My village can't be like this

Chapter 122 Making Chopped Peppers

The young people in the village have made their own, and those old men are not far behind.

They had nothing to do, so they started weaving bamboo hats out of bamboo.

During the day, I took it to Qiaotou and set up a stall selling bamboo hats.

This bamboo hat is loved by many fishermen because it has a large brim and can shade the sun.

When many people came to see them selling bamboo hats, everyone bought one and wore it.

This thing is breathable and cool to wear on the head, which is very suitable for wearing in the sun in summer.

It's not like a cloth hat, which is very hot to wear.

The bamboo hats woven by the old people are actually the same thing as the bamboo hats.

But they are all woven with thin bamboo strips, which are very meticulous.

After Zhang An's suggestion, they also edited many patterns and fonts on the hat.

Such a bamboo hat looks much more delicate and beautiful than a bamboo hat.

Moreover, when the old men in the village were weaving, they also brushed it with tung oil.

It can be used whether it is sunny or rainy, which is very convenient.

And now it's not just these fishermen who often come to Changqing village.

There are also some people who come to visit the farm next door, and they will walk into Changqing Village along the road to have a look.

In the past, because the road to the village was not good and there was mud everywhere, people were reluctant to go inside.

But now that the concrete road leading into the village is repaired, many people are willing to spend a few minutes walking in.

Take a look at this vast river, take a look at this village in the mountains.

In addition, Zhang An planted the signpost he made by himself at Shiyakou.

From time to time, a group of guests came to Zhang An's house. Wang Fang was very happy to see these people.

Where are the guests, it's all money.

Now Wang Fang does not stay in the old house anymore, except for feeding the pigs and at night, she is guarding the yard by the river.

In case someone comes to the door, because I don't miss the business anymore.

Everything shows that the village is developing in a good direction.

Of course, as more people came, littering began to appear on the ground.

However, the basic quality of fishermen is still there. Even if some people throw garbage on the ground, they will not throw it into the river.

One is because there are no trash cans in the village, and the second is that everyone has not developed the habit of not littering.

In the end, Zhang An found out about this problem, so he hurriedly talked to his uncle about it.

Zhang Jianwen thought it was nothing at first, but Zhang An came back from later generations.

I know that littering everywhere is not a good thing after a long time.

So Zhang An told the old village chief on the serious side, and even painted cakes for him.

Saying that this number of people is already full of rubbish, what about more people in the future?

Sure enough, when the old village chief heard it, he also paid attention to it, and asked Lin Carpenter to make several large trash cans by the river overnight.

And he also took the initiative to talk to a group of outsiders about this matter.

Although there will still be some garbage on the ground in the end, but only a little bit.

Most still end up in the trash by themselves.

After a period of busy work in the village, everyone took home the crops in the field.

Taking advantage of the good weather, everyone has to quickly dry the newly recovered grain.

Otherwise, when winter comes, if the food is not dried, it will sprout at that time, and the food will be useless.

So during this period of time, everyone has the right to take a rest, quickly dry the food, and then store it.

After the temperature drops in a few days, everyone will be busy planting seeds again.

Today, when there was a meeting, Wang Fang was called by other ladies in the village to go to the town to catch the meeting early in the morning.

Zhang Jianguo took the family's big black horse out for a walk.

Some time ago, I was busy harvesting crops, and the family is not just tired.

The animals in the family are also working very hard, more tired than people.

For the big dark horse in the family, Zhang Jianguo became more and more satisfied with it.

The only thing that didn't satisfy this guy was keeping those mares away.

Now many people from the village and outside the village have come to ask how much the family's big black horse can breed for their family's mares.

What can Zhang Jianguo say, is this a matter of money or not?
This is because Dahei doesn't let those mares get close at all, otherwise he will kick their hooves.

Before, there was a person from another village who didn't believe in evil, so he just brought his own horse to try it.

But in the end, the little mare was kicked crazy by Dahei.

Since then, no one has dared to take him to the door to make trouble.

Zhang An now looks at this big black and shakes his head, this guy who doesn't know how to style.

Every time I saw Zhang Jianguo taking Dahei out for a walk, the other animals in the house were very envious.

But no matter what Zhang An said, Zhang Jianguo didn't dare to take other animals out.

I'm afraid that after they go out, they will run into the mountains and they will not be able to chase them back.

"Dad, where did you get that raccoon cat?"

