Bianshanhan [farming]

Zhou Yao kept locked in the house and brewed medicine, and only heard that Li Qingwen and the others had returned the next day, so she wanted to go out of the camp to have a look.

Before she left the camp, she heard the sound of chant that shook the sky in the distance.

Walking a few steps outside, Zhou Yao saw many people surrounded by the river. When she squeezed in, she secretly wondered, what's so interesting about the last beam? Didn't people build new houses every year in the past?

When she entered the crowd, she could understand at a glance—it is nothing unusual to build a house, but it is really spectacular to pile up dozens or hundreds of houses!

Few of them have enough manpower to build a house individually, but two or three families can gather enough people, so that everyone can build the wall together, and then change to another house after building one house.

They were lucky, it didn't rain when the adobe was drying, and the wall rose smoothly.

The work is always fast and slow, and those who finish building first are not idle, and help close people to do it together. When the wood is waiting, the men help each other to build more and more.

Only [-] to [-] men are needed to put up the beam, and everyone will allocate the manpower early, and in the morning, they will start to put up the beam and seal the roof together.

Originally, the riverside was full of weeds as tall as a person, but now looking around, they are all clean. In the distance, the houses are neatly located together. A row, looks neat and comfortable.

I am in a hurry to build a house right now, and the courtyard wall has not been fixed yet. If the courtyard wall is also smashed, it will look another scene.

Standing on the roof, Jiang Cong joined the other shirtless men to connect the wood, put them one by one, and when they were full, put straw mats on top...

The weather wasn't too hot, but the crowd was sweating profusely, but the shouting became louder and louder, and some spectators couldn't help but go up to help.

Zhou Yao found that besides those who were building houses, there were also many people staring at the horses grazing nearby, and said to each other while watching, "These are all picked up, do you believe it..."

The people next to them shook their heads when they heard this, and Zhou Yao also shook their heads. It was obvious that there were only more than 20 horses with the addition of the small ones, so how come there are so many in a few days?

She had just finished shaking her head when Chen Shi and Li Maoyu saw her and greeted her, "Miss Zhou, you are here too."

Zhou Yao walked over from the crowd and greeted Li's family. Seeing Li Qingwen squatting on the ground making beeswax, she couldn't help but glance a few more times, "Where did you get it?"

Li Qingwen knew that when she asked this question, she probably didn't want to know where the beeswax came from, but wanted to, and said: "In the birch forest, the beeswax has been cleaned up, you want me to take it back for you."

Zhou Yao nodded in satisfaction, "It's a coincidence that I came sooner rather than later. I happen to be short of beeswax to rub pills."

Lin Tan sent someone to buy medicinal materials and bring them to the border town. Zhou Yao has been busy for a while, and she didn't forget to get Chen's waist ointment. This time, with Lin Tan's light, she got a big jar , It can be wiped for a year and a half.

Jiang Cong and the others took care of this room, and then went to another house. All the elders stopped him from going to the room again. He had carried so much wood just now, so he should have a good rest.

Seeing Li Qingwen staring over there, Zhou Yao said, "It's been so hard, shouldn't we eat something good?"

Li Qingwen nodded, "What would you like to eat?"

"Smoked chicken."

"I haven't gone hunting recently, no pheasants."

"There are no pheasants but chickens." Zhou Yao reminded him: "The kitchen raised them for you. Now there are hundreds of them. It's not a big deal to kill thirty or forty males, right?"

There are so many... Li Qingwen, who hadn't fucked a bit since delivering the eggs, was a little surprised, and went to the chicken coop with Zhou Yao.

The chicken coop is at the farthest corner of the camp, and the clucking of chickens can be heard from a long distance away, followed by a pungent stench.

The feces of pigs, horses and cows add up to less than half the taste of chicken manure. Of course, chicken manure is also extremely fat after fermentation.

The kitchen staff came over to add water to the chickens. Seeing this, they helped the two of them start catching the chickens. This was a rare time for them to rest. hair.

Zhou Yao went to bring a few pots of old soup and boiled it directly in the big pot in the kitchen.

The cleaned chickens were thrown into the pot one by one, and a lot of chicken blood and chicken offal came out.

It takes effort to make these things, and the kitchen staff have time to wash them while watching Li Qingwen's movements.

They had tasted the smoked chicken made by Li Qingwen, and the taste was really amazing, every shred of meat was fragrant, and now aftertaste, there is still a lingering fragrance between their lips and teeth.

But it's a little early for them now, the chickens alone have to be stewed for more than an hour before they start to be smoked.

Taking advantage of this time, Li Qingwen wanted to borrow the kitchen's mill to make some tofu. He hasn't had time to hunt recently, so there are only mushrooms left in the shed, so he can't drink mushroom soup all at once.

He said he wanted tofu, and the people in the kitchen helped to make it. They eat tofu with cabbage here. Soybeans are soaked in the bucket every day, and they can be ground directly by scooping it out.

Seeing Li Qingwen and Zhou Yao leave, Li Qingwen and Li Qingyong took the bucket to collect the ground cage, and put the eels caught inside into the bucket one by one.

