Chapter 14: Pork stew
From his birth to the present, the Tonggong is just a bowl of minced meat when someone in the village holds a banquet, and now his sister wants to buy him meat to eat, and he immediately clapped his hands and jumped up happily.
Jin Qing hurriedly covered his mouth and said with a smile: "Let's go quietly and come back to surprise Mama, okay?" ”
Jinzhi grinned and nodded vigorously.
Jin Qing shouted towards the stove room, "Mama, I'll take Jin Zhi out for a while." Without waiting for Mama Liu to answer, she hurriedly ran out with Jinzhi.
The two of them first went to buy a copper coin of tofu, and then went to the butcher's house in the east of the village.
Towards evening, Zhu Jian, the butcher in Zhujia Village, was ready to close the stall, and there was only a piece of meat left on the case.
Seeing Jin Qing and Jin Zhi, Zhu Jian couldn't help but be surprised, and then figured it out, thinking that Jin Zhi was making a fuss about eating meat, and Jin Qing couldn't resist him to bring him over, they were all from the villagers, and it was not easy for this family.
Although Zhu Jian is a butcher who sells pork, he is very careful, and when he saw that Jin Zhi was short and couldn't see the meat case standing under the platform, he glanced at Jin Qing and said with a smile: "Jin Qing, come to sell pork?" It's not a coincidence that it's all sold out. ”
When Jin Zhi heard this, he was full of loss, and Zhu Jian smiled at Jin Zhi: "Why don't your uncle send you a piece of lard home to refine stir-fried vegetables to eat?" ”
Jin Qing knew that Zhu Jian was a kind-hearted person, usually the reputation in the village was very good, and there was never a shortage of catties and shortages for selling meat, so she pursed her lips and smiled: "Uncle Jian, I just came to buy meat, but I didn't buy much." Jin Qing handed the seven coins in his hand to Zhu Jian and said, "Uncle Jian, just give me six coins." ”
Zhu Jian didn't look like Jinqing was reluctant, and remembered that a few days ago, the girl of the Gu family in the village started to be a bell doctor, and it seemed that as the villagers said, she really made money.
Zhu Jian cut off a piece neatly, didn't even weigh it, and directly tied it up with hemp rope and handed it to Jin Qing, Jin Qing saw that this piece of meat was not small, and it must be more than six yuan to buy it.
Jin Zhi looked at the meat skewers that Jin Qing was carrying, and he was about to drool when he was greedy. Jin Qing smiled gratefully at Zhu Jian, and then pulled Jin Zhi back.
As soon as Jin Qing left, Zhu Jian's daughter-in-law Li came out of the room, grabbed Zhu Jian's ears with her chubby fingers, and scolded in a low voice: "While the old lady is not there, you dare to be a demon?" ”
Zhu Jian grabbed Li's hand and couldn't cry or laugh, "Daughter-in-law, oh, my good daughter-in-law, you light, don't I look at the pity of orphans and widows?" ”
Li Shi listened to her husband's softness, so she let go of her hand and slapped her palms proudly, Zhu Jian knew that she actually agreed in her heart, otherwise according to the fiery personality of this pig-killing mother-in-law, he would have come out to stop it when he gave Jinqing meat just now.
Jin Zhi was very happy, not only did someone take him on a horse today, but his sister also bought him meat to eat. Just as Jin Zhi was holding his sister's hand and bouncing home, on the way, he saw Zhu Lao's eldest daughter-in-law Zhang standing at the door of the family, and a little daughter-in-law opposite was foaming at the mouth, and Zhu Xiaohu was bored squatting on the ground playing with mud.
Zhang's eyes were sharp, and he saw the meat in Jin Qing's hand at a glance, and opened his mouth and said, "Oops! Look at it, Jinqing and their family buy meat and eat it! ”
Jin Qing couldn't see her snarky face, pretended not to hear her, and pulled Jin Zhi and walked forward quickly.
Zhang's was bored, looking at the little daughter-in-law opposite looking at her with mockery in her eyes, she felt that she couldn't get by, and because she went to Jinqing's house last time to make trouble, she didn't fall into the good, so she raised her voice and said: "Our family doesn't make much money, what is reliable is honesty, and we will never make money with that conscience. ”
Jin knew that he was small, but he also understood what Zhang meant, his face was red with anger, Jin Qing grabbed him, and comforted him lightly: "She is not scolding us." ”
Jin Zhi stomped his feet and said, "Why didn't you scold us?" ”
Jin Qing sneered, "She scolded for selling fake medicines, and our medicines are genuine." She must have done a lot of lack of virtue in her previous life, and she was pitted by fake drugs in this life, so she resented the sale of fake drugs so much, it's none of our business. ”
Jin Zhi heard that his sister was scolding Zhang, hehe smiled, and glanced disdainfully at Zhu Xiaohu who was playing with urine on the ground, look, they are all the same big children, he knows hundreds of words, Zhu Xiaohu can only play with mud, Jin Zhi is very proud.
Zhang's face suddenly pulled the old man, last time he went to Jinqing's house to make a joke, after returning home, Zhu Neng gave her a good beating, and Zhu Laoxiang also issued a strict order, not allowing her to spill and embarrass again, otherwise she will go back to her parents' house, so that now Zhang can only be resentful, but he doesn't dare to say anything more.
Zhu Xiaohu looked at the meat in Jin Qing's hand, and with Jin Qing's steps, it shook into a large piece of fat and oily braised pork on the table during the New Year, and his saliva flowed.
