"Let's go! Go for breakfast! ”

After Lao Zhang shaved his beard, he turned around and squatted down, picked up Xiao Qi Hao, who had just reached his knee height, and then came to the kitchen with a smile, a room so small that the whole family could only eat standing up.

In the kitchen, Qi Hao's mother in this copy, that is, Zhang Tianshi's wife Ren Yun, was standing in front of the stove boiling porridge.

A huge iron pot with only a little milky white rice soup in it.

A handful of grains of rice, settled at the bottom of the pot, have been boiled until they burst.

At this moment, Ren Yun was holding a spoon and constantly grinding the rice in the pot, trying to squeeze out the only remaining nutrients in these rice.

"It's time to eat!"

Seeing her husband come out of the bathroom, she hurriedly picked up the porcelain bowl that had already been placed on the stove.

After only scooping a few spoonfuls, the white porridge in the pot is almost at the bottom.

"I'm going to the port early, the foreman there yesterday said that my physical strength is good, and I have to show myself well today!"

Seeing the little porridge left in the pot, Zhang Tianshi also said weakly.

put Xiao Qi Hao down and took the porridge bowl handed over by his wife, he hesitated a little, thinking about bringing out the porridge in the bowl.

However, working in the port, what sells is strength.

If you don't have enough to eat, how can you have the strength to carry the coal mines on the ship?

When the workload is not up to standard, there will be no salary; Without a salary, how can you support your family?

Therefore, even though the two children under his knees pursed their lips and looked up at the bowl in their hands, Zhang Tianshi still resolutely drank the porridge in the bowl.

After breakfast, he put on a jacket with countless holes and went out...

The strong cold air is moving south, and the cold temperature has broken the historical extremes one after another, and today, outside, it is even more windy and snowy, and the bad weather seems to be able to easily bury a person at any time.

Ren Yun's heart tightened, thinking about advising Zhang Tianshi not to go out today.

However, the family's rations are about to bottom out, plus the rent, water and electricity at the end of the month, if the husband does not earn more money to come back to meet these expenses, maybe next month, the family of four will not even have a place to stay.

In the context of economic depression, in this city full of unemployed, even a temporary worker with only a few tens of dollars a day is like gold.

Husband, this hard-won job, must not be lost...

In the howling cold wind, when seeing Zhang Tian away, Ren Yun turned around and returned to the stove, and scraped out two bowls of porridge from the pot with an iron spoon.

Thank God!

There are also a few grains of rice in it...

gave two bowls of slightly shabby white porridge to Xiao Qi Hao and Zhang Junhui respectively, and Ren Yun took the basin, received a pot of snow from outside the door, and poured it into the pot.

When the snow melts, the water for washing dishes and pots will be there...

......

In the evening, the wind and snow are still blowing.

Zhang Tianshi dragged his heavy body home and handed over all the dozens of yuan he earned today to Ren Yun.

"Because of the weather, there are not many goods from the port, so the wages are less!"

After explaining, he took off his jacket, shook off all the snow on it, and went into the house.

Looking at the banknotes that still exuded residual warmth in the palm of her hand, Ren Yun sobbed: "As long as you can come back safely, what does it matter if there is more money and less money!" ”

Then she went back to the bedroom, which was only five square meters, and found a few useless rags, and put the purse in the third and outer three layers, and put it in the cupboard, and at the same time took out another piece of something that was tightly wrapped in a handkerchief.

And Zhang Tianshi fell on the bed with a "plop" and fell asleep in an instant.

His wife Ren Yun saw it in her eyes and pity it in her heart.

……

This morning, Ren Yun stood at the door, watched her husband leave, returned to the house, and said to the two children:

"Mom is going to go out later, you two, take care of the house!"

"Can I go? I haven't been out in a long time! ”

Zhang Junhui asked positively, she looked excited after not going out for a long time, and even ran to the room and took out the red headband that she had bought for a long time, but had never been willing to wear, and there was a beautiful bow on it.

"No way!"

Ren Yun said very resolutely.

"Humph!"

Xiao Zhang Junhui pouted, took off the headband on his head, and put it back in the drawer.

"You stay at home, and your mother will buy you something delicious at night!"

Ren Yun whispered softly.

But Qi Hao felt that her voice seemed to be a little hoarse.

"Yes, yes! We will definitely be obedient! ”

However, Zhang Junhui didn't notice it at all, as soon as she heard that her mother would buy delicious food and come back, her face was full of resentment just now, and she immediately became happy without holding a grudge.

……

A few hours later, Ren Yun came back with a piece of pork hind leg.

