Chapter 7 The Old Wen Family Dotes on a Silly Girl
Old Lady Wen watched her start to prepare the ingredients: "Yi Yi, is there anything we can help with?"
"Grandma, I need thin, pointed bamboo sticks, about five or six centimeters long."
"Leave this to your father."
Wen Chengwen immediately went home to find some bamboo poles and started making what Wen Zhenyi needed.
I made two cold wild vegetable dishes in the afternoon. After blanching them in boiling water, the Acanthopanax senticosus no longer pricks the mouth, and the unique bitter taste of wild vegetables is not so unpleasant.
Wen Zhenyi took a stroll in the vegetable garden. There were many seasonings planted at home. She dug some ginger, pulled some onions, and there was also garlic in the kitchen. She didn't need the others for the time being.
When she goes to town tomorrow, she will have to take a stroll around the market to see if there are any other seasonings.
The next day, the house was busy before dawn.
Wen Chengwen and Ma Yinghe quickly tied up a pig in the pigsty, and together they put the pig on the table in the front yard.
Old Lady Wen handed him the sharpened knife.
Wen Chengwen was about to strike with a knife.
"Dad, wait a minute."
Wen Chengwen held the knife and looked at Wen Zhenyi: "Yiyi, what's wrong?"
Wen Zhenyi ran to the kitchen and took out a clean wooden basin. He also put clean water and salt in it and placed it under the pig's neck: "It's done."
Wen Chengwen was a little stunned: "What is this for?"
"Pig blood."
"What are you doing with this thing?"
"it works."
Wen Chengwen didn't say anything more. He acted very efficiently and killed the pig with one knife.
The pig's blood flowed through the wound into the basin below.
Wen Zhenyi picked up the basin below and put it aside when he saw that the bleeding had stopped.
Ma Yinghe and Old Lady Wen had already boiled hot water and poured it on the pigs.
Wen Chengwen took a knife and removed all the pig hair, and finally rubbed the pig with salt.
Wen Zhenyi knew that this was to remove the animal smell from the pigs.
After rinsing the pig clean, Wen Chengwen took a knife and started to cut open the pig's belly. He put all the offal in a basin and then started to cut the pork into two pieces.
Everyone had processed the pig offal yesterday, so today they were particularly skilled at it. Without Wen Zhenyi's instructions, they had already cleaned up the pig offal.
Wen Zhenyi looked at the solidified pig blood, cut it into small pieces with a knife, put it into the pot and boiled it for two quarters of an hour, then took it out and put it into cold water.
Wen Chengwen pushed the cart out and put the pork and the necessary things on it. One cart was not enough to prepare food today.
Ma Yinghe pushed another cart to carry various pots, pans, and ingredients.
Wen Zhenyi pulled the processed ingredients out of the well, smelled them, and found no peculiar smell. He covered them with a clean cloth and went to town with his family.
There is a pier in Wenxia Town, and there are quite a lot of people coming and going. When they arrived, it was already dawn, and there were already many vendors setting up stalls in the market.
The first stall to be set up was the breakfast stall, and there were some customers at each stall.
"Hey, Butcher Wen, is the whole family here today?" A familiar vendor greeted him.
"Yeah, you have good business today."
"It's okay, come over for breakfast later."
"Okay, come later."
Wen Zhenyi was very curious about the ancient market and looked here and there.
The Wen family is not unfamiliar in Wenxia Town. Many merchants know that they have a silly daughter. When they see Wen Zhenyi, they look at her with a bit of pity and sympathy.
Wen Zhenyi didn't care about this at all. After all, who made him stupid before?
The Wen family’s stall is in a relatively good location in the middle of the market.
Ma Yinghe took the stove, pots, pans, and utensils off the cart and pushed the cart into the alley on the side.
The vendors nearby were curious when they saw all these things in her shop: "Butcher Wen, are you planning to open up a new business?"
Wen Chengwen chuckled: "My daughter wants to sell something."
The vendor next to me looked a little unnatural. Are you kidding us?
Wen Chengwen didn't explain to them. Instead, he moved the pork from the cart to the stall and started sharpening his knife. "It's fresh pork. Come and have a look if you need it."
Old Lady Wen moved closer to Wen Zhenyi: "Yiyi, what are you doing now?"
"Grandma, it's still early, let's get started first."
Old Mrs. Wen asked Ma Yinghe to help Wen Chengwen, while she and Wen Zhenyi made a fire together.
A vegetable vendor nearby saw her and said, "Aunt Wen, just let your granddaughter do whatever she wants."
Old Lady Wen looked at the woman next to her and said, "If she likes it, let her do it."
"Even if you spoil your children, you can't waste money like this."
"That's not something you need to worry about."
The woman was so angry at her that she simply turned aside and ignored the grandmother and grandson.
Wen Zhenyi didn't care at all and started to process the Nine-Turn Large Intestine. He had already processed the large intestine at home before, so it would save him some trouble now.
She boiled water in a pot, put the large intestine wrapped with small intestine on bamboo sticks into the pot, and added chopped green onion, ginger and cooking wine.
Cook without covering the pot for less than a cup of tea to better remove the odor.
The commotion here still attracted the attention of many people, one was Wen Zhenyi himself, and the other was the ingredients in the pot.
"Isn't that large intestine she's cooking in the pot?"
"Looks like it."
"The Wen family is such a waste! Even if it's pig offal, no one would eat it, but onions and ginger are edible. How could they give it to a silly girl and waste it like this?"
"That's right. I've heard that the Wen family dotes on their silly daughter before, but I didn't expect it to be true."
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Wen Zhenyi didn't care at all, but concentrated on doing his own thing. When the time to cook the large intestine was up, he took it out, added clean water, and added onions, ginger, bay leaves, star anise, and peppercorns and continued to cook.
During this process, many people stood by and watched, shaking their heads, but they were all curious and wanted to see what this silly girl could do.
More and more people gathered here. Some people asked the people around them for the reason, and after learning the reason, they all decided to stay and take a look.
When Wen Zhen saw these people, a smile appeared on her face, which was more effective than her suddenly speaking and shouting.
She took out the large intestine again and cut it into two-centimeter-long segments on the chopping board nearby. She inserted bamboo sticks into the segments to secure them in a cross shape and added a little soy sauce to color them.
Then she poured sesame oil into the clean pot, and when the chopsticks inserted into the pot bubbled three times faster than outside, she poured in the large intestine and fried it until golden brown.
Pour out the hot oil, leaving a little oil in the pot, add sugar and fry until the sugar turns brown, then add the fried large intestine and stir-fry, add some water, green onion, ginger, pepper, sugar, vinegar, and cook over high heat until the sauce thickens.
The aroma of oil and meat wafted around, and many people swallowed unconsciously.
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