Zhang An was about to make lunch, and now he saw his father come back with a horse.

Holding a tawny raccoon cat cub in his hand.

"Isn't your mother always saying that she wants to ask a cat to come back and watch the mice? Just now, I passed by your Uncle Jianzhong's house and saw their mother cat giving birth. The month is up, so let me bring one back."

In the past six months, Zhang An's family didn't know why, but they kept hearing rats at night, which was unprecedented.

It may be that the condition of the house is good, and the mice have come to patronize.

There are a lot of animals in Zhang An's house now, so Wang Fang didn't dare to put rat poison in the house.

I'm worried that the rats won't have the medicine when the time comes, so I poured out these things in my house, that's not very good.

So I have been thinking about asking a local civet cat to come back to raise.

When Zhang An stretched out his hand to take it, Zhang Jianguo took the hand away from the kitten's eyes.

When he first brought it, he kept covering the kitten's eyes with his hands.

Because the two families are too close to each other, I was worried that I would not be able to support my family, so I ran back secretly after raising them.

So when you hug it back, you need to cover its eyes with your hands.

Save it can also remember the way back.

Holding this little thing in his hands, Zhang An could clearly feel that it was shaking all the time.

This is a manifestation of fear. After all, I have arrived in a strange place and left my familiar mother and brothers and sisters.

"Meow~"

A crisp voice came from Zhang An's hands.

This kitten probably looks like a full moon, and it doesn't grow too big.

The nose and the pads on the four cat's paws are still pink.

Holding it in his arms, Zhang An wandered around several rooms in the house.

Turned around the table and the stairs a few times.

This is to let the kitten know its home, and it will become familiar after two more laps.

This is what all the cubs from other families in rural families do.

Later, Zhang An randomly found a basket and made a nest for it.

In fact, as an animal like a cat, there is no need to make a nest for it.

When it gets used to it, it will find a place to sleep by itself.

But now the cat is very small, so Zhang An will take care of it.

Dug and the others saw new friends coming to the house, so they all crawled over to watch.

Where has the little cat seen this scene before? Looking at the huge monsters in front of it, the little cat was so frightened that it trembled all over.

"Go, go, play by yourself, don't scare it here."

Zhang An saw that these dogs were doing it on purpose, reached out and patted them, and drove the three brothers away.

Since ancient times, cats and dogs are not in harmony.

The big rooster of Zhang An's family also feuded with the three big dogs.

Every time there is a quarrel, the yard is full of dust, it's really crazy.

But the big tigers are sensible, so they should all play tricks on them.

So after a long time, Zhang An didn't care about them, and let them play around, as long as they didn't die.

If it was someone else's dog, with such a big dog, the rooster must have already entered the pot.

Putting the kitten on the ground, it seemed to have recognized the basket Zhang An gave it just now.

As soon as he left Zhang An, he ran into the basket and lay down on his stomach.

Seeing that it was so obedient, Zhang An didn't pay much attention to it, but just drove the big tigers away, saving them from making trouble with the kittens.

The same goes for Dahu. Seeing that Zhang An didn't let them play with the kittens, he ran back to the kennel by himself.

Looking at the time, I felt that Wang Fang was about to come back from the show.

Zhang An lifted the rice steamer off the coal stove and prepared to start cooking.

"Xiao An, who sent the kitten?"

When Wang Fang came back, she saw a little cat at home.

Somewhat happily asked, where did the kitten come from at home.

She has thought about feeding a cat to the family for too long, so that she will be cleaner when she sleeps in the future.

I tried to find some time ago, but I couldn’t find any, because there were no suitable ones in the village, and most of them were half-grown cats raised by other people.

Bringing it back can't raise a family, so I can only wait for other people's female cat to give birth to cubs.

"When my dad came back from letting the horse go, he brought it from Uncle Jianzhong's house. It seems that their mother cat gave birth."

At this time, Zhang An happened to finish the last dish.

Seeing my mother came back, I set the table to eat directly.

"Dad, my mother is back and ready to eat."

While Zhang An was cooking, Zhang Jianguo was not idle either.

Weave the red peppers that were last recovered at home with straw.

This way, it is convenient to hang it in the yard to dry, even if it is raining and there is no sun, it can also be hung on the top of the coal stove to dry.

The second thing is to find a ventilated place to hang up after drying, so it is not easy to break.

Zhang An's family makes dozens of catties of dried chili peppers every year.

