Cleaning fat intestines is a technical job. In the modern era when there is no shortage of food, people use flour or starch, vinegar and wine to clean fat intestines. But here, flour, vinegar and Huadiao wine are not cheap, and she was reluctant to use them to clean pig offal, so she used wood ash. Wood ash itself is a traditional Chinese medicine, which has the effect of purifying and removing odors, so she used wood ash to clean the fat intestines.

After scrubbing it repeatedly many times, the fat intestines were scrubbed clean and white. She cut off a small part of the fat inside the intestines, leaving most of the grease, so that the brine would be oily and taste better.

After dinner, Xu Qinyu started to swim.

When she was cooking, other people could not help except watching the stove, and could only help with washing pots, bowls, and utensils.

Mrs. Wen was washing the wooden basin that her daughter-in-law had just used in the yard, while the two children and Pei Weixuan were squatting by the stove, warming themselves by the fire.

It's really cold.

Xu Qinyu began to fry the sugar color. She melted the pork fat in the iron pot and added the old rock sugar and stir-fried slowly. After the sugar color was fried, she added the spices in the right proportion, such as ginger slices, dogwood, and scallion segments and stir-fried them. After stir-frying, she added a large pot of water, and when the water boiled, she added soy sauce and salt. She washed the fat intestines and pork stomach, then simmered them on low heat for three quarters of an hour and then turned off the heat. In this way, the brined fat intestines were just right, not too soft and rotten, but chewy, fragrant and not greasy. She then added the large pieces of radish she had cut, covered the pot with a lid, and simmered the radish in the hot broth.

This way the radish will be cooked as soon as it is boiled tomorrow morning, and it will be especially tasty.

Just stir-fry the cabbage with some dogwood and vinegar tomorrow.

I'll make the fried eggs and pancakes tomorrow.

People here have breakfast around nine in the morning, so they don't have to get up in the middle of the night to work.

In modern breakfast shops, customers have to eat breakfast at around 5:30 or 6:00. The employees and bosses of the breakfast shops usually get up at 3 or 4 o'clock to start working, which is very hard.

The pot of pig intestines she was blanching filled the house with fragrance as soon as it was blanched.

After the halogen was ready, the fragrance spread far away and the neighbors could smell it.

"Oh, what on earth does the guy next door do? He's making me sick every day."

"It smells so good, it feels like I just had dinner and it's like I haven't eaten anything before."

The neighbors were almost overwhelmed by the fragrance.

"Mom, mom, I want to eat, I want to eat." Some children couldn't help but make a noise when they smelled the fragrance.

"It smells so good, it must be the taste of halved pork. Even the meat in the halved pork shop doesn't smell this good. How can we afford halved pork at home? Son, stop making trouble."

"No, no, I just want to eat."

Many children in Guihua Lane started crying when they smelled the fragrance, and they went to the adults to ask for food. Some of them were coaxed by the adults with kind words, while some adults with bad tempers beat them up directly.

After Xu Qinyu finished all these, she boiled some hot water and the whole family washed up before going to bed.

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As the morning light broke, Xu Qinyu woke up.

Among the Pei family, Xu Qinyu and Pei Weixuan are usually the ones who get up earlier.

Pei Jianing didn't sleep well at night, and Xu Qinyu could feel her sister-in-law tossing and turning even when she was half asleep, so she would let her sister-in-law sleep a little longer in the morning.

Every time she went to the kitchen, her cheap husband would almost follow her out.

Her cheap husband sat in front of the stove and helped her watch the fire, while Xu Qinyu used a small stove to cook today's porridge. Because there were meat-stuffed steamed buns today, the porridge was lighter and just right to go with it.

She kneaded the dough again, left it on the chopping board for a quarter of an hour, poured all the salsa in the pot into the large casserole she had prepared earlier, cleaned the pot, and began to knead the dough and make pancakes.

Making pancakes is simple. Pinch the dough into the size of half a fist and press it into a pancake of even thickness before baking.

The amount of salty pork belly and fat intestines she had was enough for about fifty meat buns, so she made fifty-five pancakes.

The iron pan is big enough for her to bake several pancakes at a time.

Wait until the pancake is done and then start frying the eggs.

A thin layer of lard and salt is brushed on the bottom of the pan, and the fried eggs are round and fragrant.

After frying the eggs, I stir-fried a pot of cabbage with vinegar.

She cut the whole cabbage into strips about two centimeters thick and fried them. They are quite thick and suitable for sandwiching in pancakes. They are also refreshing and appetizing when eaten alone.

The salami on the stove was boiling again, and the radishes were naturally cooked as well.

After doing all this, the porridge was cooked. She quickly cut the fat intestines, pork tripe and radishes and made eleven meat buns.

