Chapter Forty-Eight: Coming to His Interesting Home
Zhang Guangming said: "I don't know if they like to eat wild vegetables, so I'll go to our yard and pick up some spinach, rape, carrots, shallots, and leeks." You scramble some eggs, boil some vermicelli, and mix three more vegetables.
Let's steam a basket of small packets in a small pot. ”
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Zhang Guangming poured out the green water from the blanching in the pot with an aluminum spoon, then rinsed the shabu-shabu, and then used a big spoon to scoop more than a dozen scoops of water into the pot from the big water tank.
began to add firewood to the pot and ignite it, and the sparks gradually turned into red dragons, scurrying high and low from the inside out.
It was so smoked that he retreated straight back.
In only ten minutes, the water was gurgling and rumbling.
Zhang Guangming poured the cornmeal from the gourd scoop into the basin, scooped some water into the basin, stirred it into a paste with a spoon, and then poured the batter into the pot while stirring with the spoon.
The golden cornmeal in the pot was churning up and down in the surging boiling water, and it only took about ten minutes for a pot of fragrant corn porridge to boil.
Li Yue'e mixes wild vegetables and vegetables.
What spinach vermicelli, lettuce and shredded onion, garlic and rice with rice and artemisia......
She made a total of eight dishes.
She sprinkles some salt when cooking, sprinkles some vinegar and coriander, shallots, nepeta, etc.
Use chopsticks to dip the sesame oil bottle and pour some sesame oil into each dish.
He poured sesame oil and said distressedly: I am willing to pour sesame oil like this every other time.
She picked up the vegetable pot and tossed it unevenly, so she stirred it with chopsticks, and quickly adjusted the blanched dishes one by one.
Zhang Guangming put all kinds of dishes prepared by his wife on the plate one by one.
Li Yue'e took a white radish and carrot and washed them to make flowers, washed some coriander leaves and arranged them into flowers, and brought a few handfuls of cherries from the cherry tree as decorations on the plate.
Zhang Zhishu praised his wife and said: Eh, you are different, a bit like the high-end dishes in a big hotel.
Wife, she shook her head proudly, raised her eyebrows, and said: Hehe, you don't see who did it! Our Muye Flower Village gave me the nickname of the almighty in the field, do you think it was given for no reason?
The husband said, "Yo yo said you coughed and you gasped!" Hehe......
Li Yue'e smiled heartily and brought the dishes to the table one by one.
She hurriedly went to ferment the wheat flour and sorghum flour alive, poured the homemade five-spice flour into the stuffing of scrambled eggs with leeks, and began to wrap the buns.
Zhang Guangming lit a fire and steamed buns.
Half an hour later, a steaming pot of steamed buns came out of the cage.
Zhang Guangming said: "The meals are ready, and the buns are steamed.
I immediately went to call the educated youths to come to my house for dinner. ”
My wife nodded.
Zhang Guangming washed his hands and quickly went to call the cadres and educated youths stationed in the team to his house for dinner.
One by one, the children woke up.
Li Yue'e went to dress her little daughter first, and then breastfed her.
After the other daughters got dressed and came out to wash, the children asked, "Why does our house smell so big today?" ”
The mother looked at the curious eyes on her face, and she said to the children: The educated youths are coming to our house for dinner, and their parents have made a few dishes and steamed buns.
Later, you will have to wait for the guests to come to the house and let the guests eat first, and then you can come out to eat!
She also told the children that this was the least respect for the guests.
The cadres came to Zhang Zhishu's house first, and they praised the design of Zhang Guangming's living room.
The intellectuals got up a little late, and after freshening up, they happily followed the branch secretary to his home, a particularly large courtyard facing east from the north.
This is an old courtyard left by our ancestors.
The industrious Zhang Zhishu and his wife built a poultry house for chickens, ducks and geese with mud in the south, a pigsty and a sheepfold, and a donkey's pen.
As soon as they entered the courtyard, they looked here and there with those curious eyes.
They heard the cries of chickens, ducks, geese, pigs, sheep and donkeys.
Coo, quack, goose, goose, goose, hum, blea, blea, the lively cries attracted the attention of the educated youth, and everyone turned their faces to look at the past.
The intellectuals just heard the voices but did not see their true faces.
Li Zhongqiu and Qin Chun were about to go to the house, and there was a rare Ma Xiaomei in her eyes, she suddenly grabbed their arms and said: Don't go into the house first, let's go and see the chickens, ducks and geese there.
Zhang Zhishu smiled and said, let's go and have a look, and the higher-level cadres smiled and said: "People in the city don't raise these."
I'll go and prepare chopsticks for you, and after the meal is served, I'll call you to come to the house to eat. ”
The intellectuals agreed as they walked south.
Everyone walked quickly to the chicken pen first, only to see the colorful big roosters in the sun, raising their heads and watching every movement of these people vigilantly with their bright eyes.
It tentatively stepped over a few steps, and Ma Xiaomei exclaimed, "Look, the sun shines on the big rooster, look at its feathers, how beautiful the colorful brilliance is!" ”
The big rooster stopped and looked at everyone intently, and everyone just smiled at it rarely, and didn't dare to move.
