After graduation, I went home to keep bees

However, right now is not a good time to criticize. Seeing that Jiang Baichuan made clear arrangements for everyone, Jiang Xiaoman hurried back to the living room and took the mobile phone that was broadcasting live, and explained to the live broadcast room as he walked.

He used Jiang Baichuan's rhetoric, it's not that men in the mountains don't work, it's just that the division of labor between men and women is different.

"If you don't believe me, I'll take you to have a look. After tea, everyone went to help with work."

In this season, it is still very hot in the mountains after noon, especially in the grass nest, where it is stuffy and hot, and there are many mosquitoes. Weeding the fields is really hard work, let alone chopping firewood.

Netizens felt relieved when they saw that the group of lazy people who were "dominating" just now were sweating profusely.

Jiang Xiaoman took the opportunity to bring his mobile phone and followed the troops back to the vicinity of his old house. His father planted a lot of konjac here. The konjac has an amazing fecundity. Over the past ten years, this area can be seen almost everywhere. To the lush konjac tree!

The best season for digging konjac is actually autumn, but there are not so many people in the mountains. When you see a big one, you can dig it out and eat it yourself. Anyway, you don’t need to save the seeds. For the konjac you dig out, keep the tubers and eat them. The konjac buds are dug out, let them dry for a while, stained with plant ash and then planted, the konjac buds will soon take root and sprout, and a new one will grow.

Jiang Baichuan is a veteran of konjac planting - after all, besides the few acres of konjac, planting konjac in the school is also a stable source of income every year.Picking up the konjac that had already grown, he directed the people to dig it out. In less than half a day, he dug up hundreds of catties of konjac.

Jiang Youliang is really contradictory. He can't see the land being abandoned, and he is very diligent in planting konjac, but he rarely eats it by himself. He thinks it is troublesome!But konjac tofu is actually very delicious in stews and cooking. Now that someone is helping, I can't wait for them to dig out all the konjac that can be eaten at home!

Even in this season, the konjac tubers haven't grown enough, but they are enough to eat.

"Let me show you, this is the konjac planted by my family. Isn't it spectacular? It's almost grown into a forest haha~ When the renovation of my homestay is completed, everyone is welcome to come to our Langshan for vacation and experience konjac digging!" Jiang Xiaoman worked hard to liven up the atmosphere in the live broadcast room, and changed the topic from "lazy people in the countryside don't work" to "how fun summer is in Langshan"——

"In addition to konjac, we also make something called 'Guanyin Tofu' in summer. Here, this is called 'Tofu Chai'. The leaves are pulled off, put in a large pot and kneaded with water, and the gelatin inside is crushed. Knead it out, then filter out the leaf residue, pour in the prepared plant ash precipitation water, stir and solidify, the tofu made is grass green, very beautiful!"

"When eating, you can slice it into cold salad, add some red pepper, garlic water, salt and vinegar, etc. If you like to eat Zheergen, you can also dig some back and put it in together. It is very delicious! If you like to eat sweet, you can also put it in Chill in the refrigerator for a while, then add honey or brown sugar water to make ice bowls are also delicious.”

"In a while, when the jelly fruit in the mountains can be picked, I will take everyone to pick it to make jelly. It is also delicious, but it is more troublesome to make. When the fruit is picked, it has to be cut and dried. The outer skin and the remaining seeds can be used to make jelly. Rubbing jelly is especially decompressive, just like playing with plasticine."

"There are a lot of jelly fruits in the mountains here. When I was a child, my father and I would go to the mountains to pick jelly fruits on weekends with a backpack and a woven bag. This stuff can be sold for two yuan a catty!"

It is impossible to dig out hundreds of catties of konjac and make them all into konjac tofu.

Jiang Youliang waved his hand, if you come to eat today, why not bring two big konjacs home with you!

All the rest are made into konjac tofu, which happens to be eaten by guests in the past two days, and there is no waste at all.

Seeing the men digging konjac, weeding the tea garden, and chopping firewood to carry firewood, the comment area finally stopped being noisy, but there were still a few barrages saying that Jiang Xiaoman and the others were purely performing in front of the camera. Wait for the live broadcast to end Well, those jobs are not all done by women.

This Jiang Xiaoman dare not explain, explaining is useless, because the netizens are right, they really have this custom here, alas!

I haven't seen Jiang Caiyun has such a big belly. Do I still have to take my eldest daughter with me to class?

