Farmhouse Pastoral Notes

Chapter 64

When Chunqiu came back, he met his uncle who had just come back from the back mountain. Chunqiu was carrying a basket and shouted "Uncle" towards the front.

Yang Weimin paused, turned his head to look at Chunqiu and said, "Oh, Qiuer, where did you go?"

Chunqiu bounced to Yang Weimin's side, raised his head and said, "Send moon cakes to the third grandpa's house, just came back, where's uncle?" After Chunqiu finished speaking, he lowered his head and glanced at the pheasant in Yang Weimin's hands, his eyes were shining, which was really pretty.

Yang Weimin looked at his niece, laughed foolishly, and lifted the pheasant in his hand up, "I went to the back mountain to look, and there happened to be something in the trap. I caught two pheasants and stewed them for you tonight."

"Okay, okay, Qiu'er wants to eat." Chunqiu looked at the pheasant without blinking. To be honest, she hasn't eaten meat these days. Although the food level of their Yang family has risen sharply in the past few months, But it's still far from her ideal level, eh!She still needs to work hard!

"Hey, I'll do it when I get back..." Yang Weimin scratched his head with a brisk tone.

The uncle and nephew walked all the way home, chatting all the way, Chunqiu's giggling laughter spread far away, and when the two arrived home, the dinner table had already been set.

With a wave of her hand, Mrs. Yang and Li greeted everyone in the yard. Everyone washed their hands and prepared to serve dinner!
There are many kinds of dishes on the dinner table, most of which are meat, such as braised pork in brown sauce, pork ribs in vinegar, stir-fried pork with green vegetables, as well as the pot-packed meat taught to Yuan by Chunqiu, Sixi meatballs, densely packed on the whole table .

Chunqiu sat under Yuan Shi, raised his head and glanced at Yang Li Shi, who was sitting on the main seat, secretly thinking about when to eat.

Chunhua sat across from Chunqiu, her eyes had been staring straight, she had been biting her chopsticks in her mouth, if it hadn't been for Yang and Li's silence, and Yang and Li's absolute authority in the family.Her second sister had already picked up her chopsticks and started eating.

Mrs. Yang Li had already had a panoramic view of everything in front of her eyes, and stretched out her hand under the table to poke Old Man Yang beside her, signaling him to talk and eat quickly.

Old man Yang glanced cryptically, coughed twice, felt the surroundings were quiet, and then prepared to speak, "Today's Mid-Autumn Festival, you..." Old man Yang looked up and saw the dozen or so people in front of him before he remembered the words behind. Both eyes stared at himself, and he forgot the lines he had already thought up in a hurry, so he simply didn't want to, and said directly, "Okay, let's eat, let's stop talking." Old man Yang reached out and knocked on the cigarette pouch lightly, and finished speaking Then he picked up the chopsticks on the side and took a mouthful of vegetables and put them into the bowl.

After receiving the signal from old man Yang, everyone started to move their chopsticks, like spring flowers. They had already put two pieces of ribs in the bowl when Grandpa picked them up, and now they were gnawing on them with their hands.

Don't talk when you eat, don't talk when you sleep, the Yang family didn't have this rule, but after Yang Chunjun and Yang Chunming studied, they gradually got this unknown rule, but now everyone is busy eating, so naturally they don't have time to talk of.

After Yang Lishi finally handed the remaining pork ribs to Chunqiu in front of Chunhua, regardless of Chunhua's pouting face, she handed the remaining pieces of meat to Yang Chunjun and Yang Chunming next to her. Brother, it is enough to see that Chunqiu still has a lot of status in her grandma's heart.

The dishes are all gone, the Yang family's lunch is considered finished, the men are gone, among the remaining women, Mrs. Gu and Mrs. Yuan are busy clearing the table, Mrs. Yang Chunni is busy washing the dishes, Mrs. Yang and Li are busy sweeping the floor. Glancing at Chunhua, who was still pouting unhappy, she pulled her past and ran out the door.

"Oh, what are you pulling me for? I still want to eat meat." Boss Chunhua didn't want it anymore. Her milk was biased. She wouldn't give the rest of the meat to Sanmei. Now she doesn't like Sanmei at all. Hmph, grabbing meat with her, I hate it to death.

Chunqiu glanced at Chunhua rather mysteriously, and said with a smile, "Sister San, I have delicious food here, do you want to eat it?"

After Chunqiu said this, Chunhua's face was full of eagerness to try, "I want it, what good food is it?" Chunhua had long forgotten what she said to hate Chunqiu before, and in front of eating, everything else was just floating clouds.

