Farmhouse Pastoral Notes

Chapter 24

Time flies, and Yuan is busy making and picking tea every day, living a very fulfilling life.

Chunqiu was not idle during this period. Apart from helping Yuan Shi lead the way every time, she also dug up a lot of Chinese herbal medicines and wild cabbage. Now is the season when wild cabbage is ripe, and the wild cabbage all over the mountains and plains is particularly conspicuous.

She has not forgotten the taste of the dumplings made with wild cabbage before, and the cabbage itself is rich in various nutrients, which is also good for people. Even if it is cooked, it is sweet and crisp, which is quite in line with Chunqiu's taste. Chunqiu looked at these Wild cabbage is even more itchy, these are all good things.

So when Yuan came back with a basket of tea in his hand, Chunqiu was waiting for her at the same place with a basket of wild cabbage on his back.Yuan Shi has long accepted the strangeness, the round dishes are indeed delicious, and Yuan Shi does not stop her daughter's hobby, after all, she also likes to eat it.

"Niu Niu, let's go home. The cabbage picked today is pretty good. It looks very juicy." Yuan noticed the basket on Chunqiu's back and glanced inside. Not to mention, it was bigger than the previous ones. Big and juicy.

"Well, I've been looking for these for a long time today." Chunqiu nodded reassuringly. She ran a long way to pick the cabbage in the basket, so she doesn't want it if it's not juicy.

"Oh, my Niuniu is so smart, my mother will fry cabbage for you when I come home today." Yuan looked at Chunqiu with a wonderful expression of my daughter. But the joy is unstoppable.

"Make sweet and sour cabbage, it's sweet and crunchy, it's delicious." Chunqiu heard Yuan's cooking today, and quickly said his little request. Like bees that eat honey.

"Okay~ Mother will do it for you." Yuan Shi looked at Chunqiu with doting eyes, and after she finished speaking, she stretched out her hand to hold Chunqiu's little hand, and the two walked towards Yangjiacun together.

"Mother, are there any food sellers in the market?" Chunqiu stared at the front, but she was thinking about something in her heart. She pondered for several days before she thought of the way of food, mainly to add a considerable income to the family. , is still the most reliable way to eat. After all, this is ancient times, and food is the most important thing for the people.

Yuan Shi was looking at the smoke rising from the kitchen in the distance, thinking in her heart that she should go home and cook soon, when she suddenly heard Chunqiu's words, she was a little dazed, wondering, what does my daughter want to eat?The beads of sweat on her face stuck greasy to both sides of her cheeks, making Yuan feel uncomfortable, so she had to take out the handkerchief pinned to her waist, and wiped the beads of sweat on her face with the handkerchief on her side, and at the same time replied, "Yes. Ah, there are many more. After all, people like our family who go to the morning market early in the morning basically have nothing to eat, and the things in the town are expensive, and everyone is reluctant to buy them. At this time, those delicious and cheap foods are sold. Of course someone bought it." And there were a lot of them, Yuan Shi added in her heart, every time she went to the market, she saw many food stalls around her, and she had tasted one before, not to mention, it tasted really good.

When Chunqiu heard Yuan Shi's words, he couldn't help looking up at Yuan Shi, blinking his eyes, hearing what her mother said, then she shouldn't have any problems with cooking, her tone became brisk, and the corners of her mouth were still twitching. "Mother, let's make food and sell it too, okay?" Chunqiu said this to test Yuan's attitude. After all, there are people selling it in the market, but her family has never done such a thing. , and she doesn't know her mother's reaction, so it's okay if she disagrees.

"We? If we do the same as them, no one will buy it. We are all regular customers, and we can't steal other people's business, can't we?" At this time, Yuan Shi understood what the girl meant. The relationship is to do business, but every set There are quite a few people doing this kind of small business in the market, and Yuan estimated that it might not be easy to sell.

Chunqiu felt a little uneasy when she heard Yuan Shi's obvious disapproval, and looked at Yuan Shi less calmly than before, "Mother, as long as you don't grab business?" She is different from them, Chunqiu added in his heart, she is a person who has been in the modern society, and she has never seen any delicious food, as long as she doesn't steal business?
"Well, yes, this is a customary rule." Yuan Shi nodded.After all, for these simple meals, it is not worthwhile to hurt the reputation of ten miles and eight towns.