There are six members of the Pei family and five members of the Xia family, so naturally the freshly prepared food must be given to everyone in the Xia family to taste.

When Zhuzi came to serve the food, he learned that he and his sister Xiaocui were also having a meal today, and he thanked Xu Qinyu profusely.

There are five or six big pieces of fat intestines and a small piece of pork stomach in a meat bun. There is no other way, there is only one pork stomach, so naturally a small piece can be put in each meat bun after cutting it.

With chopped halved radish, a fried egg and a piece of sour and spicy cabbage strip, the belly of the meat bun was filled up by the fillings. When you take a bite, the crust is crispy, the fatty intestines are fragrant, and fat is oozing out, but it is oily but not greasy. Combined with the crispy aroma of the fried egg, the soft radish, and the sour and spicy cabbage, it is so delicious that the Pei family members were stunned.

Wen was relieved, as meat-filled steamed buns with this taste were not even available in the capital. No, not even the palace's kitchen could make it, let alone in such a remote place in the southwest. This business was indeed difficult to make.

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After breakfast, Xu Qinyu would push the food stall to the dock to sell its food.

Pei Weixuan helped to lift the big stove under the cart, and put a pot of salted pig intestines on the stove. The fire in the stove had been removed, leaving only a tiny simmer to keep the clay pot warm.

There was also a bowl of pancakes, a bowl of fried eggs, and a bowl of cabbage strips, all placed next to the big stove under the cart, covered with a mattress made of white gauze. The stove was emitting heat, so even if we walked to the dock, these things would not get cold.

Xu Qinyu originally planned to go by herself, but her fourth brother insisted that she come over to help her push the cart. She pushed it herself and found it was indeed a bit heavy.

After the two men left, Wen cleaned the kitchen and the house thoroughly.

Xu Qinyu's pig intestines are so fragrant that even with a lid on the casserole, the aroma cannot be concealed.

The sweet-scented osmanthus is fragrant. Some families are sweeping snow in the yard with their gates open, and there are children playing in the snow in the alley.

Pei Weixuan was pushing the cart. The handrails were quite wide, and she also helped with some strength. The two of them and the cart were quite obvious. Some neighbors who were sweeping the snow saw the two of them and the steaming clay pot on the strange cart, and they immediately knew that the two of them must be the people who rented the Xia family's house. The fragrance that kept everyone awake last night was exactly the same as the one now, and it was also caused by them.

Some people couldn't help but come out and ask, "Young lady, what kind of food are you making? What are you planning to do?"

Xu Qinyu smiled and said, "Auntie, this is a meat bun, I sell it at the stall at the pier."

The woman couldn't help asking, "Rou Jia Mo? Pork Mo? How much is one?"

Xu Qinyu said, "Eight cents each."

The cost is too high. If it really costs five cents like a pork bun, she will make nothing.

What's more, her meat bun is much bigger than the pork bun, and is filled with a lot of stuffing. The taste is incomparable. If she were to sell it on East Street or West Street, the starting price would be at least ten cents.

The neighbor lady showed a surprised expression, "Eight cents a piece? That's too expensive, forget it, I don't want it."

She immediately gave up the idea of ​​buying one to try, mainly because the children at home were making a lot of noise yesterday. She thought that if it was a pork bun, which cost five cents each, she could buy one for the child if she gritted her teeth, but she couldn't bear to spend eight cents.

The child of this aunt's family was only five or six years old. When he heard his grandmother say that she would not buy it anymore, he immediately started crying and insisted on eating it.

The aunt was a little angry and pulled the child back to the yard, "We can't afford to eat this at home. If you cry again, I will beat you."

The child was still making a fuss. The aunt got a little angry and spanked the child twice, and the child cried even louder.

Xu Qinyu felt very uncomfortable watching this. The child was only five or six years old and looked very skinny. The children playing in the alley were also skinny and small. In her era, children had no worries about food and drink. Except for some picky eaters who were a little thin, most of them were raised strong and solid. Parents were afraid that their children did not eat well and wished that every meal would be full of meat and fish.

But these children probably only eat meat a few times a year. Even ordinary dishes are boiled in water without adding oil or salt, so naturally they don’t grow well.

Along the way to sell the osmanthus fragrance, many people asked about the price, but when they found out it was eight cents, no one was willing to buy it.

It's just a small pork bun, but it's three cents more expensive than the normal price. I think it's worth it. I can get more than two taels of meat for eight cents to taste the meat.

Fortunately, Xu Qinyu's target was not the neighbors in the alley, so she continued pushing the cart towards the pier.

But she didn't say much along the way.

Pei Weixuan tilted his head slightly to glance at her, his eyes were somewhat deep. She felt sad for those skinny children.

Fortunately, we arrived at the pier very quickly. Normally, you have to pay a stall fee to set up a stall at the pier, but it was snowing now and there were few people setting up stalls, so no one came to collect the stall fee.

