slack farmer in the wasteland

Chapter 149

Pushing open the iron door of the water tower, Cang Haidun also felt a chill rushing towards his face, Cang Hai couldn't help but sneezed because of this chill.

"Good guy, why is the temperature here so low!" Cang Hai felt goosebumps appear on his skin as soon as he entered the belly of the water tower. The stomach of the water tower was so cold that it made people shiver.

Hu Shijie is currently "bathing" the watermelon petals, in fact, he is rubbing the newly punched Jing Miao onto the melon skin with his hands.

Hearing what Cang Hai said, Hu Shijie smiled and said, "You probably haven't been here since the few days when the water tower was built, right?"

"I have nothing to do, what did I come here for, and the water tower is not broken!"

Cang Hai walked towards Hu Shijie while talking, and after walking a few steps, he felt that his head hit something. When he looked up, he found that it was a basket, and when he looked again, he found that there were more than a dozen baskets hanging on his head.

Curiously holding a basket, Cang Hai took the basket off the hook, and found that what was in the basket was a piece of fresh pork weighing about two catties, the fat and thin one with pig skin.

"Why do you hang the pork here?" Cang Hai curiously rehung the basket in his hand on the hook, and then lifted another basket to see if there is no pork in this basket, is it a bowl of vegetables or meat dishes? , braised semi-finished chicken nuggets.

"Things can be placed here for a week without breaking. You don't know, this place is much better than your refrigerator," Hu Shijie said happily.

Cang Hai was very surprised when he heard this and asked: "And this matter, why didn't anyone tell me?"

"Don't you have a refrigerator at home? We don't like you who are willing to get a big refrigerator and open it 24 hours a day. This is our natural big refrigerator, and the food that comes out of ice tastes better than when it's fresh." Hu Shijie finished, Shaking the water off his hands, he stood up.

Cang Hai took a look at the watermelon on Hu Shijie's feet, and he discovered something strange after seeing it, so he took two steps and stretched his head to look into the small basin next to him: "I said, Grandpa Hu, I can understand that you are selling watermelon in Jingshui, but what is the purpose of putting a small pot of melon rind here, selling watermelon white?"

The watermelon rind in the small basin has been sorted out, and the turquoise skin has been peeled off, leaving only the white watermelon white, and the large melon white about two fingers thick is placed in the basin. At first glance, it looks like If it wasn't for Cang Hai's good eyesight, he must have misread the peeled wax gourd.

Hu Shijie smiled and said: "Have you ever eaten sweet and sour melon and white silk? This is a new dish I invented. You should try it when you go home. Get a few pieces of melon white and come to Jingshui Town for four or five hours, and then go home and eat it directly." Grate it into fine shreds, then mix it with vinegar and sugar, let me tell you, it’s much more delicious than shredded radish.”

"Really?" Cang Hai couldn't believe it. Gua Bai Canghai didn't eat watermelon before. Of course, red melon soil is a good watermelon, but melon white tastes nothing. Taste, watery at most, a bit slippery.

"You kid will know when you go back and try it. If you want to eat delicious food, you must put it here for four or five hours. If you are really not in a hurry to eat it, you'd better put it on overnight. The taste will be even better. Believe me. Add a bottle of small beer to this dish, it will taste delicious!" Hu Shijie said beaming with joy.

Cang Hai said suspiciously: "Alright then, I'll bring some watermelon rinds to town later, and mix a plate at night to see if it's as delicious as you said."

"By the way, I almost forgot about my business when you interrupted me like this. Grandpa Hu, in the middle of next month, that is, on the [-]th and [-]rd, the film crew of China TV's agriculture program will come down and prepare to take a picture of me. Watermelon, what do you think we should do to show our sincerity?" Cang Hai asked.

Hu Shijie thought that there was something wrong with his ears, and asked Cang Hai repeatedly: "What are you talking about, the film crew of China TV's agricultural program?"

Seeing Cang Hai nodded, Hu Shijie asked suspiciously: "You kid won't make fun of your father and me, the film crew of China TV, the China TV you mentioned and the China TV I thought of are not in the same place. ?”

"That's for sure, or where does the second Zhongshi come from?" Cang Hai said.

Hu Shijie thought for a while and said: "Then this is a big deal, I don't have time to say anything, why don't I tell you when I go back and think about it?"

"Okay, think about it slowly, then I'll go back," Cang Hai said with a smile.

Seeing Hu Shijie nodded, Cang Hai pushed open the big iron gate and walked out.

"My God!"

Walking from the water tower to the underground of the sun, it was directly a double sky of ice and fire. One cold and one hot directly made Cang Hai shiver again. It took almost a minute before he re-adapted to the outside weather.

Back under the vines along the slope, Cang Hai saw that Shi Wei had fallen asleep lying on the deck chair, so he went back to the house and cut two small pots of watermelon white, put one pot in the well water to freeze, and put the other small pot at home In the refrigerator, I am going to try these two iced watermelon whites at night, which tastes better.

