Back to 1988, in order to lay down liver skills

Chapter 22 Autumn Harvest and Cooking

Time flies, and the students are mourning the summer vacation, stepping into the school with heavy steps, and before they can get used to school life, the busy autumn vacation is coming soon!

This is good news for all.

Because the busy autumn holiday means autumn harvest.

Fat sweet potatoes in the farmland, heavy corn cobs, golden and plump soybeans...

In fact, this year's autumn busy holiday coincides with August [-]th and the National Day, so there is one more thing to do before the autumn busy holiday, which is to visit relatives.

During the two festivals of August [-]th and the Dragon Boat Festival, the local custom is to visit relatives.

The gift is very simple, that is, moon cakes, and there is also a kind of "fruit" - made of noodles, coated with sugar and deep-fried.Some are stick-shaped as thick as a little finger, and some are crescent-shaped, with only a thin layer and a hollow in the middle.

Dayan Village is relatively poor, so the 'fruits' can be made by themselves, and moon cakes need to be bought.

That's right, it is the five-nut mooncakes that many people will miss, such as almonds and walnuts, made with rock sugar, green silk and red silk.

The rock sugar is in big chunks, the green silk is orange peel, and the red silk is carrot shreds or other things.

But the five-nut mooncakes that people miss are not the same as the ones they ate back then.

After buying the moon cakes these years, they are not willing to eat them at all, and can only be used to visit relatives.A package of mooncakes does not stay at this house at all, and is taken to another house by this house. Maybe this cycle is repeated several times, and finally it may return to its own house.

But at this time, the moon cake has completed the ultimate evolution in circulation. At this time, it is as hard as a brick, with the word 'hard' highlighted.

Fortunately, Yan Changqing made great contributions to the family this year. After buying moon cakes, he specially let him eat one first.

That's the thing about the taste, after all, after all the things these days are put together, they all look like they were made by cutting corners - but we can't blame the merchants, the price of good ingredients is high, and the people of Dayan Village can't afford it.

Then Yan Changqing was taken by his parents to his grandparents' house, then to his uncle's and aunt's house... and finally to his aunt's house by his second uncle.

Then I received a lot of familiar and unfamiliar relatives at home. Of course, the most familiar ones must be the aunt and uncle who "returned to my mother's house", and the black preserved egg cousin is indispensable.

After running for a few days, the big and small children in the school came back!

The busy autumn holidays have begun, and the autumn harvest is here!

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The best thing Yan Changqing can do during the busy autumn is to lead the children to play.

The bear children of this age group can't help much with work, and make trouble from time to time.Everyone in the village is busy. If they get together, they can be taken care of, and the family can feel at ease.

Yan Changqing still misses the days when he used to burn edamame, corn cobs and sweet potatoes, but he couldn't do such things with a group of brats.

But as a generation of village tyrants, he can always think of ways to fool his little brothers.

That is to catch crickets, that is, crickets.

It's not cricket fighting, that's a high-end game. A layman like Yan Changqing can't play that. He catches crickets purely for eating.

A group of bear children searched for dogtail grass in the farmland, and then pulled out the straw, which was the thin one with the fluffy dog's tail.

This is a tool for carrying crickets. The caught crickets use this straw to pass under the shell behind the crickets' heads, and the fluffy dog ​​tails behind them block them from falling out.

Whoever's field is harvested first, they will go to the other's field to catch them. When the corn stalks that have been cut down in the farmland are lifted, several crickets will pop out from below. String to your own dog's tail straw.

What needs to be careful is that after the corn stalks are cut, there are roots on the ground, and the corn is mixed with soybeans. The soybean stalks are also cut off above the ground, and a small part of the roots are still exposed on the ground. These roots are very special. Easy to prick your feet.

Fortunately, these brats don't know anything else, but they still know the basics in the farmland, and everyone will remind each other, so Yan Changqing doesn't need to worry too much.

Anyway, it didn't take much effort, and there was a bunch of reddish-brown crickets on each straw.

Then go find the dogtail grass, and continue...

In the end, I took them to clean up the crickets. In fact, they removed the wings and washed them clean. Then Yan Changqing cooked the crickets himself, fried them and shared them with them.

If it is done one by one, the small quantity is not worth the trouble, and everyone is too busy now, only he has free time.

Cooking is also a skill. The family is too busy recently, Yan Changqing just got the right to use the kitchen, and he was not allowed to do it before. After all, it is not uncommon for the firewood burned at home to be burned in the kitchen by a brat.

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In addition to playing with children, there is one more thing you can do, which is to 'watch the show'.

After the corn is harvested, it can be hung in the yard temporarily, and it will be cleaned up slowly when it is free, but soybeans cannot.

Then it has to be dried in the sun before it can be put into a bag and put away.

In addition to soybeans, there are sun-dried peanuts.

At this time, the children can do what they can, play on the side of the threshing floor, stare at the soybeans, and don't be eaten by flocks of sparrows or other birds.

Yan Changqing was very proud. Others were afraid that the birds would come, but he was afraid that the birds would not come.

The skill of throwing stones improved by leaps and bounds when he watched the field.

The food in the threshing field is too attractive for all kinds of birds.

The bear children were very excited, and some even saw the corn and peanuts at home being eaten by birds, so they ran over and called Yan Changqing to hunt the birds.

Yan Changqing felt a little embarrassed, so he promised to share the birds with them.

After all, now is the busiest time. People who have been fighting with corn stalks, soybeans, and sweet potato seedlings for a day in the sun may not be willing to clean up these meatless things—and they need to use a lot of oil, which is also very important.

As for the oil from his own family, the family bought cattle and pigs this year, and now the family is happy, and Yan Changqing himself has the confidence to earn money again, so he is not afraid of wasting these things.

So at night, a group of bratty children were chattering in the kitchen in the yard, watching Yan Changqing make braised birds with a spoon.

Then each person gets one or two, and happily takes them home.

Originally, this was a trivial matter, but it never occurred to me that the people in the village felt embarrassed. When the wheat threshing field was used, Yan Changqing's family not only got the priority to use it, but also had a lot of help.

The men in the village can’t say thank you very much. Yan Changqing brought these children to relieve their worries and distributed food to the children. She is much more enthusiastic, just helping with a job with a silly smile.

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There is also a labor of 'hulling corn', which is to peel the corn from the cob.

It is purely manual work, without any fancy tools. One person uses a tool, usually a screwdriver, to flush the corn down every few rows, and then other people use two corn cobs to rub against each other to wipe off the corn kernels.

All men, women and children in the family will participate in the battle.

Children can also help. If you can't help, learn slowly. Anyway, you will have to do it sooner or later.

Children can also help out in the sweet potato cellar.

However, generally older children have the strength to pour the sweet potatoes out of the 'luotou' and place them in the sweet potato cellar.

It doesn't matter when you pick up sweet potatoes in the future, even smaller children, anyway, the smaller the child, the lighter it is, and it will be easier to pull up and down with a rope.

There is no need to learn, children know how to wrap the rope around their backs and under their arms, and hold one side of the rope with one hand. The adults send them down, pick up sweet potatoes into the basket, and then pull them up.

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