"Whose little girl is this, so handsome, and her skirt is so beautiful? Tell my brother what's your name? Why did you come to my house? Hong Yan smiled, looked up and down at Xiao Rongrong in front of the stairs, and asked in surprise deliberately.

"Cauldron, I'm Rongrong, don't you remember Rongrong?" Rong Rong looked at his brother and seemed to be a little aggrieved.

"Ah, are you Rongrong? That's not right! Is my family so beautiful? So handsome? Kind of like that princess......"

"Snow White!" Xiao Zheng hurriedly said.

Xiao Rongrong was no longer aggrieved and smiled happily. Like Snow White in the story, she wears a beautiful dress and lives a carefree life. Well, take a turn and scatter the skirt.

Hong Yan took the little girl's little hand and walked out of the door, and greeted her father, ancestor, aunt and others on the edge of the stairs one by one. The small cardboard box had already been dragged under the threshold by Xiao Feng. Rummaging. The little girl didn't go to join in the fun, she cared more about the embrace of the cauldron. "Sugar!" Xiao Zheng cheered. "What's this?" Xiao Feng and Zheng each hugged a pack of biscuits and asked Hong Yan.

"I don't know!" Hong Yan shook his head deliberately.

"Do you want to eat?"

"I don't know!"

The smell of the biscuits was still very tempting, and both of them were in a hurry to open them. Hong Jianguo hurriedly put away what Xiao Feng wanted in his hand, and didn't eat it all at once. "Where did you pay for this?" Hong Jianguo asked deliberately. The adults and children of the Chen family are watching, and it is difficult to say if there is no origin.

"I met the head of a trade union section of the Yuzhou Steel Mill, and his wife is a conductor on the Luopingba line to Chongqing. I asked them to come to our house for the Spring Festival, and they agreed, sending them some things that they couldn't eat and use. Hong Yan said. The countryside thinks that the people in the city are rich, and they can't eat, wear, or spend. There are also people who believe this. As for how people are willing to recognize him and give him things, it depends on what people think. A few days ago, didn't Hong Yan still talk to the old Red Army?

After a trip to Yuzhou, a total of 4,200 yuan was returned, and he became a rich man in a blink of an eye.

Hong Yan unwrapped the biscuits and asked Xiaofeng to distribute them. First of all, the children were satisfied, including a small child of the Chen family, and two tablets were also given. Then, give a slice to the ancestor and other adults to taste. Speaking of which, no one believes that biscuits are a luxury for most members at this time.

After returning to the house, Hong Yan handed over the money and the clothes he bought to his mother, who distributed them. The little girl pulled her brother back, and she must see the magic: "Cauldron, the little dog has opened his eyes!" ”

It has been more than half a month since the ash was produced, and the puppy should have opened its eyes. After the dog is born, it cannot hear or see, and it takes about a week for hearing to develop normally, and about half a month for vision to develop normally. Ash left the nest and wagged his tail to welcome Hong Yan. 4 puppies humming and crawling restlessly in the litter. Hong Yan touched the gray head, smoothed the hair, and put two buns in the trough.

A rich aroma of mash came to my nose. Is the mash done? Hong Yan was a little surprised. Xianyuan glutinous rice was dried before going to Yuzhou, and Hong Yan nagged about using glutinous rice to make mash.

The mash is said to have been invented by Yang Guifei. However, according to research, the Ming man Li Shi said in "Shu Yu": "Don't go to the wine and make the bad day, take the cooked glutinous rice for it, so don't go bad, that is, the ancient mash and mash." "Zhuangzi? There are records about mash in the "Thief Foot" and the "Book of the Later Han", which shows that it has a long history, and it has been in the Qin and Han dynasties, and it was not invented because of Yang Guifei. Guo Moruo's "Traveling in Xi'an? May 2", said that "pulp rice wine is what Du Fu called 'turbid mash'." Shuchuan people call it 'mash', and the alcohol content is very small. ”

Mash does not necessarily have to use glutinous rice or jiangmi as raw materials, and rice can also be made in ordinary times, of course, the taste and texture are naturally very different.

Hong Yan took a deep breath from the small soup bowl above, and the aroma penetrated through his heart. "It smells so good!" Hong Yan admired from the bottom of his heart. The three children all shouted "so fragrant". The slender grains of rice and the cool, transparent liquid are eye-catching. Scoop up a tablespoon and taste it slowly, it is moderately old and tender, sweet and glutinous, slag in the mouth, soft and delicate, cool and thirst-quenching, fragrant and refreshing. Unable to resist the stimulation of his taste buds, he simply did not use the spoon, but drank it directly.

