"Dad, this is really thanks to a few uncles in our village, without their exquisite carving skills, to be honest, I really didn't have the ability to achieve such an effect. I only learned the intricate wood carvings, and you can see those beams, doors, windows and screens, most of which rely on their main knives. Yang Xiande was both a little proud and a little embarrassed.

"Hey, you're saying that a lot of our good stuff has been lost. Forget it, let's not mention these, the key is to look forward, it is not easy for the old Yang family to have today, watching everyone's life become more prosperous day by day, I am happy in my heart. Let's all come to the pillar incense and worship and worship. Yang Yiren sighed, the big stone that had been pressed in his heart could finally be moved away.

"Yes, Dad, our office building and workshop building have been completed, and all kinds of equipment are being installed and commissioned, and it won't be long before they can be up and running. In this way, will the days of great wealth and prosperity be far away? Yang Xiankun's face is also full of joy, with the increasing importance of the engineering division, he is responsible for more and more projects, the management team is getting bigger and bigger, and the sense of achievement and pride is full.

"Well, you don't leave your brothers when you fight tigers, and you don't leave your fathers and sons when you go into battle. Second brother, third brother, come, our brothers will give the ancestors a stick of incense together, and pray for the ancestors to bless our whole family with peace and security, no illness and no pain, and abundant wealth! Yang Yiren instructed everyone to offer the sacrifices that should be prepared one by one, and after the incense candles and paper wax were lit, they greeted Yang Yirong and Yang Yi'an.

"Okay, big brother, we'll be here soon!" Yang Yiren and Yang Yian hurriedly replied.

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"Grandpa, grandma, the old man who made popcorn is here, let's hurry up and get corn and rice out to make popcorn, and after a while, there will be no queue when there are too many people." Yang Ji ran into the ancestral hall from the outside and shouted loudly at Yang Yiren and Feng.

"Good. Okay, grandma will go back and weigh a few catties of corn and rice immediately, you hurry up and queue up! Feng Shi was also happy when he heard it, and he looked very anxious, this is the New Year, according to the old custom, he wants to explode some beans. Make some snacks for the baby's mouth.

"Popcorn?" Yang Jibin was also interested when he heard it, and hurriedly walked out of the ancestral hall to see what was going on.

Popcorn began in the Song Dynasty and is an ancient folk traditional craft. According to historical records, popcorn is crunchy and easy to digest, making it a delicious daily snack.

The invention of popcorn reflects the richness and diversity of Chinese food, and its profound meaning is to create a way of food processing - puffed food.

It shows that food processing in ancient China is not only a simple heating and cooking of food, but also changes the state and taste of food through the principle of physical high temperature and high pressure, so that ordinary and unpalatable food becomes delicious and distinctive snacks.

It can be said that popcorn thousands of years ago is the "ancestor" of various puffed foods, snacks and snacks in modern times.

As soon as Yang Jibin came out of the ancestral hall door, he saw from a distance, an old man with pale temples and black fingers pushing a cart. The car was equipped with popcorn tools to walk along the newly repaired cement road in Yangjiazhai and shouted "Popcorn, popcorn!" ”

The old man pulled the car and walked in front, and a group of little children followed happily behind, and the excitement made Yang Jibin empathize, this is the happiest time of the post-70s and post-80s childhood.

At that time, the happiest were the children, and every time they saw the popcorn uncle coming, they would rush to join in the fun. Some of them rushed home to get the ingredients...

Once upon a time, I don't know how long it had been since I had seen a popcorn machine. When I was a child, as long as I saw the old man with the black jar coming, I was overjoyed. The scene of catching up with a bag of corn or rice can only become a memory when you grow up...

The old man pulled the cart to an open place, stopped, unloaded the stove, bellows, small bench and a gourd-shaped popcorn machine from the cart, and prepared to start taking business.

"Little Junko. You're so good that you're in first place. Uncle, wait a minute, my grandmother has already gone back to get corn and rice, I'll go back and get some firewood right away. Yang Jibin: This will also be in high spirits. After saying hello, he rushed home.

"Okay, no rush! Everyone lined up and prepared the things and firewood to be fought. The old man said with a smile to the small pot friends in line.

This popcorn master who will walk the street from house to house, generally does not bring his own firewood, and the firewood is provided by the person who makes popcorn, so the old man said just now.

After a while, Feng and Yang Jibin rushed over.

Feng handed the corn and rice to the old man, while Yang Jibin piled the firewood next to the popcorn machine.

The uncle weighed the corn and rice, each of which weighed 4 catties, so he said to Feng: "Sister, do you want to fight them all?" ”

Feng replied with a smile: "Yes, all, I want to play four pots, and if there are more children in the family, I will have to prepare some food for the New Year." Master, how much does your pot of popcorn cost? ”

"5 cents a pot, these four pots are a total of 2 yuan." The old man replied.

"Okay, no problem, let's start ignition. Master, you have collected the money! "Feng Shi is now wealthy, and without waiting for the master to finish the work, he directly paid him in cash.

"Thank you, big sister." The old man is very happy to see Feng so happy, he is here today to come to Yangjiazhai is the right one, just looking at the scene along the way, you know that the people here are not bad for money, it is estimated that the work of these two days will not be broken, and you will definitely be able to make a lot of money.

After the old man collected the money, he sat on the small bench, skillfully poured the weighed 2 catties of corn into the container, added a little saccharin and a little water, tightened the lid, and then put it in the "V" shaped trough in the front and back of the stove.

After loading the corn, the old man put the firewood brought by Yang Jibin into the stove, and after igniting it, he saw him pushing the bellows with one hand and shaking the stove handle very skillfully with the other hand, turning in circles, and began to fry it.

The popcorn utensils used by the elderly are the most old-fashioned popcorn machines. A hermetically sealed iron vessel with a pressure gauge called a torpedo, propped on a small charcoal stove, which could be rotated by shaking the handle, and next to the stove was a small blower.

Popcorn seems to be very simple but it is actually a technical job, controlling the temperature of the heat and the barometer is very important, because of the leakage and the explosion is not ripe or overburst is a common thing, just practice with more than 200 pounds of food, in order to learn slowly, but also to repair these tools, otherwise it will be difficult to move an inch when something happens.

The process of watching the popcorn fry is a pleasure, and the children are watching the popcorn machine spinning in a circle, anxiously waiting. The adults took advantage of this rare leisure time to chat about all kinds of interesting things, cheering for a short time, sighing for something for a while, and laughing out loud together for a while.

After about 5 or 6 minutes, a total of hundreds of turns, after the pot reached a certain pressure, the old man beckoned to the onlookers: "Baby, you all go over, it's time to boil." (To be continued.) )