Fields of Gold

The village chief, who had already lined up by the door, looked at the grain store. The grain inside was half a wall high, how can there be no grain?

At this point, the grain shop boy, took the door panel and was ready to close the shop door. The village chief was in a hurry and was about to split the argument with the master cabinet. Yuhai walked over and shook his hand gently. He whispered: "Mayor, your argument with the master cabinet is useless. As you can see, someone just arrived, told him something, the person in charge said there was no food. The above means that the owner of the cabinet is not in charge. ”

The master cabinet of the grain store heard the conversation between the two men and nodded slightly over the rest of the sea. He thought this guy sounded nice. He thought about it for a while, and remembered that it wasn't Yuhai in Dongshan Village? The rest of Dongshan Village enjoys the trust and respect of Zhou's future owners, which is known in Zhou's family, but everyone with a face knows it.

Although the master cabinet does not know why the future owner will treat a farmer differently, as a servant of the Zhou family, he can see the meaning above and cast his best, in order to get the master's blue eyes. Just came to inform him that the servant whose food price is going up by 50% tomorrow is the red man next to the Grand Duke. Although the eldest is in charge of Zhou Jia's grocery store, the third son in the second room is still the head of the household's reserve. What is the weight, the grain store owner's heart of the measure.

The master of the grain store walked over with a smile to Yu Haido: “This is the Yu Hai brothers, right? ”

After seeing Yuhai nod his head, he said: "Excuse me for a moment! ”

At that time, the door of Zhou Jia's grain store had closed, and the queue of people in front of the door, although arguing for a while, gradually dissipated. Only a dozen villagers left in Dongshan Village to buy food, looking at the village chief impatiently, waiting for him to speak.

The grain store master cabinet called Yuhai aside and smiled. “Are the Yuhai brothers here to buy food? ”

Bullshit. Line up in front of the grain store, not the grain, but the meat? Yuhai nodded slightly, "Yeah, the village was devastated by locusts and the crops were empty. Want to stock up on some more food to see if you can survive the disaster. ”

The grain shopkeeper thought slightly, "Yuhai brothers, how much food are you going to buy? As you can see, our oldest son ordered us to close the door and raise the price. But if it's the Yuhai brothers who bought it, at today's price, make a friend! ”

Anyway, the eldest dude doesn't know how much food he sold in the store. He sent Yuhai a favor today, so he can plan well in the future. The grain store owner is capable, but lacks the opportunity, if he can show his face in front of the future owner from Yuhai, with his ability, he will definitely not only manage a small grain store in the future.

Yuhai shook his head slowly when he heard the expression of difficulty: “More than 30 families in our village are waiting for food to save their lives! I can't do what I care about myself, no matter what people die for! ”

The grain store manager hesitated for a moment and gave Yuhai a thumb up. “The Yuhai brothers are indeed a kind and meaningful man. Don't know how much food your village needs? Less than a thousand kilos, brother. I'm still in charge! ”

Yuhai overjoyed and eagerly said: “Really? That's great! Let me ask the mayor how much food he needs! ”

Yuhai ran over, pulled the village chief aside, and quietly promised to give Dongshan Village a thousand kilograms of food in private, telling him. Most of the people who came with us to buy food were thirteen families who had little food left in their hands and had not recovered it.

Coarse grain is usually five cents a pound, and now Zhou Jia's grain store is five times the usual price, that is, 25 cents a pound. These dozen households, because of the sale of sea sausages and oysters, also have a small surplus, so although they are quite distressed, they have not been able to pay for food. Every time I hear about the price increase in the grocery store, I want to buy more food back. But they only give them 1,000 kilos of food. What should we do?

Finally, the village chief is in charge, according to the head of the family. If there are more family members, more points, and if there are fewer, fewer members. On average, at least seventy or eighty kilograms of food can be bought per household. If you want to buy it again at this price, it's gone! Tomorrow, food prices should go up again!

More than a thousand kilos of grain were loaded in a wagon donkey cart brought by Dongshan Village. Yuhai symbolically bought more than a hundred kilos of fine grain, spending nearly five taels of silver. Yu Haixin sighed that the grain store was a really lucrative business. When he came to buy the last two days, a hundred kilos of fine grain was about a couple of taels, and he spent five times more silver in plain white!

When I got home, the whole family was busy. Adults and children must marinate the locusts caught. The weather is hot and the locusts cannot be kept for long.

Yu Xiaograss made grasshopper sauce with the help of Liu and his aunt. Locusts, commonly known as grasshoppers, have a delicious flesh, taste like shrimp, and are rich in protein and various amino acids, which are good for the human body.

In her previous life, she tried to make grasshopper sauce using the method described online. It tasted good and it was very delicious. She asked the old lady to put the caught locust in the water and wash it after drowning, then put her wings away. The wings are not chopped and affect the palate.

