Chapter 526 Spring Rolls
The New Year greetings went smoothly.
No one will be shy on New Year's Day, and even if they are unhappy because of something, they won't show it on their face. In such a happy and peaceful day when everyone is smiling and blessing each other frequently, the Jiang family's juniors, who are the best at blowing rainbow farts in the village, are naturally the most popular beings.
There was no lunch or dinner. On the first day of the New Year, we just ate wherever we went. We ate from house to house, and even walked around if we couldn’t finish the meal.
The only flaw was that the melon seeds and shortbread at the village chief's house were so fragrant that everyone lost track of time while munching on the melon seeds and eating shortbread. It was already dark when they returned home, rubbing their bellies.
If she makes glutinous rice and lotus root at this time, Grandma Jiang can't drink sugar water until before going to bed.
Jiang Feng didn't dare to do this. Before going to bed, he drank a bowl of 4 pounds of sweetened sugar water and had a good sleep. What if Grandma Jiang falls in love with this activity before going to bed and drinks her body out? That Jiang Feng is the sinner of the Jiang family. He will always be nailed to the Jiang family's pillar of shame, the kind that he will never be able to take off or turn around in his whole life.
Jiang Feng tactfully mentioned to Grandma Jiang about postponing the glutinous rice and lotus root. Although Grandma Jiang was a little disappointed, she still expressed her understanding and repeatedly warned: "Then Xiao Feng, just do it tomorrow. Get up early and make it. It's best to eat it at noon." Come. Tomorrow your grandpa will make goose stewed in an iron pot. The goose is especially good with glutinous rice and lotus root.”
Jiang Feng:? ? ?
Sticky rice and lotus root with goose stewed in an iron pot?
What kind of brand new combination is this?
Even though he didn't understand in his heart, Jiang Feng still agreed on the surface: "Okay, don't worry, grandma, I will get up early to make it for you tomorrow morning!"
Although Jiang Feng likes to sleep in, he is also Grandma Jiang's filial grandson.
Compared with being a filial grandma, what is sleeping in?
Moreover, when you get up early, you can eat pancakes made by grandma while being filial to your grandma. It kills two birds with one stone. As the most filial person in the Jiang family, how could Jiang Feng miss this good opportunity to be filial to his grandma?
As soon as the alarm clock rang on the morning of the second day of junior high school, Jiang Feng broke out of the bed one by one. The cold winter woke him up quickly, got dressed and washed quickly, and rushed into the kitchen.
Grandma Jiang's cakes have been baked. Not only has she finished baking them, but the old man has also eaten them. Seeing Jiang Feng hurried into the kitchen, the old man continued to eat the cake unhurriedly, pointing to the washed goose that was lifeless and put away on the chopping board.
"Take care of the goose when it comes," the old man said.
Jiang Feng:?
Jiang Feng glanced at the cakes in the old man's hand. The extravagant old man ate three pieces in one go and stacked the three pieces together.
And there are three pancakes sprinkled with black sesame seeds and white sesame seeds. The one with more black sesame seeds looks like it was specially made by Grandma Jiang for herself.
"Grandpa, what are you eating this morning?" Jiang Feng reminded tactfully.
The old man was unmoved and continued to stack the three pieces of cake together and bite them, not afraid of making his teeth sore from chewing them, as if to prove that he had good teeth.
"There are spring rolls in your uncle's room. I thought it would be inconvenient to put them in the kitchen and put them in the living room. I was afraid they would get cold, so I put them in your uncle's room. There are noodles in the pot, and the braised pork is also in your uncle's room. If you want to have breakfast, prepare the noodles yourself. Go to your uncle's house to eat." The old man said.
Spring rolls! Brine!
Jiang Feng immediately forgot about pancakes, what kind of pancakes, what kind of pancakes with sesame seeds, is it important that pancakes with sesame seeds have spring rolls?
It’s rare for the old man to make spring rolls!
