my backyard farm [system]
Chapter 110
Que Ganhua was a little at a loss, and just about to apologize when he was pushed away by the trembling old professor.
The gray-haired old professor caressed the spirit beast grass that Que Ganhua had pinched, with a distressed expression on his face: "My baby..."
Que Ganhua, a big man of one hundred and seventy-eight, was pushed flat and moved two or three steps to the side by a white-haired old man who looked at eight|90 years old?
Que Ganhua: "Huh?"
"Why were you pinched?" The old professor looked sad, "It's a pity you won't grow up!"
Que Ganhua looked at Lan Yu, who was winking and pouted frantically at the sky.
It means, the people above.
Que Ganhua understood in seconds, then quickly showed a smile, and stepped forward to help the old professor, "I'm sorry, I don't know..."
Did you grow these?
Before he finished speaking, the old professor uprooted the spirit beast grass that he had pinched just now, put it in his pocket, and then got up and gave Que Ganhua a look, "Humph!"
Que Ganhua looked at the vacant seat, then at the old professor's pocket, showing a puzzled expression, "Huh?!"
The old professor waved to a pseudo-artist who was drawing a runaway emoticon with muscular body that could not be covered by clothes: "Xiao Tian, come here."
Disguised as an artist, Xiao Tian, who is actually the old professor's guard, took off his hat and ran over, "Old Xu."
The old professor—Mr. Xu is the one with the most serious obsessive-compulsive disorder among the group of white-haired professors that Guo He told Lan Yu to borrow the backyard to grow something. His status is very precious. The guards brought two of them, one light and one dark. The obvious one is Oda.
Lan Yu secretly knew it was that one, but there was no need to say anything.
Elder Xu glared at Que Ganhua, then walked away unsteadily.
Que Ganhua took a deep breath when the people walked away, "Mr. Xu... is it?"
Lan Yu nodded: "A group is here."
Que Ganhua: "Hey! Isn't a group a bit too much?"
Lan Yu pointed to the grass field of spirit beasts and said, "These lands of mine have already been requisitioned."
After the integration of Lin Family Village Spirit Beast and Grass Field, all the data of Lan Yu Meiyuan Mountain have been uploaded.
After getting all the data of Meiyuan Mountain, all the vegetable fields planted by Lan Yu at the foot of the mountain were contracted by the old professors, and Mr. Xu, who had a serious obsessive-compulsive disorder, led someone to rearrange the land, making it horizontal and vertical. look like.
Obsessive-compulsive disorder is not limited to this aspect. At the beginning, Lan Yu's spiritual beast grass field was uneven, like a signal.
Mr. Xu felt uncomfortable no matter how he looked at it. After taking over, he asked all the spirit beast grass to grow at the same height!
Que Ganhua looked at the grass field of the spirit beast in front of him, and his mind became active: "Sell it to me?"
Lan Yu rolled her eyes: "You think beautiful!"
Que Ganhua frowned: "That won't work, if you don't sell it to me, who do you want to sell it to?"
"Mr. Xu and the others are not enough." Lan Yu took a deep breath, patted Gu Kai who was still cracking, "I'll make you pickled vegetables and fried pork tonight!"
After Hu Wei finished his last stroke, he packed up his things and came over to hear the last three words. The corners of his mouth twitched: "Rat pan?"
Gu Kai, who had eaten dried rats before, was stunned on the spot: "What? Old what? What rat?"
Que Ganhua was eager to try: "Mouse Boil, I want to try!"
Gu Kai and Hu Wei walked up the steps behind them. The scent of plum blossoms became stronger and stronger as they walked along the way. When they reached the gate of the old house, it was so strong that I wanted to sneeze.
Que Ganhua: "Ache!" Sniffing, "Lan Yu, you didn't marinate!"
Lan Yu turned her head and glanced at him quietly, "It's almost there."
The plum blossoms all over the mountains and fields are in full bloom, and the old house is filled with the fragrance of plum blossoms. Everything Lan Yu eats at home now smells of plum blossoms!
When Que Ganhua entered the house, he found that the left wing room was completely emptied. The beds that had been placed inside had been moved out. The windows that faced west and could see all the scenery at the foot of the mountain were now all open. Several gray-haired professors were enjoying the scenery while drinking tea.
Que Ganhua and Gu Kai hurriedly said hello, and the old professors greeted them with smiles over a cup of tea. On the table were roasted peanuts of various flavors sent by Lin Sheng, as well as red mud and black mud peanuts.
The surface of peanuts is covered with a layer of black mud and red mud. When eating, squeeze the peanut meat inside. In the eyes of Lan Yu, who likes boiled dried peanuts, it is just a gimmick. The best roasted peanuts are garlic peanuts. Neither was fragrant enough.
Lan Yu felt that she was about to marinate to taste, but the old professors liked the plum blossoms of Meiyuan Mountain very much. After finishing their work every day, they just sat in the left wing room making tea and watching the scenery. Mr. Xu was an exception, he preferred to go to see it Mr. Zhong and the big guys sent by Tiandao built the accommodation area of the farm.
The dormitory area was originally decided to be built entirely of wood. It took a long time before the base was dug deep and built very solidly. The prototype of the entire house has come out, but at present, Mr. Zhong, Mr. Xu and Hu Wei’s grandpa are working with each other. The leaders of the engineering team discussed whether to borrow some structures from Lan Yu's old house.
Lan Yu, the hands-off shopkeeper, is really only responsible for paying the money. After Qin You, Shang Lu and Ah Hu returned to the comprehension continent, the old house became much quieter. Ah Sheh is still awake. Uncle is even more busy taking care of the six rollings, so he has no time at all.
The group of old professors that Guo He asked Lan Yu to take care of brought a different kind of excitement to the old house, even the backyard was very lively, and the system complained several times, saying that these old professors looked at him in the wrong way, as if It was as if he wanted to dissect him at any time.
Lan Yu: Hmm...
If they know that you are the system, and that the abnormal data in the backyard is the cause of you, they will probably really dissect you!
Que Ganhua and Gu Kai sat down, looked out the window, and found that the view from this position was really beautiful, so they couldn't help but took out their mobile phones to take pictures and post them on Moments.
After filming enough, Que Ganhua thanked the old professors for the tea, and after taking a sip, he realized that it was spirit beast grass juice, which tasted similar to the one produced in the backyard.
He looked at Lan Yu, and Lan Yu gestured towards the foot of the mountain; "Old Xu's rice is not enough for them to drink."
Que Ganhua looked at the grass field of spirit beasts, which was covered by winter melon, and raised his eyebrows, "So much? Not enough?"
Lan Yu held a peanut and showed how stupid you are.
Que Ganhua froze for a moment, then patted himself on the head: "I'm really stupid."
These old professors came through Guo He. Who was Guo He? He was the one who signed the Linghuncao contract with Lan Yu on behalf of the country. Do you need to guess the origin of these old professors?
The rare and endangered plants that are suitable for the southern weather in Lan Yu's backyard can explain everything.
It would be no wonder that the spirit beast grass planted by Mr. Xu could be sold to him. Que Ganhua remembered that the spirit beast grass he bought from Lan Yu's backyard would have to be divided into two-thirds, let alone Mr. Xu's.
Que Ganhua took a big gulp of spirit beast grass juice, looked at the table, and found that it was full of peanuts, "Lan Yu, don't you prepare any New Year's goods?"
It's the 21st year, and there is no New Year's Eve this year, and the 29th year is New Year's Eve.
Lan Yu is not a stingy person either. She bought New Year's goods and didn't bring them up. Seeing that the table was full of peanuts, she knew that Lan Yu not only didn't sell New Year's goods, but also that the stock was gone. It was even more shabby than usual.
In Linjiacun, or Lan Yu's hometown, because of the weather, there are really not many things to prepare for the New Year.
In previous years, there was still a chance to wear a padded jacket, but it was only worn in the morning and evening. In the past seven or eight years, the Chinese New Year has become more and more hot.
Lan Yu bought the down jacket eight years ago and has worn it twice now. He got sunburned on the first day of the Lunar New Year three years ago. He was sitting in the yard playing mahjong with his friends, and his face was sunburned by the sun at [-] o'clock in the afternoon. Lan Yu, who was wearing short sleeves, was lucky that her hands were not sunburned.
Because of the weather, everyone is not so poor that they can't live well in the new year, so they don't buy pork and New Year's goods as early as before.
There are two big fairs around the Chinese New Year. Even if there is no market, the newly opened small supermarket in the village is enough for the villagers to purchase New Year’s goods at any time. In previous years, there was no small supermarket, and they can buy them anytime in the county.
