The years when I opened a farmhouse in my hometown

After setting her mind, Shen Xiaoyun respectfully poured fruit juice for each of the villagers sitting there. After pouring, she added juice to her own cup, and waited for Grandpa to finish saying thank you, and toasted everyone with Grandpa. .

After finishing the table, Shen Xiaoyun conveniently brought the bottle of juice, because next, there will be nearly [-] tables to be toasted. This is still shared with his father and grandfather, and there will be many more.

If the elder brother was at home, it would be everyone's turn to have less, Shen Xiaoyun thought to himself, and added some juice to Grandpa's wine glass again.

Walk along the village, go to every house to toast, and finish the toasts for thirty tables. When Shen Xiaoyun returned to the next yard again, found his own seat and sat down, it was already half an hour after the bowl of fish balls was served.

The fish balls in the big soup basin were almost eaten, and there were a dozen white, round fish balls floating here and there.

I haven't finished eating the fish balls, and I only ate half of the fried fungus with sliced ​​meat, because the follow-up hot dishes are served one after another. It won't be like at the beginning, it will be eaten as soon as it comes up.

Shen Xiaoyun had a toast with his grandfather for half an hour, and she was a little hungry. Seeing the rich dishes on the table, she picked up chopsticks and started eating.

As soon as they sat down, the elders at the same table began to urge Shen Xiaoyun to eat quickly, and another one was exaggerated, maybe because she was afraid that Shen Xiaoyun would not eat after toasting, and used a small bowl to fill several delicious dishes. The food in the bowl can't hold it.

"Here, Xiaoxiao, I picked out the good ones and left them specially for you. Just now, there is a dish of fried shrimp that is delicious, and the tripe is also good. I haven't eaten this for a long time. It's really delicious. I think Everyone is in a hurry to eat, so I put some for you in advance. Eat quickly." The one who left food for Shen Xiaoyun alone was a grandma, seeing the grandma handing over the bowl, Shen Xiaoyun thanked again and again, and continued Come here and eat slowly.

When eating banquets in the village, the elders at the same table will generally feel sorry for the younger generation, and will add a little food to them, for fear that the other party will not eat it, and feel that it is a pity.

After all, this banquet is not eaten every day. No matter how good the conditions in the village are, it is impossible to eat fresh fish every meal.

Treatment like Shen Xiaoyun's was more than ten years ago. At that time, Shen Xiaoyun was still young, only a small bean sprout, so a little tall.In the past, the conditions in Yunshui Village were even worse. The pigs raised by the family were reluctant to eat, and the elders of the family drove them to the town to sell some money. Occasionally, they could eat meat dishes during the Chinese New Year.

Then there was the banquet. At that time, the food was not as abundant as it is now, and the banquet was even more embarrassing. Generally, a representative of a family held a banquet, and then there were only ten tables in the whole village. It is not like now that the whole village can have a banquet.

And at that time, children, young ones, were not allowed to sit at the table, because there were simply not enough seats, and only the elders and representatives of the family could sit at the banquet.At that time, the conditions were really tough. Don’t say anything delicious like fruit juice drinks. It would be very good to have water chestnuts in syrup, or sweet potatoes and taro in syrup. It’s really rare for all children to have a cup of rice wine boiled raisins Every time it is served, the adults at the table are reluctant to eat it. They will use a spoon to put some in a small bowl, and then pass it to the children behind them.

These children were brought from their own homes, and they ate a little bit. At that time, the conditions were not good, not just in one family, but in every family, and sugar water was an extremely luxurious thing.

The children are all thin and dry, with sunken eye sockets and tanned and rough skin.The children in difficult conditions have never eaten anything delicious since childhood. Every time they open a banquet, they are as happy as the New Year. They sing and dance happily, tell each other, and are very enthusiastic, as if showing off. It also seems to be proud, sharing with the friends in the same village that he is going to drink soon.

So the other children also let go of their feet, barefoot, and the barefoot made a crisp sound of clicking on the dirt road, and rushed back, yelling to follow to the banquet before they entered the door.

And at that time, Shen Xiaoyun was also one of them. At that time, his skin was much thicker than now. He was very skinny and shameless. Every time he ate a banquet, he pestered the elders at home to take him with him.Because each family can only have one elder to go to the banquet, and can only bring some children at the same time, otherwise there will be too many people, the dishes on the banquet will not be as large as they are now, and the dishes and soup bowls will not be as big as the current ones. If you are full, and a few children with big appetites, that's fine.