"Okay grandpa, I'm going now!" Jiang Feng scooped up half a bowl of noodles and ran away with the bowl in hand.
Fortunately, he got up early today. If he slept in as usual, he wouldn't be able to eat the crumbs of the spring rolls, let alone the spring rolls.
Sure enough, a grandson who is filial to his grandma will never have bad luck.
When Jiang Feng ran into Jiang Jianguo's room with a bowl, there were only three people in the room, all wearing the same cotton pajamas as the landlord and Lao Cai, sitting together.
Jiang Jianguo, aunt and Jiang Jianshe.
Most likely, everyone else is fast asleep.
The eldest aunt is holding a soup basin, and there is half a basin of steaming noodles with soup in the soup basin. The noodles are covered with a layer of brine. The color of the soup becomes turbid and thick due to the combination with the brine.
Jiang Feng took a deep breath. The whole room was filled with the wonderful smell of marinated water and fragrant spring rolls. As soon as he smelled it, he knew they were freshly fried spring rolls.
"Xiao Feng got up very early today, why didn't you sleep a little longer?" Jiang Jianguo breathed a sigh of relief when he saw that the visitor was Jiang Feng, and silently took out the basin of spring rolls hidden behind him and put it back on the table.
"I got up as soon as I woke up. I didn't expect to be lucky enough to catch grandpa frying spring rolls." Jiang Feng said with a smile, sitting next to his eldest aunt and joining them.
"The day's plan starts in the morning. Getting up early is a good thing. Come on, Xiaofeng, eat it while it's hot. Spring rolls must be freshly baked to taste. They won't feel that way when they're cold." Jiang Jianshe said enthusiastically.
"Yes, fifth brother is right. The spring rolls fried by dad must be eaten freshly out of the oven." The eldest aunt agreed very much, and to prove her agreement, she held out a spring roll with her chopsticks and stuffed the whole spring roll into her mouth. .
"Click, click."
The crisp and clear sound of chewing came from the eldest aunt's mouth. As soon as she swallowed the spring roll, she lowered her head and took a big mouthful of noodles. The noodles soaked in marinade sizzled and entered her mouth. Jiang Feng couldn't bear to watch. He couldn't help but swallow silently.
Although the braised water and spring rolls were right in front of him, with noodles still in his hands, Jiang Feng felt that the eldest aunt tasted better than others, and the food tasted better as long as it fell into her mouth.
"Auntie, don't you want to lose weight?" Jiang Feng couldn't hold it back.
"You're celebrating the New Year, don't mention this." The eldest aunt picked up the basin and took a sip of soup, "You do the same, Xiaofeng, eat it while it's hot."
Jiang Feng stretched out his chopsticks towards the spring roll.
Jiang Feng has known since he was a child that the spring rolls made by the old man are different from those made outside.
There is no custom in City Z to eat spring rolls during the Chinese New Year, but if you are willing to walk around the streets during the Chinese New Year, you will encounter many vendors selling fried spring rolls. These vendors selling spring rolls are rarely seen and only appear on the streets during the Chinese New Year. They appear for a long time and usually disappear one week after the Lantern Festival.
The quality of spring rolls sold on the market varies. Some are fried just right, while others are fried for too long and are very chewy. There are two main kinds of fillings, one is stuffed with shredded cabbage and pork, and the other is stuffed with tofu and wild vegetables. Generally speaking, the stuffing of cabbage and shredded pork is slightly more expensive, and they are sold by the pound.
The fillings of the spring rolls made by the old man are relatively volatile. They usually make whatever is available in the kitchen.
Spring rolls are troublesome to make. From the skin to the fillings, the old man has to make them by himself. After wrapping them, he also has to fry them himself. The spring rolls made by the old man are only as thin as a finger, a small stick, and the skin is thin. If it is filled with shepherd's purse, you can clearly see the filling through the skin when you take it out of the pot after frying.
