This lard and lard residue are both precious things, and when you fry vegetables, you can put a little bit of it to enhance the flavor and add flavor.

As for the lard residue, whether it is eaten directly with bibimbap or stir-fried, it is a rare delicacy.

Song Lingyue scrubbed the iron pot that had been boiled with lard, boiled all the water in the pot, and then removed the pot from the stove and waited for him to cool down.

At the same time, I took the seven-star peppers collected at noon, took about a pound of seven-star peppers, washed them and dried them one by one, and put them aside for later use.

Wait until the temperature of the wok has completely cooled down, and then put the wok back on the stove.

Song Lingyue pulled out some of the firewood in the stove, kept the stove as low as possible, stretched out her hand above the iron pot to feel the heat, poured the prepared Qixing pepper into the iron pot, and fried it dry without putting a drop of oil.

Song Lingyue planned to fry the fresh Qixing pepper to dry the water and then grind it into chili powder.

If it weren't for the temporary decision to take advantage of the rest to surprise Song Yanzhi, this chili pepper should have been directly threaded, hung under the eaves, and dried by itself.

Now that it's too late, Song Lingyue can only quickly dry the peppers. However, Song Lingyue has never done this, I don't know if it will succeed, and I am inevitably a little apprehensive in my heart.

Fortunately, Song Lingyue lowered the heat in time, but the Seven Star Pepper was not fried by Song Lingyue, but slowly lost its moisture and curled up in the wok.

Song Lingyue took out the Qixing pepper whose skin was already wrinkled, put it aside and let it cool, and after it was cold, she made sure that the Qixing pepper had been roasted and lost its moisture and became dry, hard and crispy, so she took out a stone mortar and pounded the Qixing pepper into powder and put it into a small porcelain bottle.

The remaining fresh Qixing peppers were chopped by Song Lingyue, found a small jar, put salt, sugar, and high soju, pickled them, and then directly covered the jar, poured clean water and vent, and waited for those peppers to ferment in the jar to become pickled peppers, and then put the jar in a cool and dry place to avoid the sun.

The cumin that was bought at Li's grocery store before was also carefully taken out by Song Lingyue.

Song Lingyue just had the mentality of trying it out, but she didn't expect that Li's grocery store really had cumin, but the owner didn't know what cumin was, and he kept it together with spices, and he just thought that cumin was a special spice.

Fortunately, Song Lingyue's sensitive nose made her smell the difference, and the soft grinding and hard bubble made the store owner sell cumin to her.

The cumin was also ground into granules and packed in the same small bottle, and by this time the work was more than half done.

Song Lingyue stuck her waist in, looking at the raw materials prepared by the entire board, a smile appeared on the corner of her lips, and there were words in her mouth:

"It's a pity that there are no bamboo skewers, otherwise wearing them with bamboo skewers would be more like barbecue."

Since Song Lingyue got the seeds of Qixing Pepper, what she wanted to eat in her dreams was the same as hot pot and the same barbecue.

In order to realize this dream, there was still a week before the Qixing pepper matured, Song Lingyue went to the blacksmith shop and asked the blacksmith to build a strange-looking 'brazier' for her.

The reason why the 'brazier' is strange is that the brazier is not like a normal brazier, but a large basin made of pure iron, but a circle of iron pieces around the base of the basin, which is locked together with the bottom of the basin, and only a small door is opened on the side, into which charcoal can be added.

On top is a baking tray made of iron bars in the shape of a disc, which is lightly fastened to the circle of iron sheets, so that the brazier forms a hollowed-out cylinder on it.

The baking tray is freely accessible and does not have to be wired on the iron sheet, which makes life easy and easy when using it.

At this time, Song Lingyue was holding the baking tray she asked the blacksmiths to make for her, and carefully cleaned the baking tray several times with a rag dipped in water, and then dipped the rag in vegetable oil to wipe the baking tray up and down.

Throwing the wood that was already burning in the stove into the brazier barrel, Song Lingyue found some silver frost charcoal that was not easy to smoke and had soot floating out.

This kind of silver frost charcoal, its charcoal white frost, smokeless, non-combustible, not easy to extinguish, buy a lot more expensive than ordinary charcoal, but the dosage is very economical, burning at night, enough to last all night.

Soon the silver frost charcoal was ignited, Song Lingyue put the baking tray on it, and soon there was a crackling sound of grease being roasted by the fire.

When the grease on the baking tray was about to be baked dry, Song Lingyue took another brush that Song Yanzhi had not used yet, dipped it in oil and brushed the baking tray again.

The purpose of this is to prevent the baking tray made of cast iron from sticking, so that the barbecue at night will not be rushed.

Song Lingyue put the baking tray on the brazier and baked it, made a few hot cakes, added chopped green onions, and spread them on the baking tray to determine the sticky situation.

At the same time, the pig's trotters were rinsed and blanched, and they were fished out. I took another casserole, mixed it with water, put ginger slices and green onions, then poured in soy sauce and salt, and without waiting for the water to boil, I put four pig's trotters into the casserole, covered the pot, and simmered slowly.

