Chapter Fifty-Four: Bastards
On this day, it was another good day with a big sun.
After breakfast, Jiang Qing moved the meat under the eaves.
She took a jar of salt and poured it into the pot, added some spices and peppercorns and peppers and put it in to fry.
After stir-frying until slightly yellowed, put it out and put it in a small dustpan, spread out and cool.
Su Yijin took out a large vat, washed it clean, and then wiped it dry with a clean rag.
After the salt was cool, Jiang Qing brought it to the side of the meat.
The four of them gathered around the dustpan, took the meat, and rubbed it with salt.
Once smoothed, put it in a large vat that has been washed beforehand.
Larger pieces of pig's trotters and meat are placed on the bottom, and ribs and the like are placed on top.
After all, during the pickling process, there will be salt water soaking down, and if you put these thinner ones underneath, you will not be able to die at that time.
After installing it, Su Yong and Su Yijin moved the vat back into the house.
Jiang Qing took a dustpan about the size of the cylinder mouth and buckled it upside down, and then put a large wooden pier on it.
Jiang Qing didn't castrate all the meat, she left some big bones and meat.
Anyway, it's cold now, so I can still put it in a little bit.
At noon, Jiang Qing stewed two large tube bones.
I added some white radish, and the taste was so fresh that I wanted to eat it on my tongue.
Seven days have passed in a blink of an eye, and the meat is almost marinated.
Jiang Qing and Su Yining set up a rack for roasting meat (bacon) at home, and Su Yong, father and son, took a scimitar (dialect, chopping knife) and a ladder to chop cypress branches.
Not to mention anything else, the most important thing in this Shu land is cypress, which is all over the mountains.
No, there are two trees next to the Su family's yard.
Jiang Qing's mother and daughter set up a shelf and hung the marinated meat on it, and each piece of meat was tied up with palm leaves, which didn't take much effort.
As soon as the meat was hung here, Su Yong and his son dragged back with the cut branches.
Jiang Qing first took some dry firewood from the stove house and lit it, and then put the wet cypress branch on it, and smoke rose in an instant.
The shelves are fenced off all around to prevent the smoke from escaping.
Su Yining took a shovel, brought a small bench and sat next to it, and when he saw a fire, he used a shovel to extinguish it.
It's a lot of fun.
After baking for about an hour, Jiang Qing took the sausage off the shelf.
Sausages should not be baked for too long, otherwise it will not be good in case the skin cracks.
The rest of the meat has to be baked.
Until the sun turned west, and the cypress branches burned out.
Jiang Qing lifted the wooden planks around him and baked the meat for a day, and the skin was already a little blackened.
Su Yong hung two bamboo poles under the eaves and hung the baked meat on the bamboo poles to let them air dry for a few more days.
Today is the seventh day of the lunar month, and in one day it will be the Laba Festival.
Jiang Qing was afraid that Bai Zhusheng would forget to come over for dinner tomorrow, so he called Su Yijin to talk to him.
Su Yijin looked unhappy after hearing this.
Jiang Qing was a little puzzled and asked him what was wrong.
"I didn't go, he actually dared to hit my little sister's idea, I don't like him!"
Jiang Qing felt a little funny when he saw him gritting his teeth and looking eager to eat Bai Zhusheng.
"Then if you don't go, I'll let your sister go!"
Sure enough, when Su Yijin heard this, she immediately ran out.
Just kidding, let the little sister go? What if the little sister lets that bastard take advantage of her again?
Yes, in Su Yijin's heart, Bai Zhusheng has changed from a best friend to a bastard!
He came to the courtyard of the Bai family angrily, and saw that the door was half-hidden, which was a little strange.
Bai Zhusheng usually closes the door, how can he ...... today?
Su Yijin pushed open the door and was really about to call Bai Zhusheng, but she was laughed at by the scene in front of her.