Ba Zong's rural life [farming]

After the Lunar New Year's Eve, the village really has the busy atmosphere of years ago, cleaning the house, preparing new year's goods, and every household is not idle.

Pan Yao told Ruan Xishi that she and Xu Lixin wanted to stay in the village to spend the New Year with him. Ruan Xishi was very happy when she heard this. He went with them.

And because of his grandfather's death last year, Ruan Xishi spent the Spring Festival in a deserted and unexamined manner. The family didn't even post Spring Festival couplets, and there was no sense of the New Year. He was alone, and he didn't even want to cook. Cried, cried to sleep.

This year, if there are more parents in the family, at least it will be more lively, and Lu Ze, Ruan Xishi still remembers that Lu Ze said that he would set off fireworks with him.

From the day of 24, Ruan Xishi was busy at home. The house needed a thorough cleaning. As a housewife, Pan Yao was the best at cleaning, so she actively wanted to help him.Lu Ze and Xu Lixin couldn't bear to see the two of them bustling around, so they joined the ranks of cleaning. Lu Ze was in charge of sweeping the ceiling, Xu Lixin was in charge of moving things, Pan Yao was in charge of cleaning the cabinets and tables, and Ruan Xishi was sweeping the floor. Made it clean.

After cleaning the house well, they are ready to fry rice crackers. Aunt Li has already dried the glutinous rice pancakes, so they can be fried directly in the oil pan. On the day of frying rice crackers, Ruan Xishi went to Aunt Li's house to help out after lunch.

The glutinous rice cakes are put in a basket and ready to be put into the oil pan. Aunt Li’s stove is filled with a third of the oil. up.

Before starting to fry, Ruan Xishi peeled off the leaves of the Chinese cabbage picked from the vegetable field and spread them on the table. After the rice crackers were fried, they put them on the top to dry, and put them in bags when they were almost cool.

The reason why the cabbage leaves are used is that there will be oil on the rice flower when it is fried. Put it on the cabbage to dry, the oil will drip on the cabbage, and the cabbage will absorb the oil. After the rice flower is fried, don’t throw away the cabbage leaf. You can put it for dinner later Put it into the pan to make fried cabbage without wasting any oil.

Aunt Li held two long bamboo chopsticks in one hand and a colander in the other. Ruan Xishi wanted to help her put the glutinous rice pancakes in, but Aunt Li was afraid that he wouldn't know how to do it, so the oil would splash out. The drops burned him, so he didn't let him let it go. Instead, he called Li Ge who was taking a nap and asked Li Ge to let him go.

You can only put one glutinous rice pancake in the oil pan at a time. You need to master the heat for frying rice crackers. If you fry them for a long time, they will be burnt. If you don’t fry them for a long time, they won’t be crispy enough, so it’s best to put them one at a time, but it will take a lot of time. Just a little longer, every fried rice flower basically takes half a day, tired and hot.

Brother Li picked up the glutinous rice pancakes, stuck them to the edge of the pot and let them slowly sink into the oil pan. As soon as the glutinous rice pancakes touched the hot oil, they made a sizzling sound, and doubled in size after a while, and the air could smell a lot. Strong fragrance.

While holding the glutinous rice pancakes in a colander, Aunt Li gently turned them with chopsticks to let both sides of the glutinous rice cakes be evenly heated and exploded. When the surface color of the glutinous rice cakes turned light yellow, it was almost ready to be picked up.

The fried rice crackers were placed on the cabbage leaves laid out by Ruan Xishi. Before frying, the glutinous rice cakes were about the size of a palm, but after being fried, they were as big as a small washbasin. The grains of glutinous rice were clearly identifiable and fried very crispy.

After a while, the fried rice crackers were all over the table. Mrs. Li came in with a clean plastic bag, carefully folded the rice crackers that had not been dried so hot into the bag, and sealed them before the rice crackers were completely cooled. Get up, if it has been exposed to the air, the rice flower will become damp and soft, and then neither the taste nor the taste will be good.

Batch after batch of cooked rice crackers, Ruan Xishi could only sit at the table and watch other people busy, occasionally helping to take over the fire and get bags.

There were several bags of fried rice crackers, and Aunt Li took out two bags to Ruan Xishi after packing them, saying that these two bags were for their family.

Two bags would be twenty, but when making glutinous rice pancakes, Ruan Xishi only told Aunt Li that their family only needed a dozen or so, and they couldn't finish eating any more.

Ruan Xishi was surprised: "Give me so many? I only wanted ten..."

Aunt Li said: "You can take it if you give it to you. You have more parents in your house. I don't think ten is enough to eat, so you can take it back first. If you can't finish eating, you can ask your parents to take it back for other relatives to taste." Try it, this is our local specialty, and people outside can't eat it."

Ruan Xishi was quite embarrassed, scratched her head and said, "Will your family not have enough to eat?"

Aunt Li smiled cheerfully: "You can eat more of this kind of food or eat less. It doesn't matter if you eat more or less. If you don't have enough, you can eat other things."

Ruan Xishi said gratefully: "Then I'll be more polite, thank you Aunt Li!"

