clang farming notes

As soon as Du An finished speaking, Li Zheng and Zhao Ba looked at each other: This really seems to be something Wang Quanhui did.It is very unlikely that Wang Quan will keep things a secret, otherwise the brothers will probably have nothing to do in the future, but he will probably not be rejected by someone like this, or worse, kicked out by someone like this. I said it directly in front of so many brothers.

Both of them breathed a sigh of relief, as long as they didn't deliberately deceive them, as for not telling the matter because of face, everyone can still understand.

Li Zheng looked at Du Zhongping. Du Zhongping was also a scholar. Hearing what Du An said just now, it was unlikely that he would teach his brothers. He just thought that there would be some hope in his heart.

Seeing Lizheng looking over, Du Zhongping put down the teacup in his hand, sat up straight, and nodded to Lizheng and Zhao Ba: "The two elder brothers ask me for help, if I can do it, there is no need for the two elder brothers to talk too much." , naturally try my best to do it well so that I can live up to the kindness of my two elder brothers for my family. It’s just this time, one thing, I’ve been reading the words of sages since I was a child, the Four Books and Five Classics, and I’m not proficient at counting. Although there are some businesses in the family, most of them are managed by shopkeepers who have been in charge for many years, but I have never lent a hand, so I don't know the facts about the business; It is appropriate for these ignorant children to spread the words of saints widely, but it is not appropriate to teach them specifically about merchants. If the school officials find out, they will be reprimanded at least. Even being deprived of fame is not out of the question.”

After hearing this, Li Zheng felt disappointed that Du Zhongping could not teach Wang Quan and others, but he heard something else from Du Zhongping's words: "Du Xiucai said that if you teach children to read and recognize characters , is it all right?"

Du Zhongping was a little puzzled, the point is not here, but he still replied: "Yes, there is no such thing as stopping scholars from opening private schools. Besides, some scholars' families are poor, and most of them teach in private schools to make ends meet."

Du Zhongping had an illusion, why didn't Lizheng show any disappointment when he sent Lizheng away?I always feel as if he got some positive answer from himself, which is really strange.Shaking his head, he hurried back to the house, it was so cold outside.

Duan sent Lizheng to walk a little farther away, seeing no one around, he said to Lizheng, "Maybe let Brother Wang spend a little time looking for those shopkeepers who are doing business, maybe you can gain something."

Lizheng thanked him and went home by himself.Well, I have to send a letter to Wang Quan as soon as possible, asking him to find the shopkeepers to try.That Du Xiucai said a lot, but he could hear it. It turns out that a serious scholar can't settle accounts.Wang Quan is looking for the wrong person.

When there was no one at night, Du An asked Du Zhongping: "How can you say that you can't settle accounts? Don't you mutter and calculate faster than I plan?"

Du Zhong gave him a plain look and didn't answer.Going to school in the previous life, which student didn't learn some Mathematical Olympiad, mental arithmetic and so on?It's just that in this life, I use abacus for all calculations, and my fingers are not branched, so I can't figure it out.Could it be that I can teach these people quick calculations, but let him be spared.

This incident did not have any impact on the Du family.Zhao Ba just expressed his understanding to Du Zhongping with regret, after all what Du Zhongping said made sense.Moreover, the Du family and Wang Quan didn't have much friendship, so there was no point in helping them with all their might. If Wang Quan hadn't looked at himself and Li Zheng, Wang Quan would have been kicked out if he came to the door and said it.But he knows that scholars are concerned about face, after all, it is not a decent thing.

But, when will Fang Sheng give him a good face?

When the five dumplings were broken, Fang Sheng gave Zhao Ba a hard look, and turned to help Du An chop the dumpling stuffing, as if he regarded the dumpling stuffing as an enemy, gnashing his teeth, scaring Du An away from him .

Damn Zhao Ba, he doesn't want to think about why he is angry, he just resorts to the stalking method, bah, don't think about forgiving him easily.

