Clean the firewood pot, add water, and then let the fat man add fire and boil it slowly. At this time, Yu Zehai really started his cooking skills!

Knead the dough, knead the dough, roll the dough...

Yu Zehai has not cooked handmade noodles in person for some years, but this process is very familiar to him. You know, when he was still very young, he rolled noodles with chopping boards on a small stool.

"Boss, why did you put two eggs on the dough just now?" The fat man in front of the stove asked in confusion when he saw Yu Zehai's way.

"The eggs are added to make the noodles more vigorous!" Yu Zehai explained: "After all, handmade noodles are different from the mechanical noodles sold on the market. If the workmanship is not fine or good enough, it will be thrown into boiling water after a while, and the noodles will become spoiled before they are cooked."

"So that's it!" The fat man nodded and asked again: "I said, Boss, why did you use fists to hit the dough? Why did it look like you were hitting a sandbag..."

"You know a yarn!" Yu Zehai rolled his eyes and said, "Originally, it would be best to leave it for about half an hour to wake up the dough, but now it is obviously too late. So, repeatedly hitting like me is to speed up the wake up process."

"Ma Dan! Why do I suddenly feel that I don't know anything? That thing, boss, please wait first, let me ask again, what does that 'awake' mean?"

Yu Zehai smiled and said, "The process of kneading artificially adds stress to the flour, which also destroys the spatial structure of protein molecules. The process of awakening the surface is to eliminate this stress, and at the same time, it also leaves some time to reshape the spatial structure of those damaged protein molecules!"

"By waking up the surface, the web structure in the dough that is twisted and destroyed under the action of external forces is reshaped. The protein in the dough has regained its proper spatial configuration, and the protein molecules are well stretched. This surface will become more vigorous, that is, chewy; soft, and the taste will become more delicate and smoother!"

"Damn! I heard what you said, I really pay attention to everything and learn it..."

"Just understand!" Yu Zehai said with a smile while working quickly: "As the saying goes, 'Living until old, learn until old', do you think the truths summarized by the ancients are all nonsense? Just like those great scientists, they were still thinking about the topics they were studying until the moment they died."

The last step is to use a rolling pin to roll the dough.

Yu Zehaihai’s chopping board is a very smooth stone slab. Using a whole stone slab to make chopping boards is much better than wooden chopping boards. Because wooden chopping boards are usually impossible to have such a large piece of wood. If they are pieced together with small pieces of wood, then some dirt will easily fall into the gap between the wooden boards or rice insects will grow due to the infiltration and accumulation of flour.

Rolling noodles is a physical job, which requires strength on your arms. Of course, there are also women in the village who are weak and thin, so they have to deliberately knead the noodles softer while kneading them. The noodles made in this way may not be so powerful, but they undoubtedly save the strength of rolling noodles.

"Smack it..."

This is the sound of the face film hitting the chopping board.

First, press the dough flat and thin with a rolling pin, then sprinkle a handful of corn flour evenly, then roll up the dough with a rolling pin, and start rubbing hard on the smooth chopping board and rubbing again... Of course, the reason for sprinkling corn flour instead of anything else is mainly to prevent the dough rolling on the rolling pin from sticking into a ball, which will lose the meaning of rolling noodles.

"Fatty, don't boil the water in the pot!" Yu Zehai rolled the dough with rhythmic rhythm. When he noticed that the fat man staring at him rolling the dough, he couldn't help but say, "You open the lid of the pot and take a look. If you find that the water is broken, add more. It's okay to have more boiling water, but don't make less."

"I want it!"

Yu Zehai was like a machine that was winding, working without interruption and stopping, and quickly rolled the dough to the thickness he wanted. Yu Zehai stacked the dough on the cutting board, then took out a kitchen knife. With the sound of "dodo", the stacked dough was quickly cut into chopped noodles. Zhang Zhiwen looked at it with relish. He had never rolled the dough before, so it felt very novel.

"Fatty, add firewood. The noodles need to be heated after putting them in the pot!" Yu Zehai looked at the water rolling in the pot, took a spoon of water and came out with a spoon, then put the noodles down, stirred them with chopsticks, and covered the lid.

Compared with the machine noodles, hand-rolled noodles are easy to cook. After the first boiling, stir with chopsticks and turn it over. Then it will basically cook eight or nine minutes after boiling. Then you need to stop the fire and cultivate the fire, that is, transfer the burning firewood to other places. Even the hot charcoal burned at the bottom of the pot must be covered with wood ash. In this way, the noodles in the pot will not be cooked and melted.

"alright!"

Yu Zehai waved and said, "Fatty, come and wash your hands! After washing, take this rag to clean up the table we had for the morning meal in the main room and prepare to start the meal!" As he said, Yu Zehai quickly scalded a handful of spinach with the boiling water he had just spooned, then mixed a portion of cold spinach, a portion of cucumber, a portion of sugar and tomatoes, and a portion of cooked beef. Then, he took out the big sea bowl and started serving noodles!

