Chapter 106 Making Dumplings for Mid-Autumn Festival
Author: Shenwa
Chapter 106 Making Dumplings for Mid-Autumn Festival
The explosive is useless to others, but it is definitely a sharp weapon for hunters.
When Wang Jianshe said this, several people glanced at the dormitory next door knowingly.
"Brother Xiping, let's go, we will accompany you to ask.
These people are so ungrateful. If they want to use it, they will just ask you for it. How can you not give it to them?
If he took it away so quietly, wouldn't he be a thief?"
Everyone was so angry that they had to go to the people next door to find out.
Sheng Xiping waved his hand, "No need, as long as no fool plays with it.
I was worried that someone would blow up their hands with it.
This thing must be wrapped in meat oil and tied within the range of the black blind man or wild boar.
The black blind man or wild boar will definitely want to eat it when he smells the aroma of meat oil. When he bites it, the explosive inside rubs against the broken porcelain pieces and explodes, blowing up the black blind man or wild boar's mouth."
Perhaps because he was angry after losing his things, Sheng Xiping's voice was a bit high when he spoke.
"Look, the master chef in charge of the cafeteria this morning asked for some mutton fat, thinking about wrapping the fried noodles in it, and went to deal with the black blind man at the other end of the earthen roof.
That's good. The bomb is gone. Let's get another one later.
I just don’t know if the black blind man on the other side of Tudingzi is still there.”
Sheng Xiping said, shaking his head and sighing. The bomb was lost and a good opportunity was missed. Maybe the black blind man left.
When Wang Jianshe and others saw this, they quickly persuaded Sheng Xiping, and several people gathered around Sheng Xiping and returned to the house.
On the other end, several sneaky figures quickly ran away.
The bomb was lost, and Sheng Xiping was in a bad mood. He originally wanted to go back to his house and take a nap.
As a result, Sheng Xian and Sheng Xikang came to him and said that the school stipulated that everyone should pay ten pounds of cocoons, and they hadn't picked up enough yet.
Everything near the forest farm had been picked up, so they thought of walking further away and asked Sheng Xiping if he had time to accompany him.
That must be there.
In this way, Sheng Xiping and others changed their clothes for going into the mountain, carried baskets on their backs, and led their brothers and sisters from each family to go into the mountain together, pick up hazelnuts, and hit pine cones.
They all grew up in forest farms and are familiar with everything everywhere.
After entering the forest, they looked for a place with many oak trees, leaving Sheng Xian, Sheng Xikang and others to pick up twigs, while Sheng Xiping and the others went not far away to climb trees and knock out pine cones.
At the end of the day, the younger brothers and sisters from each family picked up a lot of straw, and Sheng Xiping and the others also made several sacks of pine cones.
In the evening, Sheng Xiping carried the sack containing the pine cones and sent his brothers and sisters home.
When Zhang Shuzhen saw her eldest son, she quickly asked him how he was living in the collective household and whether he had any conflicts with other people.
After hearing Sheng Xiping say everything was fine, Zhang Shuzhen felt relieved.
"By the way, we will be making dumplings at home for the August Festival tomorrow. Remember to bring Qing Lan back to eat dumplings in the evening."
Seeing that her son was about to leave, Zhang Shuzhen hurriedly warned him.
The August Festival refers to the Mid-Autumn Festival.
May Festival, also known as Dragon Boat Festival, is what most local people call it.
September 30th this year is the 15th day of the eighth lunar month, which coincides with the National Day.
The factory specially gave them a holiday and gave them holiday benefits, including two kilograms of meat to each employee.
At the same time, a batch of moon cakes came in from the forest farm store. You can buy them with your food card. Each person can buy half a catty.
Zhang Shuzhen discussed with Sheng Liancheng that since it was a festival and it was rare to receive welfare, she might as well make dumplings.
It was just in time to call Sheng Xiping and Zhou Qinglan back. It would be great to have the whole family reunited and have a lively meal of dumplings.
"Oh, okay, let's come back early tomorrow and make dumplings together."
