"How's it going?" Mrs. Xu asked as she opened the door curtain.
Xu Tianxin’s earthen jars that he found from various houses in the village are now placed on the floor of his sleeping room.
There are also three temporary small stoves set up here for cooking brine.
Hearing this, Xu Tianxin raised a slightly excited face and said:
"Milk, I originally planned to use a stupid method. First use diluted brine to evaporate in the sun and then precipitate the crystals. Only by precipitating the crystals can the impurities be removed and precipitated.
I thought it would take a few days for the test to be successful.
As a result, some family members in the live broadcast room, including her husband, the chemistry teacher, were called. Some families have children who are in school and have just completed this experiment. They asked about the steps and wrote them down.
There was also a family member who also called her doctor friend..."
In short, there are many experts in the live broadcast room, telling her to directly use modern industrial purification methods. The formulas are listed one after another, and they also help to find the filtrate that can be used here, such as hydrated lime liquid, such as filtration with plant ash. The solution can remove excess calcium ions.
She has now made coarse salt from fishing salt, and the next step is to make refined salt.
When Mrs. Xu heard this, she first looked at the two layers of filters and one layer of gauze in the small pot and the lime-like coarse salt in the bowl next to it. Then she held her granddaughter's shoulders and faced her. She clasped her hands and thanked the camera:
"Thank you to my family. If you don't want to talk about finding someone, my grandma is a bit warm-hearted. You can watch my live broadcast and you are also warm-hearted.
I finally figured it out, and it’s even better this time. My family doesn’t know how to make salt, so I don’t waste time watching the live broadcast. This is the gain.
What should I do if there is no salt when cooking at home?
It doesn't matter, we've learned everything through this.
It's more convenient for you. You can drive to the beach and fill a few buckets of water and come back to clean up the salt. "
Even Xu Tianxin couldn't help but laugh when he heard this: "Mistress, pull it off quickly. Family members are saying on the screen that they don't need to break the law. They can go downstairs and spend two yuan to buy a bag of salt, and drive to the beach to fill it with water and boil it." Not enough gas money.”
Mrs. Xu immediately covered her heart: "No, grandma can't listen to this. She is too jealous and envious."
All the family members in the live broadcast room laughed.
Xu Tianxin told Mrs. Xu: "Milk, I plan to filter out some more salt that does not contain iodine. I also need to build a small stove and a small pot."
"Why, don't bother. We can't do it here. We have iodine deficiency. Some villages have the endemic disease Big Neck Root, which is caused by iodine deficiency. Just eat salt normally, but the iodine is not enough."
"I plan to make some salt water and borrow Grandpa Lizheng's small scale. I can adjust it when needed. It should be no problem for oral and nasal rinses and simple external use."
Xu Tianxin mainly wants to use it to wipe her face and occasionally apply it on her face. She has many skin problems.
And this salt water cannot be called physiological saline.
Xu Tianxin knew that although the chemical composition was the same, both sodium hydrogen dioxide and sodium chloride, it could not be used for infusion. Injecting this "salt water" into the blood could easily cause skin ulcers and soft tissue necrosis.
Those that can be used for infusion need to be sterile, but the concentration of saline and the amount used for each blood type are also different.
Xu Tianxin only mentioned physiological saline. Someone in the live broadcast room suggested trying distillation if you want to be sterile. Someone also posted a diagram of the distillation equipment, but it disappeared as soon as it was posted. Then Mrs. Xu watched helplessly. Until her granddaughter bangs smoked.
"Emma, babies, it seems they don't have saline solution here, so let's not worry about it. You don't know, and you won't ask us to ask for more information, unless our children can do it themselves, or there is already one here. . Otherwise, if I ask you one more question, it will harm the hairs of our children."
It's over, the bangs that have just grown out are curled up again, but they are on fire in another place.
Xu Tianxin reassured her that it was okay, she was not bad at all.
While he hurriedly motioned to grandma to keep her voice down, her aunt was killing fish in the yard, so don't let her call her into the house.
She secretly made salt, and they planned not to mention it to anyone.
Because of the private salt production, the nine tribes here will really lose their heads.
I heard that if she was discovered, her uncle and grandma would be beheaded, not counting the whole family. Every dog in the village would be slapped twice when they passed by, the eggs would be shaken to loosen their yellow color, all the rats in each house would be skinned, and the ants would be scalded with boiling water. Even the insoles of your shoes were burned, and every family in the village was guilty of making illegal salt even if they didn't notice, and even a child under one month old would have his brains broken.
They were afraid of scaring Yu Qinniang so much that she couldn't sleep, so they had to do many things secretly.
Only then did Mrs. Xu say hello to the family members in the live broadcast room:
"Okay, my wife has been killing fish all night. My dears, grandma will go to the kitchen to cook fish first. You guys are playing with salt here. It's a good time. Don't quarrel.
Well, you don’t have to stay up all night to do it. There is a lot of work during the day, so every family in the village has to stay up all night. They are all cooking fish, and the nets are also being lowered on the other side of the dam.
Let Tian Xin make the salt later, and take you to various houses for a walk when you have time. There are many people with a larger population than ours, and there are more jobs than you can imagine.
