The vegetable field was green, and several vegetables were growing vigorously, the corn was already a man's height and was slowly drawing out its inflorescences, and the lentils and cowpeas were also growing tender pods, and gradually plumped.

The pumpkin vine crawls out of the ground and grows, blooming many pale yellow flowers, and the lily leaves a part to bear pumpkins, and the extra flowers are plucked and dipped in flour eggs and fried, which is a very good dish: fried pumpkin flowers.

In a few days, small green and fluffy pumpkins will grow on the melon vines, hidden in the leaves, slowly growing, and will turn yellow when the autumn cools down.

The radish roots are not visible in the ground, and the leaves are also very energetic in clusters, which makes people think that this radish must grow very well.

Cabbage is what she eats every day, stubble after stubble, and the leaves that grow are getting greener and greener, unlike when it was eaten smoothly and deliciously at the beginning of summer, but it is more flavorful and more suitable for stir-frying.

The most surprising thing about Lily is that the courgette has also grown, which sounds like an ear, and is actually the cucumber she used to eat in her previous life.

Small pale yellow flowers bloom on the courgette vine, and after the flowers wither, they grow small courgettes, which are only one finger long at first, and soon grow up, one day at a time.

The flowers bloom in batches, and the courgettes grow in batches, and only three or four grow a day at first.

After the lily rolls out the noodles, she goes to the vegetable field to pick two fresh courgettes, the melon handle and the melon are covered with fluffy thorns, and they are very prickly, come back and soak them in the water to wash, and then use lard residue, scallion oil, garlic, vinegar, autumn oil, etc. to make a cold noodle sauce.

When Song Haonian came home, Lily put the noodles into a pot of boiling water and rubbed the courgette into long silks with a rubber. The noodles are fished out of cold water, the shredded courgette in the bowl is the base, the top is stacked with a layer, covered with a few cabbage leaves, poured with seasoning juice and mixed well, it is a bowl of courgette mixed with cold noodles.

The freshly picked courgettes are crisp and tender, with an indescribable sweetness that makes people whet their appetite when they smell it.

Song Haonian ate two bowls of noodles with shredded smelt, but still felt insufficient, and ate half a plate of fried pumpkin flowers before he took a breath and slowly drank the noodle soup to help digestion.

Recently, the weather has been hot, and people are lazy to eat things like cold noodles, Song Haonian has not eaten as well as today for several days, and lilies are also rare to have a good appetite, and they have eaten more than a bowl.

Song Haonian drank the soup and said: "I only said that courgette can be eaten raw, but I didn't expect it to taste better when mixed in noodles." ”

Lily smiled and said, "It is also eaten raw when mixed in noodles, and it can't be called fresh and tender when it is hot." This thing is just a fresh food, and it won't taste so good in a few days. ”

There are many kinds of courgettes that can be eaten, and they age quickly, and Lily picks the tender courgettes with thorns every day, and digs out their hearts to make all kinds of food.

Cold courgette can be served with rice, smashed with the side of a kitchen knife, and then chopped into sections and stacked in a sea bowl. If you cut it directly with a knife, it won't taste good.

Autumn oil, vinegar, green onions, ginger, garlic sprinkle on the crushed courgette, pour a spoonful of hot rapeseed oil to stimulate the aroma of the ingredients, then sprinkle salt and mix well to eat.

When Lily worked in a restaurant in her last life, she also learned a secret: when mixing cold dishes, drop two or three drops of lettuce seed oil into the dishes, and the dishes will be particularly fresh and delicious.

Lettuce oil has a special spicy taste, you can't add more, otherwise the cold dish will have a strange smell, as long as a little bit can make the dish several times better than the ordinary taste.

Such a secret lily will not be easily passed on, even Li Caifeng was very surprised when he ate the cold courgette made of lilies: "Why is it so fresh!"

Lily passed on the secret to her, and Li Caifeng went home to try it, and it was really better than before. He turned back to Lily and said, "Sister, you have this skill, you should open a restaurant." "Qingliu Town is passed by a big road, every day passing by countless merchants, most of them have to stop to rest, drink water and eat, the town along the road of the restaurant called Li Caifeng said, the craftsmanship is very average, not as good as her, not to mention with the lily, such a craft, but also make a lot of money

, which makes people envious.

Lily said: "To open a restaurant, you have to have capital, and now I don't have these capital, wait until I save enough capital." ”

Listening to Lily's plan, Li Caifeng knew that she was a person who knew what to do, so she didn't say more, but went home and thought about it with Liu Yi: "What about you saying that we will open a restaurant when we go back?"

Liu Yi said: "Okay!"

Li Caifeng hesitated again: "That's it, let's talk about it in two years." ”

She has good cooking skills, but she comes and goes just a few home-cooked dishes, and she doesn't always have fresh ideas like Lily, if she opens a restaurant, she will definitely compete with the old restaurant that has already made a name for herself, and I am afraid that she will lose money in vain.

From now on, I will not mention it.

Courgette is fragrant and sweet, it is best to quench your thirst, and the courgette of lily seeds is getting more and more, and you can't eat it at home, and it is not good to let it grow old on the melon vine.

Later, as soon as the fresh courgettes were ripe, she would pick a few and keep them at home for cooking or eat raw, and sell the rest, which would also make a few pennies.

Some courgettes are hidden under the leaves, and if one is not careful, they will grow old, so the lily will cut them into slices and cook them together with cabbage and sausages to make soup and drink.