The two of them were younger and couldn't do the heavy work of erecting beams, for fear of breaking their bones, so they walked around the river every day, catching fish and loaches.

The two carried the fresh fish to the kitchen, looking at the big pot in the kitchen, they also wanted to set it up for the family.

After delivering the things, Li Qingfeng, Li Qingyong and some others who were about their age walked down the river with their things.

After returning from the birch forest, Li Qingfeng regretted that he didn't catch more ducks. Lao Sun said that there was a river beach more than 20 miles south of their camp, and there was also one there.

Li Qingfeng has always been obsessed with it, fearing that his mother would not let him go, he didn't say anything, and took people away secretly.

After the chicken was cooked, Li Qingwen borrowed a pan from the kitchen to cook the syrup and started to smoke it. The big guys watched intently. After learning them, they can make it by themselves.It's delicious, and when I go back to my hometown, I can open a smoked chicken shop, which can be regarded as a way of making a living.

On that side, before Li Qingfeng and the others reached the river beach, someone trampled several wild duck eggs to pieces.

This thing likes to lay eggs in the grass, the grass is so tall, if one doesn't pay attention, it's not like stepping on it.

Looking at the broken eggs on the ground made me feel bad. When I was at home, I couldn't eat a few eggs all year round, so they ruined them like this.

Therefore, a group of half-children did not dare to walk casually anymore. As they moved forward, they picked up the grass with sticks in their hands, and when they found duck eggs, they picked them up and put them in the basket.

A nest of duck eggs ranged from four to five to as many as a dozen, and they were not small in size. Many people began to salivate when they saw the eggs being laid.

Li Qingfeng felt that eggs were worse than meat, so he kept staring at the river, and when he saw a wild duck, he threw the net in his hand up. The wild duck was caught in the net and couldn't fly, so he went up and caught it.

The duck had caught it, and his body and face were covered in mud spots, some even got into his mouth, Li Qingfeng quickly spat it out.

It may be because few people walked here. There are still a lot of pheasants here, but their hunting skills are obviously not enough. After a long time of tossing and getting covered in chicken feathers and chicken feces, only a few were caught in the end.

The others were overjoyed, but Li Qingfeng and Li Qingyong couldn't help curling their lips. If Jiang Cong and Jiang Liping were here, none of these chickens would be able to escape.

Although the chicken escaped, the wild eggs had no wings and were all copied by a group of people.

As they walked, they picked up and grasped. Finally, the basket was full and they couldn't hold it in their hands, so they started to walk back.

When they went out, a group of people were barely clean, but when they came back, they were so dirty and smelly that they couldn't be seen.

Their mothers had already found a guy, and they were going to teach them a lesson first. When they got closer, they put down the branches and sticks in their hands, and asked in surprise where they got such good things...

In the end, some of these things remained, and more were sent to the kitchen.

The kitchen should be prepared for the officers and soldiers to eat, and then everyone saw that the cooks used things like shovels to turn the vegetables in the pot, and if they were a little weak, they had to step on the stove...

The idea of ​​wanting to install a cauldron before suddenly disappeared without a trace.

With the wild ducks he brought back, Li Qingwen was going to make stewed duck with mushrooms.Clean the duck and chop it into pieces, blanch and drain the water, put green onion and ginger in the hot oil pan, stir-fry the duck meat, stir-fry and change color, add wine and soy sauce, add syrup and various seasonings, and simmer for half an hour. up.

It is simple and trouble-free, and it is not difficult to cook rice in a big pot for a long time.

During the days when Li Maoyu came to the border town, she learned how to cook all kinds of fish with Li Qingwen, and her skills became more and more proficient. Today, she is even more determined to cook a good meal.

The officers and soldiers started the meal first. They could clearly smell the smell of meat in the kitchen, but what was put on their table was still cabbage tofu. Today’s cabbage tofu was still tasteless, but the amount was only half of the usual amount...

People who usually have a lot of complaints about the food want to jump, but they can't help it. I'm afraid that after talking about it, even the cabbage and tofu will be gone.

Although tasteless, at least it is a dish.

The people in the kitchen were also afraid of causing public anger, so they hurriedly explained, saying that today's misfortune has been taken, and they must add two spoonfuls of oil to the stew tomorrow!

A group of officers and soldiers were not happy, how many stars of oil can be added with two spoons in such a big pot? !

After the officers and soldiers finished eating with aggrievedness, the people who built houses outside the camp washed their hands one after another and prepared to eat. Then they saw with their own eyes that the chickens, ducks and fish were brought out in basins or buckets...

A group of children were holding a bowl of golden egg custard. On the top of the custard was finely chopped fried loach, and their faces were stuck into the bowl. It was delicious to eat.

The officers and soldiers were silent for a long time, then turned to ask the kitchen staff, "Their house is still a few days away from being finished. We have nothing to do recently, so we can help. We are neighbors inside and outside the camp, and we should take care of each other."

Seeing that they were about to bleed out and put on a show, the cook smiled and said that the roof will almost be sealed today and tomorrow, and they will be greeted when they are working on the courtyard wall.