In the cold wind.

Zhao Wan, Li Zhen and the others ignored the cold and stood on the side of the road in Zhuangkou early waiting for them to come back.

Li Xiao came back suddenly, so that they are still immersed in joy, and they are afraid that this happiness is too sudden and short-lived, and they are always worried that Li Xiao and they will not return once they go.

"It's back, Saburo, they're back."

An eight- or nine-year-old child came running briskly, and in the winter, he was only pulling a pair of straw sandals without heels, and his clothes were also patched. He ran as fast as he could, steaming hot in the cold wind, but his snot dragged to his mouth, and he sucked it from time to time.

In the distance, several figures appeared.

Zhao Wan and Li Zhen hurriedly greeted them.

A few children were even more happy to spread the word that Li Xiao and they had brought back a lot of things.

"How can you stand outside on such a cold day?" Li Xiao saw the two people with red faces from the cold, and said distressedly.

Zhang Onion and Liu Garlic over there, regardless of the hard work of carrying grain, pork, etc. along the way, happily told everyone about the things he bought and showed them to everyone.

Ten buckets of millet, yellow and clear millet, all have been shelled and crushed, and each grain is as dazzling as gold and jade.

In the crowd of onlookers in the village, there were even several sounds of swallowing saliva. Everyone is having a hard time this winter, usually eating wild vegetables and paste, and it is really hard to suppress the joy when I see so much millet at once.

"And pork, ten catties of the fattest waist meat, very fat, and a big pig's head."

The people in the village were happily surrounding these, and their eyes were shining.

Li Xiao said in a timely manner, "It's so cold outside, let's go back to the house first, and tonight, we'll have a full meal." Let's go together to help, cook rice, grind rice and steam cakes, and go. ”

As soon as they heard that San Lang was so generous, everyone had a share, and everyone let out a cheer, especially those children who shouted unabashedly.

For everyone in the village, eating a full meal, or even a meal of meat, is the greatest happiness in this cold winter.

Everyone was busy despite the cold.

Some people went to carry firewood, others began to grind noodles, and some people went to fetch water.

Guo Biao, the butcher, naturally didn't let him take out a butcher's knife to cut meat.

Ten catties of waist square fat meat, directly cut into large pieces of meat, the fat meat is thin, and it looks the same as making braised pork.

Li Zhen and Zhao Wan took a few women and began to light a fire and prepare to make cakes with noodles.

Li Xiao was not idle, the pig's head had to be at least more than ten catties. But the pig's head has to be able to get it, otherwise it won't be delicious.

One hundred cucumbers were sold for two thousand dollars, and this news had already been told to everyone by Yang Dayan.

Old man Zhao was surprised by the high price of this cucumber, and he was also very interested in how Li Xiao dealt with this big pig's head. He didn't expect that Li Xiao, who used to be a little Langjun with fine clothes and jade food, would still eat pork, and even make pig's head.

The water that had just been brought up from the well was still steaming and warm, and the pig's head was first set on fire to clean the pig's hair, and then washed.

Take a knife to cut off the ear rings, eye corners, lymph nodes, nose cartilage and other debris, split the whole pig's head into two, and take out the pig's brain and put it aside.

Put the processed pig's head into a crockpot and cook it, because there is no ingredient, Li Xiao can only do this.

After boiling on high heat for half an hour, the flesh and bones are almost separated, so take them out and peel the meat off the bones.

The peeled meat is simply cut into several large pieces, put in a wooden barrel with clean water, and scraped and washed repeatedly to remove all the dirt and blood.

Old man Zhao looked extremely surprised with a cane, Li Xiao's movements were too skillful.

"So you can cook and eat?" At this time, the pig's head was already half-cooked, and there was already a smell of meat, and many people were snorting vigorously.

However, Li Xiao felt that the pig's head was still very sassy at this time.

"It's still early, we have to go into the water first."

Over there, Li Zhen Zhao Wan and the women were laughing and laughing and had already begun to knead the dough and make cakes, looking at the yellow millet dough, everyone was extremely happy.

Guo Biao has also begun to use a large clay pot to stew the loin on the fire.

On the contrary, it is Li Xiao's side, this pig's head has been made for a long time, and it is still early.

Blanch the scraped pork head meat in a tank of water for about a moment, and then remove it again and wash it. Put the blanched and washed pork head meat into the pot of water again and cook it together with the bones, skim off the foam while cooking, cook until it is five ripe, remove it and cool it slightly, cut it into chess pieces, and pour the soup into the pot of meat to clarify and set aside.

A group of people all gathered around Li Xiao, watching him go through one process after another.

An ordinary pig's head actually made him cook so many tricks.

Guo Biao stretched out his hand, scooped up a piece of pig's head meat, and put it in his mouth despite the fact that it was still hot, his mouth opened and closed with a purr, but he said vaguely, "Well, it's delicious, it's delicious." ”

At this time, even Dr. Zhao couldn't help but put a piece into his mouth, although he hadn't even put salt yet, but after cooking it several times, the meat was indeed very flavorful.

"It's really delicious, I can't imagine that the pig's head can be so delicious! Chewy! ”

Li Xiao smiled.

Ignoring the crowd, he took a washed clay pot and put it on the fire, but unfortunately there was not even an iron pot in this village, in fact, at this time in the Tang Dynasty, there was no cooking method of stir-frying, and the saucer-shaped iron pot had never appeared, there were iron pots, which were also other shapes, suitable for stewing, but the iron pot was more expensive, and the ordinary people could not afford it, and they also used more clay pots to cook and cook.

There is no white sugar, no rock sugar, no fried sugar, and no soy sauce, star anise, Sichuan pepper, cinnamon and other spices at hand, Li Xiao can only settle for it.

Put the clarified soup in the pot first, then add the pig's head, add the salt he had just refined with charcoal, then add a little rice oil he bought on the street, add ginger and green onions, and start simmering over low heat.

Waiting for the pig's head meat to simmer until crispy, Li Xiao let Zhang Onion, who was burning the fire, start to burn the fire.

The heat thickens the soup and you're done.

The millet porridge and yellow flour cakes over there had already been prepared, and even Guo Biao's stew was cooked, but everyone gathered around Li Xiao's pot of pig's head meat.

A pig's head, inconspicuous, but in Li Xiao's hands, it turned so fragrant.

"Is this actually pig's head? How can it be so fragrant, it is even more fragrant than this waist! ”

The sound of swallowing saliva came and went.

"How about trying it?" Li Xiao picked up a piece of pig's head meat and began to slice it, handing a slice to Yang Dayan.

After eating a slice, Yang Dayan couldn't help but suck his fingers, and couldn't help shaking his head at the pig's head meat and said, "The color is ruddy, fragrant and glutinous, salty and sweet, the meat is delicious, fat but not greasy, and the meat is shiny, I can't believe it, this is actually pig's head meat that no one wants to eat, I have never eaten such delicious pig's head meat!" ”

"Let's try it!"

As soon as Li Xiao's words came out, everyone couldn't help it anymore, they all squeezed over, you take a piece from the case, he took a piece, and after everyone finished eating, they all licked their fingers there.

"It's delicious!"

"Hahaha!" Li Xiao felt a sense of accomplishment, this is still the simplest version of pig's head meat, if the ingredients are complete, you must not gnaw off your fingers after eating!

"It's not too early, and the meal is ready, let's eat!" After Li Xiao finished speaking, everyone cheered together.