Life in a small village with quiet mountains and quiet waters

Chapter 196 Hard pancake

Boom boom boom!
Gu Siwei reached out and knocked on the baked pancakes, looking dumbfounded.

Not only Gu Siwei, but Hu Yanqiu also had the same expression at the moment, because the pancake in Gu Siwei's hand actually made a sound like a drum.

"Are you sure you can eat this?"

Gu Siwei looked at the pancakes in his hands, turned them over and looked at them for a while, and then asked Sun Qiumei and his wife who were baking pancakes by the side of the pan.

Sun Qiumei was flipping through another pancake and said without turning her head: "How can it be impossible to eat it? Not only is it edible but also very delicious, and the taste is different between hot and cold. Crispy, try it if you don’t believe it, but the dish is not ready yet, it will be delicious when you put it in the dish!”

As he spoke, Gu Siwei swallowed when he saw Sun Qiumei.

Suck!

Sun Qiumei was a little embarrassed, and said to Gu Siwei: "I'm drooling as I talk."

"Let you tell me that I'm about to die."

Zhao Fangming next to him also praised his newly married daughter-in-law.

Gu Weiwei once again looked at the pancake in his hand.

The pancakes are very big, the usual pancakes are about ten centimeters in diameter, but this pancake must be more than 50 centimeters in diameter, and it is not too thin, about four or five centimeters thick.

The outer layer is so hard that it looks like a stone in your hand. Gu Siwei tried to pinch it anyway, but he couldn't pinch it at all. This is still a pancake just out of the pan.

"How do you eat this? Don't talk about one meal after eating such a piece, a few meals are enough."

Gu Siwei looked at the pancakes, thinking that some wild dogs were eating bastards, and he felt like he couldn't eat.

Now that Sun Qiumei was free, she put the lid on the pot again, and put another new pancake into the pot. She turned her head and saw Gu Siwei holding a pancake, and Hu Yanqiu next to him stared wide-eyed, feeling amused in her heart. Pancakes are like a fool, really interesting.

"This must not be eaten by biting like this, you have to saw it open before eating," Sun Qiumei said.

When Gu Siwei heard this, he suddenly realized, and said with a smile: "What did I say, this thing can't be broken even if you break it, you can't just put your teeth on it, even if it's a good tooth, I guess it won't work if you eat it a few times."

"By the way, we don't have a saw at home. Let them bring a saw tomorrow?" Gu Siwei thinks that when he picks up everyone tomorrow, should he ask them to bring a pie-eating saw? It's hygienic for everyone to bring one, right?
"The saw I'm talking about is not what you think, here, we brought it here for you, Zhao Fangming, take the saw you brought here," Sun Qiumei said.

After hearing this, Zhao Fangming ran to the door, opened the bag on the top of the cabinet where he put it just now, and took out a roll of wire from inside.

Gu Siwei didn't understand why Zhao Fangming brought back the wire.

"This is a saw, a saw that eats pancakes." Zhao Fangming smiled and gestured at Gu Siwei.

Gu Siwei just wanted to say something, but when he put his gaze on the wire, he instantly understood that what Zhao Fangming said was right, this thing is really a saw.

The iron wire is not iron wire, but a circular saw blade, to be exact, a saw wire. There are saw teeth on the iron wire. In this case, you just need to find something to stretch the wire, or you don’t need to stretch it. You can just hold it up with both hands to saw something.

"It's really a saw."

Hu Yanqiu also saw this thing clearly at this moment.

Zhao Fangming pulled away the saw wire in his hand, and gestured at the pancake in Gu Siwei's hand: "Is it me or you?"

"You do it!"

Gu Siwei was afraid that he would make a fool of himself, so he gave the pancake in his hand to Zhao Fangming.

Zhao Fangming took the pancakes and put them on the table, supported the saw wire with both hands and began to pull back and forth in the middle of the pancakes.

Gu Siwei used to have a bit of technical content in this job, but after looking at it, he felt that it was too easy. The laborious scene he thought did not happen at all. Zhao Fangming sawing the pancakes was as smooth as cutting tofu with a knife.

"It doesn't look that hard," Gu Siwei said.

Zhao Fangming said: "Now it's just out of the pan, so it's not very hard. If you wait for tomorrow, the pancake will be quite hard. If you cut it like this, it won't work. You need to find a bamboo bow to cut the shredded pancakes." It can be stretched, but it won't be too hard, it's something made of flour, not a stone."

"I don't think there's much difference between this thing and a stone," Gu Siwei sighed.

At this time, Hu Yanqiu asked with a little doubt: "Is this food really edible? Will it not break your teeth?"

At this time, Zhao Fangming had already split the pancake into two. Hearing Hu Yanqiu's words, he saw off a small piece from half of the pancake with a smile, and sent a piece the size of a mahjong piece to Hu Yanqiu.

"Try it, don't try to chew the outer shell, melt it with your saliva first, and then eat the meat inside...".

After Zhao Fangming finished speaking, he waited for Hu Yanqiu to take over the pancake, and he cut out two small pieces from the big pancake, and handed them to Gu Siwei and Si Cui who was burning the fire.

