Chapter 12 is eating ashes
The only one in Xiahe Village who can afford to use blue bricks and tiles to build a house is Gao Shouyi's family, which is very eye-catching in Xiahe Village, which is a mud house and sanitation.
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 so low that there is no lower limit.
The courtyard door of Gao Shouyi's "mansion" was closed, and he was stunned with joy.
"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 I 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, and let a certain family sacrifice five bellies and six organs, so as to find water!"
Happy shouted in front of the door, and listened with his ears close to the door.
There was a sound of ping-pong chickens and dogs jumping inside the door, and no one answered.
"Hey, this old thing is too picky." The corners of his mouth curled up, and he instantly understood why he was right, and it seemed that it was useless to continue to eat and drink today.
Gao Shibang brought the drawings to the county seat to purchase the needs of drilling wells, otherwise he could let Gao Shibang open the door.
Since he couldn't eat white food anymore, he pouted happily and touched his hungry belly and walked back, but in his heart he was calculating to make Gao Shouyi, an old man, bleed again.
Eat and drink for nothing every day, that's because he's lazy, too lazy to do it himself.
Gao Shouyi flickered his predecessor to find Shanghe Village to grab water, and his predecessor was hit with a hoe, since he occupied the magpie's nest and seized the predecessor, it was also appropriate to help the predecessor export bird gas.
Gao Shouyi's white food is like pig food, so don't eat it.
Being lazy doesn't mean that he can't do it, once in his previous life, his cooking skills were also counted in the 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 to systematically learn cooking, for him, if he wants to get a sister paper, he must first conquer her stomach.
When I returned home, I saw Gao Zhuang standing at the door with a worried face before I prepared the ingredients, and when I saw him return, he stepped forward and 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 must have happened.
"Aya thinks I've eaten too much, and she'll kick me out of the house."
Gao Zhuangxiao's eyes flickered, and he knew that there was something inside at a glance, 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 rummaging at home for a while, the remaining old noodles have not been touched since he crossed over, and they have become black and can't be used, and if you want to make noodles, you have to make old noodles.
To make old noodles, you have to ferment at least overnight, and the stomach is already rumbling at this time, and I can't wait.
"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 washing the pot and clamping it on the stove, a bowl of grey water was poured into the pot to make sure that there were no impurities, and firewood was brought and lit with flint.
Fortunately, he often played outdoors before this crossing, and one of the skills of outdoor survival is how to make a fire, and he has experience in flint fire, otherwise he would be in a hurry to start a fire in the Tang Dynasty.
It's just that he was burning wood by the stove on a hot day, and this work made Happy unbearable, and the gray water in the pot had not yet boiled, and he was already sweating.
"Why hasn't this cowardly baby come back yet?" Sweaty muttering of joy and dissatisfaction, I miss Gao Zhuang, a free laborer.
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, 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 wood.
This kind of weather burns wood, and even a person with such a thin figure 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.
When he happily scooped up the flour made from millet rice, Gao Zhuang was already hot as 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.
"......" Gao Zhuang had the heart to die, but in order to have bread to eat, 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?
Using old noodles alone, the steamed buns, picture scrolls, noodles and so on made have a sour taste after fermentation of old noodles.
Put baking soda to neutralize the sour taste of the old noodles after fermentation, baking soda is alkali, and there is also alkali in the ash water of plants and trees, and alkali neutralizes acid, which is known to students who have studied chemistry in junior high school.
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 I am glad that there is no limestone at hand, let alone refining tools.
In the last life, his mother's Cantonese people, every year on the eve of the Dragon Boat Festival, they took the ash water of plants and trees at home to make gray water dumplings, and the ash water of plants and trees is alkaline water, which was invented by our ancestors in the late Eastern Han Dynasty.
The ancestors used alkaline water to make zongzi, and Li Zhengye used alkaline water to make cakes, which bypassed the class and saved the trouble of making edible alkali.
Of course, there are still many uses for alkali, but Xing is not in a hurry to improve his life.
Happy to be too lazy to be tall and strong, the gray water had cooled down, so he poured some alkaline water into the flour and mixed the noodles with the old dough.
Soon, the dough is already reconciled, put the dough in a basin, cover it with a damp cloth, and all that remains is to ferment and expand under the action of the old noodles......