Chapter 12 Grey Water on Plants and Trees
The only local tyrant in Xiahe Village who can build a house with green bricks and tiles is Gao Shouyi, and such a mansion is very eye-catching in Xiahe Village, where mud houses are sanitated.
In the Tang Dynasty, people who could use green bricks and tiles to build houses were both rich and expensive, and ordinary people had loose mud brick walls and straw roofs.
Happy to live in the mud house for a few days, and then look at the blue bricks and tiles of Gao Shouyi's house, I feel that the mansion is nothing more than that, since he came to the Tang Dynasty, his requirements have been lowered to no lower limit, all blame this damn Tang Dynasty.
The courtyard door of Gao Shouyi's "mansion" was closed.
Happy was stunned.
"This old thing, the door is closed in broad daylight, is it a thief?"
happily went up the steps, raised his hand and pushed, the door did not move, and the force reverberated so much that he took a step back.
I was puzzled and pushed forward, but the door still didn't move.
I don't want to use it, the door must be bolted from the inside, and it will be hell if you push it.
"Clansman, open the door quickly, let Benli sacrifice five bellies and six organs, so as to find water!"
Happy shouted in front of the door, and then put his ear in front of the door to listen carefully to the movement in the courtyard.
There was a sound of ping-pong, chickens and dogs jumping in the door, but no one answered.
"Hey, this old thing is too picky."
The corners of his mouth curled up happily, and he instantly understood why it was, it seems that there is no hope of continuing to eat and drink today.
Gao Shibang brought the drawings to the county to purchase the needs of drilling wells, otherwise he could let Gao Shibang open the door.
I can't eat white food anymore, I pouted my lips with joy and didn't care, and walked back by touching my hungry belly, but I was calculating in my heart how to make Gao Shouyi, an old man, bleed again.
Eat and drink for nothing every day, think he wants to?
That's because he's lazy, too lazy to do it himself.
Burning wood by the stove in the hot summer, thinking about it, I feel that life is boring.
He occupied the magpie's nest and seized the predecessor, and it was also appropriate to help the predecessor export bird gas, so he ate Gao Shouyi's and drank Gao Shouyi's, who let Gao Shouyi instigate his predecessor to grab water, and he was hit with a hoe in vain.
But the white food of Gao Shouyi's family is like pig food, so don't eat it.
Being lazy doesn't mean you won't do it.
Once in the previous life, his cooking skills were also among the best in the outdoor circle.
He is also a baby from the countryside, and at the age of seven or eight, he will go to the field to work and do housework, and it is trivial to help the family cook and cook when the farm is busy.
After college, in order to facilitate the pickle girl and systematically learn cooking, for ninety percent of sister paper, eating is everything, so his life creed is that if you want to get a sister paper, you must first conquer her stomach.
When I returned home, I saw Gao Zhuang standing in front of the door with a worried face before I prepared the ingredients, and when I saw him, I said, "Li Zhengye......"
"Coward, what's wrong?" Happy was a little surprised, this point is the point where each family eats, Gao Zhuang, a foodie, would rather come to him without eating, something big must have happened.
"Aya thinks I've eaten too much, and she'll kick me out of the house."
Gao Zhuang's little eyes flickered, and he knew that there was something inside when he saw it, and he didn't break it or reply, so he pulled the door bolt and walked straight into his mud house.
"I haven't eaten yet." Gao Zhuang followed him into the house in three steps and two steps, and said hurriedly.
Happy to rummage around the house for a while, the old noodles that have been left have not been touched since he crossed over, they have been blackened and can no longer be used, and if you want to make noodles, you have to make old noodles from the beginning.
It's easy to make old noodles, but the fermentation time takes a whole night, and he can't stand it.
"Gao Zhuang, go home and ask you Aya to make old noodles, Benli is making food for you."
"Gotcha." Gao Zhuang's eyes lit up, he turned around and rushed out the door, and his fat body trembled with the jumping.
When Gao Zhuang left, he happily found a broken linen Hanfu that could not be worn, tore off a complete piece of cloth, and then grabbed a handful of grass and wood ashes on the stove, wrapped it directly in the cloth, and tied his mouth with hemp rope.
