Could reed be a carrot?

Chen Xu was puzzled after hearing this, but he naturally didn't know that it had not grown. However, according to Chen Jiang's statement, these seeds must not grow. Not only were they planted a few years ago, but they also had moldy insects. It seems that they would have to go back to the town in two days to get some vegetable seeds, dig some wild onion, ginger, garlic and pepper trees, and bring back a variety of vegetables around the house. He could not lose the good traditional habit of his ancestors who wanted to grow vegetables when they saw the soil.

As the saying goes, if you plant melons, you will get beans. If you don’t plant melons, you can only eat soil.

And Chen Xu was right, reeds are radishes, which were cultivated on a large scale during the Shang and Zhou dynasties, and became a popular vegetable during the Qin and Han dynasties. It has been recorded in China's earliest dictionary "Er Ya". However, pineapple is actually cabbage. The history of cultivation in China is earlier, which can be extended to the Neolithic Age. In later archaeology, cabbage seeds were found in the clay pots at the Banpo site. It can be seen that at that time, the semi-primitive clan tribes had already begun to plant cabbage. It was widely cultivated by the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, but the name cabbage did not appear until the Yuan Dynasty.

In addition to growing vegetables, this simple thatched hut made of bamboo and wood is probably not able to resist the cold in winter, especially without cotton clothes and thickened bedding. Just placing some hay on the bed may not withstand the cold cold of the twelfth month. Adults can barely resist it. How can children like Xinger and even younger, and those elderly people with weak bodies withstand it?

A few days ago, when I was chatting with a few villagers at night, Uncle Ma sighed that according to the good weather in this summer and autumn, winter must be extremely cold, and even heavy snow will be much heavier than in previous years. There may be a cold winter that is rare in decades. Therefore, Uncle Ma is very worried that the elderly, weak, sick and disabled in the village will not be able to survive this cold winter.

Uncle Ma's words also made Chen Xu even more worried. He was not considering a small river village, but how more than 600 households and more than 3,000 people in Qinghe Town survived the next cold winter. In the past, many people would have frozen to death every winter.

Uncle Ma still believed in his words. In ancient times, people did not have weather forecasts, and all rely on experience speculation. It is impossible to have good weather all year round. What should come is still coming. Moreover, as the saying goes, wheat covers three layers of quilts in winter and sleeps with steamed buns next year. It means that there will be heavy snow in winter and the pests will only have a bumper harvest in the second year. Therefore, the severe cold in winter is both painful and torture and hope. Old farmers do not want a warm winter to appear because it does not conform to the solar term, especially in the Central Plains region where the four seasons are particularly distinct.

The autumn harvest will end at most one week, and there are about two months left before the arrival of winter. I have to think of a way to keep warm in winter as soon as possible. Although the thatched hut can be hung with thick thatch outside to make it airtight, it cannot make a fire in the house, and there is no quilt or down jacket...

Chen Xu was very confused. Various houses and buildings in later generations appeared like lanterns in front of him. He needed to find a simple and easy way to resist the severe cold. It was impossible to have cotton coats and quilts. There were more than ten wolf skins in the town, but he could only make a few clothes to keep the cold. He could only protect his family. But since he became this Lidian, he could not only care about himself.

As I thought about it, the bean dough with flour and wild onion and alfalfa salt had been reconciled. Chen Xu also had some ideas in his mind, so he simply threw this problem aside for the time being and began to concentrate on making onion, chive bean dough cakes.

The kneaded bean dregs turned into a pancake under his kneading. They pinched more than ten of them into the bamboo sieve. At this time, the soy milk had already started to boil. A layer of snow-white foam floated in the clay pot, and the air was filled with the strong fragrance of fresh soy milk.

Chen Xu suddenly remembered a dish that my mother often had to make when she was making tofu in winter. She quickly used a clean bamboo spoon to clean the foam inside and told Xing'er to reduce the fire in the stove.