"Have you ever eaten boiled edamame? I went to the third grandpa to deliver mooncakes. Aunt Lin gave me a small basket. Let's cook it, how about it?" Chunqiu said.

"Really? All right, where are we? Let's go there now." Chunhua couldn't stand when she heard that, she quickly stretched out her hand to hold Chunqiu, wishing she could rush over directly.

Looking at the appearance of Chunhua, Chunqiu smiled inwardly, the fire started again, and his face was full of smiles, "It's in the small kitchen, let's go there..."

Boiled edamame is not difficult. The boiled beans contain the salt and fragrance before, and they taste good. Farmers will cook them before this season, but this year, there are no edamame in the Yang family's field, but peanuts and soybeans. These easy to feed crops, now the peanuts are ripe, Chunqiu plans to take the opportunity to cook the peanuts, boiled peanuts are also delicious.

"Second Sister, go and light the fire. I'll go to the backyard and pick some peanuts and cook them. We'll cook more together."

"Hey, hurry up, I haven't had enough for lunch yet" Chunhua kept urging Chunqiu, why didn't she cook when she was so hungry.

"Second sister, there are still mooncakes over there, you can eat mooncakes." Chunqiu pointed to the mooncakes that had been cooled aside.

"No, I want edamame and peanuts." Chunhua shook her head and said that she only wanted the current ones, not the ones she had eaten before.

"..." Chunqiu: Her second sister is quite picky!

"Okay, you wait, I'll go right away" Chunqiu finished his explanation and ran out.

Peanuts have proved many times in later generations that my country is also one of its origins. The earliest records of peanuts can be traced back to the Zaokeng era, and there were already records about peanuts in the Tang Dynasty.

During the Spring and Autumn Dynasty, peanuts were one of the main economic crops. Soybean oil and peanut oil were the most common oil-extracting crops.

There is a lot of open space in the backyard of the Yang family. In addition to growing some vegetables to eat, Mrs. Yang Li also planted a small piece of peanuts and corn. I don’t know how to grow some in the Yang family’s field except for some at home.

Chunqiu ran to the backyard with a basket and a small hoe, and started pulling out the peanut seedlings, and then digging the ground. Some peanuts would be buried in the ground, so they had to be dug out.

After picking up almost half of the basket, Chunqiu stopped pulling it, and grabbed two stalks of tender corn, and then came back with the basket.

Chunhua had already boiled the water in the pot, and the boiling water kept tumbling, releasing heat, which made Chunqiu feel a little uncomfortable, and was almost scalded by the heat wave.

Chunqiu took out some prickly ash, aniseed, and dried chili from the kitchen, and threw them into the water. After adding some large grains of salt, he threw in the washed edamame.Then wash the peanuts with water, put all the washed wet peanuts into the water, and then it's done. Chunqiu took a look at the two sticks of tender corn that hadn't been peeled. It shouldn't be a problem to throw them into the pot.

Uh uh... When Chunqiu thinks of boiled corn, he feels a little uncomfortable. Salted corn should be edible.Chunqiu thought about it, and threw it in, and he couldn't re-boil the water, it should be edible, Chunqiu comforted himself like this.

Putting the lid on the side of the pot, Chunqiu told Chunhua to lighten the fire, and then went out again with those snails from before. There was no way, this thing had to be washed before eating, otherwise it would be bad if it got parasites.

The snails here are all freshwater snails.There is a lot of silt in the snails. For the convenience of cleaning, Chunqiu poured them all into a basin, then let the clear water cover the snails, added some refined salt and aniseed ingredients, put the basin under the pear tree and waited for them to vomit. Clean (this process will take about two days, I am in a hurry to write here, so I don’t have to wait so many days, people who read books should not try it lightly)
It doesn’t take very long to boil edamame, about 15 minutes, but because peanuts and corn were added to it this time in Spring and Autumn, the cooking time is a bit longer. When the edamame comes out of the pot, the emerald green color is a little yellow .

Put the boiled edamame and peanuts in two big pots and put them aside for dinner. After eating in the evening, Chunhua carried a small bowl to the yard by herself.

Huzi and the others saw it, and they all came over to grab a bowl. Seeing this, Chunqiu filled two more bowls and sent them to Yang Chunjun and Yang Chunming. Today is the holiday, and the two of them still read in the study after eating. Poor children, Chunqiu sympathetically gave them a little more, only to find that her elder brother was actually reading comic books in the study!Chunqiu looked at her elder brother's flushed face, and said tactfully that she would not speak out, and then ran out of her elder brother's "I just relax" excuse, sure enough!Whether it is modern or ancient, it is very attractive to hold a nonsense script.

