take a wife to support the family

Chapter 64 Smooth Pork Skin Jelly

Song Haonian and a group of brothers beat Xiao Xiucai, and the game was flawless, even Baihe didn't know that he was really attacking Xiao Xiucai, how could Liu Sheng testify to him that he was working at that time.

Let’s say that the little scholar made troubles again and again, and every time it was related to the reputation of the woman, Mr. Liu was also a little disappointed, and said to the housekeeper Liu Sheng: "I think he is a good person on weekdays, he has aura, and he will take off in the future. Unexpected. Why is it long and crooked, and the family is always entangled with this and that."

"It's just that he was wronged. He is a person who wants to gain fame. Who in this town doesn't respect him. If he is doing his duty, who would dare to mess with him? He did it ugly, I think It won't work."

Speaking of this, Mr. Liu was also a little discouraged. He himself is a master of raising people, so he claims to be the seed of reading, and he pays special attention to the education of the younger generations. The style of writing in Qingliu Town is flourishing.

It's a pity that Mr. Liu's own children are not the seeds of study. After studying for several years, they barely passed the entrance examination. name.

He put his hopes on the children of the offshoots of the clan. The private school originally only accepted the children of the main branch. Later, he gave money and food to expand it, invited famous gentlemen, and admitted many elementary school students.

Liu Rulong is very clever, and once he entered school, he was greatly praised by his teacher. He talked a lot, and Master Liu also expressed great hopes for him.

It's just that now that all these embarrassing things have happened, Master Liu's heart has also faded. After all, Liu Rulong is just a side child, and his character is not good. Even if he becomes an official at a young age, it will be difficult to support his family. How to stop.

Lily had already done some business with Liu Zhong through the relationship of Mrs. Sheng. At this time, Liu Zhong bent slightly and said with a smile: "In the end, it's just a distant branch. It's hard for mere Tongsheng to say what the future will be like. In my opinion, Our young master is the real seed of reading!"

Master Liu scolded with a smile: "How can you boast so much? Tell people a joke."

Liu Zhongdao: "The little guy is telling the truth, whoever laughs at me, I'll laugh at him for being blind!"

The young master of the Liu family is still a baby now, although Master Liu loves him like a treasure and often teases his grandchildren, he still can't see that he will be wise and foolish in the future.

Butler Liu's words reminded Mr. Liu, and in a few days he would bring his grandson to his side to raise him himself.His family's children are not bad in aptitude. If they are educated well from an early age, they will have a promising future. It is better than teaching them to be a white-eyed wolf outside.

But one troublesome thing, Lily is in good spirits on happy occasions, and Song Haonian has newly married Song Dagui as his brother, several brothers' families have said that she is busy with favors, and she is very happy every day.

In fact, Song Dagui had long wanted to be close to Liu Yi and his group, but he was a butcher who ran a butcher shop, and Liu Yi and others were businessmen traveling outside, so they never got along.

Now that he has worshiped his brother, he made an agreement with Liu Yi that next time he goes into business, he will also invest some capital in it, sell some rare items and bring back some sweets for his wife and children.

Song Dagui's brother and daughter-in-law went to buy meat from him, so Song Dagui naturally had to add money.Lily also said: "Love is love, business is business, big brother, you live on this, how can you spare me so many things?"

Song Dagui's family was raised by this butcher shop to be chubby. If it wasn't for their dark skin, they would have looked as if they were spoiled and raised by a wealthy family.

His daughter-in-law was more enthusiastic than him, and gave Lily a lot of bits and pieces of meat, and kept saying, "Young lady, you're welcome, I'll talk to her later."

Because of the previous rumors, as long as Song Dagui's family didn't bother her, Lily would be thankful. She didn't expect this sister-in-law to be so enthusiastic, so she had to accept it.

The noble family stuffed a large piece of pork with skin into the basket for her. Lily thought that unless it rains these days, it is really not suitable to eat meat when the sun is big, so she wanted to make some tricks on this piece of meat. .

Most of the pigs raised at this time were black pigs, with fat heads and big ears, and good quality meat, even better than the white pork she was used to eating in her previous life.

It is very difficult to pluck the hair from slaughtered pigs at the butcher, and the meat you buy has to be cleaned by yourself before it can be eaten.Lily plucked all the hairs that could be pulled out first, and then put the whole piece of meat on the fire to burn the hair roots, and a smell of burnt skin spread to her nose.

Pour some stove gray water into the basin, soak the boiled meat in it, and brush it over and over again with the old loofah pulp, until it is clean, and there is no more pig hair and dirt, and then rinse it with clean water.

Then cut the whole piece of meat into finger-wide slices, each slice is connected to the skin, and the skin is also rich in gelatin and bright red muscle, which is tender at first glance.

Boil the water in the pot, first put ginger slices, peppercorns and green onion knots.Pepper is a seasoning that is only produced in Sichuan, and it is very expensive to transport it to Nanzhili, and most people don't like it very much. Lily was used to eating it in her previous life, so she saved up to buy some, and Song Haonian got used to it with her, He also told her not to save money, but to buy more if she wanted to eat.

