Smash the bamboo mat?
The bamboo mat that was finally woven can be smashed wherever possible. What should I do if it gets smashed, or if it’s half-damaged and scratches someone’s skin?
Jiang Jingwan thought about it for a moment and said, "How about putting a layer of grass on top of the bamboo mat, which is moisture-proof and soft."
She was getting pregnant day by day and couldn't cut bamboo, so she just planned to sleep on this big bamboo mat.
In the past, a layer of branches and then a layer of hay were laid down first. Changing to a bamboo mat and covering it with hay will only make it more comfortable.
Xia Zhi nodded: "Just make the single bamboo mat thinner."
"Sure." Wen Xian nodded and said, "Then take out the hay to dry in the sun and put it on the bed at night. If you want to chop bamboo, go ahead and bring back a basket of chestnuts. I'll make a bamboo basket for catching pheasants at home. I'll bring it with me by the way. Let the boss and the fourth child handle yesterday's chestnuts and bamboo shoots."
Chestnuts and bamboo shoots can be stored for up to a year after being dried properly. This is much better than seafood and wild vegetables.
Therefore, Wen Xian planned to prepare more and save them for the winter.
Chestnuts are particularly prone to small bugs growing inside, so you have to pick them out before handling them. Only pick out the ones that are intact and dispose of them. If the remaining ones have obvious wormholes or are flat, eat them early or throw them away.
Otherwise, during the preservation process, as long as one chestnut rots, more chestnuts will rot.
After sorting the chestnuts, put them all into the large pot on the earth stove, pour water that has covered the chestnuts, and add a tablespoon of salt.
Then, directly stir and wash the chestnuts evenly. This can not only clean the impurities on the surface of the chestnut, but also fully dissolve the salt in the water.
After a simple scrubbing, let the chestnuts soak in salt water for half an hour. During the soaking process, if there are any residual insects in the chestnuts, they will be soaked out.
And salt has the effect of sterilization and disinfection, which can make chestnuts cleaner.
After soaking, take out the chestnuts and lay them flat in a bamboo basket, place them in a ventilated place, and let them dry in the sun for a day or two to completely dry out the water in the chestnuts.
There was still a lot of work to do after drying, so Wen Xian took the time to spread the chestnuts with Jiang Jingwan and Zhou Hui, while telling them the next steps.
After all, she couldn't guard this matter all the time. She also wanted to speed up her pace to find cotton and catch game.
"You also need to prepare some sand and salt. Like chestnuts, the sand needs to be sun-dried for a few days to dry out the water inside."
In fact, liquor is still needed, but now that there is no liquor under this condition, we can only kick this item out.
After preparing the ingredients, pour the dried sand and salt into the pot, turn on high heat, and stir-fry constantly.
Fry until the sand turns white in color, is completely dry, and has no lumps, then turn off the heat. Place the fried sand in a cool and ventilated place and let cool completely.
After the cooled sand and dried chestnuts are ready, find a clean long bamboo tube, first pour a layer of dry sand at the bottom of the bamboo tube, and then add a layer of chestnuts.
Just layer sand and chestnut in this way until the bamboo tube is filled. At the top of the bamboo tube, you need to pour a little more sand to ensure that the chestnuts are completely submerged inside.
Finally, seal the bamboo tube filled with chestnuts and sand and place it in a cool and ventilated place. The chestnuts can be preserved for half a year.
The trouble is a bit troublesome, but as long as you can eat chestnuts in winter, it will be fine.
Zhou Hui was about to speak but hesitated, with a look of confusion on her face: "Madam, we have so many chestnuts, if we put them all in bamboo tubes, how many bamboo tubes will be enough? Besides, the bamboo tubes are long but narrow, and one bamboo tube cannot hold many chestnuts."
The thought of two more chestnut trees made her heart tremble. The chestnuts are all packed in bamboo tubes. I'm afraid they will be piled high and it won't be worth it.
Thinking of the bamboo tube that looked like a pile of firewood, Wen Xian's eyes jumped: "Do you have any good suggestions?"
If it is really packed in a bamboo tube, it seems really not worth it.
Zhou Hui looked embarrassed, but Jiang Jingwan thought for a while and said: "How about digging a hole in the wall of the cave and making a larger bamboo basket. Put the chestnuts and sand into the bamboo basket and stuff it into the cave wall. Inside the cave, the outside is sealed with stones?"
When it comes to airtightness, the dug hole must have its place. In addition, there are bamboo baskets, so the chestnuts will not get wet. It's still on the cave wall and doesn't take up space.
The more Jiang Jingwan thought about it, the more she thought this was a good idea. She raised her head and looked at Wen Xian with bright eyes.
Wen Xian pondered for a moment and said: "This method is very good, but the cave wall is not that easy to cut. You guys try it. If it doesn't work, just build a storage box and put the bamboo basket in it."
Jiang Jingwan and Zhou Hui got excited and immediately went into the cave to dig the wall.
Wen Xian quickly stopped them: "Don't worry, let's process the bamboo shoots first. There aren't many bamboo shoots, so just use bamboo tubes to store them."
If bamboo shoots want to be preserved for a long time, they must be made into dried bamboo shoots.
You must first cut the bamboo shoots into large pieces, put them in a pot with water, add a spoonful of salt, and cook for about a quarter of an hour.
Salt is added to the water, and the bamboo shoots absorb the salt, which is beneficial to long-term storage. But the bamboo shoots should not be cut too thin, otherwise there won’t be much left after drying.
After cooking the bamboo shoots, take them out and soak them in cold water to cool down.
Then lay the bamboo shoot slices flat and dry them in the sun for about three days.
The dried bamboo shoots must also be sealed and stored in a cool and ventilated place to avoid moisture. In this way, these dried bamboo shoots will not go bad even if they are stored for a year.
If stored properly, the texture and taste of bamboo shoots will not change much.
If you want to eat bamboo shoots in the future, you only need to soak the dried bamboo shoots in water for an hour in advance. After soaking, it can be fried, stir-fried, or stewed, and the taste is almost the same as fresh.
After explaining the matter of chestnuts and bamboo shoots, Wen Xian began to weave a bamboo basket with the broken strips last night.
There are not many strips, just enough to weave a bamboo basket for catching pheasants. For storing chestnuts, you can only wait for the few people who cut the bamboo to come back, and then use a big knife to break the bamboo strips.
Wen Xian's fingers were flying and she was weaving the bamboo basket as fast as she could. Then I found a wooden stick about twenty centimeters long, tied it to a long vine, and then carried a bamboo basket with a few cooked chestnuts and clam meat into the mountains.
Zhou Hui once again couldn't help but wanted to go with Wen Xian, but was cruelly rejected again because the chestnuts and bamboo shoots had not been processed yet.
She looked at Wen Xian's retreating back aggrievedly, her eyes very sad.
Jiang Jingwan couldn't help but chuckle and comforted her: "Don't worry, my wife is both civil and military, nothing will happen to her."
Wen Xian didn't think much about it. She was heading to the place where she found the hare. She was going to set a trap there and watch it to see if she could catch pheasants, hares or anything like that.
Unfortunately, things didn't go as planned. Before the trap was set, the familiar sound of the wild boar started coming closer and closer.
A chill ran down Wen Xian's spine, and she couldn't help wailing in her heart. She didn't bring a dagger or a broadsword!
