Chapter 164 Pickled Fish & Angora Rabbit

Lin Shu reminded, "If you are a party member, you can't say such things. You party members are not allowed to have religious beliefs, right? If you are a Buddhist, you are not suitable to join the party."

Song Youping was frightened by her words and explained, "I, I just said it out of my feelings, you, you don't have to worry about it."

The implication is that you must not report or tell others about me because of this matter, which will affect my work.

She didn't dare to say anything more, and quickly found an excuse to go back to the incense making room to work.

Lin Shu ignored her, cleaned the fish fillet, and then went back to the main room to marinate the fish meat.

Starch, egg white, pepper powder, pepper salt, rub it for a while to make it taste good.

She had grown a small basket of bean sprouts a few days ago, and now she just picked some and put them in the pickled fish.

There are many people in the family, how can it be enough to eat only fish? Of course, you have to put more vegetables in.

Fry a bowl of peanuts, stir-fry bean sprouts, Chinese cabbage, bean skin, potato slices, etc., and put them in a large bowl when they are soft and cooked. Stir-fry

pepper and star anise in a wok, then take them out, stir-fry the pickled cabbage, and then add water to stew the fish head and bones. Boil the fish bones over high heat and stew them until they are fragrant, then take out the pickled cabbage and fish bones and put them in the bowl. Use

the remaining fish soup in the pot to cook a bowl of fish slices, and take them out and pour them into the bowl when they are cooked.

I added oil when cooking, but I didn't want to add chili peppers to a half-pot of oil like in modern times. I only used a little oil to fry a handful of chili peppers.

Pour it into a pot, and then

put chopped green onions and cilantro on top. A large pot of pickled fish, the fish slices floated in the golden soup like small boats, dotted with bright red chili peppers, emerald green onions and cilantro, which made people's appetites whet.

Especially the aroma of the chili peppers, fried peppercorns and star aniseed, which wafted far away. It

was so fragrant that Panpan and Tiantian, who were on the road, smelled it and rushed home, shouting, "Pickled fish, pickled fish! Here I come!"

Pickled fish alone was not enough to eat, of course, other things had to be made. Pickled vegetable stewed eggs were available every day, and this was pickled vegetables. In addition, various pickles and small pickled vegetables were also very good with rice.

Except for Sister-in-law Lu, everyone else can go home for dinner.

Lin Shu specially left some dishes for Sister-

in-law and asked Lu Ping to ride a bicycle to deliver them to her mother. It was still hot when it was delivered to the field.

Lu Ping shouted in the field, and Sister-in-law Lu heard it and said to Xu Guangmao beside him: "Come, you take over, I'm going to eat."

Xu Guangmao drooled, "Sister-in-law, please save some delicious food for me." Sister

-in-law Lu: "It depends on what you send. If it's salted meat stew, I will definitely save two pieces for you. If it's pickled fish, there's nothing."

No pigs were killed at home, so there was naturally no fresh pork, but Sister-in-law Lu remembered that the third brother's wife said last night that they would eat fish today.

Xu Guangmao was even greedier, "Sister-in-law~"

Sister-in-law Lu: "I'll try my best. If I can't keep the fish meat, I'll leave you some soup."

Xu Guangmao was content, as long as there was a mouthful of soup.

There were so many people in the Lu family, and there was only one fish, Sister-in-law Lu wouldn't get a few pieces of meat. He wasn't greedy,

so fish soup would be fine. Speaking of Lin Shu's cooking skills, coupled with her solid ingredients, not to mention fish soup, even the vegetable soup is delicious.

Not to mention that Lin Shu used oil, salt and various seasonings in the vegetable soup, their family only had salt in the vegetable soup, and they often fought for the vegetable soup during meals.

Lin Shu gave Sister-in-law Lu a lot of fish meat, and even fish bones.

Mrs. Lu stuffed a piece of fish meat into her son's mouth first, "Is it delicious? Your third aunt loves me so much that she gave me so much meat."

Lu Ping was caught off guard by his own mother who stuffed him with a piece of boiling hot fish meat. He jumped up and couldn't bear to spit it out. He ate it up with a hissing sound, "Delicious, really delicious!"

