The heroine of Kuai Chuan Zhi's family only farms

Chapter 772 [771] Famine Age 12 (2 more)
At the end of the autumn semester, she successfully passed the approval of Mr. Wang with the grade No. 10 in her class. When she left school, she gave him a package.

It contained the lotus roots she had saved for a few days, which weighed twenty or thirty catties, and each section was filled with mud, so that it could be preserved for a while. This was also an annual gift from her to the couple. After all, there was no With their help, she might run into walls like a headless chicken!
Others go home during the holidays, but she needs to sell all the vegetables and fruits she has saved for a long time during the holidays. In order to sell them at a higher price, she has not sold much since October. After all, the prices during the Chinese New Year a little higher.

There are still ten days and a half months before the Chinese New Year. She wakes up every morning to sell vegetables near the supply and marketing cooperative, and goes to the hospital to sell fruits in the morning. She can sell 30 yuan a day.

Then she used the money to go to the Meat Association every now and then to buy some cheap pork bones, pig blood, pig offal, pig viscera, pork suet, etc.

It's not that she can't afford five yuan a catty of meat, but that in an era when one ocean can buy two catties of pork, she wants to buy more three or four catties of leftovers.

Because the leftovers are cheap, she didn't go there late, so she took advantage of setting up a stall and went to line up before dawn. Sometimes she could buy pig's blood, and sometimes it was big pig bones. It's the same, and they don't allow you to buy more, it's like two catties each time.

Having been in this era for a few years, she seems to have almost forgotten what meat tastes like, and it’s okay to be a vegetarian, and she rarely even gets the smell of oil.

This year, their family sold tofu, which may be a little better than ordinary people, but it is not the reason for them to eat and drink, so just buy some leftovers and go home to enjoy their mouths.

Henan has just experienced a famine, and its vitality has been severely damaged. There is still no food to grow. Who has spare money to feed pigs?Even the land where vegetables are grown can only be planted with food. It is conceivable that meat, eggs, vegetables, and fruits are in short supply. Otherwise, why would she sell them for so much money?
When buying meat, eggs are naturally indispensable. She saved up some eggs when she was in school, and bought some more a year ago. It took about ten catties, but it took three or four months, which is enough to show how difficult it is to buy some eggs .

Eggs cost three catties per piece, and there are only five catties per day. She only sells you two or three catties each time, and she can save ten catties, which is enough to show how much time she has spent on it.

In her opinion, stock up on meat and eggs. As for food, if you have it at home, even if it is coarse grains, it is good food if you can eat enough.

On the 28th of the twelfth lunar month, Ye Huan came home. The family was busy making tofu, and when she saw her coming back, she didn't bother to greet her.

"Huanhuan is back? Come into the house to warm up for a while, steamed tofu buns for you at noon, this year our family leaked a lot of vermicelli, your grandfather also bought pork suet, the oil residue is mixed with our tofu and cabbage vermicelli, The steamed buns are always delicious!"

According to the local customs, noodles should be fermented on the 28th, steamed buns should be steamed on the 29th, and dumplings should be made on the 2000th. It is not until after [-] that there is a saying of staying overnight.

But in this era, there are not so many entertainment projects.

Because at the end of the new year, there are only sweet potatoes, potatoes, cabbage, radishes, vermicelli, and tofu at home. If the conditions are good, they will fry tofu, radish meatballs, white-haired sesame candy, or persimmons, brown sugar, and sweet potatoes mixed with corn flour. Sweet and salty food, steamed red bean stuffed bean buns, steamed buns, and steamed buns.

Of course, every place has its own customs. People in Xinyang can also fry rice cakes, people in Zhengzhou can fry lotus clips, and people in Kaifeng can eat them even more. Only the taste of home is unique.

Seeing that everyone was so busy, Ye Huan put down her big burden and went to the kitchen to wash her hands, because she saw her elderly grandma kneading dough in the kitchen.

The noodles are miscellaneous grain noodles, which contain bean noodles, sweet potatoes, corn, and sorghum noodles. At the end, they are willing to mix some white flour, so that the kneaded flour is more suitable.

"Grandma, you rest, I'll come."

Ye Yu was in charge of cooking the stove, grandpa was helping Dad and the others cook the stove in the backyard, and the younger ones were surrounded by the stove, being scolded by grandma from time to time and not allowed to go out, because they made trouble everywhere when they went out.

This is the fireworks in the world, grounded, and full of the taste of home. Without the voices of adults scolding children, it cannot be called home.

Everyone is doing their own thing, no one is lazy, and even the heavy snowfall has not frozen their yearning for life.

"Milk, is the tofu selling well?"

Ye Huan washed his hands and started to knead the dough. Grandma asked Ye Yu to sit back and take a few kids to play in the house, while she came to cook the pot.

