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Chapter 109
With so many layers of cover, the holes are almost covered, casting a cool shadow.
The height of the stall table is determined according to the height of the little girl. Sitting on the Luban chair, Ru Ru can rest her hands on the table, and the sitting height is just right and comfortable.
She didn't put too many fruits and vegetables, and put five of the best-selling ones at the stall one by one, so as not to put too much and not be able to sell them, but instead they would be damaged due to the weather.
Li Xiaoxiao picked up two slices of watermelon and handed them to the soldier beside him: "Hurry up, help me out, it will go bad if you don't eat it."
Her tone was urgent, and her expressions and movements were also urgent. Brother Bing didn't think clearly at all. He only heard the two keywords of help and breaking, and the watermelon was close to his mouth. He instinctively opened his mouth and ate the watermelon.go down.
After tasting the sweet but not greasy taste, Brother Bing realized that he shouldn't eat Li Xiaoxiao's food. The glass of watermelon juice before was already against the rules, so he couldn't make the same mistake again.
Li Xiaoxiao saw Brother Bing paused and said: "If you have eaten this watermelon, others will not eat it. If you don't eat such a big piece, it would be a waste to throw it away."
Brother Bing felt sorry for the watermelon, but he also felt that Li Xiaoxiao's words were wrong, and he used his point before to make him drink the watermelon juice.
Li Xiaoxiao saw what Brother Bing was thinking and said, "Hey, just now you helped us set up the stall. I don't like to owe favors to others. If I owe it to me, I won't be able to eat well or sleep well. You eat the watermelon, weAs long as we don’t owe each other, I can be comfortable.”
She talked about this, and Brother Bing ate the watermelon, and the sweet taste spread in his body. All the people here are good people, and he likes to protect good people, which makes him full of motivation and feels that his work is very meaningful.
Li Xiaoxiao stayed with the little girl for a while and then left, leaving her to guard the stall alone.
The adults around her were not around, so Ru Ru was so nervous, but fortunately, there was still her elder brother who was a soldier. She took a deep breath, looked around, and waited for customers to come to her door.Two people got down, looked around and wanted to walk into the farm.
Ru Ru knew that they were here for shopping and needed to let them come to her place, but she opened her mouth and couldn't make a sound. Seeing that they were going to enter the farm, and there would be delays for her sister, Ru Ru was very anxious., thinking that my sister would disappoint me...
She closed her eyes and shouted like a salesman: "Fresh fruits and vegetables are cheap——"
Those two people noticed the small stall next to the guard booth, which looked like the kind of small stalls that were placed on the edge of the scenic spot before the disaster, selling home-grown fruits, and they turned around and walked towards Ru Ru.
The little girl tensed her back, and stared at the two men in front of her in a serious manner. She realized that the two middle-aged women were very similar to Wang Yinghua, who bullied her at the Chashan Farm, no matter in size or appearance.Aunt Song, bad memories surfaced, her already tense heart trembled even her thighs at this moment.
The two became impatient with the wait: "Oh, why are you weighing one by one? When will this be weighed? Why don't you just weigh them and add them together?"
"That's right, do the math yourself, don't be so troublesome and waste our time."
Ru Ru was urged to sweat on her forehead, but she still insisted on following her own instructions. She couldn't make mistakes and let her sister earn less sweet potato noodles.
The two of them wanted to say something, but the door of the guard booth next door opened suddenly, and Brother Bing strode out from inside.The action was a lot smoother, and he successfully weighed out the weight of four potatoes and one cabbage.
That's right, the amount of sweet potato noodles is just right.
Ru Ru's brows stretched open: "Sorry for keeping you waiting, I'll get you bags."
Facing the little girl's sweet smiling face, the two of them were a little embarrassed, and felt that they were being a little harsh just now. In fact, they didn't wait long, less than three minutes. Anyway, the bus didn't come, so they had to wait here and couldn't leave.
"It's okay, it's because I'm in a hurry, it has nothing to do with you."
"The little girl is quite nimble, and I will come to you to buy next time."
