When I came back from the county seat, it was already noon!
As soon as he entered the door, Zhou Yang saw his mother busy cooking at the stove in the main room, while Li Youwei was playing with Bao'er.
Seeing this scene, Zhou Yang was immediately shocked!
He has a deep understanding of his mother's cooking skills. Most women who are not good at cooking can only guarantee that the food will be cooked. As for the taste, they cannot guarantee it.
But my mother is obviously a good example of a woman who is not good at cooking. Sometimes she can’t even hope to cook the food!
Although Zhou Yang didn't know what his mother planned to cook for lunch, he was really afraid that she would eat everyone up!
At that moment, Zhou Yang came over and asked, "Mom, what's in the pot?"
"Porridge!" Ye Lifang said with a slightly red face.
She knew that she was really not good at cooking, and she didn't want her daughter-in-law to take advantage of it, so she just made some porridge and boiled a few potatoes to make it a meal.
Zhou Yang immediately opened the lid and took a look, and found that the pot was indeed boiling millet porridge, with a few peeled potatoes in it.
It's just that more water was put in the pot, and the potatoes were put in earlier. The potatoes were almost melting into soup, and there was still half a pot of water.
If you continue to boil it like your mother, when the water in the pot is boiled just right, the potatoes will be gone!
Sure enough, my mother’s cooking skills are as stable as ever!
"Mom, you go in and rest for a while, leave this place to me!" Zhou Yang said.
"No, you just came back. Go back to the house and warm your hands first!"
"Mom, I'm not cold! Besides, just drinking porridge at noon is not enough. I'll make something else!" Zhou Yang said.
Ye Lifang was right after thinking about it, and immediately said: "Okay then, I'll go in and continue making zongzi for Bao'er!"
"good!"
After his mother returned to the house, Zhou Yang immediately found a basin and took out the potatoes from the porridge to prevent them from turning into soup!
Then, I scooped out some of the excess water in the porridge, otherwise the porridge would be too thin!
Obviously, it’s definitely not enough for a family of four adults and one child to just eat porridge and boiled potatoes, they have to do something else!
But what’s fast and delicious?
When his eyes were fixed on the potatoes taken out of the pot, a unique local delicacy flashed in his mind - fried puppets.
This is a special traditional delicacy in Yunshan County and northern Shanxi. It is a staple food with full farm flavor made of yam eggs (potatoes), oatmeal noodles, sesame oil, pepper powder, chopped green onion, etc.
At that moment, Zhou Yang no longer hesitated and took action immediately!
The ingredients for stir-fried puppets are very simple. The main ingredients are potatoes and oat noodles, and the seasonings are only green onions, pepper powder, sesame oil and salt.
The potatoes that his mother cooked were a little short, so Zhou Yang immediately washed six or seven large potatoes, then cut them open and steamed them in a drawer.
Soon, the potatoes will be steamed!
Afterwards, Zhou Yang took the potatoes outdoors to cool and peel them, then grated them into an enamel basin with a grater, sprinkled an appropriate amount of oatmeal noodles, coated the grated cooked potatoes with flour, and stirred them into small pieces. A granular form.
After the ingredients are processed, you can fry them. Heat the oil in a pan, add the stir-fried dumplings, and when the bottom is slightly burnt, use a shovel to flip it, then sear the other side and stir-fry slowly.
When the puppet is basically broken and produces more browned particles, take it out and set aside.
Heat the pot and heat the oil again. You can use a little more oil.
After the sesame oil warms up, add a spoonful of Sichuan peppercorns and chopped green onions. Stir-fry until the aroma is released. Pour the fried ham into the pot, add salt and continue to stir-fry over low heat until the ham is cooked. Through, the aroma comes out and it's ready.
Soon, a pot of fried puppet with fragrant aroma will be ready!
Then, Zhou Yang brought the cooked porridge and fried puppets to the back room and prepared for dinner!
At this time, snowflakes were falling again outside the yard, and pieces of snowflakes slowly fell from the sky. The neighbor's house in front was looming in the wind and snow.
Everyone in the room sat around the big fire kang, each holding a large bowl of steaming fried puppets, chatting while eating...
Fairy days, nothing more than that!
After lunch and clearing away the dishes, Zhou Yang took a pen and paper to the West House to work. He wanted to finalize the 76-year development plan of Babaoliang Village as soon as possible.
And Li Youwei coaxed Baoer to take a lunch break in the main room, while her mother continued to do her sewing!
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Outskirts of Qingcheng. Eye of the Sky Project Department!
At three o'clock in the afternoon, Fan Debiao finally returned to the project department after taking the carriage, bus, and train.