This year, Zhang An's family didn't grow much spicy peppers, so they only planted two parts of the land in the back yard.

But this year there are quite a lot of hot peppers. Even Wang Fang has picked several crops, and there are several big baskets after picking them in the past few days.

"Mom, will our family still make sour chili this year?"

Zhang An asked while scooping up rice for his parents.

In June, although Wang Fang took the time to make a few cans of sour peppers, Li Hongbin finally divided them into two cans.

There is not much left in the family to eat now.

If you don't do it, you probably won't have enough to eat until the Chinese New Year.

Whether it is sour chili, oil chili or paste chili, although it is all chili.

But what kind of chili is put in any dish, and the taste is right.

"I want to chop, this time I need to chop a few more cans. I think there are dozens of catties of fresh spicy peppers left over from the field."

Anyway, just do what you say, after eating, Wang Fang took out the pot and stubble knife for chopping peppers at home and washed them clean.

This stubble knife for chopping peppers is specially bought on the street.

On the back of a stubble knife more than ten centimeters wide, there is a wooden stick more than one meter long.

In fact, you can use a kitchen knife to chop peppers, but everyone doesn't use a kitchen knife very much.

It is very convenient to use a kitchen knife at home to chop sour peppers, but the hand holding the knife will definitely be stained with pepper water.

Those who have done it by themselves should know that if they only touch the juice of chili peppers for a short time, it may be fine.

But if the hands are soaked in chili water for a long time, the skin on the hands will be very uncomfortable.

It will be hot first, making you feel like your hands are burning, following the fire.

And the duration of symptoms is not short, very uncomfortable feeling.

Zhang An had grabbed chopped peppers before, and his hands were burning.

Only slightly better when putting your hands in cold water.

But as long as it is taken out of the water, it will burn immediately.

So everyone is reluctant to use a kitchen knife.

If you use a stubble knife, you can put the pot on the ground, and then a person sits on a bench and picks up the stubble knife to chop.

After chopping, you can use a stubble knife to turn the bottom up and chop it again. You don't need to turn it over with your hands, which is very convenient to use.

This set of tools doesn't need to be available in every family, you just need to borrow it from others when you make it yourself.

Anyway, I don't often chop peppers. Zhang An's family used to have few in the village, so Wang Fang bought a handful by himself.

It didn't take long for Zhang An to pick a basket of red peppers from the garden and come back.

This should be the last pepper in Zhang An's home.

When Zhang An picked it just now, he carefully turned it up, and there were no new small peppers on the pepper tree.

When you are free, these pepper trees must be pulled out.

At that time, the land will be turned over, and the next season of vegetables can be planted.

The family picks off the pepper handles from the picked peppers, and after washing them with clean water, they can pour them into a basin and start chopping.

"Mom, don't put ginger."

Zhang An saw that his mother had scraped a few stalks of ginger and was about to chop them together in a basin, so he hurriedly stopped.

Because Zhang An doesn't like ginger very much, some shredded ginger is fine for cooking, but big pieces are not acceptable.

"Alright then, go to Zhang Ping's house and dig some Jerusalem artichokes."

When Wang Fang chops sour peppers, he likes to put some other things.

Generally, it is garlic and ginger, which are directly put in and chopped together.

Since her son didn't like ginger, she asked Zhang An to dig some Jerusalem artichoke from the village head's home.

Jerusalem artichoke tastes delicious, without the smell of ginger.

Hearing this, Zhang An went out with a hoe and walked towards the old uncle's house.

"Auntie, let me dig some Jerusalem artichokes and go back to chop sour peppers."

In the courtyard of Zhang Ping's house, the old aunt was drying something with a dustpan.

"Go and dig, it's in the garden."

"okay."

The garden of the old uncle's house is also behind their house. Enter from the main room and go through the back door of the kitchen.

At this time, there are quite a few families in rural areas who grow Jerusalem artichoke.

But they didn't plant it specifically, but planted a nest in a corner of the garden.

You don't need to take care of it at ordinary times, it grows very well on its own.

For example, here at the old uncle's house, some coal ash is usually covered, and nothing is taken care of.

But it can grow very well, and every plant that Zhang An dug out can have a big stalk.

And no matter how you dig it, as long as you leave a root for it, it will grow crazily on the ground, and it will produce a large piece of Jerusalem artichoke next year.

So everyone nicknamed it Wannian Dirty.

(End of this chapter)