Affection for Sidaogou during the Famine

Because some of the "junk" can be recycled and reused, and used as raw materials for deep processing to support industrial and agricultural production, it has largely solved the country's problem of raw material shortage.

As a subordinate unit of the supply and marketing system, scrap purchasing stations are still highly valued. There are scrap purchasing stations in every county across the country.

With less than ten days left until the Chinese New Year, Han Zhaozhao is becoming busier and busier.

Xiao Sanzi felt that he and she had different shopping goals, and after they were separated once, he was no longer willing to go shopping with her at the New Year's Market. However, if the supply and marketing cooperative had a shortage of goods, he would still come to inform Han Zhaozhao.

In addition to occasionally going to various annual markets in her free time to look for opportunities to collect plant seeds and other things that were in short supply in the space, Han Zhaozhao also secretly bought a litter of uncastrated piglets.

The last time she was going to buy a litter of roast suckling pig piglets, they were bought by someone else, so she only bought two lambs, a male and a female.

People in Beijing like to eat mutton. At the New Year market, chicken is only one yuan per pound, while mutton with bones is sold at one yuan and eighty yuan per pound, which is nearly twice as expensive as chicken.

It is more than twice as expensive as pork, and if you go too late, you won't be able to get it. In winter, mutton is the most popular, and there are many people who love hot pot.

The space is large, and raising sheep doesn't take up much space. She raised the two sheep and didn't kill them first, but kept them as breeding sheep.

As the old saying goes, cats are three, dogs are four, pigs are five, sheep are six, cows are seven, and horses are eight. When these two sheep grow up, they can give birth to two litters a year, with two or three lambs in each litter and four or five lambs in the most. After two years, they can reproduce a large herd, and she can enjoy mutton hotpot freedom!

Now in addition to chickens, ducks and geese, she also has pigs, sheep and roe deer in her space. If the calf had not cost three hundred yuan, which was far beyond her budget, she would have gritted her teeth and bought it and sent it into her space.

In her past life or present life, she has never raised large livestock, and she really wants to try it!

Thinking of this, she gritted her teeth in hatred. She seriously suspected that the old man who sold the livestock was targeting her, asking for an exorbitant price from her, and deliberately not selling the calf to her!

In addition to looting supplies, Han Zhaozhao spent the rest of his time busying himself at home cooking, cleaning, taking apart quilts, washing clothes, and doing all sorts of laundry.

The fire in her kitchen was almost always on. Han Zhaozhao took out her grandmother's dough starter and started to knead the dough and let it rise. She made one pot in the morning and one in the afternoon. Every day, she could not even beat the cannon and steam two large pots of steamed buns made from old dough.

There were pure white flour, whole wheat, multi-grain, sugar triangles, and vegetable buns with various fillings. He made pasta from wheat he grew himself, and there were seven or eight boxes of various dry food stored in the space.

After steaming enough white flour, she started to steam steamed corn bread, making them with corn flour, bean flour, sweet potato flour, sorghum flour, and all kinds of grains mixed together. She steamed six pots of pure grain steamed corn bread without any dried vegetables.

There are many kinds of food in the space. If she hadn't gotten a pancake griddle, she would have wanted to make a big box of Shandong pancakes.

The plastic box she used to store dry food was relatively large, and could hold about 150 steamed buns as big as a human fist.

Wotou is about the same size as steamed bun, and most people can eat two of them in one meal.

But now Han Zhaozhao and her grandmother are not ordinary people. The two have been drinking space water for a whole winter. While their physical fitness has improved, their appetite is also larger than that of ordinary people.

As for the steamed buns and corn bread she made, her grandma could eat three in one meal, but she could only eat five. She also had to drink some thin liquid to feel 90% full!

Han Zhaozhao is now a typical rice bucket!

For fear of scaring her grandmother, she usually eats the same amount as her grandmother at dinner time, and then goes into the space in the middle of the night for an extra midnight snack.

During this period, there was a lot of harvesting work in the space, and she had no time to steam dry food, so she used the rice cooker to cook rice and porridge to solve the problem.

