Chapter 468 Red Blood Cells and White Blood Cells

The bacon sent by the old party secretary is really cured. The production of bacon in Sichuan, Guizhou and Hunan is completely different from that in the southeast coastal areas. The production of bacon in the southeast coastal areas is generally relatively simple, and then the salt is spread evenly and then dried in the sun for easy storage. However, the Sichuan-Guizhou area is rainy and humid, and it is impossible to preserve the meat for a long time only by drying it. In the years when only one pig was slaughtered a year, in order to keep the meat for a longer storage time, the older generation developed a unique bacon process.

That is to hang the meat on the stove after being marinated with seasoning, and smoke the bacon with pyrotechnic gas. In this way, the bacon can keep good for a whole year, and some old bacon may last for three years.

But Zhang Tong had a bit of trouble with the bacon sent by the old branch secretary. Because even after his treatment, the skin of the smoked bacon was processed, and all the black substances were scraped off. But this kind of bacon has been placed on the stove for several years. Even after soaking in hot water, it is still hard. Zhang Tong cut a piece with a knife, and it feels like cutting wood. Moreover, hitting the cutting board with bacon made a bang sound, and when you picked it up and smelled it, the special effect was like roasted wood.

If there's one thing that looks like wood, smells like wood, and looks like wood, it's wood.

Zhang Tong prides himself on his cooking skills, but how to cook this piece of wood is really a problem.

"It probably takes a long time for this stuff to be boiled in hot water for cooking. We probably won't be able to eat it today." Jiang Hua looked at the old bacon with a bit of regret: "It's a pity that this bacon should taste good. "

"Would it? Shouldn't this be the so-called No. 1 carcinogenic food? Now TV, WeChat says so every day." Zhang Tong tapped the bacon.

"The first cancer-causing factor? No, staying up late is the number one cancer-causing factor. Staying up late to play games, and having greasy fried noodles or fried chicken and crayfish for supper when you're hungry, this lifestyle is the number one cancer-causing factor. If you can Like this old party secretary, he goes to bed at 8 o'clock every day, wakes up at five o'clock in the morning, eats on time and works on time every day. It doesn't matter if he eats this kind of bacon, the number one carcinogen, once a week. The old party secretary is over sixty, no Are you in good health?" Jiang Hua said.

Zhang Tong was a little curious: "Over sixty? Didn't you say that you will retire at the age of sixty?"

"Then someone needs to be on the top. This Luojia Village has a total natural population of about 500, and there is no industry. The main young and middle-aged labor force of the whole village goes to work in Shuangqing City. It is only during the busy farming seasons in summer and autumn and the New Year's Eve. Usually there are only more than 200 old people and left-behind children in the village. Originally, there was a primary school in the village, but in the past two years, the forty-two left-behind children in Luojia Village have to go ten kilometers away It’s the place where we parked our car.” Lin Jie, who had tied up the national emblem, wiped his hands and walked over slowly.

It was rainy and humid in the mountains, so he sat on a bench and warmed himself by the fire: "There is an elementary school and a middle school in the town, but they don't have accommodation, so the children in Luojia Village can only go to school."

"They have to walk the mountain road we walked today for about two hours. They go out at five o'clock in the morning and come back at six or seven o'clock in the evening. They have to use a flashlight on the way back and forth." Lin Jie seemed to know this small village like the back of his hand .

"This small village is usually deserted, with too few people. Only during the Chinese New Year, there are enough people. In the future, such a village may gradually become deserted. The county here plans to build a new countryside, and then it will be done for the village. The whole relocation. Didn’t we see a white house on the road when we came? The county encourages these remote rural people to buy houses there. If you have a local agricultural household registration, you can buy a two-story small building for 100,000 yuan. About two hundred square meters. It can satisfy a family of five or six in the countryside.” Lin Jie felt much more comfortable relying on the warmth of the hearth.

Zhang Tong gave up processing bacon, let's eat bacon tomorrow. Everyone is hungry, just cook a big pot of instant noodles. Although instant noodles are not the best delicacy, it is still very good to satisfy your hunger when you are hungry. Especially now when it’s time to keep things simple. Zhang Tong bought Xin La noodles, because among all the instant noodles, Korean instant noodles are one of the most suitable for cooking. Most Chinese-style instant noodles are really designed for soaking. Soaking in boiling water is enough, but it is not suitable for boiling, as it will become very soft when boiled.

However, the design ideas of many foreign brands of instant noodles are completely opposite to those of domestic instant noodles, and they are not suitable for soaking at all. If the noodles are only soaked in boiling water, the noodles will have a half-baked feeling. Only by boiling can the texture of their noodles reach the required standard. For example, fried instant noodles are a serious dish in some countries in Southeast Asia. The local instant noodles in Southeast Asia, such as Yum Chef, taste very good after being boiled and then fried. And if it is domestic instant noodles such as Master Kong, the noodles will become too soft and rotten if they are boiled first and then fried.

Zhang Tong boiled a pot of water on the stove, threw the bags of spicy cabbage and sesame rice cakes that he had prepared in his backpack into the pot first, and opened two cans of small white pig luncheon meat. This is a brand of luncheon meat that Zhang Tong discovered by accident. As a native of Huaihai, the canned food that Zhang Tong has eaten since childhood is Meilin. But the taste of the little white pig luncheon meat is better than that of Merlin, probably because it uses a little more meat.

When the luncheon meat is opened, the unique aroma begins to catch the mouth water.

