Chapter 45: Understanding
"It's my father," Zhang Zhaodi muttered, "He, he sees ominous." Pen, fun, pavilion www. biqugeγ infoβ
Zhang Zhaohua was actually ready to hear a lot of family ethics dramas from her mouth, but she didn't expect people to follow the routine at all and talk about supernatural things.
"What's ominous?" Zhang Zhaohua said, "It's a happy event to see a spider in the morning, but it's ominous to see it in the evening -- it's worth making a fuss about such a thing?"
"Where is the matter of spiders," Zhang Zhaodi hesitated: "Yesterday, my father heard that there were voles on the ridges, and said that our field is in the depression, and if there are voles infested, our land should not be able to escape." He heard it in the morning, and after eating at noon, he rushed over to take a look, and sure enough, he saw a vole hole. β
Voles do not hibernate in winter, and even when it snows, they will still burrow at night. Even in later generations, voles were a delicacy on the table, not to mention the ancient times when there was a lack of material, and the people almost all ate voles as a pleasure. The cooking method is full of tricks, there are exquisite fried and eaten, and the Fujian people of Liangguang can even eat live mice. It can also be dried into a vole, especially for those who love to drink, and it is regarded as a top product with wine.
"Did you catch a vole?" asked Zhang Zhaohua.
"No," Zhang Zhaodi said obscurely: "I didn't see the shadow of the vole, but when I went down with a hoe, I dug out the ......."
"What did you dig out?" Fang Fang asked.
"Dad said that it was two black snakes that were intertwined," Zhang Zhaodi trembled greatly, and said: "He said that it was only a litter of voles when it was dark, but he didn't expect to smash out the snake, and smashed the head of a snake to pieces, if it was a snake that walked alone, if it was said that both of them were stoned to death, but it was just stoned to death, and one was left to run......"
It is extremely ominous to see two snakes entwined with each other, and it is said that they will die when they see it, but since a person named Sun Shuao killed the two-headed snake, it has provided a new way, that is, to meet the two snakes and kill them directly.
It is said that the reason why this Uncle Sun Ao killed the snake was "afraid that others would see him again, so he killed and buried it". Even if you see it, you will definitely die, but you can't let others see it again, in order to avoid harming people again, Sun Shuao killed these two snakes.
As a result, Sun Shuao's mother was very happy and said: "If you have yin virtue, God will bless you, don't worry." "I think that Sun Shuao's move has accumulated yin virtue, and there will be good fortune in the future, and later this Sun Shuao really became the prime minister of Chu.
Therefore, it is not necessarily the end of meeting two snakes, as long as you kill all the snakes, then everything will be fine. It's a pity that Uncle Zhang Sanshu was frightened and covered his head and let another snake slip away - this time the snake does not die but becomes a trouble, Uncle Zhang returned home in a daze, feeling like a serious illness, and his wife saw that something was wrong, and forced him to ask about the cause and effect, which happened to be heard by the Zhaodi sisters who were playing outside the window.
Third Uncle Zhang didn't come to the wedding banquet on the second day, but he hid it from the rest of the family, and he was even more afraid that Uncle Zhang would worry, so he didn't mention the matter. It's just that Zhao Di Yindi has already heard it and knows the horror of this matter, so she has been restless until Zhang Zhaohua sees it.
It turned out to be such a superstitious thing, but it can actually scare people like this -- Zhang Zhaohua does not quite understand this so-called "ominous", and regards the reproduction and breeding of this species of snake as ominous, and it is not the law of nature that big insects mate and reproduce after the warm weather and hibernation in spring. Although there are many people who see snakes in March and April, and few snakes are seen in January and February, although snakes are going to hibernate, they are not always hibernating in the nest, and they also have to go out to forage, voles are the best food, if you see other people of the same kind when foraging, it is also common to get together to mate, why be so sensational. But since she was living in this society, she naturally wouldn't say anything against it, so after thinking about it, she said, "I've read about this in a book." β
In this book, there is a way to understand. Zhang Zhaohua pretended to say.
