Siheyuan starts from a better life

Chapter 370, Small Days
"Slow down, I can't run." At the exit of the station, Jiang Yan tidied Jiang Sirui's messy hair and said to her distressedly.

"Hmm, it's not been too long since I last saw you." Jiang Sirui looked carefully at the people going by, and explained in a low voice with a slightly red face.

Hearing her explanation, Jiang Yan couldn't help but smile.

The luggage in her hand was quietly taken into the trunk of the car by the shrewd secretary Xiao Gong, without disturbing Jiang Yan and the others.

Just when the two of them were looking at each other with dazzling eyes, an inappropriate and annoying word reached Jiang Yan's ears.

"Sirui, who is this! Why haven't I heard you say that?"

That posture and tone made it feel like he was in love with Jiang Sirui.

"Feng Nanshan, please pay attention to your wording. Sirui is barking. Please call me Comrade Jiang Sirui. I'm not that familiar with you, and this is my boyfriend." Jiang Sirui's face turned cold and he said a series of words. It came out of his mouth.

"Brother Jiang Yan, let's go, this guy is so annoying." After Jiang Sirui said that, he pulled Jiang Yan away.

Seeing Jiang Sirui and the others getting into the jeep, Feng Nanshan's expression changed, knowing that he couldn't afford to offend the people in the car.

"This stinky woman has climbed to a high branch and will want you to look good sooner or later."

After whispering, he spat in the direction Jiang Yan and the others left, and then carried his things to the bus stop with a stinking look on his face.

The comrades who came back from the train with him saw him like this and shook their heads in unison, but no one paid him any attention.

"Feng Nanshan was sent by the Shengjing Aircraft Manufacturing Factory to work at the Aviation Bureau. This person is particularly annoying and he is very sneaky all day long."

This man named Feng Nanshan is also a college student. He usually thinks very highly of himself and looks down on this and that. Until Jiang Sirui went to work at the Shengjing Aircraft Manufacturing Factory, he was shocked by the sight of him. He had nothing to do all day long. Hanging around Jiang Sirui showed his superiority.

But his so-called sense of superiority was just a joke in front of Jiang Sirui.

Hearing Jiang Sirui's complaint, Jiang Yan smiled and said nothing, and immediately prepared to have someone check him out. He also had a reputation in the Shengjing Aircraft Manufacturing Factory, but he was just a bug. Jiang Yan still didn't feel relieved.

Suddenly Jiang Yan heard a strange sound from Jiang Sirui. Jiang Yan smiled when he heard the sound.

Seeing the evil smile on Jiang Yan's face, Jiang Sirui hit Jiang Yan with a pink fist and said, "You bad guy, why are you smiling? You don't know the food on the train is not delicious!" Until it's almost time to arrive. It’s been [-] years and I haven’t even eaten.”

"What would you like to eat?" Jiang Yan looked at Jiang Sirui with a smile and asked.

"Shabu-boiled mutton, I haven't eaten it in a long time."

"Okay," Jiang Yan agreed to Jiang Sirui and said directly to Wei Baoguo who was driving in front: "Go to Donglaishun."

Today's Donglaishun has been renamed "National Restaurant" after the public-private partnership. However, people in the fourth and ninth cities still call it Donglaishun. After the public-private partnership, Donglaishun has expanded its business scale. The number of dining tables has increased from 53 to 105, and there are more customers. Sales are also booming.But the shortcomings of the mutton slices not being as delicious as before were more exposed.The reason is that the mutton supplied by Sijiucheng Food Company is of poor quality and the cooked meat slices are not chewy.At the same time, after the joint venture, more people ate mutton-boiled meat, but the number of workers cutting the meat did not increase.The public representatives only called on the meat cutters to supply meat slices in a timely manner, but ignored the quality of the meat slices.The key is the price. The Third Commercial Bureau of Sijiucheng decided to lower the price of meat slices in Donglaishun. It wanted to be in line with other restaurants and learn from other restaurants’ experience in selling more slices of meat. As a result, the managers and workers of Donglaishun were focused on how to increase the price of meat slices. The traditional craftsmanship of selecting the meat carefully, cutting it thinly, and picking it cleanly becomes sloppy.

Of course the hotpot made in this way will not taste good.Not only does the mutton come out in pieces instead of slices, but the ingredients are not as refined as before: the soy sauce is no longer sweet, the sesame sauce sticks to the tongue, and the sugar and garlic are spicy and bitter.Customers come here admiringly, but leave disappointed.

