As soon as Wang Yong thought of the foreign high-end wines that are now sought after by domestic tyrants, he felt unbalanced.

Why? Why is it that the people who drink wine are aristocrats, and they have a mood? Lao Tzu drank liquor in a big bowl, or a two-pot head, 56 degrees, what's wrong?

In this anger, Wang Yong pushed the big glass bottle in front of him into the table, stood up angrily and walked out.

Nima's, just because of this thing, how much did Lao Tzu delay? I haven't even slept well in the past two days, and I've lost a lot! His mother's, can't he do such a stupid thing in the future?

After thinking about it, Wang Yong got up and walked out the door. I haven't been to the village for a few days, but I'm the head of the village in the middle of the mountain! Why do you have to help the villagers do something often, even if it's a sense of brushing and saving, is it good?

As soon as I entered the village, I found a group of children in the village, either carrying a teapot (old-fashioned large enamel cup) of corn kernels or rice grains, or pulling their parents, grandparents, and grandparents, also carrying the same thing, and they all had a pocket in their hands.

What is this for? What's going on?

Hey, no, how is this scene so familiar?

I'm stupid, why did I crash when it came to a critical moment? It seems that there is still a lack of shooting! Thinking of this, Wang Yong was really about to slap himself on the head.

Before the slap landed on his head, Wang Yong had a flash of inspiration in his mind, and after screaming, he ran home.

"The Crash Flower is coming!"

Popcorn is the local dialect here, that is, popcorn that everyone is familiar with. This thing has a long history in our country.

According to research, the earliest popcorn appeared in the Song Dynasty and used glutinous rice. It's just that the name at that time was not called popcorn, nor popcorn, but Polou.

The Song Dynasty poet Fan Chengda described in the poem that Po Lou may have been transliterated locally. In the Song Dynasty, the Shangyuan Festival. There is a custom of popcorn in various parts of Wuzhong.

At that time, the main reason for people to popcorn was not to eat, to satisfy the appetite, but a very strange reason - divination.

People use guò popcorn to predict the good fortune and evil of the coming year, and girls use guò popcorn to ask about their life's events. When divination, the more popcorn you pop, the more auspicious it is.

In the Ming Dynasty, this style of popcorn divination became more popular. In his poem, a poet describes the hilarious scene of popcorn on the thirteenth day of the first lunar month.

100,000 households in Wumen in the east, and every family bursts with flowers. Throw the yellow millet from the pot. Changed hands and returned to the city of white jade flowers.

During the Qing Dynasty, popcorn divination was still popular, and at the same time, popcorn was also used as an ingredient in dishes! It is said that it is made as a filling, but I don't know what it will taste like when it is done?

Wang Yong's impression of the popcorn is a black pot with a lid on top that can be tightened, and a handle on the back to make the pot turn up after it is placed on the fire.

Of course, one of the most important components is the pressure gauge. When the popcorn is good and when it can be out of the pot depends on this pressure gauge.

Homemade with a tin stove. Whoever fried popcorn had to bring some coal, and then when the stove was burning, they began to prepare the popcorn.

Corn or rice as a raw material (I heard that soybeans were used in ancient times.) I haven't seen the house, but the book friend has seen it, so I must tell the house), mix it with an appropriate amount of saccharin and pour it into the pot.

Generally speaking. The person who fried the popcorn brought his own measuring tool, usually a jar, and poured the corn kernels you brought from home into his jar first. When it is flush with the mouth of the jar, it means that it is the amount of one pot.

Too much may not be good, too little is not cost-effective. A pot seemed to be one cent at first, and then slowly rose to two cents, five cents, and one piece, and now I don't know how much it is, because the village hasn't seen anyone doing this for many years.

In addition, it is estimated that young people have never seen saccharin, and it is estimated that the post-80s generation must be rural, and they should have memories of this thing, right?

A large pot of water, plus a dozen particles the size of today's white sugar, will be very sweet! When Wang Yong was young, he had no memory of the price, and when he grew up, he remembered that he once went to buy saccharin as if it was a dime a small bag, and it was estimated that he didn't even have one or two.

If you have a sweet tooth, you will add all this small bag of sugar in one pot. And those who will live are to fry a pot of popcorn, use half a bag, and keep the remaining half bag for going home to drink saccharin water, or for other purposes.

After putting in the ingredients, the popcorn jumper will change the lid first, and then tighten and fix a screw on the top. At this point, you can get on the heat and get ready to start heating.

After placing it on the fire, it must be rotated constantly to ensure that the ingredients in the pot are heated evenly. Sometimes it's fast, sometimes it's slow, it's all up to the popcorn maker's own craft and habits.

After the fire, it is necessary to pay attention to the pressure gauge above at all times. In addition to being one of the key factors to ensure that you can make delicious and beautiful popcorn, this thing is also a safety device related to the safety of yourself and the people around you.

