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

Chapter 29 Old-fashioned windmill

Wash the fish with clear and sweet spring water, remove the bones, and then chop it into pieces with a knife to make fish paste.

Since there was only one kitchen knife at home, it was a pity that the food could not make horse hoof sounds when chopping. Li Xiang decided to buy a kitchen knife next time he went to the town or county.

It is definitely useful for mincing meat and making meatballs during the Chinese New Year.

The spinach was freshly picked from the vegetable garden, washed and chopped into small pieces.

By the time Li Xiang had prepared the fish paste and chopped spinach, grandma's porridge was almost cooked, so she went over and put the fish paste and spinach into the pot, added a little salt to season, and cooked for about ten minutes before serving the porridge.

"Grandma, you eat first." Li Xiang first served a bowl to grandma and handed it to the old lady.

"It smells so good!" Grandma scooped up a spoonful with a spoon, blew on it, swallowed it, and praised it endlessly.

Li Xiang went to the front room, took the cat bowl, washed it with clean water, filled it with fish porridge with lots of fish meat, and after it cooled down a bit, he took it and placed it next to the cat's bed.

This fish porridge can be eaten by humans and cats.

Generally speaking, cats and dogs in rural areas eat what people eat.

Of course, too spicy or too salty is definitely not suitable. For some dishes, a little bit will be served to cats and dogs first before adding the chili.

The so-called cat food and dog food eaten by pet cats and dogs in cities are "pre-prepared meals" that exist just like "instant noodles". Their main feature is convenience. As for how nutritious, healthy, or delicious they are, they are definitely not.

Some unscrupulous manufacturers will add catnip or other addictive substances for cats into cat food to create the illusion that their cat food is very popular with cats.

The five little ones were drinking milk. The cow cat was the more naughty among them. It was so young, less than a day old, but it could actually protect its food and kept scratching and kicking the little white cat with its claws.

"This little white cat is so stupid, and the mother cat doesn't care about it."

Li Xiang was anxious watching it, but he couldn't touch it. Fortunately, the mother cat was hungry, and when she smelled the delicious fish porridge, she couldn't help but crawl out and ate it "meow meow".

The "threshold" of the cat's nest is a bit high, and the five little ones can't get out at all. They cry in there, as if calling for their mother to come back soon.

Since no one could drink milk, the cow cat stopped bullying the little white cat.

However, the other kittens didn’t seem to like the little white cat and kept a certain distance from it.

"Oh my god, you've just been born and you're already looked down upon and bullied? You're brothers and sisters!" Li Xiang was speechless.

"Maybe it's because white cats are too ugly in the cat world?"

But Li Xiang thinks this little white cat is the most beautiful, though a little silly.

"It seems that no family in the village has a white cat. Where did its father come from?"

After gossiping about Xiaobai's bizarre life experience, Li Xiang went to have breakfast by himself.

Grandma ate one bowl and stopped eating. The rest of the fish porridge went into Li Xiang’s stomach.

Since some kittens were born these days, we have fish for every meal.

When the bright sunshine shone on the backyard and evaporated the dew, Li Xiang spread out the colorful tarpaulin again and continued to dry the rice.

The threshed rice straw is also spread out in the backyard to dry. After drying, Li Xiang will pile it into a straw stack. Dry rice straw can be used to start a fire, which is particularly flammable. If there are cattle and sheep at home, it can also be used as fodder in winter. In addition, it can also be spread in dog sheds and cat nests to keep small pets warm in winter.

Grandma said that in the past, people would use the hay as a cushion on the bed and then cover it with cotton wool and sheets, which made it very comfortable and warm.

This is a purely natural mattress, the only drawback may be that it is prone to fleas.

Li Xiang opened up another vegetable patch in the backyard. This time it was longer, about one and a half meters wide and long enough to circle the entire backyard, equivalent to an elliptical rapeseed fence, with enough rapeseed flowers to see in the spring.

He felt that he had planted less last time, and it was still time to replant now.

In addition, the harvested rapeseed can be used to extract oil, which is healthier than buying it.

Li Xiang is now working towards his "pure body", but he doesn't want to consume gasoline, kerosene, and diesel...

Of course, as he runs his own media, how could he not shoot a segment on the traditional method of pressing rapeseed oil?

The process of clearing new rapeseed fields and sowing seeds will naturally be recorded, but it will not be posted immediately. Instead, it will be used as preliminary material for future oil extraction.

Autumn is also the season for planting wheat. There is also wheat in Sichuan Province, but not much is planted.

The main reason is that the local climate has four distinct seasons and abundant but uneven rainfall, which is mainly concentrated in the summer. This climate condition poses certain challenges to the growth of wheat.

The yield and quality of wheat in Sichuan Province are not excellent, so it is more economically valuable to grow rapeseed. Rapeseed has strong adaptability to climate, can grow in relatively dry conditions, and has a more flexible demand for water during growth.

So Li Xiang gave up wheat and chose rapeseed. At least he didn't plan to plant it this year. If he wanted to eat pasta, he would go to the market and buy some wheat flour.

At noon on the fourth day after the golden new rice was dried in the sun, Li Xiang picked up a grain at random, put it in his mouth and bit it lightly with his teeth. It was crunchy. He picked up another grain and peeled it gently with his hands. The rice and the shell were separated.

After testing in three different locations, the same result was achieved, and Li Xiang started to harvest rice.

After gathering together, they moved an old-fashioned windmill from home and, with the help of grandma, began to fan the rice to remove dust.

Li Xiang was responsible for lifting the basket and pouring it into the top entrance, while grandma shook the handle to blow air inside.

This is the crystallization of the wisdom of the ancient Chinese working people. It is said to have been invented in the 2nd century BC and has been used ever since.

Of course, there are more efficient machines now, but Li Xiang’s family only has so little rice that he can just fan it manually.

This fan car is actually a manual blower. Its function is to clean the grains, blowing out the husks, chaff and shriveled grains in the grains, so that what falls down are the plump and good grains.

At the exit below, there is an empty basket to receive it. As for the impurities, they are naturally blown away from the side.

"Grandma, can you handle it?" Li Xiang was a little worried.

Grandma smiled and said, "I can't do anything with just shaking such a small thing? I'm not at the stage where I can't move. If you hadn't come back, wouldn't I have to do all these jobs?"

In fact, after taking the first-level exotic herb, grandma is in much better health now, and doing something like shaking the windmill is indeed not considered high-intensity.

Seeing his grandmother's spirit and spirit getting better day by day, Li Xiang smiled happily. He was thinking about when to collect some more first-level exotic herbs to send to his grandparents.

Although my grandparents are in better health than my grandmother, they are old and need some supplements.

I gave you red ginseng before, but how can a common item like red ginseng be more effective than a first-level mutated spiritual herb?
(End of this chapter)