Chapter 8
The food brought from Qi's home weighed at least 50 kilograms of each kind, which was really generous.
Qi delivered the food to his home and then turned around and left to find Xu and the others for training.
The hot pepper picked yesterday has been dried after a day of drying today. Yu Sui grinds it into fine powder with a stone and sets it aside for later use.
He couldn't use all that much wheat, and it would be a bit too much to send it back. It would be better to save most of it for next year's seeds. Besides, making wine yeast only required wheat bran, and he could use the ground wheat for food!
God knows how much he wanted a big steamed bun, a pancake, or a bowl of rice while eating stew today. Life without staple food is too hard. I don’t know how those people who lose weight every day stick to it.
The glutinous rice is also peeled and pounded into a fine powder using a millstone. The bran from the wheat is collected and set aside, while the hulled wheat is ground into flour by the year.
The hand-ground flour was not as white or fine as the flour he bought in modern times, but it was perfectly adequate for Yu Sui now.
In fact, it would be better to sieve the glutinous rice flour and hot polygonum hydropiper powder again, but given Yu's craftsmanship level, the rough ones can only be used to make tofu, so just use them as they are.
Mix glutinous rice flour and hot pepper powder together, add some bran, mix evenly and add some water, then roll them into small balls, wrap them with a layer of bran, put them in a stone basin covered with straw, and cover the surface with another layer of straw.
It is just the beginning of autumn now, and it can be used after being left at this temperature for 5 to 7 days.
After making the koji, Yu Sui took out the skin of the gray rabbit he had peeled off before. He was not very skilled in skinning, so the skin was not as complete as others, but it did not have much impact.
He cleaned all the grease and debris from the rabbit skin, washed it clean with river water, and then stretched it tightly and nailed it to the wooden board. Such a large rabbit with thick fur would be very warm if it was spread on the straw mat in winter.
Yu Sui was free, lying down and slowly recalling the necessary skills for time travel that he had read about.
He once saw a short video where someone taught how to make refined salt step by step, but it had to be made by the sea.
He thought of using activated carbon to purify the crude salt into refined salt first, so that he would have evidence to prove himself and could ask his tribesmen to take him to the seaside to open a salt field, so that their tribe would no longer be controlled by others.
But he remembered that in ancient times, salt was an important means for the imperial court to control the people. Selling private salt was equivalent to a capital crime, and in serious cases, the entire family would be exterminated.
The same is true in this different world. Salt is also a monopolized commodity. I wonder whether his action will help the snow werewolves or bring danger.
Yu Sui is a selfish person who wants to make his life better. Only by making the Snow Wolf tribe better can he gain benefits. Moreover, the Snow Wolf people are very tolerant and caring towards him. Whether it is in terms of interests or emotions, he wants to realize what he knows.
Xiaochu woke up and came to him with a bright red fruit in his mouth. When Yu Sui saw the fruit, he remembered that there was another basket of fruit there, so he stood up.
He touched Xiaochu's head approvingly and took the fruit from his mouth.
Take out two pounds of flour and make dough, cover it with a wooden lid and let it ferment slowly. There is no yeast or old dough, so let the dough ferment slowly on its own. The current temperature is estimated to be about enough to rise by tomorrow morning.
I have done this before without yeast powder.
After cleaning the pottery jar, Yu Sui picked out more than ten wild fruits as big as fists and cut them into small pieces as much as possible with his sharp claws. He only removed the cores. Peeling the skin was too delicate for him to do with his claws, and keeping the skin would add some flavor.
Pour the honey in the bamboo tube into the ceramic jar and mix well with the chopped wild fruit pieces.
He placed the clay pot on the fire left over from the barbecue. The fire was just overheated and the temperature was not high enough to be used to stir-fry the jam over low heat.
No need to add water, just keep stir-frying slowly until the chopped wild fruits slowly turn orange-red, then they are almost done.
He scooped out the jam and put it away. There was still some residue at the bottom of the ceramic jar, so he added some water and boiled it to make sweet juice. He had a bowl and Xiaochu had a bowl, and they both drank it happily.
The sweet juice slid into his stomach, and Yu Sui breathed a sigh of satisfaction.
At this moment, the sky in the distant east suddenly bloomed with red and purple colors like a sunset, accompanied by a loud noise, which scared the two of them.
All the snow wolves in the tribe stood up and looked towards the east.
"Who are the elves at war with again? Judging from the noise, it's more powerful than the forbidden spell..." The older, knowledgeable Kalan kept chattering.
