Chapter 10 Yamava
When the Xiaoshi brothers saw Gongliang holding a cage to catch fish in the water, they were curious, so they swam to him, and when they saw the fish in the cage, they immediately became interested and rushed to catch fish. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 Info Gongliang had no choice but to give the fish cage to the two brothers, and he went ashore to find Yamato to remake two fish cages.
There is no skill in weaving a fish cage, it is nothing more than pressing the mountain vines vertically, falling together, and weaving them together. The difference is that things made up by people with good craftsmanship will look better and worse things will be uglier, such as things made up by Gongliang himself.
After weaving two fish cages, Gongliang saw that the mountain vines here were tough and the branches were thin, so he cut some of them and planned to take them back to weave some household items.
This improvised fish cage is a disposable, and it can easily rot. If you really want to weave it into household things, you still need a whole set of processes, such as drying, peeling, oiling, etc., so that it can be preserved for a long time. That is, he is a rural person born in the 80s who still knows some of the crafts of the older generation, if he is replaced by those urban people who do not distinguish between grains and five bodies, it is estimated that they will starve to death here, let alone enjoy life like him.
Cutting some mountain vines, suddenly, Gongliang saw that the leaves of the mountain vines under a cliff not far away actually looked a bit like the rat melons in his hometown.
The mouse melon, also known as sweet potato, is a kind of medicinal material that can be used to clear heat, detoxify and remove fire, because it grows small, the largest is only two fingers thick, so it is called mouse melon. It was the rhizome of a vine plant that was rich in starch and tasted similar to sweet potatoes, but not sweet and coarse in fiber.
Looking at the mountain vines that looked about the same as the leaves of a mouse melon, Gongliang walked over. If you take a closer look, it may not be possible to say that this thing is like a mouse melon, because this mountain vine grows tall and not as small as the vine of the mouse melon, but in any case, you have to dig it to know if this thing is a mouse melon.
So, he found a branch from the side and dug it up at the base of the vine.
The soil on the edge of the cliff is soft and fertile, and after digging for a while, Gongliang saw the rhizomes of the mountain vines, and immediately dug harder.
Brother Xiaoshi, who was fishing in the water, saw him digging on the edge of the cliff, and ran over curiously to see.
After digging for a while, the rhizome at the bottom of the mountain vine showed its original shape, and he was stunned to see a nest of more than a dozen large and small rhizomes lying there. Was this the rat melon he'd seen before? It was clearly bigger than the big sweet potato he'd seen before.
Xiao Shi saw the mouse melon dug up and said, "Ah Liang, why are you digging this thing, it's not delicious." ”
Gongliang was surprised: "Have you eaten it?"
"I've eaten it, Abba has dug it before, it's powdery, it's coarse, it's not sweet, and I don't even eat small stones. ”
Xiao Xiaoshi has always had a strange appetite, and it is really rare to have something that he doesn't like to eat, and it seems that this mouse melon tastes really bad.
Gongliang didn't care what the taste of this thing was, so he immediately dug out all the mouse melons, washed them in water, and then cut a small piece and tasted them, the taste was the same as the mouse melons he had seen before, and it seemed to be true. I really didn't expect the mouse melon here to enter so big, with the current size, it is no longer appropriate to call the mouse melon, and it will be called a yamba in the future!
After cleaning up the yams, Gongliang and the Xiaoshi brothers filled the fish cage with fish, and then went home together.
In the evening, Gongliang boiled a cage of fish that he had caught.
This fish, which grows up in mountain streams, is small but delicious. In the ancient times of Gongliang's previous life, there was no such thing as MSG to increase umami, but some people cooked fish and mutton together to get a delicious taste, so there was the word "fresh".
Gongliang saw that the fish was delicious, so he salted the remaining small fish and dried it into powder, and used it as natural monosodium glutamate. Every time you put a little bit of it in the dish, the flavor suddenly becomes delicious.
The dug potatoes are ground into slurry water by Gongliang with a stone mill, and then the roughness and fineness inside are sifted through a finely woven sieve, leaving only starch for cooking. Since then, he has finally had a staple food other than meat and vegetables.
As he was grinding the yams, he suddenly remembered that sweet potatoes seemed to be used to make wine, and that sweet potatoes were as rich in starch as sweet potatoes, so could they also be used to make wine? However, it depends on how the mountain fruit wine is made, otherwise there will be no koji to make wine.
Counting the time, the mountain fruit wine he made was almost two months old.
So, he went to dig up the mountain fruit wine buried in the ground, and by the way, he brought back the can of mountain fruit wine that had been exposed to the sun outside.
When I opened the two cans of mountain fruit wine and smelled it, I smelled a strong smell of wine, and it seemed that the brewing of mountain fruit wine was successful. Next, he filtered out the pomace of the two cans of mountain fruit wine and left them for a few days to obtain a slightly cloudy fruit wine liquid. At this time, the alcohol content is too low to withstand storage, and it needs to be steamed. However, for the experiment, he boiled a jar of mountain fruit wine with the pomace filtered out of the pomace and buried it in the ground, and steamed the other in a wooden basin in an iron pot, and finally steamed half a can of clear fruit wine with a high degree of strength.
At this time, the fruit wine was still very hot, so he buried the steamed fruit wine in the ground, and only left a little bit to prepare it as koji and make wine with yacava.
The conscience of the public who brewed the pota for its practical yam brewing also had no bottom, because he had never brewed it himself, but he always had to try everything, and who knows if he would be lucky enough to succeed.
So, he steamed the yakava, put in the fruit wine and some fructose, and then buried it in a stone jar, and then waited to see if it would turn into wine.
It is worth mentioning that there are a lot of this kind of yams that Xiao Xiaoshi doesn't like here, and Xiao Shi took him to a valley to see, everywhere, all of them are huge, and I don't know how they grow. In the same way, he doesn't have to worry about making wine without yams.
When Dashi returned from hunting again, Gongliang invited them to his home for dinner in order to thank him for taking care of him for so many years.
He used all the materials he had recently gotten and made a sumptuous dinner as a token of his appreciation.
There are a lot of things, there are mushroom minced meat with starch and seasoned with mountain stream fish, there are also wild vegetables boiled with wild pepper water, and a big pot of hot pot made of animal bones boiled into a thick soup, and a few meat dishes, because of the addition of delicious pickled fish meal seasoning, the taste is so delicious that the Dashi family almost swallowed their tongues.
In this primitive tribe, most of the food is coarse roasted food, how can there be such a fine delicacy.
After eating, Gongliang also took out a little of the newly brewed fruit wine, which immediately aroused Oishi's interest. Fortunately, there wasn't much wine, and the degree was not high, so he didn't get drunk. But there was no secret in the tribe, coupled with Dashi's boasting, the news that Gongliang had delicious fruit wine spread throughout the tribe at once, and there was an endless stream of people who came to him every day to ask for fruit wine, which made him very annoyed.
The main thing is that he doesn't have much fruit wine, this one wants a little, that one wants a little, and it's almost gone.
Fortunately, his new fruit wine was almost baked, otherwise he would not have had to drink it himself.