126 Don't know how to steal food, point to a nest to steal
Lin Lan and Lin Yuezhen took the beans home. They selected the peppercorns and vine peppers, found two large clean pottery bowls, turned on the fire in the stove, and scooped about ten kilograms of rapeseed oil into the pot.
Put the selected Sichuan peppercorns and vine peppers into a large clay pot, wait until the rapeseed oil in the pot stops bubbling, then pull out the thick ash to cover the charcoal fire.
The two of them each held a spoon and poured the boiling rapeseed oil on top of the Sichuan peppercorns (vine peppers), and bursts of fragrance and peppery numbness hit their nostrils.
Until the hot oil covers the vine peppers, ladle out the oil in the pot, cover the lid and soak overnight to filter out the vine peppers and Sichuan peppercorns. Put the oil into a clay pot and store it in a sealed container. The longer it is left, the better the flavor will be.
"It smells so good! Xiaolin is frying pepper oil!"
Lin Lan walked to the door of the kitchen and saw Li Guizhi coming with a jacket on his back: "Yeah! My dad brought some fresh peppers and vine peppers, and I fried them into oil to make them easier to eat."
"I made it last year, and it will last until next year. The longer the sesame oil is left, the more fragrant it will be." Li Guizhi said, taking out two old pumpkins from the back of her folder, with a lot of taro inside: "Xiao Lin, my mother gave it to me. Let me
Sent to you."
Lin Lan took it with a smile: "Auntie, you are too polite. Is this taro a fragrant taro?"
"Yeah!" Li Guizhi smiled and nodded, "My mother's family grows it, and it tastes better than the taro."
"There are not many taros growing here, and this is the first time I've seen it." Lin Lan thought for a moment, "If you have a lot of taro in your old pumpkins, you can send them to me, and I'll charge them at the market price."
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Li Guizhi nodded happily: "Yes, my mother has planted a lot of pumpkins and taros. I will divide the straw and sweet potatoes into equal parts and I will go back and harvest them for you."
Lin Lan nodded and warned: "Choose something smoother and keep it longer."
Li Guizhi nodded repeatedly and left with a smile.
After the brigade's grain was distributed to households, the production team began to distribute straw, and Lin Lan's family received ten loads of straw.
The old lady was not discharged from the hospital yet, so He Xianghua helped send her rations and straw home.
Next, the production team began to dig red potatoes and potatoes grown in Niubei Mountain.
Niubei Mountain is full of commune members digging red sweet potatoes, and the dug red sweet potatoes are piled up into a mountain.
A lot of bare red potato stalks and potato stalks were also dug up.
A member named Yang San held up the dug-out bare pole and said with a smile: "These guys don't even know how to steal. They point to a nest and steal."
Zhang Rongqing smiled and patted him: "Yang San, tell me honestly, how many red potatoes and potatoes did you buy before?"
Yang San rolled his eyes at him: "Rongqing, our eldest brother, let alone the second brother. Do you still remember that you came before I even came down the mountain that day, and you even stepped on my daddy."
Zhang Rongqing stared at him and said, "It turns out to be your kid."
"Hahahaha!" Yang San put his hands on his hips and laughed proudly.
Zhang Rongqing smiled and threw a piece of potato at him: "You kid, I can't even eat the potato."
Everyone laughed for a while, talking about the years when they had not enough to eat and would go out to steal food in the middle of the night.
Lin Lan remembered what her parents had said before. During those years of famine, everyone went to the red potato fields to steal red sweet potatoes when they had nothing to eat.
There is also something special about stealing red sweet potato. You lie down in the furrow and dig in from the bottom of the furrow, one in a nest, and then bury it back in the soil.
Who knew that every thief thought like this, but ended up picking out one by one and one by that, and when it was time to harvest the red potatoes, he discovered that 60 to 70% of the red potatoes in the field were all bare stalks.
Yang Liying and Yang Meihua smiled and said to Lin Lan: "These simple people also have contributions from Xiaodouzi and Xiaokai."
