Chapter 281: Steadfast
Wen Xu heard that Teacher Ma and Zhao Xiaoyue had said yes again, so he looked up and looked at the nearly 100 or so bread dumplings that had been laid out on the couch, of course, they had not yet been baked in the stove. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
I took a closer look at these dumplings, and I think they are very good, although the shape is still a little different from what I made, but it is also the same size, and the head of the group is very good-looking.
"Well, that's good, beat some eggs and only take the yolk is not good for white, wait for the first furnace to brush each one on it" Wen Xu stretched out his finger and drew a circle on the 'head' of the nearest bread ball: "It's roughly in this position!"
"I know this, I'll do it, Xiaoyue, you just follow me to learn" Teacher Ma has done this job before, even if he hasn't done it, for a normal housewife who has been cooking for decades, this kind of thing is also a piece of cake.
Teacher Ma took Zhao Xiaoyue to make egg yolk liquid on the side, and Old Man Chi pushed the Wen Xu's chess pieces in his hand back in front of Wen Xu: "Another game?"
"Not coming!" Wen Xu gently threw the red chess pieces in his hand onto the chessboard: "I always think about them making bread, and I don't have the extra mood to think about playing chess, so I let you win too much this morning! Wait for me to bake the bread, and I will kill you in the afternoon!" Wen Xu puffed up to find an excuse for his loss.
Wen Xu lost his pants in a few games in a row, and the old man naturally wanted to put on a posture of chasing after the victory, besides, he must be happy to win the chess, so the old man Chi still wanted to pull Wen Xu to continue.
"Victory or defeat is a common thing in soldiers!" the old man smiled, looking at Wen Xu with a look of anticipation.
"A real defeat is also a common thing in soldiers?"
"It's still early to eat, let's eat at our house at noon today, everyone will be a little lively together! The population of the family is small, and my dinner here is a little tasteless" The old man estimated that he would not be able to play chess, so he invited everyone to have a lively meal at noon.
Wen Xu said: "It's easy to talk about eating, but the chess won't come first, and the bread will go into the oven later, and I will guide me here!"
Wen Xu is not in the mood to continue playing with Old Man Chi now, he is losing in a row, and sometimes the more he loses, the more wrong it is. Besides, who has nothing to do and likes to find someone to abuse, so Wen Xu is resolute.
As a veteran who has been holding a spoon for decades, it is very pediatric for her to divide the egg liquid, and within five minutes, the old lady will divide the egg night, and they are all beaten.
"Let's go, get all these things," Wen Xu saw that everything was ready, so he reached out and picked up a flat bucket with bread balls in his hand, and walked out of the yard.
With Wen Xu in front, after Teacher Ma broke off, Zhao Xiaoyue walked in the middle, and behind Teacher Ma, there were a group of little babies, not very old, and the age range was three to six years old, that is, they had not yet gone to school. Now the leader of this group of babies is Ermaoya, this little girl is now the first in the group of children with a protruding belly, and she is not a little bit old, and she is holding a little baby in one hand.
As the old saying goes, the three-year-old baby is suspicious, but now that there is Zhao Xiaoyue, an outsider, and the attention is on the bread, the little ones are surprisingly good today, and the whole team is quite quiet along the way, and they have been following to the oven.
"Such a big stove?"
As soon as she saw the so-called oven, Zhao Xiaoyue was immediately a little dumbfounded, thinking that her master could roast a pig in this stove, and this stove was still built outside, only a small shed with a long slope roof to shelter from the wind and rain, and there was a large wooden long table under the shed, the long table was still hung with bark on the side, and there were two benches on both sides of the long head of the long table, and this bench was also quite weighty, the wood surface alone was almost a palm deep, and there was also a bark that had not been cleaned up。
Wen Xu has seen it countless times, so naturally she didn't have Zhao Xiaoyue's sigh, she just thought that she said that her stove was big, and replied casually: "Turn your head and look at the little radish heads behind you, who can eat the small stove, because I am still in school today, and the big army has not come back yet, if the big army is here, just like this, there will only be one in the hands of each little guy."
As he spoke, Wen Xu put the paper in his hand on the long table under the shed, then took out the fire fork from under the hearth, and then took out the brush from the hearth, this brush is not plastic, let alone an industrial product, but a hand-tied grass brush, made of sorghum tassels, and what I want is this natural and environmentally friendly.
