Chapter 226 Fill your stomach and harvest in the summer

For several days on end, the sun was shining.

This morning, Wang Lu picked up the bowl and saw that the preserved egg and thin porridge.

The preserved eggs were not made by herself, but Mrs. Cui heard that the old man Chen said that the people in Yashan were greedy for salted eggs that had not yet been pickled at home, and she specially asked the old man to send them.

As for the - Wang Lu frowned and asked Chen Wei: "Is it a duck?" ”

Chen Wei nodded, and Wang Lu made a bitter face - in the past few days, he has eaten ducks in the sky, including Wang Bi'an, and he is tired of seeing ducks.

Chen Wei naturally knew what Wang Lu was thinking, and glared at him: "What is there to eat?" It's time to harvest today, and I'm about to eat more to replenish my strength. Although it is said that there is a harvester, there is still a lot of work that requires physical strength, so eat it. Xie Ling and Wang Bi'an had already eaten and had already gone down the mountain to find Uncle Chen. ”

Wang Lu hurriedly picked up the rice, he didn't want to hit Chen Wei's muzzle, for the sake of that corpse, Wang Lu and Xie Ling killed 6 ducks, and Chen Wei's heart hurt so much that they dripped, and only found a total of 21 ducks, which went to nearly one-third, and he was really a loser.

Although the bare ducks can be placed in the cold room of the refrigerator, Chen Wei is worried that one day the power will suddenly go out again, which will make the ducks spoil, so she cooks all kinds of duck side dishes every day.

Duck heart, duck gizzard, duck liver or shredded stir-fried celery, or stewed radish.

Duck braised and duck wings barbecued.

Whole duck stewed with dried bamboo shoots, ginger duck stew.

I even tried Kung Pao Duck Ding.

Until now, everyone wants to run away when they see the duck.

Wang Lu comforted himself while eating, no matter what, it was long to eat in his stomach. Today's summer harvest is busy.

After eating in a hurry, Wang Lu and Chen Wei went down the mountain. The two of them also carried two big buckets, one bucket was chrysanthemum tea, and the other bucket was lightly salted boiled water.

After going down the mountain and arriving on the other side, Chen Wei and Wang Lu quickly found Xie Ling, Wang Bi'an, Chen Laobo and Yanmar AG600 in a large rice field.

Wang Lu stepped forward and said hello to Uncle Chen: "It's hard for you to get old." ”

Old Uncle Chen said with a smile: "It's because of your hard work, I didn't expect you to really go to the harvester." Hey, it's also lucky, this Yanmar AG600 was just sent to the agricultural machinery station for maintenance, and the owner estimated that after the accident, he didn't bother to care about this machine at all, and threw it there, but it cheapened us in vain. You called me to take a look that day, good guy, the machine I bought last year was renovated in the agricultural machinery station, and I also replaced it with two new tracks. ”

Wang Lu didn't pay for the top hat to send one after another: "It still depends on Uncle Chen, if you hadn't seen this kind of harvester before and taught us to do it, we don't know how much time it will take to lose how much diesel fuel, although the fuel tank of the machine itself is full, but it can't afford to toss." ”

Uncle Chen shook his hand again and again: "What is this, it should be, it should be, collect more rice, and the more stable our lives will be in the coming year." Besides......" He pointed to Xie Ling, who was fighting with Wang Bi'an next to the harvester: "Xiao Xie is really a little talented, I will teach it once, and she will do it." Wang Lu smiled - this harvester is much better than an excavation ship.

"Uncle, look, this land can be cut today, right?" Wang Lu still wanted to be sure, "After all, it was just waterlogged a few days ago. ”

Uncle Chen didn't reply, jumped into the rice field next to him, stomped his feet on the soil, picked a few ears of rice, rubbed them off, and put them in his mouth to chew for a while. Only then did he return to the ridge and said: "No problem, we drain the water in time, plus God opens his eyes, every day after the typhoon, the fields have already been dried." The rice is also very full, and the stalks are hard enough, so let's cut them. Taking advantage of this good weather, it is just right to dry the rice and then close the warehouse. ”

As he spoke, he walked to the side of the ox cart that he had rushed to the side, and pointed to a large pile of sacks on the flatbed truck: "Xiao Wang, I found you some bags, this Yanmar AG600 is with automatic threshing and bagging, and I have taught you the specific use method yesterday." ”

Wang Lu looked at the pile of empty sacks high on the flatbed, and didn't know what to say, although the old man Chen said that a few acres of land for one person was enough to eat, but he found these many sacks, and he didn't give up on all the rice in his warehouse without seeing it.

Fortunately, after the massacre of the excavators, the central street of Yinjiang Town was basically controlled by himself, and the rice collected could be stored in the houses, otherwise, a lot of rice would not know where to hide.

