Shanwa Small Rich Farmers

Wen Xu heard that Teacher Ma and Zhao Xiaoyue had agreed again, so she looked up at the nearly one hundred bread dumplings that had been laid out on the couch, of course, they hadn't been baked in the oven yet.

I took a closer look at these dumplings and thought they were pretty good. Although the shape was a bit different from the ones I made, they were still the same size, and the heads and brains looked pretty good.

"Well, that's right, beat some eggs and only take the yolks and not the whites, and after the first oven, brush each one on top of each one." Wen Nu stretched out his fingers and scratched the 'head' of the nearest bread dough. Quan'er: "It's roughly in this position!"

"I know this, let me do it, Xiaoyue, you just follow me and learn." Teacher Ma has done this job before, even if she hasn't done it before, for a normal housewife who has been cooking for decades, this is a big deal. This kind of thing is a piece of cake.

Teacher Ma took Zhao Xiaoyue to make egg yolk liquid, while Mr. Chi pushed the Wen Nu chess pieces back in front of Wen Xu: "One more game?"

"Don't come!" Wen Xu gently threw the red chess piece in his hand onto the chessboard: "I'm always thinking about their bread making, and I don't have the extra mood to think about playing chess, so I let you win this morning." There are too many! Wait until I bake the bread, and I will kill you in the afternoon!" Wen Xu angrily made excuses for his loss.

After a few rounds, Wen Xu's side lost his pants, so the old man naturally put on a stance of chasing after the victory. Besides, he must be happy to win chess, so old man Chi wanted to pull Wen Xu to continue.

"Victory or defeat is a common matter in military affairs!" The master smiled and looked at Wen Xu expectantly.

"Is it a common thing for military strategists to lose once?"

"It's still early to eat, let's eat at our house at noon today, and let's have a little fun together! The number of people in the family is small, and my meal here is a bit tasteless." Everyone joins in the fun and eats together.

Wen Xu said: "It's easy to talk about eating, but chess is not coming yet. The bread will go into the oven later, and I will guide by the side!"

Wen Xu is not in the mood to continue playing with Mr. Chi, and he is losing consecutively, sometimes the more he loses, the more wrong the game will be. Besides, who has nothing to do and likes to find someone to abuse, so Wen Xu is determined not to let go.

As a veteran who has been holding spoons for decades, Mrs. Ma, dividing the egg liquid is a child's play for her. Within five minutes, the old lady separated out the egg night, and it was all ready.

"Let's go! Get all these things over there." Seeing that everything was ready, Wen Xu reached out and picked up a flat bucket with bread balls in his hand and walked out of the yard.

In this way, Wen Xu is in the front, Teacher Ma is behind, and Zhao Xiaoyue is walking in the middle. As for Teacher Ma, there are a group of children who are not very old, and the age range is three to six years old, that is, they have not yet gone to school. Now the leader of this group of children is Ermaoya, this little girl is now the first one in the group of children walking with a protruding belly, she is not too old and is holding a small child in each hand.

Although the old saying goes that a three-year-old baby dog ​​would be suspicious, but now that there is an outsider like Zhao Xiaoyue, and they are all focused on the bread, the little guys performed surprisingly well today. The whole team was quite quiet along the way, and they followed next to the oven.

"Such a big stove?"

Seeing the so-called oven, Zhao Xiaoyue was a little dumbfounded immediately, thinking that her master could roast a pig in this oven, and the oven was still built outside, just a small shed with a long slope roof to keep out the wind and rain , there is a long wooden table under the shed, the kind with bark hanging on the side of the long table, there are two benches on both sides of the long head of the long table, these benches are also quite heavy, light The surface of the wood is almost as deep as a palm, and there is also bark that has not been cleaned. The roof of the shed is covered with straw, and the whole stove with the shed is quite rough.

Wen Xu has seen it countless times, so naturally she doesn't have Zhao Xiaoyue's exclamation. She just thought that her stove is big, and replied casually: "Turn around and look at the bunch of radish heads behind you. Who can eat a small stove? Because I’m still in school today, and the big troop hasn’t come back yet, if the big troop is there, just like this, there will only be one in each little guy’s hand.”

Wen Wen put the article in his hand on the long table under the shed, then took out the fire fork from under the hearth, and then took out the brush from the hearth. This brush is not plastic, let alone an industrial product, but The hand-tied grass brush is made of sorghum tassels, which is natural and environmentally friendly.