It was only after she had harvested the crops that she found time to press a batch of fresh noodles for preparation.

The old lady felt so distressed when she saw her granddaughter busying around all day and her little face becoming thinner!

But she had no choice. The closer it got to the Chinese New Year, the busier their purchasing station became.

People have started to clean up their homes. Their homes are filled with things that they usually don't want to throw away, but now that the New Year is approaching, they feel that they are in the way, so they are willing to sort through them and sell them as waste.

"Hey! These days, two big baskets of bald braids have been collected. Now more and more people like to cut their hair short!"

The old lady sighed, feeling guilty for leaving all the housework to her granddaughter.

"Zhao Zhao, it looks like we won't be able to take a holiday before the New Year. I heard from Old Wang that there won't be much business after the New Year, so we can take turns taking a day off.

You are alone at home, so don't be too tired. This is how the New Year is. We don't have any guests at home and we don't have to visit relatives.

Simply steam two pots of steamed buns and make some dumplings with meat on New Year’s Eve, and the New Year is over.”

Han Zhaozhao: "Don't worry about it! I know what I'm doing! If I can't handle it, I'll ask for help. Xiao Sanzi will come to help me sweep the house, and Xiao Lian and Xiao Yun will come to help me make the quilt.

We won’t do anything else. It’s a new year, a new beginning. I will definitely make the house tidy and clean.”

The old lady told her: "Don't forget to send New Year gifts to your grandfather and your aunt.

Today I received a letter from your aunt, saying that she sent me some rhubarb rice flour and dried mushrooms.

Pay attention, when you receive the mailing slip, don't forget to go to the post office to pick up the package!"

Under the light as bright as day, the kitchen was bustling with activity and filled with steam as Han Zhaozhao and his grandson were making vermicelli.

There were large and small jars and large and small basins scattered all over the ground.

There was water in it, which was used to boil the jelly noodles. There were several hard tree roots under the stove, and the fire was burning slowly.

The water in the big pot will never boil, always maintaining a temperature of 80 or 90 degrees.

In the afternoon, Han Zhaozhao had already prepared the starch and mixed the flour.

Now the dough has become very fine and uniform, without any lumps at all.

The old lady kneaded the dough again, and the dough became softer and stickier.

"Grandma Han, Zhaozhao, we're here to help!" At the appointed time, the third child and the Niu brothers and sisters also came.

"Why didn't Brother Xiaojun come?" Han Zhaozhao asked.

Niu Xiaomin and the others washed their hands in the basin prepared by Han Zhaozhao, "My eldest brother has something tonight, so he can't come!

Are there enough for us?"

"It's enough. This job is very simple!" The old lady smiled at the children. They were all good kids. They were eager to help no matter what task she told them to do.

Now that there are enough people, the powder leakage work officially begins.

The old lady used a new gourd ladle to drill holes to make a colander. She scooped a piece of wet flour from the basin, tossed it into the colander with both hands, and shook her wrists. The wet flour flowed out of the holes in the colander like water.

Cut off the thick end, flick your wrist, and the wet powder will flow into the pot, and start to take shape when it encounters hot water.

Han Zhaozhao is in charge of the second step. She uses a thin wooden stick as long as her arm to scoop the formed vermicelli into the water tank beside the pot to cool it down.

The third step of Niu Xiaolian’s cooking is to scoop the vermicelli from the tank into a second tank of cold water and rinse it again to cool it down and arrange it on a thin wooden stick.

Next it was the turn of Xiao Sanzi, Niu Xiaomin and Niu Xiaoyun. The three of them were in charge of hanging the fruits on the racks prepared in the yard.

"Grandma Han, it's really cold outside tonight. The vermicelli has been frozen hard after just a short while."

The old lady held the ladle in one hand and patted it slightly with the other hand. “Vermicelli must be frozen immediately. This way, it will dry evenly and quickly after being frozen and thawed. The key is that it won’t stick together, so the vermicelli will be chewier and more delicious.

Otherwise, why would the vermicelli workshop only open in winter when the vermicelli is frozen? Vermicelli cannot be made without freezing!"