After graduation, I went home to keep bees

"Dad, get busy, I'll cook!" Jiang Xiaoman put down the basket and ran to wash his hands.

When he was at home, he almost didn't let his father cook, not because he felt sorry for his father, but mainly because of Jiang Youliang's cooking skills, which really made the chef in their school cafeteria cry.

Jiang Youliang also knew that his son was not used to the food he cooked, so he smiled and shouted at him: "I just burned a piece of bacon, and I picked up a bag of mushrooms on the way back in the afternoon, you fry the bacon, and make another That's soup."

Jiang Xiaoman raised his eyebrows, but he didn't expect his father to be able to make side dishes. Stir-fried mushrooms with bacon is indeed a good dish.

However, one dish and one soup for two people might not be enough to eat. After washing my hands, I went to the kitchen for a while and saw a white radish in the kitchen basket. Pour in and stir-fry, then pour in the sliced ​​white radish, stir-fry for a while, pour in a bowl of water, cover the pot, and after the water dries up, a bowl of stewed radish with bacon is ready.

While stewing the radishes, Jiang Xiaoman poured out the wild mushrooms his father had cleaned up.

This fungus was picked up in the pine forest on the mountain behind his house. It is a small yellow-brown umbrella, and it tastes very delicious when used to stir-fry bacon or stewed chicken!Of course, their family is usually reluctant to buy meat or kill chickens, but this fried pepper with pine mushrooms is also delicious...

This kind of pine fungus is very tender. It does not need to be cut with a knife. After washing, the large ones are broken in half by hand, and the small ones do not need to be broken. Just put them in the pan and fry them.

The father and son were busy with their own affairs, and took the opportunity to communicate with each other.Jiang Youliang first asked how the school was doing, and when he heard that the two teachers could handle it, Jiang Xiaoman helped with the cooking, and when he came back at night, he dropped off the children who lived far away, and secretly heaved a sigh of relief.

Not many people in the mountains have ever studied, and teachers who teach and educate people are always considered sacred. Although Jiang Youliang always brags that he raised a college student, he also knows that Jiang Xiaoman does not have such a "teacher certificate", for fear of his son. The few remaining students in Jiang Baichuan were misled...

Jiang Xiaoman asked his father what he was doing at home today. Jiang Youliang had a lot to say about this question, so he immediately showed off his "accomplishment" to his son without interruption——

Early in the morning, I cooked all the pig food for the day at home, and fed the chickens;

I went to the mountains in the morning and picked dozens of catties of tea leaves, and went to pick up the fungus after eating;

When I came back in the afternoon, I tidied up the vegetable field. The elders cut off all the green vegetables and fed them to the pigs. They cleared out a piece of land to plant soybeans. In the evening, they chopped up a piece of bacon, burned it, washed it, and cleaned it.

Jiang Xiaoman listened with a smile, and took out the stewed radishes from the pot, washed the pot and poured oil, put the cut bacon and mushrooms in it and continued to fry. Everyone here likes spicy food, especially the fried mushrooms For chili, Jiang Xiaoman cut half a bowl of chili and put it in. The room was filled with a fresh and hot aroma, mixed with the fresh fragrance of pine fungus, so Jiang Youliang couldn't sit still, so he took the initiative to come over to help his son Serve rice.

The family usually eats stewed rice mixed with sweet potatoes. Jiang Youliang only scooped up a bowl of rice, so that the cooked rice is enough for his son. He can eat the sweet potatoes on top of the rice. For the finished sweet potatoes, add some water tomorrow morning and cut some green vegetable leaves to boil, add some salt, and you will have a breakfast.

Seeing that his father had given him all the rice again, Jiang Xiaoman didn't even have the energy to object.

He just knew it!As long as he is still a son, his father will definitely leave him the best food in the family.

However, when eating, he sandwiched several pieces of fat and thin bacon for Jiang Youliang in one go: "Dad, eat more meat. The school doctor at our school said that my blood pressure is a bit high, so it's best to eat less cured meat." .”

"What?!" Hearing this, Jiang Youliang put down the bowl he just picked up, "The pork we slaughtered can't be kept fresh. If it doesn't work, I have to buy a refrigerator and come back. I heard that the pork in the refrigerator Frozen meat won't go bad after a year..."

Jiang Xiaoman didn't expect that his father would go to buy a refrigerator just because of his words, so he pressed his father down dumbfoundingly: "It has nothing to do with meat, it's just that our school food is so good, we eat fish and meat all day long, The doctor said to tell us to eat more vegetarian dishes, vegetarian food is healthy!"

"Hey! Then this year I will order a variety of dishes. We don't have many other things in the mountains. We can't finish eating wild vegetables and fruits." Jiang Youliang believed in his son's words, because when the village organized a physical examination last year, many people followed him. He was about the same age, and either he was found to have high blood pressure or high blood lipids. His doctor did indeed say that he should eat less pickled meat and more vegetables.

Jiang Youliang picked up a lot of fungus. This kind of pine fungus could not be eaten in one day, and the taste would not be good the next day. Jiang Xiaoman simply cooked them all. Most of them were fried with bacon and chili, and he couldn’t finish them tomorrow morning. I can still eat porridge, and I also grabbed a handful, sliced ​​it and made an egg soup, which was extremely fresh.

