Food starts with Mapo Tofu

After Chen Nian took over the noodles and the noodle cutter, he first looked at the dough. Gao Genzhu made it into a long strip, so that the cut noodles would be longer.

And I am also very interested in this old noodle slicer knife. The knife used to make noodle slicers at Miao Miaowu's house back then was not like this.

Gao Genzhu's ancestral noodle-shaving knife is heavy in his hand, and the outer edge of the knife is obviously sharpened, and it looks extremely sharp.

Recalling the essentials that Gao Genzhu said earlier, Chen Nian weighed the dough with his left hand, gestured with his right hand to find the right angle, and then cut it on the dough with one knife.

But he still didn't have a good grasp of the position, just like what Gao Genzhu said before, he directly plunged the knife head into the dough.

If it wasn't for Chen Nian's quick response, this big ball of noodles might have fallen into the boiling pot in front of him.

The splashed water also had to burn a few big bubbles on my body.

"No, you can't use the head, you have to use the middle, don't worry, take your time." Gao Genzhu reminded from the side.

This means that he taught Chen Nian to repay Chen Nian's kindness. If Chen Nian was his apprentice, he might have to scold him for a long time just for this one.

"Sorry, I'm a little nervous." Chen Nian smiled apologetically, and then re-aimed at the angle to slide down from the top of the dough at the top of the arc in the middle of the noodle knife.

There was only a slight sound of a noodle knife cutting the dough.

A sliced ​​noodle jumped into the boiling water gracefully like a white elf.

"It's done!"

"I seem to have mastered the technique."

Chen Nian is a little happy.

It felt really good just now.

Although this knife is slightly more difficult to use than the current ones, as long as you master the skills, this knife is still better to use in old age.

At the end of the aging process, the noodles are cut into the pot one by one.

Like a diving competition, the noodles scrambled into the pot, and the splashes became smaller and smaller.

Chen Nian felt that the act of shaving noodles seemed a bit overpowering.

Reed!
Snapped!
These two sounds sounded alternately, one was the sound of the noodles being cut off, and the other was the sound of the noodles entering the water.

But it seems that it is not so smooth when it is shaved and aged.

So he turned his head to look at Gao Genzhu again.

"If you feel that it is difficult to sharpen, just dip the knife in a little water and shake it a little bit."

"it is good."

Chen Nian nodded, and after following the method Gao Genzhu said, he found that it was easy to cut again.

"Okay, okay, this is almost enough for the four of us to eat, and I'm afraid we won't be able to finish it if we make too much." Seeing that Chen Nian didn't intend to stop, Gao Genzhu hurriedly stopped.

"Ah, that's enough. This sliced ​​noodle is a bit tricky to make. I was so busy peeling it that I forgot to see how many noodles were in the pot."

"It's okay, it was like this at the beginning. I remember when I first learned how to make this, my dad taught me to go outside to feed the chickens. When I came back, I sliced ​​a whole piece of noodles into the pot. We ate that pot of noodles for three days."

Gao Genzhu said with a smile.

In this way, after the noodles are cooked in the pot, Gao Genzhu fishes them out with a strainer and puts them in a bowl.

There are slightly more of him and the older ones, followed by Zhang Chuanfang, and Xiao Fugui is the least.

Although it is said that Xiao Fugui is growing up now, children's appetite is not very big, and a small bowl is enough, not to mention there will be food later.

"Brother Genzhu, are these here called fried sauce?"

Pointing to the meat and vegetables left in the pot, he asked.

Because in the old age, there is only the kind of meat that is cut into cubes or ground with a meat grinder and then seasoned. It is called fried sauce, but it seems a bit different here.

As long as it can be put on top of the noodles, it is called fried sauce.

Whether it's tomato and egg noodles, or the stewed vegetable noodles, or the noodles with diced potatoes and meat sauce, they are all called this name anyway.

As for the name of the topping, the benevolent see the benevolent and the wise see the wisdom, and you can call it whatever you want.

"Yes, anyway, this is how we are here, but there are also different names for these in other places. For example, the vegetarian one is called stewed vegetable noodles or cabbage and bean noodles, the meat one is called potato diced noodles, and the fried noodles are called noodles. Sauce noodles are specifically made with minced meat and yellow sauce.

