There is a married man

It has been more than a month, and the three little pigs in the family have become much stronger. I heard from Chen Liang that on the 25th of the twelfth lunar month, most people in the village have to kill pigs, and they pay attention to "clearing with one knife", otherwise it is unlucky, of course. The custom of killing pigs is not mandatory, after all, the rural people are not rich enough to kill pigs every year to reward the gods.

A few years ago, Chen Liang's family did not kill pigs, and the pigs were sold to the butchers in the town for some copper coins to celebrate the New Year. However, this year, because of the five sows per litter, Chen Liang decided to ask someone to kill them. The fat boar in the family is firstly used as a sacrifice to reward the gods, and secondly because the population of the family has increased, so a lot of meat and oil will be needed for the Chinese New Year. The last reason is to repay favors and thank the villagers Taking care of myself over the years.

Ai Qing was a little bit reluctant to part with her own boar, after all, she had fed it for more than three months, and she was pregnant, so it was really not suitable for seeing blood, so Chen Liang took the boar to the village commune, and finished it before that. the whole ceremony.

This pig is really strong, and the whole pig weighs more than 300 catties. The four members of the family divided the cut pork into large and small wooden basins, except for the pig's head and tail that Ai Qing soaked with salt, and a spare tank of pork. In addition, the rest were tied up by four people with straw ropes and sent to others.

On the 28th of the twelfth lunar month, according to the customs in the village, every household has to stay up late to steam rice cakes and make tofu and fried bean puffs, and Chen Liang's family is no exception.

Ai Qing is a special object, so it is not allowed to stay up late to wait for the rice cakes to be cooked, but it is allowed to help make rice cakes during the day.There are two kinds of rice cakes, one is glutinous rice flour with brown sugar, and the other is glutinous rice flour with minced meat.In the cold winter, rice cakes can be stored for a long time if they are stored properly, and when the villagers often walk around with each other, it is a good choice to take out some to entertain guests at that time.

Chen Liang and Su Yiyang were in charge of transporting the glutinous rice to the village commune, crushing it into powder with stones and taking it home, then they were driven to the kitchen to chop pork.Ai Qing and his father are naturally in charge of making rice cakes. The two pour the boiled brown sugar water into the glutinous rice flour in the pot, mix well, add finely ground peanuts, and knead repeatedly until the glutinous rice flour is soft and sticky. Then he ordered Chen Liang to bring a large steamer with a bottom made of zong leaves. Ai Qing and his father spread the pounded glutinous rice evenly on it, using three layers of the steamer.

Chen Liang and his father, a genius doctor, carried a large steamer weighing more than [-] kilograms to the cauldron on the stove, filled more than half of the boiling water in the pan, and covered it again.

In this way, the four of them worked together, and at night, several baskets of rice cakes were put into the pot smoothly, waiting to be steamed.

I'm afraid it's too late to make the tofu, and there is really no pot to fry the bean curd, so I can only wait for the rice cakes to come out of the pot tomorrow.

The rice cake is very thick, so it is not easy to steam it, at least it has to be steamed until the early morning of the next day. Su Yiyang was an elder, and Chen Liang was too embarrassed to let them guard him, so he took the initiative to take over, but he never thought that Su Yiyang would also stay. Li Yunqing was afraid that Ai Qing would get cold at night, so he proposed to sleep in the same room with Ai Qing.

Chen Liang could see that this father-in-law had something to say to him, and he was no longer stubborn. Moreover, after Ai Qing was pregnant, she was indeed more afraid of the cold than usual. She didn't hug him at night and wrap his feet tightly. I can't sleep well at all, and now I have my "mother-in-law" sleeping with me, so I feel a lot more at ease.

Ai Qing and her father had already left, and only Chen Liang and Su Yiyang were sitting in front of the firewood bar in the kitchen.

"Liang'er, can I call you that?" Su Yiyang spoke first.

"Well, you are Ai Qing's biological father, and you are also my father. You should be called Liang'er." Although Su Yiyang and Li Yunqing have been at Chen Liang's house for half a month, it is still very difficult for them to sit alone and chat like this. No, for Chen Liang, these two relatives are still a little strange to him.

"Father can tell that you are a responsible person, Qing'er trusts you very much, and loves you very much!"

"Cheng Meng can appreciate it, but," Chen Liang raised his head to look at his father-in-law, the fire in the stove reflected on that resolute face, shooting a breathtaking light, "Father, I love Qing'er too, and I will use my life and love him forever."

