Chapter 941 Secretly Drinking Dabu Decoction
Villagers from Meicun and neighboring villages who went to Lejia for dinner often praised the richness of Lejia’s lunch dishes when they returned home, which also made those who had no chance to eat drool.
People near the Meicun Village Committee Building saw several cars parked in front of the village office building when they returned home, and knew that they belonged to the Le family girl's friends.
Classmate Le was busy at home for a long time in the afternoon. When he sent Grandma Zhou Man and Grandma Pa home after dinner, he stopped by to see the Xuan family and Hua family’s New Year’s gifts.
I heard that the Hua family of the Xuanjia family had sent something secret that was not suitable for public display. In order not to leak the secret, Ji Shao, Xin Shao and Yi Lao did not join in the fun. Even the Hua family and the Xuanjia family only had Xuan Shao and Hua Shao bring their own items. Go alone.
Sending the elders of the Zhou family home, Le Yun went to see the Xuanjia Hua family's truck.
There are more than a dozen boxes placed on the outside of Xuanjia's truck. On the inner side are wooden boxes and bamboo baskets, as well as hundreds of stacked flower pots. The items are placed between the formal New Year gifts outside. Tarpaulins serve as partitions.
The Hua family's truck is also divided into two layers, the inner and outer. There are boxes and baskets on the outside, and the inside is full of bamboo sieves, dustpans, and bamboo baskets.
The Hua family also knew the little Lolita's secret, and Mr. Xuan also politely asked the Hua family to share the worries. The Hua family is close to Province C, which is known as the Bamboo Province, so it is convenient to buy bamboo products.
The Xuanjia and Hua family's new year's gift came to their hearts. Classmate Le happily put it into the space, and Hua Shao and Xuanshao and the other handsome boys each carried a cardboard box or wooden basket home. When they got home, they hid the box in the bedroom. , resolutely not to be seen by others in order to maintain a sense of mystery.
There were no antique beds in Lejia, so all the guests made beds on the floor that night, and they all slept happily on straw beds. Moreover, they slept until dawn after falling down, and everyone was in high spirits when they got up.
Le's father delivered the borrowed things that day. After delivering the things, he took home the New Year's gifts sent by Duo Shao. Xuanjia and Hua Shao's family all gave away specialties from the province.
What Ji Shao sent was also a specialty of the province, Yiman also brought more than a hundred kilograms of dried seafood, and the Xin family sent a cart of fresh food, including raw seafood and river delicacies, as well as dry goods.
Xuan Shaohua, Shaoji Shaoxin, Wu Shao and Yi Lao spent a day playing at Lejia. They got up and returned after dinner. There were fewer cars at night, making it easier to travel.
They were willing to walk at night, but Le Yun did not stop them. She gave each person a pill to keep them in good spirits. At the same time, they packed a medicinal meal for each family, including two chickens, one duck, four seafood, and one portion of braised pork. meat and two fist-sized white truffles each. As for the real return gift, pills will be made and given to each family after the new year.
Mr. Xuan and others came happily and embarked on the return trip with satisfaction.
Watching the car leave Plum Village, Yan Xingping walked to Little Loli and squatted down: "Little Loli, you are exhausted these days, I will carry you back."
The handsome boy worked hard at Le's house without complaining. Le Yun also forgave him for following him during the Chinese New Year. She climbed on Yanren's back and lay down: "Yanren, you must continue to carry forward your advantages in the future. You must help my family with work. You are not allowed to be lazy. Handsome Lan Lan The most handsome guy, I suspect that handsome guy Lan has been assimilated into our village.”
Lan San held a flashlight to illuminate the road. When he heard the praise, he smiled brightly: "Meicun people are very simple. It's normal for me to be assimilated."
The little Loli finally stopped being angry. Yan Xing was filled with joy and nodded repeatedly. Not to mention asking him to work as a handyman, it would be no problem to ask him to do all the housework in the Le family.
The Lele family has been lively every day recently. When the guests from far away left, the house became quiet. Lele’s father, Zhou Qiufeng, waited for little Lele to send her friends back and gave her her favorite pumpkin seeds to eat. Their family relied on Lele to support them. Without Lele, With Le sitting in charge, the couple must be in a hurry.
