Leftover Girl's Neverland

Chapter 255 Green Fragrant Rice
"Really, what's the matter? Seeing that you are listless, is there something on your mind?"

Wang Zhixing was sitting in the yard with a whetstone in front of him, holding a sickle in his hand, and was sharpening the knife.

"It's okay, hehe, maybe I have been busy with too many things these two days, and I feel a little tired." Meng Zhen smiled palely, and said weakly, "By the way, your company is fine. If I'm busy, I can harvest it myself .In order to cut rice, I even bought a harvester!"

"Hehe, it's all right." Wang Zhixing picked up the sickle and tested the blade with his fingers. Well, yes, he picked up another one, sprinkled some water on the whetstone, and continued to sharpen the knife: "I just received the scythe from the market a few days ago. The headquarters of the district has a lot of things to do. Now that the staff has been arranged, most of them are the people who followed me in the first place. I am very relieved. Hehe, I also learned from you. There are people in charge who are responsible for their own tasks, and I can’t get tired.”

Wang Zhixing's business is getting bigger and bigger now. From the beginning, he only had to deliver goods on a tricycle, to an enterprise with five or six offices, six delivery vehicles and more than 100 people. Only he himself knows the hard work. .The bigger his career is, the more grateful he is to Meng Zhen in his heart. Without her trust and a dozen fruit baskets a day, he would not have succeeded so quickly.

"Hehe, you didn't hear Liu Jing scolding me for being lazy." Meng Zhen thought about it too. There are Chen Feng and Liu Jing in the villa, Yang Chen in the online store, Sannier and a few graduates of the Agricultural University in the orchard, and a few graduates in the winery. Luo Haiqiang and Captain Meng, even Luo Haiying is in charge of the fund, basically she has nothing to do.Today’s life has returned to the original days. I get up and run to the mountain to exercise every day, and then take two dogs down the mountain to eat. If I have nothing to do, I go to the villa and the lotus pond. Aura is much weaker, but still more comfortable than outside.

"Well, you have to be lazy," Wang Zhixing said while sharpening his knife, "Hey, you're fine, I think you're not in good spirits, or I'll do it myself later. , you take a good rest?!"

Meng Zhen shook his head, "It's all right, the rice is finally ripe, I must harvest it myself, hehe, otherwise I won't need a sickle!"

She has been depressed since discovering the changes in the manor.Moreover, this cannot be said to outsiders. Although Wang Zhixing was able to enter the manor, he did not feel the aura inside, nor could he communicate with the animals.Besides, she had concealed the matter of aura from the beginning, so how could she complain to him now.

Alas, what is gained is bound to be lost, the ancients never deceived me.

There is nothing perfect in the world. Just a moment ago, she was complacent about the expansion and upgrading of the manor, and within a few days, the retribution came.

"Okay, the sickle is finished, let's go, let's try it!"

This is also the first time Wang Zhixing has harvested rice, and he is also a little excited.

"Well, let's go!"

Meng Zhen took it and asked Lei Ao to watch the house outside, while she and Wang Zhixing fled into the manor.

"Oh, it's amazing!" Wang Zhixing sighed every time he saw it. He had only been busy in the city for a few days, and the rice had matured as soon as he came back. Looking at the heavy ears of rice in front of him, the joy of a good harvest also hit his heart.

"Come on, put on your rubber shoes."

Meng Zhen had already prepared the tools for harvesting, and only waited for the rice in the field to mature.She sat on the edge of the ground, put on her black rain rubber shoes, tucked the legs of her camouflage trousers into the rain shoes, combed her hair, and put on gloves before walking into the rice field with a scythe.

"Well, really, look at this posture, how can one mu of land be able to sow seven or eight hundred catties of rice?!"

"I don't know, but the yield of rice per mu is not as much as that of wheat," Meng Zhen was also not sure. This was her first time planting rice, and she didn't have high requirements. Basically, she was satisfied when she could receive the grain, and she didn't think about it at all. Yield per mu.

"Swish, swish, swish! Chachacha!"

Meng Zhen and Wang Zhixing were harvesting one row after another. The harvested rice was placed on the edge of the field in bundles, while Xiong Xiong was lying on the side watching.

It took two newcomers three days to harvest all the rice in the two acres of land.Xiaolang, who came back on the weekend, took Linglong with great interest, and each carried a small basket to pick up fallen ears of wheat on the ground.

"Hey, really, what kind of variety do you grow, why is it so fragrant?"

Wang Zhixing took out one of the piles of rice, rubbed off the skin of the rice with his hands, and revealed a few long and white rice grains. These rice grains were large and crystal clear. The fresh fragrance lingers between the teeth, which is completely different from the rice you usually buy in the supermarket.

"Well, it's just ordinary hybrid rice."

Meng Zhen gathered all the rice on the ground into a pile, saw him holding a wheat ear in a daze, so he leaned over, "Hey, why is it so big, it's almost as big as the Thai fragrant rice my aunt bought."

As she spoke, she picked up two rice grains from Wang Zhixing's palm. Well, the rice grains were plump and pointed at both ends. I don't know if it was her illusion. Why did she feel that these rice grains had a greenish luster, which was different from the white rice she usually ate.

