The daily life of a farmer through farming

In the past few days, the rain has continued to pour down, and the sound I hear every day when I wake up is no longer the rooster crowing, but the sound of the dripping rain hitting the eaves.

Yipinzhai's business has also been sluggish recently, Bai Shui is no longer in a hurry to study new dishes, but stays with Lu Yu at home.

Apart from coaxing Bailuo at home, Lu Yu does most of his writing with Baishui. Sometimes, when Bailuo is asleep, he will pester Baishui to practice kung fu in the main room, just to keep fit.

Bai Shui saw that Lu Yu's comprehension was not bad, so he taught a few self-defense kung fu. After mastering the moves taught today, Bai Shui handed the sweat towel to Lu Yu. Come here, I think it's almost noon, let's go out and find something to eat?"

As soon as Lu Yu heard this, he immediately nodded in agreement and echoed, "Then let's go quickly, we have eaten up all the food we bought from the town recently."

Bai Shui looked at Lu Yu's bright eyes, and smiled softly, "There will be more after you eat them all, anyway, you won't be hungry."

Bai Luobo was still sleeping, and Bai Shui was worried that if the two of them were not around, something would happen to the child again, so he simply carried the child to the neighbor Mi's house.

The Mi family especially likes white radish, probably because Ma Ju has never married a wife, so he yearns for and spoils children too much.

"Bai Shui, where are we going to find food?" Lu Yu didn't know where Bai Shui was going, so he could only follow behind silently.

"Let's go to our lotus pond. As I said before, there will be a lot of delicious food in the lotus pond in summer."

The lotus pond in summer is undoubtedly the most beautiful. The two Baishui walked to the side of the lotus pond and watched the wind and the lotus move, and the lotus fragrance was blown by the wind. Because of the first break of the rain, the lotus leaves and lotus flowers were full of raindrops, which was a beautiful scene After watching it, I feel relaxed and happy.

Because Baishui is not good at paddling and cleaning the lotus pond, Zhao Shu has been helping to take care of the lotus pond. Baishui told Zhao Shu to take any food from the lotus pond. Hearing what Baishui said, Zhao Shu became more motivated to work.

Fields of lotus leaves can be seen everywhere in the lotus pond. The round lotus leaves have a kind of aesthetic feeling of "connecting the lotus leaves to the sky". At the bottom of the water, you can faintly see the aquatic plants swaying under the water. If you look carefully, some of them are exposed outside. And on the lotus leaf stem inserted in the water, there will be dots of snails attached to it, and you can get some snails with just a quick scoop.

Bai Shui remembered Lu Yu's selfless expression when eating snails, so he classified snails as a must-have delicacy at home.

The lotus is in full bloom at the moment, rushing to bloom unscrupulously, and there are many lotus pods under the leaves among the flowers. If you look carefully, you will find some zizi leaves hidden among them.

Because the pond was a bit deep, Bai Shui only asked Lu Yu to catch snails by the pond. This time he not only caught snails, but also harvested many clams and other small fish.

"I don't know what happened to Caifeng?" Lu Yu looked at the basket full of harvest, and suddenly thought of his good friend Zhao Shu on the road.

Zhao Shu's daughter-in-law, Caifeng, was unable to work in the fields because she was pregnant. weeding.

Caifeng bent down a few times, sweating broke out on her forehead, her stomach hurt, and she yelled a few times before falling to the ground. Fortunately, a villager found out and sent Caifeng back home.

Zhao Shu was casting a net for fishing in Dahena, but when he heard that something happened to his daughter-in-law, he ran home without even the fishing net.

Bai Shui also heard about this matter from his neighbor Mi Shi, and now he heard Lu Yu muttering beside him, so he also fell in love, and turned his head to Lu Yu and said, "Let's go to Zhao Shu's house after dinner. Now that the sun is coming up, I'm afraid you will be hot in the afternoon."

When they got home, Baishui started to prepare lunch directly, and did not let Lu Yu go to Mi's house to pick up the white radish immediately. Recently, Baishui and Lu Yu lived a relatively leisurely life, thanks to the neighbor Mi's help to take care of the children.

