nucmednet Chapter 267: Going out to hunt pigs
Chapter 267: Going out to hunt pigs
Since then, they have paid more attention to Xiaobai's diet, preparing nutritious meals and paying more attention to its physical condition.
At this time of year, peaches and lychees are ripe one after another. Those who like to eat lychees go out to pick them every day, but they dare not eat too much as eating too much can easily cause getting a sore throat.
Although these lychees were not as big as the ones she had eaten in her previous life, the flesh was sweet and soft, juicy, and the core was small. Once you had eaten them, it was hard to stop.
There are so many fresh lychees, mangoes and peaches that they can't eat them all. There has been no farm work to do recently and the weather is getting hotter, so they decided to pick the fruits and make them into dried fruits, which they can eat until the end of the year. If they don't pick them, they will rot on the trees.
They took Xiao Hei out and pushed a cart to pick fruits, carrying them home one by one.
Peel the mango, cut into thick slices and dry directly in the sun.
There are two ways to cook lychees. One is to keep the shell, wash it, blanch it in water, and cook it at high temperature for about a minute. This can prevent the shell from cracking when drying later. The other is to remove the shell and the core and take out the flesh to dry.
The peaches are washed, cut open, pitted, and cut into four pieces for drying.
The pink peaches were pleasing to the eye. While cutting the peaches, Xia Qingyue couldn't help but recall the scene last year when the peaches were ripe and she went to the valley to eat peaches and make canned fruits. A smile appeared on the corners of her mouth.
The weather in Wei Hai is hot, so canning fruits is not possible. In addition to making dried fruits, she also thought of making peach wine.
She asked Han Zhibai, who was sitting next to her cutting mangoes, "Hey, don't we have sorghum at home? Can you make wine?
By adding fruit to wine, you can make fruit wine that is not so spicy in the throat. "
"I've watched my dad brew wine before. Winemaking requires yeast, and a certain plant is needed to make yeast. Only with that can we brew wine. We'll go to the forest to find some later."
Speaking of this, she remembered that her grandmother in her previous life once made wine yeast from a plant with red flowers called Polygonum multiflorum.
She described the characteristics of the Polygonum multiflorum flower in detail to Han Zhibai, and she didn't expect it was really this.
They agreed to go to the woods to look for Polygonum multiflorum flowers to make wine after some time.
The average daily temperature in Wei Hai is about 38 or 39 degrees. The dried fruits can be dried very dry in one day. After being dried on the same day, they are steamed in a pot early the next morning and then dried again. They have to be steamed and dried three times before they are considered done.
We were busy until early July, when the duck eggs that had been hatched finally hatched and nine ducklings were born.
Under the high temperature, Han Zhibai was not afraid of the sun and put on the vest and shorts made by Xia Qingyue.
Xia Qingyue, who was afraid of heat, only dared to wear a vest and shorts at home, and long pants and thin clothes when going out. Under such a scorching sun, she would get several degrees darker after being exposed to the sun.
If he worked outside for a long time, she would ask him to wear long pants and long sleeves to avoid sunburn.
Towards the middle of the month, heavy rains fell without warning for several days, and many vegetables in the vegetable garden were blown to one side or another by the wind and rain. It took them more than a day to straighten them out.
Vegetables like cucumbers, pumpkins and cowpeas are in bloom, and amaranth and leeks have grown fresh and tender crops. These two vegetables are frequently seen on their table recently.
The wild tomatoes produced small green fruits. She went to see them every day, hoping that they would turn red and ripen quickly so that she could go to the sea to catch them and make sour fish soup.
Being close to the sea, whenever Han Zhibai wanted to eat seafood, he would go to the sea to catch fish with a spear whenever he had free time. From then on, he lived a good life of eating fresh seafood every day.
Xia Qingyue actually wanted to go into the sea like him, but the temperature was high during the day and the tide had not receded. Since she couldn't swim, she could only wait for the tide to recede at night and go to the sea occasionally.
In the second half of October, the low tide will be around the hour of Mao, and she plans to get up early every day during that period to learn how to swim.
