Everyone in the courtyard was busy with their own tasks, even Ren Yuan was cutting meat with a knife.
Lu Qiqi felt embarrassed and continued to sit and eat sunflower seeds.
She said, "Nineteen, come on. I'll make you something delicious."
Nineteen had never experienced slaughtering a pig before, so everything was new to her. Naturally, she did whatever Lu Qiqi asked her to do.
He followed behind Lu Qiqi, being directed to carry the pig's blood into the kitchen.
After entering the kitchen, he watched as Lu Qiqi magically produced a piece of gauze from somewhere.
Lu Qiqi placed the gauze on top of the bucket filled with glutinous rice and said, "Nineteen, pour the bloody water onto the gauze to filter it."
Nineteen is now like a junior apprentice, and Lu Qiqi is his master, pointing him in the right direction and doing exactly as instructed.
With the gauze filtering through, the pig's blood flows down the gauze, leaving small blood clots on the gauze.
After filtering out the blood clots, Lu Qiqi picked up a stick, stirred the contents of the wooden bucket a couple of times, and then handed it to Nineteen.
"I'll mix the blood and glutinous rice together and make you some delicious glutinous rice blood sausage."
After Lu Qiqi finished speaking, she went to the cupboard to look for the spice water that Li Changlong had prepared last night.
She had prepared the spices in advance and asked Doctor Huang to give them to Li Changlong.
The spice water contains star anise, Sichuan peppercorns, cinnamon, bay leaves, and cardamom. It is made by boiling these ingredients together and then letting it cool before use.
Actually, if conditions allowed, adding some thirteen-spice powder would make it taste even better.
After the spiced water was poured into the wooden bucket, the blood plasma dyed the glutinous rice bright red.
Lu Qiqi said, "Nineteen, go out and see if the small intestine has been cleaned?"
Upon hearing this, Shijiu was about to run out of the kitchen when Lu Qiqi called her back.
"etc."
Nineteen slammed on the brakes and looked at her, somewhat confused.
"Bring in some large intestines too. There's too much glutinous rice; the small intestines alone can't hold it all."
"Yes." This time, when Nineteen walked out of the kitchen, he was not called back again.
Not long after, Lu Qiqi saw Nineteen bring in a wooden basin.
Inside were the small and large intestines she wanted. Lu Qiqi pinched one of them with her index finger and thumb, examined it a couple of times, and then gently sniffed it, but found no strange smell.
Seeing her like this, Shijiu knew what she was worried about. "The intestines have been washed very clean, so the village head need not worry."
What he really meant was that pig intestines taste better when they're a little smelly. Although he had never eaten them before, that's what his tenth brother told him, and since it was his tenth brother who told him, it couldn't be wrong.
The large and small intestines were indeed washed very clean, so Lu Qiqi confidently tied one end of the intestines tightly with a rope.
Then use the gourd shell, cut in half lengthwise, as a funnel.
Making blood sausage is a technical skill. The intestines used must not be broken or torn. Furthermore, the stuffed blood sausage must be properly adjusted to ensure that the blood and glutinous rice are evenly distributed.
To avoid the situation where the blood and glutinous rice are completely separated after steaming, the two should be kept separate.
After making the blood sausage, Lu Qiqi washed her hands and then, with Shijiu, carried the blood sausage out of the kitchen and into the courtyard.
At this moment, everyone in the courtyard had their own tasks to do.
Doctor Luo and Doctor Huang were in charge of starting the fire and adding firewood, while An Yi led the Shadow Guards to cut the meat.
Li Changlong carefully removed the pork bones, wishing he could cook them in eighteen different ways, trying every single method.
He didn't rest on Monday either; he made braised pork intestines from the cleaned intestines, and the aroma could be smelled from a distance.
Standing in front of the bamboo steamer, Doctor Huang stood up and asked, "What is this? Is it for steaming?"
Lu Qiqi nodded, "Yes, it needs to be steamed in a pot."
Dr. Luo, with his sharp eyes, noticed the blood sausage that Nineteen was holding, and his eyes lit up.
He exclaimed happily, "Girl, did you make this blood sausage?"
Although he was asking Lu Qiqi a question, he didn't give her a second glance, his eyes fixed on the bloody intestines.
Lu Qiqi explained with a smile, "Dr. Luo, this is not blood sausage, but glutinous rice sausage."
Blood sausage is made from rice flour and has a tender and smooth texture, which is completely different from glutinous rice sausage.
Furthermore, the rice milk needs to be ground in advance, which is time-consuming and laborious. She only asked Dr. Huang to remind Li Changlong to prepare it yesterday afternoon.
If Li Changlong were to both boil the spiced water and grind the rice into paste, he probably wouldn't be able to sleep a wink on Monday.
Dr. Luo is from the north and has eaten a lot of blood sausage, but this is the first time he has ever heard of glutinous rice sausage.
He said with a smile, "Then I must have a good taste today."
As he spoke, Doctor Huang lifted the bamboo steamer lid, and a plume of white smoke carrying the aroma of meat instantly wafted out, making one's mouth water.
Inside the steamer were four bowls of braised pork hock, the four large hocks filling the bowls to the brim, their golden-brown skin looking plump with collagen.
Nineteen put the blood sausage into the steamer, and Lu Qiqi told him to wait for half a cup of tea before lifting the lid and poking a few small holes with a skewer to prevent the glutinous rice sausage from breaking during steaming.
After giving her instructions, she changed out of her blood-stained clothes and went out.
In remote border areas, when it's possible to enter and exit from the outside world, fresh fish and shellfish from the sea are plentiful, but the variety of vegetables is limited.
Lu Qiqi noticed that Li Changlong hadn't prepared any leafy greens, so she thought that there were plenty of cabbages, lettuce, and radishes in her space. These vegetables would be delicious when stewed with pork.
Not far from the door, she walked into a small alley. After looking around to make sure no one was there, Lu Qiqi went straight into her spatial dimension.
Wangcai, who was rolling around on the grass, heard Lu Qiqi's voice and immediately stood up, pounced on Lu Qiqi with his tiger-like head and chubby face.
Wangcai has grown up now, and it's not the same weight that Xibao used to carry around when it was a puppy. When Lu Qiqi saw it rushing towards her, she quickly stopped it, "Wangcai, stop!"
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