When Ru Ru was praised, her face turned a little red, thinking that such a tall woman is not always a bad person like Wang Yinghua, and when she sent the two of them to the bus, the joy in her heart had not faded.After thanking him, I asked the other party to look after the stall, and hurried back to the farm to replenish the potatoes and cabbages.
Ru Ru made a deal and successfully received the sweet potato noodles, which boosted her confidence. In fact, it's not that difficult. She will definitely not let her sister down.
Seeing the little girl come back with a small bag of sweet potato noodles, Li Xiaoxiao said in surprise, "The business has been done so quickly, our Ru Ru is really good."
Ru Ru was even happier, her big eyes couldn't hold the light inside, she clenched her small fists and felt full of motivation.
Li Xiaoxiao didn't dare to touch the stone crab for the time being, fearing that it might not be done properly. When more and more shells came out, she pinched the edge of the old shell, and the touch was still very soft, and she could even rub it at will.
The point where she rolled was stuck together.
Li Xiaoxiao stared at this scene thoughtfully, patiently waiting for the stone crab to shed its shell, picked up the old shell, and tried to knead it into a ball like plasticine, and she really succeeded.
She knows what's going on with this thing!
She moved her fingers, rubbed the crab shell mud into a long and thin strip, bent the trace of a sickle on the top, and touched the edge of the knife. A crooked sickle was barely finished. Whether it can be used depends on the futureWill the crab shell harden.
Li Xiaoxiao remembered that the crab shells she picked up in the mist were hard, but she didn't know whether it was the stone crab's shell that had fallen off or was left behind after being eaten.
She didn't have time to wait here. After confirming the direction, she got up and went to the kitchen. She had seen the practice of making homemade yeast powder in a borrowed cookbook.
This made Li Xiaoxiao very excited.
The steamed buns and noodle cakes made by Brother Mo before are all dead noodles, but they are not fermented with yeast powder. The dough made from dead noodles is relatively solid and not fluffy. In fact, it is delicious to eat, but human, What you can’t get is always in a commotion, what you haven’t eaten, it’s like having a taste.
And she also wants to eat fried dough sticks.
Yeast is always added to this dish, and it will be soft and fluffy when fried. It is impossible to imagine what the deep-fried dough sticks fried from dead noodles will look like.
So she is going to try to make homemade yeast powder according to the book.
It is good to have a book as a formula, at least the dosage instructions are all prepared figures, it is not like asking from someone else's mouth, what is a little, and some such units of measurement that can only be understood and cannot be explained, are all based on imagination.
The book says that making yeast powder requires making yeast liquid. This step requires raisins and water. The problem is that she doesn't have raisins, so she can only try with dried mulberries.
"Let me see. The first step is to put the glass bottle in a pot and cook for ten minutes? Let's sterilize it."
Li Xiaoxiao added a ladle of water to the iron pot, then took out a 30 cm high glass bottle, put it in the water for a long time and added firewood to the fire. In order to improve the success of the production, she intentionally boiled it for three minutes longer.
"Then scald the raisins, this is for sterilization, it feels so rigorous."
It's such rigorousness that made her feel bad. She didn't make it according to the ingredients. In the end, is she sure that she can make yeast powder? No matter, try it first.
She scalded the 'raisins' in boiling water, sucked up the water, and put them in a glass bottle. The ratio of water to dried mulberries was three to one. After all this was done, it was time to wait for fermentation.
For this step, the glass bottle should be placed in a warm place. Now the temperature outside is hot in the sun, but it is very cool when you enter the house without the sun. After thinking about it, she thinks that the kitchen is actually good.Relatively high, suitable for fermentation.
After that, it is time to open the bottle once a day to release the gas inside until all the mulberries float up and smell like wine, then it is successful, and then the next step.
Li Xiaoxiao casually placed the glass bottles on the stove, glanced at a row of glass bottles in the corner by the door, black and purple mulberries, light yellow apple flesh, bright red watermelon strawberries and a series of raspberries, soaked inIn the transparent wine water, tiny bubbles appear on the surface of the still motionless wine, which looks quite beautiful.