Sheng Xiping nodded when he heard this, chatted with his parents for a while, and then returned to the collective household.
The next morning, Sheng Xiping still took people into the mountains to collect pine nuts. He went home early in the afternoon and helped his family make dumplings.
Because there is a leap month in April this year, the August Festival is much later than in previous years. Cabbage is in season, so my family made dumplings stuffed with cabbage and pork.
Sheng Xiping rolled out the dough, Zhang Shuzhen and Zhou Qinglan made the dumplings, and Sheng Yunfang and Sheng Yunfei helped press the dough and pick up the dumplings.
Sheng Xian, Sheng Xikang and several others were chopping firewood and boiling water outside.
Anyway, the whole family has something to do. Although they are busy, they are very happy.
The family had a large population, and there were not enough dumplings to eat, so in the end, three large dumplings were made.
When the water in the pot boiled, Zhang Shuzhen went to cook the dumplings, while Zhou Qinglan helped.
Sheng Xitai was so greedy for pine nuts that he had to say he wanted to eat them.
But there were dumplings cooking in the pot in the east room and they couldn't burn the pine cones, so a few people made a small fire in the yard and burned a dozen pine cones.
Pine cones are rich in pine oil, which burns easily. If you are not careful, you will burn the pine nuts inside.
Sheng Xiping looked at the fire, and when he felt it was about the same, he directly pushed the burned pine cone aside, then stood the pine cone up and kicked it.
The burned pine cone will become loose, and when the pine cone is kicked flat, some of the pine nuts inside will fly out, and the rest can be pulled out bit by bit.
Sheng Xiping only kicked, and the sisters Sheng Xitai and Sheng Yunfang were responsible for picking pine nuts.
Anyway, children like to do this job the most. They put it into their mouths while picking it up.
It doesn’t matter if it’s clean, as long as it’s edible.
Fresh pine nuts have a sweet taste, especially those cooked over fire. They are sweet and fragrant, and are much more delicious than dry and fried ones.
Sheng Xitai picked up a pine nut and put one in his mouth.
The outside of the pine cone was burnt black, and he didn't care about the black ash on his hands. There was a lot of it on his mouth, and his little face looked like a tabby cat.
When Zhang Shuzhen finished cooking the dumplings and served the children to eat, she saw her old son's virtue.
Zhang Shuzhen's nose almost became crooked with anger. She pointed at Sheng Xitai and shouted, telling him to wash his hands and face quickly or stop eating dumplings.
Sheng Xitai became anxious when he heard that he was not allowed to eat dumplings. He quickly washed his face and hands and ran into the house to wait for dinner.
The Sheng Xiping brothers and sisters were smiling as they tidied up the outside, then washed their hands one after another and went into the house to eat.
The family sat around the table, and there were plates of steaming and fragrant dumplings on the table.
Everyone has a small plate in front of them. Pour some garlic sauce into the plate and pour some vinegar.
Pick up a dumpling, dip it in some garlic sauce, and take a bite.
The Chinese cabbage of this age is purely natural and does not require any chemical fertilizers, so it tastes sweet, delicious and not bitter.
Zhang Shuzhen's skill in preparing fillings is very good. The fillings of these dumplings are delicious and juicy, not to mention how delicious they are.
"Well, it's so delicious. If not, these dumplings are stuffed with Chinese cabbage. They're even more delicious than the others."
Sheng Liancheng nodded while eating.
Sheng Xiping ate dumplings in his mouth and nodded along. It had been too many years since he had eaten the cabbage-filled dumplings made by his mother.
In this day and age, white flour and meat are rare things. Who would be willing to eat dumplings on a regular basis? At most, they can only be made once during the holidays.
Unlike later generations, eating dumplings was commonplace, with all kinds of dumpling fillings being eaten in different ways.
I was eating dumplings when suddenly there was a rush of footsteps outside.
Then I heard a dog barking wildly, and someone shouted loudly outside the door. "Brother Xiping, hurry up, something happened."