Chapter 656: From luxury to frugality
Jiang Xinrou said: "It sounds very good, but I don't know how it actually works." There is still half an empty foundation next door to our house, so let's build it there. I turned the adjacent house into a stove room, and built a kang by the way, but in the winter, I couldn't stand the cold, so I hid in that room. ”
"Mom, I asked the professor of the Academy of Agricultural Sciences, he said that the best season for biogas digester fermentation is spring and summer, after the winter the temperature is low, the fermentation is slow, and the biogas that comes out is less, and the effect of burning the kang is not necessarily good. ”
"That's better than cold. As long as it's warmer than the other rooms, wouldn't it be? We don't want it to burn to twenty or thirty degrees. Besides, even if you don't live with people, spread out mats on the kang, dry vegetables, and mushrooms. When you see the most abundant wild vegetables and mountain goods, it is the rainy season, and it is a pity that the sun does not dry and rot. ”
"That's right. Xiang Gang's thinking suddenly brightened, and he smiled and praised his mother-in-law, "It's still thoughtful." ”
Jiang Xinrou smiled so much that her eyebrows and eyes were crooked: "You also have a heart." Leave me alone, when I hear the two professors talk about biogas digesters, how can I think of life. ”
"Come on, don't boast about it, the food is cold, eat it quickly. After eating, I accompanied Xiao Xiang to the dock. ”
The old man was worried that the people from the General Military Region would bully his son-in-law, so he had to accompany him.
Xiang Gang didn't listen to him, so he had to let him.
Accompanied by the old man, the others were not worried at all, cleaned up the dishes and chopsticks, and got busy with the work at hand.
The triplets brought bamboo baskets and clay pots, and said that they had made an appointment with their friends and went to the river port to touch the snails.
"We have it in our backyard at Hebutou, so why bother going outside. If no adult is watching, how dangerous it is to fall!"
Jiang Xinrou was not at ease, took off her apron and chased out.
Ying Fang flattened the tea leaves on the bamboo stalks, picked out wilts or debris, and small insects were hiding in some buds, all of which had to be cleaned up. Then prepare the roasted tea.
Stir-frying tea in the countryside is not as complicated as a tea factory, but it has also been consulted and pondered by someone.
When the old professor on the mountain used to teach at the university, one of his office colleagues was from a tea country, where men, women, and children all knew how to fry tea. The old professor had heard him talk about it once or twice.
Xiao Er's aunt also knows some roasted tea skills, and when she came to Ning and celebrated the New Year, she told a lot of interesting things related to tea.
And the old man in the county. Don't look at him as a rich peasant in his most glorious days, but he was rich and liked to drink tea, so isn't that exquisite? In his early years, he not only took people to the tea-rich areas to find good tea, but also roasted tea on the spot.
Combined with the roasted tea process that I heard from this one, and then after the test of practice, the tea fried in the first year was praised by the family.
This year is the third time to fry, as the old saying goes, "practice makes perfect", Yingfang really got the hang of it.
Wash the cauldron, heat it up, and pour the fresh tea leaves into it.
There are not many buds picked, and one pot is fine. If the amount is large, you will score the pot fry. Otherwise, the tea leaves are easy to pile up, just like simmering things, which are slow to cook and easy to overfry.
At the same time, you have to control the heat. At first, the fire can be larger, and after the tea leaves are stir-fried in the pot a few times, a few charcoal fires must be removed, otherwise it will be easy to burn.
Afraid of her daughter's burns, at first, her mother also prepared a pair of labor gloves for her. However, Yingfang thinks that frying with gloves is not flexible enough, and the tea leaves are easy to stick to the gloves.
I simply took off my gloves. It's just that in this way, the speed is even faster, and the tea is up and down, and the stir-fry keeps stir-frying.
After about ten minutes, you can rub it with your hands while stir-frying, which can make the leaves better curl.
A pot of tea is fried, and it takes almost two hours before and after.
When out of the pot, the rice sieve is spread with clean newspaper, the hot tea leaves are spread on it, and then transferred to the enamel cup with the newspaper when it is cool, the newspaper absorbs moisture, so stored, the tea is not easy to return to moisture.
Freshly fried tea can't be drunk immediately, at least for half a month. Because tea leaves that are too fresh are easy to hurt the stomach.
But even if she can't drink it yet, Yingfang holds the results of her busy sweating, looking left and right, smiling.
More than two catties of fresh tea are fried and less than half a catty. If you want to give it away, you have to pick a few more stubbles the day after tomorrow.
"It's done, it's pretty fast. At this time, Jiang Xinrou came back with a clay pot.
