Lin Lan and Lin Yuezhen took the beans home, the two of them cleaned the pepper and rattan pepper, found two clean big clay bowls, turned on the fire in the stove, and scooped ten catties of rapeseed oil into the pot.

The selected peppercorns and rattan peppers were put into a large clay bowl, and the rapeseed oil in the pot was not bubbling before pulling out the thick ash to cover the charcoal fire.

Each of them held a spoon and poured boiling rapeseed oil on top of Sichuan pepper (rattan pepper), and a burst of fragrance and pepper smell came to the nostrils.

Until the hot oil is submerged in the rattan pepper, scoop up the oil in the pot, cover the lid and soak it overnight, filter out the rattan pepper and Sichuan pepper, put the oil into a clay pot, seal and store it, the longer it is placed, the better the taste.

"It smells so good! Xiao Lin is frying pepper oil! ”

Lin Lan walked to the door of the stove room and saw Li Guizhi coming with a clip on his back: "Hmm! My dad took some fresh peppers and rattan peppers, which I fried into oil, so that it was easier to eat. ”

"I made it last year, and I can eat it until next year, and the longer I leave it, the more fragrant it will be." Li Guizhi said and took out two old pumpkins from his back, and there were a lot of taro in them: "Xiaolin, my mother gave it to me, let me send it to you." ”

Lin Lan took it with a smile: "Auntie is too polite, is this taro taro?" ”

"Hmm!" Li Guizhi smiled and nodded, "My mother's family grows it, and it tastes better than woolly taro." ”

"There are few taro growers here, and this is the first time I've seen it." Lin Lan thought for a moment, "If you have a lot of old pumpkins and taro grown at home, you can send them to me, and I will collect them according to the price of the vegetable market." ”

Li Guizhi nodded happily: "Yes, my mother planted a lot of pumpkins and taro over there, and I will go back to collect them for you after dividing the straw and red roots." ”

Lin Lan nodded and advised: "Pick a smoother one, put it for a longer time." ”

Li Guizhi nodded again and again and left with a smile.

After the grain of the brigade was divided into households, the production team began to distribute the straw, and Lin Lan's family received ten loads of straw.

The old lady had not yet been discharged from the hospital, and He Xianghua helped send her rations and straw home.

Next, the production team began to dig up the red lotus and artichoke planted in Niubei Mountain.

Niubei Mountain was full of members digging red potatoes, and the dug up red potatoes were piled up into a mountain.

A lot of bare red poles and artichoke poles were also dug up.

The member named Yang San carried the light pole dug out and smiled: "These guys can't steal food, they point to a nest and steal." ”

Zhang Rongqing smiled and patted it: "Yang San, you tell me honestly, how many red potatoes and artichokes did you take out before?" ”

Yang San rolled his eyes at him: "Rongqing, don't talk about our eldest brother." Do you remember, that day before Lao Tzu came down the mountain, your kid came, and stepped on Lao Tzu's poop. ”

Zhang Rongqing glared at him and pointed at him: "It turned out to be you kid." ”

"Hahahaha!" Yang San crossed his waist and laughed proudly.

Zhang Rongqing threw a piece of artichoke at him with a smile: "You kid, you can't eat Lao Tzu's red roots." ”

Everyone laughed for a while, talking about the achievements of not having enough to eat in those years and coming out in the middle of the night to steal something to eat.

Lin Lan remembered that she had heard her parents say that there was a famine in those years, and everyone went to the red lotus to steal the red lotus if they didn't have anything to eat.

Stealing red potatoes is also particular, lying in the ditch, starting from the bottom of the ridge to dig in, digging one out of a nest, and burying the soil back after digging it out.

Who knows that every thief thinks like this, As a result, this one and that one were dug out, and when they dug up the red roots, they found that six or seven percent of the red roots in the ground were all bare poles.

