Chapter 134: Surrounded by Animals (asking for monthly ticket)
Gao Mingcheng took a machete and went into the mountains to cut bamboo in order to weave a large winnowing basket out of the bamboo. A winnowing basket is an indispensable item for every household in the village.
A shovel-shaped dustpan can be used to transport garbage, while a round dustpan can be used to separate rice from chaff and can also be used to dry things.
Gao Mingcheng planned to make a round winnowing basket for the silkworms, because raising silkworms requires ventilation and a winnowing basket woven with bamboo strips would be a good choice.
Bamboo often grows into a large patch, and over time, it gradually spreads in all directions and eventually turns into a large bamboo forest.
There are also a lot of bamboos on the hills near the village, but these are distributed to the villagers and others cannot cut them down at will.
It just so happened that there were no bamboos in the two mountains where Gao Mingcheng lived and Xuanyuemei lived. Therefore, if he wanted bamboos, he had to go deep into the mountains.
Bamboo is easy to find. After all, it is a plant with a high survival rate. Once you walk into the bamboo forest, you will see green everywhere. The bamboo poles are green, the bamboo leaves are green, and there are bamboo shoots of varying sizes on the ground.
These bamboo shoots are spring bamboo shoots, which are large and bitter in taste, not as delicious as winter bamboo shoots. In addition to the large bamboo shoots from the big nanmu bamboo in the mountains, there is also a very small bamboo shoot, which tastes more tender.
Gao Mingcheng glanced at the bamboo shoots all over the ground and planned to come and dig some up tomorrow morning.
He doesn't plan to eat it fresh, but to dry it and eat it slowly.
The taste of fresh bamboo shoots is not as good as that after drying. Boil the fresh bamboo shoots, then cut them into slices and dry them. When you want to eat them, soak them in water and then stir-fry them, or add a little pork belly to stir-fry. The taste is very good, with a bamboo shoot fragrance and chewy texture.
When I was carrying two large bamboos home, it was getting dark. Xuanyue was cutting vegetables in the kitchen. The knife and the chopping board collided, making a tinkling sound.
"I'll go bring back the cattle and sheep." Gao Mingcheng put the nanzhu in the yard, said this, and went out.
He walked to the place where the cattle and sheep were grazed and saw that the cattle and sheep were all fine.
Nowadays, there are more people raising pigs in the village than raising cattle and sheep, so there are places everywhere for cattle and sheep to graze.
"Let's go home!" Gao Mingcheng shouted, untied the ropes, and led the cattle and sheep towards home.
When building the house, he also built the cowshed, pigpen, chicken coop and other outbuildings. Now that he doesn't raise pigs, the extra space is just right for raising sheep.
Cows are silent most of the time, but sheep are different. When Gao Mingcheng approached, the two sheep began to bleat at him.
When Gao Mingcheng led them home, they bleated all the way, as if they were telling Gao Mingcheng about their experiences of the day.
At this time, the black tiger and the elf jumped out from somewhere and began to surround Gao Mingcheng, with occasional barking sounds.
Well, Gao Mingcheng was surrounded by a group of animals!
Fortunately, there were no other houses nearby, otherwise he would have been disturbed by the noise of these animals.
By the time all the animals were settled, it was completely dark.
Gao Mingcheng's family has already installed electrical wires and bought light bulbs. They have installed three light bulbs in total, one in the kitchen, one in the living room, and one in their own bedroom.
At first, many beauties complained that it was too much, but after using it, they realized that it was really convenient!
"Hurry up and wash your hands and come eat!" Many beautiful voices rang out from the kitchen, accompanied by the sound of cooking.
"I'm here." Gao Mingcheng fetched water to wash his hands, then walked towards the kitchen. As soon as he entered the kitchen, he smelled an enticing fragrance.
The bullfrog he caught has now become a delicious dish!
After the bullfrog is killed by being hit, its skin is peeled, and then the internal organs are removed. Then the toes and head of its limbs are cut off, and the rest is edible.
In fact, the skin of bullfrog is also edible, and it is full of collagen. It does not taste crispy, but soft and glutinous, like eating well-cooked pig skin.
However, many beauties don’t know that the skin can be eaten, so they habitually throw away the skin. There is only bullfrog meat on the plate, accompanied by dried chilies and green onions, which is delicious.
A large plate full of bullfrog meat is so appetizing just by looking at it. In addition to the bullfrog meat, Xuanmei also cooked a plate of vegetables, one meat and one vegetable, which is a good combination.
Many beautiful people came and then took a chopstick of bullfrog meat. After tasting it, his eyes lit up and he said, "This meat is so tender! It tastes better than frogs, and there is a lot more meat! Where did you catch it? Let's go catch it together next time."
Gao Mingcheng didn't dare take Xu Xuanmei to the ditches in the mountains to catch bullfrogs. In the rice fields in the village, most of the frogs were much smaller.
Besides, frogs are good companions of rice fields!
Frogs can prey on insects, reducing the risk of pests in rice fields, so villagers rarely go to rice fields to catch frogs to eat.
"In another one or two months, it will be time for the bullfrogs to lay eggs. Let them reproduce. The more the better! It's okay to just eat these bullfrogs occasionally." Gao Mingcheng said.
Many beauties had no objection, and Gao Mingcheng had the final say.
After dinner, Xuanyue went to see her silkworms. The silkworms were still very small, not very good looking. They had not finished eating the mulberry leaves she had given them before, and only small holes were eaten on the leaves.
"Why haven't you finished eating yet? I wanted to give you some more mulberry leaves." Xuanyuemei said a little disappointedly.
Gao Mingcheng wanted to laugh, thinking, when the silkworms reach the growth period, I guarantee that the number of mulberry leaves will be reduced by half as soon as you put them in!
At that time, you have to get up in the middle of the night to add mulberry leaves to the silkworms. If you raise too many, you will be exhausted!
Gao Mingcheng knew, but he didn't say it.
Let many beauties have a complete experience of raising silkworms!
Whether to expand the scale at that time will be entirely up to her. In the future, the money from selling silk cocoons will be her own pocket money and she can spend it as she pleases.
After a busy day, the two finally went to bed.
But when the two lie side by side in bed, another form of busyness begins!
In the yard, the black tiger curled up in the doghouse heard the noise coming from the house. It first raised its head with its ears erect, and after listening carefully for a while, it lowered its head again.
No danger, go to sleep!
The night enveloped the earth, and a half moon hung in the sky, casting its silver light on all things in the world.
At this time, everything was quiet, people were asleep, and the livestock were also asleep.
Time passed by little by little, the stars moved, the night was replaced by the dawn in the east, and then a red sun jumped out of the horizon, rising from the east, illuminating the world.
The moon sets and the sun rises, a new day has arrived!
The alternation of yin and yang is eternal. Some people wake up from their sleep, while others never wake up again.
At 7:30 in the morning, Gao Mingcheng was eating porridge in his yard. Suddenly, his ears pricked up and he seemed to hear a faint wailing sound.
Gao Mingcheng frowned, walked out of the door with the bowl in his hand, and looked towards the direction of the old village.
(End of this chapter)
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