Near evening, Shimiao Village sent all the big fish specially left, and said that they were temporarily kept in temporary puddles. More than 100 big fish of seven or eight catties are really spectacular when put together, not to mention children, adults are all around to watch.

It's a pity that except for Hantun Village, the pond pits in other villages in the beach area have been fished out, and the remaining one or two pond pits are reserved for the people of the village for the New Year.

In other villages in Zhangji Town, there are only about 300 acres of ponds, and less than 200 acres.

This year is the first year of fish farming in these villages, with an output of only more than 1,000 catties per mu, an income of more than 500 yuan, and an income of 100,000 yuan from 200 mu.

The income frame of selling lotus root is high-voltage, and the income from selling fish has long been considered, and everyone unanimously agrees to buy agricultural machinery, and cannot afford to buy a large combine harvester like Hantun, so you can buy small tractors, harvesters, threshers, cultivators and seeders as in Hantun Village before.

When it was dark, Luo Xincai brought a hundred catties of raw beef, and the temperature was rising every day, and my aunt looked at a lot of beef and began to worry: "The freezer is full, how can I eat so much beef." ”

Di Di said happily: "Uncle and Grandma, let's eat beef meatballs, Zhigao and I are responsible for chopping meat." ”

Hantun Village is still the same as before, slaughtering old cattle every year and distributing meat to everyone. The meat of the old cow is difficult to cook, so everyone chops it up to make water balls, and does not make pure meat, mixes more than half of flour, boils the pot and puts some vegetables, and even has rice and vegetables.

"Okay, we'll eat it tomorrow morning, but the water balls only use a few catties of meat, and the rest has to be made into braised balls, which can be stored for half a month." ”

The aunt said, using a knife to cut off a large piece of beef, at least more than five catties. Wash it with warm water and give it to Didi and Zhigao.

"This beef is really good, fresh and tender, this cow is definitely not more than two years, why are you willing to slaughter it." ”

It must have cost more money, and now in these years, the rich are getting more and more bold, if it was in the original production team, no one dared to slaughter the sturdy ploughing cattle.

During the years of the Great Famine, people could not survive, and the number of ploughing cattle did not decrease.

The patriotic uncle proposed: "Mother, since there is beef, let's make some beef mung bean balls, that thing is delicious and forbidden, at least for half a year." ”

When my aunt heard this, she said happily: "Why did I forget this stubble, I haven't done it for more than 20 years, and now that my life is better, no one thinks of fried beef mung bean balls."

Patriotic, you go to the cafeteria first to ask for a hundred catties of mung beans, Hongying and I go to clean up the stone mill, and want to fry beef mung bean balls, we have to start acting today, or it will be too late. ”

Not to mention the children, even Grandma Yoyo doesn't know what beef mung bean balls are.

"Sister-in-law, what are you talking about about this beef mung bean ball, what the hell is done, there are still three days before the end of the year, why is it too late. ”

"Sister, when I first returned to the village, I did it once, and I forgot about patriotism. The key is to deal with the trouble of mung beans, you have to grind mung beans into wet powder. ”

"It's really troublesome to grind the powder, and a hundred catties of mung beans have to be used for a day. ”

My aunt and uncle were chattering and tidying up, and they had to bring buckets, brooms, and rags. The stone mill in the village has been useless for most of the year, and if it weren't for the maltose factory in the village, it is estimated that it would not be able to be used now.

Nowadays, people eat noodles with noodle making machines, and people dislike the stone mills to occupy space, and most of the village stone mills are dismantled and stacked in the corners.

At five o'clock in the afternoon, the maltose factory got off work, and the second master still adhered to the old rules, starting work in the morning and getting off work at sunset, and the standard of boiling sugar must be judged in natural light.

After a year, several of the apprentices he took with him had almost practiced, but when it came to the critical time, he had to make a decision.

The syrup in Hantun Village is all exported to the island country, and Yamamoto regularly inspects it, and with the increase in proficiency, the quality of the product has improved slightly, and they are more assured that they are buying.

Didi put down the kitchen knife in his hand and said to his aunt, "I'll go find the second uncle to lead the donkey." ”

Uncle and grandfather hurriedly followed: "Didi, slow down, I'll go with you." ”

The children of the family stopped chopping meat and followed them to the maltose factory.

Uncle Patriotic and Tam have already come over with mung beans. When he saw his aunt and grandmother, he said: "Auntie, I have heard the elders talk about beef and mung bean balls, but I have never seen them, and this time I will open my eyes with you." ”

"I've done it once, and if I hadn't mentioned it patriotically, I would have forgotten that there was still this kind of food. ”

The stone mills were concentrated in one large workshop, and ten large stone mills were placed side by side, all covered with covers made of canvas.

When the cloth was removed, the stone grinding was clean. However, in order to rest assured, I still use the warm water I brought, and clean up and down again.

The second master and his uncle and grandfather, one of them brought a donkey, and the two stone mills started work together.

Tonight's work is quite simple, what my aunt said. Just grind the mung beans and turn them into two halves, of course, there are more broken ones.

The inside of the cracked mung bean is yellow, so it is also called mung bean yellow.

The two stone mills started at the same time, and the two uncles and aunts Hongying, one of them was responsible for one of the mills, and swept the mung bean yellow into the dustpan in time and poured it into the cloth bag.

More than half an hour passed, and a hundred catties of mung beans were finished.

Aunt Hongying and Uncle Grandpa went to the sales point of Yoyoji's house, they went to help Grandma Yoyo, and when the New Year was approaching, the consignment point closed at half past ten every night. Workers on the afternoon shift leave work at 10 o'clock, and many of them go to the consignment point to buy things after work.

There are also those who come to work in advance, buy good things in the consignment point and store them here, and take them after work and leave.

This year, they didn't come back, and there were only two grandmothers and grandfathers in the sales outlets, Dongmei and Aunt Hongying, and they went over to help after work.

According to Grandma's instructions, Yoyo only passed when replenishment, and the warehouse behind the consignment point was particularly large, so that a large amount of inventory could be replenished from time to time without being the same as before.

When I returned home, my aunt soaked all the mung bean yor with water, and all the buckets and large pots at home were mung bean yore.

After a while, my aunt and uncle stirred it with a wooden stick and fished out the mung bean skin floating on the water with a fence.

After repeating it several times, the mung bean skin was almost fished out, and only the yellow mung bean kernel was left in the water, which was the mung bean yellow that my aunt said.

Several children took turns chopping beef, although today's beef is more tender, but compared with pork, it is still more difficult to chop, and the jingle chop is almost eight o'clock, and it has finally been approved by my uncle and grandmother.