Chapter 67: Tail Rice (I)
This syrup fish is an innovative flip of flowers based on the ancient traditional cooking method, and she has added a small amount of wheat flour and sticky rice flour to the cornmeal. In this way, the texture of the fish in the slurry water is smoother.
Shaoyi looked at the evenly sized, white, tender and shiny noodle "fish" in the bowl, and slipped away from the chopsticks like a live fish from the head of the chopsticks.
Shao laughed at himself for being so incompetent when eating, and pondered: "It seems that yesterday Goo Gu was secretly busy from morning to night, and it turned out that he was fiddling with this new leakage method, and he also took a colander to find a blacksmith to improve, failed again and again, and finally ...... today."
Gugu just does everything to have such a strong momentum that is not a lonely mountain and is not a hero.
And the core condiment that gave birth to this bowl of delicious syrup - old sauerkraut, is also caused by sincerity, that is after the first rain in the summer, my aunt turned over two mountains, with the plateau wild snow cabbage picked from the Artemisia Ping Dam, carefully pickled by Gugu, and then patiently put in the tank for a whole summer, today used to make the ingredients of the slurry fish.
The center of the white-faced fish is dotted with green vegetable leaves, just like the fish seen in the flower port, and every fine preparation and blending finally has the taste of these layers in today's sea bowl.
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Tian saw that the big and small "ants" had a bowl of sour and spicy and delicious slurry fish, and they all came back to life with full blood. So, he stood on the ridge, cleared his throat, and looked at the children, as if he had something important to announce.
Except for Shaoyi, who was stunned, I didn't know what the next "show" was, and the other babies seemed to be waiting for some awards to be announced, and their eyes were round, eager to swallow the fields on the ridges.
"This year's tail rice, let's change the pattern and no longer set up many groups...... Instead, there are only two groups to compete......"
As soon as Tian's words fell, everyone's eyes fell on Shaoyi and Nanyan.
Shaoyi has just ascended to the second floor of the Sword Pavilion, and he is undoubtedly a rising star who has only joined the list of "posterity" this year, so he can naturally be used as a main player.
Leng Wa has won the tail rice championship for four consecutive years and is a veritable king of small rice.
However, such a grouping undoubtedly put Nanyan, who also wants to participate in the challenge, always lives under the glory of Leng Wa, but does not lose Leng Wa in an embarrassing situation, and he also hopes to have such an opportunity.
The babies began to talk to each other. Nanyan did not hide his disappointment that he did not become the main player, he even silently lifted a large stone mill on the ridge, "rammed and tamped and eat-" walked to Leng Wa's side, and then, gently put it down, and walked away speechlessly, as if he was demonstrating......
The rules of the tail rice competition are only half announced, and the ridges are full of gunpowder, which can make the organizers of Tian Liao fall into passivity.
He came to the old rice guest, and the two whispered as if to discuss, and then he returned to the middle of the crowd.
Looking at the only rice field at the end of the ridge that had not yet been harvested, Tian Liao said calmly: "This year, Leng Wa and Baili Xi are in a group, and Nanyan and Shao are in a group. Other children, you can team up ...... by yourselves."
The rice field suddenly fell into a "chaos", and the children formed several groups of "top regiments" after a while......
Nanyan breathed a sigh of relief, he still had a chance to compete.
Regarding the climax of the annual harvest season - the "tail grabbing rice" project, I have heard the village chief say that there was a slightly sad legend in Dayanhe Villageββ
More than 1,800 years ago, the distant ancestor Mingjing, his fourth generation of descendants named Gengqiu, was the village chief of Dayanhe Village at that time, after the autumn thunder, Gengqiu began to arrange the autumn harvest.
Just as the rice harvest went smoothly and only the last tuft of rice remained in the paddy field, the sky darkened in an instant.
The rice customers put away their sickles and raised their heads to see what was going on in the sky.
The black clouds in the distance rolled and moved, with an oppressive aura, making the rice customers watching so nervous that they couldn't breathe.
The black clouds gradually approached, making a brushing sound, and it turned out that they were wings flapping in unison, black wings
A flock of crows is covering the sun and killing the generals......
The crows circled over Ganhua Creek for a long time, croaking and croaking, frightening the children in the village to tears, and even the calmest old man in the village was embarrassed.
Finally, the Raven King, the shiny-coated, menacing black crow, swooped down and plunged into the last tuft of rice in the rice field......
Geng Qiu hurriedly blocked it with his body, and the Black Crow King hit Geng Qiu's chest, and then, it fell into the rice field, flipped over a few times, and then flew away with a flutter.
A moment later, four more crows rushed down......
Geng Qiu grabbed the last rice cluster, and shouted to the crow king in the crow flock in the sky: "There is a new child in the clan, and every grain of rice is the help of Jiuyou to the human race, so that the human race can survive, and it is also the ration that can only be obtained after a year of hard work by the human race......
"Please let the crow king spare the rice and go elsewhere! This cold winter is coming, and the long night is sleepless, and the crows should continue to cross the ...... south."
The ancestors of the Dayan River knew that the black crows, ice wolves, and silver fir trees were all creatures that survived the Quaternary glaciation, and the crows came for a cluster of rice, so they must not be reckless to drive them away.