Aunt Li smiled and waved her hands: "Why are you being polite to Aunt Li? By the way, don't go back first, Aunt Li still has something good to cook for you."

Hearing that there is something delicious to eat, Ruan Xishi's curiosity was aroused, and she asked cooperatively, "What kind of delicious food is it?"

Aunt Li lifted the lid of a pot, and inside was a basket of dried sweet potatoes, Ruan Xishi knew what Aunt Li wanted to do when she saw it, her eyes lit up, and her mouth was watering.

"Fried sweet potatoes!"

Aunt Li smiled and said: "I knew that you children like to eat this, I cut up the sweet potato pieces this morning, and after the rice crackers are fried, I will fry them in the remaining oil for Pangpang and you to eat. "

As she said that, Aunt Li poured all the sweet potatoes into the colander, then put them in the oil pan with residual heat, turned them over and shook them, and soon the orange surface of the chestnut sweet potatoes turned golden yellow, and the air also The aroma of sweet potatoes permeates.

After the sweet potatoes were fried, they were poured into the plate. Ruan Xishi was almost drooling because of the aroma of the sweet potatoes. He didn't care that the freshly baked sweet potatoes were still very hot, so he carefully grabbed a piece with his hands, threw it left and right, and put it away impatiently. into the mouth.

The surface layer was deep-fried until it was crunchy, and when the layer was bitten through, there was sticky sweet potato flesh inside, with a tangy aroma. Ruan Xishi ate three pieces at once, and Aunt Li laughed out loud with a greedy look. He said: "Shizi, don't eat so much. The sweet potato is just out of the oil pan, and it's very hot. If you eat too much, your throat will hurt. Let it cool down before eating."

Ruan Xishi looked at the sweet potato on the plate and nodded, Aunt Li poured half of it for him, and asked him to take it home for Lu Ze and his parents to taste.Ruan Xishi took the half of the fried sweet potatoes with a smile, and carried two bags of rice crackers, as if she wanted Lu Ze and his parents to taste their village's special food quickly, and rushed home excitedly.

As soon as he got home, he yelled over to Lu Ze and Pan Yao, and showed them rice crackers and sweet potatoes like offering treasures, urging them to try them.

Lu Ze didn't have this special product in their place, and Pan Yao and the others had never eaten this kind of food when they lived in China. The three of them broke off a piece out of curiosity and tried it. But it didn't feel greasy, it tasted fragrant and crisp, with a hint of sweetness, no coloring and food additives, and the pure natural flavor made them feel at ease.

Seeing that they liked it, Ruan Xishi introduced it with a smile: "This is a local specialty of our village. It can only be eaten during the Chinese New Year. It was prepared as early as a month ago, and it is only now that it is completely ready. If it is preserved well, It can be eaten until the beginning of spring next year, after the first month."

After Xu Lixin finished eating a piece of rice crackers, he nodded and praised: "Not bad, it's delicious, but the calories are a bit high, so you can't eat more."

Ruan Xishi echoed: "Yes, one piece at a time is enough, and you can eat it with tea during the Chinese New Year, so you won't get angry."

The fried rice crackers need to be sealed and stored in a cool and dry place. Ruan Xishi put another bag on the outside and put them in the big vat in the kitchen that is specially used for food storage.

During this period of time, the weather gradually warmed up again, and the sunny days returned. The people in the village took advantage of the good weather during this period of time, drying things, and collecting things. The village was very busy.

What makes the children in the village happiest is that machines for processing New Year’s goods came from other places. Vendors who make a living by processing New Year’s goods will bring their eating tools, that is, food processors, to the village every year before the Spring Festival.People in the village are reluctant to buy expensive but packaged New Year’s products on the market, but in order to have a prosperous New Year, they still try their best to get some New Year’s products, so New Year’s product processors are very popular in the village.

The New Year’s goods made by this kind of machine are very simple. The processors come to the village early in the morning and put the machine in the center of the village where there are many people. People who need to process the New Year’s goods will queue up with rice and sugar from their homes. The processing fee is calculated by the catty. Counting, for two or three yuan per catty, you can make a lot of rice tubes—a kind of hollow rice puffed food.

Rice tubes are also one of the favorite New Year products for children in the village, because people do not come to the village to process them all year round, and only during the Chinese New Year can they eat enough, so when the processing machine comes to the village, the children see it They ran around telling each other, went home and begged adults for money, and then took a bag of rice and a bag of sugar to the processing machine to line up to make rice cones.

When Ruan Xishi was a child, he also liked to eat rice tubes. Every year when the Spring Festival was approaching, he looked forward to the processing machine coming to the village every day. When he heard the sound of the machine beating rice, he excitedly called his grandfather to take the rice to make rice tubes. The family didn't have any New Year's goods for him to eat, and he couldn't bear to let him be wronged. Every year, he took a lot of rice to make a lot of rice tubes and went home to let Ruan Xishi eat enough.

Although it still tastes the same after eating for many years, Ruan Xishi is no longer that gluttonous child, but every time he thinks of the rice tube, Ruan Xishi still feels that it is full of his childhood taste, so this year the processing machine came to the village, Ruan Xishi I also want to join in the fun.