Bai Shui plans to make more food this time, and let them try it as a thank you gift when he and Lu Yu go to pick up the white radish later.

The fished clams are put in a pot dripping with oil and spitting out the dirt, put them into the pot and cook for a while, the fan-like shells of the clams will open, add onion, ginger, salt, soy sauce and sugar, and then mix with sesame oil Let it stand for a while before eating.

After Bai Shui finished cooking, he saw Lu Yu staring at the big bowl of clams and snails in a daze. Bai Shui knew that Lu Yu always liked to eat, so he stepped forward and took out a small bowl to fill Lu Yu's bowl, "You If you want to eat it, just eat it, just look at it, and they won't fly into your mouth."

Lu Yu stretched out his small hand to take the bowl that Bai Shui handed over, wiggled his upturned nose, and said in an aggrieved tone, "I'm not thinking of eating with you."

Bai Shui finally understands why Lu Yu drools every time he is so greedy that he doesn't eat first, his heart is soft, and he goes forward and rubs Lu Yu's cheek and says in a warm voice, "Next time I want to eat, I will make these The purpose of food is to make you eat well."

After hearing this, Lu Yu nodded quietly, stretched out his fingers to hold the clams in the bowl, and was dazed, would he cut his tongue if he bit it directly?Try it, how will you know if you don't try.

Seeing this, Bai Shui quickly stopped Lu Yu, "Don't eat like this, you will get hurt, follow me."

Bai Shui picked up a clam in the bowl, put it into his mouth and sucked it lightly, sucking the meat of the clam into his mouth and throwing out the shell at the same time.

After learning Bai Shui's set of skills, Lu Yu ate himself so much that if Bai Shui hadn't reminded him, he almost forgot to go to Mi's house to pick up the white radish and go home.

When they arrived at Mi's house, Bai Luobo and Ma Ju were watching the thrush that Uncle Liu brought back in the yard. He became restless, and wanted to escape from the pony's arms, and plunge into Baishui's arms.

Seeing this, Mi Shi, who was chopping vegetables at the side, laughed and joked, "This kid ignores Uncle Ma Ju as soon as he sees his father. He is as clever as a ghost, and he was still hugging Uncle Ma Ju before."

Bai Shui smelled the fragrance of vegetables in the yard, and looked carefully at the roof and the ground, which were covered with square straw mats of equal size and dried vegetables. Drying vegetables is a unique living custom of Jingchuan people.

Summer and autumn are the seasons when food is most abundant. In winter, when there is no food, and eating bacon all day long, there will be no freshness. There are some smart people in summer and autumn. Dried vegetables, soup and stir-fried vegetables in winter are all delicacies that save the taste buds blindly.

Bai Shui took a closer look and found that some eggplants and lentils were not yet fully ripe. Why was Mi’s so eager to dry the vegetables? Autumn is the best season for drying vegetables. He had a question, “Aunt Mi, it just rained yesterday. Let’s start drying the vegetables, aren’t you afraid of the tide?”

After listening to Bai Shui's words, Mi raised his head and stopped what he was doing, "Why don't we let the weather clear to dry a small portion first, I heard that Li Banxian'er, the great dancer in the neighboring village, said that it will rain this autumn too. You two also go home and get it quickly, and prepare some food to avoid the famine in winter."

Mi's words really entered Baishui's heart. It has been raining from time to time since spring, and this summer is even more so. Even seeing the sun is a luxury, and the growth of crops is even more worrying. No wonder Mi They will hang freshly ripe vegetables in the air. If the vegetables are not picked in time in this rainy weather, they may die of waterlogging in the ground.

"But Aunt Mi, what if it's raining?" Lu Yu was quite puzzled. Although it's not raining and it's sunny outside, what should I do if there is a sudden thunderstorm?

After hearing this, Mishi said with a smile, "Then put it all away, and take it to the kitchen to burn it and dry it. You can't do nothing just because the weather is bad?"

"Aunt Mi is right, we will start to do it when we get back." Bai Shui saw that Lu Yu was still holding a small pot of snails and clams from home, so he said to Mi, "Aunt Mi, this is The snails and clams we made at noon today are delicious, try them."

