Chapter 83: Lu Zhe's Day

Although Lu Zhe felt that his age and labor should be assigned to the animal husbandry group, but at the unanimous request of the people of Wuzhuangguan, Lu Zhe was still assigned to the logistics team and became a cook in the Wuzhuangguan canteen.

"Wuzhuangguan Commune is located in the hinterland of Zuohua Mountain, named after the residence of Zhenyuanzi Daxian, and it is natural to imagine its beautiful mountains and rivers and rich products. On the fifth day of the second lunar month, the third day after the dragon raised its head, at four o'clock in the morning, although the early spring morning was very cold, Lu Zhe, the chef in charge of the canteen of Wuzhuangguan Commune and the sect master of the Hundred Flowers Sect, had already gotten up and prepared to make a caloric breakfast for the spring cultivators in the village together with the women in the village. ”

In the middle of the morning, it was also four o'clock in the morning, it was still dark, and Lu Zhe, who was shivering from the cold, held a torch, and what flashed in his mind was the dubbing of "A Bite of China", and while smirking, he walked to the open space in front of the ancestral hall at the entrance of the village.

These people also got up too early, Lu Zhe complained while walking, the ancients went to bed early and got up early, usually got up at five or six o'clock in the morning on weekdays, now it is spring ploughing, and the people in the village get up earlier, at this time it is just past four o'clock, and the people in the village should get up and go out one after another in half an hour. And Lu Zhe, who knew how important breakfast was to a day's work, naturally got up earlier to prepare breakfast for the villagers.

By the time Lu Zhe rushed to the ancestral hall while complaining, Deng Gui and a few other women had already arrived for a while, and they were beginning to drive the cow to slowly grind.

The soybeans were soaked last night, and in the slow steps of the cow, they turned into snow-white soy milk.

Speaking of the cows that are grinding, this is also Lu Zhe's mistake, because of the relationship between the materially rich era in later generations, Lu Zhe, like many people, thought that cows would not stop milk for 365 days a year, so he asked Mu for some cows. As a result, when the cow was delivered, Lu Zhe was dumbfounded, it turned out that not all cows can produce milk by eating grass, and they still need to be pregnant.

In fact, the dairy cows bred from generation to generation through crossbreeding and selection in later generations are also the same as other mammals, and the cows only begin to secrete ** after giving birth to calves, and reach the peak of milk production 40 to 60 days after giving birth. After that, the milk production will gradually decline, and the secretion will stop in about 305 days**, and the dry milk will enter the waiting period. It's just that they secrete much more than the calves need.

And now, in the case of enough cattle, these cows cannot be used to plough the land, and they have to spend fodder in vain, you know, before Lu Zhe came back, the forage that these cows eat every day is all the whole village going up the mountain and digging hard.

So Lu Zhe blamed himself very much.

Wait until a while to get a Turkic slave and raise cattle for the village. Lu Zhe was pouring the ground raw soy milk into the pot, and this thought suddenly appeared in his head, and then he was startled.

How can you tolerate yourself enslaving others? Is he too deeply influenced by Datang and begins to want slaves, Datang is really terrible. However, what is even more terrifying is that he was relieved again, thinking that he was just some Turks, enslaved and enslaved, and he didn't know how long he would be able to live a big dog life with a herd of servants, and it was too early to think about it.

Lu Zhe stirred the soy milk in the pot while wearing a mask and gloves made of linen. This is what he requires, the cooking staff must be hygienic, although Ying Liu and Deng Ghost don't understand, but they still implement it very seriously.

Soy milk is something that every village person must drink in the morning, which is also stipulated by Lu Zhe, the protein in soybeans is urgently needed by mountain people with average physical fitness, and the village people are also very accustomed to it, but there is a little bit of it, although he has taught the women in the village how to cook it, and there are also villagers who cook it to drink before he leaves. But the people in the village still stubbornly believe that the soy milk is still the best one he cooks. Therefore, when he came back, the people in the village were willing to drink the soy milk he cooked.

Breakfast was okara fish patties. Use fresh fish, chop and mix into the bean dregs, add minced green onion and ginger to remove the smell, then add wild vegetables, only a little salt, fry them in lard, and it becomes a small bean dregs cake.

The fish shrinks by heat, and the oil and fatty acids in it are completely released, and the aroma of lard easily adjusts the umami of the fish. You know, soybeans can be squeezed out of oil, plus the fragrance of fresh wild vegetables, you need a little salt, the taste of fresh fish in spring, the fragrance of fresh wild vegetables, and the aroma of lard, which are organically combined in a small fish and bean dregs cake to give a 1+1+1>3 effect, which is enough to provide enough calories for their high-intensity work and delicious food that can only be eaten in Wuzhuang Guan in early spring.

(This dish is not made up by Crane, Crane knows a friend in Guangxi, they use fish, pork and tofu pancakes there, Crane just replaced the tofu with bean dregs, in fact, it is almost the same).

In front of the ancestral hall now, it is no longer the appearance of the open space at that time, but in the southwest of the open space, around the big stove and the stone mill, Lu Zhe and others built a simple bamboo shed, which put a few chapters of the high table and high stool designed by Lu Zhe, at this time Lu Zhe is pancakes, and Ying Liu is pouring soybean milk into the bamboo cup on each table, saying that it is a bamboo cup, but it is just a flattened bamboo tube, although it is very simple, but there is no problem with soy milk.

As soon as it was dawn, people from the village came to eat, and in less than a quarter of an hour, the small canteen was already full. They all looked at the Deng Ghost and Ying Liu as waiters with anticipation.