This is my own mother. How could you blow on the fish meat when you feed it to my father? You just stuffed it into your son's mouth?

Fortunately, it wasn't fresh out of the pot, otherwise my mouth would be scalded and blistered.

Mrs. Lu: "Ping, you can be unfilial to me and your father in the future, but you must be filial to your third aunt."

Lu Ping: "..."

He said: "Mom, don't worry, I will be filial to grandma and you, I will not be filial to one and not to another."

Mrs. Lu smiled and said: "What a good son, go home and eat fish, by the way, if your father is at home for lunch, you can persuade grandpa to have a couple of cups of such delicious food."

Lu Ping: "Oh."

On the way back, he was still muttering that his father was really blessed.

The Lu family eats pickled fish, and the fragrance spreads ten miles away. The neighbors are already used to it. Pickled fish

is not difficult to make, and Lin Shu is also happy to teach people, but fish and oil are hard to come by. It's not that most people don't eat fish, but they can't bear to eat so much oil.

There are only a few pounds of oil in the whole year, how can you bear to eat like this?

Old Mrs. Chang couldn't help but say sour words at home, "You exchange eggs for grilled lamb skewers, why are you reluctant to cook fish? Humph, hypocritical."

Chang Er's wife couldn't stand her mother-in-law's stubborn look, and really wanted to tear her face and have a big fight to separate the family, but it was a pity that Chang Er couldn't bear to leave his parents, and

it wasn't just them who wanted to eat fish, but also Song Youping.

Originally, Song Youping thought that if she dawdled and didn't leave, when it was time for dinner, Fang Dihua and Lin Shu would politely invite her to have dinner together?

Then she would sit down and eat with them.

At most, she would give money and food coupons, she didn't need them.

As a result, not long after, a large group of people came to eat, including the Lu family and the Hou family. Today, Lin Shu also asked Hou Bo to invite Huang Shaoye as well.

There was no room for them to sit, and it was mostly the elderly and children who sat at the table, while the young people sat outside under the building with their bowls.

No one invited Song Youping, and she herself was too embarrassed to... sit down.

She could only smell the aroma of the sour, spicy and fresh pickled fish when she went to Zhao Meifeng's house.

In comparison, Zhao Meifeng's cooking skills were simply... pig food!

Hou Jianwen ate without raising his head, and ate 70% full in one breath. Then he reluctantly said to Lin Shu: "Third sister, the water station of our brigade has been repaired, and we have to go to other brigades."

This was their original plan, and it was approved by the unit in this way, and the unit also issued documents to various cities and counties in this way.

They fell in love with the atmosphere and food of Lujiazhuang and were reluctant to leave.

Lin Shu smiled and said, "Brother-in-law, if you go to other brigades now, they may still be skeptical. Why not wait a little longer and let them visit our brigade. When they see the actual effect of the water turbine pump, they will rush to install it without your promotion."

Most of the brigade cadres have little education and little experience. When they encounter new things, their first reaction is to reject them.

Why are some brigades so thorough in cutting off the tail of capitalism? Members are not allowed to raise chickens and ducks?

Isn't it because the brigade cadres just follow the crowd, don't study the documents carefully, and just make a one-size-fits-all decision based on hearsay?

It is clear that the government's prohibition of speculation refers to prohibition of reselling industrial products, especially strategic war reserve materials, but the countryside itself does not have these things. Some people want to respond to the call and show that they are capable and have achievements, so they do not allow members to raise chickens and sell eggs.

In fact, even if the policy is relaxed and members are allowed to raise chickens and ducks, how many chickens can they raise?

Chickens and ducks also need food, and chickens are easy to die. If you raise 20 or so chickens, it is good if 10 survive in the end.

In the 1980s and 1990s, no one cared about raising chickens, but didn't the rural people raise a flock of chickens? In fact, they even became less and less interested in raising chickens and preferred to go to the chicken farm to buy eggs to eat?

In the eyes of some brigade cadres, water turbine pumps are even more of a capitalist tail, because they didn't exist before.

In their eyes, new things must be capitalist, and it is really difficult to get them to accept new things. They are very rigid.

