Fish Leaping Farm Gate

Chapter 101
The apricots in the two bamboo baskets were eaten too. Mrs. Qin and Mrs. Wu each took some back, and there were only seven or eight catties left, and there was nothing to do.

Seeing her staring at Xingzi in a daze, Du Wenyuan asked with a smile, "Are you thinking of selling it for money?"

"No, it's only a few dozen pennies, and my family is overwhelmed by eating and drinking."

Du Wenyuan took a few over to eat, and chatted, "People in the county like to eat these sweets, which seem to be made with honey or sugar, but they are very easy to sell."

Isn't it just candied fruit? Du Xiaoyu thought to herself, so it's already there. She glanced at him and asked, "Is my sister's injury better? Why don't you protect my sister well over there."

Du Wenyuan sighed, "It's not that you don't know Eldest Sister's temperament. How can I protect you if you don't say anything? I just said that I got burned that day. I wanted to teach Sister Rong a lesson, but Sister Rong refused to let her go, saying that it was all right. My wife's eldest disciple, I can't ruin their master-student friendship... The injury is better, the doctor said that you don't need to apply medicine after a few days."

Du Xiaoyu was silent for a while, "Anyway, you pay more attention. By the way, second brother, do you know about Uncle Lin?" She hasn't mentioned this gossip to Du Wenyuan yet.

"what's up?"

"It turns out that Uncle Lin has been looking for his lost nephew!"

"Ah!" The apricot in Du Wenyuan's hand fell down.

"It seems you don't know." Du Xiaoyu glanced at him, seeing him with a surprised expression, "No wonder Uncle Lin is running around, I don't know if his nephew is in our village. Let me tell you something, Uncle Lin may have visited our village earlier, and now that he has settled down, there may be news of his nephew."

Du Wenyuan calmed down, "When did Master mention it?"

"Just before I sold cold melons." Du Xiaoyu frowned, "And my mother is also weird. Recently, she always loses her temper, which makes my father miserable."

"Mother also knows about this?" Du Wenyuan asked hurriedly.

"Of course, Uncle Lin mentioned it at our house."

Du Wenyuan nodded and stopped talking, and went to his bedroom after a while.

Time flies, and it is early autumn in a blink of an eye. The second batch of little rabbits are already more than two months old. As for the first batch of big rabbits, they are all white and fat.

Du Xiaoyu went around the small shed today and came out to look for Mrs. Zhao.

"I'll let Dad kill two rabbits later, and Mom will marinate them."

"I'm afraid the weather will be bad, it's going to be bad." Mrs. Zhao looked at the sunlight outside the house, shook her head and said, "The pickled ones have to be left for a while to taste good, only in winter."

"The pickled vegetables are fine in summer."

"How could it be the same, why are pickled vegetables the same." Mrs. Zhao nodded her head, "Anyway, pickling rabbits is not enough."

It’s really inconvenient to not have a refrigerator. It seems that only in winter can you expect to make money selling salted rabbits. If you don’t sell them as finished products, the rabbits won’t be worth much. Each one is about 160 renminbi, which is lower than the price of wild rabbits. If the wild rabbit is fatter, it will cost more than two hundred and dozens of pennies.

Du Xiaoyu is in trouble. Although the rabbit has a lot of dishes, but their family does not run a restaurant, so what if it is cooked?It's not about making money for others, she has to make a dish that she cooks at home and then sells.Zhao's bacon is good at cooking, and originally wanted to make bacon for sale, but it seems that this method will not work.

"Mom, what kind of rabbit dishes can you cook?"

Mrs. Zhao was busy picking up vegetables and preparing for lunch, so she didn't have much time to talk to her, so she said casually, "Where do we usually have rabbits to eat, what kind of dishes do we cook! It's just like pork, stewed and eaten, let's make some sliced ​​meat."

Totally featureless!
"I think it's good to make a marinade. It can be kept for a few days in this weather." Du Xian came back for lunch and made a suggestion by the way, "Just put some chili peppers, it will be delicious if it is numbing and spicy."

Du Xiaoyu thought for a while, "Alright, let's try it later."

After finishing the meal, Du Xian went to slaughter a rabbit, and there was half a pot in the water, and he could cook a few dishes for dinner, and asked Du Xiaoyu what to do with the rabbit skin.

The rabbit's fur was forgotten last time, and it stinks later, which made her regret it. Du Xiaoyu hurriedly kept it, cleaned it up and put it away.

This rabbit is snow white and has beautiful fur. It would be a pity to throw it away.

Du Xian peeled off the fur carefully, washed the rabbit and let Mrs. Zhao put it in the pot to cook. Du Xiaoyu brought a few handfuls of spices and put them in, adding sugar and salt, and the aroma rose after a while.

But it will take a while to get the taste, and the father and daughter are dealing with rabbit skins in the backyard.

The preservation of this rabbit skin also requires technology. First, the fat or lymph in the rabbit skin should be cleaned, and then carefully scraped with a knife to scrape the top clean, only the inner layer, and then use talcum powder Scrub it and wait until all the sediment is gone before hanging it in a ventilated place to dry.It cannot be exposed to the sun, nor can it be baked with fire. It must be naturally air-dried.

"I don't know if it's good to sell it in a restaurant." The two walked to the eaves after finishing the rabbit fur.

Du Xian laughed and said, "I don't want to sell this even if I haven't eaten it. You girl is also impatient."

