Go back to the valley to farm

Chapter 265

Chapter 260 Six Boiled Sesame Candy
Li Junge said: "But there is one thing. If you want to recruit temporary workers at that time, you have to follow Lijiagou and Miao Village first."

Zhu Chaoan said: "It must be! It is a pleasure to cooperate with Uncle A Chong. It is not a young person to learn something. You don't know that I took Uncle A Chong's rituals to my dad's company and showed them, and they were all shocked! I keep yelling that I will ask Uncle A Chong to show me the Feng Shui next time I start work."

After finishing speaking, he said to Li Junge: "Erpi, then I will return to the city after cleaning these wooden buildings, and I will come back after the Chinese New Year."

Li Junge smiled and said: "It's time to go back, or you can hang around with me in the village these few days. This month, you basically have to kill pigs every day, and you can mix it with boiled pig soup every day."

Zhu Chaoan smashed his mouth, struggled for a long time before saying: "Forget it, it's hard for the mother to lose it, don't go back in half a month!"

The next day, Li Junge returned to Jiachuan City with Zhu Chaoan with the list given by his mother and father.

The festive atmosphere in the county is also strong, and the vendors have begun to enter the peak sales season.

Pulling the lobby brother to drive a minibus, Li Junge started a shopping trip, tobacco, alcohol, tea, candy, dried fruits, sea cucumbers and seaweeds, squid cuttlefish, Spring Festival couplets with blessings, firecracker paper money, children's schoolbags and toys, clothes, shoes and hats, old people's Red envelopes, new tickets, and annual gifts for visiting relatives, etc. There are so many things that fill up minibuses.

This is not over yet, the old people don't trust the printed materials in the county, and think they are lacklustre, so they have to go to Pan'ao Township, the crudely printed talisman paper for gods, the floating wool paper for the grave, the earthen incense candle ingots, etc. Instead, you can't buy it in the county, so you have to prepare it.

There are also brown sugar and sesame seeds, clear oil and sesame oil, soy sauce and wheat sauce, eggs and duck eggs, vermicelli noodles, bean curd sticks...these are also better in Pan'ao Township than in the county, so they should be prepared.

There are also seasonings for making bacon sausage sauce, which is also a must...

Once the call was over, another three days passed.

The next step is to slaughter pigs in each household. The pig butchers run to the village every day. The big fat pigs that were not killed last year can no longer be kept this year. The net weight is more than 300 catties. A pig is overcharged. Fifty.

While complaining about the dishonesty of the butcher, the owner smiled and handed over the money for killing the pig, and the generous one even gave two pieces of meat. My friends, Lijiagou, this year is not bad!
During this period of time, Li Junge's family ran from his family to the west, and he was killed in nine out of ten places. There was no other way, and everyone was attracted to his stupid strength.

Piwa has a good personality, he is such a big boss, and he has read a lot of books. He still smiled and agreed when he shouted.He came here early, and he is willing to work hard, which is easier to control than his own children.

This child has grown up and cannot be controlled by his parents. The well-behaved child has gone out to work for less than a year, but he came back with a stinking problem...

The feng shui in the village is good. When the Piwa grabbed the pig's ears, he said that next year there will be a lot of projects in the village, and there will be a shortage of manpower. I might as well just stay in the village and see the situation...

Not only can you make a lot of money, but you can also be held by the old men. The daughter-in-law also has odd jobs, and the young couple will go home after dark. What else can the young people do when they stay together?
Maybe in the next year I will be the Duke of Karma, hehehehe...

While drinking, Piwa also said that the first thing to do after the new year is to build a hoist shed on the top of the terraced fields. It will be much more convenient when the sheds are repaired. Thousands of acres of terraced fields still need old crops to take care of them... …

The old Zhuangjia style, I rely on this, isn't it just me!I don't believe how capable the people in the village on the mountain are. How can my people down the mountain be worse than them in growing rice?
Don't fight for steamed buns!In the old days, I went to find Piwa, and she showed her skills!I have to give them to the town to finish the calculation...

What happened to this Piwa, Blister Pig Tang pointed to the vegetable folder, saying that he had been hurt by eating twice-cooked pork for more than ten days...

Uh, this year's pigs are a bit fat, and the butcher charged me an extra [-], or if I don't raise them next year, I'm begging...

But Piwa also said that Lijiagou is a selenium-rich belt, and the price of agricultural products will definitely rise. Raising pigs will no longer be unsalable like last year, and they can still earn more than in previous years. How about raising two more pigs?
Damn, this idea is tossed and turned like a fight for wine, no matter what, the family has so many ways to survive, and I will definitely not let the baby out next year.As for the rest, just listen to Pi Wa and Xiao Ayin, I will do whatever they say!
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This is how thoughts slowly change in a subtle way, and the days pass by chatting and laughing like this.It will be the [-]th of the twelfth lunar month when Li Junge's family kills a pig.

The children in Lijiagou are all back, running around in groups, going wherever the excitement is.

The whole village is full of nursery rhymes of "carrots, sweet, look at the New Year...".

Qiu Yatou also came back. As soon as she returned to the village, she was dragged into the female celebrity group by the old ladies, and she couldn't get away all the time.

The six children in the family have called many times, complaining that they are being detained by the family and are not allowed to go out. They must finish their homework before the Spring Festival before they can come here.

The city is not as fun as the countryside, everyone is so angry.

Li Junge had no choice but to work while comforting him.

It will be December 22 after the two pigs have been dealt with, and today I have something to do, and the family will come back with six children. It’s impossible to have sweets for Chinese New Year, so today I have to boil sugar.