Since the chef in Donglaishun is one of He Daqing's seniors, Jiang Yan often goes there to eat after getting acquainted with him. Although the taste is a bit degraded, there is a shortage of meat in the four and nine cities, so he can only make do with what he eats. Since He Yuzhu was not on duty today, Jiang Yan would take Jiang Sirui back for dinner no matter what.

"Hey, Comrade Jiang Yan is here!" Although Donglaishun has been converted into a state-owned restaurant, Jiang Yan is a regular customer, so his attitude is not bad.

"Two of us, do we have a private room today?"

"Yes, you have everything you want!"

"Is mutton still rationed to one pound per table?" Jiang Yan asked the waiter who took him to the private room.

"No, you want too much?" the waiter said to Jiang Yan.

"Here, take it and cut it." After Jiang Yan said this, he took out the three kilograms of mutton that had been prepared from his bag. In these days, no one has to bring their own meat to eat hotpot mutton.

"Okay, private room No. 3, you, I'll keep an eye on the meat for you!" The waiter had already taken the meat handed over by Jiang Yan and went to the kitchen.

"I knew your kid was here. I haven't seen you for a while." Just after sitting down for a while, the door to his private room was pushed open. A slightly fat man in his fifties opened the door cheerfully. Came in.

"Uncle Qian, why are you here?" Jiang Yan stood up and greeted.

"It's been a long time since I've seen you, yo! Sirui is back. It's been a long time since I last saw you. If you don't come back, this kid will go find you." Qian Dahai greeted Jiang Sirui and sat down minding his own business. When I came down, I often brought Jiang Sirui over for dinner, and they had met each other.

"The meat we brought today is pretty good. I saw it just now. Shangnao and Dasancha are rare nowadays, especially the half-pound cucumber strips. It's rare now. Let's see your uncle Qian's and my craftsmanship today. By the way, for Sirui's sake, I'll give you an extra pound of mutton today."

"Then I'll thank you, Uncle Qian." Jiang Yan replied with a smile, but judging from his appearance today, he didn't just come over to check on himself.

Seeing Jiang Yan's playful smile, Qian Dahai's face turned red, "What, man, you know these days, this thing is not easy to handle. My wife here just gave me a little grandson and she caught up with this." On unlucky days, if you can't eat well, this milk won't be enough. I've been fooling you with milk these days. You're so proud, can you think of a way to get some malted milk powder?"

Qian Dahai said that Jiang Yan had a lot of these things in his space, so he immediately agreed. This made Qian Dahai almost happy. The two agreed on the time and volume of the transaction, and Qian Dahai left with a smile on his face. After entering the private room, he said before leaving: "I won't disturb you two, I will cook the meat myself to see your uncle Qian's cooking skills."

"Here comes the meat!" The meat comes directly with the copper stove hot pot, but also neatly cut pickled cucumbers and a plate of dry-fried mutton.

"Master Qian made this specially for you." The waiter who served the dishes said. "Then thank Uncle Qian for me." After Jiang Yan said this, he turned to Jiang Sirui who was sitting there and said, "Let's go outside to make ingredients!"

Jiang Sirui nodded and left the private room with Jiang Yan.

When he came to the place where the condiments were placed, Jiang Yan laughed when he saw the person in charge. The staff member in charge of the condiments area was Qian Dahai's young apprentice Ma Debao. He was half a year younger than Jiang Yan. The two of them were quite similar. be ripe

Xiao Ma, quickly take out the Erba sauce you prepared. By the way, where is the chili you hid? Give me a spoonful! "

In order to deal with regular customers, these people specially prepared some seasonings, but people who are not familiar with it have no idea about these things.

"Just a spoonful when you open your mouth, I'll steal it for you, half a spoon!"

"The two of you, hurry up!"

Ma Debao muttered and filled the small bowls in the hands of Jiang Yan and the others with sesame sauce, then took out another small bowl and added a spoonful of chili sauce to it as it hurt, and then quickly put it away.

"Look at how stingy you are. If you want to do something someday, go to me and I'll get you something. You must be stingy." Jiang Yan took the things and said something to him again, and returned to his private room feeling refreshed. .

After eating and drinking, Jiang Yan sent Jiang Sirui directly back to her home.

The sun rises and the moon sets, the stars move by, and the peaceful days of life seem to pass by very quickly. In a blink of an eye, it is the season of midsummer, and July is on fire.