The three children can only eat a few small bites, and they are not allowed to eat more. Mash or liquor, the smell of the wine that has just come out is not strong, it is delicious but not intoxicating and does not hurt people, but it will become old after a few days of storage. The old mash wine has a strong taste, the wine is strong, and the stamina is enough, it is more powerful than liquor, and people who don't understand it are easy to get drunk. Mash eggs and mash Lantern Festival are rare rural delicacies in Shuchuan. In fact, in the previous life, there would also be a pot of mash Lantern Festival at the banquet. There is very little natural mash, and the Lantern Festival is quite delicate. There are also people who have developed a variety of mash foods, such as mash fish, mash steamed elbow, etc., which are very popular.

Mash is not a special product of Shuchuan, it is available in all provinces in the south, and the way to eat it is similar. A bowl of mash is a small snack before lunch, that is, "past lunch".

During the meal, Xiao Zheng and the little girl competed to sit with the eldest brother. After the meal, Hong Yan told his mother to steam the rice again to make mash, and proposed to soak the rice and push the water to grind the rice balls. Li Yun smiled and said, "You know how to eat!" ”

Li Yun is really right, Hong Yan is very concerned about eating. There was no such condition some time ago, he was not particular, and even let his younger brothers and sisters eat deliciously. Now that the conditions have completely improved, he no longer worries about this. In the previous life, because of chemical fertilizers, pesticides, hybridization, genetically modified organisms and quick production, all the food and meat gods and horses have changed their taste. What a blessing it is to be able to enjoy the authentic rural food!

After lunch, the whole family mobilized to push water and grind rice balls. Watching the snow-white rice milk flow out of the stone mill, first a lock of rice milk, then a piece of piece, and finally the entire grinding groove turned white, Sanxiao clapped his hands happily. Since the last time he pushed the tofu, Hong Yan suggested moving the stone mill out of sight in the front yard. Now it's been rebuilt behind my grandfather's kitchen. Fortunately, there are two stone mills in the courtyard, and there is no problem of others borrowing them.

Rice milk flows from the grinding groove into the papaburi spread out on the vegetable basket. The glutinous rice syrup is made of silk into threads and then into a waterfall, but they are all gathered together. There was more and more rice milk in Papaburi, and the blisters slowly bulged and disappeared with a slight "whoosh" sound.

This season is not a good season to push water to grind glutinous rice balls, the temperature is high, and it is easy to ferment and have a sour taste when hanging the pulp. Of course Hong Yan is not afraid, after he put away the tofu he didn't eat last time, he eats fresh tofu every day!

Saying that the little girl is quite interested in these, Rongrong squatted in front of the vegetable basket and watched the rice milk flow in, rushing into a whirlpool, and the small bubbles disappeared from the side, stretching out her little finger from time to time to point the blisters that had just risen, and she was never tired of it. The little boy was different, after watching it for a while, he was bored, and the two went to play in the dam to play what they were interested in. A dozen chicks clucked after the two hens into the hens. Chicks hatched when the temperature is relatively high have less hair on their bodies, but they have already grown a few wing feathers.

Push the water mill rice balls, tie the bag tightly, and hang it on the grinding handle. Therefore, water-milled rice balls are also called hanging pulp rice balls. In order to be able to eat at night, after Li Yun washed the mill, she kept squeezing or patting the packing handkerchief. The hard work pays off, and in the evening, you can dig out the rice milk close to Papabu and knead it into rice balls.

Holding the bowl with both hands, the fragrance of mash rice balls is refreshing. Take a bite, the glutinous rice balls without sugar are absolutely authentic and original. With a faint smell of mash and fragrant glutinous rice balls, Hong Yan sighed in his heart: "The taste of the legendary mother!" ”

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In the blink of an eye, the Mid-Autumn Festival has arrived.

