My 1995 Small Farm

   Chapter 236 Full Moon Wine

   "Hello, listeners and friends, it's 11:00 a.m. Beiqi time. You are welcome to listen to the 'Hourly Broadcast' of this period. The following is today's current political news..."

  On the stone table in the pavilion in the bamboo forest, a brand-new radio came out with the magnetic voice of a male radio host.

Chen Ling and a group of people stood or sat around and listened quietly. After listening to a domestic important news broadcast, Liang Yuemin turned down his voice, looked at Chen Ling and said, "How rich and noble are you still satisfied with this radio? "

   "Satisfied, quite satisfied." Chen Ling nodded again and again, and then thanked Liang Yuemin.

   "Is this satisfied? You said that you, such a big farm, don't even have a TV set, you can't even watch TV on weekdays, how boring..."

Liang Yuemin gave him a helpless look, Chen Ling's son Man Yue, he and Liu Yinhuan originally wanted to send a TV set, but Liang Hongyu refused to let it go, saying that TV sets are still too valuable in the mountains, and Chen Ling is very embarrassed to accept them. forget it.

   So I picked the best radio in the city and came back.

"A TV, I wanted to buy it last year, but the signal here is not good, we can't receive a few TVs, and the circuit in my farm is not very good, but it can be placed in the county town, and the signal in the county town is good. , that is, I don't go there often, so just wait."

Chen Ling said and pointed to the wires outside the farm to show a few people. The voltage on the farm is unstable, and there are frequent power outages this year. In addition to the signal problem, I can't buy a TV to watch it, even if I can barely watch it, the viewing experience It's not good either. For him who has experienced the baptism of future network TV, it is better not to buy it.

   As for the radio, I used to have it at home, but it was broken and it was not repaired, nor did I buy a new one.

   He and Wang Susu are usually reading books, and reading the newspapers is enough, but I have never thought of this.

   "The electricity here really doesn't work."

   Zhao Dahai said: "Then you can wait for a maximum of two months, and we will come to install a new transformer for your county."

When Liang Yuemin heard the words, he asked, "Has the township been replaced with a new one? I bought a TV for my father-in-law's house during the Chinese New Year. ."

The replacement of transformers in these years is extremely slow, the technological innovation cannot keep up, the transformers are difficult to use, and the noise is loud. In case of wind and rain, they have to be repaired frequently. Every time such a situation occurs, the power outage is short for two or three days. of.

   Fortunately, there are few electrical appliances in rural areas at this time, and everyone is used to using candles and kerosene lamps for lighting. For most people, the impact of electricity and lack of electricity is actually not big.

  Even if there is electricity, the electricity bill is expensive, and it is reluctant to use electricity all day long.

   Zhao Dahai shook his head: "I didn't replace it with a new one. When I installed high-voltage wires last year, I overhauled them once by the way. It looks better than other places."

   "That's right, I said." Liang Yuemin nodded.

Chen Ling smiled and said: "I'm really not in a hurry for TV or something, just have a radio, listen to storytelling at noon, listen to opera in the afternoon, listen to the weather forecast at night, and tell stories, I can hear Rui Rui completely. grown up."

   A few people chatted, and a few little kids walked behind Wang Zhenzhen and laughed, jumping out of the farm, and the childish laughter attracted the attention of the adults.

   "You guys, why are you going? It's almost noon and you're running around." Chen Ling stopped them.

   "Brother-in-law, we don't run around, mother let us pick some watermelons."

   "Oh, it's picking watermelons, then go ahead, come back soon after picking, the weather is so hot, don't play like crazy outside."

"Know it."

   After Liang Yuemin’s family came over today, Little Fatty and Little Lizi also joined the team of the Boy Scouts. From the time they got off the bus to the present, they were either catching fish and shrimp, or climbing trees and catching birds, and they never stopped playing.

   If they didn’t remind them, picking watermelons would definitely be playing while picking watermelons, and they wouldn’t be able to pick them back for a long time.

   Sure enough, with Chen Ling's reminder, they soon returned with watermelons one by one.

  This watermelon is the seed left by Chen Ling's watermelon improved by Lingshui last year. I don't have time to take care of it this year. Let them grow freely, and it's not bad.

   Now, except for the thick skin of the melon, the taste and texture are quite good. After cutting the melon, the flesh is firm, the juice is full, and the bright red color is even more attractive.

