Joe's Farming

Gu Xiaoyan has always liked Xu Ning the most. When she heard this, she trotted over, took Xu Ning's hand and asked, "Brother Ning, do you have a baby?"

Xu Ning nodded at him.

The children gathered around at once.

"Brother Ning, can I touch it?" Gu Xiaoxue asked.

"Brother Ning, how do you feel now?" Gu Xiaoyan also asked.

Qiao Xing stopped his younger brothers and sisters, fearing that they would bump into Xu Ning.

Qiao Yu quickly put the bread on the ground. Although he had read on the news that pregnant women could still touch cats and dogs, the world was different and it was better to listen to the doctor.

Qiao Yu quickly invited the person to sit inside and then went to wash his hands.

"How many months has it been?" Qiao Yu sent the children out to play, then pulled Gu Feng to sit down and asked.

Xu Ning said shyly: "The doctor said it's been more than a month."

Qiao Yu nodded: "Are you feeling uncomfortable anywhere? Are you suffering from severe morning sickness?"

Xu Ning shook his head vigorously, feeling a little embarrassed.

Xu Yuan held her husband's hand and said lovingly, "He just felt that he had gained weight by eating too much recently, and thought he was sick, so he insisted on asking the doctor to take a look. After taking his pulse, he was diagnosed!"

Xu Yuan couldn't control the smile on his face: "Finally, our Xu family won't be rumored to be childless." As he said that, he kissed Xu Ning on the cheek in front of Mr. and Mrs. Qiao Yu.

Gu Feng looked at his nose and his heart, pretending not to see it.

Qiao Yu said flatteringly: "As expected of you! Awesome!"

Xu Yuan was stunned: "What do you mean?"

Qiao Yu reacted and touched his nose: "It's really amazing, very amazing!"

Xu Yuan blushed and said modestly: "It's Aning who is good, not me."

Xu Ning whispered, "It's my husband who is amazing."

Seeing that the topic was about to turn inappropriate for children, Qiao Yu quickly changed the subject: "See the bread oven in my yard? Let's go, the bread should be fermented soon. Let me tell you..."

Qiao Yu explained in detail how to make bread and tofu pudding.

Xu Yuan and Xu Ning's eyes lit up after hearing this, and they were determined to savor the food carefully later.

At this moment, Bai Lan had sewed a pair of gloves filled with a thick layer of cotton and brought them to Qiao Yu.

Qiao Yu handed it to Gu Feng: "Brother Gu, help shovel out the fire in the bread oven, then close the oven door, and put on these gloves. Don't get burned."

Gu Feng took the gloves and went to work.

Qiao Yu first lifted the cotton cloth to look at the bread. It was well-risen, white and plump, and looked soft.

"This noodle has risen really well." Xu Ning praised.

Qiao Yu said proudly: "Of course I am. Brother Gu kept rubbing it for half an hour."

Qiao Yu beat an egg, stirred it and colored the bread. "It should look better when baked this way."

He was not sure whether the color obtained by kiln baking would be darker than that obtained by oven baking, so he only rinsed two pieces to experiment.

Next, we need to wait for the temperature of the bread oven to drop a little.

During this time, Qiao Yu took out the pizza crust that had doubled in size and rolled it into a large pancake. Then he went under the eaves to cut two sections of sausage, sliced ​​them and evenly spread them on the crust.

I cut a piece of carrot and several tomatoes that were hard to come by this season. I also cut the milk tofu into small pieces and sprinkled them all over the top. Finally, I sprinkled a little black pepper.

Let’s leave it like this for now. There are no black olives, basil or anything like that. Anyway, pizza with milk tofu is the soul of it, so you can add anything else.

Xu Ning looked at the milk tofu curiously, and Qiao Yu cut a small piece for him to taste.

Xu Ning broke off half of it and gave it to Xu Yuan. The couple put it in their mouths together.

It has a rich milky flavor and is slightly sour.

Xu Yuan said loudly: "Brother Qiao, I want to buy this recipe."

Qiao Yu looked at him speechlessly: "This recipe belongs to Hong Xiu, go find her. Help me serve the bread first."

The three men each carried a wooden board and carefully brought it to the bread kiln.

Gu Feng opened the kiln door, then put on gloves and put the bread and pizza in.

The interior of the bread oven is not very big, and there is only a little space left after putting three wooden boards in.

"Quick, quick, close it. Wait two quarters of an hour."

Gu Feng quickly closed the kiln door.

Only then did Xu Yuan and Xu Ning take a good look at the bread kiln. To be honest, it didn't look very nice, and looked like a small earthen fortress standing upright.

Qiao Yu stood nearby and introduced: "This bread oven was built by the three of us. It was hard work. But you will know how worth it when you eat the bread and pizza in a while."

Xu Yuan heard a new word again: "Pizza?"