It's not good enough for Chinese New Year, there are many stalls selling New Year's goods on the side of the road, and there are still there until the fifteenth day of the new year.
The aunt I mentioned before told Lan Yu about interesting things about the Chinese New Year.
In the past, it was popular for people to give gifts, and when visiting relatives during the Chinese New Year, there were big bags and small bags. I said I would tell you not to be polite. I said you have children in my family, but you said I have old people in my family. Give it back to me, Tude is a lively scene, and the atmosphere that I will give you if you don't accept it.
This aunt’s mother’s family has five uncles, five cousins, plus grandparents and grandparents. Every time to send the New Year, his father’s motorcycle has to make three trips, two trips to carry goods, and one trip to pick up his daughter halfway. And his wife.
Then it was the same on the return trip, but all the gifts brought home were changed.
Later, people's lives gradually improved, and they were usually willing to eat and wear, and everyone negotiated a red envelope for the New Year. This aunt's family also bought a car later. After marriage, they basically went home to celebrate the New Year. Spectrum.
Lan Yu just listened to it. Seeing that this uncle came to Linjiacun every year to celebrate the New Year, he knew that his family was unreliable.
Back to the topic, in recent years, everyone in Linjiacun, except for some old people who are nostalgic for the past, are not in a hurry to join in the fun with New Year's goods, like Lan Yu.
The second senior brother, Shang Lu, helped Lan Yu harvest the lingmi before leaving. At that time, Que Ganhua had already left without signing the contract, so of course he had no share in the lingmi.
Lan Yu dried the Lingmi rice and took it to the rice mill to grind it into rice. After packing, each household in the village gave ten catties, and the rest gave one-fifth to Que Ganhua and the others. The three roommates worked together. I got up and gave away one-fifth, distributed one-fifth to the farm, one-fifth to Professor Shi and the others, and one-fifth Lan Yu kept ten catties for herself, and gave the rest to them The gray-haired old professors.
Eating spirit rice, drinking spirit beast grass juice, and smelling the air in Linjiacun, the old professors looked at their increasingly strong hands and feet and didn't understand, but they didn't ask if Lan Yu didn't tell them, they just helped the children in the village with tutoring Homework is more diligent!
Before Que Ganhua and the others came back, the children in the right wing left dejectedly.
Lin Hangtu and others: Woohoo, winter vacation is so scary!
So turning grief and anger into appetite, the few snacks left at Lan Yu's house were consumed in this way. Lan Yu thought that it was almost time to buy new year's goods, and Lin Sheng just sent a bunch of peanuts, so he simply waited for Daji to buy them New Year's goods.
After listening to Lan Yu's explanation, Que Ganhua looked at the opposite right wing with admiration and sympathy. Lin Hangtu and the others are so pitiful!
"It's almost lunch, Lan Yu, is there a mouse in your mouse pan?" Que Ganhua's stomach growled.Clutching his stomach, he asked.
Lan Yu shook her head: "Don't worry, there are really no mice in the mouse pan!"
Que Ganhua and Gu Kai breathed a sigh of relief together: "That's good!"
Hu Wei lay down on the window sill and began to draw again. Lan Yu took Que Ganhua and Gu Kai to help. By the way, did the old professors have lunch here?
Most of the old professors were from the north, and they were also very curious, so they all followed to the kitchen with their hands behind their backs.
Lan Yu soaked her ten catties of spiritual rice in water and took it to a rice mill to grind it into wet powder, then took it home to dry, and stored it. Because the rice is blue, the powder is also blue, but this blue The color seems to be faintly glowing, it doesn't look very strange.
There were a lot of people, so Lan Yu just poured five catties of sticky rice flour, added salt and water, stirred it into a thin paste, poured it into a large pot, put the stove on a low heat, and kept stirring with an iron spatula to prevent the bottom from sticking until It can be put into an iron basin after turning into a cooked dough, then pour in the remaining five catties of sticky rice flour, knead them together, and knead them into a dough that won't stick to your hands, then put it aside for later use.
Prepare shiitake mushrooms according to the size of the dough. Wash the dried shiitake mushrooms, soak them in hair, and chop them. Wash the raw shiitake mushrooms and tear them into strips. Shrimp, minced lean meat, coriander, chopped green onion and chopped celery.
Fire up the stove, heat the oil in a pan, add ginger and garlic, add lean meat and dried shiitake mushrooms after frying fragrant, then add raw shiitake mushrooms, and finally shrimps, and add water when it’s almost done.
While the water is boiling, pick up a small piece from the dough, put it in the palm of your hand, rub your hands together vigorously, and a mouse pan with two pointed ends is ready. Repeat this action, and the mouse pan will be placed in the bamboo plaque It will stick together because half of it is cooked.
The speed is as fast as Mrs. Sun can finish rubbing in the short time when the water is boiling. Lan Yu has a lot of people and strength. Everyone washes their hands and helps together. Mouse boil, it will be ready in a while.Finally, seasoning, chopped green onion, coriander and celery are put into the big sea bowl, pour a spoon full of mouse rice into it, and instantly remember the aroma of coriander and chopped green onion.
Each person came to the left wing with a bowl, and while enjoying the scenery, he ate the mouse rice with a spoon, and added it to the pot after eating.
Pickled meat with pickled vegetables was made last night. It was left warm after making the rice dumplings. It is the same method as dried bamboo shoots with pork knuckles, but the preserved vegetables have a slightly more sour taste than dried bamboo shoots, which combines the greasy feeling of fried pork. .
Take a bite of a piece of braised pork, it is fat but not greasy, and it also has the unique fragrance and sweet and sour taste of preserved vegetables. It tastes very appetizing. The preserved vegetables have been soaked in the mouse pan for a long time, and it also brings a little buckle meat to the mouse pan. Sweet and sour taste of plum vegetables.
Gu Kai likes braised pork with preserved vegetables and rice bowls very much. After eating three big bowls, he finally leaned on the chair and hiccupped while being unable to move.
Gu Kai: "Hi! Mouse pan... delicious! Hip!"
The old professors were more restrained. After eating, they went back to the village and built log cabins in some beautiful places for a lunch break according to the instructions of the infrastructure leaders.
The ownership of these cabins is divided according to who owns the land. A large part of the cabins are built on the site of old houses with yellow mud walls that were knocked down, and a small part is built on the collective land of the village.All the cabins are under the unified management of the village department, but the income of the former is the personal income of the villagers after paying a certain maintenance and management fee, and the rest after paying the maintenance and management fee of the latter is returned to the village.
This part of the income, together with the fish farming income from the big lake in the village and the current reservoir, is used to maintain Linjia Village.
The old professors originally lived in the villagers’ homes. After the cabins were built, they organized a group to visit the site one by one. They paid for the one they liked, and then moved in happily.
The log cabin has only one and a half floors, and the lower half floor is high. Follow the stairs to the first floor. There are three rooms in total, a living room, a bedroom and a bedroom, which can also be used as a study.
The supplies in the house are all hand-sewn by the villagers themselves from the pure cotton cloth purchased from the old cloth shop in the county. The patterns are in charge of the aunts who can do simple embroidery, and the tables, chairs and beds in the house are in charge of the uncle who knows the carpenter .
As I said before, the most indispensable thing for every household in Linjia Village is wood, which is purchased by the village and assigned to work. In addition, there is no need to manage the grass field of spirit beasts, and there is plenty of time.
All the villagers have finished these log cabins and have to wait until Lan Yu's farm is built, attracting a large number of tourists before they can earn income. Unexpectedly, the old professors brought the first bucket of gold from the log cabin.
The farm is still under construction!
After the lunch break, as soon as the old professors took their seats, a group of children rushed up from the foot of Meiyuan Mountain.
There were boys and girls from the age of three, chattering non-stop around the professors, Que Ganhua and Gu Kai couldn't help taking two steps back when they saw this scene.
Que Ganhua looked like Lan Yu: "What did you say you were taking us to do?"
"Yes." Gu Kai nodded, "We are very capable! We are not afraid of suffering or tiredness!"
"Pfft." Lan Yu held a snakeskin bag and a sickle in his hand, and said with a smile, "Cut winter melons and make winter melon candies."
The two got up immediately, "Let's go!" "Winter melon, what a joke!"
Lan Yu met Guan Tong and Zhou Kong on the way, and Hu Wei who met them halfway, and Lan Yu took them along.
The winter melons planted in late August are just ready to be harvested. Although I have harvested a few to sell before, it is not worth mentioning for the winter melons that are growing well and the number of results has completely exceeded expectations.
