Chapter 60: Back to the Pot

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When I fell into the door, I heard Yuan's mother's questioning.

Mother Yuan looked at Gong and Ruixue's hair half scattered. Looking flustered, he asked, "What's the matter?" ”

Gong hurriedly saw the courtyard door closed, cha was good, still not at ease, and brought a broken stool against the door. She slumped to the ground: "I'm scared to death!" ”

"What do you look like!" Mother Yuan raised her voice slightly.

Gong got up with a grunt, grabbed Yuan's mother's sleeve, pointed at Ruixue, and said to Yuan's mother anxiously: "You ask her!" She didn't know where to provoke the person and ran after us. If you hadn't met the third uncle, you wouldn't know what would have happened. Gong shook Ruixue again, and said angrily, "Where did you provoke it?" ”

Mother Yuan pulled Ruixue over, brought her into the house, and let her eat tea before asking, "What's going on?" ”

"It was the man who sold me to Nanjing that day."

"You're a fugitive?"

Rui Xue denied it repeatedly: "No, I'm not. She told her what happened on the way to Nanjing, "I burned the pumpkin with the carp, and they were poisoned after eating it, so I escaped." After that, I met Lord Yuan. ”

Obviously, Yuan Bin didn't tell Yuan's mother about this matter, and he heard that Yuan's mother and Gong's faces were white and red, and they let out exclamations from time to time.

After listening. Gong clapped his hands and said, "Yes." As I remembered, the man said you poisoned them. I see, I blame you. ”

Mother Yuan pulled Ruixue to her side and patted her hand soothingly.

"Speaking of which, she's pretty clever." Gong was obviously frightened, and she patted her chest to soothe her heart, which was beating too fast.

Mother Yuan stood up and lit incense, cha the incense burner in front of a white porcelain Guanyin statue in her house, and bowed again and again: "Go to the temple to worship on the first day of the new year." She looked at the basket Gong had brought in and asked, "Did you buy something?" Why did you still buy meat? ”

"I bought a piece of pork belly and planned to come back to make soup, Ruixue said that the bones were fragrant, and I didn't need money anyway." Gong took out the muffins he bought from the basket and put them on the table beside Yuan's mother, "This is your favorite muffin." ”

Mother Yuan's words were a little stern: "How much can you buy these for how much can you sell a piece of cloth?" I see that the basket is also new, what do you buy the basket for? Don't you know how expensive money is? ”

Gong lowered his head and whispered: "Today's cloth sells more, so I bought some!" ”

"Nonsense! Liao's mother next door also came to complain to me that the price of cloth was much cheaper. How did you sell for more? ”

Gong Shi hurriedly took out the money from his arms: "It's true, you count." One piece of yarn is 600 wen. ”

"Six hundred wen!" Mother Yuan took the two hundred pieces and counted them, but she still didn't believe it, "You gave me your own money?" ”

Gong also put the rest of his money in front of Yuan's mother: "My cloth is four hundred Wen. A total of 800 texts. I bought two catties of pork belly and pork bones, which is forty-two Wen. One basket, two pieces of cloth, and muffins......"

Mother Yuan pinched her fingers and calculated, sure enough, there were so many. She glanced at her favorite muffin, smelled the fragrance of the muffin, and softened: "Even if it is so, it should be able to save money." How can there be so many? Liao's mother said that there were only more than 200 texts. ”

Gong sat next to Yuan's mother and took out the cotton and silk threads that people gave him and showed them to Yuan's mother: "There is a new cloth shop called Muzi on the Lotus Bridge. I looked at my cloth and my mother-in-law's yarn and said it was worth so much. That's really a connoisseur, and at a glance, I will say that my craft is from Songjiang Prefecture. He also said that if our material is good, the price is higher. Gave us the line, which is a good thing. said that we will send it over after weaving, or press the cloth for 300 wen a horse and yarn for 400 wen. ”

When Mother Yuan heard that there was such a good thing, she looked at the silk thread handed by Gong and took a closer look. She has been spinning yarn for decades, and ordinary silk threads can tell whether they are good or bad at a glance.

This silk thread is white and smooth, like a stream sliding through a finger, this is the best silk thread: "Just give it to us?" ”

"Yes. Mother-in-law, let's hurry up. It's a lot of money, people say that our craftsmanship is better than those individuals. Gong instigated Yuan's mother, when she thought of the money, she only felt that she could really buy whatever jewelry she wanted in two or three years, and she would no longer have to worry about it.

