After boiling the sauce beans, there is no need to add more firewood to the bottom of the pot, just simmer slowly.
The next morning, put the reddish beans and the washed and soaked sauce starter into several iron buckets.
Su Anying borrowed a wheelbarrow and pushed it to the mill in the backyard of the second brigade.
In this method of making sauce, you must use a grinder, otherwise the sauce primer cannot be ground finely, and it will not be delicious if you take a bite.
By the time Su Anying and her two sisters pushed the wheelbarrow to the mill, there were already quite a few people lined up.
Normally, the mill does not sell bean paste for grinding. Only on April 8th, April 18th, and April 28th, when the soybean paste is made, is it concentrated for grinding.
In this way, there is no need to brush the grinding chamber back and forth.
During the grinding process, some water needs to be added, so four buckets of beans are added with sauce starter, and finally five buckets are pushed back.
Xu Chenghou left two barrels there and three barrels here.
According to the ratio of three pounds of beans to one pound of salt, pour the sauce and salt into the porcelain jar.
When adding beans and sauce as a starter, you actually need more grain, and the ratio of grain to salt is less than three to one.
Use a rolling pin to stir continuously in one direction until the salt and sauce are evenly mixed, then sprinkle a layer of salt on top to seal the jar.
Finally, cover the cylinder mouth with white cloth and tie it tightly with red cloth strips.
If it is a lump of sauce, it needs to be dried outside for a full month before it can be eaten.
But the sauce made by Xu’s family can be eaten in three days.
Of course, it is best to ferment it for a month, so that the aroma of the sauce will be stronger.
The Xu family still has the sauce they made last year, so they are not in a hurry to eat new sauce.
It is said that the newly made sauce should not be moved by two people. If it is moved, the sauce will not ferment and will spoil.
As for whether it is true, no one knows, no one has tested it.
Those soy beans are grain. Dozens of kilograms of beans, plus a lot of salt, are all money. Who is willing to take risks?
Making sauce, pickling pickles, and pickling sauerkraut are three important things in the daily life of Northeastern people, and they must be treated with caution.
It's not a joke that I might not be able to eat for the next year.
After the sauce was put into the jar and sealed, it was not too early. Su Anying saw that there was no need to go to the breeding farm this morning, so she had to pack up and cook.
As soon as the meal was finished, I heard Xu Haiyuan running in from outside.
"Mom, Mom, we have a sports meeting tomorrow."
The tradition of Donggang Central Primary School is to hold a sports meeting every June 1st and hold a concert by Shenxiang Little Bailing on November 1st.
The sports meeting is not only attended by children from Donggang Central Primary School, but also from other primary schools affiliated to Donggang Commune. It can be regarded as a rare event in Donggang Commune.
"There is a sports meeting in elementary school. Why are you so happy? Are there any projects of yours?"
Su Anying laughed as soon as she heard this, and raised her hand to rub the top of her son's head. Are there any projects for children in the red class to participate in?
"Yes, yes, the teacher said, we also have a project, and whoever wins will be rewarded with candy."
Xu Haiyuan pursed his lips, feeling that his mother looked down on him.
He is too young to participate in sports meets? Who made the rule?
"Oh, it turns out you can participate too. Do you need your mother to accompany you to school tomorrow?"
When Su Anying saw her son like that, she knew that her casual words had hurt her son's self-esteem, and she immediately regretted it.
"Didn't your teacher tell you what kind of clothes you should wear? Mom, hurry up and find it for you."
Su Anying remembers watching primary school sports games before, and many children were wearing white tops and black pants.
For this outfit, many people had to borrow it.
Xu Haiyuan doesn't need to borrow it. Xu Shiqin just made him a white shirt a few days ago, and he also has black pants at home.
"No, the teacher didn't say, we don't need to review, we should be able to wear whatever clothes we want.
If mom has time tomorrow, take her sister to school with her and let her see the excitement."
The child was very sensitive and could sense his mother's regret, so Xu Haiyuan didn't mind.
Su Anying thought for a while, over at the breeding farm, the only thing left to install in the flower shed was glass windows, which would probably take a few days.
Then there is the flower stand and so on. Xu Shian is watching over there, no problem.
"Okay, then I will accompany you to school tomorrow, and I will bring your sister there to watch the fun."
There were too many people in this kind of occasion, so Xu Jinping couldn't go alone. She had to be followed by an adult to avoid any accidents.
On May 31st, Su Anying took Xu Jinping, Su Anfang and Su Anhua to the school sports meeting with Xu Haiqing and Xu Jinhui in their arms.
Zhou Guilan was bored at home, so she went over to join in the fun.
It happened that Ji Yufeng also came with Yang Haoyu, and everyone met at the school gate.
The annual sports meeting of the elementary school is also a rare entertainment event. People around lead the children there to watch the fun.
At the entrance of the primary school, many people prepared some food for sale.
Sodas, popsicles, candies, and the most surprising thing, they even sell big necks.
Yang Haoyu had never seen a big neck before, so he was very curious and asked Ji Yufeng what it was.
Zhou Guilan couldn't help but shake her head when she saw the big neck.
"If you were still in a big house, you could take a bunch of it home while you were doing laundry. It would be much cheaper than this."
Most of these things grow on the roots of stone trees along the river, and there are especially many of them near the big houses on the Xijiang River.
There is no river or Shilizi at this end of Donggang. No wonder the children don't recognize it.
Although she said she was disgusted, the old lady still took out the money and bought three sticks to give the three older ones a taste.
"This thing needs to be peeled off, and the outer skin must be peeled off to eat the flesh inside. It's sour."
It has a big neck, eats from a pole, and the part below that grows in the ground is white.
This is the most tender part, with a bit of sweetness in the sourness. The higher you go, the more sour it becomes, and at the end, it becomes sour and astringent.
The three children didn't mind it, they ate with great enthusiasm and said it was delicious while eating.
Zhou Guilan frowned at the sight. Only children can eat this stuff, but adults find it sour.
After eating the big neck, it was time to start the review.
All teachers and students lined up outside the primary school gate, preparing to enter.
There are more than 20 classes in Donggang Central Primary School, plus other primary schools in the brigade, and the queue is almost reaching the tomb of the martyrs.
At the front of the team was an art teacher from a primary school. He was short, wearing a red cloak and holding a pointed baton in his hand.
Behind them came the national flag team, then the primary school drum team, waist drum team, dance team, and wreath performance team, and then followed by the tall boys carrying the school badge, the knife and flag team, and the square teams of each class.
When the review time comes, the leading teacher holds the baton and leads the students into the venue.
"Grandma, those sisters are so beautifully dressed. I will dress up like them when I come to school in the future."
The girls in the dance team all wore short skirts, white dance pants, makeup on their faces, and their hair was tied up on top of their heads with red flowers.
When Xu Jinping saw it, she thought those girls were very good-looking and envied them so much that she told her grandma that she would also join the dance team in the future.
"Tch, what's so nice about them? All of them have red pimples on their faces, it's so ugly."
Unexpectedly, Xu Haiyuan next to him curled his lips.
The blush on those girls' faces was just a very red mess. In Xu Haiyuan's eyes, it was simply ugly. I wonder how his sister still thought it looked good?
"Well, brother is right, it doesn't look good.
Second sister, don’t dress like them, it’s too ugly.” Yang Haoyu echoed from the side.