Chapter 7: Green Goats
Mom had already prepared lunch, and when she saw Grandma and Yoyo coming back, she brought the food. It's still the same two dry foods, flower rolls and mixed noodles. The dish is cabbage vermicelli stewed in broth and mung bean balls, the two old men and their brother and sister each have more than half a bowl, and the parents eat half a bowl of pickles: spicy radish sauce beans.
Grandpa picked a white-flour flower curl for Didi, and grandma took the nest head and said: "Sorghum beans and beans are chili peppers, the more you eat, the fatter you get, I'll make some chili sauce." ”
In Xiao Youyou's memory, the chili sauce made by grandma is spicy and delicious, especially with fried chopped soybeans, the fragrance is stronger. remembered the burnt peanuts (fried peanuts) given by his uncle and grandmother in his pocket, and quickly took them out.
"Uncle and grandma gave it, and it tasted delicious when added to chili oil. ”
"I'm done eating, and I won't eat it anymore, and I'll leave it to make chili sauce. Hao Hao said with some annoyance.
"I won't eat it either, I'll put it on my grandmother. Didi said preemptively
"The children have grown up and become sensible. Grandpa praised the brothers and sisters with relief.
Before the lunch of the Yoyo family was finished, I heard a sound of courtesy outside. When I went out, the new son-in-law of the second master's family went out of the guest house accompanied by several people, and it seemed that he was afraid that people would mess with the new guests.
The custom here is that when the new son-in-law returns, the young men in the village will smear the bottom of the pot with ashes on their faces.
And the higher the seniority, the more ruthless the chaos, probably because you became an uncle and uncle at a young age, and you have to pay a price.
Most of the brothers in the woman's family are responsible for escorting new guests out of the village, and generally the chaos of new guests ends when they leave the village.
The second master's family is high, and there are few near the door, so it is estimated that he wants to take advantage of the time when everyone goes home for dinner, and the new guests go back early.
Who knew that as soon as he got out of the yard, he was blocked by a few young men waiting there, and he was still holding a cotton ball with ash stuck to the bottom of the pot. When the new son-in-law saw it, he was so frightened that he retreated to the yard.
The second master couldn't do it, so he had to follow behind, although he didn't say a word, but the group of people in the town didn't dare to come forward, but they still followed behind and sent them all the way to the outside of the village. Baojing stayed with his second brother-in-law, and everyone came back with the second master.
As soon as he returned home, the man who came with him offered to go back. The second master politely kept a few words, and then ordered to send the guests off.
The gifts brought by the newcomers, the second grandmother only kept ten steamed buns, flower cake noses, and a piece of fruit according to the rules here, and the rest were pressed back, and the rest were not left.
The gift box is covered in front of the guests, and the onlookers are watching the lively folks. The guest's mouth was polite and asked him to stay more, but he didn't actually take action.
The crowd of onlookers was talking about it, some asked the second master to stay more, and some praised the second master's atmosphere.
However, everyone has always thought that the second master loves his daughter, this is to give his daughter a long face, and I am afraid that I will leave too much, and my daughter will not be able to raise her head in front of her mother-in-law's family.
After lunch, my brother followed my grandfather to herd sheep, and carried a wicker basket on his shoulder to collect firewood.
After counting them, there were sixteen green goats in the house, among which there were seven ewes with lambs, and their big bellies were almost touching the ground. There are also five and a half large ewes, and four small rings (castrated rams).
Looking at the flocks of green goats, the first thing that comes to mind is the fragrant mutton shabu-shabu. In later generations, green goats were very popular, and the price of free-range green goat meat was as high as thousands of yuan. Now you are young, I don't know what the price of green goats is in this era, but through the importance of the family to green goats, it should be okay.
Yoyo learned through inquiries on the brain that even in this era, the green goats here are rare specialties in the country. The meat quality is good, the meat is excellent, and the reproduction rate is high, and it is called a "national treasure" by famous experts at home and abroad.
The lambskin of the green goat is also known as the "cunning skin", there are natural and beautiful patterns, the fur light is sensitive, mercerized and silver, with beautiful, thin, warm, strong and other characteristics, is the production of high-grade leather clothing, mattress of the superior raw materials, in the international market enjoys a high reputation, as early as 1920 exported to Western Europe and the United States.
