Chapter 011 Chapter 11 Ghee and Goat Milk Soap

Life has been difficult for everyone in the past few years, but these favors still exist. It's just that Lin Yue has no one to help him and can't organize a full-moon party for his child. Everyone understands that most people send full-moon gifts in advance.

Father Xu also sent full-month gifts a few days ago. He didn't know where he bought the clothes for the two children, but they were a little too big and he didn't know if they could be worn during the Chinese New Year. He also prepared a pair of small silver bracelets for each child, but Lin Yue didn't dare to let them wear them. Although there were no patterns on them, this was a special era and she was afraid of causing unnecessary trouble. Besides, "wealth should not be revealed", she was also afraid of being targeted by someone with ulterior motives, so she put them away for the two children.

Lin Yue was very fond of the rice sent by Aunt Luo Er, so he went into the house and took out a small piece of butter as a return gift for her.

Seeing the butter, Aunt Luo smiled with wrinkles all over her face. She also sent a message to her eldest daughter-in-law, asking Lin Yue to go together on the eleventh day. After receiving Lin Yue's reply, she went home happily.

During this period, many people came to give full-month gifts, and Lin Yue would more or less give some butter as a return gift. This butter was made by Lin Yue and several sisters-in-law he knew well.

After the grass in the space sprouted, Lin Yue would often put the sheep in the space. The sheep had fresh grass to eat, and they were no longer as skinny as before. The ewes also produced more milk, and the two little guys couldn't drink it all, so Lin Yue thought of using goat milk.

There’s no way. The days of not wanting to use oil when cooking are too hard to bear!

She collected another wooden bucket of goat milk last night and placed it in the yard, where it froze into icy lumps.

She carried the goat milk into the house and let it slowly melt. While waiting for it to melt, she asked Liu Jianhua and Wang Xiuxiang to come over to help.

Hearing that they were going to make ghee, the two were very happy and came quickly.

Fresh, unprocessed goat milk is different from the skimmed milk we usually drink. After being left for a period of time, a layer of milk skin will appear on the top of the goat milk. Lin Yue had heard people say that this was cream, but he didn't know if it was true.

She made a big mixer to mix the separated milk skin. It was actually three pieces of wood fixed on a wooden stick, a bit like a propeller.

This is a long process that requires the three of them to take turns stirring. When the fat and liquid are separated, the yellow substance is butter.

A few people washed the butter with clean water and put it in a pot to heat it. The butter was like solidified lard, slowly melting with the temperature, and some black oil residue appeared at the bottom. After filtering out the oil residue, the ghee was ready.

Lin Yue and the other two poured the ghee into a jar, and the ghee would slowly solidify after it cooled down.

Because it is oil extracted from goat's milk, some people gave it a name, called goat butter.

In fact, ghee has a strong smell when cooking, and it is easy to burn the pan. However, people were short of oil and water at that time, so even though this "sheep butter" had many shortcomings, everyone liked it very much. Moreover, although ghee cannot be used for cooking, it is still good for frying, and it can be saved for the New Year.

A bucket of goat milk was used to make about three pounds of "goat cream", which Lin Yue and his two sisters-in-law divided equally. The remaining goat milk in the bucket was skimmed milk, which did not contain enough nutrients for babies and could not be given to Xiao Wanli and Lingling to drink. Lin Yue asked the two to take it back and share it with their family members.

Lin Yue's goats were well-raised and produced a lot of milk, so the two were no longer surprised. Knowing that the two children would not lack goat milk, the two did not refuse.

Making this "sheep cream" was very tiring. In such a cold day, the two of them were sweating profusely. However, they walked back with smiles on their faces and brisk steps, holding the freshly-made oil in their hands.

Thinking that the two little guys must be hungry, Lin Yue went to squeeze some fresh goat milk, heated it up and fed it to the two little guys.

The two little guys waved their chubby hands and talked in baby talk while drinking milk. Seeing the two of them asking and answering each other, Lin Yue was very happy.

After they finished drinking milk, Lin Yue carried the little guys on his shoulders and burped them one by one.

The elder brother has a quieter personality. He lies obediently on his mother's shoulder and doesn't resist no matter how Lin Yue tortures him. Sometimes he even gives his mother a cute toothless smile.

My younger sister is more naughty. She likes to climb up by kicking her legs, and every time she burps, it turns into a rock climbing exercise.

The sunshine at noon was very warm. Lin Yue wrapped the two little guys tightly and carried them to the yard to bask in the sun.

Aunt Su's house has a simple little bed, which was made by her eldest daughter for her youngest son. Now it is no longer used, so Aunt Su gave it to Lin Yue's two children.

Lin Yue moved out the bed and let the two kids lie on it. She then moved a chair and sat beside them, squinting her eyes in the sun with them.