Shen Xiaoyun gnawed on the already cold salt and pepper prawns. Although the meat of the prawns was cold and hard, the taste was not bad, so he could still eat it. This was the grandmother's wish.

Think back to that time, every time he pestered the adults to go to a banquet, his brother who was two years older than him would stand silently aside, most of the time he would not speak, and occasionally seeing Shen Xiaoyun being too naughty, he would even offer: "Let Xiaoxiao go eat, Xiaoxiao is too thin, eat more good ones, so that she can grow taller."

Facts have proved that eating well doesn't necessarily mean growing tall. Shen Xiaoyun is two to four or five centimeters shorter than his brother.

Maybe it's because he was so wicked when he was young...

Always bullied his brother, alas...

Why was he so ignorant when he was a child, Shen Xiaoyun thought in his heart, brother will be back tomorrow, if only he came back today, so that he could sit at the same table and eat the familiar banquet together.

This is what they yearned for most when they were young, and when they grow up, the young juniors are less willing to eat banquets.It's not that they don't like the food at the banquet. In fact, these meals are much more delicious than usual. They are the superb performances of the aunts and mothers in the village who can cook. They make every dish to the extreme and are full of expectations.

They don't want to eat banquets because the elders are too caring, caring, and worrying. When they are on the table, they will ask you how your studies are going?What about the school ranking?Have you been rewarded by the school, or have you made money outside?What class do you work on, where is it, is it a good job where you sit in an office and blow the air conditioner?Or, you haven't talked about a girlfriend yet, you are so old, why don't you talk about one?It's time for you to start a family, why don't you have a baby, if you want to have a son...

The people who asked this thought there was nothing wrong with it, and felt that this was just casual talk, and the juniors were very annoyed, especially the special representatives of the village. The two brothers of the Shen family who had good grades and were capable of making money were typical representatives of Yunshui Village: you Look at how smart Xiaoxiao is, she got No.1 in the exam and got a 50 yuan scholarship!He is still the flag-bearer at school, look at you...

Doted on by the whole village, and with the brilliance of a schoolmaster, Shen Xiaoyun painfully and happily accepted these kind and various entreaties.

Thinking about the fear of repairing black and white TVs, old-fashioned DVD players, sewing machines, and even broken textile machines in the village, Shen Xiaoyun felt that eating the tripe in this bowl was extremely stressful.

There are advantages and disadvantages. The friends in the same village only see the side of his halo, but they don't see the fear behind his halo.

After eating the salt and pepper prawns and stir-fried tripe in the small bowl, Shen Xiaoyun had time to look at the dishes on the table. The hot dishes and soups needed for the banquet were almost all prepared, and the big Eight Immortals table was full. In the center are several large soup pots, including the fish balls that Shen Xiaoyun has never eaten, the ribs and corn soup in a large soup pot, and the fish ball noodles stewed with a whole chicken. The whole chicken is roasted together, and the chicken soup is very fragrant.Surrounding the three big soup pots, there are two circles of plates. These plates contain the salt and pepper prawns that Shen Xiaoyun saw, but now the plate is almost empty, and there are only two or three prawns on the plate.Next to it is a pile of tall pickled pork with plum vegetables. The large pieces of soy sauce-colored oily pork belly are almost enough to eat, but there are quite a lot of dried plum vegetables.Then there are fried chicken legs, there are still a lot of chicken legs, and they are still spicy, and they look very appetizing.Next to the fried chicken legs was fried tripe, which Shen Xiaoyun could tell from the leftovers on the plate.

Everyone eats delicious food first. This kind of tacit understanding is the same at every banquet table.

There are still a lot of fatty sausages stir-fried with sharp peppers, because they are more spicy and have a unique smell of mutton. Those who like them will not love them, and those who don’t like them will not touch them with chopsticks, so there are still a lot of them left. few.

Braised bream, the crispy skin of these breams has been eaten, the soft belly, the Q-shaped fish lips, and the fish eyes have all been eaten, and the rest is the thorny back of the fish without the meat After eating, there is a lot of thickening with strong fragrance. After I tasted it, I think the taste is not bad.

The crispy and delicious fried crispy meat is finished, only a little mince is on the plate.

