take a wife to support the family

Chapter 161 Pork Stewed Vermicelli

After more than half a month, the carpenter Li was getting better and better day by day, Mrs. Zhu couldn't sit still, and urged Li Qingsong to tell him to go back to the shop, lest he be replaced by someone else, and the owner doesn't want him in the future.

It's not that Qingsong doesn't have this concern in his heart, but for Carpenter Li, he hasn't said anything, and he looks after his parents every day, and he no longer looks childish, and looks a few years older than before.

As parents, except for a few thoughts, most of them expect their children to live well.Mrs. Zhu was partial to green pine, and Carpenter Li also felt sorry for him, so he persuaded him, "I'm getting better soon, you can go back to the shop and do some work."

Qingsong just shook his head: "The elder sister and the third sister are all women, after all, there must be men to serve them."

Wang Xiaofu said with a smile on the side: "I have me at home, I'm not a man? My boss treats you kindly, you should think about it for my boss. Although there are many boys, everyone has their own work to do, and you are missing one." It’s just a gap, if the time is too long, I’m afraid the owner will not be happy.”

"Father..."

"My sisters and I are not enough to take care of the uncle? Don't worry, the cooking will be done properly, no worse than when you were here."

When Wang Xiaofu talked about moving Qingsong, even Mrs. Zhu looked up to him: "This man really knows how to look at people."

Carpenter Li said: "Xiaofu is a sensible kid, don't always look down on him."

Two or three days later, Li Qingsong finally bid farewell to his family and went back to the store to sell fakes. Not only the people in the store, but also Xueniang and Yueniang came to ask him if his home was okay. Qingsong thanked them one by one and worked harder. They all saw it and secretly approved it.

Originally, Lily was already preparing a dowry for wintersweet these days. Some well-heeled families began to save dowry from the time their daughters were born, such as antiques, calligraphy, paintings, wood and precious stones.

The rural area is not so particular, no matter how much the family loves the girl, it will only take a year or two to get rid of it slowly, and there are not a few people like Song Xiuxiu who can buy a set of dowry in a few months.

There is not much difference between Lily and Lamei in grades, but Lily regards her as a child in her heart, because she was a teacher in her previous life, and Lamei was only a middle school girl when she first met Lamei.

Lily's act of saving the dowry for Lamei was not hidden from anyone. Yingchun came back and said angrily: "The same is the sister, the eldest sister is raising you and the daughter!"

Originally, Lily had planned very well, but when Wang Xiaofu made it clear to her parents, the two families would celebrate the same ceremony again, and finally she would be able to prepare the dowry at the final wedding date.

Unfortunately, the Li bamboo craftsman went to the mountain to cut bamboo and fell down. He spent a lot of money on the treatment. If it weren't for the tofu shop, let alone the dowry of wintersweet, even the daily expenses of the family would have to tear down the east wall to make up for the west wall. .

In the past few days, Baihe, the Li bamboo craftsman and Zhu's attitude towards Wang Xiaofu, thought to himself: With Xiaofu's intelligence, it will be a matter of time before he wins his parents. Join hands, after all, think of a way to make money.

Lily figured out her family's wealth, and it was not enough. She was so worried for a while that she didn't know what to do. She took out the money-making methods she learned from working everywhere in her previous life and tried her best, and went through her mind over and over again, and finally came up with an idea.

She had thought of this idea as early as last year when she was harvesting sweet potatoes, but she was busy and forgot about it later, when she thought about it again, Lily couldn't help looking at her forehead: "So busy and confused, I can forget such a big thing! "

Her idea is not new at all, it is to use sweet potato starch to make vermicelli.When she went to the county, she paid attention to the shops on the street. She only saw one or two handfuls of vermicelli that were not in good condition in the grocery store. She didn't know what they were made of, and no one bought them.

Lily thought to herself, if she can get the vermicelli out and promote the way of eating it, not only the people in the town can eat it, but also the business in the county, maybe she can get some points.

Although there are enough sweet potatoes at home now, it is far from enough to make vermicelli, and the current manpower around Lily is too busy, so she thought about it again and made up her mind.

As the saying goes, things go smoothly when things are slow, and Lily went to find someone to discuss business in a hurry, but took advantage of the time to ask Lamei for help, and the two sisters were thinking about how to make sweet potato vermicelli.

Try to make it yourself without using too many sweet potatoes, take a basket of well-drilled water and wash it clean, and cut off the rough parts at both ends.Next, it is best to use a powder machine for crushing, but there is no such thing these days, Lily has to chop the sweet potatoes first, and then grind them on the small stone mill at home.

The more crushed the sweet potato flour is, the better. The stone mill is slower to grind, but the flour is better. The ground slurry is first filtered with water, cleared for a day, and then filtered again with water. After a day or two, the sweet potato flour will be automatically Separated into upper and lower layers in water.

Decant the top layer of water, leaving half a pot of white powder, put it in the sun to dry.When it is half-dried in the sun, cut it into pieces with a knife, move it to the bamboo plaque and continue to dry it, so that it can be dried completely.

The dried sweet potato starch is thin and white, and Lamei thought her sister was making face powder, saying: "White is white, but this is too white, I'm afraid it won't look good."

Lily laughed: "This is not powder for wiping your face, it's for eating."

The water powder used to wipe the face is often made of glutinous rice, which is the same process as making sweet potato powder, except that the powder of glutinous rice powder is more delicate, and many whitening medicines such as Angelica dahurica are added to it.