If Lan Yu hadn't planted mustard greens after hanging up the melon and pumpkin fields on the shelves, he would probably have been targeted by Mr. Xu.
Lan Yu still remembers Elder Xu's eyes of death: "What are you planting these for?"
Lan Yu: "Big leaf mustard and potherb mustard can be used to make dried plum vegetables, and water mustard can be used to make sauerkraut!"
Big-leaf mustard and potherb mustard are planted every year after the autumn harvest. They are old acquaintances in Linjia Village. Shuidong mustard has been grown in recent years. Because the leaves are tender and less bitter than big-leaf mustard, they are usually picked. It can be eaten directly by frying or pickled in sour water to make sauerkraut that can be eaten in a short time.
Big-leaf mustard potherb mustard is basically fried and eaten directly or dried and pickled to make dried plum vegetables, which are reserved for eating when the vegetables are green and yellow in the coming year.
Big-leaf mustard also grows taller than Shuidong mustard, and can grow up to 150 cm. The leaves can also be broken off and eaten, but unless there are no other vegetables, the leaves of big-leaf mustard are generally not eaten, because the bitter fiber is thicker, which is not good eat.
Different from the water mustard, the big-leaf mustard also has mustard heads. Before the mustard heads grow up and bloom, the villagers will go to the field to break off the leaves of the big-leaf mustard and take them home to dry for two days. , the leaves are soft enough to proceed to the next step.
Add an appropriate amount of salt to the sun-dried mustard greens, and rub them vigorously on a clean slate to remove some of the water until the whole vegetable is cooked [cooked] and put it aside to hang. One day, the next day, seven or eight leaves can be bundled into a fist-sized bundle of dried vegetables as long as a child's arm and stuffed into a cleaned and dried pot with a small mouth.
The bundles of dried vegetables should be stacked layer by layer, and pressed firmly. When sealing, find a strong plastic, wrap it tightly and tie it with a rope, and finally cover it, and then put the whole tank upside down in the stairwell or a cool place. The mouth of the cylinder is cushioned with a wooden board.
The pickle jar is not the kind that is sealed with water, but the one with a small mouth.
As soon as the big-leaf mustard blooms, it has to be cut back regardless of whether the mustard head grows or not. Sometimes due to weather conditions or poor vegetable seeds, one or two mu of land may be planted and all bloom at one time, and they are busy pickling for two or three days. vegetable.
There is another method of dried plum vegetables. After kneading and ripening, dry them in the air, then cook them in a pot, then marinate them in salt for a day or two, take them out and dry them in the sun. After they are completely dry, they can be stored in bags.
However, this method of pickling is commonly used in Linjiacun. The final product is wet, very tough and chewy. The dried plums that are just edible are sweet and sour. The longer the dried plums are stored, the sweeter they become.
This kind of dried preserved vegetables is not made with dried preserved vegetables. It is also delicious to stir-fry with lard and a little lard residue, or add some chili and minced meat to stir-fry, which is also great!
The pickled meat with plum vegetables at noon is made of dried plum vegetables made from mustard greens. It was made by Mrs. Sun after the autumn harvest. It can be eaten for two months, and the taste is still a little sour.
Lan Yu is lucky this year, the mustard heads are quite big, and the leaves are pickled.
There are many bumps on the mustard head of the big-leaf mustard because the leaves are broken off. The foot is on the handle of the semicircular sickle. The person is sitting on the chair, holding the mustard head in the left hand, and holding the semicircular sickle in the right hand. The tip is on the mustard head. Gently stroke the mustard head to cut through the outer skin and the inner vegetable bone. Using both hands and feet, peel off the outer skin and vegetable bone of the mustard head from the beginning to the end with a sickle, and put it aside for later use.
The shaved mustard heads are white at the head and blue at the end. After cleaning, find a planer with a kitchen knife in the middle of a wooden board, slice the mustard heads into thin slices, and put them in a bamboo plaque to dry until they are dry. Dried, and finally bagged and dried for storage, it can be used to cook soup or soak in stir-fried vegetables.
Remove the mustard skin, remove the vegetable bone, clean and remove the dirty part, cut into strips, then add salt, pepper and some other seasonings, mix well, put it in a jar, seal it with water, and you can eat spicy food in ten days and a half months The mustard greens are gone.
Mustard husks have been withdrawn from the dining table in Linjiacun for a long time. At the beginning, they were not eaten, and as long as they were edible, they were eaten as vegetables; Everyone is not short of money and wants to get back the old taste. The simple pickled mustard skin is really unpalatable. There is an ingenious aunt who adds chili and other seasonings and uses a transparent glass bottle to make spicy mustard skin.
Not to mention, the finished product goes well with rice, and the spicy mustard greens are crispy and go well with rice.
Lan Yu's family completed all these under the guidance of Aunt Sun and others. After finishing the work, they took pictures of a room full of results for Que Ganhua and the others to see.
By the way, I also made dried radish. The procedure of dried radish is the same as that of dried plum vegetables, but the dried radish should be cut into strips with roughly the same shape, then dried until soft, rubbed with salt to remove the water, dried again, and then put into a tank , It must be tightly pressed, pressed with a stone, and finally sealed with water or plastic, then wrapped tightly and placed upside down.
Lan Yu doesn't like to eat dried cabbage. All the cabbage is still in the field. If it blooms, it will be harvested and fed to the pigs.
The purpose of growing cabbage is to make dry pot cabbage, and other Lan Yu doesn't like to eat it.
Most of the sweet potatoes planted before were stored in the cellar, leaving only a ridge of sweet potato seedlings left to eat leaves.
After the mustard greens were harvested, Lan Yu replanted Chinese kale and Chinese cabbage, and also planted a lot of cilantro. When I plant them at this time, I can eat tender kale and Chinese cabbage during the Chinese New Year. The cilantro is also very tender at this time , the taste is not too heavy, shabu-shabu is the best.
They also transplanted some broccoli and iceberg lettuce. They like to eat small celery here, and Lan Yu also planted a lot.
Seeing this freshly sprouting vegetable field, Que Ganhua couldn't help but sigh with emotion: "It's like spring all the year around here, but summer is winter at my house. The teacher asked me to describe spring. When I looked outside, the white snow could still freeze to death." me!"
"I've never seen a snowy spring!" Que Ganhua took a picture of the sprouting vegetable field, added the phrase "winter in the south" and sent it to Moments.
Lan Yu said quietly, "I've never seen a snowy winter."
Que Ganhua: "..."
Gu Kai: "...It seems that there is nothing wrong with it?"
"Me too." Guan Tong looked at the sky, "I was super happy to see snow in the winter in my first year in college, and ran out to have fun, and then my roommate said that he finally saw the snow in the winter. Southerners."
Hu Wei: "..."
Zhou Kong: "..."
There seemed to be six people present, four northerners.
This is not the point, the point is that Lan Yu's summer vegetable field is now only left with winter melons and pumpkins.
Because the winter melons were planted first, most of the racks erected on the pillars were occupied by the winter melons. The pumpkins were fine at first, but soon grew to the ground.
There is a layer of fluff on the surface of the wax gourd, which is its defense device. When the wax gourd is still young, if the fluff is scratched and the skin of the melon is exposed, it will rot soon, and the whole wax gourd will rot.
The fluff of winter melon can not only block mosquito bites, but also block the air column and reduce water transpiration.
The villagers in the past didn't understand these things, and would always warn the children that winter melons are stingy before they grow up, and they should not be touched. If you touch the winter melon, it will rot.
Winter melons are all hung on the shed, the surface is full of fluff, and the skin is protected by a thick layer of hoarfrost. When cutting, one person needs to hold the winter melon with a snakeskin bag, and another person cuts off the vines on the top. , and then the two went out with winter melon on their shoulders.
Lan Yu and Guan Tong made a demonstration, and the village chief brought the villagers to help with a smile on his face.
The village chief said cheerfully, "Everything is ready on the other side of the square, just waiting for the wax gourd!"
With a wave of Lan Yu's hand, the domineering side leaked: "Leave two or three tender winter melons, and chop the rest."
The village head stepped forward and knocked Lan Yu on the head: "Two or three are not enough!"
Lan Yu shrank her neck: "It hurts!"
"It hurts there!" The village chief rubbed Lan Yu's long-haired head, "I'll keep ten for you. It's almost Chinese New Year, and you can still sell some money. Don't be extravagant, your farm will continue to pour in." Money, it won’t be too late to be generous when you can make money whenever you lie down!”
Lan Yu smirked, pointed at Que Ganhua and said, "Isn't there still boss Xiao Que here?"
The village chief shook his head helplessly, and when his uncles and Que Ganhua had all turned into the wax gourd shed to get busy, he asked in a low voice, "Do you still have enough money?"
