Chapter 96 Twelve Hairpins
The quantity of fermented bean curd is not much, it is a small square piece, about seventy or eighty pieces, covered with white hair. Grandma put it in a basin and sprinkled it with chili powder, pepper powder, salt, white sugar, light soy sauce, Mix high-grade white wine and sesame oil gently and store it in a glass can. Take out a few pieces every time you drink porridge.
I didn’t buy the glass can specially. It had the label of a yellow peach or pear can on it, so I washed it and reused it after eating. I have to say that this kind of cans and bottles are quite practical in rural areas.
The moldy bean dregs made before also grew quite well and were fluffy. Li Xiang tasted it occasionally and felt that it had a unique flavor.
When night falls, Li Xiang's backyard is simply beautiful. Various colored lights and ambient lights illuminate the ice and snow castle, and the green Christmas tree is filled with all kinds of gifts.
The table for making tea by the fire was too small, so Li Xiang built a bonfire and moved out many chairs. Everyone sat around the bonfire, warming themselves and eating various snacks. Sweet potatoes and persimmons are also roasted, and the aroma is overflowing.
"Let me teach you all to sing "Jingle Bells"." Jiang Caier said.
The friends all applauded.
"The Chinese name of this song is "Jingle Bells". I believe everyone has heard it, but the English original version has more charm, and it can also help everyone improve their English."
Now elementary schools are starting to learn English, but the level of English teaching in rural areas is really not that good. Jiang Cai'er is a high school student after all, and her grades have always been among the top 20 in the grade. Basically, she has no partial subjects or shortcomings.
However, Li Xiang believes that through his tutoring and "medication", Jiang Caier will shine in this final exam.
Jiang Cai'er is quite prestigious in the village. Like the King of Children, the children all listen to her instructions. So, soon, cheerful Christmas songs started playing. She not only taught the singing, but also explained and corrected the children sentence by sentence. Their mispronunciations are truly educational and entertaining.
"Dashing through the snow, Inaone-horseopensleigh, Overthefieldswego, Laughingalltheway..."
Li Xiang lifted the drone into the air, hovered around, and captured this heartwarming scene.
I have to say that the final film was also very good, but Teacher Huang was very strict and Li Xiang did not publish it. He secretly passed it on to Jiang Cai'er to keep as a souvenir.
On the 24th, Jiang Caier went to school, and her father drove her tractor to take her there.
She also brought a few bags of the coffee beans that Li Xiang gave her last time to school to share with her classmates. It just takes time to grind coffee, which is not convenient in school. Li Xiang helped her grind a few bags in advance, and bought some disposable ear-hanging bags, and just brew it. This is the simplest.
Because it was cold in winter, Li Xiang even bought a nice-looking thermos cup for her, plus a bag of large wolfberry berries.
Jiang Cai'er laughed: "Whose young girl is soaking wolfberry in a thermos cup?"
“You can also use it to make coffee.”
In fact, many students in Jiang Cai'er's class bought bottled purified water directly. In this winter, it tasted really cold. Ever since Jiang Cai'er brought a thermos cup, everyone has followed suit, so much so that when the teacher walked in to class, he was shocked when he saw the classroom filled with thermos cups for soaking wolfberry.
The ice and snow castle had melted a lot after being roasted by the bonfire that night. Li Xiang was too lazy to repair it because there was no way to repair it. The sun was blazing every day, giving it the feeling of midsummer.
The ice and snow are getting less and less day by day, disappearing visibly to the naked eye. After four or five consecutive sunny days, not only the snow on the roads has long since disappeared, but also only scattered white snow remains on the slopes to the north, revealing large areas of withered yellow. weeds and shrubs.
The bamboos, pines and cypresses in the back mountain are lush and swaying in the wind. The winter bamboo shoots are popping up all the time. However, the winter bamboo shoots at this time are no longer edible. We have to wait for next year's "Thunder Bamboo Shoots".
Whenever spring comes, flowers bloom, and the first spring thunder rumbles, along with the precious spring rain, spring bamboo shoots begin to sprout. Their taste is different from winter bamboo shoots, and they are another gift from nature. Li Xiang and the others also received the subsidies and bonuses for wild boar hunting. After dividing the money, both families were very happy.
Li Xiang hung the special prize "Hunter King" certificate at home as an honor.
According to news reports, due to a large amount of snow melting in a short period of time, rivers in some southern provinces swelled and "winter floods" occurred. However, this did not cause people to be too nervous or pay too much attention.
Because southern provinces, especially those in the basins of large rivers, such as cities along the Yangtze River, have extremely rich experience in flood control.
After all, winter floods cannot be compared with summer floods and are not worth mentioning.
Li Xiang's family is in the upstream area, so there is no need to worry.
This has to mention the famous Dujiangyan Irrigation System in Sichuan Province. It has a fully automatic "46-dividing water" and "28-dividing sand". It automatically switches between the wet season and the dry season, which not only solves the problem of floods, but also solves the problem of sediment. It irrigated farmland, and its ingenious design can be regarded as the ceiling of ancient water control projects, and thus created the Kingdom of Abundance.
Li Bing and his son have been rated so highly in history, and they deserve to enjoy the incense of "Er Wang Temple".
Under the warm winter sun, grandma and the cats were basking in the sun, and Erhuang went to fool around somewhere again.
The third wife went home and did not move away. Instead, her daughter and son-in-law asked a construction team to come over to build the house. The third wife went to have a look. Although she could not help much, she would feel unhappy if she did not participate.
Li Xiang was doing carpentry work in the backyard.
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He added some professional tools, including a raffia saw, carving knife, dental grinder (electric grinder), wood wax oil, hand drill, assorted files, sandpaper and some pencil erasers, etc., and was making wooden hairpins.
I made a promise last time to make some handmade hairpins for my "aunt", so I couldn't break my promise. It was considered a little bit of his own thoughts, so Li Xiang did it very carefully.
Originally, he was only going to make two pieces, but once you get addicted to handwork, you can't stop at all, and there were a lot of materials on hand, so Li Xiang made twelve pieces in one breath, all of which were very beautiful designs found online. After a little modification by himself, he is an extraordinary person, with dexterity and proficiency in the use of force. He is very good at doing this kind of small manual work.
Naturally, recording videos is inevitable. This is his current main source of income. Advertising fees have risen to 100,000 to 150,000 per item.
In rural areas, there is basically no money to be made from farming, and the only way to do this is to develop side businesses.
Just accepting a few advertisements is enough to keep those big farmers busy for a year. Moreover, farming depends on God. The end of the world is approaching, bad weather is coming one after another, and surface agriculture is very risky. He may farm and engage in underground city agriculture in the future, but he doesn't want to invest too much now.
There are twelve hairpins in total, including fairy feathers, moonlight, auspicious clouds, swimming fish, mountains and rivers, flying phoenix, coiling dragon, plum blossom, spirit fox, snake dance, lotus rhyme and deer antlers, all of which are exquisite in workmanship and first-class in shape.
The front six branches are made of golden nan wood, and the back six branches are made of red eucalyptus wood. After polishing, the textures are very beautiful.
Li Xiang returned the car with several golden nanmu bracelets. They were golden in color, had a unique fragrance, and were very elegant. They were available in 1.5, 1.8, and 2.0 sizes. I don’t know if “Auntie” liked them.
Anyway, after I finished it, I packaged it and sent it together.
Luo Feifei left Li Xiang a false name called Pan Yiwen, but it didn't matter, the address was real. The courier usually leaves the package directly in the courier locker at the entrance of the community, and does not call or deliver it to your home.
(End of chapter)