Chapter 507: Kanto Style
(Recommended books: "Tsundere Attack: School Director Stands Aside", "Official Journey") Many residents of Xingyuan Town also maintain the most simple Kanto folk customs, when tourists see girls at home during the holiday, the two of them are in a group, sitting cross-legged on the hot kang, throwing bags sewn by grain grains, and playing Kalhaha, many women will be curious to mix in.
At this time, they will understand what it means to see flowers and embroider hard! This is a game that requires the cooperation of both hands and eyes, and it is definitely not as easy as it seems. Beginners often stare at the pockets in the air here and forget to fiddle with the kalaha, or the kalaha here and the pocket has smashed on their heads.
The most dizzy thing for southerners is undoubtedly the big cigarette pouch in the mouth of the little daughter-in-law and the old lady! Usually there will be a tobacco basket on the kang with tobacco leaves in it, and if you want to smoke it, you will come to the tobacco bag and pot, grab a handful of tobacco leaves, and squeeze it into the tobacco bag pot.
The tighter the squeeze of the cigarette in the cigarette pouch pot, the better the burning effect will be, and the more comfortable it will be to smoke. Those who have good faith often begged for cigarette bags and pots, and when they take a puff, they will always be choked with tears by the thick green smoke!
But the cigarette pouch pot returned to the mouth of the little daughter-in-law and the old lady, and it was still a click, full of charm. At this time, Kanto women are the most comfortable, because only when they sit on the kang and smoke a large cigarette pouch, it means that they are resting.
Whenever this time is also the time for Kanto women to exchange gossip, everyone gathers around a large brazier, smoking and chatting with their parents. There are also non-smokers, often do needlework, the most common is to hold the soles of shoes in their hands, the kind of twine containing mille-feuille soles, only when the cat is winter, there is time to accommodate this time-consuming and laborious thing.
Sometimes there is a little surprise buried in the brazier, which is the most popular among the children, some are roasted potatoes, some are roasted sweet potatoes, and sometimes there are frozen birds picked up from outside. Occasionally, when you throw dried fish into the brazier, the fishy smell and burnt smell are mixed together, and it will definitely not be a torment!
There is also the scene of "feeding the child and hanging up", which amazes the young people in the city, looking at the little guy who is entertaining himself in the car, everyone is touched by the wisdom of the Kanto people. While taking care of the child, while busy with the work in hand, the child cried, as long as a gentle push, with the car shaking, the baby will often gradually fall asleep.
In the winter of Kanto, the old man is the most idle, except for some necessary work, the most common thing for the old man of each family is to play cards and brag about the big bar. A year of hard work, only at this time, women are the most lenient with men, even if there are some petty romances, it will not cause violent conflicts.
However, this year's men in Xingyuan County are not idle, from the time Secretary Liu came to operate four projects, job opportunities in Xingyuan County are everywhere. In the past, Kanto lords did not have to be cats in winter, but there was really no business or work to make money in winter.
This year is different, if the gentlemen of any family in Xingyuan County are still at home this year, they will be laughed at by the neighbors. Later, many big girls and little daughters-in-law began to go out of the house to make money, and the women in Kanto were originally hot, and many women were far more aggressive than the old men.
Just like the Sino-Russian timber processing and wholesale market, which has not been idle, it alone provides hundreds of jobs for Xingyuan County. This year's Xingyuan people feel particularly energetic, especially those who live in foreign tourists at home, and they have smiles on their faces all day long.
Xingyuan County used to be a pure small-scale peasant economy, and not asking for anything is the most intuitive portrayal of this way of life, and many families still have stone mills for grinding rice in their yards. At this time, many tourists will ask the landlord to use the stone mill, and the landlord will be very willing to meet such a request.
This season, the stone mill is used to grind sticky rice or make tofu, and the most convincing thing for tourists is undoubtedly this pure old-fashioned tofu. When you start soaking beans the night before and start the stone mill, you must first wash it with boiling water several times, not only for hygiene, but also to prevent the stone mill from freezing if the temperature is too low.
As a handful of soaked beans were poured into the grinding holes of the stone mill, the stone mill began to operate, after all, it was in the city, and there were few family donkeys, all of which were pulled by hand. At this time, it is usually curious tourists who come to grind and watch the soybean milk gurgling down the cracks of the stone mill, which makes people feel a sense of accomplishment.
After grinding the beans, the stone mill must be rinsed with warm water many times, and there must be no residue left on it, in that case, it will be quite troublesome when the next grinding is opened. The next thing is to boil soybean milk, often a large ten-bladed cauldron, below which is a crackling and burning pine wood, and a charming pine fragrance in the air makes people intoxicated.
When you boil soy milk, there will be a thick snowflake-like foam on it, and it really feels like a thousand piles of snow. The soy milk must be stirred constantly, otherwise it will easily stick to the bottom of the pot, and when the soy milk is fully cooked, start to filter the soy milk with gauze.
Soy milk is the soy juice in the population of Yanjing City, and a little white sugar, brown sugar or something is usually added when drinking. There are those who like to eat small tofu, which is the so-called tofu brain, which is called small tofu by Kanto people, that is, the brine is stirred on the point but not pressed, and the soup is directly adjusted and eaten as a dish, and there are also those who eat small tofu and do not eat on this day when grinding tofu.