The whole person stretched his body into the hearth, and it took nearly five minutes to clean the hearth from beginning to end. Then put the bread balls in.

Of course, as a master, Wen Xu just made a demonstration here. After placing a dozen or so, he felt that the spacing was almost appropriate, and he could see that there was a little way to go, so he asked Zhao Xiaoyue to set it up.

I waited for Zhao Xiaoyue to set it up, and went to have a look again. The job was not too difficult, as long as I was careful, there would be no problems, and Zhao Xiaoyue was strong in being careful.

Seeing that Zhao Xiaoyue was posing well, Wen Xu went on to the next step.

"Below is the fire. The firewood here is pine, and there are some willows here. I use this kind of wood shavings to light the fire. I don't usually use this thing. I use hay. Now I use hay at home. Houses, there is a carpenter, so there is such a good fire starter..."

As he said that, Wen Wen lit the wood shavings with an initiator, and then stuffed them into the middle of the hearth at the bottom, and then placed some twigs staggered on top of the flames, waited for the branches to light up, then placed firewood, and waited for the bottom one The first layer of firewood was led to this side, and only then did the firewood fill the chest.

"That's it. The rest of the time is waiting. After the firewood is baked in this stove, the top of the bread will start to turn slightly yellow. At this time, take out the bread, brush them with egg wash one by one, and then put them in the oven. Bake in the oven, this time until the top of the bread is close to the caramel color, that is, the color of the normal old bread, which indicates that the bread in this oven is ready. Pay special attention here, the bread will be slightly bitter after that , if it’s not enough, the taste will be a little bit worse, anyway, you just do it slowly, the flour here is free,” Wen Xu said.

"Xiaoyue, just stay here and watch, and call me over when you're done watching." Wen Xu assigned a task, and was about to go back to sit in the small courtyard.

Although there is a shed here, it can't be covered by trees. The whole shed is under the sun, and the temperature is several degrees higher than that in the courtyard of Mr. Chi's house. In addition, the job of watching the fire is not difficult, so the warmth makes people feel warm. Zhao Xiaoyue is doing this as an apprentice, and she is going to go back to the courtyard to enjoy the cool weather.

After the task was assigned, Wen Xu entered the room, just got on the couch, took a sip of the tea on the small table, and heard Shi Shangzhen's voice from the door.

"Hey, Boss Wen's little life is quite leisurely! You have paid me for the cost of making boards here, and there is no money in the village!"

Before the words fell, Shi Shangzhen had already stood beside the couch, and after slapping a piece of paper on the table from his hand, he reached out to pick up the cup from the small table, poured the cup of herbal tea for himself, and drank it in one gulp. I guess one cup is not enough to quench my thirst, and I want to have another cup after drinking it, but unfortunately the pot is not big, and Wen Xu has already made one cup, so Shi Shangzhen only poured one-third of the second cup. You can see the tea leaves.

Just like this, Shi Shangzhen didn't dislike it, he drank it all in one gulp, wiped his mouth after drinking, and said, "Professor Chi, your tea is cool, it really quenches your thirst!"

Wen Xu picked up the paper and took a look. It turned out to be an invoice, which stated the cost of making the exhibition board. Needless to say, it was the religious matter that he mentioned yesterday. The money was not much, which was about 2,000 yuan. in the pocket.

As soon as Mr. Chi heard that Shi Shang really praised his tea, he immediately said proudly: "Of course, I have a knack for this!"

"What's the trick?" Shi Shangzhen said this just for fun, and when he heard Mr. Chi's upset, he immediately followed up with another compliment.

At this time, Wen Xu smiled and said nothing.

Old Master Chi said, "The trick is the well in the backyard!"

Having said that, the old man threw the chess record in his hand, slapped his thigh, and stood up with a bang: "Oh, I forgot my things!"

"What?" Seeing the master rushing to his backyard anxiously, Shi Shangzhen asked Wen Xu in a low voice.

Wen Xu smiled and said: "Old man, if you go to the backyard, there are nine out of ten watermelons in the well. If it's not watermelon, then it's something like a small cantaloupe!"

"Water wells still have this effect? ​​Tea is also iced in water?" Shi Shangzhen asked.

