Changshui Village Farming Notes

Chapter 411
Make Mrs. Zhao so happy, she couldn't close her mouth from laughing.

He also thought about it, the old ladies in this city are just different, educated and knowledgeable, they are much better than the group of gossips in Changshui Village.

Thinking of this, Mrs. Zhao also comforted her daughter-in-law and said, "Don't worry, not only Jiangang will leave things for my good grandson, but also my things will be left for the children in your womb."

"Thank you, mother-in-law." The woman nodded shyly. She never knew which kind of woman a man like Gu Jiangang likes the most.

She knows how to tame a savage and willful old lady like Mrs. Zhao.

After Labor Day, on June [-]st, Changshui Village ushered in another wave of small peaks.

Because it is Children's Day, almost all the tourists who come on this day are people with children.

Many of these people came to play during the Spring Outing of the County Central Primary School on May [-] Labor Day, so this time it came again on June [-], and some of them were amwayed by these people.

People from eight villages in the vicinity, because they are close to Changshui Village, many people come to play.

The new small stalls in the village once again tasted the feeling of bursting with business.

Although I didn't expect so many children to come on Children's Day, but at this time the seaside, children's playground has also added a lot of items, children can not only play with sand, trampolines, but also many amusement items that children can play, and It's pretty well prepared.

This year's Dragon Boat Festival is on June [-]th, and Moon Bay is preparing ten days in advance.

There are several elderly people in the family, all of whom stick to the tradition, especially Master Yang and Mr. Yang. One inherits the handicraft of the family, and the other is a cultural scholar. He attaches great importance to these customs of the Dragon Boat Festival. They are all alone in Qingyang Town, and Master Yang is busy with business in the restaurant, so he can't take care of these things, so the Dragon Boat Festival holidays in previous years were easy for both of them.

Now that they have come to Changshui Village, they have time and company, so they want to have a good time.

In Changshui Village, at this time in previous years, they have started to prepare the materials for making zongzi.

This year, because of the new atmosphere, everyone's festive atmosphere is even stronger.

A few years ago, Grandma Liu and Lin Dongqing didn't have the energy to do these things because they were old. In the past, it was the uncle and aunt who took care of it.

Simply this year in Moon Bay, there are a lot of people, and everyone is having fun together, so it doesn’t feel troublesome to do these things, but it’s more happy and lively to do things together.

The tradition in Hede is to eat meat dumplings. This year, because of Master Yang, they decided to wrap several types of dumplings from all over the world.

This year is the first year that rice is planted on the mountain. Because glutinous rice is needed for making zongzi, making rice cakes, and making Qingming cakes during the Qingming Festival, Gu Kuangyun also planted half an acre of glutinous rice.

However, the glutinous rice does not mature until autumn, and it is destined to not be able to eat its own glutinous rice during the Dragon Boat Festival, so the glutinous rice for making zongzi is still bought outside.

After Gu Kuangyun bought the glutinous rice, Master Yang picked one up and put it in his mouth, tasted it, and commented, "This glutinous rice is not bad. Although it is last year's rice, it is milky white in color and slender in shape. Zongzi made of glutinous rice is not only sticky, but also delicious, which is very suitable for making Zongzi."

Hearing this, Gu Kuangyun breathed a sigh of relief, and smiled at Master Yang, "Fortunately, I bought the right one, otherwise, Master Yang, you would say that I can't buy anything. The boss said it was the best kind of glutinous rice in his shop. I only bought it to make zongzi delicious."

Master Yang couldn't help raising his eyebrows, "What do you mean, you're still a rural kid, and you don't even know how to buy tofu."

Speaking of this Master Yang was a little speechless.

A few days ago, he asked Gu Kuangyun to go to the town to buy tofu. He wanted to buy the kind of tender tofu for cooking, but when Gu Kuangyun bought it, he found that it was the old tofu.

And because there are many people eating in Moon Bay on weekdays, she was afraid that there would not be enough, so she bought several boards at a time.

Although Master Yang is a superb cook, he immediately replaced the dishes that needed tender tofu with hard tofu, but he still couldn't help but say a few words about Gu Kuangyun.

Now that Gu Kuangyun actually brought up this matter again, Mr. Yang naturally wanted to talk about it.

Gu Kuangyun consciously poked a hornet's nest, lowered his head and remained silent.

But she thought in her heart, this tender tofu and old tofu look similar, she just can't tell what to do!
want to cry!

