Isn't a reed a radish a radish?

Chen Xu was puzzled after hearing this, but he naturally didn't know if it didn't grow now, but according to Chen Jiang's statement, these seeds must not grow, not only were they planted a few years ago, but also the insects were moldy, it seems that he has to go back to the town in two days, get some vegetable seeds, and then dig some wild onions, ginger, garlic and pepper trees back, and plant some vegetables around the house.

As the saying goes, if you plant melons, you will get melons, and if you plant beans, you can only eat soil.

And Chen Xu didn't guess wrong, reed is radish, there has been large-scale cultivation in the Shang and Zhou dynasties, the Qin and Han dynasties have become a mass level of vegetables, China's earliest dictionary "Erya" has been recorded, and the Chinese cabbage is actually cabbage, the history of cultivation in China is earlier, enough to push to the Neolithic Age, later archaeology in the Banpo site in the clay pot found cabbage seeds, it can be seen that at that time the semi-primitive state of the clan tribe has begun to plant cabbage, to the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period has been widely cultivated, But the name cabbage did not appear until the Yuan Dynasty.

In addition to planting vegetables, it is estimated that this simple thatched hut made of bamboo and wood can not resist the cold in winter, especially without cotton clothes and thickened bedding, just putting some hay on the bed may not be able to withstand the cold of the cold winter wax moon, adults can barely resist it, how can children like apricots and even younger children and those frail old people bear it?

A few days ago, when chatting with a few villagers at night, Uncle Ma was sighing, according to the phenomenon of such a smooth wind and rain in the summer and autumn of this year, the winter must be extremely cold, and even the snow will be much heavier than in previous years, and there may be a cold winter that is rare in decades, so Uncle Ma is very worried that the old, weak, sick and disabled in the village will not survive this cold winter.

And Uncle Ma's words also made Chen Xu even more worried, he was not thinking about a small river village, but about how more than 3,000 people from more than 600 households in the entire Qinghe Town would survive the next cold winter, and many people used to freeze to death every winter.

Uncle Ma is still convinced of his words, the ancients did not have a weather forecast, all rely on experience to speculate, it is impossible to be in good weather all year round, it is still necessary to come, not to mention that as the saying goes, in winter, wheat cover three layers of quilts, pillow to sleep with steamed buns in the coming year, which means that only heavy snow in winter, frozen pests will be harvested the next year, so the severe cold in winter is both painful and painful, but also hope, the old farmers do not want to have a warm winter, because it is not in line with the solar terms, especially in Nanyang, the Central Plains where the four seasons are particularly distinct.

The autumn harvest will end in a week at most, and there are still about two months before the arrival of winter, so we have to think of a way to heat up in winter as soon as possible......

Chen Xu is very entangled, all kinds of houses and buildings in later generations appear in front of him, he needs to find a simple and able way to resist the cold, cotton clothes and quilts are impossible, there are more than ten wolf skins in the town, but they can only make a few clothes to keep out the cold, and they can only keep their own family, but since they are this pawn, they can't just take care of themselves.

In the process of thinking about it, the bean dregs dough with flour and wild onion alfalfa salt had also been reconciled, and Chen Xu also had some ideas in his heart, so he simply put this problem aside for the time being and began to concentrate on making onion bean dregs cakes.

The reconciled bean dregs turned into a cake under his kneading, and a total of more than ten were pinched and put into the bamboo sieve, and at this time, the soybean milk had already boiled and began to boil, a layer of snow-white foam floated in the clay pot, and the air was filled with a strong fragrance of fresh soybean milk.

Chen Xu suddenly remembered a dish that his mother used to cook when she was making tofu in winter, so he quickly used a clean bamboo spoon to skim off all the foam inside, and told Xing'er to reduce the fire on the stove.

"Brother, is it okay to drink soy milk?" Xing'er skillfully removed half of the fire in the stove, and then looked at the milky white soy milk and asked with a snort.

"Not yet, but my brother suddenly remembered a new dish, called bean skin, which is so delicious for stewed meat, Wuya, go and help me chop a two-inch thick bamboo back, shave off the branches and leaves, and wipe it clean."

