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May is also known as the Grenade Moon, which is the time when pomegranate blossoms are in full bloom, and the peppers are also fiery red.

These days, there are more and more red peppers in the vegetable garden, and those that cannot be eaten have to be dried or made into hot sauce.

Early in the morning, Xie went to the vegetable garden to pick all the red peppers and prepare to make chopped peppers.

There are too many melons and vegetables in summer, such as vegetable melons, sword beans, beans, and eggplants, which are dried and put into the chili jar to pickle, which is a daily small dish on the farmer's dinner table.

After the chili peppers are washed, they are spread out on a large bamboo plaque to dry, and the fiery red color makes people feel happy when they look at it.

The pickle jar for chopping the chili peppers has been prepared for a long time, and after lunch, the water vapor on the chili peppers has dried and it is ready to start.

"Rouge, incense powder, head flower, embroidery thread ......"

Liu Qingyan chose chili peppers under the eaves of the main house, removed the green pedicle from the handful of chili peppers in her hand and threw it into the bamboo basket, and heard the merchant's shouting from far and near.

Has this merchant been too diligent lately? In the past, I only came to the village once every ten days and a half months, and I came every three or five days during this period.

The merchant's drum had reached the gate of the courtyard, but he saw Guo walking out. This mother-in-law is in a good mood near the row, and she cleans up neatly and brightly every day, and hums a few untoned songs when she does embroidery work, so the life of the Liu family is peaceful.

The two of them muttered in front of the courtyard gate, and they couldn't hear what they said in a low voice, but they only saw Guo Shi covering his mouth and smiling coquettishly from time to time.

"Brother Merchant, don't forget me if you have a good rouge gouache."

After muttering for a while, Guo raised his voice intentionally or unintentionally, as if telling others that she had just been shopping.

"Good lak, little lady, if there is a good one, I will definitely keep it for you."

The merchant said yes loudly, picked up his burden and walked away with a small drum.

Guo's baby turned around with two small boxes, and when she saw Liu Qingyan looking at her, she threw a cold eye knife over, then tilted her chin, twisted her waist and went back to the house to slam the door.

"Cut! Who is rare of those things. Liu Qingyan sneered softly.

After choosing the red peppers, Xie brought a bench, a cutting board, and a wooden basin, and began to cut the peppers. As the blade rises and falls, the whole bright red pepper is gradually chopped into pieces.

Chili pepper was introduced to the Canglan Dynasty for only a hundred years, although it has been popularized and planted among the people, and is widely accepted and eaten by the people and is quite favored, but the processing technology is not very mature.

Compared with other sauces made from chili peppers, the process of chopping chili peppers is relatively simple, and its production method has been widely spread in the imperial territory.

Put the fresh red pepper into a dry wooden pot, chop it carefully with a spatula, add some minced garlic, salt, a little sugar and rice wine, mix well, and then put it in a jar for preservation.

Chopped chili peppers can be eaten every other day, but if you want to taste its special flavor, you need to seal it in the jar for more than a month, just like a strong wine, the more it ages, the more mellow it becomes.

Liu Qingyan sat on a low stool next to her and watched Xie chop chili peppers, smelling the spicy smell in the air, imagining the moment when this large pot of red chili peppers turned into bean paste.

Douban sauce is the "soul of Sichuan cuisine", nearly half of the Sichuan cuisine dishes have to use it, and the Sichuan-style hot pot soup base, which stands proudly in the world's hot pot forest, is also indispensable to use bean paste to season.

Boiled fish, boiled pork slices, boiled beef, mapo tofu, back-pot meat...... The figure shook clearly in front of her eyes, and Liu Qingyan swallowed a large mouthful of saliva.

In the past two months, I have eaten no less oil and water every day, but my body is still dry, and it seems that I belong to the physique of eating meat and not growing meat.

"Alas!"

Liu Qingyan sighed three times, she was worried about the growth of meat in her previous life, and she was worried about the growth of meat in this life, and she had to be entangled with the matter of growing meat for the rest of her life.

Xie Shi heard the girl's sigh, glanced at it and said, "Little girl's family, what do you do if you don't have anything to do with the old woman's sigh?" ”

"Mother, I eat a lot, why don't I grow meat?" Liu Qingyan frowned and pinched the pitiful layer of skin and flesh on her waist.

Xie Shi snorted teasingly with a long tail sound: "I think about running outside when I am full, how can I afford to grow meat, you go and take a look at the two piglets in our family, locked in the pigsty, and they can't sleep when they eat, and they grow dozens of catties of meat in a month." ”

"Mother, how can you compare me to a pig." Liu Qingyan pouted and said unhappily.

Xie Shi didn't look at Liu Qingyan, and used a shovel to turn over the peppers in the wooden basin and continued to chop hard, "It's incomparable, not all of them are the same." ”

Liu Qingyan had a black line on her head, and her eyelids drooped and didn't match.

Xie Shi also stopped training her, and Gu chopped chili peppers.

Chop the chili pepper, add various ingredients, mix well, put the jar into the jar, cover the jar and move it to the corner of the stove room, and finally seal the jar with water.

All the red peppers picked today are used to make chopped peppers, and the bean paste needs to wait for the next batch of red peppers to come out in a few days before it can be made. In fact, if a jar of pure bean paste wants to meet the standard of good color, fragrance and taste, it will take at least a year or even longer, and it will have the characteristics of spicy but not dry, bright red and oily, and mellow aftertaste after maturity.

