binnovel Chapter 75 The Corn is Ripe
Chapter 75 The Corn is Ripe
"Of course we'll count. Once we've used up this batch of soap, we can try making other scents."
Floral or fruity scents are good, and you can even try adding herbs with various medicinal properties to create a medicated soap.
My mind suddenly clicked!
“That makes sense. Let’s make a peach flavor next year, perfect for bathing it, hahaha.”
"What about reunion and peace? Should we make insect-flavored and fish-flavored ones for them?" Lin Lanshan shook off the disgusting thoughts in her mind.
Peaches away from home and reunion with family and peace:?
Six bamboo tubes were used to make a total of thirty round bars of soap.
The pink one smells like roses, the golden yellow one smells like osmanthus, and the pale yellow one smells like honeysuckle.
Place them all in a winnowing basket, let them air dry in a well-ventilated and dry place, and they will be ready to use after another month.
In early August, the temperature was still rising.
Using the excuse that she had lost a competition a few days ago and needed to do laundry for a week, Lin Chunyi went to the small waterfall every day and stayed there all day.
The two sisters now wish they could live there every day.
Even Peach and Tuan Tuan Yuan Yuan couldn't resist taking a dip in the water.
It was another unbearably hot day, and Lin Chunyi's week-long task of washing clothes was finally over...
Lin Lanshan sat inside, wearing her coolest short-sleeved shirt, fanning herself vigorously with a feather fan.
"Sis, why is it so hot this year? We can't even prepare a block of ice. Now we can only rely on a broken fan, and I'm dying of heat!"
Lin Chunyi closed her eyes and slowly fanned herself with a fan, calmly saying:
"A calm mind brings coolness."
Lin Lanshan let out a cold... oh no, a hot laugh.
If she hadn't seen the sweat on her sister's face, she might have believed it.
Sure enough, before he could even take a sip of water, Lin Chunyi slammed down his feather fan, stood up, and roared:
"This is unbearable! Why didn't we think to prepare some saltpeter?!"
This tattered fan only blows hot air onto my face, offering no cooling effect whatsoever.
Then her vision blurred and her body swayed. Damn, that was a sudden jump!
"Sis, are you alright? Why did you get up so suddenly? Be careful not to faint." Lin Lanshan stood up and helped her up.
"It's okay, let me rest for a bit," she said, gently pressing her slightly dizzy head.
"Sis, I feel nauseous and dizzy as soon as I stand up."
"What a coincidence, me too..."
Oh, so people can get heatstroke even while staying indoors?
"Sister, the medicine we got from the doctor to relieve summer heat should be brewed now, in case we faint one day and there's no time to drink it."
"Let's cook it when it's cooler tonight. Going to the kitchen now is no different from putting it in a steamer."
Lin Chunyi took out the mung bean soup from her space, drank several large mouthfuls, and then applied some cooling balm.
Yes, I feel much more energetic.
Recently, they've been cooking before dawn and after dark, and then leaving the food in the space so they can eat whenever they're hungry.
Luckily there's space; otherwise, who could stand cooking over a fire in this sweltering heat?
Another day of living until dusk...
Although it was still very hot and humid, the two sisters were already quite content with the occasional cool breeze.
They placed the small stove in the courtyard, and the two of them sat on the stone benches, beginning to brew medicine to relieve the summer heat, as written by the young doctor.
"Puff puff," the medicinal soup began to bubble, and Lin Lanshan smelled the aroma of the medicine.
"Sis, is this plum juice...?"
Lin Chunyi fanned the fire every now and then, and said calmly:
"Didn't you see when I poured the medicine into the pot? There were hawthorn, dried plum and dried tangerine peel in it, so I guessed it pretty well."
"If you had just said it was plum juice, we wouldn't have waited until we couldn't stand it anymore before making it."
After all, who wants to drink traditional Chinese medicine? It's terribly bitter.
When Lin Lanshan first came into this world, she was forced to drink Chinese medicine for almost half a month, which was so painful that she felt like she was going to vomit.
If they had known it was plum juice... they probably wouldn't have kept it until today.
"Alright, the medicine is ready. Let's hang it in the well, and we can have some chilled plum juice tomorrow."
Lin Lanshan chuckled, went into the kitchen and grabbed a small spoon. She scooped up a spoonful, blew on it, and put it in her mouth.
She smacked her lips. "It's sour, with a hint of sweetness and astringency. I feel so refreshed after drinking it!"
Lin Chunyi rolled her eyes. "Your medicine works way too fast."
"Sis, add some more sugar, it's too bland."
……
They hung the plum juice in the well and then went to water the vegetable garden.
The weather was too hot; the vegetables in the fields wilted, and the ground began to crack.
Every morning and evening, the two sisters have to go to the outer yard to water the plants, and they have watered the relatively drought-resistant sweet potatoes and corn several times.
Lin Lanshan poured the water from the ladle around the strawberry seedlings, saying with heartache:
"Ancestors, you must hold on, the fruit has already been borne!"
They're almost ripe! We can't let them die halfway through! Hang in there!
After days of exposure to wind and sun, only thirteen of their strawberry seedlings remained.
Lin Chunyi splashed a ladle of water onto the six blueberry seedlings that had already sprouted branches, and sighed:
"I didn't expect these blueberry seedlings to have survived this long. Judging from their growth, they should be able to live to bear fruit."
Six blueberry seedlings: We beg our owner to love us one more time, and this time we will definitely take back the land that belongs to us!
The two sisters walked into the cornfield. Lin Lanshan looked at the rows of corn stalks that were much taller than the two of them, who were over 1.6 meters tall, with plump ears of corn standing at an angle on them.
She exclaimed with delight, "Sister, it seems like our corn will be ready to eat soon!"
Lin Chunyi pinched open the husk near the corn silk and brought her face close to it.
"We didn't bring a flashlight, so we can't see the corn kernels inside very well. Let's come back tomorrow."
At dawn, the sky begins to glow with a faint reddish hue. At this time, not only is the sky beautiful, but the air is also cool and refreshing.
The two sisters got up. Lin Chunyi went to cook for the next two days, while Lin Lanshan went to water the vegetable garden in the outer courtyard.
A large pot of white rice porridge was simmering in the cooking pot, while in the iron pot were stir-fried meat slices and lettuce slices that they had cut earlier.
Lin Chunyi ladled out a bowl of stir-fried lettuce with meat, and also ladled out a pot of porridge to let it cool to lukewarm.
"Sis, sis! Sis, look what I got!"
At this moment, Lin Lanshan excitedly grabbed a bamboo basket and ran into the kitchen in a few strides.
"The corn is ready to eat?" Lin Chunyi was also very surprised.
There were six ears of corn in the bamboo basket, peeled down to just the first layer of husk!
"I just watered it and peeled back the husk of the corn you picked last night. Inside are plump, golden kernels!"
Then I found a few more that were about the same size as this one, and when I opened them up, they were all edible.
I broke off six pieces; let's cook and eat them now.
"Boiling? I'll wash the pot and boil it right away!"
The two sisters happily put all six ears of corn into a pot, cooked them, and then scooped them out.
After letting it cool slightly, I couldn't wait to grab an ear of corn, peel off the last layer of husk, and reveal the golden corn cob.
When they bought the seeds, they specifically chose the old variety of native corn.
It has a moderate taste; it's not as sweet and juicy as sweet corn, nor as crisp and chewy as glutinous corn.
Lin Lanshan first gnawed two lines into the corn cob, then broke off a few kernels at a time to eat...