"Fragrant rice? That's right, the taste of this rice is extraordinarily fragrant, really try it!"

Wang Zhixing spat out a few broken rice grains, rubbed another ear of rice, and held it out in front of Meng Zhen.

"okay!"

Meng Zhen had never eaten raw rice, but seeing Wang Zhixing's surprised face, she picked up a grain of rice and bit it with her teeth, yes, it did have a very peculiar taste, "Hurry up, transport it to the mill for processing At noon, I will steam rice in a large pot!"

"Okay!"

Wang Zhixing hurriedly agreed, now that everything is basically modernized, and rice cookers are used to cook rice at home, which is convenient, but he still misses the rice steamed by his grandma in an earthen stove when he was a child.

At noon, Meng Zhen cleaned the earthen stove on the mountain. This big pot has not been used a few times since it was installed.Today, with the fresh rice, she also wants to relive the taste of the past.

Xiaolang and Linglong were not idle either, they happily went down the mountain and brought back a lot of corn stalks.Now most of the corn in the village has been harvested, and there are a lot of corn stalks piled up on the fields and streets.The district issued a notice strictly prohibiting the burning of corn stalks, and sent people to patrol several nearby villages all day long. As long as there was a little spark or black smoke on the ground, the staff would come to stop it within 5 minutes.But now most of the villagers in the village use gas stoves or electric appliances, and few people use large pots, and these corn stalks are piled up on the ground like garbage.

After cleaning the pot, Meng Zhen lit it on fire. After the fire was lit, he took spring water from the manor and poured it into the pot. He added bamboo grates to the edge of the pot, then covered the pot and went to wash the rice. .

In the manor in the morning, the rice grains were seen individually, but now they are stacked together, and Meng Zhen is sure that her feeling is correct. The rice is indeed a little green, and the grains of rice are glowing with green fluorescence.

Wang Zhixing also said just now that when he went to the mill for processing, the boss saw these rice grains and kept persuading him, saying that there must be something wrong with the rice, and told him not to eat it first, so as not to cause problems.

It's no wonder people say that, whoever harvests rice at this time in the north, although it looks like freshly husked grains, but the season for harvesting rice has long passed, so the boss suspects that there is a problem with the deterioration of these rice.

Cut, spoiled rice will have such a fragrant taste? !Wang Zhixing didn't say much, but asked the boss to process it quickly, and the dozen or so members of his family were still waiting to eat.

So, under the worried eyes of the boss, Wang Zhixing dragged several sacks of processed rice back to the mountain.

Meng Zhen also laughed when he thought of this. The rice must be fine, but it is true that it is different from other people's rice. They can only speculate that this is a new variety produced after the optimization of the manor.

She took a large stainless steel basin, took four bowls of rice, and washed them with clean water.The rice is very clean, and there are no stones or other things, just wash off the rice husks that have not been cleaned.

Then, according to the ratio of rice and water, she added spring water roughly. At this time, the water in the cauldron was also warmed up. She put the rice basin filled with water on the bamboo grate, and then covered the pot.This was the traditional method of steaming rice at that time, basically relying on the steam of water to cook the rice.

Nowadays, most families use electric rice cookers, which is time-saving and convenient, and there is no need to look at the pot.But the taste is not as good as steamed rice, and the rice grains steamed in this way are not sticky, and each grain is extra chewy.

"Hey, the taste of this rice is quite delicious!"

Father Meng and Han Chunyan went up the mountain together with their son in their arms. When Xiaolang went down to fetch corn stalks, he ran home and told the family not to cook. New rice was steamed on the mountain, so they could come up at meal time.Of course, Zheng Jian and his wife and Aunt Wang were also notified together.

"Hehe, the new rice brought by my friend is said to be a new variety!" Meng Zhen continued to lie, she did not expect the taste of this rice to be so fragrant, the water in the pot just boiled, and the lid of the pot began to bulge white. Hot air, a strong fragrance gushes out along with the steam.

"Oh, sister, what good things did you get, why is it so fragrant?"

Just as they were talking, Zheng Jian and Liu Jiajia also rushed over, and before entering the door, they could smell the fragrance in the air.Uh, is it rice? It smells so good!

"Hehe, freshly steamed rice, hurry up and eat!"

Meng Zhen looked at the pot and slowly turned off the fire on the clay stove.At the same time, on the gas stove on one side, he fried a green pepper egg, braised eggplant and mushroom vermicelli soup. Meng Zhen saw that the dishes were a little short, so he cut another plate of crispy pot sent by Aunt Xie.

With the assistance of Li Jiajia, the dishes had just been fried, and the rice in the pot was also steamed.She lifted the lid of the pot, and the hot mist dissipated, and there was a piece of full-grained green rice in the stainless steel basin, and the alluring fragrance was particularly strong.

She took a towel from the countertop, put it on the edge of the basin and brought out the rice basin.

The family had just sat down in the yard when Meng Zhen came out with a pot of rice glowing green.

"Well, it smells so good!"

"Hey, why is it green? No, it's not green, but green?! Sister, what kind of rice is this!"

"This is a new variety called green fragrant rice!"

Thank you for your support, I will sort out the outline today, one update first, and two updates tomorrow!

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