It takes too long to make this kind of bean paste, and the process is complicated, Liu Qingyan uses a simple version of the home-style method, which only takes about two months, and will be worse in color and taste.

After cleaning the utensils and returning them to their original positions, Xie Shi got some vinegar to wash his hands because of the juice when cutting the chili peppers, and the burning sensation on his hands was lightened after soaking them for a while.

Liu Qingyan took a bandage and sat under the eaves of the hall to pierce it, and before she had embroidered a few stitches, a middle-aged woman and a young man came in from the gate of the courtyard, and the young man carried a pair of baskets on his shoulders.

"Yan girl, embroidery, tsk, it's really ingenious." The woman laughed and greeted her.

These two people are Aunt Qi and her youngest son Qi Manfu.

I didn't even look at what I embroidered and boasted of my dexterity, which is too much. Liu Qingyan was a little ridiculous, and hurriedly stood up and responded, "Aunt Qi is here, please come into the house and sit." ”

"Don't sit, don't sit, my aunt has something to do today, can your mother be at home?" Aunt Qi waved her handkerchief and said.

The young man who carried the basket unloaded the burden from his shoulders, smiled at Liu Qingyan, and stood quietly in the courtyard.

Xie Shi had already come out of the stove room, and when he saw the situation, he knew why the two of them came, and said with a smile: "It's the eighth day of the first month of tomorrow, and Manfu is going to marry, but sister-in-law Qi is here to borrow a table and bowls?" ”

Sister-in-law Qi took two steps forward and said with a smile: "The lady guessed correctly, she came here for this." ”

"Sister-in-law, wait a while, I'll go get it for you."

Xie Shi turned around and entered the stove room again, Liu Qingyan saw this, put down the bandage in her hand and followed to help.

Villagers run red and white wine banquets, usually in their own yards, and no one will bring more than a dozen or twenty sets of tables and dishes, which are temporarily borrowed from neighbors.

Xie Shi turned out this set of special bowls for banquets from the bottom of the cupboard, ten bucket bowls are used for serving, eight small bowls and eight spoons are used for eating and drinking soup, basically every household in Baishui Village will prepare such a set, and it is convenient for others to be convenient for themselves.

In order to avoid confusion with the same color, the bottom of the bowl is engraved with the exclusive symbols of each owner, such as Liu Qingyan's house, which is engraved with the Hui character at the end of the name of the old man of the Liu family.

It had not been used for a long time, and the bowl was covered with dust. Xie Shi held ten bucket bowls, and Liu Qingyan held a small bowl and spoon and put them in the basket picked by Qi Manfu.

"Sister-in-law Qi, if you take this bowl back, you have to worry about washing it yourself." Xie said slightly apologetically.

"Hey, look at what the Xiucai lady said, aren't all of anyone's bowls like this, take it back and wash it." Sister-in-law Qi is also a cheerful person.

"Auntie, I have to trouble your family to move a table tomorrow morning." Qi Manfu said to Xie Shi with a smile.

"Auntie knows." Xie Shi joked with a smile: "I'm going to be the groom's official, I'm still so diligent today, be careful not to carry my daughter-in-law into the new house tomorrow." ”

Qi Manfu suddenly blushed like a steamed crab, scratched his head and said, "I have a strong body and strength, and I can carry it on my back." ”

Sister-in-law Qi scolded with a smile: "If you ask for your mother-in-law, you will give me honest work, live in peace, and don't go to those unorthodox fools in the village, and when you raise your child, you will know the hard work of being a father." ”

Qi Manfu said aggrievedly: "Mother, I have been fooling around at times. ”

Sister-in-law Qi stopped scolding him, took Xie's hand and said affectionately: "Tomorrow, the lady's family will come to the banquet early, and they killed a fat pig at home, and invited Chef Zhang from Zhangjia Village upstream to make the banquet, which is decent and delicious." ”

Xie nodded and said: "That's a certainty, Chef Zhang's skills are well-known in our area, and my sister-in-law can invite Chef Zhang to make the banquet, which shows that he is a capable person." ”

"What can you do or not, that chef is nothing more than a higher salary than others, sister-in-law, I am willing to spend two more dollars." Sister-in-law Qi waved the handkerchief in her hand and said happily.

"That's not it, sister-in-law, your ability to raise pigs is the number one in our village, and you can add a lot of input every year, so naturally you won't care about these two money." Xie said.

The lady laughed.

Sister-in-law Qi was in a happy mood, and greeted Qi Manfu with satisfaction to leave, and continued to borrow a bowl and a table from the next house.

Xie Shi sent it to the gate of the courtyard, and when she turned around, Liu Qingyan stepped forward and said with a smile: "Mother, you are so amazing, you praised Aunt Qi as if you had drunk honey, and you should not be able to find the door for a while." ”

Xie Shi waved his slap and was about to fight, "Don't come to entertain your mother." Then he said: "Although I have never studied, I also know how to talk more about the advantages and less disadvantages when getting along with others, but also don't deliberately flatter." What my mother just said is the truth, that Aunt Qi has a sow at home, and she feeds three fat pigs a year, and she is indeed a hard-working and hard-working person. ”

"Mother's words can't be wrong, I have to learn from you." Liu Qingyan nodded like a chicken pecking rice, and her attitude was respectful to show that she was humbly taught.

"You're a fast learner."

Xie nodded in satisfaction, then turned around and left, gone, gone.

During the dinner, the Xie family explained to the second elder of the Liu family that Qi's sister-in-law came to invite the banquet today, and agreed on how much money to take.