A cup of soy milk and two bean dregs cakes, although the content of meat and lard in them is pitiful, the villagers are still very satisfied with the food, and they are full of praise for Lu Zhe's craftsmanship.

Because they have to get up early to work, so the middle-aged and half-grown teenagers will come to eat first, and then the old people and children come over the meal time, which is also because of the spring ploughing period, to compete with God for time, if it is usual, they dare not eat in front of their own old people.

When the sun rose and the villagers finished eating one after another, Lu Zhe and Deng Gui and Ying Liu, who helped, hurriedly ate breakfast and handed over the dishwashing to the two aunts, and Lu Zhe had to hurry to find those little beans.

The children in the village are responsible for raising earthworms and feeding chickens and ducks, because these chickens and ducks are still chicks, Lu Zhe has to be more careful, and also instruct these children with snot on how to feed earthworms and chickens and ducks.

Moreover, at this time, it was still when Lu Zhe was illiteracy for the children in the village, and learned the lesson of Yun Niang, Lu Zhe first taught from nursery rhymes, and then aroused their interest through nature, such as observing why chicken feathers fall slower than stones, or teaching them to count chickens and ducks, and slowly introducing addition, subtraction, multiplication and division of numbers.

In a word, starting from practice, slowly let the children in the village be enlightened.

By the time Lu Zhe finished dealing with this group of little beans, it was almost time, and at ten o'clock in the morning in the future, Lu Zhe hurried back to the cafeteria and began to prepare lunch.

Lunch is very solid, usually solid millet rice, stir-fried spring bamboo shoots with dried mushrooms, and fish soup made from fish caught in the fish cages of various families in the village that day, the fish meat is used in the morning, and the remaining fish bones and fish heads are used to make fish soup.

Because at this time, the river has slowly broken the ice, the hibernating fish have begun to surface, and the people of Wuzhuang Temple have begun to get into the fish cage again, so there is still no shortage of fish. But fortunately, the people in the village know how to grasp the big and let go of the small, and Lu Zhe feels very satisfied.

In addition, thanks to the astonishing price difference between refined salt and coarse salt in this era, there is no shortage of salt in Wuzhuangguan, so when it comes to lunch, Lu Zhe and they can put more salt to replenish the electrolytes lost by the villagers.

After the lunch was ready, Ying Liu and Lu Zhe sent it to the field in a trolley, and the rest of the people ate it in the village. After lunch, Lu Zhe was going to pour today's feces into his manure tank.

This is the work that Lu Zhe is most unwilling to do all day, but there is no way, he has to use this fertile field. Lu Zhe had no choice but to endure the nausea and do it.

Because of Lu Zhe, the villagers began to use gong buckets, and they also developed the habit of getting up early to empty the toilet, but those livestock did not have such good habits, so Lu Zhe had to bring homemade masks, brooms and wooden shovels and other tools to shovel the manure of the cattle pen into the wooden barrel, and clean the cattle pen by the way. Oh, by the way, since Lu Zhe proposed his spring plowing plan, the village has built a cattle pen for the cows, and it is also divided into bull pens and cow pens.

At this time, it is the time when Lu Zhe chats and farts with half of the children in the village, such as the forest dog group, Lu Zhe will use his pitiful knowledge of animal husbandry and health and epidemic prevention knowledge to teach them to raise cattle, but more time is spent with teenagers chatting aimlessly.

Although the teenagers are occasionally willing to help Lu Zhe shovel dung, but only when there is a lot of feces that day, it's not that they are not interesting enough, but their work is also very heavy, and they are not willing to approach these filthy things.

After cleaning up the cow dung, Lu Zhe hurriedly went back to boiling water and bathing, after taking a bath, Lu Zhe, who had taken a little rest, had to go up the mountain to see the situation of ploughing, after all, the Quyuan plow was made by him, and the villagers were not used to it for a while, and if there was any problem, he and the forest carpenter still had to get it. After walking around, if there is nothing to do, Lu Zhe will take advantage of the good light and hurry home to practice calligraphy.

One of his biggest gains in Chenzhou this time was the calligraphy he bought back from Chenzhou, so that Lu Zhe could finally learn traditional Chinese systematically, plus "Sancang" - this is the enlightenment book of children before the appearance of "Three Hundred Thousand", which is full of four-character rhymes, and almost all common words are in it. So, Lu Zhe took out the energy of learning English in later generations, and began to study the characters of this era with great difficulty.

When it gets dark, Lu Zhe will go back to the canteen and start preparing dinner, eating well in the morning and eating enough at night is Lu Zhe's purpose, dinner is basically wild vegetables and millet porridge, with pickled radish, which is also very appetizing and healthy.

When everyone is eating, Lu Zhe will be in the canteen, ask each group about today's work, the problems encountered, or what ideas or something, and then everyone will discuss and summarize together, and put forward tomorrow's goals, which is completely the office summary meeting of the company in the future.

When these were all done and the canteen was cleaned up, Lu Zhe said goodbye to the two aunts, and then dragged his tired body home, supervised and checked his sister's homework today, and then helped her wash her face and feet, and then washed and slept by herself.

At about four o'clock the next morning, in the midst of the incessant complaining in his heart, Lu Zhe habitually got up again, lit the torch, and walked towards the center of the village shivering coldly.

This is Lu Zhe's day, a tired but fulfilling day, the days passed again and again in Lu Zhe's complaining, cooking, shoveling, and practicing calligraphy, until the end of the second lunar month, Lu Zhe finally quarreled with the villagers because of one thing.