At first he didn't know that the processing machine was coming, and when he was drying the quilt on the roof, he saw Mrs. Li walking by the road in front of his house with a bag of things on it, and said hello to her and asked her what to buy. Where to go, Mrs. Li told him that someone was making rice cones at the stadium, and she took some rice to make some rice cones for Pangpang to eat.

Hearing that the machine for making rice cylinders came, Ruan Xi immediately went downstairs to find Lu Ze after drying the quilt, told Lu Ze that he was going to take rice to the stadium to make rice cylinders, and asked him if he wanted to go with him.

Lu Ze asked curiously, "What is a rice tube?"

Ruan Xishi found a clean bag, went to the rice tank in the kitchen to dig out rice, and replied, "It is to process rice into a snack, which is one of the must-have items for the New Year in the village every year."

He dug out three catties of rice, then went to look for white sugar in the cupboard, only to find that there was not much white sugar left at home, so he said to himself: "Forget it, I will buy another two yuan when I pass by the supply and marketing cooperative." White sugar."

Seeing him so excited, Lu Ze couldn't help but want to see what happened. The two of them talked to Pan Yao and Xu Lixin who were watching TV in the living room. Pan Yao was also a little curious about how Ruan Xishi's favorite food was made. , I proposed to go and see together.

Pan Yao was going too, Xu Lixin thought it was boring to be alone at home, so he simply went together, Ruan Xishi didn't stop them, and asked Lu Ze to close the door of the house with rice in his arms, and Jiu took them to the stadium.

Passing by the supply and marketing cooperative, Ruan Xishi gave the rice to Lu Ze, and he went to the supply and marketing cooperative to buy sugar.

As soon as Uncle He heard that he was going to buy sugar, he immediately realized what he was going to do, and asked with a smile, "Shizi, are you going to make rice cones again?"

Ruan Xishi felt that he was ashamed to like to eat rice cones like a child at such an adult, he smiled dryly, and explained: "It's not that Brother Lu Ze and my parents haven't eaten it before, and I want to make some for you. Why don't they try something new."

Uncle He teased him and said, "Actually, you still want to eat it yourself?"

Ruan Xishi was caught by his words, embarrassed and said: "You don't need to say it if you know it, save me some face."

Uncle He laughed and weighed him two yuan of sugar.

Prepare the raw materials needed to make rice cylinders, the four of them went to the stadium, the stadium was already full of people, both adults and children, the rice cylinder machine was running rattling, Ruan Xishi held the rice and lined up at the back of the line, acquaintances saw He exchanged pleasantries with him.

"Shizi, this year your family is also making rice cones?"

Ruan Xishi replied with a smile: "Yes, rice tubes are delicious, I have to get some to eat at home."

"Hey, that's your parents, they are so beautiful, no wonder they made you so good-looking. They also come to make rice cones?"

Ruan Xishi nodded: "Bring them to join in the fun."

The villagers laughed: "I came to see it, not because we are proud. Although our village is not as good as a big city, there are many things that cannot be seen in a big city."

Pan Yao echoed without airs, "Yeah, this is the first time for me to celebrate the New Year in the village, and it feels so fresh and lively."

"Oh? Shi Zai's mother is going to celebrate the New Year in our village this year? That's really great. This year Shi Zai finally has someone to accompany you. You can ask him to show you how the New Year is celebrated in the village."

Pan Yao smiled and said, "Okay, if there is something I don't understand, I will trouble you to explain it to me."

"Hey, it's not easy, just ask when the time comes."

They chatted with the surrounding villagers, and soon it was their turn.

The processor took Ruan Xishi's rice and weighed it on the scale, saying, "Three catties of rice cost 15 yuan."

Ruan Xishi was puzzled when she heard the price, and asked, "Is the processing fee five yuan a catty now?"

The processor responded with a smile: "Isn't it? Now that the prices outside are skyrocketing, money is worthless. This is the cost of gas."

Ruan Xishi nodded knowingly, and handed the money to the other party. After the other party took it, they put the rice and sugar into one large and one small funnels respectively, and started the machine.

The rice and sugar fall into the machine evenly, and then a long puffed rice cylinder comes out from the front outlet. The processor wears gloves and skillfully folds the rice cylinder into sections and puts them into the bags he prepared.

The rice suddenly turned into long strips of rice tubes, which is indeed incredible. During the whole process, Pan Yao stared at the rice tubes coming out of the machine with wide eyes. If she was not afraid of disturbing the work of the master, she would have Started with a hundred thousand whys.

Ruan Xishi took out two rice tubes from the bag, folded each into two pieces, and gave them to Lu Ze and his parents to taste. The rice tubes were crispy and sweet, and with the residual heat from the machine, they tasted like rice. The aroma is indeed healthier than those well-packaged puffed snacks sold in supermarkets.

Three catties of rice were produced in three catties of rice tubes, and a big bag was filled. On the way back, Ruan Xi couldn't carry it, so Lu Ze, who was tall and burly, carried it.

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