Gao looked at the Ganoderma lucidum carefully and asked An Ning to put it away. After An Ning put the Ganoderma lucidum away, she took out the pepper seedlings and the prickly ash tree and asked Gao, "Mom, do you have a flower pot at home? I want to plant it."
Gao shook her head and said, "We don't have flower trays at home. I'll ask your father to order you a few wooden boxes later. They're better than flower pots."
An Ning nodded and said, "Okay."
Gao looked at the bright red peppers and said, "This thing is poisonous. Last time, Er Gouzi from our village thought it looked good, so he picked one and ate it. He didn't expect that his mouth would be swollen after eating it, and he had diarrhea for several days."
An Ning smiled and said, "Mom, this is called chili, a condiment. I will make you something delicious later."
Gao dug at the prickly ash tree again and asked, "What is this?"
An Ning explained: "This is called Sichuan pepper, it can also be used as a seasoning, and it is also a medicinal ingredient."
Gao looked at the stones again and said, "Why are you picking up a few stones? You don't think they are too heavy."
An Ning smiled and said, "This is a secret for now. I'll tell you in a few days."
Gao didn't ask any more questions and said, "Okay, didn't you just say you wanted to make something delicious? Go ahead and make it! It just so happens that I only steamed some buns today and didn't cook any dishes."
An Ning said with a smile: "Okay, Mom, just wait for the delicious food!"
When An Ning went to the kitchen, An Dashan had already skinned the wild goat and was cutting it open. Seeing An Dashan was about to throw the internal organs away, An Ning quickly stopped him and said, "Dad, don't throw it away. Keep this. I'll make you something delicious tomorrow morning."
An Dashan looked at the stinky offal in his hand and asked in disbelief, "Daya, this stuff stinks, even dogs won't eat it, how did you make it delicious?"
An Ning smiled and said, "Dad, don't worry about this. Now help me cut the mutton into thin slices. I'll make the base for the pot."
An Dashan could only resign himself to his daughter's instructions and go about cutting the mutton slices.
An Ning, relying on the original owner's memory, dug out a dusty red clay stove and a clay pot from under the cabinet. He also found some charcoal left over from the previous year in the woodshed. This charcoal was made by An Dashan himself, so even in the coldest winter, the An family never got cold.
An Ning washed the casserole, wiped the red clay stove clean, then put the charcoal into the red clay stove and lit it. He put water on the casserole, added the sheep bones that An Dashan had just picked off, put in some green onions, ginger, and a few peppercorns, and started to cook the broth.
An Ning was afraid that An Dashan and Gao Shi would not be able to accept the taste of chili peppers for a while, so she planned to make a bone soup base and then use chili peppers as a dipping sauce.
While the soup was boiling, she went to the backyard to pull up a cabbage, washed it, and cut off the leaves to eat later.
An Dashan soon finished cutting half a basin of mutton slices and asked An Ning, "Daya, do you think this is enough mutton?"
An Ning took a look and estimated that it was about 15 to 20 pounds. She nodded and said, "Okay, Dad, go and have a rest while you wait for dinner!"
After sending An Dashan out of the kitchen, she quickly took out a bottle of sesame sauce from the space and started to prepare two dipping sauces, one spicy and one non-spicy. An Ning felt that shabu-shabu mutton without sesame sauce was soulless, so she didn't care about An Dashan and Gao's suspicion.
After the bone soup was ready, An Ning asked An Dashan to put the small red clay stove on the table in the main room, put the mutton, cabbage and dipping sauce on the table, and started eating. An Dashan and Gao Shi looked at the novel way of eating on the table and didn't know how to eat, so they didn't move their chopsticks and looked at An Ning.
An Ning picked up the chopsticks and put the mutton into the boiling bone soup. After it was cooked, she took it out and dipped it in the dipping sauce and put it in her mouth. The mellow sesame sauce, tender mutton and the spicy pepper immediately shocked An Ning's taste buds. An Ning chewed slowly and felt extremely satisfied.
Seeing An Ning eating so deliciously, An Dashan and Gao Shi also couldn't wait to eat. After tasting the flavor, they couldn't stop eating until they were full and couldn't eat any more. Then they put down their chopsticks with a sense of unfulfilled desire. It was a pity that the buns fell out of favor and none of them were eaten.
An Dashan rubbed his stomach and said, "Daya, if you open a shop selling this dish called shabu-shabu, you will definitely make a lot of money."
An Ning shook his head and said, "Dad, if we open a shop, we will need a lot of mutton. There are not many people raising sheep here. If we open a shop, we need to raise sheep ourselves. Besides, we have no one to back us up. If someone with ulterior motives targets us, we will be in big trouble."
After hearing An Ning's words, An Dashan quickly gave up the idea of opening a shop.
After dinner, An Dashan carried two lamb legs and went to borrow a bullock cart next door. An Ning watched An Dashan go out and thought, "It's time to buy a carriage."
Uncle Liu next door readily lent his ox cart to An Dashan. His children were also very happy. They had just eaten rabbit meat and they didn't expect that they would be able to eat mutton soon. It made them happy just thinking about it.
After a short rest, An Ning went to deal with the sheep offal. An Ning first poured out the feces in the sheep's intestines, and then rinsed them with clean water. When there was no feces, he put in plant ash and began to rub it. When the rubbing was almost done, he took out two handfuls of coarse salt from the salt jar in the kitchen and continued to rub it. Finally, he washed it several times with clean water, and the sheep offal was processed.
After An Ning dealt with the sheep's offal, she went to wash up. After washing up, she returned to the room, locked the door, and then entered the space. She first planted the peppers and peppers, then patrolled the space and found that the corn she planted last time had grown, and it was green and looked particularly pleasing to the eye.
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