Chapter Twenty-Four: Pumping Quack and Galaha
Although children still like to go out in winter, it is obviously not as frequent or as it is when the weather is warmer. The pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info and the game items have also changed slightly, and the children in the Northeast have a unique fun. Often in the morning, when the door is opened, the eyes are full of white, and the whole village seems to have become a kingdom of ice and snow, pure and peaceful. The chimneys of each house smoked, adding a touch of life to the icy and snowy land.
Snow is a children's toy, and the snow in the yard is rolled into a large snowball, and then a slightly smaller one is rolled together, and the two stacks together become the prototype of a snowman. Find a red pepper and stick it on your face to make your nose, make two cinders for your eyes, buckle a small bucket upside down on your head, and stick a branch on the side of your body as standard, and you're done with a snowman.
Snowball fights are popular games after the snow, often with several older children in two groups, with the younger children together, playing each other on both sides. However, if you get your clothes wet, you will inevitably be nagged by adults when you go home, but I don't see anyone who doesn't have snowball fights. Continue next time.
The mini plow mentioned earlier is an ice sport for children, and there is another ice sport that is simpler, that is, pumping quacks. Gaga is a Northeast dialect, which means spinning top. The quack on the side of the house at the second end is carved from wood, some are pure logs, and some are dyed red and green. Although the rattling seems quite monotonous at the two ends, that is, taking a small stick tied with a string as a whip, and pumping a few spinning quacks from time to time, the children in the village like to play, probably because the quack is very convenient and economical to play.
Little girls don't like to go out crazy as boys, and most of them choose to stay at home in winter. Of course, it's boring to stay at home, both adults and children. So the adults will get together in groups to play cards or something, and the little girls will play Galaha together.
What is Galaha, this name is transliterated from Manchu, it is the hind leg kneecap of the sheep, and the scientific name is the sheep crutch. Sheep crutches should be the favorite winter toys for the little girls in the Northeast, and there is no one. A pair of galahs requires four sheep's kneecaps, so a pair of galaha would have to be at least two sheep. In the 80s, beef and mutton were not as abundant as they were later, so Galaha became a rare item.
A galaha can only be played with a sandbag, which is made of six squares of cloth sewn into a cube that can be filled with corn kernels or beans.
When playing, you need hands, eyes, brains, and coordination, so stupid people really can't play this game, and those who react slowly have to be cannon fodder.
Galaha has four faces with names, the two largest of which are the two largest ones, one side is concave and is called a pit, the other side is bulging and is called a belly, the side is like an ear, it is called a wheel, and the other side that does not look like anything is called a real child. The process of the game is to throw the sandbag and then fall in the sandbag, and turn the four galahas into the pit, belly, wheel, and real in turn. In the process of flipping, the sandbag cannot fall down, and must be caught in time. Whoever throws the sandbag less often and completes the process of turning the galaha in turn will win.
There are many different rules and regulations in different places, but they all revolve around Lugalaha, which has to be quick to react, light and agile in action, bold and careful. Therefore, adults also encourage children to practice coordination and reflexes. In addition, the game is usually performed on the kang and does not require a special venue, so sometimes adults will be interested in playing this game with children. The second end likes to play with the aunt's sister Begonia the most, Sister Begonia doesn't look at the usual silent, and her academic performance is also very average, but Garaha is an absolute master, and every time she looks at the two ends, she is stunned. Breathtaking, admiration.
The second end also likes to follow his father and brother to the field to buckle sparrows, and the northeast is called a house finch (pronounced 'Qiao' sound). Especially since the snow has just fallen, it's a good time to buckle the sparrows. Sweep a clearing in the snow, make a large sieve, prop up one end with a stick, tie a rope to the stick, and scatter the grain under the sieve, and the man will hide behind the firewood stack and wait. When they can't find anything to eat on a snowy day, they will be hungry and come to eat the food under the sieve, and when they pull the rope at the right time, the house finch will be detained in the sieve as soon as the stick falls. Of course, this method can also detain a few house sparrows, and Dad caught them for the brothers and sisters to play. I don't expect to eat them. If you really want to eat, you can't use this method to catch it, you have to use a grain soaked in high white wine, and the number is considerable.
In winter, the cat winter is a very pleasant thing, the mouth is greedy, grandma will take out the hazelnuts, pine nuts, walnuts and hairs dried in autumn to the two ends and the shape as snacks, but the mother does not let eat more, saying that eating too much on the fire. The two ends thought so, and they didn't see that the aunt next door was snorting too much, and the corners of her mouth were rotten.
The second end of the favorite is that after the mother cooks, bury the red sweet potato in the ashes of the stove that still has residual warmth, and when the meal is finished, the sweet potato is also cooked. Pat off the ash on the outside, peel off the skin, the soft and glutinous sweet potato is sweet and delicious, wonderful. Grandma will also steam the small sweet potato babies specially picked out when harvesting sweet potatoes in autumn and dry them, and in winter they can be roasted on the stove, which is very sweet and chewy.
The most anticipated food in winter should be the most anticipated food for children, and sugar gourd should be the first place. There will be a sugar gourd seller in the village carrying a target made of corn stalks, which is full of red and shiny sugar gourds, shouting as he walks: "Sugar ~ gourd ~" The word sugar should be elongated, and the children will ask the adults for three cents to go out and buy a sugar gourd to eat. The sour hawthorn is wrapped in a syrup that has become crunchy and sweet because of cooling, and the secretion of saliva is accelerated by a bite, which is really appetizing and sweet to the mouth.