"Mother, help me get a clean bamboo shovel!"

Under Chen Xu's orders, Yu Wuya carried his meteorite sword to chop bamboo, and Chen Jiang quickly took out a brand-new bamboo shovel from the room.

The soy milk in the pot gradually stopped boiling, and as time went by, a layer of pale yellow solidified film slowly appeared on the surface of the soy milk, and after waiting for about five minutes, this film already looked relatively thick, and at this time, Yu Wuya also quickly ran back with a bamboo pole, and then wiped it with a rag.

"Engong, the bamboo pole has been cut back, how do you get it next?"

"Hold it on the basin and don't move!" At the same time as Chen Xu instructed, he used a bamboo shovel to stick this layer of film around the tile basin, so that the film and the tile basin were completely separated, and then reached out and grabbed the center of the film, and lifted a layer of something like a rag to hang on the bamboo pole.

"Hey, it's amazing, is this what is called bean skin?" Yu Wuya was amazed.

"Well, this thing is the essence of soy milk, it is easy to store after drying, it can be eaten by soaking it in water, and it can be fried and stewed with meat and vegetables, the taste is fragrant and refreshing, and it can even be made into a spicy taste, which is really delicious with wine!"

"Don't say it, Wu Yan's saliva can't be stopped, I didn't expect that a simple soybean Eun Gong can also make countless kinds of deliciousness, Wu Ya can know Eun Gong in this life, it's just in vain!"

Nima is too straightforward to say, and he really deserves the name of a foodie.

Chen Xu pouted speechlessly, and began to shovel along the crockpot with a bamboo shovel, and soon scooped up the second bean skin.

Although Chen Jiang didn't know how his son suddenly understood so many new things that he had never seen before, he didn't think about it elsewhere, but stood next to him and carefully watched his son's movements, carefully learning how to make tofu skin.

Soon half an hour passed, Chen Xu scooped up more than ten bean skins, only a small half of the soy milk in the pot was left, Chen Xu stopped, let Yu Wuya hold the bamboo pole to hang under the pergola, and then instructed Xing'er to start cooking the soybean milk on high heat again, after a few minutes I felt that the soy milk was completely cooked, so I scooped some bitter water with a bamboo spoon and prepared to pour it in, thought for a while and scooped out most of the soy milk from the clay basin first, leaving only about two bowls, then poured the bitter water into it and stirred it a few times, and then ...... There was no more, under the intently attention of Chen Jiang's, Xing'er, and Yu Wuya, nothing happened to the soy milk, and it was still in a state of soup after a few minutes.

Alas, Chen Xu couldn't help but sigh and stopped, don't think about it, this bitter water is definitely not brine, otherwise the soy milk should have turned into bean curd.

And...... Seem...... Later generations have not heard of salt brine near Nanyang, so this bitter water should contain another mineral salt.

The soy milk was not made, Chen Xu was a little regretful, but he felt that it was not far from making tofu by himself, because salt brine is not easy to find, gypsum is everywhere in China, with tens of billions of tons of reserves accounting for the first place in the world, and some places can be dug out with a hoe, thinking that someone should have discovered it in this era of Daqin, but he doesn't know what the name is, maybe next time Zhao Qing will give him a surprise, not to mention the roster of various mineral raw materials, he also gave Shui Qingrou a copy, and asked her to go back and arrange for the Shui family to start looking for it, With a two-pronged approach, I believe that the results will be available soon.

Splash the soy milk from the clay pot, replace it with the clay pot that you usually fry vegetables, take out the lard and start frying the shallot-flavored bean dregs cake.

With a slight popping sound, the okara cake slowly turned brown under the frying of the lard, and a strong fragrance with the scent of wild onions and bean dregs began to spread in the yard.

"Goo Dong~" Yu Wuya couldn't help but swallow a mouthful of saliva, staring directly at the bean dregs cake in the pot, as if a pair of claws were about to stretch out in his eyes.

