It was not yet dawn, Qi Ning was woken up by a violent knock on the door, Qi Ning, who was a little dazed, lay on the floor and watched the bright light below leak in through the crack in the door, and there were a lot of tiny dust floating in the bright light, and the dust was tumbling up and down in the sunlight! Shaking his head violently, he woke up, quickly put on his clothes and went to open the door. Outside the door, the butcher Zhang carried a box of pigs into the water on his right shoulder, and a pig's head poked out half of his head with his ears sticking out of his ears, and he was stomping his feet impatiently.

Zhang Butcher waited for Qi Ning to remove the door panel, hurriedly squeezed in sideways, put the basket on the ground, and put out a piece of white things: "Miss Qi killed two pigs today, and the things were sent to you, you can take a look." This piece of pork pancreas is for you, and it is very easy for you to wash your hands with soap and soap. ”

"Thank you, Brother Zhang."

Qi Ning took a large wooden basin and put it on the ground, the two of them counted the money while putting the things in the rattan basket into the basin, Qi Ning gave the money, Zhang Butcher arched his hand and hurried away, and the meat stall should be put on the table at the right time.

Qi Ning came to the courtyard with the basin, just as Wang Zhutou came out of the main room: "Go to the yamen?" Brother Wang. ”

"Hmm." Wang Zhutou nodded, opened the street door, and walked straight away.

At this time, Wang Zhutou, who was striding on the road, slightly flowed a subtle smile from the corner of his mouth, which was a smile, and he felt inexplicably in a good mood.

"It's strange, it doesn't seem like he's talking much, why didn't I talk when I moved in?" Qi Ning muttered a few words, poured water into the basin with the wooden bucket on the edge of the well, and didn't care whether the water was cold or not, turned the intestines over with chopsticks, and put the intestines and pork belly in a smaller wooden basin with cornmeal and salt. After the intestines in the wooden basin were repeatedly scrubbed with cornmeal, the water in the basin became slimy like miso soup, and there was a foul smell in the yard, which was disgusting to smell from afar.

Qi Ning can't be disgusted, being able to earn money and eat enough is fundamental. What's more, I'm a foodie myself, but the pig water I bought in my previous life was all processed, and I just need to soak it and use it when I come back. Although the price of sewer here is cheap, it costs salt and corn flour to wash, and its practical alkaline flour scrubbing effect is better, and the smell goes away quickly, but now it is impossible for her to wash it with alkaline flour, because she asked yesterday, alkaline flour is 30 yuan a catty, and cornmeal is only 8 yuan. No matter what, as long as you can make money, it's nothing to spend a little more effort. Cleaning the pig's head is mainly to clean up the hair and ears and eyes, tongue, nostrils, teeth, and corners of the eyes. Finally, the head was split with an axe, the pig's brain was taken out, the pighouse was cut off, and several basins of water were rinsed repeatedly, and the sewage flowed away with the gutter, and the heart, liver, stomach and lungs became clean! But in half a morning, a large pot of things was almost cleaned up.

Qi Ning likes this well water very much, although it is not as convenient as tap water, but the well water is warm in winter and cool in summer, even if it is not yet in summer, the well water is not particularly prickly, wash vegetables and wash clothes or something, you can use it directly in this season, not to mention that the well is not deep, it is still very convenient to use.

Bring the cleaned things back to the house, first boil the pig heart and lungs in boiling water for a while, and then scoop them up and cut them into large pieces. Then brush the pot and put some soybean oil to heat, wait for the oil to smoke slightly, add ginger, chili, star anise, cinnamon, garlic and stir-fry a few times, pour in soy sauce to color, then add some vinegar, fill with water and boil over high heat, and then change to a simmer and slowly boil; Then put the blanched pig's head, pork belly, mouth strips, large intestine, small intestine, etc.! This one-pot cooking method was researched by her after many experiments in her previous life. It's an authentic farmhouse practice. It's not like the various cooking methods in the restaurant in the previous life, although it sounds famous, but in fact, if you really want to talk about deliciousness, it's still home-cooked and enjoyable!

After cleaning up, Qi Ning washed his hands and locked the door and went to the street to buy some food, bought more than a dozen bundles from the market and piled them up on the wall outside the door, and told the old man who sold firewood that he would send more than a dozen bundles of firewood every market day. Although there is no natural gas in this dynasty, but fortunately, firewood is cheap, bundles are chopped, a bundle of firewood is only fifty cents for thirty catties, and many people cut it to the city to sell it when they are slack, although it is more troublesome for modern people like Qi Ning who are used to natural gas to make a fire, but it is not too difficult to get used to it these days.