The whole person almost stretched his body into the furnace, and it took nearly five minutes to clean the inside of the furnace from beginning to end. That's when the bread dough was put in.
Of course, as a master, Wen Xu just made a demonstration here, and after placing more than a dozen of them, he felt that the spacing was almost appropriate, and he could see that a little bit of the door was coming, so he asked Zhao Xiaoyue to put it.
I waited for Zhao Xiaoyue to be laid out, and went to see it again, this job is not too difficult, as long as you are careful, there can be no problems, and Zhao Xiaoyue is just strong in being careful.
Seeing that Zhao Xiaoyue was in a good position, Wen Xu continued to the next step.
"The following is the fire, the firewood here is made of pine, and there are some willows and the like, and the fire is made with this planed wood flower, which is usually not used for this thing, and is used for hay, and now the house is up, and there is a carpenter master to have such a good fire......
As he spoke, Wen Xu lit the wood shavings with a trigger, and then stuffed them into the middle of the bottom and top hearth, and then staggered some thin branches on the flames, and waited for the branches to catch firewood, and then placed firewood, and waited for the bottom layer of firewood to be drawn, and then filled the chest.
"That's it, the rest of the time is to wait, this stove firewood roasted almost can see the top of the bread began to yellow, at this time take out these bread, brush them one by one, and then put them in the oven to bake, this time until the top of the bread is close to the caramel color, that is, the color of the normal old bread indicates that the oven bread is good, here to pay special attention, after the bread is a little bitter, if not enough, the taste will be a little worse, anyway, you do it slowly, my flour here is freeWen Xu said.
"Xiaoyue, you just watch here, wait until it's almost time to call me over" Wen Xu sent a task, and he prepared to go back to the small courtyard to sit.
Although there is a shed here, but the shade here is not covered, the whole shed is under the sun, the temperature is several degrees higher than the courtyard of Old Man Chi's house, and the work of watching the fire is not difficult, so Wen Xu asked Zhao Xiaoyue, the apprentice, to do it, and he was ready to go back to the courtyard to enjoy the blessings.
After sending the task, Wen Xu entered the house, just got on the couch and picked up the tea on the small table and took a sip, when he heard Shi Shangzhen's voice coming from the door.
"Yo, Boss Wen's little life is quite leisurely! You have reported the cost of making boards here, and there is no money in the village!"
Before the words fell, Shi Shangzhen had already stood next to the couch, slapped a piece of paper on the table from his hand, reached out and picked up the cup from the small table, poured himself the cup of herbal tea for himself, and then drank it all, it is estimated that one cup is not thirst-quenching, and after drinking, he wants to have another cup, but unfortunately the pot is not big, Wen Xu has already made a cup here, so Shi Shangzhen only poured a third of the second cup, and the tea residue can be seen in the tea.
In this way, Shi Shangzhen did not dislike it, he drank it directly, and wiped his mouth after drinking: "Professor Chi, your tea is cold, it really quenches your thirst!"
Wen Xu picked up the paper and looked at it, it turned out to be an invoice, which said the production fee of the display board, needless to say that it was the religious matter he mentioned yesterday, and the money was not much, that is, about 2,000 yuan, Wen Xu directly took the invoice back into his pocket.
As soon as Old Man Chi heard Shi Shangzhen boasting about his tea, he immediately said proudly: "Of course, I have a trick here!"
"What's the trick?" Shi Shangzhen said this to be funny, and when he heard that Old Man Chi was scared, he immediately followed up and praised him.
Wen Xu smiled and didn't speak at this time.
Old Man Chi said: "The trick is the well in the backyard!"
Speaking of this, the old man threw the chess game in his hand, slapped his thigh, and stood up with a pout: "Oops, I forgot my things!"
"What is it?" Seeing the old man running to his backyard in a hurry, Shi Shangzhen asked Wen Xu in a low voice.
Wen Xu said with a smile: "The old man went to the backyard, there is a chance that there are watermelons in the well, if it is not watermelons, then it is a small melon or something!"
"The well still has this effect, and the tea is also frozen in the water?" Shi Shangzhen asked.