Yuan Mu nodded. This is a lot of money, she got up and walked out: "I'll tell you Liao's mother to go!" ”

Gong Shi hurriedly said: "Yes." The shopkeeper begged me to talk to my neighbors, and then I would go to their house and deliver cloth. He also said that the better the craftsmanship, the more valuable it is. ”

Mother Yuan heard this, and hurriedly went out to talk to the same person. Here Gong Shi packed up the cotton thread, ran to his house, and started weaving.

Ruixue was not as excited as their mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, she didn't know this thing at all, she looked at the basket on the ground, picked it up, and went to the kitchen to choose vegetables. If you live in someone else's house, you have to do something.

Large bones and pork belly are put together to make a soup. In the morning, the vegetables that Yuan's mother bought back were fried. I went to the loofah vine in the yard and picked two loofahs and stir-fried them.

"Why is it so spicy! Ahh ”

Yuan's mother, who went out to talk to others, came back. As soon as I entered the house, I smelled the spicy smell of rushing to my nose and couldn't help but sneeze twice. When I went to the kitchen, I saw Ruixue cooking.

"What are you doing?

Ruixue is putting the shredded pepper in the pot and stir-frying: "I'm making back to the pot meat." ”

Mother Yuan looked at the pot that there was not, and snatched the shovel in Ruixue's hand to pour oil into the pot: "Why don't you put oil in your cooking!" ”

Rui Xue pressed her: "You can't put oil." Dad said that when making back to the pot meat, you must first fry the pepper to fry the flavor, and the taste of the back pot meat is good. ”

"You kid! We can't eat anything so spicy, what's the use of how well you do it. Mother Yuan couldn't help but shake her head at her dead eyes, "What about Daughter-in-law Lin?" ”

Ruixue put the pepper up, poured the oil, scooped up the pork belly that had just been cooked with the big bones, cut a large piece, cut it into thin slices, and then put it in the pot and stir-fried.

"My sister-in-law is weaving."

Mother Yuan complained a little unhappily: "I don't come back, she doesn't know how to cook, and she asks others to cook." When Rui Xue made this dish, she urged her to go out: "It's so hot here......" When she saw the dishes on the small table, she couldn't help but say, "So many dishes have been made so quickly?" ”

"I think it's almost time. Only...... The broth has to be boiled until the evening. ”

Mother Yuan smiled: "Go out quickly, the kitchen is hot." We'll eat when they get back. Lin's daughter-in-law is crazy about money! ”

Rui Xue saw that Yuan's mother had more words to her today, and she also let go: "Auntie, why don't you take the yarn and make your own hair flowers?" I think some good hair flowers can sell for 200 Wen! ”

"Where do I have that craft, honest spinning is real." Mother Yuan washed the pot and cooked some mung bean soup. She thought for a moment and said to Rui Xue, "Since that person is still looking for you, don't go out these days." I told my three brothers to keep one at home every day. ”

"I don't know why they've been chasing me. At the time, I just wanted to run away. ”

"Luckily, you know that pumpkins can be poisoned if eaten with carp. Be scared along the way! You have to go through this at a young age, and you have to suffer! Later, drink more bowls of soup. Make up for it. ”

Rui Xue nodded, and soon thought of Wang Jiuzhi again, and sighed slightly.

Mother Yuan patted her on the back: "Don't be afraid. It's all good now. When your father comes, no one will dare to bully you. ”

Ruixue smiled and nodded. Yes. Only when her father is here, no one dares to bully her, even the arrogant Second Mrs. Zhao can't even speak clearly in front of her father's boning knife.

"Mother, I'm back!"

It was Yuan Sen who shouted loudly, followed by Yuan Lin who came back from his next duty. Mother Yuan walked out, looked at her two sons, and told them to wash their hands: "What about your eldest brother?" ”

As soon as the brothers Yuan Lin and Yuan Sen came back, they buried their faces in the water, washed their faces and drank happily by the way.

Yuan Sen raised his head one by one and touched the water on his face: "Big brother is not coming back." He saw Rui Xue who was following behind Yuan's mother, and suddenly blushed, everyone was joking with him all morning, saying that Rui Xue called him sister-in-law and sister-in-law, and it was the daughter-in-law that the family said to him, and said that he had just saved her, and he could also be his own daughter-in-law. But there was still a little bit of excitement in his heart.

Take another look! She's so good-looking!

