Chapter 626 Zhao Youcai Went Home with Good Food

In Zhao Jun's house, a large group of people crowded around the Kang table, each holding a wild boar rib in their hands and gnawing on it.

This pork rib meat is still steaming right out of the pan, so eat it while it's still hot. It's so fragrant.

The cleanly chewed bones were thrown together, and everyone who had finished eating the ribs divided into two groups.

The women were cutting cubes of pork, cooked pork liver, and pig lungs inside the house, while Zhao Jun, Wang Qiang, and Zhang Yuanmin went outside to pour the remaining broth in the pot, and then came back to mix it with pig blood and prepare blood sausage.

Stir fresh pig blood and broth together, add chopped green onion, minced ginger and seasonings, tie one end of the prepared intestine tightly, and use a funnel to pour the pig blood soup into it along the other end.

Every other section is tightened with thread. After filling the blood sausage, put cold water into the pot and boil it in Zhao Jun's big pot.

The inside is pig blood soup, and the outside is a thinly stretched sausage casing. If it is cooked too hard, the blood sausage will definitely bulge. Therefore, the water for cooking blood sausage cannot boil and must always be kept bubbling at the edge of the pot.

This requires adding a small amount of cold water to the blood sausage in sequence, and when the blood sausage is almost ready, use a needle to prick a few small holes on its surface. This also prevents the blood sausage from exploding.

The task of cooking the blood sausage was handed over to the old lady, and Zhao Jun and the other three men went out to the yard carrying a large basin of pickled vegetables.

At this time, there was still more than half of the broth in the big pot outside. Zhao Jun, Wang Qiang and Zhang Yuanmin put pickled cabbage into the broth.

What you eat with sauerkraut is its texture and taste. Needless to say about the taste, Aunt Qi has lived for half her life, and the pickled sauerkraut is white and crispy.

As for the taste, after cutting the sauerkraut gang just now, everyone shared eight sauerkraut hearts.

Eating pickled cabbage hearts with empty mouth is also a kind of poor people's pleasure in Northeast China. But as I ate it for a long time, I became more and more proud of it.

And since they hadn’t eaten this for a long time, a group of people quickly divided the sauerkraut hearts, and then they talked about how Aunt Lao Qi had pickled the sauerkraut, which tasted delicious.

The cut shredded sauerkraut cannot be blanched. Just soak it twice in clean water, then squeeze out the water to form a ball, and place the balls in a basin.

Zhao Jun, Wang Qiang, and Zhang Yuanmin took balls of pickled cabbage, crushed them into pieces with their hands, scattered them and dropped them into the broth.

Eight sauerkraut plants almost filled the big pot. And with so much sauerkraut, I would definitely not be able to eat it in one meal. But the braised sauerkraut in the butcher's cabbage gets better and better the longer it's cooked. Today's meal won't be as delicious as tomorrow's.

While the three of them were eating sauerkraut, Jin Xiaomei ran out of the house and came to the door to look at the remaining pork.

At this time, there was still a pig head, a pig tail, four pig trotters, four pig legs, and large and small pieces of pork skin left on the door panel.

This wild boar weighed more than 190 pounds when it was alive. After being disemboweled, bled, and stripped of its fur, it was still 120 to 30 pounds.

The thirteen dogs of the Zhao and Li families killed about fifty kilograms. Especially Black Tiger, it's like he hasn't had enough to eat in several years.

The rest of the meat, except for the ones on the door panel and the blood neck meat prepared for mincing stuffing in the house, is all for tonight's meal.

Jin Xiaomei grabbed a wild boar's front leg, said hello to the three of them, and left. She took the pig leg to give to Aunt Lao Qi.

Zhao Jun also grabbed one of his front legs and planned to give it to Zhao Guofeng. The two families have a deep friendship. Ever since Zhao Jun's father and Zhao Guofeng's father started, the two families have been visiting each other frequently.

You can't invite people over for dinner, but you definitely have to give a pig leg as a gift.

When Zhao Jun left, Wang Meilan was already next door, starting to simmer oil in Li's pot.

The oil simmered with lard fat is called meat oil or big oil. When the lard is dried, the golden and crispy lard residue is left, which is also called oil shuttle or oil.

If you eat this food ten or twenty years later, it may feel greasy. But these days, most adults are still reluctant to eat it. For children, you have to be a boy to eat two more pieces.

