The rice cake is pounded and looks like Russian white jade.
It was white, shiny, and emitting white smoke.
The men deftly and quickly pinched a large piece of rice cake that looked like Russian white jade into small balls, just like working on an assembly line. An old man took out an ancient mold, pressed the ball of white rice cake into the mold, and then poured it out.
The mold is pre-coated with tea seed oil.
The poured rice cakes become very beautiful cakes with patterns of flowers, birds and animals on them, which are very beautiful.
On the other side, several women carried out a large basin of vegetables.
Xiaoqi could smell the sour smell from a distance. It was the stuffing made by stir-frying sauerkraut, pork, bean sprouts, and cabbage. The pigs were raised at home, so oil would come out of the stir-fried dishes.
A few skillful women made small balls of rice cakes like dumplings. They first flattened them, then formed them into balls. Then they scooped a large spoonful of vegetables and skillfully wrapped them into the rice cakes. After pinching them tightly, big dumplings came out.
All of these have to be done quickly because once the rice cake is pounded, it becomes hard soon after being taken out, and if it is hard, it cannot be processed.
So there was a large table of people working together, and another large table of people eating together outside.
The uncle took a wrapped rice cake and handed it to Xiaoqi. He also took one for himself and ate it in big mouthfuls, finishing it in just three or two bites.
Xiaoqi could have done it, but she was greedy and ate two glutinous rice balls in one go. Now she is a little full and regrets it a little. The rice cake she just wrapped is also super delicious.
The pounded rice cake is soft and fluffy, and has the aroma of glutinous rice, but you can't bite the rice. It is very tough. You can pull out long threads with your teeth, which are also very chewy and QQ. It is wrapped with freshly fried vegetables. The sauerkraut made in my hometown is really made in an old jar, sealed with mud. When you pry open the mud and take it out, there is a sour smell in the air. You have to wash it many times, and the red wine lees will be washed out. You can cut off the sauerkraut head and give it to children as a snack, just like pickled radish.
Lard from domestic pork is stir-fried with sauerkraut, which absorbs the oil quickly. Add bean sprouts and cabbage, and the resulting dish has the sweetness of cabbage, the crispness of bean sprouts, the sourness of sauerkraut, and the fragrance of pork. The mixture is wrapped in rice cakes, and every bite is incredibly delicious and very satisfying.
Country people have a lot of work to do. When hosting a banquet, they have to slaughter pigs, pound rice cakes, pick vegetables, kill chickens, ducks and fish, but they also eat a lot. When making rice cakes, they can easily eat two or three.
They are all filling.
Xiao Qi was greedy and ate another one.
After eating two wrapped rice cakes, she couldn’t eat the third one, otherwise she really wouldn’t be able to finish it during the banquet. However, the rice cakes made with the mold still looked very beautiful. Xiaoqi took a photo with her mobile phone and took one away, which her uncle gave her.
Generally, those made with molds are just displayed for viewing, but people don’t eat them.
Xiaoqi really wanted to eat, but he just couldn't eat any more.
As soon as the rice cake was ready, we heard the sound of firecrackers.
It should be the bride-picking party.
I don’t know where my parents have gone. They must have gone to help with work, so Xiaoqi followed the crowd to watch the fun.
I thought the groom would take the bride away when he arrived, but that’s not the case.
Shangxie Village is quite developed and there is no bad custom of beating the groom. When I came there, the bride's sisters just teased me a little, but in reality they just gave me a red envelope, and then I saw the bride.
Then the bride and groom offer wine and tea to their parents.
Xiaoqi saw that his uncle was particularly majestic today and didn't smile much.
My aunt-in-law smiled like Maitreya Buddha, and was obviously very satisfied with her son-in-law.
It is said that my cousin's husband's family runs a factory. I don't know what kind of factory it is, but it sounds quite impressive.
When Xiaoqi met her cousin's husband in person, to be honest, he didn't look very compatible with her cousin. Her cousin was 1.7 meters tall, slim, and good-looking. She was wearing a wedding dress and was a real eye-catcher sitting there. She wasn't much different from the stars on TV, while her cousin's husband seemed to be only 1.7 meters tall wearing leather shoes. His skin was not white, and he was very fat and round. He had squinty eyes and his facial features were not regular, but he looked very friendly and seemed to have a good temper.
It was completely different from what Xiaoqi had thought, but looking at her cousin sitting on the bed, she was still smiling with her neat teeth showing, and she looked very happy, without any grievance. She was really happy, and it was a feeling that came from the heart.
Xiao Qi felt a little confused again. Is this love? Is this marriage?
