Ba Zong's rural life [farming]

The persimmons have been dried in the sun for about a week, and after two times of steaming, they become persimmon cakes with hard skin and soft inside. At this time, they can be eaten. The dried persimmon cakes are chewy, and there is powdery sugar under the skin, which is slippery and smooth. The sweet fruit core is endless aftertaste.

It's a pity that he can only eat two a day. Lu Ze ate the one in his hand, looked at the one in the bag, and sighed helplessly.

Ruan Xishi put the rest of the persimmon cakes into the cabinet and kept them to eat slowly.

The snails are kept in a water tank with clean water, and the water is changed two or three times a day. The more frequently the water is changed, the faster the snails will spit out the mud and the cleaner they will become. When the water shows no signs of turbidity, it means that the snails can be released. The pot is gone.

On the third day after taking the snails home, Ruan Xishi saw that they could not spit out any mud, so he poured them from the water tank into the water basin, brushed their shells with melon pulp, and washed them twice with clean water.

He went to the toolbox in the living room and took out the tongs. When frying the snails, the buttocks of the snails need to be torn off, because the snails need to be boiled in a pot. If the snails are sealed, they will be difficult to cook, and they will not taste good when fried. .Snails live in water and live by eating microorganisms and humus in the underwater soil, as well as phytoplankton, young aquatic plants, and moss in the water. They will inevitably carry parasites. It makes people sick, ranging from diarrhea to severe diseases.

Ruan Xishi moved a stool and sat in front of the water basin, holding the snails in one hand and pliers in the other, tore off the buttocks of the snails one by one, and put them in another basin of clear water to soak.

Lu Ze watched intently from the side. Ruan Xishi's method of clamping snails was not very good, because their family seldom ate snails before. Grandpa always said that there were too many parasites in snails, and only occasionally beat teeth, and it was all done by grandpa.In addition, some snail shells are relatively hard, Ruan Xishi's hands are not strong enough, and the tongs failed to come off several times.When Lu Ze saw him, he was about to take over the work in his hands and said to him, "Let me do it, I'm stronger."

Ruan Xishi lost her temper by those hard-ass snails, so she had to let Lu Ze come.He handed the pliers to Lu Ze, and carefully said: "Be careful not to get your hands with the snail juice, the snail juice will fly everywhere. Be careful not to stain your clothes. If you really can't get it with the pliers, just throw it away."

Lu Ze took the pliers, fished out a few snails from the water basin, held them in his hands, stuck the buttocks of the snails into the middle of the pliers, closed the snails, and easily clamped the snails.

He felt that he was very capable, so he proudly said to Ruan Xishi: "I'll do the clamping, see if there are other things to do, go get busy first."

Ruan Xishi was not at ease letting him clamp the snails by himself, so she moved a small bench beside him, and sat obediently while he clamped the snails one by one.

Later, there were a few hard snails left. Ruan Xishi fished them out and threw them into Xiaohui's usual drinking bucket. Seeing this, Lu Ze asked in bewilderment, "Why did you throw the snails in? Dirty gray water?"

Ruan Xishi smiled and said: "You don't know that, snails have the effect of clearing away heat and improving eyesight. Dogs don't get fever after drinking it. People in the village raise dogs. If they are careful, they will find yellow mud and put them in the water. Precipitation, let the dog drink the yellow mud water, so that the dog can reduce the chance of getting angry because of eating human food, and the dog can be healthy."

The local dogs raised in the village are different from the pet dogs raised in the city. Pet dogs basically eat grain-free dog food, and rarely eat raw or cooked meat, so it is rare to get angry. treatment condition.But the dogs in the village are worthless. According to the village, the life of a dog is cheap, and people have no money to see a doctor, let alone see a doctor for a dog. Once a dog gets sick, it will either be sold directly and made into dog meat, or it will be discarded directly. Some people may continue to provide them with food, but they will not see a doctor, only to see if their lives are hard enough.If the dog survives, then continue to raise it, if not, then let it fend for itself.

However, many people who raise dogs will treat them kindly, even if they are cheap, they will not abuse them.It is difficult to treat dogs when they get sick, so we can only prevent them from daily life, so that dogs get less sick. The experienced dog breeders in the village have a lot of experience and home remedies for raising dogs. Knowing what to feed dogs can reduce the occurrence of their diseases, such as giving Dogs drink snail water and yellow mud water, which are all passed down from experience.