Yang Liying and Yang Meihua smiled and said to Lin Lan: "These bare poles also have the credit of Xiaodouzi and Xiaokai. ”

The eldest aunt smiled: "How much did a few little hairy children eat, I also saw a few young men with two girls roasting red lotus at the foot of the mountain that day." ”

Yang Liying pointed at Yang Meihua with a smile: "Sister Meihua and Brother-in-law He also came to roast at that time." ”

Yang Meihua turned her head and smiled: "It's been a few decades of old yellow calendar, and a small team of eighty percent of people has come to roast it." As he spoke, he asked, "Do you make red potato flour and potato flour this year?" ”

Lin Lan smiled and asked, "Do you make vermicelli or small noodles?" ”

"I want to do a little bit of the same, my little Kai likes to eat red lotus noodles." Yang Meihua said.

In these years, as long as every family can make something by themselves, they do it themselves, and they never go to the street to buy and eat.

After digging up the red lotus and artichoke, the red lotus and artichoke that Lin Lan's family shared added up to only one basket.

When I went home, I dug up all the red weeds planted in the vegetable field, cleaned them by the ditch, cut them into small pieces, and put them in a stone mill to grind them into red mud.

Add water and filter it with gauze several times before precipitating, put the sweet potato residue in a gauze bag and rub it in a basin of water until all the starch is washed out, and pour all the red lettuce together and let it stand.

After the starch is completely settled, the water on the surface is poured out, and the red lettuce will condense into an earthy white red lettuce starch.

Cut it out to dry it thoroughly, grind it finely, and then pass through a fine sieve, and the red lettuce powder is ready.

The next morning, Yang Dingbang and Li Xiangyang sent the old lady home together.

After seeing it, Lin Lan felt that the old man was sick once, and his spirit was much worse.

The old lady looked at the yard and sighed comfortably: "It's still comfortable at home." ”

"You're back, and my mission is complete." Lin Lan smiled and returned the key to her.

"I'm glad to have you." The old lady took it with a smile, and said happily and boastfully, "I have long wanted to come back, and Dingbang forced the doctor to observe me for two days before I was discharged from the hospital." ”

Lin Lan smiled after seeing it: "How good Dingbang is to you!" The doctor said that your lumbar spine is damaged, and you should take care of it for a while when you come back. ”

"I'll be careful, if I can't take it, I'll call Lin Lan for help." The old lady Lala Linlan, "Liu Jinbao's turtle grandson is still in the hospital!" I heard that the injury was very bad, but I don't know which way the fairy appeared and cleaned up this dog thing. ”

After hearing this, Yang Dingbang turned around Li Xiangyang and quipped: "Immortal Li! ”

Li Xiangyang glanced at Lin Lan, his face full of sadness: "If I am really a fairy, I still can't catch up with my wife?" ”

The old lady looked at the two: "Are you two secretly speaking ill of us!" ”

"How dare you, grandma!" The two said in unison.

Yang Dingbang remembered something, turned his head and patted Li Xiangyang: "In the afternoon, you call two people to pull the two pigs away, as well as a dozen chickens and a few geese, and find someone to take them away." ”

Li Xiangyang nodded: "Okay, I'll let someone pull it when I go back." ”

The old lady beat Yang Dingbang distressedly: "I have nothing to say if you sell the pigs, feed the chickens and catch the sorghum thing, more than a dozen chickens have seven or eight eggs a day, and a few geese have just started laying eggs, and everything will be bought and eaten after they are all sold." If I can't even do this, what are I doing alive? ”

Yang Dingbang looked at her: "You promised me not to do heavy work in the future, and I will leave the land and vegetable land for others to plant, and I will leave it for you." Or I'll hire someone to take care of you. ”

The old lady saw his posture and had to compromise: "That's it! You give your own land to Meihua's family to plant, and keep the vegetable plot for me, and when I plant vegetables, I call Lin Lan and Yuezhen to help me dig up vegetable seeds. ”

Lin Lan said with a smile: "In the future, we will take care of the work of carrying water and digging the ground, if there is anything you need to shout, we will come immediately." She thought, could it be that the old lady had figured it out after living in the hospital once! Don't worry about yourself and Dingbang looking at each other?

(End of chapter)