Chapter 84 Potatoes and Pork Intestines
Back at Baolinju, Han Ming, who was carrying the pork, was exhausted, and Song Zhenping was also startled by the sudden appearance of the meat.
He pulled her aside and asked her for a long time. He breathed a sigh of relief when he heard that Han Ming had not seen the treasure bag. "Yun'er, when you go out in the future, leave the treasure bag at home. Don't let anyone see it."
Now that there are outsiders in the family, no matter how much sympathy we feel, we still have to be on guard.
"Brother, look, if I could use the treasure bag, why would I be so tired?" Song Liyun comforted.
Xiao An was very happy to receive the chicken feathers and dried dates brought back by Heijin.
He hurriedly took out the potatoes he had specially baked for Heijin, which made Heijin so happy that he did somersaults.
This was the first time the two kids had been apart for such a long time since they met, and they felt very bored after a while before they finally calmed down.
Song Zhenping and Han Ming were busy processing the pork. It was freezing cold now, so there was no need to worry about the meat spoiling.
The meat strips and bones were placed directly in the yard and frozen along with the pig hearts and livers.
However, when processing the pig intestines, Han Ming and Song Zhenping had a dispute.
Han Ming suggested sending the pig intestines to the backyard to ferment as fertilizer.
Song Zhenping wanted to keep it, saying that it was also meat, just smelly.
He and Xiao An used to satisfy their cravings every year by eating unwanted pig intestines.
After hearing what the two said, Song Liyun realized that people in the Wu Dynasty only ate pig hearts and livers, and did not eat intestines filled with feces because they could not be washed clean.
Even Han Ming, who was living a hard life, was unwilling to eat this stinky meat.
Song Zhenping and Xiao An would pick up discarded stinky intestines at the end of the year, cook them in water and eat them with some oil and meat.
Of course, there are also families in the village who eat smelly intestines. Most people use wood ash to clean the mucus on the large intestine, and Song Zhenping also washes it in this way.
Pig intestines are good things, and Song Liyun is reluctant to throw them away.
She asked Song Zhenping to change the cleaning method.
First add a handful of salt, then take out the dried acorn flour and oil and rub it repeatedly to clean it.
The pig intestines are not considered clean until there is no trace of odor at all.
This method of washing made Song Zhenping sigh with heartache, and even Han Ming shook his head. The salt, oil and flour spent on washing the food were several times more expensive than the smelly sausage.
Here, how could people who need to eat pig offal be reluctant to use expensive salt, oil and flour?
The next day, Zhou Xiaoqi and his friends were coming to have lunch.
Song Liyun started preparing food early, and Xiao An stopped playing and sat in front of the stove to concentrate on making the fire.
Song Liyun broke the pork bones and put them into the pot last night. After stewing overnight, it has become a milky white bone soup.
Acorn flour and white flour are kneaded into a dough, pork with alternating fat and lean parts is chopped into stuffing, and a handful of leeks are cut from the greenhouse in the backyard, and then added with a few pheasant eggs to make the stuffing.
She was preparing to make pork and chive dumplings.
Xiao An is a little foodie now.
I also started to learn how to cook from Song Liyun. I was able to make steamed buns, pancakes, and acorn tofu quite well. Now I could also make dumplings beautifully.
Song Liyun felt that he had great potential to be a chef.
The brother and sister quickly made a lot of dumplings and then prepared the dishes.
Put the cleaned pig intestines into the pot and blanch them for ten minutes, then cut them into small circles.
Xiao An was peeling garlic while watching Song Liyun make stinky sausage.
Now it is no longer smelly, but has been washed out to give off a fragrance.
In his impression, stinky sausage is meat. Even though he has eaten delicious chicken and pork now, he is still impressed by stinky sausage.
Cut the pig intestines into small pieces and stir-fry until the fat is released. Then add various seasonings and stir-fry until fragrant. Then pour in the potato cubes that have been stir-fried with a small amount of oil in advance and mix well. Finally, add water and simmer slowly.
