Chapter 279: A Taste of Hometown

Yang Huairen said that he was just a porter of money, which was nothing more than a white lie, and that he was a porter of the real taste of nature when he turned the delicious ingredients in nature into delicious food in people's mouths. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info

Everyone in this world, if they catch it and ask what is the best thing in the world, maybe their answer will be different, but one thing is the same, that is, everyone will be obsessed with the taste of their hometown.

From the day we are weaned after birth, we begin to accept the unique flavor of a certain food with regional characteristics, and then as we grow up, we gradually get used to it and fall in love with this taste, which is the memory of the tip of the tongue.

People who have left their hometowns may have the deepest feelings about this sentence, and what they miss most in a different place is not only their relatives in their hometown, but also the taste of their hometown.

Perhaps the food in my hometown is the most ordinary, the most inconspicuous, sometimes it is a small dish with a unique style, sometimes it is a local specialty, sometimes it is even just a bowl of rice in my hometown, a steamed bun, these most simple tastes will lead us into those happy years in the past.

Due to the difference in climate between the south and the north of China, there are great differences in the main crops, vegetables, melons and fruits, etc., although these factors have caused great differences in the eating habits of the north and the south, but in the countryside, there is a dish that coincides in the dark.

Especially in the winter when the food variety is relatively scarce, when there is a shortage of fresh vegetables and fruits, people often dry the vegetables and fruits picked in the summer in order to eat the taste of these vegetables and fruits in winter.

In addition, after slaughtering pigs and sheep, because they can't eat them all, in order not to waste food, these leftover pigs and muttons will be specially marinated and air-dried, so that they can be turned into bacon.

In winter, especially during the New Year's festival or family gatherings, the stored food preserved on weekdays is mixed together and boiled in a large pot to make a kind of pot of mixed vegetables called "poon choi" in the south, "boiling pot" or "stewed" in the north.

Such a big pot dish, it seems that the food is very ordinary, and the cooking method is not very clever, sometimes because of the mixture of a variety of foods, there will be an obedient taste, but it is such a big pot cooking, which is the unique taste of our hometown in our memory.

The same is true of the family banquet in Yangjia Village, the women in the family, everyone is the chef of this family banquet at this time.

In the kitchen, a few stoves are built in the open space outside, the straw collected after the autumn harvest is lit, a large pot or urn is set up on the fire, and then each family throws all the food stored at home into the pot, only need to add some salt and simple spices, add water, cover the pot, and wait for it to be cooked.

The cold of winter, especially after heavy snowfall, can become even more frustrating. However, the whole Yangjia Village was lively in the cold, the square in the middle of the village was swept out, and the tables used by each family for eating were put up, although the different styles of tables and chairs made people feel incongruous in terms of visual experience, but in Yang Huairen's eyes, this was the most cordial and harmonious scene for him.

The whole village is in a busy and festive atmosphere, the adults are busy sweating, the children are chasing and playing happily as if they are celebrating the New Year, and the old people are hushing and greeting Yang Huairen's family, so they do not hesitate to smile without teeth, and praise Yang Huairen, a "genius from heaven".

In fact, as a cook, there is a common problem, the process of preparing food, if you don't let him do it, he will feel uncomfortable.

Rather than being surrounded in the middle and listening to those sincere but somewhat clichéd words, Yang Huairen couldn't wait to help out in the open-air kitchen himself, watching the food slowly ripen under his nose, and then emit an enticing aroma, that is what really makes him happy.

He explained the reason, and just wanted to get up, but he was caught by the patriarch again, and asked about his experience after going to the capital in the past six months.

The patriarch, even if he made things difficult for Yang's mother at the beginning, and he still had some snobbery of the people in the market, but in Yang Huairen's eyes, he was actually not a bad person, but because he was in this position, he naturally had a stubbornness to follow the old ways.

In fact, in his eyes, the glory and inheritance of the family is higher than everything, if Yang Huairen is not a marquis, but just a wealthy businessman, maybe the patriarch of the one acre of cemetery asked by her mother will not give her.

However, in the folk atmosphere gradually formed in the Great Song Dynasty, Yang Huairen was a marquis, or he was admitted to fame and became an official, then it was another kind of treatment, and the reason was to win glory for the family.

There is a saying that "a person lives a face, and a tree lives a skin", although it doesn't sound so reasonable, but in the world, especially a big family in the countryside like the Yang family, it is very appropriate to describe it in this sentence.

Whether the family is strong or not, the family reputation determines all this. The descendants from the family have won glory outside, and everyone in the family has a glorious face, such as Yang Huairen in the family who was awarded the title of Marquis of Sanpin Founding County, maybe it will not take a few days to spread among the people of Licheng County and even the entire Qizhou.

Other local families will have infinite envy of the Yang family, and the people in the real state will look at the Yang family differently, as a patriarch, his status may be higher than that of Licheng County in the future.

It is not difficult to understand that a small place that was not very famous in later generations may become famous throughout the country because of a celebrity.

Yang Huairen couldn't leave, and suddenly remembered to tell the subordinates of the internal guard about the matchmaker, so he tried to tell the patriarch about it.

The patriarch said straightly, these soldiers who came back with Yang Huairen were just the guards of his Hou Mansion, and at first he felt that they were all reckless men and their status was not very high, so he did not agree with Yang Huairen's idea.

Yang Huairen also understands that now people look for a son-in-law to value status, just like the mother-in-law of later generations looks at her son-in-law and asks for a house and a car.

Most of these internal guards are rough people who have no father, no mother, no official and no position, even if they all have unique skills, they are not welcomed in this year.

Yang Huairen explained to the patriarch the advantages of the school-age girls in the village marrying them from another aspect.

For example, don't look at them now, they are just guards, but they want martial arts, martial arts, ability and ability, and the future is limitless.

And the way of money, not to mention, Yang Huairen plans in his heart that if he can incorporate them into his subordinates in the future, the salary will never be less.