The father and son were starving after a busy day, and the food tonight was very good. They ate all the rice crusts at the bottom of the pot, scooped out the rice crusts, and soaked half a bowl of wild mushroom egg soup. It was delicious. .

"Dad, don't eat pickled rice tomorrow morning. I'll make you some gnocchi to eat, just boil the remaining bacon bone to make the soup base." After eating, Jiang Xiaoman washed the dishes and chopsticks first. While frying tea leaves, he took out the old-fashioned hand-cranked honey bucket at home, intending to shake the honey from the two honeycombs he picked just now.

There were just two pieces, not too big, and they were shaken off after a while. There was still some honey in the remaining beeswax, and the father and son didn't waste it. They chewed and ate them for fun while working.

After packing the shaken honey, Jiang Xiaoman went to the kitchen again. In the evening, he washed the bones and skin from the fried bacon, added half a pot of water, put it in a large pot to simmer slowly, washed his hands, Hurry up and help his dad fry tea.

The tea leaves in their family are all wild tea picked from the mountains. They don’t look good, but they taste very fragrant. In the past, the family was poor. In order to save money for his own schooling, Jiang Youliang roasted some tea leaves and carried them down the mountain to sell every year. The price is not high, but a small amount makes a lot of money. The money sold for a season of tea is basically enough for his tuition and miscellaneous expenses for a semester.

Living expenses are subsidized by poor students from the school, and Jiang Xiaoman will also sell scraps to save money, so there is nothing to worry about.

People here are used to drinking green tea that is hand-fried in a firewood stove. The tea leaves picked that day are first picked out of impurities, and then spread flat on a bamboo mat to dry. When the tea leaves are slightly soft, they can be placed in a large firewood pot. Here, with just a little bit of charcoal fire, you can keep stirring with your hands. This is a test of skill and hand speed. If you slow down a bit, the delicate buds of the tea will be burnt, and the burnt tea will not be sold at a price. .

In this way, stir fry and knead until the tea leaves are excellent and curled. At this time, you can’t knead them. You have to shake them with your hands. Use the residual temperature of the iron pot to dry the tea leaves thoroughly, and then take them out to cool. It can be bagged.

Jiang's father is a small private handicraft workshop. He picks and stir-fries as much as he likes every day, so there is no pressure. Jiang Xiaoman helps him pick out the impurities in the tea leaves. The other tasks require high skills, so he can't do them. After ordering some noodles, I plan to fry some jelly beans and bring them to the school to share with the students.

The school only manages one meal at noon. The children exercise a lot, and sometimes they are hungry after class. It’s okay to live close. No matter whether it’s roasted potatoes or roasted sweet potatoes, they can fill their stomachs anyway. I could only run home hungry.

The canteen in their village sells snacks, but they are basically miscellaneous brands of instant noodles and spicy noodles. Jiang Xiaoman doesn't dare to buy these for the students.

Of course, the main thing is that you don’t need to spend money to do it yourself.

After tearing apart a bag of noodles and estimating the number of people in the school, Jiang Xiaoman poured out half of the bag.

This flour was not bought locally, but he carried it back from school every time he was on vacation.

They don’t grow wheat here, and flour is more expensive than rice, but the city where he went to school is different. As the main wheat producing area, the wheat noodles there are cheap and delicious, especially in a local supermarket near their school , every time there is a discount, the special wheat noodles are only one yuan more than one catty. The only bad thing is that each person can only buy ten catties at a single checkout.

However, can such a small matter stump the little money-saving expert Jiang Xiaoman?

When catching up with the discount in the supermarket, he can go to the supermarket three times a day!Every time I buy ten catties, I can save enough flour to fill up two woven bags until the holiday!Taking advantage of the holidays to take the train to pick home, next time the holidays will follow the ants to move... For four years in college, his family ate this kind of discounted flour, which is cheap and delicious.

And he found that it is very convenient to unpack a bag of flour that is individually packaged for ten catties, and you don’t have to worry about bugs if you don’t eat it for a long time. After eating the flour, the plastic bag outside can be used to hold things .It's a pity that after graduation, it is difficult to buy this kind of special flour.

Add water and sugar to the flour and knead it into a dough. It does not need to be fermented. Just knead it into long strips, cut it into small finger-sized dough, then sprinkle a layer of flour on the chopping board, knead the dough into small balls, and set aside for later use. .

Here comes the important point, to do this, you must fry it with sand!

Jiang Xiaoman’s family just built a bathroom with a shower function last year, and the leftover sand was piled up on the side. He took a shovel to shovel some sand, picked up the impurities, and first put it in the smaller iron pot at home to stir fry. , Fry until the sand feels hot to the touch, pour the prepared dough into it, and the next step is to test endurance and physical strength.

It must be stir-fried continuously until the surface of the dough is fried with a nice burnt yellow color, and the jelly beans are ready.

The fried jelly beans are delicious, but this thing is too tough for teeth. Jiang Youliang is getting old, and he cherishes the few remaining teeth very much. He is determined not to break his big teeth just to eat two jelly beans. Jiang Xiaoman had no choice but to take a clean plastic bag, tie up the fried jelly beans tightly, and save them to take to school tomorrow, and share them with the kids with good teeth.

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