Chapter 77: Growing vegetables in space to prevent disasters
After cleaning the snow on the roof and clearing the yard and the path outside, Mingdai entered the space with the things sent by Zhou Sinian and Aunt Huang.
After changing her clothes, she went into the kitchen and took a look. The roe deer meat soaking in the sink had turned pink and the bloody smell was almost gone.
Mingdai nodded with satisfaction, took it out, squeezed out the excess water, and put it aside for later use.
Zhou Sinian was happily eating the bowl of yogurt that Mingdai had made for him on the sofa, the nuts crunching as he bit them.
Mingdai cut a piece of old ginger and a large scallion, poured salt and cooking wine into the meat strips, mixed them evenly, and marinated them for 15 minutes.
Pour some cooked soybean oil into a bowl, add 1:1 sweet potato starch and flour, and finally add two spoons of pepper powder and mix well.
If you want the skin to be crispy and not easy to collapse, you cannot add water to the batter. Instead, you should put a small amount of beer and two egg yolks. This way, the fried crispy meat will have the best taste.
After mixing the batter, she went to the warehouse to fetch a large bucket of soybean oil, poured half of it into the pot and heated it. When the oil was 50% hot, she picked out the scallions and ginger from the meat strips, poured the meat strips into the bowl, and evenly coated them with the batter.
"Sizzle"!
The familiar call of delicious food attracted Zhou Sinian. He curiously watched Mingdai put strips of meat covered with batter into the pan, instantly causing small splashes of oil.
As the long chopsticks tumbled, the light yellow meat strips turned into golden fried crispy meat. The lingering aroma of fried meat also overflowed from the oil pan and spread throughout the room.
Zhou Sinian slowed down his chewing, watching the golden strips of meat being taken out and placed in the basin leaking oil. He became anxious and reached out to grab some.
“Bang!”
Ming Dai hit the back of his hand with chopsticks without hesitation, and said to him with aggrieved eyes: "Boil it! Eat it later, and fry it again. Go play for a while."
However, Zhou Sinian was unwilling to leave. He stood aside with the bowl in his hand and watched, stuffing yogurt into his mouth spoonful by spoonful, but his eyes were fixed on Mingdai's chopsticks, which moved back and forth with the meat strips.
After a large pot of meat strips was fried, a small mountain of meat was piled up in the pot.
Ming Dai fried the meat strips again, and the color of the meat strips became darker and the aroma became stronger.
When the first pot came out, Mingdai put it on a small plate and handed it to Zhou Sinian who was waiting anxiously.
"Take your chopsticks and eat at the table. Be careful not to get burned."
Zhou Sinian pursed his lips, nodded randomly, and walked away lightly with the plate in his hand.
After the last snowy incident, she had a better understanding of Zhou Sinian's food protection behavior, but she also began to intentionally adjust some of his small habits to prevent him from damaging his stomach.
After all the meat strips were fried, Mingdai tried them. The skin was crispy and the meat strips were tender. The texture was different from the fried pork strips, which were more chewy and tasty. With the aroma of the Sichuan peppercorns on the outside, it was delicious and not greasy.
At noon, the two of them had fried meat with pickled radish, which was both satisfying and refreshing.
Zhou Sinian was extremely satisfied and discussed with Mingdai that he wanted to eat this again in the evening.
Mingdai readily agreed, saying that there was still half a basin of rice in the warehouse, enough for them to eat for several meals.
After eating and resting for a while, the two did not go out, but worked in the space.
Mingdai first sorted out the things given by Aunt Huang and planned to grow seedlings in the space.
Chives are the easiest to grow. Just process the roots.
While she was doing it, she asked Zhou Sinian to get half a basin of water, sprinkle some sugar in to dissolve it, and put the leek roots in to soak for a while.
Then he brought Zhou Sinian out and took a lot of wood ash from the kitchen into the space.
Wood ash can be used as a fertilizer. It is rich in potassium, which can increase the growth rate and number of fruits of plants. It can also act as a pesticide. It is the most easily available fertilizer and pesticide.
