Mrs. Li just threw the pig's head flying, and when she was still in shock, she suddenly felt a long object fall on her shoulder, and her head was also hit by something soft, and fell into her arms again. Immediately, a stench, similar to that of cleaning the pigsty, entered her nostrils.
Seeing what was in her bosom clearly, she jumped up high as if her feet had been scalded, screaming like a pig butcher, shaking Fang Shi who kept persuading her, her ears roared, repeatedly back off.
"Damn it, damn it!! I'm your eldest aunt, and you hit me with these dirty things! Do you still have respect in your eyes? You can treat me like this, and you can treat your grandma like this next time!! I want the whole village to know how the Liu family teaches children!!"
Mrs. Li looked down at the stained clothes, and there was a smell of pig feces on her body, nausea, and she almost fainted.
Xiaocao looked at her with a smile, and said, "Auntie, why didn't I respect you? You said you wanted to see what's in our basket. I'm afraid that your eyesight won't look good when you're old, so I 'sent' it to you. In front of you, let you take a good look—now that you have seen it, would you still say that it was Grandpa who subsidized us?"
Without allowing Mrs. Li to answer, Xiaocao raised her voice again and said, "Auntie! You are right about one thing, our family really can't get rid of it! Today I took my brother to the pier to see what is going on in the market over there. , Can you pick up some vegetable leaves that others don't want, or other things that can be eaten.
Uncle Wang, the butcher, saw that we were pitiful, and gave us a pig's head. These pork belly and pig intestines were picked up by me and Xiao Shitou, to see if we can eat them after washing them. As long as you can't die if you eat it, it's better to stink than starve to death, right
Our family is here? The eldest aunt also said that grandpa subsidizes us? Are you trying to kill our family? Did our family all starve to death and freeze to death, just taking advantage of your wishes? "
Mao's impression of Xiaocao's family is not bad because he got a few steamed buns from Xiaocao last time. She said bluntly at the side:
"Sister-in-law forced the younger brother and sister's family to death. This is really the first case in our Dongshan Village! Mrs. Li, if this is the case, you will be famous! Tsk tsk tsk... look, how hungry the children are, so dirty Pick up everything and eat it!"
Li's face changed, her son was going to marry her in two years, if she found out that she forced her brother's family to death, who would dare to marry their daughter.
She moved her mouth, just about to say something. Mrs. Fang, who was trying to persuade her with good words, stared at her a few times as if she was looking at an enemy, hugged the little stone in her arms distressedly, wiped her tears and said: "Poor child, those things are not edible, throw them away quickly." Let's go. If you really can't get rid of the pot, Auntie will lend you a few catties of food."
Yu Hai's nose was sore, and complicated feelings came to his heart. He raised his head, let the tears in his eyes dissipate slowly, glanced at Li Shi, and said:
"Sister-in-law, I can swear to God that I never asked my parents for money, and my father never subsidized us secretly! When we separated, I said that no matter how poor or difficult, even if you go out to beg, you will not Ask the family for a penny! You have seen the things in the basket, please go back if you have nothing to do!!"
Li Shi was ashamed of making a fuss, shook off the handkerchief in her hand, and slipped back in disgrace to find Er Leng's wife to settle the score.
There were no secrets at all in the small fishing village. It didn't take long for the news that Yu Hai's family was so hungry that they even took home food that stinks like pig manure spread in Dongshan Village.
Yu Hai's uncle, Yu Lichun, got angry with the Yu family, and scolded old Yu head like a dog: "This mother is a stepmother, so is your father a fake? After all, the sea is also your flesh and blood. You want their whole family Is it human life? If so, I dare not recognize you as a younger brother!!"
With a gloomy face, Lao Yu immediately called Mrs. Li over and scolded him, and asked his younger daughter to bring ten catties of millet flour and ten catties of potato flour to the second family.
Naturally, Yu Hai didn't accept it, and he had already spoken out what he didn't care about at home, and he wasn't in a desperate situation, so he wouldn't let anyone have a chance to talk. Even though Old Yu went there in person, he still didn't want to let go.
Let's say that after Yu Xiaocao scared Mrs. Li away with pig's head and stinky large intestine, she immediately started packing up the things she brought back and prepared to make braised vegetables.
"Uh... Xiaocao, are you sure this thing can be eaten? Don't waste your time and seasoning!" The rest of Xiaocao's family have long been familiar with her skill of turning decay into magic, but Fang's is enthusiastic. to remind her.
Mrs. Mao even brought the wild vegetables dug up today from his own house, and a spoonful of sweet potato powder, and said: "Don't mess with those things, listen to my aunt, throw them away quickly? If you don't have anything to eat in the future, come to my house." Go borrow it, wait for the sweet potatoes to come down, and then return it to us! Who can not be in trouble? Throw it away, throw it away!"
As he said that, Mrs. Mao enthusiastically snatched the pork belly from Xiaocao's hand, and was about to throw it outside the house.
