Chapter 351: A Cauldron with a Story
As soon as Yan Lan arrived at the door of the house riding the little sheep, she was shocked by the hot scene, only to see her father-in-law and husband, plus her husband's two friends Wen Shizhang and Yosuke Terashima, both of whom were shrinking their waists and stretching half of their bodies into a vat to wash the jar.
"What are you doing here? Where did you get so many new tanks?" Yan Lan parked the car at the gate of the courtyard, came to Bian Rui's side, stretched out her head and looked at her husband who got into the tank and asked.
Bian Rui didn't notice that his daughter-in-law was back, and was suddenly startled by her vocal education, and pulled his body out of the mouth of the tank, only to find that it was his daughter-in-law who spoke, so he smiled: "The tank is newly bought, my father said that the original few water tanks in our house are not good, let's keep it and continue to fill it, this new tank has just arrived, aren't we brushing it."
"Oh, then how did you get the two guests of the family, Wen Shizhang and Yosuke Terashima, to come over and help?" Yan Lan complained a little.
It happened that Yosuke Terashima was not far from Bian Rui, and said with a smile: "It's okay, anyway, we haven't bothered you less these days, what's the point of doing this little work, and I said that you can give me some when the vegetables are pickled."
Yan Lan smiled when she heard this: "That's no problem!"
Yosuke Terashima has become familiar with everyone these days.,In the past, the kind of fake politeness that the Japanese often had rarely appeared in him.,Now he will say it directly as long as he has any needs.,Any opinions on others will also be raised.,I won't hide it or stuff it in my heart.,Draw a small circle for others when you're alone.。
Bian Rui looked at Yan Lan turning her head to find something, so he asked, "What are you doing?"
"I'm looking for something to work, I can't be idle when you work," Yan Lan said.
Bian Rui said: "You are doing this work, aren't you making trouble for me, go back to the yard obediently, if you really want to work, choose those cabbages in the yard, let's eat hot pot at noon today."
"Eat hot pot at noon in this weather?" Yan Lan felt that eating hot pot today didn't seem to be right.
"Save trouble, I won't fry today, there are a lot of things, and there are still hundreds of catties of vegetables that have not been blanched, okay, hurry up and go to work" Bian Rui said and put his head into the tank again.
Bian Rui's gang brushed the tank clean, and then washed it with boiling water again, and it was estimated that the dirty ash and other things in it were almost gone, so they poured all the necessary cylinder mouths on the ground in the direction of the sun, and put a few small bricks on each of the cylinders.
The whole tank has a small slope because of a few small bricks, so that the residual water in the tank will slide down the tank wall, and it is easy for the water in the tank to completely volatilize when it is exposed to the sun.
The water in the pickle jar must not remain, because there are too many bacteria in the water, and the dishes left in the jar will be finished.
When all the jars are placed, then the pickle jar is completed.
As soon as Bian Rui straightened up, he heard Wen Shizhang ask, "What's next?"
Bian Rui smiled: "Is it addictive to work?"
Wen Shizhang replied: "I don't have anything to do to eat and drink here these days, I feel comfortable after exercising today, what else is there to do?"
Bian Rui stretched out his hand and pointed to the open space outside: "Bring out the firewood in the house."
"What are you doing with the firewood, are you going to cook here?" Wen Shizhang asked curiously.
He asked, but his feet already felt like he was going to the gate of the yard.
Bian Rui said: "Of course, if you can't always rely on the two pots at home to cook, you have to cook the dishes with those two pots for two or three days, wait a minute, I'll show you a big guy!"
Bian Rui said and walked to the yard with Wen Shizhang, Wen Shizhang entered the yard and went straight to the firewood room, while Bian Rui continued to go to the backyard, and when Bian Rui came out, he immediately made everyone happy. Because Bian Rui came out with a super cauldron. Wen Shizhang and Yosuke Terashima, who were present, had never seen such a big pot, with a diameter of one meter and eight meters, almost two meters, not to mention cooking, in the eyes of the two of them, this pot was enough to cook a cow.
"What a big cauldron!"
Yosuke Terashima looked around the pot curiously, and at this look he found that the pot was not cast, but knocked out, and standing on the side, you could see some faint fish scale patterns, although it was not very beautiful, but this pot must have taken a lot of craftsmen's hard work to make.
"Where did you get this?"
Bian Rui's father was a little excited when he saw this pot, stretched out his hand and gently stroked the pot, and said emotionally.
Bian Rui said: "From the old ...... What was found in the master's utility room came in handy."
Yosuke Terashima saw the expression on Bian Rui's father's face and asked curiously, "Is there a story in this?"
