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Why? Why are the nobles who drink wine, and they have a romantic mood? I just drink white wine with a big bowl, or Erguotou, 56 degrees, what's wrong?

After being angry, Wang Yong pushed the large glass bottle in front of him into the table, stood up angrily and walked out.

Damn it, I've delayed so much of my work because of this broken thing? I haven't even had a good sleep these two days, so I'm losing a lot! His mother's, can't do such stupid things again in the future?

After thinking it through, Wang Yong got up and walked out the door. He hadn't been to the village for several days, and he was the village chief of the half-mountain village! He had to help the villagers often do something, even if it was to show his presence?

As soon as I entered the village, I found a group of little kids in the village, holding a teapot (old-style large enamel cup) of corn kernels or rice kernels, or holding parents, grandparents, carrying the same things, and having a pocket in their hands.

What is this to do? What's wrong with this?

Alas, no, why is this scene so familiar?

Why did my stupid brain crash when it comes to critical moments? It seems that I still need to take a photo! Thinking of this, Wang Yong really slapped himself in the face.

Before the slap fell on his head, Wang Yong's mind flashed with inspiration, and then screamed, then ran home.

"The thunderous flowers are coming!"

Pop-up flowers are in the local dialect here, which is the pop-up corn that everyone is very familiar with. This thing has a long history in our country.

According to research, the earliest popcorn appeared in the Song Dynasty and used glutinous rice. However, the name at that time was not called popcorn or popcorn, but Bolou.

The poet Fan Chengda of the Song Dynasty described it in his poem that Bolou may be a local transliteration. In the Song Dynasty and the Shangyuan Festival, there was a custom of popcorn in various parts of Wuzhong.

At that time, the main reason for popcorn was not to eat it or to satisfy the appetite, but a very strange reason - divination.

People use popcorn to divine good fortune in the coming year, and girls use popcorn to divine their lifelong affairs. When divining, the more popcorn pops, the more auspicious it is.

In the Ming Dynasty, this trend of divination through popcorn became more popular. A poet described the lively scene of popcorn on the thirteenth day of the first lunar month in his poem.

When they entered the east of Wumen, 100,000 households, each family burst into flowers and divine New Year flowers. They threw down the yellow millet and returned to the city to the white jade flowers.

Popcorn divination was still popular in the Qing Dynasty. At the same time, popcorn was also used as a raw material for dishes! It is said that it is made of fillings, but I don’t know what the taste will be after making it?

The popcorn that Wang Yong remembers is a black pot with a lid that can be tightened on the top and a handle at the back that can be easily mounted on the fire and then rotated the pot.

Of course, it is still the most important part, that is, the pressure gauge. When will popcorn be good and when it will be released from the pot depends entirely on this pressure gauge.

A homemade iron stove. Anyone who has fried popcorn must bring some coal to it. After the stove is burning, they will start preparing to blow popcorn.

Put corn or rice as raw materials (I heard that there were soybeans used in ancient times. I have never seen them before. The book friend has seen them. You must talk to them). Mix the appropriate amount of saccharin into the pot.

Generally speaking, people who fry popcorn bring a measuring gauge, usually a jar, pour the corn kernels you bring from your house into his jar first. When it is flush with the mouth of the jar, it means that this is the amount of a pot.

Too many may not be good, too little may not be cost-effective. A pot of one is like a cent at first, but later it slowly increased to 2 cents, 50 cents, and one yuan. I don’t know how much it costs now, because I haven’t seen anyone doing this for many years in the village.

In addition, I guess I have never seen saccharin before. Generally, people born in the 1980s must have memories of this thing in rural areas, right?

A large pot of water, plus a dozen particles as big as the size of white sugar today, will be very sweet! When Wang Yong was young, he had no memory of the price of this thing. When he grew up, he remembered that one time he went to buy saccharin, it seemed like it cost a small pouch, and probably not even one or two.

Those who like sweets will add all the small bags of sugar in one pot. Those who can live by frying a pot of popcorn, use half a bag, and keep the remaining half bag for home drinking sugar contaminant water, or for other purposes.

After putting the raw materials in, the popcorn person will first modify the lid, and then tighten a screw on the top to fix it. At this time, you can get on the heat and prepare to start heating.

After putting it on the fire, you must keep turning to ensure that the raw materials in the pot are heated evenly. Sometimes fast and sometimes slow, all depends on the popcorn person's own skills and habits.

After getting angry, you must always pay attention to the pressure gauge above. In addition to being one of the key factors to ensure that you can make delicious and beautiful popcorn, this thing is also a safety device that concerns yourself and the safety of the people around you.

