Chapter 59 Finally, we got to eat! Processing over a hundred pigs a day! ? ...
[Host! Hurry! Is breakfast ready? Go eat!!]
Lu Xuan returned to his small cave amidst the frantic urging of the audience. Lu Qing had already set out breakfast for the day.
Today's breakfast was different from the previous days. It wasn't porridge or steamed buns, but a common northern specialty: rolled pancakes.
The main dish is a spring pancake with a diameter of nearly one foot. Side dishes include stir-fried green peppers and potato shreds, stir-fried cured meat shreds, stir-fried egg shreds, lettuce shreds, cucumber shreds, scallion shreds, etc. There are three kinds of sauces: spicy, sweet and salty. You can choose the ingredients and sauces according to your own preferences.
The potatoes were obtained by him while shopping at a street stall in the prefectural city. There were only a few, but after they were forced to grow, there was no worry about not having enough to eat.
After tasting the stir-fried shredded potatoes, Lu Qing was amazed and loved them to bits.
Upon arriving at the dinner table, the viewers in the live stream couldn't even wait for Lu Xuan to finish rolling up the pancakes before they began to enjoy the ingredients on the table.
[Ouch! It's so hot! Is this called a pancake? It smells so good! This is what natural noodles taste like! Nutritional supplements are nothing compared to this!]
[The cured pork is so delicious! It's so fresh and flavorful, I could eat three nutritional supplements with just this!]
[Shredded eggs are delicious too, and shredded cucumber is crisp and refreshing—you could even eat it like fruit!]
The scallion strips are a bit spicy, but they're incredibly delicious with the sauce—you just can't stop eating them!
Lu Xuan, who was making a tortilla, said, "...You guys aren't picky at all." They even enjoy the side dishes on their own.
[The streamer eats natural food every day, of course he doesn't understand our sorrow!]
Exactly! We eat bland, tasteless nutritional supplements most of the year, and only very occasionally can we snag a little bit of natural food, which is never enough.
[You're lucky to have anything to eat, why would you dare to be picky?]
[However, even though the side dishes smell delicious, we can't forget the wraps! Hurry up and roll them, host! I want one with shredded potatoes, shredded cured meat, and shredded cucumber! And the sauce has to be salty!]
Don't forget the shredded egg! I want spicy sauce, so put on plenty; I like it strong!
[If you prefer a stronger flavor, use your own sauce bowl. Too much sauce will prevent you from appreciating the natural flavors of the ingredients! Host, please use less sauce!]
If you want to enjoy the natural flavor of the ingredients, then eat them separately.
Seeing the comments section filled with people arguing about ordering food and having different tastes, Lu Xuan interrupted them, saying, "Alright, stop arguing. There are plenty of pancakes and vegetables. I'll just order each combination."
His appetite isn't something that can be satisfied with just four or five sheets. As long as he eats for a long enough, the audience can eat as much as they want.
The most unique feature of wraps is that the flavor varies greatly depending on the types and proportions of fillings. Viewers might initially grumble and nitpick, but later they were so engrossed in eating that they didn't have time to post comments. Occasionally, someone would post something like, "This is delicious!" "That's delicious!" "They're all so delicious!"
Lu Qing and the other two had limited appetites, and after eating about ten pancakes together, they quickly finished their meal. Lu Xuan, however, kept rolling and rolling, and by himself, he had made thirty pancakes.
After waiting for more than twenty days, the audience who had been able to enjoy the shared taste finally ate to their hearts' content. After eating to their heart's content, they also tasted the sweet honey mint tea. The displeasure of being tricked by Lu Xuan early in the morning finally dissipated. As Lu Xuan put down his chopsticks, they all entered a state of enlightenment.
The wraps are delicious, the honey tea is wonderful—this is the kind of food people should eat, the kind of life people should live!
[Host, remember to have a different breakfast tomorrow morning. Try all the ones you've had in the past few days—don't miss a single one! Adults should have it all!]
[Why wait until tomorrow? There are still two meals today, right? Host, cook some extra good food for lunch, I can eat as much as you want!]
[I'm not one to freeload. Here, take this 'food allowance'! As long as the streamer makes sure we eat and drink well, we definitely won't let you suffer any losses!]
That's right!
The audience, having eaten and drunk their fill, generously showered the audience with another wave of gifts.
At this moment, Lu Qing, who had just put the empty bowl aside, spoke up: "The three of us don't need to go to the hunting team or the gathering team today. Ah Xuan, what are your plans? Do you want to go out for a stroll on your own, or do you want to take a good rest for the day?"
Lu Xuan took a sip of mint tea to cleanse his palate and said, "Let's process some of the meat I bought in the prefectural city before it gets too hot. I also have about twenty or thirty pounds of mushrooms that I've accumulated over the past few days, so we can process those as well."
Lu Qing nodded, "That's a good idea. Making a larger batch now will reduce the number of times we have to cook later. What specific foods are you planning to make? Let me see if we need to prepare any tools in advance."
Lu Xuan thought for a moment, "The main thing that needs to be processed is pork, minced meat to make meat sauce and meat filling, as well as meatballs, braised meat, ham, sausages, rendering lard, simmering bone broth... We can also make more pork jerky to eat as snacks."
Lu Chen's ears twitched. Snacks? Pork jerky? What's that? It sounds delicious.
Lu Xuan pondered for a moment and said, "Making braised meat with only pork seems a bit monotonous. Why not make it with chicken as well? Chicken feet, chicken heads, chicken necks, chicken gizzards, and we can also add some eggs."
