Chapter 937 Secretly Drinking Big Tonic Soup
Villagers from Meicun Village and neighboring villages who went to Lejia for dinner 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 came home and saw several cars parked in front of the Village Committee Building, and knew that they belonged to the Lejia girls’ friends.
Classmate Le was busy at home for a long time in the afternoon. When he was sending Grandma Zhou Man and Grandma Pa home after dinner, she stopped by to see the New Year's gifts of the Xuan family and the Hua family.
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 and 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 inside and outside. 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 their worries. The Hua family is close to Province C, which is also 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, 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.
The Le family didn't know much about beds. That night, all the guests made beds on the floor and 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 sent specialties from the province. Ji Shao also sent specialties from the province. Yiman also brought some. More than a hundred kilograms of dried seafood, the Xin family sent a cart of fresh seafood, including raw seafood and river delicacies, as well as dried 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 Xingxing walked up to Little Lolita and knelt down: "Little Lolita, you're exhausted these days, I'll carry you back." The handsome guy worked hard
at Le's house, and Leyun also forgave him for following him during the Chinese New Year. He climbed on Yanren's back and said, "Yanren, you must continue to carry forward your merits in the future. You must help my family with work and don't be lazy. Handsome guy Lan is the most handsome. I suspect that handsome guy Lan has been assimilated by our village." Lan
San Holding a flashlight to illuminate the road, he smiled brightly when he heard the praise: "Meicun people are very simple, and it is 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. Yes, it would be no problem even if he takes care of all Lejia's guest services.
The Le family has been lively every day recently. When the guests from far away left, the family became quiet. Le Le’s father, Zhou Qiufeng, waited for little Le Le to send her friends back and gave her her favorite pumpkin seeds to eat. Their family relied on Le Le to support them. Without Le Le, With Le sitting in charge, the couple must be in a hurry.
Having time to talk about everyday things, 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. The most gratifying thing for her was undoubtedly the bad things in Zhang Ke's family, Zhang Da Grandma 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 recuperating enough, 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.
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 to brother Zhou Liu Lu and other villagers as a favor.
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. There was nothing to do in December when building a safety wall dozens of centimeters high on the third floor. The men in the village who knew how to be a bricklayer went to work part-time to earn some money and smoke. There were many workers and the work efficiency was 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. Le Xiao 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. He also picked up stone mills that others did not want. The focus was on wooden products, such as buckets and water jars that used to hold water. Wooden rice buckets for rice, wooden foot basins for washing feet, etc., suitable bamboo products and miscellaneous items were also collected. We even moved away household fertilizers and some piles of firewood that people did not want, and some that were not wet because they were not wet. Dry corn stalks and straw well preserved from the rain.
I searched a village but couldn't find a few wooden or bamboo utensils. Then I went to other relocation places. The next day I found the small village where I had picked up the clothes-beating stick again. The trees near the small village that had been returned to the forest grew tall enough. There is no need for management. It feels like no one from the villagers comes back to visit the old village after summer. The roads are covered by weeds. The villagers' old houses are eroded by wind and rain. 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 washing sticks. The pig and cattle stables were tilted. 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 which were 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 round wooden barrels, a large wooden barrel as big as the one on the first floor, and several honey-growing wooden boxes full of insect nests were found on the other side.
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 of 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. Brush 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 until it is clean. Clean, send it back to space, and call the little fox: "Little fox, can you help me split this into two halves? I've washed it, it's not dirty anymore." The little fox looked at the clean and shining clam
. He jumped to the root of it and observed it for a while, then went inside to observe it for a while. He opened his mouth and chewed it for a while, biting out a groove between the scallops. Then he jumped to another scallop and said, "Little girl, you Break it hard and see if it can be separated."
Le Yun was so angry that she grabbed the edge of the scallop and pulled it towards her. The little fox grabbed the scallop with its little paws and broke it to the other side. Each person and the fox worked hard at the same time. The scallop couldn't bear to eat, and it made a crunching sound. It broke at the place where the little fox bit it and split 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 parts and could be used.
She I didn't have time to worry about anything else. I moved the scallops to the bedrock ground under the dragon's blood tree, plugged the corners with a few gold and silver bricks to fix them, poured in some sea mud, and then moved the scallops with the heart of the bright moon in the blue sea. Move the shell 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 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 is stable, 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 a part of the underground stems, and then used well water and medicine to cover the cuts, so that they could grow new roots.
I transplanted the big Welwitschia, and then used the same method to stack two small buckets to plant the Welwitschia welwitschia. I also filled the pots with volcanic ash soil and planted rare volcanic plants such as silver sword chrysanthemum to give the rare plants a good home. , and then pour well water.
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 extract 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. After one o'clock in the morning, I went out to collect the dew on jade and fossil stones. I went out every once in a while. At about five o'clock in the morning, I collected the dew in the sap bags. After collecting the dew, I also Put away the stones and paper, put away all the bottles and jars at dawn, and non-stop collect the dew on the leaves of several plants.
At dawn, collect the sap and continue to collect dew until the sun comes out to finish the work of collecting dew. Take a shower and change clothes by yourself, 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. I then found a rental 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 committee 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 opened the door to move things and put them in the front of the small electric van.
The van collected the fare and left. The little girl 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 that there were 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 taken to the roof to dry. In the evening, they Then he went to help collect all the medicinal materials and moved them downstairs to roast the yams 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 paddles with a mill, sealed them in glass bottles, 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 place them in the living room, and transport all the charcoal and firewood needed for fire upstairs.
In the afternoon, I lit a fire in the kitchen on the second floor and stewed medicinal herbs in an ordinary pot. I stayed awake until 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 jump into 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.
At midnight, when 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, calmly I caught a conch cow and threw it 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. Maybe They can only drink a small spoonful, otherwise they will definitely suffer from nosebleeds.
(End of chapter)