Peasant Girl's Jingxiu Pastoral

Chapter 123 Braised Noodles Out of the Oven
It is said that after Yunyue's mother finished the finished noodles, Yunyue let her eldest sister light the fire, and she brought out the leftovers from the cupboard one by one.

In fact, to be honest, given the current conditions of Yan Yue’s family, they don’t need to eat the food left over from the previous day, but the whole family, including Yan Yue herself, knows that life is not easy, and it is not easy to make money.

Therefore, as long as the food their family eats is not spoiled, as long as it is left over by their own family, it will never be thrown away or wasted.

After her eldest sister heated up the iron pan, Yunyue added a small amount of rapeseed oil. After the oil was heated enough, Yunyue added the ginger cubes, crushed garlic cloves, and A little salt, and then pepper, chili, etc. were added in turn, and the aroma was released, and then the remaining pork belly and several other dishes that could continue to be stewed were poured into the iron pot.

Then a small amount of water was added, and when the vegetables in the pot emitted heat, Yanyue asked her elder sister to change the fire from high to medium.

Then took all the noodles that her mother had prepared one by one, sprinkled them evenly on the dishes, and then quickly covered the pot with the lid to prevent the steam from escaping.

After simmering for about two or three minutes, Yan Yue lifted the lid of the pot and shook the noodles with chopsticks to prevent the noodles from sticking.

Then cover the pot, simmer for another 3 to [-] minutes, uncover the pot, then add a small amount of water and pour it on the noodles.

Then cover the pot again and simmer for less than 2 minutes. After Yanyue lifted the lid and looked at the water, she found that the water was gone and the noodles were cooked through, so she hurriedly called her elder sister to turn off the open fire .

Then took the chopsticks, shook the noodles, and mixed them with the dishes in the pot evenly, and then put them in the pot together and put them in their own bowls.

Her mother and her eldest sister saw that the stewed noodles that Yanyue said had been cooked, so they couldn't wait to walk in a few steps, took a closer look, and found that the braised noodles made by Yanyue were very good in color, and looked very appetizing .

So, Yingyu, who couldn't wait for her mouthful to eat, hurried out of the kitchen with her chopsticks, and called her father who was sitting at the gate, and the younger brother who was playing in the yard, saying that the meal is ready and they can eat up.

Afterwards, they hurried into the main room, set up tables and chairs, and quickly returned to the kitchen. Then, each family took a bowl of braised noodles, went to the main room, put them on the table, and couldn't wait to sit down and eat.

It is said that when the stewed noodles made by Yanyue gradually overflowed with fragrance, she hid the flowing clouds on the big banyan tree behind the room, and gave it to the gluttonous, wishing to go to the kitchen to grab a bowl and taste it for herself.

However, he could only think about it, because what Yan Yue did was just enough for their family, and besides, he didn't know that there was such a person as him.

Therefore, the sad Liuyun swallowed his saliva greedily while rubbing his growling stomach, his appearance was so pitiful.

Afterwards, Liu Yun, who was so hungry that he couldn't bear it anymore, quickly used his lightness kung fu that made him so proud, and quickly flew towards Qingxi Town.

Braised noodles are also known as stewed noodles, furnace noodles, braised noodles and paste noodles. They are usually added with mushrooms, shiitake mushrooms and diced potatoes.

The noodles used can be raw noodles or cooked noodles, but what Yanyue makes is raw noodles, so the taste may be quite different.

It is said that when Liuyun arrived at Fumanlou in Qingxi Town, he found that his master was still lingering and hadn't set off to leave, so Liuyun, who was already hungry, was sadly arrested by his unscrupulous master one is right.

Then he asked him about the situation of Ouyang Yuyue's family and some situations of Longyuan Village. When Liu Yun heard that his master was concerned about this, he talked nonsense, and then prepared to run away.

However, his facial paralyzed master didn't give him a chance, he just saw a cold look in the past, and Liu Yun's whole body tensed up in fright, looking at his master as if he was facing a formidable enemy.

Fearing that his master would solve it directly by force without saying a word, Dugu Wudi looked at Liu Yun who was frightened by him, and gave him a disgusted look, and then seemed to say, it's really embarrassing. If you are rough, you don't have to scare him to faint.

Seeing his master's disgusting eyes, Liu Yun stared at Dugu Wudi with an aggrieved expression, as if to say, master, your eyes are too scary, my little heart can't bear it.

