Dashan Orchard 1988

Chapter 72 Fragrant spicy red noodles

"That is to say, there is a reason why I don't like talking to my second brother."

Li Xiangqin sighed.

Li Muyang smiled and said nothing.

Anyway, she is someone who can't hide things, so she will definitely tell them.

"I'm such an adult, and you treat me like a child. I'm not the youngest child in the family. I haven't seen him talk about Yuanyuan and Xiaofeng."

Li Muyang thought to himself, Renyuanyuan and Xiaofeng are younger than you, but neither of them is more mature and stable than you.

"Ugh."

Li Xiangqin let out another long sigh.

"Have you finished picking the vegetables? When I'm done, I'll go cook. You can stay with your mother."

Li Muyang didn't want to continue listening to his sister's sighs. If he didn't forcefully interrupt, he didn't know when she would leave.

"Oh, I forgot about it. You have been busy all afternoon and still have the energy to cook, so I'll do it."

"Forget it, you're tired too, right?"

Li Xiangqin was stunned, smiled and shook Li Muyang's arm, "Brother, you still love me the most. Then I will go accompany my mother. If you need my help, just call me."

"go Go."

Li Muyang smiled gently.

Watching my sister get up, pat the dirt on her butt, and go to her mother's room.

He also stood up, took the small broom on the window sill to brush off the dirt on his body, and poured out the dirt from his shoes.

Go to the kitchen and cook.

After coming to the kitchen, I saw that Li Xiangqin was originally going to make shepherd's purse noodles, but the shepherd's purse was washed and put in a basket, and the noodles were kneaded in a basin.

Because I had been there for too long, the mat was too soft and all of it got stuck in the basin.

He had no choice but to add a little more dough and knead it again.

Looking at the dough on the chopping board, he thought about it and prepared to make spicy red noodles.

Since there are three conditions in this noodle, only if all are met can it be considered as a truly good bowl of long noodles.

The smell is the meat's smell.

Spicy red refers to adding a lot of cooked oil and spicy pepper to the soup until the entire noodle soup looks dark red.

As for the long noodles, they are hand-rolled noodles.

When it comes to noodles, hand-rolled noodles and machine-made noodles are completely different concepts.

Two flavors.

The hand-rolled noodles are very chewy because they are raw noodles, not sun-dried or fried, and no other seasonings are added to the noodles. They all rely on the soup to enhance the flavor.

Among the hand-rolled noodles, the most difficult to make and the one that best reflects the skill of hand-rolled noodles is the "long noodles".

Many women, after cooking all their lives, are unable to roll out decent long noodles.

You can imagine how difficult it is to use a rolling pin to roll a palm-sized dough into a piece of dough with a diameter of more than one meter.

If the dough is a little harder, it will not be rolled out. If the force is slightly uneven somewhere during the rolling process, a hole will be made in the dough and it will fail.

Only when all aspects of dough making, kneading, rolling and cutting are flawless can we cut noodles that are only one millimeter thin but more than one meter long.

This difficulty can be imagined.

Many people in later generations have greatly reduced their ability to make pasta. For example, his daughter Li Jing can't roll out a dumpling wrapper evenly. If she were asked to roll out long noodles, she would definitely not even think about it.

Li Muyang’s dough-making skills all come from Lin Xiuli.

His wife is an all-around good wife and mother.

The sewing, tea and food are all very good.

Moreover, he is also educated and reads more books than him.

He only graduated from the third grade, but Lin Xiuli graduated from junior high school and knew many more words than him.

Being able to marry Lin Xiuli was a fate accumulated over countless lifetimes.

Different dishes are needed than rice, and the taste is different.Pasta has a magical power.

Different shapes of noodles seem to taste different.

Therefore, there are endless types of surrounding noodles, some thick and thin, some long and round, the widest is like a trouser pocket, and the narrowest is thinner than a hair.

You can cut it with a knife, or you can pull it with your hands. There are even types of mochi, which are made with special tools.

Obviously they are kneaded with flour and transformed into various forms.

But it tastes different.

Li Muyang concluded from many years of experience in eating noodles that the most delicious of all forms is long noodles.

Whether it's steamed rice noodles, ordinary spicy red noodles, sour soup noodles, scallion oil noodles, tofu eggs, spinach noodles...

As long as the noodles are rolled out, they will taste different.

After Li Muyang was reborn, he had not eaten long noodles yet.

Li Xiangqin doesn't have this skill.

Among the wives and girls in the entire Li family, only two have this ability, one is Lin Xiuli and the other is the sister-in-law Milan Lan.

Correct.

Although she is tall and majestic and has a violent personality, her food and drinks are also top-notch, even better than Lin Xiuli's.

"puff!"

"puff!"

Li Muyang rolled the noodles back and forth.

Although rolling out dough is strenuous, he doesn't feel tired at all.

Rather enjoy it.

When he thought about the scene where he would be able to squat down and enjoy the delicious food after a while, he was already extremely hungry and thirsty.

About ten minutes later, the long noodles were rolled out. He picked up the knife and sharpened it on the edge of the vat to make it sharper.

The knives of today are still different from the knives of later generations.

The knife in Li Muyang's hand is more like a knife frame and a blade. It is a bit like an early sickle. It has a sickle frame, and the blade is installed on it every time it is used.

Similarly, if you feel that the blade is not sharp enough, you can use a whetstone to sharpen the blade before installing it.

But it is troublesome to disassemble and install the blade every time, so when people here are used to using knives, they just grind it on the edge of the cylinder, which basically works.

The cylinders are all made of clay, so sharpening the knife is very comfortable.

"Bababababa!"

Li Muyang's hands danced up and down briskly and regularly, and the rows of noodles flowed out evenly from the side of the knife and were arranged on the chopping board in an upright manner.

His hands are very steady. After several hundred cuts, all the noodles are the same thickness and no difference can be seen.

It is to integrate the action of cutting into life.

It truly achieves the unity of man and knife.

After cutting the noodles, we come to the intuitive and important step of making soup.

People in different places have different atmospheres for eating noodles, and their cultures are also very different.

Longdong people eat noodles and pay great attention to soup.

Many times, when out-of-towners come here as guests, when it’s time to eat, the host will enthusiastically say that they can stay and have soup.

The guest will be very curious, thinking that since you want to treat me to dinner, you should be more generous. Why only drink soup.

In fact, the owner meant to eat noodles.

Moreover, according to the custom here, the most ceremonious meal to entertain guests is not fried vegetables or steamed buns, but long noodles.

Not only do long noodles take longer to make and make the host appear more enthusiastic, but more importantly, long noodles also have the connotation of longevity and represent the best wishes of the Longdong people to foreign guests.

On the contrary, only customers who are familiar with the place and come often will say: "Just stir-fry a few dishes and eat."

People who have participated in the red and white events here will know that before eating the flowing water banquet, you must drink soup first, which is actually spicy red noodles.

(End of this chapter)