Another World Baixin

For the feast at noon on the August Festival, Lin Xun prepared five delicacies, including: lye duck, roasted rabbit meat, stewed chicken soup, fried snails, and steamed fish—yellow, red, brown, black, and white, with different colors.Bai Xin, who was lighting the fire behind the stove, was drooling non-stop, and only realized after finishing: "Uncle, where are the vegetables? It's all meat and no vegetables!"

"Ah?" Lin Xun shook his hand, and the fish juice slanted down on his hand, "Hiss—" it was scalded fiercely, "Isn't it rare for you to be able to eat meat? Wild animals or something, today I will tell you to eat meat to your heart's content."

Bai Xin opened his mouth and said "oh".If he said that he prefers to eat vegetables, preferably with meat and vegetables, he would feel too crazy.

"Bring the fish over here," Lin Xun ordered.

"it is good."

A round wooden table was set up in the lobby of the Lin family, unlike the square table used in the village, which was square and well-behaved.Four dishes were already set on the table, Bai Xin put down the fish and stared blankly at the lye duck.The duck meat that has been added with alkali is yellow, and it is cut into slices and placed in a shape.Uncle Lin was tidying up in the kitchen, especially his set of knives, so he didn't come over so quickly.Picking up a piece of the duck's neck with his fingers, he quickly stuffed it into his mouth, and Bai Xin turned around as if nothing had happened, wandering in the yard.

Just at this time, there was a knock on the door outside the yard: "Is anyone at home?"

He yelled twice and was heard by Lin Xun, "Ah Xin go and open the door!"

Bai Xin was gnawing on the bones and meat with his mouth puffed out, holding the whole thing in his mouth, unwilling to put it down until he finished eating, so he just opened the door without giving him a chance to regret it.

There is a long stream of water standing outside the door.Bai Xin was dumbfounded.

Chang Liushui frowned, glanced at his puffed cheeks, and asked, "Is Uncle Lin at home?"

Bai Xin squirmed his lips and tongue and replied: "In the kitchen——" His words made him feel that Chang Liushui's expression was more subtle, and he quickly let people into the courtyard and led them to see Lin Xun.

Chang Liushui bent his body, and it turned out that there was a basket of vegetables at his feet.Bai Xin took a peek at it secretly, and inside was a winter melon and a few white lotus roots.

Seeing Lin Xun, Chang Liushui handed over the vegetables and said, "You moved here not long ago, and I think it's too late to eat the vegetables you grew yourself. Today is the holiday, so I'll bring you some. I dug the lotus root by the pond. Because it is wild lotus root, everyone in the village can dig it.”

"Haha, thank you so much, my son. We are short of vegetarian dishes! Uncle can't stand eating meat every day, uh—" Lin Xun suddenly remembered how the two children could eat meat, and then noticed Bai Xin's strange behavior.

In fact, the two children didn't pay much attention to Uncle Lin's words. Bai Xin was embarrassed in front of the person he liked, and his mood was tangled; while Chang Liushui was hesitant to speak, he found that Bai Xin's existence was a little annoying, so he thought about it Others may not agree to my request, so I put it aside and left without saying a few words.

Bai Xin gnawed cleanly and spat out the bones, followed Lin Xun in to eat.

Uncle Lin asked seriously: "Ah Xin, are you stealing duck necks?"

"Don't talk nonsense."

Uncle Lin gestured to him: "The neck of the duck has become shorter."

Bai Xin responded indifferently: "Uncle, you caught this on the mountain. If you grow up in the wild, you probably can't eat enough and your neck doesn't grow well, so it looks short."

"Hahaha, brat."

duh duh! "Is anyone home?"

Bai Xin remained motionless, eating the snails with great relish.Until Lin Xun kicked him lightly.

The person who knocked on the door was a long-flowing patriarch, the Qin family. She didn't look well because her body had not fully recovered. When she saw Bai Xin, she paused slightly, and then asked, "Why is Bai Xin here? Are you done with your work? The owner of the house What? I have something to do with him."

