Chapter 172 Beating
At around ten o'clock in the morning, Chen Ling bought pork and made delicious shredded melon and pork dumplings. After the meal, Wang Susu was cleaning up in the kitchen, so he went back to the house and took out the juicer and started squeezing juice. Recently, this machine was very convenient, and the two of them were used to drinking fruit drinks after meals.
After squeezing it, Chen Ling mixed it with the goat milk left in the pot in the morning and tried it. The taste was a bit strange, but after drinking it, smash it and taste it in your mouth. It’s sour, sweet, and still delicious. Don't have any taste.
"Susu, I have left a bowl of juice for you. Come and drink it quickly."
After calling his wife, Chen Ling cleaned up the remaining fruit juice and poured it into Chickens and ducks eat.
Watching the chickens and ducks fighting over the stone trough, Chen Ling suddenly froze, "I only remember the juice. I haven't brewed the fruit wine yet."
I have gone into the mountains to pick wild animals so many times. Guo, I also took out a lot from the cave, but I actually forgot about it.
It can be seen that once this person becomes lazy, he forgets things easily.
After cleaning the juicer, Chen Ling took two bags and went up the mountain. When he got home at dusk, he immediately moved out the two large vats, tidied them up and washed them. A busy job.
The wild fruits picked today are mainly wild grapes and kiwis. Chen Ling is familiar with these two kinds of wine. Since he was a child, his grandparents brewed some every year. He saw a lot of them and drank a lot.
First, the wine and wild grapes were poured into a large basin and rinsed twice, and then they were poured into the large vat. When the bottom of the vat was covered, they were sprinkled with white sugar, one layer of grapes and one layer of sugar, until the vat was filled.
At this time, mash the grapes and mix them well, so that the fermentation after sealing will be more complete.
But at the same time, you must also remember that the wine vat should not be too full, leaving about a quarter of the room.
Otherwise, there will be gas during fermentation and it will overflow. Sometimes the gas will not come out and the tank will explode.
After Chen Ling crushed the jar full of wild grapes, he took out the white wine and mixed it with some as a starter. Then he packed the mouth of the jar tightly and compacted it, wrapped it in a torn quilt, and then put it in the warehouse. Basically Even if it's done.
One vat is wild wine, and the other vat is kiwi fruit mixed with goat's milk fruit, 'Tangpaozi' and other mixed fruits. The latter is Chen Ling's test product. I understood what kind of wild fruit it was, but eating too much of it can make you drunk, so I couldn’t help but be curious, so I decided to mix it in and try it out to see how the wine brewed with it compared with the wine brewed from ordinary wild kiwi fruit. .
At the same time, in order to distinguish himself, he brewed a small jar of pure sugar bubbles in Dongtian. He also wanted to try how strong the wine could be if brewed purely with sugar bubbles.
"Brother-in-law, we agreed that I will be obedient and finish my homework, and you will cook crab porridge for me tomorrow."
"You are not sleeping yet, can you get up tomorrow? Come on. I will definitely find excuses to fool people again.”
Listening to his constant tinkering in the courtyard, Wang Zhenzhen opened the window and shouted.
"Okay, okay, I'm going to sleep now."
Chen Ling waved to her, looked at the remaining pile in the yard, and simply waited until tomorrow morning to clean up.
……
The next morning, not only crab porridge was cooked, but also a lot of peanuts and soybeans were steamed.
Before the harvest, these two items are quite delicious whether steamed or boiled. Both adults and children like to eat them and can't stop eating them.
Wang Susu couldn't eat crabs and didn't drink porridge.
I drank goat's milk and peeled peanuts and soybeans with my sister to eat. After a while, the ground was covered with shells.
After eating like this for several days, it’s time to dig the peanuts and harvest the soybeans.
It is best to get up early to plan peanuts and cut soybeans. When the sky is not bright yet, after a night of dew and earth air, the soybean pods will be soft and not prickly.