As far as carnivorous is concerned, green goat is also indispensable, and people's love for green goat meat cannot be replaced by other meats, and there are many ways to eat it.
Mutton soup is white like milk, blended with water and fat, pure texture, fresh but not greasy, not only a delicious delicacy, but also has many medicinal diet functions, which is deeply loved by consumers.
Roast mutton, mutton sauce, mutton dumplings, become a local famous food, mutton hot pot is a popular dish in winter.
Absorbable medical suture is made of high-quality casing of green goat, which is a high-tech product, and its technical indicators such as finish, uniformity, breaking strength, thread cleanliness and absorption period are better than the national professional standards, and most of the products are exported.
Green goats mature early, have strong fecundity, and can generally be bred at the age of 6 months. Two litters can be produced in a year, each litter can produce 2~3 lambs, and more can produce 6~7 lambs.
Green goats eat less grass, tolerate rough feeding, easy to raise, low cost, high yield, before the nineties was an important breeding industry for peasant families.
Although green goats are treasures, the limitations of green goat breeding are also very large, that is, they must be free-range. Free-range goats basically do not get sick, but the green goats raised in the farm are very easy to get sick and die.
With the rapid development of the economy, the labor force is becoming increasingly tight, the stock of green goats is decreasing, and Boer goats suitable for captivity are favored by professional farmers, but the taste can not be compared with green goats.
The era has entered the 21st century, people miss the delicacy of green goats, and the state has also increased investment in the protection and development of green goats, but with little effect. The frequent extinction of green goats has led to high prices of green goat meat.
Thinking of the delicious taste of green goat meat, I was hungry for a long time. Think about the green goats running around, the foodie Youyou gave full play to his imagination, full of beautiful visions for the future, and made up all kinds of mutton feasts.
Dad took his younger brother to the clinic, and grandma and mom set up a spinning wheel on the kang to spin cotton thread. The ancient spinning wheel turned rhythmically in the hands of the two men, and the strips of cotton turned into thin threads, which were wound into spindle-shaped ears on the pointed ingots.
Their spinning skills, compared with the farmhouse performances that Yoyo has seen in later generations, are simply masterful, and they straighten Yoyo's eyes.
With his left hand, he pinched the strip of cotton, and his grandmother called it "flower cloth", and his right hand stirred the car, so fast that he couldn't see the planks on it. Cotton yarn is pulled out from the tip of the spindle, and it is slowly wound on the spindle one by one, and it is slowly wound into a "thread tassel" with thick middle and two pointed ends.
Grandma spun the thread and didn't forget to tease:
Spinning floats, hum huh,
The girl speaks, and the mother loves to listen.
Grandma hurts her grandson,
Grandma hurts her nephew.
Hurt grandson, praise gold in the gourd head,
Hurt nephew, sorghum field worms.
Youyou deliberately corrected grandma seriously: "Grandma, you are wrong, you don't care about your niece." ”
Grandma smiled, "Well, it's grandma's mistake, grandma is waiting to enjoy my blessings." ”
Yoyo thought to himself, I didn't know before, but I will definitely let you enjoy your old happiness in the future.
Lying on the kang and pretending to sleep, you are actually browsing the relevant content of the 70s with your eyes closed and using your consciousness on your brain.
Timeline of the mid-to-late seventies:
In 76, the three leaders died, and the "Gang of Four" was crushed.
In 77, the college entrance examination was resumed, and intellectuals were taken seriously.
The Third Plenary Session of the 11th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China was held in 78, reform and opening up, and the chaos was put in order, and the rightists and all kinds of unjust, false and wrongly decided cases were rehabilitated.
In the 79 years of the self-defense and counterattack against Vietnam, the rural areas gradually realized the production responsibility system, divided the fields into households, and greatly improved the peasants' lives.
Now that we have just entered 75 years, there are still 5 years to go until 79 years, and there is a long way to go to get rid of poverty and become rich. However, my mother is a high school graduate and can take the college entrance examination in '77.
Looking at the abundant materials in the storage warehouse, thinking of his own embarrassing life, you have a feeling of holding a cornucopia to eat, and desperately hope to find a reliable way to take out the things in the warehouse.
