Chapter 46
On the way, Yu was picking and choosing which parts to take away when he saw Tang Zeyu walking towards him without putting on his upper body clothes.
Lu Shiyu saw that the wound on his abdomen had healed, and said with some surprise in his tone, "It healed so quickly?"
"Um."
Then Lu Shiyu became a little worried: "But I just decided which meat to take. Now that your injury has healed, do we have to leave early?"
Tang Zeyu didn't expect Lu Shiyu to make such an association, and said, "No, let's do as we said before and wait until after noon before leaving. Everyone needs to recover now, so there's no need to rush."
Lu Shiyu finally breathed a sigh of relief: "That's good, then I will continue to process the meat."
Lu Shiyu only planned to take away the best pieces of meat from the deformed pig, including pork belly, pork belly, front chuck, ribs and tenderloin. He planned to give up the other meat and offal.
Tang Zeyu helped Lu Shiyu and was responsible for handling those parts that required more strength. Lu Shiyu used a knife to cut and tear off a large piece of fat from the deformed pig, and put it together with the other meat that was taken out and prepared to be taken away. After the meat was divided, Lu Shiyu began to rummage through the pile of internal organs that was originally intended to be discarded.
Tang Zeyu looked at the huge piece of fat. Regardless of whether this huge piece of pure fat tasted good or not, its size was too small.
"Are you going to keep this big piece of fat too?"
Lu Shiyu glanced sideways and said, "That's lard. I plan to boil some lard later, so I can replenish my oil."
Seeing that Lu Shiyu was still looking for something, Tang Zeyu came over to take a look, and saw Lu Shiyu pulling out a long intestine from a pile of internal organs.
"Do you want to make pig intestines?" Tang Zeyu asked.
"Want to know?" Lu Shiyu pretended to be mysterious and stuffed a few pieces of meat into Tang Zeyu's mouth. He said, "Go and help me chop this meat into minced meat and I'll tell you."
Tang Zeyu looked at the pieces of front chuck in his hand and compromised with a smile: "Okay."
Lu Shiyu and Tang Zeyu were processing the meat they were going to take away, while Shaoxing Yang was watching over Yan Hong and Chen Yun while they caught up on their sleep. The scene was inexplicably harmonious.
When Lu Shiyu was on his way, he set up a pot and boiled water first. He cut a large lump of pork lard into strips and then into equal-sized pieces. After the water was hot, he put in the cut lard and a few slices of ginger to remove the fishy smell. After the water boiled, he took out the lard and cleaned it. Because the fat part is easy to stick to dirt, this step is needed to remove the dirt.
Pour the blanched lard blocks into the reheated iron pot, add a bowl of water and a few slices of ginger, and stir constantly to allow the lard blocks to be heated evenly. After the water boils, you can see that the originally clear water has turned milky white. Continue to stir and the water content will begin to decrease. When the milky white water becomes transparent again, it means that the water has been completely evaporated, and the remaining transparent liquid is lard.
Take out an iron strainer, press it on the lard to filter the oil, scoop out the filtered oil with a spoon, continue stirring while scooping the oil to prevent it from sticking to the pot, until the pork lard blocks become golden and fluffy, the oil is almost boiled dry, and the originally snow-white fat has all turned into crispy lard residue.
The remaining oil in the pot was not wasted. It was used to its full potential and evenly spread on several iron pots, which served as a maintenance for the iron pots.
Put all the boiled lard in a clean, water-free and oil-free idle basin and wait for it to solidify at room temperature. You can sprinkle some salt on the lard residue and eat it as a snack.
The next step is to deal with the small intestine. Lu Shiyu first tears off the layer of fat and membrane on the surface of the small intestine, then turns the small intestine over little by little and washes it in water with starch. Lu Shiyu feels relieved after washing it five times. After washing it clean, he turns the small intestine back. After cleaning, the small intestine turns into a clean and beautiful dark pink color.
Then you need to hold a spoon and scrape the small intestine continuously to scrape out as much of the contents as possible. The scraping time will be longer than the previous time of turning the intestine over bit by bit. It needs to be scraped clean without breaking it. It requires carefulness and time-consuming. After scraping clean, rinse it with clean water. Only then is the cleaning work completed.
Then soak the clean small intestine in wine to increase its toughness and wait for half an hour before use.
Tang Zeyu held the half-cut meat in his hand and asked Lu Shiyu how finely he wanted it cut. Lu Shiyu thought for a moment and said, "Just keep some particles, don't chop it all into a paste."
"good."
After Tang Zeyu cut the meat and gave it to Lu Shiyu for inspection, Lu Shiyu added salt, oyster sauce, soy sauce, sugar, pepper, starch and a few spoons of ant honey to the cut meat, and then asked Tang Zeyu to stir the meat paste, stirring it vigorously in one direction, and throwing it again after stirring a few times, repeating this for ten minutes.
This step consumes no less physical energy than chopping meat. An average person's arms would probably tremble if they tried to mix so much meat paste at one time. It is considered completed when the meat paste becomes sticky and somewhat chewy.
"Okay," Tang Zeyu rubbed his sore arm and said, "Didn't you say you'd tell me what to do after I help you make the meat filling?"
"You guessed it yourself," Lu Shiyu said as he took the bowl full of meat filling.
"Sausage, right? Otherwise, it wouldn't take me so long to clean the intestines."
"Bingo! But there's no reward for the correct answer."
Tang Zeyu smiled and asked, "But without enema tools, how are you going to stuff the meat into the casing?"
"What's so difficult about not having tools? Just watch carefully."
