Anecdote: Third, disturb the group.

First, the Guanzhong man with a big appetite

The past events in this section need to be detailed from the beginning. Without going into details, people nowadays can't understand the tricks.

Stir-fry, as a special snack in Guanzhong, entered high-end hotels; As an auxiliary food or dish, vacuum plastic packaging is convenient for mixing dough, and bar codes can also be brought into the supermarket.

Who would have expected: this kind of peasant snack was a dietary invention born because of famine and people's desire to save food. Let's talk about the Guanzhong man who has a big appetite. The characters involved are all old people I have seen since childhood. The story happened in the early days of the People's Republic of China, agricultural planting or engineering construction.

In the old farming era, agricultural machinery was almost blank, and heavy work depended on young and middle-aged labor except limited animal power. Four men who ate tiger calves ate a pot of eight-foot red bean stew; With a few steamed buns, I can't even eat enough. When you are poorer, you are short of food, clothing and money.

It would be even worse if we were unfortunate enough to encounter a famine year. I'm already poor, and I don't have enough to eat. If you don't have enough to eat, you will have no nutrition, little strength and no work. If you can't do the work, there will be no benefit and you will become poor. Natural and man-made disasters, put Wei Xing's nest in Du Li, where can I drill when I am hungry?

In the era of mutual aid groups in the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China, and later in the era of production teams, there was an indispensable simple farm tool in the countryside: broom; It's actually a big broom tied with slender bamboo. At that time, there was no Yang Changji, let alone a combine harvester.

Cleaning is used to collect particles and remove residual soil, leaves and slag foam from particles. The slender bamboo tied with a broom is also called a broom by the locals; Produced in the deep mountains of Qinling Mountains. Sent by the production team, with a letter of introduction, through the Yamaguchi forestry checkpoint; Then cut it with a sickle in the deep mountains of Qinling mountains.

Fine bamboos cut in the deep mountains are bundled with brazing rods and piled up in piles. They have to be carried down the mountain first, and then dragged back to the village by ox cart. Therefore, in rural areas, broom cutting is an important technical work; People who have no strength to knock at the door are simply incompetent.

Because it is hard work, the production team recorded a big work score for those who cut brooms up the mountain: 10 division of labor every day; And there is an additional food subsidy: braised rice with red beans, which is not on the bill and is very hungry. Each person is supplied with half a catty of rice every day.

Four tiger calf men collected all the rice for one night; After breakfast the next day, I walked to the mountains with a rice on my back and a cloth sickle. Cutting a broom in the mountains takes several days of hard work; Sleep at the mountain people's house at night.

On the last day, tie the thin bamboo; They used the last six catties of Mi Dou to cook a pot full of red bean stew rice in a shakuhachi iron pot with a diameter of about 65cm. Four people eat a net light and are not satisfied; They also ate some leftover steamed bread. Then, I wore a thin bamboo bundle with a brazing rod and carried it down the mountain.

How many bamboos did four people bring? I don't know. I only know that I will pick up their ox cart at the mountain pass and go down the mountain to the north. On the way, the cow pulling the cart fell to the ground with fatigue.

At present, three of the four people have died, and 1 person is still alive. One of them told me before he died: they rushed up the mountain to cut brooms, except to earn more; Just to eat those unpaid meals.

Second, the dish that can't be paid: suffocation.

There are many public, commonweal and commonweal projects in the construction of poor times. For example, build dams, bridges and roads, and build factories or railways. All young and middle-aged laborers should be transferred from the production team to participate; The production team will write down their high work scores and add some cash subsidies to the construction site: a few dollars a month for food subsidies, from.

Another advantage is that the food is particularly rich. Guanzhong people said: rice that is not on the bill. It means: eat as much as you want at the construction site, without bookkeeping; No more work points and subsidies will be deducted at the end of the month.

Hungry young adults at home heard that they couldn't afford to pay for meals, and they signed up one after another. But whether you can go or not depends on your relationship with the production team leader; Or the relationship between his wife and the wife of the production captain.