   "Come on, let's eat watermelon. Today's watermelon is a melon from Xishan. It's not exposed to the sun. It's delicious without soaking in cold water."

  Chen Ling greeted. There were many people today. He cut three large watermelons at one time, and the adults and children held a piece of watermelon and ate it happily.

   “Wow…wow…”

  They were eating cool and delicious watermelon downstairs, and Rui Rui upstairs suddenly burst into tears.

   "Good guy, this must be because we don't call him eating watermelon, and I'm angry." Wang Qingwen wiped the juice from the corner of his mouth and smiled.

   This made everyone laugh.

   After laughing, Su Li changed her words: "It's getting hot again these two days. I'll send two pieces of watermelon to Susu, can Susu eat watermelon?"

   "If you can eat it, it will be confinement. It's fine to eat a few pieces of watermelon, as long as it's not too cold." Chen Ling said.

  The baby will be full moon tomorrow, and Wang Susu will have her confinement. Now she can get out of bed and walk around, and she can also eat properly what she could not eat when she was pregnant.

   It's just that Rui Rui is breastfeeding, and Wang Susu is a mother, so there are things that should be avoided.

   "That's fine, today's melons don't need to be soaked in cold water, Susu can definitely eat them." Su Ligai picked up two pieces of watermelon and sent them to her.

   Sister-in-law went upstairs, and the second sister-in-law also got up quickly, picked up a few pieces of watermelon and said, "I'll give it to my mother, and Aunt Hongyu also sent a few pieces."

  Two old ladies are busy picking vegetables, washing vegetables and cleaning up the kitchen behind the farm.

   The other women had just come downstairs, when they finished eating the watermelon, they sat under the eaves of the bamboo building and helped Chen Ling peel the watermelon.

  The turquoise flower skin is peeled off, and the parts that people eat are also scraped off, and the remaining melon white is the ingredient for today's dish.

   "Uncle, can I order from the menu you wrote for aunt?"

  Xiaotongtong took off the calendar paper hanging in the kitchen and ran over, looking at him expectantly with round eyes.

   "Okay, you can order it. Uncle will cook it for you."

   The two little nephews came here for the first time. As long as they didn't ask too much, Chen Ling would do whatever they wanted.

   "I want to eat sauerkraut fish, double-cooked pork, shredded fish-flavored pork, oh, and spicy chicken, crayfish, roasted snails, and hot pot chicken..."

  Xiaotong read the names of two or three dishes, and the little fat man and little chestnut next to him reminded him in a low voice and asked him to add.

  Chen Ling was speechless. Except for the first three dishes, the others were not on the menu. Wang Susu couldn't eat those when she was pregnant.

"You guys really know how to order, it's almost noon, and I don't have time to cook other than pickled fish and double-cooked pork. I'll make two other cold dishes for you, shredded chicken with pepper and chicken and cold rabbit, right? Your grandma is in the morning. I marinated the rabbit, just for you."

"Row."

   A few small things didn't stop for a moment and nodded vigorously, and swallowed their saliva, thinking that the dishes that Chen Ling said were delicious no matter what.

   "You still dare to ask your uncle to kill the fish for your uncle later?" Wang Qingzhong raised his son and nephew with his arms and twitched them twice, making them gasp for giggles.

   Then he took the fishing net and went to the lotus pond to catch fish.

  Wang Qingwen also went with Zhao Dahai and Lynx to catch and kill chickens.

  Chen Ling went to the kitchen at the back of the farm and started cooking.

   On a hot day, if it is a soup dish, the pickled fish is fine. If it has a spicy taste, it is okay to have fewer people. If there are too many people, it will be steaming together and it will not be easy to eat.

  He came over, and Qin Rongxian and his son also came to help.

   The three of us will make vegetarian dishes and cold dishes first.

  Vegetarian dishes include white melon, bitter melon eggs, loofah and roasted beans. The farm’s ready-made vegetables have been selected by the ladies just now and cleaned.

   Cold dishes are jelly, mixed with three shreds, cucumbers and tomatoes.

   Cold dishes can be made by Qin Rongxian and his son. It is simple and fast.

  Chen Ling started cooking fire.

  The first is the white melon, and the melon white is shredded.

  Put half a spoon of lard into the pot, the lard in summer has melted, and the fragrance will soon be released after entering the pot.

  Chen Ling put the melon rind in, stir-fry it, and a large plate of boiled melons came out of the pot.

