Listening to Dashan's words, not only Li Yong's eyes widened, but even Aunt Ju opened her mouth curiously, although they heard Xiaozhuzi talk about this matter when they entered the village, Xiaozhuzi only watched a fragment from the sidelines, but he was not clear about the ins and outs of the matter, and he couldn't say what the parties thought.

Now that I have the opportunity to listen to the Lan family talk about this stubble, Aunt Ju has something hidden in her heart, and immediately rushed to ask, "Oh? What's going on?" Li Jinrong can be regarded as the number one person in our Li Zigou, he ran a shop in the county town with his father at a young age, looking at others and being kind, but he is a good hand at doing business, and no one has ever been cheap in our Li Zigou. ”

"Hehe," Dashan laughed proudly when he heard what Aunt Ju said, "It's this Li Jinrong who never suffers, but he fell a big heel in Fang'er's hands." ”

"Brother, you can't say that," Yun Fang hurriedly took over the conversation, unlike his brother, who was almost forgetful of his smugness, Yun Fang said lightly, "Then Li Jinrong wanted to spend money to buy our secret recipe, because he was too greedy, and then he had a problem with the pickling method, and he didn't pickle the same radish strips, and then the coarse porcelain jar was kicked over by his aunt, which is a matter between his relatives, let alone our business." ”

Yun Fang briefly recounted what happened, but did not mention the part where she deliberately provoked in order to let Li Jinrong spend money, although the excited mountain was a little unwilling, but seeing Yun Fang say these words so calmly, he finally did not force himself to come forward and elaborate on the scene at that time.

Rao is Yunfang deliberately recounted the incident in a low-key manner, which was much clearer than what Xiaozhuzi said at the time, such a thing was enough to shock Li Yonglian's mother and son, because they knew Li Jinrong's character, and how smart Yunfang, the little girl who knew that he was deflated and humiliated, could do this.

The expression on Aunt Ju's face became even more excited, and Li Yonglian quietly glanced at the calm Yun Fang with his eyes again, and the expression on his face became tangled.

Yun Hua had already learned about the afternoon from Yun Fang's mouth, she looked at Aunt Ju's mother and son, then at Yun Fang, and broke the silence with a smile, "Look, everyone is patronizing and talking, this meal is almost cold, let's eat first." ”

"Yes," after Yunhua's reminder, the mother also greeted with a smile, "What's Hua, let's talk slowly when we're full." ”

Aunt Ju, who had just woken up from her shock and was still thinking about saying something, listened to her mother's greeting, so she had to swallow back the words that came to her mouth, and raised her chopsticks together, "It's still Yunhua, this girl knows something, if she hadn't mentioned it, it would have been cold on such a delicious table." ”

"Hua'er is a stable child," the mother answered with relief, leaned over and sandwiched a large piece of jujube red braised pork and put it in Aunt Ju's bowl, and persuaded, "Come, old sister try this braised pork, this is what his father specially asked Wang Yidao of the fruit king to make, but it is more delicious than what we made ourselves." ”

"Okay, good, good, I'll come by myself, old sister, don't be busy, you eat, you eat," Aunt Ju said with a smile, "I have long heard that the king of this fruit king is not only good at killing pigs, but also a must to clean up pork, the same pork and ingredients, after being cleaned up by other people's hands, the taste is different." ”

"Dad, it's almost the New Year, isn't Wang Yidao busy killing pigs, how can there be an incident for us to clean up and roast meat?" Xiaoshi put a lotus root clip in his mouth, and while eating, he asked, "At this time in previous years, he was so busy that he didn't even have time to sleep." ”

"This year is a little different from previous years," Dad took a sip of soju, drank comfortably, and explained slowly, "I don't know why there are several pork sellers on the other side of the mountain, and the price is much cheaper than before. Let's take these two heads raised by stones as an example, if you sell them for meat, you can get back a hundred and fifty yuan at most. ”

"The price is really not good, how can this be exchanged for two hundred yuan in previous years," Xiao Shi said with emotion, "However, this is not a matter if you don't kill it, just keep feeding?" ”

"In previous years, there were also outsiders who came to collect pigs at this time, but this year I haven't seen any of them. Aunt Ju frowned, analyzed and said, "It seems that the pigs on the other side of this mountain are cheaper, or they all cross the mountain and sell the meat to us." ”

"Yes, it's weird this year, why is a good big fat pig so cheap?" the mother swallowed a mouthful of food in her mouth and said worriedly.