"Look, the snails that your son and daughter touched are going to be eaten tonight. I'll put it in clean water first. Jiang Xinrou smiled and carried the clay pot to the river port in the backyard to change the clean river water.
"Where are they? are they still touching snails?" Ying Fang looked at the yard and didn't see the bears and children.
"How can I be, I'm all back, how can I still let them touch the snails, how dangerous! They brought a bamboo basket and went to the foot of the mountain to pick wild flowers with the black girls in Qiaodong. He said he would bring shepherd's cabbage. Maybe I'll have to eat the shepherd's cabbage dumplings by name tonight. Jiang Xinrou put the clay pot, washed her hands and came in, and couldn't help laughing.
Yingfang couldn't stop laughing: "Let's play, let's play, I will be sent to preschool in the second half of the year, and I will not be so free." ”
"That's what I thought, too. I can't play for a few years, and when I go to school, how can I still have so much time to play. ”
"By the way, Mom, today more than two catties of fresh tea buds fried a small half catty. I'll pick a little more tomorrow and the day after tomorrow, and the taste of the buds before the beginning of summer should be about the same. Anyway, it's all buds, and it's freshly fried, so let's send some to the second uncle. ”
Thinking of the thick buds with stems that were picked in the fourth month of the lunar calendar last year, the fried tea leaves can still attract the second uncle to snatch one or two from the old man three or four times, let alone this year.
This year, it's more than a month ahead of schedule. The weather is warm, and it is not uncommon for tea trees to sprout overnight, if there is a spring rain, then there will be more buds, anyway, this year is more than last year to fry a few more pots of good tea, this is for sure.
Good stuff to share, of course. The second uncle's family has sent things to her house over the years, and some of them can't be bought in the supply and marketing cooperatives in Jiangnan. There are contacts and contacts, and the relationship can last for a long time.
Jiang Xinrou agreed: "And your grandmother's house in Coal City, your two uncles treat you very well, and they send you briquette tickets and liquor tickets that are common to you every New Year." Although you often send them food and clothing during the New Year's holidays, tea is different, especially good tea, which is a special offering, and ordinary people may not be able to buy it if they have money and tickets. Go back and send half a catty to your two uncles, just say that the amount is not much, and the big guys will divide it and try it. ”
"Hmm. Yingfang nodded.
She was about to say that the two uncles must have never drunk such a good tea. I didn't expect her mother to be more anxious than her.
"Next year, you must remember to pick early. The temperature in the valley rises slowly, but it will definitely be good before the Qingming Festival. A month late, a few less stubble. ”
Hearing the pain in her daughter's tone, Jiang Xinrou couldn't help laughing: "It's much better than last year, people can't be too greedy." Think about the tea picked back last year, most of them are old tea stalks, and your grandfather didn't drink it very happily? But what you said also makes sense, a month late will be a few stubbles. The old man has drunk this year's good tea, and if he misses the best tea picking period next year, I am afraid that it will be difficult to drink the old tea stalks, and it will be difficult to go from luxury to frugality. ”
"Poof......
The two of them thought of the tangled face that the old man might have, and couldn't help laughing.
The atmosphere was harmonious, and the black girl ran in with a crying voice: "Aunt Fang, Aunt Fang is not good! Chen Erliuzi of Jiangkou Port wants to beat Yangyang! Aunt Fang, go and save Yangyang." ”
Chen Erliuzi?Jiangkou Port?
Didn't Yangyang pick wild flowers at the foot of the mountain to play? Why did you provoke the people of Jiangkoubu?
If it weren't for the fact that the commune was unable to catch the scene of his crime, it would have locked up the people in the cowshed for criticism and education.
"Black girl, don't panic, Aunt Fang will go with you to save Yangyang, you tell me slowly. ”
"Yes, yes, black girl, we're not afraid of those bad guys, let's beat them!"
Jiang Xinrou didn't care about telling Sister-in-law Fu what dishes to cook in the evening, so she hurriedly explained a few words, and ran to the foot of the mountain with her daughter.
Along the way, the brunette sobbed and told what had happened.
Speaking of which, Chen Erliuzi and the Luo family are still relatives who have not produced five suits. The elders of the family went before they survived the famine year, leaving him a seven or eight-year-old orphan.
This is very similar to Xiang Gang. It's just that Xiang Gang relied on his own efforts and perseverance to break out of a broad road that is difficult for ordinary people to emulate in the harsh environment, but Chen Erliuzi ate and waited for death, enjoyed leisure and hard work, and finally became a gangster that everyone hated.
Luo Laohan is kind-hearted but cowardly, thinking of the same clan and ancestor, he let Chen Erliuzi go underground and can't explain to Sister Tang from time to time. But his character is really weak and incompetent, and he can't subdue this completely crooked junior, and he can't think of any other way except sighing.
