The Best Small Farm

Liu Ming foolishly acted as an invisible person holding a water glass for a while, finally Li Han still had some conscience, glanced at Liu Ming with a gloomy look and said with a smile. "It's getting late, Liz, chat with Liu Ming, greet Michelle with a toot, be good, daddy will cook something delicious."

"Yeah, Dudu is very good. Michelle, let's eat ice cream and watch TV, so be good." "Yeah." The two little guys nodded obediently.

Liz glanced at Liu Ming unhappily, and shook her head slightly. "No, Han, I don't think I have a common language with this uncle. Maybe, I can help you. I can make salad." Liu Ming can't be beaten, this little kid, what are you talking about, uncle, Liu Ming feels his whole chest Furious, he snorted, stood up, and rolled up his cuffs. "Xiao Mian, let you see and see today, Han, I'll come for lunch."

Dudu and Michelle blinked their big eyes, Dudu lowered his head and whispered to Michelle, and the two little guys raised their hands. "Uncle Liu Ming, we want to eat dumplings." "Dudu wants to eat stuffed shrimp and fish." "Michelle eats beef." "Also, and cake." "Delicious soup." "" Dudu seems to be going to tell all the delicious food that Li Han has made, and the two little guys co-authored it to make Li Han and Liz amused.

Liu Ming looked at Dudu and Michelle, and pointed at himself blankly. These two little ones had too many demands. He looked up at Li Han with a half-smile, his teeth clucking. Liu Ming sighed, forget it, forget it, I don't have the same knowledge as the two little guys. "Forget that, Han, you guys are busy, I will watch TV."

"Hahaha, it's really interesting." Liz giggled, turned her head and asked Li Han curiously, what is a dumpling, Li Han had no choice but to talk about the history of dumplings. There are names such as "Laowan", "Bianshi", "Dumpling Bait" and "Fenjiao". It was called "Crescent Wonton" in the Three Kingdoms period, "Wonton" in the Southern and Northern Dynasties, "Yanyue Shaped Wonton" in the Tang Dynasty, "Jiaozi" in the Song Dynasty, "Bianshi" in the Yuan Dynasty, and "Jiaozi" in the Qing Dynasty. Dumplings originated in the Eastern Han Dynasty and were first created by the medical sage Zhang Zhongjing. At that time, dumplings were used for medicine. Zhang Zhongjing wrapped some cold-dispelling herbs in the dough to treat diseases (mutton, pepper, etc.) to prevent frostbite on the patients' ears. During the Three Kingdoms period, dumplings have become a kind of food, known as "Crescent Wonton". This kind of food is mentioned in the book "Guang Ya" written by Wei Zhangyi.

Liz is obviously less interested in history than in mythology. Li Han had to casually talk about the myth about dumplings. If it could not be fixed, Nuwa pierced a small eye on the human ear, tied the ear with a thin thread, and put the other end of the thread in the Huangtu man's mouth to bite, so that the ear was considered complete. In order to commemorate the achievements of the women's niece, the common people pack the dumplings, pinch the shape of the adult's ear with the stuffing (thread) and eat with their mouths.

"It's really great, Han, let's make dumplings." Liz never thought that a kind of food has a history of thousands of years, it's amazing, and there are myths and stories.

"Okay, let's eat dumplings today." Li Han came to the kitchen and needed to sort out the ingredients. There are dried shrimps and fish in the bucket, which can be fished out at any time. The dried shrimps are peeled, and the fish meat has thorns. Li Han is good at it. With a sense of beauty, not to mention that Liz stared at Li Han with a face of admiration, Liu Ming glanced at it, and secretly wiped off his sweat, Yaya, this kid is good at cooking, but fortunately he didn’t show his skills just now, Liu Ming fried eggs with tomatoes, or What can be eaten is comparable to the sky and the earth.

Dudu and Michelle sat next to Liu Ming, dangling their calves, watching TV while eating ice cream, one question after another, two question marks, little lo*li, tormented Liu Ming,

It was really too bad, Liu Ming switched the TV to the education channel ordered by Li Han, and the dinosaur special was playing. Seeing it, Dudu stretched out his little finger and pointed at the big guy flying on the TV, Liu Ming quickly patted his butt. "Dudu, Uncle is going to help Dad, you can see for yourself."

