Chapter 126: Halved Pork

After dinner, Wang Tingting dragged Lin Yue into the kitchen again. Lin Yue begged, "I said you should let me rest for a while. Why did you drag me to the kitchen after dinner?"

Wang Tingting didn't bother to be polite with Lin Yue. She pointed at an enamel basin on the kitchen floor and said flatteringly, "I saw that you still had such a big basin of pig offal that you hadn't cooked yet. I was afraid that it would not be fresh by tomorrow, so I wanted to remind you! Didn't you say that these were all going to be salted? Let me help you!"

This girl was really obsessed with learning how to cook. Seeing that she was serious, Lin Yue had no choice but to agree.

Although Zhang Yuandong had already washed it once, Lin Yue still cleaned it again carefully, especially the large intestine. She put some white vinegar and salt in the basin and scrubbed it repeatedly with her hands.

For people of this era, grease is a good thing. When Zhang Yuandong cleaned it, he deliberately kept all the grease in the large intestine. But in fact, he and the children are not short of grease now. They don’t like to eat large intestines that are too fat. So Lin Yue scraped off most of the grease inside without hesitation and put it aside.

Wang Tingting stared at it carefully, and when she saw this, she asked, "Don't you want this fat?"

"Yes, I'll use it to refine oil later." Just kidding. If I really wanted to throw it away, I would do it secretly. How could I tell her that I didn't want it?

Lin Yue put the pork offal that she was going to blanch into the pot and blanched it first. During this time, she also washed a dozen eggs and cooked them on the stove in Wang Tingting's house.

Wang Tingting was more and more surprised. When she saw Lin Yue soaking the boiled eggs in cold water and peeling them one by one, she became even more curious and asked curiously, "Why are you peeling so many eggs? You don't need to eat so many eggs for a late night snack, right?"

Lin Yue said with a smile: "Of course we are eating together. We just finished our meal. Why do you want to have another meal?"

Wang Tingting quickly waved her hands: "No, no, no, I'll just help you peel the eggs!"

The steps for brine halved pigs are similar to those for halved pig trotters, but the seasonings are slightly different. Lin Yue put the pig tongue and pig large intestine, which need to be brine longer, into the casserole layer by layer. It must be said that Zhang Yuandong is still very careful. He was afraid that Lin Yue could not stand the appearance of the pig tongue, so he not only boiled it out and dried the skin in advance, but also cut it in half, so that at least it would not look so scary. The pig liver needed a short time to be brine, so Lin Yue kept it in cold water to let the blood inside flow out as much as possible.

Each type of pig has a different time to add brine. Lin Yue and Wang Tingting worked in the kitchen for more than two hours before finally bringing the pot down. Xu Xiaodi came out at some point and leaned against the kitchen door, smiling, "I'm telling you two, you're cooking delicious food in the kitchen in the middle of the night. No one in the entire family building will have any sleep tonight!"

She was right. The sound of a child crying could be faintly heard in the family building. Lin Yue clasped his hands together and secretly said in his heart: "What a sin!"

Wang Tingting's hand had already reached into the pot, and Lin Yue slapped her, "Stick your hand in like this, you won't get your skin burned! Use your chopsticks to take a little bit, and taste it with Xu Xiaodi. Don't eat the rest yet, it will be salted all night!"

Wang Tingting was not embarrassed. She turned around, picked up a pair of chopsticks, picked up a small piece and put it in the bowl, then shared it with Xu Xiaodi.

Lin Yue smiled, chatted with a few people and was about to go home, but was stopped by Xu Xiaodi, "Are you leaving just like that?"

Lin Yue was puzzled. "What else? It's so late. It's time to go back to bed."

"You don't want that pot of brined pork? Believe it or not, if you leave it here overnight and come back tomorrow morning, I won't even leave you any brined pork or soup!"

Lin Yuexin. She neglected this point, mainly because she now lives in the military district's family compound, and she subconsciously thinks that the family members here are of higher quality. In fact, they are not. Quality really has nothing to do with origin, education, or status.

She obediently took the pot and went back to the house.

As expected, after the lights-out signal rang that night, several people couldn't sleep, so they secretly got up from their beds, went into Lin Yue's kitchen and rummaged around, but of course they found nothing.

Someone got up in the middle of the night to go to the bathroom and heard a small noise coming from the kitchen. The person thought a mouse had gotten into the building, but when he listened carefully, he actually heard a woman mumbling softly. The person couldn't hear what she was saying, but he was also very scared. Who would go to the outer kitchen in the middle of the night to look for food? Isn't it scary!

The next day, after everyone knew that it was Lin Yue who made the brined pork that night, her popularity inexplicably became worse. However, this was only the case with some people. Others were happy to know that it was Lin Yue who made the brined pork. As long as it wasn't made by Wang Tingting, they would be comfortable dealing with her. They simply took their bowls and went to Lin Yue's house to exchange for the brined pork.

