002 The family is surrounded by four walls, making spicy strips
Rashi's yard is located next to the vegetable patch, and Wagyu is also a neighbor.
A low, large open earth embryo house, the outer wall is plastered, the roof is covered with dead grass bellflowers, and the fence stakes are surrounded by many vine melon flowers, such as old gourd, grass jasmine, and the like.
There is also a crooked neck jujube tree in the backyard, but now it is late autumn, and the treetops are still hanging some.
There is a large open room in the north room, and she made a bedroom in the east room, built with an earthen kang and a hard broken futon; In the middle is the hall house is also the stove room, the stove is connected to a fire kang, there is a small kang table on the kang, the dinner is there on weekdays, the west is the warehouse, some bamboo baskets are piled up, and there are some broken jars.
At a cursory glance, there is not even a decent piece of furniture, and the real family is surrounded by walls, poor and white.
"I'll boil hot water, you wash first, look at how dirty you are like a monkey, do you have a change of clothes in that baggage?"
Douzi looked at his dirty hands and shook his head.
Luo Shi opened the bag and took a look, there was only a pair of new soft cloth shoes and a needle bag, which he thought was left by his mother, even if his bare feet were worn out, he was reluctant to wear new shoes.
Sighing secretly, she said softly: "You take it off and wash it first, I'll sew it for you, you wear mine first"
She herself only had two clothes, which she picked up on the road when she fled, and the clothes she brought with her when she crossed over, she had already cut them into pieces of fabric and put them away. Seeing that winter is about to begin, she needs to prepare winter clothes as soon as possible, but it is also a difficult thing for her at the moment.
She washed her clothes, sat on the kang and threaded the needle, took the rag head as a patch, and patched the holes in the pocket little by little, sewing and mending while her thoughts were chaotic.
It's been two months since I bought the crossing package from the crossing company.
Because her snack shop was cheated and bought a batch of snacks of poor quality, she got into a food hygiene lawsuit and owed a lot of debt, so she had to go to the crossing company to buy the cheapest crossing package: called farming crossing, with a term of one year.
The company stipulates that the money earned in this world after crossing can be converted into RMB according to a certain percentage, but it must be earned reasonably and compliantly, and it is not possible to borrow it or give it to others.
Naturally, in addition to farming, there are also packages at different prices such as house buckets and palace buckets, and correspondingly, spending money to buy a noble identity will make money much easier than farming, which is the truth of more investment and more returns.
So now it is not only the poverty situation that forces her to think of making money, but also to earn money to exchange for debts, but also forces her to hurry up and come up with a way to make money.
Fortunately, at the beginning, she had an idea, still her old business, tossing some handmade snacks out and seeing if she could sell them for some money.
When she crossed, the company allowed her to carry one thing, because she was not spicy or happy, and she was very worried that the ancient chili peppers were not tasty enough, so she specially brought various chili pepper seeds. She plans to use chili peppers to make some spicy snacks, which must be a good idea.
And she inquired, now is the era when spicy peppers have not yet come out of Shu, people don't know this thing, let alone use it to stir-fry vegetables for flavor, the spicy taste of freshly eaten is added with dogwood, ginger, and pepper, far less flavorful than chili pepper.
So when she first came to Niujia Village, she planted some in the backyard to see the growth of the harvest, and now there is a fat vegetable field, if it grows well, she plans to plant peppers in spring and autumn.
The clothes were mended, and the complete fabric of a dress was not much more than the patch, like the garment of an ascetic monk. After shaking her clothes, she found a bamboo pole outside the courtyard to dry, wiped her wet hands, and prepared to go back to the house to make a fire to cook.
Dou Zi was wearing her slightly fat clothes, and stumbled out of the east house, and when she saw that her sister was going to open the stove, she went to the west house to pick up some grass and firewood, and ran to help together.
There was nothing at home, she only brushed the oil on the big iron pot, used a lot of white flour, and baked a few steamed buns, and when they were burnt and fragrant, she pried them out with chopsticks, put them in a bowl with a gap, handed them to her pocket, and instructed them together:
"Avoid eating, don't scratch your mouth, and burn carefully."
The pocket was extremely hungry, and he didn't care whether his mouth was hot or not, he held it in both hands and gnawed it in a big gulp, and he was so hot that he didn't want to let go, so he swallowed it.
Luo Shi broke half of it, scooped a spoonful of warm water from the inset jar, soaked the cake and ate it to mix it up and was half full, and she put the rest in a bowl, and covered it with another broken bowl, planning to do it again tomorrow, she still had to keep it in her pocket if she was hungry.
After eating, he went to the backyard.
There is no one here to keep the weeds in order, but there is a simple thatched pit dug behind the crooked-necked date palm tree, but there is nothing to cover it, and you can fall into the dung pit if you are not careful.
