Chapter 41: Braised pork
"Okay then."
Mo Jingchun glanced at the crowded stalls on the street: "Brother Bo, I'll buy some things and go back." ”
After earning so much money, Mo Jingchun thought about improving the food at home tonight, and spent forty yuan to buy a pound and a half of pork belly and various spices, preparing to go home to make a braised pork for Gao and Mo Qinglin.
In addition, she saw a pair of pigs' front hooves on the meat stall that had not yet been sold, so she asked the stall owner: "How to sell pig's feet?" ”
"If you want it, take it away with a pair of forty wen." The stall owner saw that she had just bought meat, so he gave her a little cheaper, weighed the two pairs for a total of almost five catties, and gave her eighty yuan.
She also spent a few pennies more to beg for two meatless barrel bones, and she already had a plan in her heart about what to do.
"Pig's feet. What do you take it back for?"
Bo Qingshan saw the tips of the black hooves with inexplicable disgust, and stopped talking.
"Braised or marinated, roasted, you can do it." Mo Jingchun naturally continued, "You can't have eaten pig's feet, right?" ”
"What does it smell like?"
Won't there be a foot smell?
Mo Jingchun felt sorry for him: "Pig's feet are a rare delicacy. The braised pig's trotters, the skin and the tendons are stewed so soft and delicious, and the flesh and bones are separated when you touch them with chopsticks.
I like to eat braised pig's trotters with chewy texture, one can only be gnawed for half an afternoon, not to mention the roasted, burnt and crispy, fat and oily."
Bo Qingshan suddenly felt that he was quite greedy, so he said shamelessly: "Then what are you going to do, give me a taste when the time comes?" ”
Mo Jingchun's purpose of tempting him has been achieved, and he said with a smile: "I'll send some over tomorrow when it's ready, please try it." ”
Gao only knew that she had gone to town today, and she didn't want to bring back a bunch of things, including meat and vegetables, and was shocked.
Then Hang Sheng sent two and a half strings of copper coins, totaling about two and a half taels of silver, which she took out in exchange for the twenty taels she got from selling wine.
Gao didn't know what to do, so he hurriedly closed the doors and windows, and asked Mo Jingchun carefully where did this come from?
"Grandma, two months ago, my uncle picked several baskets of wild peaches from the mountains, and I tried to make wine, and all this money was the money I used to sell wine in the town today."
"Selling, selling?" The more Gao listened, the more surprised he became, "Are you setting up a stall?" Got three taels of silver?! ”
It's just a few jars of wine brewed by children for playing, and they actually got three taels of silver at once?
Mo Jingchun shook his head with a smile, and said in his heart that if she told Gao that it was not three taels but twenty taels, I don't know how excited she would be.
Thinking so in my heart, I said it on my lips.
Gao's feet are soft, twenty taels!
She almost fainted, and her whole body seemed to be fluttering lightly on cotton.
Twenty taels, their family only gets about the same amount of money for a year of farming, why did they suddenly conjure up so much silver?
Gao swallowed his saliva and regained his composure for a long time: "Chun'er, where is the remaining silver?" ”
Mo Jingchun took out the money from his purse and handed it to Gao: "Grandma, here." ”
After Gao regained his composure, he had a different idea.
When Mo Jingchun discussed with her to set up a stall in the town before, she felt that it was unnecessary, it was a waste of time and could not make money.
But seeing that Mo Jingchun made so much money at once, her thoughts are different now.
"Chun'er, put the silver in grandma's deposit, can you tell grandma how she earned so much?"
"Grandma, Brother Bo said that my wine is suitable for the official lady to drink, so he took me directly to the big restaurant to sell it, and the price will be higher. If it weren't for him, he wouldn't have been able to sell it for such a high price. ”
"It's Bo Gongzi again. I have to thank them. ”
Gao now feels that this Bo Qingshan is really a good person, and he must thank others.
"Well, grandma, I bought pig's feet and came back, and when the time comes, I will send them to Brother Bo and Aunt Ming to taste them."
"Okay, Chun'er is so capable, she makes grandma very happy."
Gao was really happy, and repeatedly took the silver in his hand and touched it again and again, and weighed it again, and confirmed several times that it was really twenty taels.
She carefully put it in the box that usually contained silver, and added the money left over from selling rice after paying the tax, and now there were about twenty-four or five taels of silver in it, which would not be touched in normal times.
The rest of the loose copper coins, together with the two and a half strings that we have received today, make a total of about four strings.
After Gao's put it away, he was not at ease, and then put it in a larger box and added a lock, and pushed it to the innermost part of the cabinet, which was relieved.
Mo Jingchun washed the pork belly he bought today, cut each piece into uniform pieces about two fingers wide, and blanched them in a pot under cold water.
Heat oil in a pot on the other side, add the star anise you just bought and stir-fry until fragrant, and add a few pieces of rock sugar to stir-fry the sugar color.
When the rock sugar melts and the sugar color becomes slightly yellow and bubbling, then add the meat pieces and stir-fry until the color becomes translucent, gradually boil out the fat oil, add rice wine to remove the fish, and soy sauce to adjust the color.
Pour boiling water into the pot to cover the meat, then add rock sugar and spices to simmer.
She counted the time in her mind and felt that it was almost enough.
Lifting the lid of the pot, the thick steam enveloped in the strong smell of meat came to his nose, Mo Jingchun intoxicated a big puff, and let out a satisfied sigh in his throat.
Simply season with salt, reduce the juice over high heat, and put on a plate.
Mo Qinglin couldn't wait early, and kept standing at the door of the kitchen to probe his brain, and was kicked out by her several times. Now seeing Mo Jingchun waving at him, he immediately ran over.
It turned out that Mo Jingchun had two plates, and she handed one of them to Mo Qinglin and said, "Uncle, you send this to Brother Bo, and tell him that the braised pig's trotters will not be eaten until tomorrow." ”
She was cooking at home today, and refilled a bowl of the remaining braised pork in the pot, and carried it to Mo Tongming's house: "Aunt Ming, I bought meat at home, I want to send you some, and thank you for the koji you borrowed last time." ”
"How much money is the koji?" Liu was happy and felt sorry for her, so he was about to stuff the meat back into her hand, "What are you doing with so much meat?" Your uncle and I can't finish eating! ”
"Oops" Mo Jingchun circled her arm, stretched her voice and said coquettishly: "Aunt Ming and Uncle Ming usually feel sorry for Chun'er, and they don't want Chun'er to honor you in the future?" ”
"Okay, good," Liu's heart warmed, "Your uncle drank the wine you brewed and said it was delicious." ”
"Then I'll bring it to Uncle Ming next time!"
"Okay, if you have time, you can teach your aunt if you have time, so you don't have to drink your hard work for nothing."
Mo Jingchun thought about it, if the Liu family brewed with her, there would be several large vats in her yard, and there would be dozens of jars of wine brewed at that time, and the amount would come up, and wouldn't the amount of money she earned be more.
She thought it was feasible in her heart, and planned to teach Liu first, and then ask her if she had the idea of cooperating with herself.
So he promised: "Come to my house when my aunt is free next time, and I will teach you." ”
Although it is a lot of money to sell the wine, it takes too long, often two or three months.
In the meantime, she plans to try other businesses.
For example, when I saw pig's feet at the butcher's stall today, I thought of braised pig's feet, and then thought of other braised meat, which can be made at home and set up a stall in the town.
The ability she uses to earn money is this cooking.
(End of chapter)