Afternoon.

After lunch, the three of them took a short break and began to work on the pork they brought back today.

Shu Nuan plans to make half of the sausage, the other half of the bacon, and the rest of the bones and internal organs, which can be pickled, and those that can't be pickled will be boiled and eaten tonight.

She went into the house and looked at the time, half past two in the afternoon.

"The timing is just right."

After confirming the time, she began to process the fresh pork together.

In the south, even if it is winter, fresh pork can only be kept for a few days at most, and it will not keep the pork from rotting all the time.

This year is a warm winter, but there are a few light snowfalls at the beginning of winter, and it is impossible to freeze anything on a snowy day, just because there is snow this winter.

A few days ago, the spices for marinating bacon and sausages were ready, so everything was in order.

The best way to deal with bacon is to put salt and peppercorns in an iron pan and fry them, spread them directly on the surface of the fresh pork, and then put them in a barrel to marinate, which is a semi-finished product.

Because this one is so easy to get, it takes half an hour to get ready.

They don't have a machine for sausages, so they can only use the most primitive methods.

After Shu Nuan cut and marinated the pork that was going to be used to hold sausages for a while, he washed the grease stains on his hands and instructed Shu Zheming.

"Obviously, go to Uncle Yi's house next door to borrow a bamboo tube for sausages and come back."

"Got it."

Shu Zheming replied and ran quickly to Uncle Yi's house not far from the next door.

Shu Nuan looked at his younger brother's furious appearance, chuckled and shook his head.

Next to her, Wu Huihong was carefully scraping the mucus on the pig's small intestine with chopsticks on the board, scraping it little by little.

The sausages used to make sausages are all pig intestines rather than pig intestines, and pig intestines are generally used to make blood sausages, and no one really uses them to make sausages.

In the past, when she heard others say seriously that pig intestines are used to make sausages, she felt a little funny.

There used to be a saying: I have never eaten pork, but I have always seen pigs run.

In later generations, this sentence evolved: If you have eaten pork, you may not have seen a pig run.

When the preparations were almost made here, Shu Zheming, who went to borrow something next door, came back, not only came back by himself, but also brought a little friend.

Shu Nuan saw the people over there from a distance, and greeted with a smile: "Xiaocao, here." ”

"Sister Nuan Nuan."

Shu Xiaocao shouted a little shyly.

When Shu Zhe heard this, he reached out and patted the back of Shu Xiaocao's head: "It's wrong." ”

"Forehead......" Shu Xiaocao paused, scratched her hair and shouted again embarrassedly: "Aunt Xiao Nuan." ”

Seeing this, Shu Nuan smiled gently.

Shu Xiaocao is the grandson of Uncle Yi next door, who is exactly twelve years old this year, and Shu Zheming is both a neighbor and a classmate, so he naturally became very good friends.

There is also a twenty-year-old sister Shu Xiaohua on Shu Xiaocao, but after Shu Xiaohua graduated from junior high school, she went to work in the city outside the mountain, and only came back once during the New Year's holidays.

In the past, Shu Nuan and Shu Xiaohua were very good friends, but when other children in the village were influenced by Shu Rou and Shu Xue and rejected her, Shu Xiaohua became her very good playmate.

But then everyone grew up and began to be busy with their respective careers, and they spent a lot less time together.

Shu Nuan took the tools that his younger brother borrowed next door, and then waved his hand to the two little guys.

"You two go play by yourself, you don't need help here."

"Sister, let's go?"

Shu Zheming said as he looked at her with an inquiring gaze.

Shu Nuan waved his hand: "Go ahead." Don't run too far and come back early in the evening for dinner. ”

"Got it."

Shu Zheming happily ran into his room to get something, and ran out quickly, pulling his friend Shu Xiaocao to play outside.

And Shu Xiaocao was just a little cramped when she saw Shu Nuan at first, and then she happily played with Shu Zheming.

Shu Nuan knew in her heart that she had been working in a town outside the mountains for the past two years, and she had very little time to come back, and many people in the village had almost no impression of her in the past few years.

While thinking about her own affairs in her mind, she did not forget to use the marinated pork to make sausages.

Wu Huihong prepared the casing and waited for her.

The tool I borrowed from my next-door neighbor to put the sausage was a simple small thing made of bamboo tubes.

After putting a thin casing on a bamboo tube, the marinated pork is packed into the bamboo tube, and it slowly slides out on one side and the other side to fit into the casing.

One person loads the meat, one person sorts it out, although the speed is slow, but there are only a few catties of pork, and it is also fast.

Tie it with a cotton rope in sections and wear it on a string.

"I'm done, let's clean it up."

Wu Huihong said, got up and walked into the kitchen.

A moment later, she walked out with a basin of hot water.

"Wash the sausage, and hang it up to dry later."

"Okay."

Shu Nuan replied, and the hand of God went to help.

Blanching the sausage with hot water is completely to wash off the mucus on the outside of the casing and prevent mold.

After the two of them hung up the sausage, they scalded the borrowed tools to hold the sausage with boiling water.

Wu Huihong took the tool in her hand, turned her head and instructed her: "You sit at home for a while, and I'll go and give this back to your Uncle Yi." ”

"Hmm."

Shu Nuan nodded.

When she was the only one left in the house, she slowly returned to the house with a cane.

"It's already four o'clock."

She sighed softly, then turned and walked into the kitchen.

The things that I brought back today are almost all that should be packed, and now there are only some bones and internal organs left.

"Let's stew these things and eat them directly."

Shu Nuan said that he would do it, and after taking out the stick bones and some other bones and washing them, he was ready to start cooking.

It's still early, but it will take some time to stew the bones.

By the time the bones were stewed, it was almost evening.

After cleaning the big iron pot at home, I was about to fetch water, but I found that the water tank at home was empty.

"This ......"

Shu Nuan held the melon scoop in his hand and sighed helplessly.

"Looks like we'll only have to wait a while."

There are only two wells in the village, one is in the middle of the village for public use, and the other is at the village chief's house, where neighbors can go back to the village chief's house to fetch water.

This morning, she was busy with other things, so she didn't fetch water, and it was impossible for her to fetch water now, so she had to wait for someone to come back.

After she waited for about ten minutes, Wu Huihong, who went to the next door to return her things, came back.