Chapter 116: The Battle of Winter Storage......
The "winter storage cabbage" in the old capital is known as the "housekeeping dish", which is very important in the life of the people in the capital.
At this time, vegetable cultivation technology was not yet developed, and the variety of vegetables that northerners could eat in the cold and long winter was very limited.
Chinese cabbage has a large yield, cold resistance, and easy storage, which leads to the fact that there is no vegetable that can be so irreplaceable in the winter life of Beijing people like Chinese cabbage.
Every year before and after winter, each jurisdiction will organize a "winter storage leadership team" to escort all aspects of the procurement of the supply and marketing system, the transportation of the truck team, the sales organized by the streets of each jurisdiction, and the cleaning and sanitation of the final aftermath.
In order to ensure that the people of the capital have winter vegetables to stock up at home.
This year, due to various reasons, it was a little late, but a good meal is not afraid of being late, and it is better to be late.
Zhou Wen and others assisted in the maintenance and guidance of order in the sales process of this area.
Wei Ping'an hasn't participated in this atmosphere for several years, and he's looking forward to it.
After sweeping the snow, Wei Ping'an returned home to prepare for breakfast, and saw that Zhou Wen was already dressed neatly, and Mrs. Zhang seemed to be ready to go.
"Grandma, don't be busy when you're old, give me the non-staple food book, and I'll help you buy it back in a while."
"It's better for me to go myself, you won't pick, Xiaowen bid for the third-level one last year, and the first-level one didn't grab a few ......"
Chinese cabbage is particular about eating the cabbage sum inside, and no one wants to eat the vegetables outside.
Especially the Chinese cabbage stored in winter, if the cabbage sum is small and the cabbage is more, the water cannot be stored at all, and it will wilt in a few days when you buy it home, so the grade of the Chinese cabbage stored in winter is the cabbage sum.
The bigger the cabbage sum, the more porcelain it grows, the higher the grade, the best Chinese cabbage is the first grade, and the smallest cabbage is the third grade.
Because everyone likes to eat first-class dishes, but not all of them grow in the ground. You can't let those second- and third-grade vegetables rot in the ground.
Therefore, this year, as in previous years, the purchase of first-class dishes is limited, and the purchase of second- and third-grade dishes is open.
It's similar to the food routine, if you go late, the first-class dishes exceed a certain amount, and they won't be sold to you if they are not bad.
So much so that on this day, many families line up at the point of sale early.
Some people saw that the big truck brought Chinese cabbage in the evening, so they went home and rolled up the quilt coat and began to line up.
The old lady couldn't get used to her granddaughter being too talkative, and last year she saw that the old man was pitiful, and she evened out a large part of the share of the first-class dishes she was allotted.
At that time, the old lady didn't say anything, and she took the overall situation into account.
But the little book in my heart made a note, and I won't stay at home this year.
"I'm so old, who is embarrassed to share my share, maybe let me have some......"
Wei Ping'an couldn't cry or laugh.
Old lady, not really.
But when it comes to treating the elderly, in addition to filial piety, there is also shun.
"Well, you've bought it, I'll take care of shipping it home......"
"That's what you do."
The old lady muttered, and was about to go out with a piece of tofu milk in her pocket.
"Hey, grandma is not bad for these two bites, let's finish eating first and then leave. And you, what's the hurry, go out after eating. It's all your fault, otherwise grandma would have to leave without finishing it......"
Wei Ping'an used the topic to play, and the old lady and Zhou Wen were forcibly left, and they quickly finished eating and then rushed out.
"Be careful, the streets are slippery."
"Got it."
Zhou Wen went to meet his colleagues, and the old lady went straight to the sales point with the familiar old sisters in the yard next door along the way.
"Dabao, let's eat sweet and sour cabbage heart today, is it okay to vinegar and lotus white?"
"Okay."
Dabao chewed the sweet potato sticky porridge in his mouth and clapped his hands happily.
Since Wei Ping'an, who became a father, came back, Dabao has been much more cheerful and loves to laugh more.
It can be seen that the father's companionship of the child is very important in the early development of the child.
Otherwise, it is very likely that the child will grow into ......
For example, how to jade pillars and the like.
Wei Ping'an could hear He Yuzhu's loud voice sitting at home, busy making progress for the Jia family.
Winter storage is a top priority every year, and rolling mills also take a half-day holiday for this.
In the yard, Wei Ping'an was calm, got up and cleared the snow as soon as possible, and every household sent people to the sales point to line up.
Otherwise, why didn't I see Yan Jiecheng sweeping the snow, he was sent by his father to line up early in the morning.
Wei Ping'an waited for Wei Dabao to finish eating the porridge before going out.
Today Wei Dabao has a new car.
Laifu was the head horse of Dabao, pulling a sleigh.
This newly made sleigh Wei Ping'an is designed to be dual-purpose.
The wheels of three children's tricycles were found from the scrapyard and used on the sleds.
One on each side of the back and one in the front.