Instead of persuading them with painstaking words, it is better to use facts to let them take the initiative to ask for it.

Hou Jianwen felt that what Lin Shu said made sense.

Later, they sent out advance teams, two people in a group, to nearby communes and brigades to promote the convenience of agricultural hydraulic machinery. The results were not ideal. As Lin Shu said, most people were not interested, and a small number of people took a wait-and-see attitude. In this case

, Hou Jianwen and his group held a meeting and decided to continue to stay in Lujiazhuang Brigade and help Lujiazhuang with construction. Once they have made a name for themselves, other communes will follow suit without any forced efforts.

All passed!

An autumn rain brings a cooler weather.

After two moderate autumn rains, the angora rabbits that Huang Shaoye helped to contact arrived.

There were three male rabbits and five female rabbits in total.

They were sent by a farm in rabbit cages on a truck. Huang Shaoye collected the money from the post office, which was convenient.

Originally, Lin Shu wanted to raise the angora rabbits in the brigade headquarters so that the elementary school students could cut grass and feed the rabbits during their labor classes. However, when Tiantian and Panpan saw the furry white angora rabbits, they immediately couldn't take their eyes off them.

Those watery round eyes, those furry drooping ears, and that...

Each of them held one, not caring about the dirt, and rubbed it over and over again, unable to let it go.

Tiantian buried her whole face in the rabbit fur, making a sound of "Ah Ah Wu", "It's a pity for Baoer, he went home and can't play with rabbits anymore."

Panpan: "Why don't we give him one?"

Little Houwei looked at the rabbit and didn't dare to move, afraid of being bitten. He was also unlucky. After coming to the countryside, he was pecked by chickens, chased by big white geese, and mooed by calves, so he was a little afraid of rabbits.

Tiantian even took his hand to rub the rabbit, "It's soft and good to touch. Don't be afraid."

Little Houwei then bravely touched it. Sure enough, it was soft, furry, and warm. Oh, he couldn't let go after touching it.

Panpan said that he would tell Xiaoyou sister later and let her touch the rabbit too.

They began to regret that Baoer went home again.

Originally, Lin's mother was worried that Bao'er couldn't leave her and would cry or something when she went to her third aunt's house. But the little boy had his brothers and sisters to play with, and he felt lost for a second or two without seeing his grandmother, but he immediately immersed himself in the play, and really didn't miss his grandmother.

In the end, it was Lin's mother who couldn't stand it. She missed her grandson, Bao'er was not around, and Lin's father and Lin Yue went to work. She was alone at home, even if she went to Aunt Lin's house to work together, she felt a little uneasy.

Lin's father thought she was sick.

It happened that Second Uncle Jie helped her clean up the private plot and harvested half a bag of peas. Lin's mother asked Lin Yue to take the peas to Lin Shu and pick up Bao'er when he got off work.

Although Bao'er was reluctant to leave his brothers and sisters and the third aunt, he didn't cry when he went home, and he was very happy to be with his grandmother at home.

I am happy to stay at my third aunt's house, and I am happy to go home. I feel happy going back and forth between these two places.

Who doesn't like soft and fluffy rabbits?

Not only the children like them, but also Hou Ying and Lu Xiuxiu. Even Lin Shu and Fang Dihua have to go and pet them when they have time.

Fang Dihua: "Wow, it is worthy of being called a long-haired rabbit. I have never seen a rabbit with such long and soft fur. If it is made into hand sleeves, knee pads, scarves, etc., it will be very warm."

Tiantian and Panpan turned their heads to look at Fang Dihua at the same time, "Grandma!"

The rabbits just came to our house, and you want to kill them to make scarves!

No!

Fang Dihua touched her nose. They were really little kids, but she didn't tease them. She smiled and said, "I'm talking about cutting the fur to make scarves. Such long fur must be cut."

Tiantian and Panpan began to wonder how to cut the fur of rabbits, when to cut the fur, etc.

Fang Dihua didn't understand this either. After all, she had never seen a long-haired rabbit. "Ah, ask your mother."

If you are undecided, ask your third daughter-in-law. Maybe Teacher Ma has taught her?

The children pestered Lin Shu and started asking questions.

Lin Shu didn't know.

