Early the next morning, Su Chen stood in the courtyard and got busy, setting up a huge round table full of various spices.

On the occasion of the Mid-Autumn Festival, the custom of the Su family is to make a big table of delicious food, but every time they can't finish it, there is a lot left, and they will continue to eat it for the next few days.

"Dad, slow down. Su Chen, who was making the sauce, saw that Su Tianxiang was struggling to carry a big stone outside the courtyard.

Putting down the work he was doing, Su Chen hurriedly went up to help, and the two worked together to move the stone scoop into the yard.

"Whew~" Su Tianxiang wiped the sweat beads on his forehead and said: "People are old, they are useless, I think I could run all over the yard when I held it alone." ”

The corners of Su Chen's mouth twitched, remembering the scene when his father had to move alone when he was a child, and he almost smashed his feet.

Breathing a sigh of relief, Su Tianxiang fetched a bucket of water and carefully cleaned the stone scoop.

This thing can't be used a few times a year, and every time I use it, it's a glutinous rice dumpling and something that is eaten in the stomach, so it takes a lot of effort to clean it well.

"How many years has this stone scooped up? Su Chen squatted down and touched the bluestone stone scoop, and there was a stone pestle, covered with gravel grooves.

This is all hand-carved out of a hammer and anvil, which is very old. He has a soft spot for ancient objects, such as wooden windmills and stone grinding discs.

Su Tianxiang touched his chin and thought about it, and said, "I don't know how many years, anyway, my grandfather already had it at that time." ”

Dad's grandfather, isn't that a great-grandfather, at least more than a hundred years.

Before I had time to think about it, my mother's hurried voice came from behind.

"Get out of the way, get out of the way, don't burn you. ”

Su Chen dodged sideways, and Zhang Yuling ran over in three steps and two steps with a steaming basket of steaming glutinous rice.

Seeing Su Tianxiang, who was standing next to him, grabbed the steamer and scolded angrily: "You, you, are not afraid of burning yourself, how many times have you told you." ”

Hehe, my mother smiled, she couldn't change her sloppiness.

Looking at it lightly, Su Chen was sincerely envious, the old couple had gone through so many years of noisy and noisy, but they still never gave up, took care of each other, and were simply happy.

The steamer was placed on the table, the big wooden spoon was picked up, and the soft glutinous rice was put into the stone scoop, and Su Tianxiang was not idle to pick up the stone pestle and start beating.

In this way, the two have a clear division of labor, one adds glutinous rice, and the other punches.

However, the work of punching is a lot of tiredness, the stone pestle is bulky, the soft glutinous rice is too sticky, and it takes a lot of effort to punch it.

"Take my place. ”

After dozens of beatings of two-person au jobs, Su Chen and his young men often exercise and have strength, so that both of them will be relaxed.

After dozens of beatings, there was no glutinous rice in the steamer, and the next work was very dangerous.

It was necessary for Su Tianxiang to reach into the stone scoop and roll the glutinous rice glutinous rice cake at the moment when the stone pestle was raised.

After seeing his father's hand put it in, Su Chen's heart was lifted, and he was extra careful to control the speed and strength.

Fortunately, in recent years, the two have cooperated in playing glutinous rice cakes, and the tacit understanding that should be there is still there.

During this period, Zhang Yuling also added sugar and peanut crushed grains to mix, saying that this taste is better.

"Almost. Su Tianxiang pinched the glutinous rice dumplings, and they were beaten very evenly and viscous.

Putting down the stone pestle, Su Chen gasped, this work has no strength, and the endurance really can't do it.

The rest of the work is the mother's, pick up the beaten glutinous rice and knead it into a ball, like to eat sweet, and add some brown sugar to pinch it flat, you can eat.

Su Chen grabbed a piece of glutinous rice and ate it, after beating it for so long, it was warm and sweet.

"Whew, it's delicious, I haven't eaten it in a long time. ”

"Eat slowly, don't choke. Zhang Yuling smiled and cared.

At this time, as a senior foodie, he couldn't listen.

I ate several in one breath before I stopped, touched my slightly swollen belly, satisfied, the Mid-Autumn Festival is only interesting like this.

"Hiccup~ When are you going to kill the ducks? Su Chen muttered, every year during the Mid-Autumn Festival, in addition to beating glutinous cakes, there are also ducks killed and smoked to eat, which is delicious.

Su Tianxiang also burped and spoke: "Go now, while the ducks haven't gone into the water yet." ”

It's still early, it's not even eight o'clock, and the ducks are released late when it's cold.

Zhang Yuling went into the house and took a flashlight and handed it to the two of them, and the duck pen was dark.

Su Chen was careful in every step he took, because... It's all duck feces, vomit~ In Su Chen's opinion, duck feces is the most smelly animal feces.

As soon as the two of them entered the duck pen, as if they felt the killing intent, more than a dozen ducks became restless, flapping their wings and running around.

Su Tianxiang pricked up his ears and began to listen to the screams of the ducks, because the cries of male ducks and female ducks are different, and people who often raise them can hear them.

Quack Quack ~ A fat duck has a hoarse call and a very small voice.

Su Tianxiang's eyes lit up, and he found the target, the one with a low voice was a male duck, and the one with a loud voice was a female duck.

"Stop it. After seeing that Dad was chasing a fat duck, Su Chen also quickly blocked its way.

But this duck is cunning, and with a flutter it runs away, trying to get into the flock.

For a while, the scene was very chaotic.

In the duck pen, the ducks are flying, their hair is flying all over the sky, and their heads, noses, and mouths are stained everywhere.

I'm too tired, I'm too energetic, like a wild duck.

Zhang Yuling was anxious to see it, and also joined the battlefield, and the three of them surrounded the aggrieved duck in the middle.

Surrounded in the middle, the duck was frightened, and quickly squatted on the ground, stuffed his head under his stomach and shivered.

At a good time, Su Tianxiang flew and pressed the duck: "You are genuine leather." After saying that, he didn't forget to pat its wings.

"Quack. A hoarse voice sounded, and the other ducks hid in the corner and shivered.

If they are thinking, they must be thinking, "Next time I eat less, I will be caught if I eat fat." ”

Carrying ducks, three people covered in duck feathers and duck feces walked out of the enclosure, and they couldn't help laughing when they saw each other's miserable conditions.

Smelly all over, Su Chen and Zhang Yuling took a bath one after another, and the taste faded a little.

Su Tianxiang is not in a hurry, he has to wash the duck after killing it, otherwise it will be washed in vain.

The sharp knife cut the duck's neck, and quickly caught the duck blood with a basin, and the coagulated duck blood was delicious.

After draining the blood, the whole duck is immersed in a wooden barrel, and the prepared hot water is watered, and the duck feathers are washed through the water and lie down.

The water should not be boiling, otherwise it will burn the meat.

Rolling repeatedly, the duck feathers were dragged off as soon as they were grabbed, the duck feathers were carefully stripped off, the duck claws were washed, the butt was cut off, and the duck was disposed of.

"Give, wipe evenly. He handed the white duck to Zhang Yuling, sniffed it again, and looked disgusted.

I was smoked by the smell of my body, and rushed into the bathroom to rinse it non-stop.

"Chen'er, go to the firewood room and get some cypress branches. ”