082 Pumpkin Rice
All the courgettes were collected in the cellar, the vines were a little wilted, and the first pumpkin in the vegetable field was ripe.
Lily got up early in the morning, swept the yard, went around the vegetable field as usual, and fed the black tiger, and saw a yellow pumpkin there, the size of a small stone mill.
She was overjoyed, walked over and twisted the melon vine, and when she checked it in her hand, it was quite heavy, so she simply put the melon up and rolled it into the yard like a rolling wheel.
Now the black tiger was happy, running around the lily back and forth, and kept pounced on it to sniff the pumpkin, only to see that this thing was still lying honestly in the ground, how could it move now!
Song Haonian saw Lily half-squatting and rolling pumpkins there, he couldn't help laughing, and hurriedly went up and lifted it with one hand and put it in the kitchen.
Lily couldn't stop laughing, bent over and put her hands on her knees to gasp, and after taking her breath, she said, "I'll eat pumpkin rice today." ”
After breakfast, Song Haonian went to work on the grange, and now that most of the things in the village have been harvested, the work they have to do has been greatly reduced, and Song Haonian also thought that in a few days he quit his work and went hunting in the mountains with his brothers.
Pumpkin rice is not difficult to make, but it takes some time. Before Song Haonian left, she also helped Lily break the pumpkin in half, so that she wouldn't have the strength to take this thing.
Lily took a wooden spoon and scooped out the orange gourds one by one. Pumpkins are to eat melon flesh, these melons can't be eaten, and it also affects the taste, the cleaner the scrape, the better.
The melon pulp is sticky, and the lily casually pasted two handfuls on the wall of the rising sun, and the pulp was glued to the top, and then called the sun to dry, and the next year was peeled off to be ready-made pumpkin seeds.
The remaining seeds were picked out and washed, dried, fried and eaten when they had time, and the pulp was kept for Li Caifeng, telling her to go back and feed the pigs.
Lily divided half of the flesh into petals, cut off the outer layer of inedible skin with a knife, washed it, and cut it into small pieces of one inch square with a knife.
Washing rice in the pot, there is more water than cooking rice, less than cooking porridge, and it is delicious to make the pumpkin rice boil out to be thick but not too dry.
When the rice is boiling, put the pumpkin in and cook it together, stirring it so as not to stick to the pan. This rice takes time, boiled for more than an hour, before the pumpkin is fragrant and glutinous, and it will rot with chopsticks, and the rice grains have long bloomed and are soft and rotten, and the aroma is overflowing.
Lily prepared a bowl of fat and thin lard residue early, poured it into the pumpkin rice and cooked for a while, sprinkled with salt and stirred well, removed from the heat, leaving only a little fire to simmer the rice with residual heat.
At this time, there is still a layer of water and oil floating on the surface of the pumpkin rice, just don't touch it, cover it with a lid and stuffy, the rice will naturally absorb water and thicken.
When Song Haonian came home, Lily opened the lid of the pot, and it was a pot of yellow and fragrant pumpkin rice, with a thick layer of rice oil on it, white rice grains and pumpkin mixed together, mixed with some brown lard residue in the middle, which made people drool when they looked at it.
Pumpkin rice does not need side dishes, take a bite, the sweetness of pumpkin, the mellowness of rice, the smoothness of oil residue is perfectly unified, the taste of the harvest season, the young couple sits opposite each other, and eats bowl after bowl.
After the rice was a little cold, the taste became sweeter and sweeter, and Song Haonian couldn't help but stop his chopsticks: "Do you want to keep a little and eat it hot tomorrow morning?"
I can't bear to eat it all in one meal.
Lily smiled: "Eat quickly, I have my own ideas tomorrow morning." ”
This meal was so fragrant, Song Haonian finished eating with a smile, his stomach was a little supportive, and he took Lily to Liu Yi's house before it was dark, and Lily hurriedly brought the melon pulp that was scraped off before, and half of the pumpkin that had not moved, she cut half of it and brought it to Li Caifeng.
Uncle Liu Yi's family asked someone to bring some grapes from the city, this thing was not released, and there were not many of them, Li Caifeng washed them with well water until they were crystal clear, and when he saw the little couple coming, he hurriedly greeted: "I was about to look for you, come in!"
The main thing is that the apricots are hungry for grapes, and the adults can still control themselves, one person only tastes two or three grains and puts them down, and the apricots eat sweet and sweet, and they don't forget to feed their parents and aunts in their mouths.
Liu Yi said to Song Haonian that after the Mid-Autumn Festival, he would go into the mountains to hunt, go out to sell mountain goods in September, and come back before the year. Song Haonian said: "I know, listen to the arrangement of the eldest brother." ”
The next morning, Song Haonian smelled the aroma of pumpkin, it turned out that Li Lily had cooked a pot of mixed soup and steamed a few pumpkins.
The soup is just a pot of water, flour and water are rolled into gnocchi, boiled and seasoned with vinegar, sour and delicious. The steamed pumpkin is more fresh and sweet, and it can fill the stomach, and Song Haonian is comfortable to eat and drink enough before going to work on the grange.
I met people on the road, and now the people in the town see that he is also a serious person, so they are willing to greet him: "Do you want to work?"
He also responded with a smile, smiling all the way to the village, where Liu Sheng was watching people hide melons and vegetables in the cellar, and when he saw Song Haonian, he smiled and said: "Look at you like this, it's very satisfying?"
