Go back to the valley to farm

Chapter 233 Catch Fish and Fill It with Sausages
Chapter 230 Catch Fish and Fill It with Sausages

Mama Ou cut the hind legs into strips, mixed with spices, white wine and salt, and was ready to start stuffing sausages.

Li Junge carried the fish cover, and A Yin carried the basket, and had to go to the field to catch some carp.

Dad Yin went to drive the chickens and ducks back into the pen, and they will not be released again this month. In addition, they will have to "pass the wool" tomorrow morning.

Li Junge and A Yin came to the edge of "Fang Fangtian", the water was still a bit muddy, and the bottom could not be seen.

Li Junge said to A Yin: "A Yin, do you want me to do a trick for you?"

Ayin asked curiously, "What trick?"

Li Junge said: "I don't even need to look with my eyes, as long as the cover flies out, there will be big fish inside, don't you believe it?"

A Yin rolled his eyes and said: "Of course I don't believe it! I haven't heard of anyone with this ability!"

Li Junge said: "Then let's make a bet, if I can catch the big fish, you can call me 'husband' and give me a good kiss, if I lose, well, then I'll call you 'wife', and then Give you a good kiss! Is it okay?"

A Yin was so angry that he grabbed him: "Don't do it, co-authoring will be cheap for you!"

Li Junge said: "Then what do you say?"

Ayin thought for a while and said: "If you win, I will agree to your condition, but what if you lose? Let me think about it, ah! If you have it, you will carry me from Banshan Forest Farm to Lijiagou !"

Li Junge clicked his tongue and said, "Oh, you are too cruel, aren't you?!"

A Yin said triumphantly: "You just say you dare?!"

Li Junge tentatively asked, "Should I add more?"

A Yin had been guarding against this move, and immediately refused: "Don't do it! If you like to gamble, don't gamble!"

Li Junge immediately surrendered and said, "Okay, okay, then it's a deal!"

Carrying the mask and turning to a corner of the field, Li Junge still closed his eyes and chanted a mantra: "The heavens are spirited and the earth is spirited, the father-in-law of the land is here to show his spirit. Bless Ah Yin and call her husband, and my husband and husband can't stop shouting."

Hearing this, Ayin laughed "Puchi" and said, "Come on! I only promised to shout! Hurry up, I will watch you and see how you can make the fish out!"

I saw that Li Junge seemed to throw the cover casually, put it on the field with a swipe, and made a gesture of fetching something from the air, and shouted: "Come in!"

Then I started to take off my shoes and pants and go into the water.

The water in the winter months is quite cold, but Li Junge has long been transformed by the space so that the cold and heat will not invade. Usually, if the family members remind him, he often forgets to add clothes. The coldness is not a problem at all.

After going down into the water, Li Junge fumbled in the cover and remained silent for a long time.

A Yin squatted on the field ridge with a smile, and asked, "How is it? Did the show fail?"

Seeing Li Junge straighten up suddenly, holding a big carp weighing more than two catties in his hand, he threw it towards A Yin, and shouted: "Go on!"

"Oh!" Ayin screamed, caught it with a basket, and shouted: "I really met you!"

The big carp was flopping about in the basket, and Li Junge went up to the ridge with the cover in his hand, and said in awe, "How about it, are you convinced?"

A Yin cheated: "I don't accept it! You are just a coincidence!"

Li Junge came to the other corner of "Fang Fangtian" again, and said, "Don't believe me? Then I will perform it again!"

After finishing speaking, he began to chant the mantra again: "The sky is spirited and the earth is spirited, the land father-in-law came to show his spirit, Ayin puppy loves to play tricks, can we catch another one?"

A Yin interrupted from the side: "You are the puppy! I don't believe that our land father-in-law in Miao Village still listens to you like this!"

Before he finished speaking, the cover in Li Junge's hand flew out again, and then Li Junge slid into the field to touch it again.

To Ah Yin's surprise, he caught another carp weighing two to three catties for Li Junge.

