The worst time travel, surviving seven years of famine

The old lady finally bought the red cloth at the market, took it home and put it at the bottom of the box, preparing to use it as a veil for her youngest son's wedding.

The next day, the Gu family began to prepare for the festival early in the morning.

Even Gu Liang, who usually loves to sleep in, did not stay in bed today. He got up early, washed up, and prepared to have breakfast. When Gu Liang first came here, he was always worried about brushing his teeth. Later, he used a piece of cloth wrapped around a wooden stick as a toothbrush. As for toothpaste, it was all bamboo charcoal powder. Gu Liang did not have colloids such as honey to make an adhesive for this bamboo charcoal powder, so the toothpaste used by Gu Liang should be called "tooth powder".

This "tooth powder" can indeed be used, and Gu Liang wanted to recommend it to Dani, but Gu Dani saw that her brother's mouth was black every time he brushed his teeth with carbon powder, and he would accidentally spray black smoke like a goblin, so she refused to accept it. So Gu Liang's promotion road was cut off, and he could only brush his teeth every day without fail.

This morning, the children of the Gu family came to the table in a very neat manner, and they were waiting at the table early without being called. Gu Liang was no exception. In the words of his sister Dani, "Who sleeps in during the holidays?" Gu Liang has been with the family for so long, and he eats plain soup every day. Even he himself hopes to improve his meals during the holidays.

After waiting for the food to be served, it was the same brown rice porridge as usual, and the dish was the same fried amaranth as usual. When the children saw the dishes that Grandma Gu brought to the table, they were immediately disappointed, and Dani also asked her grandmother why the meat she bought yesterday had not been cooked yet.

While sharing the chopsticks, Gu said, "Eat now, or you won't be able to eat the fried crispy meat later."

The children, who were disappointed because they couldn't eat the meat right away, cheered immediately after hearing what Gu said, and ate the bland food that they had just refused to eat, as if they were already eating it.

Strangely enough, the Dragon Boat Festival here is not like dragon boat racing and making rice dumplings in later generations, but tug-of-war and making baba.

After dinner, Gu started to make seasonal food for the Dragon Boat Festival. Li, who was supposed to go back to her parents' home after dinner, did not leave at this time, and kept hanging around to help.

Gu also kindly reminded Li that she should go back, and it would be bad to go back to her parents' home in the afternoon if she didn't go back.

Li said flatteringly, "Mom, I'm afraid you're too busy, so I'll help you first. You can go back to your parents' home anytime!"

Old Lady Gu knew what Li was up to without blinking an eye, and said mercilessly, "I'm too busy, and there's your sister-in-law! I don't know why you're not leaving, it's just that you haven't eaten the two pounds of meat I bought yesterday. I saw you left in the morning, and you didn't eat the meat in the evening, so you didn't leave today."

Although Old Lady Gu spoke rudely, she also knew what kind of temper Li had, and she was always thick-skinned for food. Sure enough, Li didn't blush when she heard the old lady's ridicule, and didn't even explain. She just smiled at the old lady, saying that you know why I haven't gone back to my parents' home yet, so you should cook and eat the meat quickly.

The old lady was unwilling to fulfill Li's wish, so she did what she had to do first.

Old Lady Gu turned back to the house and took out the flour that had been prepared long ago, as well as a bag of dried vegetables that looked like cotton wool dyed in dark blue.

Gu Liang and his sisters happened to be wearing the colorful strings prepared for the Dragon Boat Festival, and the little ones wanted to show off to Old Lady Gu, so Gu Liang took them to the kitchen.

"Grandma, what are you doing?" Gu Liang asked curiously.

Old Lady Gu didn't stop her hands and feet, and replied: "Making baba for the festival, don't you like baba the most?"

Gu Liang asked in confusion: "Grandma, why don't we eat zongzi on the Dragon Boat Festival here!"

Old Lady Gu paused, and didn't react to what zongzi Gu Liang was talking about. Later, Gu Liang explained that Zongzi is glutinous rice wrapped in bamboo leaves. Then Mrs. Gu reacted and said, "No one here can make that. I have only heard of it before. We eat Ba on Dragon Boat Festival here."

Gu Liang thought that ancient times were still different from modern times. There were too many customs. Unlike modern information transmission, this delicacy became popular today and it was sold all over the country within a month. In ancient times, customs were different every three miles and pronunciations were different every ten miles. Naturally, festivals were different in different places.

Gu Liang didn't say anything, and lay down by the stove to watch Mrs. Gu knead the dough.

Unlike modern dough kneading, ancient flour was yellowish. Modern flour is generally first-grade special flour, which uses wheat core. In ancient flour,

There are some tiny brans that cannot be removed and have a little yellow color. Few people in Lanxi Village grow wheat, and the price of wheat is much higher than that of rice, not to mention the finely ground flour. Usually, the flour is hidden in the house by Grandma Gu, and it is only taken out during the festival.

Grandma Gu found a piece of yeast ball left over from the last time she kneaded the dough in a small cloth bag, broke off a piece, soaked it in warm water, and then poured it into the flour.

Unlike other places, when kneading the dough here, it is not water that is added, but dried wormwood. After the wormwood is dried and soaked in hot water, it becomes a texture similar to paste. After adding it to the flour, the dough is also dyed gray.

After Grandma Gu kneaded the dough to make it thinner and softer, she put it aside to ferment. After an hour, because the dough was thinner, the fermented dough looked like a fluffy sponge ball. At this point, Grandma Gu kneaded the dough again to exhaust the air and then steamed it in a pot.

However, normal steamed buns and dumplings are kneaded into small pieces before steaming, but Gu Liang was once again amazed by what Grandma Gu did. She spread the whole dough evenly in the steamer and then steamed it.

Wow, Gu Liang thought that the size of the steamer would determine the size of the baba. After asking his grandmother, Gu Liang got a positive answer. Gu Liang thought about it and felt that the scene was a bit strange when he was holding a baba bigger than a washbasin.

After the baba was steamed, Gu Liang realized that he had thought too much. The whole baba was not eaten directly, but cut into pieces with a thread.

I saw Grandma Gu fixed one end of the white thread and passed the white thread under the whole piece of baba, so that the whole white thread was under the baba. Then hold the two ends of the white line and pull them towards the middle. A complete baba will be divided into two, two into four, and finally into baba that is about 20 cm long and 3 cm thick.

Just after cutting, Gu Liang, who had been standing by for a long time, couldn't help it. When it was steamed, he could already smell a special grass fragrance. When it came out of the steamer, the special grain fragrance and fragrant grass fragrance brought out by the vigorous water vapor made people hungry. Although it looks primitive and simple, it gives people a rural atmosphere. But it is precisely because of the primitive and simple breath that it can bring people the most simple appetite impulse.

Gu Liang picked up a piece of baba that became fluffy and light due to full fermentation. The added sedge grass has been fully present in every pore of the baba. It does not bring the greenness of the grass juice, but comes from its own unique fragrant grass fragrance, which is completely released under high temperature water vapor. And it is precisely because of it that the baba becomes more resilient and elastic, just like fish in the water, flowers in the grass, and fruits on the branches, which complement each other and make each other more beautiful and harmonious.

The sweetness brought by the decomposition of salivary amylase in the original starch is in the mouth. The wormwood has no special taste, but brings more fragrance.

After eating a piece, Gu Liang fell in love with this special and traditional baba, which is soft and chewy, fragrant and rich.