Chapter 5 Grey Water for Plants and Trees
The detoxification effect of honey mung bean soup will also take an hour or two to take effect, so Tian guarded Gao Yue, who was still unconscious, and Gao Sheng walked out of the bedroom and began to cook.
When he came to the humble room, he frowned slightly.
The cooking stove is too simple, and it is also intended to be changed into a firewood stove for later generations of farmers, but now that the sun is turning west, it will soon get dark, and the stove will be changed by the light of an oil lamp, unless he is crazy.
I found a broken linen Hanfu that I couldn't wear, tore off a complete piece of cloth, and then grabbed a handful of plant ash in the stove, wrapped it directly in the cloth, and tied it with hemp rope.
Scoop a bowl of water from the water tank, put it on the long table, and then soak the grass ash in the sea bowl and carefully rub it for a while, until the water turns into light gray gray water, confirm that there are no impurities, and then continue to soak the plant ash in the gray water for later use.
The pot is washed and placed on the stove, and then the ashes wrapped in cloth are removed from the sea bowl, and then the ash water without impurities is poured into the pot, and firewood is used to start a fire with flint.
Fortunately, he often played outdoors before crossing, and one of the skills of outdoor survival is how to use flint to make fire, and he has experience in flint making fire, otherwise he will be in a hurry to make a fire in the Tang Dynasty, and he may not be able to make a fire.
Burning wood by the stove on a hot day, Gao Sheng couldn't stand it, and the gray water in the pot hadn't boiled yet, and he was already sweating.
"Dead Pillar, why haven't you come back yet?"
Sweaty Gao Sheng muttered dissatisfiedly, and missed Zhang Dazhu, a young man in open crotch pants, from the bottom of his heart.
Some people can't help but say like this, there was Cao Cao in the past, and there is Zhang Dazhu today.
"Third brother, I've got what I need." Outside the door, Zhang Dazhu's loud voice came.
At this moment, the grey water is just boiling.
Gao Sheng hurriedly got up and left the stove, took the noodles, fermented old noodles and seasonings from Zhang Dazhu's hands, and turned it upside down, with the feeling that there were definitely five liters of flour ground from millet rice.
A brother is a brother, and this affection for wearing open crotch pants is sincere.
Putting the things Zhang Dazhu brought on the stove, Gao Sheng wiped the sweat on his face with his cuffs, and said to Zhang Dazhu: "Dazhu, you come to light the fire and hold it to make food." ”
Zhang Dazhu responded strangely, suspicious in his heart, usually the third brother doesn't know how to cook, is it a convulsion today?
This kind of weather burns firewood, and even a thin person like Gao Sheng can't stand it.
Zhang Dazhu grew three big and five thick, and as soon as he approached the stove, he suddenly sweated like rain.
What is it to sweat for white food, and you are not afraid of bleeding.
By the time Gao Sheng was preparing things and noodles, Zhang Dazhu was already hot as a dog, sticking out his tongue, and his sleeves frequently wiped the sweat on his face.
"Third brother, this gray water has been boiled, how long will it take to boil?" Zhang Dazhu couldn't stand it anymore.
"About a pillar of incense." Gao Shengsheng didn't raise his head, and spread a part of the flour evenly around the old noodles.
"......" Zhang Dazhu had the heart to die, but in order to eat white food, he endured it.
He also made millet noodles, seasonings and old noodles for this white meal, which doesn't seem to be considered white food?
After a stick of incense, Gao Sheng asked Zhang Dazhu to pour the boiling gray water into the sea bowl.
Zhang Dazhu stared at the gray water in the sea bowl, and couldn't help asking, "Third brother, what kind of soup is this?" ”
"Soup?" Gao Sheng stared at Zhang Dazhu as if he had been electrocuted, he wanted to explain, but he felt that he was explaining alkaline water to an ancient mud leg, wasn't he looking for it.
In ancient times, ordinary people used old noodles to ferment pasta, and the people of the Tang Dynasty were no exception.