"Brother, can you drink soy milk?" Xing'er skillfully took off half of the fire in the stove, and then looked at the milky white soy milk and asked with a sniff.

"Not yet, but my brother suddenly remembered a new dish called bean peel. It is so delicious to use for stewing meat. Wuya, go and chop a bamboo of two inches thick for me and shave off the branches and leaves and wipe it clean."

"Mom, help me get a clean bamboo shovel!"

At Chen Xu's instructions, Yu Wuya took his meteorite sword and cut off the bamboo, and Chen Jiang quickly took out a brand new bamboo shovel from the room.

The soy milk in the pot gradually stopped boiling. As time went by, a light yellow solidified film slowly appeared on the surface of the soy milk. After waiting for about five minutes, the film had already looked thicker. At this time, Yu Wuya also quickly ran back with a bamboo pole, and then wiped it randomly with a rag.

"My benefactor, the bamboo pole has been cut back, what should I do next?"

"Hold it on the basin and don't move!" Chen Xu ordered, he used a bamboo shovel to stick the film around the tiles to completely separate the film from the tiles. Then he reached out and grabbed it in the center of the film, and lifted up a layer of something like a rag and hung it on the bamboo pole.

"Hey, magical, is this the so-called bean peel?" Yu Wuya was surprised.

"Well, this thing is the essence of soy milk. It is easy to store after drying. Soak it in water and you can eat it. It can be fried with meat and vegetables. It tastes fragrant and refreshing, and it can even be made into a spicy taste. It is really delicious to add wine!"

"Mr. Don't say anything, Wuya's saliva can no longer stop. I didn't expect that a simple kind of beef can also make countless delicious foods. Wuya can get to know her in this life, which is not in vain!"

This is so blunt. It is indeed worthy of being a foodie.

Chen Xu curled his lips speechlessly, and started shoveling around the clay pot with a bamboo shovel, and soon picked up the second bean skin.

Although Chen Jiangshi didn't know how her son suddenly understood so much new things that he had never seen before, she did not think about it elsewhere. Instead, she stood by and watched her son's movements carefully and learned how to make bean curds.

Soon half an hour passed, Chen Xu took up more than ten bean skins, and only half of the soy milk in the pot was left. Chen Xu stopped and asked Yu Wuya to hold the bamboo pole and hang it under the pergola. Then he told Xing'er to start cooking soy milk on a high heat again. After a few minutes, he felt that the soy milk was completely cooked. Then he scooped some bitter water with a bamboo spoon to pour it in. After thinking for a while, he scooped most of the soy milk out of the clay pot, leaving only about two bowls of it. Then he poured the bitter water in and stirred it a few times, and then... there was nothing. With Chen Jiang, Xing'er, and Yu Wuya, the three of them were watching, nothing happened. After stirring for a few minutes, they were still in the state of soup.

Alas, Chen Xu couldn't help but sigh and stopped. Don't think too much. This bitter water is definitely not brine, otherwise the soy milk should have turned into a tofu.

Moreover... it seems... later generations have never heard of the production of salt stearic acid near Nanyang, so this bitter water should contain another kind of mineral salt.

Chen Xu felt a little regretful when he had not made the soy milk, but he felt that he was not far from making the tofu, because it was difficult to find salt, gypsum, and things like gypsum were everywhere in China, with tens of billions of tons of reserves in the world, and some places could be dug out with hoes. I think someone should have discovered it in the Qin Dynasty, but I don’t know what the name is. Maybe Zhao Qing will give him a surprise next time. Moreover, he also gave Shuing Qingrou a list of various mineral raw materials, and asked her to go back and arrange for the Shui family to start looking for it. With a two-pronged approach, I believe that there will be results soon.

Splash off the soy milk in the pottery basin, replace it with the clay pot where you usually cook, take out the lard and start frying the scallion and chive bean dregs cake.

