Xu Qinyu plans to make pork intestines stuffed with glutinous rice.
To make pig intestines stuffed with glutinous rice, you just need to add some side dishes to the glutinous rice, season it well, and then stuff it into the cleaned pig intestines and cook it. It is a bit like steamed buns, both of which are made with glutinous rice, but steamed buns are wrapped in dough. The pig intestines used in the pig intestines stuffed with glutinous rice taste more fragrant, delicious, fat but not greasy.
So when she returned, Xu Qinyu bought glutinous rice.
The price of glutinous rice is about the same as that of japonica rice, both are eleven cents per catty.
I also bought some pork belly and two pieces of pig offal, and a few pig's feet. I planned to eat the pig's feet with my family. The pig's feet stewed with soybeans are more nutritious. My family can now eat some more nourishing food. I also bought some mushrooms. Mushrooms are dried goods and not cheap, but they are affordable and much cheaper than spices.
Xu Qinyu also went to the iron shop to order a large iron pot and paid half of the deposit. After paying the remaining half, she had basically spent all the money she earned in the past half month.
It must have cost a lot of investment in the early stage, or because ironware is too expensive, the big iron pot she ordered can stew more than a dozen fish at a time, and the kitchen stove can't fit it all, so she has to build another stove. There is a wooden shed next to the kitchen where firewood is stored. She plans to move the firewood to the other side and cover it with oilcloth, and then build a big stove under the wooden shed, which is specially used with this big iron pot. In the future, she can stew fish under the shed outside.
She told Pei Weixuan about her idea. Pei Weixuan nodded without expressing any further opinions. He did whatever Yu Niang asked him to do.
Xu Qinyu felt that he was a bit dull, like a piece of wood.
After returning, I started to get busy.
Ning Jie'er now also takes the initiative to help with the work, and she is now faster at scraping fish.
When she was stewing fish, Pei Weixuan also helped to wash the pig intestines. She used wood ash to clean the pig intestines. The wood ash in her home was not enough, so she asked the neighbors for a lot. The excess would be thrown away. Naturally, the neighbors were willing to help and gave the extra wood ash to her family.
Cleaning pig intestines is not a technical job. It can be easy if you are careful.
She planned to braise half of the cleaned pig intestines before going to bed and save the remaining half for tomorrow morning. Because the glutinous rice needs to be soaked for at least three to four hours to make the pig intestines, the bought mushrooms were also soaked together.
When the fish was stewed, Wen came back and started to get busy. She took all the kitchen utensils to the well and cleaned them. She also cleaned up the fish scales and wood ash from washing the fish and intestines and poured them out.
At about three quarters after midnight, around four o'clock, someone came knocking on the door.
Pei Weixuan went to open the gate of the courtyard. It was the neighbors around here. When Wen was selling fish yesterday, he told everyone that they could come to buy fish at 3:15 pm, and that he would sell fish at home in the future, so everyone came by themselves when the time came.
When neighbors came to sell fish, they didn't go into the yard. They just stood at the gate and asked Pei Weixuan whether they wanted a big fish or a small fish.
In fact, Uncle He had even bigger fish, but Xu Qinyu always asked for fish weighing around two or three kilograms. So Uncle He's son would throw back into the lake any bigger fish or fish weighing less than one and a half kilograms he caught, because not many people would buy fish. If they couldn't be sold after catching them, it would be difficult to deal with them if they died, so it was better to throw them back into the lake.
Xu Qinyu bought some fish balls as well.
Fish balls are easy to make and don’t require many other spices. Pepper is needed, but it is many times more expensive than other spices, so we definitely can’t afford it. So just add some star anise and Sichuan peppercorns. It’s chewy and delicious, and safer for children to eat than braised fish.
The remaining fish heads can be used to stew tofu and sold together, which tastes good.
But we have to wait until the iron pan is ready.
Pei Weixuan took the copper coins without saying a word, and took the casserole given by the neighbor into the kitchen to serve the fish.
Everyone thought that this young man was a bit boring. They also knew that Miss Xu was the daughter-in-law of this family and the young man's wife. They felt that although the young man was good-looking, he was too boring and not worthy of such a capable young lady. Miss Xu was such a great cook that she could earn money to support the whole family.
In the eyes of ordinary people, being capable is definitely more important than being good-looking.
Besides, Miss Xu is not ugly. She just had frostbite on her face before. In the past few days, the frostbite on her face has improved a lot, and her face has become whiter. She is quite pretty.
She will definitely look better once the frostbite on her face is all healed.
When the fish were almost sold out, the old lady Luo, who had not appeared for several days, appeared again.
Seeing the Pei family's gate open, she immediately flattered herself and tried to go into the yard, but was stopped by two neighbors who hadn't left yet. "Hey, old lady Luo, what do you want to do? Miss Xu said she wouldn't sell you fish, so why are you so shameless? What are you trying to do in there?"
Old Lady Luo put on a sad expression. "I know I was wrong, so I came here to apologize to Miss Xu. Alas, I was the one who did it that day, and I really know I was wrong. I was scolded by my son and old man, so I came here to give the copper coins to Miss Xu. Today, in addition to paying the money back, I also plan to buy a fish from Miss Xu. My sisters-in-law, you can also supervise me. If I make a fuss about getting the copper coins back tomorrow, I will die a miserable death."
After she finished speaking, she spread out her palm, on which were sixteen copper coins. Apart from the ones she shamelessly asked for back from Miss Xu last time, the remaining eight were the copper coins she used to buy fish today.