After staying in the copy for a few days, and drinking porridge for several days, seeing the meat now, Qi Hao's soul was unconsciously hooked away, and in a trance, he really jumped up with Xiao Zhang Junhui like a child of a few years old, and shouted excitedly: "yes yes yes!" There's meat to eat at night! I want to eat meat! ”

As everyone knows, Zhang Tianshi actually came back from the port early.

"Why is it so early today? Is it the cargo on the ship, and is it missing? ”

Ren Yun asked curiously.

"Hmm!"

Zhang Tianshi had a calm face, replied with a deep expression, put his hands in his pockets, and entered the house.

"Daddy! Today my mother bought meat, and our family eats meat in the evening! ”

Xiao Zhang Junhui couldn't hide anything at all, so he ran to Zhang Tianshi's side excitedly and hugged his calf.

However, Zhang Tianshi did not show the same excitement as the child, and the expression on his face became more gloomy.

"You bought meat?"

"Hmm!"

"I go out every day to earn money, and that's how you squander it?"

Zhang Tianshi's voice raised a degree, and at the same time, he turned around and faced his wife very angrily.

And Ren Yun lowered her head at the moment.

She knew what it meant.

Nowadays, in such an environment, every family and everyone is surviving in the cracks, but they have privately bought a piece of expensive meat.

"Do you still think that you are the Mrs. Zhang who has a solid net worth and has no worries about food and clothing?"

"I'm telling you, no! My company went bankrupt and everything that used to be, now it's gone! I'm just the one at the bottom of society, and I have to go to the dock every day to grab a job with others. I don't have a house, I don't have a car, and I can only afford to drink white porridge with only a few grains of rice in it! ”

"I earn dozens of yuan every day, but I have to pay 300 yuan in rent every month, dozens of yuan in water and electricity, and I don't even dare to get sick..."

Zhang Tianshi said, his emotions became more and more excited.

And Ren Yun also has a deep understanding.

After the company went bankrupt, it was difficult to find a place to stay, but because the electricity bill was not paid, the power supply bureau cut off the power to the family.

On a cold winter night, there are no lights, only candles;

There was no heating, so I had to go outside to collect firewood and come back to burn it.

But even so, the young Zhang Junhui still had a fever.

When they came to the hospital, they were expelled by the doctors because they did not have enough treatment fees, and even the doctor who drove them out was a medical doctor who had graduated from a famous university when his business was prosperous.

In the end, the helpless Zhang Tianshi and Ren Yun bought a bag of salt with the only savings on their bodies, wiped Zhang Junhui's body, and relying on this home remedy, her daughter was lucky to have a fever.

But after this battle, Zhang Tianshi also understood that dignity is meaningless in the face of money.

So, he put down his former position and came to the port every day to earn a meager income by selling coolies, but this could only keep the whole family from starving to death and have a place to stay.

"Do you know that the financial tsunami is also deeply involved in the port, and business is also declining. In the past, it was possible to recruit 20 temporary workers a day, but now, there are only five temporary workers recruited every day, and everyone has broken their heads for this pitiful job opportunity, and some even kneel down to the foreman who selected the person on the spot..."

Zhang Tianshi is still telling about the difficulty of his work, but he is also restrained.

If the wife knew that the kneeling person was herself, how far would her emotions collapse?

Ren Yun, on the other hand, listened silently.

She wanted to explain that she didn't buy meat for her own sake, but for you, because she saw you go out early and return late every day, and as soon as you came back, you were so tired that you fell asleep. And what supports you to do this every day is only a bowl of white porridge at five o'clock in the morning, but how long can this bowl of white porridge support your physical strength?

But, in the end, she still didn't say these words...

"Take this meat back tomorrow and return it! Even if you cook it, I won't eat it! ”

…….

The next day, Zhang Tianshi finished breakfast, that is, a bowl of porridge, and went out as always.

As for the piece of meat I bought yesterday, it was still in the kitchen and didn't move last night.

But because it is winter, it still retains its original freshness, but in a low temperature environment, it is frozen firm and very stiff.

"Mom, do we really have to take this meat back and return it?"

Xiao Zhang Junhui lay on the countertop, looked at the frozen meat on the kitchen board with teary eyes, and asked with his fingers sucking.

Xiao Qi Hao also followed into the kitchen, but because he had the thoughts of an adult, his performance had a calmness that did not match his age at the moment.

"No retreat! This piece of meat was bought for my father, he worked so hard, he had to give him more nutrition! ”

Ren Yun said with a smile.

"But Dad, he won't let us buy meat, and said that even if he made it, he wouldn't eat it!"

"Just make it feel like it's not made of meat, no!"

"How?"

"Mom has a way!"

Everyone has always made vegetables and mushrooms into meat, but now there are people who want to make meat dishes into vegetarian dishes, which... It's kind of interesting!

Qi Hao was also curious.