I bought all the things I needed, and then I went home and sat in front of the stove and watched the fire while holding a big bowl of well water and drank it slowly, the well water was slightly sweet, and the cool silk flowed down the esophagus to the stomach, which was very thirst-quenching. Qi Ning took out the piece of pig pancreas and looked at it, this grandmother in her previous life did it, it was very easy to use pig pancreas and caustic soda to make soap, Qi Ning put the pig pancreas in water and soaked it, went to the grocery store and asked if there was no caustic soda, so she bought some soap horn powder. Come back and chop the pig pancreas and put it on the stone and beat it back and forth with an axe, add soaphorn powder while pounding, and when it is beaten, it is kneaded into a round ball the size of an egg, put it in a cool place, and it can be used at any time.

It was almost dark, Qi Ning's stomach growled, and she remembered that she had forgotten to eat from morning to now. I felt hungry so late, thanks to the fact that I often Bigu in order to lose weight in my previous life, I usually only drank water and didn't eat for seven days, and I was a little unaccustomed to it at first, but after three days, I would be relaxed, and then I slowly liked the feeling of being as light as a swallow. Ay. It seems that the physical foundation of this life is still too poor, and I was hungry for most of the day. But there was only one stove in the house that was cooking. Qi Ning got up and walked around the courtyard, the west wing room is Wang Zhutou's kitchen, but it seems that the kitchen is rarely used, it seems that a single man lives, and most of the three meals a day are solved outside. Qi Ning fetched water and washed the stove and pots, and began to get busy for dinner.

By the time the meal was ready, it was already dark. As soon as the food was brought to the stone table in the courtyard, Wang Zhutou pushed open the street door and came in.

"Brother Wang, I'm back, let's eat together when the meal is ready."

Wang Zhutou nodded slightly, washed his face in the wooden basin on the edge of the well, and sat down on the stone bench. Qi Ning smiled silently, this person was really afraid that he would be tired and would not be willing to say a word.

"Brother Wang, I've caused you a lot of trouble these days, today I took it upon myself to use your kitchen to cook a few dishes, how about you taste it." Wang Zhutou didn't answer, picked up a piece of green pepper and fried braised large intestine from the bowl and stuffed it into his mouth.

"Brother Wang, how does it taste?" Qi Ning asked with his head stretched out.

"It's delicious."

"It's a short time for marinade. The taste is still a little worse, and it will be stuffy until tomorrow morning. ”

"Brother Wang, try this green vegetable." Qi Ning diligently grabbed a pair of chopsticks and fried small rape and handed it to Wang Zhutou's bowl. Wang Zhutou didn't say anything, just looked at her fixedly for a while, and looked at her black eyes for half a minute, and Qi Ning was furious. Wang Zhutou suddenly put down the dishes and chopsticks for some reason, turned around and wanted to enter the house.

"That, Brother Wang, can I use your kitchen for the time being, don't worry, I will make it for you every day for free, you don't have to worry about anything, just eat." Qi Ning said eagerly.

Wang Zhutou frowned, did this girl know what it meant to be evasive, so she said calmly: "There is a difference between men and women, you are an unmarried girl in Yunying, what kind of system does it become to cook for a big man every day?" You use the kitchen, I don't eat at home! ”

Qi Ning looked at the door that was closed and pouted, people in this era are really old-fashioned, and they look at men and women so seriously.

However, he was also right, if people saw them living in a courtyard and eating together every day, it really didn't know how to spread it, Qi Ning scolded this old feudal era a few times, and said loudly: "Okay, since that's the case, I'm not welcome, just let me rent the kitchen, and I'll give you the rent tomorrow." ”

"No, just move out if you talk nonsense!" There was a noise in the room.

"Ugh. Okay, don't use it in vain, but I'll be responsible for buying firewood in the future, and you won't need much to boil some water every day, so don't be polite to me. Qi Ning stood outside the door and waited for a long time without waiting for a reply, it seems that this black-faced god has acquiesced. Qi Ning, who had eaten the food cleanly, packed up the kitchen and went back to his cabin. Lifted the pot, looked at the heat, added firewood, and threw five or six washed lotus roots into it. After simmering together overnight, the lotus root tastes the aroma of the meat, and it is also very delicious.

After taking a bath, Qi Ning took the dirty clothes, put on the water and washed it in the moonlight, a fresh wind blew, with a unique sweet smell. Qi Ning took a few deep breaths, put his clothes on the bamboo pole, and looked up at the bright moon in the sky, the moon was very bright and bright tonight, and there were many stars, and the ground was white. Qi Ning remembered that her parents were still there when she was a child, and she was sent back to her grandmother's house during the summer vacation, and she sat in the yard at night, and her grandmother used a fan to fan mosquitoes for her, telling stories, and most of the stories were not remembered. But that feeling will last a lifetime. Tears flowed from the corners of Qi Ning's eyes. The window behind him didn't know when it opened, and Wang Qingyuan stood in the dark shadow and quietly looked at the slender back in the moonlight. I don't know how long it took, there was a dog barking in the distance, Qi Ning came back to his senses and wiped his face, went back to the house and closed the door, Wang Qingyuan's window was still open.