After finishing his busy work, Cang Hai went back under the grape arbor, lay down on the deck chair and took a small afternoon nap.

At this time, the whole village was quiet, and the scenes of chickens flying and dogs fighting were no longer seen at all. The dogs in the village consciously found shade and lay down on their stomachs. As for the chickens from every household, they also got into the woods near the village. , I went to the bamboo forest, and except for the sunshine from the big sun, almost all living things in the whole village were hidden in cave dwellings, or in the shade.

Except for the cicadas on the trees that were still croaking, and the slight rustling of some leaves being blown by the breeze, the whole village was silent.

When the sun goes down, the village seems to be alive again. The dogs bark, the chickens make noise, and even the pigs hum from time to time, let alone people. From time to time, you can hear someone shouting The neighbor yelled, either asking if there was any soy sauce, or asking what other people's family had for dinner. Anyway, as soon as the sun went down, the small village started to be noisy again.

The pots and pans in Cang Hai’s house also rang. Hot dishes are not very popular at this time. Even meat dishes have to give way to vegetables at this time. Such a hot weather makes people’s appetite drop a lot , the bland evil dishes have become the mainstream on the tables of every household.

Fortunately, Cang Hai has a lot of special dishes. Even if there are no heavy dishes, there is also a special fried chicken, which slaughtered three chickens at once. One can eat three meals per meal.

I took out the boiled chicken from the refrigerator, cut it into pieces and put it on the table.According to what Hu Shijie said, two plates of pure white watermelon, served with vinegar, and covered with a spoonful of sugar were also placed on the table.Freshly picked and washed lettuce is placed in a delicate bamboo basket. This thing is ready to roll potato shreds. This is the staple food tonight. If the shredded water beans are not enough, there is also cumin lamb , can be added to lettuce leaves and rolled with potato shreds.

It was the same when the meal was served, the chicken head, chicken feet, and chicken neck returned to the tiger head, the chicken butt passed through the iron head's mouth, and finally entered the tiger head's stomach again, one wing arrived in front of Shi Wei, and the other placed into the tiger's head. In the bowl in front of Cang Hai, two chicken legs returned to Ping An, and Cang Hai and Shi Wei shared the chicken breast equally.

The rest of the chicken skeletons were finally returned to Hutou. If the tiger's head couldn't finish eating, the dog legs of Hutou's subordinates in the village would come and continue to chew on it. Anyway, a chicken will never be left anyway, even a bone dregs None left.

"What is this, radish?" Shi Wei picked up a chopstick and put it in her mouth. After chewing a few mouthfuls, she felt that it was not the shredded radish that she usually eats. This taste is completely different from shredded radish. With a bit of sweetness, the mouth is full of that light and sweet taste, a bit like the taste of sour plum juice, but better than sour plum juice, with a special fruity aroma.

After tasting it twice, Shi Wei tasted it: "Watermelon white?"

Cang Hai stretched out his thumb to Shi Wei, and praised: "Amazing!"

"You really know how to eat, you can even think of this thing, don't feed the chicken?" Shi Wei said and put another chopstick into her mouth.

Cang Hai stretched out his chopsticks and ordered another plate: "Don't just eat that one, try this one, try which one tastes better."

One plate was chilled with well water for a few hours, and the other plate was chilled in the refrigerator. Canghai tried both, and felt that the melon white chilled with well water was better. In terms of taste It's not as cold as the one in the refrigerator, but it tastes more satisfying. The cold air in the melon white seems to be able to cool down the mouth, along the esophagus, and reach the stomach comfortably, while the melon white that comes out of the refrigerator is just Without this kind of feeling, you can't taste the refreshing taste that Jingshui Town has experienced.

"Not the same?"

Pingan quickly said: "This is delicious, this is delicious."

Shi Wei picked up a chopstick and put it in her mouth, tasted it and swallowed it all, then nodded in agreement: "This plate is delicious, it's not too cold in your mouth, it's cold in your stomach, and it feels like it's delicious after swallowing it. The whole person feels refreshed."

"From then on, we will eat this dish like this," Cang Hai said with a smile.

After eating the food from Jinshui Town, no one touched the plate in the refrigerator, so Cang Hai pushed it directly in front of Tietou, who ate up the whole plate without caring whether it was good or not. Yes, anyway, some people are happy to eat it.

After eating, this is when the village is really lively. Cang Hai moved out his own projector, used the loess wall as a screen, plugged in his mobile phone and played a movie. The villagers also have TVs at home, but None of them are trendy big flat-screen TVs, almost all of them are big-ass TVs with electronic tubes. There are only two or three screens in total, and the ones with snowflakes from time to time.

So a projector was put out on the side of Canghai, and the folks after eating quickly came over with stools. Not only people came over, but dogs from every household also followed.

So people appeared on the platform to chat while watching movies, and dogs got together to chase and play.

(End of this chapter)