"It's not a story, it's a long time ago, it was when it was still the People's Commune, and the whole country was eating a big pot of rice, and this pot was made at that time. This thing was made to cope with the inspection, and everyone ate together when they sent people from above, and they ate from their own families if they didn't send people. Under his guidance, more than 20 people in our village took almost a month to knock out this pot, at that time, there was your uncle, the second uncle, they ......" Bian Rui's father reached out and touched the pot, as if he recalled the things at that time.
"Can't you buy it?"
At this time, Yan Lan walked out and asked casually when she heard her father-in-law's story.
Bian Rui's father said with a smile: "Buy? At that time, it was not easy to even buy saliva, there was no private store at all, and you had to have a ticket or something to buy anything, we are good here, there is an old Taoist here, everyone secretly grows grain, and people outside report an acre of thousands of catties, we have a poor harvest here every year, the fields at that time are not like now, the fields here are barren, there is a field in the mountains, it is that ration field that allowed our village to spend that time, and we will not mention it outside, it is called a miserable ...... Therefore, if there is an old man in the family, if there is a treasure, with the old Taoist, our village and several nearby villages are all fine."
There were too many nonsense things in the past, and the whole country seemed to fall into madness in that era, but Bian Rui's father had experienced it himself, and now he remembered that at that time, in addition to sighing, he was afraid, afraid?
Bian Rui knows a little about this, I heard the story of that era from the ancestor, I have to say that the ancestor really lived as a monster, but it's no wonder that the old man has gone through several dynasty changes, and has also experienced the darkest era in the history of the Han people, in the Yuan Dynasty, he was a fourth-class person, if he didn't have this forward-looking vision, he wouldn't have to mix.
"Okay, what are I going to do with this, Da Rui, do you just have this pot? I remember there is also a pot rack?" asked Bian Rui's father.
Bian Rui said: "That's natural, but it seems that it can't be used, and there is a break in the middle!"
"Where, I'll take a look," Bian Rui's father was suddenly interested.
Bian Rui said: "It's in that little shack in the northeast corner of the backyard."
Hearing his son say this, Bian Rui's father strode into the courtyard.
Bian Rui picked up bricks from the pile of bricks next to him and began to build a temporary stove.
After setting up the stove, Bian Rui put the pot on the stove, took two steps back and looked at it, then shook his head: "This doesn't seem to work!"
"Definitely not!" Wen Shizhang nodded beside him.
Yosuke Terashima nodded: "The bricks are too loose, you have to add cement, and you can only hold it when the cement is suspicious."
Now this cauldron is on the brick stove, and it looks like a normal pot is supported by a few chopsticks, which is particularly insecure.
"It's okay to use cement. Let's change places!" Bian Rui quickly decided.
Bricks are not good, and cement is even worse, Bian Rui just wants to do this hot cabbage so tossed, when the time comes, where to put a cement block when it is not used later?
"Do you want to change the stones?" Wen Shizhang said.
Bian Rui shook his head, where can he find the stone on which the pot is erected, the previous grinder is suitable, but he doesn't know where to run for a long time."
"Why don't you dig a pit, I look good at the terrain over there, dig a pit directly on the small mound over there, and put the pot on it......" Yosuke Terashima had a good idea, the same as what Bian Rui thought now.
So the three of them picked up their tools and prepared to dig a hole in the small mound in front of the yard, and then put the pot on it.
Before the three of them had dug the pit yet, they saw Bian Rui's father rolling out with a thick round iron shelf.
"Dad, have you fixed it?" Bian Rui asked curiously.
Bian Rui's father looked at Bian Rui with a look of hatred for iron and steel: "What is repaired, this thing is not broken at all, it was originally able to be broken into three pieces, you kid don't take a good look at it and say it's broken."
Bian Rui walked over curiously, and after a look, he found that the original joint was made with a lock mechanism, this thing is not easy to say, because it is a three-dimensional thing, after the three seemingly unlikely buttons are put together, only a small pin can tightly buckle the two connected things together, and the pin is not forced! Even if it is a bamboo stick, this thing also tries to withstand the force of thousands of catties, because the mechanism of the buckle divides the force on both sides of the shelf.
Yosuke Terashima and Wen Shizhang also came over at this time, and everyone was amazed.
"The ancient Chinese are really amazing, it's hard to imagine how the Chinese at that time discovered this mechanism," Wen Shizhang couldn't help but praise.
Yosuke Terashima couldn't help nodding, Japan is more influenced by China, and now many of the important cultural relics in their museums are from China, and it is needless to say that there is no need to say that there is respect for ancient China.
After sighing for a while, everyone threw away the tools in their hands, directly set the shelf in the drying field, put the pot on the shelf, and then set fire to pile firewood in the shelf.
As soon as the fire boiled, the water in the cauldron boiled, and everyone had a stainless steel hook in their hands, and when they saw that the vegetables in the pot had changed color, they used the hook to hook out the greens, and the vegetables in the pot were added to the new dishes as soon as they were few.