Qiao Yu is no longer as afraid of being different from the natives as she was when she first arrived, and said generously: "Yes, I read in a book before that the foreign countries in the Western Regions like to use this bread oven to bake food. Not only can they bake pasta, but they can also bake chicken, fish, and duck. It just consumes a lot of firewood."

Fortunately, his house is backed by a mountain and has no shortage of good firewood. In modern times, who can burn firewood to bake bread every day?

Although it is impossible for his family to bake every day now, it is too much work.

Xu Yuan nodded. The food foreigners eat must be different from theirs. He couldn't help but admire Brother Qiao even more.

As we were talking, the aroma of wheat baking bread wafted out from the bakery oven, and it smelled very sweet.

Qiao Yu exclaimed, this is the aroma of high-calorie carbohydrates!

"It smells so good! Is it finished so soon?" Xu Ning asked.

Qiao Yu estimated the time and thought she would have to wait a few more minutes: "Wait a little longer. The one in the middle isn't cooked yet." Then she turned and went to the kitchen, and made a simple lettuce salad with lettuce, remaining tomatoes and rice vinegar.

After a while, the yard was filled with the rich aroma of milk mixed with the fragrance of sausage.

Xu Ning scratched Xu Yuan's palm with his fingers. He was very hungry.

Xu Yuan comforted her husband with a smile: "Be good, bear with it for a while."

Qiao Yu brought the cold salad to the main room, then asked Gu Feng to give him the cotton gloves while he went to open the kiln door.

Everyone stood behind him, with a hint of anticipation and a bit of nervousness, as if he was opening a world-class treasure chest.

Qiao Yu carefully moved open the kiln door, and the unique aroma of burnt wheat, rich milk and firewood hit her in the face.

Qiao Yu swallowed and looked inside. The bread and pizza crust were a little bit burnt, but not much, so the temperature should be just right. This means that the temperature of their bread oven is suitable, about 200 to 300 degrees.

The residual temperature in the oven was still very high. Qiao Yu carefully took out the pizza first. The milk tofu on the pizza had been baked until it was golden brown, the sausage was roasted with oil and looked very fragrant, and the tomato skin was also a little bit burnt, but it made people more appetizing.

The smallest loaf of bread was the burntest. It seems that in the future, the baking time of ingredients of different sizes will have to be different. This time he was lucky and the estimated time was more accurate, and the temper of their bread oven was also better.

Qiao Yu called everyone back to the house and used a small knife to distribute bread and pizza to everyone.

Pizza must be hot to be delicious, so Qiao Yu divided the pizza first. The milk tofu was a little sticky after being baked, and Qiao Yu couldn't help but complain: "If I had known, I would have ordered two knives specifically for cutting pizza and bread."

Gu Feng immediately said, "I'll go order it in a moment."

Qiao Yu smiled and said, "No hurry, let me draw the blueprint and we'll do it together." The blade must have serrations, and it would be more responsible to cut the pizza. A knife maker might not understand, and he also wanted to customize two oven-specific baking trays.

Qiao Yu cut the pizza into 16 pieces, leaving one piece for Da Zhuang and Su Qing to try. There were three extra pieces, one for Xu Ning, and the remaining two for whoever wanted to eat.

Qiao Yu took the wide side of the pizza and put the pointed corner into his mouth. Everyone followed his example, because Qiao Yu rolled the pizza very thinly and had plenty of fillings, so if they only took a corner, it would not work.

The bottom layer of the pizza is crispy, but the inside is soft, with a lot of milk tofu and a little bit of sausage. Qiao Yu, who hadn't eaten this kind of food for a long time, was so moved that she almost cried. Every bite was full of happiness.

Qiao Yu swallowed it slowly, then asked everyone, "How is it? Do you like the taste?"

Everyone nodded, and the children were most happy while eating.

"Dad, this milk tofu smells so good after it's baked. And I'm not hungry anymore after eating a bite." Gu Xiaoyan said. His stomach was rumbling because of the aroma in the yard.

Qiao Yu ate the pizza in two or three bites and distributed bread to everyone.

This time, Qiao Yu was also amazed by the taste of the kiln-baked bread. The crust was crisper than traditional bread, but the inside was more moist and tasted more fragrant. It also had a special aroma of firewood, which showed that he could get different flavors of bread by adjusting different firewoods.

Even Qiao Yu was amazed, let alone others.

Fortunately, Qiao Yu asked Bai Lan to make milk tea with the remaining milk early this morning. Everyone's mouths were dry at the moment, and a sip of hot milk tea with a bite of bread was a perfect match.

Finally, the simple salad on the table was finished, and everyone still felt unsatisfied.

Qiao Yu felt a little embarrassed. He thought that these two things would be very filling, so he didn't prepare any other dishes.

"Well, since today is the first day of the kiln opening, let's bake something else. Let's digest the food first, and then we'll roast a chicken!"

On this day, Xu Yuan and Xu Ning stayed at Gu's house until the evening before returning home.