Chapter 189 Hot Pot

Before making hot pot, Liu Yinyin first washed two beef bones and put them in a small pot to boil soup.

Then he took the basket and went to the next door to deliver two kilograms of beef to Aunt Zhou.

Aunt Zhou was surprised and delighted: "How come there is beef?"

At that time, only country people raised cattle, and they were oxen for plowing and could not be slaughtered at will.

Therefore, city dwellers can rarely buy fresh beef.

Liu Yinyin spoke the truth: "There were injured cows in the village, and they were killed because they couldn't be treated."

Aunt Zhou suddenly realized, "So that's how it is."

After saying that, he gave Liu Yinyin eight yuan.

Liu Yinyin also went to Ma Xiaolian's place and brought her two kilograms of beef.

Ma Xiaolian happened to be at home as well. To be more precise...she has been at home quite often recently.

There is not much work in the oil press factory this month. There is nothing to do in the factory, so the employees can only take a holiday.

Recently, many factories in the county have faced this situation.

Most of them are food factories, because due to two consecutive years of natural disasters, there was no harvest in the fields.

The factory was short of raw materials for making food, so there was no choice but to give employees a holiday, otherwise the employees would have nothing to do in the factory.

The same is true for oil mills.

Ma Xiaolian sighed and said, "If I don't work, I won't get paid. If this continues, my family won't be able to afford food."

She gave Liu Yinyin two kilograms of soybean oil in exchange for two kilograms of beef.

Seeing that her family was in financial difficulty, Liu Yinyin wanted to accept only one pound of oil.

Ma Xiaolian didn't care much and said, "We have a lot of oil stored at home."

Liu Yinyin smiled awkwardly. A skinny camel is bigger than a horse. No matter how poor Ma Xiaolian's family is, it is much better than the suffering villagers in the village.

She sent meat to both families not just for exchange.

Liu Yinyin wants to eat hot pot at home and make halved pork. The neighbors will definitely be able to smell the aroma.

Giving them beef could help cover up the situation. Anyway, everyone has meat to eat now, so it wouldn't be weird for her family to eat hot pot.

As a result, there was still one pound of beef left at home, and nearly ten pounds of beef offal.

Liu Yinyin cleaned the beef entrails, sliced ​​them and placed them on a plate.

The table was filled with a plate of beef slices, a plate of beef tripe, a plate of beef heart, a plate of beef throat, a plate of beef liver, and a plate of beef intestines.

There are also vegetarian dishes, such as water spinach, Chinese cabbage, radish, and sweet potato vermicelli.

There are few people in the family, so the portion of each dish is not large.

Liu Yinyin only put about one-third of the ten pounds of beef offal on the plate, and kept the rest in the pot, adding spices to make it brine-flavored.

Since there was not enough time, Liu Yinyin directly bought a pack of hot pot base from the system.

There is a small pot on the stove with beef bone soup in it. Pour the hot pot base into it and bring it to a boil, then you can add the dishes in.

Gu Yanyan couldn't eat spicy food, so Liu Yinyin chopped some beef and cooked him a bowl of beef noodles.

The dishes are ready, just waiting to be cooked.

Gu Chenggang smelled something as soon as he walked to the door of his house. He guessed that his family would eat meat today, but he didn't expect that they would have beef.

I saw the table was filled with sumptuous food.

He asked in surprise, "Is there beef for sale today?"

Liu Yinyin explained again: "The village slaughtered a wounded ox and exchanged it for cornmeal."

When Gu Cheng came back, Liu Yinyin quickly put the dishes into the pot, explaining, "I got a lot of beef offal, and I thought we couldn't finish it all, so I put it in the pot to make a broth. I'll take it to Aunt Li's place tomorrow to get food."

At Auntie Li's place, beef offal is made into a brined sauce, which is much more expensive than selling it directly, and is about the same price as pork and beef.

It was a hot day and the two of them were sweating profusely while eating the hot pot.

However, it had been a long time since I had eaten hot pot, so Liu Yinyin had a very satisfying meal this time.

The smell of hot pot is really tempting.

Even Aunt Zhou's family next door could smell the fragrance, but her family was also eating meat today, and it was beef sent by Liu Yinyin, so they didn't think much about it.

I just muttered in my heart that I didn't expect Liu Yinyin's cooking skills were such a good one. The beef she cooked was so delicious.

At night, the neighbors all went to sleep smelling the aroma of meat.

So, the next day, just after Liu Yinyin finished her breakfast, Aunt Zhou came to visit her house.

Aunt Zhou couldn't help herself and ran up to ask, "Yinyin, are you making brined pork again?"

Liu Yinyin had also used pig heads and offal to make brine before.

I also did business with Aunt Zhou at that time.

Aunt Zhou remembered the smell, it was exactly the same fragrance she smelled all night yesterday!

Liu Yinyin had no intention of hiding it from others. She said, "I bought some beef entrails to make brine. Auntie, please come in and sit for a while."

After that, Liu Yinyin went to the kitchen, picked up a beef intestine, cut it into pieces, and handed it to Aunt Zhou: "Auntie, have a taste."

Aunt Zhou just bought two kilograms of beef yesterday, but Liu Yinyin didn't ask to exchange salt with her.

Aunt Zhou's family conditions were pretty good, but not to the point where they could eat meat every day.

Liu Yinyin's family is actually similar. Unless there are guests at home, she rarely buys meat.

I buy it maybe once or twice a week...

At other times, eggs are the main food.

Aunt Zhou smiled and said, "No wonder it smells so good. I guessed you were cooking brined pork at home."

There was still beef at home, and Aunt Zhou certainly had no intention of exchanging the salty taste with Liu Yinyin.

She only ate two pieces of beef intestines, sat for a while, and then went home.

Liu Yinyin saved some salami for lunch.

The rest were placed in an altar and he went to look for Aunt Li carrying a basket.

"Is this your son?" Aunt Li immediately fell in love with the chubby Gu Yanyan when she saw him.

He happily took out a box of snacks for Gu Yanyan.

The box contains mung bean cakes, biscuits, and walnut crisps.

Gu Yanyan had never met Aunt Li and didn't dare to eat her food casually, but the snacks in the box looked very tempting.

Gu Yanyan smacked his lips twice and glanced at Liu Yinyin eagerly.

Liu Yinyin smiled and refused: "He just ate a cookie this morning, no need to give it to him."

"Oh," said Aunt Li angrily, "It's okay for a child to eat a few snacks. If this were my grandson, he could eat as much as he wanted."

As she spoke, Aunt Li forced a piece of walnut cake into Gu Yanyan's hand.

Liu Yinyin didn't say anything to refuse.

Gu Yanyan saw Liu Yinyin nod and said sweetly, "Thank you... Grandma."

The call of "Grandma" made Aunt Li smile: "You are so good."

Looking at the lovely Gu Yanyan, she thought of her troublesome son again.

In the past few years, Aunt Li has introduced many girls to him, but no one knows what he is thinking and he refuses to agree to get married.

He even stayed out of the house often in the past two years because he was tired of Aunt Li's nagging.

The jar of salt that Liu Yinyin brought was not too salty.

Aunt Li weighed it and found that excluding the weight of the jar, the brine was about four kilograms.

"What do you want to exchange this time?" Aunt Li asked her.

Liu Yinyin thought about it and asked her for eight kilograms of millet.