The most important thing is that the pods are not easy to crack, which can reduce unnecessary losses.
Otherwise, the soybeans would have matured by this time and the pods would have dried up. If the pods were touched and exploded, the beans inside would fall all over the ground.
If you're not careful, go pick up the soybeans that guy has all over the floor. It can make people cry.
So the soybeans cannot be fully cooked. If they are not harvested in time, they will crackle and explode in the ground. "Burned wheat fried beans", the fried beans in this refers to this.
Early in the morning that day, Chen Ling and his wife found out their work clothes, picked up their sickles and hoes, and drove the bullock cart to the fields.
Taking advantage of the early weather and heavy dew, the two went to harvest soybeans.
There are soybeans on the ground, arranged in horizontal and vertical rows, well-proportioned. The long bean tips are covered with dense pods. The light yellow leaves hang sparsely on the branches and are about to fall off.
The two of them wore sleeves on their arms, walked into the field through the dew, raised their sickles and began to harvest.
Although Chen Ling is lazy, nothing in the field is sown haphazardly.
The path of soybeans is very neat, and it is obvious that after the heavy rain and strong wind, one seedling was supported one by one, so the branches and vines more than two feet deep are basically upright. There is no need to trim the branches after harvesting. Effortless.
Grab a bunch of bushes with your hands, cut them hard at the root with a sickle, and then stack them smoothly.
Knowing Wang Susu’s temperament, Chen Ling couldn’t persuade her, so he got in front and worked quickly.
More than two hours passed, and the sun came out before stopping.
Looking back, more than half an acre of soybean shoots have been harvested.
The two of them piled the soybean shoots from the fields onto the oxcart and took them back home.
After breakfast, I went to peel peanuts again.
Planning peanuts takes more effort than cutting soybeans. Now Chen Ling refused to let Wang Susu do it.
So he bent down to dig, and Wang Susu followed him to collect them, beat the soil away, and then piled it up.
After working on the ground, Chen Ling's skills also improved. When he dug up peanuts, his hoe danced up and down, bang bang bang, swish, swish, and he worked very energetically.
But don’t dare to go too fast, because there is a lot of clay in some places, and the peanuts and the soil are firmly adhered. If you are careless, the peanuts will break into the soil along with the roots, and you will lose a lot of money per acre of land. Woolen cloth.
Fortunately, Wang Susu was attentive and followed him collecting peanuts, paying attention to these.
So when the work was done for the day, the two of them raked the ground again. The fallen soybeans and peanuts gathered in piles, regardless of whether they were mixed with soil or dead branches and leaves. Just put it all into a bag and go back and pass it through a sieve twice to avoid having to pick it up after it falls on the ground, which is laborious and annoying.
In this way, it took three days to finally get all the peanuts and soybeans home.
Divide it into two areas and dry them in the yard.
Wet peanuts are dug out, fresh, and too heavy in water, so they need to be dried in the sun for a few days.
Soybeans are different. When the sun comes out and the wind blows, they make a crackling sound. In the local dialect, they are dry and crackle. So whenever you have free time, you can use wooden forks, sticks, or flails. , hammer over and over again, beat over and over again.
Until the pods all split open and the beans popped out.
When it is completely dry and hard in the sun, you can squeeze the oil.
... The mountain breeze is blowing. From Chen Ling's orchard to the west, we walk three to four hundred meters on the mountain road. We have to climb up the steep gorge with ditches and rocks to see the boundary of Yerengou.
The soybeans and peanuts were taken home and once they were dried and sold, there was nothing left to do. Chen Ling simply brought two dogs to Yerengou to have a look. This place was far away from his own property. It's too close, so I have to figure out what's going on inside.
However, the mountains here are too steep, and there are towering sharp rocks and strange rocks everywhere. Although Chen Ling and the two dogs are not tired on this journey, it is extremely difficult to walk up.
Cliffs, broken rocks, disorderly trees, and some disturbed snakes and insects running out from time to time.
After walking some distance, the loud and clear cry of cranes came from the sky.