Lan Yu also whispered: "It's enough~"
The village head showed a smile on his face: "That's good, by the way, Yue Xi had fun with Lin Dai at Lin Sheng's place, and they will bring them back together on the 28th."
Lan Yu nodded, expressing that she had no objection.
As soon as the winter vacation started, Lin Dai came back with Lin Sheng, hugged Jin Dan and said that he wanted to find Yue Xi's brother to play with.
Lin Sheng was busy, and the village head was also busy, and they didn't have time to take care of the children. It happened that Lin Dai's grandmother was thinking about the child, and she wanted to send Lin Dai there, but Lin Dai was reluctant to take a rest, and said that he would take his younger brother to his grandmother's house.
Lan Yu thought that he was busy recently and didn't have time to accompany Yue Xi, so the village became even more hectic. He could follow Lin Dai to his grandmother's house, and asked Yue Xi if he would go, Yue Xi nodded sharply.
So Yue Xi went to Lin Dai's grandmother's house with Lin Dai, played for more than ten days, and couldn't think of leaving.
Abai watched the spirit tigers getting more and more naughty at home during this time, three times they were almost not enough for them to jump. Fortunately, Abai is big and has a tendon, no matter how naughty the spirit tiger is, he can't escape Ah Bai Wuzhi Mountain.
After the road was repaired, it was easy to go. The uncles cut off all the wax gourds, put them on the tricycle, and walked out along the uninstalled gate of Meiyuan Mountain, bypassing the purchasing station and the grass field of spirit beasts. After crossing the bridge, drive along the small river towards the entrance of the village.
Arriving at the former square, there are now plum trees in full bloom. After bypassing the plum trees, we arrived at the three-and-a-half-story, antique-decorated village building.
In the center of the square, which is more than three times larger than the previous square, there is a tall magnolia tree. Under the magnolia tree are several stone tables and chairs. To the north is the kitchen on the first floor. A tent has been set up outside the kitchen. Under the tent is a A cauldron using biogas.
To the north of the cauldron is a canal that is obviously higher than the ground, and the water in the canal is the water from a small river drawn by a waterwheel at the entrance of the village.
The canal is sloping, sloping from west to east, and the water wheel is on the west side of the canal. The winter melons unloaded from the tricycle were dragged into the canal by the uncles, and the fluff and hoarfrost were washed off with a loofah, revealing the original green skin of the winter melon.
After cleaning, the uncle picked up the wax gourd and put it on the chopping board behind him. After peeling and removing the core, he cut it into small pieces with a length of 20 cm, a width of [-] cm, and a thickness of [-] cm.Pour it all into the lime water mixed with [-] kg of water to [-] g of lime water and soak for more than six hours (adding lime to soak will make the winter melon hard, and it will not soften when boiled).
Because it takes a long time to soak, the glutinous rice that was soaked yesterday is steaming in the steaming cauldron. Lan Yu and the others are not needed to wash the winter melon, so Aunt Sun asked to help crush the koji.
Lan Yu, Que Ganhua and the others chatted while chatting.
Que Ganhua: "What should I do after soaking the wax gourd strips?"
Lan Yu recalled what her aunts did in the past, "After soaking, take it out and wash it, and rinse it with water several times. Then soak it in clean water for an hour to get rid of the smell of lime powder. After an hour, pour out the water and continue rinsing , until there is no smell of lime powder, then boil the water in the pot, put the wax gourd strips into the pot, cover the pot and cook for 5 minutes."
"When the time is up, take out the cold water with a colander, and then dry it. After the water is dry, mix it with sugar in a ratio of five to four, transfer it to a basin, seal it, and store it in a cool place for three to five days. Then put the wax gourd strips Pour it into the pot together with the marinated sugar water, boil the water dry on medium-low heat until the winter melon strips are covered with icing sugar, and the winter melon strips are ready."
"It's not too difficult." Gu Kai looked at the steps up and found that they were basically the same, except that all the netizens used refrigerators. Because of the large quantity in Linjiacun, they all used tanks and put them in a cool place. Three to five days will do.
Hu Wei: "Then I can't finish making wax gourd sticks today."
"Yeah." Lan Yu nodded, "Today the main thing is to make rice wine, and the winter melon candy is the focus of tomorrow and a few days later."
Now that the weather is colder, winter melon strips can be stored for three days, and the whole village can share winter melon candies on the 25th of the year!
Lan Yu's wine koji is almost ready, and the uncles and aunts have already washed it yesterday and returned with the wine vat smoked with mugwort leaves, just in time for the glutinous rice in the pot to be cooked.
The cauldrons in the tent belong to the villagers who want to make wine, basically one for each household.
This kind of pot is very big, and the steaming wooden barrel on top of the pot is even bigger, filled with cooked glutinous rice. When all the pot lids are lifted together, the whole square and even the village are shrouded in clouds exuding the aroma of glutinous rice. among.
At this time, every household grabbed a rice cooker liner from the side, and then filled it with glutinous rice, and some couldn't wait, just scooped up a ball of glutinous rice with a spoon, rolled it twice in the bowl, and rolled it firmly. Sprinkle with sugar and eat with chopsticks.
Lan Yu deftly walked up to an aunt that Que Ganhua didn't know very well: "Aunt Hua! You're not so good this year?"
This Aunt Hua smiled as if she was not afraid of being scalded, wearing disposable gloves, and made a fist-sized mustard pork glutinous rice ball for Lan Yu's six people.
"Aunt Hua, your glutinous rice this year is very fragrant and sticky, and the wine you brew this year must be delicious!"
Aunt Hua was overjoyed: "Oh, Lan Yu's mouth is really good!" Then she gave Lan Yu a bottle of plum blossom wine, "This is the plum blossom wine that my aunt just brewed two days ago, take it home and let it sit for a while. drink it!"
Plum blossom wine is very simple. Fresh plum blossoms are picked, washed and dried, poured with fine sugar, sugar-soaked for two days and two nights, then a layer of plum blossoms and a layer of rock sugar are poured into the killed rice wine, and finally the bottle is sealed.
Aunt Hua’s plum wine has a lot of plum blossoms, rock sugar, and not much rice wine, so it won’t taste very intoxicating. Although the bottle is not very beautiful, the color of the wine is a little bit out, and it looks beautiful in the sun.
Lan Yu took it calmly, and walked to the side while nibbling. Que Ganhua and the others were thick-skinned, imitating Lan Yu and saying blessings, and followed Lan Yu with plum blossom wine.
The second uncle did the same thing. After saying his congratulations, the uncle gave him a large piece of bacon, and the glutinous rice balls he gave were pretty standard, dipped in sugar to eat.
Walking down in a circle, Lan Yu's six people were full of things, and they were full.
After eating so much at noon, and then eating so much at dinner time, everyone who returned with a full load saved dinner.
The village chief's family will also make wine this year. There are many guests this year, and the village chief's family does not have enough wine. Of course, this shortage refers to the summer harvest in the coming year, and enough wine for the Chinese New Year and spring!
Linjia Village brews wine on the 21st day of the year almost every year, and it makes a lot of wine every time. It’s not like other villages. It’s approaching the Chinese New Year and making wine for the Chinese New Year. People in Linjia Village think that kind of wine is raw wine!
Everyone was blessed, and the glutinous rice was put on the bamboo plaque. Que Ganhua and the others put aside what they were holding and helped together.
Lan Yu just happened to help Aunt Hua, and saw Aunt Hua deftly pour the cool white on the rolling glutinous rice mountain, until the temperature dropped to about [-] degrees, then mixed the distiller's koji into the glutinous rice one by one, and did not serve until the mixture was even. into the prepared large wine tank.
The surface is lightly smoothed with cool white water, and a hole is poked in the middle with a clean rolling pin, and then it can be sealed and stored in a cool and low temperature place.
For fermented glutinous rice, it depends on the temperature. Generally, it can be eaten in 3-4 days. At this time, you can make glutinous rice balls. In this weather, it will be at the same time as winter melon candy. Then you can eat glutinous rice balls while eating winter melon candy.
At this time, you need to add cool water to the wine tank, add it according to the ratio of one catty of rice to one catty of water, and then seal it for fermentation, about ten to thirteen days. At this time, you need to filter the distiller's grains, and the remaining wine liquid is sealed and continues to ferment , The length of time depends on the degree of fermentation, ranging from one month to half a year.
After that is the step of killing wine mentioned before.
In the evening, Lan Yu didn't cook, Que Ganhua and the others didn't cry hungry, and the old professors went home early to enjoy the rare glutinous rice balls.