The locusts were then marinated in a ratio of one kilo of locusts in half salt, allowing them to ferment naturally and be ready to eat in about twenty days. Another is the freshly fried grasshopper sauce, which is made of meat, onions, chili, and then shredded after the grasshopper is fried, sautéed together and cooked to produce a pan that tastes more fragrant than fried shrimp rice.

But fermented grass sauce, anyone can eat it. If it's freshly fried grasshopper sauce, you're susceptible to grasshoppers. So Yu Xiaowei brushed seven or eight ten-kilo jars and made a lot of fermented grasshopper sauce.

At noon, the family was not in the mood to cook anything else. Yu Xiaograss made cold grasshopper sauce. When the locusts are cooked, they are chopped, mixed with fried crushed peanuts, served with coriander, drizzled with hot oil and mixed with salt, white sugar and chili oil.

The grasshopper sauce is also made, first the fat meat is cut into small grains, the washed and dried grasshoppers are also cut into small grains, then chopped together with the meat grains and chopped into mud. Heating in the pan, the oil is burned to 50% hot, poured into the grass mud, sautéed out the aroma, sautéed until the moisture is slightly dry, sautéed out the oil in the fatty meat, fully fused with the grass mud, poured into the onion flowers, sautéed evenly, added salt and flavoring essence, then added the pepper pellets, a few flips to get out of the pan.

The smell of grassy sauce sprayed with the wind to Zhou Jia not far away. Zhou Coral couldn't hold his breath. She ran over and asked: "Grass, what are you cooking now? It smells so good, my saliva is coming out!! ”

Yu Xiaograss told her how to make grasshopper sauce. Once Zhou Coral heard the smell of this scent, it was actually made of locusts, and he couldn't breathe down: “Grass, wait a minute, I'll go get my mother. You said to tell her! ”

Zhou Coral is a year older than Yu Xiaocao, has little talent in cooking and belongs to the type that can cook and eat. Let her learn to make grasshopper sauce, and I don't think she'll be able to make a plate of grasshopper sauce by tomorrow.

Aunt Zhou was taught to make grasshopper sauce, and Yu Xiaograss made many pancakes out of grain. Pancakes and grasshoppers at noon.

Good thing the rest of the family isn't allergic to locusts. After grasshoppers are fried, they are very crisp, taste special aroma, plus the characteristic food aroma of pancakes, and the family is delicious to eat. The little rock that came back from the town ate four large pancakes in one breath. It didn't end yet: “Square, we'll go to the foot of the west mountain later, catch some more locusts and eat grasshopper sauce all year long! ”

Liu Yan looked at him and said: “The locusts can't be put away for a few days. If they are all marinated in grasshopper sauce, there are not so many jars. ”

"It's okay, we can grill locusts, fry locusts, scramble locusts, stew locusts… eat locust meals every day!! Cousin's craftsmanship is so good, it must be good to do anything. ”

People imagined a table full of locusts, all feasting on insects, and they couldn't help but tremble. Little stones smile mysteriously: “You forget, we have the skill to make ice. You can get an ice cellar at home and freeze all the locusts. So, even if the locust plague is over, when do we want grasshopper sauce all year round and take it out of the ice cellar to make it? ”

“Ice cellar? That's what a rich man can afford!” Liu Hu spoke to himself.

At this time, rich people's ice cellars, mostly collected from the river in winter, are stored in the cellar. The human and material resources involved are conceivable. But the rest of the grass has mastered the skill of making ice, which means that even the heavens can turn out to be ice.

Dry, Yu Xiaograss specializes in ice making in the afternoon, Yuhai leads the family to vacate the cellar. By night, the first batch of ice had been made, and the batch had been made more, filling a third of the cellar. In the afternoon, those responsible for continuing locust hunting also sent the first locusts into the ice cellar.

Yu Caifeng looked at the ice in the cellar with some concern: "Are you sure the ice won't melt overnight? ”

Yu Xiaograss was confident: “Don't worry, Auntie! Ice storage is high, ice cellar temperatures are low, and it doesn't melt too fast. Besides, our cellar is deep, and the thermal insulation measures on it are well done, it will definitely be fine to replace it with an ice cellar! Just part of it today, just make some ice tomorrow. We have a rich master's ice cellar. Can we store it from winter to summer? Can't we keep it overnight? ”

With the ice cellar, I fear the locust that was caught is broken. The family, led by Yu Caifeng and Liu's family, even cleaned up all the locusts caught at night and put them in the ice cellar for peace of mind. The rest of the family have had a hard time, especially in the year of disaster, and are very obsessed with food.

After a long night of struggle, the next day, with the exception of a few children who did not work overnight, everyone else brained for breakfast and went back to the house to mend their senses. Little rock was excited to grab the bag basket and take Liu Fangping to grass.