Chapter 52 Autumn Busy
When Kangxi saw Shuyun, who was wearing a snow-white Confucian skirt, standing at the door of Zhuangzi and smiling, he greeted him. My heart really settled down. However, it was not shown on his face, and he still had a cold face. Ignoring Shuyun, he took a large number of guards and eunuchs, crossed Shuyun, and walked straight towards the village. After taking a few steps forward, he stopped abruptly, turned back to Shuyun and roared angrily, "What are you doing standing there stupidly, don't you follow up quickly." ”
Shuyun did not get angry because of Kangxi's bad attitude, but immediately ran to Kangxi's side with a smile and followed him back to Zhuangzi.
Then Shuyun diligently cooked and made a sumptuous farm meal. All the newly harvested grains and vegetables from the Zhuangzi are used.
There is boiled green corn
Fresh corn kernels minced into boiled porridge
Roasted sweet potatoes made in the pit of the stove using the soil method
Pull sweet potatoes
Sugar tomatoes
Pat the cucumbers
Eggplant tossed with miso
Braised peppers in oil
Braised crucian carp in sauce
Steamed hairy crabs
Kangxi showed a strong interest in corn and sweet potatoes, not counting other dishes, just boiled corn ate two sticks in one go, and a roasted sweet potato weighing nearly a pound also entered his stomach.
After eating, Shuyun found a fishing rod and brought fish food with white flour sesame oil.
took the initiative to take Kangxi's hand and pull him to the pond to fish. At the beginning, Lao Kang pretended to ignore Shuyun, and pulled his hand back twice. Seeing that Shuyun didn't let go, she stopped struggling. However, he was still expressionless, and he snorted Shuyun heavily.
In fact, Kangxi couldn't hold back a smile in his heart now, "I think Shuyun is finally scared, it seems that this woman still cares about herself." Otherwise, I would never try so hard to please myself. But her face still had to be tight, and she couldn't feel that she was too good at talking. can't just forgive her so easily, saving her an inch in the future. ”
But Shuyun still looks good-natured. He had nothing to say to flatter, "Your Majesty, is the food that Shuyun cooked just now delicious?" ”
Kangxi let out a cold "um".
Shuyun made persistent efforts and said, "What does the emperor think of the taste of corn and sweet potatoes?" ”
The response was still "yes".
So both of them spent the afternoon in ??? , well-mm-huh.
Lao Kang even caught a big red carp weighing more than 10 catties, but he still didn't smile.
And before dinner, after Kangxi asked the farmers in detail and recorded the process of corn, sweet potatoes, potatoes, and tomatoes from planting to harvesting. He glanced at Shuyun very chicly, and then went back to the palace. And they took away all the corn, sweet potatoes, and potatoes that were kept for seeding. Not even a single corn kernel was left for Shuyun.
Sent away Kangxi. Shuyun returned to the room alone and couldn't help but smile secretly. Now I am finally relieved, if Lao Kang sees him today, he will put on a happy smile, or because of his flattery, after pretending to be angry, he will quickly forgive himself. Then you should be worried.
And Lao Kang didn't mention letting himself into the palace today, it seems that he plans to fulfill his promise!
In the golden autumn of October, the autumn breeze is cool. Since Kangxi left. Shuyun was busy again.
There are many people in the Zhuangzi, and Shuyun can't take out the crops in the space. In order to make everyone's food more abundant in winter. So after class, Shuyun began to take the women in the Zhuangzi to dry the vegetables.
The first is a bunch of sweet potato stalks ready to be thrown away, the kind of stuff that is cooked with meat skins or beef to marinate vegetables. It tastes good. When Shuyun went to the countryside in her previous life, those members did this, and Shuyun also helped to do it together. So I'm familiar with how to do it.
First, the leaves of the sweet potato seedlings are removed and then cleaned. Blanch it with boiling water, take it out and spread it on the straw mat to dry. Soak in cold water while eating. Add Sichuan pepper, spices, green onions, ginger, garlic, soy sauce and other condiments to cook. Generally, Shuyun has no problem eating two large bowls of rice in one go.
There are also leaves of pepper seedlings, kohlrabi and cauliflower. It's all the same, just blanch it and dry it in the sun.
As for cowpeas, kidney beans, lentils, celery roots, they are all dried in a shaded and ventilated place.
During the children's labor class, Shuyun also organized them to go to the fields and orchards to pick mother-in-law (dandelions), pluck the old roots, and dry them.
These dried vegetables can be boiled into pickles. It is the food with a meal which is very nice in winter. Especially the mother-in-law, not only is it delicious to make pickles, but also a very good medicinal material, boiling water and drinking can treat sore throat, remove fire, brighten eyes, and lower blood pressure. In particular, the effect is remarkable.
When she was done, Shuyun found that there were two bags of freshly beaten glutinous rice, which were of good quality, white and shiny, with a faint sweet fragrance. So Shuyun was going to use one of the bags to make some rice wine.
