Joe's Farming

Qiao Yu didn't expect that she would sleep until the next day. No wonder she was so hungry.

Gu Feng heated up the food from last night, and after Qiao Yu washed up, she enjoyed a sumptuous breakfast alone, which was different from everyone else's.

During the meal, Qiao Xing came over and called Qiao Yu nervously: "Little Daddy, something bad has happened. The pickled garlic I made yesterday has gone bad!"

Qiao Yu immediately put down her chopsticks and ran to the kitchen, only to find that the bottom of the garlic clove had turned green.

Qiao Yu took a deep breath and said to Qiao Xing, "Xiao Xing, you scared me. Laba garlic is like this. In two days, all of it will turn green."

Qiao Xing buried his head in embarrassment: "I'm sorry, I accidentally knocked the lid off, and I thought it was moldy. Grandpa said that moldy things can't be eaten, they will poison people."

Qiao Yu rubbed his head and said, "What are you saying sorry for? It's just a small matter. Come on, come back with me to eat."

Maybe Qiao Yu was very hungry, as he ate all the food that Gu Feng prepared for him, twice the usual amount.

After breakfast, Qiao Yu became energetic because he wanted to make bread today.

"Brother Gu, can you help me knead the dough?" Qiao Yu knew that with his body's strength, it was impossible to knead out a glove-like film.

Gu Feng couldn't refuse her husband's request at all.

Roll up your sleeves and go to the kitchen to knead the dough.

Qiao Yu followed at the side: "Just rub it the way I told you to rub it."

Yesterday, Xu Yuan heard that more milk was needed, so he asked the driver to deliver a large can early in the morning.

Qiao Yu scooped up two large bowls of flour, about four pounds, and added old flour for making yeast, a little salt, milk, eggs, sugar, and oh, and a little oil.

Rapeseed oil has a strong smell, so Qiao Yu added a little bit of ghee made using the method Hongxiu mentioned.

He smiled at Gu Feng and said, "Rub it."

The family knew that Qiao Yu was going to use that strange bread oven today, and they all gathered at the kitchen door out of curiosity.

Gu Feng felt that they were blocking the light, so he took the chopping board and basin out and started kneading the dough in the yard.

Gu Gang's mouth twitched when he saw his younger brother, a grown man, kneading dough without changing his expression.

Qiao Yu smiled, worthy of being his man, he remained calm even when being watched by so many people.

Seeing their daddy rubbing the baby for a long time, the three children, Gu Xiaoxue and Gu Xiaoyan, couldn't wait any longer and went to the backyard to play with the chickens and ducklings. Only Qiao Xing was left staring at his daddy's movements.

Gu Feng thought that he just needed to knead the dough until it was smooth, but Qiao Yu would pour a little milk on the dough every time he was about to stop.

"You have to knead the dough until it's very soft and tough."

Qiao Yu explained.

Gu Feng had no choice but to continue kneading. After repeating this several times, he saw Qiao Yu was about to pour milk in again, so Gu Feng said, "Why not just pour it all in directly."

Qiao Yu shook her head: "No, it will be too watery to knead."

Gu Feng could only accept his fate.

After rubbing for two quarters of an hour, Qiao Yu finally let him stop.

Bai Lan, who was watching nearby, exclaimed: "Boss, it takes so long to knead the dough for this bread."

Qiao Yu chuckled: "No, if you find it troublesome, just knead it for a quarter of an hour, it will just taste a little rough."

Qiao Yu used her clean hands to tear off a piece of dough. It had good ductility and she could tear off a layer of film that was not too transparent. It was a little rougher than the glove film, probably because the flour was not high-gluten flour. But it was very good. Qiao Yu was afraid that it would not rise if she kneaded it too much.

Qiao Yu became even more satisfied with her husband.

“Brother Gu is awesome!”

Qiao Yu took out a smaller knife from the kitchen.

Knead the dough into a long ball, cut it into several pieces of even size, leaving a small piece of excess, Qiao Yu kneaded it into strips, flattened it and then rolled it up.