Bai Xin didn't know her, she was probably someone from the village, and she was polite to him, but not much better.Seeing that she didn't have much strength to speak and looked weak and sick, Bai Xin didn't talk nonsense to her, saying: "Uncle Lin is eating inside", and then shouted into the room: "Uncle!"

Uncle Lin came out in response, very surprised. After he came to Dongxi Village, he only had contact with the security chief and a few elders with high seniority and weight. He had never seen this one in front of him. "you are?"

Qin said with a smile on her face, "Although the head of the Lin family has never seen the old woman, he has seen my ignorant grandson—Chang Liushui. The old woman is here to thank you this time."

"Ah, it turned out to be you." Lin Xun suddenly realized, "It doesn't matter what happened that day, kid, I just accidentally missed it. I can see that he is indeed a good boy, so don't worry too much about it."

Qin said again: "It's because the old woman didn't teach the child well and told him to cause trouble for you, and that hen—"

Lin Xun interrupted her with a smile: "Really, I have to thank Ah Xin! He asked me to give the chicken."

Bai Xin smirked cooperatively, but Qin just gave him a surprised look, then turned to Lin Xun: "After all, it's yours, so of course I have to thank you, the master. There's nothing good at home, only some seasonal vegetables. Said that you don't have any now, so I sent some over to express my apologies!"

I have seen the basket that Qin brought over a long time ago, but it was covered with a layer of blue cloth.At this time, Bai Xin diligently emptied out the vegetables inside—there were green beans, lentils, and cabbage, and returned the basket to Mrs. Qin, who praised her: "Ah Xin is really cute now."

Lin Xun followed her up and said: "I met him when I went to open up wasteland. He was a very hardworking kid. He was still carrying a hoe in the sun at noon, so I thought he was a good kid. Call him to come over with me today on August Festival. Let's have a meal and be lively."

Only then did the Qin family really take a good look at Bai Xin, the little villain in the village in the past, but now someone says he is a good boy? ! ——A closer look reveals that Bai Xin is quite upright and handsome. In the past, he felt gloomy at first sight, but now he just feels a little silly smiling and blushing.

Bai Xin's blushing was purely caused by being stared at, and because of the wild thoughts in his mind, such as a mother-in-law looking at her son-in-law.I don't even think about how old I am, I just have a good impression of Chang Liushui, and I can't even talk about liking or even getting married, let alone this "mother-in-law" has planned to see each other but didn't think about him at all.

Qin sincerely persuaded Bai Xin: "It's good now, do things well, be a good person, and live a good life."

Bai Xin also nodded sincerely in agreement.

"It's time for the old woman to go back. Thank you, Master Lin. You can continue eating!"

"Let Ah Xin see you off."

Bai Xin went to open the courtyard door first, and Qin said, "Just send it to the door, it doesn't need to be so troublesome."

Leaving the Lin family, the Qin family met a middle-aged man with a good friendship, Lu Hai, on the way, but heard him whisper: "The Wu family in front of your house said that your family Ah Shui wants to hire a wife? You have to pay attention, otherwise How can Ah Shui get married if she spreads it like this in the future; if there is such a thing, tell her to talk nonsense and say yes, that would be even worse!"

"Thank you for reminding me!"

"It's nothing, let's help each other."

Qin Shi was really pissed off. If her grandson's important event was delayed, she would risk her life to make Wu Shi feel better.

Chang's family, as soon as Qin Shi entered the door, Chang Liushui came to help her, "You are still waiting, do you have something to wait for when I come back."

"I went to Lin's house to apologize."

"It's fine if you ask me to go—" Chang Liushui suddenly realized, facing Qin Shi, his mouth was slightly opened but he was speechless.

Qin said with a blank expression: "I delivered food to the Lin family today, and saw a familiar basket outside his kitchen, filled with winter melons and lotus roots - all of which you like to eat, and the head of the Lin family doesn't know if you didn't tell me To be honest, you can tell the truth with a little testing. You stole the prey of the Lin family that day, but when you told me, your eyeballs rolled a few times more nervously."

"Father..." Chang Liushui felt ashamed.

