My village can't be like this

Chapter 27
The deer was just an episode, Zhang An put it on the grass after feeding it with spring water, and ignored it.

Continue to search in the woods, and after a while, Xiaohu is considered to be open.

Running wildly in the snow all the way, still holding his prey in his mouth, he came to ask Zhang An for credit, and Zhang An happily touched Xiaohu's dog's head.

Xiaohu liked Zhang An's touch very much, and now he rushed into the forest again as if encouraged.

About half an hour later, the little tiger came back triumphantly again with its prey in its mouth. This time it was a fat rabbit, not only alive, but also with a bulging belly.

Could this rabbit be pregnant, or could it come out after eating so much?Why don't you sleep well in the cave?
If it was Dahu and Erhu, the ones brought back would definitely be dying, even if they were not dead.

For some reason, Zhang An always felt that Xiaohu was a bit too spiritual.

It was also when the rice was drying. Although the big tiger and the second tiger also pounced on them, they rarely caught sparrows, and the third tiger lay motionless on their stomachs. When they moved, the sparrows would suffer.

It just so happened that Zhang An planned to raise some rabbits in the space, and now he didn't have to catch them himself.

When it was dark, the three tigers all came back, and all three of them had harvested, two pheasants and one hare.

The harvest was good today. For most of the day, Zhang An had three pheasants in his hand, plus the one in the space, they were two hares.

As for Zhang Bin, there was nothing more to gain besides the rabbit he picked up in the afternoon, but it was not bad.

But Zhang Tie had nothing left, and ran with Manshan, and their big yellow dog followed him, but didn't catch anything.

Some losses cannot be hidden. Zhang Bin brothers, although they picked up the rabbit in their hands, they can be regarded as rewarding.

So in order to appease the little brother, Zhang An generously distributed a pheasant to Zhang Tie to take home.

According to the third aunt's temperament, this will definitely not be done until the New Year's Eve.

. . .

After returning home, Zhang An handed over the prey to Zhang Jianguo.

It's not that Zhang An doesn't know how to use a knife, but Zhang An's father usually does this kind of thing at home.

Especially when eating, sometimes the chicken is killed, and Zhang An can't eat the blood of the chicken, saying that after eating it, he will easily blush when talking to others.

You can't eat chicken feet, if you eat them, you will go crazy.

Anyway, there are a lot of rules, and Zhang An doesn't know how they passed them down.

However, this does not affect Wang Fang's education of him, so every time he can only be obedient and obedient, maybe he still has to resist.

Anyway, it's right to listen to what my mother says. For such trivial matters, she can do whatever she says, otherwise she will have to be nagged again.

Father Zhang Jianguo moved very quickly, and dealt with the pheasant and the hare in a few strokes.

But Wang Fang didn't let it eat, and also said that he would save it for the Chinese New Year.Then Zhang An proposed to marinate it with salt, hang it on the fire rack and smoke it together with the bacon, so that it will have a special taste.

In the evening, my mother was going to pound peppers, and Zhang An was there to help.

These peppers are all grown at home. On the one hand, they are picked and eaten when they are in season. If they can’t be eaten, they will be red, and then picked off and dried into dried peppers.

That's how it is now, and then called it out, washed it, fried it with vegetable oil, put it in a bowl and mashed it into chili noodles.

In mountainous areas, chili is an indispensable thing in everyone's daily life. There is a lot of humidity in mountainous areas, so people will also have a lot of moisture in their bodies.

And chili is a kind of thing that can drive away the cold. This is a treasure left by the ancestors for thousands of years.

It took Zhang An a long time to pound ten catties of peppers, and he needed to pound them over and over again to make the large pieces of peppers into powder.

Wang Fang poured half of Zhang An's pounded chili noodles into it, and the other half was ready to be used to prepare chili oil immediately.

Zhang An's favorite is to put two spoonfuls of chili oil when eating noodles, which is so refreshing.

This thing is simply a magic tool for eating. Later generations, a certain brand of chili oil became famous all over the world.

It's almost the end of the month, and the adults are busy preparing things for the New Year.

Zhang An didn't know what to do at all, even if it was Chinese New Year in his later life, he just bought some New Year's goods and waited for New Year's Eve, and cooked a table of dishes, which was considered Chinese New Year.

But in the countryside, and in this era when the flavor of the New Year is still particularly strong, everyone has good expectations for the New Year.

In their hearts, they have been busy all year round, and they must prepare well for the New Year.

Wang Fang has too many things to prepare, such as pickling sauerkraut, soaking glutinous rice to make rice wine, making rice cakes and so on.

There was no more glutinous rice at home, so Zhang An was arranged to take the glutinous rice to mill the rice.

Because Changqing Village has not bought a rice milling machine yet, everyone grinds it with water in the water room.

Zhang An easily picked up the fifty catties of rice.

When I got to the mill, luckily, no one was using the mill.

Zhang An installed the belt of the mill, poured the millet into the mill, and opened the gate of the sluice.

yoyo~
The millstone was brought to spin.

Fifty catties of rice can produce more than 40 catties of rice, so it was done quickly.

After packing up the rice bran, someone happened to be using a mill, so Zhang An didn't close the sluice gate.

The glutinous rice for making rice cakes needs to be soaked many days in advance, otherwise, when the steamed glutinous rice is poured into the stone mortar, the person who makes rice cakes will suffer.

Because the glutinous rice is not soaked, it cannot be smashed at all.

Later Zhang An also made rice cakes when he went back to his hometown to celebrate the New Year, but they usually made a few catties of rice, because the old people often said that the rice cakes made during the New Year were called reunion cakes, which represented the reunion of a family.

But in this era, everyone is too cruel when making rice cakes.

A dozen weighs tens of catties, which is the shadow left by not having enough food in the past.

After the rice cake is made, it will be dried after the Chinese New Year. At that time, find a water tank to soak it in water, and it can be stored for a long time.

Even if the water in the water tank smells bad, the rice cakes will not go bad, the most you need is to change the water.

And for them, rice cakes are convenient.

Sometimes when I go to work in the mountains, I don’t have time to cook and take them with me, so I cut some rice cakes and put them on the mountain. When I’m hungry, I light a fire and take out the rice cakes and bake them.

This stuff is really filling, Zhang An doesn't like to eat it now, because he ate too much before and got tired of it.

Time passed day by day, and it was getting closer to the New Year day by day.

The white snow accumulated in the mountains has also begun to melt. It has fallen too hard in the front, and it will take several days for the snow in the back to melt, and it will be very cold these days.

When the snow melts, a lot of water will flow from the mountain to the road. If the muddy road encounters water, you must not be able to walk because it is too slippery.

So during this period of time, no one at home went out, and the family only needed to go to the street to buy some fragrant paper candles for Chinese New Year. Fireworks are not yet popular in mountainous areas, they are all set off with artillery.

Then it is to buy some fruits and candy for the children to eat.

Generally, even if there are visitors at home, the snacks used to entertain guests are things like melon seeds and peanuts, and each family grows a lot.

Those who have the conditions will buy new clothes and shoes for their children, and let the children put on new clothes for the New Year on the day of the New Year.

Zhang An didn't have much choice for clothes, so he didn't care, he was already at that age.

(End of this chapter)