The Most Dazzling National Style of Comprehension

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The Chinese New Year in Guanjiang Village starts on December 25 of the lunar calendar.

The villagers are accustomed to choose the fair day closest to the 25th to go to the street to go to the fair and buy new year's goods.In previous years, Guanjiang Village was poor, and each village only had one tractor. When buying New Year’s goods, it would take several families to bring back a carload of New Year’s goods and half a carload of people.Winter in southern China is rainy, and the dirt roads are muddy, and tractors often get stuck in the mud pits and cannot get out.At this time, people need to fix the car with a ten-centimeter-thick wooden pole, lift the car up, and push it forward hard to push the tractor out of the mud pit.When I go to the fair, I usually go out early in the morning when the sky is getting dark, and I come back home in the middle of the night.

But this year is different.Because selling mountain products to Zhou Man, the village earned a lot of money in half a year, and several families bought carts when they were carrying water.

The rear cart is a bit like a large truck, usually green, with a cab and a roofless compartment, with one wheel in the front, two in the rear and four in the rear, with a load of several tons.The rear cart can pull a lot of things, and the wheels can also be equipped with anti-skid chains, so you are not afraid of muddy roads.

On the full day of December 25th, I took Ying Feichi to the fair to do New Year's goods.

Mountain products, meat, and vegetables are available at home, so you don’t need to buy them.Zhou Man took Ying Feichi to buy firecrackers first, and asked for big and loud ones.Then there are all kinds of fruits, and the ones shipped from other places are apples.To be honest, the apples brought in are generally not tasty, either they taste soft or they are hard and not sweet, but apples represent peace, and Zhou Man still carried several boxes.

The local fruits are mainly navel oranges, rock sugar oranges, blood oranges, red heart pomelo, Shatian pomelo, ponkan, water chestnuts, and sugar cane.Each navel orange has a diameter of ten centimeters. It is not as sweet as rock sugar orange, but it is rich in orange juice and big in size. A child will be full after eating one.The diameter of Bingtang orange is about five or six centimeters. It is relatively small in the orange category, but it is very, very sweet - the name Bingtang is not called for nothing.Blood oranges are about the same size as rock sugar oranges, and the pulp and orange juice are red rather than orange, so there is a saying of blood oranges.Both navel oranges and rock sugar oranges cost seven cents a catty, and blood oranges cost ten cents a catty.

It is the custom in L City that grapefruits are sold four by four in net pockets, the red heart pomelo costs one yuan a bag, and the Shatian pomelo costs eighty cents.Red heart pomelo and Shatian pomelo are both yellow in appearance after ripening. Red heart pomelo is a little bigger than Shatian pomelo. The cotton in the skin and the pulp are pink, unlike Shatian pomelo which is pure white.In terms of taste, the Red Heart Pomelo is not as sweet as the Shatian Pomelo, but the flesh of both types of pomelo is very full and crystal clear, and the juice is full of juice when bitten down, without a little sour taste.Jokes, the richness of the juice is as much a measure of grapefruit as it is sweetness.

Ponkans are similar to oranges, but they are much softer than oranges and cannot be pressed at all. The l city calls oranges with thin skin and small fruit tangerines, in order to distinguish them from ponkans.Although the skin of ponkan is thicker than that of ordinary mandarin oranges, it is also larger than ordinary mandarin oranges.If the above fruits are ranked by the richness of the juice, it must be mandarin > ponkan > navel orange ≥ rock sugar orange ≥ blood orange ≥ Shatian pomelo > red heart pomelo.But on the contrary, the more fruit juice there is, the less it will be backlogged and collided during transportation. Therefore, when Zhou Man buys fruit, the quantity of grapefruit is relatively large, followed by oranges, and mandarins are the least.

L City also likes to eat water chestnuts.Water chestnuts, also known as horseshoes, are a... fruit that grows in the fields?In short, it is a plant that can be eaten raw or used in the kitchen. The fields near L town are all sand dams, and the sandy soil is very suitable for the growth of water chestnuts, so there will be a lot of water chestnut fields near the township, and therefore, the price of water chestnuts is around [-] cents, which is not very expensive.For water chestnuts, the size should be large, the flesh should be white and thin, the taste should be sweet, and the texture should be crisp.If a water chestnut feels rough to bite into, it's not a good water chestnut.