This is what she used to make fruit wine before, don't know how it works.
Seeing that the little girl was so nervous just now, Li Xiaoxiao turned her head full of courage and eager to try, she couldn't help showing a little smile, thinking that Ru Ru is so confident and not afraid to deal with strangers, she looks very good.
She continued to think about the use of farming tools for stone crabs.
How does this work? In the past, she could ask Brother Mo to use the ability to cut the stone crab into the shape she wanted. Now that she knows the price of his ability, it is impossible for her to ask Brother Mo. She can only use other methods.
She was holding a normal stone in her hand, which was not as hard as the shell of the stone crab. She could still use an awl to carve the stone into the shape she wanted bit by bit, but the shell of the stone crab could not be chiseled at all.
Li Xiaoxiao turned the stone to think, wondering which one is stronger, the stone knife made of crab shell or the stone shield made of crab shell, should she bring another stone crab over and let them fight each other?
She was thinking of wicked ideas, so she didn't pay attention to knocking the stone on the stone crab. She didn't care at first, anyway, the stone crab has such a hard shell, it can't be broken even if it is knocked.
It's just that the stone crab, which was lazy like a tortoise and didn't want to move, suddenly caught the stone as fast as lightning, and she was so startled that she immediately let go of her hand and stepped back.
The stone crab had no intention of attacking her, it just carried the stone to its mouth to eat.
Li Xiaoxiao observed it for a long time, and determined that the stone crabs were only eating the stones little by little, and did not take any other actions. Thinking of Sun Ming's squad leader telling her not to put the stone crabs next to stones or stone products, it turned out that it would become food for stone crabs.It's fine to just say no to this point, it's very necessary to beat around the bush like this.
This thing must not be close to the chicken coop and the textile workshop, otherwise the two stone houses will definitely be eaten out of the hole.
She moved back to the stone crab and stroked its smooth back with her fingers as compensation for scaring her. Not to mention the icy and slippery touch is nice to the touch, the psychological damage must be paid for.
That is to say, the report issued by the patrol battalion said that the stone crab would not attack humans, otherwise she would not be so bold.
I just touched her and felt that the hand didn't feel right. Why did it feel so soft? When she looked down, she accidentally pressed her fingers hard, and she felt her fingers embedded in it...
When she looked down, she saw her fingers pressing into the skull of the stone crab... um...
Li Xiaoxiao quickly withdrew her fingers, put her hands behind her back, stared at the depression on the stone crab's head, worried: "Ah, I'm sorry."
I'm sorry, but it doesn't seem to be useful. It should be concave or not, and I don't know if it can bounce back by itself.
Li Xiaoxiao felt that she had been touched. Obviously this crab is so hard, why she dented her head when she pressed it. This is unscientific.
The dent at the back has never bounced back, and it doesn't look like it can bounce back, so she is even more worried. Is this crab going to live with her finger prints for a lifetime? It's better not to.
Just when Li Xiaoxiao was planning to destroy the corpse in broad daylight, she found that the edge of the stone crab's shell was raised. This was not her illusion. There were more and more raised places, and a crab was about to come out of it.
The stone crab has molted.
She suddenly realized, and said that she pressed the button to make a hole, and it turned out that the crab was about to molt. After all, the newly grown shell of the crab is very soft at this time, and then she realized that something was wrong. Isn’t it that the crab has not successfully molted yet?
When Sister Qing taught her, she said that she could drink it in a day, but the taste of the fruit could not be tasted. Now that it has passed for several days, the fruit taste in the wine should be more important, so you can taste it.
She felt itchy in her heart, so she decided to pour some out and taste the taste. When she opened the glass bottle, she could smell a strong fruity aroma, mixed with the aroma of wine, adding fragrance to the fragrance, and the effect was very good. No wonder Master Li alwaysTalk about wanting to drink.
"This smell," the footsteps came quickly, "is the smell of wine!"
Li Xiaoxiao turned her head, and she saw Master Li: "Uncle, your nose is really good. I just opened it, and you smelled it."
