Chapter 93: Mutton Soup Pot
The next morning, they heard the news that Dr. Yuan had been sent away.
Yuan Xiu cried again, and he had been soaking in tears all morning.
Li asked what Jiang Xi and the old man said to Doctor Yuan when they went to the prison yesterday, but the old man was silent, and Jiang Xi had to say a few words casually to deal with the past.
was involved in a life lawsuit, and finally saved his life, but he was sent to the army, which is already a blessing in misfortune.
Yuan Xiu was sad for a few days, so he was not so sad, listened to Dr. Yuan's words, and stayed in Jiangxi and their house.
After breakfast, Jiangxi ran out for a walk, and there were indeed many more things in the county than in the town, but there were almost no novelties.
In the end, Jiangxi only bought a few catties of cotton and a leg of mutton, and the family went back in the car.
The quality of cotton in the county town is much better than that in their town, and cotton can play a great role in winter.
Cotton is required for making beds, cotton is required for sewing quilts, cotton is required for cutting cotton jackets, and even winter shoes and hats are made of cotton.
This cotton is of good quality and can be warmed up without too much.
The leg of mutton, mainly because there is no sheep sold in the town, eats this thing in winter and it is warm, and Jiangxi will buy a whole one.
Mutton is very expensive on their side, mainly in the northwest, those nomads raised, merchants go there to buy it and sell it, this back and forth, the price is raised.
Jiang Xi thought that when the weather warmed up next year, her family would simply raise a sheep.
On the edge of the river beach in front, there is a meadow, which grows like grass close to the ground.
Most people don't cut it to feed pigs and chickens, but it is feasible to raise goats.
Moreover, the sheepskin can be used to make boots, and the wool can be used to make collars or hats.
In winter, there is no heating, so you can only rely on these things to protect your body from the wind and cold.
I took twenty taels of silver out, and it cost less than two taels, one of which was still in to see Dr. Yuan.
When he returned home, Jiangxi went to the town to buy some stewed ingredients for ginger, shallots, garlic, bay leaves, lilies, and angelica, and planned to stew the top piece of lamb leg with more meat, and then find a chance to roast the lower piece one day.
The old lady was left alone at home, nothing happened, and the old man finally breathed a sigh of relief.
However, since he said that to Dr. Yuan yesterday, the old man has always been worried, and Jiang Xi asked him several times who that person was, but he didn't answer.
Even he himself couldn't believe something, how could he say it to his granddaughter and the whole family.
My wife, if she knew about it, she was afraid that her body would be angry again.
Jiang Xi was busy in the kitchen, first cutting the mutton into small slices and slowly simmering in boiling water.
At the same time, she also washed other dishes, such as shiitake mushrooms and cabbage, and put them on a plate on the side after washing, and did not intend to pour them down.
When the mutton in the pot was almost cooked, Jiang Xi took out the iron basin that he had bought in the town when he came back in the afternoon, washed it, scooped the mutton soup in it into the iron basin, and brought the iron basin to the kang in the old man's room, and burned it with the fire below.
When she was cooking soup just now, she had already warmed up the old man's kang by the way.
On the top of the kang, there was a table like a small coffee table, and Jiang Xi brought all those dishes to the table, planning to put them in the pot for a while.
Then, she went back to the kitchen and began chopping onions, ginger and garlic for the dipping sauce of the mutton.
Their family is not very picky, except that Jiangxi does not eat fatty meat, everything else is fine.
She went to ask Yuan Xiu, and the child also said that she was not a picky eater, so she simply put away the dipping sauce of the five people.
After doing all this, Jiangxi went to call the Li family to dinner.
Yuan Xiu was still sad for Dr. Yuan, and the whole family was over there to persuade him, saying that there would always be a day when he would see Dr. Yuan again.
After Jiang Xi shouted to eat, Li cleaned up and went to the kitchen, wanting to help serve the food, but when he saw it, there was nothing in the kitchen.
She just came from the room where she ate, and there were no sides of it, what was she doing?
Coming out of the kitchen, Li happened to see Jiang Xi dangling at the door of the old man's room, so he called her.
"Xi'er, where is the food you cooked, why is it missing?"
"In this room, I will eat the soup pot today, and I will send you, mother, come over quickly."
After calling the Li family just now, Jiang Xi returned here and found that no one had come, so she remembered that she had forgotten to mention the location, so she went back and brought the old man and the three of them over, but she didn't see the Li family.
In addition to Jiangxi, the other four people had seen such a meal for the first time.
If it weren't for the fragrant smell of the basin lingering on the tip of their noses at this time, they would have thought that they had misheard.
"It's time to go, the lamb was made by me before. If you like soup, you can start with a bowl. As she spoke, Jiang Xi pointed to the five empty bowls on the small table, and she even picked up one herself, scooped half a bowl of soup, sprinkled some green onions on it, and then drank it deliciously.
