After Han Yiyi left, Aunt Zhang discovered that there was still salt in the basket. She sighed inwardly, thinking, "The Fan family is blind to have such a good person."
Although they had just finished eating, the children couldn't help but swallow hard as they looked at the meat in the basket.
Aunt Zhang was worried that the meat would spoil in the hot weather, so after Han Yiyi left, she went straight into the kitchen and cut a pound of pork belly in half. She added some salt and put it in the well water to keep for dinner.
The other half was rendered into lard, so that when cooking, the dishes would have a meaty flavor. As for the leftover lard cracklings, she decided to add some wild vegetables the next day to make a few meat buns, which would also count as meat buns.
While Aunt Zhang was rendering pork cracklings, Han Yiyi wasn't idle either. She rendered all the pork fat she bought into lard, and added some salt to the remaining pork cracklings, deciding to save them for her two children and herself as snacks.
As for the remaining pork belly, which weighed about a pound, Han Yiyi, like Aunt Zhang, cut it into small pieces, added some salt, and put it in an earthenware pot in the stream water. She decided to stew it with the green beans she brought back from Aunt Zhang's house that evening.
The two pounds of pork fat rendered a considerable amount of oil, enough for the mother and her three children to eat for several days. Han Yiyi also decided that from now on, oil and salt could be directly exchanged from the system, which would be more convenient.
After rendering the lard, Han Yiyi looked at the large intestines she had placed in the vegetable washing basin. She decided to braise them. It has to be said that while large intestines are delicious, cleaning them is quite a headache. Han Yiyi knew that she could use flour to wash them, but she was really reluctant to use flour to wash them all at once. So she first washed them with some wood ash, then washed them with flour, and then washed them twice with clean water before she felt they were clean.
After washing, I added water to the iron pot, and once the water boiled, I put the large intestine in and cooked it for about five minutes. Then I took it out and rinsed it with cold water for later use.
As for the braising spices, Han Yiyi simply spent ten points to redeem a packet in the Little Flower System, added water back into the iron pot, and threw the large intestine and the braising spice packet into the pot together.
Unlike modern pressure cookers, iron pots don't cook quickly. It took Han Yiyi more than half an hour to cook it. When she opened the lid and smelled the aroma wafting from the pot, Han Yiyi couldn't help but take a deep breath and thought to herself, "It smells so good, this is the smell."
Fortunately, the thatched hut where Han Yiyi and her friends lived was far away from the other houses in the village; otherwise, the smell would have attracted everyone in the village.
The two little ones had just been trying on their new clothes in the room, but now that they smelled the aroma, they ran over, tugging at Han Yiyi's sleeves to look into the pot, shouting as they went.
"Mom, what is this? It smells so good..."
"This is called braised large intestine," he said, cutting some with a knife and putting it in the mouths of the two little ones.
"Wow, so delicious, so delicious, Mom, this is so delicious..." she exclaimed as she ran off to look at her new clothes.
Looking at the two little ones, Han Yiyi smiled and cut some into her own mouth. She tasted it and found that it was indeed delicious, similar to what she ate in modern times. She thought to herself that it would be even more perfect if it were a little spicy.
However, thinking that the two little ones would want to eat it, Han Yiyi didn't add any chili peppers. Besides, according to the original owner's memories, it seemed that chili peppers didn't exist in this era. Nevertheless, the taste was already quite good.
Just as she took the large intestine out of the water and cut it into small pieces, she caught a glimpse of the fish that had been salted yesterday. She realized that she had forgotten about it. She picked it up and smelled it, and sure enough, it had a odor. Han Yiyi couldn't help but feel sorry for it. However, it was true that there were only a few of them and they didn't have any frozen food, so it was difficult to guarantee the freshness of the dishes.
But as soon as the thought crossed my mind, I heard a familiar mechanical voice.
"The host can use points to exchange for storage space. The storage space can ensure that the food does not rot or spoil and stays fresh..."
Upon hearing this, Han Yiyi's eyes lit up. She had originally thought that the exchange system only contained refrigerators, but refrigerators required electricity, so there was no way to use them after exchanging them. She did not expect that there was also storage space, so she hurriedly asked.
"How many points are needed to redeem..."
"The smallest 10 cubic centimeters requires 10,000 points to redeem, 20 cubic centimeters requires 30,000 points to redeem, 30 cubic centimeters requires 50,000 points to redeem..."
Well, even the youngest of them can't pay back now, so she started to complain.
"It's so expensive, I can't afford to replace it now..."
"It's not expensive. If the host had exchanged that ginseng for this system earlier, it would have been enough points to exchange for a small storage space..."
At this moment, Han Yiyi had reason to suspect that Xiao Hua had deliberately told her about the storage space. She thought to herself, "This system is not only arrogant but also holds grudges."
In the evening, Han Yiyi planned to cook a rice porridge. Of course, the rice was also exchanged from the system. Now that there was oil and salt, she could make a few scallion pancakes, stir-fry some green vegetables, and braise large intestines. That would be enough for the three of them.
However, since it was still early, I left the kitchen and first tidied up the clothes, bedding, and other items I had bought that day.
Since the three of them had been sleeping directly on wooden planks for the past two days, Han Yiyi was really not used to it. That's why she bought some coarse cloth to make two quilt covers and pillowcases. As for the pillows and bedding, Han Yiyi decided to exchange them directly from the system so that it wouldn't seem too abrupt.
However, exchanging bedding and other items would have to wait until the two little ones were asleep. With some of the original owner's memories of embroidery, Han Yiyi quickly made a duvet cover and three pillowcases. Seeing that it was almost time, she went into the kitchen again.
A moment later, he came out of the kitchen again, carrying a porcelain bowl with some sliced braised large intestines in it.
"Da Ya, Shi Tou, Mom is going to Grandma Zhang's house. Do you want to come with me?"
Upon hearing Han Yiyi's voice, the two little ones immediately jumped and ran out of the house.
"Yes, yes, we want to go with Mother..."
Watching the two little ones hop and skip out of the house, Han Yiyi looked at the thatched hut in front of her, which didn't even have a fence. Her eyes flickered, and she thought to herself, "It seems I need to hurry up and make money to build a house. I need to build one with high walls and a big yard, so I can live there more safely."
As soon as the three of them arrived at Aunt Zhang's house, they smelled the aroma of meat wafting from inside, and Han Yiyi couldn't help but curl the corners of her mouth.
Da Niu, who was weaving bamboo baskets in the yard, saw Han Yiyi and the other two and quickly greeted them. Then he called out towards the kitchen.
"Mother, Sister Yi and the others are here..."
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