Chapter 14: The Smell of Meat
Captain Eight nodded, waving his hand and speaking in tongues, telling her to get busy.
Xu Jiuyan turned around and smiled at the four of them and said, "I still have something to do, so I'll leave first." ”
As soon as Xu Jiuyan left, several educated youths muttered in a low voice.
"She's also an educated youth, and she wears a post office uniform."
"It seems that the life of the educated youth is not sad, but it scares me."
"Don't be happy too early, people's better times don't mean yours are better, this educated youth is not simple."
"Ah, why isn't it simple, what's not simple."
"Post office, even if it's a temporary worker, who of you can do it?"
Several people immediately fell silent and began to think about their own things.
Xu Jiuyan returned to Dongya Village and immediately cleaned up the house, except for daily necessities and two sets of uniforms, everything else was put into the space, and only a little food was left.
Packed up, sat down and thought about things, and the New Year was just over a month away, the second year she had come.
It's already very accustomed to spending the New Year alone, and it doesn't matter where you spend it. But this year, she had to go back to Kyoto, first, to change some equipment, second, to go back to see the direction of the wind, and third, to brush up on her presence.
The old lady's connections are not covered, but she can't stand people from going to tea, these connections are all people, and it doesn't matter if you can't stand it, it's three thousand nails to break the boat, and it will be a relationship ten years later.
She had to go back and show her face, dangling in front of these people, and let them know that she was also a little capable.
Finally, there is another point, she also let the people here know that her relationship with Xu Jiuyan Kyoto is also hard, don't provoke people who shouldn't be provoked, and play a deterrent role with fiction and reality.
How to go back to Kyoto to let people know that you have the ability, in this era, it is very simple, and if you have food, you are the most capable. It's the same in Kyoto, where a large area of starvation is eaten by wealthy families.
My own polished rice is really fragrant, and the space is really satisfying, and the exchange is high-end and high-quality products.
On weekdays, what she helps others to redeem is the home-grown rice that the villagers pick out and are reluctant to eat, and this is all precious.
has two assists from Artuda, and she has some meat in her hands, this is a local tyrant.
Well, there are still few fruits, and it is too slow to harvest them like this, but now that this limelight is rising, I don't dare to take risks, which is really annoying.
After thinking about it, I got up and started the fire to paste the mixed dough cakes, and I was sweating all over.
washed again, then brought out a bowl of braised pork ribs, a bowl of porridge, and ate it with steamed buns.
Eating and drinking enough to clean up the battlefield, pulling out a piece of leopard meat, this thing has never been done, and eating wild animals is illegal in the 21st century.
Wash it first and decide to try it to see how it tastes.
Cut the leopard meat into small pieces three fingers wide square, and then pour in some homemade cooking wine, wild ginger, garlic, green onions, and peppercorns, and rub and scratch vigorously to remove the smell.
Then add a small amount of salt, a little pepper and stir well, and marinate for forty minutes. Because there is no watch, it can only be measured by feeling.
In order to have enough time, Xu Jiuyan hid the meat, washed himself, and went out to find his friends to go around the mountains and pick some mushrooms and wild vegetables.
It is rare that Xu Jiuyan came back early today, and with a greeting, a group of children walked towards the mountains under the leadership of A worm.
Ah Can was the youngest, only five years old, and walked slowly, and Xu Jiuyan fell behind with him.
Xu Jiuyan walked with a wooden stick and knocked and beaten, you and I chatted with Xiao Acan one by one.
"Ah Can, where did you find the mango last time?"
"Back on the hillside, Ah Gang found it, Ah Gang said that there is a mountain col, and there are a lot of them in it."
"Ah Chan, let's be here, can you help me find some mushrooms?"
"Okay. Sister Yan, why are other educated youths different from you? ”
"Huh? What's different, have you seen other educated youth, how do you know it's different. ”
"I heard what Grandma said, the educated youths in other villages are different from Sister Yan, they waste food and fight."
"Hehe, it's light to be hungry, it's good to be hungry for a while. Xiao Acan can't waste food, you see that everyone works very hard just to fill their stomachs, and it is shameful to waste. ”
"I didn't waste it, I picked up a lot of millet with Grandma, and Grandma steamed rice dumplings for me, but it was fragrant."
"Ah Chan is awesome."
One big and one small picked up mushrooms for a while, basically Ah Can was looking for them, Xu Jiuyan picked them, Xu Jiuyan was really not good at finding these things, sometimes he couldn't see them when he walked over, either his eyes were not good, or he didn't have a long heart.
Xu Jiuyan didn't think it was about the same time, got up and shouted, "Ah worm, I'm home." ”
After half a minute, hearing a response, Xu Jiuyan waited for a while, and saw that Ah Worm came back with a group of little brothers, no one was holding a handful of fruits, Xu Jiuyan's eyes lit up, and beckoned them home.
The child put all the fruits into Xu Jiuyan's back basket, Xu Jiuyan gave them the cakes, and then whispered to Ah Worm: "The moon climbs, you come to my sister's place." ”
Ah Worm nodded, and led a group of little brothers to hula and left.
Xu Jiuyan shook his head and complained, we haven't been a child yet, look at this guy who is hugging before and after, the leader of the big brother, the scene is a person.
The door was closed, the meat was taken out, and water was added to the pot, which was a clay pot. It's the era of steelmaking, and it's hard to buy a kitchen knife, let alone a pot. Even if you have all the industrial tickets, you may not be able to buy them.