In fact, Zhou Man didn't know how to choose water chestnuts, so he had to choose the biggest one, and bought fifty catties in one sitting.Anyway, there is a rear cart, it doesn't matter how much.

City people must not live without sugar cane in winter.Regarding the sugar industry in Huaxia Kingdom, there has always been a saying that sugar beet is used as the main raw material for sugar production in the north, while sugar cane is used in the south.There are two types of sugar cane in the south, one is yellow, the flesh is so hard that you can't bite at all, but it contains a lot of sugar, it is the main raw material for sugar production, it is called sugar cane, and most of it is grown in city l It is sugar cane.The kind with black skin is called sugar cane, which is eaten daily. Although the sugar content is not as good as sugar cane, the meat is softer, and even the outer skin can be bitten through.

"Zhou Man, is this really edible?" Ying Feichi looked at the thing that looked like black bamboo on the back cart, very skeptical.Are people in this world related to tapirs?Otherwise how to eat bamboo?

"Of course." Zhou Man broke a piece of sugar cane, took a bite and chewed, and took the bagasse into the trash basket on the street. "This is for eating juice after biting."

Ying Feichi took a bite suspiciously and chewed, his eyes lit up: so sweet, so sweet!It is sweeter than the candy that Zhou Man gave him a long time ago!

Looking at Ying Feichi's appearance, Zhou Man immediately thought of buying all kinds of candies and melon seeds.

At that time, apart from fruit candies, there were only soft candies and a few peanut candies.Peanut candy is also called brown candy in l city, because it is very sticky and difficult to chew.Zhou Man suddenly wanted to see Ying Feichi's teeth stuck, so he bought a large box of peanut candy in one go.

Oh, and melon seeds, how can there be less melon seeds in the New Year?Among the sunflower seeds, you need spiced, butter, and raw melon seeds, and you also need to buy watermelon seeds and large black melon seeds.

Well, there is still something to drink. You need to buy wine, juice and milk. Minors are not allowed to drink alcohol, so just give him a drink for the greedy.As for carbonated high oranges and the like, don't drink them, they are not good for your health.

After buying snacks and fruits, I still need to buy ingredients.

The first and most important thing is the taro. For the people of L city, braised pork is an indispensable part of the New Year's Eve dinner.People in Guanjiang Village don't like to eat Zhengkou without taro, they must have taro and pork belly. There is Lipu Township at the junction of L County and T County, and the Lipu taro there is civilized in the whole city.Lipu taro is oval in shape, with a short diameter of [-] to [-] centimeters and a long diameter of [-] centimeters.Its meat is based on pure white, with a hint of red on it. It tastes very fragrant and waxy. It is most suitable for making braised pork. It is sold out every Chinese New Year.

In addition to taro, there are also tofu buns.When you leave City L, there will be a dish called stuffed tofu, which is probably cut into pieces and then dig out a piece, stuffed with minced meat, steamed and eaten.However, the tofu buns in l city cut the tofu into pieces and deep-fry them with special memory, so that the surface of the tofu pieces will be cooked until golden yellow, while the inside will be fried empty.The more skilled the store is, the more it can empty the tofu heart. If you buy a tofu bag with a lot of white tofu, it means that the store is really not very good.

After finishing the tofu buns, there are all kinds of seasonings left, such as five-spice powder, thirteen spices, star anise, dried longan, etc., and all kinds of bits and pieces.Zhou Man walked around the bustling streets with Ying Feichi, bought them all and put them on the cart behind him.

"The Chinese New Year is so lively!" The little Taoist exclaimed, feeling a little bit of the joy of the Chinese New Year.And this is just the beginning of the new year in Guanjiang Village.

The author has something to say: I want to eat all kinds of oranges, citrus, grapefruit, and water chestnuts, but I don’t like sugarcane. . .