Otherworldly Days

Chapter 217 1 Family

In the afternoon, everyone went over there to continue working, peeled the skin, and added seasoning to the minced meat. Cao Xiangnan was responsible for this step. He put oil, salt, white wine and spices into the meat, mixed it well and adjusted it. Just pour the meat into the casing, and it can be made into a sausage.

"...Tie a knot here, put the casing into the bamboo, and then pour the meat in from here." Cao Xiangnan explained to the people next to him while he was doing it, and then he could leave it to others to do it.

"Oh, I understand." Chen Hong looked at it carefully and replied.

After the meat in the front has been processed, several people in the back come over and pour the meat into the casing, tie a knot, tie it up with a straw rope, hang it on a bamboo pole, and put it in a cool and ventilated place to dry. It can be a sausage.

As for the bacon, after it is cut into strips and sprinkled with salt, after drying, it is put into the seasoning to marinate. The marinating time will be longer, and it must be turned during the period to make the meat marinate more evenly, and then the taste will be better. .This bacon needs to be marinated again after it is air-dried, and then it is hung up and waited to be air-dried.

These jobs are detailed, there are many steps and complicated procedures for making cured meat. No one has done this before. Cao Xiangnan must follow every step in place and explain to everyone one by one.He himself is responsible for putting the seasoning and controlling the taste, and he teaches the people around him to do the rest as much as possible.

There was no sunshine on this day, the north wind was blowing, the weather was dry and cold, and the air didn't have much moisture. This kind of weather was suitable for making bacon.These bacons are faster to dry in the sun, and the taste will be better if they are air-dried.

The meat marinated with white wine and spices is made into bacon, which is not a problem to eat all year round, and it can be added as a dish for this cold winter.These cured meats have their own taste, and they can be eaten after frying. The method is very simple.

Cao Xiangnan has already figured it out, Yipinzhai is good for making rice in bamboo tubes, put a few slices of meat on it, and make some special dishes with sausage and bacon.If you eat at home, you don’t need to be so meticulous. Cut the sausage and put it on top of the rice. He can eat two bowls of rice even without vegetables. Before winter comes, they have to prepare all the food first. Worried about not having enough food.It would be best within ten days or so, when he would finish all the bacon here and send it to Yipinzhai, and rush to sell the bacon in the town if he wanted to sell it.

Before the sun went down, they processed all the meat of a pig, faster than Cao Xiangnan expected. After finishing the work, everyone can go home.However, he has to handle the bacon in the back by himself, turn it over again later, hang it up to dry later, and marinate it again tomorrow.

"Aunt Sun, Aunt Sun, you should stay and eat at my house, so that you don't have to go back to cook." Cao Xiangnan knew that Sun Bailian's two elder brothers had married and moved to other villages. The two of them needed to cook when they went back, so he asked them to stay for dinner.

"Yeah, Mommy, stay here for dinner, and I'll ask Ah Gang to take you back after dinner." Sun Bailian also said.

"This..." Sun Amu didn't really want to stay.

"Let's stay here." Now that the child has spoken, Father Sun wanted to refuse when his wife spoke, so he said hastily.

"En." Sun Amu nodded reluctantly.

In fact, he didn't really want to stay at Cao's Silang's place to eat. He came here to know that his brother's house basically didn't open fire, and he ate here.He thought that he had to talk about his brother later, and he had to go back to his own house to start a fire. What's the matter with eating at other people's houses all day long.

Cao Zhilan and Cao Qingzhu are going to go back, and their family is still waiting for them to go back.Cao Qingzhu still has to rush home to cook. Before he came here to work, he told his mother to make dinner, but he didn't know if he had done it. He was worried in his heart, and he had to rush back to rest .

"Hey, wait a minute, there is a lot of meat cooked at home, both of you take a bowl home." Seeing that Cao Zhilan and Cao Qingzhu were about to leave, Cao Xiangnan had already asked Qi Wanfeng to fill a bowl of pork head meat with each of them in a basket And a bowl of pig red for them to take home.

