A Farm Girl Traveling Through Time: Raising a Stunning Husband

After lunch, the bamboo shoots in the pot were almost done. Shen Wu was not in a hurry to stop cooking. This was her first time making dried bamboo shoots, and she planned to cook them for a while longer to make sure they were not undercooked.

While washing the dishes with a cleaning bag made of soapberry crumbs, she was thinking about weeding in the fields in the afternoon.

The ground was soaked by the previous days of heavy rain, and people couldn't go out at first. Today the weather was good and the sun was shining brightly, so she planned to wait until around four o'clock when the sun was not too strong before going out to the fields.

After using the cleaning bag once and rinsing it twice, Shen Wu finally stopped and put the bowl on the table.

She suddenly remembered something. She could use bamboo to make a drain rack for the bowls and chopsticks! This thing is so convenient. She doesn't have to toss the bowls and chopsticks every time. It just so happens that there are some bamboo pieces left over from making bamboo chairs at home. It's more than enough to make a rack for the bowls.

The bamboo shoots were bubbling in the pot. Shen Wu washed his hands and went over to prepare a pair of chopsticks.

The lid had indeed dropped quite a bit. She had previously watched a video of people making dried bamboo shoots, and it said that the lid would drop down when the bamboo shoots were cooked, and people didn't need to watch it specifically.

Shen Wu opened the lid and the hot air that hit her face made her break out in a sweat. Because there was too much steam, the pot was filled with smoke and she couldn't see clearly what was inside.

She quickly took the lid and fanned it to dissipate the heat in the pot.

The bamboo shoots that were originally straight were now a little soft. Shen Wu used chopsticks to poke at the largest piece he thought he had found.

The bamboo shoots are cooked when you can pierce them through with almost no effort.

Shen Wu quickly put out the fire and stuck the firewood into the ashes beside the stove to isolate it from oxygen and make the fire go out faster.

Before she came, there was a bamboo colander in the house. After she came, it was used to scoop out bamboo shoots and noodles. It was very useful at this moment, and she scooped out a bunch of bamboo shoots in no time.

She originally wanted to rinse the bamboo shoots with cold water to keep them crispy, but the temperature before they come out of the pot cannot be underestimated, so she gave up the idea.

Since there was no special tool for pressing bamboo shoots at home, Shen Wu took the cage cloth she had used before and lined the vegetable basket at home. Of course, the basket had been washed clean by her.

After placing a basket cloth on the bottom, she quickly used chopsticks to spread out the bamboo shoots she had scooped out one by one. She had a bit of obsessive-compulsive disorder and had to place them one layer vertically and one layer horizontally. She filled up a whole basket, which was more than half the size of a palm, and she didn't stop until she had put all the cooked bamboo shoots in.

She also put a cage cloth on top to cover it, and the full backpack was too heavy...she forgot to take it out first and then fill it up.

He had no choice but to go to the main hall and call Gu Zhou to help carry it.

"Let me get a stick later." Shen Wu turned sideways and took the hoe in his hand.

Gu Zhou was confused: “What should I do?”

Shen Wu walked ahead and entered the kitchen: "Aren't there two straps on the backpack? Pass it through them." As soon as she finished speaking, she rejected the idea: "No, let's add a hemp rope. The bamboo shoots just out of the pot are very heavy, and I'm afraid the backpack will be damaged."

As soon as she finished speaking, Gu Zhou turned and went out: "Wait for me, I'll get the hemp rope."

Gu Zhou quickly brought back a piece of hemp rope. Shen Wu was curious when he saw it: "Where did this come from? I have never seen it before."

"My family used to borrow an ox cart to load millet seeds, but we usually tied them up on the cart and seldom took them out."

"That'll do."

Gu Zhou didn't quite understand how she needed the hemp rope, so he handed it to her.

Shen Wu took the hemp rope, folded it in half and threw it on the ground next to the backpack.

Then, together with Gu Zhou who came forward to help, they pulled one layer of the backpack, moved it left and right, and placed the backpack on the hemp rope.

Gu Zhou understood what she was going to do: "You need to add another hemp rope to support the weight."

Shen Wu nodded.

Gu Zhou helped her tie a knot in the hemp rope, and then he took one end of the hoe and passed it through the hemp rope and the straps of the two backpacks. The two of them held one end each and lifted up at the same time, and the backpack rose up.

The bamboo shoots were a bit heavy for two people to carry, but fortunately she had the foresight to make the hemp rope slightly longer than the backpack to prevent it from breaking, and she also spread the hemp rope among the hoe, otherwise she really suspected that the hoe would be broken.

The two of them grunted and carried the backpack to the side of the woodpile in the yard. After untying the hemp rope, Shen Wu wondered what to use to press it down.

Stone?

No, she was afraid the backpack would be broken.

Gu Zhou suggested a solution: why not put firewood in another backpack and place it on top? Backpacks can be stacked, so the lower backpack will not be damaged.

Shen Wu agreed without thinking too much: "Okay, let's do it."

The two of them turned back to the kitchen and took out the backpack that contained the washed bamboo shoots. Gu Zhou held it and placed it on top of the bamboo shoots, while Shen Wu put firewood in it.

Fortunately, she placed the bamboo shoots neatly and placed them against the pillar of the firewood shed, so she could use the pillar to support the backpack that served as a heavy object.

After finishing all these, Shen Wu took the opportunity to tell Gu Zhou about her idea of ​​making a drain rack. While she was in the yard, she picked up a wooden stick and started to draw a sketch regardless of the bright sun.

Her idea was simple. She used a few bamboo joints as the base, and then used bamboo strips to weave a semi-enclosed bottom on top to place the bowls.

This is not the modern world, so there is no need to worry about drainage. The ground under your feet is rammed earth, but some places where people walk a lot are slightly dusty.

“Won’t it fall over like this?” Gu Zhou was confused when he saw what she drew.

Shen Wu scratched his head awkwardly: "Maybe... maybe? This is my first time doing this, so I can't be sure."

Gu Zhou looked at it carefully again: "I think it might work, why don't we give it a try?" Although he didn't know what the drain rack she was making was used for, she knew that what she was making would definitely be useful.

After saying that, the two of them went back to the house and took some bamboo joints and bamboo strips that had not been used last time to the yard.

"I didn't expect that the thin bamboo joints on the chair armrests could be useful. If I hadn't suddenly thought of it, I would have forgotten it." Shen Wu said as he placed the bamboo joints next to his painting, trying to show it to Gu Zhou in a two-dimensional way.

"Use bamboo joints as the bottom, which is narrow at the top and wide at the bottom, and then weave the top to hold the bowls. Finally, just pass the bamboo strips through the bamboo joints and the woven small basket for the bowls," Shen Wu said as he demonstrated to Gu Zhou who was squatting opposite him.

"I understand. This way it won't fall over. So how do I put the bowl in?" Gu Zhou understood what she meant, but he didn't understand how to put the bowl in such a narrow basket.

Shen Wu brought a bowl over and placed it on the bamboo sticks to show him.

"So that's how it is!" Gu Zhou understood everything at once and stood the bowl up.

Now that she knew how to do it, Shen Wu took Gu Zhou to the main room to make a drain rack. It was only just now that she realized that she had been squatting in the sun with a child. She really deserved it! This is a sensible child!

Shen Wu first determined the width and height of the bottom with him, and then started to make the small basket. She wanted to make one with a hidden bottom, so that the bowl would be a small house for everyone and no one would disturb anyone.