mortal train conductor

Chapter 139 Making Dumplings Is Like Being a Man and Making Dumplings Reflects Character
Whenever the dining car is on the way for major festivals such as New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Eve, it will make hot dumplings for the train crew.

During the festival, I couldn’t eat dumplings with my family. Although it was a bit regrettable, most of the flight attendants still thought it was very commemorative to eat dumplings made by themselves.

Lao Li, the foreman chef of the dining car, greeted the three chefs in the dining car early. One picked vegetables, one washed vegetables, and the other kneaded noodles. In the 9-square-meter dining car kitchen, the four men talked and laughed. Lao Li chopped and adjusted the stuffing himself. This is a unique skill he has practiced for decades. He skillfully chopped some green onions and ginger, grabbed a handful of peppercorns, threw them into the bowl, and then poured some boiling water into the bowl. Whether the dumplings are delicious or not depends on the On the stuffing, the dumplings seasoned with pepper water are authentic.

Lao Li waved two shiny kitchen knives with both hands to chop up the minced meat. As the kitchen knife cut through the minced meat, the two sounds of rubbing and rattling intertwined rhythmically.This sound echoed with the friction sound of wheels and rails outside the car window, as if forming a beautiful melody.

20 years ago, when I wanted to eat dumplings on the train, there was only one kind of stuffing, which was pork and cabbage, and there were too many cabbage and so little pork.

Later, the standard of living improved. Although the dumplings were still stuffed with cabbage and meat, they had more meat, and when you bite into them, they are really tasty.

Later, people paid more attention to health, began to be vegetarian and paid attention to nutrition, so the dumpling stuffing has changed again, but now it is good. The dumpling stuffing includes pork green onion, pork lotus vegetable, mushroom chicken and three delicacies stuffing.

Early in the morning, Liu Qun called the camping car and called out the off-duty conductors and three passengers in advance. Everyone rolled up their arms and sleeves and came to the dining car to prepare dumplings.

The noodles and stuffing are prepared by the staff of the dining car.There are so many people making dumplings, and the rolling pin is not enough, so the train staff used local materials and asked for two short lamp tubes to serve as rolling pins. Wang Mengmeng, who made dumplings on the train in the first year, thought that the lamps Although it can't be used as a rolling pin, it will be crushed if you are not careful, but seeing that the lamp tube has really become a useful rolling pin in the hands of the master chef, it is quite fast to roll the skin, and it is not sticky, and the dumpling skin turns A few laps is one.

Wang Jian made the dumplings very quickly, and put a lot of fillings. He took the dumpling wrappers and put some meat fillings on the dumpling wrappers with a small spoon. A dumpling was formed when he put his hands together. up.

In contrast, Zhang Lan made the dumplings more reservedly. She put the dumpling wrapper on the palm of her left hand, then picked a piece of dumpling stuffing and put it in the middle of the dumpling wrapper, and then folded the dumpling wrapper in half. The index finger pinches, pinches, and pinches skillfully, and a chubby dumpling is presented in front of everyone, which is really cute.

Xuan Ye's making dumplings is also very unique. First, she puts the skin flat on the palm of her hand, and uses chopsticks to put the meat filling in the middle of the snow-white dumpling skin. Er, press the opposite sides together, and then use your right hand to press up many beautiful laces, like ears of wheat, and the laces are more and more densely woven, like a ripe ear of wheat.

Wang Mengmeng and Liu Qun learned how to make dumplings.Wang Mengmeng picked up the dumpling wrappers and put meat stuffing inside, and then wrapped the dumpling wrappers, but he found that the dumplings he made were like soldiers who had been defeated, with their heads drooping and listless; Like a freshly mobilized soldier, he stood there with his head held high.

He humbly asked Liu Qun for advice, and Liu Qun said: "If you put too little stuffing, the dumplings will not be able to stand up. Just like a person, if you read too many books, you will naturally have a poem and book spirit in your belly." No money in the stomach, no knowledge, no matter how you look at it, it is impossible to become a cultural person.