I spent half a month with Chen Liang, although the time was not long, but as far as his feelings for Ai Qing were concerned, Su Yiyang didn't think he would lose to his feelings for Li Yunqing. It was because he believed in Chen Liang that he was finally relieved. Li Niang told herself that the anger she felt when Qing'er married a farmer also gradually faded away. After all, Qing'er has found someone worth entrusting to her for the rest of her life!

"Liang'er, Dad trusts you, you should know that. Dad has been an upright person all his life, uninhibited by the world, and thinks he is upright. He has never lost anyone, but he doesn't want to make a big mistake. In fact, the person Dad is most sorry for in his life is himself. Qing'er, the biological son of Qing'er, gave birth to him but never fulfilled his duties as a father, and let him leave his parents as soon as he was born. Qing'er is too kind, never mentions the things about his childhood, and never resents me and Yun Er, for me and Yuner, this is joy but also shame."

The wood in the stove is still burning uninterruptedly, making a "magnetic" sound from time to time, accompanied by the firelight, adding a little warmth to the cold night.

"But Dad never regretted it. If I had to choose again, I would still choose to leave. Yun'er has paid too much for me, and I can't just watch him die because of this."

Chen Liang felt that he could understand the feelings of his father-in-law. If he had to choose between his child and Ai Qing, he would be the same as his father-in-law. If you can resist its magic power, let alone your partner who will be with you for a lifetime.

"Father, I believe that Qing'er must understand the truth, so he never resented you and father; if I were you, I would be the same as you."

The firewood in the stove was dimmed, and Chen Liang picked out some large pieces of wood from the firewood rail behind him and stuffed them in.

"Thank you." Up to now, only these two words can truly express Su Yiyang's mood at this moment.

After that, the two of them didn't talk any more, just silently guarding the boiling water in the pot and the firewood in the stove.

Ai Qing and her father slept all night, but they both cared about the two men in the kitchen, so they didn't sleep well. They got up before dawn, washed up briefly, and went to the kitchen hand in hand.

Coincidentally, the two stepped into the kitchen when they saw Chen Liang and Su Yiyang extinguishing the fire in the stove. It turned out that the rice cakes were steaming!

When Chen Liang saw Ai Qing, he hurried over to help him, and said worriedly, "Why do you get up so early?"

"It's not about worrying about someone." A relaxed and harmonious environment can always stimulate people's nature, and Li Yunqing is one of them. This habit of teasing people may not be able to change.

Ai Qing is used to his father's frequent "teasing and teasing", so he doesn't care. If his character explodes, he can still win the opponent's army, but today Ai Qing is obviously not in the mood, and all his concerns are constantly being radiated by the pot The aroma attracts.

As soon as the steamer is opened, the rice cakes with the fragrance of zong leaves are freshly baked.

Ai Qing took the chopsticks and wiped the top layer of rice cakes, and felt that the glutinous rice cakes were already cooked, so she ordered Chen Liang to take off the rice cakes layer by layer and place them on the wooden table.

Sweet and greasy, soft and slippery!

There is a characteristic of rice cakes. It tastes completely different when eaten hot and cold.If it is hot, it will be soft and sweet; if it is served cold, it will be crispy and cold.Ai Qing prefers to eat hot food, so he couldn't wait for this freshly out of the cage. He quickly took the knife and wanted to cut a few pieces, but Li Yunqing snatched it, "You don't care about your body, can you move this knife?" ?”

Ai Qing pursed her lips, wanting to refute, 【I cook a lot of normal meals myself. 】However, hey, he stroked his stomach, 【Son, Dad has paid a lot for you. 】

Li Yunqing carefully cut off a few large pieces and put them into four wooden bowls. Chen Liang picked up one of the bowls and handed it to Ai Qing with wooden chopsticks. When he saw the delicious food, he seemed to be out of a fetus. Ai Qing opened his mouth and bit. , "Ah, ah, it's hot, it's hot..."

Chen Liang quickly poured a cup of warm tea and put it in his mouth to feed him. Since his father-in-law and "mother-in-law" were all there, it was hard to blame Ai Qing for his carelessness, but it was Ai Qing's father Li Yunqing who said, "You child, How can you be so careless, it's really hard for a good son."

[What, I am also very powerful, feeding Chen Liang so strong, although, although he is already very tall. 】

Chen Liang looked at someone who kept pouting and slandering, his eyes were full of smiles, it was hard to expose, otherwise he would have to sleep in the guest room again at night.

The yellow and sweet rice cakes are really delicious, especially the ones that have just come out of the cage. The fragrance of the zong leaves has not disappeared, and it remains in the soft cake, which is very chewy.The four of them ate a lot in the morning, and Quan regarded it as breakfast.

