The salted fish couple is fleeing famine

Chapter 5 Cuihuaer pushes Douhuaer

Before going out, Cuihua dug two bowls of soybeans and soaked them in warm water. It is very difficult to cook something delicious for the children in the limited material conditions. Common sense is all you can do.

Looking at the soybeans at both ends, I don’t quite understand what my mother wants to make delicious with this. The story last night will be very successful. Today I must remember the promise of yesterday. Obedient children have delicious food and stories!

These days, the harvested straw needs to be dried and piled up to be used as kindling throughout the year. This year’s grain stems have shrunk and developed due to lack of water, and they have been dry after a few days. Cuihua is mainly responsible for turning them in the sun. Hedui and these are the way of life for Lao Yuan's first few masters.

After finishing her own work, Cuihua went to Xiaoqingshan outside the village with a basket on her back. Her natal family had to climb over Daqingshan behind Xiaoqingshan to get there.

The village people cut firewood basically within the range of Xiaoqingshan. There are more wild animals in Daqingshan, such as wolves, wild boars and iron-eating beasts. Word of mouth, you can often hear wolves howling at your mother's house.

Go deep into the woods and find a few wild chestnut trees, this one is possible!Picking up a long stick and crackling, I picked up half a basket of wild chestnuts.

It looks much smaller than the modern chestnut, the size of a hazelnut, the taste is very chestnut, the sweetness is very light, the sugar content is not enough, honey comes together!The honey chestnut cake is not too delicious!
Arrangements were made while walking, and the longan persimmons that were picked last night were also smuggled out. In the space, things can be retrieved with thoughts, and the uninteresting things in the blue sky and daylight disappear in place.

I still have to go around, and the jungler Cuihua is online!Walking to the junction of Xiaoqingshan and Daqingshan, there are large bamboo forests covering the sky and the sun!There are still a few bamboo shoots in the autumn, and I broke a few with bare hands. This one will be fried with bacon!

Smuggled a medicine hoe out, worked hard for an hour, and looked at the pile of bamboo shoots in the space, so satisfied!It's not our style to think of it and eat it.

what!There are also mice, no, why are mice so big!Bamboo rat!Special product of a certain city in Sichuan Province, I have to go home and think about it, make some tools for catching rats, eliminate pests for bamboo, and eat meat justifiably, it can serve multiple purposes!
When I got home, there was no one except Ma Shi. Seeing that the soybeans had been soaked, Cuihua picked up the wooden bucket and beans at home, pretending to sneak water from the water tank into the wooden bucket, and the stone-milled bean curd started!

The mill at the head of the village is a public facility, and Cuihua is so strong that she can push the stone mill very fast by herself. After half an hour, Cuihua went home with a wooden barrel.

Thinking about Mother's promise today, the two culprits decided not to act like demons, and came home before dinner, watching Cuihua busy in the kitchen.

Ertou: "Mom, I'll help you light the fire!" In this way, I can taste the vegetables first.

Big head: "Mom, leave the unwashed dishes to me!" Playing with water in summer is a good job!
Then let’s work, boil the soy milk, drain the bean dregs, lower the heat, add bile, slowly solidify, add some syrup and give them a bowl of sweet bean curd first.

"Ang woo, mother, it's so slippery, so tender, and still sweet! I can still eat two bowls." Ertou is the king of the crowd.

People eat so much that they don't even lift their heads, and they don't have time to talk at all.

I cleaned up a few crucian carp brought home by the cubs yesterday, and I will make a crucian carp tofu soup. The bean curd must be dipped in water. Unfortunately, there is no chili in this dynasty, and there is no cornel in the house. Pitiful.

Porridge, bean curd!Ah, let’s make bean curd porridge. Cuihua remembers that when she traveled to Shaanxi Province, the locals loved it very much.The thick porridge is added with bean curd sauerkraut and Chinese cabbage, seasoned with a little salt, then boiled crucian carp and tofu, don’t even think about frying the fish, there is not much oil, just boil it directly, the water should be good enough.

Sure enough, the meal was very enjoyable. After all, bean curd is not often made, and it was only after Cuihua got married that she had to cook it herself. Ma Shi didn't like pigs cooked by herself.The two culprits both ate extra food once, and their stomachs swelled after eating, fearing that they would be overwhelmed. In this case, as soon as the longan and persimmon came out, they cooked four of them.

Thanks to the small size of the persimmons, there is no child who does not love them. Mrs. Ma ate five or six of them, and a basket of persimmons. In the end, old Yuantou and Yuan Laoer tasted it and were divided between Mrs. Ma and the cubs. .Yuan Laosan is also greedy, he is very cheeky to ask Ma Shi for food, and he still has a little face to face his sister-in-law, who is just the age of the second year.

Cuihua and Lao Yuantou discussed about catching bamboo mice, and Yuan Laosan was eager to try.

"Sister-in-law, is this bamboo mouse really edible?"

"It can be eaten. The mice that eat bamboo are clean and big. They are different from the mice that steal food from the house."

"I'm good at this. Find the mouse hole, smoke it, and put a sack at the hole."

It sounds a little off-putting, but the main reason is that Yuan Laosan's work is very ordinary, and he can make some meat offerings for the family, so Lao Tou agrees.

The next day, after breakfast, knowing that the bamboo mouse was in the bamboo forest, Yuan Laosan waved his hand and directed the two culprits to set off carrying sacks, torches and hoes.

I came back quite early before dinner, maybe there was no human persecution, the bamboo mice were breeding wildly, Yuan Laosan's pockets were bulging, and he caught twenty of them, although these were not as big as those domesticated in later generations, at least one There are also more than half a catty.

Killing mice, skinning them was extremely busy, and when they got to the stove, the twenty mice whose heads, skins, viscera, and tails had been removed looked like seven or eight catties of meat.

How to do it?Braised it!Hey, I live up to the delicious food. Anyway, except for the two ends of the fire, she can do whatever she wants. There is bean paste at home without chili, a little dark soy sauce, a little ginger and garlic.

It's no exaggeration, the old Yuantou didn't even take the face of the parents, it's too fragrant, it's all meat, bamboo shoots and bamboo rats, with a face!It is rare to finish the sauerkraut porridge without snoring.

Ertou smiled and narrowed his eyes: "Uncle, I'll go tomorrow!" "There's no more oil, I can't eat it every day, it's a waste of oil and salt!"

"Er Tau, let's catch it and roast it!" "Third Uncle, how do you roast it? Do you want to take my mother?"

"Hey, don't need sister-in-law, your third uncle and I are not bad at barbecue! Back then, your father often brought me and your second uncle..."

Well, it is certain that being naughty is the inheritance of the old Yuan family!

(End of this chapter)