While preparing a simple dinner, Zhang Tong asked Lin Jie: "Then this is a good thing. I think the house is very cheap to buy for 100,000 yuan. Although it is on the edge of the town, the house is considered a brick-concrete structure." The construction cost is also one hundred thousand. This is considered a welfare for the county."

"Yes, it's a welfare project. The county stipulates that only farmers in these remote rural areas can buy it. Otherwise, many people in the town and county would have bought it with money. But the farmers in these places don't want to buy it very much. Not many sets have been sold yet." Lin Jie nodded as he warmed to the fire.

"Why don't you buy it for 100,000 yuan? If the husband and wife work in Shuangqing, how can they save money for three years and buy a house there?" Jiang Hua also asked with a frown while warming up to the fire.

"Because of the land." Lin Jie was a little helpless: "There is no land next to the town to distribute to these farmers. Buying a house over there is equivalent to giving up the land here automatically. You can't live there and go to work every day." Let’s take care of the few acres of fields and fruit trees on the ten-kilometer mountain road. Although the income of the rural economy is not high, the rations are basically sufficient, and the surplus agricultural products are sold for thousands of yuan every year. In addition, the state is now subsidizing agriculture. .Farmers who grow food get another share of the money. If they move out, it's gone."

"If you live next to the town, you will have to buy food rations, and you will lose annual subsidies and farm surplus income. It will cost you an extra 20,000 to 30,000 yuan a year. Don't think that farmers don't understand, they calculate these accounts They are very shrewd. So sometimes they don’t move out of the mountains not because the farmers are stupid, but because they are too shrewd. Most of the young and middle-aged people here work in Shuangqing City, and couples work in Shuangqing. Food stalls earn more than 100,000 yuan a year, and ordinary people work for others. A couple may earn more than 60,000 to 70,000 yuan a year. After deducting the expenses for Shuangqing, you can save 20,000 to 30,000 yuan a year. Very frugal."

Lin Jie, who has been touring the countryside for a long time, is very aware of the rural economic ecology, which is both fragile and strong. If you don't get sick and don't have a lot of cash expenses, as long as you are willing to do it in the countryside, you will never starve to death, and a ration will always work. This is different from the city, where if you really lose your job completely and do not have the minimum living allowance, you may starve to death.

Therefore, in the 2008 financial tsunami, more than 100,000 factories along the southeast coast closed down, and 30 million industrial workers were laid off. These astronomical numbers of laid-off workers were all transferred back to the countryside. Let the rural areas absorb the biggest waves of this financial tsunami to China. Thirty million unemployed people were not allowed to riot in the cities. (Note: The information comes from Professor Wen Tiejun's "Eight Crisis in China")

The countryside has a strong healing ability. If China is described as a person, the cities are red blood cells, and the countryside are white blood cells. China has been doing this for more than half a century to subsidize the industry with wool for shearing agriculture. And now it's time to subsidize agriculture by shearing industrial wool.

"But if the farmers leave the land, they will lose the foundation for their tenacious survival. The rural ecology is very fragile, and the balance will be even more fragile if the balance is broken. This is the case in this case. The person who beat the people was the Luo family Yes, it was his cousin Luo Zhong who was beaten. Luo Zhong used his family’s 60-year-old second uncle’s household registration to help a family in the town buy a house next to the town as a new house for their wedding. Luo Zhong charged 10,000 yuan as an intermediary , Luo’s family found out about this after returning home during the Chinese New Year, and he beat Luo Zhong with a hoe. Luo Zhong is still in the intensive care unit.”

"Two police officers from the town came to take Luo's family, but many people in the village refused to let him. They all felt that Luo Zhong deserved to be beaten to death. Because they were afraid of mass incidents, the police from the town police station did not dare to act forcefully. The old party secretary If the Luo family would not escape, the town applied to the circuit court to come here to try the case directly. The case is very simple, but it is not easy to judge. The Luo family has a second uncle and no children, and most people in this village are related , They despise what Luo Zhong did. They don’t think it’s a big deal for the Luo family to beat someone.” Lin Jie said and looked at the furnace: “Have you cooked it yet?”

"It's almost there." Looking at the boiling water in the pot, Zhang Tong poured all five packs of Xinla noodles into it, and then poured in the sliced ​​small white pig luncheon meat. When the fire was boiling, a strong aroma wafted out. Zhang Tong was throwing in some fresh green leafy vegetables, and sprinkled a handful of cheddar cheese and cooked sesame seeds before serving.

The strong fragrance stimulated people's senses. Xiao Li, who was tired and went to bed as soon as he came here, got up from the guest room on the second floor after smelling the fragrance: "Is it time for dinner?"

In addition to Xiao Li, Zhang Tong's cooking also attracted many children who were at home during the Chinese New Year. A group of children gathered around the door and smelled the strong aroma of instant noodles. Stir-fried vegetables, everyone swallowed their saliva.

Lin Jie patted his forehead: "I even forgot to tell you that the door must be closed when cooking."

ps: Here I recommend the instant noodles recipe in this chapter, it is delicious. Ingredients: spicy cabbage, spicy cabbage-flavored spicy ramen, rice cake with sesame (you can have it without it), luncheon meat (little white pig, plum, world stick), cheddar cheese. A little trick to master the heat of cooking instant noodles: throw the instant noodles into the pot when the water is cold and cook. When the water boils, the instant noodles will be cooked to the right degree, which is the time when the texture is the best. There are not 200 words in this paragraph, so it will not be included in the fee, don't worry.

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