Go back to the prosperous days and become a layman

Chapter 181 180 Pumpkin Blossoms

Monday, go to work normally.

Fangyuan has submitted the report, but has not yet approved it.

"Let's prepare first. This matter must be done. You start the preparation first, and I will go to the city bureau." Early in the morning, Fangyuan took a sip of water, looked at the time, and made an appointment to finish the morning meeting there. I opened my fingers, combed my hair twice, put the hat on my head, and went out.

Wearing a hat is a popular fashion among men nowadays. People with a status like Fangyuan usually wear straw-green hats. Some elderly people are keen on wearing felt hats or civilized hats. Most farmers choose to wear straw hats to protect themselves from the sun.

Tang Zhitong chose not to wear it, and his hairstyle was the most ordinary crew cut, which was easy to take care of.

Don’t think that hairstyles are the same nowadays, this is a stereotype.

Executives or young men who are pursuing advancement will generally have their hair style closer to the top, with a large back or a side parting.

Women have more hairstyles, among which big waves are the most popular. Since perming requires certain equipment and technology, ordinary barber shops cannot do it. You have to go to big barber shops such as Xidan No. [-] Barber Shop, Huaxin Barber Shop moved from Shanghai, or Dingxin Barber Shop, Wanguo Barber Shop, etc. These haircuts Most of the stores are concentrated in Dongdan, Xidan, and Wangfujing, and they all have a common feature: you have to queue up.

Tang Zhitong has no requirements for hairstyle. Street shops and even shaving machines can do it. The only expensive personal cleaning product is a razor.

Friends who understand the times will know that some older people grow beards. This is due to traditional cultural reasons as well as the inconvenience of shaving.

Ordinary people mostly choose shaving shops or small shops on the street. The barber will first cover the customer with a hot towel, then use a brush to lather, then press the skin tightly, and use a razor to shave off the stubble bit by bit. .

Most of the razors used by barbers are foldable. When the razor is dull, rub it back and forth on the emery cloth. The razor will make a "rustling" sound when it scrapes the stubble, which sounds very relaxing, but Tang Zhitong considers the hygiene situation. , prefer to solve it by yourself.

Tang Zhitong’s razor holder is from Feiying, an American imitation made by a small workshop in Shanghai, but the blades inside are imported from classmate Xiao Wang.

It's not that Tang Zhitong doesn't want to support domestic products, it's just that the quality of domestic blades is not good. Not only can they be used three or four times, but they are also not sharp enough. Often, the beard is still there, but the face is scratched. For this reason, many people jokingly call domestic razors "tears".

There are many people who worry about shaving, and even Mr. Zhou is no exception. The real take-off of Flying Eagle Razor is inseparable from Mr. Zhou’s support.

In order to facilitate the lives of Chinese people, under the care of Mr. Zhou, the Shanghai blade factory updated its factory buildings and equipment in 60. After many twists and turns, it moved to Hong Kong and purchased equipment from the United Kingdom and the Federal Republic of Germany. The quality of the blades has been improved. , the flying eagle soared into the blue sky and began exporting, earning a large amount of foreign exchange for the country.

After Fangyuan left, Tang Zhitong found the escort route map, checked the stations that each escort route passed through, and compiled the counties and cities that each station needed to outsource into a table.

Some sites are the junction points for transportation from south to north, east to west, and there are a large number of upstream and downstream packages. Such sites need to reserve more storage space.

Building wooden shelves in your own mail truck is just the first step, which can effectively reduce letter sorting errors and shorten delivery time.

If you want to reduce the workload of escorts, you still have to wait for the nationwide promotion of postal codes to start. When the business capabilities of each municipal bureau improve, you can then take the opportunity to request that the sorting work be handed over to the local post office. This process will take at least two or three years.

After lunch, the sun was shining brightly, which was a good weather for pinching pumpkins.

After Tang Zhitong planted pumpkins, few others knew how to take care of the crops. Fangyuan and Tang Zhitong took care of them most of the time.

Pinch off the tips of pumpkins is a necessary step to increase production. In order to avoid infection, it is best to do it when the weather is sunny.

After more than a month of care, the pumpkin seedlings have spread and pumpkins are already blooming.

Since no bees were seen, in order to better allow the pumpkins to bear fruit, Tang Zhitong also artificially pollinated the pumpkins while sharpening them. Artificial pollination is actually quite simple. Just take a brush and sweep the tip of the brush over the stamens of the male flowers to stick the pollen on them. Then extend the tip of the brush to the style of the female flowers and sweep it a few times.

Pumpkins are monoecious plants. The pollen of one male flower is enough to make three or four female flowers develop and produce seeds. After artificial pollination, the mission of the male flowers is over, so Tang Zhitong always pinches off the male flowers.

Pinch off the male flowers, and you don't have to worry about having no source of pollen in the future. The male flowers will bloom continuously, and the entire flowering period will last for about a month.

Pumpkin tips and pumpkin flowers are edible. Fry them in batter and sprinkle with salt and pepper. It tastes great.

In addition to being eaten by humans, there is another kind of small animal that particularly likes pumpkin flowers, and that is the grasshopper, which is green all over and can squeak when kept in a cage. It is one of the childhood joys of many rural children.

Children in the city have also seen this thing. This thing is one of the sources of income for many farmers to subsidize their families. They put the grasshoppers in bamboo cages made by themselves and sell them along the streets in the city on burdens.

Grasshoppers are not expensive, and many well-off parents are willing to bring some excitement to their homes and often buy a cage.

When Tang Zhitong was getting off work, he saw a farmer selling grasshoppers on the side of the road with a small bamboo cage made like a work of art.

Tang Zhitong didn't bargain and bought one, including the cage and the grasshopper, for five cents.

There were a lot of pumpkin tips and pumpkin flowers in one acre of land. Tang Zhitong worked all afternoon to finish them. He kept some and threw them in the space. The others were given to the canteen to add a dish at noon tomorrow.

After returning home, Tang Zhitong handed the grasshopper cage to his sisters, while he began to prepare fried pumpkin tips and fried pumpkin flowers.

It’s best to clean up the pumpkin tips, remove the shreds and wash them. There is only one secret to the deliciousness, just add more pork fat.

If you want to fry the fried pumpkin flowers so that they are crispy on the outside and tender on the inside, it will test your skills.

Remove the stems from the pumpkin flowers, wash and drain them.

Be careful when making batter. Forget about starch, you can only make do with flour.

Crack two eggs, add a little baking soda, salt, and pepper powder, then pour in an appropriate amount of water, beat the batter until it is thin, use chopsticks to pick it up, it will drip quickly without stringing.

After water control, the pumpkin flowers are rolled in the batter, covered with a thin layer of batter, and immediately put into the pan.

Since pumpkin flowers are easy to ripen, the oil temperature should not be too hot and the fire should not be too strong. Medium to small fire is better.

The pumpkin flowers fried in this way have a crispy outer layer, which is the perfect food to satisfy your cravings.

"This wastes too much fuel." Zhang Guifang looked at her son frying pumpkin flowers and did not stop him, but still muttered a few words.

"Mom, we don't eat it every day. Please give me a try." Tang Zhitong picked up a fried pumpkin flower and handed it to his mother's mouth, saying that it would be better to gag her with delicious food.

　The previous chapter was blocked and will be released around five o'clock...

　　
  　
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