You have to move forward with any work, right? Who knows when this weather will end, everyone is seizing the time to do it.
I don’t have time to tell others. In fact, our pickles are only pickled in two small jars, and the sauerkraut is not pickled. Otherwise, what are we going to eat in winter?
Yes, what kind of pastoral life? It's different from what you imagined. There's nothing beautiful about it. It's all about moving forward with a heavy burden. Even drinking water has to be fetched from the well, and the stove ashes are enough every day.
What do you guys ask me? Ah, sauerkraut, I plan to pickle four big tanks of sauerkraut this year..."
After talking about this for a while, Mrs. Xu slapped her thigh and remembered that the house didn't even have enough tanks. It seemed that she had to ask someone to help buy a few large tanks and push them back. This was really starting from scratch.
So why haven't her silly sons come back yet?
Why are there still people saying that her fourth son is digging sewers in the county?
Mingming and their grandmother went to the county town to help out at Wang Yuan's maternal home.
It is said that there is a large fruit grove in Wang Yuan's farm, which is a good life, not too tiring and not dangerous. Working from dawn to dusk, I would be given as many cash as the number of bags of fruit I helped pick. A person could earn seventy or eighty cash in a day if he couldn't prepare enough. This is enough for a month, and one person can earn two taels of silver no matter what he does.
Even if they don't care about the food, they are not allowed to cook, saying that open fires are not allowed in the forest.
As for accommodation, who knows how to live there, maybe build a shed and sleep on a wooden board in a Datong bunk.
So before leaving, I gave the three brothers the less than two taels of silver left at home after paying the grain tax to take with them, thinking about finding someone to work with near Zhuangzi to buy dry food.
Mrs. Xu was hiding something in her mind, thinking that she would wait until some condoms were made. If her cheap sons hadn't come back yet, she would really have to go to the county town to have a look.
Find Wang Yuan's wife, Zhuangzi, and ask why the fourth child was rumored to be digging sewers in Wangjiagou, and where the fourth child is.
At the same time, he brought back a large pot of carp from Yu Qinniang and brought it into the kitchen.
Yu Qinniang thought that her mother-in-law disliked the mosquitoes outside and wanted to pickle them in the kitchen, so she didn't ask any questions and continued to catch and kill fish outside.
Yu Qinniang killed more than a hundred fish this night, her hands were bloody and wrinkled from soaking, and the large basin of water at her feet for washing the belly of the fish was also red.
But after Mrs. Xu brought the basin into the house, she scooped out water and washed the fish twice. Then she chopped off the fish head, opened the flames that had been suppressed in the stove pit, put the fish in the drawer and steamed it in the pot. got up.
While steaming the fish, Mrs. Xu was not idle. She used a small stone mill to crush the peppercorns borrowed from Wanjia, which were used to marinate the cured fish.
The more than 20 kilograms of large carp she is putting into the pot to steam is intended to be made into fish floss.
Her granddaughter likes to eat fish floss very much.
In the past, when her granddaughter was in school, she would cook egg drop porridge for her children in the morning, served with fried dough sticks, a pie, and sometimes a piece of bread, and then open the can of meat floss.
So she planned to make fish floss for her granddaughter. In ancient times, she couldn't afford bread slices and meat pies, so she couldn't eat fish floss with steamed buns and drink egg drop soup? Have a meal of isinglass and milk soup at noon and in the evening.
Just wait until next year, this year is too late.
Next year she plans to catch some chickens, ducks and geese to breed and pickle some salted duck eggs for her granddaughter. It would be best for Liu Laozhu to cooperate with her. She is also interested in the stretch of wild grassland next to the dam in the village, and she doesn't know where to buy it. How much does it cost.
Next year I want to use that land to catch some lambs and raise them again.
When the time comes, I want to gather wool to give my granddaughter a wool quilt and knit a wool jacket and trousers to wear underneath. Otherwise, when the coldest here is minus 40 degrees Celsius, it would be cold just wearing cotton-padded clothes. With sweaters and woolen trousers, it is also convenient to sit on the kang, read, write, play experiments and so on.
Mrs. Xu thought about this in her mind and opened the lid of the big pot. At this time, the fish had been steamed.
First pick out all the fish bones visible to the naked eye.
Mrs. Xu was so hot that she hissed and put the fish bones she picked out into the bowl. I can’t throw it away. What are the conditions at home? Throw everything away.
The soup with big fish bones and fish heads is delicious. It is better to add some rice noodles and vegetables to the fish soup and pour some chili oil. It is delicious.
For example, if there is a lot of oil at home, you can fry fish bones and mix in some salt and pepper to give to your granddaughter as a snack.
But now they can't afford to fry them, so they can only keep the small fish bones and grind them into powder to raise chickens and ducks as feed next year. I heard that feeding cats is better, Guan Ertu told me.
Old Mrs. Xu was optimistic that the Erbald Man could use anything as waste.
There are things like fermented radish skins, swilled egg drop soup, and ninety-nine times the soup, give him a piece of the river, and he can't wait to make a bunch of messy things.
Guan Ertu also mysteriously said that he would use fish bones to make fish bone powder and use it for medicine. We don't know what kind of medicine.