In fact, this popcorn machine is a special pressure cooker. Although it is cast iron, it also has the limit of the pressure it bears, right? Once the pressure gauge is over and you are still roasting it on the fire, isn't that a mortal?

This old popcorn machine, which is almost only present in memory, actually evolved from the British popcorn machine invented in the late 19th century.

In one year and three years, at the World's Fair, a man named Charles Cretes introduced his latest commercial popcorn machine.

With the popularity of electrification in the 20th century, this old popcorn machine gradually disappeared in the West. During World War II, the old popcorn machine came to China.

The converter popcorn machine that everyone is familiar with only appeared in my country in the 1960s. It should be an upgraded version of the British popcorn machine.

It is made of cast iron as a whole, divided into ten parts: handshake, pressure gauge, lid, pot, etc.

When the pressure gauge on the popcorn machine reaches a fixed value, you can move the pot away from the heat and put it in a sack, then step on the pot with one foot and insert it into the switch of the lid with an iron rod. Using the principle of leverage, use the force of force.

"Bang--"

After a loud bang, the white (rice collapsed, corn was a little yellow) popcorn would burst out from the pot where the lid was opened and fell into the sack obediently.

This sound is the favorite sound of all children when Wang Yong was a child. Almost every time he heard this sound, the children in the village would drool and rushed to the brigade headquarters.

Many people will cry and make trouble and ask their parents to popcorn. If they really can’t bear to leave the money, they have to go there quickly. While the popcorn is just out of the pot, they will rush forward with everyone and take advantage of the troubled waters to catch up with them to satisfy their cravings.

This kind of popcorn can be said to be a high-end, atmospheric and high-end popcorn when I was a child. It really carries the memories of childhood, whether beautiful or painful for generations.

In the 1980s and 1990s, the living standards of the rural village in Banshan Village were relatively low. It can be said that from the early 1980s, we had solved the problem of food and clothing. By the beginning of the 1990s, children rarely had pocket money to buy snacks.

There are various plastic spoons of sour plum powder in five cents, small Tang Guang, which costs one cent for sweet potatoes (sweet potato candy, very sticky and not delicious at all), and Da Tang Guang, which costs five cents for each.

In my memory, these three snacks almost accompanied Wang Yong's entire childhood, and it seems that he has no impression of other snacks.

It’s still poor! In the era of extreme material scarcity, I don’t mention having no money. Even if I have money, I couldn’t buy any snacks in the countryside at that time, right?

So popcorn, a sweet and cheap food, has become a favorite among children.

The magical process of popcorn also brings children a lot of happiness, yearning and curiosity.

At that time, there was no need to shout. As soon as the sound of popcorn was heard, the children would come and watch. The popcorn person sat there, holding a breeze box in one hand (an old blower is rare now, there is one in the house and the other hand was turning the stove.

When the popcorn machine is stuffed into the sack and is about to explode, the children will hold their breath with nervousness. Some timid people will cover their ears with their hands, but their eyes will never leave the popcorn machine at all.

After a loud bang, white or yellow popcorn appeared in front of you. At this time, the owners would take their bags to put popcorn in front of them.

The bold children took this opportunity to rush forward and scramble. The timids picked up the popcorn scattered on the ground. No matter how timids were, they could only stare at it with wide eyes and eagerness.

But generally speaking, Wang Yong will definitely not be any of these three types of people.

Every time someone who collapsed popcorn came to the village, Wang Yong would usually hold his younger brother Wang Liang and Wang Han's hand, and follow his mistress, and at least two times at a time under the envious and jealous eyes of his companions.

Before it was their turn to queue up, the families in front of them who had collapsed would take the initiative to go forward and open their pockets for their mistress to taste. Of course, the three little babies are indispensable.

However, in general, in more cases, the people in front give way directly, give the first position to the mistress and Wang Yong, and let them die first.

So, most of the time, it is the mistress or Wang Yong, a little guy who is very good at making trouble, generously opened his pockets for the people in the village to taste.

Usually at this time, Wang Liang and Wang Han would look at the bags of their grandparents and grandchildren nervously, for fear that they would eat up all the popcorns for them.

Strangely, Wang Yong always couldn't see Wang Qiang at this time in his memory. Where did he go at that time?

At this time, Wang Yong had already returned home.

While finding two small plastic bags filled with rice and corn, they took two bags of cotton sugar from the kitchen every pound. At the same time, they took out their cell phone and called Wang Qiang.

"Brother, what did you do when we were in a flash in the past?" (To be continued...)

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