With a slight puff sound, the bean dregs cake slowly turned brown under the frying of lard, and a strong fragrance with the aroma of wild onions and bean dregs began to spread in the yard.

"Gudong~" Yu Wuya couldn't help swallowing a mouthful of saliva, staring at the bean dregs in the pot, as if a pair of claws were about to stretch out from his eyes.

"Hey, it smells so good. Brother Xu, are you making something delicious again?" Niu Dashi seemed to have just returned from work and ran over dirty, yelling while running, "I can smell it at home from such a distance!"

"It's the onion and chive bean dregs! It's so delicious!" Xing'er began to show off again. Although she hadn't eaten it, it didn't prevent a child from thinking about replenishing the flavor.

"Luckily I came in time, otherwise I wouldn't have my share!" Niu Dashi looked at the pot and bamboo sieve with only twelve or three vegetable cakes. He felt that he was coming in time, so he also stayed beside the earthen stove and stared at it.

"Prepare to eat!" Seeing that the bean dregs in the pottery batter were fried and cooked, Chen Xu couldn't help but apply a handful of saliva to shovel the cake and put it on the plate.

“Be careful…”

Before Chen Xu could finish his words, Yu Wuya and Niu Dashi reached out to grab one of them almost at the same time, and then they held the food with their hands and started to eat.

Chen Jiang picked a gourd leaf from the edge of the yard and hugged Xing'er, and asked her to hold it in her hand and eat it slowly.

"Mom, you eat first, I'll fry the remaining few too!" Chen Xu also put the remaining few bean dregs into the pottery batter when he spoke, and Chen Jiang picked up one with chopsticks and ate it.

However, before Chen Xu's second pot of bean dregs cake was turned over, Niu Dashi and Yu Wuya were already staring at the clay pot again.

A few minutes later, Yu Wuya licked his mouth and said with unsatisfactory feelings: "My bean, this bean dregs cake is extremely crispy and has a strong fragrance. It's not enough to eat just a few. Let's make more tomorrow!"

"Yes, Brother Xu, I can eat ten onion, chive bean dregs cakes in one meal, and I must make fifty or sixty tomorrow!" Niu Dashi licked his fingers and stared at the half pancake in Chen Xu's hand and swallowed his saliva.

"Yes, ten yuan per person, you can bring the money, I'll make a hundred for you!" Chen Xu said while eating.

Niu Dashi shook his neck and shook his head: "Then forget it! I have only saved more than 100 yuan in total."

"Dashi, don't listen to Xiaoxu's random words. Come on, drink some soy milk mixed with honey!" Chen Jiang handed Niu Dashi a bowl of soy milk with a little honey in it.

"Thank you aunt~" Niu Dashi hurriedly took it over.

"Wuya, I'll give you a bowl!" Yu Wuya also quickly came over and thanked him repeatedly, and then a group of people sat under the pergola and started drinking soy milk.

"The color of soy milk is like milk, which is rich in fragrance and delicious, and is much better than herbal tea. It is not suitable to call soy milk. Wuya thinks it is more suitable to call soy milk!" Yu Wuya exclaimed while drinking.

"Yes, soy milk, Xing'er loves to drink it the most!" Xing'er immediately shouted loudly.

Chen Xu:...

This foodie Yu Wuya is indeed not an ordinary foodie. She could think of her name more than two thousand years later. Such a novel idea made Chen Xu feel impressed.

"By the way, Brother Xu, are we going to the river beach to get the honeycomb back? We can probably get more than ten kilograms of honey, so we can drink honey soy milk every day in the future!" Niu Dashi licked a bowl of soy milk after drinking a few gulps and licked his mouth.

"Your idea of ​​losing your children and grandchildren is not good. I will make a beehive tomorrow and catch the bees and raise them in the beehive. From now on, I will eat honey every year!" Chen Xu said angrily.