The eldest uncle smiled and said: "How much have these little kids eaten? I even saw some young men and two girls roasting red sweet potatoes at the foot of the mountain that day."
Yang Liying pointed at Yang Meihua with a smile: "Sister Meihua and brother-in-law He also came to bake at that time."
Yang Meihua turned around and said with a smile: "I have been a veteran for decades, and 80% of the people in the small team have come to bake." Then he asked, "Are you making red potato starch or potato starch this year?"
Lin Lan smiled and asked: "Do you want to make vermicelli or small vermicelli?"
"I want to do the same thing. My Xiaokai likes to eat red sweet potato noodles." Yang Meihua said.
These days, as long as every household can make something by themselves, they do it by themselves and never buy it on the street.
After digging the red potatoes and potatoes, Lin Lan's family received only one basket of red potatoes and potatoes combined.
Go home and dig out all the red potatoes planted in the vegetable field, clean them by the ditch, cut them into small pieces and grind them into red potato puree in a stone mill.
Add water and filter it with gauze several times before settling. Put the sweet potato residue in a gauze bag and put it in a basin and rub it until all the starch is washed out. Pour all the red sweet potato pulp together and let it stand.
After the starch is completely precipitated, pour away the water on the surface, and the red potato pulp will condense into earthy white red potato starch.
Dig it out, dry it in the sun, grind it into fine pieces and pass it through a fine sieve, and the red sweet potato starch is ready.
The next morning, Yang Dingbang and Li Xiangyang sent the old lady home together.
After seeing him, Lin Lan felt that the old man had fallen ill once and was in poor spirits.
The old lady looked at the yard and sighed happily: "It's still more comfortable at home."
"You are back, and my mission is completed." Lin Lan smiled and returned the key to her.
"Thank you for having me." The old lady took it with a smile and said happily and show off, "I have wanted to come back for a long time, but Dingbang forced the doctor to observe me for two days before releasing me from the hospital."
Lin Lan looked at it and smiled and said: "Dingbang is so kind to you! The doctor said that your lumbar spine is damaged and you will have to take good care of yourself for a while when you come back."
"I will be careful. If you can't lift it, call Lin Lan and the others for help." The old lady pulled Lin Lan, "Liu Jinbao's grandson is still in the hospital! I heard that he was seriously injured. I don't know where he came from.
The gods appeared and took care of this piece of shit."
After hearing this, Yang Dingbang turned Li Xiangyang around and joked: "Li Shenxian!"
Li Xiangyang glanced at Lin Lan with a sad look on his face: "If I really are a god, why should I worry about my wife not being able to catch her?"
The old lady looked at the two of them: "Are you two secretly talking bad about us?"
"How dare you, grandma!" the two said in unison.
Yang Dingbang remembered something and turned around to pat Li Xiangyang: "In the afternoon, call two people to take away the two pigs. There are also a dozen chickens and a few geese. Find someone to take them away as well."
Li Xiangyang nodded: "Okay, I'll ask someone to come over when I get back."
The old lady punched Yang Dingbang distressedly: "I have nothing to say if you sell the pigs. Just catch some sorghum to feed the chickens. A dozen chickens have seven or eight eggs every day, and a few geese have just started laying eggs. All of them are sold."
After I get married, I will buy and eat everything. If I can’t even do this, what will I do with my life?”
Yang Dingbang looked at her: "You promise me that you won't do heavy work in the future, and that your private land and vegetable plots will be planted by others, and I will keep them for you. Otherwise, I will hire someone to take care of you."
Seeing his attitude, the old lady had no choice but to compromise: "Let's do this! You give the Meihua family the private land to plant, and keep the vegetable field for me. When I plant vegetables, I call Lin Lan and Yuezhen to help me dig out some vegetables."
Lin Lan smiled and said: "From now on, we will take care of the work of carrying water and digging the ground. If you need anything, just call and we will come immediately." She thought, maybe the old lady has figured it out after being admitted to the hospital! Don't worry about what she and Dingbang will see.