Chapter 8 Eat a piece of meat with thick skin

Let's say that Chunyu and Chuntao returned to the village with a big bag of things, and although they were tired along the way, they were so happy that they forgot their mother's words when they left. said that he would go early and return early, but it took nearly half a day. When the two arrived at the entrance of the village, they saw Yang Yuemei standing there looking worriedly. Snuggled up to Chunyan and Xiao Baozi beside her.

"Mother...... Chun Tao, who was far away, shouted away, ran a few steps ahead of her eldest sister, and arrived at her mother's side.

When Yang Yuemei saw the two sisters, she was relieved at first, and then a little angry, and the two of them were playful, so she worried. She wanted to quarrel with them, but when she saw Chun Tao who was running close with a happy face, and Chun Yu, who was also behind with a smile on her face, she didn't say it.

"Ahem...... How did you buy all these things! When she saw the big bags in the hands of the two, Yang Yuemei couldn't help but be surprised. These two kids aren't going to run out of money.

"Mother, let's go home and talk about it, we can't let people hear it......" Chunyu was about to say to her mother, but she saw two little girls hiding behind a tree not far away. Those were the two daughters of the third uncle's family, the eldest one was called Pink Butterfly, and the younger one was called Pink Moth.

It is said that this is the third aunt Osmanthus and the second aunt of her mother's family, saying that the big maids in the big family who have a face in front of the master are called this name. Chunyu just shook his head when he knew it, this osmanthus is really obsessed with big families! But with a mother like her, she can't teach what kind of good girl, the big pink butterfly is one year younger than the spring rain, her eyes turn around every day and she doesn't look for a good one, and her mouth chokes to death when she talks. The little pink moth is as big as a spring swallow, and it doesn't look as shrewd as her mother and her sister, but it's just dirty and doesn't like to talk all the time, and stands behind people coldly and opens her mouth to eat, which is not welcome at all.

"That's right, look at the two of the third uncle's family, what are you looking at there secretly." Chun Tao also saw the two sisters, and said unhappily.

"What else can I see, my mother saw that you have been gone for so long, and I am worried that I will come to the village entrance to see. The third aunt didn't know that you were going to town, so let those two annoying ghosts come and see what delicious food you brought and see if they could come and learn to touch it. The little bun man said the little ghost.

Chunyan on the side also nodded, she didn't like the two sisters of the third aunt's family, and always grabbed her food when no one was around.

"You know a lot." Yang Yuemei pinched Xiao Baozi's face funny, took the two packages in Chun Tao's hand, and turned around and walked home.

"Mother, why don't you also learn from the eldest sister." Xiao Baozi said, and he had to be wary of his eldest sister pinching his face. He's a man, and it's a shame to be pinched in the face.

"Haha, pinch you to love you." Chunyu was amused by his appearance.

After the family returned to their home, Chunyu told Yang Yuemei everything in 1510.

"That, that's all you draw casually, how much can someone give you...... Ahem, God, so much! Yang Yuemei said, hurriedly poured out the broken silver in the purse and looked at it, and was startled. There are three taels of silver here, and the others are all broken silver, and I am afraid that they all add up

There are five or six taels. In addition to the small luxury of Chunyu, they spent seventy wen, plus the money for the embroidery work, it was also a lot. Except for nothing special, this is enough for the family's expenses for two or three years.

"It's nothing, mother, I'll have those few patterns, no more. Besides, the family has a big family, and this money is not enough for other people's expenses for a day. "Chunyu originally thought it was a lot, but today I went to buy something casually and it cost seventy yuan, which still didn't buy oil, salt, sauce and vinegar or anything like that. In the future, the cost of this house will be large, how can it be like before. Besides, she didn't think about selling embroidery samples anymore, so it couldn't be done as a business after all. I still have to think of something else.

"Now I can repair the house, and I can also pay back the five hundred wen I borrowed from your uncle's house last time I took medicine." Yang Yuemei said, and couldn't help crying. When she was at home, the eldest brother and the second sister loved her and protected her, and it was really embarrassing that the children were so old after being married for many years and still needed their care.