"Bees... can be caught and raised?" Not only Niu Dashi's eyes almost fell out in surprise, but Yu Wuya and Xing'er, Chen Jiangshi were all staring at Chen Xu together.

"What's so strange about raising bees when I come back? Someone is raising tigers!" Chen Xu said disdainfully.

"Tigers can indeed be raised. If you catch a cub and raise it slowly, you won't be so fierce. But... but... the little bee..." Yu Wuya's mouth grew for a long time and finally found his soul that almost disappeared. He stuttered: "My beloved, Wuya has also observed several times in Funiu Mountain. There are at least thousands or even tens of thousands of bees in a nest. Each one is a little bigger than beans, and there are tail thorns. If you catch them one by one, you will have to catch them... At the time, the bees will sting people. This task is absolutely... it will be completely impossible to succeed!"

"You don't believe me, I can catch the bees, right?" Chen Xu curled his lips and looked at Yu Wuya and Niu Dashi.

"Wuya absolutely doesn't believe it!" Yu Wuya shook his head vigorously.

Although he knew that Chen Xu was amazing, he had thousands or tens of thousands of bees in a nest, and it was difficult to catch them one by one. No matter how magical Chen Xu was, he would definitely not succeed. Unless he really knew the magic of immortals, Chen Xu obviously did not know that. He just obtained three volumes of heavenly books by Taiyi Tianzun, and he had only learned a little bit of fur.

"Brother Xu, if you can catch the bees and raise them, I... I will eat the half stone mill!" Niu Dashi looked around and pointed at the thing that tested his teeth with confidence to express his firm position.

"I'll eat my other half!" Yu Wuya said that eating mill +1.

"Haha, okay, when I make the beehive, you two will prepare to eat the stone mill!" Chen Xu laughed, then finished the remaining onion, chive bean dregs in his hand in a few bites, drank a bowl of soy milk, then yelled at the mouth and searched the guy, and then began to arrange Niu Dashi and Yu Wuya to help, one saw the wooden board and the other to help himself, and the other started making the beehive.

The structure of the beehive is extremely simple. In fact, it is just a wooden box. A small gap can be opened on the side that allows bees to enter and exit. In order to facilitate honey harvesting, the lid on the top must be made to move. There can also be small boxes in one grid to facilitate bees to build nests. However, if you are lazy, you can not do it. The bees will naturally build nests on the walls of the box around the beehive. However, it is a little more troublesome to take honey. You need to dig out the beehive to get it. However, since Chen Xu wants to do it, it is naturally more convenient to do it and prepare to make a full set.

Although Yu Wuya bet that Chen Xu could not catch the bees, he was not lazy at all about Chen Xu's arrangements. He was also full of interest. He worked hard to saw the wooden boards and strips with a copper saw. The wood was left over from the last house built. It was almost dry after more than two months of drying. Although it was a little cracked, it did not affect the use.

Chen Xu took out a complete set of woodworking equipment he had made in the town by blacksmiths and carpenters, set up a horse horse, and took out a carpenter's posture to start making beehives.

Because Chen Xu felt it was inconvenient to use a chisel to make a pure copper hand drill, which was about two feet long and curved handle, and a fixed-sized drill bit in front of it. Because the twisting is not done well, the threads of the drill bit look very rough. However, Chen Xu has tried it several times, and there is no problem with drilling wood. Therefore, after this tool was made, the hemp rod was regarded as a magical object. Because it is indeed easy to use, Liu Erwa, a carpenter in the town, customized five bronze hand drills with different thicknesses in one breath.

In addition to the bronze hand drill, Chen Xu also invented and made another type of hand drill for woodworking. The bow-shaped pull drill is a heavy wooden rudder under a wooden bow. When used, first wrap the rope on the bow on the middle main rod, and then press the bow arm with both hands to drive the wooden rudder to rotate and generate a lot of kinetic energy. This way the drill bit can rotate, and at the same time it also drives the bow rope to wind the main rod. After the kinetic energy is exhausted, press down the wooden bow arm again, and the steering wheel will start to rotate in reverse. Repeat this process and the hand drill can rotate continuously, driving the drill.