Ayin really couldn't figure it out now, and asked, "Hey, what's going on?"

Li Junge smiled and said, "This time the head office is okay, right?"

Ayin rolled her eyes and said, "There are only three things! Two fish are not enough for the New Year, if you can still catch them!"

Li Junge rolled his eyes: "Hey! Don't bring such reckless people!"

Ayin giggled and said, "No, if you catch it again, you will never deny it!"

Li Junge said: "Then it's settled, this time is the last time!"

After finishing speaking, he began to chant the mantra again: "The heavens are spirited, the earth is spirited, the father-in-law of the land is here to show his spirit, please ask Ayin to call my husband, and give me a bottle of wine tomorrow."

This time, Ah Yin really didn't dare to talk nonsense. Although she knew that the second person was talking nonsense, but the matter was indeed a bit bizarre. What if she was afraid that it might be true?

While thinking wildly, the cover in Li Junge's hand flew out again.

Li Junge went into the water again and began to dig around. After a while, he frowned and said, "It's really strange!"

A Yin asked: "What's the matter? No fish this time?"

I was still slightly disappointed in my heart, and I didn't know whether it was disappointment that there was no fish, or disappointment that I couldn't call "husband".

Li Junge straightened up, and saw two thumbs sticking out of a fish's mouth, and his index finger caught the fish's lower jaw, holding one on each side. He laughed loudly and said, "How is that possible! This time there are two!"

"Oh, it's amazing!" Ayin clapped her hands excitedly: "Enough is enough, come up quickly, the water is cold!"

Li Junge threw the two fish into the basket, took back the cover, and then climbed up to the edge of the field, washed the muddy water off his feet, and put on his pants and shoes.

Ayin pulled Li Junge's arm and asked, "What's going on? Tell me!"

Li Junge was triumphant: "Don't be busy! This bet has not been cashed yet!"

Ayin blushed, leaned in front of Li Junge's ear, called out "husband" in a low voice, pecked him on the face again, and shook Li Junge's arm: "Oh, tell me quickly!"

Li Junge felt as if he had fallen into the clouds for a long time, so he was dizzy and confessed: "Actually, when I came to release the fry yesterday, I went to the field and dug holes at the bottom of the water at several corners."

"Carp like to slip around, and they like to find deep water in winter. They swim to the bottom of the pit and stay there. The positions I just lost are all in the place where the pit was dug yesterday..."

"Oh, you bastard! You lied to me again!"

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The two of them returned home after a fight. Grandma Ou and Mama Ni hadn't fed much sausage yet. They raised their heads and asked, "Hey! You guys are so fast!"

Ayin blushed, cast a blank glance at Li Junge and said, "He is really an expert at fishing and fishing!"

Li Junge smiled and said, "I haven't been here for a few months, and the fish is getting bigger."

Mother Ni is the mother-in-law who is satisfied with seeing her son-in-law, and said with a smile: "It's Chinese New Year, it's better to be bigger, the size of these pieces is just right."

Li Junge poured the fish into a big iron basin, put water on it, took a big dustpan and put it on the iron basin, threw a few pepper leaves in it, pressed a few bricks on it, washed his hands, and came over to talk to the three of them. Stuff the sausage together.

Pick up a small bamboo ring, put it on the opening of the casing, pick up the meat strips and stuff it in.

Squeeze towards the bottom while stuffing it. When the bottom is full, use a toothpick to poke some small holes to deflate, and continue to squeeze to make the meat inside firm.

Every ten centimeters, tie it with a fine hemp rope, and a sausage is ready.

Just like this, one section at a time is tied up, and a long sausage is quickly produced.

There are many kinds of Shuzhou sausages, some filled with meat, some filled with pig blood and glutinous rice, and some even filled with pork ribs.

The taste is wide-flavored, five-spice, and Sichuan-spicy.

Then it is divided into smoked and non-smoked, and the above-mentioned methods can be combined freely, which is a lot of tricks.

Ayin’s home cooks traditional Sichuan flavors, which are hung on thin bamboo poles after irrigation.