However, I learned in my mind that before the reform and opening up, a planned economy was implemented, and materials were uniformly allocated by the state. Severely crack down on the behaviors of buying and selling, and speculating.
Rural bazaars existed, but they were limited to the mutual trading of a small number of products produced by the family. Although the black market has been an open secret for 75 years, it is only a small transaction of a few in-demand goods.
In this era, the peasants' income mainly came from the division of labor and family breeding, and the large amount of money from the sale of pigs and sheep was saved to do big things, and the money from eating salt and lighting fire was pulled out of the chicken's buttocks.
Youyou thinks about his five-year-old small body, he can't pick his shoulders and can't lift his hands, he can't buy it, he can't sell it, and it's definitely not feasible to earn money to support his family by himself.
According to Yoyo's current cognition, no matter how much money is thrown in his yard, even Didi picks it up and knows that it will be handed over to the police uncle.
This is not good, and it is not good, the anxious Russia scratches the wall, and after an afternoon, he has not been able to come up with a perfect solution.
When cooking at night, grandma took out a brazier at the bottom of the pot, grabbed a handful of dried chili peppers and roasted them on the fire, and smashed them together with more than 20 grains of Jiao Huasheng that you took out, put half a spoonful of soybean oil in the iron rice spoon, heated it on the brazier until it boiled, poured it into the chili noodles, and the spicy smell came to the nostrils.
Hao Hao picked up a miscellaneous bread, broke it in half, and handed it to his grandmother.
"It's so fragrant, grandma put me more. ”
Dad Weihua hurriedly stopped him: "Mom, give him less of it, eat too many chili peppers and get on the fire." ”
Look at the fragrance of my brother's food, and you can learn the same. I didn't know that when I took a bite, I was coughed so hot that I couldn't stop coughing, and my father hurriedly handed over a bowl of warm boiled water.
"Hurry up and rinse your mouth, how many times has this been spicy, why don't you remember it for a long time. ”
Yoyo's face turned red, and he was a three-person person, so I'm really embarrassed for stuttering. However, the family didn't care at all, and thought that Yoyo's blush was spicy.
Dinner is a mixture of bread with clear water and stuffed with spicy radish leaf vermicelli. The crust of mixed bread is thick and the filling is many large, one at least three taels.
Alone for his grandfather and brother and sister, he slipped white flour vegetable buns, Hao Hao said that he was too old to rush to eat mixed bread, and ate 3 vegetable buns in one go. Grandma said that she followed the big amount of food of the old grandmother's family, and said that "half the eldest child eats Lao Tzu to death".
Yoyo also took a bun with mixed noodles, and took a bite of it, only gnawing on a layer of skin, and didn't even see the filling. The bun skin of the mixed noodles is hard, and it is chewed vigorously, and it is still very difficult to swallow, the key is to pull the throat.
After several bites, I finally ate the filling, and the taste of green vegetables had a faint bitterness. Although the dried and spicy radish leaves are soaked in water to soften, they are still very strong, and they are eating pads. There are very few vermicelli in the filling, and it is almost impossible to see. If you put less oil, you won't be able to eat the fragrance.
Seeing that Yoyo was having a hard time eating, Dad smiled and took the bun in her hand away and handed her a white-flour vegetable bun.
"You're still young, your voice is small, don't learn from your brother. ”
The doubt in Youyou's heart, the mixed noodles steamed bread in later generations tasted much better than the white flour steamed bread, and it is said that the mixed noodles and dry food in this era should be more delicious, there is no reason to be so unpalatable.
As soon as I finished eating, the second master and the second grandmother came. The second grandmother wrapped six flower cake noses with hand towels. Grandma saw it and hurriedly said, "Second master, you are doing this because of the external qi (outer way)." ”
"What's the outside gas, today you gave the second master a long face, and the second Nipo's receptionist has been boasting, saying that it is the first time that the guest accompanies the guest to see such a good-looking and delicious banquet. ”
In order to make it easier to distinguish between them, Arabic numerals will be used in the solar calendar in the future, such as June 10, 1975. The lunar calendar is capitalized one, two, three, such as June 10.