Maybe life was too dull, and the brothers wanted to have some fun. So everyone expressed their opinions.

Xiaojie said: "I'm not busy now. Brother, didn't you say you were going to lead us to get some money? When should we get it?"

Brother Jun said: "I have wanted to eat 'bamboo tube rice' for a long time. We also tried to make it when you were not in the room, but it was not successful. The rice was half-cooked and not delicious."

I thought about it and said, "Today we will make bamboo tube rice. As for making money, I have also thought about it. I still have some skills."

Xiaojie hurriedly said: "Brother, what are you going to do? Don't be pretentious."

I said, "I originally planned to take you to dig for bile grass, taro seeds and rhizome grass when I'm done."

Xiaojie suddenly realized: "This can indeed make money. Let's dig out the potato seeds first, which are valuable. When the digging is almost done, we will dig up the bile grass. After digging out the bile grass, we will go to pull the gallweed."

When I heard what Xiaojie said, I felt that he had made some progress. Then he said that he was going to make "bamboo tube rice".

I had never done it before and was very interested. So I asked Brother Jun how they did it.

Brother Jun said: "We went to chop a piece of bamboo and cut it into tubes with a knife. Then we put the rice into the bamboo tube and water. Then we wrapped the film with the rice mandrel and sealed the opening of the bamboo tube. But

, it cannot be plugged tightly. Because when the bamboo tube is burned on the fire, the water in the bamboo tube will escape, and the 'stopper' will be washed away. The half-cooked rice will also be washed out."

I asked again: "Then how can you tighten the 'stopper'?"

Brother Jun said: "We tried many ways. First we wrapped the opening with mud, but it didn't work. Then we tied the opening tightly with nylon rope, but it still didn't work because the nylon rope always slipped from the opening. Later, we

Use a knife to carve a small groove in the opening so that the nylon rope can't slip off. But when the fire is strong, the nylon rope will be burned."

I thought about it and asked, "What about replacing the nylon rope with thin iron wire?"

Brother Jun said: "We still thought of this method, but once the water in the bamboo tube is boiled, the momentum of the steam is very strong. Even if the bolt is tightened, there will still be a gap (gap) between the bamboo tube and the 'stopper'.

Water leaked."

Xiaojie said: "Some classmates did it when we went on spring outings. They were still half-cooked. Some of them burned the bamboo tubes directly. You could barely eat some rice at the bottom of the bamboo tubes."

A question suddenly occurred to me and I asked: "What color is the bamboo you cut?"

Xiaojie and Brother Jun said in unison: "Cyan."

I was 80% sure about making "bamboo tube rice". I said we would make a plate today, and we would also make bacon bamboo tube rice.

Xiaojie and Brother Jun gave me doubtful looks, and I understood what they meant. Just making bamboo tube rice was not easy, and even talking about making bacon bamboo tube rice sounded like a joke.

Seeing that they were doubtful, I didn't explain much, so I arranged for everyone to split up. I asked Brother Jun and Xiaojie to cut an old bamboo, the kind that is more than two years old. I went to Lao Hu's place on the street.

Get a hacksaw.

The brothers came back dragging the old bamboo. I quickly picked off the bamboo branches with a knife, and then sawed the bamboo tube with a hacksaw. The brothers were very curious when they saw me sawing, because my method was to take one tube out of two tubes and keep both ends of the bamboo tube intact.

Barrel joint head.

In this way, only seven tubes of bamboo were taken. After taking the bamboo tubes, I asked my brothers to find the seven most beautiful corn-packing core sticks. I estimated the size of the corn-packing core sticks, and used a red-hot fire pillar to place a hole in one of the bamboo tubes.

Burn out a hole on the joint head that is about the same thickness as the corn-wrapped mandrel. After all the burning, lightly saw a shallow groove on the wall of the bamboo tube on the side of the hole, and then take the bamboo tube into the water to soak it.

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Then cut off the corn-wrapped mandrel from the middle, leaving half of the pointed end, and tie it up with thin wire, leaving enough length to tie it to the wall of the bamboo tube.

After making these preparations, I cut the bacon into small dices, and then scooped out a bowl of rice. While arranging the brothers to light a fire, I put the rice and meat into the bamboo tube through the hole in the bamboo tube joint. I put about three pieces of it.

1/2, and then fill less than two-thirds of the water in. Then plug the hole tightly with the "plug" of the corn-packing mandrel, tie the reserved wire along the groove of the bamboo tube, and tighten it with a vise.

Put it in the fire and burn it. While burning, watch the watch. At the same time, I found a new problem. It is that the bamboo tube placed in the fire is not easy to flip. If you don't flip the fire, one side will keep burning, but the other side will not burn.

Arrived, one side of the bamboo tube will be burned soon. Quickly use the tongs to hold the bamboo tube and turn it over.

After solving the problem of flipping, another problem was discovered. The water in the bamboo tube boiled, and the water vapor needed to be discharged, but there was no vent hole reserved. Therefore, under the action of pressure, the inner core of the rice-wrapped mandrel was slowly squeezed.

When it came out, the steam with pressure rushed out and almost burned people.

After finally cooking it, I took it out, wrapped it in a wet handkerchief, and split it open with a knife. Wow, it smells so fragrant. The fragrance of the bamboo tube rice mixed with the fragrance of the bacon is really different.

Brother Jun couldn't wait to pick up a piece with his fingers and ate it. He hurriedly said: "It's delicious, it's delicious. It's hot, it's hot."

Summarize experience and make improvements. The first is to build a simple stove with stones, and the mouth of the stove is made into three symmetrical arc shapes with mud. It is actually very simple, just take a bamboo tube and make a mark when making it. The second is to use thin

The iron wire pricks some small holes in the inner core of the rice-wrapped mandrel to facilitate the discharge of water vapor. Third, slightly reduce the amount of rice and meat and increase the amount of water, but do not fill it up.

After making preparations, the six bamboo tubes were put on the fire at the same time. More than half an hour passed leisurely. After the water vapor on one side of the bamboo tube stopped being discharged, roast them slowly for another five minutes.
Chapter completed!