"Dumplings for the first volt, noodles for the second volt, and pancakes and eggs for the third volt." Since ancient times, the Chinese people have been following the traditional life of spring birth, summer growth, autumn harvest, and winter storage. They experience the changes brought about by the seasons in the alternation of the four seasons. .No matter whether life is smooth and smooth or difficult and turbulent, Chinese people will find the most suitable food according to the weather and seasons, and use delicious food to give their families the best satisfaction and comfort.

Entering midsummer, the scorching hot weather will weaken people's appetite. This is what people often call bitter summer!Entering the dog days, the weather becomes hotter and muggier, and the bitter summer becomes even more obvious.At this time, it is actually more necessary to use appropriate and suitable food to adjust the appetite of the family and support people through the forty days of hot summer.

Eating dumplings in Toufu is mainly to satisfy cravings and whet the appetite. Dumplings are the king of home-cooked dishes in the north. At this time, except for the Chinese New Year, it is rare for ordinary people to be willing to eat a meal of dumplings, and eating dumplings on Toufu is enough to comfort them. People are in a sweltering mood!

In midsummer, there are many fillings to choose from for Toufu dumplings, such as leek filling, fennel filling, zucchini filling. If you are creative, you can also have cucumber filling, eggplant filling, kidney bean filling, celery filling, or even tomato filling!When it comes to making dumplings, mothers in the north can use their endless imagination.

And now that the vegetables in the farm have begun to be produced, Jiang Yan and his family have quite a lot of fillings.

The dumplings at Jiang Yan's house are stuffed with fennel. Fennel has a faint medicinal smell. People who are not used to it may vomit after one bite. But everyone has their own preferences for eating radish and cabbage. Although white flour is expensive these days, Jiang Yan and the others will not be short of these things, but most people will still have a meal of dumplings on Toufu day. It just depends on the amount of meat or simply the amount of vegetarian fillings.

To eat dumplings, you need to chop the fillings and weigh the garlic. On this day, every house in the Hutong courtyard makes the sound of chopping the fillings. Some people even deliberately chop the cutting board louder, or run to the door with a garlic mortar, just to Tell others, my family is having dumplings today...

The weather is even more difficult to endure when the weather enters the second lunar month, so it’s time to have a meal of Sijucheng’s special sesame sauce cold noodles!It seems that when talking about noodles in Sijiu City, everyone thinks of Lao Sijiu Zhajiang Noodles. In fact, the most distinctive thing about Sijiu City is probably the sesame sauce cold noodles!
Zhajiang noodles require meat and oil. This is too luxurious nowadays, and most people may not be able to afford it. Besides, in what age is it now, the ration for one person is only one pound and two taels of meat, which is too much to eat. Get up!
Relatively speaking, this sesame sauce cold noodles is relatively simple, but if you want to make it authentic and delicious, you have to put in a lot of effort. Nowadays, this sesame sauce has begun to be limited, and Erbajijiang is now a specialty of the people of Sijiucheng. I feel good.

It is best to roll the noodles by hand. Of course, there are no machine-pressed noodles or noodles yet. Everyone rolls the noodles by themselves, cuts the noodles into thin pieces, cooks them in a pot, takes them out and cools them in cold water and sets aside.

The Erba sauce is slowly rolled out with cold boiled water. This is where the skill comes into play. One is to add water. Do not add too much water at one time. Add water slowly and stir. While rolling, add an appropriate amount of salt, sugar, mature vinegar, and sesame oil until the sesame paste is stirred. Make it into a paste, and add an appropriate amount of soy sauce at the end. This is considered a successful sesame sauce. People who are fastidious will also fry some peppercorn oil. Heat the pan with cold oil and put the peppercorns into the pan. The heat should be just right. Don't fry it until it becomes burnt. That smell That's not right.With these all done, let’s start mixing noodles!

Put the minced garlic and shredded cucumbers prepared in advance into the noodle bowl, add two spoonfuls of the sesame paste, and finally pour in the fragrant pepper oil, mix them all, and the fragrance will come out directly, Xilihulu Take a bite, hey!This is beautiful!

The aroma of sesame sauce, the sourness of aged vinegar, the numbing aroma of peppercorn oil, plus the refreshing taste of garlic and cucumber, it’s so refreshing to have a bowl of cold noodles in the summer, not to mention how joyful it is!
It’s too hot to stay in the house, so all the men in the courtyard, shirtless and carrying big bowls, run out to the yard to eat noodles. The heavy-mouthed ones will also take a cucumber and garlic cloves in their hands, and eat noodles with a mouthful of garlic. Have another bite of cucumber, and live in vain with the neighbors while eating it. There is nothing more real than the fireworks in this world.

