Chapter 281: Practical
Zhao Yeqing stretched her head and saw that the bamboo basket was full of large orange-red tomatoes. As soon as she got closer, she smelled the fragrance of persimmons.
"I really found it for you, but there are so many that I'm afraid they will go bad and you won't be able to finish them."
The slightly harder persimmons were placed at the bottom, and the soft persimmons were placed on the top. Mu Xi took a ripe and soft persimmon, peeled it and handed it to her.
"Don't you like dried persimmons?"
The ripe orange-red persimmon flesh looks very tempting, and you can smell the sweetness just by smelling it.
Zhao Yeqing slurped the soft persimmon into his mouth. His eyes lit up when he heard Mu Xi's words. He was still eating and had no time to talk, but the taste of the sweet and soft persimmon cake covered with white frost had already appeared in his mind.
She swallowed the persimmon in her mouth, and her hands were covered with orange-red persimmon juice. Because of the high sweetness and sugar content, her hands were sticky all over.
Zhao Yeqing washed his hands and asked, "Did you encounter any danger?"
Mu Xi shook his head. "This year, there are not many signs of animals in the mountains, whether it's the pine forest or the birch forest, or the meadows and the forests down the mountain."
Zhao Yeqing looked solemn when he heard this, but he couldn't help but touch the red persimmons with his freshly washed hands.
Mu Xi didn't know whether to laugh or cry, "Why wash your hands if you're still going to eat?"
"It's uncomfortable if you don't wash."
Mu Xi stopped her action, took two persimmons, peeled them, put the pulp in a bowl, put a spoon in the bowl and handed it to her.
"Eat it. You can only eat two today. Persimmons are cold in nature. If you eat too much, your stomach won't be able to handle it."
Five or six persimmons in a basket are placed in the refrigerator, and the rest are peeled, sepals are removed, and the sepal disk is retained. When peeling, stainless steel knives must be used to prevent the tannins in the flesh from oxidizing and discoloring due to iron knives.
The persimmon skin must be thin enough to retain the flesh to the maximum extent possible. After peeling, it should be put into a winnowing basket and placed in the yard to dry.
Mu Xi took the dustpan out and took a look at the dried shrimps that had been dried a few days ago.
I squeezed it with my hands to feel the moisture, and when I felt that the moisture had almost dried up, I took it all back.
After Zhao Yeqing finished eating the persimmons, he put the cooked shrimp skins into the refrigerator. After taking out some of the raw shrimp skins, he asked Mu Xi to store the rest in the original owner's house.
The part of raw shrimp skin taken out is used to make shrimp powder.
Although the shrimp skin is now very dry, it still needs to be burned again before it can be ground into powder. This allows the shrimp shell to be carbonized so that it is easier to grind.
Some salt had been sprinkled on the dried shrimps when they were being dried, but Zhao Yeqing didn't want the shrimp powder to be too salty so he didn't add any more salt.
In addition to shrimp powder, Zhao Yeqing also took some cooked and dried carrots, baked them on the fire for a while, and after they became crispy, he ground them into powder and mixed them together with the shrimp skins.
Shrimp powder will be more fresh and sweet after mixing with carrot powder.
I put it in a small jar and put it in the cupboard.
The wind suddenly started to blow outside the window.
Gusts of wind blew against the open glass window in the kitchen, and the glass in the wooden window frame shook and made a rattling sound.
Zhao Yeqing walked to the window, and a gust of wind carrying some sand and dust blew over, and a foreign object instantly entered his eyes.
She quickly squinted her eyes and closed the window, then gently pinched her eyelids and shook them, trying to see if she could shake the foreign object out.
Mu Xi walked in, and seeing her movements, they stepped forward quickly, "Don't move, I'll do it."
He blew gently into Zhao Yeqing's eyes, which were trying to open wide, and asked, "Anything else?"
Zhao Yeqing's eyes were red. He opened and closed his eyes to make sure there was no foreign object before shaking his head.
Mu Xi said: "The wind is blowing, and the mud that was used to cover the PC board has been blown away. I'm afraid it will be blown into the basement, so I'll cover it up first."
Zhao Yeqing nodded in agreement.
When the PC board is opened, the mud is randomly pushed to both sides and piled up loosely, and is only covered again when the PC board is closed.
When they arrived at the backyard, they saw that a lot of mud had fallen from above. They quickly covered it with boards and flattened the mud.
After sealing it, Zhao Yeqing went to the basement and cleaned up the crops that were buried under the soil.
As soon as I came out of the basement, I felt a drop of rain falling between my hair.
Then the raindrops fell down with a crackling sound.
Hurrying back to the house, Mu Xi took back the persimmons that he had just taken out to dry, and said helplessly: "It hasn't even been two hours since I took it out."
You can only put it in a dry room with a fire and take it out after the rain stops.
I hope the rain won’t last too long, otherwise the persimmons will become moldy and rot.
Fortunately, the rain stopped after a night of drizzling.
When Zhao Yeqing woke up in the morning, the sky was clear and he could hardly believe it.
The weather has been very strange in the past few years, and there have been few days of good weather.
The day before yesterday she was saying that it was almost time to fetch water to water the fields. What a coincidence, it rained yesterday just as she finished speaking.
It's neither too big nor too small, just enough to provide moisture to the dry land.
A gust of wind blew in the evening, and when I woke up in the morning, it seemed as if it had never rained. All the dark clouds were blown away, and the sun was warm and gentle.
Now the front yard is all concrete, so there will no longer be mud or water accumulation when you step on it.
Zhao Yeqing mixed today's feed and took it to the pen to feed the animals one by one.
Mu Xi took out the persimmons that he had harvested yesterday and the dried fish that were drying under the eaves and dried them out to dry.
After yesterday's rain, the temperature dropped by two degrees today.
The temperature in the morning is now less than 20 degrees, and there is a breeze from time to time.
Observing the weather, Zhao Yeqing felt that it was unlikely to rain in the near future, so he said, "Let's make the dried chicken today while the weather is suitable."
There are now nearly twenty adult chickens in the chicken coop, about ten broilers, and a dozen or so furry chicks that have just hatched.
Of all the livestock farming I have experienced, raising chickens is the easiest. They grow faster and taste better.
Those dozen or so furry chickens would probably have grown into adult chickens before winter was over, not to mention the dozen or so young chickens.
So he killed the chickens without hesitation. He caught ten chickens, cut their throats, drained their blood, and plucked their feathers.
In some places, people like to use fire to pluck the chicken’s feathers, thinking it is more convenient. However, even if the chicken’s feathers are plucked clean, it will still have a bad smell after being burned.
They prefer to use boiling water to scald the chicken feathers, which is slower, but the chickens after defeathering are white and tender, with no peculiar smell.
When Mu Xi was killing chickens, Zhao Yeqing soaked the spices in warm water in advance. After all the chickens were killed, he put the spices into a big pot, added water and brought to a boil.
Mu Xi put the killed, gutted and clawed chicken into a large basin. He used the largest basin in the house, which was about one meter in diameter.
Add water, onion, ginger slices, peppercorns and a handful of salt to a basin, stir well and soak for a whole day.
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