A few days ago, Jiang Yan only left half a bag of new rice that had been shelled, and all the rest were neatly packed and sent to the private school in the village.

There are two old grinding discs on the Pingba of the threshing floor, and most of the half bags of grain have been ground into flour by the two daughters-in-law.

Jiang Yan plans to eat dumplings and wontons, during this time, steamed buns and wowotou are eaten almost every day, and every meal is a meal, and she is a little hungry for these soups and water.

To make glutinous rice balls and wontons, the first thing is to make fillings with noodles, Jiang Yan's cooking skills are average, but she is quite familiar with wonton dumplings, and when she was a child, she followed her grandmother to eat these a lot, and she poured most of the half pot of flour with her hands and feet.

Stirring the flour while pouring water, and then start kneading it with your hands, poking the dough is a hard job, there are many people in the family, Jiang Yan doesn't have enough to eat alone, but fortunately, there are two daughters-in-law to help.

Wait until the dough is formed, leave it for a while, add some starch and continue to knead it after it is relaxed and rise, and finally put it on the sticky board and spread it out slowly, until it is moderately thick, and then use chopsticks to compare the shape of the cut square.

So repeatedly, the wonton skin is ready, the wonton filling is meat foam mustard greens, more meat and less vegetables, after cooking, with a bowl of soul chili dipping water, in this cold early winter, absolutely delicious so that people's tongues want to swallow.

As for the glutinous rice balls, it is simple, because there are no sesame seeds, what Jiang Yan plans to make is the glutinous rice balls with starch sugar and oil residue and crushed rice balls, because the filling is made in advance, it is directly kneaded into a round and put it away, and when it is cooked, it is enough to put it in the pot.

"Boss and they will come back in a while, Xiaobei, you call your Uncle Wu and Uncle Sheng, thanks to their help during this time, otherwise it can be so fast." Jiang Yan was wrapping the wontons while talking to Lin Bei, who was helping to rub the rice balls.

Since the Lin family started to build a house, Lao Wu and Lin Yousheng have been rushing to the new house, helping Lin Xi buy materials everywhere, working everywhere inside and out, and even the soap business has not continued, and they want to build Jiang Yan's new house first.

"I know Mother, I'll go in a while." Lin Bei nodded with a smile, he has changed quite a lot in the past few months, and his whole person is like a bamboo shoot watered by the spring rain, climbing steadily, and he has grown taller in a blink of an eye.

Now he is full of energy, smiling brightly, and his former skinny body is also a lot plump, and he is not much different from Lin Feng, but now he is tall, and he has thrown Lin Feng far away, and finally has the appearance that he should have at his age.

The wrapped wontons and rice balls are neatly placed on the dustpan, because they are all easy to cook, and as soon as Lin Dong and them come back, they can directly boil the water until they turn their bellies and eat.

As time passed, the cold wind outside the door whistled and the newly repaired door creaked as it rubbed.

The night of early winter fell quickly, and it didn't take long for the entire Linjia Village to be shrouded, and every family returned home early to be by the fire, and the whole village was much quieter than before.

Jiang Yan packed two large bowls of wontons and dumplings and went to the village chief's house, the sky was a little dark, she was a little afraid of the cats and dogs in the village, and took Lin Bei and Lin Feng to go out with confidence.

Regarding the matter of the mountain bandit refugees, it is still necessary to prepare in advance, the village guard team has become lazy since the beginning of winter, and it is basically to the extent of semi-disbandment.

"Village chief, the affairs of the village guard team have to be arranged well." When they arrived at the village chief's house, Jiang Yan and the village chief were talking in the hall, and Lin Bei Lin Feng sent the things he brought to the stove room to the village chief's daughter-in-law.

The village chief's family has just finished dinner, thanks to Aunt Jiang's blessing, their family has been able to eat a full meal every day recently, although it is brown rice, but everyone in the family can eat a round belly.

"Xiao Jiang, just say what you think, I will definitely listen to you!"

The village chief has long trusted Jiang Yan 100%, as long as she says something, he will obey it a hundred times, she feels that everything Jiang Yan does is of great benefit to the village!

"You should have heard the rumors in the town recently, the refugees are flowing around, and the mountain bandits are increasing, although they will not come to Linjia Village now, but ten miles and eight villages know that our village has food.

When the cold winter comes, if the number of refugees increases, then there will be more grass, and when those mountain bandits eat the surplus food in their hands, I am worried that our village will be targeted by them. ”

Seeing that Jiang Yan's face was serious and his tone was extremely serious, the village chief couldn't help but be full of worry, he was convinced of Aunt Jiang's words, Aunt Jiang's mountain bandits would come to rob Linjia Village, and nine times out of ten they would really come!

"That's... So what to do then? Didn't you say before that the county magistrate had already suppressed the nearby mountain bandits? How can there be? ”

"As long as there are refugees and people fleeing the famine, the bandits will not be able to be eliminated, so we should take precautions and take precautions as soon as possible, just in case."

Jiang Yan's dark face was moved, and her eyes were slightly dark, "After the late rice harvest, the village guard team is basically idle, and there are only two or three people wandering around during the day, this is not good!" ”

The village chief's throat tightened, "I'll arrange for everyone to increase manpower tomorrow, arrange more people to patrol, and go around the village every day!" ”

"This is not enough, just in case, you let the villagers hide the grain in two places, it is best to put some in the cellar to hide, the town has not been peaceful recently, and I ask everyone to buy New Year's goods as soon as possible."

The village chief frowned: "In previous years, it was about this time, God was going to snow or rain, and the village should indeed prepare early." ”

Jiang Yan stood up and said in a deep voice: "Unless it rains, at other times, the village's guard team will arrange several groups of people to take turns patrolling inside and outside the village for at least two hours every day, and a group of five people will take turns. ”

The village chief immediately affirmed that during this time, there were always people from several nearby villages who came to their village to wander around, and if anyone's relatives still said that the key was that many of them did not know, now that I think about it, maybe those people are mountain bandits.

Thinking of this, a cold sweat broke out on the back of the village.

Lin Ziyue, who had just entered the house, frowned and walked over, "Aunt Jiang, Dad, will the people in the village be unwilling, the guards haven't explained it these days, and the wages that should be given to everyone have been given, but there are still many people who are lazy and slippery." ”

The village chief's face turned pale, and he threw off his sleeves and scolded angrily: "Those rabbit cubs! Guarding his own village and daring to give me an eye, who dares to be lazy in the future, let me catch one, I will paste his face with! ”

Jiang Yan: ......

The wages of the village guard team are not high, at first the village gathered food to distribute to everyone, and later the village distributed the silver money after the silver money, but because it was for the public service, the silver money given was not much, and after the village's chili late rice was harvested and every household had food, many people did not look down on the small money given by the village.

(End of chapter)