"Hey, it's so fragrant, Brother Xu, what are you cooking again?" Niu Dashi seemed to have just come back from work, and he was running dirty, shouting loudly as he ran, "I can smell it at home from such a distance!" ”

"It's a scallion bean dregs cake! It's delicious! "Apricot began to show off again, although she hasn't eaten it yet, but it doesn't prevent a child's brain from making up the taste.

"It's a good thing I came in time, otherwise I wouldn't have my share!" Niu Dashi looked at the pot and the bamboo sieve, there were only twelve or thirteen vegetable cakes in total, and felt that he had come in time, so he also stayed next to the earthen stove and stared straight at it.

"Ready to eat!" Seeing that the two sides of the bean dregs in the clay pot had been fried and browned and ripe, Chen Xu couldn't help but wipe a handful of saliva and shoveled up the cakes and put them on the plate.

"Beware of scalding ......"

Before Chen Xu finished speaking, Yu Wuya and Niu Dashi reached out almost at the same time, grabbed one of them, and began to eat with their hands.

Chen Jiang picked a gourd leaf from the edge of the yard and gave it to Xing'er and let her hold it in her hand and eat it slowly.

"Mother, you eat first, I'll fry the rest of the rest!" When Chen Xu spoke, he put the remaining few bean dregs cakes into the clay pot, and Chen Jiang also picked one up with chopsticks and ate it.

However, before Chen Xu's second pot of bean dregs cake was turned over, Niu Dashi and Yu Wuya were already staring at the clay pot again.

A few minutes later, Yu Wuya licked his mouth and said, "Engong, this bean dregs cake is extremely crispy and fragrant, just a few are not enough to eat, let's make more tomorrow!" ”

"Yes, Brother Xu, I can eat ten of these scallion and bean dregs cakes at a time, and I must make fifty or sixty tomorrow!" Niu Dashi licked his fingers and stared at the half of the cake in Chen Xu's hand and swallowed his saliva.

"Yes, ten dollars a piece, you take the money, I'll make you a hundred!" Chen Xu said while eating.

Niu Dashi shrank his neck and shook his head: "Then forget it!" I only saved more than 100 dollars in total. ”

"Dashi, don't listen to Xiao Xu's nonsense, come, drink some honey-mixed soy milk!" Chen Jiang handed a bowl of soy milk with a little honey to Niu Dashi.

"Thank you, auntie~" Niu Dashi hurriedly took it.

"Wuya, give you a bowl!" Yu Wuya also hurriedly took it over and thanked him repeatedly, and then a group of people sat under the pergola and began to drink soy milk.

"The color of soy milk is like milk, fragrant and delicious, much better than herbal tea, it is not suitable to call soy milk, Wuya thinks it is more suitable to call soybean milk!" Yu Wuya drank and admired.

"Yes, soy milk and soy milk, apricots love to drink!" Apricot immediately shouted loudly.

Chen Xu: ......

Yu Wuya, a foodie, is really not an ordinary foodie, he can even think of a name more than two thousand years later, such a novel brain hole makes Chen Xu feel impressed.

"By the way, Brother Xu, should we go to the river beach to get that beehive back, it is estimated that we can get more than ten catties of honey, and we can drink honey and soy milk every day in the future!" Niu Dashi drank a bowl of soy milk in a few sips and licked his mouth and said.

"You have this idea of cutting off children and grandchildren, and tomorrow I will make a beehive and catch that nest of bees and put them in the beehive to raise, and you can eat honey every year in the future!" Chen Xu said angrily.

"Bees...... Can bees still be caught and raised? Not only Niu Dashi's surprised eyes almost fell out, but Yu Wuya, Xing'er, and Chen Jiang all looked at Chen Xu blankly.

"What's so strange about catching bees and raising them, and there are still people who raise tigers!" Chen Xu said disdainfully.