"That's good, what our family sells is different." After hearing Yuan's affirmative words, Chunqiu felt confident. What she did was very different from those traditional ones, okay?Besides, Chunqiu knows that there should not be too many famous modern snacks, such as Xiaolongbao, crab roe buns, etc., the list is too numerous to mention. "Mother, if I can make it, can I sell it for money?" Chunqiu said seriously, as long as her mother agrees, she can make money.

"You want to do it?" Yuan looked down at Chunqiu's clear but serious eyes in surprise, looked at the sparkling emotion in her daughter's eyes, and swallowed back the refusal she was about to blurt out, "Niu Niu, go try it!" Try it, if you do it well, go beg Grandma." Yuan Shi thought for a second, even if she agrees to something like this, it's useless, because it's all Yang Li's decision.

"Mother, grandma will definitely agree." Chunqiu made a comparison in his heart. It turns out that as long as grandma agrees with the food she made, there will be no problem. Her grandma is indeed a big boss, and grandma likes money so much, so she said Maybe we can do it together.

Yuan Shi looked at the excited girl in front of her, and said with a smile, "Okay, go back and wash your face, you've become a little cat." Wipe it with her sleeve, she didn't bring a handkerchief today, what a mistake.

Seeing her daughter's movements, Yuan smiled even more happily. Her daughter still cared about her appearance, "Mother~" Chunqiu reached out and took Yuan's big hand, acting coquettishly back and forth, "Okay, mother, don't laugh anymore. Can't you?" Yuan Shi noticed the shy little face of her daughter, and repeatedly raised her hand to assure. "Then let's go back." Seeing this, Chunqiu didn't let go of Yuan Shi's hand, but held it tightly. Yuan Shi smiled and didn't speak, the mother and daughter just walked towards the entrance of the village holding hands.

After returning home, Yuan Shi took the tea leaves and dried them aside. The newly picked tea leaves cannot be mixed with the previous tea leaves, so Yuan Shi compared them carefully.Chunqiu was thinking about the meal plan she was going to make, and ran to the small kitchen with the wild cabbage on her back. It was an advantage when the adults were at home, because they all cooked in the big kitchen, and the rest of the small kitchen was unused. So Chunqiu naturally found a place where he could make buns.

Remove the basket on the back and put it in the back of the kitchen, then take out a cabbage that can be the size of an adult's palm, wash it in the basin, and put it on the chopping board aside.Pick up the kitchen knife on the side of the chopping board, first cut the cabbage from the middle, and then chop along the cut to the two sides little by little, then take out some condiments from the back and pour it into the chopped cabbage little by little , began to prepare the stuffing, and when the stuffing was thick and appetizing, Chunqiu scooped it out with the chopsticks at the side, and then put it in his mouth to taste. It tasted really good.

Then pour the pork jelly and pork that had been prepared earlier into the vegetable ingredients, and stir with chopsticks to finish.

That's right, the food that Chunqiu has planned for a long time is soup dumplings.Of course, according to the situation in ancient times, it is estimated that the soup dumpling will be made into a big steamed stuffed bun, because it is wrong for farmers to keep their fill when they eat.

The raw materials for making soup dumplings are not troublesome. Flour, pork, pork skin, green onion and ginger powder, salt, sugar, cooking wine, water, etc. are all easy to find, and the pork skin was prepared by Chunqiu two days ago. It was frozen in the well in the backyard, cut into small pieces and put in, and now only the kneading dough is left.

The skin of the soup dumplings should be thin, and it needs to be mixed with cold water to make it chewy. After drying the skins of each bun to the size of a palm, Chunqiu wraps it up. After wrapping, she puts it in the cage. Packed two cages.According to the Yang family eating one, it is enough. After all, this is just for them to taste and see if they can sell it.Moreover, the cage in her house was too small, so Chunqiu decided that if the steamed stuffed bun sold well, he would go to the blacksmith shop in the town to order it.

Because the stuffing of the buns this time is big and the skin is thin, it took about 15 minutes for the buns to be cooked after sitting in the pot. Chunqiu carefully took the buns out of the pot and brought them to the lobby.

"Grandma, how about trying my new soup dumpling?" Chunqiu shouted into the room while carrying it. At this time, there was no one else in the lobby except Mrs. Yang and Li.

"Hey, my good granddaughter brought something delicious, hurry up and give it to me, it's so hot." Mrs. Yang and Li were sorting out the odds and ends in the lobby when she heard someone calling her at the door, and when she looked up, it turned out to be her sharp heart. , Seeing the steaming cage in the hands of her good granddaughter, she was so frightened that she put down the things in her hands, and took two quick steps to take the cage in Chunqiu's hand.