"In the past, when there was no refrigerator in the village, this well was equivalent to a simple refrigerator, not to mention the melons and fruits such as watermelons, that is, leftover meat and vegetables were put in the well, and there was no big problem in taking them out the next day.
The well is not a good thing to be drilled before, this thing also costs money, and it is not a small expense for the Zhuang family to dig a good well, not everyone can give up this money, the old man Chi is good, with the homestead fell a well in vain, and the wall of the well is still bluestone has been surrounded by the well.
Shi Shangzhen is just making fun, and he doesn't really think that the cool air in this well must be better than the big refrigerator he uses now, it's nothing more than saying that.
As soon as Wen Xu finished explaining this, the old man Chi came back with a Shi Pi bucket, and when he arrived at the bedside, the old man took out the things in the bucket, and sure enough, Wen Xu guessed correctly, there were a few yellow, orange and orange fragrant flowers in the bucket, and a few pale green melons.
"I know that you don't like to eat watermelons very much, and the watermelons I have here are not as good as those in your greenhouse, so come and try my melons" Old Man Chi placed a melon in front of Wen Xu.
Shi Shangzhen saw the old man looking at him, and said with a smile: "I can do anything!"
Shi Shangzhen's words were not finished, Wen Xu directly took the melon and took only one bite, biting off a large piece of the belt meat, swallowing the meat in his mouth with the bitter melon skin in one bite, nodding his head while chewing, and praising the melon for being good.
"You are Zhu Bajie eating ginseng fruit" Shi Shangzhen saw Wen Xu's elephant eating, and opened his mouth to make fun of Wen Xu.
"Do you want to peel it?"
Old Man Chi saw Shi Shangzhen looking around with a melon head, so he reached out and took out a peeling knife from the dark compartment below the small table and handed it to Shi Shangzhen.
"Thank you!" Shi Shang really wanted to find a knife, she wanted to peel the skin not because she was afraid of getting dirty, but because she was not used to eating it with the skin, the things grown in Wenjia Village were not easy to say, the cleanliness was incomparable to other places, what pesticides did not have, how could it not be clean.
After taking the knife, Shi Shangzhen began to peel the melon in his hand, the melon had just been planed, and Wen Xu's fist-sized melon had already entered his stomach, why was it so fast? First, because the melon was not big, second, because Wen Xu ate quickly, and thirdly, because Shi Shangzhen cut it carefully.
Seeing that Wen Xu had finished eating the melon, Shi Shangzhen handed the melon he had peeled in front of Wen Xu and said, "Come, try the melon of the old man's house!"
Seeing that Wen Xu was a little embarrassed and wanted to push back, Shi Shangzhen raised his hand again, with tenderness in his voice: "Okay, I'll eat it for you, and I'll cut it myself again."
"Thank you!"
Wen Xu reached out and took the melon from Shi Shangzhen's hand, and after taking a bite, he immediately gave a thumbs up and turned around in front of Shi Shangzhen and Old Man Chi: "It's delicious, the melon is good, and the peeling is good!"
When Shi Shangzhen heard Wen Xu say this, he was happy from the bottom of his heart, and said with a smile: "If you want to eat it, I'll help you cut it?"
Old Man Chi looked at the two young people with a smile at this time, and suddenly felt that the way these two young people got along was a bit vague like when they were young. At that time, his wife had a date, and he had to share it with himself, although the family was poor at that time, but the women at that time seemed to live a good life, and knew that they felt sorry for their husbands.
Although it is not like young people who love it now, but at that time people did not need to say it with their mouths, a small action, the mind was brought up, where it was like now, that little bit of ability is all on the mouth!
Look at the women now, don't say that they feel sorry for their husbands, they are waiting for their husbands to hurt one by one, and they really think they are princesses.
However, when the old man thought that Wen Xu now had a girlfriend, he sighed in his heart.
Old man Chi didn't want to reach out and interfere with Wen Xu's personal life, but in private, the old couple closed the door, and from time to time they would take this matter as a talking point, although they felt that Zhuo Yiqing was a good girl, with a generous personality and no bad intentions, but he also felt that this girl was too playful, plus the family conditions were placed here, what she wanted, and she relied on Wen Xu for everything when she got along with Wen Xu, which in the eyes of the old-fashioned old couple, this didn't seem like they could live a down-to-earth life at all.