The taste of boiled beans is particularly fragrant, a few of us squatted on the ground to burn the fire, relatives can't help but start to swallow saliva, when I was a child in my previous life, I would be in the soybeans when I was cooking, secretly put my little hand into the pot, grab the cooked soybeans to eat, I thought it was delicious, I can generally rely on this a day, when the meal is eaten, my mother knows that I like to eat, and I will not care about me, but before eating, I must wash my hands.

A few of us gluttonous cats, looking at the inside of the pot, mainly because the taste is too fragrant, people can't help swallowing saliva, Mom and Grandma Zhang looked at our expressions, and said with a smile, "You little gluttonous cats, eat, but don't forget to wash your hands, this can't eat more, I'll have lunch in a while" Mom finished speaking, and started to make lunch.

A few of us couldn't wait to reach out and start eating, a bit like the taste of bean bun filling, it didn't seem to be as delicious as I thought, I thought silently in my heart, but seeing Qi Qi and Li Qi eating so deliciously, I also grabbed a big handful, a big mouthful, anyway, it was very satisfying.

By noon, our children were full, and the machine in the village began to have a sound, pressing sauce cubes for a village, it was a very lively thing, there were many children outside, running, noisy, a few of us also ran out of the heat, my mother saw that we should not be hungry, so she let us out, and gave us a few steamed buns before leaving.

When we went, the machine had already started to move, an old man, operating the machine, it looked old, but it was quite clean, the old man, one hand put boiled beans into the machine, and the other hand controlled the machine.

Soon the beans were crushed. In fact, it is not particularly broken, there are many half of the beans, and the beans will be crushed. Put it in a square iron box, this box is specially used to hold the sauce quickly.

The uncle put the stirred one inside, looked at the number of beans, pressed the beans hard, and then flipped the box over, slowly letting the beans slide out, because the average village person has never read. I don't know the quantity, but everyone has their own way of weighing.

These large sauce cubes cannot be used directly. To cut the cubes into quarters with a knife, stick less water in your hands, and flatten the four sides of the cubes.

After the sauce cubes are ready. Put in a shady place at night. It's still a little cold outside, so it's okay in general places, and today the beans in the village are basically finished, and the next day, the women in the village start to make bean nuggets.

The beans should be made about 40 cm wide, and when they are large, they will not ferment completely. If it is small, it will not ferment, and the beans should be wrapped in newspaper after they are ready. Placed on the fire wall in the northeast to ferment slowly, the plump bean pieces will slowly dry up, and then turn black and grow white hairs.

These sauces are almost ready, you can't keep it like this, put it in the sun during the day, you have to dry each side into a shell, in fact, the middle is still soft, when the six noodles are dried, wrap it in paper for a period of time, and the inside is basically dry, waiting for its own fermentation.

In my previous life, when I was young, the teachers in our school often scolded students who did not study well, and their heads were big sauce cubes, which came from this place, and this is also a local dialect.

When spring comes, put these fermented very hard bean pieces into a large basin to wash, use a brush to brush off the newspaper and dust on it, the surface of the dried sauce, it is normal to have hair, wash it, and then break it into small pieces and put it in a large vat, commonly known as a large sauce jar, the washing process is also very troublesome, and it is generally necessary to do this carefully.

After putting the sauce in the sauce jar, then put the water, then put the salt, and stir them evenly, our family used to make it by my mother, about 1 catty of sauce and half a catty of salt, if the salt is less, the sauce will be bad.

After the miso is ready, cover the miso jar with fine gauze and place it in the yard, in a sunny place, so that the miso will ferment perfectly.

After these are done, put a rake in the tank, the sauce rake is easy to make, that is, a board is ordered under a wooden stick, and there are generally several at home.

Put the sauce rake into the sauce jar, cover it with gauze, cover it with a cylinder cover, and finally you need to pound the sauce with the sauce rake every day, every day, and then put the foam on the sauce out and throw it away, so that day after day, you can't forget it every day, and the less foam on the sauce is.

In this way, every day, the sauce will become very fine, and every time the sauce is pounded, the miso is fragrant, and when the sauce is made, about two months later, as soon as it is moved in June, the new sauce can be eaten.

And there are some things that need to be paid attention to in the sauce, when it is sunny, you should take off the lid of the sauce, let the sauce be stirred, and remember to cover the lid of the sauce in rainy days, there will be maggots when it rains, and you should add a screen to prevent insects and flies, which should be particularly meticulous.

My family and Grandma Zhang's sauce are put together, and they are placed in the vegetable garden in the backyard of Grandma Zhang's house, and Grandma Zhang's craftsmanship is much better than that of my mother, Wang He and I go to the vegetable garden every day to pound the sauce, and the time for pounding the sauce every day is relatively long, and it is not easy to make it all the time, this thing Mom has no time to do now, Grandma Zhang is old, and she can't work too hard, the two of us do it just right, watching the delicious sauce form little by little, and the fragrance slowly becomes fragrant, and the sense of achievement is simply bursting.

When the cabbage radish in the spring garden comes down, the miso is also made, and the fresh green vegetables are dipped in the new miso, and the flavor of the green cabbage and the new sauce are mixed together, and the taste is simply delicious.

When the sauce came down, the firewood in the village, after a winter, was almost burned, so everyone stopped turning on the fire, and went to the vegetable garden every day, pulled some green onion leaves, and then found some cabbage and the like, and the dish was solved.

Generally, it is rice, green onions dipped in soybean sauce, those who have never eaten it do not know the deliciousness of it, and those who have eaten it have become memories for a lifetime, which is the taste of hometown.

Because the weather is getting warmer, Wang He and I don't bring food anymore, and the lunch break at noon has become two hours, and the time for us to go home for dinner must be enough, but Qi Qi is miserable, she and Li Qi are used to eating the food we brought.

Qi Qi and Li Qi are far away from home, and they eat at school with the principal at noon, at this time the school has school workers, generally two people, the old man and the grandmother, you can eat here for free, and there is accommodation, and the monthly salary is relatively small.

Qi Qi ate a lunch made by the school worker, and since then when we ate at noon, it became four people, and Qi Qi complained to me on the way, "Yaya, let me tell you, I have never seen anyone more unpalatable than my mother's cooking, but now I have met it, it is simply a boiled dish, it has no taste at all, it is too unpalatable, and she doesn't wash her hands before cooking, and I also eat something else in the dish, I really can't stand it," Qi Qi finished speaking, took my hand, and begged for comfort. (To be continued.) )