After graduation, I went home to keep bees

After eating the meals made by Jiang Xiaoman himself, the villagers who came to help the workers couldn't help but shed tears of emotion.

In the past, the mountains were poor, and everyone roasted and boiled yams every day in exchange for eating. It was the same for everyone, and no one would be picky about their cooking skills.

The yams make flowers, aren't they yams?

But things have changed in the past few years. Anyone with a little skill or strength has gone to the city to work.To be honest, the big pot rice on the construction site, which is despised by the people in the city, is a delicacy that is difficult to eat at home during the Chinese New Year in the eyes of the villagers of Langshan.

After all, even if it’s Chinese New Year here, the method of meat is very monotonous, either marinated with salt to make bacon, used to burn potatoes, or cut fresh meat into thick slices, boiled lard first, and then poured a large Pot potato cubes, add water and cook...

Unlike the canteen on the construction site, fried bacon slices, fungus, dried beans and green peppers as side dishes, there are several ways to make chicken alone!Braised in soy sauce, steamed in yellow and braised in yellow, one tastes better than the other!

You can imagine how painful it is to eat "Langshan Traditional Roasted Artichokes" and "Boiled Beef Vegetables" made by Jiang Youliang after getting used to the canteen meals made by chefs in the city with solid ingredients... It's not that everyone is a fellow villager, it's really embarrassing, these people have already run away!

The staple food in the evening is a large pot of braised rice with bacon and potatoes. The rice soaked in the soup is very fragrant, and the potatoes inside are full of meat flavor, which is even more delicious than meat.There is also a large pot of stewed crucian carp with frozen tofu and melon seeds. The crucian carp with long chopsticks is wrapped in batter and egg white and fried to a crisp. , that taste, absolutely!

This frozen tofu was made by Jiang Xiaoman himself before his old house collapsed.When the old house collapsed, the refrigerator at home was firmly pressed under the earthen house. Later, Jiang Youliang led people to dig out the refrigerator. Unexpectedly, the quality of this brand of refrigerator was so good!After being buried in the soil for several days, the shell was crushed to pieces, and it still works when plugged in!

Jiang Youliang simply moved the refrigerator here again. It's ugly, but it's a bit ugly. In summer, it's very convenient to put some leftovers and chill a few bottles of beer.In the freezer is the frozen tofu that my son made before. This time, Jiang Xiaoman used the frozen tofu that he made before to stew crucian carp.

Worried that there would be too many people to eat, Jiang Xiaoman also made another steamed salted fish with soybean sauce and chili, a cold Zhe Ergen, a seaweed and egg soup, and a dry pot cabbage, fried with sliced ​​bacon. Sauteed with sliced ​​garlic and pepper, the taste is not inferior to the dry pot cabbage made by restaurants in the city.Everyone was satisfied with a meal.

"Xiao Man, will you not go to school this time when you come back?" Someone finally couldn't help asking after eating and drinking.

They really don't want to eat boiled chard anymore.

"You don't need to go back, Uncle, I have all my graduation certificates back." Jiang Xiaoman ran to get his backpack after saying that, and took out his red undergraduate diploma and his bachelor's degree certificate.

No way, the most proud moment in his father's life was posting his baby. He used to post his final exam transcripts and certificates for various subjects, and later posted various award certificates. This time, it should be the last time he can show off his son's achievements up.

really!

Seeing his son take out his university diploma and bachelor's degree certificate, Jiang Youliang's face immediately flushed red. Hearing the flattery from the villagers around him, he even said a few words of Versailles modesty: "The ones who went to college didn't spend a lot of money at home. , Our family Xiaoman has been striving since he was a child, and he gets a scholarship every year in college. He doesn't ask me for tuition fees in the first semester of college. The state supports him to go to school~"

Whoa!This is really promising!

The men in the mountains are desperately working hard to support their children to go to school. Who doesn’t want their children to be admitted to college, but the problem is that even if they pass the exam, they can’t afford the tuition fees or support a college student with their salary from part-time jobs every year~

How else could Jiang Xiaoman be born to read?

