Chapter 7 Blessings and Misfortunes Depend on Each Other
"Tell Grandpa what's going on? This Xuanyuan Building is not entered by ordinary people, how did you go there and meet a big man like Yao Da Shopkeeper? "Old Man Mu scratched his heart with a hundred claws, this question has been held since Luozhi came back to the present.
Luozhi took a wet handkerchief to wipe the sugar stains on his hands and face, told Grandpa the ins and outs of the matter, and took out the ten taels of silver for building a house in advance and put it on the table.
After Luozhi explained clearly, he began to count the things sent by Yao's shopkeeper on the gift list, five buckets of rice, three buckets of white noodles, six boxes of dim sum, ten catties of pork, two navy blue cotton cloths, and one Sujuan.
The gift given by Uncle Yao is humane, and Luozhi accepted this kindness.
After placing the gifts, she took the plant ash and began to clean the pig water, although the beginning of autumn for more than half a month, but there is still some heat during the day, the pig water and pork have to be dealt with quickly, otherwise it will really make her feel distressed!
She stewed a clay pot with big bone broth, although there was no meat, the big bones were rich in calcium, and the three members of this family had to supplement calcium.
Luozhi began to wash the pig water, first with plant ash to scrub the hair all over, after a water to take some white flour to scrub, the internal organs of the dirt are adsorbed and scrubbed out, after repeatedly cleaning several times, the pig water will not smell at all.
The old man saw that his little granddaughter actually bought a set of pigs for fifteen yuan, and he moved his lips and wanted to say that this thing was not delicious, but when he saw her neat work, he swallowed the words again. The children haven't eaten meat for more than a month, and no matter how stinky this pig is, it's still meat.
Luozhi didn't know what Grandpa thought, she was blanching the cleaned pig in the stove room, throwing in a few pieces of ginger to tie a green onion knot, boiling over the fire for a few minutes, skimming off the foam, adding cinnamon, star anise, fruit and fragrant leaves to marinate together.
Said to be marinated, except for salt, there are no other condiments, even these spices were bought by the medical hall when she went to pick up the pig into the water, and the ancient grocery store has not sold these yet, and these flavors have not yet developed therapeutic effects, which are simple herbs sold in the medical hall.
Now she still remembers the look on her face when the guys in the medical hall look at her, thinking that she is a little girl who buys medicine without a prescription.
One pot is boiled with the pigs in the water, and the other pot is filled with fresh pork. She plans to make all the meat into tamales, so that when she wants to eat it, it can be steamed directly, which is very convenient. Cook the pot until it is piping hot, put the pork cut into large pieces and speze it, scrape it with a knife, wash it and cut it into two centimeter slices, add salt and ginger slices to marinate, and she starts to make rice noodles again.
Luo'an was called out to play with the children in the same village, and there was no small follower in the way, and she was even more quick and quick in her work. Several spices are mixed with rice and fried until fragrant, put into a stone mortar and hammered into powder, which is the five-spiced rice flour of later generations.
Pick out the ginger slices from the marinated meat and throw them away, add rice noodles and stir well, and slowly fry them one by one over low heat until golden brown.
Luo'an's nose belongs to a dog, and he went home after smelling the smell, and when he saw a big pot of meat full of meat, he was so hungry that he swallowed his saliva vigorously.
Luo Zhi was amused by his gluttony, and handed him a piece of blowing cool, and Luo An immediately devoured it. Luozhi also tasted a slice of it herself, Mom, it's so delicious.
"Then, this is for Grandpa, you take it to the vegetable garden."
"Grandpa went to the mountains to chop wood, not in the garden."
At noon, Luozhi stewed a big pot of white rice, stir-fried pork belly, steamed a bowl full of rice noodles and meat, stewed a big bone loofah soup, vegetarian fried water spinach, and placed it on the table, and the two sisters and brothers drooled and waited for Grandpa to come back for dinner.
Waiting left and right and waiting for no one to come back, Luo Zhi just walked out of the yard to look for it, and saw Brother Da Song next door limping towards home with a pestle and a wooden stick.
"Grandpa, what's wrong with you?" Luozhi hurriedly greeted him and helped the other side.
"The old man fell down the slope and sprained his foot. After a while, my family will go to get bone-setting medicine and rub it for the old man, and he can walk freely after a few days, "Brother Song's father is a barefoot man in the village, and whoever has a headache and brain fever in the village is looking for him."
"Thank you Brother Da Song, it's hard work" Luo Zhi heard that Grandpa's injury was not a big problem, and the heart she was carrying was put back in its place, she and Grandpa couldn't do without Grandpa's protection.
When he got home, Old Man Mu was sweating in pain, and his heel hurt even more as soon as he hit the ground, Luozhi tried to touch it, and the Bodhisattva blessed him with no fractures.
Brother Da Song quickly brought the bruising ointment, and Luo Zhi smelled it, and the smell of this Chinese medicine had the smell of centella asiatica.
In her previous life, when she was a child, she lived in the countryside with her grandparents, and anyone in the village who injured her hands and feet would dig up this centella asiatica and mash it and apply it to the affected area, and it would be fine within a few days.
Brother Da Song kneaded, and Grandpa sweated in pain, but his foot injury was better. The family left him to eat, and Grandpa asked Luozhi to invite Uncle Mu and his aunt over, before Luozhi's illness was taken care of by Uncle Mu, and he didn't thank others after he got better, and the thank you gift from the rural people is to invite you to have a meal with all his heart.
Luozhi temporarily fried a stir-fried large intestine, roasted pork lung with leeks, and vegetarian roasted eggplant, plus the previous four dishes, and a table of meals is very handy.