Old professors: take a bite while the guards are not paying attention!
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The gray-haired old professor caressed the spirit beast grass that Que Ganhua had pinched, with a distressed expression on his face: "My baby..."
Que Ganhua, a big man of one hundred and seventy-eight, was pushed flat and moved two or three steps to the side by a white-haired old man who looked at eight|90 years old?
Que Ganhua: "Huh?"
"Why were you pinched?" The old professor looked sad, "It's a pity you won't grow up!"
Que Ganhua looked at Lan Yu, who was winking and pouted frantically at the sky.
It means, the people above.
Que Ganhua understood in seconds, then quickly showed a smile, and stepped forward to help the old professor, "I'm sorry, I don't know..."
Did you grow these?
Before he finished speaking, the old professor uprooted the spirit beast grass that he had pinched just now, put it in his pocket, and then got up and gave Que Ganhua a look, "Humph!"
Que Ganhua looked at the vacant seat, then at the old professor's pocket, showing a puzzled expression, "Huh?!"
The old professor waved to a pseudo-artist who was drawing a runaway emoticon with muscular body that could not be covered by clothes: "Xiao Tian, come here."
Disguised as an artist, Xiao Tian, who is actually the old professor's guard, took off his hat and ran over, "Old Xu."
The old professor—Mr. Xu is the one with the most serious obsessive-compulsive disorder among the group of white-haired professors that Guo He told Lan Yu to borrow the backyard to grow something. His status is very precious. The guards brought two of them, one light and one dark. The obvious one is Oda.
Lan Yu secretly knew it was that one, but there was no need to say anything.
Elder Xu glared at Que Ganhua, then walked away unsteadily.
Que Ganhua took a deep breath when the people walked away, "Mr. Xu... is it?"
Lan Yu nodded: "A group is here."
Que Ganhua: "Hey! Isn't a group a bit too much?"
Lan Yu pointed to the grass field of spirit beasts and said, "These lands of mine have already been requisitioned."
After the integration of Lin Family Village Spirit Beast and Grass Field, all the data of Lan Yu Meiyuan Mountain have been uploaded.
After getting all the data of Meiyuan Mountain, all the vegetable fields planted by Lan Yu at the foot of the mountain were contracted by the old professors, and Mr. Xu, who had a serious obsessive-compulsive disorder, led someone to rearrange the land, making it horizontal and vertical. look like.
Obsessive-compulsive disorder is not limited to this aspect. At the beginning, Lan Yu's spiritual beast grass field was uneven, like a signal.
Mr. Xu felt uncomfortable no matter how he looked at it. After taking over, he asked all the spirit beast grass to grow at the same height!
Que Ganhua looked at the grass field of the spirit beast in front of him, and his mind became active: "Sell it to me?"
Lan Yu rolled her eyes: "You think beautiful!"
Que Ganhua frowned: "That won't work, if you don't sell it to me, who do you want to sell it to?"
"Mr. Xu and the others are not enough." Lan Yu took a deep breath, patted Gu Kai who was still cracking, "I'll make you pickled vegetables and fried pork tonight!"
After Hu Wei finished his last stroke, he packed up his things and came over to hear the last three words. The corners of his mouth twitched: "Rat pan?"
Gu Kai, who had eaten dried rats before, was stunned on the spot: "What? Old what? What rat?"
Que Ganhua was eager to try: "Mouse Boil, I want to try!"
Gu Kai and Hu Wei walked up the steps behind them. The scent of plum blossoms became stronger and stronger as they walked along the way. When they reached the gate of the old house, it was so strong that I wanted to sneeze.
Que Ganhua: "Ache!" Sniffing, "Lan Yu, you didn't marinate!"
Lan Yu turned her head and glanced at him quietly, "It's almost there."
The plum blossoms all over the mountains and fields are in full bloom, and the old house is filled with the fragrance of plum blossoms. Everything Lan Yu eats at home now smells of plum blossoms!
When Que Ganhua entered the house, he found that the left wing room was completely emptied. The beds that had been placed inside had been moved out. The windows that faced west and could see all the scenery at the foot of the mountain were now all open. Several gray-haired professors were enjoying the scenery while drinking tea.
Que Ganhua and Gu Kai hurriedly said hello, and the old professors greeted them with smiles over a cup of tea. On the table were roasted peanuts of various flavors sent by Lin Sheng, as well as red mud and black mud peanuts.
The surface of peanuts is covered with a layer of black mud and red mud. When eating, squeeze the peanut meat inside. In the eyes of Lan Yu, who likes boiled dried peanuts, it is just a gimmick. The best roasted peanuts are garlic peanuts. Neither was fragrant enough.
Lan Yu felt that she was about to marinate to taste, but the old professors liked the plum blossoms of Meiyuan Mountain very much. After finishing their work every day, they just sat in the left wing room making tea and watching the scenery. Mr. Xu was an exception, he preferred to go to see it Mr. Zhong and the big guys sent by Tiandao built the accommodation area of the farm.
The dormitory area was originally decided to be built entirely of wood. It took a long time before the base was dug deep and built very solidly. The prototype of the entire house has come out, but at present, Mr. Zhong, Mr. Xu and Hu Wei’s grandpa are working with each other. The leaders of the engineering team discussed whether to borrow some structures from Lan Yu's old house.
Lan Yu, the hands-off shopkeeper, is really only responsible for paying the money. After Qin You, Shang Lu and Ah Hu returned to the comprehension continent, the old house became much quieter. Ah Sheh is still awake. Uncle is even more busy taking care of the six rollings, so he has no time at all.
The group of old professors that Guo He asked Lan Yu to take care of brought a different kind of excitement to the old house, even the backyard was very lively, and the system complained several times, saying that these old professors looked at him in the wrong way, as if It was as if he wanted to dissect him at any time.
Lan Yu: Hmm...
If they know that you are the system, and that the abnormal data in the backyard is the cause of you, they will probably really dissect you!
Que Ganhua and Gu Kai sat down, looked out the window, and found that the view from this position was really beautiful, so they couldn't help but took out their mobile phones to take pictures and post them on Moments.
After filming enough, Que Ganhua thanked the old professors for the tea, and after taking a sip, he realized that it was spirit beast grass juice, which tasted similar to the one produced in the backyard.
He looked at Lan Yu, and Lan Yu gestured towards the foot of the mountain; "Old Xu's rice is not enough for them to drink."
Que Ganhua looked at the grass field of spirit beasts, which was covered by winter melon, and raised his eyebrows, "So much? Not enough?"
Lan Yu held a peanut and showed how stupid you are.
Que Ganhua froze for a moment, then patted himself on the head: "I'm really stupid."
These old professors came through Guo He. Who was Guo He? He was the one who signed the Linghuncao contract with Lan Yu on behalf of the country. Do you need to guess the origin of these old professors?
The rare and endangered plants that are suitable for the southern weather in Lan Yu's backyard can explain everything.
It would be no wonder that the spirit beast grass planted by Mr. Xu could be sold to him. Que Ganhua remembered that the spirit beast grass he bought from Lan Yu's backyard would have to be divided into two-thirds, let alone Mr. Xu's.
Que Ganhua took a big gulp of spirit beast grass juice, looked at the table, and found that it was full of peanuts, "Lan Yu, don't you prepare any New Year's goods?"
It's the 21st year, and there is no New Year's Eve this year, and the 29th year is New Year's Eve.
Lan Yu is not a stingy person either. She bought New Year's goods and didn't bring them up. Seeing that the table was full of peanuts, she knew that Lan Yu not only didn't sell New Year's goods, but also that the stock was gone. It was even more shabby than usual.
In Linjiacun, or Lan Yu's hometown, because of the weather, there are really not many things to prepare for the New Year.
In previous years, there was still a chance to wear a padded jacket, but it was only worn in the morning and evening. In the past seven or eight years, the Chinese New Year has become more and more hot.
Lan Yu bought the down jacket eight years ago and has worn it twice now. He got sunburned on the first day of the Lunar New Year three years ago. He was sitting in the yard playing mahjong with his friends, and his face was sunburned by the sun at [-] o'clock in the afternoon. Lan Yu, who was wearing short sleeves, was lucky that her hands were not sunburned.
Because of the weather, everyone is not so poor that they can't live well in the new year, so they don't buy pork and New Year's goods as early as before.
There are two big fairs around the Chinese New Year. Even if there is no market, the newly opened small supermarket in the village is enough for the villagers to purchase New Year’s goods at any time. In previous years, there was no small supermarket, and they can buy them anytime in the county.
