At night, Yao Xiaoqing lay on the animal skin, closed his eyes and fell asleep.
When I woke up the next day, I felt sore all over and didn't even want to move. I had to use a sickle to cut the ramie.
Yao Xiaoqing moved his hands and feet and set off with the women in the collection team.
She took a dozen people with her to cut off the ramie seeds and put them into backpacks.
Shan Amu led a dozen people to harvest the hemp stalks, pull off the ramie leaves, cut off the ramie stalks, bundle them up, and carry them back to pile them in front of the cave.
Mufeng took Yu, Lu and the others, and led the oxen to carry the hemp poles and kudzu vines back to the tribe and soak them in the pond.
Dozens of people worked at the Shenmu tribe for three or four days before getting all the ramie and chestnuts back to the tribe.
Yao Xiaoqing looked at the piles of pumpkins, yams, kudzu, and baskets of chestnuts piled up in the cave.
She thought of the millet, beans, pinto beans, dried meat, dried vegetables, and the millet that was about to be harvested in the warehouse at the foot of the mountain. She felt that even if the cold winter lasted longer, she wouldn't have to worry about running out of food.
The walls of the Qingshan tribe's house are already as tall as one person, and they will be topped out in less than two days.
The millet in the fields will be harvested in a few days.
After coming down the mountain, Yao Xiaoqing found Dashi and asked him to make several thin iron knives.
Early the next morning, I asked Ah Chong and the others to fish out the hemp stalks from the pond.
After soaking the ramie stalks for a few days, the green skin on them began to rot, and a sour smell hit your nose.
Yao Xiaoqing picked up a ramie stalk, used a bamboo knife to pick out a head at the root of the ramie stalk, and then tore it to the end with force. A piece of ramie skin was easily torn off.
Next, place the ramie skin on a long wooden board. After aligning the knife with your right hand, gently pull out the ramie skin with your left hand. The ramie skin makes a "whoosh" sound under the thin leather knife.
Yao Xiaoqing scraped hurriedly several times before scraping off the green skin on a piece of ramie skin, revealing the white ramie silk inside.
The scraped ramie silk is hung on a bamboo pole to dry in the sun. When it is free, it is split into fine ramie silk threads.
Everyone watched Yao Xiaoqing peel off a few ramie sticks, and then started peeling off the hemp. They were a little fussy at first, but after peeling off a few ramie sticks in a row, they became proficient in his movements.
It's easy to peel off the ramie, but it's much more difficult to scrape it off. If you don't apply enough force, you often break the ramie skin. After scraping more than a dozen strands in succession, you can move smoothly.
Yao Xiaoqing found that after they learned it, their movements were much neater than hers, and said with a smile: "Teach the apprentices and starve the master to death. I'd better go and dry the hemp silk."
Shan'am looked at her cheerfully, "Go ahead! You've been tired for several days, so go play for a while."
"I'll hang the ramie silk upstairs to dry."
Yao Xiaoqing dried the ramie upstairs and turned around to see the persimmon tree outside the wall. Suddenly he remembered the few persimmons in the jar. He hurried back and lifted the jar into the yard, only to find that the persimmons in the jar were rotten.
It became a lump.
"Oh! It's really disappointing. A good persimmon is ruined like this."
Yao Xiaoqing carried the jar to the retting pond at the back, poured the chaff and rotten persimmons into it, cleaned the jar by the ditch, and carried it back.
Halfway through, she saw She and Douzi standing in the alleyway, sticky, and she turned around and wanted to leave.
"Xiaoqing, what are you doing with a jar?" Zhi said with a red face.
Douzi turned around and saw Yao Xiaoqing, his face was like blood spurting out, and his ears were red, "Xiaoqing, I..."
"I'm going to take out some rubbish in the composting pond. You two don't have to worry about me." Yao Xiaoqing ran away in embarrassment.
