Defeat natural disasters with farming

People in Heihe County got up early as usual today, and those who had work to do went out quickly after eating at home, and those who had looser hands went to food stalls or restaurants on the street for breakfast.

The steaming food was emitting white smoke, covering people's figures.

"Spicy steamed buns and steamed buns are cheap, one penny for a steamed bun, two pennies for a steamed stuffed bun."

"Hot porridge water, wouldn't it be nice to have a bowl of hot porridge in the morning?"

A street is full of small stalls selling breakfast food, and the aromas of various flavors of food are mixed together, presenting a picture of fireworks in the world.

"Two steamed buns and a bowl of porridge."

"okay."

Four Wen coins were placed on the table. While waiting for the steamed buns, the owner of the money looked around boredly. Suddenly, his eyes focused on a shop next to the steamed bun stand.

He squinted to see the plaque clearly - Ye's Braised Meat.

"Hey, when did a new shop open here?"

The stall owner who brought over the steamed buns and porridge said, "You haven't been here much recently, have you?"

The guest nodded and admitted, "I went to other counties last year, and I just came back yesterday."

The stall owner flicked the towel, clapped his hands and said, "That's right, this shop opened two months ago, and it sells some braised duck heads, duck necks and duck intestines."

"It's all leftovers..." How delicious can it be.

The guests were a little curious at first, but when they heard that it was leftovers, they immediately lost interest. Among other things, no one wanted the duck intestine no matter how cheap it was, and no matter how it was made, it had a fishy smell.

"You can't say that. The taste of Ye's lo mei is excellent. The key is that the price of duck intestines and duck necks is still cheap. Poor people like us can buy some to satisfy our cravings."

The stall owner retorted a few words, and when a customer came to buy buns, he left a sentence and walked away, "You turn around, you can buy some to try, their house opens at noon, if you go late, they will be gone."

The guests ate the porridge with steamed buns and sticks. It is undeniable that they felt a little curious in their hearts.

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Mother Ye got up before dawn. There was no other reason for their family to look at the store. It was only their husband and wife in the entire Ye family who could read and count. Because of this, the family began to pay attention to reading now. Several children They were all sent to private schools in the village.

Father Ye was also helping in the store, and the two of them worked together to take out the lo mei that was put in the small bucket last night, cut it up and put it on a plate, and with their movements, the rich aroma slowly emerged. come out.

Because of the limited variety of spices in this era, Ye Yu only prepared a kind of brine, which is a spicy red brine, which he modified according to the taste of the local people, and the spiciness is slightly lighter.

It can be used four or five times to adjust a brine, which is relatively low in terms of cost.It is said that the old stew will not go bad after ten years, but they still lack some spices, and the ten-year stew can't be made yet.

"Keep your voice down, brother Bao is still asleep, go inside and fry the medicine later, and make some porridge." Ye Mu said in an airy voice.

Father Ye kept his fingers on his hands, "Doctor Wu said that Brother Bao should change the medicine after taking this medicine. It's getting colder every day."

Mother Ye was a little worried, "It's only September now, but it's like the end of the year in previous years, it's surprisingly cold."

"No, I have to pull some cotton to make the winter clothes thicker later."

After the two chatted a few words, the lo mei was also neatly arranged.

At this moment Ye Yu woke up, he rubbed his eyes and sat up, the quilt slipped off his shoulders with this movement, Ye Yu who was only wearing a cotton coat was shocked by the cold air, couldn't help but gasped, Lie back under the covers again.

Now he is completely awake, Ye Yu thought for a while, sat up and surrounded the quilt in a circle, then pressed the edge of the quilt with his legs, and put on his coat under the quilt, he waited until his body got used to the outside After reaching the temperature, I lifted the quilt and sat on the edge of the bed to put on my shoes.

Just as he was brushing his teeth, his sense of smell slowly recovered. He wrinkled his nose and sniffed, and smelled a trace of bitterness mixed with the aroma of lo mei.

However, although this medicine is bitter, it is really effective. In the past few years, even in summer, his hands and feet were cold, and the bed was not warm, and he was extremely afraid of the cold. Since he took the medicine, he has improved a lot, at least he is not so afraid of the cold. .

After finishing personal hygiene soon, Ye Yu jumped off the wooden bench, wiped her face, opened a delicate celadon round box, dug out a paste-like object the size of a small fingernail, warmed it with her hands, and applied it on the face.

This is a kind of ointment to prevent chapped skin. It is not an expensive item. It is just because Ye Yu's skin is tender, and his face and hands will be dry and cracked every time the weather is cold, so he always keeps it at home.

The Xie's shop they rented rarely has an inner room, although it is not big, it is more than enough for several people to live in.

Seeing Ye Yu coming out, Mother Ye quickly brought out the cooked porridge.

There are only three things on the small round table, one is a bucket of porridge boiled out of rice oil, the other is a basket of steamed buns that are white and yellow, and the third is two plates of pickles.

When Ye Yu sat down, Father Ye opened the curtain and walked in again, holding three eggs in his hand.

"Try it quickly, this is a fresh egg that was just delivered yesterday." He cracked open the shell of the egg as he said it, peeled it clean and put it in Ye Yu's bowl.

Ye Yu doesn't like egg yolks very much, and always feels like he's choking, but Father Ye thinks egg yolks are the most nutritious. If he didn't refuse repeatedly, the yolks of the remaining two eggs might also be his.

There is no rule in their family not to talk when eating or sleeping, so Father Ye bit off half an egg, chewed it twice and swallowed it, and then said: "The yard at home has expanded a lot, and now we have started raising chickens and ducks. When they grow up, we don't have to work so hard to collect them from other places."