To make zongzi for the Dragon Boat Festival this time, we not only made several kinds of fillings, but also prepared several kinds of zongzi leaves for making zongzi, including banana leaves, bamboo leaves, and reed leaves.

Due to local customs, meat dumplings are the most commonly made.

Wash the fresh Zong leaves, put them in a pot of boiling water and cook for 5 to [-] minutes, then remove and dry.

After cleaning the glutinous rice quickly, put it into a large wooden basin with a diameter of more than one meter and a height of [-] centimeters. Master Yang then madly added clear oil, soy sauce and other seasonings to it, and then mixed it well.

The meat wrapped in the meat dumplings is also marinated in advance. The skin is removed, the fat and lean meat are separated, and cut into meat pieces about three to four centimeters square. The ratio of fat and lean meat is one to two.

Pour cooking wine, soy sauce, salt, a little sugar, chicken essence, more wine and less soy sauce into the meat, and stir.

Gu Kuangyun saw that after Master Yang put all these seasonings into the meat, he kept rubbing it with his hands until the meat was foaming.

Gu Kuangyun was puzzled, "Master Yang, you have kneaded your skin and flesh for more than ten minutes, so it should be evenly blended!"

Master Yang chuckled, "This meat, the foam will come out of kneading, which means that the taste has been completely eaten into the meat. The time is not up yet, so I have to knead it for a while."

Gu Kuangyun nodded thoughtfully, feeling that Chinese cooking is really extensive and profound.

After the meat and glutinous rice are fully mixed, the glutinous rice in the wooden basin also shows a shiny soy sauce color.

As soon as Master Yang said that the rice was reconciled, everyone moved a small bench and sat by the wooden basin. Lin Shuhua set up a small table next to them one by one, and put zong leaves, scissors, and cotton thread on it to make zongzi. Tool of.

"During the Dragon Boat Festival last year, I was still in the town. I didn't expect that we would come to the village this year, and everyone would be together." Grandma Liu picked up a zong leaf and was the first to speak.

"Yeah, old man, I was alone in the town last year. On the day of the Dragon Boat Festival, my son and daughter-in-law came back with their grandson. They brought rice dumplings from the people below, and I didn't wrap them myself. It was quite boring. I never thought, haha, so many of us will gather together this year, especially the zongzi made by Lao Yang. There are so many changes in this world.” Mr. Yang doesn’t know how to make zongzi, but It doesn't disturb his enthusiasm for learning, everyone is here, chatting is also very interesting.

While learning how to make zongzi with Master Yang, he was talking to everyone.

"It's good for us to be like this. We all live here, and we can talk at ordinary times. It's much better than you alone in Qingyang Town." Master Yang laughed twice, and then said, "Oh, By the way, Lao Yang, are your sons coming over during the Dragon Boat Festival?"

Mr. Yang said, "I didn't say anything about the call before, but I will call back within two days if I think about it. By the way, Xiaoyun, leave me twenty of the zongzi cooked today, and let Xiaotao bring them to me tomorrow. The provincial capital will give it to you, Brother Yang."

"Hey, okay." Gu Kuangyun responded brightly.

Just as this batch of zongzi came out, she was going to send some zongzi to the second brother and Han Qingyi in the provincial capital, as well as Miss Wanjun from Haicheng.

Gu Kuangyun looked at the piles of zongzi, thought for a while, and said to her mother, "Mom, it happens that we are making zongzi today. If you don't mind, call uncle and the others to have a meal at home! Want to come?" During the Dragon Boat Festival, my cousin and my aunt will visit my natal family, so today we celebrate the festival early."

After all, grandpa and grandma haven't seen Haohao for a long time, and the two old people probably miss them too.

Grandma's eyes lit up when she heard Gu Kuangyun's words, and told Lin Shuhua, "Let your elder brother bring Haohao too, my good grandson, I haven't seen you for a long time, it's strange."

Lin Shuhua chuckled, wiped his hands and went into the room to make a phone call.

"Xiaoyun also planted glutinous rice this year, so we can use it to make glutinous rice balls during the Chinese New Year." Lin Dongqing brought up another topic.

"Yes, in the first year of planting, I don't know how the yield will be!" Gu Kuangyun said.

The family had no experience in growing glutinous rice before, so she didn't know if it could be done well.

"I went to see the rice when it was blooming. There were quite a lot of rice flowers. I think this year's production should be good." Gu Jianping replied.