The sausage is ready, it's time to prepare the sauce and brush the ribs.

The sauce consists of wheat sauce, spices, soy sauce, glutinous rice and wine.

Take out the ribs that have been marinated for half a day, use a brush to dip the sauce on the ribs, and hang them up after brushing.

As for those made of bacon, they have to continue to be marinated, and they can be taken out for smoking after half a month.

After the sauced ribs have dried to a certain extent, start brushing for the second time.

This is repeated several times within a month before it is considered complete.

The flavor of sauced meat is similar to that of bacon, but it lacks the smoky flavor and has more sauce.

If I have to use a metaphor, it is roughly the difference between Moutai and Wuliangye.

At this point, the big job of killing pigs is basically done, but there are still a lot of other things, such as boiling lard, such as making crispy meat, such as croquettes.

Li Junge cut the pig's belly skin, bloody neck and other bad parts into half-finger-wide slices, hung it with salted batter, and deep-fried it in an oil pan until golden.

The slightly better parts are chopped into meat fillings, mixed with ginger water and sweet potato powder, and fried into meatballs.

Ni's mother cut suet, edge oil, net oil and some fat meat that is too fat into thin strips, put some water in the pot and boil it, and let the lard slowly precipitate.When the water dries up, the oil comes out, and then the oil is used to continue cooking the fatty meat until the oil residue is formed, and the lard is considered ready.

Separate the oil and oil residue, put a handful of dried soybeans in the crock, pour the boiling lard into it and keep it sealed.

Throwing away the dried soybeans is to prevent the oil from going bad and becoming "harsh".

The family didn't start eating dinner until after nine o'clock in the evening.

Dinner is basically the leftovers from noon. Throw two radishes into the unfinished cooking pig soup, and there is still work to do after eating.

Tomorrow I will make rice cakes, today I will fry peanuts, soybeans, and sesame seeds, and then make them into powder.

Also boil the brown sugar juice.

Chinese New Year is fun, and the preparations before are tiring enough.

From morning to night, there is no time to rest, but fortunately, the atmosphere is harmonious. There are not many situations where the family gathers to do one thing. In Ayin’s house, everyone chats and chats by the red fire, laughing and laughing , having fun.

After finishing the cleaning work in the kitchen, it was past twelve o'clock when I went to sleep, and Uri had already arrived.

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There was nothing to say all night, when Li Junge got up, Grandma Ou and Mother Ni were already busy.

The glutinous rice soaked overnight has been steamed in the big steamer.

Today is Mao Day, that is, Rabbit Day, which is equivalent to New Year’s Eve at the foot of the mountain. The Miao family will make rice cakes and make frozen fish today.

There are two theories about the origin of making glutinous rice cakes. One is that it originated from the Qi family, that is, it is said that eating glutinous rice cakes on New Year’s Eve can block the mouse hole and prevent mice from stealing food in the coming year.

Another theory originates from Pingtianxia. It is said that the Xuanyuan tribe moved eastward from the Loess Plateau along the Yellow River Basin and had an armed conflict with Chiyou. Jiuli was defeated and Chiyou was captured.Xuanyuan used a maple wood weapon to kill Chi You, and killed him on Maori in the first ten days of October, with his head in a different place.

The Long people of the Chiyou tribe secretly collected his shoulder blades and thigh bones, transported them back to the rear residence, glued Chiyou's shoulder blades and thigh bones together with glutinous rice cakes, and buried them.As a result, the Miao people have passed down the tradition of offering sacrifices to their ancestors and offering sacrifices to Chi You during the Chinese New Year.

The glutinous rice cakes should be beaten enough, one is to eat at home, and the other is to give gifts to relatives and friends.

Frozen fish is a special dish of the Miao family, which symbolizes the prosperity of the population.Fish follow the dragon, tomorrow is Dragon Day, so we need to make some frozen fish as tomorrow's "early meal" to welcome the arrival of Dragon Day.

(End of this chapter)