"Uncle, cut half a fan of pork for us." Wu Xingzhou gestured to the whole pig hanging in the shop, "I want half a fan on the right." ”

When the butcher shop owner heard this, his eyes brightened, and his smile became more and more enthusiastic, "Okay, I'll cut it for you right away." The smiling boss acted quickly, cut half of the pork, threw all the offal into the broken bamboo basket in the corner, and thought about going home to feed the dogs.

Seeing this, Wu Xingzhou hesitated and asked, "Uncle, can those who go into the water be sold?" ”

"Those who can't eat in the water, it's not worth the trouble to eat, it's not worth anything."

The Tang people are not happy to eat pigs in the water, and even eat more mutton than pork, so the price of pork is more expensive than mutton, but the mutton is too heavy and the method is limited. The fat of pork is more popular, and the price of lean meat is lower, not to mention the water, such as blood sausage, which was brought in by the Manchus in the Qing Dynasty, Wu Nuandong knows several ways to cook the water, she doesn't eat offal herself, but she loves to eat ****, think about it and ask: "Brother Xingzhou, do you want to buy some cheap water and save some money?" ”

Wu Xingzhou nodded in shame, this little bit of caution actually made Nuan Nuan see it, at that time, it was Nuan Nuan who bought rice and noodles, and the white noodles and silver of Bai Huahua made him feel distressed, although it was cheap to go into the water, but he really didn't know if the aunts would cook.

The owner of the butcher shop heard that these two children also knew that it was sensible to save money for the family, and he didn't embarrass them, and told the truth, "We tried to do these sewers at home, even if we make them, they can't hide the fishy smell, little brother, if you want it, I'll give it to you for free, if you make delicious food and come to my house to buy it next time, don't blame me Zhu Ji if you can't make it, okay?" ”

As soon as Wu Xingzhou heard that he didn't want money, his eyes immediately lit up, and he nodded vigorously, "Uncle, don't worry, where are we so uneasy, how can we blame you!" I would also like to thank you for your generosity! ”

The butcher shop owner smiled, this kid is quite literate when he speaks!

"The price of our whole pork is cheaper than fat meat, 35 Wen per catty, this half fan always has 88 catties and 2 taels, and the 2 taels of meat don't need to be counted as money, a total of 3 taels and 80 Wen."

Hearing this, Wu Nuandong took out the money from his arms and handed it to the boss, who immediately helped them move the pork and the water to the donkey cart, put the general down, and gave them the broken basket containing the water.

"Thank you, uncle!" The two little babies thanked them and drove away under the eyes of the boss.

"This uncle is quite generous!" Wu Nuandong said with a smile.

"There are two meat sellers in the market, let's go to this one at the intersection, and one at the end of the road, there is competition, and the price is naturally affordable!" Wu Xingzhou smiled and was in a good mood, although the price of pork caught up with two catties of fine rice, but it was better to give more things, even if it was not delicious, his brothers could always chew more.

Fortunately, the two younger brothers don't know what Wu Xingzhou thinks, otherwise they would have to be angry and green, and Brother Xingzhou is too picky!

Wu Nuandong looked up at Wu Xingzhou, who was smiling and squinting, but he didn't expect that the thirteen-year-old boy was quite economically minded, and he was a good material for doing business.

After that, the two bought basic condiments such as sauce (soy sauce), sugar, and vinegar, and went to the official store to buy some salt, and others such as sesame paste, cumin, and chili pepper were not available.

In the end, I bought more than a dozen catties of hollyhock and Chinese cabbage (Chinese cabbage), and caught five chickens for Wu Nuandong to raise to play, and the two went home.

Because the family bought new food for the four brothers and sisters, Wu Qiuzhi directly took it out and asked the aunt who cooked to make breakfast, brown rice, fine rice porridge, wild vegetables, mushroom pickles, and pickles.

By the time Wu Nuan arrived home in winter, he had already set up two simple thatched huts, one with two stoves for cooking, and the other with quicklime and other auxiliary materials that were not suitable for water.