   There are very few seasonings and so on, just take a mouthful of salt and you’re done, this dish is refreshing to eat in summer.

  Bitter melon eggs, loofah and roasted beans, Qin Rong had already cut them up for him, and he could just fry them in the pot. These were a piece of cake for him.

  After finishing the vegetarian dishes and cold dishes, Wang Qingzhong took the dolls to kill the fish.

After   fish mentioned the kitchen, Chen Ling went to the barn that was colluding with the kitchen, opened the sauerkraut jar, and began to fish for the sauerkraut.

   The two big pots of pickled cabbage that were pickled last winter have not been eaten yet.

The large jar of pickled vegetables is more than one meter high, and the jar can hold dozens of catties of sauerkraut. Even the chopsticks for picking up sauerkraut are longer than those for frying fried dough sticks. If Wang Cunye hadn’t come over, he and Wang Susu would be able to eat them every day. Go to fall.

After opening the lid, the sour smell rushed into the nostrils at once, causing the saliva in the mouth to secrete continuously. Chen Ling swallowed hard, took a few chopsticks down, took out a lot of sauerkraut, and quickly closed the lid it is good.

   Then open the sauerkraut, let the leaves stretch out, and wash them in clean water.

Place it neatly on the chopping board, cut off a piece and stuff it into your mouth to chew. This pickled cabbage tastes very good, sour, crunchy and refreshing, very greedy. After eating it beautifully, Chen Ling let out a long breath. .

   "Good guy, the cook stole it."

   "What do rich people eat, sauerkraut, what's there to eat?"

   Qin Rongxian and his son laughed.

   "No way, I'll be fine."

  Chen Ling liked this when he was a child, not to mention sauerkraut, pickled sour radish he can eat as a snack, grabbing sour radish every day, nibbling on the wotou to hide and seek.

   While talking and laughing, smash the aftertaste in your mouth, and cut the sized pickled cabbage into thin slices.

   After processing the sauerkraut, then processing the fish.

  Take two big herrings that have been killed, remove the meat, cut into thin slices, cut the head of the fish, chop the fish bone into several sections, and put the meat and the bone in a pot each.

   Seasonings, **** and garlic are made into a paste, mixed with eggs and beaten into a paste, poured into the fish bowl, turned over to catch the fish, and sizing the fish.

   After that, add some firewood or lard into the pot, sauté the onion, **** and garlic until fragrant, add the sauerkraut, add water, cover the pot and bring to a boil.

A few minutes later, I opened the lid of the pot, and the aroma of the sauerkraut soup was already fragrant. At this time, I added the fish head first, followed by the fish bones. After simmering with high heat, they were all taken out, leaving only the soup pot. Slide the fish into the soup.

After the fish soup was boiled and tumbled twice in a row, the aroma was so strong that half of the farm could smell it, not to mention Qin Rongxian and his son. The adults and children outside also gathered around, staring at the kitchen, gulping drooling. .

   "It's so fragrant, rich and noble, don't be busy with other things, or that's it, we can eat." Zhao Dahai shouted.

   The others also nodded vigorously.

   This sour, fragrant and appetizing sauerkraut fish makes you appetite when you smell it.

   "Don't worry everyone, just wait a little longer, it's very fast to eat rabbit and pepper chicken cold, or else there won't be enough food."

   There are five or six little wazis in total, and there are not enough dishes to fill the gaps between the teeth.

  While Chen Ling was talking, the pickled fish was out of the pot, and Qin Rongxian and his son also mixed the cold vegetables, and by the way they also made a double-cooked pork.

   Several people waited anxiously while smelling the fragrance.

It feels like every second is like a year. It's really not slow to say it slowly, but they still feel that the wait for a long time is really too tempting, and it attracts greedy worms. The only thing left in their minds is to eat, and the waiting is too hard for them. .

   "Woooo, I finally got this fish, I'm going to cry."

After all the dishes were served, Zhao Dahai exclaimed exaggeratedly.

   This fat man loves to make a fool of himself.

   He was still talking, and no one else could care to speak. The chopsticks rattled for a while, and the chopsticks almost fought.

   Soon the fish with sauerkraut was mostly dried.

   Zhao Dahai was stunned, and then cried out with a sad face: "Why are you eating so fast, I haven't picked up a few chopsticks yet."

