Escape from the desert

Chapter 246 Rectification of the Caretaker Team

Of the things sent by the village a few days ago, Jiang Yan only left half of the bag of new rice that had been shelled off, and everything else was neatly packed and sent to the private school in the village.

There are two old millstones on the Pingba of the threshing ground, and the two daughters-in-law carried half of the bags of grain to them and ground them into flour. The freshly harvested rice still has a strong rice aroma, which is even stronger after being ground into flour.

Jiang Yan planned to eat glutinous rice balls and wontons. During this period, she ate steamed buns and steamed buns almost every day, and every meal was a regular meal. She was a little greedy for these soups.

To make glutinous rice balls and wontons, the first thing is to make fillings with noodles. Jiang Yan's cooking skills are average, but she is quite familiar with making wonton glutinous rice balls. When she was a child, she used to eat these with her grandma. She quickly poured most of the flour into the bowl.

Stir the flour while pouring the water, and then start to knead it with your hands. It is a laborious job to poke the dough. There are many people in the family. The amount Jiang Yan made alone is not enough to eat. Fortunately, there are two daughter-in-laws to help.

After the dough is formed, let it stand for a while, add some starch and continue to knead it after it relaxes and wake up, and finally spread it slowly on the sticky board, push it until it is moderately thick, and then use chopsticks to stack it like a cut box.

After repeating this process, the wonton wrapper is ready. The wonton filling is made of minced meat and mustard greens. There are more meat and less vegetables. After cooking, it is served with a bowl of soul chili dipped in water. In this cold early winter, it is absolutely delicious. I want to swallow it.

As for the glutinous rice balls, it is simple, because there is no sesame, what Jiang Yan plans to make is caramel glutinous rice balls and glutinous rice balls with oil residue, because the fillings are made in advance, and they are directly rolled into rounds and put away. When cooking, just put them in the pot .

"Boss and the others will come back in a while, Xiaobei, you call your Uncle Wu and Uncle Sheng's family, thanks to their help during this period, otherwise it would have been so fast." Jiang Yan said to the helper while wrapping wontons Lin Bei, who was rubbing glutinous rice balls, spoke.

Ever since the Lin family started to build the house, Old Wu and Lin Yousheng have devoted themselves to the new house, helping Lin Xi buy materials everywhere, busy inside and out, not even continuing the soap business, and wanting to take Jiang Yan's new house is built first.

"Understood mother, I'll go in a while." Lin Bei nodded with a smile. He has changed a lot in the past few months. His whole body is like a bamboo shoot watered by the spring rain, climbing steadily, and growing a head taller in a blink of an eye. .

Now he is full of vigor, with a bright smile, and his formerly skinny body has also become much plumper. He was originally about the same height as Lin Feng, but now he is so tall that he is far away from Lin Feng, and finally has him like this. The age should look like.

The wrapped wontons and glutinous rice balls were neatly arranged on the dustpan, because they were easy to cook, and when Lin Dong and the others came back, they could directly boil them in boiling water until their belly was turned over, and then they could eat them.

As time went by, the cold wind outside the door whistled and whistled, and the newly built door creaked as it rubbed.

The night of early winter fell very quickly, and it didn't take long for the entire Linjia Village to be enveloped. Every family returned home early and the cats were sitting next to the fire. The whole village was much quieter than before.

Jiang Yan packed two big bowls of wontons and dumplings and went to the village chief's house. It was dark and she was a little afraid of the cats and dogs in the village, so she took Lin Bei and Lin Feng to go out with confidence.

Regarding the bandit refugees, we still need to make preparations in advance. The guard team in the village has become lazy since winter, and has basically been half-disbanded.

"Village chief, we have to make good arrangements for the guard team in the village." When Jiang Yan arrived at the village chief's house, Jiang Yan and the village chief talked about things in the hall, and Lin Bei and Lin Feng took the things they brought to the kitchen to the village chief's wife. .

The village chief's family just finished dinner, and thanks to Aunt Jiang's blessing, their family has been able to eat enough food every day recently. Although they eat brown rice, everyone in the family can eat enough to fill their stomachs.

"Xiao Jiang, just say what you think, I will definitely listen to you!"

The village head has long trusted Jiang Yan 100%. As long as she says, he will obey her one hundred percent. She feels that everything Jiang Yan does is of great benefit to the village!

"You should have heard the rumors in the town recently. Refugees are fleeing and bandits are increasing. Although they won't come to Lin's Village now, everyone from ten miles to eight villages knows that our village has food.

When the cold winter comes, if there are more refugees, there will be more people who will become bandits. When those bandits eat up the remaining food in their hands, I am worried that our village will be targeted by them. "

Seeing Jiang Yan's serious face and extremely serious tone, the village head couldn't help but be full of worry. He firmly believed in Aunt Jiang's words. Aunt Jiang's bandits would come to rob Lin's Village, and nine out of ten they would indeed come!
"Then...then what should we do? Didn't you say that the county magistrate has already suppressed the bandits near Ganjin? Why are there still?"

"As long as there are refugees and people fleeing from famine, the bandits will never be wiped out. Let's plan ahead and take precautions early, just in case."

Jiang Yan was deeply moved, her eyes darkened, "After the late rice harvest, the guard team in the village is basically idle, and only two or three people wander around during the day, this is not acceptable!"

The village chief's voice tightened, "I'll make arrangements right now, let everyone add more people tomorrow, arrange more people to patrol, and go around the village every day!"

"That's not enough. Just in case, you ask the villagers to hide the food in two places. It's better to hide some in the cellar. The town is not very peaceful recently, so I ask everyone to buy new year's goods as soon as possible."

The village chief frowned: "It's about this time in previous years. God is going to snow or rain. The village should really prepare earlier."

Jiang Yan stood up and said in a deep voice, "Unless it rains, at other times, the village guard team will arrange several groups of people to patrol inside and outside the village in turn for at least two hours every day, and groups of five will take turns."

The village chief immediately confirmed that during this period of time, people from several nearby villages always came to wander around in their village. If someone's relatives still said that many of the key points were unknown, now that I think about it, maybe those people Not even bandits.

Thinking of this, cold sweat broke out in the village's spine.

Lin Ziyue, who had just entered the house, frowned and walked over, "Aunt Jiang, Dad, will the villagers be unwilling? These days, the guard team actually didn't explain, and they gave everyone their wages, but there are still a lot of people. Lazy and slippery."

The village head turned his face aside, threw off his sleeves and cursed angrily: "Those bastards! If you dare to punch me in the face for protecting your own village, whoever dares to be lazy in the future, let me catch one, and I will paste his face with shit!"

Jiang Yan: ...

The salary of the guard team in the village is not high. At the beginning, the village collected food and distributed it to everyone. Later, when the village had money, it distributed the money. But because it was for the government, the money given was not much. After harvesting and every household has food, many people will not look down on the little money given by the village.

(End of this chapter)