Zhu Laoxiang's family is well-off, but the family has a large population, and it is far from the situation where he can eat meat every day, Zhu Xiaohu watched the Jinqing sisters and brothers leave with envy, jealousy and hatred.
Zhang turned around and saw his son looking at "that piece of meat" in the distance in a demented manner, saliva dripping to the ground, the clean clothes he had just changed into were full of mud marks, and he looked frustrated, so he was angry at the moment, and kicked at Zhu Xiaohu, scolding: "Look at your useless appearance!" What a shame on my mother! ”
Zhu Xiaohu was kicked coldly, and suddenly felt wronged, so he angrily threw away the mud in his hand, and opened his mouth to cry.
Zhang smiled awkwardly at the little daughter-in-law opposite, picked up Zhu Xiaohu with a straight face and went home, beating Zhu Xiaohu's ass all the way, and Zhu Xiaohu also howled all the way.
When Jinqing and Jinzhi arrived home, Mama Liu had just washed the vegetable leaves they had picked up and were ready to cut them. Jin Qing put the meat on the table and said with a smile: "Mama, let's improve the food today!" ”
Mama Liu looked at the meat in surprise, shook it with a smile, and said, "You girl......"
Jin Qing and Mama Liu talked about the method in detail, and Mama Liu also felt novel. There are vegetables, meat and tofu, which is the most suitable for stew, and the Northeast stew I ate in my previous life is called a beautiful taste! It's just that Zhujia Village is located in the Central Plains, and the Northeast stew method has not yet been passed on, so she spread it first.
Jin Qing was hungry early in the morning after a busy day, so she casually nibbled on two bites of the leftover cakes from the morning, and then lit a fire. Mama Liu carefully cut the fat and lean meat, and the fat meat was first put into the pot to refine the oil, and most of the refined lard was put into a coarse porcelain bowl and covered with a lid.
The oil fragrance filled the small stove room in an instant, and Jin Zhi sat next to Jin Qing with a snort, happily watching Mama Liu cook.
The remaining lard is used to fry lean meat, after the lean meat is fried, pour water, wait for the water to boil, and then put in the cut vegetables, put a grate on the iron pot, put a few cakes left over from the morning, and when the dishes are ready, the cakes are also hot.
After Mama Liu did all this, she put on the lid of the big iron pot and said to Jinqing, who was concentrating on the fire: "Don't fill the stove with firewood, just let the embers simmer, and when the fire goes out, it will be done." ”
Jin Qing answered, pulled Jin Zhi out of the stove room, and washed his hands with water. Burning the fire looks simple, but it is actually a technical job, when stir-frying, it should be on high heat, when stewing, it should be low, and the fire should not be too big when the kang cakes are cooked, otherwise the outside of the cake is charred and the inside is still raw.
After the dish was stewed, Jin Qing put the dish in a basin and brought it to the hall with the cakes.
Jin Zhi was looking forward to it with chopsticks, and when he saw Jin Qing bring it over, he hurriedly put down the chopsticks and put a piece of meat in his mouth, although he was hot and sucked straight into his mouth, he still smiled happily, "It's so fragrant and delicious!" ”
Mama Liu flicked Jinzhi's brain melon and said with a smile: "What a gluttonous cat!" Just know how to eat! As she spoke, Mama Liu took out a small iron basin, filled half a pot of vegetables, wrapped two more cakes, and said to Jinzhi: "Go quickly, bring this to your Uncle Xu, we haven't given it to anyone for the money we sold rabbits last time!" ”
Jin Zhi responded, carefully took the basin and went out, Jin Qing said uneasily: "I'll go, the basin is hot." ”
Mama Liu stopped Jinqing and said, "It's not appropriate for you to go to a little girl's house, the ear rim of the iron basin is wide, and it is not hot." ”
Jin Qing couldn't cry or laugh, so she had to sit down and wait for Jin Zhi. What kind of person was his mother before, who taught Mama Liu to be so polite.
After a while, Jin Zhi came back, sat down and ate the dishes that Jin Qing put in the bowl for him, Jin Qing smiled and picked out the larger slices of meat in his bowl to Jin Zhi, Jin Zhi looked up and said with a grin: "Zhu Xiaohu is sitting at the door of our house drooling!" It's a shame to see him so greedy! As he spoke, he scraped his cheek a few times.
Jin Qing was stunned when she heard this, got up and went to the door, and sure enough, Zhu Xiaohu was still at the door, staring at the steaming meal in the house with drooling eyes.
Jin Qing sighed, pulled Zhu Xiaohu into the door, moved a stool for Zhu Xiaohu, Mama Liu took out a handkerchief to wipe Zhu Xiaohu's face, and Jin Qing gave him a small half bowl of stew.
As soon as Zhu Xiaohu took the dish, he took a big bite and buried his head in the bowl without lifting it. Jin Zhi watched his sister and grandmother do all this, and suddenly his anger exploded, he put the bowl on the table heavily, pouted and pointed at Zhu Xiaohu and shouted, "Why did you give him meat?" ”
Jin Qing looked at Jin Zhi with a smile, like a puppy that had been robbed of bones, Jin Qing added a spoonful of vegetables to Jin Zhi's bowl, and said with a smile: "If you don't eat it again, you will be robbed and eaten by Zhu Xiaohu!" ”
Jin Zhi saw that Zhu Xiaohu had already finished half a bowl of dishes, and was looking at his bowl with blank eyes, so he immediately glared at Zhu Xiaohu, ignored him anymore, and ate the bowl himself.