People spend money in college to go to college, but he is lucky. In addition to paying tuition fees, he can save tens of thousands of yuan to build a house for his family with various scholarships every year!

They've all heard that this time Jiang Youliang started from scratch and bought a neighbor's homestead to build a new house. More than half of the money here was saved by Jiang Xiaoman when he was in college!

People in the mountains don't understand the difference between work-study programs and scholarships. They only know that Jiang Xiaoman has studied in college for four years, not to mention spending a penny on his family, and earning tens of thousands of dollars back. He is amazing!

Let dad have enough of Versailles addiction, Jiang Xiaoman put away his graduation certificate, and took the opportunity to calculate the construction period with the foreman. His house is simpler than the B&B next door. It has two floors, six rooms up and down, plus a storage room. The food attic, now the main building has been completed, and the rest can be completed in about a week.

"Can I finish it in four days? I have to go back to Province J next Friday, and I guess I'll have to stay for a few days before I come back. I'm afraid it will be too late, and my uncles' wages will be delayed." Jiang Xiaoman took the opportunity to send Jiang Cancan to participate in the national competition audition Let me tell you about the matter, it is said that the pressure of canvassing votes increases as the show goes on, and now almost all the people in the village who go out to work use their smartphones, this is Jiang Cancan's ticket warehouse!

"Oh~ Then our Langshan is going to fly a golden phoenix this time! All right! Four days is four days! Let's rush to work, work hard these few days, and try to finish it in four days!" I don't know if it's true. Jiang Cancan was in a hurry, and still didn't want to continue eating boiled cowhide after Jiang Xiaoman left. The contractor gritted his teeth, went back to discuss with a few helpers, and decided to divide into two shifts, leaving a group of people on the mountain at night to catch up with the construction deadline.

Jiang Xiaoman doesn't understand engineering matters, but he promised the contractor that as long as it can be completed within the specified time, he will settle with him according to the originally agreed project cost. In addition, he will make snacks in the afternoon and snacks for rushing to work in the evening.

The contractor suddenly showed a satisfied smile, and the others also became happy.

Jiang Xiaoman's cooking skills are much better than those of the chefs in the construction site canteens in the city. The ingredients are solid, and he is willing to put oil, salt, sauce and vinegar. The food is full of flavor, and they can eat enough.

In this regard, Jiang Xiaoman can only say that his work-study program in the cafeteria for four years in college was not for nothing, and he knows all the lazy tricks of the cafeteria chefs!

Cooking is actually similar to learning. After mastering the skills, one can easily make a table of noodles.

The next morning, Jiang Xiaoman chopped half a pot of diced bacon, mixed it with diced yams, diced sour bamboo shoots and sour peppers to make stuffing, wrapped a lot of stuffed pies the size of a plate, the dough was kneaded and fermented the night before After that, take a pan and bake until both sides are browned and oily. Each person has two large pies, plus unlimited supply of sweet potato porridge, which is full and convenient.

After dinner, he threw all the bowls and chopsticks to his father, and Jiang Xiaoman hurried to Jiang Cancan's house with a basket full of things on his back and two large plastic bags in his hand.

Jiang Cancan's house is still the same, the old house is dilapidated, but a new pot has been added in the kitchen. Needless to say, it must have been bought by the photographer last time.

Seeing Jiang Xiaoman, Grandma Jiang was so happy, she grabbed him and asked how Jiang Cancan was doing in the city. come over.

She hadn't seen her second sister for several days, and there was no phone at home. In fact, she was more panicked than Grandma Jiang.

Grandma is getting old, and Jiang Yueyue grew up on her elder sister's back since she was a child. She has never seen her mother since she was born, and her second sister is her mother.

The children of poor families are all precocious, Jiang Yueyue once wondered if the second sister was the same as the eldest sister, she married and never came back, and even cried several times in secret.

