Shen Xiangmiao cleaned up the meat, cut half of the pork belly, washed it, and cut it into small pieces of one inch square.

Lu Shi drew water, scooped the stick noodles and white noodles and began to mix the noodles.

Shen Xiangmiao glanced at the noodle jar that had almost bottomed out in the morning, but now it had become a small half jar.

"Mother, why did our stick noodles become more?"

"After you got up early and left with Tie Dan, your third uncle and third aunt came, saying that they were afraid that our family would have less land and more people, and the surplus grain would not be enough to last until the wheat harvest, so they took half a bag of stick noodles and sent it over." Lu said.

The third uncle Shen Fuhai and the third aunt Zhang are both hardworking and kind people, after the farm work in the field is busy, if they have time, they will come to help them do farm work, and the melons, vegetables, vegetables and fruits in the vegetable field at home are always sent here.

The third uncle is skillful, and he often weaves straw shoes and bamboo baskets to sell in the town in his spare time, and can also exchange some money to supplement the family, so the life of the three rooms is much more relaxed.

This must be some surplus food at home, and seeing the pity of their orphans and widows, they specially sent some sticks of noodles so that they could hold on until the wheat harvest.

"The third uncle and the third aunt are kind." Shen Xiangmiao sighed: "Why don't you make braised pork and send some to them?" ”

Knowing grace is Shen Xiangmiao's usual style.

Moreover, she was also thinking about discussing some serious things with her third uncle Shen Fuhai, and she just took advantage of this excuse to go there.

"It's a good feeling."

Sanfang makes something delicious on weekdays, and often sends it here, and it's okay to send some braised pork, but it's just ......

"I'm afraid that your uncle and aunt will say that our family is biased again." Lu Xiu'e was a little worried.

"What do they do that are unconscionable, and they still hope that our team will be okay? Just don't give it to them, let them know that if they are not good to others, they don't want others to be good to them! "Shen Xiangmiao is angry as long as she thinks of what the eldest aunt Xu did.

This kind of person wants to fight once he enters the house, and he still wants to eat the braised pork she made, so he dreams about it.

"If you don't give it to your uncle and aunt, you won't give it, then your grandparents will ......," Lu Shi wanted to say and stopped.

Old Man Shen and the Yang family are elders, and filial piety should be honored.

It's just that Old Man Shen and the Yang family live next door to the big house, if they only give it to them, and don't give it to the big house, it will be even more intimate.

"I just have to let the uncle and the aunt know that the intimacy is clear!" Shen Xiangmiao said: "Mother, don't worry about this matter, wait for me to send it to the third uncle's house first, and then let Tie Dan find an excuse to invite grandparents to our house for dinner, so that I am not afraid that the uncle's family will ask for meat from grandparents under the pretext of children's greed." ”

It just so happened that he also talked to Old Man Shen and the Yang family about the Xu family's problem.

"It's okay, then I'll live a little more." Lu scooped another half bowl of stick noodles into the basin.

"Then I'll cut more meat, this pound of meat can't make many pieces, a family points, I'm afraid one person can't eat two pieces, it's better to do both, don't feel distressed, I'll make more money when I go back, let my mother eat braised pork every day." Shen Xiangmiao smiled and took out the remaining catties of meat.

"Cheng, listen to you." Lu nodded.

Shen Xiangmiao washed all the remaining meat, cut it into cubes as before, and then began to officially make braised pork.

Put the cut meat pieces into the pot and cook for about 15 minutes, wait for the blood foam to be removed, take out the meat, rinse with cold water and set aside.

Put a small amount of oil in the pot, add green onions, ginger, garlic, cinnamon, bay leaves, star anise and other spices and stir-fry until fragrant, put the meat pieces into the pot and stir-fry, and remove them when the surface of the meat is golden brown.

