No Worries about Food and Medicine

Chapter 9: Fairy porridge

After the white dew, I looked at the weather and it was cold, and then pinched my finger, and it was actually a few days before the moon eve-that is, the Daxia Dynasty ’s other statement to the Mid-Autumn Festival, no wonder the moonlight in the court last night was like this The bright, hornless jade plate hangs overhead. Yu Jinnian was so dizzy over the past few days that he almost forgot such an important day as Lunar Eve. It was a sin.

"Peanuts with sesame seeds, peanuts, candied fruits and sweet dates-! Look at Dongxixixi, honey is sweet and happy reunion-!"

Yu Jinnian heard that there were shouts of nuts and candied fruit outside. He dragged a long vocal aria along the street. It was lively and lively, and an agitator woke up, thinking of what to buy some ready-made fruit in his mind. group. He rubbed his eyes to get up, and suddenly fell to his knees with both knees, and hurt him with teeth and grin.

He woke up just now, and he was clenched by Ji Hong in his dream last night. He couldn't break away, and he simply stretched his feet to draw his bedding closer, and covered himself with a thin quilt. He was sitting halfway on the foot bed resting on Ji Hong's couch and wanted to wait for him to fall asleep again before pulling his hand out. Who would have thought that Ji Hong was not asleep yet, but he fell asleep beside Ji Hong himself.

This night, my legs are about to break! Looking down again, my wrist was held overnight.

Yu Jinnian slowly broke apart Ji Hong's fingers, turned around and squatted on the ground, rubbing his legs and his ears, and then he heard his ears, and the outside cries gradually went away. He slammed his legs and feet hard. , Endured the numbness, pushed the door and ran out to chase the cry.

Ji Hong suddenly coughed twice in the back bed, and he didn't hear it. He focused on the nut walker who was walking away.

After unloading the shop board, I saw hula rushing in front of the door and ran past the little child who was soaked in the sky and followed the burden of selling nuts. The tune of the scholars sang "Honey and sweet reunion", Then he swarmed and surrounded the nuts, and the probe was drooling, coveting the preserved fruit inside. This scene is not uncommon, but where there is a street that sells preserved fruits and nuts, maltose blocks, the children will chase behind and run, learning to sing and cry, in general, no one will drive them, after all, children The ignorant learning to sing is also an advertisement, but if you encounter one or two kind people, they will also give them a few pieces of candy to eat.

It can be seen that Yuan Alang, who sells nuts, is also good-tempered. He was not annoyed to see him blocked by a group of children, but he smiled and unloaded his burden, and scooped a small ladle with a spoon. When the seeds came out, they were distributed to the children, and the drummers on the street heard the sound of joy.

The children's small hands are not big, even if they can't hold it, so this little seed is not a big deal for Yuan Alang. He is bending down to distribute, but he sees a pair of long legs standing in front of him. At first glance, it was a fair-skinned, handsome young man who was panting and yelling: "I ... melon, melon seeds ..."

Although this is no longer a child, but since he came to discuss it, seeing that he is kind and friendly, in front of a group of dolls, Yuan Alang is not good at catching up, so he is asked to reach out.

Yu Jinnian chased down the street following the singing and selling, before turning his head around, he extended a hand out honestly ... Then he saw A Lang, who was selling nuts, grabbed the raw melon seeds in his palm.

Yuan Alang splits the seeds, so he picks up the burden and continues to shout.

Yu Jinnian blinked blankly, and after a while he recovered. He picked up the seeds and cracked a gap between his teeth. The tip of his tongue snapped again and again, and the white and fragrant seeds entered. Seeing that the seeds were full, and the skin was thick and thin, very satisfied, he ran to catch Yuan Alang and smiled: "This melon is very fragrant! Please ask Alang for two pounds."

Some people praised his melon seeds, Yuan Alang was naturally happy. When I looked at it again, it was the little brother who had just "shamelessly" cheered up the children. He suddenly understood that he had misunderstood others, and he was embarrassed to stop the burden and be strong with him. Actually said more than two catties.

Yu Jinnian looked at him, although his load looked small and narrow, but there were other holes in it. The seeds, nuts, walnuts, almonds, peanuts and other nuts were all available. The other load was full of various kinds of preserved fruits and candied fruit. He turned over and was very happy to find There are also stained orange peels for sale, and they are very bold in asking for a few pounds of nuts that are often eaten. Various kinds of preserved fruits and sweets are also mixed together. After paying the bill, it is a heavy bag.

Yuan Alang is very sincere. Seeing that Yu Jinnian bought these many, he also gave him an extra pound of winter melon sugar.

