Chapter 51: Eat a big pot of rice
The next step is to get into the formal part: preparing the pickles. The pickle jar is the same as the kimchi jar, it should be brushed very cleanly, and then the processed cabbage is stacked layer by layer, and a layer of salt is sprinkled on each layer.
Lin Xiaoquan saw that the village was not using refined salt that was common on the market before the end of the world, but large unprocessed salt grains.
Although it is difficult to buy pre-apocalyptic packaged refined salt now, the wise working people have found a way.
Sure enough, Koizumi inquired privately and learned that the village happened to have a salt well, so it could be self-sufficient.
In the end, everyone worked together to bring several clean stones, put them in the jar one by one, and pressed and compacted the cabbage.
At this point, it's not really over. It is necessary to wait for the next day to pour water from the cabbage into the jar and cover it with a gauze to prevent dust, which is really the end of the matter.
However, the weather is too cold now, and it is estimated that the water poured in will freeze, and someone will have to come indoors from time to time to see how the brazier is burning inside.
That's right, Lin Xiaoquan's Nanyue Province and the neighboring Jiangyou Province belong to the south, and there has never been similar extreme cold weather before the end of the world, so the buildings in the city and the houses in the countryside are not equipped with radiators, floor heating or kang like in the north.
When it's the coldest, the most you can do is to burn a brazier and bake a fire to keep warm.
I don't know if it's because of the cold weather, but it gets dark very early.
At this time, the work of "accumulating sauerkraut" in the afternoon was over, and the eldest sister who took the lead beckoned everyone to go to another room and began to have dinner.
Originally, the food in the village was eaten by each family, but because some work required the help of each family, it gradually became a meal as long as they contributed to the work of the public family.
The women who were still "accumulating sauerkraut" just now were divided into two groups at this time, one group was basically a native of the village; The other group is people who joined the village or outsiders after the end of the world, such as Lin Xiaoquan.
The aboriginal democracy is responsible for cooking and eating, and Lin Xiaoquan is mainly responsible for wiping the table and setting the dishes and chopsticks.
Since the men in the village did not have any other work to do together this afternoon, except for the routine work of patrolling, there was no need to prepare too much.
After waiting for it to come out, Lin Xiaoquan found that tonight's food was corn rice porridge with vinegared cabbage.
She was secretly surprised, this food was too bad. Thinking about it in my heart, I couldn't help but have something strange on my face.
Seeing this, an aunt next to her whispered, "How is it?" That's a nice place to be, isn't it? You see, and vinegar! It smells good! Hey, I haven't smelled vinegar in a long time... It's going to be watery......"
After hearing this, Lin Xiaoquan fell into a long contemplation: Life outside the base turned out to be so difficult? In this last days, the incapable ordinary people are really pitiful... I don't know what the situation is like in my school and my own village.
After everyone sat down, Lin Xiaoquan saw that no one had made a move, and she didn't do it rashly.
The people at the table looked at the steaming food and swallowed unconsciously.
Fortunately, it didn't take long for a few men to come into the house. Among them were the big man Ah Cheng and the little man Ah Kang that Lin Xiaoquan saw outside the village gate today.
"Ah Cheng, you're back! Waiting for you! The aunt who had a kind face before and took the initiative to praise Koizumi spoke.
"Mother..."The sturdy Ah Cheng saw more than a dozen women in the room looking at them in unison, and lowered his head embarrassedly.
"Aunt Li, we're back! Cold and hungry! What's going to be for dinner tonight? The little man asked impatiently.
"Corn porridge, vinegared cabbage, and your nest head..."Aunt Li skillfully reported the name of the food.
Wowo Wo Tou? After Lin Xiaoquan heard it, he put a question mark in his heart, there was no one on the table.
She quietly leaned out her spiritual power and "looked" at the stove inside.