"Tigers can indeed be raised, and it won't be so ferocious to catch a cub and raise it slowly, but ...... But...... Little Bee ......" Yu Wuya's mouth grew for a long time and finally found his soul that almost dissipated, and stammered: "Engong, Wuya has also observed several times in Funiu Mountain, a nest of bees has thousands or even tens of thousands, each of which is only a little bigger than a bean, and it also has tail spines...... Even now, and the bees are still stinging, this task is absolutely ...... It will never succeed at all! ”

"You don't believe I can get the bees back, do you?" Chen Xu pursed his lips and looked at Yu Wuya and Niu Dashi.

"Boundless never believes!" Yu Wuya shook his head vigorously.

Although he knew that Chen Xu was very magical, but a nest of tens of thousands of bees, it was more difficult to catch them one by one than to ascend to the sky, no matter how magical Chen Xu was, he would definitely not succeed, unless he really knew immortal arts, but Chen Xu obviously wouldn't, he just got the three volumes of the book of Taiyi Tianzun, and he only learned a little bit of fur.

"Brother Xu, if you can catch that nest of bees and raise them, I ...... I'll eat that half of the stone mill! Niu Dashi looked around, and very confidently pointed to the most challenging thing to express his firm position.

"I eat the other half!" Yu Wuya means +1 for grinding.

"Haha, okay, when I make a beehive, you two will be ready to eat stone grinding!" Chen Xu laughed, then ate the remaining onion and bean dregs cake in his hand in a few bites, and drank a bowl of soy milk after a bowl of soy milk, wiped his mouth and yelled at the guy, and then began to arrange Niu Dashi and Yu Wuya to help, one sawing planks, the other to lay hands on himself, and began to make beehives.

The structure of the beehive is very simple, in fact, it is a wooden box, and a small slit on the side can allow the bees to enter and exit, in order to facilitate the honey, the lid on the top should be made active, and some small boxes can be made inside to facilitate the bees to build a nest, but if you are lazy, you can not do it, the bees will naturally build a nest on the wall of the box around the beehive, but it is more troublesome to take the honey, and the hive needs to be dug out to get it, but since Chen Xu wants to do it, it is naturally more convenient to do it, and he is ready to do a full set.

Although Yu Wuya bet that Chen Xu would not be able to catch the bees back, he was not lazy at all about Chen Xu's arrangement, and was also full of interest, and used a copper saw to saw the planks and wooden strips, the wood was left over from the last construction of the house, and it was almost dry after more than two months in the sun, although it was a little cracked, but it did not affect the use.

Chen Xu, on the other hand, took out a complete set of woodworking tools that he had asked blacksmiths and carpenters to build in the town, set up a wooden horse, and took out a carpenter's posture to start making beehives.

Because Chen Xu felt inconvenient to use a chisel to make a hole in the wood, so he asked the hemp rod of the blacksmith shop to help create a pure copper hand drill, about two feet long, curved handle, and a fixed-size drill bit in front, because the twist was not done well, so the thread of the drill bit looked very rough, but Chen Xu had tried it several times, and there was no problem at all with drilling wood, so this tool was regarded as a god by the hemp rod after it was made, because it was really easy to use. Therefore, Liu Erwa, a carpenter in the town, customized five bronze hand drills with different rotor thicknesses in one go.

In addition to the bronze hand drill, Chen Xu also invented and made another kind of woodworking most common hand drill, the bow drill, that is, there is a very heavy wooden rudder under a wooden bow, when using it, the rope on the bow is wound around the main rod in the middle, and then both hands press the bow arm down to drive the wooden rudder to rotate to produce a lot of kinetic energy, so that the drill bit can rotate, and at the same time drive the bow rope to be wound to the main rod in reverse, and after the kinetic energy is exhausted, the wooden bow arm is pressed down again, and the steering wheel will begin to rotate in the opposite direction. Repeat this process hand drill can keep rotating, drive the drill bit into the wood, but because the kinetic energy of this traction drill is too small, so it can only drill very shallow and very small holes, at most used to do the bamboo nail hole when splicing, but the use is very large, because this era does not have the kind of very fine metal nails in later generations, it is very troublesome to splice the wood, especially the splicing very thin plank, there is no good glue at all, and the rubber bone glue is too valuable, and it is time-consuming and laborious to make, so there is this traction hand drill, Directly splicing wooden boards with bamboo nails, saving trouble and effort, is completely a very great invention.

