Chapter 42: Strange Things
Lin Xiaoyue looked up and saw that Liang Jingyao had raised eyebrows and wide-open eyes on the upper half of his face, which made him look a little angry. However, his nose on the lower half of his face was too straight, and his lips were thin on the top and thick on the bottom, full and distinctive. In addition, there was not a single scar on his face. It was really distracting!
Why would a bandit still be a bandit if he looks like this? Wouldn't it be better to just find a rich woman and live a comfortable life?
Besides, if they continue to rob and rape people in this way, I guess all the other bandits will be out of work!
"No! I can believe you if you say you are a general. After all, you are tall and strong. But you are a bandit, forget it!" Lin Xiaoyue directly rejected Liang Jingyao's idea.
Liang Jingyao was a little frustrated and asked depressedly: "Do you have any other ideas?"
Lin Xiaoyue nodded. She had already thought of the rest. If Liang Jingyao hadn't interrupted her by saying he wanted to dress up as a bandit, she would have said it long ago!
"I think Brother Liang should just have someone make you a male ghost mask. Make the clothes a little bigger and longer, dragging on the ground so people can't see your feet. As for your hair, it doesn't matter whether you wear a wig or not, you're pretending to be a male ghost anyway."
Liang Jingyao felt that this method was indeed feasible. He nodded and asked, "Okay, let's do it this way. What about Cheng Feng's dress? I'll have someone find a pattern and make a bigger one."
Lin Xiaoyue brought the clothes and handed them to Liang Jingyao, "This is it. I could have easily sewn a piece of clothing, but I have to dry so many vegetables, so I don't have that much time."
Liang Jingyao took the clothes with a hearty smile, "You've helped me so much, how can I have the nerve to ask you to make clothes for me again. You take a rest for a while, I'll go out and find someone to do these."
"Wait a minute!" Lin Xiaoyue took out two large night-shining pearls and said in confusion, "I really can't figure out what Cheng Feng uses these two things for. When I opened the cabinet door, they were placed together with these clothes and masks. They should all be useful."
Liang Jingyao remembered that Cheng Feng had asked him for these two night pearls, saying that they were used to pretend to be a female ghost, but Cheng Feng did not tell him how to use them specifically.
He took the Night Pearl and said, "I'll take it first. Once everything else is done, I'll try again. I'm leaving now!"
After Liang Jingyao left, Lin Xiaoyue didn't plan to go back to take a nap. She had just woken up not long ago, and since she was going to build a house tomorrow, she was very excited and didn't feel sleepy at all.
I remember when I was young, my grandmother was building a house in the countryside, and many people from the village came to help. My grandmother not only had to boil a lot of hot water, but also had to prepare a lot of snacks, and even tried to make the meals as sumptuous as possible.
Liang Jingyao only has a clay stove with two eyes. Although it is much better than that of ordinary people, she is definitely not able to make it with just her own hands, so she has to make the snacks first today!
What kind of snack is better?
Because there were few ingredients in the kitchen, Lin Xiaoyue went straight to the cellar to look for them.
The cellar was much richer, with vegetables, fruits, flour, rice, corn, potatoes, sweet potatoes, and a lot of meat. Lin Xiaoyue took two pieces of meat and carried a bag of flour back to the kitchen.
People who do manual labor need to eat some meat. Braised pork cannot be made without soy sauce. She decided to cut some of the meat and marinate it with salt, then slice it to make a bacon stewed egg, and then cut another part of the meat to make a meat stewed with dried radish, and finally chop the remaining meat into stuffing to make big meat buns.
However, the big meat buns would be more delicious if some bamboo shoots were added!
When she entered the bamboo forest yesterday, she saw a lot of bamboo shoots, big and small. Some had grown very tall, while some had only their heads poking out. After marinating the meat, she went to dig bamboo shoots!
They did it right away. Since they only needed to stir-fry the spices over a low fire, they didn't need a lot of firewood, so Lin Xiaoyue stuffed some firewood into the earthen stove and lit it. Then she put a large amount of salt, bay leaves, fennel, cinnamon and peppercorns into a large pot and stir-fried them with a large iron spoon. When the spices and salt in the pot changed color and the aroma became rich, Lin Xiaoyue went back to the stove and put out the fire.
It takes some time for the spices to cool down. After Lin Xiaoyue plucked the pig's hair, she scraped off the grease and dirt on the pig's skin with a knife. Then she poured the cooled spices into the meat and rubbed it back and forth with her hands so that the meat was covered with spices.
After marinating the meat, in order to prevent rats from coming in, Lin Xiaoyue covered it with a vegetable cover before going out to dig bamboo shoots.
Carrying the basket back to the bamboo forest, Lin Xiaoyue looked at the tall and dense weeds covering the valley and felt very emotional. This was her second time here. The first time was when she fell from the mountain. This time, she came here to build a house for herself.
But rolling down the mountain was easy, but trying to climb back up was difficult. After lunch, Brother Liang said he was going to find someone to make clothes and masks. Is there any other way out? When he comes back, I have to ask him. That way it will be convenient for me to go out and pick up Yunyun next time.
Digging bamboo shoots was not very difficult for Lin Xiaoyue. When she was a child before she traveled through time, she grew up in her grandmother's house in the countryside. Her grandmother was an authentic farmer. At that time, little Lin Xiaoyue was curious about everything. She followed her grandmother every day and imitated whatever her grandmother did. Although she later went to the city for study, she later successfully became a genius scientist.
But she will never forget her childhood memories, the most beautiful time of her childhood!
Lin Xiaoyue walked through the bamboo forest, hoping to find the fresh, tender winter bamboo shoots still buried in the soil. So she kept looking down at the cracks in the ground. In her experience, if the ground was slightly raised and the soil was loose and cracked, there was a high chance that bamboo shoots were buried underneath.
Fortunately, this bamboo forest had basically not been dug by anyone, so Lin Xiaoyue found the target very easily. She used a hoe to gently remove the soil on it and saw the head of the winter bamboo shoot exposed. She did not rush to dig it, but removed the surrounding soil and cut at the junction of the winter bamboo shoot and the bamboo whip. A complete winter bamboo shoot was dug out.
After digging out the first one, the rest became easy. She followed the bamboo whips and found quite a few more. After a while, her basket was already heavy, enough to eat for several days, so she went straight back to the bamboo yard.
If you have no experience in peeling bamboo shoots, it would be a waste of time. However, Lin Xiaoyue knew how to do it quickly. She took a kitchen knife and made a strong cut on the outer shell, then pried open the outer shell with her hands, and the bamboo shoots inside came out. However, the roots of the bamboo shoots were very old, so some of them had to be cut off.
The flesh of the bamboo shoots is wrapped in several layers of shells, so after removing the shells, the exposed bamboo shoot flesh is very clean, but she still washed all the bamboo shoot flesh in light water.
There are plenty of bamboo shoots in the forest, so Lin Xiaoyue doesn't plan to eat them over several days. She wants to dry the leftovers from making dumplings. Eating fresh bamboo shoots every day will make you tired of it, and stewing meat with dried bamboo shoots is a delicacy that will make people drool!
Just as Lin Xiaoyue was struggling to pick up a large basin of bamboo shoots and meat from the ground, Liang Jingyao came back. Seeing that Lin Xiaoyue was struggling, he immediately stepped forward to take the large wooden basin.
The yellow, hairy shells on the ground and the bamboo shoots in the basin caught Liang Jingyao's attention. He couldn't help but ask, "Master Lin, did you take all these out of my cellar? When did I plant such strange things?"
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