It’s not that Lily never thought of making some rouge powder for sale, but later she figured out that there are people in the town who have such an idea, and not many people are willing to buy her rouge powder, and the quality may not be as good as Wang Xiaofu and the others brought from the county. It is more cost-effective to cook and eat.

When the sweet potato powder is all dried, take a lump, melt it in cold water in a basin, and then wash it with boiling water just boiled. The powder paste becomes sticky when it sees boiling water, and it is whipped while pouring boiling water, and finally it is made A pot of sticky gorgon paste.

After this step, Lily laughed: It’s okay if you can’t make sweet potato vermicelli, but it’s also good if you can make gravy paste, and you can thicken it when you cook later.

Then add dry sweet potato powder into the gorgon paste, and knead it little by little with the dough kneading technique to form a soft dough, which is not sticky when held in the hand.

The bottom is the leaking vermicelli, because at home, it is most convenient to use a colander to drain the vermicelli. How do you know that this step is the most prone to mistakes, either leaking intermittently, or sticking so that it cannot leak out.

The two sisters wasted two pots of sweet potato flour before they figured out what kind of dough should be kneaded, and it must be drained while it is hot, even if it is slightly cooler.

Both Lily and Lamei had their hands red from the heat, Zhu could not help but say, "You two prodigals, how can such a good thing be used for pranks!"

Lamei didn't even lift her eyelids, her elder sister was clever, mother didn't understand these things.

Lily laughed and said: "You never know, if this thing is made, our third girl will have a dowry. We are not wasting things."

Mrs. Zhu curled her lips: "Why do you want those dowries? You might as well leave them to me."

She was used to saying this, and she couldn't change it for a while, the two sisters didn't bother to care about it, they just said: "Mother, make room, don't block the way."

Mrs. Zhu came to the kitchen to see what the two of them were doing. Seeing that the two daughters were sweating profusely, they didn't even bother to talk to her. Feeling left out, she waved her hands and walked out: "I'm going outside to find someone to talk to. go."

She was in Liushan Village in the past few decades, but she never saw so many people and so many new things in the town. Now, apart from serving Carpenter Li, she just runs out every day, carrying a bag of pumpkin seeds to find people to talk to in the streets and alleys, as long as she If you don't make trouble, Lily doesn't care about her.

Lily over there tried many times, and finally succeeded in leaking a handful of vermicelli. When the leak reached a certain length, the winter plum was caught with a finger-thick, one-and-a-half-foot-long wooden stick, cut it off and put it in the bamboo plaque, and then leaked another handful.

By this time, Lily was so tired that her arms were sore, but she couldn't help but smile when she saw the crystal clear fans.

After all, a lot of sweet potato powder was cleaned up, and in the end, only four sticks of vermicelli were leaked out. Lamei took the vermicelli to the yard to dry, so that they could be shaped and dried as soon as possible.

When Mrs. Zhu came back in the afternoon, he saw a few sticks of vermicelli drying in the yard. He walked over curiously to touch them, and exclaimed, "It's so hard, can this be eaten? I told you to stop tossing and tossing less, but you didn't listen. Now Well, those good sweet potatoes are all in vain!"

Lamei was also nervous, she didn't lose her composure like Zhu's all because of her confidence in Lily. Lily saw that the vermicelli was no different from what she had seen in her previous life, so she was happy: "What's the matter? Know the benefits of this thing."

Mrs. Zhu wants to enjoy the blessings of her daughter, so she refuses to cook, and the two sisters don't expect her to cook.

Lily asked Lamei to go to the pork shop and weigh a catty of pork belly. The skin was still hairy, and she put it on the stove and scorched it with fire, scraped and cleaned the skin, and cut it into half-palm-sized slices.

Take a handful of sun-dried vermicelli and soak them in warm water. The vermicelli becomes soft shortly after entering the water. Lamei felt relieved at this time: "It was just as hard as before. I was afraid that it would come out of my stomach after eating."

Lily laughed "puchi": "It's so hard, how can you eat it?"

Without further ado, blanch the cut pork in boiling water to skim off the blood foam.In addition, use a little clear oil to heat up, stir-fry the onion and ginger, put some bean paste into it and fry until fragrant, then pour in the pork belly slices, add a spoonful of autumn oil and half a spoonful of sugar.

Stir-fry until the meat slices are all browned, add two drops of rice wine to remove the fishy smell, add half a pot of water, and bring to a boil.

At this time, the vermicelli is soaked, cut into two to three pieces with scissors, put it in the pot and boil for a while, then put the chopped cabbage leaves in it.

The final product has a rich sauce color, meaty and vegetable aromas, and it is frighteningly fragrant when paired with a bowl of mixed rice.

Carpenter Li's little problem called Ju Ma Tofu Soup was cured, and his appetite improved again. After eating more than a bowl, he said: "The vermicelli made by Da Niu is fragrant and soft. It's really delicious."

Zhu said: "This idea of ​​vermicelli requires a basket of sweet potatoes to make it. No matter how thick the family background is, how can it withstand such washing?"

"Mom, you only said it was delicious or not?"

Mrs. Zhu didn't speak, because she didn't want to make this disobedient girl proud, so she didn't stop for a moment, and put two chopsticks of vermicelli into her own bowl, eating very fast Xilihulu.

(End of this chapter)