"It's a good thing, why is my mother crying." Chunyu said and wiped her mother's tears with the placket of her clothes. She knows why her mother is crying, because the family has no money and has not divided the family for so many years, it is also a minority to go back to her parents' house. Some time ago, Li Dajun went to Yangjia Village, but he really couldn't go to his eldest brother to borrow money.

Yang Yuemei's mother's family is also a little better off than her family, but she still borrowed money for her sister without saying a word. Her sister-in-law Yang Wu is also a good one, and she took the initiative to find her mother-in-law Yang Liu, who had long wanted to see her daughter, and brought a basket of eggs to Sanpu Village with Li Dajun to see Yang Yuemei.

"Dad is back......" Xiao Baozi saw his father Li Dajun coming back.

"Boss, why don't you come back to town early today." Yang Yuemei asked, on weekdays, she came back when the sun was about to set.

"Today, your meal was delivered early, we didn't stop after eating, the acre from the east of the village was dotted with maize, and the acre on the hill was planted with sweet potato seedlings that were covered some time ago. When you are full, you have the strength to do it quickly. Li Dajun said.

"Doesn't that mean there is no life in the field for the past few days?" Yang Yuemei asked with a smile.

"yes, what's wrong?" Li Dajun was puzzled, what happened to his daughter-in-law and he was happy.

"I want to take the children back to my parents' house, and I just returned the 500 wen from the eldest brother's house. And our house should be repaired, and it should rain more soon, how to live if it always leaks. Yang Yuemei said.

"It's time to go back...... That, daughter-in-law. Can our eldest brother's money be repaid after a while? But don't worry, it won't take long. Just wait a little longer to repair the house. ”

Li Dajun was embarrassed to say that he really had no money in his hands.

"Look at what you look like, look at ......" Yang Yuemei smiled and took out all the money, which really startled Li Dajun. Without waiting for him to ask, Yang Yuemei told the matter again.

After listening to a qiē, Li Dajun praised his eldest daughter again and again. Zhen Chunyu hurriedly took out caramel and osmanthus cake for everyone to eat, and took pork and pig into the water and ran to the stove to be busy cooking.

Here Chun Tao smiled and stuffed a piece of caramel into her mouth, and also ran to the stove to help her eldest sister.

As mentioned before, Chunyu learned to cook a lot of food with the old lady of the landlady, one of which was how to deal with the pig's water and use it to make a Tianxiang brine.

It is easy to marinate the pig, and the key is how to clean it so that it has no smell. There is no condition to use flour or vinegar here, you can use sauerkraut water, knead twice to ensure that there is no smell.

Chunyu first let the spring peach wash the onions and peel the garlic, and then boil the porridge on the fire on the small stove first. She wanted to take the pig intestines and wash them by the creek outside the door. The pigs that were picked up before were cleaned up by the people in the vegetable market, and it was good to come back and wash them. But here you need to clean up the things inside, Chunyu couldn't hold back her nausea and tried for a long time and didn't do it, so she had to call her father to come and help.

"Dani, why did you buy this pig back in the water, your grandmother made it before, it was smelly and unpalatable." Li Dajun said.

"Don't worry, I'll make it absolutely delicious, you just turn this over with chopsticks and clean it up." After Chunyu finished speaking, he turned around and went to the stove.

Chun Tao has washed the green onions, ginger and garlic and put them on the board, and the fire of the small stove is also burning.

Chunyu took a basin to wash the pig's liver and lungs, cut a few with a knife, salted it first, and then went to find a piece of gauze, wrapped star anise, cinnamon, pepper and other dry materials for later use, the taste is not complete, and I can only find so much.

She turned the fire on the stove again, took two pieces of starch sugar and fried them in oil, and added a scoop of boiling water to stir well, and the sugar color was good. It was too late to boil the bone broth in advance, so I had to add a few scoops of boiling water, take out a small bone and wash it, knock it open with the back of a knife and throw it into the pot. Quickly cut the green onion, ginger and garlic into pieces and throw them into the pot together with the spice packet, add salt to taste, and boil slowly.

