The happy little days of the Ye family

Before coming back, Mrs. Ye bought buns and steamed buns at the market. Everyone on the donkey cart ate the buns in silence.

Everyone was silent and the atmosphere was a bit dull.

Mother Ye suddenly said: "I will go back to my parents' house and my mother will improve the recipe for braised pork, and then study whether there are other ingredients that can be used to make braised meat to make some variations."

Mr. Ye let out a long sigh, "Luohe Town is just a small town, with only these people. There are two braised pork stalls, but the business is not getting better no matter what."

"The town is still too small. In fact, it would be better to go to the county to sell braised pork and set up stalls, but the distance is quite far and you have to get up in the middle of the night."

Father Ye actually wanted to set up a stall in the county. There was no point in fighting over one-third of an acre of land in the town.

Mrs. Ye felt sorry for her son and disapproved, "The county is too far away. Once or twice is fine, but if your body can't bear it for a long time."

The county is too far away, and Mr. Ye doesn't agree to go to the county to set up a stall. "Your mother is right, if you break your body, the gain will outweigh the loss. Let's slowly think of a way."

As soon as she returned home, Ye's mother hurried back to her parents' home to find Grandma Ye. Mrs. Ye also took Ye Qingqing back to the house to study new hair accessories styles.

At this time, there was a loud sound of pigs squealing in the backyard. Mr. Ye hurried to the backyard and found that it was already past the feeding time and 6 big fat pigs were howling with hunger.

Mr. Ye quickly ran to the kitchen to cook pig food.

Put the cut sweet potatoes, oil residue and pigweed that were dried in advance last year into a special large iron pot, and bring to a boil over high heat.

When they were little piglets, this large pot of pig food was enough for them to eat for a day. Now they have to cook two pots a day. If they didn't add bean dregs and feed them together, pig grass and sweet potatoes alone would not be enough to eat.

These six pigs have been raised for half a year. The pigs eat well and grow quickly. They weigh 150 or 160 kilograms in six months. They can be put out for slaughter one month before the summer harvest. At that time, they are estimated to weigh 220 or 230 kilograms.

These six big fat pigs were given to Butcher Zhang in the twelfth lunar month of last year. Butcher Zhang was very attached to these six pigs and would come to Ye's house every few days to see his big fat pigs.

Father Ye also laughed at him, "Those who don't know better would think that you have a sweetheart in my house who runs to our house every two days."

Butcher Zhang said nervously: "Don't say this nonsense, but if others hear it, I won't be able to wash it off even if I jump into the Yellow River."

Butcher Zhang was burly and fierce-looking, but he didn't expect to marry a delicate and beautiful wife. Butcher Zhang was not afraid of being beaten, but he was afraid of his wife being angry.

Many men in the village joked that Butcher Zhang was afraid of his wife, but most of the women in the village envied Butcher Zhang's wife.

Today, I went to the town to set up a stall before dawn. Before I had time to clean the pigsty, the smell in the pigsty was a bit strong. Father Ye immediately took Ye Donglin to clean the pigsty.

The floor of the pigsty was specially designed by Mr. Ye back then. The ground was slightly sloping. A ditch for excrement water was dug at the lowest part, and the ground was paved with stone slabs.

Even the cheapest and lowest-grade slate was talked about in the village for a while. Even Mrs. Ye rarely went out during that time.

However, since the floor is paved, it does save a lot of effort in cleaning it every day.

Father Ye entered the pig pen with tools, used the tools to put large pieces of pig manure into a basket, and then carried it out with Ye Donglin and poured it into the manure pit.

The pool next to the pig pen had long been filled with water. The father and son fetched water with buckets and poured the water down from the ground on the higher side, flushing the dirt on the ground into the ditch at the bottom.

The father and son will soon clean the pig pen, and Mr. Ye's pig food will be ready soon.

The old man took out the unfinished firewood, leaving only some red-hot charcoal in the stove.

Then he turned around and took out seven sweet potatoes of about the same size from the basket on the side, threw them into the stove, and then buried the sweet potatoes in the red-hot charcoal.

At this time, the pig food was finally cooked. Mr. Ye brought two buckets over, filled the pig food and carried it to the backyard.

When Mr. Ye came to the backyard, he saw that the pig pen had been cleaned. The pig food was still very hot at this time. Mr. Ye put the bucket in the pool and soaked it, which could quickly cool down the pig food.

After Mr. Ye fed the pigs, he went to the kitchen. Before he even got close to the stove, he smelled the sweet and fragrant roasted sweet potatoes.

Mr. Ye dug out the roasted sweet potato and gently shook off the vegetation ash on the surface. The skin of the sweet potato was slightly burnt, but the soft, glutinous and sweet sweet potato meat inside was roasted just right.

When Mr. Ye came to the front yard with roasted sweet potatoes, he saw that Ye's father and Ye Donglin had chopped a lot of firewood. In the past, they had to cook braised pork in every big episode, so the firewood at home was used up very quickly.

Lin Donglin went to ask Mrs. Ye and Ye Qingqing to come out to eat roasted sweet potatoes. Ye's father took Ye Mu and Ye Xilin's sweet potatoes back to the kitchen and placed them at the mouth of the stove to warm them with the remaining warmth of the charcoal.

When the two of them come back, they can eat hot and fragrant roasted sweet potatoes.

Several people ate delicious roasted sweet potatoes, talked and laughed, and the anxiety in their hearts was taken away.

But Ye's mother at her parents' home was not so happy.

Grandma Ye was a little worried after hearing what happened at the market. Although her food was good, it was just ordinary home-cooked food.

The braised pork made by Ye Mu is just home-style braised pork. Although it is delicious, it is not amazing.

Moreover, the recipe for braised pork is also simple, and even those who are good at it can learn everything from just one bite.

Ye Mu: "Since others can improve the recipe for braised pork, we can also improve the recipe. In addition, I also want to see if there are other ingredients that can be used to make braised meat in some ways."

Grandma Ye: "Improving the prescription is not something that can be done in a day or two. You can go to the drug store to buy more spices and try them back. In addition, the ratio of spices can also be changed."

"We usually braise pork heads, pig offal, dried bamboo shoots and dried tofu. After a long time, we will get tired of them. Mom, do you think there is anything else we can braise?"

Grandma Ye thought of the ducks raised by the Ye family, "Don't you have ducks at home? You can also braise ducks, and you can also braise yuba and tofu skin."

Mother Ye was a little reluctant to part with the duck at home, "We still have the duck at home to lay duck eggs. This duck usually eats snails and small fish in the stream. It lays eggs diligently and the duck eggs it lays are also big. They are used to make salted duck eggs." That couldn’t be better.”

Grandma Ye poked Mother Ye's forehead and rolled her eyes, "You are still greedy at such an old age, even more greedy than when you were little."

The mother and daughter murmured in the room all afternoon, but in the end they did not come up with a charter.

It started to rain that night, not heavily but it continued for 3 days.

As soon as the rain stopped, Father Ye went to the small back mountain.

After the spring rain, many fat and tender wild vegetables sprouted on the mountains, and the well-fed Chinese toon trees also sprouted many buds. After about two days of growth, you can go up the mountain to dig wild vegetables and pick toon.

After being nourished by the spring rain, many spring bamboo shoots appeared in the bamboo forest, as well as some bamboo fungus, and there were also many mushrooms hidden under the fallen leaves.

You can come here tomorrow to pick bamboo shoots and mushrooms.