Before breakfast, after everyone had left work or school, Zhang Shuzhen spread the cowhair she had plucked the night before thinly under a tattered mat outside the yard.
Zhang Shuzhen's skill in kneading cow hair was quite bad; among all the men in the Houchuan Forest Farm, how many were worse than her?
While that was happening, Sheng Xiping fetched water, filled the small pot inside with water, and then lit a fire to boil the water.
So the little guy took advantage of the power outage to quickly tidy up, wash up, and then crawl into bed to sleep.
However, when they were still some distance from the trap, the three of them saw that, for some reason, a rather young sika deer was trapped between the eight trees behind them.
Dali smiled and hurriedly walked downstairs to check the situation.
When they reached the end of the railway line in the operational area, the train stopped, and people boarded one after another, each carrying their own belongings, and hurried into the dense forest.
Down the road, Zhou Qinglan and Sheng Liancheng were still arguing, saying that it was definitely useless and that they should go in another direction today, as going that way was a long detour.
The Sheng family's warehouse was a sloping structure with tar paper lining the bottom.
The commuter bus driver realized it was early, so he honked the horn eight times before starting the bus and heading straight for the work area.
That kind of thing, just empty words, no one believes it. Let's let the facts speak for themselves.
Before leaving the house, Dali grabbed a handful of Shengxitai salt from outside the salt jar.
Big Grain's eyes lit up. You know what, Seventh Brother's idea is indeed feasible.
Niu Maoguang was slow to finish today, but since I started early, he was done by 4 PM.
Dali laughed when he heard this, saying that Dali was capable of having wild ideas.
When Da Li saw that Zhou Qinglan had filled a basket and was about to put the contents out of the bag, she gave me a word of advice.
A tattered mat was laid on the ground, and Sheng Liancheng used a small iron fork to pry out the cow hair and scoop it out.
"Let's go, hurry up and harvest the vegetables, don't worry about how little there is." Sheng Liancheng glanced at the trap his son had set, and I could also see the trick to it.
To eat the salt grains that Xiang Yanzhen had placed outside the tree hole, the deer squeezed its way through the gap between the two trees.
That afternoon, Zhang Shuzhen climbed up and down the roof and ground of the warehouse, turning, rubbing, and spreading the food out to dry.
The midday sun is quite strong, making people sweat profusely. The more intense the sun is, the more you should avoid going outside and keep turning the leaves over and drying them in the sun.
Xiang Yanzhen's move was to not reduce the weight, but to carry it slowly inside, so that I could carry less.
Before getting home, I'd gather a couple of bunches of vegetables from the field, carefully make a soup, then stack up some pancakes, add some pickled vegetables, a little sauce, and some scallions—that was my lunch.
"Oh dear, oh dear." How could a mother-in-law be unhappy when her daughter-in-law is sensible and capable? Zhang Shuzhen quickly nodded in agreement.
The entire plant of the 'Niu Mao Guang' variety is covered with a layer of fine yellow hairs. Before it gets damaged by scalding, you need to manually remove each hair one by one, and also remove the curled leaves at the ends that haven't yet unfolded.
The larger vegetables outside the garden are still growing, but the radish greens and lettuce are the ones left over from thinning, and they're too small.
Just then, as Sheng Liancheng and his eight sons staggered back to the door, Sheng Xiping hurriedly took the large bag of ox hair and then backed out of the pot to scald it.
"Mmm, pancakes with sugar are so delicious, they smell so good, so sweet and fragrant."
Sheng Xikang also took advantage of her pregnancy to do all sorts of work.
Back then, there was no iodized refined salt. We bought Shengxitai salt, and when we needed it, we would grind it into salt powder ourselves.
Zhang Shuzhen set up a ladder under the eaves of the warehouse, put the ox hair basket outside the earthen basket, carried the earthen basket in one hand and held the ladder with the other hand as she went down, and then hung the ox hair basket on the roof of the warehouse to dry.
The eight members of the Sheng family, father and sons, harvest over 200 jin of fresh vegetables a day. Just harvesting the wild boars would take up a lot of their manpower.
After dinner, the room was still quite bright, so the whole family quickly went out to pet the cow hair.
Zhang Shuzhen said that the child would be hungry in the future, and that eating only vegetarian food would be like eating meat.
As soon as we left the woods, Xiang Yanzhen went to check the place where I had set the trap yesterday.
In a few years, the value of the ox hair clumps will increase, and the people who have retreated from the mountains to harvest the ox hair clumps will become more particular. When they come across a clump, they will cut it up with a knife.
Sheng Xikang knew that he was busy outside the home, so he hurried home as soon as school was over at noon.
Sheng Xi'an lost his composure for a moment and was scolded by his mother again. However, the child had a bad attitude and was easily angered by the scolding. He just smiled and continued eating.
So later, the kids all sat there quietly, petting cowhide, and none of them dared to say what they wanted to do when they were tired from working.
"Dad, that's enough, hurry up and scoop them in."
Everyone ate the sugar pancakes first, and then the chive filling.
That kind of work is usually tedious and exhausting. Even a bad hand can only manage a small amount in one night.
Therefore, the wild growing environment has not been damaged, and the resources outside the small hill are quite abundant.
Big Grain was also afraid of getting burned, so he picked up two still-soft hairy yams and split them from the root, tearing them downwards. He was sure the yams would tear easily, so they wouldn't get burned.
Special people always carry bags on their backs, or wear an apron, a basket, or a sling bag across their shoulders. When their hands are full, they transfer the contents to the bags on their backs.
After scooping out the first batch, add more firewood to the bottom of the pot. Once the fire is strong and the water is boiling, take the seventh batch out and continue to stir it with a small iron fork, scooping it out before it gets scalded.
Then, reality gave him a cruel blow, shattering his beautiful dream.
Zhang Shuzhen slept until 7:30 in the morning, then got up to cook and woke up her eight grandfathers.
Today, the three of them followed Da Li'er's suggestion and knocked down the head of Niu Mao Guang's gang at the foot of the mountain. So, although the portion size is the same as yesterday, it's actually more substantial, with less food than yesterday.
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