Joe's Farming

After Da Zhuang finished yelling, he ran to Su Qing to get the house deed and land deed.

When Xiaobai got it in his hand, he still felt it was a little unreal.

I actually just agreed to Da Zhuang directly. If this gets out, I will be drowned in spit.

But then he thought that Da Zhuang was not afraid, so what was he afraid of?

Besides, everyone in the Gu family is a good person, and no one would gossip about him.

For lunch we had the hotpot that we didn’t finish yesterday.

After eating, everyone rested for a while and started preparing ingredients that might be used the next day.

Qiao Yu plans to have a reunion dinner at noon tomorrow and then eat dumplings in the evening.

Dishes like sweet and salty pork with rice flour, and steamed pork with rice flour, all need to be steamed in advance today and reheated tomorrow to make them more flavorful.

Qiao Yu wanted to fry some more sweet meatballs.

The nougat and snacks I bought in town are actually not much left.

Children at home cannot be without candy during the Chinese New Year.

The Chinese New Year only comes once a year, and whenever I think of something to eat, I want to cook it right away.

There were so many things to prepare, and it took Qiao Yu a while to arrange everyone.

The Gu brothers first went to cut the meat that Qiao Yu would use. They used pork belly for the braised pork and pork ribs for the steamed pork with rice flour.

Da Zhuang and Xiao Bai were sent to buy chickens, and Qiao Yu wanted to use the oven to make two roast chickens.

I bought a bucket of fish in Xiaxixi Village before, and now there are four fish in the big water tank, which is more than enough.

Add to that the cured meat at home, and there are almost ten kinds of meat dishes, some cold vegetarian dishes and some stir-fried cabbage, and that’s enough.

Sweet Shaobai requires glutinous rice. Qiao Yu asked Bai Lan to wash the glutinous rice and soak it in water first, so that the steaming time can be reduced.

Su Qing had already started cutting the meat. Seeing that he cut it as thinly as Li Zhuang's white meat, Qiao Yu asked him to cut it thicker, because Shaobai meat should have a thick and sticky texture to be delicious.

Place the cut meat skin side down at the bottom of a large porcelain bowl, cover with glutinous rice, sprinkle with brown sugar, and steam it.

Because both shaobai and fenzhengrou need to be steamed, Bai Lan prepared the ingredients in three porcelain bowls and steamed them together.

Next is the fried sweet meatballs.

The skin of the sweet meatballs is made of yellow rice flour and steamed sweet potatoes.

The steamer happened to be in use, so Qiao Yu asked someone to wash the sweet potatoes and put them directly into the steamer.

During this time, make the filling for the sweet meatballs.

Qiao Yu likes peanuts, sesame seeds and walnuts.

Just like making the glutinous rice ball fillings before, you need to fry the peanuts and walnuts.

After frying and peeling, crush them with a rolling pin.

Then add sesame seeds and sugar and it’s done.

At this time, the sweet potatoes are also steamed.

Mash the sweet potatoes and mix them with flour. You don't need too much flour, because if you use too much flour, the fried balls will be hard. The more sweet potatoes you add, the softer and more glutinous they will be.

There is no need to add water because the sweet potatoes themselves have a lot of water.

After kneading the dough, you can start making the meatballs.

Pinch off a small piece of dough, roll it into a round shape, press a hole with your thumb, stuff the filling in, and then cover it with bread.

"Hey, why can't I wrap it well?" Li Xin tried to wrap one like Qiao Yu did, but the stuffing could not be put in and always came out.

Qiao Yu demonstrated it again slowly: "You have to wrap the meatball with your thumb and then slowly, little by little, wrap it up, just like kneading dumplings, push the dough up, and then roll it into a ball. Have you learned it?"

Li Xin tried again and failed.

Seeing that he was hesitant to speak, Qiao Yu knew that he was going to say something like "The eyes have learned it, but the hands haven't."

"Forget it, go play with the kids."

Qiao Yu said.

Li Xin glanced at Bai Lan, Su Qing and Hong Xiu, all of whom were wrapped well.

Alas, it seems that I really have no talent for cooking.

After wrapping the meatballs, Qiao Yu gave his seat to Bai Lan.

Pour plenty of oil into the pot. Qiao Yu is not afraid of wasting it because she can scoop it out and save it for later use.

After the oil is heated, it is rolled into the pot along the edge of the pot and fried. Because there are many meatballs, Qiao Yu gave Bai Lan a pair of long chopsticks to prevent the meatballs from sticking.

Fry until all the balls turn golden brown and then take them out and let them cool.

Qiao Yu likes to eat fried food right out of the pan, so he asked everyone to try one.

They all said it was delicious.

But there is another way to eat sweet meatballs, which is to wait for them to cool down and then steam them again.

Just steam it for a short while, the skin will become softer, more sticky and sweeter.

"Okay, with the crispy pork fried this morning, that's pretty much all we have to make today. Let's all take a break and just eat something tonight."

"okay."

Bai Lan and the others packed up their things neatly.

At this time, Dazhuang and Xiaobai came back.

This time, Qiao Yu asked them to buy at least two, but every household in the village was celebrating the New Year and were looking forward to eating some meat. Farmers mostly raised chickens for laying eggs, so the two of them took a while to get there.

In the end, I only bought a big rooster.

Xiaobai went home and caught his chicken.

However, Qiao Yu only found out about this later. At this moment, he was carrying the sweet meatballs and distributing them to everyone.

Among the children, Xiaoxue and Xiaoyan both like sweets very much.

So the two children thought it was delicious.

"It feels like fried rice balls, very delicious," said Gu Xiaoxue.

Qiao Yu smiled and said, "You have never eaten fried glutinous rice balls."

The main reason is that Qiao Yu has a trauma. When he was in the present world, he wanted to eat fried dumplings and they exploded. Then the kitchen became a disaster scene. The dumpling fillings exploded everywhere and burned his hands.

Later he found out that people would boil the glutinous rice balls first and then coat them in breadcrumbs or sugar water before frying them.

Since then, he never thought about frying dumplings again.

Gu Xiaoxue whispered, "I guessed. Daddy, let's fry the dumplings next time."

Qiao Yu smiled somewhat reluctantly.

"If Olaf wants to eat it, Daddy can try it."

Gu Feng tried one and thought it was pretty good.

But he prefers the glutinous rice balls made by Qiao Yu because the filling is so fragrant.

"Let's talk about it after we finish eating these." Gu Feng said to Gu Xiaoxue.

Gu Xiaoxue was stunned for a moment. His father rarely asked his little uncle to cook something.

It seems that dad really likes dumplings.

In the evening, everyone just ate a bowl of noodles and went to bed.

After Li Xin finished washing up, he asked Xiaobai.

"I heard that Da Zhuang gave you the house deed and the land deed? Can you show it to me?"

As a time traveler, Li Xin, unlike Qiao Yu, has both house and land deeds. He is really curious about what the house and land deeds in ancient times looked like.

Xiaobai took it out feeling a little embarrassed but also a little proud.

This was what Da Zhuang wanted, he heard from Bai Lan.

Da Zhuang bought himself a house with his future salary of several years. He was so honest to me, it would be unreasonable for me to be hesitant.

Besides, he also thinks Da Zhuang is a good person, and he will treat Da Zhuang well.

After reading it, Li Xin said enviously: "When can I have my own house?"

Xiaobai and Gu Xiaoyan said in unison: "It will happen."

Gu Xiaoyan: "Our brother can also make a lot of money."

Xiaobai nodded, isn’t Brother Qiao the best example?

"Well, you'll make a lot of money in the future!"