Zhao Jun hurried to Zhao Guofeng's house carrying a pig leg, thinking that he would send the pig leg to him quickly and then come back. Then get a wild boar hind thigh and send it to Ma Ling's family.

It's already mid-October, and by the end of the year, Zhao Jun and Ma Ling will get married. During this period, Lao Ma's family would not easily come to Zhao Jun's house for dinner. So I didn’t invite them to this pig-killing meal, but again, there must be a pig thigh.

By the time these two families are gone, it is likely that the oil will be cooked and it will be taken out of the pot. The oil that has just been taken out of the pot will be dipped in some salt. The taste... Zhao Jun quickened his pace as soon as he thought of this.

According to Zhao Jun's opinion, Zhao Guofeng should be in the Tunbu at this time every day. Therefore, Zhao Jun sent him wild boar thighs to his home. But what Zhao Jun didn't expect was that Zhao Guofeng was at home.

When Zhao Jun called for someone at the door of the courtyard, Zhao Guofeng ran out of the house. When he came to Zhao Jun, he said, "Oh, Xiaojun, I'm still wondering when to find you."

"This..." Zhao Guofeng didn't say anything. Zhao Jun knew what he was going to do. He quickly handed the wild boar thigh forward and said, "Uncle Zhao, kill the pig and give you a thigh."

"Jun, uncle, thank you." Zhao Guofeng took the wild boar's thigh with one hand, grabbed Zhao Jun's arm with the other, and said directly: "Uncle, I have something else to ask for. Look, during the Chinese New Year, I helped my uncle catch two pigs. chant."

Zhao Guofeng was very satisfied with everything Zhao Jun had done for Zhao Guofeng before. And Zhao Jun came back from catching wild boars today, which gave Zhao Guofeng a new idea.

Therefore, after Zhao Guofeng heard the news, he returned home from the camp and asked his wife to take back all the money she had earned from selling wild boar meat and prepare to invest another sum in Zhao Jun.

He spoke directly. Zhao Jun laughed dryly and said, "Uncle Zhao, we can wait until later. I have to go to Ma Ling's house to have a look."

"Ah!" He was going to his future father-in-law's house. Zhao Guofeng couldn't stop him. He just said, "Okay, then come to my uncle's house when you have time."

"Yeah." Zhao Jun agreed casually, turned around and walked home. When I got home, I grabbed another wild boar's hind leg from the door panel and ran straight to Ma Ling's house.

When Zhao Jun arrived at Ma Ling's house, the two women were working in the yard. Although Wang Cuihua's feet are not yet very flexible, she can walk and kick once she wraps the gauze around them.

The weather is nice today, but it will rain tomorrow, so Wang Cuihua and Ma Ling are gathering beans at home.

The soybeans that had just been harvested this year were put into a bag by the mother-in-law and moved to the cabinet in the warehouse.

Seeing Zhao Jun coming, the two women were not too surprised, and they went out together to invite Zhao Jun inside.

But Zhao Jun, who was worried about going home to eat fat, handed the pork leg to Ma Ling, said a few polite words and ran home.

When we got home, not only was the oil thickened, but the blood sausages were also cooked and placed one by one in a basin to soak in water.

Zhao Jun went to the Kang table and shared the oil with everyone. This stuff is delicious right out of the pan, fragrant, crispy and crispy, filling your mouth with the aroma of oil.

Jin Xiaomei came back later than Zhao Jun. After she came back, she didn't even have time to eat oil, so she said to Wang Meilan: Sister-in-law, I just remembered, what should we eat as our staple food at night? Why don't you rush to make noodles at this time? How about making some rice? "

There is no yeast these days, so dough is made with alkaline soda, which is not only slow but also requires a certain temperature. It's cold inside and outside the house this autumn, so I have to put the reconciled noodles on the kang and cover them with quilts for the night.

It was definitely not in time to make noodles at this time, but Wang Meilan smiled confidently and said to Jin Xiaomei: "Brothers and sisters, we will serve your croquettes later, and when we are done, we will make your stewed beans and rice."

As soon as Wang Meilan finished speaking, the old lady who was eating oil was stunned.

Bean rice is just adding some red beans to rice and steaming it together. This sounds like nothing, but in the Northeast at this time, beans and rice were not eaten casually. There must be big things and small feelings before you can stew a pot of beans and rice.

But then the old lady thought about it, even the pigs were killed, what was left of the pot of beans and rice?

Besides, isn’t it a big deal to eat butchered vegetables?

