Chapter 43 Date Nectar
Corn flour is actually starch. Logically speaking, wheat flour is OK, but the wheat has not been harvested yet, and no one in the village has any leftovers, and it has to be ground into powder. It is not easy to grind wheat into powder at present. It must have a stone mill or a large stone mill. However, there is only one stone mortar at home. When you want to eat it, just put the wheat or soybeans and pound it with a wooden pestle. It is completely impossible to pound it into fine flour.
There was no potato flour that was common in later generations, because potatoes were not introduced to China until the Ming and Qing Dynasties. Finally, Chen Xu put his eyes on a few yams.
"Mom, please help me cut half of the yam and mash it. Put it in a clay pot and dry it over low heat and fry it until it is burnt yellow!"
The main ingredient of yam is also starch. Now I don’t care whether there is any conflict of medicinal effects. I will use it first. Besides, yam is just an ingredient that can be used to supplement both ordinary food and medicine. The medicinal properties are basically negligible. If you don’t eat thirty or fifty kilograms, you will basically have no effect.
"Dashi, have you ever eaten honey?" Chen Xu turned around and asked Niu Dashi who was cutting bamboo tubes.
"I've eaten it!" Niu Dashi said without raising his head while cutting the bamboo tube.
"You have one?" Chen Xu asked excitedly.
"No, I found a honeycomb in a tree hole when I was chopping wood on the mountain. My father got the nest back and got a few kilograms of honey. It seems that you had eaten that time, have you forgotten?" Niu Dashi asked in confusion.
Uh, okay, I have eaten it but I have forgotten it a long time ago!
"Do you remember where that tree hole is?"
"Don't think about it. I've been seeing it several times, and there are no bees!"
Niu Dashi's words directly extinguished Chen Xu's last little hope.
"Brother, why are you looking for bees? I know where there are more bees!" Xing'er came back after feeding the wild boar with Niu Dashi's younger brother Niu Xiaochun. He happened to hear the conversation between the two, so he shouted loudly.
"Where?" Chen Xu stood up excitedly.
"Just on the river beach, near our crop fields, there are bees everywhere in spring, and I don't dare to go to the fields with my mother to weed."
"Let's go with me and look for it!" Before Xing'er could finish her words, Chen Xu pulled Niu Dashi out.
"Brother, wait for me!" The little girl immediately threw Niu Xiaochun and followed her butt and chased her.
At this time, the sun had not set yet, the river beach was very quiet, and the river water was gurgling.
The three of them ran to the near the farmland in a breath, searched on the river beach for a long time, and then walked down the river beach, and finally saw some bees flying on the riverside with wild flowers. The three of them carefully used wooden sticks to dig open the weeds and thorns more than one person deep into the woods. There were more and more bees in front of them, and their hard work paid off. After searching for them for a long time, they finally saw bees coming in and out in the hole on a huge wild jujube tree.
The tree hole is three meters high from the ground, and the hole opening is about one foot in diameter.
"I'll do it, I'll do it!"
Niu Dashi took off his straw sandals excitedly, spitted a few spits into his palms, rubbed them, and climbed up with the tree trunk. He quickly climbed near the entrance of the cave. Then, regardless of the threat of being stung by bees, he excitedly reached into the tree hole and touched it a few times, and grabbed a yellow-brown honeycomb and laughed proudly.
"Brother Xu, I found it. It's so big that it's so big. It can produce at least ten kilograms of nectar!"
Seeing Niu Dashi holding the hive that was still dripping transparent golden honey downwards, Chen Xu's face turned dark when he was excited. He pulled Xing'er and hid in the grass and shouted loudly: "Don't break the hive, just make the same piece."
"Okay, wait!"
Niu Dashi held the hive in his hand in his mouth, then reached out to grab it in the tree hole, and then saw dense bees gushing out like spring water.
"Woooo!" Niu Dashi probably suffered at least a dozen times in an instant when he was attacked by the bees. He was reluctant to open his mouth. He screamed in pain and grabbed a large hive and jumped out of the tree. He didn't even want the straw sandals, and he rolled and crawled into the grass and hid it.
Looking at the bees flying out of the tree holes as if they were stabbed, Chen Xu pulled his sister and didn't dare to come out. The woods and thorns were full of bees flying around the sky, flying back and forth above his head as if sweeping. More than ten minutes passed, the sun had already set, and the woods were extremely dark, and the bees slowly flew back to the tree holes.
"I'll go~" Chen Xu pulled Xing'er and carefully crawled out of the grass, wiped the sweat from his forehead and looked at the tree hole with lingering fear, picked the leaves and grass leaves on his body and walked back.
"Wait for me!" Niu Dashi also emerged from the grass nearby, but when Chen Xu saw his appearance, his face was so thrusting that he couldn't stop.
The shrimp's face was covered with bumps that had been stung by bees. It had begun to swollen, its eyelids and mouth were swollen, and there were bumps on its arms and body exposed outside. There were even a few bees' bodies hanging on its chin. The tail needle was poked into his flesh, and its intestines were connected to its body, which swung together.
Wild jujube nectar, this is a pure and unadditive real pure wild bee jujube nectar. If you want to be placed in later generations, you can’t buy this thing without 700 or 800 yuan!
Looking at the large bowl of bright red honey squeezed out of the honeycomb, Chen Xu was so excited that he was almost out of his way.
The honeycomb that had squeezed honey was divided into pieces by Xing'er, Niu Xiaochun and Niu Dashi, and the slut was being gnawed at this time.
Niu Dashi's face was colorful, but it was even more swollen. His eyelids were swollen like peaches, his forehead and neck were covered with big bags, his cheeks were swollen and his mouth couldn't be closed. He grinned his teeth while sucking in the cold air.
Looking at Niu Dashi's appearance, Chen Xu couldn't help but thrust a few more times.
This is the most primitive wild bees, which are completely different from the Italian bees raised in later generations. Not only are they much larger in size, but they are also very wild, have strong attack power and are also very toxic. After being stung, the bee venom occurs quickly and lasts for a long time. It is possible that heart failure will die after being stung too severely.
(Note: Italian bees are Italian bees. After the 21st lifetime, the native bees from China have basically disappeared, and the imported Italian bees are all breeding.)
However, after the three of them returned to the river beach, Chen Xu had simply treated Niu Dashi. He first pulled out the bee needle, then crushed the purslane and wild chrysanthemums and wiped them one by one. If nothing unexpected happens, after a night's sleep, it will almost be able to reduce the swelling tomorrow morning, but it will definitely not be too good tonight.
But seeing this guy's enthusiasm for eating beehives, Chen Xu felt sad for those bees who died in the line of duty to protect his hive.
Chapter completed!