delicious farm girl

Chapter 16 Making Bacon

From the second day on, Li Er really tried to bring back one or two rabbits without any injuries every day.

Su Ran kept these intact rabbits in a hut at the back, and fed them some green leaves every day.

In the past two days, she also went back to her mother's house twice, once with Li Er, and brought a large bundle of firewood, a skinned rabbit, and a pheasant to the family, which made Huang very uncomfortable. Knowing what to do, I kept telling them not to give away any more, and kept the things to sell in the town.It was Su Ran who asked her to save the radish leaves at home and give them back to her to feed the rabbits, so Huang was relieved a bit, and then asked Quan Geer or An Geer to send her fresh leaves every day, By the way, help her take care of the rabbit.

Su Ran also took the opportunity to talk to her younger brothers, knowing that Su Chengcai's family hadn't come looking for trouble these days, and the wheat seedlings in the field were growing well, so she was relieved.

After a few days of time, Li Er's firewood has been saved to a full cart, plus rabbits, pheasants, hedgehogs, etc., that is another big cage.It's time for him to deliver firewood to town.

After stacking all the firewood and rabbits, Li Er pointed to the vacant space in the corner of the cart.Su Ran sat down obediently, and the man pushed the car and walked all the way to the town.

Although there were so many things in the car, Li Er still seemed to have pushed an empty car, and within half an hour he had brought the car into the town.

First sent the firewood door to door, and then pushed the cart to send the game to Xianwailou, the largest tavern in the town.

The people in the back kitchen of the restaurant obviously knew Li Er very well.Seeing the basket of things he handed over, the corner of the man's mouth twitched: "Why are there fewer things this time than last time! Dumb brother, even though it's cold now and there are fewer and fewer living things on the mountain, But the price our restaurant gives you is not low. Now that it’s cold, there are quite a few customers who come to the restaurant to eat pot, and there is a shortage of these wild game!"

But when he was talking, he saw Su Ran who had been standing by the side of the cart, and he showed a meaningful smile: "Is this your wife?"

Li Er nodded.

"Feelings, are you busy getting married these days? That's understandable, this time it's understandable! However, next time you can send more things over. The Chinese New Year is coming soon, and those big families in the town are also starting to be busy. To prepare for the New Year's ceremony and so on, many people have ordered meals in our restaurant!"

But no matter what he said, Li Er just looked at him lightly.After receiving the money from him, he motioned for Su Ran to get on the cart, and he pushed it on and left.

The people in the restaurant looked at it, and curled their lips again. "Heh, he's really a weird person. But his little daughter-in-law is quite slick, but she looks...she seems to be a mute again? A mute and a mute are a natural match, haha!"

After selling these things, Li Er went to the grain and oil shop to buy rice as usual.

The guy in the store is still the same as last time.Seeing Su Ran and Li Er coming together, he laughed so hard that his face burst into bloom: "Brother Dumb, you have bought a new dress for your daughter-in-law!"

Su Ran quickly lowered her head.

It's been a long time since we met, but what he said has become true, they are really married!Now thinking about his jokes back then, she couldn't help but start to have a fever.

Li Er acted as if he hadn't heard it, and bought ten catties of fine noodles, plus ten catties of cornmeal and ten catties of brown rice.After paying the money, Li Er pushed into the car and went out of town.

When passing by a grocery store, Su Ran suddenly called out: "Wait a minute!"

Li Er stopped immediately.

Su Ran jumped out of the car. "You... Can you give me ten cents for the rest of the shopping today? I want to buy something. "

Without saying a word, Li Er took out the money bag and handed it to her.

The purse was heavy, and there were at least thirty or forty cash in it.Su Ran only opened and took ten of them, and returned the rest to him.

When she entered the grocery store, she picked out some seasonings like star anise and cinnamon. She only grabbed a small handful of each, but the total cost was a full ten renminbi.

Seeing her coming out holding these things, Li Er still didn't say a word, and when she got in the car, he pushed her back to the village.

Unexpectedly, this man gave her money without asking, and now seeing her come back from buying these impractical things, he accepted it without even wrinkling his head.On the contrary, Su Ran felt lumpy in her heart, and always felt sorry.

After thinking about it, she asked him in a low voice, "Don't you ask me why I spent money on these?"

"What are you doing?" the man asked.

"When I was in the back kitchen of the restaurant today, I heard them say that one serving of rabbit meat can be sold for [-] yuan, but depending on the amount of the rabbit meat, one rabbit can make at least two servings. But we sold a rabbit for only ten cents. I thought, how about we try to make some rabbit meat and sell it? It’s the New Year’s Eve, and many people want to buy new year’s goods. We do it ourselves, and the cost is also low. It's not expensive, and you should be able to sell a few to save some money for the New Year." Su Ran said in a low voice.

"En." She said for a long time, and Li Er's reaction was just like this.But as long as he agrees!
Only then did Su Ran realize that the chatter was forced out.Since marrying him, she has spoken more in a day than in the previous month.But subtly, she gradually felt that there was nothing wrong with this, and Li Er showed no sign of being annoying, so she accepted this kind of herself.