And I heard that he even ordered fish scales from various stores in the village and refused to throw them away.
You think this is a very big man, how can he live better than an old lady like her?
I was told that eating fish scales can relieve constipation and detoxify the body. People who don’t have pain in their arms and legs can eat it. He also specifically told her, reminding her that most people wouldn't tell her, and asked her to go home and wash the fish scales with vinegar, add some green onions and ginger slices, steam them into fish scales and eat them as jelly.
We won't eat it because there are parasites on it.
Later, she deliberately quickened her pace and left, not daring to chat with the two bald men again. Because after the old boy finished talking about condoms, he slapped his forehead again and said he wanted to collaborate with her on fish scale jelly. Forget about cooperation, let her pay some money for the dried sweet-scented osmanthus and some money for seasoning to remove the fishy smell, saying that she would be sure to take a bite of the sweet-scented osmanthus fish jelly, which is smooth and delicious.
After chatting for a while, the old guy defrauded me of a few coins.
I'm really puzzled that her granddaughter's body hasn't grown as her family has praised her. When she grows up, she will definitely be like modern people. She has that gentle temperament when she stands and walks. How to describe a girl? It doesn't seem to be good to be polite and polite, but is the person as pale as a chrysanthemum? Looking at Guan Ertu again, he is also a doctor who exudes the air of a charlatan.
After picking out all the fish bones, Mrs. Xu started frying the fish floss.
This is a tiring job, and you have to stir-fry it repeatedly for four or five hours until it is soft and soft.
So Xu Tianxin has successfully made a small bowl of refined salt, and there is still the sound of a wok in the kitchen. Yu Qiniang, who was in the yard, also looked up at the sky by the light of the wormwood fire. She didn't dare to sleep until her mother-in-law slept, so she continued to kill fish until dawn.
What Mrs. Xu didn't know was that the lights on the east side of her home were so bright that the boys patrolling in the village didn't dare to be lazy.
That was the convener’s home. What if I deducted work points from them later? He opened the door and asked Yu Qiniang: “Give us the bucket. We are idle, patrolling and walking around, and picking up the well water.” .”
At this time, Xu Tianxin also came to the kitchen and saw grandma frying fish floss. He quickly grabbed the shovel and took over: "Grandma, are you exhausted?"
"Not tired."
Mrs. Xu shook her sore arm and asked her granddaughter: "Is there anyone else in the live broadcast room?"
"There are more than 300 people online." Others had gone to bed while she was making salt.
Old Mrs. Xu didn’t understand why so many people were still up late at night. She had to coax them to sleep. “What’s wrong? Children, if you really have any difficulties or something you can’t think of, come to me to sort it out.” Ping Naolao, grandma doesn’t understand, and there are so many people who help with advice. If you ask what profession everyone has, there are sales doctors and lawyers. Besides, if you look at our grandparents, there are no obstacles that we can’t overcome. If you want to eat salt, you have to be full of calculations, how can you still suffer more than us?"
As a qualified anchor, Mrs. Xu pointed at the pot and stirred up the atmosphere and said with a smile:
"How about this? Since I'm not sleeping, I'll learn to make fish floss with my grandma.
For example, if you have a child over eight months old at home, you have to add this small food supplement. Who knows what additives are available when buying it outside? I learned from my grandma and don’t add salt when making it for children. Once you make it, it will be enough for more than one child. moon.
Those who put salt like me can store it for at least three or four months. I put a desiccant bag inside. What is a desiccant? Just lime. In the past, in the 1970s and 1980s, there was no such thing as a shelf life. Some people could even store it for a year once they made it. "
Mrs. Xu used these words to slow down her arms, then grabbed the spatula and continued to stir-fry.
She was reluctant to let her granddaughter work more. She was busy making salt and squatted all night. Besides, she was only thirteen years old, so she was too tired to grow taller.
"You just sit on the small bench and burn firewood for the milk. It just allows me and my family members who are not sleeping to chat and tell me how to make fish floss. By the way, my family can do a favor for grandma and help me check out the fish floss and other fish floss. Which method is more delicious? It’s the simplest way for me. I learned it from my colleagues back home in Wusuli River when I was working: steam it, steam it, stir-fry it, stir-fry it... Emma!"
There was a smell of paste.
Mrs. Xu's first reaction was that her granddaughter was sleepy and did not pay attention when lighting firewood. Her head accidentally got into the pit of the stove and burned her hair.
But when Xu Tianxin stood up, she realized that the top of her head near her bangs was smoking. It wasn't an open flame, but just a bunch of smoke. This was the God of Wealth punishing us for using unfair means to compete. ?
Mrs. Xu slapped her granddaughter on the head one after another to extinguish the fire, and said angrily: "What are you doing? We can't talk properly after we close our mouths. Who knows which words will catch fire? If you continue to burn our children like this, , it’s almost going to be San Mao’s Wandering Chronicle. Besides, I didn’t say anything, what’s the big deal about fish floss...?”
Xu Tianxin tugged at the corner of her milkcoat. You can't ask how it was cooked, because: "There is no fish floss in this dynasty."
