Hualong Network - New Chongqing client February 9, 6:25 news (special correspondent Tan Xianquan correspondent Li Hai) The Spring Festival of the Year of the Ox, Begonia Xiangguo, a strong New Year smell in the urban and rural air of Dazu District, Chongqing. Although the epidemic prevention and control, but still can not stop people's New Year's New Year to play rice, push tofu yearning... Busy and happy.
Traditional handmade rice dumplings sell well in the market
In the Ximen Vegetable Market in Dazu District, there is a handmade rice dumpling, the owner Wang Guomin, ranked eight, people affectionately call it "myna sticky rice dumplings", but the couple is dry and dark during the Spring Festival, extremely busy, making the traditional "glutinous sticky rice sticky sticky incense, strong hometown feelings" handmade rice dumplings, black and white tofu, favored by the citizens.
On the occasion of the Spring Festival, on February 7th, I came to the myna handmade rice shop, and a strong smell of sticky rice came from the kitchen, and they had prepared two thick wooden sticks and chōng. After a while, the hostess Huang Rongzhen came out with the steamed glutinous rice, and the aroma was overflowing. After smearing a layer of rapeseed oil on the surface of the scoop and pouring the glutinous rice into the scoop, Wang Guomin began to pound the glutinous rice with a wooden stick.
"It takes not only strength, but also technology." Wang Guomin said while pounding, "Glutinous rice has a strong stickiness, the stick is like being sucked by an iron absorbing stone, without a certain strength and speed, the wooden stick really can't be pulled out." ”
The author saw on the spot that Wang Guomin had just started, and the beating was not effortless. As time went on, glutinous rice became more and more viscous and difficult to scoop. In the past, the countryside was two people taking turns to scoop, and now there is only one labor force in the store, so he hummed a low and rhythmic trumpet, fought hard, pulled out hard, and repeatedly. Finally, the sticky glutinous rice was gradually tamed under the strong pounding and turned into a dough-like, but with great viscosity.
Huang Rongzhen will grab a ball on the side while it is hot, and invite the author to taste it, which is indeed sticky and fragrant. Then the couple worked hard to turn the beaten rice dumplings out of the scoop, spread them on the board, and then kneaded into a thin round cake with a diameter of about 8 centimeters, which became a best-selling food in the market.
The "contractor" owes a huge debt
Speaking of the "myna" Wang Guomin and his wife, there is also a difficult entrepreneurial story behind them.
Wang Guomin, who is in the countryside of Jijia Town, his hometown, although some of them have the ancestral skills of playing rice sticks and pushing tofu, they are not willing to struggle in the remote countryside, and he wants to realize his ideals. So in 1997, he cobbled together 1 million yuan, when the "contract foreman" entered the real estate industry, building office buildings, rural roads and other projects. Due to the economic downturn in the township in the 1990s, it was difficult to recover the money for construction projects. Coupled with his honesty and generosity, he owes a huge debt, and the neighbors say that the debt owed by the starlings will not be repaid for a lifetime.
"It was too tough back then!" Huang Rongzhen recalled the difficulties of the beginning. When I went to Hainan to work, I borrowed money for the road, and I only ate some dry food on the way, and when I arrived at my destination, I was so hungry that I didn't even have the money to buy a steamed bun.
"In those years of 2000, the days of arrears everywhere were not good." Wang Guosen sighed that the project money that should be collected could not be recovered, the payment had to be paid, and relatives and friends had nowhere to borrow, and the debt reached more than 1 million yuan.
After the failure of the construction business, in the face of the creditor's collection and the incomprehension of their relatives, Wang Guomin and his wife were not discouraged, they secretly swore that they would work hard to pay back the money, and they would not owe anyone a penny of debt. So the couple went to Hainan, Guangdong, Nanning and other places, traveled all over the country, with their own hard work, integrity, through several years of hard work, finally made a comeback. In 2007, when the last 30,000 yuan of friends' arrears were paid off, Wang Guomin and his wife finally breathed a sigh of relief.
Let the people in the field eat a strong sense of hometown
As they grew older, so did their homesickness. So the couple chose to return to Dazu, bought a house store at the west gate of the city, and started an ancestral business: handmade rice dumplings, tangyuan, tofu...
Those who come to buy rice are not only urban citizens, but also relatives who pack and vacuum after purchase and send them directly to Shanghai, Beijing, Guangzhou, Shenzhen and Hainan.
The author understands that every year during the Mid-Autumn Festival, when the sales of rice dumplings, tangyuan and tofu are at their peak, Wang Guomin and his wife can sell more than 20,000 yuan per day. Under the epidemic this year, considering that everyone's life is not easy, they will maintain 5 yuan per kilogram of sales at the previous New Year's Day of 8 yuan.
"The rice dumplings here are very good, often bought, hand-beaten, sticky, pure incense." On the same day, Wang Guofeng and his wife, who are more than 80 years old in the urban area of Champs Elysees, said happily after buying rice dumplings, "The children and grandchildren of the family have also returned, so that they can taste the taste of their hometown." ”
"Because the business is good every day, from morning to afternoon, busy, sometimes you can only sleep for three or four hours a day, but you feel that life is very fulfilling and happy!" Wang Guomin said happily, "Due to the epidemic prevention and control this year, many hometown people who are working outside cannot return to Dazu. Let them eat a handmade rice dumpling, and what they will eat will be a strong and unforgettable nostalgia. ”
Now, after experiencing the ups and downs of life, they can still muster up enough courage to start again, Wang Guomin and his wife, who are more than 60 years old, look at the two sons who have established a family, the three grandchildren who are alive and jumping, full of happiness and happiness, and their faces are full of happy smiles.
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