When the two returned to the village, Mr. Yuan saw the pile of materials she was holding in his arms, and asked her what they were for.

Su Ran told her plan.Mr. Yuan quickly nodded: "That's a good idea! Sister-in-law, you just do it, it doesn't matter if you make it bad, at worst, we can keep it for ourselves!"

But when Huang heard about it, he came to teach Su Ran a lesson.

"It's just such a little thing, it's only ten renminbi. Do you know that ten renminbi can buy half a catty of corn? Half a catty of corn is enough for me and your brother to eat for several days! You child, don't hurt you because of your son-in-law, you Just mess around! A good ten pennies, just let you ruin it like this!"

"Mother, I'm not messing around." Su Ran whispered.

"Of course mother knows that you have good intentions. But now my son-in-law goes up to the mountains every day to hunt and chop firewood, and he can sell it for a little money every time. It's not easy to have a little surplus, and I spend it on you. You child...you can't spend the money. Save it and use it when you have a baby in the future?" Mrs. Huang persuaded her earnestly.

Su Ran was helpless. "I bought everything now, and I can't refund it. If I don't do it well this time, then I just don't do it next time."

"There will be no next time! How much more money do you want to waste!" Huang yelled, clutching his chest, almost dying of pain.

Su Ran couldn't make sense to her, so she could only wink at Brother Quan and Brother An quietly, and the two children hurriedly persuaded and helped Huang away.

After finally seeing off her own mother, Su Ran looked back cautiously, only to find that Mr. Yuan had already returned to the house.Li Er turned around and brought a large bundle of firewood over.

"Is it enough?" he asked.

She has already started to support her with practical actions, and she doesn't mean to be shaken or doubted at all.

"Enough is enough!" Su Ran nodded quickly, feeling warmer in her heart.

Yesterday when Li Er came back from hunting on the mountain, there were four dead rabbits and three dead chickens. Su Ran had already cleaned them up and marinated them with seasoning.

Now take it out, then turn on the stove, put the rabbit chicken and the seasoning together, first blanch it with boiling water, scoop off the blood, add water and soy sauce, etc., bring to a boil on high heat, and then simmer on low heat for more than half an hour.Seeing that the meat is half-ripe, pick up the meat again, clean the pot, spread a layer of sawdust on the bottom of the pot, and sprinkle a layer of white sugar, then put on the steaming rack, put shallots and other things on the steaming rack, and then put the meat Go up and cover the pot.Ignite the fire in the stove again, first use high heat to make smoke in the pot, then reduce the firepower, and slowly start to smoke.

After a short meeting, Mr. Yuan took the initiative to come into the kitchen.

"Smells so good! Sister-in-law, is your meat smoked?" He looked anxiously at the cauldron that was constantly emitting fragrance.

"Wait a little longer." Su Ran said, and when the firewood in the stove was burned out, he opened the steamer, cut off a smoked rabbit leg and handed it to him, "Sir, try it."

Mr. Yuan took it without saying a word, opened his mouth and took a big bite.

"Oh... it's hot, it's burning me to death!" I bit it down without even blowing on it, no wonder he called it hot.But even though he yelled like that, he didn't spit out the mouthful of flesh in his mouth.

Slowly waiting for the heat of the meat to drop, Mr. Yuan returned to his usual calm appearance, chewed slowly and swallowed the rabbit meat.

"How is it?" Su Ran hurriedly asked.

"It's delicious!" Mr. Yuan immediately gave her a thumbs up, "The meat is very chewy, but it's also crispy. The flavor of the seasoning has gone in, and even the bones are very fragrant! Uh... the bones are actually crispy." , you can eat it directly! Sister-in-law, why are you so capable, you can even cook bacon?"

A sudden smile disappeared on Su Ran's face.

"This... I don't know." A trace of confusion appeared in her eyes.

Mr. Yuan was stunned. "What do not you know?"

"I don't know why I did this. It's just that when I saw these things, the method jumped out of my mind." Su Ran said.

Mr. Yuan looked at Li Er, and he smiled immediately: "You must have heard it before! It's just because it's been too long, you don't remember it. But when you see something now, you immediately think of someone else The method I mentioned to you. This just shows that you are very talented in cooking, and this bacon should be done in one go!"

"Really? That should be the case!" His statement did make sense.Su Ran tried her best to search in her memory, but found nothing, so she stopped competing with herself.

He quickly cut off another rabbit leg and handed it to Li Er. "Try it."

Li Er took it and ate up one leg with big gulps. "Sir is right, it is easy to swallow." This is his evaluation.

With his affirmation, Su Ran smiled happily again.

"So, tomorrow we can continue to smoke two pots, and then we can sell it in the town the day after tomorrow?"

Li Er nodded. "Can."

Seeing it, Mr. Yuan couldn't help but said sourly: "Hey, I praised you for a long time just now, but I didn't see you so happy. He just said such a sentence, so you can't believe it. Sure enough, his words are better than yours. My words are more useful!"

Su Ran blushed again, and quickly turned her head away.

(End of this chapter)