Seeing that Jiang Xi was drinking so happily, Li also tried to scoop a bowl and handed it to the old man first.
The old man took it and gave it to the old lady next to him.
"Come, you can taste our granddaughter's craft."
Jiangxi is only ten years old this year, and many girls of her age only go to the field to dig wild vegetables and cut some weeds for the chickens in the yard.
Li took a sip of the delicious soup, and then looked at his daughter, and a sense of pride arose.
Her daughter is really the best!
Yuan Xiu also tasted a bowl and squinted her eyes happily, she used to live with the owner, although there was a cook, but the meals cooked by the cook were very ordinary.
As for the owner, he appreciates things like wine very much, and his tolerance for food is slightly greater, as long as the taste is not too strong or too light, he can eat it.
"Your stuff is delicious." Yuan Xiu opened his mouth shyly.
As soon as the words fell, Jiang Xi smiled at him: "Now it's our family, and you are also from our family." ”
Yuan Xiu's heart shook suddenly, except for the owner, Jiangxi was the best person for him.
At this moment, Yuan Xiu made up his mind that he must guard this home well in the future with Jiangxi.
After dinner, Li took a bed of cotton wool out of the house and put it in the room where he ate.
Inside the house, there was a small kang, which had been burned at this time.
It's the old man, every day at this time, he will go to burn the kang so as not to make the family cold.
"I cleaned up this kang a little during the day, but it's a little small, and it should be enough for you to sleep here alone. Rest well and don't overthink it. Li looked at Yuan Xiu lovingly, as if he was looking at his own child.
Perhaps, from the moment Yuan Xiu entered their house, the Li family regarded Yuan Xiu as her child.
The next morning, it was still a steamed bun mixed with cornmeal mixed with white flour, plus the mutton soup left over from last night, and the family was ready to eat.
After breakfast, Jiangxi happily took Yuan Xiu to his own vegetable field.
"Jiangxi, what is this thing, why are you covering the ground?"
Yuan Xiu was very puzzled, and a pair of eyes swept over the tarpaulin.
Jiang Xi smiled but did not answer, and motioned for him to follow him in.
When he got inside, a warm breath covered his whole body, and Yuan Xiu looked down and saw that the ground was full of green, which looked extremely comfortable.
"Jiangxi, is this your family's dish? It's amazing, it's not easy to see these dishes now. Last year, my host and I didn't have any fresh vegetables to eat, so we ate dried vegetables and vermicelli for a winter. ”
Jiang Xi lifted his little chin triumphantly.
"Well, I'm amazing. Didn't you just ask me why I covered the ground, just to help them protect them from the cold? Wait another month, it is estimated that the pea seedlings in the field can be eaten, and when the time comes, you can eat noodles, hot pot and soup pot. ”
Jiang Xi grinned, very satisfied with the things in his vegetable field.
Yuan Xiu was a little puzzled when he heard her words, "What was the hot pot you just said?" ”
Sold a pass: "You'll know when the time comes!" ”
Jiangxi went to the town to see it, there is no copper pot sold here, in fact, it can be cooked on the kang like yesterday's mutton soup, but it is not very convenient for everyone to eat it when it is placed on the kang like that.
"I'll go to town later, are you going?"
Yuan Xiu shook his head and said, "I won't go, I got up in the morning and saw that there was cow dung piled up in the wooden shed outside, and I will get it into the ground in a while." ”
Yuan Xiu knew that he couldn't eat and live in vain when he came to the Jiang family, so as soon as he saw the work, he rushed to do it.
Jiang Xi nodded, she knew a little bit about Yuan Xiu's character, and only by doing things would she not make him feel embarrassed to live here, so she didn't plan to stop it.
Another point, there are actually not many people in the family who have labor, Yuan Xiu can do a little more, and he can also make the old man easier, after all, people are old.
When she arrived in town, Jiangxi first went to the grocery store, bought a few pieces of the cheapest kind of straw paper, and bought a slightly better pen, and the owner of the grocery store gave her a small piece of ink for the sake of the pen, and Jiang Xi naturally did not refuse.
I took the pen and ink back and took out a bowl from home that had been broken in half and used it as an inkstone.
Get some water to grind the ink away.
Picking up the brush, Jiang Xi couldn't help but hook the corners of her mouth, this was probably the first time she had touched this thing in this world.
On straw paper, draw the approximate shape of a copper pot and then retouch it little by little.
This is the drawing she plans to get to the blacksmith shop and let people build, but she must not be sloppy, after all, the price of straw paper is not cheap these days, and it will be distressing to waste it.
As soon as he finished painting, Yuan Xiu came back from transporting cow dung, and when he saw that she was using a brush, he immediately ran in excitedly and said:
"Jiangxi, you can still write, you are really capable!"
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