin and Xiao Jingyu, Song Henghuan and Tang Yun set off to leave Zhuangzi together. With Lin Jin and the others went back, there was a truckload of air-dried hares, pheasants and venison, and five or six live hares in cages. Song Henghuan and Tang Yun didn't ask for any prey because they often lived in the southwest city, and they hurried back empty-handed.
As soon as Lin Jin and the others left, Liufu came over to report that the soybeans planted in Zhuangzi could be harvested: "Thanks to the big sun in the past few days, the pods have dried up almost dry." Zhang said that if he didn't collect it quickly, the pods would crack after two more days, and the beans would fall to the ground, which would be a lot of waste. "Zhang Jiaotou is the most experienced of the long-term workers they hire, and they generally listen to him in agricultural matters.
"Then send all the manpower to collect soybeans first!" Anyway, the rain has stopped now, and there is no need to worry much about it in the rice fields, which is also a beautiful thing, and it was originally planned that if it rained all the time, the pods would be taken back and dried by fire.
"Hey, Ah Chen, why don't we get a stone mill from Zhuangzi back? When the time comes, you can make tofu and eat it! "The tofu eaten in Zhuangzi before was bought at the tofu workshop in the nearby village, Su Miao heard Aunt Shi talk about it that day, and wanted to make it herself, "I heard Aunt Shi say that this soybean grinds by itself, in addition to making tofu, you can also make dried beans, bean skin, soy milk, tofu flowers, and even fermented bean curd and bean curd!" The leftover bean dregs can be made into bean candy! ”
"Of course! Liufu, you ask the purchaser to ask Aunt Shi to see what other utensils you need, and buy them back. Song Chen likes to eat fried dough sticks and soak soy milk, while Su Miao likes tofu flowers, and all kinds of soy products can also be used in dishes, all of which are good things, of course Song Chen agreed.
The next day, all the things that Aunt Shi wanted were ready, and she waited for the soybeans in the field to be harvested before opening.
Although it is almost the Mid-Autumn Festival, the tiger is very powerful in the autumn of Lannan, and it has rained for so many days, after the sky clears, there is no cloud in the sky, and the power of the sun is full, so that people dare not look up at the sky, and their eyes will be burned if they are not careful.
Soybeans are only planted in dozens of acres, and there are about 40 long-term workers in the Zhuangzi plus their own people (at this time, those farmers are taking care of their own land, in fact, they can't get it if they want to hire short-term workers), although they only go to harvest the bean pods in the morning and withdraw to the Zhuangzi in the afternoon to dry, but they also take everything back from the ground within two days.
It was too hot, Su Miao asked Mrs. Shi to cook a lot of mung bean soup and let everyone drink it as water, and also put a bucket of water sprinkled with ice cream herbal powder in the resting place of everyone in the Zhuangzi, at first they didn't understand what this bucket of water did, but soon, everyone in the Zhuangzi understood the wonders.
Ice grass is a magical herb. Su Miao had used the pollen of this herb to chill watermelon before, which could make ordinary water instantly cold and refreshing, which was more effective than ice cubes. Su Miao planted a lot in Tianjian Peak, flowering in winter and bearing fruit in summer, with it, there is no need to prepare ice cubes to cool off. The flowers and fruits of the ice grass can be eaten, but each herb only blooms two or three flowers at most per season, and only bears these two or three fruits. Su Miao once picked the leaves of the heartwood to make the juice for cleaning, and the effect was very good. I also saw that there were a lot of leaves in the ice grass, so I picked some leaves in the same way as a gourd to study the medicinal properties, and found that although the leaves were very bitter and could not be eaten, the medicinal powder used to make it was added to the water, and the effect of storing it in the house to absorb the heat was the same as that of ice cream pollen and ice cream fruit. Moreover, there are a lot of leaves in Bingling grass, and picking some of them will not affect the flowering and fruiting, so Su Miao will pick some of them every year to make medicinal powder for later use. You can't eat it, but you can use it to cool down the house!
Everyone has been coming to Baiyun Mountain Villa for a long time, they all know their relationship with Hengqing Hall, and they also know that Su Miao not only has martial arts, but also is a very powerful pharmacist, so although they haven't seen anything added to Su Miao's bucket, they don't make a fuss and want to find out.
The sun was extremely hot, and the soybeans were only dried for one day after they were taken back, and the pods began to crack, and they were dried for another day, until they saw that the pods had all cracked, and in the evening when the sun went down, Zhang Zhangtou beckoned everyone to beat the pods, so that all the soybeans were separated, and after the pods were cleaned, there were only one full and dry soybeans left. At this time, although the soybeans had begun to dry, they still contained a lot of moisture, and they continued to dry for two more days before they were completely dry, and they began to pack and prepare for storage.