Yuan Lin stretched out his hand to his stunned younger brother: "What are you thinking?" But didn't sleep well? How can my mother talk to you? ”

Yuan Sen said "ah", hiding and wiping his face again: "Yes, yes, yes." ”

Mother Yuan smiled and said distressedly: "Come in and eat, hurry up and sleep for a while." ”

Yuan Sen responded, clutching his head and thinking about how to talk to Rui Xue.

Gong Shi in the house hurriedly walked out: "I forgot about it, I'll go cook." ”

Mother Yuan had already brought the meal out: "This child is ready." Come and eat. He said to Yuan Lin again, "You can send the food to your eldest brother later." ”

Yuan Lin entered Yuan's mother's house, sat down to add his own food, and ate alone: "No, no." It looks like they're going to the restaurant again. It's so spicy, so spicy! ”

Yuan Lin couldn't stand the spicy meat after eating it, so he took a big mouthful of loofah in his mouth and desperately added rice: "Why is it so spicy!" ”

Ruixue explained: "I did it, I don't know if you can't eat spicy." ”

Yuan Sen didn't care so much, he dialed some vegetable soup and ate it directly: "It's good if it's spicy, and it's good to eat more." ”

Gong explained: "We also eat spicy, but we can't eat so spicy. ”

"Dad said that this dish is what Shu people love to eat, and they love spicy food the most."

Gong nodded, but asked, "What about the bones?" Didn't boil the soup? ”

"It's still boiling. Wait until the evening to drink. ”

Yuan Lin stopped his chopsticks and said, "What, there is still broth today?" ”

Gong Shi smiled and said, "Good creation!" She told Yuan Lin about today's events, and said, "You can eat meat every day in the future." ”

Yuan Lin didn't rejoice as soon as Yuan Sen, but thought about it before he spoke: "I don't think you're too happy." He's just one, how can he compare to so many of our businesses? Once he broke his cotton and silk threads, there was nothing left. He is so much taller than the others, how long can he last. ”

Gong Shiben was very happy, and was splashed with cold water by Yuan Lin, a little unhappy, and gently pushed him: "What time is it?" It's real that I got the money. But I don't think it's easy. We also have to have those big merchants to take care of the times. More than 200 texts, they dare to open it! ”

Rui Xue suddenly asked, "Does the official master care?" ”

Yuan Lin smiled.

Rui Xue found that his smile was still a little similar to Yuan Bin, the lines were no longer so terrifying, and softly, the three brothers of the Yuan family did not look like they were soldiers at all. They are of medium stature, and if the ship is a kaftan more like a reader.

"Anyway, we won't be able to find our money!" Yuan Lin ate quickly, and asked Gong to serve another bowl, although his mouth was so spicy that he felt numb, he still felt enjoyable.

Yuan Sen handed the bowl to Gong: "Second sister-in-law, let's do it again!" He smiled at Rui Xue again, "Girl, your dish is so delicious." As she spoke, she was still staring at Rui Xue, who was flushed with a blush, thinking, her face was blushing and becoming more beautiful!

Gong looked at the rice that was about to be bottomed out, and said to Yuan Lin: "If you don't make money yet, the rice at home is not enough for you to eat." He joked to Rui Xue again, "I don't dare to ask you to cook again in the future." ”

Yuan Lin took the meal and said disapprerovitously: "If you go and deliver it, don't think we can eat it." He turned to Rui Xue and said, "Your father is a cook, is he willing to do things for others?" ”

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Back to the pot meat: Sichuan cuisine. It is said that Sichuan cuisine is often used as the first choice for the Sichuan cuisine examination. Select the pork belly and cut it off in the water, and slice it after it cools. When stir-frying, do not put oil first, and fry the chili peppers directly into the pan to taste. This will make the spiciness stronger. Of course, bean paste is indispensable. Remember, the garlic sprouts in the pot are slender garlic sprouts, and the thick and long garlic sprouts can't be put because the taste is wrong.

Paprika: i.e. chili pepper. It was introduced to China at the end of the Ming Dynasty (because Li Shizhen's Compendium of Materia Medica is not recorded). Chili pepper was originally the first to be eaten by the "Xiajiang people" and then introduced to Hunan and Shu. Xiajiang people are the name of Chongqing people for the people of the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River. This was recorded in the Ming Dynasty's "Grass and Flower Spectrum". Chinese Ancient Green ∷--The fastest text update on the net ......】@!! [To quickly find this site, please search in Baidu: Sanlian Literature Network]