After the disaster

To refine jade, the first thing is to remove the impurities in the jade. Qiu Cheng grabs a handful of broken jade in his hand these days when he has nothing to do, and uses his spiritual power to let them flow slowly in his palm. According to "Muxiu Notes" According to the method described, these broken jades are refined bit by bit.

At the beginning, Qiu Cheng tried his best, but he could only make the broken jade more transparent. After nearly a week of hard work, he has gradually been able to condense some broken jade into a small piece. Of course, the quantity is still Very little, and every time he almost exhausted his whole body's spiritual power to complete it.

In this kind of practice day after day, the spiritual power in his body was emptied again and again, and it was refilled again and again. Qiu Cheng made a lot of progress in his practice, and he became more proficient in the application of spiritual power.

A few days ago, Qiu Cheng and the others moved the voles in the living room to 1509. At present, there are only some sundries in that room, and two rows of voles cages are placed in it. , This time, a detailed allocation was also carried out.

Mother mice with cubs are still kept together with their pups, and pregnant mother mice are kept separately. The rest of the mother mice who are not sure whether they are pregnant or not also have their own cages. Qiu Cheng will take turns to keep them in their own cages in the future. The male rats are locked in until it is determined that the female rats are pregnant.

Apart from his practice and practice this week, Qiu Cheng did not delay his work at home. The originally vacant space on the roof has now been nailed with wooden frames and planted with corn and soybeans.

Because the balcony of 1512 is facing north, it cannot be used for planting. The terrace is on the east side, and there is no shelter on it. The matter of tofu has been finalized, and there will be more places where peppers will be used in the future. There are only peppers on the terrace in 1501, and Qiu Cheng is worried that there will be not enough peppers.

In 1501, after the last batch of Chinese cabbage was harvested, Qiu Cheng immediately planted another batch of Chinese cabbage, which has grown very tall now, and can be harvested again when the cabbage is formed. In 1502 and 1503, crops have been planted in the house now. The 1502 plant is soybeans, and the 1503 plant is potatoes.

This afternoon, Qiu Cheng and the others came down from upstairs after working all day, and brought down the dustpan that had been drying on the roof all day. This dustpan contained the soybeans they had collected a few days ago. Even if it is sunny in June in the city, the humidity is still relatively high. These beans have been in the sun for so long, and it looks like they are completely dry.

When Qiu Cheng first bought the oil press machine, he heard from the shop owner that in order to have a high oil yield, the peanuts and beans used for oil extraction must be sun-dried, otherwise ten catties of beans may not be able to produce three catties of oil.

Going back to 1406, he took out the oil press in the corner, plugged it in and preheated it, and when the temperature was enough, Qiu Cheng used a porcelain bowl to put the soybeans in the dustpan into the funnel bowl by bowl.

It wasn't all finished, and there was about a catty left. Qiu Cheng planned to use the leftover soybeans to make tofu, and when the next batch of soybeans was harvested and dried, it would take many days.

He moved the baskets of ginseng upstairs these days, which caused the spirit gathering arrays upstairs to have insufficient spiritual power. The most direct manifestation is that the peanuts in 1504 and the soybeans in 1506 have not matured yet.

The shaft of the oil press rotates round and round, and soon at the oil outlet, slightly turbid light yellow soybean oil slowly slides down the slope and flows into a small basin below. At the other end of the machine, there is The thinly pressed bean dregs are squeezed out from the inside in circles. When they first come out, they are still soft and hot. When they cool down a little, they will become very brittle.

The few catties of soybeans were quickly squeezed out. Qiu Cheng let the machine idle for a while, and then turned off the power. The oil squeezed out of the few catties of soybeans was very limited, and there was only a shallow layer in the basin used to receive the oil. , and because it has not been filtered, the color looks a little cloudy, and the appearance is not very good.

But it was such an inconspicuous bit of soybean oil that made their delicious night.Qiu Cheng slaughtered three voles, and fried a delicious plate of rat meat with green onions, ginger and peppers, and picked two loofahs from the loofah vine on the terrace that was almost old enough to be weeded out, peeled them and cut them into pieces. Cut into hob pieces and stir-fry with minced garlic until tender.

The cooking fume was heavy, so Qiu Cheng finally didn't work in the living room this time, and moved to the kitchen.Ah Chang originally sat obediently in the living room watching TV, but when the smell from the kitchen wafted out, he couldn't sit still anymore, and ran to the kitchen door to probe his brain.

In the end, Qiu Cheng cooked another pot of corn paste and steamed a pot of small potatoes. This afternoon, they drank corn paste and ate steamed potatoes in salt water. There were also two dishes of stir-fried vegetables on the coffee table. After a while, the two of them ate it up in a few minutes, and there was no soup left in the plate, and they ate it all with potatoes.

After dinner, Qiu Cheng cleaned up the bowls and chopsticks, carefully put away the remaining soybean oil, washed the oil press, tidied up, and went to the night market with Ah Chang to set up a stall.

Their family doesn’t sell fresh vegetables now, and pickled vegetables can be stored for a long time, but Qiu Cheng and the others work at home every day, and they are already very closed. If they don’t go to the night market, they will be out of touch with the society, and many news will not be released. It's hard to know, just watching TV is definitely not enough. The TV always announces good news but not bad news.

Because of the good dinner that day, Qiu Cheng and Ah Chang were in a particularly good mood when they went out, especially Ah Chang, squatting behind the tricycle, humming about a TV they watched every night recently 's theme song.