But Dugu Wudi ignored him, but continued to tell him to stay in Longyuan Village and guard Ouyang's house.

Listening to his master, Liu Yun opened his mouth and shut his mouth on topics related to the little girl, so he wailed inwardly, thinking that his master was poisoned, otherwise he would be so boring to pay attention to a poor commoner.

No matter how Liu Yun guessed and dismissed his master in his heart, he didn't dare to make trouble in front of his master at this time, so he could only wipe bitter tears for himself in his heart.

Dugu Wudi looked at the ever-changing expression on Liu Yun's face, and said a little irritably, "Go down, remember to go back early."

As soon as Liu Yun heard his master said that he could leave, he respectfully replied yes to his master, then turned around and walked towards the door without stopping, opened the door and quickly slipped out, and then gently took the Door.

It is said that after the Yanyue family finished eating the stewed noodles, they sat on the chairs full and didn't want to move.

Yue Yue found out that eating too delicious food is also a crime. No, everyone hugged and rubbed their stomachs after eating, and her younger brother just slumped on a chair, rubbing his stomach and hiccupping.

Yan Yue felt a little uncomfortable for him, and then she couldn't help but said: "Little brother, let's go out for a stroll, otherwise it's not good to sit all the time, it's not easy to digest."

As soon as Ouyang Mu heard this, he stood up obediently with his hands on the table. Seeing this, Yan Yue also stood up quickly, and then the siblings left the main room one after the other.

And what about their eldest sister Yingyu?She was also a little stuffed, so she couldn't help saying hello to her parents, and then walked towards the younger sister and younger brother who had already walked to the edge of the courtyard.

Yan Yue and her younger brother were walking slowly, when they heard footsteps behind them, they turned around curiously to see who it might be.

So, just as she turned around, she saw her elder sister walking slowly over. Seeing this, Yanyue simply pulled her younger brother to stand where she was, waiting for her elder sister to walk with her.

When the three siblings strolled slowly to the entrance of the village, the sun was already in the sky, and the sun shone on their bodies, as if they were roasted by fire, and it was extremely hot.

The three brothers and sisters looked at the increasingly hot sun above their heads, and they no longer had the slightest good mood to continue strolling leisurely.

So, the three brothers and sisters seemed to have made an agreement, and then turned back and hurried back.

When the three siblings rushed home and took a sip of cold water, they saw that the sky seemed to have changed. The sky was clear and sunny just now, but now it was a little gray.

In the sky, dark clouds are rolling and galloping, coming from all directions, with great momentum, one after another, one after another, more and more dark clouds are piled up, denser and denser, covering the entire Longyuan like a thousand troops and horses village.

All the old and young in the village looked up at the ever-changing weather and began to tidy up the dried vegetables or clothes in the yard in a hurry.

So it was as if the refugees entered the village, they immediately jumped up and down, and some women and old people who were visiting everywhere due to the hot weather also hurried back home.

Seeing the changing weather, the two sisters, Yue and Yue, hurriedly carried the wild fungi that had been carried out to dry in the morning to the back room, and then went out of the main room and stood on the courtyard ridge, looking up at the wild fungus. An increasingly gray sky.

Then, Yue Yue raised her head to look at the gray area on the opposite mountain, as if she was being overwhelmed by the dark clouds in the sky.

For a while, the wind suddenly blew up, and it seemed to herald an impending storm.

Thus, the long-awaited rain finally fell on Longyuan Village at noon.

The bean-sized raindrops fell on the ground, splashing large or small water splashes, and the water splashes were like small fountains, which looked very beautiful.

The wind was blowing, and the rain was pouring down. Many villagers were rushing home in the wind and rain because they were too far away from their homes for farm work.

The gloomy sky gradually brightened again due to the storm, and the dark clouds disappeared without a trace.

The strong wind mixed with the torrential rain made the rain curtain spread from behind the mountain to the front yard and the small ditch beside the yard.

Gradually, the rain decreased a lot, and the adults and children in the village became lively and lively again. I saw a few people standing in the rain talking and laughing in the farmhouse not far away.

The children were all squatting or standing, looking at the puddles in the yard, wanting to jump or step on them, but they were a little timid when they saw the adults standing beside them. Checked out.

Seeing the gradually soaking ground and the gradually receding rainwater, the Yue Yue family set up chairs and sat on the courtyard sill, drinking tea and chatting.

