There is a complete set of stone farm tools in the Bai family yard.

Stone grinding stone hammer rice mortar pounding, as well as tools used by many stonemasons.

When his grandfather, Tong Laowu, had another profession as a stonemason. In addition to teaching his storytelling skills to his godson Bai Zhenxing, this set of stone farm tools was his greatest legacy.

I told my younger brothers and sisters to wash the high steamer and the stone mill rice mortar and prepare to make rice cakes and glutinous rice cakes.

I went to Chentong Street by myself, which is Chentong Village I came to yesterday.

There are ten major markets in the county, but the government recognizes them, but does not include Chen Tong Street.

But Chentong Street also has markets, and they are available every day, but the time is very short. The market often opens at five or six in the morning, and there are no people before ten o'clock.

The people who go to the market are all locals, they sell and buy, and the villagers.

From Bai Village to Chentong Street, there are only more than three miles away.

I went out without buying anything else, but bought glutinous rice. This time my father went home and swept away thirty kilograms of glutinous rice. Without glutinous rice, I couldn't make glutinous rice.

My mother had bad teeth and only ate glutinous rice cakes. She couldn't eat harder rice cakes. Most of the glutinous rice cakes were made for her mother.

I bought thirty-five kilograms of glutinous rice for free, five kilograms more than the original one, and carried it home in one go.

In the afternoon, Baishou called his second brother Baidang and took out three baskets and four sacks.

The third brother, the eldest sister and the younger sister also came to help and moved the rice in the granary.

Three baskets of japonica rice are filled with more than 200 kilograms, which are used to make rice cakes.

Four sacks of late rice are filled with late rice, and the family still has more than 500 kilograms. Take half of them out to make them into rice, so you can eat them until the spring next year.

There were many people and great power. The five brothers and sisters loaded the rice onto the cart, pulled it with their hands, pushed it out of the yard, and headed towards the brigade to fight the rice factory.

The brigade rice mill is located by the river not far from the village. Two small houses have a diesel engine, which usually drives the rice mill to make rice for villagers, and during busy farming, it drives the water pump to deliver water to the fields through the canal.

After finishing the rice, transport it back.

Even the bran (rice husk) was taken home, but it was not sold to the vendors who were staying at the rice factory to buy bran.

Because in the plan of the free-hand man, two or three piglets are to raise, and bran is one of the main raw materials.

Making rice cakes and making glutinous rice cakes is a hassle. The first step is to soak the rice in water, soak it for at least twelve hours.

I planned to make rice cakes and glutinous rice the day after tomorrow. I calculated the time for free and decided to soak the rice at noon one day earlier.

Thirty-five kilograms of glutinous rice were soaked in wooden barrels, and 300 kilograms of japonica rice were soaked in three water tanks.

At less than five o'clock in the morning, Baishou came out of the straw stack at Widow Chen's house, called his second brother Bai Dang, and returned home in the dark.

The second brother went to call the three brothers and sisters to get up.

I first lit the kerosene lamp in the yard, then hung up the lantern to check whether the glutinous rice and japonica rice were soaked well.

This is a free hand and I can use my thumb and index finger to grind it.

Use a little force to make the rice into powder, which means that the rice can be released from water.

The third brother, the eldest sister and the younger sister were responsible for scooping out the rice soaked in the water, put it in a basket, and wait for the water to dry up.

Next is grinding the rice and grinding it into powder. This is a tiring job, of course, it is a waste of time to go to the battle with your second brother.

Before grinding, I carried my mother to the yard with my own hands. There was a large stove in the yard, and the cooking powder must be carried out here.

The firewood was prepared long ago, and it was next to the big stove, and my mother was responsible for burning the fire.

It was still early to cook the powder, and my mother waited while putting on the soles of her shoes.

The eldest girl is responsible for breakfast. Although she can eat rice cakes and glutinous rice cakes at noon, she still needs to eat breakfast.

The third brother is responsible for grinding the stone with rice.

