Chapter 261: Earth Oven
Zhao Fengnian heard his wife joke about himself, and bit her forehead in annoyance, and heard her half-true exclamation, and his heart was much better, in the end, he was still thinking about it, they lived as husband and wife, as long as they understood each other's sincerity, there was really no need to care about what others thought.
"In another ten days and a half months, Mama's body will be better, I will send them out of the house, bear with it a little longer, such an old person, crying at every turn and his eyes are red and swollen, presumably these years have not been easy, although I have forgotten the past, but I also want to thank her for protecting me to grow up."
"You can do what you want, I won't stop you, you just want to keep her for retirement, and you should be."
The husband and wife revealed their thoughts to each other, and there was no estrangement at all, they both felt happy and sleepy, and when they saw that the window gradually began to light up, they simply put on their clothes and went out for a walk holding hands.
At this time, the whole village is still immersed in sleep, quiet and pleasant, the surrounding mountains and forests linger in the white mist, occasionally the early bird sings and flappes its wings, cuts through the fog, passes through, the layers of clouds on the east mountain are getting brighter and brighter, and gradually dyed with a layer of gold, and a new day has arrived.
Rui Xue sat on the wooden chair in the East Garden, a little regretful, and complained, "When the child is born, I will climb to the top of the mountain to watch the sunrise, it must be spectacular." ”
"Okay." Zhao Fengnian still agrees as always and never objects.
Soon, there was a sound from the gate of the front yard, footsteps, the sound of pushing and grinding, and a thin layer of mist slowly gathered in the sky above the yard, Ruixue smelled the faint fragrance of beans, and suddenly wanted to eat snow soup, the couple went to the front yard, just the first pot of tofu was just ordered, Yingzi heard that the proprietress wanted to eat, so she found two blue and white bowls, scalded them with hot water, and then scooped the snow soup, and poured the soup, and invited the couple to sit at the table in the big kitchen to eat, and finally said apologetically, "I knew that the proprietress wanted to eat, and I should have boiled some bone broth last night." ”
Rui Xue waved her hand and said with a smile, "Everyone eats this, why can't we eat it, it tastes very good." ”
Zhao Fengnian also nodded, "Don't eat this every morning in order to save money, and also change some rice porridge and the like." ”
"The shopkeeper is right, there are 100 acres of paddy fields outside our village, and when they are harvested, remember to remind me to share some with everyone and take them home to taste fresh." Rui Xue scooped a spoonful of chopped green onions, looking at the turquoise with snow white, very appetizing, and in a good mood.
"Yes, hostess." Everyone who was squatting outside the door and eating breakfast felt warm in their hearts, and they changed to other masters, afraid that they would like to give them cold water to drink every day, but their own masters were afraid that they would get bored of eating snow soup, and they would give them rice porridge to eat, which was really a blessing from the previous life.
The couple was eating snow soup, Wu Yu also changed his clothes and prepared to go to morning exercise, seeing his sister get up early, he was very surprised, smiled and rubbed half a bowl of snow soup to eat, and then went out.
The consequence of getting up too early in the morning is that it is easy to get sleepy during the day, Rui Xue is pregnant, and there is no other work except eating and sleeping all day, after breakfast, Rui Xue sorted out the household accounts for a while, and then lay down crookedly.
After a while, Zhao Fengnian also yawned and came in, obviously to hold his daughter-in-law and make up for sleep, Gui Mama frowned slightly, if Zhao Fengnian was still uncomfortable in the past, but he had untied the knot last night, so he didn't see it, and he drove the old woman out, and then took his wife and children in his arms and slept sweetly.
The couple slept for an hour, and were woken up by a few boys who came back from class, it turned out that Mr. today took them to recite a few poems about the Mid-Autumn Festival in class, they thought about the Mid-Year Festival, the Dragon Boat Festival, my sister (Shi Niang) have made strange food, how can this Mid-Autumn Festival not fall.
In fact, Rui Xue is because there have been a lot of things recently, and her life is a little confused, otherwise she loves her children so much, and she likes to be a lively person, how could she not be a person or two?
At this time, I heard the three boys talk about it, only to find that the Mid-Autumn Festival is approaching, she has not prepared at all, no matter anything else, moon cakes, moon appreciation banquets, everyone in the workshop wants to send benefits, these are indispensable, it happens that it has been boring recently, and there is something to do now.
She didn't eat a few bites of lunch, and in the afternoon she took the colorful clouds and moon to draw patterns, thinking about building an oven, but there was no electricity in this time and space, so she couldn't expect to study the kind of oven that was beautiful and small, and she could only use the stupidest way to think about it.
The proprietress was interested in pondering the new food, and the shopkeeper instructed to assist with all his might, and everyone in the workshop stepped up their work to finish their work, so they all gathered within the second door and obeyed the instructions of the proprietress.
Zhang Dahe received the silver, drove the carriage, went into the city to find an iron shop, made the most critical oven, and the rest of the people and mud, debilitated, set up a strange earthen stove similar to the inverted "product" shape, one is hollow above, two are one left and one right hollow, everyone really can't understand, so they pushed Yingzi to ask the proprietress, what is the use of this?