Then put the sliced ​​meat into it, boil it over high heat, skim off the foam, cover the pot, remove the two firewood, and cook slowly over medium heat.

The meat needs to be stewed for at least half a day, and Lily will go to do other things. After a while, she will come back to look at the fire and add some firewood, keep it burning, and just boil the water in the pot.

The pigskin was slowly simmered through, and the gelatin oozes out, making the soup thick and sticky. Lily guessed that it was almost the same, so she poured all the soup into a wooden basin, covered it with gauze, and put another one filled with Large tubs of well water to cool down.

As the temperature drops, the soup in the pot gradually condenses into a transparent solid. Through the shiny surface, it is easy to see that there are uncooked pigskin and pieces of meat mixed in it, which is very attractive.

A whole pot of jelly won't last long, so Lily divides it into several portions with a bamboo knife and sends them to those close to her.

When Song Haonian came home, she had already made sour rice and skin jelly, ready to eat.Sour rice is millet rice with pulp and water. After the millet is prepared, it is put into the stir-fried pulp and water soup and boiled for a while. It is sour and appetizing.

The skin jelly is cut into even small pieces, and seasoned with autumn oil, vinegar, garlic, ginger, and pepper powder and poured on it, it is sour and cool.The skin jelly itself has only a meaty taste, and the seasoning sauce is well made, it looks extra delicious.

Song Haonian said while eating: "Daughter-in-law, why do you have so many tricks." His mother can only cook a few dishes, but she can't come up with so many tricks.

Lily just laughed, not telling him that most of her tricks were learned from various recipes when she was in school.

These days, Lily used another small jar to save money, and there were several jars buried in the house. She really felt unsafe, so she asked Song Haonian to get up quietly, and the two of them sat opposite each other while it was still dark. Count money at the table.

At first they rented ten mu of land to Mr. Liu for two pennies.Later, Lily made a lot of money one after another. After excluding daily household expenses, it was more than two times.Song Haonian also made some money when he went out, except for shopping, he had about [-] yuan left.

Adding up a few things together, the young husband and wife have a family background of five pennies, which is quite acceptable.

Lily counted out five hundred coins and stored them in a jar for daily use, and said to Song Haonian, "It's inconvenient to have too many copper coins, you should find a way to exchange them for silver."

Nowadays, in times of peace, one tael of silver can be exchanged for the usual money. If it is not peaceful, one tael of silver can be exchanged for eight hundred qian.

This Tianqi Tongbao is of good quality, and the inscriptions on it are also beautiful. If it weren't for the inconvenience of using too many copper coins, Lily would rather use copper coins to be safer, not afraid of the depreciation of silver.

Song Haonian said: "It's not difficult, Xiaofu will go to the county in two days and ask him to go to Daming Bank to exchange it for silver."

"Daming Bank?"

"It's a bank run by the government, the most trustworthy." Song Haonian said, thinking that his daughter-in-law is smart because she is smart, she has never seen the big world, and even Daming Bank doesn't know.

Lily's small mouth opened slightly, and it took a long time to react.She didn't know when she traveled to, she just vaguely called it ancient times, and it wasn't until this time that she realized that she had traveled to the Ming Dynasty.

The Ming Dynasty was turbulent and talented, and it was a very magical dynasty.But these things have nothing to do with ordinary people. The most important thing for Lily is to live her life well.

"Da Nian, have you heard of the Liaodong Tartars?" Baihe asked worriedly, if the Liaodong Manchus have become powerful and will enter the pass to massacre and destroy in a short time, then she might as well die early .

Song Haonian smiled, and there was a look of yearning on his face: "20 years ago, our emperor conquered all the Tartars in Liaodong! Now every year at the temple fair, there is a play about the emperor's design to capture the chieftain. .”

As men, they all have a dream of going to battle to kill enemies and make contributions. They get excited when they talk, and they have to learn to sing a few lines.

During the Jade Emperor Temple Fair this year, Lily was busy doing business. People from all over the world came to listen to the opera, and she was crowded. She earned more than 200 yuan in that day alone. How could she care about singing on the stage? What is it?
Anyway, the Manchus wouldn't call, and the emperor sounded very wise, so her days of peace would last for a long time, she laughed at Song Haonian: "Look at you, you're still like a child!"

Song Haonian blushed slightly, scratched his head and said: "I loved this play the most when I was young, and I also wanted to be a bodyguard for the emperor, and follow his old man on the saddle. I don't want to have nothing to do later, not to mention the emperor, but the county magistrate My lord, you still look down on me."

Lily chuckled, feeling that his dream was so innocent and simple that it was so simple that it was exciting. "Now it seems that you can't do it, but your son, teach him well, I'm afraid he can catch up with the emperor's horse."

"Ah, you have it?" Song Haonian was shocked.

"..." Lily couldn't laugh or cry, "No, I just said that casually."

Song Haonian was a little disappointed by the fact that the daughter-in-law didn't have a son yet, but he quickly cheered up, "Let's try to have a son!"

(End of this chapter)