Chapter 50: Which girl can eat meat?
The pheasant was not chopped into pieces, but a rope was tied to the chicken's feet and hung upside down in Gu Tang's house to be eaten next time.
In today's weather, there is no need to worry about it going bad. Just apply a layer of salt and leave it for three to five days and it should be fine.
But Gu Tang didn’t plan to keep it for that long. He would eat rabbit tonight and stew chicken soup tomorrow, and they would be able to finish it in two days.
So, there is no need to apply salt, just hang it in the house.
Putting the blanched rabbit aside for later use, Gu Tang first steamed half a pot of rice in a clay pot, which was enough for three people.
Next, Gu Tang began to prepare the seasonings for cooking the rabbit.
Wild rabbit has a strong smell, so seasoning is essential if you want to suppress that smell.
But there is really no seasoning here, and even if there is, ordinary people cannot get it.
The most important thing is that the Gu family is full of weirdos.
The family's daily food basically consists of millet porridge, so except for salt, they save on all other seasonings and don't buy any.
Even the ginger that every household grows is saved. It is not planted and not eaten.
It is said that growing ginger takes up space, so it is better to use the space to grow vegetables.
Whenever Feng cooked for relatives during festivals, she would chase the younger generations in the family, carrying some worthless wild vegetables, bran and other items, and go out to trade them with people around the village.
Those who are thin-skinned endure the pain and change some, while those who are thick-skinned just wave their hands and say no.
If I can't get the seasoning back, I will definitely be scolded by Feng when I get home.
After scolding, Feng didn't say anything about buying it. She just fried it like that and added some salt until cooked.
If you stir-fry like this, it's okay for stir-frying vegetables, but if you stir-fry meat, the meat smell will fill the yard!
It was also because of this that during festivals, boys and girls from other families would wander around the village visiting each other, each looking for good playmates to play and have fun with.
The boys and girls of the Gu family all hid at home and dared not go out.
It's nothing, it's just shameful and I can't leave without being able to face the world.
As soon as I went out, the whole village looked at me strangely. Some pointed at me from behind, while others asked me questions directly.
Not only the Gu family is poor in this village, every family is poor!
Since we are poor, we should just live a poor life honestly. When relatives come to our house, it will be a face-saving thing if we make sure they are well fed and well watered.
If you really want to show off, that's fine. If you need something, just go and buy it yourself. Why would you walk around the village every year to exchange things? !
Who cares about those wild vegetables and bran? Who doesn't have them? What can I do with a handful of wild vegetables and bran?
Gu Tang felt suffocated whenever he thought of these things!
All the boys and girls in the Gu family are not normal and have some problems. She suspects that it is all Feng's fault!
This is really the case of an old man who refuses to die and is a thief, living only to bring harm to his descendants!
Gu Tang took out some medicinal herbs that the original owner had stored and found cardamom, cloves, dried ginger, angelica, thyme, bay leaves, etc.
These can be used as medicinal materials as well as seasonings.
Gu Tang planned to make dry-fried rabbit meat with the processed rabbit meat, but after looking at the seasonings he had chosen, some of them were not suitable for making dry-fried rabbit meat.
She gritted her teeth and decided not to care about these things at this time.
I plan to take a little bit of each and add them all, just hoping to suppress the fishy smell of the rabbit.
As for whether it would ruin the taste, she wasn't in a position to consider that at the moment.
Putting the selected seasonings aside for later use, Gu Tang chased Gu Ping'an back to the house to get water to mix bran to feed the deer. She stayed in the kitchen, watching over the rabbit meat while waiting for her father to come back.
Dry-fried rabbit meat tastes better when it comes out of the pot right away. If it is prepared in advance and stewed, it will not taste as good.
She waited in the kitchen like this until past 3:00 pm, but there was still no sign of her father Gu Lianshan.
At this point, it’s time for the Gu family to have dinner.
In the main hall, Feng was cursing at the east and west wings, and ordering Gu Qing, Gu Lian, and Gu Mei to cook.
Gu Tang pricked up his ears for a while, but didn't hear his own name.
Since she didn't call herself, it has nothing to do with her.
Not long after, Gu Qing, Gu Lian and Gu Mei, who were named by Feng, came to the kitchen one after another.
The kitchen, which was originally spacious, suddenly became small.
Gu Tang looked up at them, said nothing, and just moved the stove aside.
As for the cooked rice, she also moved it to her side. Oh, and also the two blanched rabbit meats, the prepared spices, etc., all moved them to her side to prevent certain people from doing bad things.
The rabbit meat was placed openly in the clay pot with nothing covering it. The three sisters who passed by could see it clearly with just a glance.
In an instant, the three of them saliva flooded and kept swallowing in secret.
The Gu family cooked meat two days ago, but the sisters Gu Qing and Gu Lian only got half a bowl of broth together.
Gu Mei was the target of the anger and didn't even get to eat a single morsel of the broth!
Calculating the time, the three sisters still got a small piece of pork to eat during the Chinese New Year.
It’s almost the end of the year, and I haven’t eaten meat in nearly a year.
It would be strange if I wasn't greedy now.
Hearing the three sisters swallowing their saliva, Gu Tang didn't even raise his head. He just held the small stick and drew at his feet with a normal expression.
The three sisters were afraid of Gu Tang. Unless Gu Tang asked for food, they dared not ask for it no matter how greedy they were. They could only continue swallowing their saliva, light the stove, and start boiling water to cook the porridge.
When the porridge was almost out of the pot, Feng walked in with her small feet.
Gu Tang raised his head and glanced, then lowered his head again and curled his lips secretly.
Feng always calculated the time to cook the porridge, and when the porridge was almost cooked, she would appear in the kitchen very punctually.
She wanted to see with her own eyes that all the porridge was scooped into the rice bowl. Not a drop of the bottom of the pot could be left. It had to be scraped clean and poured into the rice bowl.
Then she watched with her own eyes as the rice bowls were carried into the main room, and finally she was the one who took the lead in distributing the porridge.
But this time, when Feng came in, she didn't even look at the porridge in the pot. Her eyes were all on the rabbit meat in the earthenware jar.
Feng knew that Gu Tang could catch rabbits, pheasants and other animals, but she had never seen her catch any before, nor had she ever seen her bring any home.
Today is the first time I saw Gu Tang kill a rabbit and eat its meat.
Do you ask Feng if she is greedy?
There’s no need to ask this question!
I'm absolutely greedy!
Although the meat had been cooked a few days ago, it only weighed about 30 to 50 taels, and no matter how small the meat was cut, there were only a few pieces. All of it was given to Grandpa Gu and Gu Liansheng for nourishment. Even Gu Tianbao didn't get to eat it.
The same went for Mrs. Feng, she didn't eat a single piece and only drank two bowls of meat soup to satisfy her craving.
Seeing the meat, she, like the three Gu Qing sisters, couldn't swallow the saliva in her mouth.
After glancing at Gu Tang, Feng hesitated for a while, but finally couldn't resist her greed and asked for it.
"Your grandfather and your uncle are both ill. Rabbit meat is rare and good for the body. Cook the rabbit meat quickly and bring it to the main hall later..."
At this point, Feng paused, a hint of reluctance on her face, and continued: "I know you caught it, so you have to take your share. I allow you to keep two pieces.
It's not that you can't have milk, it's that this meat should be eaten by the elders and boys in the family. Go out and ask which girls can eat meat? Throughout the year, being able to have a bowl of meat soup is a great blessing. "
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