After a while, the whole kitchen was filled with an enticing scent.

Song Lingyue's trial made dried scallion pancakes were also done, and she quickly picked three of them and put them on a plate and sent them to Liu Liang, who was making lanterns in the yard.

"I think you're hungry, make a few scallion pancakes, you can taste them." Song Lingyue put the plate on the stool on the side, and Liu Liang had already piled up a lot of bamboo sticks that he had just sharpened at this time, and he soaked all those bamboo sticks in salt water.

Those bamboo sticks are just the right thickness, and soaked in salt water, so that even if the lantern is bent for a while, it will not break, but will have more toughness.

"Thank you." Liu Liang wiped the sweat from his forehead, "Are you done with the kitchen?" ”

Song Lingyue nodded, "It's almost ready, and the rest of the vegetarian dishes won't matter when they come back." You eat first, and I'll sit with you on the lantern. ”

Song Lingyue had just seen how Liu Liang made lanterns, so she followed the gourd drawing, gently bent the arc with bamboo strips, fixed it with fine hemp rope, and then pasted layers of straw paper. Finally, a layer of rice paper is placed on top, and when the paste is dry, a lantern is ready.

Song Lingyue learned very quickly, and making lanterns was not as difficult as she thought, and after a while, two or three lanterns had already been made. It's just that the lanterns are all the same color and it looks a little boring, so Song Lingyue went to the garden to find some impatiens petals, crushed the petals, mixed them with a little water, and made a light color, and used a brush to carefully put the color on the lantern.

I was tired of the colorful lanterns, Song Lingyue simply drew all kinds of cartoon characters on the lanterns, what robot cats, crayon Xiaoxin, cherry balls, were all drawn by Song Lingyue one by one, and each character looked vivid in Song Lingyue's pen.

Liu Liang finished eating the scallion pancakes that Song Lingyue tried to make, and hurriedly joined the camp of making lanterns.

The two of them did not speak, but buried their heads in hard work until twilight fell and the sky was dark in the small courtyard.

Song Lingyue was lazy, only to feel that her fingers were about to be worn out by the bamboo strips, and her entire shoulder and neck were also sore.

Looking at the pile of freshly made lanterns around her, Song Lingyue felt full of achievements.

"Why hasn't Qi Mo been gone for so long and hasn't come back?" Seeing that the sky was about to get dark, Song Lingyue couldn't help but get anxious, this was a surprise prepared for Song Yanzhi, if there were no fireworks sticks, wouldn't it be missing the most important link?

"If he doesn't come back, Yanzhi and Xiangling should come back in a while." Song Lingyue paced restlessly in the backyard.

said that Cao Cao Cao arrived, just when Song Lingyue was impatient to go out to find Qi Mo, Qi Mo could be regarded as coming back with a handful of fireworks sticks.

"You're back! I almost went out to find you. Song Lingyue greeted her, "Did you buy the fireworks sticks?" ”

"Got it." Qi Mo showed Song Lingyue the fireworks stick hidden in his arms, "This thing is not easy to sell." He raised his eyebrows triumphantly, revealing a 'praise me' expression.

However, at this time, Song Lingyue only cared about the fireworks sticks, and directly ignored Qi Mo.

Qi Mo looked at Song Lingyue's loving appearance and touched his nose: "Don't worry, in addition to the fireworks sticks, I also brought back a lot of good things, just outside, do you want to go and see it?" ”

"What else did you buy besides the fireworks sticks?" Song Lingyue was aroused by Qi Mo's interest.

Qi Mo said: "Wasn't there a lot of lanterns at the Lantern Riddle of the Flower Dynasty Festival before?" I went to Boss Li and asked him to rent some lanterns and come back, I'm afraid you won't have time to do it. Now that I have piled those lanterns on the carriage outside the door, will you come with me to bring them in?" ”

Song Lingyue's eyes lit up and said, "That's great!" I'm worried that the lanterns I made with Liu Liang are too simple, and you're really a godsend! ”

Song Lingyue patted Qi Mo on the shoulder, pulled Qi Mo and went out to see the lantern brought back by Qi Mo in the carriage.

When I came to the door, there were two carriages parked at the gate, one of which was stacked with lanterns of various patterns, which were neatly stacked on the cart.

Song Lingyue's eyes fell on the carriage behind her, which was really much stranger, with a thick quilt on it, and she didn't know what was hidden.

"Is there anything you bought in that carriage too?" Song Lingyue's finger pointed to the carriage covered with a quilt and looking like it had a strange atmosphere.

Qi Mo nodded, smiled at Song Lingyue and said, "Do you want to go and see what's inside?" ”

Song Lingyue glanced at Qi Mo and said, "What is in the quilt, you want to be so mysterious?" ”

Although she said this, Song Lingyue's feet had already involuntarily walked towards the carriage.

Song Lingyue's hand rested on the quilt, she looked back at Qi Mo suspiciously, and asked, "Qi Mo, shouldn't you have something strange in it, when I lift the quilt, that thing will jump out and scare me, right?" ”