Riding the wind of rebirth

Chapter 237 How Can It Be Boring?
Kimchi is a wonderful thing.

Every household in Sichuan basically has a few kimchi jars, usually sauerkraut and kimchi;
For example, Zhou Zhi’s family usually has cans of fermented soy beans and red tofu. Occasionally, I will make some by myself, or my aunt will send some sugared garlic and candied scallions; Make coir raincoat carrots, dried carrots and cucumbers made from coir raincoat cucumbers.

Delicious.

Zhou Zhi’s family’s old kimchi brine is older than Zhou Zhi’s, and it’s the brine mother and son that his father picked up from his aunt when he was living independently.

But the mystery is that the salt water mother and son of Zhang Xinyi's family are also picked up from Zhou Zhi's house, and then, uh, basically every year...

Because the last time, it was abolished again...

This is amazing, the same formula, but the same taste cannot come out.

Despite Zhou Zhi's strict control and detailed instructions from the jar to the chopsticks, for some reason, Zhang Xinyi's kimchi just couldn't be made well.

Blossoming, smelly urn, muddy, sour... All kinds of moths emerge in endlessly.

Soak the chili, the chili will form a thin layer of skin; soak the ginger, the ginger will soften into a pool of mud.

Zhou Zhi was very suspicious that Ms. Zhao did not strictly follow her and her father's instructions in daily life, but Ms. Zhao swore every time that there was no problem, and she followed what you said.

Zhou Zhi didn't get the evidence, so Zhou Zhi couldn't even fix it.

The solution this year is to change the big can to a small can, get it directly from Zhou Zhi's house, and then take it after eating.

Zhou Zhi looked at the small jar on the counter. Mrs. Zhao also had her own stubbornness, so she insisted on continuing to try.

In fact, why bother?It's not necessary at all, I wouldn't dare eat it anyway, would I?Zhou Zhi complained silently in his heart.

"No need, there's still a Shau Kei crust. It's just right to save some space for tea in the study salon in the afternoon." Zhou Zhi began to change the subject quietly.

"That's it..." Zhang Qingping thought for a while: "Actually, the festival is about to start, let's relax a little..."

"Dad." Zhang Xinyi looked at his father with a calm and decisive voice.

"Don't talk about it." Zhang Qingping quickly shut up: "Then you don't have to come back for dinner tonight, do you?"

"Yes." Zhou Zhi nodded: "Eat meat porridge tonight, make up for it."

"Then come back after eating." Mrs. Zhao nodded, and then took Zhou Zhi's mother's way of praising Feng Xueshan: "The elbow is the best!"

After dinner, Zhou Zhi took the crispy rice, took Zhang Xinyi and Jiang Shuyi, said goodbye to everyone, and went back to the dormitory of the sugar and wine company.

When going to Shudu, giving gifts is a trivial matter, but handing in homework is a major matter.

In addition to the second edition of "Jiachuan Dialect Exegesis" to be delivered to Dean Gu, there is another book that has just been sorted out with the fourth cousin, "The Origin of Food in Jiachuan Area-On the Exchange of Xiaohebang Cuisine and Xiahebang Cuisine" Fusion".

Zhou Zhi also didn't know if Professor Gu of Shu University would think that he was not doing his job properly, and whether his new work was in line with their taste.

After all, they are philologists, far more specialized than the so-called "cultural scholars".

Several professors of Gu also covered a lot of fields, such as Gu Youwen on Tang Sancai and Song porcelain; Gu Zhenduo on calligraphy, painting and calligraphy; Gu Kailai on famous modern painters and calligraphers.

But it seems that these three people are a little bit... casual in terms of diet.

After all, this book by Zhou Zhi is a recipe, a recipe of traditional Sichuan cuisine, but it is different from ordinary recipes in that it not only introduces the recipe of Sichuan cuisine, but also uses a considerable amount of space to record the relevant information about this dish. The genre of the story is not a simple expository text, but an expression close to prose.

For example, when introducing "sauerkraut, bitter bamboo shoots and meat slices soup", Huang Tingjian would mention that he is fond of bitter bamboo shoots.

This calligraphy article, now in kind, is collected in the National Palace Museum in Taipei.

For example, when introducing "cold pot fish", it will be written that when Su Dongpo passed through Yuzhou, his old friend asked him to move the boat to cook fish, and Su Dongpo was still full of praise for the pot of fish until many years later, so he wrote specifically in his own notes.

The fish in the pot came from the boatman, which is exactly the same as the hot pot from the boat gang. Maybe it is the common ancestor of cold pot fish and hot pot.

For another example, when writing about "Dengying Beef", it was written that killing cattle was taboo in ancient times, but why is this practice so popular in Yandu?
The reason is the salt mine, where a lot of animal power is needed to extract the brine, so this place has a lot of salt, cattle, and long-distance business trips, and naturally developed a series of delicious dishes that can be stored for a long time and are easy to carry on the road—Dengying Beef, Huobian Sub-beef, cold rabbit and a series.

Although the title of the book is in the style of a dissertation, the content is actually a "food series prose". At least Zhang Xinyi and Jiang Shuyi can read such an article with gusto.

In fact, there is also a big book "Traditional Arts and Crafts of Jiachuan Area", but it has just taken shape and has not been completed, so you don't need to take it with you when the time comes.

Bringing two people here today is to let them review their manuscripts again.

Now is the most comfortable time for the reading salon, because many orchids begin to bloom one after another at this time.

The scent of orchids in the small courtyard spread to the living room. The two girls leaned against each other and reclined on the sofa. Holding a plate of crispy crispy rice with salt and pepper, flipping through Zhou Zhi's exquisite handwritten words, is actually a rare enjoyment in winter.

Zhou Zhi collated the last part of "Exegesis in Dialects" in his study.

In the eyes of most people, the days of sitting on a cold bench must be boring and boring, but Zhou Zhi doesn't think so.

A spiritual person, even if there is only a dead leaf left in his world, he can give that dead leaf a spiritual intention, making it full of life and interest.

The richness of life does not lie in how many places you have visited or how many books you have read.It's that the places you go to stay in your heart to some extent; the words you read have more or less turned into your perception.

When you look at a moss mark on the wall and feel a scent of flowers in the air, they may magically fit together with a certain little thing accumulated in your spiritual world one day before, and become Become the nutrient that nourishes your soul.

In the corner of the patio, near the water outlet, Zhou Zhi grew a few old green bricks, and thick, green moss was piled up on the green bricks.

Moss is a cheap thing, but it brings a touch of bright green that is more tender than orchid leaves to this small courtyard, and it immediately makes the place that should be the darkest in the small courtyard a bit more interesting.

This is fun.

A small courtyard now has an orchid wall, and the rockery is covered with calamus, saxifrage and moss, and there are betta fish and black-tailed shrimps in the earthen tanks below.

Wild fighting fish will eat black-tailed prawns, so when the number of black-tailed prawns is reduced to a certain extent, it needs to be collected in the wild and replenished in a timely manner.

As long as there is enough food and information, Zhou Zhi can stay in this environment all the time, read books, practice calligraphy, study, collect rewards, occasionally do stretching exercises, cook delicious food, cook flowers, plants, fish and insects, in short, he can find countless things for himself Things to enrich.

How can it be boring? !
(End of this chapter)