Who knows! As soon as I returned to the mountains to farm, I encountered a natural disaster.

Compared with the thin pork belly with pickled vegetables, the meat slices of this kind of pork belly are thicker. If it is not cooked well, it will easily become greasy, so you must ensure that the steaming time is long enough so that it will melt in your mouth.

It takes more than one to two hours to steam in an iron pot. It takes about forty minutes to use a pressure cooker. Zhao Yeqing decisively chose a pressure cooker to save firewood.

Just eating taro pork belly for dinner is a bit too oily, so I have to find some green vegetables to go with it.

There were more and less cold-tolerant vegetables. Zhao Yeqing was a little tired of eating most of the vegetables, so he found a special vegetable among the seeds.

She had never seen this kind of vegetable in her hometown before. After accidentally eating it in Sichuan Province, she felt that it was very special. When she bought seeds with her eldest nephew, she brought two extra packets with her when he saw that he had them.

After the polar night passed, she sown the seeds of this vegetable in the basement, and now it was almost time to harvest.

Mu Xi had never eaten vegetables like this before. Looking at the way the vegetables looked, he thought the leaves had not grown yet. He confirmed with Zhao Yeqing that it was already grown, and then pulled it up from the basement.

These vegetables are held together in a small ball. The scientific name is Baozi mustard. In Sichuan Province, they are called ercai. They can be sliced ​​and boiled in soup or broken into small pieces. They can be boiled directly in clean water. When soft, take it out and dip it in water to eat. It can also be used to stir-fry meat.

Zhao Yeqing prefers the second way of eating. Each small vegetable is about the size of a bite, and the larger ones have two bites. After cooking, it is sweet with a hint of bitterness and is very refreshing.

When the taro meat is almost steamed, the vegetables are thrown into the water to cook. The two dishes come out of the pot at about the same time. Each person is holding a large bowl of rice, and the chopsticks are all pointed at the taro. go.

The taro in this braised meat taro is famous for being more delicious than meat. After being steamed with the meat for so long, the taro fiber has been filled with the aroma of meat, mixed with its own taro fragrance, making it soft and waxy. Melt in the mouth.

Zhao Yeqing ate two pieces of taro before stretching his chopsticks towards the pork belly. The pork belly had been steamed until it was so soft that it broke when he pinched it with his chopsticks. The soaked fried pork skin was fluffy and soft in the mouth and had a unique, hollow texture. The bubbles are full of sauce.

As soon as you bite into it, the sauce explodes in your mouth. At this moment, you can understand why such a complicated dish is so popular among locals.

If its taste does not make people feel that it is worth the money, such a complicated dish will not appear on the tables of Guangxi people, whether it is a banquet or a family banquet.

After a large piece of meat, you should have something refreshing to change the taste. Cut a few chili rings of millet pepper into the sauce prepared with onions, garlic and light soy sauce, and put the boiled vegetables in it for dipping. After eating it, the sweet and refreshing aftertaste with a hint of bitterness nicely counteracted the greasiness left in the mouth by just slicing the meat.

Zhao Yeqing felt that she was a little too happy tonight and was afraid that whatever she ate tomorrow would be bland.

Mu Xi looked at the small portion of taro with meat left in the bowl and said, "No, I will make noodles with the remaining taro with meat for you tomorrow."

As soon as these words came out, Zhao Yeqing began to look forward to tomorrow.

Early the next morning, Zhao Yeqing took out the vegetable seeds from the original owner's house and took them to the greenhouse in the courtyard to sow them. The vegetables in the open air were more delicious than those in the basement. She was addicted to eating them yesterday, and she was afraid that they would not be there by then. You have to eat it, so quickly spread some more.

During the day, there is no need to put charcoal blocks and insulation covers in the greenhouse in the courtyard. It can be opened to receive the natural light above the head, and then the little grass teeth that quietly grew up last night can be pulled out.

It is very important to pull out weeds when vegetables are growing in the early stages. Their root systems are not yet stable. If the weeds are not pulled out, they will not be able to compete for nutrients, resulting in malnutrition in subsequent plants.

The biggest worry when growing vegetables in the yard is that the chickens will come in and eat them. So after planting things in the greenhouse in the spring, the chickens have never been able to come out and hang out again. Zhao Yeqing doesn't want them to stay in the front yard. .

After all, the front yard has been paved with cement. If the chicken hangs around on it for a while, the ground will become dirty and need to be washed.

When Mu Xi cooked breakfast and called her to the kitchen to eat, Zhao Yeqing told Mu Xi about this and wanted to go cut some bamboo and build a fence today.

But before the weeds in the grain field were pulled out, Mu Xi said, "You just pull the weeds at home and I'll cut them down. I'll do the work after cutting them down. Two sides of the greenhouse in the courtyard are against the wall. I only need to cut down the other two sides." The fence can be set up in a short time without any trouble."

Breakfast is fresh noodles cooked in a pot and then mixed with hot taro meat. The taro meat has been cut into small pieces and mixed with the sauce, and is wrapped in the fresh noodles and becomes sticky.

Zhao Yeqing sometimes likes to eat these sticky noodles, which taste much richer than soup noodles.

After breakfast, Mu Xi went to chop bamboo. Zhao Yeqing took out the chaga collected last night and continued to dry it, and then went to the field to start pulling weeds.

After last year's heavy snowfall, there are many bugs this year, but it seems that there are fewer bugs in the land. Although there were not many bugs in previous years, there are always some small bugs such as aphids and plant lice in the early stages of seedlings.

This year, at the stage where insects are most likely to attract insects, there haven't been many insects. Occasionally, a few were picked off by hand and never seen again.

When Zhao Yeqing came out of the field, his feet had become much heavier. When he looked down, he saw that there was a lot of mud on the soles of his shoes.

Recently, for some reason, it rains from time to time. It’s okay to walk on the meadow because there is turf, and the shoes will not feel muddy when walking on the ground. However, the soil that has been opened for planting will be soaked in water and then stepped on. The mud was all stuck to the shoes.

Before Zhao Yeqing walked to the edge of the field and prepared to go home, he first grabbed a handful of grass balls on the meadow and scraped off the soil on the soles of his shoes. Then he washed the soles of his shoes a little by the fish pond and then walked into the yard. , lest the mud on the soles of the shoes stain the floor of the yard.

Weeding in the early stage is not a simple matter. The several plots add up to several acres of land, and it is all done manually. It takes a day to squat and pull out the weeds bit by bit, which is relatively fast.

Zhao Yeqing started pulling out in the morning. He worked all morning. After eating something at noon, he continued again. He waited until evening to finish the work and go home. Mu Xi's bamboo fence was also ready, and the pot was already stewed with food for today. vegetable.

After taking a shower and eating, before the two of them went to bed to prepare for bed, they heard light rain falling outside the window again.

The rain this year is different from previous years. In previous years, it either didn’t rain at all, or it rained all at once for several days. This year, it rained for a while and then stopped. After it stopped, the sun came out again, but for a few days it rained. It started to rain again after the sun.

The rain is not heavy, and the pattering has no effect. It just makes the floor damp. The sun in this season is very mild. When the sun comes out during the day, it will dry out the water vapor on the ground, but the humidity in the air is always Very high.

However, this year’s climate characteristics are very mild compared to previous years.

At least that's the case for now.