There were many places to set up the stall, and Xu Qinyu picked one at random. The aroma of her salty pork intestines was so tempting that two waiters on the boat who were originally walking towards the wonton stall couldn't help but come towards her.

"Young lady, what are you selling? Why does it smell so good?"

Xu Qinyu smiled and said, "I sell meat buns, salted pork intestines, pork tripe, radish, and stir-fried spicy cabbage with fried eggs. Each one costs eight cents."

"Fat intestines? Do you mean pig offal?" The two showed disgusted expressions, "This stuff is so fishy and disgusting even after it is cooked. Who would be willing to eat it? Besides, other people's pork buns are only five cents. Your pork bun made with pig offal, even with fried eggs, is not worth eight cents, right? Young lady, this is not the way to do business. You are really brave."

Xu Qinyu said nothing, opened the lid of the clay pot, took out a piece of pig intestines, cut them into two pieces half the length of a finger on the chopping board, and then put a wooden skewer on them and handed them to the two of them, "You will know how my pig intestines are made after you try them."

The two men didn't want to taste it at first, but after the lid was removed, the aroma became stronger and penetrated into their noses. Finally, the two men couldn't help it and didn't mind the dirt. They took the fat intestines on the skewer with their hands and stuffed them into their mouths. They thought it would smell fishy, ​​but it sizzled with oil as soon as it entered their mouths. The fat intestines were chewy and the more they chewed, the more fragrant they became. They were more fragrant than meat and there was not a single fishy smell.

The two men stared with their eyes wide open, and asked in disbelief, "Young lady, you, you are really dirty? How come it tastes better than the meat we eat?"

They had never tasted such delicious offal.

Xu Qinyu smiled and said, "Would you two like to try a meat bun? My meat bun is bigger than the pork bun, and the fillings are richer. One is worth two, and it is definitely delicious."

The sausage was so delicious that they both couldn't help but say, "Give us one each."

Xu Qinyu skillfully cut the fat intestines, pork tripe and radishes and made two meat-filled steamed buns.

The two of them took a look and saw that the meat bun was bulging and the vegetables inside had overflowed. Finally, the young lady poured a small spoonful of soup into the meat bun, wrapped it in oil paper, and handed the meat bun to them.

The two of them couldn't wait to open their mouths and take a bite. The cake and the vegetables inside were greasy and fragrant, satisfying and satisfying.

It was so delicious that both of us felt our scalps tingling.

This was the most delicious food they had eaten in the past decade or so, even better than the dishes their employers had treated them to at the restaurant in Beijing.

The two of them didn't even have time to talk and finished the whole meat bun in a few big mouthfuls. They were both strong and growing, so their appetites were naturally big. One meat bun was not enough to fill them up, and two would probably be enough. Moreover, the meat bun was so delicious that they just wanted to eat their fill first.

"Give me two more, little lady!"

"I want one too, little lady."

"Here, young lady, here are twenty-four coins. Keep them."

The two men took out their money bags, counted out twenty-four copper coins and handed them to the handsome man next to the young lady.

Pei Weixuan collected the money silently.

Xu Qinyu quickly prepared four meat-filled steamed buns and handed them to the two people.

The two of them returned to the boat while eating.

When we got back on the boat, the aroma was so delicious that the other crew members who were about to get off the boat to eat couldn't help asking, "Chaozi, Heiwa, what are you two eating that smells so good?"

"Roujiamo." The two men were chewing Roujiamo and talking vaguely, "There is a new breakfast stall under the boat. It is run by a young lady. You can see it when you go down. The Roujiamo is very filling and tastes really good. I have never eaten anything so delicious before. It is very oily. It is not made of pork belly. I don't know how the young lady salted the fat intestines. It is greasy and the more you chew, the more delicious it is."

This is a merchant ship, not one of the two government ships carrying coal and iron ore.

When the others heard this, they laughed and said, "You two have never eaten good food before. You can even eat something like offal and say it tastes good."

Zhuozi and Heiwa snorted, "If you have the guts, don't go to the young lady to buy breakfast later."

They were only seventeen or eighteen years old. If their families were not extremely poor, they would not be allowed to join the merchant ships.

In recent years, the bandit problem on the canal has been very serious. The imperial court has suppressed it countless times, but has not been able to catch the bandits. Therefore, merchant ships will hire a lot of thugs to follow the ships, just to avoid encountering pirates.

Zhuozi and Heiwa were from the same village and Zhuozi had some martial arts skills. They found that they could not make ends meet at home so they went to the merchant ship. They were frugal on weekdays and they really liked the delicious meat bun.

The others were still laughing at them, "Don't worry, we definitely won't eat this stuff."

As they were talking, they had already got off the boat together.