The wheels were carefully designed by Wei Ping'an.
The front wheels can be folded as an ornament, and the back two wheels can also be pulled out two centimeters and pushed up.
Therefore, it can be used for skiing and dryland pushing.
There was not much snow outside today, and Wei Ping'an put down the wheels of the sled, so that it would not take too much effort for Laifu to pull it up.
Move the sled outside the courtyard gate.
Wei Dabao stepped into the sleigh with his bloated calves, and closed the small door bar by himself very skillfully.
A down mat was laid in the sled.
It was exchanged by Wei Ping'an's system, and it was warm and comfortable to sit.
The system comes with a red background floral packaging, which is down-to-earth and easy to disassemble and wash.
There was also a cotton coat that Wei Ping'an hadn't worn much.
Dabao sat up, wrapped in a cotton coat and wearing a small Yu Zhaolin Lei Feng hat, like a little Kazakh warrior, driving in the snow.
"Drive!"
Dabao stuttered clearly, because he was smiling and leaking air.
Laifu turned out to be a drama spirit.
Learn to let the lone wolf howl and spread its paws...... The dog's hoof trotted up.
It also knows not to run too fast, and it also knows to find a flat place to walk.
It is worthy of a mature civet dog.
Wei Ping'an rode behind, and every time Wei Dabao shook the reins and turned his head to look, Wei's father smiled at him.
Dabao is very relieved, not as cautious as before.
"Wow, look, look, Wei Dabao sledding ......"
"Dabao, Dabao......"
Some little babies behind him chased the sleigh for a long time, standing in place and still reluctant to give up, their eyes were full of envy and longing.
In this era of scarcity of toys, is it okay to pull a dog sled?
It's too fried, okay.
Not to mention children, many adults are ready to move.
Fortunately, the adults followed behind, and Wei Ping'an rode a bicycle to follow.
In the system, Wei Ping'an has already located Zhou Wen's sales point, and Laifu is like driving a navigation car, trotting over with ease.
"Hey, look, who's that kid, that's funny......"
"Big dog sledding, I haven't seen it in years......"
"Look, look, this kid looks really festive."
"When you look at this person's house, the conditions are good."
"Mom. Drive! ”
Dabao threw the reins, in fact, it was useless, and Laifu didn't recognize the hostess, according to its dog nature, it must also be used to show off.
"Rifle is awesome, I can take the kids."
"You're going to be funny, so many people are watching, so you're going to let Laifu out."
"Just rejoice."
Wei Ping'an spread his hands exaggeratedly: "If the reins weren't enough, I would have been ready to pull the dog together." ”
"Do you want to dress Dabao in Santa Claus again?"
This is the story in the painting book that Wei Ping'an collected from the old Li Tou scrap station, and there are also a few pictures of Wei Ping'an's own graffiti.
"You really reminded me."
"Come on, you, I'm busy, you go and help grandma arrange for a while."
Wei Ping'an glanced into the distance and saw Wang Kaiming's figure.
Wang Kaiming may have guessed about the previous events, but time has passed, and he has forced himself to forget those dangers.
After a few years of conscientious work, I have settled down.
For Zhou Wen, a colleague, he will help him from the bottom of his heart, for nothing else, for fear that Wei Ping'an will find him to settle old accounts.
After all, paper can't hold the fire, and he feels a loss.
Wei Ping'an really didn't care about this.
People die like lights going out, and the past is with him, and the pages have long been turned over.
"Wei Ping'an!"
Someone suddenly patted him on the shoulder, and Wei Ping'an turned his head.
"Director Li, it's been a long time."
“…… I forgot to tell you, you don't have to come and queue up, your cabbage is ready, and I will send it home later. ”
"Thank you then. I didn't take a grocery book, I came with the old lady. ”
"Okay, then you can go over and find you to sit down another day."
Li Weidong, the secretary of the street office, had an intersection with Wei Ping'an from the beginning, and he was not bad.
If you haven't seen you for too many years and are a little rusty, you should call Lao Li, or Wei Dong.
Li Weidong looked at the back of Wei Ping'an walking into the crowd, and admired it in his heart.
is such a seemingly ordinary and simple person, carrying the honor and expectations of tens of millions of people, and doing such a big thing incognito.
It's really not admirable.
Li Weidong is about to be promoted to deputy director of the neighborhood office.
He has the right and obligation to understand and memorize some internal channels and key care families in the jurisdiction.
The most abundant and shocking and capricious resume in this piece is Wei Ping'an.
A big boy who asked him to enter the house with tap water, was squeezed out by the neighbors and ridiculed and spread rumors.
did such a big thing quietly.
Several times he heard Director Wang sighing.
After all, Wei Ping'an's situation can be said to be well known to everyone in the street office.
His marriage to Zhou Wen was still participated in by Aunt Zhang and Li Weidong.
Now that Zhou Wen also has a good job, how can such a small family of two be unhappy?
Much better than those families who have a lot of choices, right?
Maybe it really responded to that sentence, good people have good rewards.