Although her husband also went to work in the fields, he just lay down and did nothing when he came back. Even if he was idle playing with his mobile phone at home, he would not help take care of the children.

In their view, doing housework and taking care of children is something that women should do, and men are just responsible for farming and working part-time to earn money. They don't think about how difficult it is for a wife to work alone with children...

Thinking of this, Jiang Xiaoman couldn't help secretly admiring Tang Xinlan.

I heard that Sister Lan's village was similar to theirs in the past, and the men all used their women as messengers.Later, Tang Xinlan led the women in the village to start an e-commerce business together. The women can make money by themselves, and their waists are also straightened up. Now many people in Shangtang Village have heard that women are the masters of the house, let alone using their wives as cattle. Dare to be a shopkeeper like before, and eat soft food hard, women really don't mind getting divorced and living alone.

When will they be like Shangtang village here?

Jiang Xiaoman sighed secretly, picked up the broom and started cleaning.

Those from the village who came to the banquet took their children home after dinner, and there were still a few helpers in the kitchen who had to prepare the ingredients needed for the last day of tomorrow. Jiang Xiaoman saw that they were busy in the kitchen, so he took them himself. Broom and dustpan, clean up the cigarette butts, melon seed shells, and fruit peels inside and outside the house.

Seeing the aunts and sisters-in-law who came to help were so busy and sweating profusely, Jiang Xiaoman felt a little sorry.

After thinking about it, she ran to the bathroom and turned on the water heater, and heated up hot water for them to take turns to take a hot bath.

There are very few people in the mountains who have electric water heaters like his. The main reason is that they are reluctant to pay the electricity bill. They usually boil some water by themselves, take a bath and wash their hair in a large bathtub.

After taking a hot bath in the bathroom of Jiang Xiaoman's house, the sister-in-laws were very happy. On the way back, they inevitably talked about Jiang's bathroom again.

It's so convenient and clean!

It's a pity, I heard that it costs thousands of dollars to decorate a bathroom like that, including plumbing, tiles, showers, toilets, etc., which almost cost the whole family a year's savings. They all have children at home who are going to school. Why are you willing to spend such a large sum of money to install a bathroom?

After working dizzily for three days, Jiang Xiaoman finally finished the house wine.

After sending away the last batch of villagers who came to help, and collecting the leftover ingredients at home, Jiang Youliang and his son closed the door and slept from eight o'clock at night until almost ten o'clock the next morning!

Probably because he slept for too long. After waking up, he opened his eyes and saw the snow-white walls. Jiang Xiaoman was in a daze for a moment, and it took him a while to remember, oh, they moved to a new house.

"Xiao Man, get up and have breakfast! After eating, let's tear down the shed over there!" Jiang Youliang woke up earlier than his son, and had already cooked a big pot of sweet potato porridge.

After eating big fish and big meat for three days in a row, and eating light sweet potato porridge in the morning with a little pickle, my stomach also felt a lot better.

However, thinking of his poor appetite recently, Jiang Xiaoman couldn't help but ask his father: "Dad, do you still have this year's new soybeans at home? Anyway, I have nothing to do today, let's make some moldy tofu? The family made last year has already been eaten. "

Jiang Youliang loves moldy tofu, but he doesn't know how to make it himself. When he was a child, Jiang Xiaoman didn't know that there was such a delicacy as moldy tofu in the world. Later, he followed Jiang Youliang to visit his relatives, and that morning they also ate sweet potato porridge. Yes, the relative brought out a plate of moldy tofu, and Jiang Xiaoman watched his father eat one piece after another, and almost ate half of the plate of moldy tofu.

Later, Jiang Xiaoman secretly asked someone to learn how to do it. At the beginning, it was not delicious. It was either too salty or failed to ferment, and turned into stinky tofu. Later, it became better and better. As soon as he came back, he made a big jar full of moldy tofu for his father, enough to feed him for a year.

Today, because Jiang Xiaoman was too busy, he forgot to do it during May Day. Later, the old house at home collapsed, and the jars containing moldy tofu were crushed under it, and he himself forgot about it later.

Fortunately, thinking about it today, he can still stay at home for more than a week, just in time to ferment the moldy tofu and put it in the jar.

"There are still several bags of soybeans that have not been eaten. In two months, new soybeans will be harvested. In the afternoon, you are making tofu at home, and I will tear down the shed over there. It is just right to dry it and use it as firewood."

Jiang Youliang couldn't see the arable land being occupied. His family had no choice but to temporarily build a shack in the field until the house was built.