The stewed old duck with tender mushrooms and bamboo shoots has been dismantled and the duck meat has been eaten, leaving the duck feet, duck neck, duck head, and some bamboo shoots and mushrooms.

The smoked and roasted big fat goose slices are thin and shiny. Each slice has a crispy outer skin and tender goose meat. There is also a dipping plate next to the big plate, which is convenient for different tastes of the guests.

Pork belly and fat pigeons are cooked together in soup. The soup is rich and mellow. The pork belly is fat and not greasy. It tastes soft and chewy. The pigeon meat is very tender and fat. The soup is sweet and delicious. , every bite is the essence of the food.

Shen Xiaoyun saw that almost no one had touched the dish, so she took a few sips from the spoon in her hand.

Tsk tsk, it's so fragrant and delicious.

The fried pork belly of twice-cooked pork is very good. The greasy fatty meat is stir-fried to release excess fat. Not to mention the creaking sound in the mouth, it is very fragrant in the mouth, even more fragrant than the lean meat in the pork belly. The crispy pork skin is especially exciting.

Stewed glutinous rice with smoked meat is also good. The combination of the salty and fragrant taste and the soft and sweet glutinous rice caters to the picky tongue.

Large granules, large pieces of braised pork are red in color, just like beautiful red snake fruits, bright in color, bright red and shiny, each piece is soft, when the chopsticks touch it, the fat part is glued Like an object, it swayed and trembled for a long time, refusing to stop.

This braised pork not only looks good in color, but also tastes sweet and melts in the mouth. It looks fatty, but it doesn't feel greasy or greasy in your mouth. There is a smell of meat and wine, which makes people linger, and when the aftertaste comes, another piece enters the mouth again.

There were a few empty soup bowls, looking at the residues at the bottom, Shen Xiaoyun guessed that they should be oranges in syrup, plums in syrup, and red dates and fungus. This kind of sweet drink will be served in the middle of some hot and meat dishes. The guests at the banquet go to the greasy mouth, and it is also to relieve the thirst of the guests.Because in the past, there were not so many fruit juice drinks. If you eat too much food and want to drink water, you have to go to this house to ask for a glass of water to drink. Appetizing, it is a very good dish.

No, the older generation in the village should like to eat this kind of sour, sweet little dessert.

The second round of plates has cooked thinly sliced ​​sausages, fried pork slices with celery, fried lotus root clips, the skin is crispy, and the inside is soft and tender tofu with minced meat. There is also a plate of fried small fish, fatty meat fried tea tree in a fragrant pot Mushrooms, stir-fried yuba with sour peppers, deep-fried crispy spring rolls, soft, tender, goose-yellow fried dumplings, steamed eel, stir-fried loach, and various sauced meatballs.The balls are smaller than fish balls, only the size of lotus seeds. The fermented flour paste is mixed with chopped water chestnut balls, fresh and sweet shiitake mushroom balls, tender and refreshing tofu balls, and delicious Shrimp meatballs, fragrant spinach balls, and fragrant pork balls, each of which is small and full of flavors, you can eat several flavors with a spoon. This is also an extremely authentic hometown dish. Shen Xiaoyun temporarily Haven't eaten yet.

This sauce meatball soup uses some thickening. There is boiled sauce meat in the soup. The sauce meat is finely minced meat. The soup is fragrant. When drinking, it is soft and slippery. Smooth, and a few more different flavors, but very chewy, springy balls, really delicious.

Shen Xiaoyun ate two mouthfuls in a row, and was about to continue eating, when at this moment, another aunt came over with a sumptuous dish.

This time it was a small hot pot. Shen Xiaoyun took a look at the hot pot and found that it was a rare mutton hot pot. The large pieces of lamb chops and white radish inside were stewed together with the hot pot base. The aroma made people's noses itch.

Well, let’s skip the sauced meatballs and eat mutton hot pot first.

These sheep are raised by the village themselves, and they are probably killed today. The mutton is very fresh, and look at the mutton chops, each piece is fat and thin. It looks like very good mutton. This kind of hot pot tastes good enough .

The hot pot on their side is still old-fashioned, the bottom is like an earthen pot, the middle is sunken, and there are small windows on all sides. The alcohol in the glass bottle is poured in, and the fire is lit with a match. After the alcohol burns, put the A small iron pot.

The small fire is slowly burning, and the aroma of the mutton hot pot wafts to every corner of Yunshui Village.