Capers

Yan Jibai and Lu Yu have already begun to eat porridge. Yan Xi'an's spell just now, although it failed to freeze the white porridge with sugar that night into an ice lump, but the sudden chill made the hot porridge on the table cool down. Yan Jibai said: "This thing is too cold to eat more." ”

"Don't eat much, just make it once a day." Yan Xiding ate half a lump of ice porridge, his stomach was slightly cold, and he was slowly drinking the ice porridge one bite at a time.

Lu Yu asked Yan Xiding: "Is that thing just now, really delicious?" ”

Lan Shaofang hurriedly replied: "Brother Da Yu, it's really delicious." It's the rice in the porridge, which is a little hard when frozen, like raw. (Whether it's rice or porridge, after being frozen, it will come back to life, it's true)

Mrs. Yan said: "You big brother Yu have this ability, why don't you want to ice?" It doesn't have to be ice porridge. ”

"Yes, we can get some sugar water and eat it on the ice, and add something else to the sugar water." Yan Xi'an didn't eat ice porridge, but he was still looking forward to it.

Yan Xiding said: "It would be nice if there was watermelon, the watermelon water is delicious, frozen into ice, it must be delicious." ”

Lan Shaofang didn't know snow, let alone what watermelon was, so she stared at a pair of long phoenix eyes and asked, "What is snow?" What is a watermelon? Is it delicious? ”

"Snow is that... The things that came down from the sky, white, piece by piece, were very cold and not delicious. Yan Xiding said: "Watermelon, it is a green-skinned melon and a red melon, but it is delicious." ”

Lan Shaofang thought about it, and after a while, she shook her head and said, "I know what snow is, it's white, it's cold, it's not fun. "She

I used to live alone in the mountains and forests, and I must have experienced those heavy snowfalls. The heavy snow closed the mountain, and for Lan Shaofang, I don't know what kind of ordeal it was.

Several people felt very sorry for Lan Shaofang, especially Yan Xiding, who was even more pity.

Yan Xiding asked Lan Shaofang: "Shaofang, what do you want to eat?" Tell me what you want to eat, and I'll let Brother Da Yu make it for you. ”

"I want to eat watermelon, iced."

Lu Yu is going to plant watermelons. Lu Yu has heard and seen such a thing as watermelon, but he has never eaten it. In the past, when he was a child, Lu Yu occasionally went to Dunlin Town and could see a stall selling watermelons on the street. A kind of melon with a green belt pattern, about the size of a pumpkin, looks smooth, but I don't know what it looks like inside.

Yan Jibai's family has eaten watermelons, and it is estimated that they have eaten a lot of them in the past, but they don't know how to grow watermelons. No one in Yangshan Village had ever planted it, so Lu Yu could only ask Cheng Huai or Qin Zhongquan about them. Qichu Villa, there should have been melons planted before; And on the other side of Pyeongtaek Lake, there may also be people who grow melons.

Lu Yu is going to go to Qichu Villa in a few days, but it's too late to plant melons now, and it will take next year to plant seeds if you have them, so you have to get something else to eat today.

Eating porridge at noon, a plate of cucumbers and a plate of tomatoes will soon be gone, so Lu Yu plans to get some side dishes for porridge.

Radish is not available now, and sauerkraut cannot be eaten raw, Lu Yu thought about it for a while and decided to get some capers (seriously, I like to eat it very much).

Capers are easy to make, and the bamboo shelves in the backyard are full of strips of beans. Lu Yu took Yan Xi'an and picked the kind that had just grown up and was extreme

Pick a basket full of tender beans and wash them with well water.

Lu Yu told Yan Xi'an that there are two ways to make capers, one is to blanch them in boiling water and make them half-cooked, then seal them in a jar and marinate them, and then they can be eaten in a few days. Another way is to hang the beans in the well, on the surface of the water, cool water vapor, after a day and a night, the beans can also be moistened into half-ripe, and then soaked in water and sealed and pickled (I haven't tried the second method, but my aunt has made it once, it can be eaten, it is sour, you can try it).

Yan Xi'an listened very seriously and asked Lu Yu whether he planned to use boiling water or cold water to make capers today. Lu Yu said that with boiling water, the cold water is too slow, and it takes a day and a night.

After the beans are washed, they are hung on a shelf to dry, and then Lu Yu goes to boil water. The pot for boiling water must be clean, there can be no oil star at all, and there is not too much water, just two bowls.

Put the washed beans in water, add two spoonfuls of fine salt, and start a fire. Wait for the water to boil, continue to boil for a while, then extinguish the fire, and wait for the water and beans to cool. You can't pour the water in this pot, and you still have to use pickled beans.

Lu Yu went to wash the jar, the jar must be washed clean, and it had to be dried after washing (I don't understand why it has to be dried after washing, in fact, I still have to add water for a while). Then scoop up the scalded beans, roll them, and stuff them into the jar. At this time, the water used to scald the beans will be used, and the bean water will be poured into the jar to soak the beans inside. In the end, Lu Yu slapped a few cloves of garlic and threw them in, and poured in a small glass of white wine, and then found a lid to cover the jar and seal it tightly.

A basket of beans, a total of three jars.

The beans are soaked in the jar and can be taken out and eaten after three to five days. It's okay to soak for a long time, but the longer you soak it, the more beans will taste

Sour.