Old man Chen dug out on the flatbed truck for a while, took out a woven bag, and stuffed it to Wang Lu, who opened it and saw that it was half a pig! …,

Old man Chen said with a smile: "I have to work hard these days, and I deliberately killed a pig at home last night." ”

Wang Lu couldn't even speak, pig, how long had it been since he had smelled of it. Bajie, I miss you to death.

There was nothing polite to be polite, Wang Lu accepted the pig - there was always a chance to repay the two old men in the future.

After Old Man Chen and Wang Lu removed the sacks from the flatbed, they said goodbye to everyone and hurried home—the old man wanted to go back and collect the rice in his village. The harvesting tools used are old cattle and wooden harvesters.

The more Wang Lu and Uncle Chen got along, the more they realized that the old man was in a hurry, obviously he said that he would drive a harvester to help him harvest, but he couldn't wait, saying that it was a little more to collect a little more, and the harvester couldn't afford to pay this oil back and forth.

Bidding farewell to Uncle Chen on the machine farming road, Wang Lu ran and jumped back to the field, shouting at Xie Ling, who was already sitting in the driver's seat: "Start cutting!" ”

The Yanmar AG600 started up, and found a low and steady abrupt sound.

Xie Ling turned her head and looked at Wang Lu standing on the side of the harvester: "Are you ready?" ”

Wang Lu opened the two empty pockets under the discharge port, and was a little nervous: "Open the cut!" ”

The harvester started a little fast, and Wang Lu stumbled on the pedals, but quickly stood firm.

As soon as Xie Ling went down the mountain in the morning, he and Uncle Chen adjusted the position of the harvester head, which was too high, and the rice stalks left behind would be too long, which was inconvenient for field management in the later stage, too low, and easy to touch the occasional stones in the field and damage the harvest. Now that the pre-adjusted hatch is just right, the harvester drives all the way very smoothly, and almost at the same time, the tail is discharged from the rice stalks, and at the same time, the de-grained rice leaks out from the side outlet.

Chen Wei and Wang Bi'an, who were standing on the ridge next to them, shouted and jumped: "Success, success, success." ”

In fact, Xie Ling had already tried it under the guidance of Uncle Chen yesterday, but everyone was still very excited when they looked at today's official harvest, and this yellow rice was the real hope of Yashan.

Yonggang City, the birthplace of Hemudu rice cultivation civilization for 7,000 years, today, the rice grown on this same land is still the most solid support for the survival of all people in Wanglu.

The flexibility of Yanmar AG600 in the small farmland was quickly revealed, this rice field is not flat, it is polygonal, and there is still a clump of sugarcane growing in the corner.

The two sacks were quickly filled, and Wang Lu quickly tied the bag with the rope that had been prepared for a long time, threw the bag full of rice into the field, and put a new bag on the outlet.

Chen Wei and Wang Bi'an hurriedly ran up, dragged the two sacks onto the machine farming road.

Chen Wei couldn't wait to open the bag, grabbed a handful of rice, spread her hands, let them roll off her palms, and smiled: "You can eat new rice." In the past, I have always heard that black-hearted businessmen wax old rice or something, and the rice milled from the rice we harvest at home is definitely the cleanest, and the bran left over from the rice milling is just used as feed to feed the ducks. Wang Bi'an picked one up, put it in his mouth, chewed it, and immediately spit it out - this was naturally inedible, and the rice husk pierced his mouth.

Yanmar AG600 went back and forth in the farmland, Wang Lu threw a full bag from time to time, and Chen Wei and Wang Bian handed over the empty bags.

The speed of the harvester is very fast, theoretically it can harvest 7 to 8 acres per hour, Xie Ling is a novice, the farmland here is not very flat, the speed is a little slow, and it takes a lot of time to transfer from the machine road or ridge to another field, but even so, after an hour, Chen Wei and Wang Bi'an were so tired that their waists were about to break.

An acre of land is almost 300 kilograms of rice, and a sack can hold about 60 kilograms, and more than 30 bags of rice have been pushed on the machine farming road.

Wang Lu hurriedly asked Xie Ling to stop the machine, and Xie Ling also saw the embarrassment of Chen Wei and Wang Bi'an's mother and son, so she stopped the machine and jumped down: "Take a break." ”

The sun was hot and hot, and they were also a little thirsty, everyone picked their favorite flavors and drank chrysanthemum tea or salted boiled water, Chen Wei took out Ren Dan, cool oil, wind oil and skin cream, and let Wang Lu and Xie Ling smear it, which made Wang Lu laugh: "It's so delicate." Chen Wei persuaded for a long time, but only let the two of them wear a towel on the top of their heads to wipe their sweat. …,

Wang Lu looked at Chen Wei and Wang Bi'an, in fact, the mother and son don't need to be so tired, the bags of rice in this field are packed with Lu, Wang Lu went back to clean up, and there was no need for the mother and son to jump up and down. Wang Lu thought of a trick and asked Chen Wei and Wang Bi'an to do some relatively easy work.