Xiaocao sweated profusely! This is the way she finally came up with to make money. If she throws it away, where will she get the penny meat and vegetables promised tomorrow
Seeing his second daughter scratching her ears and cheeks anxiously, Yu Hai hurriedly limped forward, took the pork belly from Mrs. Mao, and said with a smile, "Auntie, our family has not reached the point where we can't open the pot. Thank you for your kindness." , this pork belly grass was found to be useful, it is a folk remedy I heard from people, it can cure my legs... "
Mrs. Mao glanced at his leg, and suddenly said: "Oh! So it is used to cure your leg... No wonder, if it can really cure your leg, no matter how smelly it is, you will have to bear it! Okay, I will take the potato flour back. Save the wild vegetables for cooking soup at night—Xiaocao, if you dig wild vegetables tomorrow, come with me, I know there are a lot of shepherd's purses like this in one place!"
Xiaocao agreed, and sent away the cold-faced and warm-hearted Mao Shi, but Fang stayed behind: "Xiaocao, your mother is not here, how do you clean up these things, I will help you!"
Seeing that she couldn't refuse, Xiaocao flushed out the contents of the pig's intestines, cut them into sections, turned them over, and asked her to rub vigorously with coarse salt to clean off the grease on the inner wall of the intestines. Fang didn't think it was dirty, so she rolled up her sleeves and got busy.
Yu Xiaocao taught Xiao Lian how to deal with the pig's belly, and focused on getting the pig's head. The pig's head should be soaked in clean water for an hour to clean the dirt and residual hair on the surface, boil a pot of boiling water for about a quarter of an hour, remove it, check again whether there is any residual pig hair, and scrub the surface vigorously with a brush .
Yu Hai volunteered to do the job of scrubbing the pig's head. Before his leg was injured, people in the village would ask him to help butcher pigs. On the one hand, he has great strength, and on the other hand, he has learned some pig-killing skills without a teacher, and he is very good at handling pig hair. Yu Xiaocao saw that he was no worse than herself, so she gave it to him with confidence.
After cleaning the pig's head, it was naturally Yu Hai's job to split and remove the pig's brain. Xiaocao instructed him to cut off earrings, corners of eyes, lymph nodes, nasal polyps and other sundries, put the brains out, put them in a bowl, and prepare them to be stewed for the whole family in the evening!
Yu Hai skillfully removed the bones from the pig's head, and divided them into five or six pieces, put them in clean water, scraped and washed them repeatedly, to remove all debris and blood, and prevent the marinated pig's head from having any peculiar smell.
Then Xiaocao took over, put the cleaned pig's head into boiling water for about 20 minutes, took it out and cleaned it again. Then put the blanched and washed pork head meat into a pot of clean water and boil together with the removed skull, skim off the foam, and cook until it is half-ripe. Then put it into the marinade that was boiled yesterday, and start to simmer until the pork head meat is crispy, and the pig head meat is still in the marinade to make it more flavorful.
As the pork head meat is slowly cooked, the rich aroma of meat gradually wafts from the yard. Even Qian's house, two hundred meters away, is enveloped in the smell of braised pig's head. Qian Wu, who was brushing sticks in the yard, sniffed hard, swallowed, and said, "It smells so good! Mom, do you smell it? It's not a festival, who's stewing meat at this time?"
The Mao family also smelled it. Thinking about the two or three families around, except for Zhao Hunter at the foot of the mountain, who is good at hunting and can often eat meat, it is the Fang family that doesn't deal with her very much. Could it be that the guests at her house killed chickens for entertaining? Isn't it right? Doesn't it smell like chicken? As for Xiaocao's family, she skipped it directly. They are so poor that they can't even eat enough. How can they have spare money to buy meat
"Greedy cat! When your elder brother comes back from Xiumu next time, mother will buy you stewed meat for you to eat! Where are you going? Be honest with me, don't embarrass me and come to Zhou's house!" It is estimated that it is difficult to come here, so the smell of meat can only come from that place.
In fact, the Mao family and the Zhou family did not have any major conflicts. One family raises ducks and the other raises chickens. The Qian family's ducks and duck eggs do not sell as well as the Zhou family's. In addition, the Zhou family's men make a lot of money by running shoppers during the slack season. Mao's mind is a little unbalanced. Her mouth is not very pleasant to speak, and after a few times, the relationship between the two families has become estranged.
Qian Wu threw away the stick in his hand, ran out of the house, and said, "I'm not going to Brother Shaohua's house, I'm going to find Xiaoshitou to play with!"
When Qian Wu arrived at the door of Xiaocao's house, he found that the smell of meat was stronger. Even when his mother made braised pork during the Chinese New Year, it didn't have such a mouth-watering aroma. He sniffed hard and stepped into the gate of Yu's house.
"Little Stone, do you smell it? It smells so good!!" Qian Wu yelled as soon as he entered the door.
Little Shitou ran out of the kitchen and said with a smile: "Brother Wu, your nose is quite long! You came here just as the pork head was marinated. Come, come, come! Let the second sister cut a piece of warm meat Huge stewed pork head meat, I'll satisfy your cravings!"
"Wow! It turns out that the smell of meat comes from your house!! What a good day today, how can your family be willing to eat meat?" Qian Wu's mouth almost dripped onto the lapel of his chest, and he wiped it with the back of his hand. Wipe, but the footsteps did not move.