One hundred and thirteen chapters
"Brother-in-law, what delicious food do you want to buy for Aaron?" Bao'er and Tang Xu kept asking questions after they went to the street, and Tang Xu didn't tell him until the two walked to the butcher shop. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
"What does this guest want?" The owner of the butcher shop greeted Tang Xu warmly.
"Boss, do you have pig hearts and lungs here?" Tang Xu looked at the meat case, a large meat case was full of meat, it looked like a whole pig was here, but only the internal organs were not seen.
"Yes, yes, but what's the use of all this sewerage? I've got some good fresh pork, would you like some of it? The butcher shop owner wondered.
"I only need those, and if there is, you can sell it to me, how much does it cost?" Tang Xu was very happy, and just now he was worried about whether he would run in vain.
"And how much do you want?" The boss asked again.
"There are many pig hearts, and one pig lungs." Tang Xu thought that it would be difficult to buy too much at a time, and he would just buy it after eating.
"Wait a minute, I'll fetch it for you." Seeing that Tang Xu insisted on buying it, the boss didn't ask much, turned around and went to the yard behind the house to pick up the messy sewer, and then took a wooden basin and brought it out to Tang Xu.
"It's all fresh, we slaughter a lot of pigs every day, and the earliest is only yesterday." The person who does business is Lingguang, and seeing that Tang Xu wants to buy water, he will also shout.
"Brother-in-law, did you buy these for Aaron to eat?" When Tang Xu bought the pig into the water, Bao'er didn't speak, but kept looking at it suspiciously. After Tang Xu paid the money and took the things, the two left the butcher shop, Bao'er couldn't help but ask. He originally thought that his brother-in-law would buy meat or other delicious things for Ah Long, but he didn't expect to collect a bunch of pigs in the butcher shop. In the past, when the family was poor, my mother also bought and ate it, but the taste was very bad, in short, it was not what he thought was a good thing. Could it be that my brother-in-law was worried about money and sent things away casually?
"These things are very good, I like to eat them very much, and they are very nutritious, Ah Long has a cub in his belly and needs to be nourished. Rest assured, Aaron will love these. Tang Xu thought of the butcher's reaction just now and Bao'er's expression now, and thought to himself that they don't like to eat pig offal now, probably, otherwise how could the boss only charge a few small dollars from himself, the same as giving it away for nothing.
"Bao'er, brother-in-law won't coax you, brother-in-law is a doctor, and he will definitely help you take good care of Ah Long, so that he and his children will grow strong." Tang Xu didn't want to and couldn't explain the scientific truth about internal organs. Fortunately, Bao'er is simple and trusts Tang Xu very much, so she believed him when she heard him, and happily held hands with him and walked back.
On the way home, Tang Xu suddenly saw someone selling red fruits, and Tang Xu was curious to take Bao'er over.
"Guest officer, this is the best red fruit, do you want to have some?" The vendor was a middle-aged man, with a full beard and a strange accent, unlike the people near Kaifeng.
"Isn't this fruit in autumn? How could this be? "Red fruit is also a medicinal herb, and Tang Xu has seen its habits in books.
"At first glance, you are an expert, our family's red fruits are not grown locally, they are from the north. It's better than the local one, you can taste it, it's not sweet, you don't need money. The hawker was very enthusiastic, Bao'er was also quite greedy next to him, Tang Xu ate one really good, so he bought three catties with the hawker. Then I went to the grain store to weigh a bag of sugar, and finally went to the pharmacy to grab a few patches of conditioning medicine for Zhang's family, and only after they had bought a large and a small one did they go back happily.
After arriving home, before it was time to eat at noon, Tang Xu washed the red fruit and brought it to the people in the house, and returned to the stove room to start his work. Xiao Cui saw that he had come back and there was no one, so she went to the stove room to look for him.
"What are you doing?" Xiao Cui also frowned slightly when she saw a bunch of pigs going into the water at Tang Xu's feet.
"These are the ones I prepared for Aaron." Tang Xu pointed to the pig offal on the ground, Xiao Cui nodded clearly, it turned out to be for dogs.
"And what about these?" Xiao Cui was still holding a few red fruits that Tang Xu had washed in his hands, and he would see that he had boiled a pot of boiling water again, as if he was going to take down the remaining large pile of fruits and cook them.
"You'll know in a moment, let's go out first and talk to your mother more." Tang Xu sold Guanzi. Xiao Cui was very curious to see that he was mysterious, but he didn't say anything about asking Tang Xu, and finally simply didn't ask, took some red fruits and walked out of the stove room.
Tang Xu tried to recall the practice of memory, first found a pair of chopsticks, and skewered the washed red fruits on the chopsticks, one can be skewered five, and it looks quite similar. Then he poured all the sugar he had bought into the pot, and scooped out all the excess water that had not been sugared before the saccharification. When the sugar boiled in the water and became very viscous, and the color began to become a little yellowish, Tang Xu put the skewered red fruits in the syrup and wrapped them vigorously, and after wrapping, he quickly put them on the clean cutting board while the syrup had not yet flowed down.
Just skewer two or three skewers, and when the previous one has cooled, take it off and put it on a plate, and then put the new one on the board. After a while, the red fruit and white sugar were all used up, and it turned into more than a dozen strings of crystal clear rock sugar red fruit. Tang Xu knew that Xiaocui's family loved sweets, and they must also love to eat this thing, so they made more.
"Brother-in-law, what is this?" Tang Xu entered the hall with a plate, and Bao'er immediately ran over and stared directly at the bunches of fruits on the plate, which were crystal clear and very beautiful.
"Bao'er, slow down, I'll bring it to your mother and sister first, and I'll give you food later." Tang Xu said with a smile, and Bao'er swallowed her saliva and nodded. Tang Xu was a little unbearable to see his pitiful appearance, so he picked up a small piece of broken sugar residue from the plate and fed it to his mouth.
"It's so sweet." Bao'er only felt that her mouth was full of sweetness, and she was very happy.
"It's... My hometown is unique to the method, you all love sweet, so I made some for you to taste. Tang Xu put the plate on the table, which frightened Zhang, although she knew that her son-in-law was good, diligent and very good at taking care of people, but a big man cooked by himself, and the women were idle on the side, which made her feel very ashamed.
"Mother-in-law, you work hard all year round, and you don't have a few days to relax during the Chinese New Year. This is my filial piety to you, you don't have to be polite, try it. Tang Xu saw her thoughts and said with a smile.
Zhang's heart was moved, and he no longer shirked, reached out and picked it up and ate one in his mouth. The sugar is wrapped thickly, and now the weather is cold, and a layer of syrup on the surface of the red fruit has formed a thick hard shell.
"Is it delicious?" Tang Xu asked nervously, this was the first time he had cooked something for his elders, although it was just a snack, he was also very apprehensive.