Far away, it is a small piece of land that she opened before, the length and width are not more than a zhang, the soil is turned over, and the pepper seeds are planted, and now they have grown for two months, the two light peppers are early, and the pointed red peppers are still a few days away, but they can also be picked, and they are afraid that they will be too spicy for a long time.
While carefully picking ripe peppers, I was thinking about when to plant another fence and enclose the fat vegetable field next door to the backyard.
"Ross, are you at home?" It was the grandmother from the blacksmith's house who came.
"Eh, here it is"
Luo Shi answered, ran to the hall with the chili pepper in her clothes, and saw that the grandmother had brought a bunch of things over and put them on the stove, and now she was taking out a piece of candy from her pocket to stuff it into her pocket to eat, and she smiled kindly: "This baby is pitiful, take it and eat it."
She looked at it and saw that there was a basket of vegetables and fruits, cucumbers, soybeans, eggplant, Chinese cabbage, a bag of japonica rice, and a lot of sauce and vinegar ingredients like star anise, fennel, cinnamon, ginger candy, etc.
"Didn't you come to ask me where I could buy it, it just so happened that Chang Geng came back from the city yesterday, and I asked him to find it for you, oh, the soybeans you want, and what fennel star anise, it's not easy to find, let's go down the country to cook, what are you doing with this thing?"
Grandma stooped down to take things from the basket and laid them out on the stove one by one, for fear that she had missed something.
Luo Shi smiled and thanked him, but he was a little embarrassed, and said softly:
"Thank you, it's just that I don't have any money on me now, and I want these to make snacks and sell them, if you don't dislike it, take this half of the wild boar leg first, and when I earn money, I'll pay it back to you!"
"No hurry! Who hasn't had a difficult time and isn't in a hurry...... But this can still be used as a snack, it sounds weirdly fresh."
Luo Shi smiled, she knew that this village talked about snacks, but fried rattling beans, rice cannon candy, persimmons and the like.
"I'll do it, make it and send it to grandma to taste, and Brother Chang Geng and Uncle Zhang's have already prepared."
"Okay, okay, I'm going home, and I have to cook for my son-in-law, he doesn't have time to work all day long."
Grandma Niu said that she was going back, but she refused to accept the wild boar leg, and she repeatedly excused herself, so she said that she kept some to eat, and the rest of her grandson Chang Geng was working in the city, and the family shop was sold, and the money was used to pay her back.
Sending the grandmother away, Rass rubbed her hands together and began to make her spicy strips.
Yes, that's right, it is the spicy strip that has swept the country for a long time in modern times and has become a classic memory of a generation.
Because many reports are negative reports about the unhygienic spicy strips, Luo Shi usually makes them at home, and now she is very familiar with how to make spicy strips.
It took about four or five hours to soak the soybeans in warm water, which was enough for her to grind out the chili noodles.
Then drain the soybeans, grind the soy milk with a stone mill, remove the okara, and boil the soy milk in a pot.
When the temperature goes up, take chopsticks to take off the bean skin on the top one by one, dry it on the string pulled up outside, and when it is dry, let go of the water and blanch it into the oil pan and fry it until golden brown, and finally it is the main event!
Add ground chili powder, pointed chili pepper and cinnamon star anise and other spices, stir-fry until fragrant, and finally sprinkle salt on the lid and thoroughly absorb the flavor.
Luo Shi was busy in the stove room until midnight for the spicy strips, and he slept in the pocket, smelled the very fragrant smell in the middle of the night, sucked his saliva, climbed down from the earthen kang, and stared at the kitchen with his head probed.
Luo Shi wiped the sweat on his forehead and beckoned him: "Pocket, come and taste it"
Running away with a muffled voice, looking at the red and spicy one that he had never eaten, he was a little timid at first, but he couldn't stand the smell of the fragrance, so he dipped his fingers and tasted it first, and it already had three points of taste, so he hurriedly took one and stuffed it into his mouth, but after chewing it twice, he burst into tears.
He doesn't know how to eat spicy, but he naturally likes to eat, and while sticking out his tongue spicy, he goes to eat the second one, and he can't stop at all!
Luo Shi laughed when he saw this, the little ghost secretly ate spicy strips, the more spicy it is, the more you have to eat it, and the spicy sweating is called smooth, this is the charm brought by chili peppers.
After eating three sticks, he didn't let him eat anymore, and filled a bowl of tomorrow to send the pocket to the grandmother, so that she could also taste the freshness, if everyone praised it, she would do more, and find a day to catch the market another day, and sell it in Tongzhou City, and get the silver to go to the clothing shop to buy a pocket and buy a cotton coat for the winter.
Cleaned up the stove, put out the stove, and looked at the pocket full of three bowls of cold water, before going to bed to rest, before she remembered something, and said in a daze:
"You must get up at night, you have to be careful when you go to the thatched house, don't step on the air and fall in, the stinky sister won't come to catch you."
Hearing the inaudible snort of the pocket, she also thought happily: Finally, she has a temper, and this is up to her.