Zhang Hulan asked the old butcher to divide the meat from four pigs, each weighing about one pound, and the rest was cut normally.
The butcher and his son were busy with more than a dozen pigs for the whole afternoon. They had seven or eight people helping them, otherwise they would not be able to butcher a pig in a whole day.
It costs twenty cents to kill a pig. This afternoon, the father and son earned three hundred cents, and Zhang Hulan also gave them a piece of meat.
Today should be the busiest day. After the pig blood solidifies, use a knife to cut it into tofu-like cubes, then put it in warm water and cook it on low heat.
It takes a long time to cook more than a dozen pots of pig blood.
Pig offal also needs to be cleaned. The offal of the pigs you kill yourself is not like the offal of the pigs you buy, which are simply cleaned.
Today's pig stomachs and intestines are full of pig shit, there's something to be done.
Zhang Hulan deliberately made trouble for Zhang Hubing by assigning this job to him, which made him very sick.
Wang looked at the dozen or so pig livers and lungs with some worry, "What should I do with these things?"
Zhang Hulan said, "Mom, don't worry. These are all good things. I'll show you tomorrow."
After dinner, Zhang Hulan carried a large piece of pork to Zhao Guoliang's house. She went to Zhao Guoliang to ask for the work of the villagers who had been working for a month, and it was time to pay them.
Wang and the others were still busy, so Zhang Hulan kept Zhang Hujun and Zhang Hubing to help her count the copper coins.
She received both small change and copper coins in her account every day. The copper coins were easier, she could just count out a hundred coins and string them together with a hemp rope.
But small change is more troublesome, as it has to be weighed one by one with a scale and those of the same weight put together.
Zhang Hulan poured a box of copper coins and silver coins on the table. Zhang Xinyue lay on the table, holding the silver coins and copper coins in both hands and laughing, "Money...money...so much money..."
Wang smiled and asked, "Yueyue, can you give some money to grandma?"
Zhang Xinyue held a handful of copper coins and silver coins in both hands and gave them to Wang, "For grandma!"
Wang smiled and said, "Oh, my Yueyue is so good!"
Wang put the copper coins back on the table, then carried Zhang Xinyue down, "Okay, you guys go play over there, we'll help your mother count the money."
Zhang Xinyue said loudly, "I want to count too."
Wang smiled and asked, "Yueyue can also count now?"
Zhang Xinyue nodded her head, "Yes! I can count to ten. Mom teaches me to count every night."
Zhang Xinyue now sleeps with Zhang Hulan almost every night. When Zhang Hulan has nothing to do, she teaches her to count and simple addition and subtraction.
She also taught several other children, and they all learned well. Zhang Xiaojun was older and learned the best.
Zhang Xiaobing joined in the fun, "I can count, too."
Zhang Hulan simply gave a small pile of copper coins to the children and asked them to count them.
But a few children began to doze off while counting.
Zhang Hulan asked Zhang Xinyao to take Zhang Xinyi and Zhang Xinyue to sleep, and Zhang Xiaobing also went to sleep on Shanzi's bed.
Zhang Hulan didn't let Li stay up late and asked her to go back to sleep first.
The rest of the people worked until late at night. Zhang Hulan and the others sorted out the silver and copper coins. They also boiled all the pig blood, put it back into the wooden basin and soaked it in cold water.
Xiang Chunhua pounded her waist and shouted, "I'm so tired. I'm so sleepy."
Zhang Hulan said, "Today I will pay you double the wages."
Xiang Chunhua no longer felt tired and woke up from her doze, "Really? Sister."
Zhang Hulan smiled and said, "Really? Go back to sleep. You'll be busy tomorrow and the day after tomorrow."
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The next day, Zhang Hulan and her colleagues started working early in the morning.
She directed Wang and Xiang Chunhua to remove the pig skin, and then chop the fat and lean meat in a ratio of one to two.
Then chop the ginger, star anise, pepper, cornel, etc. and add them to the meat and stir. Don't forget the salt and soy sauce.
Cornus officinalis is also a traditional Chinese medicine, and it is something Zhang Hulan thought of as a substitute for chili peppers. Cornus officinalis has a spicy taste, but the spiciness of this thing is different from that of chili peppers.
Clean the small intestine, saw off a bamboo tube that is about the same thickness as the small intestine, trim both ends of the bamboo tube so that it will not scratch your hands, then put the bamboo tube into the small intestine and stuff the meat inside.
Zhang Hulan found a job for Zhang Xinyao. She asked Zhang Xinyao to tie the small intestines stuffed with meat with a string at intervals of half a foot.
Zhang Xinyi and Zhang Xinyue also have work to do.
The meat of the small intestine was not packed tightly and there was air inside. Zhang Hulan asked Zhang Xinyi and Zhang Xinyi to use a needle to puncture the places where there were bubbles to let the air out.
Zhang Xinyue asked: "Mom, what are you doing?"
Zhang Hulan smiled and replied, "Making sausages."
“Are the sausages good?”
“It’s delicious!”
Zhang Xinyue began to drool, "Mom, let's cook it for lunch."
Zhang Hulan asked with a smile, "Why? You still crave meat even though you eat meat every day?"
Zhang Xinyue swallowed her saliva and said, "I want to eat meat every day and every meal!"
"Then mom made you braised spareribs last night. But you can't eat this sausage now. You have to wait until the New Year."
"Okay!" Although Zhang Xinyue really wanted to try the sausage right now, her mother said that she couldn't eat it now, so she decided to try it later.
Zhang Xiaobing was also drooling, and said, "Auntie, cook some more pork ribs for lunch. I want to eat two bowls."
Wang was not happy, "You want to eat two bowls, is your mother's day's salary enough for you to eat?"
Zhang Xiaobing said, "Auntie, please treat me to spareribs now. I will treat you to delicious food every day in the future."
Zhang Hulan smiled and said, "Okay, I'll make a note of that. I'm waiting for you to treat me to delicious food every day..."
Old man Zhang was using bamboo to build a rack to dry sausages. He said, "You're just treating your aunt to a delicious meal, but there's no room for me and your grandma?"
"Yes! Of course." Zhang Xiaobing said, "When I make money in the future, I will buy delicious food for everyone."
Old man Zhang nodded with a smile, "Well, that's about right!"
One set of pig intestines can hold about 30 kilograms of meat, so Zhang Hulan stuffed all 15 sets of pig intestines into sausages, which were filled with the meat of several pigs.
After stuffing the sausages, Zhang Hulan began to process the liver. She cut the liver into large pieces, removed the membrane on the liver, washed it with clean water, and then wiped the moisture off the surface of the liver.
Put salt in the pot, add star anise, cinnamon, pepper, fennel and dogwood and stir-fry.
Xiang Chunhua was watching from the side. When she saw Zhang Hulan pour several kilograms of salt into the pot, she smacked her lips and said, "Sister, why did you put so much salt in there?"
Zhang Hulan said, "Cooking."
"You put so much salt in the dish? Is the dish still edible?"
Zhang Xiaobing said from the side: "Mom, don't worry about it. How can the food cooked by my aunt not be delicious?"
Xiang Chunhua poked Zhang Xiaobing's forehead and said, "I think your taste has become spoiled by your aunt's family. Do you think the food I cook is not tasty enough?"
Zhang Xiaobing quickly shook his head, "No, no."
After the salt is fried to boiling hot, scoop out some salt, place the pork liver flat on the salt at the bottom of the pot, and then cover the pork liver with the scooped salt to wrap the liver completely.
Simmer on low heat for fifty minutes, take out the liver, and clean the salt off the liver. The salt-baked liver is ready.
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