In fact, this popcorn machine is a special pressure cooker, although it is cast iron, but it also has the limit of the pressure it can withstand, right? Once the pressure gauges are all blown out and you are still roasting on the fire, isn't that death?

This old-fashioned popcorn machine, which is almost only in memory today, is in fact an evolution of the English popcorn machine, which was invented in England in the late 19th century.

In 1893, at the World's Fair, a man named Charles Murphy. The man from Creteus introduced his latest invention, the commercial popcorn machine.

With the spread of electrification in the twentieth century, this old-fashioned popcorn machine gradually became extinct in the West. During World War II, vintage popcorn machines came to China.

The kind of converter popcorn machine that everyone is familiar with only appeared in China in the sixties, and it should be an upgraded version of the British popcorn machine.

It is made of cast iron as a whole and is divided into ten parts, such as a shaker, a pressure gauge, a lid, and a pot.

When the pressure gauge on the popcorn machine reaches a fixed value, you can remove the pot from the fire, put it in a sack, and then step on the pot with one foot, and insert an iron rod into the switch of the lid with one hand, using the principle of lever, and use the lever principle to force hard.

"Bang-"

After a loud bang. The popcorn of the white flower (the rice is broken, and the corn is a little yellow) will burst into the pot with the lid open and squirt out and obediently fall into the sack.

This voice was the favorite voice of all the children when Wang Yong was a child, and almost every time he heard this sound, the children in the whole village would drool and rush to the brigade headquarters.

There are many people who will cry and make trouble for their parents to jump popcorn, if it is really the parents who are reluctant to pay the money, then they have to hurry over, take advantage of the popcorn just out of the pot, and everyone hug up, fishing in troubled waters to grab a handful to satisfy the hunger.

This kind of popcorn can be said to be a high-end atmosphere and high-grade popcorn in childhood. It really carries the beautiful or painful memories of generations of childhood.

In the 80s and 90s, the living standard in the countryside of Banshan Village was low, and it can be said that from the early 80s to the early 80s, when they just started to enter the well-off, children rarely had pocket money to buy snacks to eat.

There are all kinds of plastic spoons of sour plum powder in the five-cent one, and a penny of sweet potatoes made of small Tang Guang (sweet potato sugar, very sticky teeth. It's not delicious at all), and Datang Guang for five cents a piece.

In my memory, these three snacks accompanied Wang Yong almost throughout his childhood, and the other snacks seemed to have no impression at all.

Still poor! In the era of extreme material scarcity, not to mention no money. Even if you have money, you can't buy any snacks in the countryside at that time, right?

As a result, popcorn, a sweet, inexpensive food, has become a favorite among children.

And the magical process of popcorn. It also brings a lot of happiness, yearning and curiosity to children.

At that time, there was no need to shout at all. As soon as they hear the sound of popcorn, the children will run around and watch. And the popcorn man is sitting there, pulling the air box in one hand (the old blower, which is rare now, there is one in the house) and the other hand turning the stove.

When the popcorn machine is stuffed into the sack and about to burst, the children will hold their breath nervously, and some of them will cover their ears with their hands, but their eyes will never leave the popcorn machine for a bit.

After a loud bang, white-flowered, or yellow-orange-orange popcorn appeared in front of you. At this time, the owners will come forward with their own bags to fill the popcorn.

The bold children took advantage of this opportunity to rush up and scramble. The timid ones went to pick up the popcorn scattered on the ground, and the timid ones could only stare at them with wide eyes and longing.

But generally speaking, Wang Yong will definitely not be any of these three people.

Every time someone from popcorn comes to the village, Wang Yong usually takes the hands of his younger brother Wang Liang and Wang Han, follows behind the second wife, and collapses at least two pots at a time in the envious, jealous and hateful eyes of his companions.

When it was not their turn to queue up, the people in front of them would take the initiative to step forward and open their pockets for the second grandmother to taste, and of course, the three little dolls were indispensable.

However, in general, more often than not, the people in front of them directly give way, giving up the first position to the second wife and Wang Yong, and letting them collapse first.

Therefore, most of the time, it is the second grandmother or Wang Yong, a little guy who is very good at things, who generously opens his pockets and lets the people in the village taste it.

Usually at this time, Wang Liang and Wang Han would look at the bags in their grandfather's hands very nervously, for fear that people would eat up the popcorn for them.

The strange thing is that Wang Yong always can't see Wang Qiang at this time in his memory, where did he go at that time?

At this time, Wang Yong had returned home.

While looking for two small plastic bags filled with rice and corn respectively, he took two bags of one-pound cotton sugar from the kitchen. At the same time, he also took out his mobile phone and called Wang Qiang.

"Brother, what did you do when we used to burst flowers?" (To be continued......)

PS: Thank you sunny54 and phantom 2002 monthly ticket tip, the house is very grateful!

Today is the last day of the month, and book friends who still have tickets in their hands will throw two tickets?