Mountain driving career since 1982

Chapter 53
After the dumplings are wrapped, put an iron pot on the earthen stove. After the water boils, put the dumplings into the pot one by one.

As the water vapor churned, the dumplings that sank to the bottom gradually floated up and were cooked.

Lu Lu took the wooden bowl, scooped up three full bowls of dumplings and put them on the wooden table, calling for the two to eat.

The two brothers and sisters looked at each other and moved their chopsticks one after another. They had secretly swallowed their saliva several times when they were frying the dumpling stuffing and the aroma was overflowing.

Chen Xiuqing ate one first, and her expression immediately became pleasantly surprised: "This dumpling is delicious!"

Chen Xiuyu also nodded again and again, ate in small bites, while eating, she peeked at Lu Lu who was sitting opposite her, her eyes sparkling.

The lean meat of roe deer, mixed with the tenderloin of brown bear, is evenly fat and thin, and it is fried with lard. It is oily, coupled with the unique fragrance of shepherd's purse.

Lu Lu has already paid for it. White flour, thin meat, and pork suet, for ordinary people, how can they be willing to eat like this.

It's just a simple bowl of dumplings, but the filling is big, the skin is thin, and the meat is full of oil, which is the greatest luxury.

"Eat more if you like. There are quite a lot of dumplings. If you can help me out, I'm afraid I'll have to eat them until the day after tomorrow."

The three of them had fun for a while, and accidentally made dozens of dumplings.

Lu Lu warmly greeted him, seeing that Chen Xiuqing had eaten a big bowl, still not satisfied, so he hurriedly cooked some more.

Whether it is well done or not is another matter, the key is to make people feel full.

This has always been the simplest concept of hospitality for mountain people, and what they pay attention to is a reality.

He and Lu Lu were already acquainted, and they let go when they ate.

After this meal of dumplings, Chen Xiuqing made more than two big bowls, and Chen Xiuyu also ate more than one big bowl. When the brother and sister went back, they thought it was funny to see each other rubbing their bellies from time to time.

Stuffed again.

The most important thing is that Chen Xiuqing is still holding a wooden basin, which is filled with wrapped and uncooked dumplings.

When Lu Lu asked them to take away these dumplings, he said: "You are full, the aunt at home hasn't eaten yet, save her trouble, take it back and let her taste it."

This carefulness made both brothers and sisters feel ashamed.

And Lu Lu, who sent the two brothers and sisters away and returned to the cellar, saw bundles of fresh and tender thorn buds covered with birch bark beside the cellar, and there were a lot of them.

He knew that Chen Xiuyu knew that he liked to eat it, but she was afraid that he would not take it, so she left it on purpose. They were all the best thorn buds.

Lu Lu smiled slightly, took the thorn buds back to the cellar, and did a simple blanching treatment. After draining the water, sprinkle a lot of salt for pickling.

Here's another way to preserve prickly shoots: dry salting.

When the lack of vegetables is taken out to eat, the taste is much better than the dried and preserved thorny shoots.

However, in these days, salt is not cheap, and few people are willing to do so.

After a busy day, after feeding Yuan Baoniang four bear meat, it was already dark early.

In the next few days, the sky was always overcast, and Lu Lu devoted all his energy to making bee barrels.

All handmade, the speed is really slow.

He thought about going to Zhou Fangjing and borrowing his chainsaw, but when he thought of his wife at home, he immediately dismissed the idea.

Until the fifth day, the sky finally cleared up.

In front of the cellar, there are already 25 honeycombs ready.

For a short time, that's enough.

In the morning, Lu Lu went to the meadow and collected a lot of Ula grass. This kind of oblate grass with a length of [-] to [-] centimeters has toughness and strong tensile strength. It is suitable for thatching the roof and keeping warm in cotton shoes in winter. In addition, it is a very good weaving material.

What Lu Lu is doing now is to sew a straw pot cover out of ulagrass, which is used to close the front.

Today, he was going to take back the group of northeast black bees that killed Chen Xiuqing and injured her.

The method of the straw pot lid he made is very simple. First, use urad grass to twist it into a straw rope and knot it to make a handle. , and sew the bundle around the knot in circles.

This is his way of making straw pot lids in the south, which is usually used to cover Zhenzi steamed rice.

A small straw pot lid may seem simple, but it took Lu Lu almost a whole morning to sew it.

It looks like a bamboo hat, so it can't be said to be fine, but it doesn't matter, it's just a tool for collecting bees, light, strong, and practical are the most important.

After breakfast, leaving Yuanbao to look after the house, Lu Lu took the axe, rope and slingshot, and went straight to the group of Northeast black bees that the blind bears failed to dig out.

There are bear skins in the fairy pillars, and bear bile in the cellar. They are all valuable things. If people and dogs are not around, don't worry.

After spending more than half an hour, Lu Lu came to the thick linden tree on the edge of the river, looked up at the tree hole three meters above the ground on the trunk, the black bees that went out to collect and the black bees that returned from the collection, came and went, buzzing The sound continued, and it was very lively.

The blind bear who had been killed hadn't been able to eat honey at that time, but after tossing around in the tree, the powerful and sharp bear claws enlarged the hole for the black bee to enter and exit on the tree trunk a lot.

Lu Lu hugged the trunk and climbed up slowly, and found that the interior of the linden tree was rotten and formed a large space. The hole that was pulled by Xiong Xiazi could directly see the honeycomb protected by a large group of black bees inside. , it is not a problem to reach in and reach the honeycomb.

After a preliminary inspection, it is very simple to collect this group of black bees.

You only need to hang the grass pot cover on the side above the hole and hang it firmly, smoke the bee colony briefly, and drive them out into the grass pot cover.

Bees have always been terrified of fire smoke.

In his previous life, Lu Lu had seen someone smoke to drive the bees away from the nest, and directly use the incense or cigarettes used for offerings to make it smokey, completely ignoring that the bees were smoked to death and burned to death.

In fact, it doesn't take much to make smoke, and Lu Lu also knows a better smoke material - wormwood.

This kind of yangcao is called Yangcao, which is often kneaded into moxa and made into moxa sticks for moxibustion. When it burns, it emits a strong smell, which is also smoke, but the smoke emitted by burning wormwood is harmful to bees. It has a good effect of repelling insects and preventing diseases, and it is most suitable for fumigation to drive away bees.

Wormwood is very similar to the wild vegetable Artemisia argyi in the Northeast. It is also a very common thing in the mountains of the Northeast, and it is easy to find.

Lu Lu took the rope that he carried with him and tied it to the handle of the straw pot cover. The other end of the rope was thrown from the branch above the hole and fell to the ground. Finally, tie the other end of the rope to the small tree below to prevent the black bee from entering the straw hat and falling with the weight increasing.

After getting ready, Lu Lu searched on the hillside for a while, and soon found some mugwort that had dried up last year, collected some leaves and kneaded them into a ball of moxa with his hands and twisted them into thin strips.

Climbing to the beehive again, Lu Lu reached into the tree hole, and gently pulled the black bee, revealing a piece of honeycomb, he gently broke off a small piece, wiped it in the straw pot lid, lit the moxa, Put it into the tree hole, and then hurried down the tree.

At that moment, the black bees that had been smoked by the wormwood were startled, and flew out of the tree hole continuously, fluttering around the hole, and as more and more black bees flew out, the momentum grew louder .

(End of this chapter)