Chapter 165: The Taste of Harvest
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After a while, Li Xiaopang went and returned, followed by Yaya. The little girl also held a little owl with just feathers in her arms, and her pointed beak made a low purring from time to time.
It stands to reason that owls are also birds of prey, and they can indeed have a deterrent effect on small birds such as old house thieves. It's a pity that this owl is too small to fly, and if you want to catch the old thief, it is estimated that you will have to wait a few months. Therefore, Li Guangyu and they were a little disappointed: the rescuers brought by the little fat man are not useful!
But as the girl pursed her lips and let out a long whistle, a huge figure soon appeared in the sky, accompanied by the old eagle's rude chirp, and the sparrows in the yard immediately scattered and fled, and in the blink of an eye, they were clean, and there was not a single one left.
"Old eagle, you're still amazing!" Li Xiaopang also looked at the old eagle in mid-air and gave a thumbs up, as the so-called brine point tofu, one thing drops one thing, the old eagle is definitely a bird nemesis.
After circling around, the old eagle landed on a wheat stack, and it seemed that it was preparing to stay in Shajiabang. This will not starve it, and the wheat stacks will definitely attract a lot of rats.
In the evening, Yaya turned the rhubarb family again, this time it's okay, there are guards on the air and on the ground, and whoever dares to hit the idea of the wheat stack will be sent to death.
When it got dark, Li Xiaopang summoned Uncle Ming and Uncle Biao to go to the courtyard together and replace Li Guangyu and them. There was a fire in the open space of the courtyard, and several people sat next to the fire, sipping wine bottles one by one, listening to the frogs on the other side of the bubbles, so leisurely.
"The moon passes through the white lotus-like clouds, and the evening breeze blows a happy song. We sat down beside the high grain pile and listened to my mother tell me about the pastβ" A melodious child's voice wafted in, and soon the silly uncle also came to the fire, grinning and picking up the peanuts in the bag and throwing them into his mouth.
"Fool, why do you sing this song more and more?" Li Daming also threw a peanut bean into his mouth and said slowly. For his question, the stupid uncle only answered with a laugh.
Uncle Biao took over the conversation: "The days are getting better and better, of course the fool is happy, don't think he's really stupid!" β
Uncle Silly nodded vigorously, and seemed to agree with Uncle Biao's statement.
After drinking for a while, he dragged a few sheaves of wheat, spread his fur jacket on the top, and then slept in shifts. This fell, and soon got up again, there was no way, the buzzing was full of mosquitoes, if you fell asleep, you would definitely bite a bag.
Because there are many blisters, mosquitoes are also infested, and it is good to say during the day that as soon as it gets dark, groups of small planes will come out to move.
"Fortunately, I'm prepared-" Li Daming took out a paper bag and threw it into the fire, and soon, a strange fragrance spread, and the mosquitoes that were still swarming just now avoided it.
Li Xiaopang's eyes couldn't help but light up: "Uncle, what are you doing, it's better than mosquito coils?" β
Recently, many tourists have also reported that there are too many mosquitoes in the Black Blind Tun, which affects the pleasure of travel, and Li Xiaopang has not found a suitable way. As long as there are blisters, this thing will not stop.
Li Da clearly lay down on the ground: "This is my secret recipe, Xiaotian, if you want to learn, you have to learn from a teacher." β
"Can't I kowtow to you now?" Li Xiaopang is also a junior anyway, so he doesn't care at all.
"Kowtow is free, I am a natural mosquito coil prepared with more than ten herbs, and it cannot be used on a large scale. However, if you want to repel mosquitoes, you can use a variety of nightshade incense around our village, and the effect is also good. Li Da understands that he still has a little research in herbal medicine, and he doesn't hide it with Li Xiaopang.
Li Xiaopang slapped his thigh vigorously: "Yes, why didn't I expect it, not only nightshade, but also mountain fennel, seven mile, lavender or something, also have this effect." There are many points in Tunli, which can repel mosquitoes and beautify the environment. β
However, in Li Daming's opinion, this year is enough to choke, if you plant it now, it will take two months to bloom, and by that time, the mosquitoes will be dead.
Only Li Xiaopang still insisted: "We don't have any seeds in the tun, you can go somewhere else to get it, you look at it first, I'll go now!" β
Just do it, Li Xiaopang went home and rode a bicycle, loaded the monkey three, and set off overnight, which made Li Da understand and complain in his mouth: "Xiaotian's temper, the monkey is anxious and the monkey is urgent-"
In the afternoon of the next day, I saw a large truck appear in the Black Blind Tun, the car was full of colorful and flowering seedlings. There are several layers of dense turns, all separated by wooden boards.
Li Xiaopang jumped out of the car and shouted: "Everyone hurry up and plant flowers!" β
All the men, women and children in the whole tun started to move, and after unloading the truck, they began to transplant flowers and trees around the village in groups of several people. Only the monkey three wilted heads, looking listless. If you try it, how much water has been poured in this day, and the urine that has been spilled is estimated to fill a bucket, so you can cultivate a large number of flowers so quickly.
In the process of transplanting, everyone also had questions: "Can I live planting flowers this month?" β
As it turned out, this worry was unnecessary, and not a single flower died, not even the flowers on it. After all the planting, the whole black blind tun is surrounded by a sea of flowers: purple lavender, snow-white qilixiang, a spike of mountain fennel, that is, Huoxiang, exudes the fragrance of veins, and the whole Xiaotun is shrouded in the fragrance of flowers.