In the next few days, the three members of the Du family watched Zhao Ba circle around Fang Sheng every day as if they were watching a play, while Fang Sheng kept a cold face, as if he didn't see Zhao Ba, and pretended that he didn't exist.

Until the ninth day, it was Lichun again, and the two reconciled.It's just that Jin'er told Uncle Sheng to be bitten by a bug, and Fang Sheng covered his neck tightly, refusing to ask Du Zhongping to help him with some medicine or something...

It is said that spring pancakes must be eaten at the beginning of spring, so Zhao Ba kneaded a large ball of dough and kept the pancakes.He likes this one, but the spring cakes are expensive and oily, so it's rare to make them once.

Duan pulled the dough into small balls, spread soybean oil between the two doughs, and pressed them into cakes. After everything was done, he took a bigger rolling pin to roll out the good cakes to make them thinner. Thin, the kitchen has heated the oil pan, rolled out one sheet and baked another sheet.Because it is thin, it cooks quickly.When eating, it is opened, rolled up and served, and it is very delicious.And it is also a good sign for a beginning and an end.

The baked pancakes here are not finished yet, and a wok is set up to stir-fry vegetables, and the fried vegetables will be rolled into spring pancakes to eat later.I fried scrambled eggs with garlic sprouts, fried bean sprouts with shredded pork, and dry fried mutton. It was very rich.Add an egg soup, and the meal is complete.

The food that took a lot of effort to make is delicious, because I don't cook it often, and everyone eats it very happily.Du Zhongping rolled a spring pancake for Jin'er, but it was a pity that there were too many vegetables, and the rolled pancake was so fat that Jin'er had to use both hands to hold it, and his face was covered with oil.

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After the tenth day of the first lunar month, Lizheng told each house that he had discussed with several neighboring villages. On the fifteenth night, a night fair would be held in the middle of the village. Every family would put up a few lights to join in the fun. , Guessing riddles is fine, but with good craftsmanship, you can make some snacks and sell them.For farmers, it is most beneficial to eat, drink and have fun.

Originally, on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, lanterns should be set off, and all diseases should be avoided, and there should be a lot of fun, but Jinyang is a military town, so it doesn't pay much attention to this.To celebrate in my own village, I naturally made some small changes, held a night fair, and had a lot of fun together. By the way, I also announced to everyone that the year is over and it is time to start working.And the business that was stopped years ago will continue.

When Duan heard the news, especially when Lizheng said "Go and set up a stall with good craftsmanship", he stared at him a few times. Duan naturally understood, so he asked Zhao Ba to partner up and make some snacks Come out, so that we can join in the fun.

First of all, glutinous rice balls are naturally indispensable on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month.Duan and Zhao Ba discussed it for a while, and only after talking about it did they realize that the practices in the south and the north are different.

The way in the south is to mix glutinous rice flour with warm water, make a skin, wrap the stuffing, and roll them into balls with your hands, which are generally called glutinous rice balls.The way in the north is to adjust the stuffing first, knead the stuffing into small balls, put them in a dustpan filled with glutinous rice flour, shake the dustpan vigorously, and the fillings will form a ball with glutinous rice flour, which is generally called Lantern Festival.

Du Zhongping is very particular about eating. According to his analysis, the glutinous rice balls have thinner skins and larger fillings, and are softer, while Yuanxiao has thicker skins and may be harder in taste.However, you can make both at home. As long as you grind the glutinous rice flour and mix the stuffing, it is quite easy to make.

It's just, "Do you want to sell the Lantern Festival? I'm afraid it's not easy to make soup. It's still quite cold at night. Besides, we don't have so many bowls in our house, and we don't have many tables, chairs and benches. We can't let people stand and hold them with their hands." Let's eat from a bowl?" Du Zhongping was very skeptical, the most important thing is, don't expect him to help with washing dishes, he still has to play.

Sure enough, things with soup are not easy to get.Everything with soup was out of consideration, Duane decided.No one wants to wash dishes at night when the water is freezing.

"Why don't you fry them in oil? After they're fried, put them on skewers and you can take them away?" Du Zhongping suggested.Fried Lantern Festival is also delicious.

