Chapter 80: Big Deal
"How much did you spend on the beef? I'll contribute too." Tang Xinmei whispered.
"No, just take care of the housework in the future. You know I like to go to the mountains." Qiao Mo was not willing to take her money. Not to mention that she would go back in two days and could not eat much, even if she did not go back, they would live together and he would not ask her for money.
"How can I feel good about this?" Tang Xinmei felt bad. Things she brought back from the mountains were fine, but this was something she had bought with her own money. How could she feel comfortable eating this?
"There's nothing to be embarrassed about. We are partners and friends. It's only natural for us to help each other."
"Thank you, Momo. You can do whatever you want in the future, and leave the housework to me." Tang Xinmei said with emotion. She also wanted to settle things clearly with them, but she was short of money and could only do more work to make up for it.
"Sister Xinmei, even if you don't say that, I will definitely do what I should do. It's just that I like to run to the mountains, so I hope you can bear with me when it's inconvenient for me to come back to cook." Qiao Mo said with a smile. She is not Liu Ruoling, who thinks she can order others around with just a little supplies.
"I know, you are all good people." Tang Xinmei knew what she meant and felt even more grateful to her.
Qiao Mo smiled. She didn't expect that she would be treated as a nice guy sometimes. "I'll go clean it up."
"Okay, I'll go to the vegetable garden and pick some celery first." Tang Xinmei also stood up and walked to the back of the yard.
Qiao Mo went back to the kitchen and took a few bottles of wine from the backpack back into the house. He came back and washed the beef in clean water, put the small pieces in a sieve to drain the water, and then went to wash the pig's trotters.
Because it was processed by a fully automatic slaughtering machine, the hair on the pig's trotters was cleaned very cleanly, so she just had to wash it with hot water. After washing it, she took out an axe, chopped the pig's trotters into small pieces, and put them in a sieve for later use.
"Momo, why did you buy so much beef? Is this pig's trotter?" Tang Xinmei was surprised to see that both sieves were full after she came back. She didn't expect Qiao Mo to be so generous.
"Well, this is pig's trotter. I'm going to make spicy pig's trotter." Qiao Mo nodded, then took out a small piece of tenderloin beef and sliced it thinly and put it in a bowl for later use.
"It seems I'm in for a treat." Tang Xinmei was fortunate enough to try spicy pig's trotters in a state-owned restaurant. Although it was a bit spicy, the taste was so addictive.
"Just wait, I guarantee you'll want to eat more after you've tried it." Qiao Mo said with a smile. She liked spicy food in her previous life, and she learned this dish from the Sichuan chef in the Sanda team. In order to learn this dish, she not only taught him her best braised pork, but also gave him the recipe for drunken chicken.
"Then I'll thank Momo for that." Tang Xinmei smiled and nodded. "You've walked such a long way, you must be tired. Go and rest first. I'll make lunch."
"Okay, then I'll go back." Qiao Mo thought the meal for two people was simple enough, so he didn't stay to help.
Returning to the house, thinking that she still had to trade with someone in the evening, she locked the door, drew the curtains and entered the space. She first went to the food area to prepare the rice: the grains inside were packed in cloth bags and sacks. She took a look and found that the sacks were all one kilogram each, while the cloth bags were of several sizes.
This kind of large-scale transaction naturally had to be packed in those large sacks. She moved out thirty bags and put them on the flat ground outside. Then she went to the meat area, where the meat was all in whole loaves. She moved out twenty loaves and weighed them on the scale so that she would have an idea of the amount.
After preparing the things to be traded, she left the space, opened the curtains, sat in front of the window and read a book until Tang Xinmei called her to eat.
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