Different God of Cooking [Rebirth]

Zhao An had already forgotten how many years he had not been back to the Lower East Village.After he discovered that his identity as a farmer would be discriminated against by the so-called urbanites, he began to reject the countryside where he was born.

Every year during the Spring Festival, when I come back for a few days, I will clamor to leave. After my grandparents moved to the town for the elderly, they never set foot on this simple and simple land.

This is Zhao An's childishness and stupidity, he neither escapes nor covers up.

Now Zhao An has been saying to himself in his heart: You are just a vulgar ordinary person, don't think about other things except making money.

So when Zhao An saw everything in the countryside again, his thoughts were completely different from before.

Brothers Zhao Da and Zhao Xing seldom leave their hometown. Except that Zhao Da once went to his sister-in-law's house with his father, the furthest place they traveled was the nearby Linyu Town.

This kind of experience made Zhao Da somewhat contradictory. He took Zhao An to play around the yard of his grandparents, showing off his familiarity with everything in the countryside, while asking Zhao An what interesting places to visit in Rongcheng, revealing his longing for the big city.

Zhao Da and Zhao Xing's family did not have a TV, and most families in the countryside did not.Zhao Da's understanding of big cities comes from the movies and school books that are occasionally played in small towns, so Rongcheng is a very modern and high-end big city in their eyes.

They asked Zhao An about Rongcheng from time to time, especially Zhao Da.He originally thought that Zhao An was a primary school student, and his understanding of Rongcheng was limited to primary school, but when he heard Zhao An talk about the elevators, concrete roads, shopping malls in Rongcheng...these were things they had never seen before.The brothers were completely attracted by the prosperous Rongcheng that Zhao An said.

Seeing his cousin's expression, Zhao An couldn't help thinking of the first time he saw an escalator in a shopping mall in his previous life.A person can play for half an hour on the escalator without stopping, that is the longing for a new world.

So Zhao An unreservedly told them about the life in Rongcheng, not only talking about the current appearance of Rongcheng, but also describing the possibility of the future based on his own understanding of Rongcheng and other big cities.

For example, taller and taller buildings, more and more cars, and even the emergence of novelty things such as clothing, telephones, and mobile phones.

Even in Zhao Da's opinion, the description of his 11-year-old cousin may be exaggerated, but even so he can feel the increasingly obvious gap between the city and the countryside.

Zhao Da will be 16 years old next year and is studying in the town middle school.His grades are not good, even if he is admitted to high school, he cannot be admitted to university.

Recently Uncle Zhao and Aunt Zhao have been discussing about Zhao Da going home to help with farming, but Zhao Da himself is not willing.There are only 200 people in the entire Lower East Village, and the people he sees every day are those street friends and neighbors. Zhao Da doesn't like this kind of life.

And Zhao Xing is only eight years old, he has no doubts about everything Zhao An said, in his heart Rongcheng is a modern city full of skyscrapers, where everything is the best.

There is another reason why the two brothers are willing to believe in Zhao An. They have only seen each other for half a year, but they feel that Zhao An has a special temperament that they can't explain clearly, a confidence that they have never seen even in the village party secretary, the largest official in the village.Just like the stars in the Baba movies[1] they usually watch, they have an elegant temperament.

My younger brother/brother has gone to Rongcheng for half a year, and there have been such big changes, so can I do the same?

Zhao An probably didn't expect that his unintentional words would have such a big impact on his cousins, and it came so quickly...

But even if Zhao An knew all this, he would agree with their ideas.

Although Zhao An would not discriminate against farmers, the fact is that the gap between urban and rural areas will continue to widen in China in the next few decades.The development opportunities and living conditions in rural areas are far inferior to those in cities.

Otherwise, there would not be so many farmers willing to leave their own land and work as a manual worker in the city without a house.

However, Zhao An is not aware of the upcoming changes and changes, and is still playing around the house of his grandparents under the leadership of Zhao Da.

Because there is still plenty of time, Zhao Da took his two younger brothers to visit the free-range chickens and ducks of the second elder one after another, and the farmland during the rest period.

Although he has been playing, what Zhao An thought after seeing all this is: the current production conditions in the countryside are still too bad.

After the reform and opening up, in order to mobilize the labor and production enthusiasm of every rural family, the country chose the household contract responsibility system.In short, farmers, as an individual business entity, contract and manage the production land according to the contract.

In Zhao An's view, this kind of production system is still inefficient, and there is no way to take advantage of the scale advantages of modern agriculture.

For example, individual farmers are absolutely reluctant to purchase large farm equipment.Chinese farmers own 1.4 mu of land per capita, only one-third of the world's average cultivated land.On the other side of the world, farmers in Nut Country can reach 1200 mu of arable land [2].

With the help of automated farming machinery, high-tech fertilizers and seeds, and a market-oriented industrial chain, the country of nuts can become the world's number one exporter of agricultural products.

In contrast, like Zhao An's grandparents, uncle, and third uncle, who work hard all year round and can only cultivate a few acres of land, how much money can they earn?

