The next day.

Lin Jiaojiao got up very early and went to bed early last night, just looking forward to today.

It's time to build a bread oven.

After breakfast, I did my daily work first. On the way back from accompanying Lin Yizhi to wash clothes, I carefully looked at the occasional stone slabs of different sizes on the road.

She wanted to move a piece home, and finally found the flattest and largest piece, but she couldn't move it by herself, so she had to give up.

After preparing to send Lin Yizhi back first, she went to call Aunt Lin's daughter Lin Chunlai to help her carry the body.

Last night, Lin Chun came back from vacation and brought some food. It was the first time she came into contact with this tall and mighty woman.

He was two years younger than her, but half a head taller than her, with a strong body and tanned skin. If it weren't for his obvious feminine features, she would have suspected that he was a man.

He was an apprentice to a bricklayer in the town. He was a simple and honest person with no evil intentions.

I just happened to call her to help build a bread oven.

When Lin Jiaojiao and Lin Yizhi returned to the yard, she found that Lin Chun was already waiting at the gate.

"Sister Jiao, I'm here."

She nodded slightly, took the laundry basin into the yard and put it away. Lin Yizhi began to hang the clothes out to dry, and she turned and left.

"Lin Chun, come with me and help me carry a slab of stone."

"Okay, here we come."

After a while, the two came to the stone slab that Lin Jiaojiao had picked out in advance. One of them lifted one end and lifted the big stone very easily. She had the illusion that she might be a strongman.

The two of them carried the stones back to the yard and put them away. After she told Lin Chun how to build the platform, she went to the kitchen, picked up a machete and walked out.

He came to the bamboo forest at the back of the mountain, cut a few bamboos, tied them up with vines, held them under his arms and walked home.

When I got home, I found that Lin Chun was already making mud. He added glutinous rice into the mud to increase its stickiness.

Not wanting to be left behind, she cut off all the bamboo branches and divided them into long bamboo strips of different sizes.

She wanted to weave a semicircular basket, but she couldn't do it after a long time. Finally, Father Lin couldn't stand it anymore and asked her how to do it.

She watched as Father Lin first piled up firewood in the yard and lit a fire, then roasted bamboo strips by the side. The roasted bamboo strips became easier to bend.

Lin Yizhi also came forward to help. After about half an hour, under her guidance, a bamboo basket with an arch and a bamboo basket door were completed.

On the other side, Lin Chun had almost finished laying the blue bricks against the outer wall of the kitchen. When finishing, Lin Jiaojiao helped lift the cleaned large stone slab and put it on.

The bread oven table is ready.

Lin Jiaojiao paid Lin Chun fifty cents as wages, but Lin Chun refused to accept it and kept saying it was too much. He said ten cents would be enough and he didn't want a cent more.

There was no choice but to give Lin Chun ten cents, and he happily took it and went home.

Take a break.

She first added water to the loess dug the day before, and stirred it with a stick. Lin Yizhi helped by throwing a hemp knife into it. When it was almost stirred, she poured perlite into it.

Then continue to stir it evenly, adding lime while stirring, and finally set the evenly mixed mud aside for later use.

He took some mud and put it on the stone slab, then made a big round cake-like bottom according to the size of the mouth of the woven bamboo basket, and then placed the bamboo basket on the cake.

Use the remaining mud to surround the bamboo basket from the inside out, and start applying mud on both sides at the same time. When it reaches the top, insert a bamboo tube in the middle, leaving a hole to serve as a chimney.

The archway woven with bamboo strips was covered with mud, and a mud pillar was also made on the door to facilitate taking and putting it later.

Finally, I went to the kitchen, got some firewood, put it in, lit a fire, and prepared to dry it.

Lin Jiaojiao felt a sense of accomplishment as she looked at the bread oven with smoke coming out of its chimney.

"Wife, is this the bread oven?"

Lin Yizhi stood beside her, looking at the semicircular ball made of mud with a puzzled look on his face.

She said excitedly, "Yes, after lunch break, we will make bread. Oh, and in the afternoon we will pick some puffs."

"Okay, I'll make lunch first."

After lunch, I took a nap at noon.

Lin Jiaojiao got up and threw some firewood into the bread kiln to continue burning it. The bread dried quickly under the strong sun.

She went to the kitchen and made a cup of honey water. It was sweet and delicious. She used to drink a cup of milk tea every day, but now she felt that the monotonous sweet water was delicious.

Because it was so strange, even Lin Yiyan followed Lin Yizhi and Lin's father to the kitchen to watch how the bread was made.

She looked at the people gathered in the kitchen and suddenly felt a little nervous. She asked Lin Yizhi to pour the white flour into a basin, add four eggs, scoop four spoons of white sugar and half a spoon of yeast, half a spoon of lard, and a little bit of salt and mix them evenly.

She kneaded the dough, cut it into noodles of even size, then rolled them into balls. She also cut half of the balls and poked a concave shape on them, preparing to put jam on them.

After doing all this, just wait for them to ferment for half an hour.

After saying something to Lin's father and the others, Lin Jiaojiao carried the bamboo basket on her back, picked up the machete and put it in. Lin Yizhi also followed with a basket, and seeing this, Lin's father followed too.

He could no longer concentrate on sitting and embroidering. After all, he also wanted to know how the bread turned out, so going along to help would help speed up the progress.

Seeing that everyone was so excited, Lin Yiyan wanted to join in. Then she thought of something and her eyes darkened. She went back to the house, took out the clothes she was making, and sat at the door of the main room while waiting for them while embroidering.

Come to the back mountain.

Originally, Lin Jiaojiao also wanted to join in the fun of picking raspberries, but with Lin's father and Lin Yizhi along, she couldn't do something sissy in this world. After all, picking berries is something that children and men do.

As a grown-up woman, she just needs to chop some wood (T_T).

After chopping a full basket of firewood, Lin Yizhi and his friends also carried a full basket of raspberries and returned home together. They put the firewood away. The dough had not yet fermented, so Lin Yizhi used the remaining blue bricks to build a small stove outside the yard.

A clay pot was placed on top, and I was going to use it to make jam. If I used the iron pot in the kitchen, it would have a rusty smell.

Wash and dry the raspberries, pour them into a clay pot and mash them, add appropriate amount of rock sugar, and simmer over low heat.

Lin Yizhi and Lin's father took a stool and sat next to them, one of them watched the heat, and the other kept stirring with a wooden spatula to prevent the food from sticking to the pan and getting burnt.

After 25 minutes, turn off the heat, pour into a bowl and place in a basin of cold water to cool.

The dough also fermented to twice its size. She made a total of 40 breads, half of which were used to make jam bread, and she asked Lin Yizhi to brush egg liquid on the remaining bread.

Taking advantage of this time, she returned to the house, opened the mall, exchanged for two shovels, and took them out.

"This is what I bought last time. I'll shovel the dough in on top of this later."

Lin Jiaojiao first shoveled out all the charcoal in the bread kiln, and then used the short broom made of bamboo branches by Lin's father in the morning to sweep out the wood ash inside.

Lin Yizhi also put six doughs on the shovel, and under the guidance of Lin Jiaojiao, he carefully put them into the kiln. He put the rest in one by one, and finally closed the kiln door.

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