Chapter 27 Suning Millet
When this video was released, fans thought he had set the "acceleration" mode for the video, but in fact it was Li Xiang's real speed.
Because my grandma doesn’t grow much rice, it’s obviously not cost-effective to pay for machines to cut and thresh the rice, and it’s not suitable for filming videos, so Li Xiang plans to do it all by hand.
He would transport the rice back to the backyard, place it on the ground to dry, and then "thresh" it manually.
"Xiang'er, let's eat first. I see you are sweating profusely." Grandma felt distressed and asked you to use a small sickle. You must use such a heavy wood chopping knife. Whose chopping knife requires 30 kilograms to harvest rice and has a half-meter-long blade?
However, Li Xiang's woodcutter is not just used for chopping wood. It has an elbow on the front, which is also bladed and has many functions.
"Grandma, I'm not tired." Li Xiang put down the high-density knife, picked up his clothes and wiped his sweat, and walked towards the path.
In fact, his sweat was not caused by harvesting rice at all.
How could it be possible to make a first-level transcendent sweat in such a rough place?
He was cutting and cutting, and began to integrate physical skills and breathing techniques again. Cutting all the way, he entered the state of selflessness, and the energy in his whole body was boiling. The sweat and filth discharged were the spiritual power that was forging the body and cleaning his physical body.
If things go on like this, he may be able to become a "pure true body", with a "crystalline and flawless" body, "full of clear light", plus tendons all over his body, well-proportioned, beautiful lines, and maybe even a body fragrance, which girls will be fascinated by. Drooling.
Li Xiang felt more and more that the breathing techniques and physical skills he had acquired in his previous life were definitely created by a senior farmer. Practicing while doing farm work was more efficient than usual regular practice, and I learned many tricks that I had never learned before.
It’s right to go back to your hometown to farm!
Li Xiang washed a little in the ditch and then started cooking.
Today is braised pork, boiled fish fillet and gourd soup, two meat and one vegetable, all made in Sichuan style.
After all the hard work, the fat-rich braised pork feels extra fragrant.
Choose fat and thin pork belly with alternate skin, remove the hair, wash and cut into pieces, blanch, rinse with water, drain and set aside.
Pour an appropriate amount of rapeseed oil into the pot, add a few pieces of rock sugar, and when it turns caramel color and foams a lot, add the pork belly and stir-fry continuously. When the meat begins to produce oil, add in the oil in the pot. Ginger slices, garlic granules, peppercorns, watercress and red pepper. You can add more red pepper.
After frying, add an appropriate amount of water, then put an appropriate amount of salt and a little vinegar into the pot. If you have cooking wine, add an appropriate amount of cooking wine. If not, you can use beer instead. You can pour half a bottle and simmer slowly over low heat. , usually it will be done after an hour.
Soft, glutinous and fragrant, fat but not greasy.
It is worth noting that vinegar increases the freshness of the braised pork, and sugar adds color and freshness to the braised pork. You should not eat too much vinegar and sweetness, so the amounts of vinegar and sugar must be controlled well.
Then, the color made with rock sugar is brighter, better-looking, and tastes better than white sugar.
Li Xiang finished three bowls of vegetables and two large bowls of rice and continued working, while grandma put away the dishes and went home to clean them.
The heavy rice exudes the natural and fresh fragrance. Li Xiang dragged it home one by one and placed it in the backyard.
This backyard is behind his house, so it's called the backyard. But in fact, the area is very large, equivalent to more than half a football field, so Li Xiang opened a road on one side of the house that can lead to the front.
Because the backyard is too big, he hasn't had time to build a fence, mainly because he didn't have enough money to buy cement, red bricks and yellow sand.
It seems that it would be quite beautiful without a fence. He plans to demolish his family's old house and rebuild it when he gets rich.
Li Xiang's threshing method is very primitive. He spreads out a large piece of raincloth, the common three-color striped plastic sheet, then puts a stool on it, grabs the rice ears, and threshes the rice on the stool.
Under Li Xiang's skill, the golden rice grains were shaken off one by one and scattered all over the raincloth.
The raincloth is spread large enough, so there is no need to worry about the rice flying outside. Seeing this, a group of chickens and ducks flew over with flapping wings. A few ducks ran slowly, squirming their buttocks and squealing behind them. Li Xiang was about to get up to drive them away when two loyal big yellow dogs started barking. Shouting, he ran up and stopped these guys.
"Haha." Li Xiang couldn't help laughing, but he was not a stingy person. If his chickens and ducks wanted to eat, he could just feed them.
He leaned over and grabbed a handful of fresh millet and flicked it hard. Suddenly, the chickens and ducks were excited! This is newly harvested rice, and it has not been dried. It contains moisture and is very fragrant.
Li Xiang sprinkled three more handfuls in a row, then pointed at the two dogs: "Rhubarb and Erhuang, watch over there, don't let them run onto the raincloth."
The main thing is that chickens and ducks can't control their butts and will poop and urinate at will. If they come on the raincloth, eating some millet is a trivial matter. If they pee a few times, the millet will be considered useless.
The two dogs were very smart and immediately lay down on the muddy ground on one side of the raincloth.
Li Xiang had a hunch that these two dogs were definitely potential beasts, so he thought about it, why not redeem the "mutated creature identification function" and have them identified? Anyway, achievement points are relatively abundant now.
But he was busy now and didn't have time to mess with it, so he continued to beat the ears of rice.
The chickens and ducks left contentedly after eating. The birds in the forest also wanted to fly over to eat, so the two dogs began to drive the birds away again.
The old civet cat on the roof was taking a nap lazily. When he heard the chirping of birds, he opened his eyes and looked up in the direction of the birds. His eyes were shining, and he obviously wanted to "play with the birds". However, it was inconvenient to have a big belly, so I had to call out "meow" twice.
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One afternoon, after threshing was completed, the stool was moved away and some straw and large impurities in the grain were picked out.
It's getting late, so you don't need to collect the millet. Lift the corners of the raincloth and "fold" it toward the middle. The millet will form a pile. Then cover it with the surrounding raincloths and press stones at the corners. .
Just put it in the yard.
Anyway, there are dogs guarding us at night, so we are not afraid of animals coming to eat.
As for people?
Everyone in Lijia Village knows the basics. Who would steal the rice from their neighbor’s house? Almost all of them are old people and children, and they can’t even harvest their own rice.
The next day, the wind was fine and the sun was shining brightly. At about half past nine, Li Xiang unfolded the raincloth and added two other larger raincloths to form a large drying area.
The main reason is that the backyard is not hardened, and the hardened area of the vestibule is relatively small. Otherwise, the effect will be better if it is directly exposed to the sun on the cement floor.
Use a bamboo rake to spread the grain pile into a thin layer, and start drying the grain.
The reason why it is a little later is because if it is too early, the humidity will be too heavy and the dew on the grass will not dissipate.
The same reason applies to closing earlier in the afternoon.
It doesn't matter if you dry early rice in summer, because the temperature in summer is high and the sun is very "spicy" all day long.
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