It's only been a day since I moved into the granary, and that day I saw that it was starting to turn cloudy again. Luofu looked up at that day and almost burst into tears: "This must be because our master has done a lot of good deeds, so God is especially favored!" It rained for so long, and it stopped just when the master's birthday and our Zhuangzi were about to harvest soybeans, and when we finished the things in our hands, it began to rain again. God forbid! ”
Everyone thought about it, isn't it such a coincidence! When it comes to Song Chen and Su Miao's good deeds, they are really obvious to all, not to mention anything else, which masters care about them like them? It is said that the daughter-in-law of the big housekeeper is arranged to marry back by the two masters, and they will also provide the younger generation to go to private school, Miss Su also personally concocted the summer soup for them to drink, according to the big housekeeper, Miss Su also mentioned to him, if any of them among these people, there is a favorite girl who wants to marry, let him pay attention, Zhuangzi will give a bride price, and after marrying someone back, he will also arrange work!
However, it was cloudy, but it didn't rain right away, so they still had a lot of time to prepare for the release of water in the rice fields. Originally, after those people had almost put the water out, when they saw that the sun was so fierce, they left some water in the field, so as not to be too dry and the rice seedlings would be damaged by the sun, but after seeing that the day began to be cloudy again, everyone rushed to release the water again.
On the day of the Mid-Autumn Festival, the rain finally began to fall early in the morning.
However, this time it was not as gentle as the rain in the previous paragraph, this time the rain can be described as pouring and pouring, in Su Yan's words, it was simply ten thousand arrows, one after another water arrows, splashing after falling to the ground, Su Miao was reluctant to go out, at most walked around the verandah and pavilion, and moved his muscles.
Yesterday, Aunt Shi made moon cakes, but Song Chen didn't like to eat this traditional sweet and greasy sesame date paste filling, Su Miao had nothing to do anyway, so she took a lot of various ingredients that she or Song Chen liked to eat and came over to make her own tinkering, it was best to make mung bean paste, taro paste, winter melon paste and lotus paste These four flavors, each made more than a dozen, because Song Chen likes to drink tea, and Longjing tea is added to these fillings.
After the kitchen was baked, someone sent it over, the crispy aroma of the pie crust with a little sweet fragrance of fruit puree and the fragrance of Longjing, Song Chen immediately tried one.
Song Chen tried the mung bean paste filling, and among the four flavors, this one is relatively not so sweet.
Su Miao saw that after Song Chen took the first bite, she took the second bite immediately after commenting, and couldn't help but reach out to look at him and ask with a smile, "How is it?" May I? ”
Song Chen had something stuffed in his mouth and it was inconvenient to speak, so he directly sent the small half of the moon cake left in his hand to Su Miao's mouth. Su Miao chewed twice and nodded: "It's almost the same as I imagined......
Su Miao originally asked Song Chen to try every taste, if there was any flavor he didn't like, she would give it to Liufu, but she didn't expect that Song Chen could accept every flavor and kept it.
The rain on the day of the Mid-Autumn Festival has been falling from morning to afternoon, and in the evening, there was a moon sacrifice ceremony according to the custom, but the rain was still falling, and even the moon was not seen, Song Chen and Su Miao waited in the pavilion for a long time that the rain did not have the intention of stopping, they kept a part of the moon cakes and grapes on the incense case, and the others were moved to the stone table of the pavilion, while drinking osmanthus wine, while tasting the moon cakes, there was a different taste.
Xiaobai also tasted one of each flavor of mooncakes, and after that, he only ate the fresh grapes that were just picked today from the Zhuangzi. After eating a large bunch of grapes, Xiaobai began to be interested in the wine that Song Chen and Su Miao were drinking, and circled around them, the person stood up, his front paws lying on the stone table, looked at their wine glasses, and touched the wine jug, Song Chen saw it like this, and raised his eyebrows: "Could it be that you still want to drink?" ”
Xiaobai looked at him - give me a taste too?
"Okay, go get the basin you drank from!" Song Chen said briskly.
Su Miao patted him: "Don't do it, Xiaobai hasn't drunk wine since he was so big!" Don't wait to get drunk! ”
Xiaobai has already "swished" and disappeared from the lion's shadow.
Soon, Xiao Bai returned to the pavilion with its basin in his mouth, and put it in front of Song Chen with a "bang".
Song Chen pressed Su Miao's hand and said, "It's okay, just give it a taste." It's okay to be drunk, just let it learn a lesson, and it won't dare to drink indiscriminately in the future. "Just like eating bayberry before, you have to be taught a lesson before you have an impression.
Su Miao turned her head to look at Xiao Bai's expectant big eyes, anyway, it has never been drunk, you tell it that it will be drunk, it doesn't understand, I really want to think about what Song Chen said, if it tries that taste, it will die.
Song Chen saw that Su Miao did not continue to object, so he opened the mud seal of the wine jar on the table and poured half a pot of wine for Xiaobai. The wine was sent by Lin Jiu, from the best winery in Lily of the Valley City, as soon as the wine was poured out, it was fragrant, and Xiaobai immediately stretched out his big tongue and licked it.
Half a pot of wine was drunk before a cup of tea was drunk, and I don't know if it was a little drunk or very happy, after the basin bottomed out, it jumped over and pestered Song Chen to continue pouring wine. (To be continued.) )