Having time to chat, Le Yun also learned a lot of trivial things in the village, such as who got married and had children, who passed away, who got sick, who fought, who got rich, etc.
What pleased her the most was the trouble in Zhang Ke's family. Grandma Zhang was busy helping her son find a wife, but every time she fell in love for no apparent reason. I heard that Grandma Zhang was so worried that she lost weight.
The Zhang family was not doing well, and Le Xiao's classmate did not hesitate to express gloating. Because he had been so busy in the past few days, he did nothing but practice that night and slept.
After replenishing my energy, I started processing raw seafood and river fresh food the next day. The fresh food sent by Si's family weighed hundreds of kilograms. If I didn't process it, there would be no place to raise it, so I steamed what needed to be steamed, fried what needed to be fried, and stir-fried what needed to be stir-fried. Package the dishes and store them in the refrigerator.
Brother Zhou and others took a day off on the 27th, which is the 11th day of the lunar calendar, and started work on the 28th to put putty on the first and second floors of Lejia's new house and install handrails on the stairs on the first and second floors.
Classmate Le spent three days preparing raw seafood and part of dried sea food into a medicinal diet, filling two refrigerators, one large and one small, and also gave a portion as a favor to Brother Zhou, Liu Lu and other villagers.
So busy, the 15th day of the lunar calendar has passed, and the 16th day is February 1st. Brother Zhou and others once again built the wall on the top floor of the third floor of Lejia. Instead of building the fourth floor, they built the roof wall above the stairwell and the roof wall. A safety wall dozens of centimeters high is built on top of the third floor.
There is nothing to do in December. The men in the village who know how to be a bricklayer go to work part-time to earn some money for cigarettes. There are many workers and the work efficiency is very high.
On the same day, Le Xiao's classmate was finally able to carry his luggage into the mountains. Master Yan drove him to guide him back to Meicun. He wanted to follow him as his tail, but was shocked by the little Lolita's glare, and he no longer dared to ask for personal protection.
The place where Mr. Lexiao went was a relocated village. He wandered around the abandoned village, looking for wooden barrels or stone jars or ceramic water jars abandoned by the villagers, and picked up the unwanted stone mills.
Focus on looking for wooden products, such as buckets used to hold water, wooden rice buckets used to hold rice, wooden foot basins for washing feet, etc. Suitable bamboo products and miscellaneous items are also included.
They even moved away unwanted household fertilizer and some firewood piles, as well as some dry corn stalks and straw that were well preserved because they had not been exposed to rain.
I searched a village but couldn't find a few wooden or bamboo utensils. I then went to other relocated places and found the small village where I had picked up the clothes-beating stick again the next day.
The trees that have been converted back into forests near the small village have grown tall enough and do not require management. It feels like no one in the village visits the old village after summer. The roads are covered by weeds. The villagers' old houses are eroded by wind and rain, and the roofs of two houses have collapsed. Even the mud walls are covered with weeds.
Returning to the abandoned village, Mr. Le went from house to house looking for things and picked up usable things. The wind blew off a corner of the roof of the villager's house where he used to pick up laundry sticks. The pig and cattle stables were crooked. The former owner didn't know what happened. Back then, there was no lock on the door, only wooden bars stuck across it as a bolt.
When I opened the door and went in, I saw a few mice scurrying away in all directions. The room was filled with a musty smell. I looked around based on my past memories and found that most of the things I had seen before were there, some of them damp, moldy and broken.
Le Yun searched everywhere and found two small wooden barrels that she had seen before, and a large barrel that could hold more than 500 kilograms of corn kernels. The large barrel was affected by moisture, and the wood connected to the ground was damaged by moisture and had several cracks. It was still usable, so she moved it to Clean up the broken parts outside the layer, and then look for things.
I searched every corner on the first floor and found a broken ladder to climb up to the second floor. The hard work paid off and I found several wooden buckets that were smoked black and two flat buckets above the kitchen on the second floor. Two small wooden barrels. On the other side, I found a large wooden barrel as big as the one on the first floor, as well as several wooden boxes full of insect nests for raising honey.