It sounds a bit unhygienic, but the vitality of the native dogs in the village is stronger than that of pet dogs in the city. Pet dogs must not drink this kind of water, but the native dogs can live healthily and healthily if they are given food and water. more than ten years.

Xiao Hui is already a young dog. It lost its fluff in its infancy. Now it has bristles on its body, and the place where it lost its hair before has also recovered. Its whole body is covered with long, variegated hair. It can be seen that it is a very handsome and majestic dog. male dog.

Although Xiao Hui has grown up a lot, it still maintains a childlike innocence, and is very curious about everything. Seeing Ruan Xishi throw something into its bucket, making a splashing sound, it pricked up its ears , stared at the bucket it drank from for a while, then stood up, walked slowly and lazily, walked to the bucket and looked in.

It sniffed the surface of the water, and seemed to find something, then stuck out its tongue, tried to lick the water and drink it, but found nothing unusual. After drinking enough water, it walked back to the place where it was lying on its stomach and continued to take a nap.

Ruan Xishi fished out the clamped snails and put them in a pot on the stove, lit a fire, boiled the water, and continued to cook for ten minutes to make the snails fully cooked and kill most of the parasites .

While cooking the snails, Ruan Xishi swept the tails of the snails thrown in the yard onto the trash shovel and poured them into the duck shed for the ducks to eat.Snail meat is also a nutritious delicacy for ducks. In the early years when the trend of raising ducks arose in the village, farmers fished snails from the ponds in the fields and ponds every day, took them home, hammered them, and threw them to the ducks. The snail shells Minced powder can also supplement calcium to help digestion.

When the snails were almost cooked, Ruan Xishi cleaned up the patio and was ready to go out to pick the ingredients for fried snails.

When Lu Ze saw that Ruan Xishi was going out, he also wanted to go with him. Ruan Xishi thought it would be nice to go for a walk before dinner, so he took him with him.

The necessary ingredients for fried escargot are chili, garlic, ginger, and perilla. The chili is simple. Ruan Xishi planted a lot in his own slope, and it has grown fruit a while ago. It should already have a spicy taste. Ruan Xishi directly took Lu Ze to the slope. Pick the peppers.

The pepper trees are full of peppers, half the length of a finger, dark green, some grow earlier, and have red shadows, and they will turn red soon, and they can be picked off and sold at that time.

Ruan Xishi didn't plan to sell chili peppers yet, because the autumn harvest is coming soon, and they will be busy harvesting rice and drying the rice, so they don't have time to care about chili peppers. The batch of chili peppers that matured in advance can only be picked and eaten at home or dried in the sun. Spares, if there are many, maybe you can sell them for money when you go to town.

In order not to let the earliest batch of ripe peppers go to waste, Ruan Xishi simply picked the peppers with red shadows and took them home. Usually, fried eggplant and water spinach can be seasoned or used as a seasoning dish.Ruan Xishi stood in the middle of the pepper trees, carefully picked the red pepper peppers, put them in his pocket and took them home.

Lu Ze was also very curious about picking peppers. After all, harvesting itself is a joyful thing, and he also wanted to participate in Ruan Xishi's happiness.

Ruan Xishi taught him how to choose peppers: "Look, this pepper is a bit brown, which means it is about to turn red and mature. If you look again in a few days, it must be a red pepper. After the pepper matures naturally, it will gradually mature. Withered and then withered, if it is not picked when it is just ripe, it will be wasted. Because this is the first batch of peppers, according to the growth speed of the pepper tree, some peppers are ripe, some are not yet, I think the first batch The first batch is not uniformly picked and sold, and when the second batch is much more mature, it is picked and sold in the town. In order not to waste the first batch of mature peppers, we can put these peppers that are about to turn red Take it home and eat it slowly. Of course, if you like pickled peppers, I can make them into cans, which can be used in porridge, noodles or cooking.”

Lu Ze's taste is a bit strong. He grew up in a big city with a large number of migrants, so the taste is very mixed, and it is a humid day. Basically, he would put some chili peppers in any dish to dispel dampness and cold.

So when Ruan Xishi said this, he looked forward to it, nodded his head in agreement and said, "Yes, it will be even better if it's made into sour peppers."

