Happy Farmer's Life

Du Weiming woke up to the sound of the baby crying, thinking it was the baby waking up, hey, the baby is not on his bed, who is sleeping next to him, after a closer look, it turned out to be Jing Yuan, I don’t know when he came , I guess it's another big night.Hey, I really don't know what to say about him.

Du Weiming hurriedly helped the doll get dressed, and took him to the main room. Jing Yuan was probably too tired, and the doll's crying had no effect on him, and he was still sound asleep.Carefully fix the quilt for him, see him like this, let him wake up before asking him to eat.Du Weiming dressed himself and went to the main room.

"Brother, why did I run into that little bed, the doll obviously slept with my brother?"

"Baby, the brother inside came here last night, and there is no place for him to sleep at home, so is it okay for the baby to sleep in the small bed for the past two days, is it okay for him to sleep with his brother for the next two days?"

The doll thought about it and nodded.After the elder brother inside left, I went to sleep with my elder brother.Let him go temporarily now, but why can't he sleep with his uncle and the others? The baby was just wondering, and didn't say it out.

There are still a few days before the Chinese New Year. When Jing Yuan left last time, he promised to cook delicious food next time.It is best to eat hot pot in such a cold day. After breakfast, Du Weiming asked Wang Wu to go to town immediately, and gave him the usual money to buy an iron pot and draw the appearance of the iron pot he needed Give him the picture, and Wang Wu immediately set out on the road.Tell Wang Wu to buy some more charcoal by the way, since there is not much charcoal at home, if there is good mutton, he will buy some more mutton.

Du Weiming started to deal with the things he bought yesterday.The five catties of mutton I bought was for braised mutton in soy sauce, and it would not be enough for hot pot, so I asked Wang Wu to buy some more.The braised mutton is delicious. The most important thing is not to add water when cooking. All the wine is used without a drop of water. The mutton needs to be cooked for a long time. Let Lian Da watch the fire and start cooking other dishes. that's it.Du Weiming decided to eat braised mutton noodles for lunch.

There are quite a lot of pork at home. Last time, Du Weiming wanted to chop the wild boar into meat sauce. Today, I will fry the meatballs and make lion heads, and save some meat for shredded pork, sliced ​​meat and so on.The matter of chopping the meat sauce was handed over to Zhou Wen, and Du Weiming kneaded the noodles to make noodles for noon.When Du Weiming makes noodles, he will add two eggs when kneading the noodles, so that the noodles will be more fragrant and delicious.Jing Yuan also likes to eat wontons, and wontons will be made tomorrow.

Zhou Wen had to chop a lot of minced meat today, estimated to be ten catties. Du Weiming asked him to divide it into two parts. The family even made a large chopping board for pork chopping, and it just came in handy now.Add cooking wine, salt, onion, and ginger to the pork, and put the chopped pork directly in the wooden basin.Du Weiming specially bought two small wooden basins, which can be used for food.

When Du Weiming's noodles were almost ready, Liu Jingyuan came out of the room.

"Jing Yuan, are you awake?"

"Morning, Weiming."

"It's still early, it's time for lunch. Go and wash up, and have mutton noodles for lunch today."

When Liu Jingyuan heard this, he hurried to wash up, and Zhou Wen brought him hot water.Not to mention that the earthen stove in the country is really good. There is a round place in the middle of the two big iron pots, which is specially used to heat hot water.In this way, when the pot is cooking, you add some water there, and when the rice is cooked, the water is also hot.So as long as you cook, you don’t need to heat hot water at home, and it’s also useful.

The mutton in the pot is almost ready, the soup is thick, poke it with chopsticks, well, the skin is crispy enough, take more than half of the mutton out and put it in a big bowl.When you want to eat it in the next few days, you can just heat it up. Of course, it will be more delicious if you put some green vegetables in it.The rest of the mutton is the topping for noon.

Boil hot water in another large pot, and Du Weiming is ready to start.When he turned back to get the noodles, Du Weiming found that Jing Yuan was actually playing with the doll. Seeing that they were having fun, Du Weiming didn't say anything.The baby smelled the smell of meat and cried out to eat, Du Weiming scolded him a few words, he is not happy, it is good to have Jing Yuan to play with him.

Thin and smooth noodles, served with a few slices of radish and green vegetables, the top is of course the roasted crispy mutton.Du Weiming served the baby and Jing Yuan first, Jing Yuan was a big bowl, and the baby was a small bowl.Then came Zhou Wen and Lian Da, and the last pot was his own.When he came to the table, Liu Jingyuan's bowl of noodles was almost finished.

"Jingyuan, eat slowly, it will help digestion. There is still noodles in the pot, do you want to add some more?"

"it is good."

Du Weiming added some to Jing Yuan, Lian Da and Zhou Wen, and his own bowl was enough.

"Brother, this meat is really delicious."

"Baby, you can't eat too much of this meat, my brother burned a lot, so I can eat it tomorrow."

"Okay." Wawa knew that my brother was not stingy. Just now, my brother said that this is called mutton, and children should not eat too much.Liu Jingyuan finished off two bowls of noodles, plus many pieces of mutton, it is really comfortable to eat some hot food in winter.