Xiao An had been staring blankly at the pot while stir-frying the pig intestines. He didn't even move when Hei Jin came over to pull him to play. He bit his lip and said happily, "Sister, this is delicious!"
Song Liyun's heart moved, and she remembered the set of "Survival Encyclopedia Handbook" sleeping in her space. It was rich in content, including the food processing process of cooking.
After observing for a period of time, Xiao An is not stupid, but severe malnutrition since childhood has affected his physical and intellectual development.
Sometimes their thinking is normal, but more often they are insensitive or overly sensitive to external reactions, which makes it impossible to communicate with others normally.
Now he can still hide in the yard, relying on others for his survival, but he can't go on like this forever.
At this time, Song Liyun could understand the love of her parents.
As parents, we love our children deeply and care deeply, and we always think about our children's lives many years later.
Song Zhenping is willing to take care of Xiao An, and Song Liyun is also willing to take care of Xiao An, but lifetime is too long and things can always go wrong.
If Xiao An learns to cook, he will never go hungry no matter what happens.
It is also easy to learn. Xiao An does not need to learn to be a chef or cook delicacies from land and sea. He just needs to collect and process some basic food raw materials.
For example, the de-astringency of acorns, the cleaning and processing of pig intestines, and other unwanted garbage can be turned into delicious food through his magical hands.
While the pork intestines and potatoes were slowly stewing in the pot, Song Liyun explained to him again one of the key cooking techniques for braised pork intestines.
Compared to previous conversations where everything always needed to be repeated several times, this time Xiao An listened attentively and even pointed at the potatoes in the pig intestines and asked, "This, fried in oil?"
"Yes, stir-fry it in oil first and watch it change color. Then stew it so it won't be overcooked or too soft."
Xiao An frowned, struggling to digest the information. He kept repeating Song Liyun's words over and over, not changing a single word, as if he wanted to engrave them in his mind: "First, use oil... to change... color... too soft."
If Song Liyun wants to invite Zhou Xiaoqi and others to dinner, she can't just serve pig intestines on the table. What if someone has a food allergy to this thing, it would be embarrassing.
A few ribs were chopped into small pieces and blanched. Xiao An stood on a stool behind the stove and, under Song Liyun's guidance, used a colander to scoop them up and drain them.
This is for making sweet and sour spare ribs.
Outside the door, Han Ming had already run several times to carry back the acorns that he had thrown by the river yesterday.
Everyone in Baolinju was busy, even Heijin was noisily adding firewood and adding fuel to the fire in front of the stove, getting covered in ashes.
But it also often roasted acorns, potatoes and peanuts over the fire to eat.
Around noon, several people walked out from the guard barracks.
Zhou Xiaoqi and Lin Xiaoqi each brought out two soldiers with whom they had a good relationship.
Wang Qi, who had met Song Liyun once, was among them.
At this time, he was talking to Zhou Xiaoqi: "Brother Zhou, let me go after the guard change tomorrow. Xiaomi's stomach is still uncomfortable, let him rest for another day."
Although Suijin Pass is located deep in the mountains, it has been guarded every day since its construction began, thanks to previous experience.
Zhou Xiaoqi patted his shoulder and said, "Okay, I'll let Xiaomi take your shift for one more day."
Wang Qi smiled so hard that his teeth were visible: "No, no, as long as Brother Zhou can bring me out, I'm satisfied. I don't ask for anything else."
Zhou Xiaoqi smiled and said nothing more.
Wang Qi was newly assigned to his team. He was smart and enthusiastic, and was very popular in the team.
The military discipline in the garrison was strict, and it was not easy to go out and ask for leave, which made him very frustrated.
Take Zhou Xiaoqi out for a walk whenever he has the chance.
The few of them did not go directly to Baolinju, but went to the town instead.
Last time, it was Song Dekui who brought them here to show them the way, but the military pay had not been paid yet, so the two of them, who were short of money, had that meal for nothing, and they felt really bad about it.
This time, before coming, Lin Xiaoqi and Zhou Xiaoqi thought about buying gifts for the Song brothers and sisters. They also wanted to show up in the town and support the Song family.
(End of this chapter)
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