"When there were no refrigerators in the village, this well was like a simple refrigerator. Not to mention melons and fruits like watermelons, even if leftover meat and vegetables were placed in the well, it would be no problem to take them out the next day. Under the condition of the refrigerator, country people rely on it for temporary storage in summer," Wen Xu explained.

Wells were not drilled by everyone in the past, and they also cost money, and it is not a small fee for farmers to drill a good well, not everyone is willing to afford the money Well, Mr. Chi's side is good. Along with the homestead, a well was built for nothing, and the walls of the well are still surrounded by blue stones all the way to the mouth of the well.

Shi Shangzhen was just making fun of it, he didn't really think that the cold air in this well would be better than the big refrigerator he was using now, he was just saying so.

As soon as Wen Xu finished explaining this, Mr. Chi came back with a skin bucket. When he got to the couch, the old man took out the contents of the bucket. As expected, Wen Xu guessed right. There were a few yellow oranges in the bucket. Fragrant flowers of orange, and several pale green melons.

"I know you don't like watermelons very much, and the watermelons here are not as good as those in your greenhouse, so come and taste my melons." Old Master Chi placed a cantaloupe in front of Wen Xu.

Shi Shangzhen saw the old man looking at him, and said with a smile: "I can do anything!"

Shi Shangzhen didn't finish his words, Wen Xu just took a bite of the melon, bit off a large piece of meat from the skin, swallowed the meat in one bite, and nodded while chewing, He even claimed that it was good to praise Gua.

"You are Zhu Bajie eating ginseng fruit." Seeing Wen Xu's eating, Shi Shangzhen opened his mouth to make fun of Wen Xu.

"Do you want to peel the skin?"

Old Master Chi saw Shi Shangzhen looking around with his melon head, so he reached out and took out a paring knife from the hidden compartment under the small table, and handed it to Shi Shangzhen.

"Thank you!" Shi Shang really wanted to find a knife. She wanted to peel the skin not because she was afraid of getting dirty, but because she was not used to eating it with the skin attached. It's hard to say anything else about the things grown in Wenjia Village. The clean ones are elsewhere. It can't be compared, there is no pesticide, how can it be unclean.

After receiving the knife, Shi Shangzhen began to peel the melon in his hand. Just after the melon was planed, Wen Xu had already entered a small melon the size of a fist. Why so fast? Firstly, because the melons are not big, secondly, because Wen Xu eats them quickly, and thirdly, because Shi Shangzhen cuts them carefully.

Seeing that Wen Xu had finished eating the melon, Shi Shangzhen handed the melon he had peeled to Wen Xu, and said, "Come, try the melon from the old man's house!"

Seeing that Wen Xu was a little embarrassed, and wanted to push it back, Shi Shangzhen raised his hand again, with a gentle voice: "Okay, I'll eat it for you, and I'll cut it myself."

"Thank you!"

Wen Xu reached out and took the melon from Shi Shangzhen's hand, and after taking a bite, he immediately gave a thumbs up and turned around in front of Shi Shangzhen and Mr. Chi: "It's delicious, the melon is good, and it's good to peel! ".

When Shi Shangzhen heard what Wen Xu said, he felt happy from the bottom of his heart, and said with a smile: "If you want to eat, I'll cut it for you?"

At this time, old man Chi looked at the two young people with a smile, and suddenly felt that the way these two young people got along was a bit vaguely like his own when he was young. At that time, even if my wife got a candied date, she had to share it with me. Although the family was poor at that time, women at that time seemed to know how to live and knew how to love their husbands.

Although it is not like today's young people who can't leave their mouths, but people at that time didn't need to use their mouths to say, a small movement, and their hearts were carried. It is not like now, that bit of ability is all in the mouth up!

Look at the women now, don't say they love their husbands, they wait for their husbands to hurt them, they really think they are princesses.

But when the old man thought that Wen Xu had a girlfriend now, he sighed again in his heart.

Mr. Chi never thought of reaching out to interfere with Wen Wen's personal life, but the old couple closed the door in private, and would use this matter as a topic from time to time. Although he thought Zhuo Yiqing was a good girl with a generous personality and no evil intentions, but I also feel that this girl is too playful, plus the family conditions are here, you can get what you want, and when you get along with Wen Xu, you rely on Wen Xu for everything. In the eyes of the old-fashioned old couple, this does not seem like they can step on their feet. Live steadily.