"Old sister, you don't have to worry about it this year," Aunt Ju said with a smile, "Pork is cheap, just kill the pig for a happy event." ”

"No," the mother waved her hand, "The pig killed this time was raised by stone, and I also raised two heads, thinking about selling it at the end of the year, just rich and wealthy for the New Year, this is good, such a cheap pork, how willing to kill, but it has become a heart disease." ”

"That's right,......"

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While everyone was eating, they were talking about the cheap pork, the fact that every household was reluctant to kill, and that the New Year was not good, but Yun Fang's thoughts drifted away from their dilemma.

I remember that when she was still in Lan Danxi, she watched a very popular documentary - "A Bite of China", which specifically talked about a section: hiding the gift of the deep mountains - Nuodeng ham. After reading those mouth-watering introductions, she mail-ordered one on the Internet to eat, praised it after eating, and then frantically searched for information about ham.

The marinated pork, especially the hind leg meat, is fragrant after cutting, the color is red like fire, so it is called ham, Yunnan has two kinds of ham, "Nuodeng ham" and "Xuanwei ham", they have their own characteristics, but they are all famous at home and abroad.

Nuodeng ham refers to the ham produced in Nuodeng Village, Yunlong County, Dali Prefecture, Yunnan Bai Nationality Settlement, which was exported to Myanmar, India, Vietnam and other Southeast Asian countries through the "Silk Road" in the south as early as the pre-Qing Dynasty. Nowadays, the annual grand March Street Market in Dali, Yunnan Province, "all merchants gather, the surrounding goods are accumulated", and people of all ethnic groups are vying to buy Nuodeng ham.

Nuodeng ham is a famous local specialty of Yunnan and a popular delicacy of ethnic folk. The ingredients of Bai Nuodeng ham are unique, the production is fine, the quality is worrying and the taste is beautiful, the meat color of the cut is tender and red, and it has a strong local flavor and the style of pickled products of the Bai compatriots.

Norden ham has very good quality, which has a lot to do with the climate and material conditions of Norden. The rainfall there is moderate, the climate is mild, the frost period is relatively short, and the people there raise pigs mostly with corn, soybeans and green leafy plants as feed, the meat is fine, the fat is thin, the lean meat is more, and the pig breed is very ideal, which creates the best conditions for curing excellent pig fat.

Every year on the eve of the Spring Festival, on the occasion of the midwinter wax moon, the local Bai compatriots are busy slaughtering fat pigs and making ham, and the ham made at this time is called "Zhengdong leg".

Xuanwei ham is a bacon boutique created by the Xuanwei Han people in the practice of curing bacon for hundreds of years.

Xuanwei ham is named because it is produced in Xuanwei, Yunnan. Its main characteristics are: the shape resembles a pipa, only the big bones are small, the skin is thin, the flesh is thick, the fat and thin are moderate; the section is cut, the aroma is rich, the color is bright, the lean meat is bright red or rose, the fat is milky white, the bones are slightly peach, and the blood is still moisturizing. Its quality is good, enough to represent Yunnan ham, so it is often called "cloud leg".

Xuanwei is located in the northeast of Yunnan, with a cold climate in winter, which is suitable for curing bacon. The curing time of Xuanwei ham starts from the frost to the end of spring every year, and is mainly concentrated in the winter solstice to the cold period. The pickling method is to slaughter the local pigs, squeeze out the blood, and rub them with salt. Then it goes through the process of pickling, fermentation, air drying, etc., and pickles after the Dragon Boat Festival the following year.

After that, hang the ham in a cool, ventilated place with a rope for more than half a year, and the longer the storage time, the stronger the fragrance.

Those hams that have been stored for three, five or even ten years are called old hams, and the taste of pork that has been soaked in special salt for so many years is so rich and mellow that it is really indescribable.