Chapter 36: Wild Boar

When Luozhi arrived, Aunt Mu and Mu Ying were embroidering shoe uppers under the eaves. Luozhi put the soaked peanuts into the pot and boil over high heat, then simmer for one hour, then turn off the heat and soak for an hour, then cook for another hour, and soak for another three hours to remove the water to dry. She asked Luo'an and Ah Shu to look at the fire, patted the ashes on their bodies, washed their hands, and sat down under the eaves.

"Luozhi, look at the upper that my mother embroidered for you today", Mu Ying took out two pairs of uppers from the wooden frame, one pair of uppers embroidered with hibiscus flowers and kingfishers, and the other with lotus koi fish.

Luozhi took it and looked at it, she was really impressed by the artistic attainments of the ancient Chinese people, she stretched out her fingers and gently touched the delicate silk threads, looking at the delicate patterns, as if they were alive. The fingers wrap around those textures, warm as jade, and the touch is as fine and wonderful as life. The strands of silk are intertwined, staggered, lifelike, quietly cathartic, feasting the eyes of Luozhi.

"Auntie, your skills are really extraordinary, admire and admire. I like it so much" Luozhi is not stingy with praise, mainly because Aunt Mu Si is really skilled, Luozhi from modern to ancient, the best embroidery works I have ever seen are these two.

Aunt Mu saw that Luozhi was praising herself sincerely, and couldn't help but laugh and said, "You are a person who knows the goods." Let Luozhi sit down next to him, and let Mu Ying take peanuts out to eat, and gossip with them.

It turns out that this ancient woman generally started embroidering on shoes since childhood, just like Mu Ying, when she was about ten years old, she had to take a needle and thread. When Aunt Mu was in her mother's house, she didn't go out of the door, and she was at home all day, and she had a lot of time, so she could only pass the time by doing embroidery.

Some women will even start to spend more than ten years preparing for marriage at a few years of age, embroidering shoes and wedding dresses, and embroidering the girl's longing for pure love on the upper of the clothes.

So that the formation of embroidered shoes and embroidery level has become a prerequisite for evaluating a girl's ingenuity, from their wedding day to the child's full moon birthday, all life events are used to show their talents and the virtue of living at home with a pair of embroidered shoes.

Aunt Mu Si's family has a lot of assets, and she doesn't need to go out to work, and most of her youth is embroidery-based, which has created a solid foundation, and embroidery everything is exquisite and vivid.

She also stretched a small shed for Luozhi. This small bandage, also known as hand bandage, is specially used to embroider small pieces of children's saddles, which is very suitable for beginners like Luozhi.

Embroidery, called needle embroidery in ancient times, is a process of using embroidery needles to draw color threads, embroidering needles on various fabrics according to the drawn patterns, and forming patterns with embroidery traces. In ancient times, it was called "黹" and "needle". Because the embroidery is mostly made by women, it is also called "female red".

Modern people Luozhi is learning female red in ancient times, Luo'an and Ah Shu are extremely bored when they look at the fire, and they come out to play for a while from time to time and then go in to watch.

Mu Ying was enlightened earlier than Luozhi, and now she is very handy at embroidering some simple patterns, she is holding an embroidery pocket handkerchief on the side, and Aunt Mu Si points the two from time to time.

The shadow of the sun slowly tilted westward, Luozhi tasted a braised peanut, it was already very tasty, took the bamboo scoop out the peanuts and spread them in a big dustpan to dry overnight, and it was just right to sell them tomorrow.

made an appointment to leave tomorrow, and the three of them walked home leisurely and happily. The red glow on the horizon, the evening breeze, and the birds flying over their heads to their nests, together with the villagers, converge into a natural and harmonious natural rural landscape painting.

At noon, everyone simply ate a few meat buns, and Luozhi thought that he would make dinner a little richer, and then he would have to work at night for a while, so where would he have the strength to do things if he was not full.

She washed the pot with clean water, measured four bamboo tubes of white rice, washed it and put it in the pot to steam the white rice to eat. After adding a few sticks of wood to the stove and making the fire burn, she got up and carried the wooden bucket with the silver carp to the backyard and asked Grandpa to slaughter the fish. He also took eight copper plates and gave them to Luo'an, and asked him to go to the village to buy white tofu and come back to make fish soup.

She took a knife and cut a large lump of pork belly, and prepared to stew the fish soup for a while to make a piece of meat.

A quarter of an hour later, the whole yard was filled with the smell of fish soup. Fortunately, Luozhi's family lives far away from the center of the village, so maybe how many people will come to eat.

Luozhi put the tofu in the palm of her hand, took a knife and cut the tofu into small pieces and put it in the pot and stewed the fish soup, and after a while, the soup was as white as milk.

Luozhi washes the fat and thin pork belly, then pours some water into the pot, and when the water boils, put in the washed and chopped green onions, ginger and star anise cinnamon, and then put the pork belly in and pass through the water again. When cooking, there will be a layer of foam in the middle of the pot, use a spatula to remove the foam and throw it away. The pork is also washed with water again, cut into thick pieces and tied with straw to form a "field" shape.