"Sister Yue, there are many changes, the first two of the first month, black linen, the third and fourth of the first month, the silver hook-like, the eighth * nine of the first month, like a dragon's tooth, eleven and twelve, half of the melon, and the fifteenth silver plate hangs high. The Mid-Autumn Moon is clean and flawless, round as a mirror to my home. Under the eaves of the wheat field, the little doll on the ground shines. The doll held hands and played together, turned around and was dizzy, fell to the ground carelessly, and shouted and screamed for her mother. Sister Yunliyue said that he was stupid, which caused everyone to laugh haha. ”

The Mid-Autumn Festival is a traditional festival in China, on the 15th day of the eighth month of the lunar calendar. Because on this day, the moon is full, symbolizing reunion, also known as the reunion festival. People in the north eat moon cakes, and the south eats glutinous rice cakes.

Hong Yan was reborn and came back for more than two months. Although the houses are still dilapidated, food is no longer an issue. However, to Hong Yan's considerable disappointment, Hong Jianguo went to Longxi early in the morning to buy pork, but returned empty-handed. Even if it is a traditional festival, you can only kill a pig and sell it, how can it be enough to buy it in a few surrounding towns? Pigs can't be slaughtered casually.

Hong Jianguo bought back a big red rooster. Isn't a rooster better than pork? The nutrition and taste are indeed very good, but the pork is satisfying! The production team is in the mood of the members, and they work for half a day today.

In the era of material scarcity, what is so good about the Mid-Autumn Festival? The new grain has been dried, the requisition has been completed, and the production team has allocated some of the rice to the members. Hong Yan also saw that there are many Erzhen valleys (between full and empty valleys). This is the reality, after passing the windmill, the fullest, yellowest and heaviest rice is handed over to the state as requisitioned grain.

The members of the club are divided into the remaining part, and there is a second grain in the middle. Two rice grains are beaten with rice, and the bran is more and less rice. In the previous life, after the implementation of the household contract responsibility system, the two grains at home were all beaten out to feed the pigs. The rice grains made from Erjiao Valley are small and broken, and there is really no advantage in addition to making porridge quickly.

Glutinous rice also has a requisition task. The glutinous rice distributed in hand is less than 2 catties per person on average. Chinese New Year is the most important festival of the year. Therefore, most people will not be extravagant enough to make glutinous rice cakes. In the countryside, the children have been engaged, and the man must pick up his girlfriend to come to the house to celebrate the festival together during the Dragon Boat Festival and Mid-Autumn Festival. It's a pity that Hong Yan's second uncle's marriage has not yet been settled, and the aunt is just eighteen years old, and she didn't say anything about her in-laws. This Mid-Autumn Festival had to be spent at home.

Those who should have gone to work have gone out. Lao Zu and Hong Yan began to prepare lunch, and the rooster was killed, burned, chopped, blanched, and fried before being put into the pot. Dozens of red and black tail feathers of the rooster were given to Rongrong. These tail feathers are a good material for making bonds in winter. Rongrong squinted his eyes, the tail feathers in his hand gently brushed his little face, and the corners of his mouth turned up. It's cute.

Today's main job is to make glutinous rice cakes.

The nest and mallet have already been washed and set aside.

"Jianguo came to carry the retort!" Grandma Hong Yan shouted in the kitchen.

Brothers Hong Jianguo and Hong Jianjun ran to the opposite nest with one of them, lifted the lid, and a stream of hot air rushed to the sky. Grandma took a wooden spoon and threw the steamed glutinous rice into the nest. "Fight, fight." Grandma urged, carrying the retort back to the kitchen in one hand, and steaming another pot.

Naturally, it should be hot. Brother Hong Jianguo and the two brothers each held a wooden stick, standing facing each other, nesting in the middle. At first, it was easier to rush down to the nest evenly, and then lift the wooden stick. As the sticky rice is broken and the stickiness increases, it becomes difficult to lift the stick. When one side lifts a wooden stick, it will lift the glutinous rice balls and the other party's wooden sticks together. The time has come to consider the strength and tenacity of men and the skill of beating glutinous rice cakes.

There were only two people who played the glutinous cake, but in a large circle of onlookers, Grandpa Hong Yan stood aside and blindly commanded. Hong Jianguo and Hong Jianjun, the two brothers, were still shouting "hi yo" in their mouths. This side carries a wooden stick, and the other party does not move; Wait for the other party to rush down and hold down the glutinous rice ball, this party will lift it again, and rush down with momentum, back and forth, with a very rhythmic "woo woo" sound. Hong Chunli held a bowl of cold white water, and from time to time dipped in water to pick off the glutinous rice stained on the wooden stick. Hong Jianyuan took Xiao Feng and Xiao Zheng to learn from the two adults to shout.