Seeing that Old Lady Luo had a sincere look on her face and had copper coins in her hand, the two women hesitated and began to believe her words.
Xu Qinyu had already heard what Mrs. Luo said in the kitchen and came out with a kitchen knife.
When Old Lady Luo and the other two women saw this, they were all shocked.
Old Lady Luo also immediately smiled apologetically, "Ms. Xu, it was my fault a few days ago. I will apologize to you and return the copper coins. I hope you will not bear grudges and forgive me this time."
Xu Qinyu raised the kitchen knife in her hand and said coldly, "I won't sell you any fish. I made it very clear when I sold you the fish. If you return the money because I think my cooking is unpalatable, I will never sell you any fish again. So you'd better leave. I won't accept your coins, nor will I sell you any fish."
She didn't believe that Old Lady Luo would sincerely apologize.
Ever since Luo Laopo's daughter-in-law, Lin, failed to buy fish, when she ran into Lin the next day, she saw that she had many new wounds on her face.
After that, I ran into Lin twice more, and each time I could see new wounds on her face.
Every time Lin saw her, he would lower his head and walk away quickly.
How could a man who abused his daughter-in-law like this sincerely admit his mistakes? She came to admit her mistakes only with evil intentions in mind and was trying to find another way to get rid of her fish recipe.
The unpleasant fishy smell that came from the end of the alley last time was mixed with the scent of several spices that she had placed on the stove and specifically showed to the old woman. This meant that Old Woman Luo broke into her kitchen to steal the recipe under the pretext of returning the fish money. How could such a bad person admit her mistake?
Old Lady Luo probably didn't expect Xu Qinyu to refuse so bluntly.
As the saying goes, don't hit someone who smiles at you.
Why did this young lady give her the cold face as soon as she came up?
She originally thought that after a few days, Miss Xu would have calmed down, and if she went to apologize, she might be able to coax her into teaching her how to cook fish.
Secondly, she was really forced to apologize by her son and old man at home. Her son and old man smelled the various fragrances of Guihua Lane all day long but could not taste them. They always scolded her and asked her to apologize quickly and buy fish.
Old Lady Luo immediately smiled and said, "My dear lady, I sincerely apologize."
Xu Qinyu continued with a cold expression, "No need, just leave quickly."
"You little girl." Old Lady Luo's face was a little bit exhausted. "I came here with good intentions to apologize to you, why are you so stubborn?"
The two women nearby saw that Old Lady Luo was a little upset, and then they came to their senses. They had also lived in Guihua Lane for more than ten years and knew this old lady too well to know how she would behave. How could she possibly apologize sincerely? They immediately persuaded Old Lady Luo to stop making trouble.
Xu Qinyu also sold the remaining two fish to the customers who came to buy fish and closed the gate.
Old Mrs. Luo was so angry that she couldn't help but curse Xu Qinyu at the gate of the courtyard, using all kinds of ugly and foul words.
The two women were a little angry, thinking that they had thought that Old Lady Luo was sincerely apologizing, but it turned out that she was just fooling them.
How could Xu Qinyu be insulted by this old woman for no reason? She was about to open the door with a kitchen knife in hand and a cold face.
Pei Weixuan, who was standing next to her, had already opened the gate with a cold face. Seeing the old woman standing at the gate and pointing and cursing inside, he raised his foot and kicked Old Woman Luo in the heart, sending her flying backwards and landing on the snow. Old Woman Luo was dizzy from the fall and cried out in pain.
He reduced his strength and just kicked the person away, not taking her life.
Xu Qinyu also sneered, walked over with a kitchen knife in hand, half squatted down, and swung the knife towards Old Lady Luo's head.
Old Mrs. Luo was terrified. She never thought that this delicate and weak young lady could be so crazy. She wanted to kill her just because she scolded her a few words.
Old Lady Luo felt the flash of a knife, and the cold blade brushed across her cheek, causing her to feel pain.
She howled, covered her face and screamed, "My face, my face."
Xu Qinyu sneered, "Why are you yelling? I didn't hurt you. If you do it again, I'll shave your face."
Of course, she couldn't really break the law by shaving Old Lady Luo's face; she was just trying to scare her.
Mrs. Luo felt her face carefully and found no blood. She said angrily, "I'm going to report it to the police!"
Xu Qinyu said, "Go ahead. You're the one who caused the trouble first. You're eating for free without paying. When I refused to sell you food, you started making trouble and cursing in front of the door. Now you can see how the county magistrate punishes you."
The neighbors nearby also said, "We can testify that it was you, an old woman, who started the trouble first."
According to the laws of the Great Sheng Dynasty, this kind of thing is indeed a civil dispute, and both parties will be beaten with a stick, but the party that caused the trouble will be beaten twice as much.
Old Lady Luo naturally knew very well that she could not withstand twenty lashes of the cane. She covered her chest, got up and walked away in shame, without daring to curse Xu Qinyu at all when she left.
The neighbors were also surprised. It turned out that the fierce ones were afraid of the violent ones, and the violent ones were afraid of the desperate ones. Miss Xu looked delicate and charming, but she was not someone to be trifled with.
This couple is more brutal than each other. The handsome young man also knows how to protect Miss Xu, and he is worthy of her.
Xu Qinyu turned around holding the kitchen knife. Pei Jianing and Wen were standing at the gate of the courtyard, staring at her in amazement, their faces full of admiration. If the ladies from the noble families in the capital had a quarrel, they would quarrel openly and just exchange words in a sarcastic manner. No one was as straightforward as Yu Niang, who just went up with the kitchen knife.
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