Chapter 14: Cold Noodles
"Little girl, you have been deceived by this thing, no one wants it at all, you can't eat it or look at it, it's useless." A vendor next to her reminded her.
After thanking him for his kindness, Luozhi picked up the basket and went to the vegetable market.
Originally, she wanted to buy beef to make a small stir-fried beef, and she liked to eat this dish in her previous life. But after searching the whole market, I found that there was no beef, and after asking, I learned that cattle were the main labor and means of transportation in ancient times, and they had long been protected by legislation, and the ancient law stipulated that "no slaughter of young teeth" was allowed.
In this dynasty, the punishment for killing cattle was very severe, and those who violated the ban were punished and had to pay for the life of the ox.
And whether the cattle are old, weak, sick or disabled, are all forbidden to kill, and only cattle that have died of natural causes or sick can be skinned and sold or eaten for their own use.
Rare is expensive, and this beef is naturally eaten by ordinary people who have no chance to see it.
Luozhi finally bought a large grass carp in the big market, and went to the grocery store to buy dried kelp, dried shiitake mushrooms, wide noodles, measured peanut oil, and soy sauce, so she went to take a ride home.
"Oh, Luozhi, where did you get the money to buy such things?" The aunt who was riding in the car with asked.
"I made a little money selling cakes," Luozhi used to sell cakes, and everyone in the village now knows about it, so he just used it to stuff it.
"You can't make a lot of money selling bread, and your basket of things will cost more than a hundred pieces of silver!" The gossip aunt said strangely.
"My cake making skills were taken by the shopkeeper Yao of Xuanyuan Building, and I bought the recipe with the silver, and my family hasn't had a tooth sacrifice for a long time, so I'll buy something to eat and go home." Luozhi said half-truthfully.
"Tut-tut, you have made a deal with Xuanyuanlou, you have a chance," a carload of people were looking at Luozhi.
Luo Zhi knew that the shopkeeper Yao had already guessed a lot in the village when he came to the door twice, and his family rebuilt the house and bought land or something, everyone would guess where the money came from. However, she is a minority shareholder of Xuanyuan Building, except for her family, she will not tell anyone.
"No wonder I saw a carriage parked in front of your house from afar that day, and it was Shopkeeper Yao who came to your house to look for you, right? I think he also brought a lot of things to your family! ”
Look, there is no secret to live in a village in this countryside, and I live in Mubeigou at the edge of the village, for the Muli River in the center of the village, it is simply the sixth ring road outside Beijing.
Luozhi ......
"This shopkeeper Yao is not an ordinary person, he looks at the Lin family in such a big restaurant, and he can't make friends with him!"
"The young owner of this Xuanyuan Building has a big background, it is the Lin family, our Lin Bancheng in Ji'an County, do you know?"
"I know, it's Mrs. Lin's family, he is the first person in our Ji'an County, he is over eighty years old this year, and he is a fairy-like figure."
Luozhi listened to the gossip all the way......
In short, now everyone looks at Luozhi with inquisitive curiosity, how can such a little girl have the ability to make the Lin family's shopkeeper Yao pay attention to it and come to visit?
Luo Zhi put on an innocent child's face, leaving them to guess.
When he got home, Luo An pounced when he saw it, "Sister, I'm hungry, cook quickly."
Ah Shu also circled around her.
"Where's Grandpa?" Luo Zhi asked, Grandpa's feet are almost good, but he still can't walk fast, where is this not at home?
"Grandpa went to the backyard river beach to see the land, and they all went out for a morning" Luo'an looked at Sister A's back and took things out of the basket, looking at Luozhi with a small look of longing.
Luozhi handed him the snack, and the guy cheered and said that Sister was good.
"Leave a bag for Grandpa," Luo Zhi said. She entered her room, lowered the curtain, and with great difficulty removed the cabinet, putting together the one hundred and eighty-nine taels of silver and the previous ten taels.
Last night, Old Man Mu gave her all the money before going to bed, saying that it was appropriate for her to earn the money herself and take care of it herself.
Luozhi looked at the place where the silver was put and smiled, with this silver, she finally felt a little safe.
Luo An and Ah Shu ate dim sum in the hall, and Luo Zhi also ate two pieces to cushion his stomach and began to cook.
Dinner will be rich, so I will eat it simply at noon.
Bring water to a boil, add a little cold water to a boil, and remove the supercooled water for about three minutes. Put garlic, chili peppers, and chives on the wide noodles, pour hot oil on them, then add coarse salt and soy sauce to taste, and then add cucumbers cut into thin strips.
Grandpa Mu smelled the aroma of tempting appetite in the backyard and knew that Luozhi was back.
"Grandpa, it's time to eat" Luozhi arranged for Ah Shu and Luo'an to serve their own cold noodles, she came out of the stove room with two bowls, and put them in front of Grandpa.
Luozhi told Grandpa about today's events while eating, and also told him that he had made an appointment with the tooth man to come over tomorrow, the old man didn't expect the little granddaughter to be so resolute, but he didn't say anything, the money was earned by the granddaughter herself, and she couldn't spend it too much.
What's more, he found that since his granddaughter recovered from illness, she acted in a very orderly manner, advanced and retreated, and was better than himself.
The family ate to their heart's content, and Luo'an liked this kind of cool pasta even more, saying that he would let Luozhi make fragrant cold noodles in the future, looking at his little face that was getting better and better, Luozhi agreed with a smile.
As long as Luozhi is at home, Ah Shu will follow her silently, Luozhi asked him to watch Ah Di, and she began to prepare dishes for the evening.
She counted the dishes with her fingers: stewed local chicken with shiitake mushrooms, spicy fish fillets, stir-fried fat sausages, stir-fried belly slices, kelp soup with big bones, and tamales. Then make two vegetarian stir-fried vegetables and two dim sum, which are perfect and very good.
She cleaned the pig water first, but fortunately, the weather was much cooler in the morning and evening these days, and the pig was not broken if it was not cleaned for a day. She dug out a large bowl of plant ash to rub the pork belly, large intestine and small intestine, and washed it with flour a few times inside and out, and after making sure that there was no smell, she blanched the water and skimmed off the foam and began to slowly marinate.
Last time, she kept the marinade and sealed it in the shade of the back cover room, and it was not bad to take it out today, the ancient climate as a whole is lower than that of modern times, and there is no heat caused by the greenhouse effect, especially after the beginning of autumn, it is getting cooler day by day.
After soaking the dried shiitake mushrooms and kelp, she stewed the big stick bones in a coarse porcelain jar, and waited until they were thick white, and then added the kelp.
After she was busy with these, Old Man Mu killed the chicken, cleaned the chicken feathers, and prepared to disembowel.
"Sister, Sister, there is a person outside who is coming to you in a carriage," Luo An said crisply with the candy that Luo Zhi brought back to him in his mouth for the first time.
"Who," Luo Zhi washed his hands and walked towards the courtyard gate.