A moment later, a ray of sunlight shone on the last cluster of rice, and the four black crows that came rushing to the rice saw the Raven King appear, and quickly withdrew......
In the sky, the white-eared and black-feathered duck king, surrounded by crows, glanced at the golden rice on the land in a kingly manner, and then looked at a few babies on the ridge, and then turned his gaze to Gengqiu, and said to Gengqiu in the crow language: "Quack, this year's tail rice will be left to your people." I'm going to come back next year, and it's the underage babies who will take the tail rice from our mouths......"
The crow king couldn't help but say, picked up Gengqiu and left, and the crows echoed and shouted: "Lead me to the south, lead me to the south......"
Geng Qiu is a reasonable person, since he persuaded the crows to grab food, he should also help them, he flew away under the wings of the crow king, overlooking the childish babies on the ridge, reluctantly, and read: "The mission of the clansmen depends on you......"
He threw the last cluster of rice in his hand into the rice stack, and the last cluster of rice was indeed left in the hands of the people of Dayanhe Village as Geng Qiu and the Raven King had discussed.
As soon as the autumn thunder passed in the second year, the crow king arrived with a flock of crows as scheduled.
However, I don't know why, although the villagers look forward to it year after year, the village chief Geng Qiu never returned.
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In the first tail rice competition, the last cluster of rice was obtained by the Terran baby Leng Yang. The crows watched the children's game, kept their promise, and never came to the idea of beating the tail rice again.
In order to cherish the memory of Gengqiu, the clan has continued the tail rice competition from generation to generation. And left a small piece of rice on the south bank of Ganhua Creek as a backup when the crows returned.
Since the first end of the rice competition, the crows have not come again, and the piece of rice left for the crows has become a sacrificial tribute rice.
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This legend is that the children who grew up in Dayanhe Village have listened to their parents since they were children, and they were once scared by their mother at night when they were crying, "If you are disobedient, let the Crow King take you away".
Grabbing the tail rice, for the babies, is a kind of glory like a juvenile coming-of-age ceremony, so that every teenager has a dream and is eager to try.
"So, next, let me talk about the rules of this year's tail rice. Tian saw that the babies had been much quieter, so he continued: "Divide into two teams, each team of four people...... In the end, whoever successfully gets the tail rice and returns to the starting point smoothly will be the champion. But if the rice in his hand is contaminated with muddy water, he will have to accept defeat and count the other team as the tail rice. β
"In a team, who ultimately belongs to Moo-Ina, and who is the annual champion, depends on the individual's performance throughout the competition.
"The final verdict is voted on by the panel of judges...... The referee will remain the same, and the village chief, He Xiangu, Gu Gu and I will serve as ......"
Tian glanced at all the participating team members present, and then said: "Now, please leave the rice field and go back to their respective homes. Before midnight, if a baby tries to find out the situation of the rice field directly or indirectly through various means, he will be disqualified from the competition......"
At the end of the day (note: 21 o'clock to 23 o'clock), the children gathered in the apricot orchard in Tiandongtou and waited for the village chief's order. β
Everyone knows that the pre-competition ban is difficult for even cultivators who have entered the mystical realm to overcome, let alone their milky raw melons and eggs?!
Therefore, everyone follows the rules, and no one dares to challenge this rule.
In this year's tail rice competition, Shaoyi, Leng Wa and Nanyan are destined to solve their expectations for the strength contest through competition......
On the way back, one less book wanted to say something to Nanyan. Nan Yantou left in a hurry without raising his head, ignoring Shaoyi's overtures, and did not greet the other two team members, Xihe and Wu Jin.
However, Leng Wa changed her previous domineering style, walked up to Shaoyi, and said with a smile: "It's not the same when you go to the second floor of the Sword Pavilion, but I'm afraid it's still difficult for you to pick up that tail rice." β
"Leng Wa, we all tried our best. Shaoyi replied very seriously.
"Look at that posture, your teammate is probably going to fight, and you still have to protect yourself......" Leng Wa hugged her arms and looked at Nanyan, who had jumped over Ganhua Creek and was in a hurry, so she reminded Shaoyi.
In fact, he is reminding himself.
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Midnight, the beginning of the morning.
After a little glance at the silent surroundings, he reached out and sneaked into an old locust tree on the small hillside on the north side of the apricot orchard.
Standing on the branches, as expected, there were indeed others in the apricot orchard, and from the footsteps, it could be concluded that it was Nanyan who came.
At this time, the full moon has passed the middle of the sky, and the tenacious mosquitoes are looking for the last "food" in the short life after autumn.
The mosquitoes after autumn are no longer as lively, manic, and thief as they are in the middle of summer, but their thirst for blood has not diminished in the slightest.
Shaoyi endured the "hunting" of autumn mosquitoes and did not move.
Finally, the village chief and Gugu and his party entered the apricot orchard, and after a while, Tian Liao and He Xiangu also came to the apricot orchard one after another.
When everyone arrived, Shaoyi jumped down from the old locust tree......
"Let's go!" Tian ordered.
The seven babies rushed out of the apricot orchard like lightning, and the young one who walked at the back did not dare to step calmly, and also trotted closely to follow everyone.
Only Nanyan walked calmly and unhurriedly towards the rice field.