In addition, Chen Xu also made two hand planers, used to plane the wooden planks flat and smooth, and hand planers have long existed in the Qin Dynasty, and the legend and the public loss plate (that is, Lu Ban) invented, and two thousand years later hand planers are basically not much different, the rest of the other tools such as curved rulers, angle rulers, ink fountains and other tools are also neatly prepared, axes, chisels, knives and saws add up to a total of more than ten kinds.

And these carpentry tools, Chen Xu's family has always had in later generations, planers, chisels, adzes, axes, and drills are all passed down from ancestors, and they have been used for several generations, and then in his generation, he has basically cut off the inheritance, grandpa is an old carpenter, making chairs, tables, stools, cabinets and cabinets are all good hands, and the nearby ten miles and eight villages are very famous, which family wants to marry a daughter in the past, you must say hello a year in advance to finish the dowry on time, and the dowry at that time generally has a wooden bed and several large wooden cabinets and wooden tables, and then there are boxes for clothes and bedding, washing racks, The chairs and stools can only be regarded as small pieces, and they have to be painted three times after they are done, and then they have to paint the peony flowers and birds that represent the wealth and festivity and the big red happy characters on it, and it takes two or three months to complete the whole set.

However, after the death of his grandfather, his father did not become a carpenter, so the level of carpentry can only be regarded as a half-hanging, repairing stools and mending doors and windows, as for creating complex things such as wooden cabinets, it is completely impossible to build wooden cabinets, and when it comes to Chen Xu's generation, the craftsmanship is completely abandoned, and there is almost nothing.

But even so, as the saying goes, I have never eaten pork and seen pigs run, Chen Xu has seen these tools and methods at home since he was a child, so after adding these carpentry belongings, after a few hands, he can be regarded as having a little carpenter's demeanor, at least squinting at the corner line This action looks very sophisticated and in place.

A simple beehive, with the efforts of three people, was completed in less than an hour.

"Brother Xu, now I can go and watch you catch bees!" Niu Dashi was excited.

Although he was sure that Chen Xu's statement that catching bees and coming back to raise them would definitely not succeed, he was still as curious as Yu Wuya.

"It's too late today, let's go tomorrow, we have to prepare something!" At this time, the sun had already begun to set, and Chen Xu was too lazy to go, so he wanted to collect all the bees in the tree hole into the beehive, not to mention slowly getting it for an hour or two.

After dinner in the evening, Chen Xu asked Chen Jiangshi to sew a hat with sparse mesh coarse gauze as a beekeeper's hood, and at the same time sat on a large cloak with burlap, the kind that can cover himself from head to toe, for safety, Chen Xu also asked Chen Jiangshi to help make a pair of gloves, and it was already late when everything was ready.

"Engong, I almost died when I went to Xianyang Wuya this time, but fortunately I was saved by Senior Brother!" After the two of them finished washing up and entered the house to prepare for sleep, Yu Wuya followed behind and suddenly said.

"We've already guessed, why did your senior brother suddenly go to Xianyang?"

"Senior Brother is preparing to assassinate the First Emperor Zhao Zheng......"

"Puff~" Chen Xu, who was sitting on the edge of the bed and wiping his feet, slammed his head to the ground, then got up with a frightened face, grabbed Yu Wuya's arm, and asked with a distorted face: "Why did you come back for so long to talk about this?" How are they going to assassinate the Emperor? ”

Yu Wuya blushed and said with some embarrassment: "Wuya did things recklessly and caused a big disaster, I originally failed to assassinate and came back to see you, but a manly husband, one person does things and one person is responsible, so I still came back after I recovered from my injuries, and I also decided to guard Engong inseparable from now on, if Zhao Gao is not good for Engong, I can also protect you in time, I haven't known how to open my mouth in the past few days since I came back, I said it today, I also hope that Engong will be relieved and forgive Wuya, and from now on I will definitely listen to Engong's teachings, Doing things is no longer so reckless! ”