Around Shen Shi, Gu Shi and Yuan Shi got up and started to get busy. The two chickens that Yang Weimin caught earlier were stewed, and they were saved for dinner at night.

Chunqiu was looking at the snails under the pear tree at this time, and found that the snails were quite clean, so he changed another pot.

Chunhua squats beside Chunqiu.Curiously asked, "Third Sister, what are you going to do?"

"Let's fry the snails, add some sauce to taste, and wait for the moon to eat at night"

"Hey, third sister, it's great that you can go to the third grandpa's house. I'm going to yes, the seventh grandpa's house. It's not fun at all." After Chunhua finished speaking, she twisted her nose unhappily.

"Huh? Is it about Grandma Seven?" Chunqiu thought of this little grandpa, and felt a little sympathetic to Chunhua. Who could give this to Grandma Seven? No gifts in return for gifts.

"Yeah, the mooncakes were put away with a smile, but they didn't return anything, and they said they didn't make them at home." Chunhua said this, looked around, and continued with a snort, "Grandma Seven is a deceitful person. Seeing the candy in Brother Shuanzi’s mouth, you still want to scare me.” After Chunhua said, am I such a coaxing person and looked at Chunqiu.

Chunqiu grinned, applauded and said, "Second sister is really amazing, Grandma Seven has never hidden it from you" thinking that no one can hide something from her second sister's eyes, because her second sister is like a radar when she meets a person who eats. Scanning in all directions, there is no way to escape, just like the sweet-scented osmanthus cake before, she changed three Jizo and finally got into her second sister's stomach.

"Third sister, you can't go in the future, my mother said, she is too picky" Chunhua said that my mother was right, Chunqiu had a dark line in her heart, her uncle was also stingy before, but forget it, now it's a lot up.

The two sisters were chatting with each other in the yard, but her uncle's voice suddenly sounded, which only made Chunqiu's ears hurt, "Hua'er, you bloody girl, come and give it to me!" Feed the chickens," Gu stood at the door of the kitchen and shouted towards the yard.

Chunqiu looked down at her second sister who was holding the bowl and eating vigorously, she didn't seem to move at all, sighed, got up and walked while replying, "Hey, uncle, let me go."

Looking at Chunqiu in front of her, Mrs. Gu smiled kindly, "Oh, can I use you? Qiu'er, go and rest aside." Then she yelled at Chunhua, who was dawdling not far away, "You damn girl!" , you know how to eat, learn from Qiu’er, and you know how to help me with work, hurry up and die for me, you little girl.” After saying this, Gu Shi saw Chunqiu who was frightened by her, and quickly laughed Consolingly said, "Qiu'er, there is still some candy here, uncle, let me take it for you to eat." His movements and expressions were as if Chunqiu was her own daughter.

After receiving Gu's candy, Chunqiu pretended to be shy and lowered his head and said, "Thank you, auntie." He wondered in his heart that her auntie hadn't taken the wrong medicine recently, so Chunqiu had some doubts!
"Hey, you're welcome, what Qiu'er wants to eat is still here, auntie, don't be too polite, give this pot to your second sister, and auntie will go back and cook." Mrs. Gu handed the vegetable bowl to Chunqiu with a gentle face. , Then turned around and turned to go back, not to mention, the Liangpi sold today is not less than before, and when Yang Li came back, he divided Gu's one tael of silver. The whole thing is closer than a daughter.

Chunqiu felt a little numb in his heart, not to mention anything else, just the speed at which her uncle's mother changed her face, it was really fast, she had been tearing up with her mother before, but now she treats her like a spring breeze, it's really scary!
"Give it to me, my mother can order people around, I haven't finished eating yet" Chunhua ran over at some point, stretched out her hand to take the basin in Chunqiu's arms, and said angrily.

Chunqiu took it with a smile, "It's okay, I'll come, my uncle went in, I can't find it, second sister, follow me and eat, I'll feed the chickens"

After hearing this, Chunhua quickly handed Chunqiu a wrapped peanut, and said with a smile, "Sanmei, you are so kind."

Chunqiu shook his head and said, "It's okay, come on." Chunqiu really doesn't care much about such trivial matters.

The two were standing outside the chicken rack, Chunqiu stretched out his hand to throw the vegetable roots and leaves, Chunhua stood beside him holding a bowl and eating peanuts and edamame...

The sun is gradually setting, and the afterglow is flooding the earth. There is no dazzling sunlight in the yard. With a small pliers in his hand, and a small pot beside him, Chunqiu is cutting the tails of the snails one by one, removing some bacteria and silt. .Put the cut snails in an empty basin aside.