Wang Mengmeng said: "I'm afraid that I put too much stuffing and I won't be able to hold it."

Liu Qun said: "This is a matter of experience. After you put it to a certain level, the size of the dumpling wrapper can be fine-tuned. If there is less stuffing, the side of the dumpling can be folded larger. If there is more stuffing, the side of the dumpling can be folded. It can be tolerated by pulling it out a little bit. The dumpling wrapper is just like a human being, it must be able to bend and stretch, and the big belly can accommodate the world's affairs.

A successful dumpling is the best combination of skin and filling. The thickness of the skin and the amount of filling should be just right. If the skin is thin, it will break easily. If the skin is thick, it will not taste good. If the dumpling is deflated, the skin will be broken if you add too much stuffing. The combination of the skin and stuffing determines whether the dumpling can reach perfect maturity.

Dumplings can be packed in various ways, such as pinching or holding, pushing or flattening, or folding or folding, or seaming or folding. It can be said that the more you work hard, the more artistic you will be. The same is true for being a human being. It is difficult to create success different from ordinary people without undergoing various tests of pinching and pushing. "

After Wang Mengmeng listened to what Liu Qun said, he carefully put the stuffing and pleats, and the dumplings made again did not look listless like last time, hanging their heads and staggering there, but looked a little high-spirited and stable. Put it there firmly.

Wang Mengmeng said to Liu Qun: "I think this dumpling is also like calligraphy. Some people say that calligraphy is like a person, but I think that making dumplings is like a person.

Look at Liu Che, the dumplings made by Master Wang Jian are the kind that are particularly large and unkempt, which is the same as Master Wang Jian’s daily work and life;

The dumplings made by Zhangchebao are delicate and have a soft flavor;

And Liu Chebao’s dumplings are like soldiers ready to go, standard and neat, you see, the dumplings are placed in such a regular way, interspersed with roundabouts and patchwork. "

Li said from the side: "Wang Mengmeng, do you think the dumplings I made look like me?"

Wang Mengmeng looked at the dumplings made by Li Mang, and said, "Like, really like, they are all sloppy. I see that the dumplings you made are not arranged in order, but are piled there so casually. They will all stick together now." The ones you live in are all broken after cooking, I feel like your daily work and life, you don’t ask for a deep understanding of everything, just muddle through.”

Li Mang scolded with a smile: "It's just you, you sycophant!"

Wang Mengmeng was not angry when he heard Li Mang say this, and said to Li Mang, "Look at your face, Li Mang. There is a big piece of white flour."

Li Mang said, "No, I didn't touch my face either."

Wang Mengmeng walked up to Li Mang, and covered Li Mang's forehead with his right hand, which was stained with his face.Li Mang said: "You are a bad boy." The two laughed and scuffled into a ball.

Still, there are more people and more strength. Just half an hour later, thousands of dumplings have been made, enough for more than 30 third-passengers to eat two meals.

As the saying goes, "It's better to lie down than to be comfortable, and better to eat dumplings; when people are refreshed on happy events, their mouth waters when they see dumplings".The cooked dumplings were brought up plate by plate. The dumplings lay quietly on the plate, steaming, and it made people salivate just looking at them. Liu Qun had a whim, and asked everyone to say something related to eating dumplings. .

Wang Jianxian said: "I made too many dumplings today, and I also ate too many dumplings today. I doubted my life today."

Wang Mengmeng said: "As long as I eat this bowl of dumplings, no matter how hard it is, I will go through fire and water."

Xuan Ye said: "There are thousands of delicacies, but dumplings are the best. There are many more delicacies, and we can't live without dumplings."

Li Mang showed an inscrutable look, took a deep breath, then squinted his eyes and shook his head and said, "What brother eats is not dumplings, but loneliness, emptiness, and life's merciless mockery of me."

Everyone laughed loudly.

(End of this chapter)