"Well, I'm to blame for some sickness, to spend all my savings, and to force you to think otherwise. But—"

Chang Liushui looked at Qin Shi, and knelt down consciously.

"But you shouldn't hide me. Fortunately, you just concealed it and didn't lie directly, otherwise you would kneel down on the ancestral tablet." Qin couldn't help sighing, "The ancestors of the elder family taught 'Don't lie', kneel down and write these three words on the ground , This time the punishment is lighter, and it will take a moment to write, but these days I will stay at home honestly, and I will agree to go out if I have something to do."

Chang Liushui can only agree one by one.

The eldest family is practicing family law, and the Lin family has a harmonious atmosphere. Uncle Lin tricks Bai Xin in various ways, forcing Bai Xin to wish he could take all the food home so that he has nothing to eat.

As for the Bai family, after the Zheng family came back, they would make guava cakes.Stir-fried potatoes and rice are crushed with stones and added with sugar as fillings; sweet potatoes are steamed and pressed into mud, add a little glutinous rice flour to make noodles, knead out a small ball and wrap the prepared fillings, and then slightly flatten them with the palm of your hand , cover with guava leaves and steam in a steamer.The elders of the older generation in the village can make it, and they eat this every August Festival.

Bai Xin first arrived home with Mrs. Zheng, and gave Baoli and the others the good news they brought back.Later, he was lucky enough to see how guava cakes are made. Baoshu grabbed his head and whispered to him, "Cakes are delicious!"

However, Baoshu was obviously not yet old enough to control the sound well. The whole family heard it, and Guigui, who hadn't been home for a long time, hummed: "I love eating ghosts!" Baoshu's eyes widened to show that he was very angry.

Most people in the village are poor, and the children of poor families look forward to the festivals especially, because every festival, they have to cook some special food to worship ancestors and gods.This year, the Bai family has an unexpected harvest. Therefore, this year’s guava cakes are made more, and more glutinous rice flour and sugar are added.Bai Xin fell in love with it as soon as he took a bite. The only downside was that the potatoes and rice in the bread were not crushed enough, and it was easy to get stuffed between his teeth.

But when it came to the reunion dinner in the evening, Bai Xin didn't have much appetite. Looking at the expressions of Baoli and the others, she knew that she was in the same mood as herself. Baohua pouted but dared not make a sound.Just listen to the sound of drinking porridge constantly to suppress the saliva.Today's porridge is really porridge. In the past, there were only dried sweet potatoes in the soup. Today, white rice is put in the soup, and the taste is really delicious.

A plate of seafood is placed in the middle of the two dining tables.When he heard that it was seafood, Bai Xin thought that the Zheng family was very generous today.When the dishes were served, I felt like I was soaked in salt water and died of salt just by looking at them. My saliva was constantly secreting, and I didn't even think about adding vegetables.This dish is called salted mud snails, the key is saltiness, the saltier the better, put a lot of salt, so it can be preserved for a period of time.Poor people can't afford meat, so they buy some salty mud snails, which can last for a long time.

Therefore, there is such a story from a fishing village by the sea: a mother’s family is really poor, and she bought half a catty of salty mud snails and hung them with a rope above the dining table. , know?" As a result, the older one took a second look, and the younger one immediately complained to Ah Mu: "Mum, brother, I took another look!" Ah Mu persuaded the younger son, "It's okay, let him be salted to death."

Bai Xin, who later learned the story, had to be convinced.

The moon worship after dinner is not complicated. Move a dining table to the yard, place a small incense burner on it, put three incense sticks in the burner, and a bowl of guava cake, a bowl of sweet potato porridge, and a bowl of potato rice; The old and the young in the family lined up neatly, praying three times, and it was over.

It was completely beyond Bai Xin's expectations, and he was going to bed!well……

The author has something to say:

Let me tell you here, I am from a rural area and have cultivated land before, so many things in this article are adapted from the original ecology.

I don’t know how to translate the local language of guava cakes into Mandarin, so let’s do it like this. Someone who has eaten it once can remember it for more than ten years. Now there are very few people who can make this. Many traditional foods and traditional crafts have not been passed down. It’s a pity. . o(︶︿︶)o