Now that he has finally moved into a new house, the first thing he has to do is to tear down this unsightly shed!

The weather is not too hot now, so sprinkle some mung bean seeds on it. Although the area is not big, the recovered mung beans are enough for the father and son to eat for a whole winter.

The shed was only one person tall, so it wasn't difficult to dismantle it. Jiang Xiaoman helped his father push down a few big moso bamboos that served as supports, and let his father slowly dismantle the rest by himself, and he went back to make tofu by himself.

The food at home was temporarily piled up in the rough room on the second floor. Jiang Xiaoman went up and carried half a bag of soybeans down, soaked it in warm water first, and then went back to the room to get the tripod, gimbal, fill light and mobile phone for shooting. come over.

Today he plans to make a better video to fully record the recipe of farmhouse mildew tofu.

While the tofu was still soaking, Jiang Xiaoman sorted out the leftover ingredients from yesterday.

Some boiled or soaked ducks that are not easy to store have already been distributed to those who came to help, and the rest are some frozen ducks. Jiang Xiaoman plans to marinate them all tonight and save some for his father. Send the rest to the school for the children to have a fresh taste. After all, it is rare to eat lo-mei in the countryside.

Some dried vegetables that have not been soaked are sorted and repacked in clean plastic bags, and put them in the kitchen wall cabinet for cooking. There are also cured pig heads for ancestor worship, which can be eaten by the host family after finishing the work up.

Jiang Xiaoman put the cured pig's head in the pot and steamed it over water for ten minutes. After the heat dissipated, he took it out and put it in a large basin. Turn on the camera function, and hold up the waxed pig head that is as big as a washbasin to the camera——

"Hello everyone, I'm Brother Xiaoman, I'm here to bring you a sacrifice today hehe~ Do you still remember the cured pig head that my family used to worship our ancestors the day before yesterday? We can eat it after offering sacrifices to our ancestors and mountain gods. Let's show you today , How do we mountain people eat sacrifices?"

As he said that, Jiang Xiaoman pointed the camera at the big wooden basin where the pig's head was placed, and while tearing apart the pig's head meat with a kitchen knife and scissors, he chatted to the camera——

"The pig my family bought this time has a big head and a lot of meat. It is estimated that at least a few catties of pig head meat can be removed, and several dishes can be made."

"This pig's ear, when the time comes, slice it and stir-fry with the local chili from my vegetable garden, add garlic slices, it is fragrant and spicy, especially for rice."

"This pork tongue is also delicious. The way we eat it here is to cook it and slice it as a cold dish, or dip it in some water."

"The remaining pig's head meat, including the belt meat, can be braised in large pieces with dried bamboo shoots or konjac tofu. You can also slice and fry peppers, fried garlic sprouts, and fried tofu."

"I can't throw away the remaining bone. I will throw it into the pot and boil a big pot of salty soup. This soup is perfect for making gnocchi soup!"

"By the way, I also saved some bits and pieces of meat and pork skin. I plan to soak some soybeans and stew bacon and soybeans to eat. This dish is not too delicious to eat with porridge. I love pork skin jelly in winter Yes. In the past, there was no refrigerator at home in the summer, and I couldn’t make it if I wanted to eat, but this year I finally have a refrigerator at home.”

Jiang Xiaoman's house used to have a freezer, but the new double-door refrigerator in the living room was the video Tang Xinlan saw of him the day before yesterday. When he learned that his new house had moved in, he specially placed an order online and delivered it directly to the village. one's gift.

Jiang Xiaoman was quite embarrassed when he received this gift.

Because there is no direct relationship between his family and the Tang family, they did not know each other when Tang Xinlan got married and gave birth to a child, and they did not go to attend the ceremony. They don't post posts to invite people to eat and drink.

Jiang Xiaoman never expected that Tang Xinlan would give such a big gift, and it was so big that he couldn't even refuse it——Tang Xinlan placed the order directly with Dongdian Electric, so he couldn't spend the money to buy the refrigerator again. Turn her around?

Thinking of this, Jiang Xiaoman decided to go to the mountains to search for it in two days, pick more jelly fruits, then dry them in the sun, then dig a few big konjacs, and dig a basket of home-grown taro, yes, and find Big Brother Shanyan He also bought a few catties of rock honey and sent them together. He also happened to have something to ask Tang Xinlan in person.

He wanted to know if Langshan could be like Shangtang Village, even if they couldn't make a lot of money, at least they could let the women in the mountain live a little easier and freer than they do now.