They picked two pockets of hot peppers, and Ruan Xishi went around to pick wild perilla from other people's houses. The perilla growing this time is not very good. The leaves are old and there are many stems. If it is spring and summer, the leaves will be more tender, but this time The meeting is just an excuse to fry a snail, and it doesn't matter if you use a pole.

The smell of basil is very good. After picking basil, the scent of basil will remain on your fingers. Lu Ze picked a basil and played with it in his hand until he got home.

There are ready-made ginger and garlic at home. Ruan Xishi washed the peppers and took a few spare ones. Put the rest in the basket and let Lu Ze take them to the wall to dry, and then make them into cans when he is free.

Cut the chili peppers, perilla, garlic, and ginger together for later use. Ruan Xishi poured out the cooked snails in the pot, drained the water, heated up the wok, poured in oil and salt, poured all the ingredients into the oil and stir-fried, almost immediately, A strong scent wafted from the kitchen, with a pungent spicy smell, Ruan Xishi was choked and couldn't help coughing twice.

The smell was so strong that even Lu Ze, who was drying peppers outside the kitchen, could smell it. His nose was so itchy. He rubbed his nose and followed the smell into the kitchen to watch Ruan Xishi fry the snails. The wild snails were poured into the steaming wok, making a sizzling sound, and the heat was very high.

Lu Ze wanted to squat in front of the stove to help Ruan Xishi light the fire. Ruan Xishi frowned from the spicy smell, and while waving away the oncoming smell, he said to Lu Ze: "Brother Lu Ze, get out, it's too spicy in here. It’s good to start a fire here, so you don’t get smoked.”

Lu Ze didn't move, and still put firewood in the stove. When he heard Ruan Xishi's words of worrying about him, with a gratified smile on his lips, he replied to Ruan Xishi, "It's because of the smoke here that I can't bear to let you stay here alone. , although I don't know how to fry snails, I will be smoked with you."

Ruan Xishi's eyes soon got wet. She didn't know whether she was moved to tears by what Lu Ze said, or simply because of the smell of chili pepper. Even her voice was a little hoarse, and she said to Lu Ze dumbfounded: "You said I am Little fool, aren't you a big fool yourself?"

Lu Ze replied happily: "I am willing."

After the snails and ingredients are evenly stir-fried, pour in an appropriate amount of soy sauce and stir-fry several times. Ruan Xishi pours a bowl of water into the pot and covers the pot to suffocate the snails.

Taking advantage of this time, Ruan Xishi washed the rice and put it in the rice cooker to cook. The kitchen smelled of smoke and fire. Ruan Xishi and Lu Ze were busy in the thin smoke, discussing from time to time what to eat tonight, it feels like living a life .

Lu Ze enjoyed this kind of time very much.

The snails were stuffed in the pot for another 10 minutes. Ruan Xishi put them on a plate. It was exactly one plate, and the steam was constantly rising. The aroma of the ingredients filled the air, making the mouth water.

Lu Ze had long been greedy. Now that the snails were out of the pot, he couldn't wait to take one with his hands. The snails were still very hot. He was so hot that he grinned and couldn't bear to put it down.When it was not so hot, he put it in his mouth and took a sip. The snail shell was filled with juice, which was salty, spicy and full of flavor. The snail meat was full of elasticity, with garlic and perilla powder, and the taste was very strong.

He ate one and wanted to eat another one, Ruan Xishi looked at his naive greedy appearance, couldn't help laughing and said: "Okay Brother Lu Ze, wait for it to cool down before eating, you don't mind burning your mouth."

With a snail in his mouth, Lu Ze said inarticulately, "For the food, I don't have to worry about burning my mouth."

Ruan Xishi shook her head with a smile, and sent him to the living room to set up the dining table in the patio: "We'll have dinner in the patio before it gets dark, and it's also convenient to clean up the leftover snail shells."

Lu Ze ate two snails and finally satisfied his hunger, so he went to move the tables and chairs full of energy.

Ruan Xishi took advantage of the fire in the stove and fried a small cabbage, tonight's dish is considered ready.

The two of them were sitting in the patio, eating in the open air while the sky was still dark, and the cool wind was blowing just to dissipate the heat of eating chili, which was a bit cozy and romantic.

Ruan Xishi held a snail in his hand, picked out the meat with a toothpick, Lu Ze sucked it directly, often Ruan Xishi only picked one, and Lu Ze had already eaten two.