   He is too fat, and his movements are not as fast as the little boys.

   "You don't eat all the calls, who's to blame?"

   The more he shouted, the more laughing everyone laughed, and the faster the chopsticks caught.

  The sauerkraut fish was finished quickly. We had already eaten watermelon just now. Everyone was a little full, so the speed slowed down.

  Chen Ling put out the chilled wine at this time and drank while eating. The meal was very lively.

   For these people, there are no outsiders today, they are all relatives and friends of Chen Ling, and no one is welcome.

   After eating, without resting, Chen Ling took the cow and the dog and led them to the reservoir to play with water. The adults and children had a great time.

   A few little boys also rode little white cows to swim around in the water. After the little boys in the village were attracted, they became more troubled, and they started a water fight directly.

   Later, all the adults also joined in, and they were all wet and couldn't take care of it. They all shouted and screamed, but they were very happy.

  …

  The first day of the baby's full moon is so lively, and on the first day of the full moon in July, it is even more lively.

  Waking up in the morning, Wang Lixian and Wang Jusheng took the villagers to the outside of the farm to get busy, cleaning, cleaning up the tables and chairs, and the dishes and bowls in the kitchen.

   Today, as long as there is no hatred and no grudges, and the relationship is good, Chen Ling will go to the house to notify in advance.

   So there are a lot of people coming.

  Wang Laishun and Chen Sangui are still the same as they are, they set up square tables and write down gift lists in the pavilion outside the farm.

   When they put the full moon wine for their children, some give money to the host family, some give things, such as pork, eggs, cloth, canned food, milk powder and so on.

   However, it is more about giving things than money, and it is more recognized by the owner.

   A few years ago, when they were so poor that they couldn't open the pot, the women in the countryside were confinement, and they relied on the full moon wine to supplement their bodies. Otherwise, where would they get the money to buy serious supplements.

  This is the way people come and go today, either carrying a basket or carrying a basket on their backs, one by one, carrying their belongings to the pavilion, and asking Wang Laishun and the two to register them on the gift list.

   and then walked into the farmhouse.

   At this time, Wang Lixian and others in the farm had set up tables and chairs.

The two chefs from Chenwangzhuang were the first to come. They came over last night to discuss with Chen Ling what to cook for today. This morning, Chen Ling wrote the ingredients to be bought on a piece of paper and asked Zhao Dahai to drive there. If you buy from the county, discuss it in advance, and don’t panic when you prepare.

  The farm was lively and lively, and when the mother-in-law came, they went to the bamboo building to visit Wang Susu and the children.

   The men stopped talking when they reached the wooden bridge beside the lotus pond. Chen Ling greeted them warmly.

   Today, Chen Ling was wearing an unusually formal dress. The guy put on a white shirt, and stepped on his leather shoes. His hair was also combed into the fashionable three-seven cents.

   Everyone who saw him said that he was very foreign today, and he was dressed more formally than the Chinese New Year.

After    praise, it is a congratulatory word.

  Most of the country people are introverted, and they are too direct to say it. They have to talk and laugh for a while before they bring it out in their words.

  Chen Ling was so happy no matter how he heard it.

   "Bao Liang is here, what are you doing with so many things? Come, smoke."

   "Oh, Aunt Xiuju, you have to be careful with your baby on the bridge, Xiao Mao, follow your grandma to eat more today."

   No matter who came, Chen Ling greeted him with a smile, and the smile blossomed on his face, and he couldn't hold back the smile he wanted to hold back.

  I was also overjoyed in my heart, I hoped, I hoped, I hoped, it was finally our turn to serve wine for my son, so can you be unhappy?

   "Chuangzi, why didn't you come, just count your last arrival, and you'll be fined three drinks later."

   "I, I, I, I wanted to come, come, come yesterday, the motorcycle broke down halfway, and it was just repaired."

   "Haha, come in, I'm joking with you, I don't blame you."

   This full moon wine was held in such a lively manner. All the people who came and went were relatives and friends, and everyone who could come from her family came.

   Not to mention Chen Ling was happy, even Wang Susu felt extremely happy and satisfied when she saw this lively scene inside and outside the farm.

   "Let's eat and drink at noon, don't be afraid if you think it's not enough, we have another meal in the evening."

After    and others came and took their seats, Chen Ling shouted, men, women and children clapped their hands and applauded, and the noisy atmosphere reached its peak for a while.

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