The fruits of the eighties are not as abundant as later, not to mention the winter, in addition to apples are apples, the Northeast can also get some frozen pears and frozen persimmons, and then there are hawthorns that are easy to store, so it makes sense that sugar gourds are so popular at this time.
Generally, as soon as the winter comes, grandma begins to prepare sticky bean buns, which are generally ground noodles with rhubarb rice, mixed with a little cornmeal, and the good noodles should be fermented, and only after fermentation can you start to wrap sticky bean buns. The filling is made of red beans or large kidney beans, wrapped into round balls, and a piece of soybean leaves is placed underneath, so that the upper drawer will not stick to the cage drawer when steamed, and it also has a special fragrance of soybean leaves. The steamed sticky bean buns are best eaten in sugar, and the taste is definitely a sweet love for the taste buds in winter.
However, it is definitely not just a little sticky bean bun at a time, grandma and mother will steam hundreds of them together, and after steaming, they will be taken outside to freeze. The outdoor in winter is a natural refrigerator, and hundreds of sticky bean buns will be frozen hard in less than half a day. Grandma would store them in a large vat in the barn, and when she ate them, she would take some and put them in a pot to distill, and they would be exactly the same as if they had just been steamed. Such a pot of bean buns is not to mention eating for a winter, it is almost the same, and when eating, it is accompanied by a little pickles, otherwise some people will feel heartburn.
This kind of bean bun is becoming more and more rare in later generations, and it is replaced by glutinous rice noodles, although it may be finer, but the taste is not as good as that of rhubarb rice noodles. It's more of a taste of memory, being able to eat the sticky bean buns made by grandma again, and the little people in the heart at both ends shed lasagna tears.
On the day of the test results, Erduan was woken up by her brother early, and she almost finished dressing with her eyes closed, because the autumn pants were not tucked into the socks, and the trouser legs of the autumn pants were brought up when she wore cotton pants, so she had to trouble her brother to help pull them down. The two ends woke up now, laughing flatteringly and awkwardly.
For breakfast, my mother actually wrapped wontons, and also ordered some sea rice and seaweed, and drank a sip of hot soup at both ends, so fresh that I shook my head. Eating this in the morning is really beautiful, it seems that my mother is very confident in her and her brother's test results, and they are all celebrated in advance. You must know that usually my mother doesn't bring a bag of wontons once a month.
After eating, the two of them went out tightly wrapped, stepping on the snow, their feet creaking, and the white breath exhaled condensed on the eyelashes and eyebrows at the two ends, like a little old lady.
When I arrived at school, I and my brother entered the classrooms of their respective classes, and as soon as they entered the classroom, they saw Cuicui waving to her.
"Cuicui, you came earlier than me. He took off his hat and neck cover and sat down in his place.
Cuicui reached out to help the two ends wipe the frost on her eyebrows, and when she entered the classroom, she turned into water droplets. The two ends looked up happily and let Cuicui's gentle little hand brush his eyebrows, Cuicui's gentle personality must be a lady when she grows up in the future.
"Duanduan, can we still do homework together during the holidays?" Cuicui felt that it was very efficient to write homework with Duanduan, and she could play with peace of mind throughout the winter vacation after writing early.
"Of course it's okay, after sending out homework today, you will come to my house tomorrow, and ask him if he is going when the bolt comes. "Duanduan doesn't have any other friends.,The only ones who are good are Cuicui and Plug.,Although the relationship with other classmates seems to be quite friendly.,But it's just a general.。 Of course, she still has her nemesis Mao Xiaozhu, but since she became the squadron leader, Mao Xiaozhu has wilted, and she never dared to blow up in front of her. The second end of the heart said, sure enough, the official level crushed people to death.
The little girl who was sitting across the aisle was called Lin Lin, and when she heard Erduan and Cuicui talking about writing homework together, she also poked her head over and asked, "Are you going to finish your homework first as soon as you have a holiday?"
"Well, that's what I did during the summer vacation. He was lying on the table with his hat under his head.
Lin Lin seemed to hesitate for a moment, and then plucked up the courage to say, "Duanduan, can I go to your house and write with you?"
Cuicui was a little surprised, why did Lin Lin think about joining their small group? To be honest, Cuicui was a little unhappy, but she felt that she was too stingy like this.
The second end looked at the expression on Cuicui's face that changed for a while, and this girl's thoughts were written on her face.
"Yes, we can write, but we will start writing tomorrow, come to my house at 9 o'clock in the morning, go home at noon and finish eating, and continue to write in the afternoon, until 5 o'clock in the evening. If you can't follow this schedule, you won't be able to keep up with us. The two ends decided to give the other side the right to choose, after all, she had to stick to their schedule if she wanted to join.
Lin Lin really hesitated, it was the same as going to school. "Don't you all rest and play?"
The second end and Cuicui glanced at each other, and Cuicui preemptively said: "I just don't play, otherwise why are you still doing homework together?" ”
The two ends smiled and said nothing, and said in their hearts, I will quietly watch you talk nonsense. When I come to my house tomorrow, I will definitely hide the new Galaha and not let you play with it.