Ordinary people only eat some meat after beating their teeth, but this guy made four meat dishes at noon, three vegetarian, and the portion was sufficient, which was very generous and heroic in the countryside.
The two families sat down, and Old Man Mu took out the sweet potato wine stored at home, filled it with Uncle Mu and Brother Da Song, and everyone started eating with chopsticks.
"Is this a pig in the water?" Mu Langzhong chewed the food and swallowed it and asked.
Luozhi nodded. put the cold big bone broth in front of Ah Di, and drank the soup himself.
"It's not like the smell of pig water at all, it's not fishy at all, but crispy and fragrant. Good craftsmanship" Uncle Mu picked up the fried large intestine again, this oil is fragrant and delicious.
"Old man, look at how capable Luozhi is now, this cooking skill is enough to be the chef in charge of Xuanyuan Building", Aunt Mu is very kind, and the thirty-year-old woman is wearing a plain skirt, which looks very comfortable. While eating, she was full of praise for Luozhi's cooking skills.
"It tastes good, everyone will eat a little more with an open stomach, and if it's not enough, you're welcome."
The old man said arrogantly, clink glasses with Uncle Mu and take one, sandwich food, cool!
"Luozhi, this steamed pork is special and soft and glutinous, I eat it with a special appetite", Mu Boniang sat on Luozhi's left hand, listening to Luozhi eating without making a sound, and was surprised.
This kid behaves like a different person than before. But also, there are people who have suffered such a great sin in death and life, and they have changed a little.
"Da Song, this kid is good, he helps us a lot on weekdays, and today thanks to him, otherwise I don't know if I can get this old bone back. Da Song, come, Grandpa toasts you." Luozhi wanted to stop it, but he gave up, Grandpa was rarely so happy, drinking some wine should not affect his foot injury!
"Old Man Mu, don't praise him. You see, he is sixteen years old when he sees it, and he has not yet married a daughter-in-law, and my heart is broken when I worry about this matter every day. Mu Boniang's words scared Luo Zhi almost bit his tongue, Nima, she urged at the age of sixteen before she got married, she calculated, especially in modern times, she is still a high school student.
She really wanted to ask the girl's family how old should she be to marry in order to meet the ancients' concept of marriage?
"Children and grandchildren have their own children and grandchildren, I said a long time ago, you are looking for hardships by yourself. Da Song is fate has not arrived, and fate has come naturally. Just wait with peace of mind. Mu Lang sandwiched a piece of steamed pork into his mouth, and it was so delicious that his eyes narrowed slightly.
"Of course you don't have to worry, your son didn't fall off you, I don't help me plan as a mother, and when you and your son have to beat a bachelor." Mu Boniang couldn't see him looking like he didn't care about everything.
The protagonist of the topic, Brother Da Song, had long been so dry that his cheeks were red, and Luo Zhi found that the tips of his ears were red, and he was a little funny in his heart, ancient people were really easy to be shy.
The old man intervened to remove the topic, and everyone continued to eat delicious food.
Brother Da Song's family of three went back to their own house after lunch, and Luozhi took a lotus leaf to Mu Boniang to pack a tamales to take away, and she smiled with joy.
Luozhi cleaned up the stove room, let Ah Di stay at home to take care of Grandpa, and went out of the courtyard with the basket on her back, she was going to dig up some fresh centella asiatica for Grandpa's feet.
The appearance of centella asiatica is very similar to that of copper coin grass, but the effect is very different. Centella asiatica generally likes to grow in cool and damp wasteland or roadside, and also likes to grow on the edge of ditches. She went to the wasteland at the foot of the mountain again, but found nothing.
She walked further and further away from the village, and by the time she reacted, she was already in the middle of a mountain.
There were no roads in the valley, and there were no people, and Luozhi couldn't remember how he got in. She bent down to pick up a piece of firewood and held it in her hand, beating the grass and startling the snake, she was most afraid of snakes.
The afternoon sun was shining, and the valley was silent except for the birdsong. Luozhi was a little frustrated, okay, Centella Asiatica didn't find it, and he lost himself. She put her hands on the pergola and looked into the distance, except for the trees on the mountain, which were overgrown with weeds.
Hey, wait, that's spicy... Pepper? Luozhi looked closely, it was really a chili pepper.
Not far from the valley, there is a field of green low plants, which are covered with bright red peppers.
Luozhi was like being beaten with chicken blood, and instantly came to his spirit and went straight to the past.
I ran over and found that there was also a large pepper tree on the slope below, and Luozhi was so happy that he could finally eat spicy food.
The beak is about to fade out of a bird!
She squatted on the ground with great pride, and started picking red peppers with both hands. I'll pick it, I'll pick it, I'll pick it to death...... A fat rabbit ran past her and didn't notice, a squirrel looked at her from a tree, and she didn't notice it, she was single-mindedly immersed in the world of picking peppers.
It wasn't until a shadow completely covered her that she looked up, and the sight frightened her into losing half of her soul, and a strange-looking man like a savage stood behind her.
She even ran fast with a rolling belt, but the wild man also ran with her, Luozhi panicked, ran faster, and had a thought in her heart, "You must not be caught and eaten by this wild man."
However, this small body always dropped the chain at the critical moment, and within a few minutes, Luozhi kicked like a cow, and her legs seemed to be filled with lead, so heavy that she could no longer lift it. She held on to a tree and waved her hand at the savage, "Don't come here, I know Chinese kung fu, I will beat you all over the ground to find your teeth, your brain blooms, and you break your arms and legs......."
A dirty face stretched out in front of her, and Luo Zhi's soul flew away, her eyes rolled, and she fainted to the ground.