After Chunqiu let go, he felt his palms were about to smoke.It was so hot that she covered her ears, there was some air leaking from the cage, and her hands were red.

"Oh, let grandma see how your hands are." Yang Li put the cage drawer on the table, folded it back, and pulled those red hands that had passed Chunqiu's heart distressedly. Oh, her good granddaughter really Tired.

Chunqiu looked at the distressed appearance of his grandma in front of him, and felt a little moved, and quickly comforted Yang Lishi, "Grandma, it's okay, it will be fine in a while."

"That's okay, grandma will get you some medicine." Yang Li was a little angry with a stern face, this is not okay, her good granddaughter can't leave scars.

Because Chunqiu and Huzi are twins, Yang Li's preference is very special. Even the youngest little stone is not as important as Chunqiu in Yang Li's mind. In addition to the superstition of the ancients, there is Chunqiu's appearance, which is pleasing The appearance of the year doll is also attractive.

"It's okay, grandma~" Chunqiu grabbed Yang Li's sleeve with his backhand, fearing that her grandma would leave, and then acted coquettishly, "Grandma, go and eat the buns made by Qiu'er, they can be sold for money." Chunqiu After finishing speaking, he pulled Yang and Li Shi to move towards Baozi.

"Oh?" As soon as Yang Lishi heard that he could sell money, she instinctively walked in the direction of Chunqiu without struggling, smelling the steamed buns not far away with a strong fragrance, Yang Lishi smiled at Chunqiu's Said, "The buns made by my good granddaughter are delicious."

"Grandmother, try it." Chunqiu's eyes brightened when he heard Yang Lishi's words, and he reached out to pick up the chopsticks on the table and handed it to Yang Lishi, "Grandma, try it."

"Hey, grandma, let's eat now." Yang Li took Chunqiu's chopsticks and said.

"Grandmother, there is soup here, don't burn it." Chunqiu saw that Yang and Li had picked up the steamed stuffed bun and wanted to put it in his mouth. He was so frightened that he quickly reminded that there was soup in the steamed stuffed bun.

Li Shi Yang nodded when she heard it, and then took a small bite, sucking all the soup inside into her mouth. This bun is different from the ones she has eaten before, the bun with soup is really delicious, " Qiu'er, what's the name of this steamed stuffed bun? It's really delicious." Yang Li looked excited. It was the first time she had eaten steamed stuffed buns with soup in her age. Perfect.

"It's called Guantang Bao." Chunqiu was a little proud, so she just said, it will be delicious.

"This will definitely sell for money." Yang Lishi quickly finished one, and put the chopsticks aside. If this can't sell for money, Yang Lishi will live so much in vain.

"Really? Grandma, let's go to the market in a few days and sell it, how about it?" Chunqiu hurriedly put forward his own idea, "And it's not troublesome to make at all, but the pork jelly needs to be frozen the day before."

"My dear granddaughter, you wait, I'll call someone, we'll do it tomorrow." After Yang Lishi finished speaking, she ran out briskly, and called everyone in the Yang family over with her loud and energetic voice.

After eating a soup dumpling made by Chunqiu, everyone without exception gave a delicious conclusion. In the end, when Mrs. Yang and Li announced that they would make this soup dumpling at the fair, no one objected.

"That's it. Tomorrow, the boss and the second brother will go to the town to buy some pork rinds. The more the better, and I will buy some flour by the way, you know?" Mrs. Yang and Li stood in the center and distributed the tasks.

"Hey, mother, I remember." The boss Yang Weimin nodded in agreement.

"For the elder family and the second family, bring Chunni and me to make stuffed buns the day after tomorrow, right?" Yang Li said again.

"I listen to mother," Gu replied.

"Well, for the rest of the flowers, you, Qiu'er, and Huzi Xiaoshitou will go to the back mountain tomorrow to dig some cabbage and come back. The bigger the better." Mrs. Yang and Li finally looked at Chunqiu and the others.

"Hey, grandma, don't worry," Chunqiu replied crisply.

Old man Yang waited for Mrs. Yang and Li to finish speaking, and then he said to eat, "That's it, let's eat quickly, and we will go to the market the day after tomorrow."

"Hey" everyone nodded.

Because of the soup dumplings made by Chunqiu, everyone is thinking about something, if they can be sold, they will make a lot of money.

When returning to the house in the evening, Yuan asked about Chunqiu, and Chunqiu explained it honestly. Instead, she was excited. After all, this good idea was thought up by her daughter. No matter how much money was made in the market, they would definitely get two shares of the house.

(End of this chapter)