While the leek roots were soaking in the basin, she took Zhou Sinian to pick out the sprouted potatoes and taught him how to cut the sprouted potatoes into pieces, making sure that each piece had a small tender sprout on it, and then roll them in wood ash and apply them evenly.
There is no need to be so troublesome with sweet potatoes. Just pick some big and good ones and plant them directly in the ground. When the time comes, you can use sweet potato vines to propagate them.
She planned to plant the other seeds first because she didn't know what they were and there was no writing on the small paper packages given to her by Mrs. Huang, so she really couldn't tell what kind of seeds they were.
Let's wait until it grows out.
To be on the safe side, she went to the warehouse and got some labeled seeds. She made sure to plant common ones such as tomatoes, cucumbers, bok choy and spinach. She also got seeds of watermelon, strawberry, cantaloupe and Hami melon, intending to plant them all so that she wouldn't have to worry about vegetables and fruits to eat in the future!
By the time the fruit trees she transplanted outside the villa had grown fully grown, she no longer had a shortage of fruit to eat.
Having a growing space is great!
After describing a beautiful blueprint for the future with Zhou Sinian, his eyes lit up and he moved a pile of farm tools out of the warehouse at lightning speed.
Unfortunately, there was no farm machinery in the warehouse, so the land had to be reclaimed manually. However, because Mingdai had drawn the cake well, Zhou Sinian was full of energy and worked hard to dig the ground, at a speed that a weakling like Mingdai could never match.
In the end, Mingdai gave up digging and took a shovel to sprinkle wood ash on the ground dug by Zhou Sinian. Then she sorted out ridges of earth according to the types of crops to be planted for planting.
In one afternoon, they dug up all the land they wanted to plant.
Mingdai took out the leek roots and arranged them neatly in the dug hole. She held the leek roots while Zhou Sinian filled the hole with soil.
After the trip, Mingdai felt like her waist was about to break, but Zhou Sinian was fine, which made her have to admit that there is a huge gap between people.
After the chives are planted, the others can be planted directly.
Place two potato pieces covered with wood ash in a nest on a ridge and bury them. It is even simpler for sweet potatoes. No ridge is needed. Just bury one half meter long and one meter wide.
All that was left was seed breeding. She and Zhou Sinian divided a large piece of land into more than thirty plots of varying sizes, each separated by ridges. They scattered the seeds evenly among the plots, wrote the names of the seeds on paper, and hung them on small wooden sticks and stuck them into the ground to prevent them from forgetting what they were later.
Finally, Mingdai connected a water pipe and watered all the vegetables according to their habits, and finally all the vegetables were planted.
She and Zhou Sinian sat on the grass, looking at the dark fields, smiling happily, and looking forward to the green gradually filling the entire fields.
In the evening, to reward them for their hard work, and because she was too tired to cook, the two of them had hot pot.
Zhou Sinian is taking medicine now, and the two of them are eating a mushroom soup pot with various fresh ingredients in the warehouse, all of which are authentic and delicious. The two of them are very happy eating it.
If Zhou Sinian hadn’t drunk the bitter soup again in the evening, he would have felt that today was a perfect day!
The two were exhausted, so they went out to boil a pot of hot water and let smoke come out of the chimney, then returned to the room to take a bath before going to sleep.
When Mingdai got up the next day, her muscles ached all over her body, her bones creaked, and she felt extremely sore.
Still need to exercise more!
On the contrary, Zhou Sinian had nothing to do. After breakfast in the morning, he started to clean the pasture, threw the feces into the fermentation tank, and then used a bayonet to shave the sheep.
Looking at the naked lamb, Mingdai touched her nose. She seemed to have said yesterday that she could use wool to weave sweaters.
Looking at Zhou Sinian's agile movements and the frightened lambs, Mingdai secretly raised the temperature of the sheep pen.
Sorry, lambs, that's all I can do!
The silly roe deer watched curiously from the side, shaking the white hair on its butt: Fortunately, we have short hair!