Cao Ada is the one who butchers pigs. Naturally, there is no shortage of meat, but it is also boiled meat. Others don't have his recipe for cooking meat, and the meat he cooks is naturally not as delicious as his.As for Cao Qingzhu, Cao Xiangnan also learned about the situation of Cao Qingzhu's family from Chen Hong, and it was not a good one, otherwise this person would not be so thin, and he was completely hungry.

After a whole day, Cao Xiangnan saw that Cao Zhilan and Cao Qingzhu were both doing a good job.Not to mention Cao Zhilan, who followed his father since she was a child and saw his father slaughtering pigs. This meat-cutting skill is really perfect.

Although Cao Qingzhu is thin and small, he has great strength, and he does not hesitate to work. He does whatever he tells him to do. After teaching him once, he knows how to do it. It looks like he usually works frequently Live and be careful.

"Oh, how embarrassing it is." Cao Zhilan smelled this smell, even though she said so, she stretched out her hand.He took one for himself, took the other small basket, and handed it to his friend.

Cao Qingzhu took it in a daze, it's not good to take it after eating it, isn't it?

"Come on, here is the money for your work today. Take it. If you do a good job, there will be more money later, but you have to work hard. Go back and remember to bring the basket back to me tomorrow." Cao Xiangnan also paid the wages. Pay them a settlement, so as not to have to calculate it later, it is better to pay a day's money for a day, he is almost becoming an accountant now.

This month is approaching the end of the month, and at the beginning of next month he will start counting the accounts and pay everyone wages.

"Definitely. Then Qingzhu and I will leave. Thank you, Brother Silang, for the meat. We will bring you back the basket tomorrow." Cao Zhilan grinned and almost lost her eyesight. His favorite food is Cao Silang's here If the meat is gone, he knows how to boil it in clean water and add some salt, it is not as delicious as what Cao Silang cooks here.

"...Thank you, thank you." The skinny brother also said.

Seeing that Cao Zhilan led the people away, Cao Xiangnan looked away.He could see that Cao Qingzhu is a character who endures hardships and stands hard work. It is not easy for a little brother to support a family. If he can get him to work with him in the future, he will also be a good worker. The person in his hand now They were all separated out one by one. Wang Dahu and the rough men really couldn't do the fine work. Some jobs still need to be done by brothers. Cao Zhilan and Cao Qingzhu are pretty good.

The two of them went back to the village. Cao Qingzhu returned home and put the basket he brought back on the kitchen table. When he came back, he didn't see Eminem. The kitchen was still cold, and he didn't even cook dinner.

The mud house he lived in was built when his father was alive. There were three rooms. His mother lived in the largest one, his two younger brothers lived in one, and he lived in the remaining one.I didn't see Eminem in the kitchen, so Cao Qingzhu went to Eminem's room, knocked on the door, and after hearing the response from inside, he opened the door and went in, shouting, "Eminem."

"But dinner is ready?" The room was dark and there was no light, and the person lying on the other side of the bed made a sound, as if he had just woken up.

"...It's coming soon, Eminem, you can eat after a while." Presumably, Eminem forgot what he told him yesterday that he was going to work at Cao Silang's today, Cao Qingzhu's expression was a little bit Sadly.

After coming out of Eminem's room, he went to the kitchen to cook.

The two elder brothers followed the group to build roads and came back before dark. On the table were boiled brown rice, a boiled wild vegetable, a bowl of pork head and a bowl of pork red.Seeing meat on the table, his two brothers were very happy.

"I'm going to work at Cao Silang's place today, and he gave it to me." A Mu asked where the meat came from, and Cao Qingzhu replied.

Otherwise, there would be only a bowl of boiled vegetables for dinner at home, and there would be no meat on the dinner table except during Chinese New Year and holidays.

His mother was very happy to hear that he was going to work with Cao Silang, as if he only knew about it after a while.When asked how much he worked a day, Cao Qingzhu didn't hide his words, so he told the truth.

"That's so much. Your elder brother and second brother go to work for a day, and they only get [-] big money a day. You can get [-] big money a day by yourself, and you bring back two bowls of meat. If you ask him where is the money?" If you want someone, I will bring your younger brother back with you."