Zhou Wen cleaned up the dishes, and Du Weiming continued to work.Jing Yuan, forget it, let him teach the doll how to write.I've been a little busy these two days, so I don't have time to teach.Liu Jingyuan took the order to go, the baby had to take a nap every day, Du Weiming asked them to take a rest when they were tired from studying, and call him if there was anything.

The task in the afternoon is croquettes and lion heads.Take almost half of the minced meat sauce, add egg white, and squeeze a ball with your hands. After the oil pan is heated, it should not be too hot, otherwise the balls will be burnt.At this time, Du Weiming missed the natural gas stove very much. The fire can be as big or small as you like, and it all depends on technology.Fortunately, Lian Da's level is not bad, and the fire control is not bad, except for the two that were a bit burnt at the beginning, the rest are not bad.Du Weiming made two kinds of meatballs. The smaller meatballs can be used in soup or hot pot. The larger ones are lion heads, which are deep-fried.

Zhou Wen replaced himself with croquettes.Du Weiming saved the rest of the meat sauce, let's save this to make wontons tomorrow.The meat and bones are stewed in another pot, which is a big pot, which is the soup base of the hot pot.There are no requirements for stewing pork bones. Wash the pork bones and put onion, ginger and cooking wine. After boiling on high heat, simmer on low heat. This will take an afternoon.

Taking advantage of his free time, Du Weiming went to the room to have a look. Jing Yuan and the baby were already asleep.Looking at Jing Yuan's blue eyes, Du Weiming felt a little sour, hey, I don't know he hasn't had a good rest for a few days.After covering them with quilts and closing the door, Du Weiming came out to continue working.

With meatballs, Du Weiming thought of making some fishballs.Just use the big herring I bought yesterday.Chop off the head and tail of the herring, the fish head will be cooked in soup, and the fish tail will be braised in soy sauce.This fish weighs more than ten catties, so of course you don’t need that much to make fish balls, just take half of it.After removing the fish skin, it is time to remove the fish bones. The most troublesome part of making this fish ball is picking the spines. It took Du Weiming almost an hour to pick the spines.After deboning, smash the fish with the back of a knife, put chopped green onion, minced ginger, cooking wine, and salt into the fish paste, and stir well.The stirring blade is very particular, you can only use chopsticks to stir the minced fish in one direction, and it must only be in one direction, so as to strengthen the minced fish and prevent the fish balls from falling apart.When it feels very sticky and tight, add some water, then stir in one direction, repeat several times, feel that the fish paste is very elastic, and it is almost done. , don’t wait for the water to boil, wait until there are many bubbles at the bottom of the water, pour a little cooking wine in the water, keep the water from boiling, take the minced fish with your left hand, squeeze it out from the tiger’s mouth in your left hand, take a small spoon in your right hand, dip it in clean water, and then use the small spoon Put the extruded fish balls into the water, just like this one by one, it will be done soon.Of course, before taking the squeezed fish balls with a small spoon, dip them in clean water first, so that the fish balls will not easily stick to the spoon.The last time I made fish balls seemed to be a long time ago. Du Weiming tried it a few times, but he got started very quickly. The white and tender fish balls came out of the pot in one piece. This is good for soup and so on. Of course, it’s hot pot It is also indispensable.

In fact, when Du Weiming was making fish balls, Liu Jingyuan and Wawa had already got up, so they didn't bother him when they saw that he was busy.After the doll's handwriting was finished, I went to play with my little friend, and told him to come back before dinner.Liu Jingyuan just stood in the kitchen and watched Du Weiming go about his business.In fact, Weiming's appearance can only be regarded as handsome, but beside him, he feels very warm, just like the feeling when he was with his mother and concubine when he was a child.Liu Jingyuan fell into deep thought, he was awakened by Wang Wu's actions.Wang Wu came back from the town, and the pot was already made, but it was not ready today, and it was agreed that he would pick it up the day after tomorrow at the earliest.The day after tomorrow is New Year's Eve, so I can eat hot pot when I take it back.

Du Weiming asked Wang Wu to rest and make the fish balls in his hand.Don't look at it as if it's easy to do, but it's actually a lot of work, you have to keep staring at it, and if you don't do it right, the fish balls will fall apart.When he finished a large bowl of fish balls, Du Weiming felt his arms go numb.

Zhou Wen made the dinner, and Du Weiming didn't have the strength to make it anymore.After taking a few salted duck eggs out, Du Weiming spread the meat sauce on the bottom of the bowl, knocked a few salted duck eggs on top, steamed them in a pan, and a bowl of stewed eggs with meat pancakes was ready.Let Zhou Wen do the rest.

Stewed eggs with meat patties, hot and sour cabbage, braised radish, steamed dried bamboo shoots with bacon, and two big bowls of three delicacies soup, plus rice.In this three delicacies soup, there are meat balls and fish balls made by Du Weiming today, as well as black fungus, mushrooms and cabbage, which has received unanimous praise from everyone.Especially the fish balls, everyone ate them for the first time, and they thought they were very good.The rice is white rice, Zhou Wen didn't dare to eat brown rice for the prince, he didn't know that his prince could also eat brown rice.

After dinner, Du Weiming made a pot of tea, of course it was mint tea. The mint leaves in front of the house were harvested and dried in autumn. There were a lot of them, and it was estimated that they could be eaten for a year.Some pastries bought in the town were also brought out, and everyone gathered around the table, drinking tea, eating pastries, and chatting about the family's gossip, which was very warm.