After soaking the beans, it's time to herd the sheep again. When he was busy, Yan Xi was willing to help herd the sheep, but he was not busy at this time, so Lu Yu went by himself. The sun outside was a little big, and Lu Yu didn't let Yan Xi'an follow.

It's summer, and although it's not yet the hottest time, the weather at this time is indeed a bit hot. When the sheep came out of the circle, they were a little listless, and they were not so active when they ate grass, so Lu Yu took them to the reservoir at the edge of the village, where there was a lot of grass, and there were two rows of big trees on the bank, with shade.

There are fish in the reservoir, but usually no one blatantly catches them. All the ponds and reservoirs on the edge of Yangshan Village are shared by the villagers, including the fish in them. Therefore, it is only at the end of the year that it is possible for the whole village to go out and release the water to catch fish, and then the households will be divided equally according to the population. In the past few years, there has been no division, mainly because of the dry and heavy snow in the past few years, and everyone estimates that there will be no fish in the water.

The goats were grazing on the shore, and Lu Yu sat quietly on the shore, looking at the reservoir.

The reservoir is actually quite large, and the water is not shallow. The main purpose of the reservoir is not to provide fish and shrimp for the villagers, but also to irrigate a large area of crops around it. The people here are all dry land and need water, but not much, so this reservoir and a few ponds can meet the needs of the villagers.

Lu Yu felt that the villagers should be grateful to these reservoirs and ponds, otherwise, Yangshan Village would not even be able to plant dry land.

Thinking so in his heart, Lu Yu found that the reservoir seemed to be different, as if he had become alive and wise, and could understand his own thoughts. He shook his head vigorously and laughed at himself: "Am I stupid? This is the reservoir, where there will be life. ”

Farmers don't get busy until August, but rice growers don't get busy until August, when the first crop of rice is harvested in May and June

seeds, and then plant the seedlings of the second season. Lu Yu thought of Qin Zhongquan and his Tianhai Gang, as well as the dozen or so children under his care. Lu Yu planned to be okay in the past two days, go over to help, and see if he could get some watermelon seeds by the way.

When the sheep were full, Lu Yu returned home and told Yan Xi'an that he was going to Pingze Lake tomorrow. What he meant was that he wanted to know if the three little guys wanted to go together.

Yan Xi'an and the three of them have nothing new to Pingze Lake, and the three of them feel more comfortable staying in Lu Yu's house, not to mention, the sheep in the family still have to be herded, so they don't go. But Yan Xiding said to Lu Yu that when he came back, he could bring some water chestnuts back. Water chestnut is a good thing, delicious and not greasy, Lu Yu also thinks so.

The next day, Lu Yu did not go directly to Pingze Lake, but first went to Dunlin Town and brought some food.

The vegetables grown in Lu Ming's big yard are basically self-sufficient, and Lu Yu doesn't need to send them anymore. These dishes, Lu Yu gave them to Xiao Mao's ancestors and grandchildren.

This is the first time Lu Yu has gone to Xiao Mao's house during the day, today their grandparents and grandchildren are at home, and when they saw Lu Yu, they were all stunned, and then they welcomed Lu Yu in with a smile.

Lu Yu put down the dishes and asked Grandma Xiaomao: "Auntie, I haven't seen you go to our village for a long time, do you still have food at home?" Lu Yu knew that the ancestors and grandchildren almost lived by begging, but they never saw them go to Yangshan Village again.

The old man said, "There is food, this new Lord Liang is a good person, and he brought us food the day before yesterday." "The old man was very happy, very happy.

Lu Yu was also very happy, and he was even more relieved, nodded and said, "That's good, that's good." ”

The old man smiled: "Mr. Lao Lu, you are worried about our ancestors and grandchildren, and we can finally live well." ”

Lu Yu was a little ashamed, in fact, he hadn't been to the town for a few days recently, and he said again: "Lord Liang has sent you rice grain, and I will bring some vegetables over in the future." ”

"Hehe, Mr. Lu, don't keep thinking about us and Xiaomao, you can eat your own food." The old man touched his grandson's little head and sighed again.

Lu Yu smiled, said a few more words to Xiao Mao, and then left.

After leaving, Lu Yu thought in his heart, the two brothers Liang County Ling and Liang Shoubei are indeed different from the previous officials, with them, the people here should get better and better.

Leaving Dunlin Town, it was passed directly to Pyeongtaek Lake. In the water village of the Tianhai Gang on Pingze Lake, only one or two people who are not very good are looking at the water village, and everyone else has gone to work in the fields, including Qin Zhongquan.

Lu Yu came to "help", so he went to a field to find Qin Zhongquan, took off his shoes, rolled up his trouser legs and went down to the field.

Qin Zhongquan saw Lu Yu coming over and went down to the field, hurriedly walked over, and said to Lu Yu, "Mr. Lu, what are you doing here?" ”

"Help you with the work." Lu Yu's feet are also very white, and they look quite tender, but he is not afraid of the rice stumps in the field at all.

"Hehe, don't work hard Mr. Lu." Qin Zhongquan was wearing a straw hat, but his face and neck were still reddened from the sun.

Lu Yu smiled and asked, "You have planted so many fields, are you busy?" ”