Rebirth Farmer Yaomei

Chapter 73 Dumplings
After all, Lishu Village is close to Hutai County, so in addition to ordinary meat dishes, I also bought the most famous Laohengji Sauce Meat in Hutai County.The sauced meat made by the century-old shop is something ordinary people can't make.

But Ning Wan is actually just average about sauced meat. She was tired of eating it at Zhao's house, and her father bought it a few days ago.

Hot noodles are used for the noodles of pot stickers, but some salt should be added to the boiling water, so that the noodles are not easy to break.After scalding the noodles, mix them with cold water and put them aside for a while.

The more important stuffing is to remove the head and shell of fresh small river prawns, peel off the meat, cut a few knives, fresh mushrooms are dried with water and then cut into cubes, and the pork is minced. The combination of these three things is exactly Three delicacies.

My aunt can't believe anyone, so she must mix the stuffing herself.First add some chicken broth to the pork, then add shrimp, diced mushrooms, oil, salt, soy sauce, minced green onion, minced ginger, and pepper powder, and stir vigorously in one direction.

The noodles and stuffing are ready, you can roll the skin.The difference between pot stickers and dumplings is here. The skin should not be rolled into a circle, but a rectangle. Average small pillows.

You need to use a pan for frying pot stickers. First brush a layer of oil, heat it up and then place the wrapped pot stickers neatly on it. Then Auntie took a bowl of cold water, mixed some flour in it and stirred it. Sprinkle it on the pot stickers, and immediately pick up the lid and cover the pot tightly.

The pot stickers are to be baked. My aunt stood by the stove and waited for a while, listening carefully to the sound in the pot, and suddenly said "Okay!" She lifted the lid of the pot and poured another spoonful of sesame oil over it. , Wait a little longer and take a small shovel and start shoveling the potstickers from all around.

The surface of the pot stickers has been baked to a golden color, and the filling inside is sizzling, and the aroma is overflowing.But that's not too much, the real difficulty is the top layer of crust.It turned out that there was flour in the water just sprinkled, and now that the water has dried up, the flour has turned into a thin and crispy skin, which has been turned into a light yellow by the braised just now, and the skin is uneven, thick and Thin, even some places are still empty, it looks like a special pattern, very beautiful, sticking all the potstickers together.

When shoveling the pot stickers, all the pot stickers and this layer of skin should be shoveled into a plate.When the pot stickers were placed, they were placed according to the size of the plate, and now they are filled to a full plate. Even if one of the pot stickers is separated from the thin layer of dough, it will be considered a failure.

When these pot stickers arrived on the plate in the original shape in the pot, Ning Wan didn't feel "wow!", "Auntie, you are so good!" Gu has a good grasp of the heat of the potstickers, and it is not bad at all. If it is a little bit worse, it can't be baked into such a beautiful potsticker. Although I haven't tasted the taste, I can already imagine how delicious it is.

The aunt smiled, "What is this, serve it to everyone first, and then bake a few pots for us to eat."

After having lunch at the eldest aunt's house, and saying goodbye to the eldest sister, Ning Wan followed her father home.

On one donkey were white noodles, pears, mahua, sauced meat and other things sent by the aunt and sister's family, and Ning Wan sat on the other donkey, and her father led the two donkeys in front, humming a little tune unconsciously .

When Ning Wan heard it, she knew that her father must have drunk too much, and he never hummed ditty tunes, especially in front of her.It's just that she didn't say anything, just sat on the donkey and listened with a smile. Although Dad was a little out of tune, it was still very funny.

During the two days when Ning's father and daughter went out, a big incident happened in Sanjia Village. Guo Qiuzhu was caught stealing in Hujia Village.

It turned out that Guo Qiuzhu had always refused to work hard at home, so he was often beaten and scolded by Mr. Guo, and then he preferred to run out and wander around, stealing something to eat when he was hungry.The people in Sanjia Village knew that they were always on guard, so he didn't know when he stole to Hujia Village.

I often walk by the river, how can I not get my shoes wet?

He lost things a few times in Hu's Village, so he naturally paid attention to it. Several strong young men blocked him. Seeing that it was from Sanjia Village, they didn't beat him, but were sent back.

In fact, this is even more embarrassing than beating him up. After all, after being beaten, it’s okay. After all, there is no valuable thing stolen, it’s just food, who can do anything?People in Sanjia Village usually only beat him up and let him go.

Now that Hujia Village has sent someone away, it is obvious that they want Sanjia Village to deal with it properly, and don't let him go to Hujia Village to steal things again.I also understand that in the peaceful small mountain village, the doors are usually open at night, but now a thief suddenly appears, everyone can't accept it at all.

The people in Sanjia Village actually had this idea a long time ago, but they were too embarrassed to mention it because of Mr. Guo's face, and now they all use the fact that Hujia Village was stolen to persuade Mr. Guo to take good care of his grandson.

Mr. Guo was so angry that he had to tie up Guo Qiuzhu and lock him up at home.