After taking the pancake, Gu Siwei put the pancake into his mouth as Zhao Fangming said.

I was expecting to eat a wonderful taste, but unfortunately, Gu Siwei really did not taste anything special, that is, the aroma of wheat, and the shell has a slightly burnt aroma. Except for the hard shell and iron plate, it is not as ordinary The pancakes tasted about the same.

Oh, there is still a little difference, that is, this pancake obviously has a strong alkali gas, and the flesh is yellow, which belongs to the obvious sub-category of alkali flour pancakes.

Gu Siwei is also embarrassed to say that this thing is so-so, the couple have been busy for a long time.

Just when I wanted to say something to deal with it, or say a few words against my will, to give a little positive evaluation of the couple's work, I heard Si Cui speak.

"It seems that it is not as delicious as before, and the taste of this pancake is just average now."

Sicui looked at half of the pancakes in his hand, and said to Sun Qiumei who was making pancakes.

After hearing this, Sun Qiumei felt that she had lost her handiwork today, so she asked her husband for a piece, put it in her mouth and tasted it, and found that the taste was still as good as before, so she said to Sicui with a smile.

"The taste hasn't changed. But you're right that it doesn't taste good. You often eat polished rice and white noodles in Siwei's living conditions. Naturally, it doesn't feel good to eat these things, but for ordinary people, this thing really needs a lot. How delicious it is.

Did you hear De Zhu say a word this afternoon? "

Gu Siwei asked, "What are you talking about?"

"Even if he doesn't have white rice, he can eat three or four bowls if he has nothing to eat," Sun Qiumei said with a smile.

"This guy, now he can satisfy him, their family's rice has been harvested," Gu Siwei said cheerfully.

After hearing this, Sun Qiumei said: "How can I be willing? Such a good rice must be exchanged for food with other people's homes. How can I exchange a catty for a catty of two or three taels? If I have an extra catty of grain, my life will be better." .

Not to mention anything else, you have to be prepared for a disaster or something, in short, the food in the whole village can be kept for the family to eat, and there is probably no other family except yours."

"So much for food?"

Gu Siwei was a little surprised. Two days ago, I heard that this year's new grain can be exchanged for poor grain from other families. Gu Siwei thought it was someone else. How did I know that the whole village did it when I heard Sun Qiumei say that.

Sun Qiumei said: "It's not about exchanging. Some people's food is not up to the standard at all. If you take that kind of food to hand over the public grain, the grain station will not accept it at all. If you don't accept it, there is no other way than to exchange it for better grain. But for our village, it is equivalent to growing at least [-] to [-] percent more grain in the field."

Listening to what Sun Qiumei said, Gu Siwei could only sigh. The life of the farmers is really hard now. Compared with it, the life of the villagers living in the mountains is better.

"But don't go out and say this. If we produce good grain here, some people may be red-eyed and say that our land grows a lot of grain, and maybe we will collect taxes. Uncle Wu said Now, if anyone talks about it, it will be directly handed over to your family."

Gu Siwei cheered twice after hearing this and didn't say anything.

Everyone just chattered and worked.

By the time the sun went down, the pancakes hadn't fully baked yet.

There was no way, Gu Siwei had to take out the gas lamp again, light it up and hang it up, and let Sun Qiumei continue to bake pancakes.

Although everyone was hungry, there was no other way. We had to finish the work before the stove could be freed to cook, or else we would still be hungry when we should be hungry.

It was completely dark, and the moon was hanging in the night sky. Gu Siwei estimated that it was almost eight or nine o'clock when Sun Qiumei shoveled the last piece of pancake out of the pot.

Next is to make dinner.

There is nothing to say, the pancakes are already there, so let’s cook, simply stir-fry two large pots of vegetables, the salty ones, and cook a pot of stick noodle porridge.

We just dealt with the dinner together.

It was too late, and the couple had no children at home, so they lived directly in Gu Siwei's house, saving them from running back and forth.

The two of them didn't choose a place, and they lived in the utility room originally prepared by Gu Siwei at night.

It's not that Gu Siwei neglected the couple, but that the couple refused to live in Gu Siwei's study.They were uncomfortable living in, because Gu Siwei's study room was relatively clean, and the two of them were afraid of messing up things.

The couple are both particular about people, and they are afraid that their actions will cause trouble to others, so in comparison, the utility house is more suitable for them.

Gu Siwei can also understand this kind of mood. He himself has experienced it before, that is, entering a five-star hotel, a particularly luxurious one, and his heart trembles once he shuts it down, for fear that he will make something ridiculous.

But once I get thick-skinned, I don't have this kind of psychological burden. Later, every time I don't go to the front desk of the hotel with my colleagues, I feel like I haven't stayed in a hotel.

Everyone had worked for a long time, and Sun Qiumei and her husband took a bath by the canal, and then went back to sleep.

Gu Siwei, Hu Yanqiu, and Sicui didn't stay outside too long, and they all went back to the house to rest within half an hour one after another.

(End of this chapter)