Reborn to be a country doctor

Chapter 34 34. Eating lamb and making briquettes

"Yizheng, you rest in the main room, and Yirong and Yijing go to the kitchen to help me," Lin Qingxi said, and everyone didn't dare to listen.

After Lin Qingxi finished speaking, she took Lin Yirong and Xiang Yijing to the kitchen, and she asked Xiang Yijing to wash the vegetables, while Lin Yirong lit the fire and processed the mutton herself.

Half a mutton was connected with mutton chops, mutton and a leg of lamb. Lin Qingxi cut all these and put the lamb chops aside first. She separated the leg of lamb from its foot, and then chopped all the leg of lamb into pieces. Throw in a cauldron and blanch.

After blanching, wash it with cold water, and then put it in the pot to cook. Taking advantage of the time when the meat was cooking, Lin Qingxi froze the lamb chops and waited for a few days before eating.

Lin Qingxi threaded the sheep's hooves with a rope, threw them into the snow in the yard to freeze, and then divided the rest of the mutton into five small and two large ones. The small one weighed three to four catties, and the big one weighed six to seven catties. .

After finishing these, Lin Qingxi cut up the white radish that Xiang Yijing had washed and quickly threw it into the pot to cook with the mutton, letting Lin Yirong watch the fire.

"Yijing, you send these two portions of mutton to your uncle and second uncle's house," Lin Qingxi said while stringing two large portions of mutton and putting them in the basket.

"Understood, auntie, I'll deliver it now," Xiang Yijing was very happy that Lin Qingxi asked her to work, and she happily took the basket to deliver the meat.

"Yirong, look at the fire. This mutton needs to be boiled for an hour before the meat tastes good. I'll go to the main room to rest first." Although Lin Qingxi has mental strength, after working for so long, she can't take it anymore.

"Guy, go and rest! I'll call you later," Lin Yirong nodded, watching Lin Qingxi go back to the main room.

The mutton was boiled over high heat for over an hour, and the meat was ready to fall off the bone, and it was fully flavored. Seeing that it was almost cooked, Lin Qingxi went to the snow to pick up ten meat buns, and threw them directly on the mutton to cook.

After about five or six minutes, the meat buns were cooked. Lin Qingxi put the meat buns into a bowl with chopsticks, and took out the mutton in a big basin. Then she took two big bowls and filled two bowls of mutton for the old Zhou's family. Send it to Zhou Guihe's house.

Of course, these two bowls of mutton are mostly soup and white radish, and the mutton is only eight or nine yuan, so each person can taste a piece.

When Lin Yizheng and his brothers came back after delivering the mutton, everyone started to eat. After a meal of mutton, everyone's mouths were full of oil.

At night, Lin Qingxi avoided getting up lightly, went outside to meet the coal deliverers, and brought back the thousand catties of coal she had bought.

The next day, Zhoujia Village fished the fish pond and began to divide the fish. Zhou Guitang took several young and capable young people in the village to the big fish pond under the reservoir next to the back mountain to release water. Then around noon, there was no water in the fish pond. After that, Zhou Guitang began to call the villagers to fish in the fish pond.

In order to join in the fun, except for the villagers who couldn't walk, everyone in Zhoujia Village went to the fish pond to watch the fun, and Lin Qingxi also took Lin Yizheng there.

"Guy, Yirong and I want to go down to pick up small fish and river prawns, is that okay?" Lin Yizheng looked eagerly at the little friends who were "picking up leaks" in the river under the fish pond. They were locked up at home for so many days. I also want to go down and play.

"Go, be careful not to overplay and get yourself wet." Many children in the village were playing there. Lin Qingxi noticed that the water there was not deep, and the weather was rising today. I agree.

"Yijing, come back with Yikang to bring back the basket and bucket, and Yirong and I went to pick up fish," Lin Yizheng said, and ran over there with Lin Yirong.

In Zhoujia Village, it is not easy for everyone in Zhou Guitang, so it is acquiesced to the behavior of children from all households to "pick up leaks" in the downstream. It should be said that the whole Zhoujia Village defaults to "picking up leaks" by children.

However, "picking up leaks" is only limited to children, and adults are not allowed to participate. In addition, picking up small fish is fine, but big fish must be confiscated.

Lin Qingxi didn't ask about the behavior of Lin Yizheng and the others, and let them play by themselves. She and Zhou Guijiang's two cousins ​​stood by the pond and watched everyone happily fishing in the fishpond.

"It seems that this year's harvest is good, and I don't know how many catties of fish our family can share," Sun Yumei and Zhang Cuilan muttered in low voices.

"Our family has a large population, and we earn more work points this year, so we should be able to share more." Lin Qingxi heard the two of them talking about this topic, and interjected: "Eldest cousin, second cousin, Is there any more sauerkraut pickled by Dajinzi this year? If so, I will send Yijing to get some at home later, so that I can make sauerkraut fish."

"Yes, I remember that there is a whole jar of sauerkraut at home." Hearing Lin Qingxi's words, Sun Yumei said without thinking, "Girl Xi, is the sauerkraut fish delicious? Why haven't we heard of it?"

"The fish with pickled cabbage is hot and sour. It's very appetizing. It's a famous dish in other places." Lin Qingxi thought for a while, but fortunately, there is no such dish in Qinghe City.

"Okay, let's make pickled fish to eat at night. How do you make it? Girl Xi, please teach us," Sun Yumei asked with interest. Recently, the monkeys in the family don't eat much, so I just happened to make pickled fish Give it a try.

"Okay! I'll go home and teach you how to do it in the evening," Lin Qingxi said, motioning Sun Yumei to look around at the aunts and sisters-in-law. It's not suitable to talk about this topic now.

"Look, sister-in-law, brother picked up a big fish." Sun Yumei was about to say something when she was pulled by Zhang Cuilan next to her, and then her voice was heard.

Everyone followed Zhang Cuilan's voice to look at Zhou Minghui, and found that the fish he picked up was really big, weighing at least ten catties.

At the same time, several people picked up big fish, and everyone was very happy.

Lin Qingxi went home after watching the fish picking activity. She was a little interested at the first glance, but after a while, she felt nothing.

Lin Qingxi and Lin Yizheng talked to each other before going home. She first boiled a pot of water on the coal stove with a copper kettle, then washed two pieces of old ginger and smashed them into the pot. Started making ginger soup.

Lin Qingxi came out of the yard and saw the coal piled in the corner, and planned to spend some time in the next few days to make coal briquettes, otherwise it would be ugly to pile up there all the time.

After thinking about it, Lin Qingxi took the snakeskin bag and went to the back mountain to dig a few bags of yellow mud and came back. He poured the yellow mud out of the snakeskin bag, then found a wooden hammer, smashed the coal lumps, and crushed them into powder. Add water and yellow mud and stir well.

Lin Qingxi found tools for making briquettes in the warehouse, and started to work. Although she was busy walking around in the yard, the yard was soon filled with formed briquettes.

Taking advantage of no one, Lin Qingxi collected part of it in the space, and then continued to work. When all the coals were made into briquettes, it was already two o'clock in the afternoon. Lin Yizheng and the others hadn't come back yet, and she herself Did not eat lunch.

(End of this chapter)