"Well, let's get a fatter piece and two pounds of pork belly. Then I'll make you some pork with sand in it," Tong Yiya said.
"Well, it's up to you."
After a while, three people lined up. Fu Shinian asked someone to calculate the amount of meat that the two families could share. He found out that the three of them could get about 13 pounds of meat. Tong Yiya chose a piece of meat with fat that was three fingers wide, which was about nine pounds.
Tong Yiya chose a better piece of pork belly, weighing about two pounds, and took the rest of the lean meat.
She looked at the offal and asked for two tripes, a pig's heart and liver. She didn't want the pig intestines this year because she didn't bring a bowl to hold the blood.
After dividing it, the three of them took the meat and the purchased offal aside, wrapped them separately with oil paper, and then put them in the backpack. They loaded the three of them and went back.
Others will take care of the subsequent cleanup here, and now they just want to go back, move the food and stew the meat.
Tong Yiya wanted to go back quickly, make lunch, and take the two of them to set up the clay stove, otherwise it would be difficult to find a place to eat later.
After the three of them arrived home, Fu Shinian put down his backpack and said to Tong Yiya, "Wait for the guards and I to move the food over first, and then we'll make lunch together. You go into the house and rest by the fire for a while."
"Well, go ahead, be careful, the ground is slippery," Tong Yiya said
After the two of them left, she looked around the kitchen, thinking about where to place the clay stove. After choosing for a long time, she still felt that it should be closer to the inside, so she looked at the jars and two tables on the side, preparing to ask Fu Shinian and others to help move everything away so that there would be more space.
After choosing a location, she started to light the stove and cook the staple food first, then picked some vegetables and peppers, chose the lean meat, and prepared to stir-fry some shredded pork with green peppers, and then make some scrambled eggs and cabbage soup.
Just order some simple dishes for lunch. In the afternoon, set up the clay stove, take out the pig stomach, stew it. In the evening, wash some cabbage and use the stewed pork stomach shreds for hot pot.
Fu Shinian and his friends made two trips back and forth before they moved the edible vegetables and a bag of grain from their kitchen. Seeing that Tong Yiya had already started cooking, they both found things they could do.
Tong Yiya said while cutting vegetables: "I thought about it. It will be too cold for us to eat in the kitchen in the future. You two will definitely not want to go to my room. I thought of my hometown. People in the village will burn a kind of mud stove in winter. It's like a small stove, but the top is open, so you can warm yourself with fire and put pots on it to cook.
We can put the table on top when we eat, so we won’t feel too cold when we sit on the side to eat. So I thought after lunch, we can get some bricks and mud and make a plate in the kitchen.”
Fu Shinian thought for a moment and asked, "Okay, do you have any remaining bricks?"
Dong Weibing also said: "I can do anything, just tell me what to do."
Tong Yiya thought that there seemed to be some bricks near the wall in the backyard, so she answered: "Yes, there are some, piled against the wall behind my house, but I don't know if those bricks are still okay."
"It's okay. After we have dinner, Guard Dong and I will take a look. If it doesn't work, we can go to another store to exchange it," said Fu Shinian.
"Well, that's fine," Tong Yiya said
She cut the vegetables and prepared the staple food in the pot. She started cooking in another pot, and soon the aroma of food wafted through the kitchen.
The three of them had lunch in the kitchen. Tong Yiya asked them to eat in the house for a day, but neither of them wanted to.
Fu Shinian felt that it was his girlfriend's boudoir, so how could he bring another man in? Guard Dong followed Fu Shinian's arrangements.
After lunch, Fu Shinian and Dong Weibing went to see if the earth bricks that Tong Yiya mentioned could still be used. Tong Yiya washed the dishes and prepared to help dig some soil.
Fu Shinian saw it and said, "Just direct us. It's so cold outside, don't catch a cold."
Tong Yiya had no way to refuse, so she had to wait obediently in the kitchen. Fu Shinian was afraid that she would be cold, so he shoveled out the unburned charcoal in the stove at noon, added some dry firewood, and started a small fire on the kitchen floor.
Fortunately, the earthen bricks in Tong Yiya's house were still usable, so the two of them moved the bricks into the kitchen first, and then took a hoe to dig some sticky soil outside.
When they came back, their hands and faces were red from the cold. Tong Yiya hurriedly called them to warm up by the fire and drink a cup of hot water. After they were warmer, they began to move things around the clay stove that Tong Yiya had just chosen.
Then they started to mix the mud and, according to the drawing given by Tong Yiya, began to build a mud stove. Fortunately, the mud stove was not very difficult to make and they had finished most of it in a short while.
Tong Yiya asked them to rest for a while, and let them each drink a bowl of ginger sugar water before letting them continue to work.
She was supervising on the side, watching the two people making the kang and giving instructions from time to time. Soon the clay stove was completed, and the only thing missing was a stove top to place the pot on it.
After everything was done, Tong Yiya carefully picked up the burning firewood on the ground and put it into the clay stove, added some small pieces of firewood, and waited for it to burn slowly to dry the stove.
She waited for the fire to be lit, and asked Fu Shinian and the other man to rest by the fire for a while. She began to boil water on the big stove, cleaned the pig stomach she had bought, and then blanched it. After cleaning it again, she cut it into strips and stewed it with ginger and scallions.
The fire in the small clay stove gradually grew bigger and the stove mouth was slowly dried out. She changed the casserole and scooped the pig's stomach into the clay stove to stew it.
After closing the kitchen door, the room gradually became warmer, and the three of them were very happy with the result.
If she had a collection now, Tong Yiya would proudly take a photo and post it on WeChat Moments to show off her achievements.
While the two laborers were there, she directed them to move the positions of several tables in the kitchen, as well as her various jars of pickles.
The main reason was that there was too much. She couldn't eat much by herself, but she made a jar of everything. After accumulating over a long period of time, there would be too many jars.
After everything in the kitchen was changed, the pork belly was almost stewed. Considering that the two were tired after a day's work, Tong Yiya did not give them the task of washing vegetables in the evening.
In the evening, she cooked a pot of rice and prepared two dipping sauces. Because Dong Weibing couldn't eat spicy food, if he could choose, he said, "I actually want to choose the sesame sauce sauce."
But unfortunately, Tong Yiya didn't have any, so she could only make him some soy sauce and vinegar with some green onions and a little bit of chopped pepper.
The three of them were very satisfied with the pork belly hotpot in the evening. At the end, each of them drank a bowl of hot soup, which warmed their whole bodies.
Tong Yiya suddenly thought of the wild goats in the mountains. In this cold winter, drinking a bowl of goat soup could really warm them up throughout the winter.
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