Dashan Orchard 1988

Chapter 13 Eat, drink, and stay energetic

"Sanmao."

"Three more hairs."

"Another three cents more."

At three o'clock in the morning, Li Muyang's proud laughter could be heard from time to time in the bushes.

According to the market price, a cordyceps cordyceps cost about [-] cents. Every time he found a cordyceps, it was equivalent to picking up [-] cents.

I dug nine roots in one morning and made a net profit of two yuan and seventy cents.

The harvest is not bad.

If you work as a small worker on a construction site, you won't even earn two yuan a day.

It only took him half a morning to earn the same amount as a day's work, and the harvest was quite good.

After experiencing difficulties in finding the first root, he gradually figured out the range where Cordyceps likes to grow.

There are usually small pits around, which will not be blown by the wind, and the ground is relatively fluffy, often with small shrubs next to it.

As long as this factor is ensured, the search will become much easier.

Basically, one stick lasts for 15 minutes, and four sticks can be dug in one hour.

I got here too late this morning and wasted at least more than an hour. If I could have arrived very early, I might have spent more time now.

"Cuckoo~"

He wanted to dig more in one breath, but his stomach growled unsatisfactorily.

I left home early in the morning and didn't eat anything to make up for it. Now I'm very hungry.

People here eat twice a day.

Eat one meal at eight or nine in the morning, and then another meal at four or five in the afternoon.

Li Muyang didn't get here until 9 o'clock. Because he was delayed too much, he didn't think about going to eat and went straight to work.

After expending a lot of effort, the remaining energy in the body was exhausted, and the stomach began to protest.

He struggled to his feet and rubbed his numb knees and calves.

I lay down for more than two hours continuously. I didn't notice it when I was lying down. Once I stood up, I realized that my body was uncomfortable.

I had no choice but to start doing radio gymnastics in the fields.

He couldn't remember which set this was, but he learned it from the students at school anyway.

Although I wasn't able to do any work for long in school, I did learn this gymnastics, which can be considered a kind of gain.

Later, as he got older, he discovered more and more that radio gymnastics was really good.

Can exercise almost every part of the body.

When he stayed temporarily at his daughter's house in the city, he saw many people in the community dancing and twisting around in the square, which seemed less exciting than radio gymnastics.

It's a pity that he is the only one who can dance this set of gymnastics, and no one of his age can do it. When watching him dance, he looks like a madman, which makes him feel depressed that he is not understood, and he feels lonely.

Now he was on this mountain peak, surrounded by birds and small animals. No one said anything to him. He felt free, unscrupulous, and very comfortable.

"One two three four, two two three four..."

"No two, three, four, six, two, three, four..."

After finishing the comfortable set, he felt that his body was indeed much more comfortable, and the stiffness just now became much more relaxed.

Just... I'm even hungrier.

Then eat something.

After eating, continue to fuck well.

Li Muyang sat on the grass, opened his backpack, and took out a small bag wrapped in a towel. At the same time, he took out a military kettle that had a lot of peeling green paint on the outside and became less round in shape.This kettle was given to him by a co-worker when he was working at the construction site. He had a brother who was a soldier, so he had this kettle.

When the new one came, the old one was given to Li Muyang.

Li Muyang was very happy. Even though this kettle didn't look very nice, it was very beautiful to use.

I'm not afraid of water leakage, and I also brought some insulation. I filled it with water in the morning and it's still warm now.

Every time Li Muyang worked in the fields, he would fill a pot of water with this kettle, which was basically enough for him to drink for half a day.

The towel contained multigrain steamed buns.

A thick steamed bun with a strange color of black and yellow. The main ingredients are buckwheat flour, corn flour, sorghum flour, millet flour and a little bit of rice flour.

It's just a hodgepodge anyway.

Only there is no wheat.

The Loess Plateau is actually more suitable for growing wheat.

It is cold-resistant, drought-resistant and has four distinct seasons, making it suitable for wheat growth.

But the problem is, wheat yields are too low.

Unlike in later generations, about one thousand kilograms of wheat could be harvested from one acre of land. In this era, many fields, especially mountainous areas, could harvest four hundred kilograms of wheat from one acre of land, which was unbelievable.

Basically, they weigh about 200 kilograms, and some even only weigh more than [-] kilograms.

The wheat grown should be kept and handed over to the public grain.

Public grain only harvests wheat, and it must be harvested well.If the wheat kernels are not full enough, or if the wheat kernels are too small, too damp, or not dried enough to cause mold, etc., it is completely suitable for public grain distribution.

After paying the public grain, there is not much wheat left in one acre of land. If it is used for food, it will not be enough.

Li Muyang had no choice but to exchange the wheat for other people's buckwheat, corn or millet and other whole grains to eat.

This way you can eat longer.

However, each of these whole grains has its own problems. People in later generations are okay if they eat them occasionally, but if they eat them all the time, they are difficult to digest and may cause constipation.

It is even easier to suffer from internal heat, blistering in the mouth, body swelling, etc. due to insufficient nutrition.

Let’s take soba noodles for example.

People in later generations like to eat buckwheat noodles, because as a typical whole grain, it has low sugar content, which can prevent people from gaining weight due to excessive sugar intake. It is also very useful for some patients with diabetes.

But the reason why soba noodles cannot become a staple food is that it also has essential shortcomings.

Buckwheat is very difficult to digest.

If you are a person with a weak spleen and stomach, it will be almost impossible to digest buckwheat after eating it, which will seriously damage the spleen and stomach, and in severe cases, you will suffer from diarrhea.

Taking corn as an example, many people eat corn occasionally and feel it is not bad, but if cornmeal is eaten for a long time, it will also cause great harm to people's stomach.

Because the fermentation effect of cornmeal is poor, steamed buns steamed with cornmeal always have a sour smell, and in severe cases, they may cause nausea.

Wait ~
In order to solve this problem, when people make steamed buns, they like to add various whole grains to make a multi-grain steamed bun.

cancel out each other's negative factors.

The thing Li Muyang took out is called "Buckwheat Noodle Liangliang" in the local dialect. It is not a small round bun that is rolled up one by one like a steamed bun, but is chopped directly into pieces with a knife. It looks like a ridge. shape.

There is a little bit of saccharin in it to cover up the astringency of the soba noodles.

However, because the main material of this kind of buckwheat noodle beam is buckwheat noodles, it conforms to the characteristics of buckwheat noodles and cannot be blown by wind. If the wind blows, it will become like a stone, which is too hard to be chewed.

There is a saying here that "the buckwheat horn becomes hard when exposed to the wind", which refers to the buckwheat noodle Liangliang, which is used to satirize those who do not know how high the sky is when given some color.

Li Muyang felt the wind direction, sat on the grass with his back to the wind, and ate buckwheat noodles.

A sip of Liangliang, a sip of boiling water, eating and drinking, feeling full of energy.

(End of this chapter)