After a short rest, the brothers resumed their battle. Ten minutes later, Grandma Hong Yan observed that all the glutinous rice had become glutinous rice puree, and shouted "stop". The aroma of glutinous rice dumplings spreads, and it is very exaggerated that some people "coo" and swallow saliva. The brothers picked up the beaten rice cakes with wooden sticks and placed them in the dustpan of the table of the eight immortals in the hall. The onlookers all followed the rice cake into the house. Glutinous rice flour has been sprinkled in the dustpan early, and more than a dozen small soup bowls have been placed on the table next to it, with sugar, pea flour and soybean flour in the middle. Pea flour and soybean flour are fried and ground to give them a fragrant aroma.

Next up is Grandma Hong Yan's work. But the aunt also stood beside the grandmother. Grandma stood in front of the table, did not turn the glutinous rice cakes, first patted a few times with the palm of her hand to test the temperature, and then dipped her hands in the bowl of cold boiled water. I saw that grandma quickly pinched and kneaded the glutinous rice dumplings on the top and twisted them into the small soup bowl next to them, and the goose egg-sized glutinous rice cakes were very smooth on the top, just like steamed buns that had just come out of the cage. The aunt learned from her grandmother, and pinched it up, hehe, one big and one small, not like a steamed bun but like a child playing with mud.

Grandma's hands were well held and she didn't twist too much glutinous rice cakes. This beaten glutinous rice cake is too real to eat, especially to keep an eye on children, otherwise it is easy to hurt the food and even get seriously ill.

"Eat while it's hot!" Grandma greeted Hong Jianguo. The child was anxious and wanted to serve the bowl, but was stopped by Hong Xuecai. "Alas, I'm going to make offerings again!" Hong Jianyuan muttered.

Freshly beaten glutinous rice cakes should be eaten while they are hot. After offering to the ancestors, the children rushed up to the table, and one person grabbed a bowl, but his eyes looked at the adults and he didn't dare to put down the chopsticks. The ancestor sat down at the top of the table, and the other adults could sit down. Add your favorite seasoning to each bowl, then pick up the bowl or stand or sit down to eat.

Hong Jianguo gave a small bowl to Mrs. Du and the Chen family in the front yard, saying "Try it, there is not much glutinous rice, don't see outside". Grandma was still twisting the dumplings, and the others were already waving their chopsticks to get to work.

"Rongrong, don't tear your teeth out if you eat slowly!" The aunt said to Rongrong with a smile.

Rongrong blinked her big beautiful eyes and didn't react. Will eating glutinous rice cake still lose your teeth? "Gong and Zuzu's teeth are not torn off, tear them off, and swallow them together with the glutinous rice." Xiao Feng reacted, but his words caused everyone to laugh.

Hong Yan first sandwiched a small piece of glutinous rice cake without seasoning to taste, the hand-beaten glutinous rice is indeed soft and flexible, and the aroma of glutinous rice is heavy, which may be related to the production of Xianyuan. In my previous life, I also ate rice cakes and bought so-called glutinous rice cakes, but I didn't have the taste of childhood. Maybe there is no such atmosphere, but the later glutinous rice is mostly ground into flour and then steamed with water, how can this be beaten. Before and after, many places engaged in special tourism, and some tourists personally went into battle shirtless. It is very popular.

He tasted white sugar, brown sugar, sesame salt, etc., and it was really delicious! It's no wonder that the glutinous rice dumplings have endured.

Hong Yan watched Xiao Zheng and Rong Rong eating glutinous rice with difficulty, and felt very difficult. The glutinous rice dumplings that are put in the mouth are not easy to swallow, and occasionally they will be stained with the palate, and they will be picked with their small hands from time to time, which is really difficult for them.

After Grandma had filled a dozen bowls, she continued to twist them down and put them in the dustpan, this time it was obviously bigger. The aunt sprinkled the twisted ones with glutinous rice flour and rolled them with a rolling pin, and the cake-shaped glutinous rice cakes with a diameter of about 20 cm and a thickness of about one cm were formed. Strictly speaking, this is called glutinous rice. Of course, these are not eaten now, but they are to be dried and fried, fried or fried. This wooden retort went to everyone to eat, and there were not many people who made it into glutinous rice cakes.

After the second retort was laid, Hong Yan asked his grandmother to tear off two large pieces, each weighing two catties, and put them into a small porcelain basin. I have to use it in the afternoon!