Lychee wine has a mild flavor and is more suitable for women, but women in Meilin Town hardly drink alcohol, so the sales of lychee wine can only be from other places.
However, now that Gu Mingqian has been secured, there's no need to worry about sales in Kyoto. Once he's fully established the sales channels in Kyoto after his trip there, he'll naturally come back to place orders with Pei Yao again.
However, Pei Yao still put the remaining lychee wine on the stall for sale because there were often small merchant ships from other places coming to the dock.
Pei Yao doesn't like putting all her eggs in one basket, so having only the Gu family as a sales channel is far from enough. Pei Yao wants to have several more sales channels.
Many hands make light work, and with everyone working together, the stall was quickly set up.
On the way back, Pei Yao realized that there was no meat left at home, so she asked Niu Qingshan to take the oxcart and go to the butcher shop by a detour.
Because it was afternoon, the butcher shop didn't have much meat left, only some not-so-good pieces. Pei Yao picked and chose but couldn't find anything she liked, but she spotted a few large meat bones in the corner of the cutting board.
The owner of the pork shop and Chen Fang were old acquaintances. Chen Fang used to come to the pork shop to buy meat often, so she was very welcoming when she saw the family come over.
Seeing Pei Yao picking and choosing meat on the cutting board without finding anything she liked, and finally fixing her gaze on the large bones, he grinned and asked, "Miss, do you have a dog at home?"
Pei Yao was puzzled by the shopkeeper's words: "A dog?"
Although the Pei family members all dressed simply, Chen Fang frequently came to sell meat, so the shopkeeper knew that the family was not short of money, but just kept a low profile.
Judging from Pei Yao staring at the bone, she's definitely not so poor that she can't afford meat. After all, only poor people would buy these kinds of bones to make soup and enjoy the taste of meat.
Wealthy families usually buy these bones to cook and feed to their dogs.
Therefore, he guessed that Pei Yao would buy it to feed her dogs.
Thinking this way, the boss said it out loud.
Pei Yao's face darkened: "..."
Pei Yao didn't want Boss He to explain further, and simply asked, "Boss, how much is this big bone?"
The shopkeeper smiled and said, "Young lady, if you want them, you can take them all for five coins."
There were five large bones in total. Pei Yao paid five coins for them all and asked the shopkeeper to chop them into pieces for him.
This will also make it easier for him to make soup when he gets back.
Pei Yao has been here for so long but has never bought this kind of big pork bone to make soup. She found it today and will make a seaweed and pork bone soup tonight.
Speaking of seaweed, we've almost used up all the seaweed we dried at home. We've been busy with other things lately and forgot about drying seaweed. It looks like we'll have to take some time these next couple of days to go to Black Bay and dry some more seaweed.
When Pei Yao and the others returned home, Yunniang and Pei Erlang were in the yard tidying up the seeds of the Thunder Fruit and dried lychees they had collected from various households.
Although Gu's order was completed, they still needed to use Pili fruit seeds at their own shop.
Seeing Pei Yao and the others return, they quickly got up to help.
Business was good today, so they came back early. After finishing what she was doing, Pei Yao went to the kitchen to prepare the big pork bones she was going to stew later.
First, I took a piece of dried kelp and soaked it in water for a while to rehydrate it.
Then take out the pork bones you bought today, wash them in water, and then blanch them in cold water to remove the blood from the bones.
This kind of bone marrow has a lot of marrow, so it also has a lot of blood. Pei Yao added some leftover ginger and wild scallions.
You need to cook it for a little longer to remove some of the blood.
Then skim off the blood foam that rises to the surface.
Once all the blood has been boiled out, you can take the bones out. Then, put some lard in a dry pot and fry the bones until both sides are slightly golden brown. This will make the soup more fragrant later.
Then you can add hot water, cover the pot, and simmer for a while.
Yunniang had already washed and brought in the kelp. Pei Yao cut out the thickest part of the kelp, which was perfect for making soup. The rest would be used to make shredded kelp for a cold dish.
There's still a sea fish that Niu Qingshan brought over yesterday in the yard.
Pei Yao didn't recognize many kinds of sea fish. For example, she didn't recognize the one that Niu Qingshan had given her. It was red and ugly. Niu Qingshan said that he caught it when he went out to sea in a small fishing boat. He called it a red snapper.
Pei Yao asked the locals how they ate it, and Niu Qingshan said they steamed it directly.
Pei Yao thought about it and agreed. People here like to steam everything, no matter what it is; everything can be steamed...
So Pei Yao naturally followed local customs and steamed the red snapper.
After quickly cleaning the red snapper, Pei Yao placed it on a large plate. Since there were no other seasonings, she simply added wild onions, ginger, a few sliced chili peppers, and some soy sauce, then steamed it in a pot.
Since the number of people in the family has increased, Pei Yao went to the blacksmith shop a few days ago to order a new large iron pot. Now they have two iron pots.
When the bone broth was almost ready, Pei Yao threw the chopped kelp into the broth and cooked it together.
"Mother, you can start the fire now," Pei Yao said to Yunniang, who was standing in front of the stove.
"Hey." Upon hearing this, Yunniang added another handful of dry firewood to the fire, and the flames instantly grew larger.
Sea fish doesn't need to be steamed for long. After a short while on high heat, Pei Yao poked it with chopsticks; if it could be pierced easily, it was almost done.
Add some chopped green onions and shredded ginger on top of the fish, then pour some hot oil from a pan over it to instantly release the aroma.
Yunniang helped put the fish on the table first, and Pei Dalang and Chen Fang also brought in the buckets and basins they had washed for their stall.
Just then, drawn by the aroma, Pei Dalang entered the kitchen with a smile, sniffing the air: "Wow, Yao'er, what are we having for dinner today?"
Pei Yao was squatting on the ground picking some leafy greens. These leafy greens were wild vegetables that Yunniang and the others had picked by the roadside a few days ago when they went out to pick thunder fruit.
"If we don't eat now, we'll get too old," Pei Yao said as Pei Dalang walked in. Without any hesitation, she tossed the wild vegetables she was holding to Pei Dalang so he could pick them.
"Uncle, please take care of these vegetables while I make the bone and seaweed soup. I'll go check if the soup is ready."
Pei Dalang chuckled as he accepted the bone broth.
Then he took the bowl of wild vegetables and went to find Pei Erlang. Pei Erlang's lame leg had not fully recovered yet, so he could not stand for long periods of time and often had to sit on a stool.
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