Chapter 45: Two Extremes
"Really? That's great. ”
It was completely unexpected for Lan Xiaoqing to be able to form pigskin jelly, so she was not as excited as Lan Erlang. But she is in a good mood to see the cheap dad who has a sad face all day long and cries his nose at every turn.
"Yes," Lan Erlang was more anxious than Lan Xiaoqing, "I just saw that it had been formed, but I didn't dare to move." Come and see. ”
Lan Xiaoqing smiled: "Dad, I want to wash up first." ”
"Huh? All right. Lan Erlang was a little disappointed, but he didn't force it, but he pinched the cornmeal in his hand faster.
Lan Xiaoqing rinsed his mouth by the stream, there were no toothbrushes in ancient times, and those who paid attention to hygiene in the village broke branches and bit one end to act as a toothbrush. Looking at herself in the stream, she was still the little girl with yellow face and thin muscles, only her eyes were getting brighter and brighter, and then looking at the withered yellow hair that was about to hang down to her waist, Lan Xiaoqing thought that sooner or later she would have to cut it off.
After braiding her hair, Lan Xiaoqing went to the kitchen, and Lan Erlang's eyes lit up when he saw her: "Let's go, let's go and have a look." ”
said that before her daughter could do anything, she took the initiative to scoop up all the nine bamboo tubes of the water tank, and also picked one up and shook it in her hand: "Look, I'm not afraid of flowing out."
Seeing Uncle Mei in front of her happy like a hundred-pound child, Lan Xiaoqing was also happy, she rolled up her sleeves, took out the kitchen knife, cut the upper part of the bamboo tube, and took out the formed pigskin jelly with the assistance of Lan Erlang.
The milky white skin jelly is frozen after being cooled by cold water, as white as white jade, as clear as crystal, and the fine pig skin embedded in it has long been unable to see the original shape, and anyone who sees such a beautiful thing will not associate it with the hard and unpalatable pig skin.
Lan Xiaoqing took a knife under Lan Erlang's stunning gaze, cut the pork skin jelly into thin and uniform slices, and placed them neatly in the pitch-black stoneware bowl, and the pork skin jelly set off became more and more crystalline.
"Dad, try it?"
Lan Erlang carefully reached out and picked up a piece, chewing it in small bites, for fear of ruining the good things.
"How's it going, Dad? What does it taste like? ”
Lan Erlang took another bite, his face full of incredulity: "It tastes even better than last night." ”
"Well, it was only a half-finished product last night."
"When you bite it, it's obviously slippery, but it melts in your mouth, and it is very refreshing without the fat of pigskin, which are two extremes! Qingqing, how did you do that? How so? ”
Lan Erlang's incredible and completely pleasing Lan Xiaoqing: "Haha Dad, how did you do it, didn't you witness the whole process last night?" If I make it for you, maybe you can master it better than me, and fried kidney flowers prove it. ”
"Really?" Lan Erlang was eager to try, "Then let me do it next time." ”
"Okay!" Lan Xiaoqing couldn't wait for it, she would never do it herself if she could open her mouth.
The father and daughter ate cornmeal with a small bowl of pork skin jelly, and breakfast was over.
When Lan Erlang was brushing the pot and washing the dishes, Lan Xiaoqing cut all the eight bamboo tubes of pork skin jelly, and she kept the remaining one for her own use.
Putting the pork skin jelly neatly in the basket, Lan Xiaoqing began to mix the dipping sauce.
Lan Erlang came over and looked: "The pork skin jelly already tastes very good, why do you need to dip the sauce?" It's going to cost a lot of money again. ”
As he spoke, Lan Erlang had already seen his daughter put green onions, garlic, sugar, salt, vinegar, sesame oil, sesame oil, chili sauce and other spices into it, and he was going to die of distress...... These seasonings are enough to buy as many staple foods as you can eat.