After only 15 minutes of sunbathing, Lin Yue took them back to the house. It was too cold outside and she was afraid that the little ones would freeze to death.

Lin Yue fried eggs with ghee and made mushroom soup at noon.

The mushroom grows in space, and because it usually grows under pine trees, the locals call it pine moth mushroom.

There are many pine trees on the mountain, and she may have brought the spores in when she was collecting soil. This kind of mushroom is best eaten with chicken stew, but unfortunately there is only one chicken at home, and it is still working hard to lay eggs for her in the space.

After dinner, Lin Yue found that the two kids had fallen asleep without knowing when. She took the tools from the stove and went into the space.

During this time, Lin Yue secretly went out to collect some soil, animals and plants.

She collected the most common pine trees, cypress trees, locust trees, and low wild chestnut trees on Mount Dacang, as well as some trees whose names she didn’t know and plants that she thought had beautiful flowers, and planted them in the space.

She also caught a nest of rabbits and many magpies and sparrows. Lin Yue was very self-aware. If she didn't have the space, she might not be able to catch even a hair of these animals. But who gave her such a powerful cheating device? She didn't have to work hard to catch them. As long as she saw them, she could put them into the space.

However, with more animals in the space, there were more troubles. The rabbit didn't like mushrooms, carrots, and grass. It only ate the vegetables she planted. Lin Yue tolerated it for the sake of being able to eat meat in the future.

But she couldn't stand the magpies and sparrows eating the millet and tender corn that she had worked so hard to grow. She couldn't find wheat seeds, didn't like eating sorghum flour, and was counting on the corn in the field. In a fit of anger, Lin Yue let them all go.

Anyway, until a solution is found, it is impossible for birds to appear in space again.

The one nest of rabbits in the space has now grown into three nests because they have no natural enemies and no shortage of food. Lin Yue wanted to arrange family planning for them, but unfortunately she couldn't bring herself to do it.

Lin Yue also found a large beehive in the mountains, hidden in a big tree trunk, but she has not yet harvested the honey. She plans to try to make a beehive herself when she has time, so that she will have an endless supply of honey to eat.

When the ewe was in the room, Lin Yue was afraid that the milk would decrease if she didn't milk it for a long time, so he milked it every once in a while. There was too much milk to be put, so Lin Yue put it in a broken jar.

Lin Yue made all the goat milk in the jar into butter. The broken jar was not clean, and Lin Yue did not plan to eat the butter.

She mixed dishwashing alkali with water, and when the butter cooled to a temperature that was slightly hot, she added the alkali water little by little into the butter, stirring until the liquid became more and more viscous. This process was very long, and it took about four or five hours to stir. This was the soap liquid. The soap liquid was poured into the bamboo tube prepared in advance, and it could be cut after two days of being left alone.

Lin Yue also made shampoo soap with cypress leaves, ginger and black sesame seeds, and facial soap with flower petals.

A few days later, the soap was ready. Lin Yue tried to wash his face with it, and the cleaning effect was good. However, the consequence of washing too thoroughly was that the dry and cold winter wind made his face feel tight and uncomfortable.

She now misses her old makeup so much.

Lin Yue cast his evil gaze at a tall locust tree lying on the ground not far away. The locust tree had long been dead, and the trunk inside was empty, becoming the home of bees.

Love of beauty is a woman's nature, and Lin Yue couldn't suppress her eager heart.

After leaving the space, Lin Yue sat on the warm kang and played with the two little guys.

She would take time out every day to sing nursery rhymes or jingles to the children, accompanied by funny movements, often making herself laugh. However, the two little guys obviously didn't find it so funny, and just made perfunctory "oh-oh-oh" sounds as a response, without playing childish hide-and-seek to attract them.

Every time Lin Yue covered his face and said "Mao!" foolishly, the two children would giggle and never tired of playing this game.

The two little guys have their own personalities.

My elder brother is quieter, often staring at one place in a daze, and he eats in small bites, neither fast nor slow.

My younger sister is very active. As long as she is awake, her little hands and feet will keep waving around, never letting herself be idle for a moment. She also drinks milk voraciously, which is completely different from her brother.

Moreover, my sister is a chatterbox. She especially likes people talking to her. She will respond with "Oh o ah ah" and will never let others drop words.

As the night deepened, the brother had fallen asleep, but the sister was still doing radio gymnastics, kicking her legs and stretching her arms. Lin Yue yawned, tired after a day, and she was sleepy too.

She lay next to the two little guys, patting her sister's back gently and counting the frogs: "One frog with one mouth, two eyes and four legs, jumping into the water with a splash. Two frogs with two mouths..." Before she counted to the tenth frog, her sister had fallen asleep.

No matter how many times he saw it, Lin Yue always found it funny and helpless. There was no doubt that this boy was a poor student.