An orphan girl from a farming family: Everyday farming in the mountains during natural disasters

Xia Qingyue cooked some rice and steamed some potatoes as the staple food.

Heihei had not yet processed the two wild rabbits she had hunted, so she sharpened the kitchen knife with the bottom of a bowl.

Normally she would use a kitchen knife or a machete to cut meat, but for foods like cold dishes and raw cucumbers, she would use a dagger that had been boiled in boiling water.

There is no other way. The conditions are limited and the raw and cooked food have to be kept separate.

The kitchen knife was used to cut a circle on each of the rabbit's four legs and a circle on its neck.

She held the rabbit's head with one hand and used the other hand to pull the fur on its feet first, like taking off clothes, then the fur on its neck. She pulled from head to tail, and the rabbit's fur came off, relatively intact.

The ripped rabbit hair is stored and can be used in winter after being nitrated.

Chop the cleaned rabbit into pieces and boil it in water.

The other one was chopped into slightly smaller pieces, and the rabbit head was cleaned but not chopped, leaving it whole.

Rabbit head is a delicious thing. It can be made into a spicy cold dish and it was sold at a very high price in the past.

Unfortunately, it is difficult to eat a lot of rabbit heads at one time in this life.

While the black rabbit was cooking in the pot, Xia Qingyue came to prepare the ingredients. She cut the dried chili peppers into sections, took a handful of dried green peppercorns, cut a piece of ginger into strips, and separated the roots and leaves of the wild onions.

The rabbit meat was cooked after twenty minutes and she scooped it into a bowl to let it dry.

Heihei smelled the fragrance and couldn't wait any longer, so he circled around the table.

Xia Qingyue ignored Heihei and poured her portion of rabbit meat into the pot, stir-frying to release the oil and dry out the moisture. She then added chili peppers, Sichuan peppercorns, shredded ginger and scallions, placed a circle of rice wine on the edge of the pot to bring out the aroma, added appropriate amount of seasonings, added water, covered the pot and cooked.

The boiled rabbit meat cooled down and was poured into a black bowl. He ate it in big mouthfuls, gnawing on the bones with a crunching sound.

Hearing this voice, Xia Qingyue remembered that when she was a child, she would not sleep at night and would make a fuss to play. Every time at this time, her grandmother would tell her a story:

There lived a bear lady in the forest. At night, she would disguise herself as a human, find children who did not like to sleep at night, break into their homes and eat them, especially their fingers, which she loved to eat with a loud crunching sound.

"Pfft."

Thinking of those past events, she couldn't help but laugh out loud.

At that time, my grandmother told the story vividly and imitated the sound of Xiong Gapo eating her fingers. She was always scared and didn't dare to get up to go to the toilet for several nights in a row.

After growing up, I am no longer afraid, but I miss that time very much.

Thinking of her deceased grandmother and associating her with Chen Yuzhen, Xia Qingyue looked gloomy.

"Puff puff," the sound of steam from the pot brought her back to her wandering thoughts.

After cooking for more than twenty minutes, the soup dried up. She picked up the spatula and kept stirring. She added the scallion leaves and fried them until they were cooked. She then removed the pot and filled a bowl with them.

Eating only meat would be greasy, so she washed the pot and stir-fried a dish of loofah.

The rabbit meat is crispy and fragrant, the skin is soft and chewy, and the flavor is spicy and peppery.

The food was delicious, but she didn't feel as happy and satisfied as before when she ate it.

There was an indescribable feeling of suffocation, as if a heavy stone was pressing on her heart, making it hard for her to breathe and making her feel powerless.

After eating gloomily, she continued to fiddle with the bamboo strips.

After finishing my work, I went to sleep.

One night, Xia Qingyue tossed and turned, unable to sleep, and the miserable scene of Chen Yuzhen hanging on the tree kept flashing back in her mind.

In the morning, the sky is slightly bright.

Xia Qingyue sat up quickly. In the end, she chose to follow her true inner thoughts and said firmly, "Save!"

But it is not about recklessly saving or taking on too much, but saving within one's own ability and without harming oneself.

Don't take on a job if you don't have the skills.

Having made up her mind, she suddenly felt relaxed and comfortable all over.

At the same time, she also thought of the next response plan.

The other party's target is her, and they will not easily hurt Chen Yuzhen before catching her.

Having ensured this, the next step is to wait and see who can endure the longest. If she doesn't show up, within a few days, the other party will definitely not be able to hold back, and then she will look for an opportunity to make a move.