After finishing the noodles, I made a pot of rice noodles. The spicy and spicy sauce is authentic. I sat in the yard with a cattail leaf fan. The summer night breeze was not dry, and the starry sky above my head was free from light pollution. I could see the stars in the sky at a glance!
The industrious neighbors lit a few wormwood to smoke mosquitoes, and the children were laughing and joking around. The neighbors sat together and chatted and went about their daily routine. Jiang Yan liked this kind of life very much. In the days without TV or mobile phones, it was ordinary. Living like water is actually not bad!
Jiang Yan's family is living a good life, and some of the neighbors are just envious and admired. Jiang Yan is naturally willing to associate with such a neighbor. After all, people are still social creatures. Some of them have impure motives and want to take advantage of him. As long as they It's not too much, and Jiang Yan, who can help easily, doesn't care too much.

Watermelons are rare in Sijiu City nowadays, but Jiang Yan still got a few. They were placed in the well in his yard early in the morning. After dinner, they were taken out of the well and cut into pieces. These bright red ones were The watermelon was really filling. Because the watermelon was too cold, the old lady ate just one piece, and then accompanied Qin Huairu, who was seven months pregnant, to enjoy the coolness under the grape vines with cattail fans and the radio.
Next to Jiang Yan is He Yuyu, who is already in her third year of junior high school. Now the little girl has grown, and her appearance is quite good. However, this girl may be born with a body that is easy to lose weight. She does not gain weight even if she eats like this. She still looks slim. Wubi is now pestering Jiang Yan to take her to the Friendship Store.

The scenery in Jiang Yan's yard was unique. There were quarrels coming from the courtyard in front of her. From the sound of her voice, she knew it was Jia Zhang's voice. She was loudly showing off that the meat and egg dumplings she ate at home were meat and egg dumplings. This bitch's voice makes the whole city know about it.

The economic base determines the superstructure, and it is the same at home. Those who make more money will definitely speak harder than those who make less money.Li Zhaodi didn't marry Jia Dongxu to continue the family lineage of their Jia family.

Now she already has a job, and the job is quite hard, so she naturally became a regular worker. With a job, she naturally has a strong waist, and her speech is also somewhat tough.

The Jia family is a dual-career family. This Jia Zhang family is very proud. She wants to use a loudspeaker to show off that their family has dual-career jobs. However, no matter how much trouble she makes, she still dare not come to Jiang Yan's yard.

It turns out that almost all the wives in this courtyard are like this. Yi Zhonghai, Liu Haizhong, and Yan Bugui’s wives don’t go to work. Now more Li Zhaodi and Qin Huairu are working. In addition, Jia Zhang’s big mouth, many wives have listened. It doesn't even taste good.

Xu Damao has been extremely busy these days. Red Star Farm is about to plant sweet potatoes in the summer. He and his people have been working day and night these days.The main purpose of growing sweet potatoes on the farm is to raise pigs. Sweet potato vines are feed that pigs are very willing to eat. Of course, pigs are reluctant to feed sweet potatoes to them.

According to estimates, more than 100 acres of sweet potatoes can harvest about 40 catties. Although sweet potatoes are cheap, even if they cost 2 cents a catty, 40 catties will cost more than 8000 yuan. More importantly, this is food, and it is a life-saving thing now.

Not long after the sweet potatoes were harvested, soybeans were planted as planned. According to estimates, soybeans only weighed one to two hundred kilograms per acre.

In Jiang Yan's impression, the yield of soybeans per mu should be upwards of 200 kilograms. After asking Professor Ding, he figured out that the yield of soybeans at this time is at this level. It may have something to do with the seeds. This is not Jiang Yan. The problem can be solved!If he really comes up with any hybrid high-yielding seeds, he will be dragged away and sliced.

These days, soybeans are a good thing. Not only can they extract oil, soy products and plant proteins have always been in demand on the market.

Hongxing Farm now raises more than 500 chickens. These chickens have already started laying eggs in June. Now they can pick up an average of thirty or forty pounds of eggs every day. This is an incredible achievement. Now there is no need to buy eggs in the canteen, and There is plenty left!

Because of this, Xu Damao took off his position as acting farm manager ahead of time. He is now a serious farm manager, otherwise he wouldn't be working so hard these days.

(End of this chapter)