When there were two rolls, one was stuffed with dried milk tofu, one was filled with glutinous rice ball fillings, one was sprinkled with chopped walnuts, and there were two pieces of white bread, one large and one small.

I cut three times on each loaf of bread with a knife so it looks beautiful when baked.

Qiao Yu separated a space in the middle of the bread, placed it on two wooden boards, covered it with wet cotton cloth, and left it to ferment next to the kitchen stove.

The two boards will go directly into the bread oven.

A very low fire is always kept on in the stove to ensure that the temperature around the stove remains above 30 degrees.

After doing all this, an hour had passed.

"It will take an hour for the bread to ferment. I'll go light up the oven first. It will also take about an hour."

Gu Feng stopped his husband and said, "Tell me how to do it, and I'll do the cooking."

He was also very curious about how the bread kiln was used.

Qiao Yu smiled helplessly: "Just fill it with firewood and burn it. When the bread is fermented, remove the fire and put the bread in to bake."

Gu Feng nodded.

Qiao Yu watched Gu Feng adding firewood to the bread oven, and remembered that they didn't have scald-proof gloves.

She grabbed Bai Lan and asked her if she could urgently embroider a pair of scald-proof gloves.

Qiao Yu drew the gloves on the ground and showed them to her.

The design is simple and only requires the thumb to move.

Bai Lan nodded: "One hour is no problem, I can do it."

Qiao Yu said happily: "Thank you for your help!"

Gu Feng lit the firewood and asked Qiao Yu: "Qiao'er, do you think this will work?"

Qiao Yu took a look at the bread kiln. The firewood they picked was all big and good. The flames were bright and there was very little smoke. The bread baked with such firewood had a woody aroma.

Qiao Yu gave Gu Feng a thumbs up: "That's great! My husband is awesome!"

Although Gu Feng was used to being praised by his husband, he still felt very comfortable every time he was praised and could not hide the smile on his face.

Seeing this, Gu Gang said to Hong Xiu, "Look at my brother. He is being controlled by my brother-in-law."

Hong Xiu glared at him and said, "What's wrong with this? Isn't Brother Qiao very good to Brother Feng?"

It was the first time that Gu Gang was glared at by Hong Xiu. He felt it was quite novel and raised his eyebrows: "Okay, okay, I just mean that they have a good relationship."

Hong Xiu laughed and said, "If you can't speak, don't speak."

Gu Gang touched his nose and stopped talking.

Qiao Yu thought that five loaves of bread alone might not be enough for everyone. She smiled sweetly at Gu Feng and said, "Brother Gu, can you help me knead the dough?"

Gu Feng nodded with amusement: "Okay!"

This kind of work may be tiring for Qiao Yu, but for him it is just a drizzle and at most a warm-up exercise.

This time there is not much dough, so no sugar or milk is added. Just use water, a little salt and old dough, and it doesn’t need to be kneaded for so long.

After kneading the dough, place it next to the stove to ferment naturally.

Xu Yuan and Xu Ning also arrived at this time.

As soon as you enter the door, you will see the smoking bread kiln in the yard.

Xu Yuan asked curiously: "Brother Qiao, what is this?"

Qiao Yu introduced proudly: "This is our bread oven. We will bake bread and delicious pie for you in a while!"

A small yellow dog ran out of the house barking "woof woof" and wagged its tail wildly around Qiao Ge'er.

It thought the bread was calling it.

When Xu Ning saw the puppy, he wanted to touch it.

Being pulled back by Xu Yuan: "Aning!"

Xu Ning's eyelashes drooped and he obediently withdrew his hand.

Qiao Yu picked up the bread, and seeing that Xu Ning liked it, she pretended to put it into Xu Ning's arms.

Xu Yuan hurriedly said, "Brother Qiao, Aning is pregnant! The doctor said it's best not to touch cats and dogs."

Everyone in the yard looked at Xu Ning.

Xu Ning's face turned red as if it was about to bleed.

Her husband had clearly promised him not to tell anyone...