"What's the way?" Zhao Di hurriedly asked, and everyone came up and looked at Zhang Zhaohua with a blank eye.
Zhang Zhaohua said: "After you go back, let your father find the pants he wore when he saw the snake yesterday, cut the crotch of his pants with scissors, put them on for three days, and then go to ask Jiang Mi from three families with different surnames, boil it into porridge and drink it, and sleep for one night and it will be fine." β
"It's easy," Yindi jumped up to protect Zhang Zhaohua's neck and said, "What Sister Hua said is true?
"It's true, that's what the book says. Zhang Zhaohua repeatedly assured: "But this matter can't be spread anymore." You know and I know, you can't say it with your mouth and it's horrible. β
Zhao Di asked carefully and understood, silently remembered it in her mind, and didn't dare to make a mistake in remembering a word.
After they left, Zhang Zhaohua gradually forgot about it, after all, the things in his family are the most important, Uncle Zhang's fear is nothing more than psychological problems, and the so-called solution is actually to give him psychological comfort, so that he can be sure that he has avoided the disaster.
The new sister-in-law is very much loved by Zhang Zhaohua, she has a gentle personality, is empathetic and hardworking and capable, Wang and Zhang Qi can't be more satisfied, and even Zhang Zhaohua is tired of chasing her every day.
Zhang Zhaohua found that Zheng really can do any work, the only thing that will not be weaving, because no one at home taught her, but when she arrived at Zhang's house, Wang tried to teach her to make threads and brush threads, she learned quickly, and she also liked weaving very much.
Zhang Zhaohua saw a lot of colored threads there, so he took them, straightened the thread with one hand, and held the bead threads of different colors with the other hand, weaving back and forth, picking, hooking, closing, and closing, ten fingers flew up and down, so fast that Zhang Zhaohua couldn't see clearly, and after a while, he could weave various patterns, so that Zhang Zhaohua couldn't help but sigh that it was really ingenious.
"In this way, even if it is ingenious," Zheng said with a smile: "My sister has never seen an embroiderer who specializes in making yarns, and she gave the thread to weave into swallows, bats, centipedes and goldfish, just like the one painted on the painting, which is really a unique skill." β
Zheng taught Zhang Zhaohua two kinds of tricks that are beautiful but the process is not complicated, and said: "You can't stare at it every day, you can't play when you light it up at night, you can't play it, you can look at the eyes, I didn't know how to protect my eyes before, and I saw things in the back of my eyes were ghosted, and it took more than a year to count it." β
Zhang Zhaohua likes to chat with her, and this kind of homely whispering makes people feel warm. She asked the doubts she had always had when she first met Zheng, and said, "Sister-in-law, why is the skin on your face white and tender, but the skin on your hands is not good?"
When Zheng heard this, he couldn't help but laugh "poof", and only said: "You and I will know if you make tofu for two days." β
Later, Zhang Zhaohua really made tofu with Zheng's for many days, and she found that making tofu is really a delicate job, and every process must be grasped well to make tender tofu, and the taste of tofu made by heart and inadvertently is different.
Summer is to soak soybeans in the morning, winter is to soak at night, the soaking time can not be too long, otherwise you will lose the pulp, soak too short, and it will be very laborious when grinding beans, which is the first process to grasp.
When the soybeans are soaked in water and become foaming and soft, a certain proportion of water should be added to grind into raw soybean milk. There are regulations for a few catties of beans and a few catties of water, and not only grinding soybeans, Zheng also added white beans and peas to the stone mill, so that the bean juice is more fragrant and delicious.
Then use a special cloth bag to load the grinding slurry, close the bag mouth, squeeze hard, and squeeze the soybean milk out of the cloth bag, which is the so-called pulp, squeezing once, twice. This is a step in separating soy milk and okara.
After the raw soy milk is squeezed, it should be put into a pot to boil, and the foam should be removed, and you need to pay attention to the cooking time. The boiled soy milk can be marinated, which is the so-called "brine tofu". Of course, the brine thing made Zhang Zhaohua very surprised for a long time when he made it for the first time.