To be honest, Lin Yue's family couldn't finish all the salty food, so she gave some to Wang Tingting and Xu Xiaodi. Both of them liked the salty eggs, so Lin Yue gave them more. But these two people were not the kind of people who liked to take advantage of small things. Wang Tingting gave Lin Yue a bottle of canned oranges, and Xu Xiaodi knitted a small bag for Lingling and Wanli to hang on their bodies to hold snacks. She used the leftover wool she had used to knit a sweater for Captain Lu.

The two children couldn't let go of the small bag and soon put it on their backs. Lin Yue couldn't help but persuade her, "You should do less of these things. You are still pregnant and need to rest more!"

Xu Xiaodi knew that she meant well, so she smiled and nodded. While they were talking, someone came to Lin Yue to exchange salted pork. Offal was not worth much, mainly because Lin Yue's cooking skills were good. In this era, she couldn't expect to make money from this, so she usually exchanged with people happily. But there were also people she didn't want to exchange with, and some people obviously wanted to take advantage of her, and Lin Yue would not get used to them.

There are also some people who are not here to take advantage, but Lin Yue still doesn't want to exchange with them, such as Zhang Lai Di's man, Captain Liu.

Zhang Lai Di hadn't finished her confinement yet, but she had been discharged from the hospital since Captain Liu came back. But for such a long time, her family had never come to thank Lin Yue. It wasn't that she wanted to be thanked, but she saved their child's life, but they didn't show any appreciation at all, which was really infuriating.

Captain Liu came with money, but he was not greedy for Lin Yue's small advantage and was quite generous. He made his intention clear as soon as he arrived. Zhang Lai Di smelled the fragrance during her confinement and wanted to have a taste of it, so she asked Lin Yue if he could sell him some.

Lin Yue smiled, took off the plate on the small enamel basin, and apologized, "I'm so sorry, I had to share it all. I originally made some salted food just for my family, but I didn't expect so many people to come this morning. I heard that the children wanted to eat it, and it's not worth much, so I shared a little with each family. I have to keep the rest for my children. I really can't share it with you, otherwise my children will make a fuss."

Of course there are some left. Many families came just with their children. They brought a few pieces of candy or something like that to Lin Yue to exchange for a small piece of salami. Lin Yue was not generous with the food just because the children came, so there are still quite a lot left. But she said that because she didn't want to make an exchange with Captain Liu.

Captain Liu looked at the brined meat in the enamel basin and swallowed his saliva. It was this smell that kept his family of three awake for half the night. He was unwilling to give up and negotiated: "Sister-in-law, can you please give me a little more? I can give you more money!"

"Captain Liu, if you say that, I will be even less willing to give it to you. I made it for my own family, how could I possibly trade with you? That would be speculation! No, no, if you have that much money, you might as well go to a state-owned restaurant in the city to buy it. Why do you have to come to me?"

Captain Liu knew this was the truth, but it would take a lot of time to go back and forth. Soldiers had to get a permit in advance to go out, even if they were off duty. Besides, he had never tasted the salty taste in the state-owned hotel, so who knew if it was good or not. But the whole family could smell the food made by Lin Yue, and they had tasted it in their dreams last night. The filter was very thick, especially his wife, who wanted to eat what Lin Yue made.

Seeing that Lin Yue really had no room for maneuver, he couldn't say anything more and had to leave with regret.

Zhang Lai Di refused to do it. She couldn't understand why. "No, Captain Zhang's wife saved our son. It's not like she wouldn't even give us a little salt meat!"

Captain Liu suddenly asked, "Could it be that she is unwilling to do so because we did not give her a thank-you gift?"

"No, that doesn't make sense. I asked around when I was in the hospital, and Captain Zhang's family didn't give the orderly any gifts. I was targeting Captain Zhang's family, and if she gets angry about this, she's really petty!"

Captain Liu hesitated and said, "But I heard that the orderly has been transferred to serve as a communicator under Captain Zhang. You can't say that he didn't show any reaction, right?"

Zhang Lai Di was speechless for a while. The baby girl beside her was sleeping restlessly and started crying with wrinkled brows. She patted her impatiently a few times, not caring why the child was crying. She complained a few words about the debt collectors and then said slowly: "This Lin Yue is really stingy and has no good. Isn't she going to save people? She has a really dark heart! It's a good thing that I'm still in confinement, otherwise I really have to talk to her!"

Captain Liu's eyes flashed and he nodded thoughtfully.

Within a few days, some people in the family compound were talking about how Lin Yue was resentful of Captain Liu's family because they did not give her a thank-you gift. The news spread quickly, and not only did the family compound hear about it, but the military region also heard about it.

Wang Tingting was so angry that she yelled, "I've never seen such a shameless person. You saved their child, but their family didn't even say a word of thanks. Now they're throwing dirty water on you. How can this be justified!"

Lin Yue was also furious. She had thought Captain Liu didn't know that she had saved his son when she saw him coming to buy salted meat so generously. But he knew it a long time ago. But it made sense. A child falling into the river was no small matter. Not only had the family discussed it for several days, but the school had also repeatedly held meetings for the children. Even if Zhang Lai Di didn't say it, Captain Liu should have known it.