clang farming notes

In two days it will be the Dragon Boat Festival, and there is another May Festival in Yanbei.

The Dragon Boat Festival in Yanbei is naturally not as lively as in the south.Not to mention anything else, there are few rivers here, and there are few people who understand water, and it is not a prosperous place, so there are no lively things like dragon boat races.But anyway, the Dragon Boat Festival is a big festival for the beginning of summer, and it is also a day for every family to drive away the plague and prevent the five poisons, so it has its own way of solemnity.

The adults of the two families thought that after the May Festival, they would start to shovel the ground and work. They shoveled the ground and then did it twice and three times. People, they need to have someone at home all the time, so as not to be deceived by thieves, rapes and tricksters, but it will inevitably take some hard work.In addition, now that Zhao Bafangsheng has spoken out his thoughts, he just feels relaxed, and the two of the Du family know that the two elder brothers will not be estranged from their family because of marriage, and they are also secretly happy.Therefore, everyone is interested in having a good time.

Farmers' families naturally want to be affordable during the festival, so the most important thing to "have a good festival" is to eat well.Every family eats zongzi during the Dragon Boat Festival, so making zongzi has become an important event.

The reed leaves used to make zongzi and last year's new glutinous rice had been washed and soaked in water. Besides, Fang Sheng also dug out the Malan leaves cut last year and soaked them. For binding rice dumplings.By the way, every family of Malan has a pier. When autumn comes, they cut off the grown leaves and put them in the house to dry in the shade. They are very good for binding things, and they are very strong.

Zhao Bafangsheng used to make rice dumplings mostly made of white rice, just like glutinous rice, which is boiled, peeled off and dipped in sugar to eat.Now that there are two people from the Du family who know how to eat, they don't need to worry about making zongzi. They just need to make a bag and wait to eat it.

Although Du Zhongping doesn't know how to cook it, he does know how to eat it.A few people saw him counting with his fingers: lye rice dumplings, bean paste rice dumplings, fresh meat rice dumplings, chestnut rice dumplings, red date rice dumplings, egg yolk rice dumplings, eight-treasure rice dumplings... There are so many, so rich.

Du An was still listening to him, but Du Zhongping talked more and more, and the more he said, the more outrageous he said, and he didn't think about how many people there were in the family, but let him make so many tricks, isn't this deliberately torturing people?

Duan simply put Du Zhongping aside and let him mutter. He discussed with Fang Sheng and Zhao Ba, and decided to make a few white rice dumplings, and the rest would only be made of red bean paste dumplings and fresh meat dumplings. enough.Firstly, it is better to prepare these two kinds of fillings, as they are commonly used. Red beans are available at home, and you can buy fresh meat now; secondly, these two kinds of fillings are more suitable for several people’s tastes.Besides, the weather is getting hotter now, so you can't eat too many buns, can't you?

Because there is a child named Jin'er in the family, we must prepare colorful threads for the May Festival. This is also called a long-lived thread, which is worn by the child to drive away evil spirits, remove five poisons, and keep safe.And it is said that bringing it to June [-]th, cutting it off and throwing it into the water, all the ailments on the child's body for a year will be washed away by the water.The lottery is very good.

Fang Sheng found someone who sold needles and threads early this year, and bought a large ball of threads of various colors.According to Du Zhongping's estimate, these lines are enough to bring Jin'er to old age!After saying it, Fang Sheng himself thought it was funny, but he didn't have a child in front of him before, how could he know if it was more or less?

Simply, except for Jin'er's share, the rest of the colorful thread was given to the children in the school, everyone really has a share.Even the eleven or twelve-year-old Dazhu, who considered himself an adult, was forcibly strapped to the wrists and necks by Zhao Ba.Zhao Ba's has never been played with children before, and he finds it very interesting.As for Jin'er's, Fang Sheng carefully selected the brightly colored ones, and carefully measured the size of Jin'er's wrists, ankles, and neck. Come here early in the morning and bring it to him.

On the fifth day of May, several people got up early in the morning.Now the dawn is getting earlier, even Du Zhongping can't sleep in anymore.

Duan first went to the yard to pull some mugwort, and they had to put some on the eaves and window lattices of the two houses, including the lintels.I picked some clean mugwort, removed the roots, and threw the whole tree into the pot to boil water.When the water boiled, I scooped out some and mixed it with cold water, and threw Jin'er naked into the water to wash from head to toe. It is said that after taking a bath with mugwort water, I would not be bitten by insects for a year.Jin'er is already shy now, when Du Zhongping took him out of the water, he knew he was covering his penis, Zhao Ba deliberately grabbed his hand, causing him to yell.When he was dry and put on his clothes, Fang Sheng took out the colorful thread he had prepared earlier and tied it on for him.Jin'er was very interested in the bright thread, and even pulled it with his hands. Du Zhongping hurriedly told him not to take it off, otherwise he would get sick and suffer from pain.Jin'er was so scared that she would touch it from time to time to see if the thread was still there.