The one made by Yu Zehai is called leek leaf noodles. In other words, the cut on this side is almost as wide as the leaves of leeks, completely different from the ones sold on the market, such as the stick-tip stick-tip stick-tip dragon-beard noodles sold on the market. You should know that northern China mainly uses pasta, and has a history of thousands of years, forming countless noodle cultures. The pasta is just the one, and according to incomplete statistics, there are countless ways to make it.

Five large bowls of noodles, poured with fragrant shredded pork sauce, and four exquisite side dishes, were served one by one on the dining table!

"It's time to eat!"

Yu Zehai took off the apron on his neck, brought the pot of sauce germ on the table, and said with a smile: "It's my and the fat man today, so everyone should try it! By the way, before starting to eat, it's best to mix noodles and sauce germ with chopsticks. This sauce germ is, everyone can add it at any time!"

"Delicious! So delicious!"

After listening to Yu Zehai's introduction, Hu Meiqin mixed the noodles evenly, took a bite and nodded repeatedly.

"Well! It really tastes good!"

The fat man also bulged his cheeks and sucked the noodles, and his head kept lit.

"This is a side dish, don't be polite!" Yu Zehai picked up a chopstick and put the spinach into his bowl, and said, "There are still many strips in the pot. Everyone let go of their stomachs and eat! Each person has at least two big bowls!"

Seeing the few people sucking the noodles constantly, Yu Zehai showed a faint smile on his face. In fact, when he was serving the rice, he specially put some spiritual springs into the pot of sauce. Although the amount was not large, just a few drops, it would be strange if he had such a spirit-defying thing, the taste was not good!

"I'll go! Fat man, how many years have you eaten noodles? Why do you even drink the soup? There are still many strips in the pot. I'll take a bowl to serve, enough for you to eat!"

"Hehe... it tastes delicious! It's so delicious! I want to have another bowl!" After saying that, Zhang Zhiwen ran to the kitchen with the empty bowl.

"Aunt Hu, don't be polite!" Yu Zehai glanced at Hu Meiqin next to him and said, "I don't know if this sour soup noodles are suitable for your taste. I'll get some noodles for you after eating."

"Enough is enough!" Hu Meiqin waved her hands repeatedly after hearing this and said, "This big bowl of rice, I will finish eating your Aunt Hu! You should know that you work all day long and have a small belly!"

"Haha..." Yu Zehai smiled and said, "You still have to eat enough, not to mention that you ran more than ten miles in the morning." After that, Yu Zehaihai looked at his parents again and said, "Dad, mom, come on, there are still a lot of noodles in the pot!"

"You don't have to worry about us!" Wang Shufen waved her hand and said, "You still need your care in her house. I will serve it myself after eating."

Finally, when everyone had a good meal, Yu Zehai carefully packed up the dishes, wiped the table, and took out the teapot and paper cup. Needless to say, just looking at the two of them holding their belly, you know that they were holding on again. People in the city went to the countryside and couldn't control their mouths. This was a common occurrence.

Soon, Hu Zi came over.

Yu Zehai took out his cell phone and looked at the time, saying, "Have you eaten lunch? There is still the leftover pickled cabbage noodles in the pot. Huzi, do you want to eat some?"

"Boss, I've eaten it!" Hu Zi scratched his head and said, "My mother also made the rolling noodles at noon, and I'll come here after I finish eating."

Before Yu Zehai could speak, the fat man next to him smiled and said, "Yeah! That's not bad! Boss, have you changed your phone again?"

Yu Zehai rolled his eyes and said angrily: "It's just a garbage copycat machine that costs hundreds of yuan! Moreover, what are the mobile phones on the market nowadays? They are not smartphones, but they are all like birds after all. If there is a smartphone and can chat and surf the Internet on your mobile phone, it's okay to change it."

"Smartphone? Chat and surf the Internet?"

As the saying goes, the speaker is unintentional, and the listener is intentional. After suddenly hearing the word "smartphone" from Yu Zehai's mouth again, Zhang Zhiwen widened his eyes and said, "Is there such a mobile phone? Moreover, I have seen you mention in your plan many times. What is a smartphone?"

"Not now, it doesn't mean there is no in the future!"

Yu Zehai shook his head, then glanced at the fat man and said, "By the way, I remember that your family seems to have an industry in this area. Haven't you ever thought about developing system software in this area? If you can take the lead, then your family will probably make a lot of money. You know, shopping malls are like battlefields, and this step is to be first step!"

"Boss, what do you think? Let me tell you! All inventions start with ideas at first." The fat man stood up and sat next to Yu Zehai and asked with a smile.

Yu Zehai looked at the fat man with an expectant look, and did not hesitate, nor did he avoid it. Instead, he roughly explained some of the functions of the smartphones in his previous life in front of everyone, plus some of his own thoughts. Zhang Zhiwen was stunned and his face was shining with green light!
Chapter completed!