Of course, the effect is also good, there are obviously fewer mosquitoes, and in the evening, everyone goes outside to enjoy the cool, and there is no need to pop again.
Judging from the reactions of tourists, they are also full of praise, and the floral village is even more charming. Li Xiaopang's heart is also beautiful: I will do it every year in the future!
A week later, the yard was threshing wheat with a bang. The big thresher roared all day before it was done. If you use the method of pulling the mill, don't think about finishing it in ten days and a half months.
After the community has left enough public grain, the rest is divided according to the population of each household, and on average, each person is about 1,000 catties of wheat, which is enough to eat.
In addition, this year's wheat grains are particularly large, one grain is almost equivalent to one and a half grains of ordinary wheat. In this way, of course, the powder yield is also much higher.
After being beaten into flour, the white is slightly yellow. The whole pot of big steamed buns, without waiting to eat, smelled the steam, you can feel the thick wheat fragrance.
So much so that when tourists come back to eat, they sniff: "What is steamed in the pot, so fragrant?" β
After lifting the lid of the pot and seeing the big white steamed buns one by one, the tourists were also puzzled. Break a piece of steamed bun and throw it into your mouth, the wheat is fragrant, and the more you chew, the sweeter it is.
There was an older tourist who ate three big steamed buns in one go, and he didn't even have a bite of pickles. After eating, he still clicked his lips vigorously, and had an infinite aftertaste: "I haven't eaten such a flavorful steamed bun for many years!" β
Anyone has eaten steamed buns, but because of the quality of the flour, they don't have that original flavor anymore. But today, older tourists are looking for that familiar taste again.
The most powerful thing is an old man, chewing steamed buns, and he has tears in his eyes. You can eat and cry when you eat a steamed bun, this is too much.
The little grandson next to him also pulled his grandfather's placket: "Grandpa doesn't cry, grandpa doesn't cry, is this big steamed bun in Yangyang good for you." β
The old man touched his tears: "It's not that I remembered those old sesame rotten grains when I was a child, at that time, eating a steamed bun was equivalent to a festival." Yangyang, at that time, grandpa's greatest wish was to be able to eat big steamed buns every day. We must remember the bitterness of the year, so as not to forget the sweetness of today. β
The little guy named Yangyang seems to know whether he understands or not, but I believe that as he grows older, he will definitely be able to understand his grandfather's mood.
Because the steamed buns are really delicious, many tourists immediately asked to buy some flour to eat, and they don't care how much it is, the key must be this taste.
This time, the people in the village also increased their memory, and they didn't dare to sell more, and each person was limited to ten catties, and as for the price, they went with the market. The people of the black blind man are real, and they don't kill customers.
In addition to flouring wheat into flour, another way to eat it is to remove the husk of wheat by a machine and turn it into a grain of white rice, which is not as crystal clear as rice, but has a milky white color. This kind of rice is called wheat rice by the local people, whether it is porridge or rice, it has a unique flavor. When you are tired of eating rice, you can taste wheat rice again, and it feels better than rice.
Li Xiaopang's family scooped up a pot of wheat rice, put some eggplant sauce, dipped in green coriander shallots and snow-white new garlic, and then called for dinner.
Three bowls of wheat and rice were in his stomach, Li Xiaopang put another bowl of slimy rice soup, and was drinking it, when he saw that the three monkeys had a small half bowl of rice, and then they all sprinkled it on the ground.
"If you don't bring such a waste of food, just feed them grass seeds." Li Xiaopang is noisy to death by this group of little guys every day, so he also treats them differently.
It is said that it is a waterfowl cub, but in fact, they are all plump, and they all show their true colors: in addition to the ugly duckling, a whooper swan, there are three wild ducks, two mandarin ducks, plus a red-crowned crane, and the youngest three are sand gulls.
Monkey San tilted his head to look at Li Xiaopang, and then made a grimace, probably complaining about Li Xiaopang's eccentricity: Xiong Wazi and Da Qinggou eat and drink well all day long, why do they have to eat grass seeds when they get here?
Li Xiaopang raised his neck and drank up the rice soup, and began to count it in his mouth again: "Monkey Three, your subordinates should also train hard." The little swallows under the eaves of our house are all flying, shouldn't you little soldiers also practice flying? Don't make it like the chickens, ducks and geese at home, you can go to the firewood stack, then you will be too incompetent! β
Fortunately, Monkey San could still hear it, and he also clicked a few little brain melons, and then put down his rice bowl, led a large army, and went to the west of the village. These little soldiers were all well-disciplined, and they lined up in columns according to their size. The three sand gulls behind fluttered their wings from time to time and ran a few steps so as not to fall behind, who told them that their stride was too small.
This is so lively that you can see it-Li Xiaopang also put down his job and followed behind with a smile. When you meet people, you will say: Take a walk, watch the monkey practice somersault clouds, and fly to the sky with a whoosh.
The adults knew that he was foolish, but he followed a large string of little dolls, and asked in his mouth: "Uncle Little Fat, Monkey San has learned somersault clouds, are you going to fly back to Huaguo Mountain?" β