After Zhao An returned to Lower East Village, he was also thinking about a problem.If you really want to expand the production line of stewed vegetables, or even establish a company in the food industry in the future, you will inevitably buy agricultural products directly from farmers across the farmers' market.

There are two advantages to doing this. First, establishing your own product supply chain can greatly reduce product costs, and second, if you purchase agricultural products yourself, you can ensure the quality control of ingredients.

For example, Zhao's mother made chili sauce because of differences in pepper varieties, planting environments, and fertilization conditions, so each production needed to rely on Zhao's experience to make adjustments.

Now it seems that Zhao An's idea is difficult to realize with the current small-scale peasant economy in China.Although Zhao An has some understanding of the economy and the market, he doesn't know how the food industry can solve this problem.

It seems that we still need to find a way, at least to help the uncle and the third uncle's family to increase their income first.

According to Zhao An's memory, the income of his two uncles' family is very average, but when Zhao An's family has any difficulties, they will not hesitate to help.

At least at the beginning, Zhao An had achieved certain results in the piano, and when the family was planning to buy a piano to practice at home, relatives on Zhao's father's side helped to raise money.

Fortunately, after Zhao An received an international award, he continued to take on some commercial performances in the interior of Rongcheng City, and only then did he pay off the debt, improve his family's income, and pay off the debt.

Zhao An always remembered the help from his uncle and third uncle, and later Zhao An gave back to them both in the open and in the dark.However, it is better to teach a man how to fish than to give him a fish. If he can help his uncle and the others improve their living conditions now, that would be a better choice.

After the three brothers almost visited the Lower East Village, the hunger in their stomachs made them return to their grandparents' home.

"Mom, I'm hungry!" Zhao Xing shouted out the common thoughts of the three brothers.

The third aunt came out of the kitchen and scolded with a smile: "You glutton, it's not time to eat yet. Here's some sausage and bacon, let's eat it first."

Zhao Xing happily brought the plate to the big round table in the living room, where several cold dishes had already been placed, such as cold Zhe Er Gen [3], mixed with three silks, salted pork loin and so on.

However, these few dishes could not satisfy their hunger, so the three brothers Zhao An stretched out their hands to the bacon and sausages that had just been brought out.

Zhao An picked up a piece of fat and thin sausage. In fact, Zhao An didn't like sausage very much, but compared to the white and clear bacon, Zhao An still chose sausage.

There is a pair of old enemies in the sausage industry, that is, Sichuan-style sausage and Cantonese-style sausage.The taste of Cantonese sausage is mainly salty and sweet, and it is mainly baked and dried. Generally speaking, the color is redder and brighter, and the taste is drier.

But the sausage that Zhao An ate was mainly salty and spicy Sichuan-style sausage. More importantly, the color of the Sichuan-style sausage was obviously darker. The duck intestines on the outside were black and red, while the pork inside was vermilion.

After the sausage was put into his mouth, the smoky smell filled Zhao An's mouth.Sichuan-style sausage, especially rural Sichuan-style sausage, is smoked after filling.

There are many choices of smoked firewood, such as peanut shells, orange peels, tea leaves and other plants with aroma, but Uncle Zhao and his family chose pine branches.Pine is one of the traditional incense materials. Through smoking, the rich woody aroma of pine completely permeates the casing outside the sausage.

When the aroma of the pine tree has not dissipated, the taste and aroma of the pork in the casing come out again.The local pork can still maintain its chewy taste after being ground, and the pepper and ground pepper mixed with the pork are also stimulating Zhao An's taste buds at this time.

In addition, there is the salty smell that pickled food has.A large amount of table salt can store sausages for a longer period of time, and can supplement salt for farmers who need to do a lot of physical labor every day, and has the function of appetizing and eating.

Although Zhao An doesn't like Sichuan-style sausage, especially the smoky taste, he also admits that it is definitely authentic Sichuan-style sausage.

Zhao An was already thinking about the possibility of making sausages for sale, but finally dismissed the idea.The production of sausage is not as simple as braised vegetables, but the market is much smaller.

Seeing his cousin suddenly fell silent after eating a piece of sausage, eldest cousin Zhao Da took the initiative to give Zhao An a piece of the most delicious bacon in his opinion.

Looking at the beige fat still occupying most of the bacon in front of him even after being smoked, Zhao An really had a headache.

Many people think that smoked bacon will not be so greasy, but it is still difficult for Zhao An to accept bacon.

There are too many personal preferences in food and drink. It is impossible to say what kind of taste is high-end, and it is also hard to say what kind of taste is vulgar.

It's just that Zhao An chose to take the piece of bacon and put it in his mouth, because he didn't like to reject other people's kindness.

But after Zhao An managed to swallow this piece of bacon, Zhao Da handed over the second piece of bacon. At this moment, Zhao An wanted to die.

If Zhao's father hadn't said from the side: "It's almost time for the New Year's Eve dinner, eat less." Zhao An really didn't know what to do.

After a while, the hot dishes were brought to the table from the kitchen by today's three chefs.

"The New Year's Eve dinner has begun!"