Chapter 11: Good things I've never eaten in my life
"This ...... Where did all this come from? Xia Duofu came up, and as he spoke, he swallowed hard.
"Got it from the mountains! I originally wanted to go to the mountains to get some wild vegetables and wild fruits, but I happened to see half a wild boar lying on the ground, I thought it should be a nearby beast after predating, eat the leftover, and pick it up! ”
Xia Qiqi didn't want to talk about the werewolf with Yu Guixiang, Xia Duofu said.
Xia Duofu stopped talking, and so did Yu Guixiang, both of whom were immersed in the sudden harvest of happiness.
Xia Qiqi clapped his hands, felt that his hands had returned to normal, and began to sort out the things in the tiger skin.
Meat, pig offal, pig trotters, and all sorts of things.
Before entering the stove room to light the fire, she didn't forget to remind Yu Guixiang, "Mother, this wild apple is a little sour, you can taste it and see if you can eat it!" ”
The reason why Xia Qiqi got the apples over was, to a certain extent, still thinking about this pregnant woman.
Some pregnant women are extremely acidophilic, if Yu Guixiang likes it, it can be regarded as an extra snack with a belly.
"I'm going to wash!" Xia Duofu said a word, took two apples from the bamboo basket, and went to the stove to wash them.
"Mother will help you deal with it!" Yu Guixiang said, trying to squat down.
"Don't, mother, just help me hold the lamp!"
Xia Qiqi went back to the stove room, took a big wooden basin, and put the meat in the tiger skin one by one and put it in the wooden basin.
It was very cold at night, and when Xia Qiqi did this, he shivered with cold.
Seeing this, Yu Guixiang came out of the stove room with a bundle of firewood and lit a fire next to Xia Qiqi.
After the firewood was ignited, it finally warmed up a lot, and Yu Guixiang also extinguished the oil lamp, which was more precious than gold.
Xia Qiqi piled the meat into a pile, and put a little salt in the internal organs except for the large intestine.
This is done for longer storage.
When Xia Qiqi took out the half bag of salt he took back from the werewolf cave, he was unsurprisingly questioned by Yu Guixiang again.
"Qiqi, this salt ......"
No way, in this era, salt is too expensive, not to mention anything else, just Xia Qiqi took out such a half bag of salt, it is estimated that it is enough for the whole family to eat for more than half a year.
"Mother, I didn't steal it anyway, I picked it up!" Xia Qiqi said casually, and she was afraid that Yu Guixiang and Xia Duofu would not believe it, so she said again: "Yesterday I spent a night in the mountains, and I found a cave, which should have been inhabited before, and there were many things in it.
At first, I didn't dare to take it, but when I fell asleep, the mountain god told me in my dream that I could use all those things, but when our family became rich in the future, we would buy some salt and return it. ”
The ancients were the most superstitious, and if they said something mythical, they would not doubt it.
Sure enough, after Xia Qiqi said this, Yu Guixiang and Xia Duofu knelt down on the spot.
He muttered words like thanking the mountain god for giving so many good things to the Xia family's four rooms, and he will definitely repay the favor in the future.
Xia Qiqi twitched the corners of his mouth and continued to work on his own.
On the fire, Xia Qiqi began to burn the hair on the pig's trotters.
It's also a shame that the werewolf doesn't look down on these four pig's trotters, and when he peels them, he lets go of the pig's trotters.
Otherwise, she really wouldn't have been able to get rid of the pig's trotters.
In the air, there was a smell of collagen being burned, and Xia Qiqi didn't like to smell that smell very much.
But Xia Duofu and Yu Guixiang liked it tightly, especially Xia Duofu, who was almost the same, all gathered next to the fire, staring at Xia Qiqi's burning pig's trotters in the blink of an eye.
"Mother, this pig's trotter is burned, I want to chop one and eat it, give it to you, and make up for the flowers and flowers!" Xia Qiqi said to Yu Guixiang in a consultative tone.
"Mother is fine, mother doesn't eat!" Yu Guixiang hurriedly shook her head.
"I don't eat either!" Xia Duofu shook his head, which was a bit like a woman singing with her husband.
"I want to eat, everyone's body bones are so weak, I don't know if they can survive this winter! What's more, there is a doll in the mother's belly, if you don't eat it, he will eat it too! ”
Xia Qiqi opened his mouth and explained to Yu Guixiang.
Yu Guixiang sighed lightly and stopped talking.
"There are three pig's trotters left, I'm going to get up in the morning and take them to the town to exchange some brown rice, our family's food for the winter hasn't landed yet, it's time to prepare!"
Yu Guixiang listened to Xia Qiqi speak, and she suddenly felt that her daughter had grown up, not only assertive, but also far-sighted!
"Niang Ming'er will accompany you, it just so happens that Niang is also going to the town to see what work there is, it is what Niang can do!"
As soon as the autumn harvest is over, there is nothing to do in the countryside.
The work is gone, but the life still has to go on, especially what the daughter said, the food for the winter at home has not yet been settled.
If you don't try hard, the whole family will starve to death!
After preparing everything, Xia Qiqi dried the tiger skin in the house.
At night, the dew is heavy outside, and the tiger skin gets wetter and wetter the more it is dried, so it is really not a wise move to dry it outside at this time!
After entering the stove room, Xia Qiqi began to chop pig's trotters.
Wild boars run wild in the wild all year round, and the trotters are not fatter than domestic pigs, but the meat quality is much firmer, and there is more lean meat and less fat.
If it is sold to ordinary people, it is not as valuable as domestic pigs.
Ancient fatty meat was more expensive than modern ones, especially pork belly, a good piece of pork belly, the price may be more expensive than modern pork ribs and pig's trotters.
Among the meat brought back by Xia Qiqi, there was pork belly.
But it's not much, so she doesn't plan to sell it, she wants to keep it for herself to refine oil, the Xia family has four rooms, and there is no oil.
Rapeseed oil is not cheap, so it is better to refine some oil for later use.
Xia Qiqi chopped the pig's trotters, washed them, took a lot of mushrooms, and washed them together.
At this time, although it was already very late, she believed that everyone's stomach was still hungry.
What's more, the conditions of the Xia family's four rooms, good things, can really only be eaten at night when no one is around.
A person was busy working on the edge of the stove, and Yu Guixiang added fire to the mouth of the stove.
The four rooms are terrible poor, and in the stove room, except for knives and cutting boards, and a little bit of salt that she stole from Lao Xia's house before, there is nothing left.
It doesn't feel like a home at all.
So the idea of marinating pig's trotters with big spices has all become a dream.
Fortunately, there is a simple way to live, Xia Qiqi cut a few pieces of pork belly, and used the pork belly to refine oil, and the air was suddenly filled with a strong smell of meat.
A few people stood on the edge of the stove, smelling the fragrance and drooling...
When the oil is ready, pour a pot of water into the pot.
When the water was boiling, Xia Qiqi put the chopped pig's trotters.
It's really the easiest way to cook, but it doesn't matter, as long as it fills your stomach, it's better than anything else.
A pot of pig's trotters was stewed for almost half an hour, Xia Qiqi felt that it was almost enough, and put the washed mushrooms in it.
"Mother, go and call your two sisters!" Xia Qiqi Dao.