Chapter 38: Unable to Stay in Husband's House, Unable to Return to Parents' House
There are many ways to eat it, but Shen Qing didn't plan to cook them all at once.
Life has to go on, we can't fill our stomachs all at once.
I bought eight pounds of pork lard today. After boiling the lard, there will be more than one pound of lard residue, which is a great thing to replenish oil and water.
So I only left two pounds of pork belly for braised pork, and the remaining four pounds for smoked pork. I will make a few pounds of it every few days in the future, and there should be quite a lot left by June.
Shen Qing boiled a dozen eggs and soaked them in cold water. After the braised pork with rich oil and sauce was cooked, she peeled the eggshells, cut each egg into pieces and put them in to stew. The eggs absorbed the rich braised pork broth and tasted delicious.
Braised pork and egg are best eaten with rice, especially the egg yolks soaked in soup. Crush them and mix them with the hot rice, then pour a spoonful of soup on top. Wow~
I can’t take it anymore. If I think about it any further, my saliva will start to flow out.
I changed my mind and thought about other side dishes, such as stir-fried eel and stir-fried purslane, meat, eggs, vegetables and river fish. Well, the dishes for dinner are finalized.
She transferred the braised pork and eggs into a clay pot and simmered them on low heat, and began to prepare the most important meal of the day.
She took out all five pounds of pork tenderloin, first cutting it into large pieces, then cutting it into small pieces, and finally cutting it into strips the length of fingers.
Five pounds of pork tenderloin filled half a basin.
Pour in the ginger and garlic water, soy sauce, salt, two raw eggs, and flour that have been soaked in advance, mix well, make sure each piece is coated with the sauce, and set aside to marinate.
Then clean the small fish in the bucket and marinate them with the same seasoning and method.
I just cleaned the big iron pot, wiped it dry, poured in rapeseed oil, and lit a fire.
When the oil temperature was right, she used specially made long chopsticks to pick up the first marinated meat strips and put them into the oil pan one by one. After a while, the golden little meat strips floated up.
After taking out the ones from the pot, fry the next batch.
After all the meat strips are fried once, fry them again quickly;
After the meat strips were fried, they started frying the small fish. The aroma of frying was so overbearing that even with the kitchen door closed tightly, it couldn't cover up the fragrance. Jiang Xiangnan had already come running over several times, and every time he would say several times, "It smells so good."
“It smells so good.”
Shen Qing was helpless and amused.
Shen Qing, who originally only wanted to leave the small fish for them to eat, had to change his mind temporarily and left a large bowl of crispy pork as well.
Forget it, although there is braised pork in the evening, the crispy pork and the braised pork have completely different tastes, so I’ll just let the kids try something new.
But with five pounds of pork tenderloin paired with egg and flour, even if a large bowl was left, the rest still filled six large bowls!
Each bowl is piled high, showing sincerity when giving it as a gift.
Yes, when she buys pork fat, pork belly, pig's trotters and spare ribs, she also buys lean meat not for her own consumption, but to give to others.
She had already thought about it. Whether it was to build good interpersonal relationships in advance on the escape route two or three months later, or to have someone to help her when she made money and became jealous and difficult, some interpersonal communication was a must.
The fastest and most effective way to bring people closer together in interpersonal communication is to send them food.
Small miscellaneous fish are readily available to the people in Qili Village. If you want to give gifts, just give fried crispy pork. It obviously looks much more valuable than small miscellaneous fish. Small miscellaneous fish are kept for your family, as they are delicious and affordable.
Shen Qing put six bowls of crispy meat into a large bamboo basket, covered it with a layer of cloth, and left the house.
She planned to go to the village chief's house first.
Village chief Jiang Yang is Jiang Ying's father and her nominal second uncle.
After the Jiang family's ancestors settled down in Qili Village, they had five sons and several daughters. However, they lost contact with their daughters after they married and moved to other villages.
The father-in-law of the son Zhongyuanzhu was the eldest son. He had few children, only a son and a daughter who was born in old age. The daughter was married and Shen Qing had no impression of her.
Needless to say, the son is the original owner's husband, and the original owner has an extremely high status in the Jiang family because she gave birth to five sons in one breath for this only child!
This gave the original owner a very high status not only in her own family, but also in the entire family. Her husband had died, and the Jiang family members did their best to take care of her and show favoritism to her.
However, the original owner simply looked down upon this favoritism and care, and always felt that other members of the Jiang family deserved this. She made trouble time and time again, making the family members feel disheartened. But no matter how the original owner made a fuss, the Jiang family members gave her unconditional and special care until she fled!
Shen Qing understood how important it was to be favored and cared for in a village during the farming era. It was something that could not be obtained by begging from others, so of course one had to make good use of the existing relationships.
"Dad, I ran into people from Shili Village when I went to the city today. They said that my cousin Xiaoyu is having a very hard time at the Liu family."
"It's more than just bad! They're living worse than animals! I heard that the beast from the Liu family is having an affair with his widowed cousin. It seems she's pregnant, and now he's forcing Xiaoyu to agree to serve him!"
"Bah! Does this beast Liu Sheng still have any shame? Dad, don't you want to do anything about it?"
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Shen Qing's hand, which was knocking on the courtyard door, stopped, unable to move forward or backward.
It seems like they are discussing private matters inside, so I can't go in. I'd better go back first and come back later.
The old man sighed deeply: "How can I manage it? If Shen Qingqing doesn't nod, how can she come back?
Besides, where will she live when she returns? What will she eat? As a married woman, how will she get along with her family of sisters-in-law, nephews, nieces, and nieces?
Shen Qing turned around and stopped walking back.
Shen Qingqing, isn’t this the name of the original owner, that is, her current self?
Could it be that Mr. Jiang and his family are still talking about her family affairs?
Xiaoyu, Jiang Yu, is her sister-in-law.
The average betrothal gift in Xingcheng is six or seven taels of silver, but Jiang Yu's is ten taels because Liu Sheng is getting married for the second time.
His first wife had no children for three years and hanged herself. She was often beaten before her death and had many scars and bruises on her face and arms. There was constant gossip in the village, and Liu Sheng's reputation was ruined. No one was willing to marry their daughter to him.
Later, he kept raising the betrothal gift. When it reached ten taels, the original owner was tempted. At that time, her parents-in-law had passed away. Her husband and she both coveted the ten taels betrothal gift, but she did not want to bear the bad reputation of selling her own sister into the fire pit, so in the end the original owner came forward to marry Jiang Yu.
Jiang Yu was a daughter born in her parents' old age. Although she was her sister-in-law, she was only one or two years older than Jiang Xiangdong. After her parents died, she lived with her brother and sister-in-law. When her brother and sister-in-law asked her to marry, she didn't even have the right to resist.
Shen Qing suddenly remembered that there was no trace of Jiang Yu on the road of escape, and the original owner had attended a funeral before fleeing, only said it was bad luck, and returned before the coffin was buried.
Could it be that Jiang Yu didn't even survive the flood?
Shen Qing's heart skipped a beat!
No wonder the Jiang family members were very tolerant of the original owner no matter how noisy she was before fleeing. But after the funeral, no one smiled anymore. During the escape, except for Mr. Jiang Erye, the village chief, who took care of her, the other Jiang family members wished she would die immediately.
It turned out that the main reason was not the lack of food and clothing, but that he had given up hope that she could force Jiang Yu to death and no longer had any hope.
At this time, Jiang Yu had been repeatedly forced and beaten by her husband at Liu's house, and had no dignity;
Unable to stay in the husband's house, unable to return to her own family, how desperate must a 21 or 22-year-old girl be...
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