Alas, although the elves look kind and harmless, they are all battle maniacs at heart.
Yu Sui certainly didn't know what forbidden spells were. He just sighed that the other world was really strange. It wasn't even evening yet, but a piece of colorful clouds suddenly appeared with a sound.
He turned around and happily drank his honey juice. He was thinking about sending some jam to Lu tomorrow. Xu was pretty nice to him, so he might as well send him some.
I'll soak the beans I brought back today and make tofu tomorrow. Now I don't have to be reluctant to give up the beans. Tomorrow, I can try some honey-flavored soy milk with Xiaochu and eat some honey tofu pudding. Just thinking about it makes me happy.
A tall figure came over stealthily, which was extremely funny.
Yu Sui looked and saw that this was Ah Shan who was supposed to be training. He must have been distracted.
Seeing the cub's puzzled look, Ah Shan scratched his head and smiled embarrassedly: "The tofu you made today tastes very special, but there is too little, so I..."
He pulled out a large bag of beans from behind his back with a hint of pride. "I've gathered all the beans from our tribe and brought them to you!"
Yu Sui's eyes almost popped out of his head. Just looking at this, it must be at least 100 pounds! "If all this is used to make tofu, I don't have that much coarse salt..."
"You still need coarse salt? It's okay, I'll go back and get it for you!" Ashan put the beans on the ground and ran away like the wind. After a while, he came back with a large bamboo tube of coarse salt and handed it to Yu Sui.
"You don't need that much," Yu Sui said, pouring out the amount he needed from the bamboo tube and asking Ashan to keep the rest. He also wanted to make tofu, so they might as well do it together.
The amount was really large. Seeing that he looked worried, Ah Shan patted his chest and said, "Tomorrow we'll do it together with you. Qi and I don't have to go out hunting tomorrow. I'll bring Qi to you too."
He was even a little proud. The villain in Yu Sui's heart was spitting blood three feet. The image of the original owner was too deeply rooted in people's hearts. Enough, he said enough.
Okay. He began to give orders without hesitation, "Brother Ashan, please help me dig a few large stone basins. I need to use them to soak the beans and collect the bean juice tomorrow."
The stone that he could dig was like tofu in the hands of an adult orc.
If I had known there was free labor, I would have let him grind the glutinous rice and wheat, thought the sinister Yu Sui.
Speaking of free labor, Yu Sui's heart was stirred. "Brother Ashan, could you help me make these scraps into stone slabs of similar size?" He gestured to Ashan the size of a modern brick.
Ah Shan said cheerfully: "No problem!"
Yu Sui found some yellow mud, crushed it, added some water, found a stick, and stirred it vigorously until it became very thick.
Ashan was planing stone slabs and stone basins nearby. He took the planed stone slabs and put them aside and started to build the house away from the house.
He recalled a video he had seen of a wood-fired earth kiln and sketched out its general shape in his mind.
He first built a square foundation with stone slabs, and filled the gaps between the stone slabs with yellow mud, leaving only a stove opening for firewood.
After living in modern times for a long time, the first thing he thought of was to use coal to burn bricks, and he forgot about this wood-fired kiln. With his existing conditions, it was not a problem at all to make a wood-fired kiln to burn bricks.
Now is the day to do it. Since I thought of it today, I'll just get started. Being a worker is a tough life anyway, and now that I think about it, working overtime isn't that tiring. At least I don't have to start everything from scratch.
The bottom of the wood-fired kiln was built. Yu Sui touched his chin and walked around it. After confirming that there was no problem, he began to build it upwards.
The bottom space was filled with sand and gravel, leaving only a hole for the firewood. Yu Sui took the stone slabs and stacked them up little by little, and also took a wooden board in his hand to smear mud on it.
Ashan thought he was just playing, and since there were not enough stone slabs left for making the stone basin, he ran out to find some more stones to make stone slabs for him.
The wood-fired kiln was round on top and square on the bottom. It was stopped when it was about two meters high, and all the gaps inside and outside were filled with yellow mud.
Xiaochu circled around it curiously, his tail standing up excitedly.
As the sky grew darker, Yu Sui scooped out five pounds of flour and kneaded it into dough, then set it aside to wake up, muttering to himself, "It would be nice if there were eggs." The dough with eggs would be more resilient and less likely to break.
Dashan, who was standing nearby, had his ears perked up. Upon hearing this, he jumped up and said, "I'll go find it for you! I know where there are eggs, and there are a lot of monster eggs!" Whenever their patrol team came across them, they liked to drill a hole in them and drink from them upside down.