With that, Ren Yun walked out of the kitchen and took out some vegetables from a wooden box covered with ice and snow at the back of the house.

These ingredients, of course, are not bought, but on weekdays, she picked them up little by little in the vegetable market, and over time, they have accumulated a lot, plus they are stored at low temperatures in winter, and now they have accumulated a lot.

Look at the style is quite rich, there are chives, leeks, radish, celery and so on.

Wash the ingredients, chop them into minced pieces, and mix them with some seasonings.

"Could it be to make dumplings?"

Qi Hao asked himself, but even if the pork is chopped into minced pieces and cooked in it, it can be seen and eaten!

"Mom, are you making dumplings?"

Soon, Xiao Zhang Junhui inadvertently helped Qi Hao throw this question out.

"It's not dumplings! This dish has a nice name, it's called 'Gouache Green Jade Room'! ”

"Huh?"

Qi Hao's eyes widened, and he immediately came to Ren Yun's side.

"This dish was taught to me by your grandmother when she was alive, it seems that there is a historical story about it!"

Ren Yun was busy with her work and narrated.

"What's the story? I want to listen! I want to listen! ”

Xiao Zhang Junhui grabbed the table with both hands and shouted jumping up and down.

"It is said that a long time ago, there was a place where the prefect liked to eat big fish and meat, and his life was still very disorderly.

So in order to cope with this inspection, he arranged a task for the rice cooks to make the big fish and meat they eat on weekdays into ordinary vegetarian dishes.

This unremarkable 'gouache green jade room' was a delicacy in the 'vegetarian feast' at that time.

And this 'vegetarian feast' also successfully helped him cope with this inspection! ”

In order to make Xiao Zhang Junhui and Xiao Qi Hao understand, Ren Yun tried her best to tell the story straightforwardly.

And in fact, there is a lot to this story!

"Mom, what should I do with this dish?"

Qi Hao also asked.

"I told you children this, and you don't understand it!"

Ren Yun smiled slightly.

"I'm going to listen!"

Qi Hao also deliberately played the temperament of a child, crossed his waist with his hands, and asked arrogantly.

Ren Yun shook his head and continued to introduce with a smile: "The specific method is not complicated, it is not complicated, it is simple, it is indeed not simple..."

"First of all, in terms of materials, you need to use the lean meat on the hind leg of the pig and the 24 kinds of seasonal vegetables corresponding to the 24 solar terms throughout the year..."

"Pork needs to be beaten with an anvil and then added with sweet potato flour to make a skin as thin as a piece of paper..."

"Twenty-four kinds of seasonal vegetables, chop them into minced pieces, add seasonings, and stir well..."

"Finally, the skin made of pork is wrapped like a bun, wrapped with these vegetables, and steamed in a pot!"

"How? Do you understand? ”

After speaking, Ren Yun asked with a smile.

Xiao Zhang Junhui shook his head.

And Xiao Qi Hao, his brows were tightly locked, because listening to the method of this dish, how did he feel, it was very like he had heard it somewhere.

Closing his eyes, he had a flash of inspiration after a few thoughts.

The way this dough is made is not the same as the method of Sanshan meat swallow, which is also rolled out into dough from the hind leg meat of pigs, but the way it is made is wonton.

Of course, in terms of difficulty, this dish is not too difficult, so it is understandable that the system classifies it as a one-star star.

The main difficulty is how to make a whole piece of meat into dough.

The meat should be beaten into a puree by hand, during which the fascia must constantly jump out of the inside, if you chop it with a knife, the pork fiber will be destroyed, and finally it will never be able to make gouache skin.

This process is purely based on strength.

When the beating is completed, spread the meat on the cutting board, then evenly sprinkle the sweet potato flour, and roll it repeatedly with a rolling pin until the lumpy meat puree slowly extends into a huge, paper-thin, reddish skin, the best effect is to lift the dough and let light penetrate through it.

The next step is to use a round mold to press out a round dough from this large skin.

After such a toss, Ren Yun worked hard for a full day, and when the gouache green jade room was steamed out of the pot, Zhang Tianshi also happened to go home from the port, but his face was as serious as yesterday...

[Master the production of gouache green jade room...]

As the food came out of the pot, the system in Qi Hao's mind also moved, and a piece of information poured into his mind.

In an instant, he became proficient in the information and cooking techniques of this dish.

Just now, when Ren Yun was talking about the twenty-four seasonal vegetables corresponding to the twenty-four solar terms, he just quietly brought it in one sentence, but at this moment, as the information entered his mind, Qi Hao also knew what these ingredients were, from seasonal chives, leeks to winter bamboo shoots, and green eggplants, the ingredients were not expensive, and with greenhouse technology, it was not difficult to collect.

It's just that these vegetables with different tastes can be delicious when they come together?