The state of a person's life can be seen from the face. If the days are not going well, not only will you be sad, but your face will be depressed, and if you have a ruddy face and a brisk expression, it must be a smooth family.
Song Haonian thought to himself, since he married his daughter-in-law, he has never had a bad day, and he directly canceled the time when the eldest girl just married him, starting from the time the lily passed through.
Now that the work in the village is not heavy, Song Haonian smiled and said a few words to Liu Sheng, and went up to help.
At the end of the day, Liu Sheng summoned a few long-term workers and said: "This year, everyone is working hard, and now there are few things in the village. ”
This is also a practice every year, and everyone did not panic, and said with a smile: "It is also hard to promote the manager." ”
Liu Sheng said again: "Early tomorrow morning, the house will come to the account office to pay you wages, if you don't want money, you can also convert it into grain, melons and vegetables at the price." ”
Each family has its own situation, if it is all into food or all into money, there will inevitably be times when you don't make a hand, Liufu is so flexible, but people are grateful for his family's thoughtfulness.
When everyone dispersed, Liu Sheng called Song Haonian: "There was also a New Year's gift in the house before the year, and I will come to receive it when the time comes." ”
Song Haonian was embarrassed: "I've been doing it for a few months, I'm not embarrassed"
"Since I called you here, I just prepared your share, what are you doing!" Liu Shengxin said that this young man is really sincere, the Liufu family has a big business, can he still have a long-term New Year's goods?
Besides, Uncle Sheng is willing to give him this New Year's goods, not because of how well he works, but because he is sincere, and he may have a great future in the future, so he is willing to take care of him.
That's it.
Song Haonian went home and said to Baihe, and Lily was also very happy: "You have been tired for many months, and you can finally have a good rest!"
Song Haonian hugged his daughter-in-law, put his hand on her thin waist, and said with a sigh: "You have also worked hard, I will do work from tomorrow, so you should have a good rest." ”
The two of them felt sorry for each other, and after speaking, they blushed a little and glanced at each other, Song Haonian put his head on Lily's shoulder, and hugged him for a while before reluctantly letting go.
They are all young people, because the weather was hot a few days ago, and the work was heavy, and the two of them hadn't been intimate for a long time, Song Haonian reacted immediately, bending over and going out with a red face.
It's still daylight, and no matter how much he thinks, he has to wait for the evening.
On the second day, Song Haonian brought home 400 yuan, he thought that he liked fresh vegetables and vegetables outside the 100 qualifications, and there were many melons, fruits and vegetables that could not be seen elsewhere on the Liufu Zhuangzi, so he exchanged half of his salary for grapes, pomegranates, carrots and other things.
When Lily saw these things, she was very happy, and hummed a little tune to clean up the melons and vegetables. Song Haonian also asked: "Don't you think I make less money?"
In the past few months in Liufu Zhuangzi, he is not as profitable as Lily selling wild fruits in a month, Lily makes money and manages everything, Song Haonian has some inferiority, and he is always afraid that his daughter-in-law will dislike him.
Lily smiled and said, "Money is for emergencies, and you can't eat or drink, so why do you want so much? ”
She didn't like her husband for making little money, if this person hadn't married her with all his family wealth, she might not have been sold by her mother to someone. If this man hadn't killed the few chickens in the house to feed her when she was dying of hunger, it would have been possible for her to die of illness.
If he treats her with sincerity, she will never dislike him, she just wants to live with him and live a beautiful life.
The smile on Lily's face suddenly became a little strange, and she whispered, "Besides, you are so good-looking, I am reluctant to dislike you." ”
Song Haonian was stunned for a moment, with a bang, the blood surging all over his body, even his face and neck were red, he glanced at his eyes in embarrassment, and stammered: "You, what are you?"
Why did the daughter-in-law suddenly become like this?
Lily flirted with her husband successfully, very proud, reached out to touch his face, twisted his body to cook, but before he walked out of the door, he hugged him and pressed him to the bed: "What are you doing?"
Lily was a little confused: "Cooking, aren't you hungry?"
"Don't be hungry, don't eat!" Song Haonian said angrily.
He was really not hungry at all at this time, and he didn't care if the sun had not set, and there were people coming and going outside the house, so he tossed and turned and ate his daughter-in-law over and over again with the heat that the lily stirred up.
Lily didn't dare to come out, biting the pillow towel tightly, and scratching blood purlins with his fingers on his back.
At the end of eating, Lily lost his strength, slept so much that he didn't know who was going to work, and when he woke up, his body was sore, and Song Haonian happily cooked a good meal and sent it: "Daughter-in-law, you have worked hard, I will cook today." ”
Lily snorted and turned her head, giving him the back of her head: How can there be such a person?
She flirted with people and folded herself in, and secretly miscalculated, and she couldn't do it next time.
Now idle, the little couple just had some fun, she pretended to be angry, Song Haonian said good things one after another, coaxed her to eat and bathe, and called the black tiger to guard her and play with her.
Lily is a diligent person again, she doesn't simply work these days, and her body is tired, so she just took this opportunity to take a break, and she didn't want to move until night, or Song Haonian carried her to bed. He said in his heart: I didn't expect my daughter-in-law to have such a delicate time, which is strange and distressing.