Put the meat in and boil it thoroughly, then change a pot of water to continue boiling, until you know that the foam has surfaced, after skimming off the foam, put the seasoning bag and the ingredient package together, put in a spoonful of homemade sweet paste, garlic and ginger slices, and several green onions, and simmer.
Because of the limitation of ingredients, the seasoning package is incomplete, only pepper, star anise, cloves, cinnamon, cardamom, sand kernels, cinnamon, angelica and other eight flavors.
In order to make the meat rotten, put five pieces of hawthorn and a pinch of tea, these are all small tips for making meat, for a true cooking enthusiast, it is also very helpless to be hindered by the lack of materials to pursue the road of food.
Wen Haohuo, Xu Jiuyan sat in the courtyard and cooled, thought about it and felt that he would bring some special textile cloth back, most of the women in the village were good at weaving, and the woven cloth was old coarse cloth, dyed with plant dyes, which was very local.
It may not be used to make clothes in the north, but it is also excellent for cotton bedding. Thinking about it, I was going to find the captain, walked to the door and stopped, bowed the smell on my body, forget it, wait for Ah Worm to come and let him pass the word.
Boring the stewed meat, Xu Jiuyan closed his eyes and scanned the things in the space and began to organize them. Once the fruit she harvested entered a thousand catties, she only collected a thousand catties a year, really, hey, there is no plug-in, there is no equivalent strength.
In addition to the meat she brought, now she has a lot of wild boar meat plus some leopard meat, which is enough to eat for a while, it seems that she is really in urgent need of help, I hope that Artuida can help her achieve the goal of being a little rich, so that she can stand for ten years, she must rely on the family to do nothing, think about it, it's beautiful.
Time slipped away quietly, and the moon got up in the night, Xu Jiuyan put away the fire, and put out a bowl of meat and two large bowls of soup, and the rest of the brains tightened the space.
Then he opened the door, fanned hard with a banana fan, and spread the aroma of meat in a room, and finally had a good relationship with the village, Xu Jiuyan didn't want to cause trouble, more things are better than less things, many times, one carelessness may be a catastrophe.
It's almost scattered, put the meat and soup in the yard to cool, and wait for the worm to come.
After a while, Ah Worm came, and as soon as he entered the door, he smelled the meat, staring at the bowl on the table with shining eyes, eyes full of longing, and wriggling lips.
Xu Jiuyan sandwiched a piece for him to eat.
"It's so fragrant, it's so delicious. Sister Yan, you are so powerful, this is the best meat I have ever tasted. ”
"Yes, it's a pity, there's not much meat, you bring these back, and ask your grandma to help me weave more cloth, I'll be useful."
"Okay, Sister Yan."
"Go slower and be careful with your spills."
Ah Worm answered, and his footsteps continued to churn.
Xu Jiuyan shook his head and turned around to rest. As soon as he lay down, he heard Aunt Ketong's voice, and quickly got up and opened the door.
Aunt Ketong and Ah Worm's aunt were standing outside, Xu Jiuyan opened the door to see that there was still a wheelbarrow, and quickly got out of the way to let them in.
Ah Worm didn't know where to turn into the house, stood behind Xu Jiuyan and said: "My grandma said that these are polished rice, and they are collected in the village, there are 200 catties, can Sister Yan change it?" ”
Aunt Ketong nodded, pointed to the rice bag on the wheelbarrow, and spoke.
"Grandma said that she had just had a bumper harvest, and she had left polished rice at home, thinking about redeeming some food for a good year, thank you Sister Yan, if it weren't for Sister Yan, we wouldn't be able to eat enough every year, and this year we finally have a stutter, which can last until the harvest season next year."
Xu Jiuyan frowned and looked at the rice bag, Aunt Ketong and Ah Worm Niang's hearts tightened, they also knew that it was too embarrassing, but people were poor and afraid, and they were afraid, this was also no way, the taste of hunger was uncomfortable.
Xu Jiuyan felt that it was almost the same and said: "Auntie, it's okay to say more than a dozen catties, I'll find the post office to digest it, so much, I'm ...... Auntie, speculation is a felony. ”
Aunt Ketong and Ah Worm Niang glanced at each other, knowing that it was very dangerous, it was very difficult for them to change things before, and once they were caught, it would be over.
Xu Jiuyan sighed and said: "Auntie, now there is a shortage of food everywhere, put it here first, I can't guarantee that it will be replaced, I will try my best, I can change as much as I can, you know, the current form is very bad, there are armbands everywhere outside." ”
Ah Worm translated, and Aunt Ketong grabbed Xu Jiuyan's hand and burst into tears with excitement.
"Thank you, Sister Yan, Sister Yan, if you have something to do in the future, I will definitely rush to be the first." Ah Zhu is fourteen years old, and he already understands some things in this society, and he knows what Xu Jiuyan's behavior means and how much risk he takes, so he said it very solemnly.
Xu Jiuyan smiled and said, "Okay, I don't want to have anything, did you tell your grandma about what I want to do?" ”
"Anyway, Grandma said it's no problem, there are still some at home, how much does Sister Yan want?"
"Twenty meters is enough."
Ah Worm and Aunt Ke Tong said, Aunt Ke Tong and Ah Worm Niang nodded hurriedly and said that it would be done.