It's just that the rain in summer always comes and goes in a hurry. No, since it hasn't rained for a month, the torrential rain that just fell at this time is not worth it. The ground washed by the torrential rain is gradually drying up up.

What's more, the temperature, which was much cooler due to the torrential rain, gradually rose and became sultry again.

Looking up at the blue sky, Yue Yue found that a rainbow that suddenly appeared was slowly becoming a little more transparent. Red, orange, yellow, green, blue, blue, purple, seven colors overlapped layer by layer, reflecting each other brightly. Like a beautiful flyover, lying in the air, it is majestic and dazzling.

Looking at the children wearing water boots running around on the ridge of the field, Yan Yue also felt a little itchy, so she stood up and went into the back room regardless of the scorching sun.

When she came out again, she saw that she had put on water boots on her feet, and then saw her running to the kitchen to find a straw hat and put it on. Looking at her armor, she knew that she was going to play on the ridge .

Ouyang Mu watched her second sister come out after changing into water boots, so she couldn't sit still, so she said to Yun Yue: "Second sister, are you going to play on the field? Wait for me to come with you."

After speaking, without waiting for her second sister to agree, she stood up and quickly ran to his parents' house, and when he came out, she saw that his feet had already been changed into a pair of water boots.

Ouyang Mu looked at his second sister who was still standing on the courtyard sill waiting for him, and said happily: "Second sister, I've changed, let's go."

When the two sisters and brothers rushed to the ridge of the field, they found that other friends in the village were actually catching slippery loaches in the dry and cracked field.

Seeing this scene, Yue Yue called out to the younger brother who was standing beside her, and hurried home to get a small basin.

When Ouyang Mu came home with a small pot, he found that his second sister was not catching loach in the field as he thought, but was picking up the one they had eaten some time ago, which was similar in shape to a small snail. It is a kind of thing, but look at that head, it is several times bigger than the small snail.

Although Ouyang Mu was curious, seeing that there were many people nearby, he suppressed his curiosity, and together with his second sister, silently picked up the dirty thing in the field where there was water.

After the siblings picked up almost half of the pots, they quietly carried the pots and returned to their yard.

Yan Yue looked at the little brother who had been staring at the basin, and pointed to the snail in the basin in front of her parents and said, "Little brother, this thing is also a kind of snail, but this kind of snail, don't look at it's big size. , but there is not much snail meat, and it is even much dirtier than the small snails picked up in Xiaohekou.”

As soon as Ouyang Mu heard that the snail was dirty, he frowned, wishing he could see a hole in the snail.

Seeing the funny-looking little brother, Yan Yue couldn't help laughing, and then said: "Don't frown, although this snail is a lot dirty, it's the same as the small snail, and we're not in a hurry to eat it." , let’s raise it for a few more days, and wait for it to spit out the dirt, then it will be fine.”

Hearing this, Ouyang Mu loosened his frowning brows, and went to the kitchen with the snails in his hand, only to see him going in and out, pouring water into the ditch outside the yard from time to time, and then went back to the kitchen, This was repeated several times.

After Yue Yue changed her shoes and went to the kitchen, she saw the snails that were still dirty just now, but now they were much cleaner.

And also changed to a larger basin, and added a lot of water in it. It seems that her little brother was busy just now, probably dealing with the mud on the surface of the snails.

Yan Yue couldn't help shaking her head when she saw it, and then she went out of the kitchen, ignoring her younger brother who stayed in the kitchen to tinker with the snails.

When she returned to the courtyard, she sighed as she watched the sun setting towards the west, went to the main room, poured a cold glass and drank a whole glass, then pulled a nearby chair and slumped on it.

Seeing her appearance, her mother shook her head helplessly, but there was nothing she could do, so she simply ignored her, turned around and continued chatting with her husband and eldest daughter.

The lives of rural people are always busy during the seasons of sowing and harvesting, but once the two seasons are over, they feel idle and flustered.

If the days were still as difficult as before, it would be impossible for her father to be at home all day like recently, but would have already gone to the town to find odd jobs.

Time passed quickly, and it was afternoon in a blink of an eye. Fang looked at the second daughter who was dozing off on the chair, and couldn't bear to wake her up, so she went to the kitchen with the eldest daughter to prepare dinner for the family.

Ouyang Chun looked at his wife and daughter who were going to the kitchen to prepare dinner, then looked at the second daughter who was dozing off, then took a chair out of the main room and sat at the gate.

