Returning to hometown to farm: The apocalypse system arrived ten years earlier?

Chapter 27 Suning Millet

When this video was released, fans thought he had adjusted the video to "accelerated" mode, but in fact, it was Li Xiang's real speed.

Because grandma grows little rice, it is obviously not cost-effective to hire a machine to harvest and thresh it, and it is not suitable for shooting videos, so Li Xiang plans to do it all by hand.

He had to transport the rice back to the backyard, spread it out on the ground to dry, and then "thresh" it manually.

"Xiang'er, eat first, you are sweating." Grandma was distressed. She asked you to use a small sickle, but you insisted on using such a heavy axe. Who would harvest rice with a 30-kilogram axe with a blade half a meter long?
However, Li Xiang's axe is not only used for chopping wood. It has a bend in the front and is also sharpened, so it has many functions.

"Grandma, I'm not tired." Li Xiang put down the Gaomi knife, lifted up his clothes to wipe the sweat off his face, and walked towards the path.

In fact, his sweat was not caused by harvesting rice.

How could such a small area of only six or seven acres make a first-level transcendent sweat?
As he continued to cut, he began to incorporate physical techniques and breathing techniques. As he continued to cut, he entered a state of ecstasy, with energy boiling throughout his body. The sweat and dirt he expelled were the spiritual power tempering his body and cleansing his flesh.

If this continues, he might be able to transform into a "pure body", "crystal clear and flawless" and "diffusing with clear radiance" all over his body, with muscular muscles all over his body, well-proportioned and with beautiful lines, and maybe even body fragrance, which would make girls drool when they see him.

Li Xiang felt more and more that the breathing and physical skills he had acquired in his previous life were definitely created by a senior farmer. Practicing while doing farm work was more efficient than practicing seriously at other times, and he learned many tricks that he had never learned before.

It’s right to return to my hometown and farm!
Li Xiang washed himself briefly in the ditch and then had his meal.

Today we have braised pork, boiled fish fillet and gourd soup, two meat dishes and one vegetable, all Sichuan style.

After doing the heavy work, the braised pork with high fat content tastes especially delicious.

Choose pork belly with skin and alternating fat and lean parts, remove the hair, wash it, cut it into pieces, blanch it, rinse it with clean water, drain it and set aside.

Pour a proper amount of rapeseed oil into the pot, add a few pieces of rock sugar, and when it turns caramel color and produces a lot of foam, add the pork belly and stir-fry continuously. When the meat starts to release oil, add ginger slices, garlic grains, Sichuan peppercorns, bean paste and red pepper to the oil in the pot. You can add more red pepper.

After frying until fragrant, add appropriate amount of water, and then put appropriate amount of salt and a little vinegar into the pot. If you have cooking wine, add appropriate amount of cooking wine. If not, you can use beer instead, you can pour half a bottle, and simmer slowly over low heat. Generally, it will be done after an hour.

Soft, glutinous, fresh and fragrant, fat but not greasy.

It is worth noting that vinegar is used to increase the freshness of the braised pork, and sugar is used to add color and enhance the flavor. The vinegar and sweetness should not be too strong, so the amount of vinegar and sugar must be controlled well.

Then the color of the food made with rock sugar is brighter, more beautiful, and tastes better than that made with white sugar.

Li Xiang finished three bowls of dishes and two large bowls of rice and continued to work while his grandmother cleaned up the dishes and went home to wash them.

The heavy rice exuded a natural and fresh rice fragrance. Li Xiang dragged it home in cartloads and placed it in the backyard.

This backyard is behind his house, so it is called the backyard. But in fact, the area is very large, equivalent to half a football field, so Li Xiang opened a road on the side of the house that can lead to the front.

Because the backyard was too big, he didn't have time to build a wall. The main reason was that he didn't have enough money to buy cement, red bricks and yellow sand.

It seemed that the life would be beautiful without a wall, so he planned to tear down the old house and rebuild it once he had enough money.

Li Xiang's threshing method is very primitive. He spreads out a large piece of tarpaulin, which is the common three-color striped plastic cloth, and then puts a stool on it. He grabs the rice ears and beats them on the stool to thresh them.

With Li Xiang's skill, the golden rice grains were shaken off one by one and scattered all over the tarpaulin.

The tarp was spread wide enough so there was no need to worry about the rice flying outside. Seeing this, a group of chickens and ducks flapped their wings and ran over. A few ducks ran slowly, twisting their butts and quacking behind them. Li Xiang was about to get up and drive them away when two loyal big yellow dogs barked and ran up to stop the group of guys.

"Haha." Li Xiang couldn't help but laugh. However, he was not a stingy person. If he wanted to eat his own chickens and ducks, he would just feed them a handful.

He leaned over and grabbed a handful of fresh rice, and threw it vigorously. Suddenly, the chickens and ducks were excited! This was newly harvested rice, and it was not dried yet, so it contained moisture and was very fragrant.

Li Xiang sprinkled the water three more times and pointed at the two dogs: "Da Huang, Er Huang, watch over there and don't let them get onto the tarpaulin."

The main thing is that chickens and ducks can't control their butts and will poop and pee wherever they want. If they run onto the tarpaulin, eating some millet is a small matter, but if they poop and pee a few times, the millet will be wasted.

The two dogs were very smart and immediately lay down on the muddy ground beside the tarp.

Li Xiang had a feeling that these two dogs were definitely potential beasts, so he thought, why not redeem the "mutant identification function" and identify them? Anyway, he had relatively abundant achievement points now.

But he was busy now and had no time to do anything else, so he continued to beat the rice ears.

After the chickens and ducks finished their meal, they left contentedly. The birds in the forest also wanted to fly over to eat, so the two dogs began to drive the birds away again.

The old tabby cat on the roof was dozing lazily. Hearing the chirping of birds, it opened its eyes, raised its head and looked in the direction of the birds with sparkling eyes. It was obvious that it also wanted to "play with the birds", but it was inconvenient for it because of its big belly, so it could only "meow" twice.

One afternoon, the threshing was completed, the stool was moved away, and some straw and large impurities in the millet were picked out.

It was getting late, so there was no need to collect the millet specially. Just lift the corners of the tarpaulin and "fold" it towards the middle. The millet formed a pile, then covered it with the tarpaulin around it and pressed stones at the corners.

Just put it in the yard.

Anyway, there is a dog guarding at night, so there is no need to worry about animals stealing food.

As for people?
Everyone in Lijia Village knows each other well, so who would steal rice from their neighbor's house? Almost all of them are elderly and children, and they can't even harvest all the rice from their own house.

The next day, the weather was sunny and windy. At about half past nine, Li Xiang spread out the tarpaulin and added two larger tarpaulins to form a large drying area.

The main reason is that the backyard is not hardened and the hardened area of the front yard is relatively small. Otherwise, the effect would be better if it is directly exposed to the sun on the cement floor.

Use a bamboo rake to spread the grain pile into a thin layer, and start drying the grain.

The reason why we have to go a little later is that if we go too early, the humidity will be too heavy and the dew on the grass will not have dissipated yet.

The same principle applies to collecting earlier in the afternoon.

It’s okay to dry early rice in the summer because the temperature is high and the sun is very hot all day long.

　Thanks to “548135961”, “Wei Chen VS Shi Guang Zhu Yu” and “Yi Ye Yi Wen” for their monthly tickets.

　　Happy National Day!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)