jdhmnovel Chapter 401: Rare Species
Chapter 401: Rare Species
The next morning, the sky was still gray and foggy. After the rooster crowed, the door was creaked open.
It would be the beginning of the morning hour, which was still early for making a wish, but for the farmers, they had already woken up by then.
There was a faint candlelight in the kitchen. After Xuyuan simply washed and tidied up, he first cooked the porridge and then went to the wooden basin where the glutinous rice and malt were placed.
After opening the sealed mouth of the basin, the paste of glutinous rice and malt fermented into juice. Xuyuan smelled the sweet flavor, picked up the juice with chopsticks, tasted it, and it was sweet.
Take out the gauze, pour the paste on it, squeeze out all the water, and the filtered juice is a little turbid and looks like the color of yellow mud water. Xu Yuan filtered it again to make it clear and free of impurities, and then pour all the filtered juice into the pot.
At this time Xu Zhi also got up, cleaned himself up, and came to the stove.
"Sister, has this fermented into juice?"
Xu Zhi asked in surprise when he saw a large pot of yellow juice.
"Well, it's just the last step." Xu Yuan squatted in front of the stove, lit a big fire in the stove, and then looked at the porridge cooking in the stove on the other side.
"Xiaozhi, help me watch the fire."
Xu Yuan said to Xu Zhi, and then took a wooden spoon and began to stir the pot to prevent it from sticking and burning. Until the juice in the pot began to bubble, Xu Yuan's hands still did not stop, stirring all the time, and asked Xu Zhi to turn down the fire.
The yellow juice gradually turned into a brownish color, which looked very tempting. The bubbles rising in the pot became dense. Xu Yuan picked up the wooden spoon and found that the liquid he touched was enough to coat the spoon. At this point, it was ready.
Xu Zhi kept a close eye on the changes in the pot. When the color turned darker than honey and felt sticky, she knew that her sister had succeeded.
This situation is almost the same as boiling malt sugar into syrup.
Without Xu Yuan's reminder, Xu Zhi consciously removed the little firewood in the pot. Xu Yuan took a small jar and scooped all the syrup boiled in the pot into the jar, waiting for it to cool down.
After working for most of the day, when they finished all this, it was already bright. Lai Fu's howling could be heard from the yard, but Xu Yuan and Xu Zhi were already used to it.
The porridge was already cooked. Xu Yuan grabbed a handful of pickled Cantonese vegetables, washed them with hot water, and fried them with dried chilies and ginger until the moisture was dry.
Xu Zhi went to the utility room and brought back a bucket of mixed hay, grass leaves and bran. He added a spoonful of hot water, mixed it well, and then took it to feed the livestock at home.
The sun gradually rose and the fog dissipated.
Xuyuan tore off the tarpaulin, spread out the rolled up bamboo mat, and used a rice rake to spread out all the piled rice evenly.
Early in the morning, I was sweating all over after making a wish.
After Xu Zhi finished feeding the livestock, he came over to help with his sleeves rolled up. Only then did many of the Japanese fruits slowly wake up.
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"Sister, why didn't you wake me up? I still want to see how malt and glutinous rice are turned into maltose." Xuanyu looked at the jar full of syrup, curled his lips and muttered.
"It's just fermented juice. Just boil the juice until it becomes like this." Xu Zhi pinched his chubby cheeks and replied.
"Second sister, don't pinch my face. I'm not a three-year-old child anymore." Xuanyi took Xu Zhi's hand that was pinching his face, rubbed his face, and said seriously.
"Pfft..."
Three laughs rang out in the room.
"Hahaha, okay, okay, you are a four-year-old child, that's okay." Xu Zhi said with a smile.
"Well, four-year-old kid, hurry up and eat breakfast, you have to go to school soon." Xuyuan joked.
Guozi almost spit out a mouthful of porridge and quickly covered his mouth.
Many people's faces turned red when they heard everyone's laughter. They snorted, picked up the bowl of porridge in front of them, and drank it down in one gulp.
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After Xuanyu and Heguozi went to the village school, Xuyuan locked the door, pulled the cart with Xu Zhi to the peanut field.
After finishing the work on the rice, it's the peanuts' turn next.
The sun was shining brightly at this time, but the ground was still wet from the rain last night. The two men sat on low stools and easily pulled up the peanut seedlings.
Peanuts and yellow mud were also picked up. Xu Yuan stood up and set up a large homemade umbrella shed, which was covered with straw to block the scorching sun. The two of them picked the peanuts and threw them into the basket.
Suddenly, there was a rustling sound in the peanut field. The peanut seedlings were shaking violently, and it seemed like something was jumping underneath.
Xuyuan picked up a piece of soil and threw it towards the place where the sound came from.
All of a sudden, the stems of the peanut seedlings began to shake more violently, revealing their movement tracks, and then they disappeared in a flash, and everything returned to calm.
"Sister, could it be rats?" Xu Zhi guessed. After all, the peanut field was most likely to attract rats that could dig holes and specifically destroy the crops.
"Yes, it's a mouse."
Xuyuan responded, looking away and continuing to play with the peanuts.
Suddenly, a "ding" notification sound came from his mind. Xu Yuan paused and received the message.
It was the mutated vines that attached to the big tree last night that sensed the pyrogen. After the image appeared in her mind, Xu Yuan was slightly amazed in her heart.
It’s true, this paradise really is a paradise on earth. What kind of species can appear in this precious land? It’s so strange that even making a wish is enough.
But she had never seen a panda cub here before, not even in her previous life. It was a rare and precious species in the wild!
"Sister, sister?"
Xu Zhi turned around and saw that his elder sister was standing there in a daze, but her hands did not stop moving. Looking at the peanuts all over the ground, Xu Zhi was stunned for a while, then raised his hands, clapped in front of Xu Yuan, and shouted hurriedly.
"What's wrong?" Xu Yuan reacted quickly, broke away from the image in his mind, and returned to normal. He looked at Xu Zhi who looked worried, and asked.
"Sister, what happened to you just now? You didn't respond when I called you?"
"Maybe I was thinking about something else and didn't notice."
"Oh. Then sister, you...you should take a look at your..."
Xu Zhi didn't know what to say. He sighed slightly, squatted forward and picked up the peanuts.
Xu Yuan looked at the peanut seedlings in the basket and the peanuts scattered on the ground, and suddenly felt that he had done something stupid. He should not have clicked on it.
But the panda cub was really cute, chubby, and had fluffy fur. If the timing was right, I would have wanted to go to the scene and touch its furry fur.