Du Xiaoyu stuck out her tongue, "That's right, if it doesn't taste good, it won't be easy to sell."

After another half an hour, it was finally marinated.

The whole family gathered around the stove, Mrs. Zhao lifted the lid of the pot and saw that it was very attractive and the fragrance was strong.

Du Xian brought up the stewed rabbit, waited for it to cool down a bit, and chopped it into small pieces with a knife. He piled up a big plate, and picked one for Du Xiaoyu, "I was in a hurry just now, but I don't want to do it now." have eaten?"

Du Xiaoyu smiled and took it and gnawed it into her mouth. The taste was not bad, but it seemed to be much worse than the lo mei she ate before.

Zhao Shi and Du Xian also started to eat one after another.

"Hey, this won't work." Du Xian smacked his lips, "The taste is not strong enough, and it's not fragrant enough. It's almost like braised in soy sauce. How can it be called braised!"

As soon as she said it, Du Xiaoyu also found out that this whole thing is a spicy braised rabbit!

"What kind of flavor can be made without old stew, it's good like this, and our family does not run a stew shop." Zhao said to the point.

Yes, old lo!

Old stew is the foundation of lo-mei, Du Xiaoyu frowned, this is not easy!She really doesn't know how Lao Lu is going to do it, who is not a chef!
"Mother, can you make old marinade?" She had no choice but to ask Mrs. Zhao for help.

Zhao shook her head.

"Just ask Aunt Wu." Du Xian blinked suddenly and said, "Her in-laws opened a lo mei shop in Xincun."

"Don't talk nonsense, these are the secret recipes handed down from the family, how can I tell others." Mrs. Zhao hurriedly stopped, "Besides, you can't ask Sister Wu to ask these things, right? It's not hard to make people think what her in-laws think. "

Du Xian patted his head, "That's right," he said after a pause, "But just ask about the basic methods, we don't follow them all, and they won't talk about those secret recipes."

Speaking of Mrs. Wu's in-laws, Du Xiaoyu thought of Lin Qingzhen. Since their family opened a braised meat shop, why did he come to Feixian County to open a paper horse shop?Really strange.

"Hey, I'm going to test it out tomorrow, so don't mess it up." Mrs. Zhao had no choice but to take a step back, thinking that her little daughter was all about raising rabbits to get rich, and all the rabbits would grow up, so they would be sold. Well, stewed rabbit is a way out, if it is delicious, it will not be a problem.

Hearing that she was willing to help, Du Xiaoyu was very happy, and she rushed forward to flatter her.

Aunt Wu is easy to talk to. When she heard that they wanted to learn how to make lo-mei, she went to the county to find Lin Meizhen without further ado. They had only two children in the Lin family. Lin Qingzhen was interested in making paper horses since she was a child, so Lin Meizhen did I learned about [-]% to [-]%, and when my mother-in-law asked about this, I immediately asked for a paper and a brush to write it down.

Aunt Wu was afraid that she would reveal the secret recipe handed down from her ancestors. This is the foundation of her family. If she really leaked it completely, it would cause dissatisfaction with her in-laws, so she hurriedly reminded Lin Meizhen.

In the end, Lin Meizhen smiled and said that their family was afraid that she would reveal the secret recipe, so they didn't teach it all, and said that they would teach her all of it when there were really no one to pass it on.

She also knows her daughter very well, Aunt Wu said with emotion, she likes this daughter-in-law more and more in her heart, it is rare to have such an innocent and simple person, her son is also blessed.

When seeing Fang Zi, Du Xiaoyu was overjoyed. She didn't expect Aunt Wu to move so fast, and she said a lot of words of thanks.

"Look, it's probably because of these ingredients, and also, the braised sauce can't be enlarged, it's all made with brown sugar." Aunt Wu added a few more words, explaining, "It's a secret recipe of others after all, it's not complete. "

"I'm very grateful for this. I must thank Sister Meizhen very much." Du Xiaoyu smiled.

"Next time you make a stewed rabbit and take it to her. I'm very happy to keep it. This child is greedy." Aunt Wu smiled. Her daughter-in-law likes to eat like children.

"That's what the aunt said." Du Xiaoyu giggled, "After I cook it well, I will sell it in restaurants. I often go to the county. Sister Meizhen wants to eat it, just say it."

"She's really lucky." Aunt Wu chuckled, and ordered the recipe again, "It is said that there are three or four spices missing in it, and I don't know which ones. I'm afraid it's their family's secret method. You can figure it out on your own. Bar."

Mrs. Zhao brought over a big bowl of jujube soup, glared at Du Xiaoyu and said, "This child will trouble you all day long, and only you are willing to spoil her."

Aunt Wu took a few sips from a spoon and laughed, "You didn't say it yourself. What are you pretending to do when you love the child? Xiaoyu, your mother is a knife mouth and a bean curd heart." After drinking the soup, she said, "Come on. , get busy with your lo mei, I'm going back, my little soil is waiting to wear new cotton clothes!"

Seeing her leaving in a hurry, Du Xiaoyu pursed her lips and smiled. Aunt Wu was probably the happiest person she had ever met, because she had never seen her have any troubles. She had a good son, a good wife, and a grandson. She is also considerate, her natal family is harmonious, and the whole family is in harmony!

But it probably also has something to do with her natural optimism, the so-called contentment is always happy!

(End of this chapter)