Go back to the valley to farm

Chapter 139

Chapter 140 You Fang Song

A Yin said: "There will be courtship, falling in love, vows, and farewell. There are many, many songs for each!"

Li Junge said: "Then which song did you sing just now?"

Ayin said: "I just sang "Niao'er Wokou San", let me sing it to you again in Chinese."

"

best couple, best friends,

Make an appointment with four legs, the moon sets and walks,
Like birds scattered from their nests, flying in all directions,
The moon can't follow, don't follow the moon,
Can't follow the moon, don't follow the moon

......"

The tone of the song is tactful and low-pitched, gentle and charming, and the indescribable lovesickness is hard to leave.

After listening to it, Li Junge couldn't help sighing: "It seems that my suggestions for the ancient songs of the Miao nationality were narrow when submitting the intangible cultural heritage. This Youfang song is not simple. It has the flavor of "Book of Songs."

A Yin said: "Where is the "Book of Songs" so elegant?"

Li Junge said: "It's a matter of translation whether to train elegance or not. The so-called 'Three Hundred Poems,' can be summed up in one sentence, saying: Thinking without evil", and the so-called "Guan Ju", which is happy but not lewd, sad but not sad Hurt', this is the true nature of the Book of Songs!"

After finishing speaking, he chanted: "

The gentleman invites guests, and the secluded person is his partner.

Gradually, gradually, the dynasty of the moon is over.

The dry magpie leaves the nest, the male and the female rise.

Fortunately, Haoyang, the clear light is not promised.

"

Then he smiled at A Yin and said, "A Yin, are you tame?"

Ayin's heart was about to melt, her body was weak, she leaned against Li Junge's side, and murmured: "Erpi, you can actually translate this song like this! It's so good, I really like it! "

Li Junge was secretly proud of himself, although my buddy is not good at singing, but he can do this!If the pulse gate is detected correctly, the elephants have to lie down!
The two cuddled together for a while, and continued to move forward.

Li Junge said: "Ayin, what are you going to do with me for a long time?"

A Yin said: "Look for an ingredient, here, here it is."

After that, pointing forward, there is a huge tree in front of it, with very wide branches, covering an extremely wide area, with hard oval leaves, and long pods hanging on it.

This Li Junge knows: "Ha, isn't this a saponin tree? I don't want to be too familiar with this, are you wrong? Isn't this something you use to wash your clothes and hair? It hasn't dried out yet, right?"

Ayin smiled and said: "It's just right now, we are here to pick saponin rice this time."

Li Junge was surprised: "Huh? Is this really edible?"

A Yin said: "Yeah, it's just for girls to eat, it's normal if you don't know, skin monkey, it's your turn to climb the tree!"

Li Junge laughed loudly: "This tree is too big, we can't climb it without a ladder, let's hit it with a bamboo pole."

I cut a bamboo pole from the nearby forest, came under the tree and crackled it.

After a while, A Yin picked up a basket and said repeatedly: "Enough is enough!"

Back home, A Yin took out several jars.

One contained some amber lumpy substance that felt bouncy to the touch.

Li Junge said: "This is gum, right? When I was making fishing rods with Uncle Bamboo Carpenter a few years ago, I had a lot of trouble."

A Yin said: "This is peach gum taken from the peach tree, which is rich in collagen. It is also a medicinal material, which can nourish the stomach and intestines. It is also effective for acne, acne, and pigmentation on the face."

Li Junge listened carefully, and said: "Then this thing is more precious than gold in your hearts."

A Yin rolled her eyes and said, "It's our girl's nature to love beauty, unlike you who put on clothes every day and put on your shoes. You are also complacent and look tired and lazy!"

Li Junge laughed loudly and said, "I don't even like to wash my face. Fishermen save more face oil for sun protection!"

Ayin slapped him: "You're disgusting! You won't be allowed in the future!"

Ignore Li Junge, spread the peach gum with clear water, then white fungus, lotus seeds, wolfberry, and red dates.

Li Junge peeled the saponins beside him, and picked out the seeds one by one.

After finishing the work in hand, A Yin came over to make saponin rice with Li Junge, and said while doing it: "Saponia rice is also called snow lotus seed. It is a good product for beauty and meditation.”

Li Junge said: "I have never heard of this."

"This thing has single pods and double pods. The single pods are produced in Yunnan, and the double pods are produced on our side."

"Both are rich in collagen and are translucent when boiled. However, the taste of double pods is softer, the soup is thicker and chewier, and the single pods are smoother. Each has its own advantages."

Li Junge suddenly said: "It's almost like ginkgo biloba, isn't it?"

Ayin said: "Erpi, you really know everything about food. Saponin rice is really similar to ginkgo. It can be stewed with chicken, stewed ribs, porridge, and spooned."

"However, like lotus seeds, it needs to be cored. The core of saponin rice is harmful to the kidneys and must be removed."

The two began to peel off two pieces of saponin seeds and remove the core for them.

After finishing the saponin rice, Ayin clapped her hands and said, "Okay, now go get peach gum."

Li Junge asked strangely: "Isn't the peach gum ready?"

A Yin said: "There are a lot of impurities such as bark dust on the peach gum, and it needs to be cleaned up one by one. The water needs to be changed several times in the middle."

Li Junge sighed: "In order to be more beautiful, you girls really don't mind the trouble."

After less than half of the work, Li Junge yelled: "This job is too detailed, I really can't do it, I'd better tear the white fungus for you, and then go to see Mama Ni cooking fish."

After tearing the white fungus, he slipped into the kitchen and shouted, "Mother Ni, is there anything I can do to help you in the kitchen? Oh, the fish hasn't been dissected yet, why don't I dissect it."

Mother Ni was making sour soup in a basin, and said, "Then I won't treat you as a guest, do you know how to dissect it?"