Seeing that he ate most of the plate of snails and Ruan Xishi only ate a few, Lu Ze felt anxious for him, so he also picked up the toothpick to pick out the snail meat, but instead of eating it himself, he fed it to Ruan Xishi's mouth.

Ruan Xishi was taken aback by the snail meat that suddenly appeared on his lips. Seeing that Lu Ze fed it to him, he quickly said, "I can do it myself. Brother Lu Ze, let's eat yours."

Lu Ze forcefully put the snail meat into his mouth, and said with a smile, "It's a good thing you don't have brothers and sisters because you eat so slowly, otherwise you would have been hungry since childhood."

Ruan Xishi chewed on the snail meat with her mouth pursed, and smiled shyly at Lu Ze.

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The rice in the fields is getting more and more yellow, and the ears of rice are hanging heavily. When the wind blows, the rice fields will have golden waves, and it is time to harvest.

And the road in the village has also been repaired. A flat and spacious cement road extends from the depths of the village to the outside, as if it is a bridge connecting this backward and poor mountain village with the bustling world outside.

The village head brought good news to the villagers. The town will soon send two harvesters to their village. At that time, they don't have to go to the fields to harvest rice, and they don't have to move around. The harvesters go directly to the field Help them harvest and thresh millet immediately, saving time and effort.

So the villagers began to look forward to the arrival of the harvester.

In the eager anticipation of the villagers, two brand-new harvesters drove into the village along the newly repaired cement road in the village. The rumbling sound echoed on the long village road, which also sounded the joy of the villagers.

After negotiating with the village chief, the two technicians drove the harvester into the field, and whoever received it would give the harvester a snakeskin bag to the hole where the millet came out.While the harvester is walking in the rice field, it cuts the rice under the car and enters the built-in threshing machine. The millet falls into the prepared snakeskin bag from the grain exit, and the straw falls into the field through the other exit. Inside, it is neat and tidy, and does not require labor at all.

The working efficiency of the harvester is not comparable to that of manpower. It takes more than ten minutes to form a field, and the farmers only need to go to the field to remove the packed millet in the middle, which is fast and labor-saving.

In just one morning, more than half of the rice fields in Tiandong have been harvested, leaving only a piece of stalks. People happily transport the threshed millet to the drying yard for drying. Take it back home after drying.

The grain drying field, which had been idle for a long time, became lively again.

Ruan Xishi's field was soon finished harvesting. In autumn, he consulted with other farmers to plant high-yield and early-maturing rice, and because he used a harvester to directly harvest and thresh the rice, it saved the need to move around. In the process of going, the waste rate is very low, so there are more than half bags of millet in autumn than in spring.

Lu Ze carried the millet from the field to the side of the road, and transported it to the grain drying field by motorcycle. Ruan Xishi was already waiting at the grain drying field, sweeping the ground with a broom.

Ruan Xishi deliberately chose to dry the millet next to Uncle Niu so that he could help him. The rice in Uncle Niu’s house had not been harvested yet, so he had to wait in the field. Ruan Xi was drying the millet.

Aunt Niu looked at Lu Zeyun's figure, smiled and said to Ruan Xishi, "Ah Ze is really hardworking, with him around, you will have less hardship."

Ruan Xishi also looked at the figure of Lu Ze carrying the millet and laughed: "Brother Lu Ze is very good everywhere, I am very glad that I met him."

Aunt Niu didn't know the relationship between the two of them, so she echoed: "This can be regarded as good people get good rewards."

In the afternoon, the sun was not as strong as it was at noon, but many farmers still moved the freshly threshed millet to the sun-drying field one after another. How long it lasts is as long as it lasts. They are afraid that there will be no sun in a few days. , The millet can't be dried in the sun.

It is also because the sun is not strong, so the frequency of turning the millet is lower, and it rarely rains in autumn, and there will be no strong winds, thunder and rain like in late summer, so the villagers are very relieved to dry the millet in the sun. Occasionally I have to look through it, and I can do whatever I want at other times, and I don’t have to stay in the sun-drying field all day.

After Lu Ze and Ruan Xishi finished the millet in their own house, they went to help others. Lu Ze went to help Mr. Niu transport the millet, and Ruan Xishi helped others or dried the millet in the grain drying field. After one afternoon, the two of them got Many villagers praised it.