Scoop a bowl of water from the water tank, put it on the dining table, and then soak the well-tied plant ash in the bowl and carefully rub it for a while, until the water turns into light gray gray water, and then continue to soak the plant ash in the gray water for later use.
After the pot is washed, it is placed on the stovetop, and the gray water without impurities is poured into the pot, and the firewood is stuffed and lit with a flint.
Fortunately, he often played outdoors before crossing, and one of the skills of outdoor survival was how to make a fire, and he had experience in making flint and flint to start a fire, otherwise, he would be in a hurry to start a fire in the Tang Dynasty.
It's just that burning wood by the stove on a hot day makes Happy unbearable, the gray water in the pot has not yet boiled, and he is already sweating.
"Why hasn't this cowardly baby come back yet?" muttering happily and dissatisfied, I miss Gao Zhuang, a free laborer, from the bottom of my heart.
That's how some people can't help but think.
"Li Zhengye, the old noodles have been fetched." Behind him came the voice of Gao Zhuang panting.
At this moment, the grey water is just boiling.
Happy hurriedly turned around and left the stove, took the old dough from Gao Zhuang's hand and put it on the table, wiped the sweat on his face with his cuffs, and said to Gao Zhuang: "Baby, burn the fire, come and make snacks." ”
Gao Zhuang responded, and without the slightest hesitation, he took the place of happiness and continued to burn firewood.
This kind of weather burns firewood, and even people who are happy and thin can't stand it.
Gao Zhuang's fat dun was covered in fat, and as soon as he approached the stove, he suddenly sweated like rain, but he had no complaints.
Sweating for food is nothing, and bleeding is not afraid.
By the time he was happy to scoop up the flour made from millet and rice, Gao Zhuang had already become a dog, sticking out his tongue, and his sleeves frequently wiped the sweat on his face.
"Li Zhengye, this gray water has been boiled, how long will it be boiled?" Gao Zhuang couldn't stand it anymore.
"About a pillar of incense." Xingxing didn't raise his head, and spread the flour evenly around the old noodles.
"......" a stick of incense...... Gao Zhuang had all the thoughts of dying, but in order to have something delicious, he endured it.
After a stick of incense, Gao Zhuang poured the boiling gray water into the sea bowl, Gao Zhuang stared at the sea bowl, swallowed a mouthful of saliva, and couldn't help asking, "What kind of soup is this?" ”
"Soup?" Happy as if electrocuted, staring at Gao Zhuang, I wanted to explain, but I felt that I was explaining alkaline water to an ancient chubby dun, wasn't that looking for it myself?
If you only use old noodles to make noodles, the steamed buns, picture scrolls, noodles and other noodles will have a sour taste after fermentation of old noodles.
Putting baking soda can neutralize the sourness of the old noodles after fermentation, but there was no baking soda in the Tang Dynasty.
In fact, baking soda is alkali, and there is also alkali in plant ash, that is, the content is relatively low, and the alkali neutralizes acid, which is the chemical knowledge of junior high school.
In fact, there are many ways to make alkali, such as limestone, high yield, easy to take materials, but I am glad that there is no limestone at hand, and there is no refining tool, and the alkali refined by limestone should become edible alkali, and it is almost impossible without modern tools, so I can only make some soap, soap and other cleaning products.
In the last life, his mother was a Cantonese person, and every year on the eve of the Dragon Boat Festival, she would take the ash water at home to make ash water dumplings, and the ash water was alkaline water, which was invented by our ancestors at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty.
The ancestors used alkaline water to make zongzi, and Li Zhengye used alkaline water to make food, which touched the bypass and saved the trouble of making edible alkali.
Of course, there are many more uses for alkali, but Joy is not in a hurry to throw these things out.
Happy didn't bother to pay attention to Gao Zhuang, the gray water was already cold, he poured some into the flour and mixed the noodles with the old dough.
Soon, the dough has been reconciled, put the dough in a basin and cover it with a damp cloth to let the dough rise and expand under the action of the old noodles......