When the snail hit the basin, it made a crisp sound of ping-pong-pong. Chunqiu felt comfortable listening to it, so he cut it with extra effort.

Put the oil in the pot first, and when the oil is [-]% hot, Chunqiu puts onion, ginger, Chinese prickly ash, aniseed, and chili into the pot. Put in the snails, then add simple cooking wine and stir well, add soy sauce, salt, spices, and then stop after smelling the fragrance. After entering, cover the pot and continue to stew.

In order to prevent the snails from being not tasty enough, Chunqiu specially made a delicious sauce with pepper aniseed and other seasonings to prepare the snails and then pour them in for seasoning.

Everything is ready, just wait for the moon at night.

For the convenience of viewing the moon, Yang Weimin and others deliberately moved the table in the lobby to the yard, and put two oil lamps on purpose for fear that they would not be able to see clearly.

Yuan put two stewed pheasants on the table, beside them were edamame, peanuts, and moon cakes that had been prepared in the Spring and Autumn Period.Fried snails are also on the table.

Mrs. Yang and Li set up an incense case on the side.After offering tributes and worshiping the Moon Goddess, the whole family sat on stools around a table and had dinner happily.

The moonlight is bright and white as water, and the lights of every household around are turned off. Chunqiu looks up at the moon that is close at hand, and in his heart, he thinks of the very small welfare home in modern times. I don’t know what happened to the dean...

"Qiu'er, eat the snail, it tastes really good." The snail that Yuan ate at the side took another chopstick and handed it to Chunqiu who was beside him.

Chunqiu came back to her senses, quickly covered up her abnormality, and laughed in her heart, what was she thinking about?Now she is cared by her parents and loved by her grandma, so what else is she not satisfied with?Thinking of this, Chunqiu picked up the snail he made, peeled it, and put it in his mouth, um, not to mention, this taste is really good, the snail meat is chewy, and it is really delicious with the fragrant sauce Absolutely.

While eating, everyone listened to Yang Li's story about Chang'e flying to the moon: According to legend, Chang'e was Houyi's wife, who stole Houyi's elixir one day, and then flew to Guanghan Palace and became the master inside. The Immortal Palace is on the moon. Every August [-]th, Chang'e will secretly take a look at her hometown...

It was the first time for Chunqiu to listen to it, but Chunhua and the others had listened to it every year. It was not until Yang Lishi finished speaking that Chunhua would grind Yang Lishi and change to a fresh story. Mrs. Yang would be angry, but today is a rare holiday, so Mrs. Yang and Li followed Chunhua's wishes.

However, Yang Li is a woman who has never read a book, so there is no other story. After thinking about it for a long time, I came up with a legend that is said to be far away: It is said that there was a scholar who went to Beijing to catch the exam. At that time, it was the day of the full moon. Xiucai was resting in a ruined temple and met a beautiful girl. Xiucai was familiar with the book of gentlemen, so he naturally gave up the only ruined temple to the girl, and waited for him to wake up the next day. At the time, the girl had already disappeared, but she left a sentence, the homeopathic scholar will be the number one scholar in high school this time...

"And then? Grandma, has this scholar won the first prize?" Chunhua asked impatiently, while Chunqiu was not curious at all. Isn't this a typical excerpt?

Mrs. Yang Li took a sip of water and said, "Xiucai didn't believe it. On the day he came out of the list, he was really the top student in high school. But that night, Xiucai had a dream. The woman in the dream appeared again, holding a jade rabbit in her arms. Smiling, he said to Xiucai, "Golden Toad won the prize and was the number one scholar in high school. Since then, Xiucai has been promoted all the way, and finally built a statue for the Moon Goddess with his applause..." After Yang Li finished speaking, she suddenly paused, Then he took Yang Chunming and Yang Chunjun who was on the side and ran to the desk in a hurry, saying, "Oh, I forgot about this old lady, Brother Jun'er, Brother Ming'er, hurry up and pay homage to the Moon Goddess, so that she can bless you all." Two years later, the high-ranking champion..."

Chunqiu stared dumbfounded at her elder brother and second brother being dragged by her milk to worship the moon god, a little confused, why is her mother so superstitious!
The mid-autumn moon viewing ended in her grandma's anticlimax, Chunhua still smacked her lips a little bit more, but Chunqiu thought that her second sister must not have had enough of these delicious foods.

The moon was already in the middle of the sky, and it was getting late. Mrs. Yang and Li took a look at the things on the table, tidied them up briefly, and the children were all brought into the house.

The moon is so hanging, the room is quiet...

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