Chapter 371 Drying Vegetables on the Roof
Gao Mingcheng stayed in the village for three days. After finishing the work in the fields, he went for a walk in the mountains to check on animals such as wild boars and muntjacs.
Due to various reasons, the number of wild boars in the mountains dropped sharply last year, so Gao Mingcheng has not gone into the mountains to hunt this year.
To pursue sustainable development, we must not exhaust all resources.
After observation, he found that there were already many wild boars in the mountains. Nowadays, there are no natural enemies, and wild boars are a species that reproduces very quickly. So if no one hunts them, in a few years, the wild boars in the mountains will become rampant.
However, I am here and will not allow you to flood in!
Gao Mingcheng looked at the little wild boar with loving eyes, "Grow up quickly, little wild boar. When winter comes, I will make you into stir-fried pig heads, cold-mixed pig ears, stewed bones, and wind-blown meat..."
Although the wild boars were not eaten, Gao Mingcheng caught half a bag of bullfrogs in a pond in the mountains. Bullfrogs are also a species that reproduces very quickly. Last year, there was a lake in the mountains that did not dry up, and some aquatic animals were still alive and well. During the spring flood this year, the water in the mountains was full and flowed down, and finally gathered into major reservoirs. In these waters, there were some small fish and fish eggs.
Therefore, even if no one released fish fry into the reservoir, there were gradually some fish, but not many. When the water level rose next year, the villagers could carry buckets to the reservoir to catch fish again.
He carried half a bag of bullfrogs down the mountain and did not take them back home. He ate at his grandmother's house these days.
So I carried my things and went to my grandmother's door.
He divided the bullfrogs in the bag into two portions, one for his parents' home and one for Gao Shouwang's home, and then said to his grandmother, "I plan to go to the county tomorrow and come back to harvest the rice when it's ripe."
The grandmother said, "Don't worry, I have already prepared the rice seeds for late rice for you."
Ever since Gao Mingcheng separated from his family, he has never prepared the rice seeds for his one acre of land himself. He got them all from his grandmother's family.
In addition to rice seeds, grandma would also give him some potato seeds, which saved him a lot of trouble.
There is no need to say much to express gratitude. Between people, you help me, I help you, we jointly resist risks and pursue happiness.
The next morning, Gao Mingcheng prepared to return to the county.
Before going to the county, he took the two dogs into the mountains and successfully hunted more than a dozen rabbits. He gave two rabbits to the two dogs on the spot and let them eat to their heart's content.
Then he went to Xiaofushan and picked the fourteen peaches.
When a fruit tree bears fruit for the first time, the quantity is always small, but once it bears fruit, there will be a lot in the second year.
Therefore, Gao Mingcheng is looking forward to next year, when the mountains will be full of fruit trees and abundant fruits!
In addition to rabbits and peaches, vegetables from the fields are naturally indispensable.
Gao Mingcheng took all the vegetables he could, otherwise it would be a waste to leave them on the ground. In this way, he loaded nearly half a truck with vegetables.
He said goodbye to the two dogs, but the two dogs kept following the tractor all the way to Junling. When they saw Gao Mingcheng's tractor turn onto the national highway and speed up, the two dogs stopped and watched Gao Mingcheng leave reluctantly.
People have feelings, and so do dogs.
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It was already ten o'clock in the morning when we returned to the county.
After parking the tractor in the backyard of the clothing store, Gao Mingcheng began to unload the goods.
Hearing the noise, many beauties came over.
Her belly was getting bigger and bigger, and she was wearing a loose maternity dress. She had a bracelet on each wrist, which added a bit of feminine charm.
"Why did you bring so many vegetables? They will go bad if you don't finish them in this weather." Xuanmei was happy and sad when she saw the half truck of various vegetables.
There is no refrigerator at home, so these vegetables may look fresh today but will go bad tomorrow.
Gao Mingcheng said, "Give some to everyone and let the rest dry in the sun."
There are many beauties but there is no place to show them off.
In the village, there was a large yard for her to dry things, but in the county, even if she owned a house, there was not much space to dry things.
Gao Mingcheng said: "Just put it on the rooftop to dry. It will be dry in a day or two."
On the roof, there is a cement platform in front with a square opening. With the help of a ladder, people can go up to the roof and check the condition of the tiles in time.
Now, it is also a good place to dry vegetables.
Manyuemei is still worried because there is no ladder at home.
Gao Mingcheng said: "Don't worry, I have my own way. Just chop the vegetables at home and blanch them until cooked."
Then he sorted the things into two small and one large. He gave the small one to Gao Guobing and the other to Huang Dazhi, which was enough for them to eat for a day.
As for the remaining large pile, Gao Mingcheng asked Xuanmei to clean it up.
Cowpeas and eggplants can be dried raw or blanched until half cooked and then mixed with salt before drying. As for peppers, red peppers can be chopped and dried directly, while green peppers need to be blanched in boiling water and then mixed with salt before drying.
Fearing that there was not enough salt at home, Gao Mingcheng went to the nearby shop and bought a dozen bags of salt.
Xuanyuemei was about to do it herself, but Gao Shufang ran over and said, "Second sister-in-law, you go outside to look after the store, I'll take care of this!"
As she spoke, Gao Shufang took her place on the chopping board, ready to chop what needed to be chopped.
Gao Mingcheng also smiled and said to Xuanyuemei: "Then go and see the store."
Many beauties had no choice but to stay in the clothing store in front.
Gao Shufang can handle these vegetables, but Gao Mingcheng has to do it himself for the rabbits. This time, they are still not skinned. The fur needs to be scalded with boiling water and then the fine hair remaining on the skin needs to be burned with fire.
I was busy until noon and finally finished all the tasks.
After spending two hours at the stove, Gao Shufang didn't want to cook anymore, so she said, "Brother, let's have noodles for lunch! And just stir-fry some rabbit innards."
"Okay." Gao Mingcheng had no objection. He just asked if there were enough noodles at home. After learning that there might not be enough, he went to a nearby store and bought two handfuls of noodles.
This kind of noodles is very thin and salted. When cooking, you only need to add a small amount of salt.
While Gao Shufang was cooking noodles, Gao Mingcheng brought all the dishes he had prepared previously to the third floor, and then moved a stool to the skylight.
To prevent rainwater from flowing down, the opening is covered with a thin cement board. If people need to go in or out, they have to move the cement board away and then they can go up.
There was no ladder at home, and Gao Mingcheng was too lazy to ask his neighbor to borrow one. He stepped on a stool and reached out to reach the cement slab above. With just a little force, the cement slab was moved away.
A beam of sunlight shone down from it, and mottled beams of light fell in the air. Tiny dust particles were flying in the beams of light, and occasionally a flash of colorful light appeared.
At this time, many beauties also went up to the third floor.
Gao Mingcheng saw her and said, "You've come just in time. I'll climb up later and you can pass the food up from below."
Xuanyuemei was about to ask Gao Mingcheng how to climb up, when she saw Gao Mingcheng put his feet on the stool, then grabbed both sides of the skylight with both hands and exerted force, and his body jumped up. The next second, he was on the roof.
Many beauties were stunned, and then Gao Mingcheng looked down and said, "Pass the food to me."
"Oh...oh." Manyu Mei reacted, so one of them passed the dishes from below and another received them from above, and then they put the dishes on the tiles to dry.
In the county, they didn't have large winnowing baskets for drying the vegetables, so they could only dry them on tiles. Fortunately, there were no chemical plants nearby, so the tiles were very clean.
(End of this chapter)
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