Chapter 29 Old-fashioned fan car
Wash the fish meat with clear and sweet mountain spring water, remove the bone spurs, and then mince it with a knife to make fish paste.
Since there was only one kitchen knife at home, it was a pity that it could not make the sound of horseshoes. Li Xiang decided to buy another kitchen knife when he goes to town or county next time.
It is definitely useful for mincing minced meat and making meatballs during the Chinese New Year.
Spinach is picked fresh from the vegetable garden, washed and chopped into fine pieces.
After Li Xiang's minced fish and spinach were processed, grandma's porridge was almost cooked, so she put the minced fish and spinach into the pot, added a little salt to taste, cooked for about ten minutes, and served the porridge.
"Grandma, you eat first." Li Xiang filled a bowl for grandma and gave it to the old man.
"It smells so good!" Grandma scooped up a spoonful of it with a spoon, blew it, swallowed it, and was full of praise.
Li Xiang went to the front room, took the cat bowl over, washed it with water, and filled a bowl full of fish porridge with a lot of fish meat. After letting it cool down, he took it and placed it next to the cat's nest.
This fish porridge can be eaten by humans and cats.
Generally speaking, cats and dogs in rural areas eat whatever people eat.
Of course, anything too spicy or too salty is definitely not suitable. Some dishes are specially served for cats and dogs before adding chili.
The so-called cat food and dog food eaten by pet cats and dogs in the city are "prepared dishes". They exist just like "instant noodles". Their main purpose is convenience. How nutritious, healthy and delicious they are, absolutely. No.
Some unscrupulous manufacturers will add catnip and other addictive substances to cat food to create the illusion that their cat food is very popular with cats.
Five kittens were drinking milk. Among them, the cow cat was more naughty. The kitten was less than a day old and actually knew how to protect its food and kept scratching and kicking the little white cat with its claws.
"This little white cat is so stupid, and the mother cat doesn't care."
Li Xiang looked anxious, but he couldn't touch it. Fortunately, the mother cat was hungry. Smelling the fragrant fish porridge, she couldn't help crawling out and eating "meow meow meow".
The "threshold" of the cat's nest was a bit high, and the five little cats couldn't get out at all. They screamed "whispering" inside, as if calling their mother to come back early.
Since everyone could no longer drink milk, the cow cat stopped bullying the little white cat.
However, the other kittens didn't seem to like the little white cat very much and kept a certain distance from it.
"Come on, you are just born, and you are already being looked down upon and bullied by? You are brothers and sisters!" Li Xiang was speechless.
"Maybe it's because white cats are too ugly in the cat world?"
But Li Xiang thinks this little white cat is the most beautiful, but a bit silly.
"It seems that no family in the village has a white cat. Where did its father come from?"
After gossiping about Xiao Bai's bizarre life experience, Li Xiang went to have breakfast by himself.
Grandma stopped eating after one bowl, and all the remaining fish porridge went into Li Xiang's stomach.
Since kittens have been born in the past few days, there are fish every time.
When the bright sunshine shone in the backyard and evaporated the dew, Li Xiang spread out the colorful raincloth again and continued to dry the rice.
Also spread in the backyard to dry is the threshed straw. After these straws are dried, Li Xiang will pile up a straw stack. Dried straw can be used to start fires and is particularly flammable. If you have cattle and sheep at home, it can also be used as fodder in winter. In addition, it can also be laid in dog sheds and cat houses to protect small pets from the cold in winter.
Grandma said that she used to put these hays on the bed, and then cover them with cotton wool and sheets, which was very comfortable and warm.
This is an all-natural mattress, the only drawback may be that it is prone to fleas.
Li Xiang cultivated another vegetable patch in the backyard. This time it was longer, about 1.5 meters wide, and the length went around the entire backyard. It was equivalent to an oval rapeseed fence. It was designed to have enough rapeseed in spring. Beautiful view of rapeseed flowers.
He felt that there was less planting last time and it was still too late to replant now.
In addition, harvested rapeseed can be used to extract oil, which is healthier than buying it.
Li Xiang is now working hard towards the "Innocent True Body", but he doesn't want to consume any more gasoline, kerosene, or diesel...
Of course, he is a self-media person, so how could he not shoot an issue of ancient pressed rapeseed oil?
Opening new rape fields and sowing seeds will naturally be recorded, but they will not be released now, but will be used as preliminary material for oil extraction in the future.
Autumn is also the season for planting wheat. Wheat is also grown in Sichuan Province, but not much is grown.
The main reason is that the local climate features four distinct seasons and abundant rainfall, but it is unevenly distributed, mainly concentrated in summer. Such climatic conditions present certain challenges to the growth of wheat.
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Wheat grown in Sichuan Province is not excellent in terms of yield and quality, but rapeseed has more economic value. Rapeseed is highly adaptable to climate and can grow in drier conditions, and its water requirements during growth are also more flexible.
So Li Xiang gave up wheat and chose rapeseed. At least I don’t plan to plant it this year. If I want to eat pasta, I’ll go to the market and buy some wheat flour.
When the golden new grains were dried to noon on the fourth day, Li Xiang took one at random, put it in his mouth and bit it lightly with his teeth, and it was crunchy. He took another grain and peeled it off gently with his hands. The rice and shell were separated. .
After testing in three different places, the same was true. Li Xiang began to harvest rice.
After gathering together, they moved the old-fashioned windmill from home and, with the help of grandma, started to fan the rice and raise dust.
Li Xiang was responsible for lifting the basket and tipping it to the entrance at the top, while grandma shook the handle to blow air inside.
This is the crystallization of the wisdom of the working people of ancient China. It is said to have been invented in the 2nd century BC and has been used to this day.
Of course, there are more efficient machines now, but Li Xiang's family only has a little rice and can just fan it manually.
This kind of fan car is actually a manual blower. Its function is to clean the grain and blow out the chaff, ash chaff and shriveled grains in the grain. What falls down is the full and good grain.
At the exit below, there are empty baskets. As for those impurities, they are naturally blown away from the side, no need.
"Grandma, can you bear it?" Li Xiang was a little worried.
Grandma smiled: "I can't do anything just by shaking something like this? I haven't reached the point where I can't move yet. If you hadn't come back, wouldn't I have done all the work?"
In fact, after taking the first-order exotic herbs, grandma is in much better health now, and shaking the windmill is indeed not considered high-intensity.
Seeing his grandma getting better and better, Li Xiang smiled happily. He was thinking about when to save some first-level exotic herbs and send them to his grandparents.
Although my grandparents are in better health than my previous grandmother, they are also getting older and need to take supplements.
I had given red ginseng as a gift before, but how could an ordinary product like red ginseng be more effective than the first-order mutated spiritual grass?
(End of chapter)