The third and most important step is to fry the sugar: put a small amount of oil in the pot, pour in an appropriate amount of white sugar, stir quickly, and quickly turn off the heat when the sugar melts and the bubbles change from large to small, and pour in an appropriate amount of boiling water.

Then, put the meat in a pot, add salt to taste, then add an appropriate amount of boiling water, bring the water to a boil over high heat, skim off the foam, turn to low heat and simmer.

Braised pork stewed in an iron pot is far less fast than the speed of modern society stewed in a pressure cooker, but thinking that it is too conspicuous to take the meat into the space to stew, Shen Xiangmiao dispelled this idea and changed to add a little Shao wine and a little tea water to make the meat cook faster.

Covering the pot, Shen Xiangmiao checked the fire and squatted in front of the stove.

On the large board, Lu Shi was rolling noodles with a rolling pin, and the dough gradually turned into a thin round cake in her hand.

Tie Dan looked at the big round cake for a while, and came over to smell the smell of meat coming out of the big iron pot for a while, and the corner of his mouth wished that a silver thread could fall.

Shen Xiangmiao smiled and stretched out her hand to beckon: "Tie Dan, Tie Dan, you come here." ”

"What's wrong sister." Tie Dan leaned his little head and came over.

"Sister, I've given you a very important task......" Shen Xiangmiao whispered in Tie Dan's ear.

"How's that, can it be done?" Shen Xiangmiao grinned: "It's done, two more pieces of braised pork will be rewarded!" ”

"Don't worry, sister, I promise it's done!" Tie Dan patted his small chest and straightened his thin body.

Shen Xiangmiao pinched Tie Dan's little nose.

Half an hour later, Shen Xiangmiao opened the lid of the pot, began to dry the soup over high heat, and added chives to garnish.

At this point, a dish of braised pork is complete.

The color is bright and attractive, fat and thin, and the aroma is even more tangy.

The greedy iron egg drooled: "Sister, is this braised pork ready?" ”

"It's done." Shen Xiangmiao took the braised pork out of the iron pot, picked up some into the bowl, took a chopstick and inserted two pieces of braised pork as meat skewers and handed them to the iron egg: "Eat slowly, hot, blow." ”

Tie Dan took the meat skewer and blew it twice on the side of his mouth.

But the smell of this meat went straight into his nostrils, tickling his heart like a hand, and he didn't care about the burning, and he opened his mouth to take a mouthful.

The soup flowed out along the corners of the mouth, and when the meat in the mouth reached the mouth, the fragrance suddenly spread out, and the mouth was full of meat......

But the meat was very hot, and Tie Dan gasped and chewed on it, and praised it with a mouthful: "It's delicious, it's delicious......

"When you're done eating, remember to call your grandparents." Shen Xiangmiao picked up the bowl with braised pork, covered her head with a layer of cage cloth, and said to Lu Xiu'e, who had rolled out the noodles and poured water into the pot to prepare to boil the noodles: "Mother, I'll go to the third uncle's house and I'll be back in a while." ”

"Done." Lu Xiu'e nodded in agreement.

Shen Xiangmiao walked out of the courtyard quickly and walked towards the third uncle's house.

When he arrived at the third uncle's house, Shen Fuhai was sitting in the shade of the yard weaving bamboo baskets, and the youngest daughter Shen Qiaohui next to him was holding her face with both hands, and she didn't see the figure of the third aunt Zhang.

"Third uncle." Shen Xiangmiao entered the courtyard.

"Kanae is here." Shen Fuhai put down the half-woven bamboo basket in his hand and patted the bamboo crumbs on his body.

"Sister Xiangmi." Shen Qiaohui also stood up and greeted him obediently.

Shen Qiaohui is the youngest child in the third room, one year younger than Tie Dan, with a round face and big eyes, very well-behaved and cute.

Shen Xiangmiao stretched out her hand and rubbed Shen Qiaohui's little head: "Qiaohui is good." ”

"Why don't you see the third aunt, as well as Wenwu and Wentao?"