Liu Ming ran into the kitchen and wiped off his cold sweat, Li Han said with a smile. "Oh, just in time, I just need a helper." "Han, I can help you." Lisi raised her little hand and did not forget to give Liu Ming a look. Go away, uncle, Liu Ming felt depressed. "Okay, I'll let you see my craftsmanship." Liu Ming took the rolling pin, looked pretty, pressed the dough, pressed the rolling pin with one hand, gently pinched it with the other hand, pressed slightly hard, and the dough under the rolling pin slowly rotated It became a round dough.

Li Han gestured his thumbs and said. "Okay, I have a hand." "That's a trivial matter." Liu Ming was very happy, but after thinking about it, he felt that something was wrong, and he came to be a guest by himself.

Liz pursed her mouth and stood aside. This bad uncle, Liz has no role to play, she can only sullenly be the teacher of Dudu and Michelle, two little problem children, happy, Liz is really patient. "Han, little Lisi is not bad, maybe she will be raised for two years."

Li Han really wanted to kill Liu Ming with a mouthful of stuffing, so he wrapped the dumplings and put them away, saying. "You want me to seal your mouth with dumpling wrappers, or I'll roll out the dough instead of Liz, and you watch TV with Dudu and Michelle." "No, can't I be wrong? Don't you know the two The little guy’s problems are one after another, one is more tricky than the other, why am I a hundred thousand, Han, I admire you very much." Liu Ming said while rolling the dough.

The two big men were busy in the kitchen. It was interesting to watch them from a distance. They looked at each other and laughed. After the work, Liu Ming found that Li Han completely treated himself as an assistant, not a guest at all. "Okay, I'm enough here alone." Li Han boiled the water, the small dumplings can be served, the medium-sized dumplings are fried, and the large dumplings are steamed. The small and large dumplings were placed and steamed. Li Han poured oil into the frying pan and heated it up. After a while, the kung fu dumplings were fried brown and the aroma was overflowing.

Four heads, one big, one middle school, two small, gathered at the kitchen counter and stared at the medium-sized dumplings in the pot. They were so delicious. Liu Ming and Lisi each hugged a little guy, staring at the frying pan with four pairs of eyes, the oil sizzling, Burnt yellow dumplings, full of fragrance, Liu Ming swallowed his saliva, just came to Montana, who would have thought that there is no Chinese food here, every day beef, mutton, vegetable salad, a little nausea. Dudu told Michelle that the dumplings made by her father were the best, and little Michelle nodded her head.

Dudu lay on the kitchen counter, tapped his mouth, and asked his father. "Dad, the dumplings are delicious." "Well, they smell so good." Michelle nodded vigorously, and Li Han smiled and nodded his little nose. "Okay, get out of the pot, and help me take down the plate." Li Han ordered Liu Ming, he was really not polite at all, Liu Ming snorted, and passed the plate over.

Boiled dumplings are ready. Each person has a small bowl. The dumplings are mixed with dried shrimps and chopped green onions to make a soup. Michelle and Liz like to eat boiled dumplings, while Li Han and Liu Ming focus on fried dumplings. "Not bad, Han, it's fine to open a shop with this craft."

Li Han smiled and said. "When I came to the United States before, I had nothing. I worked in a dumpling shop for half a year. I didn't get a penny, but I learned the craft." "Oh, tell me, there is still this paragraph." Out of curiosity, Li Han has a small fortune now, and the farm is worth more than ten million yuan. Liu Ming originally thought that Li Han would inherit his family.

Li Han smiled and picked up the dumplings, dipped them in some vinegar, and talked while eating. "Young and ignorant, thinking that you can get rich when you come to the United States, but in reality, you come to the United States. You have no status, no ability, and work illegally. You are tired and ache all over the place for thirteen or four hours a day. Whoever thinks about luck? The shopkeeper hires illegal workers I got caught, I couldn’t get the money, I couldn’t stay in the place, so I ran away. It was just around the Spring Festival, and it was so cold in winter. At that time, I wanted to have a plate of dumplings made by my mother. It would be so good, you may not know, It's really not fun to compete with a wild dog for a bucket of garbage during the New Year's Eve dinner." Li Han stretched out his arms and rolled them up, with a few scars, said. "It was left by fighting wild dogs for food in winter. Think about it. At that time, I was really not afraid of anything. I just wanted to have a stutter."