This is not bad, but you have to prepare a lot of sticks, and there is no bamboo here, so it takes a lot of effort to make sticks.However, they have Zhao Ba.

Zhao Ba was also unambiguous, he split a lot of wooden sticks, but the sharp and angular ones were not easy to use.Zhao Ba was also very cunning. Seeing that the two boys from Lizheng's family were wandering around the village having nothing to do, he tricked them into helping them sharpen sticks.With some food, I bought them off.

The two children are really honest, they just cut the wooden sticks honestly, without being lazy at all.It took a day or two to cut a bunch of them.

Du Zhongping liked these two children very much, and asked them if there was nothing wrong at home, so he asked them to come and play often, and he did not forget to prepare a copy of the snacks for Jin'er.Da Zhu was eleven years old after the Chinese New Year, and he didn't want to eat snacks with the children. After finishing the work of peeling wooden sticks, he followed Duan or Zhao Ba and helped them.

Erzhu is also six years old after the new year, after all, he is still young, but he and Jin'er can play together, and they are less resistant to snacks.Jin'er is not short of food, but she is quite generous, so the two little ones often stick together.

Lizheng and his wife are very busy. Although they don't own a stall, they still have a lot of things to worry about.For example, when setting up lanterns, one must be careful not to catch fire. If there is an emergency, the joy will become a disaster.Furthermore, which houses to set up stalls, which villages to set up in which place, and other trivial matters have to be arranged in advance.

So the two of them were quite happy that their children would come to Du's house to play.It's just that it's not good for a child to eat at other people's house all the time, and Mrs. Wang even sent eggs to Du's family once.Duan couldn't push it away, so he had to accept it.From then on, I gave the three children a meal of egg tea at noon every day, and it was right as an extra meal. (The days are short in winter, and most people only eat two meals in the morning and evening.)

A few people discussed for a time that they would make glutinous rice balls stuffed with sesame seeds for their own food, fill their stomachs a little and go out to set up a stall, and leave some stomach to eat other people's snacks.The stuffing is made of peanut kernels, melon seeds, and a small amount of sesame kernels. It was supposed to be stuffed with five kernels, but there are not enough dried fruits, so three kernels are enough.This kind of stuffing is relatively dry, and the sticks on the skewers will not flow out.

Because the two little guys made a lot of wooden sticks, Dazhu felt that he was not doing work after eating the Du family's things, and he was a little restless. Pick out the hawthorn core.Da Zhu had something to do, so he felt much more at ease.

The finished hawthorns are strung together, boiled with syrup and dipped into candied haws. They are both beautiful and delicious, and can also stimulate appetite. If you make too much, you can even sell them.Du Zhongping asked Dazhu to sell it at that time, and the money he sold could just buy something to eat.

The two bought a whole pig, a sheep, and some fat chicken and duck before the Chinese New Year. Although several people ate for a first month and Zhao Ba invited guests once, there was still a lot left.

The pigs these days don't have any clenbuterol added, they are all fed with grain, and there are no modern new breeds. They only grow lean meat and not fat, so this pig is really a bit fat.

Of course, this meat tastes really delicious, but the members of the Du family don't like to eat fatty meat.And Zhao Bafangsheng ate it all winter, and there was no shortage of oil and water in his stomach. In addition, Du Zhongping always said that eating too much fat is not good. Although I don't know why it is not good to eat fat, but the scholar said There must be some truth, so the two of them ate less.So the few people had no choice but to face the palm-thick fat.

This time, anyway, it is necessary to set up a charcoal fire, so it is better to skewer some meat skewers and sell them now, and deal with so much meat by the way.Even if you can’t sell it, you can still eat it when you take it back and withdraw it from the lot, and there is no loss.

Everyone thinks that fat meat and lean meat are skewered together. Well, generally there is more fat meat. The local people here seem to like to eat fatty meat. Even the fat meat is more expensive than the lean meat. I don’t think anyone will pick it. faulty.

On the fifteenth day, several people got ready early, just waiting to join in the fun at night.