Wait until everyone in the family has eaten and drunk enough, and then compact the remaining small tofu on the plate to make large tofu, which is normal tofu. Tofu is easy to spoil, and the Kanto people's favorite food is frozen tofu, which has a special flavor when stewed, and is definitely not like tofu, where the taste is just hanging on the surface.
In Kanto, it is common to stock up on frozen tofu in winter, and when the frozen tofu is stewed, it must be melted first, squeezing out the moisture inside, and then putting it in a soup pot. Whether it's fish stew or meat stew, with frozen tofu in it, frozen tofu is definitely the best when it comes to cooking, because the most delicious soup is absorbed by frozen tofu!
The Lantern Festival is coming, and these two days are also the most testing time for the Xingyuan County Ice and Snow Festival, because the advertisement that will be used as a branch venue of the CCTV Lantern Festival Gala has already been played, plus there are a big stars from Yuefu Entertainment Company to help out, and there is a domestic shooting speed record The cast and crew of "Love at First Sight" performed on the same stage, as well as the fashion show of Gale Retro Fashion Company, it is bound to become a hot spot.
In order to prevent a shortage of beds, the number of beds has been increased by 2,000 on the basis of the already 15,000 beds. Obviously, this policy is very even, and at noon, the foreign population in Xingyuan Town hit a peak, reaching 13,000 people!
Because of the problem of transportation, the latest tourists will arrive at two o'clock in the afternoon, before the closing ceremony begins, at this time, whether it is Liu Feng and the cadres of Xingyuan County, or Xu Jia, Lan Yuanyu and other provincial and municipal leaders, they are all looking forward to the final report with apprehension and excitement!
Just so far, it seems that this year's Ice and Snow Festival has been a great success, and the garbage cleaned up by the cleaning team organized by the cadres of the government every morning is already very revealing. With such a large flow of passengers, those original cleaners could not complete the task at all, so the members of the county party committee took the lead, and everyone would clean up the garbage for half an hour before going to work every day.
Liu Feng is no exception, the only difference is that there are two more small helpers around him, Deng Hua and Liu Xin are not less working at home, which is different from the students in the city. The two of them work even more decently than Liu Feng, Liu Feng works, in the eyes of Xiang Meizi, it is fooling!
In fact, Liu Feng tries his best every time, but the more he tries his best, the more Xiang Meizi laughs at him for not being able to do anything! As a branch venue of the CCTV Lantern Festival Gala, it is not held simultaneously, and Liu Feng doesn't want the party here to really be held at night.
After all, many things in Xingyuan County are too backward, there will be many unpredictable dangers in large-scale activities at night, in this winter night when water becomes ice, any mistake will lead to a major accident, therefore, the closing ceremony of the Xingyuan County Ice and Snow Festival and the Lantern Festival party officially began at one o'clock in the afternoon.
The closing ceremony was broadcast by a large broadcast truck from the border prefecture, and the reporters were reporters from CCTV and provincial and municipal television stations.
The host of the closing ceremony is Jiao Hongying, Su Su, Yang Jinyu and the poor star Yang Xiao, Yang Xiao originally only had a two-day travel plan, because she became a tourism ambassador, and the whole process was free, so she has stayed until now, and her parents have always been by her side.
Today's Yang Xiao is standing on the stage, there is no longer the original youth, after these days of intensive training, coupled with the weaving injury, Pu Luoxiao and Xiang Meizi's creation of the elite in the fashion industry, Yang Xiao can already be a good guest host!
"Now, I invite the most famous folk Yangko team in Xingyuan County to bring us a wonderful Yangge performance!"
With the cheerful sound of suona and the sound of gongs and drums, I saw two teams of Yangge teams in colorful clothes entering the venue from the east and west. At the head, two double lions, with golden leather coats and bright red manes, danced into the square energetically. The two lions scurried high and low, blinking their big bright silver eyelids, opening their gluttonous mouths, and from time to time people stood up, stretched out their forepaws, and greeted everyone on the sidelines.
Suddenly, he turned his head upwards and opened his mouth to tease the hydrangea in the lionman's hand; Suddenly, like a pug, he rubbed the lionman's legs with his big head, and he was coquettish; Suddenly, he was lying on the ground naughty, and a lazy donkey rolled over, making all the surrounding audience laugh.
With the change of rhythm, the Yangge team that entered on the east side gradually revealed its figure. Twisting in front are the three Tang monks and apprentices, why are they three, the naughty monkey, stepping on stilts, jumping forward and backward, disappearing from time to time. The strange thing is that Tang Seng did not ride a white horse, but rode on a cloth donkey.
Seeing such a scene, everyone laughed, this Xingyuan County can really be spoofed. Zhu Bajie was as sentimental as ever, and when he saw the beauties watching, he twisted over, and stilted his waist, almost bent at ninety degrees. This is difficult for actors on stilts!
No girl hates this beautiful Zhu Bajie, because Zhu Bajie is played by the famous two-person actor Sun Liying. I saw Zhu Bajie come to the side of a pair of sister flowers, stretched out his hand, took off his nasty big nose, and showed a handsome smile: "Hey, beauty, let's go back to Gao Laozhuang together, okay?" ”
Look, the most attentive monk in history, in a blink of an eye, has a new goal, while flying with the "old friend" with flattering eyes, while carrying a nine-toothed nail rake, twisting the waist of the water snake, and running to a new love!