The little sister is responsible for putting the ground rice noodles into a wooden barrel.

The family has a clear division of labor, each performs its own duties, and is in good order.

After more than an hour of cooking, the eldest girl had already prepared breakfast, a pot of porridge and a dozen mushrooms (modified buns).

The whole family had breakfast in the yard.

After eating, continue to do it.

He took the lead by taking the lead and mobilized, "If anyone is lazy, I will go to the streets to buy New Year's goods tomorrow, so I won't take anyone there."

The younger brothers and sisters started to work hard.

After another hour and a half, the glutinous rice and japonica rice soaked in water have been ground into powder.

Baishou shouted to his mother: "Mom, you can burn the fire."

The mother responded, put down the soles of her shoes in her hand, and began to light the pot.

The pot was filled with water.

Before putting the rice noodles in the pot, there is another important process, which is to add water to the rice noodles and add a little salt.

Adding salt is to increase the viscosity and hardness of rice cakes and glutinous rice cakes and glutinous rice cakes, making them chewy.

I don’t know much about how much water and salt I add for free, but my mother knows it.

The rice noodles were placed in a few short wooden barrels and tall wooden barrels and moved them all to my mother.

Add water and salt to the glutinous rice flour with white hands, then roll up your sleeves and expose your arms, and stir the rice flour with both hands.

My mother looked at it, stretched out her two fingers from time to time, picked up the rice noodles and fell down.

"Hand, that's OK."

Baishou responded and stopped stirring, "Second, put the high steamer on the pot. The fourth brother, help mom add firewood and burn the fire to the fullest."

Baidang put the high steamer on the pot.

Holding a small bucket in his hand, he poured rice noodles into a high steamer.

The high steamer is made of wooden boards, with a height of more than 60 centimeters, and can hold thirty or forty kilograms of rice flour at a time.

I made glutinous rice balls first, and the first cage was filled with glutinous rice flour, which was just enough to be filled with.

It takes at least fifteen minutes to cook a cage of rice noodles.

Taking advantage of this time, Baishou and his second brother added water and salt to all the rice cake flour and stirred them all.

After finishing her work, Baishou went to the steamer again. A piece of cloth was covered with hot steam. Baishou lifted the cloth, took a finger, picked up the glutinous rice flour, and took it to show it to my mother.

The mother put it in her mouth and chewed it, nodding and said, "It's cooked."

The white hand shouted "It's out of the pot", put on his posture, picked up the high steamer, took a few steps, and poured the cooked glutinous rice flour into the rice mortar.

The glutinous rice flour was fragrant, and the younger brothers and sisters shouted happily, rushing to taste it.

At this time, we must seize the time and talk about speed.

Put the empty steamer back on the pot with your hands, add cold water to the pot, change the damp cloth to the bottom of the steamer, and then pour the rice cake flour into the steamer.

Turning back, I picked up a pounding hammer weighing about ten pounds in my hand and began to pound the ripe glutinous rice flour in the rice mortar.

The glutinous rice is strong and the glutinous rice is sticky. After some hammering, the glutinous rice flour has condensed into a ball.

This is not the end, I have to continue to pound and beat it from scratch.

At this time, he needed a helper, of course, his second brother Bai Dang. He squatted beside the rice mortar, and the eldest brother pounded it and then grabbed the glutinous rice ball and moved it.

Go back and forth, repeating, and hitting it all over again.

Finally, he shouted in vain, "The mortar is made from the mortar."

Put down the pounding hammer, dip water with both hands, and put it in a short bucket with the glutinous rice ball.

A thin layer of bran was spread in the bucket, and the glutinous rice balls would not stick to it. The white hand movements were so capable, bent down and moved their palms together to press the glutinous rice balls into a big round cake.

The work of making glutinous rice cakes was finally completed.

The fire on my mother's side no longer burns because the rice cake flour is cooked too quickly and they can't catch up with it.

But the first cage of rice cake flour is almost cooked.

With a whistle, I remembered that there was still one preparation that had not been done.
Chapter completed!