After the newlyweds finished toasting and serving tea, the bride and groom had some snacks, which were long noodles and lean meat.
Those who came to pick up the bride also had these snacks and freshly baked rice cakes.
You can eat quickly.
Then we heard firecrackers again, which meant the groom was about to take his bride away.
A group of people gathered around to watch the fun.
The only people from the bride's family who went were the bridesmaid and an uncle.
The custom in Shangxie Village is that if the daughter is not pregnant, the girl's parents will not visit the boy's family.
Watching the bride, bridesmaids, and groom walking towards the rows of cars.
Xiaoqi saw that the car in front had a blue and white logo, which should be a BMW. This was the easiest to recognize, and she knew it. The cars behind were all BMWs as well.
The villagers also praised the groom's family, saying that they were rich and well-off, and that the bride would not suffer if she married him.
By the time the firecrackers went off again, the car had already disappeared into the distance.
Then the banquet officially begins.
There were still people waiting at the door to pay their respects. Xiao Qi turned around and saw his father at the door, so he paid the gift money.
The registrants wrote Sheng Juanhua and Su Youfu: 600.
Even if it is a gift package.
Then they went to find seats one after another. People of different status would be arranged in different seats. Places like the living room were arranged for people of high status and seniority.
Like Xiaoqi's mother, she is a married woman and belongs to the family, so she sits in the kitchen or anywhere else.
But Xiaoqi's father is his brother-in-law, so he will be called to sit in the living room.
There are three tables in the living room, and the authentic one is the most exquisite. Before the dishes are served, there is a large plate of fruit with various fruits in it, which is very beautiful and colorful.
In addition to the fruit plate, there are also cold dishes, which are also very beautiful, including pig hearts and livers, duck gizzards, lychee meat, preserved eggs, etc.
Xiaoqi really wants to eat, but Xiaoqi is a little girl and is considered an accessory to her mother, so she should just sit in the kitchen with her mother.
I ate too much before, so when the banquet started, I really couldn’t eat anything.
In the countryside, a banquet is held where the daughter-in-law of a relative from the countryside is invited to be the chef, with several other daughters-in-law helping out.
The food is authentic.
Xiaoqi likes the bamboo shoot feast. Although there are no fresh bamboo shoots in this season, dried bamboo shoots are used. The dried bamboo shoots are soaked and cut into thin strips. Various fresh vegetables are also cut into thin strips, and lean meat is cut into thin strips. Thin vermicelli is also used. They should be fried in a certain order. It looks like a pot of vegetable paste, but the taste is very delicious. You can taste the flavors of various dishes. The flavors are blended together and it has a very layered feeling. It is very delicious.
I can’t eat all those whole stewed chickens, so I’m just pretending.
After taking a look around, some older people would tear off a leg to taste it, and then basically take it away as it was.
The same thing happened with the big pork elbow. Everyone picked up a few pieces with their chopsticks and left the table.
This is very different from Xiaoqi's memory. When he was a child, he remembered that when he attended a banquet, everyone would carry a few small plastic bags. When the dishes were served, they would not rush to eat them, but would rush to share them first.
No dish will be left on the plate, and after the banquet, everyone can take a bag of vegetables home.
It tastes especially good when I take it home to eat.
It is obvious that everyone's living standards have improved now, and basically no one is fighting for food anymore.
Some people look like they are losing weight and eat very little.
Xiaoqi ate a lot, although he was already full before the banquet.
When the banquet was almost over, my father came over.
Sheng Juanhua saw her husband's face flushed, glared at him, and asked, "How much did you drink?"
"Just a glass of beer." Su Youfu has a low alcohol tolerance and is self-aware. Although he was sitting in the living room, everyone would urge him to drink, and he couldn't escape, so he just drank a glass.
But now his face was as red as a cooked shrimp.
Looking at his wife and daughter, he smiled foolishly.
Everyone was also making fun of it.
Su Youfu felt a little dizzy after drinking a glass of wine. He ignored everyone and took out a handful of winter melon candies from his pocket and stuffed them into Xiaoqi's pocket: "You like it."
Xiaoqi was holding the candy, feeling both amused and helpless. When she was a child, she loved eating this. If her father had the chance to sit in the living room, she could hardly sit still and would slip up to her father from time to time to ask for a winter melon candy.
The white sugar, when you bite it, is so sweet that it reaches your heart and you will feel that it is the most delicious.
But it's been many years and she is no longer like this.
I didn't expect that my father still remembered this.
She took the winter melon candy and took a bite. Hmm, it was still sweet.
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