Shuyun has always loved to drink this sweet and sour, drink-like wine. In my previous life, when I was young, some families in the southern countryside were quite strong, and those with slightly better conditions had the custom of brewing and drinking their own or serving them with rice wine. And there are some old people who make rice wine with a very pure taste, which is not comparable to those sold in supermarkets. It's just that later, in the new century, some old people are gone one after another, and those modern young people, influenced by Western culture, have more respect for red wine and beer. As a result, there are fewer and fewer families making their own rice wine. When Shuyun traveled to Jiangxi in her previous life, she once learned from an old peasant lady who was very skilled.
Now that I see such a good glutinous rice, of course, it hooks up the gluttonous worms again. So first, let Qian Liu take someone to scrub the two large vats, then wash the glutinous rice, soak it in cold water for 4-5 hours, put a clean drawer cloth on the cage drawer, and steam the rice directly on the drawer cloth. Put the steamed rice in a clean tank, when the temperature drops to 30-40 degrees, mix in the koji, press the rice with a spoon slightly, dig a hole in the middle, and then sprinkle some space spring water on the rice, cover it, put it in a place of more than 20 degrees, and it can be flavored after about 30 hours.
The women of Qian Liu and Ding Shuigen's family worked really hard, but they all kept muttering with a pity on their faces, "Oh, such a good glutinous rice, all made of rice wine, it's a pity (liao), the owner, it's a pity" And it was Shuyun's ears that kept buzzing, muttering from beginning to end. This made Shuyun roll her eyes in frustration. grinded his teeth in his heart and said, "You old ladies, you just feel sorry for this glutinous rice, but you don't have such a grinding method, and you don't let people live, and when the wine is brewed, none of you want to drink it." ”
However, Chen Ce and the men were very happy, and asked which man was not good at two sips. Chen Ce is okay, but the farmers are all hard-working people, and it is not easy to fill their stomachs, so how can they drink wine. In addition, it is now forbidden to make sake among the people, so it is extremely difficult to make two cups during the New Year's holidays. That is, after following Shuyun, you can mix two sips of fruit wine from time to time, but most of those are what women love to drink, so can you not be happy when you see rice wine.
A group of old men stopped working, and they all gathered there, watching Shuyun and his mother-in-law busy with each other.
Chen Ce also chanted Lu Fangweng's "Tour of Shanxi Village" with high interest
Mo laughs at the farmer's wine,
In the harvest year, there are enough chickens and dolphins.
There is no way out of the mountains and rivers,
Another village.
Their actions drew numerous glances from a group of women.
Qian Liu drove away all the men except Chen Ce. He also scolded while driving people away, "It's really a bunch of things that don't know how to do it, let's go and stay outside."
Qian Liu's pungency caused these old men to laugh at Qian Afu for a while, and the tigress and tigress kept muttering.
In this period of hustle and bustle, the time has come to October 10 of the sixteenth year of Kangxi (1677 AD).
The large turnips and carrots planted at the beginning of July are ready to be harvested.
There are three types of large radishes – green, white, and red. The Gu is all big, plump, fat and fat. It's a joy to look at. Shuyun not only asked people to move most of the radishes to the cellar for storage. And those radish tassels were not wasted, some of them were dried vegetables, and some of them were salted. The other is the big green radish. Only a small portion was stored, and most of it was dried into dried radish.
Shuyun also asked Qian Afu to go to the market to buy a large number of snow red with tassels.
This snow red can not only be pickled into pickles, but also the tassels are also delicious, the same is salted, put in the jar, and when you eat, take it out, it is still emerald green, wash out the salt with water, it will not be too salty, and then stew with tofu, just this hot rice, not to mention how delicious. In other words, this red stewed tofu in the snow is still a famous dish in the Northeast.
When Qian Liu's and them were dealing with the red in the snow. So-yun started to busy making chili sauce again.
Stir the finely ground chili powder, maltose and fermented soybeans with an appropriate amount of salt, ginger juice and garlic puree. Then put the chili sauce in a jar and store it in the cellar.
When making soup or dressing up pickles, it tastes good.
When these are done, the autumn cabbage should be harvested again.
Shuyun is happily busy with the autumn harvest all day long. The farmers and the children were all smiling, and they all felt that this kind of abundant food and clothing was simply beautiful.
And after returning to the palace, Kangxi, who had not been happy for two days, was depressed again when he heard Bai Li report to him about Shuyun's recent situation, and found that Shuyun was not depressed at all because of his cold face.
I thought indignantly, "This heartless woman can really enjoy herself." Aren't you afraid that I will ignore her in anger, or think that I have to be her? Hmph, it's just a woman, this time if she doesn't bow her head first and invite me to her, I will never step into the sea of fragrant snow from now on. ”
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