Because that kind of noodles needs to be filled with oil, and then the meat is put into it for frying, so it is called this name, but there is no big difference here. "

Chen Nian said that he understood.

"Also, there are actually many kinds of accents here. For example, the caravans who often come to our place to eat noodles basically have different accents. Even if they come from a county, some words are said differently.

There are also people from the village next door, but their accents are a bit different. "

It was the first time for Chen Nian to come to such a magical place.

In the past, although there were people with different accents in the same province, they were basically divided into a large area, but I haven't seen many people with one accent in each village like this.

Sure enough, people still have to go out for a walk. How can they know these local differences if they don't go out?
That night, everyone gathers together to eat sliced ​​noodles.

Zhang Chuanfang couldn't help but sigh with emotion: "I never thought that there would be one more person in our family, and sure enough, one more person would bring more excitement."

"Yeah, with Chen Nian here, our family is much more lively, but Chen Nian is still very sensible. He is only 16 years old now, but he talks like an adult. He can chat with us and talk to Xiao Fugui. Let's play together."

Chen Nian smiled: "That's Brother Genzhu, you and your sister-in-law don't think I'm young, they are willing to tell me anything, and everyone in our side still treats me like a child."

"Hahaha, what kind of child? At the age of 16, you can ask for a wife and have a child. It's not a child."

Every time this kind of topic is mentioned in the dream space, Chen Nian has to explain it carefully, and this time is no exception. He told the couple seriously that he is not in a hurry to marry a wife, and wants to learn how to cook and make money. Some money.

"You still need to make money. You have hundreds of taels of silver in your hand. If I had asked for it, I would have quit." Gao Genzhu said.

"Maybe everyone thinks differently."

"Indeed, but young people should still marry a wife as soon as possible. How comfortable is the life of the wife and children? Although one person earns money and one person spends it, feeding himself is equivalent to supporting the whole family, but how many people in the family can have? The days went by in a hurry.”

Chen Nian shook his head: "That's what I said, but I'll forget it. In fact, I already have a sweetheart, but it's just in my hometown. When the time is right, I will take her over."

"There is still a little girl in your hometown?" Zhang Chuanfang asked gossipingly.

"Yes, we have already talked about marriage, but because of my own reasons, I can't help it. I will marry her when I have a chance in the future."

"Then you have to hurry up, before you go back, he will already be married."

"That can't, she will wait for me."

Both Gao Genzhu and Zhang Chuanfang had experienced it, so they obviously didn't believe it very much, but they couldn't say anything more after seeing what Chen Nian said.

After eating like this, Chen Nian washed all the bowls used for business in the afternoon and evening and put them in the cabinet, cleaned up the kitchen and went back to the house.

Now he still has a few books borrowed from Master Liu.

Chen Nian has already read these books, and now he is teaching Xiao Fugui by candlelight.

"Little Fugui, what did you learn in school this afternoon?"

"Today I learned a few more characters. The gentlemen will teach us some characters every day, but you have already taught me some of the characters he taught. Every time the master asks us to write silently, I can write them out. Even The husband said that I am a material for reading."

"That's good. If that's the case, then write down the words you learned today and let me have a look."

"it is good."

As if showing off, Xiao Fugui dipped the brush in the ink and started writing on the paper.

The pens, inks, papers and inkstones that Xiao Fugui used at this time were all bought with his own money. After all, with so much money in his hand, there is no place to spend it.

Apart from buying some snacks for myself during the old age, buying some snacks on the way to pick up Xiao Fugui, or buying some daily necessities for myself, I really have no place to spend.

After Xiao Fugui finished writing, Chen Nian picked it up and blew it, looked at it: "That's right, these words are all written correctly, so do you have anything else to learn besides writing?"

"Yes, the master also taught us to recite the three-character scriptures. At the beginning of human beings, nature is good, nature is similar, habits are far away..."

As he spoke, Xiao Fugui began to recite aloud again.

"It's amazing. I couldn't memorize so much when I was your age." Chen Nian praised in a timely manner, "But Xiao Fugui, you still have a lot to learn. Don't be complacent. You must know that there are people beyond people, and there is a sky beyond the sky." , even if you are better than your classmates, don’t give up learning, even if you spend your entire life learning the knowledge and principles of this world, you can’t finish it.”