Rui Xue was smiling while drinking tea, while listing all kinds of snacks on the paper, thinking of those cakes, biscuits and even pizza and egg tarts in her previous life, she became more and more salivating, swallowing saliva from time to time, listening to Yingzi come up to ask, and then look up at the strange earthen stove, she also laughed so much that her stomach hurt, but she refused to tell everyone badly, only said that tomorrow the things from the blacksmith shop in the city were delivered, and they knew immediately.
Everyone couldn't help but be curious and went home after work, and stayed the next morning busy with the things in the workshop, all of them were absent-minded, and finally finished the work, so they took turns to run to the gate to visit, and finally looked forward to the carriage of the blacksmith shop, and the young man jumped out of the car, and saw so many people around, and was startled, before he could do it, the iron box and iron plate in the car were robbed, and he did not dare to give a reward, so he urged the coachman to run away.
Everyone couldn't stop laughing, and they carried the iron box and other things to the backyard, Ruixue changed into an ordinary dress, wrapped her hair, and was preparing materials to make shortbread with Caiyue Yuncaiyue and others.
The iron-striking technology of this time and space is not as exquisite as modern times, and the iron mold with the pattern cannot be made, so it can only make two large iron plates, so that biscuits, cakes and the like cannot be tested for the time being, but small shortbreads do not need molds, and the temperature is easy to control, you can try it first.
Sift out the finest and best part of the flour, add lard, icing sugar and warm water, stir well, knead it into a smooth dough, cover it with wet roving and let it rise for a quarter of an hour.
Chop the pork loin plate into fine minced pieces, without adding any greens, just salt, soy sauce, pepper and chopped green onions, and mix well.
When the dough is ready, press a pit in the middle, pour the puff pastry mixed with only flour and lard into it, seal the mouth, roll it out into a large pancake, fold it, and roll it out again, so three or four times, the dough has a layer, and finally make it into a round dough that is larger than a palm, wrap it in the meat filling, close the mouth and pinch it tightly, pat it slightly flat, brush a layer of water on it, dip it in sesame seeds, and it's done.
Caiyun Caiyue learned very quickly, and she was ready to wrap it up, Ruixue heard that the iron box had arrived, untied the apron and other things, and went to the yard in a hurry, the old lady was afraid that she would fall, and shouted to her in the back, walk carefully.
Rui Xue compared the size of the iron box, almost the same as her request, so she put her heart at ease, and instructed everyone to put the iron box in the middle of the inverted "product" word earthen stove, the side that can be opened is just in front, and then the empty on the iron box, continue to cover the stove eye, so busy for most of the hour, a four-burner giant will be formed, everyone looked around twice, all laughed crookedly, even hearing the movement from the East Garden rushed from the East Garden Amber and Mr. Yan are also happy to straighten their beards.
Ruixue wanted to shout, "I'm ugly, but I'm gentle." Unfortunately, the crowd must not understand this humor imported from the previous life, so she decided to speak with facts.
After shouting, everyone began to make fires in the various stoves, the wood crackled, the adobe gradually came out of white steam, and the stoves became dry at sight, and the iron box, reaching into it, also felt warm.
After waiting for another two quarters of an hour, Caiyun Caiyue also prepared small shortbreads, Ruixue brushed the iron plate, dried it, smeared it with a layer of vegetable oil, and then placed ten small shortbread blanks, carefully sent them into the iron box, closed the iron door, and the four stoves burned fiercely at the same time, everyone was curious, endured the heat coming from the stove, and refused to leave.
Ruixue couldn't control the heat, sat at the table and drank herbal tea, estimated that it had been more than a quarter of an hour, and was about to wear the thick cotton gloves made last night to open the stove, and was quickly snatched by Yingzi's eyes.
She stepped forward to open the iron boxes, pulled out the iron plate and showed Rui Xue, Rui Xue cut a small shortbread with a knife, and saw that it didn't seem to be fully cooked inside, so she motioned her to push it back and continue to bake, so toss three times, the temperature of the oven finally rose, and the small shortbread was baked with difficulty.
Although the process is tortuous, but the result is very significant, round, fat golden shortbread, stained with a layer of white sesame seeds, very cute, reach out and break one, immediately a meat fragrance comes to the face, take a bite, the dough is crispy, the meat filling is more @ juicy salty, it is really delicious.
There are a total of ten small shortbreads, one each for Mr. Yan and Amber, one for Ruixue, one for Old Lady and Caiyun Caiyue, and the remaining six are all for everyone waiting on the side, and they didn't even leave one for Zhao Fengnian, who was busy in the account room in front of him.
Rui Xue saw that Zhao Fengnian's face was as usual, but his eyes were shining, and he immediately laughed at him, "This first furnace is not well controlled, and the taste is average, I still want to wait for a while when it is the best to bake, and then send it to the front for you." ”
Of course, Zhao Fengnian would not be really angry about eating, and after such a careless explanation from his wife, he smiled and waited for the second furnace.
This time there were twenty small shortbreads on the iron plate, but they were baked in two quarters of an hour, just in time for the three boys to come back from outside, smelling the fragrance, shouting and rushing up to grab six or seven, Amber was quick-eyed, and also grabbed four, and gave two to Mr. Yan, and returned to the East Garden with a smile, Ruixue was helpless, picked up two for Zhao Fengnian, and then the rest was divided regardless of how everyone divided.
In this way, when it was dark, sixty or seventy little shortbreads prepared in the stove room were baked, and of course none were left, and everyone ate to their heart's content, wiped the oily corners of their mouths, and sang a little song and went home.