Good farming at the foot of Changbai Mountain

Chapter 119 Cricket Tofu
After lunch, Jinghan and the others took a short rest, just as Zhixin and the others had finished pinching all the ginseng seeds in the morning.Everyone ran to the riverside with their things. Zhixin led Guoan and the others to wash ginseng seeds there, while Jinghan and Wencheng led Jingxian and Mingyu to Xiawuzi.

At the beginning of Weishi, it is the time when the sun is the strongest.Jinghan found a lot of big leaves from the riverside and put them on her head, so as to provide some shade.This large-leaved plant, known locally as a big bone pole, grows only a single stem from the bottom, and a large round leaf on top.The stem is about the thickness of an adult's big finger. In spring, the stem is still very tender and edible.Take a bite, the sweet and sour taste is delicious, and it is the favorite of children.This thing loves to grow under the rocks by the river. Jinghan and the others would come to pick some and eat them every spring.

Everyone took off their shoes and turned over stones in the shallow water of the river with bare feet. There were crayfish under almost every stone.The first time Ming Yu saw this crayfish, he felt it was very strange, so he just teased it with his hands, but he didn't expect to be caught by the cricket with its front claws.The pain caused Mingyu to shout, "Sister Jinghan, hurry up, this thing pinches me."

Jinghan hurried over and flicked hard on the cricket's shell, and the cricket let go of Mingyu's hand.Mingyu's chubby fingers were pinched with blood marks, and he grinned in pain. "Sister, this thing is too disgusting, and it's still trapping people."

"You, to catch a crayfish, you need to grab its back. How can you grab its front claws? The crickets here are all big in size, which is about the same size as a crab's claws. Isn't this attack hard enough? ?" Jing Han took a look, Ming Yu's hand didn't bleed, but it hurt enough. "You go to the side and rest for a while, and you will feel better after a while."

Mingyu shook his head, "It's okay, sister, I can bear this pain. The riverside is so fun, I like it here." Mingyu turned around and saw Zhixin and the others washing ginseng seeds over there, and asked, " Sister, uncle, what are they doing?"

"That's washing ginseng seeds. We produce ginseng here. The outer skin of the ginseng seeds needs to be washed off, and the inner ones can be dried and stored. When they are sprinkled on the ground next year, ginseng will grow again." Jing Jing Han patiently explained to him.

Mingyu was like a child who had never seen anything, curious about everything, and hurried to Zhixin to watch him wash ginseng seeds.He saw Guoan stepping on a bag, and then a lot of yellow-brown water dripped out of the bag. He thought it was very interesting, so he wanted to try it.Guoan had no choice, so he had to give the place to Mingyu and let him try.

Jinghan saw it here, and couldn't help shaking her head, this Li Mingyu was just a child who didn't grow up.I was raised in a deep house since I was a child, and I may not have been out a few times, so I feel very novel when I see everything, and I want to try it.I don't know how long this child can live in Xu's family. It would be nice if he can stay for a longer period of time, so he can learn more.

Everyone was laughing and playing by the river, and it didn't take long to catch a bucket of crayfish.The ginseng seeds over there were almost washed. Zhixin and Zhiming took the ginseng seeds back first, and told everyone to be careful when they left.

"Father, don't worry, we all grew up by the water. We are very good at water. Even Jing Han and Jing Xian can swim, so it's fine." Wen Cheng is not worried about this.

Zhixin was a little worried, and deliberately left Guoan to accompany these people before leaving.

Wen Cheng led everyone to take out the fish docks that had been placed, and poured them into the bucket. Sure enough, many large and small fish were poured into the bucket.Mingyu was so happy that he almost jumped up, "It's great, there are so many fish."

Everyone smiled and did not comment on Mingyu's fuss.After all, Jingxian is smaller, she curled her lips and said. "What's the matter? You wait until tomorrow morning to see. The fish we hang with hanging nets are the big ones. Some of them can weigh more than three catties. If you see them, you won't be happier?"

As soon as Mingyu heard this, he shouted that he must take him with him when he got up to fish tomorrow morning.

Jinghan saw that it was getting late, and the household items they brought were all full of fish and crayfish, so she said she wanted to go back.Everyone had no opinion, so they walked back with the bucket.

A stone mill has been installed on the mountain, so Jinghan cooks cricket tofu at night, which is a famous dish in Northeast China.

When Mingyu heard about cricket tofu, he asked strangely: "Sister, are you talking about stewing this cricket and tofu together? Is it delicious?" In his feeling, cricket tofu , maybe that's what it did.

Jingxian listened to it and couldn't help laughing, "Brother Mingyu, you better stop asking, and you'll understand when you help make it later. Cricket cricket tofu is not stewed with cricket cricket and tofu."

Li Mingyu knew that he was making a joke again, so he rubbed his nose and said helplessly, "Okay, then I will help later. I really don't believe it, crickets can still make tofu?"