The Jiang family is talkative and has a large stomach capacity. If you really want to open your belly and eat spring rolls, even two big bowls are not enough. Although the old man never minded his children and grandchildren eating too much, as a chef it bothered him if they ate too much, so he rarely made spring rolls, only once in a few years.
A small spring roll stuffed with chives and shredded pork, even Jiang Feng can wrap it up in one bite.
He hadn't eaten the spring rolls made by the old man in several years. Jiang Feng ate four or five in a row before stopping to take a bite of noodles.
Cool!
The braised noodles are paired with spring rolls stuffed with crispy and fragrant chive shredded pork just out of the pan, and the pancakes fried by Grandma Zhang Jiang are not changed.
After eating, Jiang Feng realized that the staffing in the room was wrong.
The Chinese New Year is a regular time for everyone in the Jiang family to sleep in. Who is willing to get up early in the winter in the south without heating, leave the warm bed to welcome the morning sun and cold wind?
That is, the old man and Grandma Jiang who are used to getting up early because they are older, the aunt who loves health care, so they have to get up early, and Jiang Jianguo, who has to get up because his wife wants to get up.
So how did Jiang Jianshe get started?
The doors and windows in the house were closed so tightly that Jiang Feng didn't smell the smell of spring rolls before he opened the door. How did Jiang Jianshe appear here, and he appeared earlier than Jiang Feng.
You know, Jiang Feng specially set an alarm clock for 6:10 in order to eat the fresh pancakes smoothly.
"Uncle Fifth, why did you get up so early today?" Jiang Feng held the empty bowl and slowly began to stuff spring rolls into his mouth.
He was almost full and expected to finish the battle by eating at most three spring rolls.
Jiang Jianshe held a soup bowl that was slightly smaller than the aunt's soup bowl, with a happy look on his face: "It's a coincidence. I didn't plan to get up. I just went out to use the toilet and then went back to sleep. I happened to see your uncle carrying the soup bowl. Spring rolls, I followed your uncle in now.”
"So, waking up early is not as good as waking up wisely. If I hadn't woken up at that time and went to the bathroom, I wouldn't have been able to eat the spring rolls today. It's so rare that your grandfather fried such a big one early in the morning. Spring rolls, if I remember correctly, your grandfather hasn’t fried spring rolls in several years,” Jiang Jianshe sighed.
"The fifth aunt..."
Jiang Jianshe waved his hand: "Your fifth aunt has been having trouble sleeping recently. It's rare for her to sleep so soundly. How can I have the nerve to disturb her? I'm just ordering spring rolls. How can sleep be important?"
Jiang Feng:...
"Honey, are you still eating?" Jiang Jianguo asked.
The eldest aunt shook her head, picked up the soup basin and drank all the noodle soup in it: "Even if you don't lose weight during the Chinese New Year, you still have to control your diet and don't eat too much. Jianguo, you also eat less and don't overeat as soon as the Chinese New Year comes."
Jiang Jianguo pretended not to hear the next sentence, turned to Jiang Jianshe and said: "Lao Wu still has some spring rolls, why don't we share them, Xiao Feng, do you still want to eat?"
Jiang Feng picked up the last spring roll and said, "If you don't want to eat any more, uncle, please share it."
Jiang Jianguo and Jiang Jianshe held each other one by one, and the spring roll pot quickly became empty.
Jiang Jianguo, who had eaten and drank enough, looked satisfied and sighed: "Jianshe, what kind of day do you think it is today? Dad got up early in the morning to fry spring rolls. When he saw me entering the kitchen, he asked me to bring the spring rolls back to the house to eat. He didn’t scold me. Dad’s attitude towards me was so good, which made me a little uncomfortable.”
Jiang Jianshe said: "Brother, you just like to think nonsense. Why is dad treating you so well? Maybe dad is happy this morning. If I go in, maybe dad will let me go back to the house with spring rolls."
"Yes, Dad's temper has become more and more unpredictable recently." Jiang Jianguo agreed, "It's pretty good, just eat some." (End of Chapter)