Steamed buns, cakes, and gnocchi made from old noodles alone have a sour taste after fermentation of old noodles.
Add baking soda to neutralize the sourness of the old noodles after fermentation, and the pasta is fluffy and smooth.
Baking soda is alkali, and there is also alkali in the ash water of plants and trees, and alkali neutralizes acid, which is the chemical knowledge in middle school, as long as it is not a gag student.
In fact, there are many ways to engage in edible alkali, such as limestone, which has a high yield and is easy to obtain materials, but Gao Sheng has no limestone in his hand, let alone a tool to refine alkali.
Fortunately, Gao Sheng has his own local method.
In the previous life, he learned the process of making alkaline water dumplings, and he personally tried it a few times, and every time he gave it to his sister paper to eat, he made his sister's paper shine brightly, and he couldn't wait to swallow it before he was satisfied.
Every year on the eve of the Dragon Boat Festival, rural people in the south like to wrap alkaline water dumplings.
Take the ash water of plants and trees, that is, alkaline water, to make gray water zongzi, also called alkaline water zongzi, this method is still invented by our ancestors in the late Eastern Han Dynasty.
The ancestors used alkaline water to make zongzi, and Gao Sheng used alkaline water to make pasta, which bypassed the class and saved a lot of trouble in making edible alkali.
Of course, there are many uses of alkali, such as soap, soap and other detergents are made of alkali, but at this moment, the most important thing is to solve the problem of belly food and clothing.
Gao Sheng didn't bother to pay attention to Zhang Dazhu, the alkaline water refined from the plant ash had cooled down, he poured some alkaline water, added some honey to the millet flour, and mixed the noodles with the old dough.
Soon the dough is reconciled, put the dough in a basin, cover it with a damp cloth, and all that remains is to wait for the dough to rise and expand under the action of the old noodles.
Waiting for the dough to ferment, Gao Sheng cleaned up the fish while pondering his way to make a fortune.
The dignified business elite, if they can't eat their bellies in the Tang Dynasty with their skills, they might as well take a piece of tofu and kill them.
"Dazhu, believe it or not, your third brother?" Gao Sheng stared at the remaining alkaline water, and suddenly turned his head and asked Zhang Dazhu with a sparkling gaze.
"Why don't you believe you, I drowned when I was a child, and this life was saved by the third brother." Zhang Dazhu opened his eyes and looked at him full of questions, the third brother of the heart said that he would ask me like this?
"Tomorrow, the third brother will take you to Shanghe Village, and the third brother has a single fortune to make a living. You are the third brother's brother, how can the third brother get rich without your share, do you want to go? Gao Sheng looked at Zhang Dazhu and asked with a smile.
At the critical moment of "this ......", Zhang Dazhu blushed, but hurriedly explained: "It's not that I don't want to go, it's that the crops at home are being diverted for irrigation, and I can't leave." ”
This excuse is very pale.
There was a severe drought in Guanzhong last year, and the people failed to harvest, but this year the wind and rain were smooth, and there was no shortage of irrigation.
Gao Sheng knew in his heart that the reason why Zhang Dazhu made excuses was nothing more than not believing him.
It's no wonder that the predecessor was not a fuel-efficient lamp, otherwise how could it guard twenty acres of land and still not be able to fill its belly?
Since he was a child, Zhang Dazhu has been running behind him, and since he married his daughter-in-law, Tian has also seen through what his predecessor is, and he has a lot of control over Zhang Dazhu.
It's okay to receive help, eat white food or something, if you want Zhang Dazhu to fool around with him, I'm afraid Tian's will be very difficult at this level.
He didn't blame Zhang Dazhu for hesitating, and said with a smile: "Okay, when do you want to make some money, just talk to the third brother." ”
Zhang Dazhu saw that Gao Sheng did not force him, and he was immediately pardoned.
You yourself are so poor that you don't choose food and clothing, why do you bring us to earn a family?
Of course, Zhang Dazhu only thought about this in his heart, but he didn't dare to say it in front of Gao Sheng......