Chen Ling raised his head and glanced, and suddenly there was a "snap" sound, and a white thing rubbed against his cheek and landed vertically on his shoulder.
Chen Ling took a closer look and suddenly became depressed.
"Good guy, are you lucky to have bird poop today?"
It's really okay, bird poop falling from the sky can happen to you.
Fortunately, it’s just a little bit worse.
Otherwise, this shit would have landed on his forehead.
The more I thought about it, the angrier I became. I picked up a stone and threw it at these bad guys.
The two dogs also barked into the sky.
And jumped up to chase.
"Hey, you two idiots, what kind of bird are you chasing? Be careful, you will fall into the ditch."
Chen Ling shouted and chased after him.
Because going forward, after climbing over the cliff, there is a section of the road that is very dangerous. There are big cracks everywhere, which are connected to the valley where Savage Valley is located, and it is bottomless. The widest one is sixty or seventy centimeters. If people and animals fall in, they can't get back out.
As a result, when they climbed over the cliff, one person and two dogs were stunned. Chen Ling also subconsciously held his breath.
I was shocked by the sight in front of me.
Only because they did not see the rumored big crack.
And the terrifying Savage Ditch that lingered in the memory many years ago has disappeared.
The original deep and dangerous valley was magically filled with a lake and turned into a beautiful body of water.
At this time, the sun is shining, the lake is rippling, and it looks particularly quiet under the reflection of the tall trees and majestic green mountains.
Countless migratory birds are basking in the warm sunshine, playing in the water, looking for food, and flying around.
No wonder the two dogs had just chased up. It turned out that the white cranes from before had landed here and gathered in a flock. There were more birds than the birds in the reservoir a few days ago.
The scene should be more beautiful, more spectacular and more shocking.
"Why did Yerengou become a lake? Is it because of the flood this year?"
Chen Ling recovered from the shock, looked at this peculiar mountain lake and the boundless beauty around it, and murmured to himself language.
No one comes near here all year round.
I don’t know when it turned into this scene.
Such a wide lake.
It certainly didn’t happen overnight.
"It is possible that after two major earthquakes, the terrain changed too drastically..."
He looked around and guessed.
The mountain breeze brings coolness, and the rustling forest brings the sound of waves.
On both sides of the southeastern side of the lake, there is a bamboo forest as far as the eye can see. The mountain wind blows and the bamboo forest sways. This bamboo forest is like a green wave, ups and downs, bumps, and waves. sound.
On the northwest sides of the lake, there is a vast maple forest. Now the forest is soaked in layers, covering the mountains and plains. What you see is bright red. The breeze blows, as if a flame is burning and beating, which is spectacular.
Chen Ling stood by the cliff and looked far into the distance.
As far as the eye can see, I finally discovered that there are several streams flowing into this place on the mountains in the east, west and north directions. The streams are large and small, passing through the mountains and forests, and all returning to the lake. .
This scene suddenly made him realize.
"Sure enough, it was caused by the major earthquake more than ten years ago. No wonder since then, Laohewan has slowly begun to dry up..."
"It turns out that the earthquake cut off these streams and they could no longer flow into Laohe Bend."
The current Laohe Bend is due to the fact that after being connected to the reservoir in recent years, the mountain spring water on Nanshan Mountain has also slowly flowed into Laohe Bend. The river was rejuvenated and the river began to flow again.
“Nature is the miraculous craftsmanship of creating such a magical place!”
“This mountain, water, and birds are so damn beautiful. I’ll buy a camera another day.”
Looking at this peculiar mountain lake, Chen Ling couldn't help but admire it.
"Woof woof woof!"
While he was attracted by the beautiful scenery, he did not notice that the two dogs had already bent down on the ground, walked around the bamboo forest, quietly approached the lakeside, and pounced on the beautiful migratory birds in the lake.
There was just a crash, and thousands of birds flew together on the water, their feathers and bird droppings splashed everywhere, and their cries were chaotic.