She had never raised a long-haired rabbit in her previous life. "Let's ask Mr. Huang. If he doesn't know, then we have to call or write to the farm to ask."

At this time, there was no special instruction manual for raising long-haired rabbits to buy.

Panpan also said that she would invite Uncle Huang to come for dinner in the evening and ask him about raising rabbits. She also asked Tiantian to prepare a notebook so that she could learn from him in the evening and write down everything.

When Huang Shaoye and Hou Jianwen came together in the evening, Lin Shu and Sister Lin also prepared the meal. Today, they specially made fried eggs with chives.

The chives were cut in batches this season, and they are very fresh when they grow out.

Huang Shaoye is a serious and responsible person. Since the Lujiazhuang Brigade decided to follow his advice and open a farm, he decided to take responsibility to the end.

He not only bought rabbits from people he knew, but also asked them about the details of raising rabbits and asked them to write letters to explain in detail.

He took out the instruction manual for raising angora rabbits and handed it to Tiantian. She knew the most words among the kids, even better than Lu An and Hou Ying.

Tiantian took it and started reading it to Panpan, little Hou Wei, Hou Ying, and Hou Bo and Lu An, because they also had to help raise rabbits.

Things to pay attention to when raising rabbits. Rabbits are prone to getting sick when it gets cold, so you need to keep them warm and keep them ventilated. Rabbits

have a big appetite, so how do you handle the grass, vegetables, carrots, etc. they eat?

When to shear the rabbits, and how many times a year. When to have

sex, and to pay attention to eugenics and avoid inbreeding, etc., all were clearly written in the letter.

Lin Shu nodded repeatedly. In this era, people can pay attention to the rule of selective breeding and avoid inbreeding of rabbits. It can be seen that the farm contacted by Huang Shaoye is very reliable. They can write letters to communicate more later.

The others listened with gusto at first, but then slowly... became embarrassed.

When Tiantian read about the breeding of rabbits, the children didn't understand and read whatever they saw. The conservative adults were embarrassed.

It was just like a family watching TV together and encountering an intimate scene. Whoever thought too much would be embarrassed. But no one interrupted the children to avoid making them confused.

The kids looked around the room and saw that the adults who were talking were suddenly silent. They asked curiously, "What's wrong?"

Tiantian: "Did I read it wrong? I checked the dictionary and I didn't read it wrong."

Daddy Lu smiled and said, "Tianbaoer, you didn't read it wrong. You will all be rabbit experts in the future."

Tiantian and Panpan were very happy. They felt like technicians like Uncle Huang and Uncle Huang.

Tiantian read that long-eared rabbits are numbered by needle-piercing their ears with vinegar ink when they are one month old. Only then did they realize that rabbits have numbers on their ears!

They went to check and found that there were indeed numbers. They had been hugging and rubbing their fur in the afternoon and didn't see the numbers hidden in the ears at all.

The numbers are small, not big, but does it hurt when the ears are pierced?

The children began to soften their hearts again, "We have given birth to rabbits, but we can't pierce their ears."

Lin Shu pointed to the letter, "See if it says how to pierce their ears and give them numbers?" Looking

at the children's attitude, the family probably won't be able to eat rabbit meat in the future.

It's okay, she's going for pork anyway, so just cut the rabbits' fur.

Although the children felt sorry for the rabbits' ears, they soon realized the importance of numbers, because white rabbits look the same and it's really hard to tell which one is which.

In Lin Shu's opinion, numbers are even more necessary.

Now three of the five female rabbits are pregnant and are expected to give birth in a dozen days. With the numbers, they know when they will give birth, when they will leave the confinement period, and when they can continue to breed. They also have to remember their mother-child and father-child relationships to avoid inbreeding.

The eight rabbits sold to them by the farm are all carefully selected high-quality breeds, not close relatives, so Lin Shu thinks they are professional and honest, and they don't cheat at all.

These rabbits don't understand, and Lin Shu has to help them create files and records.

Tiantian: "Mom, who will number the rabbits in the future? Will it be my eldest cousin?"

Panpan: "Why not let grandpa do it? Grandpa doesn't feel pain when he gives injections."