She got up with dark circles under her eyes, cooked some millet and mung bean porridge and let it cool down, then went out to the bamboo forest to cut some bamboo and carried it back. There would be many places that would need bamboo later, so she cut for more than half an hour. She felt relieved when she saw that no one or ferocious beasts were attracted.

There were many dried broken bamboos in the bamboo forest, which broke easily. She found some vines and tied a few bundles to take back for burning.

After finishing the bamboo, the morning sun rose. It was about half past six. She went back to the tiankeng and drank a cup of honey water. Without taking a breath, she picked up the shoulder pole and bucket to fetch water from the stream.

While there is still water in the stream, pick up more.

She carried ten buckets of water five times with great effort, which was her limit.

She was sweating all over from the heat, but she was reluctant to take a shower, so she just took a little water and wiped her whole body.

It was not so hot in the morning, so she went for a walk in the vegetable garden. The deer ear chives had grown and sprouted flowers, so she picked some sprouts and put them in the vegetable basket.

The rest of the deer ear leek sprouts are kept for seeds.

There are not enough chives, otherwise they can be made into chive sauce.

She had been busy all morning and done a lot of physical work, and she was so hungry that she felt she could eat a cow.

She first steamed a bowl of steamed egg for Heihei.

There was still half of the cured pig's trotter she made last time that she hadn't eaten, so she chopped it into pieces and stewed it for an hour. She then added the soaked dried bamboo shoots and stewed it for another twenty minutes.

Chop the chives into sections, beat two eggs, and add some soaked dried shrimps, and stir-fry them into a dish.

The porridge was warm, neither too thick nor too thin. She turned the bowl in her hands and took a few sips of the porridge on the edge of the bowl.

Recently she has a big appetite in the morning and finishes her meal.

Watching the sun getting bigger and bigger, she got some flour, made it into a paste, and fried a few scallion egg pancakes.

I fried three pieces for Hei Hei alone without adding salt.

She wrapped the warm pancakes in large, washed, water-free leaves, took the necessary things, and went out.

Although there is no rush to save people, I still have to go and take a look at the situation. Knowing yourself and your enemy will help you win every battle.

Yesterday she specifically wrote down the route there, and for fear of running into that group of people, she walked extra carefully today.

Luckily I didn't hit them.

She hid in the dark and observed. Chen Yuzhen was still hanging on the tree like yesterday. Although everything around her seemed calm, there was actually a hidden danger.

Noon.

The group of people hiding in the dark couldn't stand it anymore, and a man named Liuzi showed up, put Chen Yuzhen down, and fed her some water and a steamed bun.

Seeing this, Xia Qingyue was completely relieved and left quietly.

On the way back, she picked up a bucket of snails from the stream, as all the sweet potato pods on the shore had been picked by others.

In the afternoons and evenings, she stayed in the tiankeng and drilled holes for the bamboo.

Five days later.

During this period, Xia Qingyue picked another batch of cowpeas, eggplants, loofahs, gourds and cucumbers during the day and dried them.

She also harvested thirteen fertilized eggs, which she placed in a chicken coop and let the hens incubate them.

On the fifth night, she finally drilled all the holes in the bamboos, but the price was multiple scars on her hands and a bunch of discarded bamboos.

All the materials for making the bamboo rack are ready, just put them together.

Short and thin bamboos are stuffed into the holes inside the four thick and long bamboos to form an H-shaped frame, which achieves the effect of balance and stability.

Stuff the medium and thin bamboo into the outside of the thick and long bamboo, stuff the left and right sides, there are three layers, and then put the bamboo pieces into its grooves one by one.

The finished bamboo frame is H-shaped whether viewed from the front or the side.

Put the bamboo rack on the counter next to the kitchen and put all the canned seasonings on it. It will look more organized and proper.

There was some empty space on the counter.

"Not bad, not bad. Next, I will challenge myself to make a bamboo cabinet that is several times bigger than this one!"

It is also made into three layers, with compartments that can be opened and closed, and can store clothes, pants, quilts, etc.

If I have time later, I can make two more and put them in the utility room.

There are only a few usable bamboos left from the previous search, so we have to find some more.

Before looking for bamboo, there is one important thing to accomplish, which is to rescue Chen Yuzhen.

I haven't checked on them for a few days. I guess that group of people are getting impatient and it's time to take action.

Xia Qingyue deliberately waited until the evening to go out. She packed all her things and walked to her destination.

At this time, the sky was getting dark, and there were shadows everywhere in the forest and mosquitoes were buzzing.