The bacon sent by the old branch secretary is really roasted. The production of cured meat in Sichuan, Guixiang and the production of salted meat in the southeast coastal area are completely different. The production of salted meat in the southeast coastal area is generally relatively simple, and the salt is smoothed and then dried to facilitate preservation. However, the Sichuan and Guizhou regions are rainy and humid, and it is impossible to preserve the meat for a long time just by drying it. In the years when only one pig is killed a year, in order to keep the meat shelf-stable for a longer time, the older generation has developed a unique bacon process.

That is, the meat is marinated in seasonings, hung on the stove, and the bacon is smoked with smoke gas. In this way, the bacon can be kept for a whole year, and some old bacon may be able to be stored for three years.

And Zhang Tong was a little difficult to hold the bacon sent by the old branch secretary. Because even after his treatment, the skin of the smoked bacon was treated, and all the black materials were scraped clean. But this bacon doesn't know how many years it has been on the stove, even after soaking it in hot water, it is still hard, Zhang Tong cut off a slice with a knife, and it feels the same as cutting wood. And when I hit the cutting board with bacon, it made a thumping sound, and when I picked it up and smelled it, I felt that the special effect was like fire-baked wood.

If there's something that looks like wood, smells like wood, and looks like wood, then it's wood.

Zhang Tong boasts that he is a good cook, but how to cook this piece of wood is really a problem.

"This thing is estimated to have to be boiled in hot water in a pot for a long time before it can be used for stir-frying, and we probably won't be able to eat it today. Jiang Hua looked at this old bacon with a little pity: "It's a pity that this bacon should taste good." ”

"Isn't this supposed to be the so-called No. 1 carcinogenic food? Now on TV, WeChat says that every day. Zhang Tong knocked on the bacon.

"No. 1 carcinogenic? No, staying up late is the number one carcinogenic factor. Staying up late to play games, and then having an oily fried noodles or fried chicken and crayfish for a supper when you are hungry, this lifestyle is the first cause of cancer. If only I could be like this old branch secretary, I would sleep at eight o'clock every day, get up at five o'clock in the morning, eat on time and work on time every day. Even if you eat bacon with this number one carcinogen once a week, it doesn't matter. The old branch secretary is in his sixties, isn't he also in good health? Jiang Hua said.

Zhang Tong was a little curious: "Isn't it said that you will retire at the age of sixty?"

"Someone has to come to the top. There are about 500 natural people in this Luojia Village, and there is no industry, and the main young and middle-aged labor force in the village goes to work in Shuangqing City. I only come back in summer and autumn and during the Chinese New Year. Usually, there are only about 200 elderly people and left-behind children in the village. Originally, there was a primary school in the village, but in the past two years, the 42 children left behind in Luojia Village have to go to school in a town 10 kilometers away. It's the same place where we parked. Lin Jie, who tied the national emblem, wiped his hands and walked over slowly.

It was rainy and humid in the mountains, so he sat on a bench and warmed himself by using a stove: "There is a primary school and a middle school in the town, but there are no accommodation conditions, so the children here in Luojia Village can only go to school." ”

"They have to walk the mountain road we walked today every day, almost two hours. I went out at five in the morning and came back at six or seven in the evening. You have to use a flashlight on the way back and forth. Lin Jie seemed to know the little village well.

"This small village is usually as deserted, there are too few people. There are only enough people during the Chinese New Year. In the future, such a village may also be slowly abandoned, and the county here is preparing to build a new village, and then the village will be relocated as a whole. Didn't we see a white house on the way when we came? The county encouraged these people from remote villages to buy houses over there. If you have a local agricultural household registration, you can buy a two-story building with 200 square meters for 100,000 yuan. It can meet the needs of a rural family of five or six people. Lin Jie relied on the warmth of the hearth to feel that he was much more comfortable.

Zhang Tong gave up dealing with bacon, so let's eat bacon tomorrow. Everyone is hungry, so simply cook a big pot of instant noodles. Instant noodles aren't a great delicacy, but they're still good when you're hungry. Especially now that it's easy to keep things simple. Jang Tong bought Shin ramen because out of all the instant noodles, Korean instant noodles are one of the most suitable for cooking. Most of the Chinese instant noodles are really designed for soaking, and soaking them in boiling water is enough, but they are not suitable for boiling, and they become very soft as soon as they are cooked.

However, many foreign brands of instant noodles are completely opposite to domestic instant noodles in terms of design ideas, and they are completely unsuitable for brewing. If the noodles are soaked in boiling water, they will have a half-cooked feeling, and they must be boiled to make the noodles taste up to the desired standard. For example, in some countries in Southeast Asia, stir-fried instant noodles are a serious dish, and local instant noodles in Southeast Asia, such as Yum Kitchen, are actually very good when boiled and then stir-fried. And if it is instant noodles such as Master Kong in China, the noodles will become too soft and rotten if they are boiled first and then fried.

Zhang Tong boiled a pot of water on the hearth, threw the bags of spicy cabbage and sesame rice cakes prepared in his backpack into the pot to boil, and opened two cans of luncheon meat of the little white pig. This is a luncheon meat brand that Zhang Tong stumbled upon, and as a Huaihai person, Zhang Tong's canned food from snacks is Merlin. But the little white pig's luncheon meat tastes a little better than Merlin's, probably because of the amount of meat used.

When the luncheon meat is opened, the unique aroma begins to hook the mouth.