Wu Xingzhou was embarrassed to give it to the aunts who cooked, but he and his two younger brothers cooked by themselves, and Nuan Nuan acted as the commander-in-chief.

First, cut off the intestinal fat, rinse with water, and then find a chopstick to push the outer skin from the opening of the large intestine, turn it inside to the outside, add some flour and salt and knead it inside and out, until a large amount of glue is rubbed, and then it can be filled. Mix the white flour, ginger, cloves and other seasonings into a paste, pour them into the intestines, cut them into small slices after cooking, and then use half of the lard board to boil the lard, take a small piece of fried burnt, and pour salt water and garlic juice. This is the earliest **** in old Beijing.

left three plates for the brothers, and the rest of Wu Nuandong was sent to the construction site to add meals to the villagers who helped, which naturally won a lot of praise.

Song Erga also said vigorously: "If you eat it with wine, it will be the ultimate!" provoked Song Daga to stare at him again and again, working and drinking, and had nothing to do!

Aunt Qin asked about the **** method, and when she heard that it was made of large intestine filling, she was startled, smacked the taste, and sighed in surprise, "I can't complain that there is a smell of meat!" But this casing is too hard to wash, and it's not enough work, it's really hard enough for you babies to think about the big guy! ”

Listening to Aunt Qin's words, the villagers who helped worked even harder, a few little babies are good, they naturally can't let the little babies suffer!

The rest of the water is scattered, and Wu Nuandong simply prepares the sauce together.

Use salt, sauce, sugar, green onions, ginger, and star anise, cinnamon, fennel seeds, angelica, licorice and pepper bought from the pharmacy (there was no chili pepper in the Tang Dynasty, Wu Nuandong used pepper instead) ground into powder to make spices, make a cloth bag with cotton cloth and wrap it, scrape all the skin scraped in the water, remove the hair, squeeze out the black blood clot of the pig's heart, cut the ears and eyes of the pig's ears, scrape the tongue coating with a knife, add ginger and shallots to the pot under cold water to remove the fishy, and boil half a cup of tea after boiling water. After blanching, drain the water and dry it a little to control the blood vapor. Then put it in the pot, the amount of water is just over the past, and bring to a boil over high heat. After that, start another pot, fry the sugar color, to fry until the color is purple and red, heat the sugar color and mix it evenly into the cauldron, then put the rice wine, sauce, green onion segments, ginger slices and spice packets and salt, after boiling over high heat, put a few wild hawthorns to help the meat soft and rotten to shorten the time, and then cook for an hour over low heat.

Half a fan of pork Wu Qiuzhi cut a lean, a fat and a pork belly, and left the rest for the aunt who cooked, and sent the sauce that Wu Nuandong taught him to make with the water, which is equivalent to the Wu family's meal is a vegetarian stir-fry, a meat stir-fry, a soup and a sauce meat dish. It was better than the food provided by the landlord's family in the town or even in the county.

Although the sauce meat is in the water, the taste is not fishy at all, and the flavor of the sauce has an indescribable refreshment (pepper spiciness), which is really delicious. Even a few aunts who cooked chased after Wu Qiuzhi to ask for cooking skills, which made this little boy blush, where did he have any tricks, it was completely Nuan Nuan how to say how he did it.

It's about to be the Metaverse Festival, which is the reunion festival of the first full moon night of the new year. In the Tang Dynasty, the Lantern Festival was 'one day before and after the Shangyuan Dynasty', and in the Song Dynasty, two days were added after the sixteenth, and in the Ming Dynasty, it was extended to ten days from the eighth to the eighteenth day of the first month. In the prosperous era of the Kaiyuan Dynasty, the lamp market in Chang'an was very large, with 50,000 lamps and a wide variety of lanterns. The giant lantern tower is 20 rooms wide, 150 feet high, the golden light is brilliant, extremely spectacular, enough to show the importance of the emperor to the people to the Shangyuan Festival.

The lantern festival in Pingji Town is held for three days, and the most lively time is on the day of the Shangyuan Festival, when the villagers of the samurai family give their helpers a holiday.