It's not good enough for Chinese New Year, there are many stalls selling New Year's goods on the side of the road, and there are still there until the fifteenth day of the new year.
The aunt I mentioned before told Lan Yu about interesting things about the Chinese New Year.
In the past, it was popular for people to give gifts, and when visiting relatives during the Chinese New Year, there were big bags and small bags. I said I would tell you not to be polite. I said you have children in my family, but you said I have old people in my family. Give it back to me, Tude is a lively scene, and the atmosphere that I will give you if you don't accept it.
This aunt’s mother’s family has five uncles, five cousins, plus grandparents and grandparents. Every time to send the New Year, his father’s motorcycle has to make three trips, two trips to carry goods, and one trip to pick up his daughter halfway. And his wife.
Then it was the same on the return trip, but all the gifts brought home were changed.
Later, people's lives gradually improved, and they were usually willing to eat and wear, and everyone negotiated a red envelope for the New Year. This aunt's family also bought a car later. After marriage, they basically went home to celebrate the New Year. Spectrum.
Lan Yu just listened to it. Seeing that this uncle came to Linjiacun every year to celebrate the New Year, he knew that his family was unreliable.
Back to the topic, in recent years, everyone in Linjiacun, except for some old people who are nostalgic for the past, are not in a hurry to join in the fun with New Year's goods, like Lan Yu.
The second senior brother, Shang Lu, helped Lan Yu harvest the lingmi before leaving. At that time, Que Ganhua had already left without signing the contract, so of course he had no share in the lingmi.
Lan Yu dried the Lingmi rice and took it to the rice mill to grind it into rice. After packing, each household in the village gave ten catties, and the rest gave one-fifth to Que Ganhua and the others. The three roommates worked together. I got up and gave away one-fifth, distributed one-fifth to the farm, one-fifth to Professor Shi and the others, and one-fifth Lan Yu kept ten catties for herself, and gave the rest to them The gray-haired old professors.
Eating spirit rice, drinking spirit beast grass juice, and smelling the air in Linjiacun, the old professors looked at their increasingly strong hands and feet and didn't understand, but they didn't ask if Lan Yu didn't tell them, they just helped the children in the village with tutoring Homework is more diligent!
Before Que Ganhua and the others came back, the children in the right wing left dejectedly.
Lin Hangtu and others: Woohoo, winter vacation is so scary!
So turning grief and anger into appetite, the few snacks left at Lan Yu's house were consumed in this way. Lan Yu thought that it was almost time to buy new year's goods, and Lin Sheng just sent a bunch of peanuts, so he simply waited for Daji to buy them New Year's goods.
After listening to Lan Yu's explanation, Que Ganhua looked at the opposite right wing with admiration and sympathy. Lin Hangtu and the others are so pitiful!
"It's almost lunch, Lan Yu, is there a mouse in your mouse pan?" Que Ganhua's stomach growled.Clutching his stomach, he asked.
Lan Yu shook her head: "Don't worry, there are really no mice in the mouse pan!"
Que Ganhua and Gu Kai breathed a sigh of relief together: "That's good!"
Hu Wei lay down on the window sill and began to draw again. Lan Yu took Que Ganhua and Gu Kai to help. By the way, did the old professors have lunch here?
Most of the old professors were from the north, and they were also very curious, so they all followed to the kitchen with their hands behind their backs.
Lan Yu soaked her ten catties of spiritual rice in water and took it to a rice mill to grind it into wet powder, then took it home to dry, and stored it. Because the rice is blue, the powder is also blue, but this blue The color seems to be faintly glowing, it doesn't look very strange.
There were a lot of people, so Lan Yu just poured five catties of sticky rice flour, added salt and water, stirred it into a thin paste, poured it into a large pot, put the stove on a low heat, and kept stirring with an iron spatula to prevent the bottom from sticking until It can be put into an iron basin after turning into a cooked dough, then pour in the remaining five catties of sticky rice flour, knead them together, and knead them into a dough that won't stick to your hands, then put it aside for later use.
Prepare shiitake mushrooms according to the size of the dough. Wash the dried shiitake mushrooms, soak them in hair, and chop them. Wash the raw shiitake mushrooms and tear them into strips. Shrimp, minced lean meat, coriander, chopped green onion and chopped celery.
Fire up the stove, heat the oil in a pan, add ginger and garlic, add lean meat and dried shiitake mushrooms after frying fragrant, then add raw shiitake mushrooms, and finally shrimps, and add water when it’s almost done.
While the water is boiling, pick up a small piece from the dough, put it in the palm of your hand, rub your hands together vigorously, and a mouse pan with two pointed ends is ready. Repeat this action, and the mouse pan will be placed in the bamboo plaque It will stick together because half of it is cooked.
The speed is as fast as Mrs. Sun can finish rubbing in the short time when the water is boiling. Lan Yu has a lot of people and strength. Everyone washes their hands and helps together. Mouse boil, it will be ready in a while.Finally, seasoning, chopped green onion, coriander and celery are put into the big sea bowl, pour a spoon full of mouse rice into it, and instantly remember the aroma of coriander and chopped green onion.
Each person came to the left wing with a bowl, and while enjoying the scenery, he ate the mouse rice with a spoon, and added it to the pot after eating.
Pickled meat with pickled vegetables was made last night. It was left warm after making the rice dumplings. It is the same method as dried bamboo shoots with pork knuckles, but the preserved vegetables have a slightly more sour taste than dried bamboo shoots, which combines the greasy feeling of fried pork. .
Take a bite of a piece of braised pork, it is fat but not greasy, and it also has the unique fragrance and sweet and sour taste of preserved vegetables. It tastes very appetizing. The preserved vegetables have been soaked in the mouse pan for a long time, and it also brings a little buckle meat to the mouse pan. Sweet and sour taste of plum vegetables.
Gu Kai likes braised pork with preserved vegetables and rice bowls very much. After eating three big bowls, he finally leaned on the chair and hiccupped while being unable to move.
Gu Kai: "Hi! Mouse pan... delicious! Hip!"
The old professors were more restrained. After eating, they went back to the village and built log cabins in some beautiful places for a lunch break according to the instructions of the infrastructure leaders.
The ownership of these cabins is divided according to who owns the land. A large part of the cabins are built on the site of old houses with yellow mud walls that were knocked down, and a small part is built on the collective land of the village.All the cabins are under the unified management of the village department, but the income of the former is the personal income of the villagers after paying a certain maintenance and management fee, and the rest after paying the maintenance and management fee of the latter is returned to the village.
This part of the income, together with the fish farming income from the big lake in the village and the current reservoir, is used to maintain Linjia Village.
The old professors originally lived in the villagers’ homes. After the cabins were built, they organized a group to visit the site one by one. They paid for the one they liked, and then moved in happily.
The log cabin has only one and a half floors, and the lower half floor is high. Follow the stairs to the first floor. There are three rooms in total, a living room, a bedroom and a bedroom, which can also be used as a study.
The supplies in the house are all hand-sewn by the villagers themselves from the pure cotton cloth purchased from the old cloth shop in the county. The patterns are in charge of the aunts who can do simple embroidery, and the tables, chairs and beds in the house are in charge of the uncle who knows the carpenter .
As I said before, the most indispensable thing for every household in Linjia Village is wood, which is purchased by the village and assigned to work. In addition, there is no need to manage the grass field of spirit beasts, and there is plenty of time.
All the villagers have finished these log cabins and have to wait until Lan Yu's farm is built, attracting a large number of tourists before they can earn income. Unexpectedly, the old professors brought the first bucket of gold from the log cabin.
The farm is still under construction!
After the lunch break, as soon as the old professors took their seats, a group of children rushed up from the foot of Meiyuan Mountain.
There were boys and girls from the age of three, chattering non-stop around the professors, Que Ganhua and Gu Kai couldn't help taking two steps back when they saw this scene.
Que Ganhua looked like Lan Yu: "What did you say you were taking us to do?"
"Yes." Gu Kai nodded, "We are very capable! We are not afraid of suffering or tiredness!"
"Pfft." Lan Yu held a snakeskin bag and a sickle in his hand, and said with a smile, "Cut winter melons and make winter melon candies."
The two got up immediately, "Let's go!" "Winter melon, what a joke!"
Lan Yu met Guan Tong and Zhou Kong on the way, and Hu Wei who met them halfway, and Lan Yu took them along.
The winter melons planted in late August are just ready to be harvested. Although I have harvested a few to sell before, it is not worth mentioning for the winter melons that are growing well and the number of results has completely exceeded expectations.
If Lan Yu hadn't planted mustard greens after hanging up the melon and pumpkin fields on the shelves, he would probably have been targeted by Mr. Xu.