At that time, in order to enjoy the meal that was not paid by the public construction site; Hungry people make many stories related to life. The following is the good news from the construction site.

Fenghe River exits the mountain pass and turns northwest near Mawang Village in the western suburb of Chang 'an, making a big turn. Form the battlefield of Mawang Village. Sand is an essential material for infrastructure construction.

The sand in Mawang Village is of first-class quality. The sand in Mawang Village is used for infrastructure construction of many key projects. There is a railway station near Mawang Village, from which sand is transported to all parts of the country. It is said that you can also export money for exchange.

At that time, the project was tense; There is a kind of public welfare paid labor, which is to transport the sand at the bottom of the river to the railway station. At that time, the poor lacked everything and had no high-end machinery. Conveyor belt, crane, excavator, etc. Never seen it before. There are few means of transportation, let alone cars and tractors.

It takes a lot of effort to transport sand to the railway station. From the bottom of the river along the slope of the river bank more than ten meters high, pull it up with a shelf car; This is a heavy job that only cattle and horses can do. That's what the Guanzhong man did; Heming worked nonstop all night.

Put down your posture and work hard. One is to earn high marks and share more of your own food by the end of the year. The second is cash subsidy, which can earn a few dollars a month. The third is to eat meals that are not at the construction site.

There are generally two kinds of fire food on the construction site: steamed bread or rice; This is Guanzhong's home cooking. Steamed bread is three or two kinds of big white flour steamed bread with salted radish soaked in oil.

Although rice is produced in Fenghe Valley, it can't be eaten often and can't afford it. The construction site can eat once a week. When eating rice, there must be boiled tofu, boiled cabbage or stewed potato vermicelli with meat. It's about improving food.

You can't do it without some meat. The story goes like this: Lao Liu, a big eater in a village, signed up for Lasha in order not to eat.

Lao Liu has just arrived at the construction site and is inexperienced. Too much strength and sand; There was a load of sand on the weir, and I was hungry. I ran to the kitchen of the construction site to ask for steamed bread. Besides, I don't know how to work, I'm sweaty and really hungry. It's only been two days, and I've been crying hungry.

The cook in the kitchen is a warm-hearted fool. He has never seen such a big appetite as Lao Liu. He suspected that Lao Liu might have hidden the steamed bread and wanted to take it home secretly. Site dining system, eat whatever you want; But you can't take more, let alone at home.

A few days later, when eating, the cook asked Liu to sit in the kitchen and eat face to face. And jokingly bet that if old Liu Can can really eat as much as he can, he is willing to share his meal and give it to Lao Liu for a long time.

Lao Liu believed it, saying that he could eat 20 big white steamed buns in one meal.

The two sides met the witness and began to bet. Three or two white flour steamed bread, Lao Liu ate it at one go 17. Eat 18, it is said that Lao Liu expressed it incorrectly; The witnesses all ran away.

The construction site is idle and boring at night, and everyone is scrambling to watch the fun. The cooks have long since lost their minds and won't let Liu eat any more, and they won't give up. Seeing that the situation was very bad, the cook listened to the old man's advice and didn't sleep. He helped Liu walk slowly along the big weir of Fenghe River all night, and Liu Cai recovered his breath.

The wonderful thing of gambling on steamed bread was learned by the superior; The website management committee punished Zhao Fu and kicked Liu out of the house. Because he only worked for a few days, Lao Liu didn't get a penny subsidy from the construction site, nor did he earn high marks from the production team. He only ate for a few days without the government's money.

This incident became an allusion to petty gain and was passed down as a joke by local people. Say: you should seize the food that the government doesn't pay for and suffocate. Note: suppress, Guanzhong dialect, means to eat hard, with derogatory meaning.

Thinking so vulgar is similar to today's insatiable bureaucratic mentality and style. It's public anyway. Eat for nothing or eat for nothing. I almost died in the end.

Third, disturb the group.

Some people may not understand: at the beginning, farmers had to pay public grain for farming; In addition, we have to pay a small amount of subsidies to buy food. Take the production team as the unit, pay the surplus grain purchased by the public and the seeds for the coming year, and make final accounts according to the work points earned by the main workers in each household.