The two children assigned work to old man Lu again. Old man Lu didn't mind the trouble at all and happily agreed to help them pierce the ears of the rabbits and number them in the future.

Seeing that the children liked these rabbits, Lin Shu gave the money to the brigade, and regarded these breeding rabbits as bought by her family, and sold them to other members after they gave birth to little rabbits.

The brigade naturally had no objection.

They had already had a serious talk with Lu Changfu and Zhao Meifeng, and stipulated a series of pig-raising tasks and precautions, which can be said to be quite strict.

Unexpectedly, Zhao Meifeng and Lu Changfu both agreed.

The brigade sent Lu Changfu to the commune to learn from the veterinarian.

The branch secretary had already applied to the commune for the farm, signed a document to provide a certain number of pigs to the commune's pig collection station every year, and received a subsidy for pig feed from the commune. At that time, pig feed was a mixture of melon stems and sweet potato vines, and some bean cakes could be added if it was good.

With Director Qin's approval, the brigade could also use it to buy a batch of bricks and tiles from the commune kiln factory to repair the pig house.

Of course, the pig farm did not need such good bricks and tiles, adobe and stones were enough.

This is a member benefit. Anyone who needs to build a new house can go and buy bricks and tiles.

While the veterinarian went to study, the team leader took two members to look for piglets everywhere.

Although they did not have systematic theoretical knowledge of raising pigs, as country people, they had raised pigs since they were young and had accumulated more or less experience in raising pigs.

They still knew how to catch piglets, but they had to catch healthy and strong ones that could be eaten, not sick ones.

First catch twenty, and then there are breeding pigs in the village that can also give birth, and then buy pigs from their own village.

A brigade farm must raise at least fifty or sixty pigs.

If there are more, it will consume too much feed and we can't afford to raise too many, and if there are fewer, it's not worth it.

As for the veterinarians trained by the brigade, in addition to treating livestock, the key is to learn the skill of castration.

When raising meat-eating poultry and livestock, it is best to castrate them, such as roosters, princess sows, etc., as long as they are not for breeding, they should be castrated. This is beneficial to their growth, less estrus, more food, fat and tender meat without smell.

Veterinarians can serve the brigade and other external services after graduation. Anyway, the brigade will not lose money.

As long as the skills are in place, they will make money for the brigade. Haven’t you seen that the barefoot doctor Lu Laodie makes much more money than other doctors in the brigade?

The corn harvest in the field was almost complete, and the only things left were picking cotton and drying melon stems. The pig farm of Lujiazhuang Brigade started to open.

And the Angora rabbits of Lin Shu's family also began to give birth.

Tiantian and Panpan were stunned by the pink, hairless, soft, small, chubby rabbits that could not even open their eyes.

"They are so small!"

"Not even as big as my hand!"

"Oh, they don't have any hair, are they cold?"

"Wow, the little rabbits are feeding!"

"Puh, don't scare them."

After watching the little rabbit suckling, Panpan and Tiantian washed up early in the evening and went to bed. They crawled into Lin Shu's quilt and hugged her, rubbing her, with soft voices.

"Mom, you are so amazing."

Lin Shu: "The rabbit gave birth to the baby, how can I be amazing?"

I am not as amazing as the rabbit!

"Mom, were we that small when we were born?"

Tiantian gestured with her palm, "How much milk did we need to grow up? Mom, you've worked so hard."

Panpan also nodded. He originally slept outside so that he could explore the land at night. Now he also got close to Lin Shu, "Mom, thank you for raising us from such a small size to this big."

He also rubbed Lin Shu, "Mom, when I grow up, I will also feed you my milk."

Lin Shu: "..."

She suddenly realized that she had not told the children these things so far. It seemed that she had to give them sex enlightenment education.

In particular, she had to let the children know how they came, how they were born, how they grew up, what the differences between men and women were, etc.

Although my father-in-law is well-educated and always takes the children to read books and tell stories, including stories about the Cowherd and the Weaving Girl and the Seven Fairies, he definitely won't teach us about sex education. Sorry.

He is the same as other old people in this regard. When children ask how they got it, they basically answer that it was from their mother's nest, exchanged for cornmeal, or caught in the river...