Le Yun was overjoyed. She moved the things downstairs and washed them next to the running water. After washing them thoroughly, she put them aside to drain. Then she took out the giant clam dug out from Socotra Island in Yemen and washed them. That thing was too big. She didn't dare to take it out and wash it at the beach. She was afraid of water and feared that it would fall into the sea and not be fished out.
The clam has been buried in the mud for who knows how many thousands of years. Some of the dirt has become scaled into stone and cannot be removed by brushing. I need to clean the areas that can be scrubbed and bring things back to the space, help it turn over, and then move out of the space to scrub.
Make it clean, then send it back to the space, and call the little fox: "Little fox Li, can you help me divide this into two halves? I've washed it, it's not dirty anymore."
The little fox Li took a look at the clean and shiny clam, jumped to its root and observed it for a while, then went inside to observe for a while, opened its mouth and nibbled, and chewed for a while, biting out a groove between the scallops. , then jumped to a scallop: "Little girl, try to break it apart and see if it can be separated."
Le Yun was so angry that she grabbed the side of the scallop and pulled it towards her. The little fox grabbed the scallop with its small paws and pulled it to the other side. Each person and the fox worked hard at the same time. The big clam couldn't hold it in and made a crunching sound. , broken at the place where the little fox bit it, and divided into two scallops.
The little fox was okay and jumped onto the lawn. Le Yun sat down on the ground and squatted on her butt. Regardless of the pain, she jumped up: "Wow, it worked!"
The clam was divided into two halves that could be used. She had no time to worry about anything else. She moved the scallop to the bedrock ground under the dragon blood tree, plugged the corners with a few gold and silver bricks to secure it, and poured in some sea mud. Then move the clam with the heart of the bright moon in the sea into the scallop, put in the silver moon star stone, sky star coral, blue coral, black coral and other corals, plant a few aquatic plants, and then pour in sea water.
The other plants in the stone jar where the clam flowers were originally raised and the pearl clam were not moved, allowing them to grow freely.
To give Canghai Mingyue Xin a wider and better nest, Le Xiaoxiao moved the barrel back into the space, laid out a few logs at the right angles formed by the two straight lines of the planted pine tree and the planted bread tree, and stuffed them with stones to prevent them from moving. Place the large wooden barrel on top of the wooden bars, drill a few holes in the bottom of the barrel, cover the holes with tiles, and then pour in the sand dug out from the Nano Desert.
Fill a bucket of sand, remove the bottom of another large bucket, place it upside down on top of the first bucket, fill it with sand to a certain height, and plant the Welwitschia excavated in the Nano Desert into the center of the bucket. , hold it with small bamboo sticks, and then fill it with sand. When it stabilizes, take away the small bamboo sticks and fill the barrel with sand.
The underground stems of Welwitschia were originally several meters long. She performed a cutting operation on them, cut off part of the underground stems, and then used well water and medicine to cover the cuts to allow them to grow new roots.
After transplanting the big Welwitschia, use the same method to stack two small barrels to plant the Welwitschia welwitschia. Then fill the pots with volcanic ash soil and plant rare volcanic plants such as silver sword chrysanthemum.
Make a home for rare and precious plants, and then water the well.
After finishing her work, Le Yun was sweating from exhaustion. She crawled out of the space and took out a stone jar to wash with water from the villagers' house. After cleaning the jar, she started to climb mountains and ridges to collect plants, find several kinds of insects growing in trees or vines, and dig honeycombs. .
She drilled around in the mountains and found a forest on the evening of the 3rd. She scratched several trees to get the juice. She spread nylon paper under the trees and placed jadeite, marine fossils and ambergris fossils. There were several trees. There are many bottles and jars placed under the tree.
The 4th is the beginning of spring, and she needs to collect the dew on that day.
At night, I sat in the space and waited until after one o'clock in the morning. Then I went out to collect the dew on the jade and fossil stones. I went out every once in a while until about five o'clock in the morning to collect the dew in the sap bags.
