Rebirth 1984 Wife and children are on the hot bed

There were a few crickets holding on to the net with their little claws, and dad Xu Houtian pinched them off one by one.

"Go and stay in the bucket! Hey! The catch is pretty strong!"

Crayfish is a kind of freshwater crayfish, also called big head shrimp.

It is an arthropod belonging to the suborder Crayfish and the genus Cryptidae of the family Shrimpidae.

Generally 8 to 15 centimeters long and weighing 10 to 20 grams.

The appearance is indeed very similar to crayfish. The surface of the body is light black or light brown, some are slightly red, and some have some blue on the abdomen.

Perhaps the biggest difference from crayfish is that crayfish are very dirty.

The mantis is a very clean river shrimp and will die if the water quality is even slightly worse.

That's why many people say that crickets are "sentinels of water pollution" - they serve as sentinels with their lives. When pollution comes, they turn their heads to the side and die instantly.

Therefore, in later generations, crickets were almost extinct.

In less than an hour, I caught more than 30 kilograms of crickets. I couldn’t catch them all. I was grateful for the gift of nature.

Pick and choose.

They threw all the smaller crickets back into the river. In the end, about 27 to 28 pounds were left. In the sunshine and breeze, everyone carried the crickets home.

"The crickets are back!? How many were caught!"

As soon as they returned to Mom's courtyard, Sixth Sister Xu Juan and Seventh Sister Xiaohua ran out.

Xiaohua immediately started to complain with tears in her eyes.

It turned out that she just wanted to make a paper airplane, and she aimed at her sister Xu Juan's grid homework book and wanted to secretly tear a page.

As a result, Xu Juan discovered it.

He took it over and spanked it, which made the little girl cry.

After all, the pain of being beaten was not worth the temptation of delicious food. After a few words of persuasion from Xu Dahai, the little girl's attention soon shifted to the cricket tofu.

"Stop crying, let's eat cricket tofu later and fill a big bowl for you, okay?"

Xu Dahai helped remove the cricket shells and shrimp threads, and said to the little girl squatting on the left.

"Uh-huh!"

The little girl squatted there, her little one, her smart eyes full of desire for delicious food, and she stretched out her little tongue to lick her lips.

Seeing her little appearance, her father, mother, second aunt, third aunt, and grandma all laughed.

There are so many crickets, enough for everyone to eat.

After processing the crickets, mash them all in a stone mortar, and mix the juice and residue together. The more crushed the crickets, the better.

Then wrap the juice and residue with a double layer of gauze and squeeze it hard to squeeze out all the reddish-brown juice as much as possible.

What you want is the squeezed juice.

As for the dry residue left on the edge of the double-layer gauze, you can use it to feed the ducks, who like to eat it.

"Okay, let's light the fire." Mom returned to the house with the cricket juice in the basin, poured it into the pot, and when it boiled, pink bubbles popped out one by one.

A faint fresh fragrance also slowly floated out.

The three little girls, Xiaohua, Xiaoxiang, and Xiaotingzi, were very excited and shouted: "It's blooming! It's blooming!"

My mother selected some freshly cut leeks from the vegetable garden, washed them, cut them into sections, and threw the leek sections directly into the pot while the heat was on.

"Some people will add alkali noodles, eggs, sesame oil, salt, water, etc. when making cricket tofu. Our family doesn't add anything. We just drink this pure umami flavor."

"It tastes delicious this way! If you put something in it, the flavor will be diluted." Second sister Xu Mei also said quickly.

Just like there is no wife in the wife cake.

There is no tofu in the clam tofu. It probably looks like tofu on the surface after it is cooked, so it is called crab tofu.

27 to 28 pounds of crickets is indeed a lot. The prepared crab tofu is enough for each person to have a bowl, and there is still some leftover.

"Delicious! So delicious~"

Xiao Tingzi took a sip of the cricket tofu, and the delicious taste exploded on her taste buds, making the little girl's eyes shine:

"Mom, you drink too!"

"Yeah, mom is drinking it." Wang Xiuxiu took a sip. It tasted really good.

"Xiaoying, is there enough in your bowl? I'll serve you some."

"No, no, no, that's enough."

"It's okay, just put some more in it. This stuff won't take up much space in your stomach. If you like, drink more. There's still more in the pot." Mom enthusiastically filled Huang Ying's bowl again.

This is really the trouble with happiness.

Huang Ying has lived in Xujiatun for such a long time. In addition to studying, she can also eat a variety of delicious dishes every day. There are beautiful scenery when she goes out. She doesn't want to leave.

of course.

She found that the Xu family's food was really good, with meat for every meal, and occasionally stewed fish, chicken, etc., which was much better than her family's food.

At first she thought it was because she was here, but later she found out that she was just being sentimental. The Xu family's food had always been so good.

This puzzled her.

Are rural people so rich?Can you maintain this kind of life just by farming?

Well, she was embarrassed to ask, it was destined to be a mystery in her heart.

……

A few days passed in a flash.

On August 1985, 8, Xu Dahai had already left for Tonghua, so his cousin Xu Hu sent Huang Ying home.

Moreover, Xu Juan started school on September 9st, and it was also the school where her father, Xu Houtian, sent her to on a 1-meter pole.

Because Xu Juan's studies have improved a lot, her father Xu Houtian feels that he teaches well and his face is bright, so he likes to run to school.

After the teachers knew that he was Xu Juan's father, they also respected him, which made him even more proud.

To the south of a row of bungalows, at the entrance to the student dormitory.

The Erba Dagang was leaning against the wall. Father Xu Houtian watched the students coming and going, and smoked hand-rolled cigarettes calmly.

He felt that smoking cigarettes was better. If others didn't look carefully, they would think he was smoking cigarettes, which would give him an inexplicable sense of superiority.

"Juan'er! Have you finished sorting it out??"

"It's finished."

"Then let's go to the cafeteria to eat."

There are no tables and chairs in the cafeteria, and the floor is paved with large blue bricks. You either stand or squat to eat. Maybe it’s the first day of school because you know there will be parents eating in the cafeteria, so today’s food is better.

The bad corn flour has also been put away, and the pancakes made with new corn flour are larger.

"It's only 3 cents for this crappy pancake? You can make at least 20 of these crappy things for one pound of corn flour. The corn flour only costs more than 1 cent per pound... It's dark, it's really dark... Students' money is It’s so profitable.” Father Xu Houtian kept chattering.

Knowing that the profits were so high, he even wanted to contract the school cafeteria.

Ok.

The current canteen contractor is "Chen Guodong", a fat man who has a special relationship with the principal of the No. [-] Middle School in the town.

Otherwise, he really wouldn't be able to take on the contract.

Xu Juan took a small bite of the pancake and said, "Today's pancakes are bigger. In the past, they were smaller."