Winter melon sugar, as the name suggests, is a small sweet made from winter melon. It is to take the fleshy and thick winter gourd, peel and remove the seeds, cut into half-inch strips, soak in lime water overnight, then wash and drain repeatedly, into the boiling soup until the color changes and transparent, and then pickle with white sugar, so cold Two days later, after the sugar penetrates into the melon sticks, pour the sugar and water into the pan and stir-fry over low heat. At this time, the syrup will gradually stick to the melon, and finally the white sugar granules will condense. The prepared winter melon sugar is as sapphire, light and fresh, with the freshness of winter melon and the sweet stickiness of sugar granules, which is very popular with children.

He stuffed a piece of winter melon sugar in his mouth, sweet, and drove away the night's alcohol for seven or eight points. He was so happy that he greeted Yuan Alang when he was empty and went to the noodle restaurant for some tea.

Yuan Alang was busy selling, only receiving Yu Jinnian's good intentions, and Yu Jinnian did not force him, so he took the heavy bag of nuts and walked back to the noodle shop. Then he turned and saw a bunch of people piercing his front door.

He thought there was something serious, and he ran over in three steps and two steps. When the neighbors saw him, they greeted each other with a smile on their faces, and spread out a road. Only then did Yu Jinnian see the crowd hiding inside. Donkey cart.

The donkey is a shiny black donkey, tied to the door of a bowl of noodle restaurants. Xu thought he was Pan An in the donkey. He was so arrogant that he could n’t touch it. He was so angry that he was panting, someone Throwing the remaining sour pear core in it, but throwing it decently to the side and picking it up and chewing it, making the little daughter-in-law next to him laugh. It is also pulling a cart behind it, nailed with wooden boards of high height on both sides of the frame, inside it is a variety of potted flowers, the most valuable ones are three or two pots containing bud peony, I think it was cultivated by the fire house, and some of Yu Jinnian recognized Like early chrysanthemums, there are other miscellaneous flowers and plants.

As the saying goes, "Bailu's flowers, there is no one to match", because this time is when the temperature drops sharply, the temperature difference between day and night is extremely ups and downs, the delicate flowers are very difficult to maintain, the summer flowers bloom here It was like hitting the first south wall and slamming one after another.

Yu Jinnian looked at the variety of flowers on this car, and they were all gorgeous and beautiful. The florist who wanted to cultivate them must be a serious person.

He caught some of the pots and plants in the photo, and waited for a closer look. Then he saw a few heads from the meeting hall and smiled and shouted, "Brother Xiaonian, if you don't come back, I will put all the tables and chairs in your shop. "Gnawing", he remembered that he was still shouldering the heavy responsibility of supporting his family, and hurried back to his post-the kitchen struggled.

Boiling water and sauce to make noodles in one go, Yu Jinnian calmed the old gluttons waiting to eat noodles before they set out to make fried sugar dumplings.

Egg noodles are easy to make, but the brown sugar, orange peel and bean paste filling is a bit of a problem. He combined a large pot of red beans with a handful of tangerine peel, boiled and blossomed, roasted, sieve, and pounded into a fine paste. Just waiting for the hot pot and brown sugar to turn into a sweet bean paste. At this time, a sturdy middle-aged man came over and saw Yu Jinnian, who was busy in the kitchen, politely said: "Excuse me, give the bowl hot water, heat The noodle soup also works. "

Yu Jinnian listened to the voice of the listener, which seemed to be blocked by cotton. Then he heard a loud sneeze. He quickly filled the bowl of hot noodle soup with his hands.

The other party thanked him after he took it, stood at the door and blew his head, drank his head straight, and finally returned the bowl. He sighed and said, "It seems to be exceptionally cold today. I was blown by the cold wind this morning, and my head hurt and hurt. , I just want to drink hot soup to warm my body. If the precious flowers in the fire room were all opened last night, it ’s really hard to stay. I do n’t have to come out to sell flowers so early. ”He rubbed his arms and looked towards Yu Jinnian laughed, "Outsiders say that the younger brother's craftsmanship is good. I passed here today to have a taste of the younger brother's craftsmanship. But in my opinion, the younger brother not only eats well, but also feng shui, you only see me here At the time of a tea, the flowers and plants in the car have been sold for three pots! If the younger brother is not annoyed, let me sell it for a while next to your noodle shop? "

It turned out that this is the florist who raised those flowers.