Zhang Tong asked Lin Jie while preparing a simple dinner: "Then this is a good thing, I think that house is very cheap to buy for 100,000 yuan." Although it is on the edge of the town, the cost of building the house is 100,000 yuan, even if it is a brick and concrete structure. The county is considered to be a welfare. ”

"Yes, it's a welfare project. The county has stipulated that only farmers in these remote villages can buy it. Otherwise, there would have been a lot of people in the town and county who had gone to buy it with money. But farmers in these places don't really want to buy it, and they haven't sold a few sets yet. Lin Jie nodded while roasting the fire.

"Why don't you buy 100,000 yuan? If the husband and wife work in Shuangqing, how can they have money to buy a house over there after saving for three years? Jiang Hua also asked with a frown while roasting the fire.

"Because of the earth. Lin Jie was a little helpless: "There is no land next to the town to distribute to these farmers." Buying a house over there is equivalent to automatically giving up the land here. You can't live there and drive 10 kilometers of mountain roads every day to take care of the acres of fields and fruit trees here. Although it is said that the income of the rural economy is not high, the food rations are basically satisfied, and the surplus agricultural products are sold for several thousand yuan every year, plus the state now subsidizes agriculture. Farmers who grow food also get another share of the money. If you move out, it's gone. ”

"If you live next to the town, you have to buy food rations, and you will lose the annual subsidy and the income from the farm, which is equivalent to spending an extra 20,000 to 30,000 yuan a year. Don't think that the peasants don't know, they are very shrewd in calculating these accounts. So sometimes they don't move out of the mountains not because the farmers are stupid, but because they are too shrewd. If you do well, such as opening a food stall to earn more than 100,000 yuan a year, ordinary people work, husband and wife may earn more than 60,000 yuan or 70,000 yuan a year. After deducting the expenses in Shuangqing, it is already very frugal to save 20,000 or 30,000 yuan a year. ”

Lin Jie, who has been working in rural areas for a long time, knows too well the economic ecology of rural areas, which is both fragile and strong. If you don't get sick and don't have a lot of cash expenses, then as long as you are willing to do it in the countryside, you will never starve to death, and a ration will always be able to do it. This is different from the city, where if you really lose your job completely, and you don't have a subsistence allowance, you can starve to death.

Therefore, in the financial tsunami of '08, more than 100,000 factories on the southeast coast closed down, and 30 million industrial workers were laid off, and these astronomical laid-off workers were all transferred back to the countryside. Let the rural areas absorb the biggest ripples of this financial tsunami on China. There was no riot in the cities of 30 million unemployed people. (Note: The information is from Professor Wen Tiejun's "China's Eight Crises")

Rural areas have a strong healing capacity, and if China is described as a person, the cities are red blood cells, and the rural areas are white blood cells. Shearing the wool of agriculture subsidizes the industry, which China has been doing for more than half a century. And now the time has come when industrial wool shearing is needed to subsidize agriculture.

"But if farmers leave the land, there is no basis for them to survive. Rural ecology is already fragile, and if the balance is broken, it will be even more fragile. And this is the case this time. It was the villager Luo Jiayou who beat the person, and it was his cousin Luo Zhong who was beaten. Luo Zhong used the household registration of their 60-year-old second uncle to help a family in the town buy a house next to the town as a new wedding house. Luo Zhong charged 10,000 yuan as an intermediary, and when the Luo family learned about it after returning home for the Chinese New Year, he beat Luo Zhong with a hoe. Luo Zhong is still in the intensive care unit. ”

"Two policemen in the town came to take the Luo family, but many people in the village didn't let them, and they all felt that Luo Zhong deserved to be killed. For fear of mass incidents, the police at the town's police station did not dare to force their hands. In the case that the old branch secretary's guarantee that the Luo family would not escape, the town applied for the circuit court to come here directly to hear the case. The case is simple, but not easy to judge. The Luo family has a second uncle and no children, and most of the people in this village are related to each other, so they don't despise what Luo Zhong does. I don't think it's a big deal for the Luo family to beat people. Lin Jie said and glanced at the hearth: "Have you cooked it here?"

"Almost. Zhang Tong looked at the boiling water in the pot and poured five packets of Xin ramen into it, and then poured the sliced little white pork luncheon meat into it together. As the fire boiled, the thick aroma wafted out, and Zhang Tong threw in some fresh leafy greens, sprinkling a handful of cheddar cheese and cooked sesame seeds before starting the pot.

The strong fragrance stimulates people's senses, and Xiao Li, who is tired and sleeps at this time, smells the fragrance and gets up from the guest room on the second floor: "Is it time for dinner?"

In addition to Xiao Li, Zhang Tong's cooking also attracted a lot of children at home during the New Year, a group of children gathered around the door to smell the strong aroma of instant noodles, and then looked at the random stir-fry in the rice bowl in their hands, everyone swallowed their saliva.

Lin Jie patted his forehead: "I forgot to tell you, you must close the door when cooking." ”

PS: Here I recommend the instant noodle method in this chapter, which is delicious. Ingredients: Spicy cabbage, spicy cabbage-flavored ramen, shiba rice cake (you can do it without it), luncheon meat (white pig, Merlin, Shibang), cheddar cheese. A little trick to cooking instant noodles to master the heat: throw the instant noodles into the pot and boil them when the water is cold, and the instant noodles will be cooked just right, which is the time when the texture is the best. There are no 200 words in this paragraph, so they are not included in the charge, so don't worry.

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