Mi Shi got up and took the small basin handed over by Lu Yu, smelling the delicious smell in the basin, ate a clam according to the method taught by Baishui, and said with a smile, "I never knew that this earthy thing can be cooked before." It’s so delicious, it’s a pity that Uncle Liu is out and can’t taste this delicacy, otherwise he can drink this delicacy all afternoon.”

"It's okay, I'll do it next time after you've finished eating, and have a good drink with Uncle Liu." After that, Bai Shui hugged the white radish and led Lu Yu to bid farewell to Mi Shi.

In the afternoon, the weather became hotter, the sun was so hot that people couldn't go out, and the bright sun made the ground evaporate bursts of moisture. The weather like this is really the first good weather in most of the overcast summer.

Bai Shui also seized the opportunity to go to the field to pick all the ripe crops, while Lu Yu coaxed the white radish at home while chopping and drying the vegetables. The two of them were extremely busy.

"I don't know how the harvest will be this year?" Lu Yu sighed while chopping vegetables.

Seeing this, Bai Shui quickly comforted, "If the weather is like today, there should still be room for change."

"Didn't you hear from Aunt Mi that Li Banxian from the neighboring village said that it will be rainy this autumn?" He has never met Li Banxian, but he often hears from the older generation that Li Banxian lives on the mountain and only goes down the mountain a few times a year. , telling the villagers the crops suitable for planting at the moment and the harvest of the next year.

"Hey, these things are all said by people. As for the rain, who can control it so accurately, maybe it will be sunny in autumn." Bai Shui was not convinced about this matter, insisting on his own ideas Picked some vegetables and handed them to Lu Yu.

This afternoon, the vegetables were half-dried in the sun, and Baishui was about to let the vegetables enjoy the warmth of the setting sun again, when the sky suddenly changed drastically. The sky that was clear before was now covered with dark clouds and thunder and lightning flashed in a blink of an eye.

Bai Shui quickly shouted to Lu Yu who was coaxing the children in the main room, and together they cleaned up the vegetables on the ground for drying, "Lu Yu, the sky has changed."

Fortunately, the two of them worked quickly. When the raindrops the size of beans started to fall from the sky, all the dried vegetables that had been placed on the ground had been packed into the kitchen.

Bai Shui watched the smoky rain outside from the kitchen door, and said sullenly, "It's a leaky day, it's raining again soon after it cleared."

Lu Yu started to heat the pot in the kitchen to dry the undried vegetables, and the heat came up in a short while, and said to Bai Shui who was still watching the rain, "Why don't you just cook."

Bai Shui nodded in agreement, and began to look for vegetables to cook in the kitchen, while Lu Yu went back to the main room and continued coaxing the white radish.

Today's dinner is steamed pork buns with lentils and shredded pork. Bai Shui put the buns in the steamer and went to the main room to look at the fish and white radish.

The current goal is the white radish lying in the cradle, with a pair of round eyes staring straight at Lu Yu who is sitting on a chair doing wood carving.

Bai Shui approached and saw that Lu Yu was currently engraving a small wooden sword with concentration, similar in style to the one on Bai Shui's neck.

Bai Shui remembered that Lu Yu said that this mahogany sword wards off evil spirits, and that Lu Yu gave him this as a birthday present to show his concern for him in disguise. Who is Lu Yu doing it for now?

When Bai Shui thought of this, he said jealously, "Who is this pendant made for?"

Lu Yu raised his head and smiled into Shang Baishui's eyes, "Of course it's our white radish. I think he's been very obedient recently, so I thought of making one for him too."

"Oh, I thought it was for me." Bai Shui turned his head and glanced at the white radish, but the look was so horrifying, he found that the white radish would turn over!Then he said in a surprised tone, "Lu Yu, look at Bai Luobo, he can turn over."

Lu Yuxun looked over at the prestige, and echoed with the same expression as Bai Shui, "He will turn over in a while, does it mean that he will be able to crawl during the Chinese New Year?"

In fact, the white radish did not crawl during the Chinese New Year, but early winter two months earlier, when Jingchuan was experiencing a once-in-a-decade famine.