Candide in Chronology is on strike

Chapter 173 Caring people

Qin Xi got up early the next morning, and Qin He and Qin Jiang woke up at about the same time as her.

There is still so much meat waiting for them to deal with at home, the bed sealing technique is invalid today.

Qin He went out with the only machete at home, and this time he was going to chop bamboos of various sizes to use as a tool for stuffing sausages.

Qin Jiang is helping Qin Xi, he cooks for Qin Xi, he burns the fire, and feeds meat for Qin Xi, he binds the rope. During this period, he experienced such small problems as the rope was not tied tightly, the rice sausage fell out of the bamboo tube, the rice sausage was too full to burst, and so on. The interlude, though, ends up being good.

When Tang Ying came to Qin's kitchen, the first thing she saw were a dozen or so sausages hanging to dry on bamboo poles. She was shocked.

"That's why you asked your second brother to come to us yesterday to buy two catties of rice noodles?"

"How did you do this! It's amazing, I've only eaten sausages, and I've never seen anyone do it before!"

Qin Xi had no choice but to tell her the steps of yesterday, and at the same time answer her questions from time to time.

Just these twelve sausages, the pig's ears and cheek meat from the pig's head bought yesterday, and all the lean meat left after the three brothers and sisters finished refining the oil, were all in it.

Although there were many accidents during the process, it has to be said that the result was very good. Qin Xi felt a sense of accomplishment when he looked at the twelve sausages.

In addition, there is still a lot of meat at home, such as pork trotters, pork ribs, pork belly, etc., have not moved yet!

During the Chinese New Year, there is no shortage of meat at home.

As for the dumplings, they still need to be wrapped, but besides the lard residue, there is also the big pig's head, the bone-deboned meat between the bones. After the pig's head is boiled in a pot, the meat will be removed quickly. When it came out, there was a large plate, probably more than two catties!

She originally planned to make dumplings filled with pure meat, but now that the snow has melted, the shallots and garlic that were planted behind the house before are showing their heads. Whether you use chopped green onion or garlic leaves to make dumplings, it is a good choice.

Although these shallots and garlic haven't grown any more these days, they were growing well before, and now those slightly wilted leaves are really gratifying to look at.

They are not like those green vegetables, the leaves are wilted, the color is still dark, and they are easy to dry and shatter when touched and crushed. It is obvious that they have been damaged by frost, and there is no hope for next year.

Also, after coming to Chenhui Village, she found that her previous thinking was wrong. She thought that in the winter, everyone would have nothing to eat green leafy vegetables. At that time, leeks would definitely be very popular. Look, in winter, the fields are all lush green. The vegetables grown by the villagers include cabbage, radish, cabbage, rapeseed, kohlrabi, etc., as well as wild vegetables with a very complicated composition. There is no shortage of vegetables to eat.

Ping City, Ontario belongs to the south. In the south, there is not a shortage of green leafy vegetables in winter.

But she fell in the first step, she never grew the leeks at all, if she had grown them at that time and sold them, she would be the one who was dumbfounded, she would think, this is the same as the plot of the novel she has read , Why is it different!

Of course, a large part of the reason for her misunderstanding was that her family ate dried vegetables in winter, and they had never seen green leaves.

"I really envy you. Now you have endless meat. When it is smoked, it will be twelve large sausages. It will last for a long time. I am still very confident in your craftsmanship. The taste must be good .”

Tang Ying chose a pig's trotter, two pork ribs, and a little more than a catty of pork liver for lunch yesterday.

These things plus the one pound and four taels of meat that she shared with He Yuan are definitely enough for the New Year, but what about after the New Year?
If it was said before, Tang Ying would never believe that she would worry about whether she would have meat for the next few months.

At this time, she thought of her family again, and the old days. Did they often eat meat at home?Have they forgotten her?Did they despise her as useless and don't want her anymore?
Since she went to the countryside, her family has less and less contact with her. Before, there was a letter every one or two months. Now she has been close to three months and has no news from her family. The last time she wrote a letter Asked things, but also no results.

"It's not because meat tickets are hard to come by. Finally, there is a place where you can buy meat without a meat ticket. If you miss this village, this shop will disappear. Don't buy more."

Forced by the situation, this is a last resort.

Qin Xi still remembered how her grandparents used to smoke bacon and sausages at the beginning of December. All pig's feet and ears were smoked. Once smoked, they would be [-] or [-] catties of meat.

Of course, it is to be distributed to the uncles. If they can't finish eating during the Chinese New Year, they will take it to the place where they work to eat.

Except for the Chinese New Year, at other times, it is difficult to see them. All of them are working outside, and the children are naturally kept by their side to study, otherwise don't worry, at that time, the children are precious.

During the few days of Chinese New Year, the whole family gathered together for dinner, and it was very lively. After the sixth day of the new year, no later than the tenth day of the new year, they all left one after another.

Tang Ying never got tired of seeing Qin Xi's smoked meat. First, she took a small handful of pine needle leaves, struck a match and lit it. When the fire was almost done, she covered the pine needle leaves with tea seed shells. After a while, thin white smoke slowly curled up from the gaps in the tea seed shells.

Qin Xi placed two stools beside the pile of tea seed husks. Three mud bricks were stacked on each stool, and a piece of bamboo was placed on top of it. Cover it with straw to keep the smoke inside as much as possible to smoke the sausage.

After about half an hour, it is necessary to scoop water and slowly moisten the straw. This is to prevent the temperature inside from being too high and the dry straw to ignite spontaneously.

This is the first time for her to use straw to make bacon in a confined space. She has no experience, and everything is groping based on past experience, trying to get as close as possible to the environmental conditions when she and her grandfather bacon.

There is no other smoker like her in the whole Chen Hui Village. In the next few days, driven by curiosity, someone took a closer look at their straw ovens, and they all had only one comment, trouble.

Why bother to fumigate sausages that can be accomplished by hanging them to dry in the doorway? According to them, it’s purely idle.

That caring person also noticed the Qin family's situation. After all, the pig head that Qin He was carrying was not small at the time, and when some aunts gossiped, they mentioned that the Qin family was smoking and roasting sausages. There were a total of twelve pieces Sausages, let’s not talk about other money notes that have disappeared, as long as they can steal these sausages, it will be considered a rich harvest, and the trip is worthwhile.

For this reason, this person specially called a few "like-minded" friends. After all, Qin Jiang and Qin He were not easy to mess with, so call a few more people.

(End of this chapter)