She once read a small story that said that courgette and kelp are extra fresh when boiled together, and they will taste like MSG. In these days, no one has mastered the technology of extracting monosodium glutamate from rice, and the umami is all dependent on the food itself. Taiping County is not far from the sea, and occasionally there are people who come to the beach to sell dried seafood, and Lily thinks that when she meets such a person next time, she should also buy some kelp or something

Keep it at home.

These days, the wheat is becoming golden and plump, and it is the season to harvest the wheat. People in this part of Taiping County grow both rice and wheat.

The rice is planted in the paddy fields near the river, and it is not yet time to be harvested. Wheat is planted in the hilly area, and in this season, the rice flowers are fragrant, the wheat waves are golden, and the white walls and black tiles are lined with green willows, and people from the city can write two more poems.

Harvesting wheat is a hard work, and every day at the end of the day, you have to get up, and before the sun comes out, you organize people to cut the wheat, and at the end of the hour it is already too dry to cut, and then you will transport the bundles of wheat back to the threshing floor to thresh and pile them up.

Liufu also hired some little dolls, one person sent a basket to tell them to pick up ears of wheat, each basket was sent a piece of maltose, the adults in their family do not have to watch the children, the little dolls have candy to eat, the ears of wheat in Liufu are picked, everyone is happy.

No matter who the family is, as long as they plant wheat, the family will not be able to cut it all, so they must ask someone to help, take care of the food, and at the end of the day, put a few liters of wheat as a thank-you gift.

Mr. Liu's grange is the largest village in Qingliu Town, and hundreds of acres of wheat are planted alone, and all his family workers have to get up early in the morning to cut wheat and beat wheat.

Liu Sheng hurriedly asked Liu Langzhong to prescribe a prescription to grab medicine, and all the expenses were borne by the Liufu account office, so as to miss the harvest time, in case of a sudden white rain, the ripe wheat grains were knocked into the soil, then this year would be considered in vain.

Song Haonian had a straw hat and honeysuckle water prepared by Lily, but he didn't suffer from heat stroke, but he was black and thinner, and his palms were also grinding a few big bubbles.

To cut wheat, you have to grab a bundle of wheat stalks with your left hand and stretch them forward, hold a sickle in your right hand and cut off the wheat stalks from under your left hand.

When he was carrying wheat to the threshing floor, he poked the straw at both ends of a stick and walked away, as if he were carrying a flat burden.

Some people are so tired that they either accidentally cut their hands, or they swung their sickles on their calves, and immediately the blood flowed like a large red patch. Song Haonian was afraid of scaring Lily, and refused to let her know such a thing, but said that his palms were a little itchy and painful.

Lily stretched down the shape of his hand and made a pair of fingerless gloves with linen, Song Haonian tried it on, the linen cloth was very suitable for sticking to his hand, and it would not panic, nor would it be too hot, and Lily was smart.

The work on the grange was fast and did not dare to stop, and hundreds of acres of wheat were harvested in a few days, and all of them were moved back to the threshing floor and piled up into several mountain bags.

When it is time to thresh, sweep the ground and ask a few sturdy young men to roll back and forth with a stone mill to tamp the ground. Then they spread the wheat one by one on top and beat it with a flail.

The lower part of the flail is a wooden handle more than one zhang long, and the top is connected with a row of bamboo sticks to form a knocking rod, and the middle is connected by a shaft. The wheat was spread on the ground, and with a flail it was thrown up, and the stem was raised high, and it fell heavily on the wheat, and with this force the wheat grains were struck off the stalks.

Wheat straw is dried and piled up on the grass building, for cattle, horses and mules to eat for a year, the wheat grains are spread out on the threshing floor every morning to dry, turned over, and the husks are rolled over with a wooden mill, and when the wind blows, the wind blows away the light chaff, leaving the full wheat grains. After three or five days, the wheat grains are dried and dehydrated, and then a wooden windmill is used to blow out the chaff and shriveled wheat grains, and they are used to feed the pigs and chickens, and the remaining good wheat grains can be put into the warehouse and stored in the cabinet, and in September and October, they can be eaten in the riverside mill to grind the flour

Fresh flour. Liu Yi's group of righteous brothers, except for Song Haonian, every family has a kind of wheat, Liu Yi gathered a few people, optimistic about whose wheat is the first to yellow, whose wheat is a few days late, and concentrate the strength of the brothers to cut the family first, and then cut the next family, so as not to sweep the snow in front of the door.

In the end, no one will be able to cut the wheat.

Song Haonian was on the Liufu Grange, and he was not allowed to help his brothers, and he was a little anxious. Lily told him not to worry, to work hard, and to go to his brothers' house to help the women of their family cook.

Several men are working together, women are also cooking together, Aunt Wang's slurry water tastes the best, at noon, the slurry water surface, spread egg cakes, honeysuckle water and sugar everyone has to drink, so as not to suffer from heat stroke.

In the evening, he made mixed rice, Song Dagui's stewed meat was good, everyone loved to eat braised pig ears, and the lily added a cold courgette, and boiled courgette and cabbage soup.

After the sun sets, the cool breeze on the Baishui River is gone. The men ate around the table and drank a few glasses, Xing'er was not afraid of the heat, sat on his father's lap, held a rib in both hands and nibbled with relish, Liu Yi dipped the wine on the tip of her tongue with chopsticks, and told her to taste the wine. Then Xing'er gave the wine so hot that she was in tears, and she came to her mother crying. The women opened another table and also sat to eat, they didn't drink liquor, only some mash, Li Caifeng couldn't stop laughing, and washed a little mash with white water for her daughter to drink, and Xing'er stopped crying.