Chapter 077: Soy Sauce and Miso
Lu lightly saw a touch of sarcasm on Dacheng's face, a deep and hearty person, a cold and resolute face, this sarcasm was particularly discordant, and even a little mean.
Lu gently and silently turned his face away, looked away, and silently made an exaggerated expression.
Could it be that Ayutthaya and the kingdom of God have enmity?
Could it be that Ayutthaya was persecuted by the kingdom of Heaven to settle here?
Could it be that Ayutthaya pretended to have amnesia and stayed here because he was afraid of the kingdom, instead of returning to his original place?
In an instant, countless conspiracies and tricks flashed through Lu Qingqing's mind, and countless large and small theaters were staged.
Then the back of the head was patted: "What are you doing, naughty." ”
Lu gently turned back seriously: "No, I'm thinking, I thought about it, let's just be such a little person, this is not so much a city, but a small village, plus this plateau doesn't look like a beast, otherwise there are Chongming birds as neighbors, this moat is really not necessary." ”
"I'm not afraid of going to China, I've tossed up and down so much, it's enough for people to kill me, it's not bad at all, isn't it? I just think it's better to waste money and waste money if it's not necessary, and free up energy to do something else. But when we become stronger, there are more people, and the city is going to be built bigger, the moat will be indispensable, and he will not be happy to go to the country, so he will send troops to crusade against me!"
Dacheng looked at her indifferent and confident appearance, and chuckled: "You, sometimes you look very reliable, more reassuring than adults, and sometimes you are very naughty, I really don't know whether to treat you as an adult or a child." ”
"How can I be called naughty? I am called optimistic, cheerful, positive, confident, and brave, do you prefer to see me frowning and making a bitter face every day?" Lu gently waved his hand happily, "I won't tell you, I'm going to make soy sauce, you go and follow the trend and say, the moat is gone, what doesn't he understand, you teach him more, haven't you walked through a lot of places and seen a lot of cities?"
Ayutthaya laughed, and this was also instructed by him.
"I'm going back to Qingluyuan to pick up people. ”
"Then I'll be with him myself, and be careful on the road, oh, don't forget my baskets of wool! and the sheep, don't bully them, and bring them back." ”
Lu ran away lightly, turned around and said loudly.
"It's really ......" Oshiro shook his head with a smile, becoming more and more casual, no big or small.
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Lu gently returned to the grass shed, Yitu was still looking at the soybeans, she looked at it, it was almost steamed, and she took the whole steaming bucket off the stone pot.
Lu Qingqing has never made soy sauce or soy sauce, although she knows the steps, but she is worried that she will not succeed in doing it the first time, and she will waste the precious ingredients, this time she only steamed a total of twenty catties of soybeans, of which only about two catties were divided into soy sauce, and the rest were made into soy sauce.
This is because the miso is first made into a sauce cube, which generally needs to be fermented for a winter to grow with sauce bacteria.
Although it is still very cold now, after all, winter is almost over, and the season is not right, Lu Qingqing is very uncertain about whether this sauce will be done or not.
The soy sauce was different, Lu gently spread the more than eighteen catties of soybeans on two bamboo strips that the old people had weaved, let them cool, and then put them into a small earthen house.
It is said that it is an earthen house, but in fact, it is a small black house only thigh-high with a few pieces of adobe, and the space in it is also very small, which can only accommodate bamboo strips, and after putting the bamboo strips in, it is sealed, and soybeans are to be fermented in it for six days.
There are temperature requirements for fermentation, it must be above thirty-seven degrees, and the natural temperature cannot be reached, Lu Qing was prepared in advance, and she made a simple fire in advance.
It is to dig a strip through the tunnel of the small black house under the small black house, and burn a fire at one end of the tunnel, and the smoke will come out from the other end, and the smoke can heat the small black house when it passes through the tunnel.
This fire has to be watched by someone, it can't be too big, and it can't be extinguished, Lu gently asked several women to take turns to take care of it. They spend most of their time here in the hut, and it's just a matter of taking care of the fire.
Then Lu lightly began to make the sauce block, she first made a stone mortar, using the white granite from the stone grinding, polished it to a straight and smooth, and then poured two catties of ripe and soft soybeans into the stone mortar and pounded it, mashed it into pieces, dug it out, and made it into a boxy brick like a lump of mud, and then put it to ferment naturally.
This can't be on the high temperature, but needs to be low, so Lu gently placed it in the most ventilated place of the grass shed.
"Young Chief, how long will it take to eat this?" Yitu asked as he silently counted all the steps.
"Well, it's going to take months, and some of you have been waiting. ”
Lu gently told her that no matter soy sauce and soybean sauce, it will be added to water after that, continue to ferment and continue to brew, soy sauce is a little more troublesome, sugar must be added, boiled, and exposed, but think about the saltiness and umami of soy sauce, and then compare it with the inferior and astringent coarse salt, Lu lightly feels that all the trouble and waiting are worth it.
Eighteen catties of soybeans, if it goes well, can brew nearly sixty catties of soy sauce, once it is determined that the brewing is successful, she will immediately brew new ones, and she will brew a lot.
After finishing the work, Lu Qing found that he had nothing to do, so after thinking about it, he went to the construction site again, found a serious and entangled Feng Feng who studied the drawings, and went to draw the land with him.
"I've also figured it out, we don't have the conditions to get that tall now, so let's be honest and simple, and we don't need to make it so big. Lu said softly, and with a wave of his hand, he drew a square piece of land about the size of eight playgrounds, and inserted wooden sticks along the side to mark it.
The wind looked at it speechlessly, is this not big?
This piece of land is naturally not flat, it is called a rise and fall, the high place should be shoveled, and the low place should be filled.
"When preparing the ground, try to clean up the rhizomes of any plants, so as not to grow a lot of weeds out when you get it, and then add some stones into it, otherwise I am worried that the ground will be too soft, by the way, I will make you a rolling stone, just a big cylindrical stone, hollowed out in the middle, insert a wooden stick into it, tie a rope at both ends of the wooden stick, pull the rope and roll away, and then the ground will be rolled flat. ”
Lu lightly wrote down this matter, and then said: "But it can't be too peaceful, the terrain must be high in the middle and slightly lower on all sides, otherwise the rain and rainwater will not be discharged, and a few ditches will be dug to assist in drainage." The moat outside the city is not needed, but the moat still needs to be dug, and it does not need to be dug much deeper, and it is also used for drainage. ”
The wind listened silently and asked, "Won't the water flow down in the ditch?"
Lu was stunned slightly, and then understood what he meant that the water would seep directly down the ditch.