"By the way, every year when summer comes, I hear in the news that there is another typhoon. Why have I never heard such news in Changshui Village this year? Isn't your place near the sea?" Master Yang suddenly remembered something, He opened his mouth and asked.

Lin Dongqing smiled inscrutablely, "Hehe, you don't know about this, Brother Xingyun. Changshui Village has always been a treasured place of geomantic omen. Big, so there's nothing surprising about that.

Master Yang couldn't help sticking out his thumb when he heard the words, "Not bad, not bad, our Changshui Village is really a treasure!"

The coastal areas of Huaguo are deeply affected by typhoons every year. Every summer, the typhoons will cause heavy economic losses to the areas they pass through.

Master Yang was very pleased that Changshui Village could avoid such a loss.

Gu Jianping sighed, "Speaking of this, although there are not many typhoons in our village every year, last year's one still caused heavy losses to the family!"

Except for the Gu family and the two old people in the orchard who knew about this matter, no one else had heard them mention it. Even Lin Dongqing, Liu Yun, and Lin Shuhua were afraid that the two old people would worry, so they didn't tell them.

So as soon as Gu Jianping said this, it immediately attracted the attention of everyone present, and they all used their eyes to signal Gu Jianping to continue.

This matter has already passed, and Gu Jianping has nothing to say, so he narrates what happened at that time.

When Gu Jianping mentioned that thousands of fruit trees fell in the orchard after the typhoon, the old people present couldn't help but sweat for Gu Kuangyun.

One can imagine how hard Gu Kuangyun was hit at that time, and how could Gu Kuangyun, who had just returned without much savings, be able to bear such a big loss.

Grandma Liu picked up Gu Kuangyun's hand and gently stroked it a few times, "Yunnier, why didn't you tell us such a big thing!"

Gu Kuangyun wrinkled her little nose at Grandma Liu, and said in a coquettish tone, "I have to tell you this kind of thing, isn't it just to make you worry out of thin air? And I can bear that little loss."

Liu Yun and Lin Dongqing have always pampered but not spoiled their children, but they couldn't help but cherish the only granddaughter in the family.

Grandma Liu straightened Gu Kuangyun's temples with her hands, "Grandma knows you are sensible, but you still have to tell us if you have something to do! Grandma is not afraid of worrying, but is worried that you will keep everything from us and never tell us anything. , then grandma is really sad!"

Gu Kuangyun felt something creeping up the corner of her eyes, she leaned over and hugged her grandma, and rested her head on her shoulder, "Well, I know grandma, I will tell you everything in the future."

Lin Dongqing hated such nasty scenes the most, and he was not a person who was good at expressing feelings, so when he saw the old woman and granddaughter's posture of "looking at each other and crying", he felt that he was not strong.

"Okay, everyone is watching here, what do you two look like, you have to hug me into the house."

As soon as this remark came out, everyone present couldn't help laughing.

Especially Mr. Yang and Master Yang, this old Lin is just too good-faced.

There are quite a lot of zongzi wrapped in Moon Bay today, more than 1000 in rough calculations. It takes several pots to cook the zongzi, and each pot tastes the same.

Just like how tomato sauce was boiled back then, a pot and stove were set up in the yard, and the smell of cooking rice dumplings spread far and wide. Naturally, it also attracted many tourists who came here to smell the aroma.

The man was originally a tourist from Hede County. He came to Changshui Village with his wife and children during the holiday.

His wife and children had gone to play in the water, so he just put on a pair of beach pants and lay down under the umbrella to take a nap, feeling very beautiful.

As a result, after a while, a smell of meat came from nowhere and got into his nose.

Then, the stomach started to growl. The man thought that he had eaten a lot at noon. How could he be hungry in only two hours? It was simply unscientific.

So, he decided to hold back.

Then, after another 10 minutes, the man felt that he couldn't bear it any longer. He glanced at his wife and children who were still playing very happily. He thought it would be okay for him to leave for a while, so he found Moon Bay by smelling the smell all the way.

It was mid-afternoon, and it was a good time to rest. The man walked into Moon Bay lightly, and when he found no one there, he amplified his voice a little and shouted, "Is anyone there?"

After making the zongzi, the old people rested and went out for a stroll, leaving only Gu Kuangyun here to watch the fire.

When the man came in, Gu Kuangyun was adding wood into the stove, suddenly startled by the voice, the wood in his hand almost fell on her foot.

She looked up and saw the man who walked into the yard, "Someone, what's the matter with you?"

(End of this chapter)