Wang Lu looked at Chen Wei and Wang Bi'an's excited faces and said, "I said, Lady Niang, I ate lunch in the field today, you and Wang Bi'an go back to the mountain to cook." Remember to bring it down early. By the way, Uncle Chen gave us some pigs, and you just took them home and put them in the refrigerator. ”

Chen Wei actually saw that there was a harvester here, and there was really nothing to do with herself and Wang Bi'an, so she responded very simply, and pulled Wang Bi'an to prepare to go back to the mountain to cook. When I heard that Uncle Chen sent it, he also smiled: "I'll eat braised at noon." ”

When he took the woven bag handed over by Wang Lu, his hand sank, and when he opened it, he saw that there was a whole half of a pig.

Chen Wei and Wang Bi'an almost carried the bag together before they put half of the pig on the cliff mountain. It's just that when they think of the delicacy of the pig, neither of them has the slightest complaint.

When she went up the mountain, Chen Wei was busy, and she had to chop the pig into pieces and put it in the refrigerator.

Chen Wei is doing Dongpo.

Blanch the five in hot water, wash it with water, cut it into two finger thick widths, and then, take the wild onions picked by Wang Bi'an from the back mountain, tie up the pieces, and then put them in a large porcelain bowl, pour a little soy sauce, vinegar, old wine, sprinkle some salt and sugar, and then, cover a basin as a lid at the mouth of the bowl, and then enlarge the pot water, first the big fire and then the smallest simmer, and stew it carefully over the water.

Next, Chen Wei was worried that Wang Lu and Xie Ling were too tired from work, and the weather was hot, so they had no appetite to eat, so they thought of making cold noodles that were easy to digest.

The noodles are ordinary textured noodles, blanched in hot water, placed in a steel pot, and immersed in spring water

Bean sprouts and leeks are fried.

Another quiche was baked and shredded.

Then take the raw sauce, a small cart of sesame oil.

Tattoo the dough as the base, pour some soy sauce, sprinkle some salt, pour the bean sprouts and fried leeks, mix it, and then pour a spoonful of raw sauce and a little sesame oil, and it's done.

I made another pot of salted bamboo shoots and dried winter melon soup.

When Dongpo was stewed and it was almost noon time, Chen Wei and Wang Bi'an walked down the mountain with steel pots and buckets containing noon meals.

When she arrived at the river, Chen Wei was about to get on the boat, and Wang Bi'an said: "Mom, let's row a bamboo raft, we have to transport so many meters across the river in the afternoon, the wooden boat is too small to carry many things." ”

Chen Wei thought about it, and it was exactly like this, so she changed the bamboo raft.

Chen Wei sat at the bow of the boat, Wang Bi'an held the bamboo pole, and the bamboo raft slowly floated towards the opposite bank.

Wang Bi'an asked Chen Wei if he had a ride or not: "Mom, Dad said that this rice has to be dried, what is this for?" Is sun exposure for disinfection? ”

Chen Wei said with a smile: "It's not disinfection, it's to dry the rice a little, the newly harvested rice has too much moisture, and it is easy to rot when stored." After drying, it is convenient for storage. As long as this rice is well preserved, it is not allowed to be bitten by mice, and it is no problem to hide it for five or six years, of course, if it is stored for such a long time, the taste will not be good. ”

There was a riverbank in front of her, and Chen Wei was just bracing herself up and trying to stand up, when she suddenly saw something black floating on the side of the bamboo raft, which seemed to be a piece of dead wood, and the wood was still wrapped in rotten cloth.

Chen Wei looked curiously - the dead wood suddenly moved, and it grabbed the edge of the bamboo raft.

Chen Wei was so frightened by this sudden change that she screamed, her hand that propped up half of her body went soft, and she sat down on the bamboo raft with her butt again.

Wang Bi'an only had time to ask half a voice: "What's ......?" and saw the dead wood - this! It wasn't some wood, it was a hand, the hand of a zombie that Wang Bi'an had seen many times!

Torn fingernails, blackened corpse spots on the backs of hands, and gnawed arms under tattered sleeves.

With a bang, another arm poked out of the water and grabbed the bamboo raft tightly.

Chen Wei screamed again, kicked in a double row, and desperately stayed away from the edge of the bamboo raft.

Wang Bi'an shouted: "Zombies! Zombie! There are zombies in the water! ”

Almost as Wang Bi'an spoke, a face that had been bitten in half and half of its white bones poked out of the water, and it barked its mouthless teeth and roared at Chen Wei.

Water Zombies! Zombies in the water! There are zombies in the water!