Mentioning chicken feet, Lu Xuan added, "Also, make some pickled pepper brine."
The three members of the Lu family were bewildered. "What is pickled pepper water?"
Lu Xuan said, "One seasoning can be used to make many kinds of delicious food. By the way, only braise half of the chicken feet, and keep the other half."
Viewers who had sampled many delicious foods in other ancient live streams immediately lit up when they heard about signature ingredients like pickled pepper water and chicken feet.
[Pickled chicken feet! Is the streamer planning to make pickled chicken feet?! Ahhhh! My favorite!]
[I also absolutely love pickled chicken feet!! It's a shame that very few streamers from the early days make them. I occasionally saw them in older streams, but no one's been streaming them lately, so I haven't had them in ages!]
Just looking at the words "pickled chicken feet" makes my mouth water! *slurp*
Not only were the audience drooling, but Lu Chen, who had just finished eating, was also drooling. Lu Qing and Lei Yan, on the other hand, were a little dizzy from listening.
Lei Yan hesitated: "If we're going to make so many kinds, how many pigs and chickens are you planning to process?"
Lu Xuan casually replied, "At least a hundred, right?"
"Hundreds of them—!?" The three members of the Lu family gasped simultaneously. "You bought so many pigs?"
The viewers in the live stream burst into laughter at their reactions.
[A hundred pigs is nothing, the streamer bought a thousand pigs!]
[I also bought a thousand chickens. If half of them are made into pickled chicken feet, that's a thousand chickens...wow, that'll be enough to eat for a long time.]
Lu Qing looked troubled and said, "Raising over a hundred pigs will probably keep us busy for several days. Won't that interfere with our gathering and hunting later on?"
Lu Xuan smiled and said, "One day is enough."
The three members of the Lu family: "?"
Live stream viewers: ?
Processing hundreds of pigs a day? Are you kidding me? Even if the whole village worked together, they couldn't do that.
Lu Xuan said, whether to his family or the audience, "You'll find out later. Let's continue. I have most of the tools here: kitchen knives, iron pots, and containers for storing the finished products. What I really need is to find a few more people to help."
He couldn't handle the delicate tasks like making meatballs, marinating and kneading ham, or skimming off the foam when simmering bone broth; he had to outsource them.
"Besides, just processing meat can get a bit greasy..." Lu Xuan's gaze involuntarily fell on the cleaned-up table, realizing that today's wrap toppings were missing one classic ingredient...
"Let's soak some more soybeans to sprout them. They're refreshing for cold dishes or soups. Hmm... that'll probably require quite a few baskets. Let's order some from someone in the village with good cooking skills, and pay them with wild boar meat or fruit."
Reminded by him, Lu Qing couldn't help but say, "Since we're going to sprout beans anyway, why don't we ask Uncle Liu to make some tofu while we're at it?"
Lu Xuan agreed, "Good idea. Not just tofu, but also soy milk, tofu pudding, bean curd sheets, and dried bean curd sticks. Get a batch of all of them."
Lei Yan joined their conversation: "Soybean dregs are good too; they can be used to make soybean dregs pancakes."
Lu Chen raised his hand, "I like soybean pulp pancakes, they have a strong soybean flavor and are delicious!"
Lu Xuan nodded, "Then bring back the bean dregs as well."
Lu Qing said, "In that case, we'll have to give Uncle Liu more compensation."
Lu Xuan: "Don't we still have a lot of wild boar meat at home? We can use pork as payment, as much as you want. The Liu family shouldn't mind stockpiling more meat."
Lu Qing nodded, "Okay, how much tofu should we order?"
Lu Xuan held up one finger. "If you're going to order, order more. Let's order a hundred boards."
Lu Qing: "!"
Lei Yan and Lu Chen were stunned again. So much? Could they finish it all?
Live stream viewers: This is quite a generous offer, just like the familiar style and the familiar streamer.
Lei Yan cautioned, "The Liu family probably doesn't have that many tofu boxes."
The Liu family used to sell tofu to the villagers. The whole village only needed one block of tofu a day, and it was good if they had three or five tofu boxes for backup. How could they possibly have hundreds?
Lu Xuan smiled and said, "If it's not enough, we can ask the carpenter to make some. We can also inspect the boxes together, which will save us the trouble of finding extra tools to pack them. It's also easy to break the tofu when we're packing them."
"As for worrying about not being able to finish it, there's no need for that. A block of tofu weighs only thirty pounds, and with my appetite, I can consume four or five pounds in one meal. One block is only enough for five meals. If I don't make more, it will probably be gone in a few days."
However, making a hundred boards at once would take a lot of work, so let's do it in batches. We'll make twenty boards at a time, in five batches. We'll make one hundred catties each of tofu skin and dried bean curd sticks, and five vats each of tofu pudding and soy milk.
Lu Qing: "..."
Lei Yan: "..."
This is the first time I've ever heard of buying soy milk by the vat... Will they start drinking soy milk like water from now on?
After agreeing on the team members for today, the family quickly got to work.
Lu Qing went to order baskets for sprouting beans from the women who stayed behind today and the elderly people with good craftsmanship, and also asked for helpers. Lei Yan went to Ye the carpenter to order tofu boxes and wooden basins.
The wooden basins were mainly made because the water for watering the bean sprouts needed to be collected in containers. Water is extremely precious during the hottest season, and even if they don't lack it now, it wouldn't be appropriate to just pour water directly onto the ground, right? So, more wooden basins were made so that the water could be recycled.
Lu Xuan personally went to talk to Tofu Liu.
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