Go back to 1980 and enjoy it

When the production team does collective work, only a few people are really active in the work, and most of them are working as foreigners, so there is endless work all year round, but there is not much real gain.

But after dividing the fields and working alone, it was completely different.

For example, now, because the fields in the village have been planted with rice seedlings, most of the villagers are idle. Unlike before, they still had to do this and that, and had no time to spare for a day.

Of course, this leisure is not the kind of doing nothing in later generations. There are still some miscellaneous tasks, but this does not require the whole family to work together.

With more people free, naturally more people came to help Deng Shirong build a house.

As a result, the new house of Deng Shirong's family changed day by day, and the progress greatly exceeded expectations.

Similarly, the meat in Deng Shirong's system space and the rice at home were also consumed at an extremely fast rate.

After entering the eighth month of the lunar calendar, the rice at home was emptied first. After all, dozens of people eat every day, and the little grain allocated by the production team will definitely not last long.

The current price of rice is not high. The national price is 0.19 yuan per kilogram, which is less than 10 cents per kilogram on average.

But this thing requires food stamps, so for Deng Shirong, no matter how cheap it is, it is useless. If he wants to buy rice, he can only buy it at the market. The current market price of rice is almost double the national price. It needs One cent and eighty pounds.

Ten kilograms is one yuan and eight, and one hundred kilograms is eighteen yuan.

Dozens of people serve meals every day, and one hundred kilograms of rice cannot be carried for several days.

There is also meat in the system space. Although Deng Shirong has been saving one province after another, using fish, shrimps, eels, frogs, snails and other things to make up for the lack of meat, the daily consumption is still a lot. As the Mid-Autumn Festival approaches, , all the hundreds of kilograms of meat that had been accumulated before were consumed.

Including the eleven five flavors that Deng Shirong got a few days ago when he arranged for the woman to come to Deng Changwang's house to look after the house, they were all included.

Fortunately, by this time, not only the blue brick walls of the new house have been built, but also the beams have been completed. Only the roof tiles need to be laid, and the main body of the house is completed, and then you can enter It's in the renovation stage.

On July 14th, Deng Yuntai was busy bringing goods to Beihai to sell with Deng Yungui, so he could not stay at home to celebrate the festival. But now that the Mid-Autumn Festival has arrived, he encountered the kiln burning in the tile factory again, and Deng Yuntai could not stay at home with his father. Spend the holidays with my brothers and sisters.

Mooncakes appeared a long time ago, but the custom of eating mooncakes during the Mid-Autumn Festival did not appear until the Ming Dynasty. This is recorded in historical materials such as "Zhuizhongzhi", "Wanshu Miscellaneous Notes", and "Scenery of the Imperial Capital". .

So why did the custom of eating mooncakes suddenly arise during the Mid-Autumn Festival in the Ming Dynasty?

There are many folklores about this, but the most popular theory is that it is related to the common people's brave resistance to the Mongolian rule in the late Yuan and early Ming Dynasties. Although there are many versions of the details, the general meaning is the same.

Generally speaking, at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, the Mongolian rule was brutal and the people were in dire straits and revolted one after another. The instigators made round pies as tokens with a note saying "Kill the Tatars on August 15th" inside and distributed them to every house. Every household agreed to revolt on August 15th.

In the end, the uprising was victorious and the Ming Dynasty was established. Mooncakes became a Mid-Autumn Festival custom as a witness of victory.

However, there is no record of this statement in official history. It is just folklore, and its authenticity is difficult to distinguish.

Nowadays, everyone’s life is difficult, and naturally they don’t have the conditions to buy or make moon cakes to eat. Therefore, eating moon cakes during the Mid-Autumn Festival does not exist in Naye Village.

Of course, the Mid-Autumn Festival is our country's traditional festival after all. No matter how difficult it is, we still have to celebrate the festival. If we don't have mooncakes, we will use other things instead.

As a result, Naye Village and several nearby villages had the custom of dragon tofu (which means grinding tofu) on August 15th. This custom lasted until the 1990s, and everyone's living conditions gradually improved. , only after he could afford to eat mooncakes did he gradually give up.

There is only one stone mill in Naye Village, which is placed at the entrance of Azu Hall. Everyone knows that there are a lot of people selling Long Tofu today, so they soak the soybeans in advance and queue up in front of the stone mill before dawn.

Today's tofu is not expensive, at least not expensive for Deng Shirong. If you buy it for just a few cents, your whole family can't finish it. There is no need to grind the soy milk and make it yourself.

But now every household makes it by themselves. If they don’t make it and just buy it with money, or exchange it with soybeans, it will lose the festive atmosphere. So the eldest daughter and the younger daughter were busy, and Deng Shirong did not stop them.

In the afternoon, the fragrance of tofu wafts over the entire Naye Village. Those who can afford it will add a little vermicelli when rolling the tofu. For people of this era, the taste is really no less than eating delicacies from the mountains and seas.

Deng Shirong’s family ate vermicelli rolled tofu.

As Deng Yunzhu ate, she felt something was wrong. She couldn't help but said: "Dad, this tofu rolled with vermicelli is not as delicious as the one made on August 15th last year. Is it because the tofu was not cooked well today?"

Deng Yunsong swallowed the food in his mouth and said, "I just wanted to say that the tofu rolled by fans today seems not as delicious as the one made on August 15th last year."

Deng Yunhua and Deng Yunheng also nodded, they also felt the same way.

Deng Shirong smiled and said: "It's not that the tofu rolled by fans today is not as delicious as the one made on August 15th last year. On the contrary, it tastes even better. You think it's not as good as last year. That's because the food you had during this period was so good. You want to Think about the meat that made you drool before, even if it is placed in front of you, wouldn't you be able to eat much of it? "

After hearing this, several children suddenly realized.

Deng Yunsong said with emotion: "It's true. If I could eat a large bowl of pork in the past, I could easily eat it by myself. Now if you give me a large bowl of pork, I might not be able to eat even half of the bowl." ”

Deng Yunzhu nodded and said: "Dad didn't tell me, I wouldn't have thought it at the moment. It seems that our mouths are being picked up!"

Deng Yunzhen also feels the same way. Ever since her father and Brother Yungui contracted out the brigade's kiln, the food standard at home has changed drastically. In the past, they only ate pork once or twice a month, and every time they had enough. Just three to five yuan.

Nowadays, it may be an exaggeration to say that you will be tired of eating pork, but meat is eaten every day, and there is no limit on how many pieces per person. The difference is really huge!

She was a little worried. If the family conditions of the in-laws she found in the future were not good, and the food standards dropped to the same as before, how would she live?

Deng Shirong said with a smile: "My family is building a house now, and the cost is relatively high, so I eat these dishes over and over again. When the house is built and the pressure on the family is not so great, I will prepare other delicious foods for you brothers." Yes, I guarantee you will like it.”

The children's eyes lit up when they heard this.

They were not dissatisfied with their father's cooking skills, and the delicious food in his father's mouth must be a rare delicacy, and their hearts could not help but be filled with expectations.