Douzi saw Yao Xiaoqing running like a jackal chasing her, and angrily kicked Yao Xiaoqing, "It's all your fault!" After saying that, he turned around and left.
Zhi looked at her back, scratched his head, muttered a few words, turned around and walked towards the refining room.
Douzi returned to the open space next to the canteen, found Yao Xiaoqing, and said with a blushing face: "Xiaoqing, I..."
Yao Xiaoqing looked at her with a smile, "Don't leave me. I'll pair you up after the grains are harvested. Now go to work quickly."
"Hey!" Douzi blushed, picked up the ramie stalk and started peeling it off.
When the sun went down, Jiang Li and Mu Feng, a dozen or so people, walked in carrying five wild boars. Good guys, all of them were fat and strong. The largest wild boar probably weighed five to six hundred pounds.
Mufeng roared: "Amu, I haven't eaten pork intestines and roasted taro for a long time. I eat roasted intestines at night."
Jiang Li looked at him in surprise, "Mufeng, can pig intestines be delicious? How smelly it is!"
"You've never even eaten braised large intestine!" Mu Feng looked at Jiang Li as if he were a country bumpkin, "I'm sure you'll want to eat it a second time after eating it once!"
Yaya came out of the cafeteria, "Wow! What a fat wild boar. I haven't hunted a wild boar for a long time. Uncle Mu Feng, where did you hunt it?"
Mufeng smiled triumphantly and said, "I shot five of them in a valley and two of them escaped."
Yun Amu said with a smile, "Hurry open the pig belly and take out the large intestine. We will wash it and Amu will do it for you."
"Okay!" Mu Feng and Jiang Li carried the wild boar to the stone board next to the vegetable field. Jiang Li and Mu Feng took machetes to disembowel the boar, while Mu Ba and Bao cleaned the pig's belly.
Suet, flower oil, pork loin, liver, pork belly, large intestine and small intestine are all put into wooden basins separately.
Spear and Wolf chopped the meat into strips, scalded the pig hair on the pig's head and legs with boiling water, scraped them clean, then burned them with fire and scraped them again.
Yun Amu put the pig's head into a jar, blanched it, washed it, put bay leaves, grasshoppers, ginger, pepper, chili, and scallion in a stew. Chop the pork leg into small pieces, blanch it, put it in the jar, then add soybeans, ginger and rice to stew it.
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Hua led the women in the food team to pick up the pig's offal, clean it, blanch it, stir-fry it, add bay leaves... and braise it.
When the meal started, Jiang Li looked at the pig intestines grilled with taro and tried to pick up a chopstick. The taro was soft and glutinous, and the large intestine was soft, glutinous and chewy, but there was no smell at all.
Mufeng watched Jiang Li pick it up several times and looked at him with a smile, "It's delicious! We used to throw away everything in the pig's belly. After Xiaoqing made it for us, everyone liked it."
Jiang Li nodded honestly, "Yes! It tastes very good, I like it too. The pork head meat and pig trotters stewed with soybeans are also delicious." He glanced at Yao Xiaoqing secretly, how could she know everything?
Yun Amu smiled and said: "Chief Jiang Li, we have also made lard. When you move back, bring a jar back with you."
Heiba made a bitter face and said, "Chief Yaohu, we don't want to go back to eat. If we hunt wild boars in the future, we can cook them here for you to eat, okay?"
Yao Hu laughed after hearing this, "Okay! Then we will take advantage of it."
Everyone laughed. A dark and pretty woman from the Qingshan tribe secretly kicked Hei Ba.
Heiba glared at her, "Qiu, why are you kicking me?"
The woman pretended not to hear and kept eating.
After having dinner for the night and lighting a bonfire, Yao Xiaoqing thought that autumn was about to get colder, so he asked Ah Zhongbo and the others to marinate the meat with salt.
Dozens of women peeled and shaved the ramie together. They worked until midnight before they finished peeling, scraping and drying all the ramie upstairs.