Chapter 108: Braised pork
"Do you want to stay and eat?" March put the wolf cub and went back to the front yard.
"Of course, I'm here for dinner." March raised an eyebrow, and September and October on the side were free of the threat of wolves, and they returned to their former lively appearance.
"Sister Chuntao, we haven't seen you for a long time." October grabbed Chun Tao's arm and began to be coquettish, but Chun Tao had a cold face and withdrew his hand.
"Have you read a book?"
The two sisters glanced at March secretly and did not speak.
March rolled her eyes and said disgustedly, "Thought I didn't know!" These two often steal Layue's books to read. ”
The two children stuck out their tongues and grimaced at March. "Sister Chuntao, our handwriting is much better, do you want to take a look?"
"Then go to Brother Zhou and ask him to give me the paper and write it to me."
"Good!" After Chun Tao finished speaking, the two of them should go down and ran to Zhou Kuiruo's study to find him.
After Zhou Kuiruo's preparation for the county exam was known to Aunt Zhou, she took Chun Tao to clean up Zhou's father's study and let Zhou Kuiruo concentrate on reading.
March looked at the elated backs of her two younger sisters, and said puzzledly: "I really don't know what you are thinking day by day, those who can read don't want to read, and those who can't read have to read." ”
Chun Tao just smiled and patted March on the shoulder. "I don't have meat at home, so I try to get some."
"Huh? I'm a guest! I want myself..."March yelled angrily, Chun Tao turned around and gave her a cold look, so frightened that she closed her mouth directly.
"Don't let my mother hear it, bring it and make you braised pork."
All right! For the sake of you giving me braised pork, I'll go find the meat. "Okay, you wait, I'll go now." After saying that, March ran away.
Chun Tao didn't expect that someone would suddenly come to the house, and there were not many dishes to prepare, so she boiled hot water, soaked dried cowpeas, and made braised pork for March.
"Lamei, you go to the backyard and get some bacon, not too much."
"Hmmm! Okay, just in time I'm going to hang the one that I just made. ”
"I'll help you."
"No, it's not a lot, I'll do it alone, you go and do your thing!"
"Good!" Seeing that Lamei really didn't need anyone's help, Chun Tao took a small basket and a small hoe and was about to go to the bamboo forest to see if there were any bamboo shoots, and when she was about to go out, she was stopped by Aunt Zhou.
"Chun Tao, you go to the cellar and take out some cabbage and sweet potatoes, as well as radishes."
That's our food for the winter! Chun Tao sighed in her heart and responded. "Good! I'll go when I get back. ”
"What are you doing here?"
"Go see if there are any bamboo shoots and stir-fry meat."
"That's right, if there are guests at home, you have to entertain them well." Aunt Zhou nodded with satisfaction and walked in the direction of the stove room.
For Aunt Zhou's behavior of slapping a swollen face and being fat, and loving face, Chun Tao really didn't know what to do, so she looked at Aunt Zhou's back helplessly, and turned around and walked into the bamboo forest.
"Chun Tao, look!" March really brought meat and showed off happily.
Chun Tao was cutting bacon, so he didn't look up. "Let it go!"
"What are you doing?" March walked in and saw the meat on the sticky board. "Didn't you say there was no meat? So how did this come about? ”
"Fresh, pickled is not the same."
"What's the difference? Isn't it all meat? ”
"Men and women are all human, are they the same?"
"It's... I'm talking about meat, not people. ”
It's a lot smarter! Chun Tao looked up at March and suddenly smiled, and then immediately returned to her cold appearance. "Then do you want to eat?"
"Eat!" March weakly put down the meat and rolled up his sleeves to help. "What do I do?"
"You..."After Chun Tao looked around, he found that the cabbage had been washed, the radish had been cut, the bamboo shoots had been cut, the sweet potatoes had been made, and the only dried cowpeas to deal with were still soaked. You chop wood! ”
"Chopping wood? Are you mistaken, I'm here to be a guest, not to chop wood. ”
"You asked yourself."
"Then I'll take it back, and you won't hear it."
"Nope."
"I just don't chop wood anyway." After saying that, March was about to leave this place of right and wrong, but turned around to find Lamei standing behind her with a smile, holding an axe.
"La... Lamei, you... What are you doing? ”
"Give you an axe and chop wood." Although Lamei's smile was as usual, March saw murder in her eyes.
March Han smiled and wanted to fool Lamei and run away, but the door was closed by Chun Tao who didn't know when.
"You... Isn't that a good sister to say? Why did you do this to me? ”
Lamei and Chun Tao glanced at each other, looked at March in unison and said, "Good sisters, help each other and chop wood." ”
"Humph!" March took the axe in a huff and rushed out of the door. "I'm not a good sister anymore."
"Wouldn't it be good?" Lamei looked at the bulging March and asked the spring peach beside her.
"No way, after all..."Chun Tao was interrupted before she could finish speaking.
It turned out that March went and returned, "Where is the firewood to be chopped?" ”
"Backyard, piles of dead trees." After Chun Tao finished speaking, March disappeared again.
"After all, she has a lot of strength." After March left, Chun Tao finished what she had just said. "When the time comes, let her eat more!"
"Hmmm! We can't cut down those trees, so we have to give them to her. ”
The dead trees in the front yard and the back yard, Chun Tao and Zhou Kuiruo all dug them up as firewood, and some branches were cut down by Zhou Kuiruo. But he couldn't cut the trunk of the tree, and often a large section was taken to the stove, and he couldn't burn it.
Of course, it wasn't that Chun Tao looked down on Zhou Kuiruo when she asked March to help chop wood, but when she saw the axe in the corner of the stove room, she suddenly remembered it. So he pitted his sisters, and with the help of the witty Lamei, he successfully solved the matter.
However, Chun Tao also admitted that Zhou Kuiruo's strength was indeed not as strong as in March. Such a large mansion is full of people who have no power to restrain their hands.
Spring Peach cut the meat, processed the soaked dried cowpeas, and began to make the braised pork promised in March. The plum is fried cabbage, stuffed radish, and boiled sweet potato porridge.
After the water boiled, Chun Tao poured the cut pork belly into one pot and blanched it, and poured the bamboo shoots into the other pot. After about two minutes, remove the pot and then throw the bacon into the pot where the bamboo shoots have been blanched and cook.
After removing the pork belly, rinse off the foam and drain the water. Pour a little oil into the pan, heat over low heat, add rock sugar, and stir-fry constantly until it becomes caramel colored.
Then pour in the blanched meat and coat it with caramel. After stir-frying, pour in enough boiling water, add soy sauce, green onions, ginger slices, and ingredients, and bring to a boil over high heat. After boiling, remove some firewood and simmer for about half an hour.
The pot here no longer needs to be seen, so Chun Tao slices the cooled bacon. Put the bacon in the pan and stir-fry it slightly, then add bamboo shoots, salt, soy sauce and sugar and stir-fry until it tastes.
After Chun Tao was busy with the rest of the things, the braised pork was also stewed, so he put the beans in it and stir-fried well, and stewed for another 20 minutes. Finally, reduce the juice over high heat and add an appropriate amount of salt.