"Okay, it's very good, especially these days, it's old, the people in our village all order two or three catties, it's not the new year, everyone wants to let go of their stomachs and eat once, this is mixed with tofu The steamed stuffed bun, that is delicious, look at your father and the others, these days they have been working from dawn to dusk, it hurts me to see it!"

"Grandma, the more they are like this, the more dry they are. Don't look at them tired, but they are happy in their hearts. Look, is our tofu sold well?"

"It's not a big deal. It is said that our tofu is better than other people's. Sometimes people from other villages come to our village to buy it, but most of them bring food in exchange. At first they still had The ones mixed with stones were later found to be unmixed, and the clean ones were mixed more, so no one dared to use their brains on it."

"That's right, isn't it a good thing to do one's duty? If you insist on using this little cleverness, why do you think we are so easy to fool?"

"Now, they don't dare anymore. As long as they see that the beans or food are not clean, they won't exchange them. Anyway, our tofu is no longer worrying about selling it!"

Selling tofu is hard money. It looks like a lot of money, but in fact it’s not much if you add labor costs. Now I think it’s a lot because they share it with their own family. If the money is given to outsiders, is it still a lot?It is definitely not much, not only not much, but also less, but tofu cannot be sold at a higher price, because the price of meat and eggs is already there.

You work hard to make tofu, but tofu is tofu after all, not eggs or meat.

Grandma then asked her about things in the city, such as whether the Lord's family treated her well?How many words do you know?What will be the account?Are you eating well?Did you live well...

For these problems, she has long been familiar with it, and she is very comfortable in dealing with it. She even revealed to her grandma that in summer, she will be able to take the high school graduation exam.

Senior primary school is the fifth grade of elementary school, and students in fourth to fifth grade can become senior primary school. The so-called college degree in many places refers to this.

The whole family needs to have an acceptance process. She has studied for one year, plus the spring half term, it will be one and a half years, one and a half years after elementary school graduation. It sounds impossible, but it is not impossible. After all, she But the professor taught it.

Although grandma doesn't understand these things, she knows that her granddaughter is also a cultural person now. Look, the way she speaks is becoming more and more like a city person.

Grandma made a lot of noodles, and she reckoned that she could steam about ten baskets, because there are not only steamed buns, but also steamed buns, and it is necessary to steam all the amount for Chinese New Year.

However, they have a large family, so even if they steam a dozen steamed buns, they can eat them until the fourth day of the first lunar month at most.

The noodles are kneaded little by little, and grandma will come over to help when kneading a part. One person rolls the skin and one person wraps it, which is fast.

The sweet potatoes and pumpkins are steamed in the cage. After they are cooked, put some in a bowl for each of the small children, and let them go to the side to eat.

Grandma washed the grate neatly, added cold water again, covered the lid, and boiled the pot on low heat, because the wrapped buns or steamed buns need to be proofed for a while before steaming in the pot, so that the noodles are softer and softer. After all, they are thick noodles. Is there white noodles that taste so soft and delicious?

Wrap one pot, then knead the dough, wait for the second pot, wait for the pot to open, the first pot starts to steam, and the second pot is also wrapped, and so on, so as to make room for proofing time, in terms of time , the control is just right.

When they steamed two pots here, the tofu in the backyard made [-] to [-] catties, and the three brothers and three sisters-in-law worked together, and the three brothers sent it to other villages and towns, and the third sister-in-law went to give it to people in the village. Even if the freshly made tofu is still warm, it should be cold when it is more than ten degrees below zero.

They had already eaten the first pot of steamed buns, filling their stomachs, so going out to work now would not feel very hard.

The elderly and children in the family ate the second pot, which is their family's lunch.

After she was full, she and the old lady continued to cook, while the grandfather led the children to continue making soy milk in the backyard.

Now their family still grinds beans by hand. She suggested buying a little donkey before, but was rejected by her grandfather, saying that it was too eye-catching, and it would be tiring if she was tired, and she couldn't show others how much money their family made.

After all, there are many people who can't see you well, even if they are brothers, sometimes they are jealous of each other, and if they can keep a low profile, they will never be high profile.

Even if it takes more labor for this, I don't regret it.

Because their family's tofu has to be made on New Year's Eve, so the family's New Year's food is all made by her and grandma.

Parents and the others wanted to come over to help after selling the tofu, but they were all driven into the room by grandma to sleep and rest.

Because they see that they get up before dawn and work until noon, and they have to do another wave in the afternoon. They also feel sorry for the hard work of the brothers, and naturally they don't dare to worry about family affairs.

Seeing that the family was so busy, Ye Huan suddenly regretted whether it was too late for her to come back.

The buns and steamed buns were steamed until four or five o’clock in the afternoon before they were finally finished. The steamed buns were placed on the long cloth in the main room to cool down before being placed in bamboo baskets. Dots of red ink represent joy.

Afterwards, she had time to take out the pig viscera and pig offal she had brought back to clean, and marinated the ones that could be marinated, and put the ones that could not be marinated in a room without firewood for later use.

(End of this chapter)