After handing over the information and documents he brought back to the relevant departments, he immediately went to report to Yang Donghai, the head of the project safety department.
"Report!"
"Come in!"
When Fan Debiao opened the door and walked in, he found that Nie Nansun, the top person in charge of the technical department of the project department, was also there!
In the Eye of the Sky project department, security and technology research and development are equally important. Therefore, the entire project department is nominally in charge of Nie Nansun, but in fact security is operated independently. Yang Haidong has no more say than Nie Nan Sun Xiao was even worse than him.
Fan Debiao first saluted with a military salute, and then said loudly: "Report to the chief, Special Service Internal Guard Fan Debiao has been ordered to report for duty, please give instructions!"
"sit!"
Then Yang Donghai looked at Fan Debiao and said, "When did you come back?"
"Reporting to the chief, we just came back!"
"Well, regarding the matter of you and Comrade Zhou Yang directly requesting the drawings, Lao Nie and I both heard from Comrade Gu Chenghua. You did a good job in this matter and deserve praise!"
Then Yang Donghai continued: "We have already asked for your credit from above. I hope you will continue to work hard and achieve greater results!"
"yes!"
"Did anything special happen to Comrade Zhou Yang during this period?" Yang Donghai asked again.
"Report, there are two more important things that need to be reported!"
"speak!"
“The first thing is that Comrade Zhou Yang translated an extremely important document for the Provincial Fertilizer Factory in Feng County. According to him, this document will have an extremely important impact on the domestic fertilizer industry and even our country’s agriculture! "
Hearing this, Yang Donghai and Nie Nansun were both surprised.
They are not ordinary people, so they naturally understand the stakes involved. It is obviously extraordinary that they can have such a significant impact on agriculture!
"Do you know what kind of information it is?" Nie Nansun asked immediately.
"It's information about the phosphate fertilizer production process!" Fan Debiao said.
Hearing the word phosphate fertilizer, Nie Nansun and Yang Donghai looked at each other, and they both saw shocked looks in each other's eyes.
The importance of phosphate fertilizer to agriculture is self-evident. Currently, no domestic fertilizer factory can produce phosphate fertilizer. If the Saibei Province Fertilizer Factory can develop the production technology of phosphate fertilizer, it will definitely fill the domestic technical gap!
"What about the second thing?" Yang Donghai asked again.
"The second thing is that Babaoliang Village carried out year-end dividends!" Fan Debiao said.
"Year-end dividend?"
"Well, as the deputy captain of the Fourth Production Team of Babaoliang Brigade, Zhou Yang led the construction of the village's pig farm, feed mill, and bone meal factory. In just six months, the village made a profit of more than 200,000 yuan!"
Then Fan Debiao continued: "With half of the funds reserved for this year-end dividend, the per capita income of the working population in Babaoliang Village has exceeded 200 yuan!"
Hearing this, Nie Nansun couldn't help but said with emotion: "I didn't expect this kid to be an all-rounder!"
Fan Debiao said again: "Just a few days ago, Deputy Director An Bangguo of Saibei Province led more than 50 cadres at all levels from the provincial, regional administrative offices and Yunshan County to inspect Babaoliang Village and evaluate Comrade Zhou Yang's ability. Much appreciated!”
"Before he left, Deputy Director An instructed the leadership team of Yunshan County to be bold in hiring people, and his intention to promote Zhou Yang and his father-in-law Li Fengnian is very obvious."
After hearing this, Nie Nansun couldn't sit still, stood up and said, "Is there still such a thing?"
"yes!"
Nie Nansun looked at Yang Donghai, and then said: "Old Yang, that boy is a treasure, we can't let the place be taken away by us!"
Yang Donghai nodded and said: "That's right. It's a pity that such a talent doesn't come to do research, but becomes a small official. We have to find a way to get into our project department!"
"Well, is there any news from the capital?"
"Not yet. I'll keep urging you. It's been more than ten days and there's still no news. I'm so whimpering!" Yang Donghai said domineeringly.
"Old Yang, I'm going to go to Babaoliang Village in person and have a chat with that guy!" Nie Nansun said in an astonishing voice.
Yang Donghai, on the other hand, frowned and pondered for a moment, and then said, "That's okay. With the ability that boy has shown, it's worth your while!"
"Um!"
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(fried puppet)
(fried puppet)
PS: I just wrote that Zhou Yang’s mother is a good cook, but she can’t even make porridge and boiled potatoes. As a result, my wife gave me a real-life version of porridge and boiled potatoes that night - it was mushy!
I said something at that time, we really have a good connection!