Wash and knot the green onions and spread them on the bottom of the ceramic jar. Put the ginger slices in it, put the sliced pork belly in the jar as well, and pour in some soy sauce.

Add the sugar and ingredients, take a scoop and add water, the amount of water can drown the pork. Bring the water to a boil over high heat, then turn off the heat and simmer slowly for about half an hour until the stewed meat is very crispy.

In the previous life, it was one of the famous snacks in China, and it was a very distinctive snack in East China. The first time Luo Zhi learned about this dish was through an uncle. Because of the nature of his uncle's work, he often runs around.

Once when he came to Luozhi's house and chatted with Luozhi's parents, he mentioned the meat. She was not very curious at the time, because in some TV series she usually watched, when people became brothers with each other, they would be called worship, so she thought that this was also a dish invented by some people when they became brothers.

In fact, the origin of the meat is almost the same as Luozhi Xiangdi, after Liu Bei, Guan Yu, and Zhang Fei got married, because Zhang Fei was a butcher, he brought a lot of pork, and then put it in a pot to cook.

Later, when it came to the Sui Dynasty, there was a person who specially perfected the method of this dish, which was liked by everyone, and therefore retained it and became the meat of the previous life.

This handful of meat has a very strong soy sauce color, the color is bright, and it tastes particularly fragrant, fat but not greasy. The family eats happily and sweetly, especially the soup with the meat, which is simply delicious in the world, and a family of four has a three-light policy for dinner: vegetable light, rice light, soup light, and everyone has an endless aftertaste with a full stomach.

Luo'an was so full that her little belly was round, and she leaned on Luozhi's arms. Luozhi stroked his belly through his clothes and gave him food.

After eating a good meal and resting for a while, Grandpa and Ah Shu went out, and Luozhi looked up at the moon in the sky, a crescent moon hanging high.

Luozhi took Ah Di and began to boil water in two pots, killing pigs and scalding pigs for a while. Luo'an has been lazy to rely on Sister A. The little guy wanted to sleep when he was full, and it was really tiring to go up the mountain today, Luozhi saw that he was sleepy, so he bathed him with hot water first, changed into clean underwear, and let him sleep first.

Ah Shu carried the wild boar into the door, and the old man followed/came in and closed the yard door with his backhand. Before the old man left, he set up a pig killing rack in the backyard, and Luo Zhi helped unload the wild boar on the wooden plank, and brought two bowls of water over to let the two of them sweat.

The old man smoked a pot of dry tobacco, dissipated his fatigue, began to fill a wooden barrel with hot water, and poured buckets on the wild boar, and when the bristles softened, he picked up a sharp scraper and began to remove hair.

The pig/burr on the back of the wild boar is a good thing to cure toothache, the old man patiently plucked it off one by one and asked Luozhi Ming'er to take it to the pharmacy and sell it for a few dollars, Luozhi took the lotus leaf bag and put it in the back basket.

After the bristles were shaved clean, it was disemboweled, and the old man saw that the old man had a knife in his hand, and after a few "stabs", a bunch of internal organs rolled out, and Luozhi moved to a large wooden basin to pick it up, and let Ah Shu carry it, carrying the ashes and white noodles by himself, and the two came to the river beach not far from the backyard to clean the internal organs, and the old man continued to decompose the pork.

The bright moon hung high in the sky, curved, like a woman's thin eyebrows, a thin floating cloud like a light veil floated over, slowly covering the moon, but behind the floating clouds, the beautiful outline of the moon and the misty moonlight are still beautiful, plus the bright starry sky, Luo Zhi looked straight.

She felt that Ah Shu was staring at her for a moment, and hurriedly lowered her head and began to scrub the pig's internal organs, Ah Shu also squatted down, picked up a large intestine and rubbed it in a similar way. Luo Zhi saw that he was rubbing in an unruly manner, and hurriedly drove him aside to sit and wait for him.

"Ah Shu, thank you for saving me today, otherwise how could I be alive now?" Luo Zhi showed the pear vortex and said to Ah Shu, "I once died once, and I was very afraid of death, if it wasn't for you today, I would really die, God shouldn't give me a second chance to be reborn!" The last sentence was inaudible, this was the deepest secret in Luozhi's heart, and she couldn't say it out loud to anyone.

Ah Shu held a horsetail grass in his mouth, and looked at Luozhi as if he was not clear. Looking at him cute, Luo Zhi smiled and shook his head, probably saying that he didn't understand, just be kind to him in the future.

Luozhi first brought Ah Shu home, purely as a laborer, similar to mules, horses, cows, etc., she wanted to reduce the labor burden of Grandpa, and her own family also had a young man, not afraid of bullying by the villagers.

Unexpectedly, until today, she knew that Ah Shu was her blessing, and she adopted him and got the blessing.

Luozhi hummed a tune in her mouth, which was a song that she particularly liked in her previous life, the original scenery of her hometown, the famous song of the Japanese Sojiro, with this long night, it was exceptionally beautiful and quiet, and many years later, when Ah Shu remembered this scene in his midnight dream, he still palpitated and longed.

It was not until the middle of the moon that the work was finished, Ah Shu picked up the wooden basin, Luozhi followed, and the two went home.