Uncle Niu’s family planted more fields in autumn than in spring, and harvested a total of twenty bags of millet. Lu Ze helped him transport some, and he pushed some by himself with a wooden cart. Everyone made fun of him on the road.

"Uncle Niu, you are so capable, the two elders have planted so much millet."

Uncle Niu smiled and said: "It's Chinese New Year, and the children in the family have to come back for dinner. There is not enough food to eat. I have to take some away for them. The rice in the city is very expensive."

"Haha, you have made plans for your children. You farm so hard every day, and you don't see the children come back to help you two old people. Instead, Ah Ze, who has no relatives or reasons with you, helps you every time. "

Mentioning Lu Ze, Uncle Niu narrowed his eyes in relief and said, "Ah Ze is a good boy, and my old man has given Shizai and his blessings a lot, so I feel a lot easier."

Others joked, "Ah Ze doesn't remember the past, and he doesn't have any relatives. He has no relatives in the village. Why don't he recognize you as his godfather, you take care of him, and he is filial to you."

Uncle Niu waved his hands repeatedly and said: "How can this work? You can't take advantage of others. They have their own biological parents. He just can't remember them for a while. In the future, he will always return to his biological parents. I can't take advantage of others. dangerous."

"Now Ah Ze looks like half your son!"

Lu Ze transported a cart of millet to the sun-drying field, and then went back to help Uncle Niu move the others. He drove up to Uncle Niu, and moved the millet from the wooden car to the motorcycle without saying a word. Let him rest for a while.

"Ah Ze, I'll just push these things over by myself. You're tired from running all afternoon, so go take a rest first."

Lu Ze tied up the millet, got on the motorcycle, and said, "It's okay, the moving is almost over anyway, I'll rest after moving."

Uncle Niu watched him drive away, and said helplessly, "Hey, you kid."

The people next to him saw it and smiled and said, "Look, Ah Ze is more filial to you than your own son."

Uncle Niu sighed and said: "Oh, it's a pity that it's not my child. If it were my child, I would wake up laughing from my dreams. I don't know whose family A Ze was born to raise the child. I don't want to say that I am a good-looking person. I am a good-hearted person. Guess he must have been born in a very good family, which cannot be accommodated in a small place like ours."

After moving the millet, Lu Ze was already sweating profusely. Ruan Xishi and Niu's couple hurriedly persuaded him to go to rest. Ruan Xishi accompanied him to sit in the shade of a tree, unscrewed the water bottle to drink water for him, and wiped his sweat.

Ruan Xishi asked distressedly: "Brother Lu Ze, are you tired? If you are too tired, go home and take a shower and sleep. I will collect the millet by myself."

Lu Ze quietly held his other hand, squeezed his palm, and smiled meaningfully: "I'm not tired, just give me a massage tonight."

Ruan Xishi blushed slightly, and nodded slightly.

The sun goes down early in late autumn, and the millet will be harvested at five o’clock. The harvested millet can be piled up and covered with a tarpaulin for compaction. It can be directly spread out in the morning, and it can be dried in the sun until it is dried before being transported back in bags. Home.

It was still early to harvest the millet, and the farmers did not go home to cook so quickly. They all chose to go to the fields to collect the tail, bundled the straw into bundles and took them home to feed the cattle as bedding for poultry and livestock, or burned them directly. , Take the ash home to make fertilizer.

Ruan Xishi also went to the field to gather a few bundles of straw. Winter is coming, and the chicken coop and duck shed need some hay to keep the chickens and ducks warm. And after a while, he plans to plow the field and plant some potatoes and Chinese cabbage. If it is too cold, you need to cover the straw to keep warm.

The next few days were sunny, and the millet was finally dry after three or four days in the sun, and could be moved home for storage.

The two of them hadn't finished eating the few bags of millet in early spring, and now they added a few more bags. Ruan Xishi looked at the several bags of millet piled up in the small room specially used for storing grain, and finally felt at ease. These millets could at least allow them to eat Next autumn, don't worry about having nothing to eat.If they haven't finished eating by then, then the millet from this year can be sold in the town after the early spring rice is collected next year, and there will be an extra income.

Ruan Xishi's small abacus was clattering, and he had already imagined that he and Lu Ze would live a prosperous life with ample food and clothing.

The author has something to say:

I really want to eat snail stew. QAQ will be finished in another day. If you have time in the evening, go out and order a supper stall!

The autumn script is finally finished!