Chen Liang found a ventilated place for the remaining two baskets of rice cakes, waiting for them to freeze and harden.

Now that the meal is full, the next step is to make tofu and fried bean puffs.

The soybeans grown here are a bit hard, so Ai Qing had already shelled and washed them last night, soaked them in a water tank, fished them out early this morning, and the soaking time was just right. If it was too long, the pulp would be lost. I really can't make tofu anymore.

Chen Liang went to the room to find the gypsum he bought in the market that day, put it in the fire and roasted it, and took it out after it was lightly crushed and just burned the heart.

The next step is to grind the soybeans and filter the slurry. Put the soybeans mixed with an appropriate proportion of water in a sack and put them on the stone mill, and press them hard to squeeze out the soybean milk. This procedure is done two or three times until it is confirmed that you can squeeze it out Until there is no soy milk.

Chen Liang put the bean dregs in the sack aside, poured the soy milk in a wooden basin into the pot and boiled it directly, while Ai Qing ground the burnt gypsum into powder, mixed it with water to make gypsum slurry, and saw that the surface of the soy milk was boiled When the foam comes out, sprinkle the gypsum slurry into the soybean milk, stir gently with a spoon and mix thoroughly, and wait for the soybean milk to condense into bean curd.

After about a quarter of an hour, Chen Liang picked up the wooden basin and slowly poured the condensed bean curd into the tray prepared by Ai Qing in advance with a light gauze bottom. When it was full, covered the top layer of the bean curd with gauze, Cover it with a flat wooden board and squeeze it with a stone. You only need to wait for half an hour, and the smooth and sweet tofu will be ready!

Seeing that there were still a lot of bean curds left in the wooden basin, Ai Qing quickly asked Chen Liang to find a wooden bowl and put them in. He took a bite out with a spoon, put it in his mouth and tasted it. The sweet and slippery taste is enough to make Ai Qing happy.

"Daddy, Daddy, what flavor do you want to eat?" Holding a bowl of bean curd, Ai Qing asked the two of them.

"?" Both of them showed puzzled expressions, even Chen Liang was puzzled.

No way, have they never eaten bean curd?

"I mean, for this tofu curd, do you want it sweet or spicy?" Ai Qing added tentatively.

"Is this food edible?" Su Yiyang admits that he has eaten a lot of delicacies, but he has never heard that bean curd before tofu can be eaten.

"Of course I can, and it's delicious. I'll make it for you to try. You just need to tell me the taste." This Sichuan bean curd is so famous, why have they never tried it?Do people here only make tofu and not tofu?

Undoubtedly, all three of them chose the strong spicy flavor. This sweet flavor is suitable for children.

Ai Qing found the chili oil that she made a few days ago from the cupboard, poured a few spoonfuls into a bowl, added salt, soy sauce, peppercorns, shallots and fried golden beans, stirred it carefully, and tasted it with chopsticks After tasting it, I handed the bean curd to my father.

Su Yiyang and Chen Liang stood aside, looking at the red bowl of bean curd, they couldn't help swallowing, feeling a little greedy; Li Yunqing hesitated, but the bowl of bean curd seemed to have a magical power, as if he would be unconsciously attracted to it, picked up the spoon He took a sip and put it in his mouth.

Ai Qing was looking forward to it. After all, this is something that no one has eaten before. This is probably the first of his own. "Dad, how does it taste? Is it delicious?"

Li Yunqing didn't answer, but his actions proved the magic power of that bowl of bean curd. After a while, the small bowl was wiped out. After taking the wet cloth from Su Yiyang and wiping the corners of his mouth, he said, " Qing'er, Daddy really didn't know that there is such a delicious food in this world, you should cook more, this lunch is probably enough."

Seeing Li Yunqing's reaction, Su Yiyang and Chen Liang immediately extended an invitation to Ai Qing.

The bean curd feast didn't stop until the three of them were too spicy to eat anymore.

Ai Qing made a few more bowls with the remaining bean curd, including a sweet one, which was naturally prepared for Wang Xiaohu, and ordered Chen Liang to pack it in a food box and give it to Brother Wang, Mrs. Wang and Aunt Chen Bo to taste it. fresh.

Since that day, the rumors that bean curd is edible and delicious have spread...

The author has something to say: I suddenly want to eat authentic Sichuan bean curd, the kind of hawker walking on the street, a small bowl of 1.5 yuan red bean curd, woo woo, I can’t eat anything in Beijing.

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