Families with a large appetite and many able-bodied men earn a lot of work points a year, but the little food they expect from agricultural cooperatives is definitely not enough.

Rice is the main crop in the upper reaches of Fenghe River in Guanzhong, and it wins with high-quality rice production. If you cannot be careful; It is a pleasure to eat rice and steamed bread every day and make tofu with pork, but it can last for up to three months. For the remaining nine months, you can't drink northwest wind.

If you want to get rid of hunger, you must plan reasonably. Generally, rice is secretly pulled to Weibei to make corn flour, which will generally disturb the group to eat; Add potatoes, taro, radish, lotus root and other vegetables grown in dry land; Only by supplementing foods such as wild vegetables, leaves and bean dregs can we survive the famine safely.

Even in non-famine years, there is not enough food in Guanzhong. In order to survive the famine, farmers gradually invented methods of disturbing crowds and steaming cold noodles.

More than a catty of corn flour can stir half a pot, but the whole family can't finish it. A kilo of rice is ground into rice slurry, which can steam four kilos of cold rice noodles and add something else. Eight people can make do with it.

Disrupt the dough, mainly using cornmeal with starch; It is easy to condense into blocks after cooling. Authentic stirring, while stirring in the pot with a big wooden spoon, while slowly sprinkling noodles in the boiling water pot; Use wheat straw under the stove and simmer slowly. By feeling, it is not successful until the dough is scooped out and can be shaped.

Interrupting a group is hard work, and some people will never learn it. Novices, such as little girls and new wives who have just learned to cook, are generally difficult to disturb the group successfully.

There is a two-part allegorical saying in Guanzhong: The melon girl stirs up the dough, scatters the noodles one by one, and adds water when it is thick; It means: it is difficult to grasp the key points; Finally, boil it into a pot of half-baked paste.

Fourth, eat jiaozi.

Eat jiaozi and adjust the seasoning water in advance; Pepper is best scalded with wild vegetable pulp or celery pulp and external oil; With fried vegetables: fried vegetables, fried leeks with green oil, fried spinach with green oil and fried garlic seedlings with green oil are the best.

Everything is ready, first scoop the seasoning water into half a bowl; Scoop out the stirred dough from the pot with a wooden spoon and slowly slide it into the bowl layer by layer. The seasoning water is topped with turquoise fried vegetables and crimson oil-fried peppers.

Eat slowly with chopsticks from the outer ring when eating. Stir-fried dishes with butter and red oil are put in Chili, and the three colors match each other, which greatly increases the appetite. So it became a famous peasant snack in Guanzhong.

I spent a few minutes on it explaining the trick of disturbing group eating. If you are too impatient, you will not only eat badly, but also have no taste, and you will burn your mouth, heart and stomach.

There is a joke about eating jiaozi in the market: there is a talented and hungry young man who has no experience of eating jiaozi; Slipped into his stomach, so hot that he threw away all the bowls; Lying on the ground with your stomach in your arms and rolling. There is also a saying in Guanzhong: you can't eat hot cakes if you are impatient; This is where I come from.

Although the dough is delicious, it is coarse corn flour after all; Pulp, an acid seasoning that is easy to swell, has little nutrition; Neither hunger nor strength. So stirring the ball has another interesting nickname: coax it uphill.

It means: I just ate a stir-fried dish, and I seemed full at that time; But if you pull a cart and salute uphill; When I pull uphill, I am sweaty and hungry; So it's called coaxing uphill.

This nickname is Guanzhong Pumi, which coaxed many strong men to fill their stomachs in the famine years and saved a lot of food. I don't know how many hungry people's lives have been saved by the saved food. How can this account be worked out? This is the advantage of Guanzhong, which once fascinated the hungry people of that year. In the famine years, at least there was corn flour that was coaxed up the hill to stir the ball.

The past of Tang Dou prodigal son in Guanzhong during the hunger era: disturbing the group.