Everyone first poured the fish into a large basin, picked out the palm-sized crucian carp melon seeds, and squeezed the remaining small fish and brine them before drying them.Those crucian carps were cleaned up by Mrs. Xue, then marinated with ingredients, and then they were wrapped in noodles and fried to eat.Usually, Mrs. Xue wouldn't cook such laborious dishes, but with Li Mingyu here, he must cook something good.

After all the fish were cleaned up, everyone started to make mantis tofu.The first thing is of course to remove the cover of the cricket, and then pull out the yellow and put it alone, and then break the tail sideways, and the intestines can be pulled out.The processed crayfish were all put in a basin, and when everything was processed, Jing Han took the processed crayfish to the stone mill outside.The stone mill has been cleaned long ago, put the crayfish inside and push it out, and use a basin to connect it.Filter the juice that has been pushed out with two layers of gauze, and it will become a pot of yellow-brown juice.

Jingxian went to the field to cut a handful of leeks and came back. After picking them out and washing them, they chopped them into fine pieces and kept them for later use.

Xue's side also boiled a pot of water, and the fire underneath was also blazing.Then Xue took the pot of juice and slowly poured it into the pot. As the juice entered the pot, in an instant, the tumbling pot was full of pink flowers.Here, Mrs. Xue poured the yellow into it again, put a little less salt, and finally sprinkled the minced leeks, and then poured the cricket tofu soup into the basin that had been prepared earlier.

Mingyu has been following and watching, and this time he finally understands what cricket tofu is. "So this is cricket tofu, such a beautiful soup, so fragrant." Mingyu looked happily at the pot of soup in front of him, white soup, golden yellow, pink cricket tofu, and green vegetables Ye, looks very appetizing.

Today everyone eats together and three tables are set up outside.Everyone worked together and put all the food on the table. The cricket tofu soup was also divided into three pots, one for each table. "Okay, let's all sit down and eat." Mrs. Xue shouted.

Mingyu and the Xu family sat at the same table, and the Wang family and the Fang family also sat at the same table.On the table are stewed beans, stewed eggplant, fried fish, and a plate of steamed potatoes. There is still egg sauce next to it. Of course, there is a pot of soup in the middle of the table.Tonight's staple food is rice, and Mrs. Xue was afraid that Mingyu would not be used to eating sloppy rice, so she made rice tonight.In fact, with the current conditions of the Xu family, it is affordable to eat rice every day, but farmers usually eat what is produced in their own fields, and they only cook good food during the New Year.

Mrs. Xue filled a bowl of soup for everyone, "Come on, Mingyu, try this cricket tofu soup. Do you understand what cricket tofu is this time?" Mrs. Xue handed the soup bowl to Mingyu.

Mingyu quickly took the soup bowl with both hands, "Thank you, auntie, don't you understand now? It turned out to be made this way." Mingyu took a sip of the soup, "It's so fresh and delicious." Said Then he took another sip.

Xue looked at Mingyu with a smile, "Drink more if you like. If you can live here for a long time, you can eat everything. In winter, your uncle and the others will go hunting in the mountains. You get some wild game to taste." Xue Shi still likes Li Mingyu, this little fat man very much, and it happens that his two sons are not around, so he treats Mingyu very well.

The little fat man nodded while eating, "Okay, okay, I want to go into the mountains with my uncle." The little guy seemed to have a good appetite, and he ate a bowl of rice and cricket tofu soup in a short time. I ordered two bowls.

Seeing that Mingyu's bowl was empty, Jinghan asked him, "How about another bowl of rice for you?"

Mingyu nodded, "Okay, let's have another bowl, I'm not full yet."

Jingxian who was next to her was almost done eating, and when she saw this, she shouted, "No wonder you are so fat, you can really eat."

Mrs. Zhu glared at her daughter, Jingxian smiled and stopped talking.

Mingyu quickly waved his hand, "Auntie, it's okay, sister Jingxian is right. I eat a lot on weekdays, and today these meals are very appetizing, so I want to eat more. The two aunts who cook The craftsmanship is really good, it would be a pity not to open a restaurant." The boy ate his second bowl of rice and drank another bowl of soup while speaking.

"Your mouth is quite sweet, all right, stop flattering here, rest for a while after eating, and then go to bed with Wencheng. Get up early tomorrow morning, practice martial arts with these boys at home, don't you still have to watch the Internet?" Are you catching fish?" Zhiming looked at Mingyu, this little guy looks cute and he speaks nicely, I really don't know if he is really innocent or just trying to please him.

When Mingyu heard this, he nodded quickly, "Okay, I just finished eating. I'm so full." The little fat man patted his round belly.

Jinghan smiled and shook her head, helped Honglian and the others clear the table, then turned her head and said to Mingyu, "Don't sit there, you have to get up and walk if you eat too much. Come with us for a walk, Just turn around and come back to sleep." Every day after dinner, Jinghan would lead Jingxian and Honglian out for a turn.

　The network at home started not working last night, so I uploaded the chapters while I was at work, hehe
　　
　
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