Master Li patted his belly and laughed: "This wine worm that has been raised for decades can't be smelled by others. It must be the first to know when there is wine."
Li Xiaoxiao gave him half of the poured wine, and the two of them sat in a row at the door and drank the wine together.
The taste of baijiu is so spicy. She has never drank baijiu before, so she didn’t know it well. After taking a sip, her whole face was so hot that she wrinkled her eyes, and her tears almost came out. She smashed her mouth hard, trying to get the spicy taste outGet rid of it, but taste deeper and deeper, and in the end, in the spicy wine, taste a little sweetness of apple, which softens the spiciness of the wine very well.
It's just that the sweetness is not obvious. If the apples are soaked for a longer time, the taste should be better.
Li Xiaoxiao asked back: "Otherwise?"
Master Li had nothing to say to his little daughter, so he poured down the shallow wine in one gulp, let go of the taste, stood up full of energy, and went to work on the farm.
Su Qing has started weaving again, and is going to make their second set of autumn clothes. This time, they are going to make them bigger so that they can be worn with thicker clothes. After this time, Su Qing will start making winter clothes. The cotton preparation work in the early stage is not counted.As for the meticulous work, Master Li, Li Bo, and the others will help Su Qing do it if they are free, and let her concentrate on weaving.
The following days passed in an orderly manner, and the influence of the red moon was completely digested.
The fog this time is much larger than the mutated wasp brought last time, which is equivalent to making it near home.A copy of resource brushing, the danger is also locked.
She received the miner's hat and flashlight the next day. Li Xiaoxiao was rich and powerful, and equipped everyone in the family with a set to deal with emergencies.
The stone crab shell finally solidified again, and the shape that was squeezed out when it was soft before was retained. She tried to mow grass with that scythe, which felt light and effortless to swing.The grass is not sharp, but it is really strong, so it is better to use it as a hoe.
The problem is that she really doesn't understand farm tools, the thickness of the handle is not made right, it is uncomfortable to hold, the left and right are not symmetrical, and it will always be crooked in the hand, anyway, there are problems everywhere.
Li Xiaoxiao thought that she made a good scythe, but she understood it as soon as she got started. The things she made were given to others for free, and they probably wouldn't take the trouble if they lost it.
Professional things really need professional people to do it, and the master who makes farm tools is not just a respectful title.
She didn't think she could learn how to forge farm tools in a short period of time, and the effect of what she made was still very good, so she told the patrol camp what she had found, and entrusted the camp to make farm tools for herself.
But Master Li looked over pitifully, even if she knew this man was pretending, she couldn't bear to refuse him: "Then have a little more drink?"
Master Li nodded like a pounding garlic: "Okay, okay."
Li Xiaoxiao stared at this man and laughed into a flower, shouting that she was deceived, but what she said was the water that was poured out, which could not be taken back. She could only pour a little more for Master Li, ignoring the other party, "pour some more and pour it again"If it is a little', the poured wine will slightly cover the bottom of the bowl.
Master Li looked at the pitifully small amount of wine, and muttered: "It's really enjoyable, it's really enjoyable."
Li Xiaoxiao directly rejected it: "If I don't sell it, I don't have enough for myself."
Qiang Zi didn't try to persuade them any more. Farmers like them knew best about their own farm. Naturally, as a soldier, they shouldn't meddle in it and persuade others to be struck by lightning indiscriminately.
Before Qiang Zi hung up the phone, Li Xiaoxiao said: "I will drive a pickup truck over here tomorrow. I plan to rent it and prepare more gasoline. I will go out for two or three days."
Although Qiang Zi was curious about where she was going, he didn't ask: "Okay, do you want me to send some people to your farm?"
Li Xiaoxiao didn't refuse: "You don't need to stay on my farm this time. When you are free, just come over more often. I invite you to eat strawberries."
She still remembered that her strawberries had a good reputation in the patrol camp, and many people still think about it.
After Li Xiaoxiao made the phone call, she informed Qiang Zi that she was ready to go out on an adventure with her tomorrow.
She still had a handful of addresses in her hand so she didn't check it