After collecting the dew, I also took back the stones and paper. When daybreak, I also put away all the bottles and jars, and collected the dew on the leaves of several plants without stopping.
After daybreak, we collect the sap and continue to collect dew until the sun comes out to finish the work of collecting dew. We then take a shower and change clothes, put on a dew-proof raincoat and water shoes and run into the mountains.
After running for a day and resting for a night, I walked out of the mountains on the 5th. I took out a backpack containing mountain goods in a safe place, including several sacks of medicinal materials and one sack of vegetables, and then rented a car and returned to Jiudao.
After three o'clock in the afternoon, Le's father received a call from the girl telling him to drive to the village committee building to pick her up. He was digging the ground behind the village, but he immediately dropped his work and ran home to ask two soldiers to drive to pick up his girl.
The three people went to the village office building and waited for more than ten minutes for a van to enter the village. When the van arrived in front of Zhou Papi's building, the three people swarmed up and helped open the door, move things and put them in the small electric van.
The van collected the fare and left. The little loli climbed into the back of the electric van and was driven home by her father. The two soldiers ran forward, only a few steps slower. When they arrived at Lejia, they helped move the items and put them in the main room before going back. Use sieves and other supplies to organize, clean, dry, or chop into pieces.
They found a lot of yams and lilies. After finishing other work, the two soldiers sat down to scrape the yam skins, wash the lilies and garlic slices, wash a batch of yams and cut them into slices. The processed lilies and yam slices were put on the roof to dry. In the evening, they went there again Help me collect all the medicinal materials and move them downstairs to bake the yams on the fire after going to bed at night.
Brother Liangbing is very cute. Little Loli makes stewed pig's feet with yam and rice with lily and lotus seeds in the evening. The next morning, she makes yam and lily porridge, radish and chicken soup. She makes a feast of space products to nourish her family and Brother Liangbing.
I took a trip to the mountains to bring back the medicinal materials. I had enough reasons to make medicine. Classmate Le started to refine the medicine. He first washed the truffles he brought back, chopped them into pieces, ground them into a paste with a grinder, sealed them in a glass bottle, and chopped the various medicinal materials into fine pieces. Soak the dried herbs in water, move the necessary things up to the second floor and put them in the living room, and transport all the necessary charcoal and firewood upstairs.
In the afternoon, I lit a fire in the kitchen on the second floor and stewed the medicinal materials in an ordinary pot. I stayed awake at night.
Young Master Yan and Lan San wanted to watch, but it was a pity that the little Loli gave a death order, saying that whoever makes a "ghost probe" in the middle of the night will scare people, they will immediately pack up and return to Beijing, and they will never set foot in the Le family again. I didn’t dare to violate taboos even if I was curious about the pharmaceutical process, so I just slept peacefully.
After the two soldiers fell asleep, Leyun moved the medicine pot away, took out a special copper alloy pot, quickly poured in the raw materials to cook the soup, and added medicinal plants while cooking. The soup simmered for more than an hour, and she took out the soup in a hurry. A conch cow was thrown into the soup.
After cooking for another hour, add some seaweed leaves. When the water boils, add minced sea garlic. Then immediately bring the pot to the ground, put a pot in the space on the stove to stew, set up a small table, and take out Beautiful jade bowl, catch the little fox and little Huihui and put them on the table to share the snail soup.
Little Huihui was too small and only had a small plate of soup. Little Fox had a big bowl, and Little Loli only had half a bowl.
The soup has a strong aroma.
Little Huihui squeaked, the little fox licked his beard, picked up the spoon and drank the soup, took a sip and sighed "It smells so good.", took another sip, narrowed his eyes and praised the little girl's good craftsmanship, then picked up the bowl and made a sound. Finish the bowl of soup.
Leyun helped the little fox fill another bowl. The soup was good. She could only drink one bowl at most. She didn't dare to give it to her father and Aunt Feng. They couldn't afford it, and neither could Handsome Yan and Handsome Lan. Probably They can only drink a small spoonful, otherwise they will definitely suffer from nosebleeds.
(End of chapter)