Chapter 194: Worship the Mountain God
Big Belly Cabbage tastes fragrant and sweet, and for the mountain people, it is far better than dumplings.
Its filling is fresh and delicious, and it tastes soft and delicious with the soft and glutinous rice skin. It contains the fat but not greasy pork belly in the filling, the sweetness of radish and winter bamboo shoots, the fragrance of mushroom and tangerine peel, the softness of glutinous rice skin, the umami flavor of grapefruit, and the fragrance of gardenia.
These flavors do not interfere with each other, but they complement each other.
Eating pork belly alone is too tired. But with glutinous rice, you won’t feel tired. Eating glutinous rice alone is easy to reverse the flavor. You can add gardenia to the glutinous rice flour and add grapefruit leaves to enhance the umami flavor, and it becomes a glutinous but not greasy, soft and fragrant delicacy.
These flavors can be combined into one place to create the unique delicacy of pomelo leaf big belly cake.
When I was young, it was extremely luxurious to eat pomelo leaf big belly cake once, and I could only eat it once when I celebrated the Spring Festival.
Furthermore, the glutinous rice is soft and glutinous, suitable for elderly people with bad teeth. Therefore, whenever they eat big belly cakes, their parents always urge him to say, "Qingshan, eating too much glutinous rice will easily grow into a fat man. In the future, your belly is like big belly cakes, round and bulging. We don't eat that much. For grandpa, if you eat bad teeth, it's just right to eat soft big belly cakes. Let's eat oil glutinous rice."
So, every time he watched his grandfather pick up a big belly cake and put it into the bowl, he couldn't help but swallow his saliva secretly.
The curling white smoke and the fragrance are so tempting.
The yellow leaves, gold skin, and colorful fillings are so beautiful.
Grandpa grabbed the big belly cake into the bowl but refused to eat it. He looked at him and smiled. He then used chopsticks to pick up a piece of glutinous rice skin with a lot of fillings and sent it to his mouth: "Come on, Qingshan helps grandpa to taste it if it is hot."
He was so happy that he quickly broke away from his mother's arms, ran to his grandfather, lay on his knees, and looked at the glutinous rice crust covered with fillings in surprise and longing. He was so happy that he didn't even blow it, so he just leaned over his head and took the chopsticks in one mouthful.
"Ah, it's so hot." Although it's so hot, he didn't want to spit out. He exhaled while stirring the food in his mouth with his tongue.
After a while, it wasn't so hot that I ate it voraciously, and it didn't taste good at all.
So, he looked at his grandfather's bowl again.
Grandpa raised another piece and frowned and said, "Oh, this pork is too fat. I don't like it. Come on, Qingshan will help grandpa eat it."
During those difficult days, my grandfather was like a magician, and he could always make all kinds of reasons to stuff delicious food into his mouth.
Big belly cake, sticky rice balls, white rice balls, black rice balls, green wormwood rice balls, golden sweet persimmons...
Now life is getting better, but grandpa is gone.
In fact, the most regrettable thing about Liu Qingshan is that he failed to respect his grandfather well.
Therefore, he also understood a truth: to respect his parents and elders, he should take advantage of the moment, rather than wait for "I have money."
No one knows what will happen in the future, so take advantage of the present and now to love your family.
The best love for my mother now is probably to satisfy her vanity.
In order to make my mother's vanity more and more swell, Liu Qingshan really got up before dawn.
After getting up, I brushed my teeth and washed my face, and I quickly started skewers of bacon without eating anything.
After nearly an hour of busy work, I skewed all the bacon and hung it on the wood as thick as my arms.
As soon as Wu Cuimei got up, she saw the bacon hanging on the stove. She was so happy that she couldn't stop talking: "Haha, Qingshan, you are such a good son. This time I see what else can you say to your uncle and the others."
Liu Qingshan felt that his mother was actually quite childish, so he couldn't help but smile and said, "Mom, what's the matter? My uncle is the captain of your lion dance team in your village. He earns a lot of money a year, so he won't be able to like your little bacon."
"Hmph, what do you know? Do you think I want him to like him. I just want him to see that our family is no longer what it used to be. Our family can make so much bacon now." Wu Cuimei was so proud when she said these words.
Liu Yuanhe walked out of the room yawning, stretching his waist and said, "Oh, I really don't understand that you women are always delivering things to their parents' home when they are poor. Now they are not that poor, are they still showing off again? Is it interesting?"
"Of course it's interesting." Wu Cuimei put her waist on her waist, looked at the bacon on the stove, and gritted her teeth, "No matter what today, you two fathers and sons can't embarrass me. If anyone is embarrassed, let's see how I deal with you."
Hiss ~
A gust of cold wind blew, and both father and son felt a chill on their backs.
Liu Qingshan turned his head to look at his father, and his father nodded.
Well, it seems that today's mother is really crazy.
The first thing in the morning is to make fire. After making fire, you cannot make oil tea directly. Because today is a special day, all matters in the morning must also be changed.
When Wu Cuimei saw the fire arise, she was still empty before the fire, and she couldn't help but shout, "Qingshan! Qingshan! What's wrong with you? Didn't I ask you to use tea leaves and an aluminum pot to make tea? Where is the aluminum pot? Where is the tea?"
"Oh, here we are here." Liu Qingshan walked in with a small aluminum old-fashioned teapot slightly larger than the bowl for dinner, and grabbed a handful of tea with the other hand, and said hurriedly, "This teapot has not been used for so long, so I don't want to wash it first."
"Stop talking nonsense, hurry up and boil the tea and prepare something else."
"Oh oh oh." Liu Qingshan didn't dare to talk back to his mother today. He put the tea leaves in the teapot, added some warm water on the stove, covered the lid, and placed it directly in the fire.
This small aluminum teapot is very thin and very easy to get heated, so even if it is not placed directly on the fire tail, it will not affect its work.
After putting the teapot, Liu Qingshan went to pack up other things.
There are two porcelain bowls, each containing one big belly cake, a small handful of bamboo fragrance, and six plastic tea cups the size of walnuts...
Finally, I found a bamboo basket and placed them neatly in it, trying not to hurt each other.
At this time, the tea in the fire also boiled.
Liu Qingshan used a fire clip to pick up the teapot and cooled it a little, then quickly carried the teapot and the bamboo basket out.
Because I got up early, it was just dawn now.
The mountain people did not worship Buddha or Guanyin, but worshipped the mountain gods for generations.
Every festival, we have to bathe and fast and worship the mountain god.
There is no strict statement about bathing and fasting. However, when you worship twice a day, you cannot eat when you go to worship in the morning or at dusk.
The mountain god must eat the food first, and then return home before it is the turn of his family to eat it. This is a kind of respect for the mountain god who protects the mountains.
Moreover, before departure, you must organize your clothes and wash your hands, and not go to the temple with disheveled hair.
The temple is at the entrance of Laocun Village, and the area is not large, about a hundred square meters.
The village temple is located in the middle of the rice fields, with rice fields in front and rice fields in the back. On one side is a small river and on the other side is a village road.
The distant mountains are like dark whites, stretching like walls, and the white clouds are floating, changing the vast dogs.
There are ten tall towering ancient trees around this village temple that is more than 100 square meters wide.
Chapter completed!