Fragrant spring

Fragrant Spring - 131 Generous Village Women

The hot winter sun for several days in a row seems to indicate that spring is coming soon.Many people have already taken off their sweaters and only wear autumn clothes and a coat.Spring in this southern country comes early, and some years the peach blossoms bloom before the Chinese New Year.

Jiazhen went to the vegetable garden and pulled some radishes back, washed them and cut them into cubes, put them into the boiled porridge with the lean meat that had already been cut, and stirred them a few times.Then he walked to the main room and said brightly: "How many mortars are there? We have to have lunch after washing."

Lin Hua, Chen Ming and Youcai were both wearing only autumn clothes, and each of them held a big stick and pointed at the glutinous rice cakes in coordination.After rushing for a whole morning, they were all a little tired and didn't have time to answer Jiazhen.Making glutinous rice cakes requires not only strength, but also cooperation.After pouring the steamed glutinous rice into the stone mortar, several people had to pound it with big sticks a few times before raising the sticks one by one and rushing down fiercely.When one person lifts the big stick, the other two have to use the big stick to hold down the glutinous rice ball, so as to prevent his big stick from taking the glutinous rice ball out of the stone mortar, and make it easier for him to pull the big stick out of the sticky glutinous rice ball.It takes more than ten minutes for each mortar to make the glutinous rice into glutinous rice balls.

Qiaoying and Liping were making rice cakes, Qiaoying said: "Hurry up and help, I'm starving to death."

Daliang, who helped to move the finished glutinous rice cakes to the other side for Lin Hua's father, also said: "Yes, Mom, I'm starving to death. If you don't come to help, I won't do it."

Everyone laughed loudly, teasing Daliang one after another.Jiazhen walked to the table with a smile, lighted a little oil in a bowl filled with oil, rubbed it on her palms, and helped pinch the glutinous rice cakes.

Early this morning, Lin Hua's father came to call Jiazhen and Chen Ming, saying that he had already steamed the glutinous rice, and asked them to help make glutinous rice cakes quickly.Because it was done early, it was only after ten o'clock after finishing Lin Hua's and Qiaoying's, and they proposed to have lunch after finishing Jiazhen's, so it was after two o'clock, no wonder the children were hungry.

Finally finished washing, everyone hurriedly washed their hands and scooped up the porridge.While eating porridge, Lin Hua said to Jiazhen: "Sister-in-law Zhen, you are so willing to put lean meat in."

Jiazhen is a little proud. She likes others to praise her for her generosity, but she is also very generous.According to the practice of other families in the village, for those who help each other with work, at most they put some radishes in the porridge for lunch, but Jiazhen bought lean meat.She chuckled and said triumphantly: "What's the matter? It's noon. If it's evening, I'll kill chickens to entertain you."

"Hehe, then we are at a loss. If we had known earlier, we would have rushed to help your family in the afternoon, and there would be chicken to eat at night." Lin Hua and Jiazhen were joking. Afterwards, he liked to joke with Jiazhen very much, just to dispel Jiazhen's doubts.

"Why don't you find some work for us in the afternoon, and kill chickens for us to eat in the evening." Qiaoying also joked with Jiazhen.

"Okay, help me grind hard pancakes in the afternoon, and I will definitely kill chickens to entertain you in the evening." Take it out to entertain guests. Hard cakes, twists, and glutinous rice cakes are three must-dos in this rural area during the Chinese New Year.)

"Then we will really help you grind hard cakes, don't be reluctant to kill them." Everyone also booed.

When Youcai was full, Jiazhen asked him to take out the cake molds he needed to make hard cakes and wash them. She said, "I'm really ready, I'm not joking."

So after everyone was full, they laughed and helped Jiazhen make hard cakes. The hard cakes are made of a mixture of sticky rice flour and glutinous rice flour. The method is also very simple, similar to making moon cakes. The surface is ground to a bright shine, and then baked over a charcoal fire. This kind of cake is so hard after being made that someone once gnawed their teeth and collapsed when they ate it.

There is no need for Jiazhen to tell lies. After making the cakes, she really boiled water and killed the chickens. Not only did she kill the chickens, but she also chopped up the pork that she bought in the morning, and let the whole pot of radishes make the dinner as sumptuous as the Chinese New Year. .To make everyone feel free to eat, Chen Ming, Youcai, and Lin Hua naturally had to drink, and they drank until midnight after drinking the good wine and food.After drinking until the three of them were drunk and Chen Ming's house was close, he staggered and went back by himself.Only Youcai and Lin Hua were left, and Youcai said he would send Lin Hua back.Lin Hua said no, and said that it was enough for me to ask Liping to borrow a flashlight to go home.Youcai said that's fine, Youcai himself was too drunk, he stumbled into the room with Jiazhen's support and went to sleep.

Liping was sitting on the bed reading a book by herself, with the quilt covering her lower body, and the tape recorder on the table was still playing, because it was night, so the volume was not turned up too loudly.Lin Hua shouted inarticulately outside the window: "Li... Liping, lend me your flashlight... the flashlight."

Liping put down her book, lifted the quilt and got out of bed, said while putting on her shoes, "Wait a minute, I'll take it out for you." But she thought in her heart, these men really drink too much.

Liping came out with a flashlight. Lin Hua was leaning against the wall, shaking his hands and trying to grab something, but he couldn't catch anything, looking a little funny.Liping handed him the flashlight and said, "Can you go back?"

Lin Hua shook hands to take Liping's flashlight tied with a string, and hung it crookedly around his neck several times before hanging it crookedly. The bright flashlight shot into the sky. He glanced at Liping and said: " Why... why can't you go back, you... think I, I, I... are drunk." I struggled several times before I could speak clearly.

Liping covered her mouth and laughed secretly, looking at Lin Hua's bulging eyes as if staring at someone, she said: "Then you go, take a few steps and I'll take a look."

Lin Hua staggered out of the courtyard gate of Liping's house, muttering: "I'm not drunk, I'm not...not drunk."

Liping followed Lin Hua, she was worried that Lin Hua would walk back by himself.

Lin Hua walked a few steps, and was blown by the night wind. He felt his stomach churn, and a stream of sour water gushed up his throat. He quickly squatted down, and with a "wow", he vomited out a large amount of dirt.

Liping hurried forward and patted Lin Hua on the back.The things Lin Hua vomited were so fishy and smelly that Liping was about to vomit too. She had to pinch her nose with one hand and turn her head away, while patting and rubbing Lin Hua with the other.Lin Hua vomited intermittently for a while before she finished. Liping turned her head to look at Lin Hua, and she was so angry that she saw that the flashlight hanging on his chest was covered with the filth that Lin Hua had vomited out.She carefully grabbed the rope around Lin Hua's neck, took off the flashlight, and threw it on the dry grass aside.She really wanted to give up the flashlight, but she would have to go back in the dark for the journey, so she had to step on the flashlight with hay to wipe off the dirt on it.

After Lin Hua vomited out, his whole body was limp. He moved to a nearby stone and sat down, not wanting to move.

(Lin Hua is so drunk, can he go back? Will Liping be so angry and talk to Lin Hua? If you like this book, please recommend it to your friends. Thank you!!!)