"Don't just hum, don't you sing a few words?" Qiu Cheng encouraged him with a smile, Ah Chang didn't like talking very much, and he hadn't seen him talk to anyone except Qiu Cheng.

"Don't sing." The cat man curled his lips, resting his chin with his hands, his fingers still touching his face, obviously in a good mood.

"Is it not possible?" Qiu Cheng provoked him.

"I will." The cat man raised his chin slightly, with a complacent expression on his face.

"Then sing it to me."

"..." The cat man just didn't sing, he always felt very embarrassed.

"Sing." Qiu Cheng urged him.

"Don't sing." The cat man crouched crookedly, and put his face on Qiu Cheng's back. Qiu Cheng felt his movement and couldn't help laughing. This guy is so big, but why? Very shy.

"Beep..." At this moment, a horn sounded from behind. Qiu Cheng turned his head and saw that it was a truck, so he leaned against the green belt next to him. At this time, the truck changed lanes and overtook from the left side of the road.

"Beep, beep, beep!!!" Coincidentally, another off-road vehicle turned this way at the intersection ahead. The performance of this off-road vehicle is probably very good. Seeing a truck driving in the opposite direction on the road in front of him, as soon as he turned the steering wheel, he rushed towards Qiu Cheng and the others, honking the horn violently while rushing.

"Beep, beep, beep!!!" Amidst a series of ear-piercing horns, Qiu Cheng quickly pressed the brake handle of the tricycle, and jumped onto the green belt next to him with Ah Chang behind.

"Beep beep!!!" The off-road vehicle rushed straight towards their tricycle without slowing down at all.

Qiu Cheng pulled Ah Chang to stand in the flower garden next to him and watched coldly, watching the off-road vehicle not far from his tricycle, quickly pass through the gap between the truck and the tricycle, and stretch away.

Qiu Cheng's eyesight is very good now, just when this off-road vehicle was speeding past him, he saw a young man and a woman in the driver's seat and the passenger's seat through the half-opened car window, with the look on their faces. With a proud look of disdain, of course they can clearly see their license plates.

"Let's go." Qiu Cheng patted Ah Chang's back.

"Woo..." Ah Chang slightly arched his back and put on a defensive posture, the relaxed and happy mood just now had disappeared.

"Let's go." Qiu Cheng patted him again, his voice soft.

"Oh." Ah Chang lowered his shoulders a little discouraged, and climbed to the back of the tricycle to squat again.

Qiu Cheng rode the tricycle again, and his original good mood was completely destroyed. Guangdong A***76, he wrote down the license plate number.

Judging from the appearance of the two idiots in the car just now, Qiu Cheng doesn't believe that they dare to drive such a ostentatious car for a long distance alone. There were only a few young people wandering around in cars, and Qiu Cheng believed that sooner or later he would meet with them.

He didn't know that, in fact, they already had an intersection.In the night market that night, Qiu Chengcheng heard something.

"I heard that Shen Dingjun is back, don't you know?" Wang Chengliang was guarding here day and night, and the news was relatively well-informed.

"He's back already?" Qiu Cheng thought to himself, no wonder, Shen Xing hasn't sent jade to him yet, nor has he sent a letter. In the past, as long as it was profitable, this woman's enthusiasm for work has always been very high. See This time I was delayed by family affairs.

"It's been a few days since I've been back. His son drives around the city in a broken off-road vehicle all day long. I've seen him here several times during the day." Wang Chengliang bared.

"Army green?" Qiu Cheng asked again.

"Yes, you saw it too?" Wang Chengliang asked.

"On the way here just now, I almost missed it." Qiu Cheng frowned.

"Bah, that's bad luck." Wang Chengliang looked angry.

"Just as if you stepped on dog shit when you went out." The expression on Qiu Cheng's face was not so kind.

"I heard from my dad that you want to make moldy tofu with our family?" Wang Chengliang said.

"Yeah, the beans won't arrive until a few days later." The soybeans planted in 1506 can be harvested in about two days. When they are collected and dried, Wang Chengliang and his elder brother can come and pick them up .

"Thank you, brother." Wang Chengliang stretched out his hand and patted Qiu Cheng's shoulder solemnly.

"Don't thank me, if you thank me, I have to get a dividend." Qiu Cheng joked.

After changing the subject, the atmosphere finally became a little more relaxed. When there was no business coming, Qiu Chengcheng chatted with Wang Chengliang, talking about what happened in Xinnan City recently, and various rumors. Whenever I hear something funny, I will grin and laugh along with it.

According to Wang Chengliang, Shen Dingjun seems to have developed well in the south these years, and this time he came back, intending to develop the planting industry in his hometown. Now he is looking at the land around Xinnan City. I heard that he has bought a lot.

Of course, he had to go through the divorce procedure with his former wife. Speaking of which, Shen Dingjun's second wife and his biological son had lived in the south for many years, and life must be better than Shen Xing's family.

But no matter what, the original marriage did not officially end through official procedures, and Shen Dingjun could not marry again.The woman who has been with him for so many years has never had an official status, and his own son, I heard that he has been ridiculed as an illegitimate child in the south these years.

For Shen Dingjun's return, Qiu Cheng was very repulsive, especially today they were almost bumped into, even if he didn't immediately go to someone to settle the score, he had already made a note of it in his heart.

But the development of the matter is beyond his control. Whether he likes it or not, with Shen Dingjun's financial resources and connections, they will undoubtedly become one of the main forces in Xinnan City in the future.