The sight of the dozen or so bags of dark flour in the main room made Madam Fan beam with joy, and she kept circling around the small hill of bags.
"Great! From today onwards, our family can eat dry food again." Others thought their family had run out of food, but that wasn't the case at all.
They just couldn't get enough dry food; they could still eat thin porridge.
Now that there's so much more food, we can have three meals a day, and each meal is dry enough.
Fan Dazhu, leaning on his cane, suggested, "Then let Mother go and do it quickly."
He spoke as if it were the most obvious thing in the world, which surprised Sun Jinhua again.
Since Zhaodi came back these past two days, all the easy chores at home, such as boiling water, cooking porridge, washing clothes, and feeding the ducks and geese, have been handed over to her. Now that she's gone, everything is back to her.
But she still had to dig the soil.
"Why should I? I still have to dig the dirt. Whoever has the time can do it!" My mother-in-law isn't dead, why shouldn't she do it!
Hearing this veiled insult, Fan's mother angrily asked, "Are you making your mother-in-law do this?"
Sun Jinhua straightened her back, realizing that this was something she had earned in exchange for her daughter. She glared back at her mother-in-law and sneered, "This is something I earned in exchange for my daughter. If you don't cook it, you don't get to eat it!"
Mother Fan was so angry that she trembled all over and shouted that she wanted to find her son to judge the matter.
The main room immediately erupted into a noisy and chaotic scene.
Shuiqing thought that this was Zhaodi's first day and first meal, so they should definitely celebrate.
The best and most meaningful way to celebrate is to have a big meal.
We just slaughtered a pig today, so there are so many delicious dishes we can make!
The pork fat, pork belly, and pork back fat were the first to be replaced, and most of the lean meat with skin was also replaced.
We never change the offal, such as pig intestines and stomach, and we always keep the clear water for our own family to eat.
Pig's head, pig's trotters, big bones, and spare ribs have more bones than meat, so nobody wants to trade them.
The same applies to pig tails and pig blood.
There was still a little bit of lean meat left, not much, about five or six pounds. Shuiqing divided it equally among the four households. Yesterday, under the pretext of going to the city, he bought four portions of pork fat from the mall to render lard and cracklings for them.
Pork cracklings stewed in oil, stir-fried in lard – this is a good way to replenish energy and strength after a month of expending a lot of physical labor on the farm.
Those five women were used to being frugal. Pork cracklings keep well, so they were reluctant to use them all at once. With just over a pound of pork in hand, fresh pork doesn't keep well, and the quantity was small, so pickling or smoking it would be too much work and not worth it. They could only use it to supplement their meals.
The five women, Li Dani and Zhou Yu, were indeed troubled by the fact that they had been allocated pork.
After marinating or smoking, there won't be much meat left, which is just over a pound. Besides, this is what the wife uses to nourish them while doing farm work. If they cut back on the meat and ruin their health, who will do the farm work?
Wouldn't that just cause trouble for the employer?
Once I figured that out, I immediately cooked all the pork, which weighed over a pound!
Slice off the pork skin, including the fatty part, stir-fry it to render the oil, and then stew it with the green beans.
Cut some of the lean meat into slices and stir-fry it with potato slices.
I shredded some of it and stir-fried it with shredded green peppers to make a stir-fry of green peppers and shredded pork.
The remaining small pinch was chopped into small pieces and sprinkled into the vegetable soup.
A little over a pound of pork is enough to make sure all three dishes and one soup have meat in them!
They set aside half a bowl of stewed green beans and shredded pork with green peppers for dinner, and sent the rest to the barren mountain. The men digging the soil thought they were seeing things.
"Both dishes and the soup, all with meat?"
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