Good people are blessed.
"Grandma, you drink water."
Laifu was clever and made a mistake, and pulled the little sleigh along the line to find Mrs. Zhang, who was in the forefront.
Wei Dabao took out the thermos cup when Wei Ping'an was fishing from his coat, and he couldn't hold it in his little hand, but he still shouted loudly.
In the end, do you really let Grandma Tai drink water, or is it just a show, then ...... It's not clear at a glance.
After a while, it was the turn of the old lady.
"Three hundred and seventy pounds. Seventy pounds of first-class dishes......"
"Grandma, buy this old?"
"Our vegetable cellar is so big, it's empty and empty, so I will go back and dry it and eat it slowly."
Queuing up to buy groceries is just an appetizer for the "Winter Storage Chinese Cabbage" project.
When the vegetables are bought, it is the time for "the eight immortals to cross the sea and show their magical powers".
Mrs. Zhang talked to the courtyard next door, and there was a tricycle over there.
Put two layers in your pocket, lay a wooden plank, and pile up the old height on top of it.
In order to give Wei Dabao more sense of participation, Wei Ping'an also arranged for Dabao to personally carry two cabbages and put them in his sleigh and pull them home.
Well, Dabao's strength was not strong enough, and he hugged two cabbages twice.
Although his tired face was flushed, his interest was quite high.
As the saying goes, old children.
Both the elderly and children have figured it out in this regard.
They all need people's recognition, they are afraid of being forgotten, and they are eager to brush up on their presence.
The more you participate, the more fun you get.
The one who pedaled the three wheels was a strong man in the courtyard next door, a tiger with a bear's waist, named Fu Dongqiang.
After chatting a few words, I realized that he was 22 years old, a few years younger than Wei Ping'an, and his identity was a wrestling teacher at Shichahai Martial Arts School.
Fu Dongqiang is a native of Shandong, and at first glance, it is very in line with the image of a Shandong Han.
At first, he was a professional player of the Shandong team who signed up for the national martial arts competition, but he was retained after the result came.
Because of his filial piety, everyone else came to the competition by himself, and he carried the family's milk all the way.
There was a famine at home, and there were serious illnesses in the village, and a family of seven survived.
Fu Dongqiang was pulled by his, so he took it with him wherever he went.
The old lady of his family is of the same grade as Mrs. Zhang, and she is particularly close to each other, as long as she goes to the alley, these two old ladies are as if they are tied together.
Jiao is not separated from Meng.
"Dongqiang, come to a cigarette."
"Thank you, Brother Wei, I don't smoke, you can clean up the rest by yourself, and I'll go back."
"Okay, slow down on the road."
Fu Dongqiang helped the old lady pull it back first, his own house was piled up there, and Zhou Wen helped to see it, but he didn't pull it.
The Shandong Hans in this year are really warm-hearted, just like the old capital.
Storing Chinese cabbage in winter, after buying vegetables and transporting them home, is the most important thing: drying vegetables, yarding vegetables, and pouring vegetables.
It snowed yesterday and the sun is shining today, so it's a good day to dry.
Mrs. Zhang was still waiting over there to make a second trip to help her sister-in-law, and Wei Ping'an was busy first.
Spread out the cabbage, pluck out the yellow-haired cabbage leaves, find a bundle of hemp rope from the house, and tie up the cabbage leaves to prevent them from falling apart.
Finally, it was moved into the cellar and stacked against a wall.
The cellar had long been out of wetness, and Wei Ping'an didn't use the ability of space, it was purely boring.
Moved down one by one, put two planks on each layer, and built several layers of more than 300 catties.
One side was leaning against the wall, and a piece of plastic sheeting was made with nails on the wall, which was probably the place that the old lady had already figured out.
On the other side, there is a large vat of pickled cabbage, and I am not afraid that the cabbage will fall apart.
Finally, two stones are pressed on top.
Without the pressure above, the cabbage would still be rotten, and Wei Ping'an couldn't tell the principle, but he did it anyway.
For the people of the old capital, if they stock up on the winter storage of Chinese cabbage, they will live a solid life this winter.
There is an old saying: 100 vegetables are not as good as cabbage.
After frost, Chinese cabbage will have a sweet taste, and the cabbage is good and cheap, otherwise there would be no such thing as "cabbage price".
After a while, Mrs. Zhang came back, followed by Wei Dabao, who led Laifu and dragged the sleigh cart.
It is estimated that the old lady helped the handle when going up and down the steps, and it was very convenient to drag it in the yard because of the wheels.
"Grandma, it's all done."
"In the evening, grandma will make you sweet and sour cabbage hearts to eat."
In the evening, when Zhou Wen came back, he saw his man and the old lady squatting in the yard tying cabbage leaves.
"Didn't you finish it all afternoon?"
"This is specially sent by the street office to Ping'an, come and take a look, more than 200 catties are all first-class dishes......
Today's second update;
I'm going to try to get back to two shifts a day this week......
(End of chapter)