Lan Yu still remembers Elder Xu's eyes of death: "What are you planting these for?"
Lan Yu: "Big leaf mustard and potherb mustard can be used to make dried plum vegetables, and water mustard can be used to make sauerkraut!"
Big-leaf mustard and potherb mustard are planted every year after the autumn harvest. They are old acquaintances in Linjia Village. Shuidong mustard has been grown in recent years. Because the leaves are tender and less bitter than big-leaf mustard, they are usually picked. It can be eaten directly by frying or pickled in sour water to make sauerkraut that can be eaten in a short time.
Big-leaf mustard potherb mustard is basically fried and eaten directly or dried and pickled to make dried plum vegetables, which are reserved for eating when the vegetables are green and yellow in the coming year.
Big-leaf mustard also grows taller than Shuidong mustard, and can grow up to 150 cm. The leaves can also be broken off and eaten, but unless there are no other vegetables, the leaves of big-leaf mustard are generally not eaten, because the bitter fiber is thicker, which is not good eat.
Different from the water mustard, the big-leaf mustard also has mustard heads. Before the mustard heads grow up and bloom, the villagers will go to the field to break off the leaves of the big-leaf mustard and take them home to dry for two days. , the leaves are soft enough to proceed to the next step.
Add an appropriate amount of salt to the sun-dried mustard greens, and rub them vigorously on a clean slate to remove some of the water until the whole vegetable is cooked [cooked] and put it aside to hang. One day, the next day, seven or eight leaves can be bundled into a fist-sized bundle of dried vegetables as long as a child's arm and stuffed into a cleaned and dried pot with a small mouth.
The bundles of dried vegetables should be stacked layer by layer, and pressed firmly. When sealing, find a strong plastic, wrap it tightly and tie it with a rope, and finally cover it, and then put the whole tank upside down in the stairwell or a cool place. The mouth of the cylinder is cushioned with a wooden board.
The pickle jar is not the kind that is sealed with water, but the one with a small mouth.
As soon as the big-leaf mustard blooms, it has to be cut back regardless of whether the mustard head grows or not. Sometimes due to weather conditions or poor vegetable seeds, one or two mu of land may be planted and all bloom at one time, and they are busy pickling for two or three days. vegetable.
There is another method of dried plum vegetables. After kneading and ripening, dry them in the air, then cook them in a pot, then marinate them in salt for a day or two, take them out and dry them in the sun. After they are completely dry, they can be stored in bags.
However, this method of pickling is commonly used in Linjiacun. The final product is wet, very tough and chewy. The dried plums that are just edible are sweet and sour. The longer the dried plums are stored, the sweeter they become.
This kind of dried preserved vegetables is not made with dried preserved vegetables. It is also delicious to stir-fry with lard and a little lard residue, or add some chili and minced meat to stir-fry, which is also great!
The pickled meat with plum vegetables at noon is made of dried plum vegetables made from mustard greens. It was made by Mrs. Sun after the autumn harvest. It can be eaten for two months, and the taste is still a little sour.
Lan Yu is lucky this year, the mustard heads are quite big, and the leaves are pickled.
There are many bumps on the mustard head of the big-leaf mustard because the leaves are broken off. The foot is on the handle of the semicircular sickle. The person is sitting on the chair, holding the mustard head in the left hand, and holding the semicircular sickle in the right hand. The tip is on the mustard head. Gently stroke the mustard head to cut through the outer skin and the inner vegetable bone. Using both hands and feet, peel off the outer skin and vegetable bone of the mustard head from the beginning to the end with a sickle, and put it aside for later use.
The shaved mustard heads are white at the head and blue at the end. After cleaning, find a planer with a kitchen knife in the middle of a wooden board, slice the mustard heads into thin slices, and put them in a bamboo plaque to dry until they are dry. Dried, and finally bagged and dried for storage, it can be used to cook soup or soak in stir-fried vegetables.
Remove the mustard skin, remove the vegetable bone, clean and remove the dirty part, cut into strips, then add salt, pepper and some other seasonings, mix well, put it in a jar, seal it with water, and you can eat spicy food in ten days and a half months The mustard greens are gone.
Mustard husks have been withdrawn from the dining table in Linjiacun for a long time. At the beginning, they were not eaten, and as long as they were edible, they were eaten as vegetables; Everyone is not short of money and wants to get back the old taste. The simple pickled mustard skin is really unpalatable. There is an ingenious aunt who adds chili and other seasonings and uses a transparent glass bottle to make spicy mustard skin.
Not to mention, the finished product goes well with rice, and the spicy mustard greens are crispy and go well with rice.
Lan Yu's family completed all these under the guidance of Aunt Sun and others. After finishing the work, they took pictures of a room full of results for Que Ganhua and the others to see.
By the way, I also made dried radish. The procedure of dried radish is the same as that of dried plum vegetables, but the dried radish should be cut into strips with roughly the same shape, then dried until soft, rubbed with salt to remove the water, dried again, and then put into a tank , It must be tightly pressed, pressed with a stone, and finally sealed with water or plastic, then wrapped tightly and placed upside down.
Lan Yu doesn't like to eat dried cabbage. All the cabbage is still in the field. If it blooms, it will be harvested and fed to the pigs.
The purpose of growing cabbage is to make dry pot cabbage, and other Lan Yu doesn't like to eat it.
Most of the sweet potatoes planted before were stored in the cellar, leaving only a ridge of sweet potato seedlings left to eat leaves.
After the mustard greens were harvested, Lan Yu replanted Chinese kale and Chinese cabbage, and also planted a lot of cilantro. When I plant them at this time, I can eat tender kale and Chinese cabbage during the Chinese New Year. The cilantro is also very tender at this time , the taste is not too heavy, shabu-shabu is the best.
They also transplanted some broccoli and iceberg lettuce. They like to eat small celery here, and Lan Yu also planted a lot.
Seeing this freshly sprouting vegetable field, Que Ganhua couldn't help but sigh with emotion: "It's like spring all the year around here, but summer is winter at my house. The teacher asked me to describe spring. When I looked outside, the white snow could still freeze to death." me!"
"I've never seen a snowy spring!" Que Ganhua took a picture of the sprouting vegetable field, added the phrase "winter in the south" and sent it to Moments.
Lan Yu said quietly, "I've never seen a snowy winter."
Que Ganhua: "..."
Gu Kai: "...It seems that there is nothing wrong with it?"
"Me too." Guan Tong looked at the sky, "I was super happy to see snow in the winter in my first year in college, and ran out to have fun, and then my roommate said that he finally saw the snow in the winter. Southerners."
Hu Wei: "..."
Zhou Kong: "..."
There seemed to be six people present, four northerners.
This is not the point, the point is that Lan Yu's summer vegetable field is now only left with winter melons and pumpkins.
Because the winter melons were planted first, most of the racks erected on the pillars were occupied by the winter melons. The pumpkins were fine at first, but soon grew to the ground.
There is a layer of fluff on the surface of the wax gourd, which is its defense device. When the wax gourd is still young, if the fluff is scratched and the skin of the melon is exposed, it will rot soon, and the whole wax gourd will rot.
The fluff of winter melon can not only block mosquito bites, but also block the air column and reduce water transpiration.
The villagers in the past didn't understand these things, and would always warn the children that winter melons are stingy before they grow up, and they should not be touched. If you touch the winter melon, it will rot.
Winter melons are all hung on the shed, the surface is full of fluff, and the skin is protected by a thick layer of hoarfrost. When cutting, one person needs to hold the winter melon with a snakeskin bag, and another person cuts off the vines on the top. , and then the two went out with winter melon on their shoulders.
Lan Yu and Guan Tong made a demonstration, and the village chief brought the villagers to help with a smile on his face.
The village chief said cheerfully, "Everything is ready on the other side of the square, just waiting for the wax gourd!"
With a wave of Lan Yu's hand, the domineering side leaked: "Leave two or three tender winter melons, and chop the rest."
The village head stepped forward and knocked Lan Yu on the head: "Two or three are not enough!"
Lan Yu shrank her neck: "It hurts!"
"It hurts there!" The village chief rubbed Lan Yu's long-haired head, "I'll keep ten for you. It's almost Chinese New Year, and you can still sell some money. Don't be extravagant, your farm will continue to pour in." Money, it won’t be too late to be generous when you can make money whenever you lie down!”
Lan Yu smirked, pointed at Que Ganhua and said, "Isn't there still boss Xiao Que here?"
The village chief shook his head helplessly, and when his uncles and Que Ganhua had all turned into the wax gourd shed to get busy, he asked in a low voice, "Do you still have enough money?"