When Li Dajun came back after washing the pork belly sausage, the soup in the pot was already beginning to be rich. Chunyu poured the sauerkraut water in the sauerkraut jar into the wooden basin, put the pork intestines in it, rubbed and washed it twice, washed it twice with water, and then smelled it, sure enough, there was no smell, and she blanched the pork intestines with boiling water again. Do

After the preparation work, the brine is basically ready. Then put the blanched pork intestines and marinated pork liver and lungs into the braised soup, add some sorghum wine to her father, and after the fire boiled, a few firewood were removed, and the low heat was slowly brined.

Soon the brine was cooked, and the fragrance attracted the whole family.

"It's so fragrant......" Xiao Baozi and Chunyan said in unison.

"This is the Tianxiang brine you told your father, girl, where did you learn it?" Yang Yuemei asked in surprise, she didn't know that her daughter still had this skill.

"Okay, don't worry about your mother, you all go into the house and wait for dinner." Chunyu said with a smile and let her father and siblings go back to the house. Let the spring peach collect the fire and start to scoop the porridge in a bowl. She fished out some marinated pigs with a fence and put them in the water, cut them on a cutting board and put them into a large bowl, and poured two spoonfuls with a spoon

The brine was brought to the table. After the porridge and coarse noodles were served, the family was happily ready to eat.

"Don't forget to send a big bowl to the old courtyard in a while." Yang Yuemei said to Chunyu.

"I'll save it, I'll go after eating in a while." It's just that her mother doesn't say it, and Chunyu is going to send it later. After all, in addition to the third uncle's family, the grandparents, the fourth uncle and sister-in-law are still very good to them.

"It's getting a little dark, so I'd better go." Li Dajun hurriedly said that he was very happy that his daughter-in-law and daughter-in-law could remember his father and sister when they could think of anything. As for the third family, the daughter-in-law doesn't mention it.

It's not that you don't remember the third Li Sanjun's family, but you just don't want to mention them. No one will care in vain about someone who does everything possible not to make him feel better.

Just as the family was eating happily, an offensive voice came to mind outside the door.

"Uncle, uncle, my mother didn't cook today, my sister and I came to your house for dinner." Li Fandie said with a smile, and without waiting for anyone to reply, she pulled her sister Li Caimo and walked in.

"Sister Pink Butterfly, why doesn't your mother cook?" Chunyu didn't like it when she saw Li Caimoth washing her nose and saliva.

"Anyway, I didn't do it, what did your family eat so fragrant." Li Caidie said and pulled the bench on the side and sat down with her sister, reached out and took the two nests, and when they saw that there were no chopsticks, they were ready to grab them directly. Seeing the two of them gobbling up, Chunyu's family was stunned, this is

It's been a long time since I've eaten.

"Slow ......" Yang Yuemei choked back when she ate slowly, and she couldn't say it.

"I can't wait to get chopsticks for you! It's like a wild man. Chun Tao angrily slammed the chopsticks and said.

"Second sister, how do you speak." Chunyu pretended to scold, although he felt that what Chun Tao said was right.

"......" who knew that people didn't pay attention to it at all, and simply pulled the bowl in front of them to eat. In a short time, the meat of the half-large bowl was eaten, and the brine was drunk.

"Hiccup...... Auntie, your cooking is so delicious. Besides, I want to bring some back to my dad and my mom to try. Li Caidie burped and said, she almost didn't stun people, she had never seen such a thick skin.

"No, you think this is a restaurant." Chunyu can't hold back his good face anymore, and the restaurant still has to charge, this person wants to take some more after eating.

"Uh...... It's getting dark, you hurry home and worry that the third brother of the province can't find you. Li Dajun couldn't stand it anymore, so he had to say.

"It's okay, my dad won't look for us." Li Caidie said, it seems that there is no intention of leaving.

"There is something in my family, and my mother is unwell and wants to sleep." Chunyu said.

“…… Okay, let's go, no need to send it. Li Caidie's eyes rolled around and she didn't find anything else, so she had to pull her sister Li Caimo away stupidly.

"......" Chunyu's whole family was speechless, and they were really thin-skinned and couldn't eat. Thick-skinned and eat a piece of meat.