The head drills into the wood, but because the kinetic energy of this kind of traction drill is too small, it can only drill very shallow and small holes. At most, it is used to make bamboo nail holes for splicing, but it is very useful. Because this era does not have very fine metal nails like later generations, it is very troublesome to splice the wood into molding, especially for very thin wooden boards, which are not good without good glue. The leather glue and bone glue are too expensive and time-consuming to make. Therefore, with this kind of traction drill, it is completely a very great invention to splice the wooden board with bamboo nails, which is easy to do and labor-saving.

In addition, Chen Xu also made two hand planers to make the planer planer smooth and smooth. The Qin Dynasty had already existed. Legend has it that it was invented by Gongshu Pan (that is, Lu Ban) and is basically not much different from the hand planer in two thousand years later. Other tools such as curve rulers, angle rulers, ink buckets and other tools were also neatly prepared. There are more than ten kinds of axes, chisels, saws.

These woodworking tools were always available in Chen Xu's family in later generations. They were all handed down from their ancestors and used for several generations. Then, in his generation, they basically cut off their inheritance. Grandpa was an old carpenter and was a good master in making chairs, tables, stools, cabinets. They were very famous in the nearby villages. In the past, when a family wanted to marry a daughter, they had to say hello a year in advance to finish the dowry on time. At that time, the dowry usually had wooden beds and several large wooden cabinets and wooden tables, and there were boxes for clothes and bedding, face wash stands, chairs and stools could only be considered small pieces. After finishing, they had to paint three times, and then they had to paint them on them that showed wealth and festive peonies, flowers and birds and big red characters. The whole set was quite cumbersome, and it took two or three months to finish.

However, after my grandfather passed away, my father did not work as a carpenter, so his carpenter level was only half a bachelor's degree. He could repair stools and doors and windows. As for the complex things like building wooden cabinets, he was completely useless. By Chen Xu's generation, his skills were completely abandoned and he could hardly know anything.

But even so, as the saying goes, I have never eaten pork and seen pig runs. Chen Xu has seen these tools and methods at home since he was a child. Therefore, after buying these carpenters, after several attempts, he has become a little carpenter's style. At least he squinted his eyes and looked at the corners. This action looks very sophisticated and in place.

A simple beehive was declared completed in less than an hour with the efforts of three people.

"Brother Xu, you can go and see you catch bees now!" Niu Dashi was very excited.

Although he was sure that Chen Xu said that catching bees and raising them would definitely not succeed, he was still as curious as Yu Wuya.

"It's too late today. Let's go tomorrow. You have to prepare some things!" At this time, the sun had already begun to set, and Chen Xu was too lazy to go. He wanted to collect all the bees in the tree hole into the beehive, and it would take at least one or two hours to slowly get it.

After dinner in the evening, Chen Xu asked Chen Jiangshi to sew a straw hat with sparsely meshed gauze to be a beekeeper's hood. At the same time, she sat a large cloak with a thick burlap, which could cover everything from head to toe. For safety, Chen Xu also asked Chen Jiangshi to help make a pair of gloves. It was already very late to prepare everything.

"My benefactor, I almost died when I went to Xianyang Wuya this time. Fortunately, I was rescued by my senior brother!" After washing up, the two went into the house to go to bed. Yu Wuya followed behind and suddenly said.

"We have guessed why your senior brother suddenly ran to Xianyang?"

"The eldest brother is preparing to assassinate the First Emperor Zhao Zheng..."

"Puuu~" Chen Xu, who was sitting by the bed, wiping his feet, stood on the ground, then got up with horror, grabbed Yu Wuya's arm, and asked with distorted face: "Why did you come back so long to tell this? How do they plan to assassinate the emperor?"
Chapter completed!