The eyes of the two dogs turned red when they saw this. There were too many birds, and so many fragrant preys watched them fly away. They just wished they didn't have more mouths.
After they killed two of them, they wanted to chase them again.
Unexpectedly, the birds that had flown away suddenly returned and fell from the sky. White cranes and wild geese rushed into the water in groups, pecking and biting the two dogs fiercely, and even took the initiative to fight with the dogs.
Hei Wa and Xiao Jin are indeed fierce enough, but there are too many birds that they can't hold back.
As the saying goes, two fists are no match for four, and even a random punch could kill a master. What's more, there are hundreds of geese and cranes at every turn, and there are more than one or two groups living here.
It made them anxious and swarmed forward. The two dogs were really unable to resist.
When Chen Ling was about to walk over, he was stunned by the scene.
Take a closer look, especially the wild geese, which are the most ferocious.
The wild geese, also called wild geese, are actually very similar to the big white geese in the village. They are similar in terms of species, subjects, appearance, temperament, etc. The difference is that domestic geese can no longer fly in the sky.
So when they attack, they are no worse than the big white geese, and their attacks are also extremely fierce.
In addition, white cranes, cormorants and the like were nearby to help with the fists, and they would also rush up to give him a blow from time to time.
The two dogs suffered a lot.
After being beaten, Xiao Jin did not dare to fight. He took the time to kill two more wild geese. He picked up the prey and quickly turned around to dodge and escape. It was very fast and it was easy to escape.
A group of wild geese flapped their wings and chased for a while and then stopped chasing.
Hei Wa is so miserable.
It was so embarrassed that it was pecked by a group of birds. It couldn't hide even if it wanted to. When it resisted, countless beaks fell on it from the other side. It was so painful that it whined and whined, by the lake. He was so busy that he couldn't even stand up.
I was forced to roll around like a lazy dog, covered in mud and water. I could no longer see the majestic appearance before, but I still couldn't avoid the attack.
Chen Ling wanted to help it drive away the birds, but when he saw it like this, he couldn't help laughing.
“It’s time for you idiot to finally suffer.”
Hei Wa is very energetic and will feel uncomfortable if he doesn’t make trouble for a day, so he gets into trouble every two days.
But it has a thick skin and is not afraid of making Chen Ling anxious. It does not feel pain at all whether it is beaten or not.
After many times, every time Chen Ling hit it, it not only did not hide, but also enjoyed it. It was purely a beating and massage.
Every time Chen Ling got tired and the intensity became lighter, she would still look at him with doubtful eyes.
Make Chen Ling angry and funny.
Later, I had no choice but to take an iron chain from Yuqiang's house and tie it to the tree for two days, and then I calmed down.
However, I still can't change my problem. I just don't dare to make trouble at home anymore. When I go out, I follow the children in the village and run around. They do all kinds of evil and make trouble everywhere.
“Ouch! Ouch!”
Surrounded by a flock of birds and unable to escape even if he wanted to, Hei Wa splashed in the water and screamed in despair and helplessness. In particular, Chen Ling was still laughing nearby, watching the excitement and not trying to save it. Heiwa looked at it pitifully and screamed even more miserably.
In fact, the birds regard the area of the mountain lake as their territory.
It would be fine if Hei Wa ran away as quickly as Xiao Jin. The birds just sensed danger and wanted to drive them out of their territory.
But it failed to run away, and the birds kept pecking at it, one after another, continuously.
Chen Ling was also happy to see it suffer.
I happily watched the excitement for a long time, and saw that it was screaming so hard that I could hardly breathe, and then I led Xiao Jin forward and took it out.
But the harvest was good. When he returned home, Chen Ling was covered with geese and wild ducks.
Chen Ling couldn't help but drool when thinking about the deliciousness of roasted wild geese and stewed wild geese.
In general, Heiwa is the one who suffers.
It beats itself and benefits the whole family.
Worth it.
(End of this chapter)