It was almost dark, Yu Sui wanted to stop him, but it was too late. The snow werewolf ran too fast, and Ashan even took Xiaochu away with him.
"Then let's call Brother Qi and Xu and the others as well!" It seems that Ashan wants to stay and eat for free, so we might as well call Qi and the others, especially Qi. How can the investor not come? Yu Sui shouted at Ashan's back, which was only a small black dot left.
"Okay!" Ashan's answer was heard from afar.
Gray Rabbit finished making it in the afternoon, and in the evening he could only eat the slices of Thunder Fire Beast meat that he had planned to dry into jerky yesterday.
Yu Sui laughed at himself for thinking 200 pounds of meat was a lot yesterday. He simply took out all the remaining flour and made dough, leaving only some flour to prevent sticking when rolling noodles, and kneaded the rest with the previous dough.
Lu gave him about 50 kilograms of wheat, and he ground half of it. The wheat could be ground into flour, which yielded about 700 to 800 kilograms per kilogram. In addition to the flour for steaming buns tomorrow, he estimated that he had about 15 or 16 kilograms of flour.
After all the dough was kneaded into a round ball, it looked like the lazy sofa in his old rental apartment. Fortunately, he was stronger now, otherwise he really couldn't knead such a large ball of dough.
Now he still has the energy to beat the dough a few more times to increase its gluten. After all, his conditions are limited, and the flour he grinds is relatively rough and does not have any additives. It is probably not as chewy as the noodles he ate before.
Yu Sui lit a fire and placed a clay pot on it. After the temperature of the pot rose a little, he put the meat slices in and stir-fried them slowly.
The meat slices were just dried yesterday. Today the edges are a little dry, but the middle is still relatively moist, perfect for stir-frying.
He didn't dare stir-fry for too long, fearing the pot would crack. He would stir-fry a little to release some fat, then add water. While waiting for the water to boil, he kneaded the dough, which had been resting for a while, and beat it repeatedly.
He found a large wooden board and a branch, and cut the branch into a round shape, trying to make it as free of thorns as possible.
He sprinkled some dry flour on the dough and put it on the wooden board, then rolled it out vigorously. In the past, life was convenient, and he had never rolled noodles himself. He had only watched others do it, but this was the first time he had done it himself.
Roll the dough into a large round pancake, sprinkle the remaining dry flour on it, fold it back and forth several times, and cut it into thin noodles.
He couldn't shake it out the first time, and he fumbled around for several times before he successfully rolled it into several large bundles of noodles.
The water was about to boil at this time, so he turned down the heat to keep the water warm and waited for Ashan and the others to come before cooking the noodles.
After a while, Ashan came over with Xiaochu riding on his neck, followed by Qi, Xu and Notting.
He was seen holding a few eggs of different colors and sizes in an animal skin bag, and happily handed them to Yu Sui.
The one as big as an ostrich egg should be the chicken's egg here. There are others that are two or three times bigger than this one. I don't know whether they are eggs from monsters or wild beasts. There is even a green one.
A Shan would find it for him, so it should be non-toxic. Yu Sui curiously took the green egg, which was twice the size of an ostrich egg, and cracked it into the stone bowl. The egg inside was the same color as the chicken egg, but more golden.
This time Qi carried the prey by himself, which was about the same size as the one they had eaten at noon.
He's the only one who invites people to dinner but always asks them to bring their own food. He's still a youngster here after all.
Open the clay pot and put the noodles in, then add wild vegetables and diced mushrooms, cover the lid and simmer for a while.
The noodles rolled by oneself are easy to cook. After a while, the aroma wafted out. Yu Sui opened the lid and stirred it. When it looked like it was almost cooked, he poured in the beaten egg liquid.
The beautiful golden egg flowers float in the air, along with the green vegetables, brown diced mushrooms, mixed with the snow-white noodles and red meat slices, which really whets one's appetite.
Qi and the others had already prepared the bowls, and they were familiar with the process. Xiaochu also couldn't wait to push the bowl, looking up at Yu Sui eagerly.
It is more convenient to eat noodles with chopsticks, unlike yesterday's stew which had to be tied up and eaten.
Xu was the first one to learn how to eat noodles with chopsticks. After dropping them a few times, he got used to it. Although both of them were clumsy, at least they knew how to use it. Notting, on the other hand, took a different approach and rolled them up to eat. Ashan scratched his head for a long time, and finally just poured the noodles directly into his mouth from the bowl.
Continue read on readnovelmtl.com