Sesame candy is a kind of traditional folk candy, which can be made by many rural farmers across the country.

The sesame sugar in Jiachuan area includes sweet potato sesame sugar, corn corn sugar, sweet potato corn sesame sugar mixed with glutinous rice sesame sugar, and sweet potato sesame sugar is the most distinctive.

On the twelfth day of the twelfth lunar month, grandma had already germinated the wheat with malt, and kept it on the stove for ten days at a temperature of about ten degrees, and it is just right today.

Malting is also very particular. When the malt grows to a certain height, in order to prevent the excessive production of malt and waste nutrients, it is necessary to cover the malt with a shroud to prevent it from being exposed to light.

This stuff takes as much fire as steaming yellow cakes, so people who don’t have a firewood mountain behind their houses dare not do it like this, otherwise there will be not enough firewood to cook pig’s skulls during the Chinese New Year.

Dad had already built a lot of firewood a few days ago, and he piled up the back of the kitchen to the brim.

What Li Junge had to do when he got up early in the morning was to fry peanuts, sesame seeds, and yin rice.

Yinmi is glutinous rice that is steamed and then picked up and dried in the shade. It can be used for frying rice bubbles. During the frying process, Yinmi will have a certain puffing effect.Because it comes out of oil, it is much more fragrant than popcorn, and it is an important material for making rice cracker candies.

As soon as the sesame candy comes out, the peanut candy, sesame candy, peanut-sesame candy, and rice cracker candy will come out together.

After finishing these, Li Junge went outside the house again, rubbed the green stick through the eye of the mill, and then passed through a hole in the shelf where the mill was placed, fixed the stick, and then tied it firmly with a rope.

This is used to pull the sugar after the sesame sugar is boiled.

Then pick out a bunch of sweet potatoes from the wooden building above the pigsty, wash the sweet potatoes, peel them, and cut them into pieces.

Granny started chopping the malt on the side.

Everything is ready, and the sugar cooking is about to start.

Li Junge poured the sweet potato cubes into the cauldron and began to add water to boil.

Grandma filled a bowl of clear water, added some gall for bean curd into the water, took the brush for cleaning the pot and began to dip and sprinkle it on the door panel, door frame, chopping board and stove in the kitchen.While sprinkling, recite: "Unclean and unclean, Shenshui will change your luck... Unclean and unclean, Shenshui will change your luck..."

It is said that as long as this traditional ceremony is held, the sesame candy will produce more sugar and taste better, and the family luck will be better after boiling the sesame candy.

After burning for an hour, the sweet potatoes in the pot were already soft.

After grandma finished the ceremony, she began to take over the work of watching the fire. Li Junge went outside and began to put the chopped malt into the nest to make a malt paste.

When the sweet potatoes are cooked, move to a large wooden basin that has been washed, pour the sweet potato pieces into it, and mash the sweet potato pieces with a long wooden stick together with grandma into a soup.

Next, put the sweet potato soup into the pot, add water, add an appropriate amount of malt, and stir well.

The ratio of malt paste to sweet potato is about [-]:[-].

Next, the sweet potato soup with malt added began to be simmered. As time passed, the sweet potato soup began to undergo magical changes and became clearer and clearer.

Malt is like a primer. Its fermentation makes the sweet potato soup start to saccharify, and more and more sugar water begins to be transformed and separated from the sweet potato soup.

After the sweet potato soup was completely separated into sugar water and sweet potato dregs, grandma took out the cross and filter bag used to filter the soy milk when making bean curd, hung them on the rope, and then Li Junge began to scoop hair into the bag Good sweet potato water, grandma shook the shelf to filter out the sweet potato dregs.

Repeat several times, and then pour the filtered yellowish powder juice back into the cauldron for tormenting.

Whisk while stirring to remove froth.

The froth will bring out the last bit of residue in the sugar water, and when the froth is removed, the rest is basically sesame sugar water.

The next thing is to work hard, switch to a slow fire, and use the sesame sugar stirrer to stir the sesame sugar water evenly until the sesame sugar is boiled.

This matter will continue until tomorrow morning, and it will take twenty hours. Li Junge simply turned on the phone, connected it to the power supply, and watched dramas, listened to songs, and listened to novels.

While adding fire in his hand, he evenly stirred the sesame sugar water with a scorpion, so that he could do both work and entertainment.

In the middle, when eating and going to the bathroom, my parents took over for a while.

Everyone went to bed at night, but Li Junge continued under the dim kitchen light.

Grandma woke up at four o'clock, and it was the critical period for the sesame candy to come out soon. She couldn't worry about her grandson's craftsmanship, so she got up early to keep an eye on it.

The sesame sugar began to thicken, first sesame bubbles appeared, then fish eye bubbles, and then the bubbles became bigger and bigger, which is called "swelling" in the jargon.

This shows that the water in the sugar water is starting to become scarce. Grandma took a small jar and scooped out a small jar of syrup. This is for the children to eat "gummy candy" for fun.

Then the paozi began to grow as big as a bull's eye, and grandma picked up the cane, and the syrup began to drip down in flakes, which is called "hanging flag flags" in the jargon.

By this time, it was almost done, and grandma took a bowl of clear water and started to "feed the water bowl".

Only old experts can understand this process. It is to take a small amount of sugar and let it cool quickly in cold water, and then study its state after cooling to determine whether it can be used for pulling sugar.

If the heat is not enough, it will be too tender. It is called divine sugar, and it can only become a syrup and not a solid.After the heat is over, the sugar will "come out", and some solid particles will be mixed in it to affect the drawing.

(End of this chapter)