"It's okay, I just want to buy two pots, but I can't walk away at the moment." Yu Jinnian was thinking about the two pots of solix, which he liked, and he was still happy to hear that he would stay for a while. He watched the florist walk out of the kitchen, frying the bean paste with his hands, but in his heart, he carefully figured out the status quo of the other party, and then decided to make a fairy porridge with him.

The immortal porridge sounds fascinating, but in fact, the ingredients are usually shocking. The folks say "a handful of glutinous rice is cooked into a soup, seven green onions and seven slices of ginger, cooked in half a cup of vinegar, cold and cold security "Kang" is the porridge, because it has the effect of dispersing the wind and cold, and it has a miracle effect as soon as it is used. It is like a fairy who has purified diseases, so it is named "Fairy Congee".

After making the bean paste, he cooked the porridge, then knead the egg dough made into thick strips, cut them into small preparations, pressed them into dumpling skin, and began to stuff them.

In order to sell it ingeniously, Yu Jinnian thought of making a goldfish dumpling. Goldfish dumplings are shaped like goldfish, and the method is also simple. A round dough, put no more or less stuffing on the left side, gently squeeze up and down, and squeeze the empty space on the right side directly. Press out the pattern to make a large and beautiful goldfish tail, and use the index finger on the left to make a pair of round goldfish eyes.

It's just that although he often packs goldfish dumplings, he has never fried them. Because the shape of goldfish dumplings is complicated, he fears that he will collapse when he gets out of the pan. Yu Jinnian wrapped a plate of goldfish dumplings and decided to use the skimmer to fill the oil pan and give it a try. Xu Shiyao blessed him, but only two or three of them were exploded. This is a very feasible move. The noodles are all wrapped in the shape of a goldfish and fried in a pan. Later, I gradually found the trick of fried dumplings, and only a few of them were damaged.

The goldfish dumplings were deep fried, placed in bamboo plaques covered with puff leaves, and finally cut with cucumber grains, and decorated in the small round recesses of the goldfish eyes, so that the small goldfish raised their heads and looked cute.

During this busy time, Yu Jinnian threw Ji Hong directly in the house and left it alone, as if he had never been so personal. Now the fairy porridge is cooked, the glutinous rice scent is lingering, and the mood is steaming. Since he is not such a cold and ruthless person, he suddenly remembered that there was a hangover drunk in his room, so he washed the casserole after he filled the fairy porridge, boiled another rice, and boiled a red date yam soup. One or two snow white fungus.

This soup fills the spleen and stomach, especially for people with weak spleen and stomach like Ji Hong.

In this box, Yu Jinnian took out the fairy porridge and the goldfish sugar dumplings together, yelled at someone to buy it, and boldly set up a price tag with six coins and a small wooden box next to it to save money. "Self-help", so terrified that a group of people dared not to invest with their money in hand. Fearing that Yu Jinnian turned back and said that they did not see them investing money, blackmailing them to eat and drink in vain.

And Yu Jinnian shook his hands lightly, and ran to see the pots in the florist's car.

On the other side of the yard, Ji Hongyou woke up and wondered where he was. When he opened his eyes, he was captured by a large black and white character on the bed shelf above his head. On the top of the bed, invisible outside the curtain, but lying as quietly as he did, the horror of the large characters appeared, as if he was lying in the coffin, and what kind of mourning was the word. Mourning notes, or spells used to suppress evil spirits.

I ca n’t blame Ji Hong for having such thoughts. It ’s true that he really ca n’t recognize the few big characters. Although the writing is correct, the strokes are very strange, and they do n’t look like any kind of foreign language he knows.

But that boy was also weird. Maybe this is really a mantra that protects people from entering and exiting the city?

If Yu Jinnian knew that he thought this way, maybe he would snicker more than once, because these words are nothing more than simple four simplified characters-"live in the moment".

Ji Hong coughed a few times and saw no one in the room. There were piles of messy mattresses on the floor. He looked at it for a while and then moved his eyes to ignore them. Finally he couldn't help but frown. Lift the quilt out of bed and pick up the bedding on the floor. He was very carefully folded, the corners and corners were neatly arranged, and the wrinkled folds were flattened, which was satisfactory.

The young man ’s bed exudes a faint scent of saponin, which is a smell rarely heard by Ji Hong who has heard all kinds of luxurious spices. Suddenly I feel that this scent is so fresh and refreshing, giving a sense of incompatibility. He slightly raised the corner of his mouth, placed the quilt on Yu Jinnian's bed, turned around, and accidentally swept the long sleeves of the clothes to an unremarkable small cabinet beside the bed, and an object crashed to the ground with his coat. , The thin slender ash raised jumped in the sunlight among the windows.

It was actually an old book.

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