And Wang Meilan's temper has become faster and faster this year. She just did it as she said. After eating the oil, she let the three children play on the kang while they continued to work.

The women divided into two groups. Wang Meilan took Jin Xiaomei and Zhao Ling to the next door to cut shredded potatoes and carrots, then boiled water to blanch the shredded vegetables before adding them to the noodles.

The flour for croquettes is mainly white flour, but it must be mixed with a little cornmeal. This is to make the meatballs loose. Otherwise, if all white flour is used, the fried meatballs will be sticky inside, either to the teeth or to the teeth.

Add the blanched shredded vegetables to the noodles, add the beaten eggs and water, and stir to form a batter.

Here Jin Xiaomei used the stove hook to stir the firewood in the stove pit. The fire for frying the meatballs should not be too strong and the oil temperature should not exceed 50%, otherwise the meatballs would be burnt.

By then, the meatballs were black and yellow, not to mention not delicious, but they also didn’t look good.

Jin Xiaomei controlled the fire, Wang Meilan and Zhao Ling both washed their hands, grasped the batter with one hand, and dropped the meatballs into the oil pan with the other.

At Zhao Jun's house, Yang Yufeng grilled garlic and Xu Chunyan cut blood sausage.

Even the cooked blood sausage is tender on the inside, so you don't have to rush when cutting it. Not only do you have to control your strength, but you also have to stretch the outer casing with your other hand.

In front of the stove, the old lady poured less than half a spoonful of freshly boiled wild boar oil into the pot and stirred it with the spoon to moisten the pot. Wait until you hear the sizzling sound in the pot, then pour the previously crushed yellow rock sugar into it.

The firewood in the stove was not burning brightly, so the old lady used the small fire to slowly stir-fry the sugar color.

Normally, when the rock sugar has melted and the oil has bubbles, add more water, so that the sugar will not be bitter.

The old lady had her own secrets. Before the oil surface could form bubbles, she took the small basin next to her and poured the meat in the basin into it and stir-fried.

Through continuous stir-frying, the meat pieces are all covered with maroon color. Then she took the gourd gourd with a broken edge, scooped water from the water jar and added it to the pot until the water covered the meat.

Then, the old lady covered the pot, bent down to pick up firewood, stuffed it into the stove pit, and turned on the fire to stew the pot.

After a while, Zhao Ling came over with a bowl of meatballs and asked the old lady and three children to eat first.

After a while, Wang Meilan came out of the Li family gate with a jar of oil and Jin Xiaomei with a large bowl of meatballs, instead of climbing over the wall as usual.

But as soon as they went out, they saw Xiao Lingdang leading Zhao Hong, Zhao Na, and Li Xiaoqiao. The four little girls were jumping up and down, talking and laughing as they walked home.

There is only a wall between primary school and kindergarten in Yongantun. So when school was over, Xiao Lingdang came back with her three sisters-in-law and sent them home.

"Mom! Mom..." Seeing Wang Meilan and Jin Xiaomei, Zhao Hong, Zhao Na, and Li Xiaoqiao ran past. Only then did Wang Meilan and Jin Xiaomei see a small net bag in Zhao Hong's hand.

Then there were three screams, and the three little girls stretched out their black hands to grab the meatballs. Jin Xiaomei was so frightened that she quickly raised the big basin high and scolded them to go back and wash their hands.

The three little girls rushed to the yard of Zhao Jun's house, and Xiao Lingdang came over and said hello to Wang Meilan and Jin Xiaomei before going home.

"What home are you going to?" Wang Meilan said with a smile: "Your father and your mother are staying at home, so wash your hands and eat meatballs quickly."

Little Bell agreed and was urged by Wang Meilan to enter the hospital first. At this time, Jin Xiaomei remembered something and whispered: "Why do these children come back so late?"

It stands to reason that the primary school in the forest area ends at 3:30, and when Little Bell picks up the three little girls, it will not be more than 4 o'clock. But now, it's past five o'clock. This means trusting Little Lingdang, otherwise Jin Xiaomei would have been anxious if the child didn't come back.

At this time, Little Lingdang turned around and said with a smile: "The three of them want to catch grasshoppers and roast them. Let's catch some grasshoppers on the meadow at the entrance of the village."

At this point, all three of them saw the small net bag thrown by Zhao Hong next to the water pressure well.

There are quite a lot of grasshoppers in this small net bag, and the big green grasshoppers are quite small.