When Yue Yue woke up after sleeping on the chair, she found that there were no relatives in the main room, so she quickly stood up while propping up the chair.

Then she shook her somewhat stiff neck and her already numb arms, and then continued to shake her tiny legs before leaving the main room and heading for the kitchen.

When she walked to the door of the kitchen, she found that the whole family was gathered in the kitchen at this time, so she looked in the direction of the stove, and then she found that there were a few fried dishes on the stove.

As the iron pot was covered with a lid at this time, Yan Yue didn't know what was cooking in it, and just watched the hot steam keep coming out.

Fang looked at Yun Yue who was standing in a daze at the door of the kitchen, and then shouted: "Yu Yue, wash your face with water, you can eat in a while."

Hearing what her mother said, Yue Yue moved her body and responded, then walked to the washbasin shelf, held the washbasin, fetched some water, and washed her face with cold water.

After Yue Yue finished washing her face and sat down to play for a while, the family went to the main room to set up the tables and chairs, and then went back to the kitchen with a few small dishes on the stove.

When Yan Yue and the others returned to the kitchen from the main room again, her mother had already filled the rice in the pot and put them in several bowls.

Then they each returned to the main room with a bowl, smiling happily while eating and chatting, while Liuyun, who was hiding on the banyan tree, was in the same situation as in the morning. Using Qinggong, he ran up the mountain, and then shuttled back and forth in the forest to find wild animals.

When he came back after eating and drinking, a full moon rose, so he lay on the roof of Yue Yue's house just like last night, holding his never-leaving meteor sword, staring at the moon. Look at the beautiful night sky.

Suddenly, a burst of noise broke the peaceful atmosphere in the village. Liu Yun came back to his senses, sat up straight in an instant, then stood up quickly, and then looked in the direction of the source of the sound, and found that there were groups of people in the village Under the moonlight, children playing hide-and-seek on country roads and in the yards of several families.

Liu Yun looked at a group of carefree children who didn't know the suffering, a trace of envy and vague nostalgia gradually appeared in his eyes.

At this time, Yue Yue's family also moved from the main room to the osmanthus tree in the yard. Seeing this, Liu Yun hurried back to sit on the roof tiles, and then continued to admire the beautiful starry sky.

Sitting under the sweet-scented osmanthus tree, the Yue Yue family started chatting again as if they had endless things to say.

However, her younger brother couldn't sit still after sitting for a while, so he went to the back room and took out the sandbag that he had played with countless times.

Then he went back to the osmanthus tree and called his two elder sisters who were chatting with his parents. Hearing that the younger brother called them the two sisters, Yanyue looked sideways at her younger brother and asked, "Little brother, what are you doing?"

When Ouyang Mu heard this, he shouted: "Eldest Sister, Second Sister, let's play with sandbags. Anyway, the moonlight is quite bright, and it doesn't affect your sight. Let's play for a while."

When Yue Yue heard about it, she exchanged a glance with her elder sister, and then she said with a smile: "Okay, but if we lose, then we have to punish a little bit, what do you think?"

When Ouyang Mu heard that there was a punishment, he hesitated a little, but couldn't resist his curiosity, so he asked, "Second Sister, what punishment is it?"

Seeing this, Yue Yue felt that there was something to be done, so she said, "Punishment, the punishment is that the loser must jump leapfrog five times in a row. What do you think?"

When Ouyang Mu heard it, he found it quite novel, so he nodded without hesitation, and then asked him about leapfrog that his second sister said.

When Yue Yue stood up, squatted on the ground and did a few leapfrogs, Ouyang Mu couldn't wait to call his two sisters to play sandbag throwing.

Needless to say, after a few games, Ouyang Mu lost the most, although Ouyang Mu's reaction was also extremely sharp during the game.

But who let the three of them have a veteran of playing with sandbags, Yue Yue, so the sad Ouyang Mu lost several times in a row, and was punished for jumping leapfrog countless times, sitting in the sweet-scented osmanthus tree while watching Ouyang Chun and his wife next to each other were amused.

And what about Ouyang Mu?Don't look at him as small, but he has perseverance and is not afraid of losing, so after the punishment, he started again.

Then after playing for a while, it was just now that Yingyu, who was still watching her younger brother play well, was punished, so Yingyu did leapfrog several times in a row, until she was lying on the roof watching them play. Yun, almost laughed out loud, if he hadn't endured so much, he would have burst into laughter.

(End of this chapter)