Liu Ming didn't expect Li Han to have such a history. Lisi wiped away her tears and Li Han smiled. "What do you say? Fortunately, I won at the time. A box of leftover pizza ate for two days and survived. The wild dog froze to death on the street. I didn't feel much at the time. Look, what are you talking about, let's eat dumplings .”

"Okay, brother, brother admires, let's have a toast." Liu Ming patted Li Han on the shoulder, poured a glass of beer, Li Han took it with a smile, and drank it in one gulp. "Thinking about it now, I really should be grateful for the past, a year of training, eating leftovers, sleeping in parks, and on the street. Fortunately, when I was kneeling on the ground, I still wanted to move forward, and I finally came back to life, talking about these bullshit, Come drink."

Talking while drinking, before I knew it, I was drunk, fell asleep for an unknown period of time, and shook my head a little dizzy.

"Wow, Dad is awake." Dudu was wiping Li Han's sweat with a towel. The little girl took care of his drunk dad. Li Han didn't expect that he was drunk, and he was very happy to see his dad woke up. "Dudu, you're so good, you must be tired."

"I'm not tired. Sister Lisi said that Dudu wiped the sweat off of Dad, so that Dad's headache would be relieved." Dudu stretched out his small hand and touched Li Han's forehead. "Dad, it doesn't hurt, it doesn't hurt, Dudu rubs it for you."

Li Han hugged Dudu, and kissed Dudu's fleshy little face. "Dad doesn't hurt, Dudu rubs it the best." "Well, Dudu will rub it for dad again." Dudu got up, rubbing and rubbing, Li Han thought about falling asleep and feeling a small icy hand caressing each other On his own forehead, hold Dudu. "Dudu, have you been helping Dad rub his forehead?" "Yes, Dad has a headache." Li Han took Dudu's little hand, which was red, and there was a small ice bucket beside it.

Little girl, Li Han rubbed Dudu's little hands, put them on his chest to warm them up, and Dudu lay in his father's arms. "Dad doesn't cry." "Dad didn't cry, Dad is happy." Li Han hugged Dudu, the little guy was so tired that he fell asleep after a while.

Li Han gently carried Dudu up the stairs, put down the quilt, went downstairs, and Liu Ming came back with a small bucket. "It's all right." "It's all right, I'm really sorry, I laughed at you." Li Han thought how embarrassing he was, and the elders cried and cried.

Liu Ming patted Li Han on the shoulder and said. "Don't say that, let's take a look. I just caught a fish. I didn't expect you to have crucian carp here. Make a braised fish tonight." "I'll clean it up later." Li Han took the bucket with a smile, and Liu Ming put the fishing rod away. OK, clap your hands. "Han, you really walked from California to Montana at that time." "Yeah, along the Pacific Trail, I should really thank those kind people. When I came to Montana, all I had left was a tattered dress and a pair of frayed clothes." bottom slippers."

Liu Ming gestured his thumbs. "Okay, I recognize your friend, you are capable." "I didn't think much at the time, since I have walked so far on my knees, I will continue to walk forward on my knees, even if I am crawling, I still have to look up at the sky. Fortunately, the sky in the United States is still blue. "Li Han put the bucket in the kitchen, opened the refrigerator, took a cup, scooped up a cup of sour plum soup, and handed it to Liu Ming. "Brought from home, the taste is not bad, quite hangover."

Liu Ming then took a sip, and the taste was not bad, sour and sweet. The two chatted for a while, and Li Han thought of Liz and Michelle. "You don't have to be careful. I asked Philip to send her back. By the way, Liz cried so badly. I think she might come again."

Li Han smiled wryly and said. "Little boy, by the way, I have time to come over for a drink on my birthday tomorrow, and introduce some friends. Maybe it won't help you much, but they are all pretty nice people. You should make more friends."

"No problem, if you don't tell me, I'll come too." Liu Ming said with a smile. Li Han didn't know what Liu Ming's family was doing, but it shouldn't be simple, so he didn't ask too many questions. Friends don't have to be unreserved, that kind of friendship Not for long.