Lu Shiyu tied a knot at one end of the casing, tore open the opening of the casing, inserted his index finger, middle finger and thumb into the opening of the casing to stretch it open, grabbed a lump of meat paste with his other hand, and stuffed it directly into the casing. After part of it was stuffed in, he pulled the meat inside the casing down to the bottom, and then continued to stuff the meat paste into the casing.
"Look, this is it, no tools are needed, just your hands."
Whether it was processing the meat paste or cleaning the casings, it took a lot of effort. The final assembly link was actually the fastest step. After Lu Shiyu taught it once, Tang Zeyu learned it. The two of them worked together and quickly stuffed the sausages.
"Oh, how could I forget about this," Lu Shiyu remembered after he finished stuffing the sausage, "I forgot that the sausage needs to have a few holes pricked to let out air, but I don't have any toothpicks or needles with me."
Speaking of needles, Lu Shiyu suddenly turned his head and looked at Chen Yunliang who was still catching up on his sleep.
"Tang Zeyu, what's the probability of me going to Chen Yunliang to get the needle now?"
Tang Zeyu hesitated for a moment and said, "Not high."
“How high is not high?”
"Twenty percent."
Lu Shiyu: “…”
Not even 30%, which is indeed not high. In fact, Lu Shiyu felt that what Tang Zeyu wanted to say was impossible, but he said 20% to make it sound better.
Lu Shiyu tiptoed and moved slowly towards the three people. Shaoxingyang, the only one who was still awake, naturally noticed Lu Shiyu's suspicious behavior. When he was about to ask something, Lu Shiyu put his index finger in front of his lips to tell him not to speak. Shaoxingyang swallowed the words back and didn't understand what Lu Shiyu was trying to do.
Lu Shiyu sneaked up to Chen Yunliang's bag and took out the suture needle from it.
In fact, because of Chen Yunliang's special abilities, the medical tools he carries with him are usually never used. If Chen Yunliang didn't like to wipe them when he has nothing to do, they would have been covered in dust long ago.
Lu Shiyu quietly took a needle and quickly poke several holes in the sausage. After disinfecting it with alcohol and flame, he put it back as quickly as he had taken it out.
But just as Lu Shiyu was ready to leave, Chen Yunliang suddenly woke up without any warning.
"What are you doing?"
"Um, I," Lu Shiyu stammered, "Nothing, I fried some lard and wanted to ask if you guys wanted some."
Chen Yunliang looked at Lu Shiyu with suspicion and said, "No, I just woke up and don't want to eat anything too greasy."
"Lard residue? I'll eat it. If he doesn't want to eat it, give it to me." Shaoxing Yang was afraid that Lu Shiyu didn't hear him and quickly raised his hand to attract attention.
Lu Shiyu secretly felt relieved and said, "Okay, I'll get it for you."
There are large and small honeycomb structures inside the lard residue. When you bite it, you can feel the crispy grains and the lightness of puffed food. The outside is fried thin and crispy, and the inside is soft because there is still a trace of fat left.
The caramelized outer layer has a slightly bitter taste similar to bitter chocolate. The aroma of oil and a little salt make the original flavor more prominent, leaving a lingering fragrance on the lips and teeth.
The Shaoxing Yang are delicious when you eat them one by one. They are as crispy as potato chips and you can enjoy them with great pleasure.
"Well, what to eat?"
Yan Hong, who was originally asleep, was woken up and vaguely felt something stuffed in her mouth.
"Try it now, it's freshly cooked lard."
Yanhong slowly crawled out of the sleeping bag while chewing the lard residue, squatted next to Shaoxingyang and ate the lard residue in the bowl together.
On the way, Yu divided the stuffed sausages into several sections and hung them on his backpack. He kept some of the sausages for eating and hung the other parts to dry so that they could be preserved for a longer time.
It was almost noon. Lu Shiyu took a look at the lard. Most of it had solidified, but it was still unstable.
On the way, Yu hid from a few people and secretly put the lard into the space, waiting to take it out at night to let it solidify again.
After a morning of rest, the group recovered well and returned to the fork in the road along the wrong path, heading towards the other correct path.
As they walked further, the trees became noticeably sparser. By the time it got dark, they had reached the edge of the woods, and the river flowed straight into the blue sea.
"Go further and you'll find the sand."
Tang Zeyu stopped and said, "Let's rest here today and go through it in one breath tomorrow."
Everyone quickly set up tents and lit a bonfire at the junction of the woods and the sand.
Lu Shiyu was staring at the beach and the sea in the distance in a daze. After Tang Zeyu lit a fire, he walked to her and asked her what she was looking at.
"Look at the sea," Lu Shiyu said slowly, word by word: "This is the first time I have seen the sea."
"Didn't your parents take you to the beach when you were a kid?"
Lu Shiyu shook his head and said, "No, I live inland, a little far from the beach, so I've never been there."
"Actually, we had originally planned to go on a trip to the seaside, but as you know, a bunch of deformed creatures suddenly appeared, and quite a few crawled out of the sea, so our original plan was naturally ruined."
Lu Shiyu placed one hand on Tang Zeyu and leaned his weight towards him: "I never thought I would have the chance to see the sea again."
Lu Shiyu jokingly said, "So I should be the one giving you the money. This whole trip feels like a hiking trip."
Tang Zeyu also smiled: "If the base relaxes its restrictions again one day, you may be able to come and go freely."
Lu Shiyu sighed helplessly: "Captain Tang, not everyone has the ability to survive the danger of the deformed creatures."
"It's okay. From now on, whenever you go out, I'll follow you. You just need to think about what to eat next. I'll take care of the deformed creatures."
The two of them stopped talking, and the atmosphere suddenly began to become a little strange.
On the way, I felt inexplicably nervous and my face felt a little hot for some reason.
"Never mind you, I'm going to cook."
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