After hearing what Yu told him, Ning Liang was silent for a while, "Mr. Guo should have done this a long time ago." After all, Guo Qiuzhu stole things, and the Ning family's big house suffered the most because the land at home was closest to the foot of the mountain, especially the soybean field. In a large soybean field, the bean seedlings have been removed, and even the seedlings that remain have almost no pods on them.

Locking Guo Qiuzhu up is not a long-term solution, but at least it can make the two villages quieter for a while.

Peasants couldn't see wasting the land the most, so Ning Liang took advantage of the time to turn over the land again, planting a piece of radish first, and then planting a piece of cabbage after a few days.

As the saying goes, "Taubu radish, Erfu vegetables." These are autumn vegetables. In Sanjia Village, the first season vegetables are usually vacated in the garden for replanting, and they are stored for winter when they are ripe.

Stopping the garden is to discard the things in the field after the last round of harvest. For example, in the farmland near towns and counties, some early-maturing crops must be stopped at this time, and then a large number of autumn vegetables will be planted. When sold in the city, there are two harvests a year.Sanjia Village is located in a remote area, so it is impossible to grow a large amount of autumn vegetables to sell, so every family usually only picks some vegetables from the vegetable garden, and then grows some autumn vegetables for their own consumption.

Now that there is another vacant land at home, there is no need to put the vegetables in the vegetable garden ahead of time. After all, there are still some days before the autumn frost, and we can still harvest some vegetables. The farmer lives with care.

After planting autumn vegetables, the rhubarb rice is ready.Rhubarb rice, also known as broomcorn millet, is the earliest mature grain in Sanjia Village. It only takes about [-] days for rhubarb rice to grow, so the grain can be harvested before autumn every year.Another advantage of rhubarb rice is that it is particularly resistant to drought and does not require fertile land, which is very worry-free and labor-saving.

The taste of rhubarb rice is also very popular in Sanjia Village. Everyone uses it for cooking, making rice dumplings, and making snacks. The bean buns eaten during the Chinese New Year are also made of rhubarb rice noodles, which is a finer grain than sorghum rice.Just because the output is not as good as that of sorghum, so there are not many planted by each family.

Then the mung beans should also be picked.It turns out that the mung bean pods are always ripening one after another. If they are not picked in time, the mung bean pods will crack after they are overripe, and the mung beans will jump out of them and fall to the ground, which will cause great losses.Therefore, at this time, everyone will often check how the green bean pods are growing and harvest them in time.

More than half of the green bean pods have turned dark brown. If the green bean pods are rough harvested, the mung bean seedlings will be pulled down to dry and then pressed out with a stone roller. Chunling and Luo Shuang'er went to the field every two or three days to pick up baskets of bean pods, and then dried them in the sun, so that almost nothing was lost in vain.

It is still in the dog days, and it is the beginning of autumn.With the autumn wind, it will be cool in the morning and evening, but in the daytime, the sky is so blue that there is not even a cloud, and the big sun is shining straight down, which is a little hotter than in summer. Everyone said, "The autumn tiger is showing its power. "

After the autumn sun, the fields in Sanjia Village changed completely. The sorghum ears suddenly turned red. Looking at it from a distance, it was a sea of ​​red, which was very spectacular. People in Sanjia Village called it "" "Sun-dried red rice", which means that the sorghum is ripe.

Sorghum is the main grain in Sanjia Village, and the harvest of sorghum directly determines the year's prospects. Therefore, at this time, the villagers of Sanjia Village have already prepared two kinds of sickles for cutting sorghum.A kind of scythe, which is used to cut down the sorghum first, and then use the scythe to cut off the tassels, bundle them into bundles and transport them to the yard to dry, and then thresh and peel them to become edible sorghum rice. Noodles are also available.

As the saying goes, one autumn is worth three springs, which means that harvesting in autumn is several times harder than plowing in spring.

The women in Sanjia Village usually don't do field work, and even during spring plowing, they just cook and deliver food. But only during autumn harvest, everyone has to go to the fields to collect grain.

This is precisely because the time for collecting food is too tight.Naturally, the grain cannot be harvested when it is not ripe, but it must be taken back immediately when it is ripe. If there is a delay, an unexpected rain will cause a heavy loss of the year's harvest.So grab it at this time.

Ning Liang was naturally the main labor force in the family's farm work, and Ning Wan wrapped herself up tightly and followed her father to the field.It's not that she is delicate, all the women in the village are like this, even the men are also very neatly dressed.It turns out that the edges of sorghum leaves are so sharp that they can cut a person's skin if they are not careful. If they are not wrapped tightly, they will inevitably be scarred after the autumn harvest.

Father cut down the sorghum in front, and Ning Wan followed behind to cut off the sorghum ears. The stalks and ears were placed on both sides. Don't worry, I'll do it when I have free time in the future.The family's little donkey was also used at this time, and the bundled sorghum ears were sent away on the back of the little donkey, saving a lot of manpower.

At noon, the father and daughter led the little donkey back home with a bundle of sorghum poles. Mother had already filled the basin with water. .”

(End of this chapter)