Only then did it lower its head in search of food.
Li Xuehua hurriedly took a handful of grass and sprinkled it in front of the big rooster, which scared the big rooster into a tremble, and it was looking at everyone at a loss.
Behind the big rooster ran a big black hen, and this hen crowed a few times with hunger, regardless of the three-seven-twenty-one.
As if to say: "Husband, you are stupid, what are you still doing in a daze?" ”
Its head stretched out and muttered on the grass, and it was in a panic.
The rooster looked more cautious, and he glanced at the group again, and when he saw that everyone was still smiling, he hurried over to eat.
The hen cooed as she ate, and then she spread her wings from the coop and flew up to a flock of chicks of different coats.
Everyone's eyes lit up, they screamed, and they were very excited.
Looking at them is like seeing huge butterflies flying over.
I saw that the chickens ran to their parents and surrounded the grass, making the ground rattle.
They leave behind a string of footprints like "flowers".
When they eat, they stretch their necks and stretch their necks for a while, and then they swing left and right for a lot of fun.
The black-gray duck, with its round and slippery black diamond-like eyes, watched the educated youths bark a few times in a friendly manner, and walked with their tails twisted and twisted, leaving traces like oak leaves.
The educated youths went to tease the snow-white goose again, "You see this big white goose stretching its long neck and walking, and it is so cute and cute when it shakes up!" Li Zhongqiu pointed to the goose and said excitedly.
As if he understood the compliment, the goose stretched his neck and sang a few times to the sky, causing everyone to laugh.
Wu Baoguo happily stretched out his hand to tease the goose and said, "Come on, come on, sing a few more times." ”
A flock of half-sized geese, from behind the big white goose spread their wings fluttering almost fluttering, stretching their long necks, shaking their little heads quickly, and running to the door of the circle to peck the hands of the young people.
It's probably because they thought they were going to hurt their mothers.
can frighten the female intellectuals so much that they hurriedly retreat back and scream at the same time.
A few men cautiously walked up to the sheepfold and teased the docile sheep.
I saw the sheep squinting its oval eyes, bleating vigilantly, and its neck was round like a fluffy ball, and it seemed to have a velvet bell tied around its neck, and it shook with the sheep's head.
"It's so cute!" Ma Xiaomei said with a smile.
The educated youths walked up to the donkey and hurriedly scrambled to grab the grass and feed it to the donkey.
When the donkey saw several strangers, threw a few handfuls of grass at it, hesitated for a moment, and as if he wanted to eat it, he turned his head to observe the actions of several people, and when he was sure that several people were looking at it with friendly eyes, he opened his mouth and ate the grass.
Then they heard the pig snorting and hurried to the pigsty again.
And the pigs here only looked at a few people, and they clucked and ate the tender grass.
Some of the educated youths took a small stick and smashed the pig's back.
The pig was chewing the grass with relish, it raised its head suddenly, and stopped to look at Sun Yong, who was pounding it, and saw that there was no malice in his eyes, so he lowered his head and took a big gulp.
They said, "Look at this simple guy, how sweet it is!"
When Zhang Guangming walked to the living room with the bowl, he turned his face and saw that they, people from the city, were very rare when they came to the countryside.
He and his beloved wife warmly let the guests into the house for dinner.
The intellectuals found that Zhang Zhishu's house was full of exquisitely carved locust wood furniture.
Qin Chun couldn't help asking: "I didn't expect to see such high-grade furniture in the countryside, Zhang Zhishu, you must have spent a lot of money to buy it, right?" ”
Zhang Guangming replied with a smile: These furniture didn't cost anything, they were all shaved locust trees in the yard of my home, and I designed and made them myself.
Not only the furniture, but also the paintings on the walls, which my mother had embroidered by herself; There are my own carved leaf carvings, you look at the gourd carvings placed in this cabinet, the bamboo carvings here, don't they look interesting? ”
The educated youths hurriedly looked at the embroidered paintings hanging on the wall, as well as all kinds of carved paintings, and they all showed a dumbfounded look.
They saw a square table lined up in the living room, with two circle chairs on either side of the table, and a pot of peonies blooming in several colors on either side of the chairs.
On the wall is embroidered with a picture of peony wealth; There is also a picture of a magpie hanging on the right side.
What surprised several intellectuals even more was that there were still several leaf carving plaques of landscapes, flowers and birds hanging on the left gable.
Under the plaque, there are Junzi Orchid, Jianlan, Chunlan, Huilan, Molan and so on.
It shows the love of the owner and his wife for orchids everywhere, and it can be seen that although Zhang Zhishu and his wife grew up in the countryside, they are extraordinary and free and easy, and they are very cultivated people.
And everywhere in the house is spotlessly clean and tidy, and it shows a bit of noble temperament.
The educated youth know that this family must be a clean, diligent, and tasteful family.
They were amazed to see that the children of the scrivener came to them dressed in very beautiful clothes and dancing gracefully......