The sweet potato vines were growing very well and rapidly. Taking advantage of the moist soil after the rain, they plowed a field to plant more sweet potatoes. The vine branches could be transplanted by cuttings.
After finishing the farm work, Han Zhibai suggested going to a farther forest to hunt a few wild boars and taking her out for a walk.
He said, "At this time of year, many wild fruits in the forest are ripe. If we go, the journey will take at least two days and one night, or at most two nights and three days."
After thinking for a moment, Xia Qingyue said, "Let's go on a short trip. Xiaobai is pregnant and it's not suitable for her to travel for a long time. Besides, the poultry at home needs to be fed."
"Okay, how about we set off early tomorrow morning?"
"of course can!"
That night, they packed up simply and prepared the things they needed to take.
The next day, I got up early before dawn, had breakfast, and prepared enough water and food for the poultry.
Considering that they would bring back some wild fruits if they encountered them, they decided to take Xiao Hei with them so that he could carry things back.
When everything was ready, they closed the door and headed towards the woods behind the house.
In the morning, they found pepper flowers, passion fruit, and a yellow-skinned wild fruit that looked like a goat's milk fruit in the woods.
Xia Qingyue picked a yellow-skinned wild fruit out of curiosity, tore open the skin, and a fragrant sour smell spread out. She couldn't help swallowing her saliva as she smelled the aroma.
"This fruit looks edible. Some of the fruit on the tree has been eaten by birds."
Han Zhibai stared at the wild fruit tree and was lost in thought for a moment. "This is edible. My mother used to like to eat this, but I think it's too sour and not tasty. You should like it."
She ate the wild fruit in her hand. It was 70% sour and 30% sweet, with a lot of juice and a core inside. It tasted pretty good. She picked a few bunches of yellow-skinned wild fruits and ate them on the way.
At noon, Xia Qingyue was hungry from walking so much, so Han Zhibai asked her to eat some dried fruits to fill her stomach and said he would take her to a good place.
When she heard this, she immediately became interested and took out some dried fruit to eat to fill her stomach.
An hour later, when the sun was high in the sky and it was the hottest time of the day, they came to a densely wooded forest.
As she walked, Xia Qingyue heard the sound of gurgling water ahead. Judging from the sound, the amount of water was quite large.
Hearing the noise, the two little ones couldn't wait to run to the front and disappeared in a moment.
A quarter of an hour later, they came to a waterfall.
Between the steep rocks, the waterfall flows like a white jade belt, pouring over the rocks, and white water splashes into the air like scattered jade beads.
Below the waterfall is a pool of water, and below that is a stream that meanders southward. The pool is surrounded by scattered rocks, trees, flowers and plants.
In general, the environment here is very quiet, and she once again immersed in the magnificent scenery of nature's wonders.
Han Zhibai walked to a relatively flat and spacious place among the rocks. There were trees behind it, so it couldn't get any sunlight. "Qingyue, come here quickly."
She walked over and found it was cool there.
He took out a straw mat and spread it on the ground, asked her to sit for a while, and then took the harpoon to the pond to fish.
Seeing this, she found a suitable place and looked for dry firewood to make a fire.
At noon, they grilled fish and ate them. After that, they set up the tent and sprinkled medicine powder around it.
After walking for a whole morning, Xiaobai was tired and went into the tent to sleep.
Heihei stays by Xiaobai's side, never leaving her side.
In the afternoon, Han Zhibai and Xia Qingyue went to the surrounding area to set traps for hunting wild boars.
He was experienced and they had a good understanding of each other. After several hours, at sunset, they successfully chased two wild boars into a trap.
They were all black wild boars, both weighing about 100 pounds.
They tied two pigs with ropes one after another and pulled them out of the trap. When they pulled the second one, she felt a little overwhelmed.
After struggling until dark, Han Zhibai dragged the second pig out by himself and brought it back to a big tree near the camp and tied it up.
After a busy day, Xia Qingyue was exhausted. She lay on the straw mat outside the tent and didn't want to move at all.
Han Zhibai, who had washed his hands by the pond, came back, fed her a bamboo tube of water, put some dried fruits next to her, and then went to prepare dinner.