Niu Guifang let out a long sigh, finally feeling relieved, "That's good! That's good!"

As she spoke, she looked at the meat in the basket and swallowed again.

Niu Guifang has three children and has to send money back to her hometown every month to support her elder parents. Their life is not bad, but they cannot eat meat every day. Once every three to five days is the most they can eat.

Even if I could eat meat, I only tried it for taste. I had never seen so much meat at one time.

But Niu Guifang was there, and swallowing his saliva was just a subconscious physiological reaction, and there was no greed in his eyes.

Su Ruanruan was happy that she had not made a mistake and took out the three-pound piece of pork belly. "Sister-in-law, this is for you."

Niu Guifang was startled. Not only did she not reach out to take it, she also took two steps back. "Soft girl, what are you doing? How can I take your meat?"

Su Ruanruan corrected, "Sister-in-law, this is not my meat, this is pig meat!"

"I can't take anyone's meat!"

"I'm not giving it to you for free." Su smiled softly, "Sister-in-law, just give me the price given by the supply and marketing cooperative."

"That won't work either." Niu Guifang refused again, "I don't have any meat tickets."

It will be next month in two days, and their meat coupons have long been used up.

"I don't want meat tickets." Su Ruanruan winked at Niu Guifang, "Sister-in-law also knows that my family is having a party today, but I don't have any vegetables here. I want to go to your house to pick some."

"Look at you! If you want to pick vegetables, just go ahead and pick them. Why are you talking like this?"

Su Ruanruan also frowned, "I took the money from my sister-in-law, but she doesn't want my pork, so I can't go to her house to pick vegetables. If my sister-in-law really doesn't want to exchange with me, then I can only find -"

"willing!"

Niu Guifang hurriedly interrupted Su Ruanruan's words, "Who said I don't want to? I do!"

At the end, Niu Guifang looked at Su Runruan with a mixture of anger and smile.

Su Ruanruan then smiled, "Sister-in-law, take another big bone. I don't need your money for it. Just give me a few eggs in exchange."

"Okay!" Niu Guifang stopped being pretentious and agreed immediately, "I'll do as you say!"

Su Ruanruan looked at the ribs again, "Sister-in-law, do you want ribs?"

"No." Niu Guifang waved her hand. "What's so delicious about ribs? Half of the weight is bones. Soft girl, next time if you have such an opportunity, don't buy ribs. Buy more pork belly with more fat and less lean meat. It tastes so good when eaten in large chunks!"

In this era, materials were scarce. Not to mention the freedom to eat meat, even oil and water were rarely available.

In this situation, everyone likes to eat fatty meat and doesn't like lean meat, let alone ribs with more bones and less meat.

It’s not just that I dislike spareribs, it’s that I clearly despise them.

Su Ruanruan didn't try to persuade him anymore and took out all the meat, revealing what was underneath.

Yellow printed ceramic basins, two large ones, two medium ones, and two small ones.

This basin is very useful. Su Ruanruan directly ordered six and took them out openly today.

I also bought two bottles of sesame oil. Even with the stoppers on, I could still smell the fragrance.

Sesame oil is a good thing, but unfortunately it is not only expensive but also hard to buy.

The moment Niu Guifang saw the sesame oil, her eyes lit up, "Sister, is there any sesame oil at the commune supply and marketing cooperative?"

"No." Su Ruanruan shook her head, "I also bought this from the driver. Here are two bottles, sister-in-law, I'll give you one."

Niu Guifang was a little confused, but she was not a pretentious person and soon figured it out.

"Okay! Then I won't be polite to you. I'll go home and get you the money right away!"

Before she had taken two steps, Niu Guifang stopped again and said, "Sister Ruan, take the basket and come with me. We can pick some vegetables while we're at it."

"Sister-in-law, it's hot this time. The vegetables will wilt soon after we pick them. I'll take care of the meat first and pick the vegetables in the afternoon."

Niu Guifang patted her head and said, "Look at my brain, I haven't thought of it yet. Okay, I'll pick it in the afternoon."

Niu Guifang walked in a hurry, leaving quickly and coming back quickly. He first gave the money to Su Ruanruan, and then left with the pork belly ribs and a bottle of sesame oil.

Niu Guifang originally wanted to stay and help Su Runruan process the meat, and Su Runruan had a hard time persuading her to go back.

The weather is hot now, so the meat must be processed quickly, otherwise it will easily become sticky and have a strange smell.

Meat is precious and should never be wasted like this.

After seeing Niu Guifang off, Su Runruan closed the gate and started to process the meat.

After cleaning all the meat, pick up the knife and start cutting the pork belly.

The piece of pork belly given to Niu Guifang was bought from the supply and marketing cooperative.

The remaining two pieces were bought from the gold rush. Each piece weighs five kilograms and is cut very neatly.

Fu Wenjing sharpens the knives at home every day. They are very sharp, and even cutting meat is very smooth.

It only took Su Ruanruan a short while to remove all the fat from a piece of pork belly and cut it into small pieces.

This is used to make lard.

Cut half of the remaining lean meat into shredded meat and chop the other half into minced meat.

Another large piece of pork belly was cut into two-centimeter square cubes by Su Ruanruan for stewing braised pork.

Five pounds of braised pork was stewed, and even if the rest was all vegetarian, no one would say that the meal Su Ruanruan prepared was bad.

Of course, it is impossible for Su Ruanruan to prepare only vegetarian dishes.

Stir-fried pork with green peppers, fried eggplant boxes, sweet and sour pork, winter melon and pork ribs soup, braised pork, scrambled eggs with peppers, and two stir-fried green vegetables, and that's about it.

As for the staple food, Su Ruanruan planned to make tofu buns.

Among all the vegetarian buns, Su Ruanruan’s favorite is tofu buns.

The filling of tofu buns is made of lard, tofu, chopped pickles, and green onions and ginger.

Although they are basically vegetarian, they taste just as good as meat.

Just thinking about the taste in her mind, Su Ruanruan swallowed subconsciously.

After the preparations were done, Su Ruanruan lit a fire and added water to the big pot to blanch the ribs and large bones, and used the small pot directly to boil lard.

Lard should be cooked slowly over low heat, otherwise the lard will have a burnt smell and the lard residue will turn black.

The lard that is slowly cooked over low heat turns yellow after cooling, and it is also golden and crispy when fried.

This kind of lard residue can be eaten alone or mixed with sugar.

In this era when snacks were scarce, for children, being able to eat a bowl of lard mixed with sugar was like celebrating the New Year.

Now there are only Su Ruanruan and Fu Wenjing at home, and they have no children. Su Ruanruan doesn't eat lard mixed with sugar.

She is past the age where she enjoys eating this.

Just as Su Ruanruan poured all the boiled lard into the basin, she heard someone knocking on the gate.