"Yeah, go and ask Cao Silang if there are any people there. Erbao and I will go there together. Now it's ten big money to work hard every day. If you go to work for one day, it's worth three days for me. .”

"Yes, yes, Qingzhu, go and ask, our road construction is almost finished, and Dabao and I will be out of work by then." In comparison, the twenty big money is less than a day Not much, they seem to have forgotten that in the past, it was twenty big money a day, and they were all very happy. After a month, it was worth their income for a year.

"This..." Cao Qingzhu was in a dilemma. He was brought by Zhilan. How could he come back and bring the two younger brothers there? Ask, if Cao Silang still needs people, I will call the two elder brothers to come over."

"Okay, okay, I want all of you to go, one day will be... When the family saves enough money, we will build two more houses. By then, no one will think that our family is poor, so we will build a house Let Dabao and Erbao look after each other, and Dabao and Erbao are old enough to marry a wife..."

Hearing Ah Mu's words, Cao Qingzhu ate with his head down. The food in his mouth was a little hard to swallow. His mother seemed to have forgotten that he was the biggest in the family. If he didn't look for someone else, no one would really want him. up.

After everyone had eaten, it was getting dark, and Sun Bailian didn't call Liu's father and mother to sit with him, so she and Fu Lang sent her father and mother out of the house, and asked Fu Lang to send her father and mother Go inside the village.

Sun Amu went out, but turned back to her brother and said, "Don't always go to other people's houses to eat in the future. You have a pot and a stove at home. Why don't you start a fire at home? It's good to eat once or twice. If you go If others eat too much, they will be gossiped." Sun Bailian paused, and he rarely cooks at his own home, but he understood what his mother meant, and said with a smile, "No way. , There is a lot of work here in the south, Ah Gang and I work here, and the children are also here from morning to night, so we eat here, so we don’t have to go home and cook again.”

"Em, don't worry, it's okay, when the weather gets colder and there's less work here, we'll go back to our house and start fire."

"Well, do it yourself." Hearing what his brother said, Aunt Sun felt relieved, "Then I'll go back with your father." He said.

"Agang, you take Mom and Dad back, be careful on the way." Sun Bailian said to her husband.

Cao Gang nodded and led the elders back to the village.

Seeing the person who left, Sun Bailian showed a little smile on her face, still very happy for his mother's concern for him.

It's true that since Wanfeng moved here, he seldom cooks at home, and eats most of his three meals a day here.In addition to going back to his own house to eat during the time when the house was built, it was also because the people who knew how to work ate at his house. After eating, I went back with my husband and son, "I was wondering why, didn't all the rice from your family have been sent to me?" After listening to Sun Bailian's words, Qi Wanfeng couldn't help laughing, and asked.

"Haha, that's true." Sun Bailian almost sent all the grain harvested this year to Qi Wanfeng. If Qi Wanfeng hadn't mentioned that his family wanted to save some grain for the winter, he would have sent it here. Half of it was bought, and half of it was moved over.

Someone came from the back of the house. His husband was afraid that there would not be enough food for the winter, so he bought some more food later.

"Okay, the family doesn't speak the same language, it's just a matter of having a meal, I'm glad you come every day, how can I do so much work by myself?" Qi Wanfeng pointed at his puffed stomach , He is about to give birth now, and he is tired from standing for a long time, and sitting for a long time, and he really can't do so much without someone to help him with the work.

I don't know if she is spoiled by her husband now, her life is getting better and her body is becoming more and more delicate.

Fulang's work also requires everyone to do it. Since everyone works here, there is nothing wrong with eating here.If Sun Bailian hadn't helped him back then, where would his family be today?And today, how can we do without everyone's help?Qi Wanfeng still understood this point.

The two chatted for a while, and Sun Bailian was about to take the two children home, the two children needed to take a bath and go to bed, and there was still work to be done at home.

"I'll take the kids back first."

"okay."

After sending people into the village, Cao Gang went back home. Knowing that Cao Xiangnan was still busy there, he informed his family and went to help with work again.

When the road outside was dark, he took a few people back to his house.