It has been three months since the family decided to open a lo-mei restaurant. As Ye Yu expected, the lo-mei business is very good. Every day, ten catties of duck products, five catties of dried beans, and some scattered vegetarian dishes are produced. All sold out.

Mother Ye thought for a while and asked, "Can the family money be returned?"

"Don't worry, our family has earned a lot of money these days. Chickens and ducklings are not expensive, and the bean dregs can also be used as feed, which is just right."

After hearing this, Ye Yu swallowed the egg in his mouth, "Does our family raise pigs and sheep?"

Father Ye took a sip of porridge, "Brother Bao, do you want to eat pork? Pork is easy to say, the new year pigs raised in our village are now fat and strong, and they can be killed and eaten during the Chinese New Year. As for the sheep, your nanny's family It’s a family that raises sheep.”

"Our family's stewed meat not only has stewed chicken and duck, but also stewed pork. Just change the stewed water recipe. The taste of stewed meat is completely different from stewed duck neck, but the taste is just as good."

And it's still a big piece of meat, it tastes more enjoyable than chicken and duck, and the stewed meat can also be made into stewed pork rice, with half a stewed egg and a few slices of green vegetables, that taste, tsk.

The whole body of the pig is full of treasures. Needless to say, the pork head can be marinated, the pig offal can be made into hot and sour offal, and the trotters can also be sauced. Especially the pig ears, which are crispy and tough when served cold.

Ye Yu gets hungry just thinking about it.

If the mutton is not cooked well, it will become smelly, so it is not suitable for making lo-mei, but it is very suitable for shabu-shabu in slices, and there is goat milk. If there is no way to drink milk, drinking goat milk is also a good choice.

It seems that drinking milk helps to grow taller, and I don't know if goat's milk has the same effect.

His father is more than 1.8 meters tall, and his mother is also tall, estimated to be 1.7 meters, so his genes should be good, he is not demanding, just as tall as his father is enough.

Father Ye made up his mind when he heard the words, "I'll ask your uncle to go and find out which ones have piglets. If the price is right, I'll buy two and try to raise them."

After speaking, I sighed in my heart, who would have thought that their family could buy pigs as soon as they bought them, and it has only been a few months, and it seems to have been completely reborn.

Seeing his son obediently eating porridge, he sighed again. This Su Hui is good in every way. Maybe Su Hui is also responsible for the child's poor health. It turns out that people often say that Hui will hurt when he is extreme. What Huiyi said seems to have the same meaning.

Thinking of this, Father Ye thought to himself, he would never let Brother Bao have an accident, Su Hui should use it sparingly.

Ye Yu didn't know where his father was thinking in just a short while. He ate a small bowl of porridge and wanted to help his mother wash the dishes, but was pushed out.

"Did you forget what Doctor Wu said? Don't touch such cold water. The medicine is probably cooked. Take it easy and drink the medicine in a while."

Ye Yu had no choice but to go out disconsolately and wait for Father Ye to bring in the medicine.

Seeing the big bowl of black and yellow bitter medicine juice, he squeezed his nose and drank it, and after swallowing it, he stuck out his tongue, as if this would relieve the bitterness.

Father Ye squinted at him, and said with a smile, "Good medicine tastes bitter, the more bitter the medicine, the faster it will get better."

Having said that, he took out a piece of caramel from his pocket and stuffed it into Ye Yu's mouth. The candy must have been prepared a long time ago.

Caramel sugar is less sweet, but the price is more expensive than malt sugar. Farmers feel that it is not affordable, so they seldom buy it. However, Ye Yu likes the taste of caramel sugar. Father Ye would buy caramel sugar when coaxing him.

After taking the medicine, it's about time to open the shop.

Father Ye pushed open the door, and Mother Ye stood behind the counter, both of them stood in awe, knowing that a tough battle was coming.

As soon as the door opened, many people crowded in.

"Don't squeeze, boss, I want four duck necks and five duck feet."

"Me too, give me two pieces of dried tofu and a handful of cabbage."

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Both Ye's father and Ye's mother were quick-witted people, but with so many people rushing in at once, they were still so busy that their noses were sweating.

One for you, one for me, a lot of the piled-up lo mei went down in an instant, but it was too busy when the crowd was the most, and the rest would be sold slowly in the afternoon.

The most crowded time is noon. Before lunch, many people will come to buy some lo mei to take home. Cutting everything is a good dish. It can be eaten with the coarse grains at home. It can eat two meals.

Occasionally, there are people at home, and the lo mei is also a side dish, and it is not shabby to greet the guests.

"Hey, don't squeeze."

The customer who bought the lo mei finally squeezed out from the shoulder-to-shoulder crowd, sweating profusely on a cold day.

But when he smelled the aroma in the oiled paper bag, the complaints in his heart were gone. He swallowed, and couldn't wait to go home, so he first picked up a duck intestine with two fingers and put it in his mouth.

Fresh, spicy, crisp and tasty.

His eyes were straightened, and he couldn't help but stood at the door of the shop, eating all the lo mei he bought.

Looking at the empty greased paper bag, he savored the taste in his mouth for a while, and couldn't help but enter the shop again to line up.

At this moment, someone just bought it, and he saw him just as he was about to leave, and said with a smile: "The customers are also here to buy lo mei, don't worry, I will never lie to you, the taste of this store is very good."

It turned out that these two people were the steamed bun stall owners and diners in the morning.

The diner looked at the oiled paper bag in his hand and admitted in his heart that the taste was really good.

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