"Okay! Cancan sings beautifully. People in the TV program group and many fans on the Internet like her very much, and they have given her a lot of things. But this time she has to participate in training and has no time to come back. I just came back, Cancan Chan asked me to bring a lot of things to you." Jiang Xiaoman said, taking things out of the basket and plastic bags in the same way——

"This is a soup pot, which people in the city use to make soup; this is a frying pan, and this is a frying pan. If you don't know how to use it, keep it at home. When Cancan comes back, let her teach you."

"Here are instant noodles, ham sausage, canned food, pickled mustard, self-heating rice and so on. They can be eaten as rice. I will cook some for you to try later."

"This is children's milk and oatmeal. It is for Yueyue. Children need to drink more milk to grow taller!"

"There are also these books, paper and pens, which were donated to the school by kind people Cancan knew. The principal specially left a lot for Cancan, and I brought them here."

"There are still a few packages that haven't arrived yet. Many of them are gifted to your family by Cancan's friends. There are also clothes and bedding donated by the teachers of our university. When the things arrive, I will send them to you. Come."

"We Cancan have so many friends so quickly?" Grandma Jiang laughed until her gums were exposed.

"When will my second sister come back?" Jiang Yueyue glanced at Jiang Xiaoman cautiously. She didn't want any gifts, she just wanted her second sister to go home quickly.

"Be good, Yueyue~ Your second sister went out to compete to earn money, and when she earns money, she will come back and build you a big house! By the way, your second sister brought you a separate gift, look!" From a sealed plastic bag, a pink-purple rabbit wearing a floral skirt was taken out.

This rabbit is called Xing Dailu, and it is said that it is very popular among children. It was given to Jiang Cancan by a fan. She was worried that her sister would be scared at home, so she asked Jiang Xiaoman to bring it back to Jiang Yueyue.

Sure enough, when Jiang Yueyue saw the big pink and purple rabbit's eyes light up, she didn't let go of her hug.

Seeing that the time was almost up, Jiang Xiaoman hurriedly took three bags of instant noodles and two ham sausages, and went to Jiang's vegetable garden to pick a handful of green amaranth leaves.

This kind of green amaranth is the same as the red amaranth grown in the school, except that the color of the leaves is different. Amaranth is not easy to grow insects. As long as there is enough water and fertilizer, it can be harvested repeatedly after planting. Almost every household here grows amaranth in the vegetable garden.

Jiang Xiaoman originally wanted to use Jiang's big pot to cook instant noodles for them, but unexpectedly when he lifted the lid of the pot, there was still more than half of the pot of boiled yams left in it.No need to think about it, since Jiang Cancan was not at home for a few days, the grandfather and grandson probably cooked a pot of yams a day, and ate them with people and pigs.

Covering the pot, Jiang Xiaoman had no choice but to disassemble a frying pot. After washing it, he temporarily used stones to set up a stove in the yard, lit a fire to boil water, and cooked a pot of steaming instant noodles.

The moment the aroma of instant noodles wafted out, Jiang Yueyue couldn't help swallowing, and even Grandma Jiang sighed beside her: "No wonder all the dolls eat this instant noodles, it smells so good!"

No matter how delicious it is, she is reluctant to buy it for herself. A pack of instant noodles costs three yuan, and it takes 6 catties of yams to exchange for a pack of instant noodles.

A big pot of braised beef noodles with ham sausage and amaranth leaves, the grandparents and grandson ate cleanly, and even finished the noodle soup.

Grandma Jiang asked Jiang Xiaoman to eat some too, and Jiang Xiaoman waved his hand with a smile: "No, I'm still building a house at home, I'll go back and eat. Yueyue, have you learned how to make this instant noodle? Are there any left?" Young, if you and grandma are hungry, cook and eat by yourself, and I will bring you a bag of rice in two days."

When Jiang Xiaoman was cooking just now, he glanced at Jiang Cancan's rice tank, which was already empty. No wonder the grandparents and grandson only cooked a pot of yams. Considering Jiang Cancan's small size, even if he had the money to buy rice, he probably wouldn't be able to recite it. Coming up, Jiang Xiaoman rolled his eyes, and immediately found a labor force to carry the rice in his heart.