Lan Yu also whispered: "It's enough~"
The village head showed a smile on his face: "That's good, by the way, Yue Xi had fun with Lin Dai at Lin Sheng's place, and they will bring them back together on the 28th."
Lan Yu nodded, expressing that she had no objection.
As soon as the winter vacation started, Lin Dai came back with Lin Sheng, hugged Jin Dan and said that he wanted to find Yue Xi's brother to play with.
Lin Sheng was busy, and the village head was also busy, and they didn't have time to take care of the children. It happened that Lin Dai's grandmother was thinking about the child, and she wanted to send Lin Dai there, but Lin Dai was reluctant to take a rest, and said that he would take his younger brother to his grandmother's house.
Lan Yu thought that he was busy recently and didn't have time to accompany Yue Xi, so the village became even more hectic. He could follow Lin Dai to his grandmother's house, and asked Yue Xi if he would go, Yue Xi nodded sharply.
So Yue Xi went to Lin Dai's grandmother's house with Lin Dai, played for more than ten days, and couldn't think of leaving.
Abai watched the spirit tigers getting more and more naughty at home during this time, three times they were almost not enough for them to jump. Fortunately, Abai is big and has a tendon, no matter how naughty the spirit tiger is, he can't escape Ah Bai Wuzhi Mountain.
After the road was repaired, it was easy to go. The uncles cut off all the wax gourds, put them on the tricycle, and walked out along the uninstalled gate of Meiyuan Mountain, bypassing the purchasing station and the grass field of spirit beasts. After crossing the bridge, drive along the small river towards the entrance of the village.
Arriving at the former square, there are now plum trees in full bloom. After bypassing the plum trees, we arrived at the three-and-a-half-story, antique-decorated village building.
In the center of the square, which is more than three times larger than the previous square, there is a tall magnolia tree. Under the magnolia tree are several stone tables and chairs. To the north is the kitchen on the first floor. A tent has been set up outside the kitchen. Under the tent is a A cauldron using biogas.
To the north of the cauldron is a canal that is obviously higher than the ground, and the water in the canal is the water from a small river drawn by a waterwheel at the entrance of the village.
The canal is sloping, sloping from west to east, and the water wheel is on the west side of the canal. The winter melons unloaded from the tricycle were dragged into the canal by the uncles, and the fluff and hoarfrost were washed off with a loofah, revealing the original green skin of the winter melon.
After cleaning, the uncle picked up the wax gourd and put it on the chopping board behind him. After peeling and removing the core, he cut it into small pieces with a length of 20 cm, a width of [-] cm, and a thickness of [-] cm.Pour it all into the lime water mixed with [-] kg of water to [-] g of lime water and soak for more than six hours (adding lime to soak will make the winter melon hard, and it will not soften when boiled).
Because it takes a long time to soak, the glutinous rice that was soaked yesterday is steaming in the steaming cauldron. Lan Yu and the others are not needed to wash the winter melon, so Aunt Sun asked to help crush the koji.
Lan Yu, Que Ganhua and the others chatted while chatting.
Que Ganhua: "What should I do after soaking the wax gourd strips?"
Lan Yu recalled what her aunts did in the past, "After soaking, take it out and wash it, and rinse it with water several times. Then soak it in clean water for an hour to get rid of the smell of lime powder. After an hour, pour out the water and continue rinsing , until there is no smell of lime powder, then boil the water in the pot, put the wax gourd strips into the pot, cover the pot and cook for 5 minutes."
"When the time is up, take out the cold water with a colander, and then dry it. After the water is dry, mix it with sugar in a ratio of five to four, transfer it to a basin, seal it, and store it in a cool place for three to five days. Then put the wax gourd strips Pour it into the pot together with the marinated sugar water, boil the water dry on medium-low heat until the winter melon strips are covered with icing sugar, and the winter melon strips are ready."
"It's not too difficult." Gu Kai looked at the steps up and found that they were basically the same, except that all the netizens used refrigerators. Because of the large quantity in Linjiacun, they all used tanks and put them in a cool place. Three to five days will do.
Hu Wei: "Then I can't finish making wax gourd sticks today."
"Yeah." Lan Yu nodded, "Today the main thing is to make rice wine, and the winter melon candy is the focus of tomorrow and a few days later."
Now that the weather is colder, winter melon strips can be stored for three days, and the whole village can share winter melon candies on the 25th of the year!
Lan Yu's wine koji is almost ready, and the uncles and aunts have already washed it yesterday and returned with the wine vat smoked with mugwort leaves, just in time for the glutinous rice in the pot to be cooked.
The cauldrons in the tent belong to the villagers who want to make wine, basically one for each household.
This kind of pot is very big, and the steaming wooden barrel on top of the pot is even bigger, filled with cooked glutinous rice. When all the pot lids are lifted together, the whole square and even the village are shrouded in clouds exuding the aroma of glutinous rice. among.
At this time, every household grabbed a rice cooker liner from the side, and then filled it with glutinous rice, and some couldn't wait, just scooped up a ball of glutinous rice with a spoon, rolled it twice in the bowl, and rolled it firmly. Sprinkle with sugar and eat with chopsticks.
Lan Yu deftly walked up to an aunt that Que Ganhua didn't know very well: "Aunt Hua! You're not so good this year?"
This Aunt Hua smiled as if she was not afraid of being scalded, wearing disposable gloves, and made a fist-sized mustard pork glutinous rice ball for Lan Yu's six people.
"Aunt Hua, your glutinous rice this year is very fragrant and sticky, and the wine you brew this year must be delicious!"
Aunt Hua was overjoyed: "Oh, Lan Yu's mouth is really good!" Then she gave Lan Yu a bottle of plum blossom wine, "This is the plum blossom wine that my aunt just brewed two days ago, take it home and let it sit for a while. drink it!"
Plum blossom wine is very simple. Fresh plum blossoms are picked, washed and dried, poured with fine sugar, sugar-soaked for two days and two nights, then a layer of plum blossoms and a layer of rock sugar are poured into the killed rice wine, and finally the bottle is sealed.
Aunt Hua’s plum wine has a lot of plum blossoms, rock sugar, and not much rice wine, so it won’t taste very intoxicating. Although the bottle is not very beautiful, the color of the wine is a little bit out, and it looks beautiful in the sun.
Lan Yu took it calmly, and walked to the side while nibbling. Que Ganhua and the others were thick-skinned, imitating Lan Yu and saying blessings, and followed Lan Yu with plum blossom wine.
The second uncle did the same thing. After saying his congratulations, the uncle gave him a large piece of bacon, and the glutinous rice balls he gave were pretty standard, dipped in sugar to eat.
Walking down in a circle, Lan Yu's six people were full of things, and they were full.
After eating so much at noon, and then eating so much at dinner time, everyone who returned with a full load saved dinner.
The village chief's family will also make wine this year. There are many guests this year, and the village chief's family does not have enough wine. Of course, this shortage refers to the summer harvest in the coming year, and enough wine for the Chinese New Year and spring!
Linjia Village brews wine on the 21st day of the year almost every year, and it makes a lot of wine every time. It’s not like other villages. It’s approaching the Chinese New Year and making wine for the Chinese New Year. People in Linjia Village think that kind of wine is raw wine!
Everyone was blessed, and the glutinous rice was put on the bamboo plaque. Que Ganhua and the others put aside what they were holding and helped together.
Lan Yu just happened to help Aunt Hua, and saw Aunt Hua deftly pour the cool white on the rolling glutinous rice mountain, until the temperature dropped to about [-] degrees, then mixed the distiller's koji into the glutinous rice one by one, and did not serve until the mixture was even. into the prepared large wine tank.
The surface is lightly smoothed with cool white water, and a hole is poked in the middle with a clean rolling pin, and then it can be sealed and stored in a cool and low temperature place.
For fermented glutinous rice, it depends on the temperature. Generally, it can be eaten in 3-4 days. At this time, you can make glutinous rice balls. In this weather, it will be at the same time as winter melon candy. Then you can eat glutinous rice balls while eating winter melon candy.
At this time, you need to add cool water to the wine tank, add it according to the ratio of one catty of rice to one catty of water, and then seal it for fermentation, about ten to thirteen days. At this time, you need to filter the distiller's grains, and the remaining wine liquid is sealed and continues to ferment , The length of time depends on the degree of fermentation, ranging from one month to half a year.
After that is the step of killing wine mentioned before.
In the evening, Lan Yu didn't cook, Que Ganhua and the others didn't cry hungry, and the old professors went home early to enjoy the rare glutinous rice balls.
Old professors: take a bite while the guards are not paying attention!
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