Li Junge said: "It's clear, when you dissect the fish, the heavy ones come from the back. Are you right?"

Mother Ni smiled and said, "It sounds like someone who knows how to eat."

Li Junge said again: "Ayin said that the extra smoked fish is going to be carried down the mountain, so I cut it all off?"

Ni's mother said: "This girl also wants to eat smoked fish and wants to get dizzy. It will take seven days to pickle the fish alone! How can it be too late? When the time comes, we will carry the ready-made smoked fish at home. Let's save some of these and marinate slowly." .”

Li Junge fished out the carp to dissect and clean it, and said, "Why don't you teach me, and when I learn how to cook bacon this winter, I'll get a few by the way, so that she doesn't have to climb so high to carry it on her back."

Mother Ni asked, "Erpi, how long have you known A Yin?"

Li Junge said casually: "I just met... ah no, I picked her up on the way when she went to Lijiagou Village to be the head of the village last time... ah no, let's talk about it in detail, the first time I met Uncle Erhu When you come to Xuantian Village, you should have seen it at that time."

The good guy almost said that he was bald, and he should be regarded as a boyfriend and girlfriend, but he just met!
After finishing speaking, he said embarrassingly: "But neither of us can remember what happened when we were young."

Ni's mother said: "Our girl is a baby in the mountains. She has been used to being wild since she was a child. You have to take care of her more in the future. She has a good temper. Everyone in the village likes her. We didn't worry about it when we were young. , although we don't understand what she did, but since she was in college, she has supported herself by selling vines and receiving scholarships every year, and sending money to her family is not easy."

Li Junge said: "That's it, that's it, Ah Yin is capable, and she has done a good job down there. She set up a website to promote Lijiagou, which helped me a lot. The villagers all regard her as her own daughter! My grandma, my parents kissed her too."

After speaking, I was a little puzzled, what did Mama Ni see?
The two chattered a lot again, and Mother Ni had already prepared the sour soup while she was talking.

The whole kitchen smells sour.

The sour soup of the Miao family is the same as the kimchi of the Han family at the foot of the mountain. Every family must have it, but it is rare to make it well.Good sour soup is the same as kimchi water, it is an old thing that has been handed down for decades.

The kimchi water from Li Junge's house is older than him, and the sour soup from A Yin's house smells in his nose, so he probably won't be younger than her.

There are two types of Miaojia sour soup, clear and red. The clear and sour soup is made by boiling the rice washing water, pouring it into a jar, adding an appropriate amount of "mother and son", that is, old clear and sour soup, adding wild onions and wood ginger seeds.

The new soup needs to be fermented for two to three days before it can be used. After each use, new rice washing water should be added. The old soup can be used 24 hours after adding rice washing water. Just like kimchi, it should not be dipped in oil, otherwise it will change its taste.

The old clear and sour soup is usually brought out by the daughter from her natal family when she gets married, and then added as needed. A clear and sour soup kept at home is also a preservation of family history.

The red sour soup uses thin-skinned and small tomatoes, preferably wild ones around Laowuji. Wash and dry the water, put it in a jar, add a catty of salt for every ten catties of tomatoes, and marinate for 20 to [-] days access.

Unlike clear sour soup, red sour soup will become too sour if soaked for too long.

The same thing is that, like clear and sour soup, it must not be oiled, otherwise it will spoil.

The clear sour soup is fragrant and refreshing, and the red sour soup has a mellow taste. The Miao family makes fish in sour soup, which is usually made from the same half of the two soups.

Mother Ni took out a copper pot, put the fish into the pot, poured the prepared sour soup into it, and put it on the fire to simmer.

Li Junge was not idle here either. He picked up the small green peppers, skewered them with wire, and burned them on an open flame. Then, he put the cooked small green peppers in a pestle to make a sauce, which is commonly known as "ciba sea pepper".

Mama Ni nodded her head, it seemed that this Piwa was no stranger to Miao's food.

Whether the fish in sour soup is authentic or not, you can tell at a glance whether it is a few things.

Sugarcane, wood ginger seed, cornel coriander.

Watercress is the tender stalk of water taro. Water taro grows in water, and there will be no taro on the bottom, but the stalks that come out are fresh and delicious. The stalks of soil taro are numb to the throat. If you eat too much, you will be poisoned. It can only be made Miaojia sauerkraut is used when frying pork belly.

Tear off the outer skin of the tender stalks of the taro and slice them into pieces, and it is the Chinese spinach.

The second is cornel, which is a herb similar to basil and mint, with rough heart-shaped leaves, but has a very unique taste, somewhat similar to star anise.Just like picking the root of Mu Jiangzi's ear, the one you love loves to the bone, and the one you hate hates it to the core.

Wood ginger tree is a kind of Lauraceae plant. The fruit is small spherical shape. The seeds inside are rich in oil. Each fruit has a specific and strong penetrating aroma.

Jiachuan is located in the west of Guizhou, so the two condiments of cornel coriander and wood ginger are also integrated into the local dishes. They are the optional condiments for Jiachuan Liuhe Douhua Rice.

The sour soup was boiled, Mother Ni beat the foam, added Chinese spinach, a few small green peppers, ginger slices, and wood ginger seeds, boiled for 5 minutes, added refined salt, monosodium glutamate, pepper, and finally added uncut Cornus coriander, wild onion, and fish in sour soup.

　When I was writing this chapter, I checked the songs of the Miao compatriots. Lao Zhou used to only know ancient songs and Feige, but he was really amazed by this Youfang song, so he wrote one of his favorite songs in the book. I also wrote my own understanding and feelings into this chapter.Originally I wanted to translate it into Shijing style, but the translation was not good. Please forgive me. I hope you will continue to support it!

　　
　
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