Xiao Fugui listened to the words half-understood: "Brother Chen Nian, since you can't finish learning, why do people still want to learn?"

"Maybe this is the purpose of human life, just like having to shit after eating and urinating after drinking water, maybe the purpose of human life is not just to die, but to enjoy the process.

Maybe the rich eat big fish and meat, and the poor eat simple food, but eating is to fill your stomach, just like you study, it is also to enrich yourself. "

"I still don't understand." Xiao Fugui shook his head blankly. He could understand a little earlier, but here he couldn't understand what it meant.

"It's okay, you'll understand when you grow up." Chen Nian said and patted Xiao Fugui's head.

"Then when will I grow up?"

"Soon, time is like water, always flowing, if you pay attention to it all the time, it will flow slowly, but as long as you don't pay attention to it, it will flow away quickly. "

Xiao Fugui still doesn't understand, but now Xiao Fugui doesn't care about these words that he doesn't understand at all.

"Brother Chen Nian, let's play checkers for a while."

"Okay, but we agreed to only play one game."

In this game, although Chen Nian still gave way to the opponent, in the end he just designed a narrow victory.

After that, Xiao Fugui still wanted to play, but Chen Nian said with a stern face that he couldn't, so Xiao Fugui went back to sleep in the house holding his mouth.

Just after Genzhu Noodle Restaurant launched sliced ​​noodles, their business here is better than before.

Moreover, most of the people who come to eat noodles will choose to eat noodles with a knife, and the noodles they make for hand-rolled noodles every day are only eaten by those who particularly like hand-rolled noodles or those who come late.

Sometimes the guests come very concentrated, for example, if a caravan passes by, there are at least a dozen people eating here at a time, and Gao Genzhu can't cut it by himself.

Often the people in front have finished eating, and the noodles in the back are not cooked yet.

Although most of the time they also know that a person is really busy, but occasionally someone still complains.

After all, it's hard for anyone to bask in the sun.

In the end, Gao Genzhu thought about it and decided to ask Chen Nian to help with it.

The two of them sliced ​​into the pot together, and the speed was doubled.

Moreover, Chen Nian can also go out in this gap after cutting the noodles to take back the bowls used by the guests.

After the bowl is taken back, the noodles are almost cooked, and they are taken out and placed on Zhang Chuanfang's side to pour the fried sauce. At this time, Chen Nian can send the fried noodles to the guests.

After returning, Gao Genzhu also put the two balls of noodles on the long plate, so that he could continue to chop the noodles after aging.

But it’s not like the old days are always going around. Others will do some work of cleaning up the dishes or greeting guests when they have nothing to do. Family restaurants don’t have to be so strict in performing their duties. Working, as for aging, is also fun.

But this kind of work, although busy, is also fulfilling.

It's just that one day, before it was time for business at noon, a woman suddenly came outside. Chen Nian was chopping vegetables in the yard at this time. When she saw her, she asked, "Sister, are you here to find brother Genzhu?"

"Well, find him to buy something."

"Shopping, we don't have a stall here yet, and the noodles are not ready yet, you may have to wait for a while." Chen Nian reminded.

But the woman shook her head: "I don't eat noodles, I just come to find Gen Zhu to make some buns."

"Momo?"

Chen Nian has stayed in the north and knows that Momo means steamed buns, but why did he come here to buy steamed buns?

At this moment, Gao Genzhu in the room also heard this and hurried out.

"You buy steamed buns? What are you using them for?"

"As a matter of fact, my second grandpa is gone, and I plan to order some steamed buns for two days."

"Yes, what do you want?"

"You can do it here?"

"It's fine. Anyway, if you want to buy it, you can just buy it all at once from me, so as to save you from running around."

"Okay, let's buy a hundred ordinary ones, and Huamo looks like it's better to make more."

"Okay, then I will make it for you according to the specification of two hundred Wen, okay?"

"What is the standard of two hundred texts?"

"According to what you said, there are one hundred ordinary buns, eight flower buns, four animal ones and four flower ones."

"Okay, how much is the deposit?"

"Give me fifty cents."