Chapter Fifty-Six: Glutinous Peppers

"Oh my God, Zhang Zhang, you bear child. Chen Xin picked up Zhang Zhang, who was covered in spicy sauce, and ran to the toilet, urging the second sister to boil water to take a bath for Zhang Zhang.

After a few days of fermentation, the hot sauce is no longer as spicy as it hurts when it first touches your hands, but the child's skin is tender, and the water of the hot sauce will still feel hot and spicy.

Zhang Zhang was not allowed to touch his face, Chen Xin didn't care about anything else, first wiped the hot sauce on his face with a towel, and then took off the small vest and shorts and wiped off the hot sauce and juice hanging on his skin by the way.

This hot sauce does not dare to be washed directly with hot water, it must be wiped clean with cold water first, otherwise the hot water will go away, the pores will open, and the hot and spicy pain will not be able to stand it.

Fortunately, it is my own well water, and after it is hit, it is in the water tank again, and it is about the same temperature as normal.

After tossing for a long time to wash the little fat man, the aunt next door heard that Zhang Zhang was stained with hot sauce and juice, so she asked the boy to go to the field and cut two aloe vera leaves and came back.

Peel off a layer of the skin of the aloe vera leaf with a knife to reveal the shiny mesophyll and slimy juice inside. Then slice the shaved leaf flesh into thin slices, pick up a piece and rub it on the little fat man's body.

Aloe vera has a calming and anti-inflammatory effect, and wiping the wound with fresh aloe vera leaves after sunburn can be the most effective way to prevent further deterioration and infection.

Hot sauce stained skin is a bit similar to a burn, and aloe vera is the best treatment in the absence of medication.

Fortunately, the little fat man didn't have hot sauce in his hair, otherwise he would have had to shave his hair off. In this way, the little fat man was also frightened, hugged his aunt tightly and refused to let go, he couldn't even sleep well, and he would sobbed twice in the middle of the night.

However, the little fat man's bear this time also made Chen Xin's hot sauce take a fancy to it.

The aunt next door has been learning to make hot sauce for decades, but the hot sauce she makes is always disliked by her family. When the old lady was there before, the old lady could still command the dry, but now there is no old man by the side to command, and the hot sauce she makes every time is either bad or sour, anyway, there is always a strange taste that makes people disgusted when eaten in the mouth.

"I also made it according to the recipe, and I also weighed the amount of my old lady when she made the hot sauce, and then followed the recipe step by step, but it was wrong. Why do you think this hot sauce is so bad with me?" the aunt complained a few times, and helped clean up the dirty room table before returning home with the rest of the hot sauce.

"Second sister, when should I collect chili peppers at home?" Chen Xin, who coaxed the little fat man to sleep, came out to wash her face and change clothes, and by the way, she listened to the self-pity of the aunt next door, and then thought about whether to get some chili peppers to try to make hot sauce before leaving.

"We have a high altitude here, so the peppers are ripe later. If you want to eat fresh hot sauce, why don't you go to the village down the hill and buy some and make it?"

"No, I just want to taste how my own chili peppers are made, if it's delicious, I plan to set up a purchase point in the village, and let the eldest lady help watch it when the time comes, and ask a few people to make hot sauce." I pulled the hot sauce directly to me and sold it. ”

"Isn't that the price of tofu all the meat plates?" Second Sister Zhang was speechless, she estimated in her heart, if she did what Chen Xin said, the original chili sauce of one or two yuan a pound would not be able to get back the capital if it was not sold for seven or eight yuan a catty.

"This is not a bargain to be sold at the market. The hot sauce sold in the store had to be made with a separate recipe, and I hadn't figured out how to do it yet, so I just made a plan for it. When the time comes, let alone seven or eight yuan a catty, even if it is sold for ten or fifteen yuan, many people will buy it. ”

Although there are still few people who cook private dishes, it has already begun to show signs of this.

This time, I saw several private restaurants in the south, and they are not doing the business of the general public, and if you want to eat there, you need to make an appointment in advance, and you can't decide what to eat. The money spent on one meal can be eaten two or three times in an ordinary large restaurant.

In this way, appointments can be scheduled until ten and a half days and a half later. According to her editor, one of the most famous private restaurants is open one day a week, and now it has been scheduled for half a year. People are still open for business during the New Year's holiday!

Chen Xin didn't plan to enter the catering industry, she was just a food lover, it was okay to make some snacks or home-cooked local specialties, let her cook banquet dishes, she didn't have the ability.

"You want to eat fresh chili peppers. I heard that Linshan Village next door has built a vegetable greenhouse this year, and there are peppers in it, which are planted on a trial basis, and there are not many of them. Xiaoxin wants to eat, I'll go to Linshan Village tomorrow to help you buy some back. ”

Brother Zhang was a wooden man before, and he couldn't say a word all day long, but in the past two years, driven by Chen Xin, the atmosphere at home has improved a lot, and he has also changed a lot. Especially now, when the farm is about to be completed and put into production, Brother Zhang, who has realized his own value, has become much more cheerful. Although he still doesn't like to talk much, he is not a man who can't beat a fart with a stick.

"Oh yes, my mother's skills in making glutinous chili peppers are very good, and I haven't let her do it in the past few years, if Xiaoxin you like to eat, let my mother make some for you another day. ”

"It's too troublesome...... aunt"

"What's the trouble, I can help with the rest, but the amount of ingredients and stir-frying needs to be done by my mother herself, and finally the chili pepper will be handed over to my brother. ”

Brother Zhang also said that there was no problem, anyway, the family had to do it every year, but the second sister had to do it before, and this time the second sister was heavy, so he had to ask his mother to take action herself.

In fact, it is not difficult to make glutinous chili peppers, that is, the amount of ingredients needs rich experience to judge, and then you need stone mortars and wooden sticks to knead, and then fry them in the pot with oil after they are fried, and then put them into the bottle with oil, which can be stored for four or five months. If you put it in the refrigerator and pack it separately, it can basically be stored for seven to ten months without touching it.

"In the past, the mountains were poor, and this kind of glutinous chili pepper was a good thing when it was green and yellow, and boiled potatoes were used as the staple food, and they could survive the most difficult days by dipping them in chili peppers. At that time, I didn't use oil to fry it, so I ate it directly, and it was so spicy that I wanted to eat it the more I ate. ”

Life on the mountain has been a little better in the past few years, but on the higher mountain, there are still some young people who refuse to have more contact with the outside world, and their lives are even more sad.

"Your brother-in-law went up to do an agricultural survey, and the best family in the village he went to at that time only steamed a bowl of japonica rice for your brother-in-law, and they all ate potatoes, and even some people couldn't even eat potatoes, and the staple food every day was only one person or two, one in the morning and one in the evening, and the women in the family even lived on potato paste soup. Even now, before the Chinese New Year, the town will arrange for someone to bring them some food, otherwise many old people will starve to death in a year. ”

The second sister spoke very heavily, and Chen Xin listened very heavily. She was born into a good family, although she is not rich and rich, but she has never been hungry, and she basically responds to her needs. borrowed Chen Xin's identity to live in this strange era, and the most difficult thing was to wake up from that time, but at that time it was not said that it was difficult to eat.

Yan Chunhua, who was listening to their chat, suddenly spoke: "Actually, don't say that you are on the mountain, even in my house, and families with difficult lives have a meal but not a meal." ”

Yan Chunhua's half-lowered face had a trace of sadness, which flowed out inadvertently in this night.