After tidying up Jin'er, the adults also washed it with mugwort leaf water, which is considered to be the scene.

The breakfast is simple, with mugwort leaves boiled eggs, white porridge and pickles, and after eating, they are busy making zongzi.

Du Zhongping gave the students a holiday today, but not long after breakfast, two children from Li Zheng's family and Li Daniu from Li's second brother's family came to play with Jin'er.Li Daniu now lives in his aunt's house, so he saves running back and forth for several miles every day.Du Zhongping hurriedly brought Jin'er two boiled eggs and asked him to go out to play, so that the adults in the family could make zongzi properly.Jin'er insisted on helping just now, and the water splashing all over the ground just added to the chaos.

Most of the children will get a few boiled eggs with mugwort today. They are not willing to eat them all at once. They will play with them for a long time, and they will be fine when they go home at night!When several children get together, they often compare eggs, big head against big head, small head against small head, and hit hard to see whose one won't break.If anyone has the ability to overwhelm the crowd, that would be great.

What Du Zhongping prepares for Jin'er are specially bought eggs from pullet hens that have just started laying eggs.I'm sure Jin'er will have a good time among the children all day long!

You know, few of these children can let go of eating eggs on weekdays, and today they will definitely pick the bigger eggs.The kid Jin'er is not at a disadvantage now, and he was not happy to see the small eggs given by Du Zhongping, but was coaxed by Du Zhongping with "the older child takes the big egg, and the younger child takes the small egg".

Fang Sheng and Zhao Ba didn't know, and thought that Du Zhongping was afraid that Jin'er would eat too many eggs and would not be able to eat at noon, so he happily called Jin'er, "I want to come back early to eat delicious food."On the other hand, Du An, seeing Du Zhongping like that, knew that he was playing tricks on children. He raised his eyebrows and looked at him, as if to say, are you ashamed to coax children?Du Zhongping had the cheek to pretend he didn't see it, and continued to sit down and make zongzi.

It’s just that Du Zhongping’s workmanship is really poor. The zongzi made by others are angular and firm, but his ones are flat, with a few grains of rice peeking out from the cracks from time to time. Duan had to let him go. When I turned around, I took apart the flat bag of Eucommia ulmoides and rewrapped it myself.

It's just that I didn't expect that my own zongzi had just been cooked, and students would come to deliver zongzi one after another. It was inevitable that I would also have to return a few. Fortunately, I made a lot of bags.I'm quite happy in my heart, it doesn't matter if it's delicious or not, it's not meaningful to send it from the students.

Homemade rice dumplings are always better. Red bean paste rice dumplings are red and white, sweet and soft; fresh meat rice dumplings are specially put in some fat meat. After cooking, the oil has entered the glutinous rice. It tastes really salty and delicious. Not greasy, the most popular.

In the evening, Duan cooked a tableful of dishes. Some students sent many palm-sized crucian carp, which they fished in the river themselves. Although they were not fat, they were much better than when the river was just opened.Duan cleaned up the fish, and set aside two to boil the fish soup, and the rest were wrapped in flour and deep-fried until they were crispy, saving them for drinking later.There is no way, crucian carp has many spines, Zhao Ba and the others are not very impatient to pick the spines, and they are afraid of getting stuck, so they can only fry the spines until they are crispy, just chew them.I also bought pork belly and made a big bowl of braised pork. This is to keep some oil and water in the stomach first. After the festival, there is still some to cook.Then prepare a few fresh vegetables, and you will have a decent meal.

Take out the prepared realgar wine, and several people drink a few glasses.Jin'er is young, but he still remembers that he also drank sweet water during the Chinese New Year, and even clinked glasses. Du Zhongping had no choice but to make sugar water for him.I'm really worried about what to do with the little white teeth of Jin'er who loves sweets?If it gets decayed, I have nowhere to find a dentist for him.

Zhao Ba had a great time eating this meal. What he hated most about eating fish was finding the spines. Tonight, the fish was delicious and crispy. He bit down half of it in one bite and even chewed the spines. It was really good with wine.There is also a large piece of braised pork. Since I dined with Du's family in winter, I have been restricted from eating fat meat.Fang Sheng, like the members of the Du family, likes to drink fish soup.In this fish soup, the fish is first marinated with green onion and ginger, and it is fried for a while before it is put into the pot, and then it is put into a crock pot and boiled slowly until almost all the thorns are boiled in the soup. It is really delicious. .

Before Zhao Ba and the others went back to the house at night, Jin'er took two sachets of the same color and gave them to them, imitating Du Zhongping's words: "Bring bags, bugs don't bite." It was on her waist, and she even picked up Jin'er and turned her around twice.Fang Sheng was a little embarrassed, turned his head and saw Du Zhongping's face was slightly red, but he couldn't stop being shy. Really, when you are embarrassed, if you meet someone who is more embarrassed than you, you can only be embarrassed. It's square.