Chen second-rate Zite likes his family Huang because he has a crush on Luo Yanhong.
Let's talk about the five suits, but in the countryside, it's not that there are no kisses.
Chen Erliuzi is a bad person, but he is definitely not stupid, otherwise he would not have survived today - he has no father or mother when he is young, and no one is willing to help him for a long time, and he has survived all these years thanks to the cleverness that cannot be put on the stage.
Knowing his virtue, if he has no money or no future, which girl in the village is willing to marry him.
But he was not willing to fight a bachelor for the rest of his life, so he hit the idea on the Luo family sisters who were a little related. At that time, he begged Luo Laohan to marry one of the sisters home without much dowry.
The dream is very beautiful, but Luo Yanqun is too shrewd, Chen Erliuzi has not yet approached, he can scare people into automatically retreating; Luo Yanhong is as cowardly as her mother, but she is much better at reading than her sister, she has been studying in the county since junior high school, and she usually doesn't go home often, and when she comes back, she spends most of her time hiding in the house. Chen Erliuzi didn't even have a chance to meet people.
The summer harvest of the previous year heard that she had graduated from high school and returned home, and worked in the fields with her family. I wanted to set it up and be courteous.
But Chen Erliuzi is the person who has been divided into the land by Ken'an? As soon as he sees a hoe and a shovel, his brain hurts, and anyway, at the end of the year, there will always be rations for him according to the head, and if there is not enough to eat, he will touch this house and cheat that one. Occasionally, he steals sweet potatoes, cabbage, and even chickens and ducks that are raised outside to sell them in the county seat.
Seeing Luo Yanhong, who had not been exposed to the sun much and was white and clean, his eyes were straight. I thought about how good it would be if I could marry such a cultured and beautiful daughter-in-law in this life.
Chen Erliuzi, who rarely gave birth to a sense of pride, actually wanted to do something to please his sweetheart.
But what can he do? He is too tired to go to the field, and he has no money if he doesn't go to the field, so is there a job that doesn't need to go to the field and gets money quickly?
In the end, he really came up with one - stealing the villagers' things and going to the county seat to resell them.
No matter how it gets the money, as long as you can afford beautiful clothes and red head ropes, I don't believe that there will be girls who will not give in to his labor protection pants.
After making up his mind, Chen Erliuzi took action.
In the first few lucky days, I sneaked the cast iron farm tools and copper locks stolen from the village, and I really sold them to him. However, the money from the sale was not exchanged for beautiful cloth, clothes or red head ropes, and he bought black market cigarettes and smoked them.
After smoking, I began to regret it again. How can you please your daughter-in-law like this?
So he continued to steal chickens and dogs.
It's just that this time the luck is not very good, when he stole the big iron lock of the village head president's house and an old hen to sell in the county seat, he was chased by the red armband and ran for five miles.
He doesn't have the money to treat his injuries, what's the matter?
Chen Erliuzi brought Lao Lai's spirit to the extreme, and he was stunned to find out the source of the stone-it turned out to be a villager from the southern suburbs commune who put it there to rest. So they pestered him to beg for medical bills.
The key is that the other party's family is also poor, how can he have the money to send him to the county hospital. It was only after saying that he agreed to Chen Erliuzi's proposal - to send him to the health center of the commune in the southern suburbs, where he would be treated by the doctor, and then go to the other party's house for a few days, and then leave when he could go to the ground.
How can an honest farmer know that Chen Erliuzi is an old man. Once you live in it, you won't be able to move for more than 100 days. He was stunned and said that his feet had not recovered and he could not walk.
Didn't you say that you would break your muscles and bones for 100 days? It almost drove the family crazy.
After wandering around for a few days, I returned to the village, passed through the fields, and listened to a few gossipy women talking about the Luo family's youngest daughter snatching people's recommendation indicators, and my first reaction was: How can I let her go to college?
The second reaction was: Luo Yanhong's girl likes to cry at every turn, and now she is so squeezed by the villagers, and she can't keep it and cry in which corner, this is a good opportunity!
Chen Erliuzi slipped into Luo's house.
Luo Yanhong has never been out since Labor Day. First, I lost such a big face, and I really didn't have the face to see people, and second, I didn't want to do dirty farm work.
Luo's mother saw that she was in a bad mood and didn't dare to urge her. Anyway, this daughter has not been a farmer since she was a child, and she can't earn a few jobs a day, thinking that she will be able to go to the provincial capital to study at university soon, so let her have a good rest in these two months, and sew and mend at home to help with housework.