But at this time, the three little girls had already rushed into the house to eat croquettes. Who cares about roasting grasshoppers?

Little Lingdang picked up the net bag and smiled at Wang Meilan: "Mistress Zhao, they don't want to eat this, so they feed it to the chickens."

"Child." Wang Meilan said: "Hang it under the window first, and then we go inside and eat meatballs."

Ten minutes later, half of the two pots of meatballs were left. The adults ate less, but the children really liked oily food.

At this time, Zhang Yuanmin pushed the door open, and he held on to the door from outside without letting go. Zhao Jun came out of the house with a plate in one hand. One plate contained large slices of pork belly, and the other plate contained sliced ​​pork liver.

Wang Qiang then followed out with a plate of blood sausage. He preceded Zhao Jun to the big pot in the yard, lifted the lid, and used the lid as a fan with one hand to disperse the heat emanating from the pot.

When Zhao Jun and Zhang Yuanmin arrived at the pot, they first spread the meat slices on the sauerkraut in the pot, occupying one-third of the pot noodles.

They closed the lid of the pot and the three of them chatted. About fifteen minutes later, they opened the lid of the pot and put the liver into it. After another five minutes, add the blood sausage again.

At this time, in the big pot, there are three parts of meat slices, liver slices and blood sausage.

Wang Qiang put the lid on the pot and smiled at Zhao Jun: "Your dad and the others will be back soon. We will start dinner when they get home."

"Yeah." Zhao Jun responded with a smile.

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At this time, the commuter train was about to arrive at the station. In the carriage, Zhao Youcai, Li Dayong, Li Baoyu, and Lin Xiangshun were sitting in the northeast corner of the carriage. Zhang Laifa, who smelled bad, was sitting alone in the southeast corner of the carriage.

As for Li Ruhai, he and a large group of workers occupied most of the carriage. They were talking all over the place, laughing and having a great time.

"Hahaha..." Li Ruhai in the crowd said something, causing the crowd around him to burst into laughter. The laughter almost lifted the lid of the car.

Hearing the laughter, the five people on the other side felt it was harsh, and Zhang Laifa wanted to glare at Li Ruhai. But Li Ruhai was in the crowd, and Zhang Laifa couldn't see him at all.

Li Dayong and Li Baoyu both bowed their heads, and the father and son had mixed feelings in their hearts. Zhao Youcai and Lin Xiangshun looked at each other and shook their heads in unison.

Then, Zhao Youcai seemed to remember something. He picked up the net bag next to him and said to Lin Xiangshun, "Shunzi, get off the car in a moment and follow us directly. Come to my house to eat."

"I'm not going, second uncle." Lin Xiangshun smiled and said, "I'll go again someday."

"What are you waiting for!" Zhao Youcai was afraid that others would hear, so he whispered to Lin Xiangshun: "There is more than a pound of pork belly in the lunch box above me. Let's go back and cut it into slices and make a pot with cabbage and vermicelli. .”

Lin Xiangshun pursed his lips when he heard this. It's already past six o'clock, and that's when you're hungry. Who can bear to bring something delicious?

Zhao Youcai pointed to the lunch box below and said, "Here are four salted duck eggs, ten eggs, and peanuts. Let's scramble some eggs, fry some peanuts, and have a meal with you, Uncle Li, and Baoyu."

As soon as Zhao Youcai finished speaking, Lin Xiang said hesitantly: "Second uncle, why don't you rush over now that you're doing something right now?"

"Why don't you hurry up?" Zhao Youcai smiled and said, "Let's let your second aunt scramble the eggs first. When they're done, we'll drink them, and she'll fry the peanuts over there."

Zhao Youcai didn't say a word. He planned to ask Wang Meilan to scramble eggs first, then fry peanuts, and finally stew cabbage, vermicelli and pork belly.

"Okay!" After hearing what Zhao Youcai said, Lin Xiangshun responded: "Get off the car in a moment, I'll go home and tell Yanzi, and I'll go when it's done."

As soon as Lin Xiangshun finished speaking, the train had arrived at the station. Zhao Youcai stood up with a heavy lunch box and thought happily: "Can ordinary people compare to my food?"

Sorry, brothers, I watched the Spring Festival Gala yesterday, and I drank too much, and the clip was cut off...

I woke up from the cold at around 4 o'clock in the morning, turned on the stove, got into bed to keep warm, and fell asleep again... I didn't get up until 12 noon. This chapter is from yesterday. I'll eat it now and write another chapter.