The happy little days of the Ye family

After eating the roasted chicken, Mother Ye roasted the hare.

Although this oven is a bit ugly, it can be packed inside. Two hares weighing more than six pounds were put in it.

After the barbecue was heated up, Ye Mu brought out the mung bean porridge that had been cooled. Today's dinner will be barbecue and mung bean porridge.

It’s easy to get tired of eating barbecue alone, so it’s just right when paired with mung bean porridge, and it can also reduce heat.

Ye Qingqing served everyone a bowl of mung bean soup, and also filled the bowls of Dahuang and Xiaohuang with a large bowl.

Dahuang and Xiaohuang waggled their big tails, ran over, and ate mung bean porridge with big mouthfuls.

Rhubarb and Xiaohuang are not picky eaters and will eat whatever they are given. When they were young, they often went to the pig pen to steal pig food.

When roasting the rabbit, you also turn it over every half a quarter of an hour, but the rabbit is larger and roasts for nearly two quarters of an hour.

The rabbit was roasted for too long, and the meat was a little old. Moreover, the rabbit meat itself was a bit woody, so it didn't taste as good as roasted chicken.

Although the taste was average, the two rabbits were still completely eaten, and even the bones were chewed clean by rhubarb and small yellow.

After eating barbecue, everyone continued to sit in the yard to enjoy the cool air.

Father Ye has been setting up a stall on the pier for a long time. Although there are many varieties at the stall, you will always get tired of it if you eat too much.

Father Ye now thinks about new dishes every day, so much that his hair is almost turning gray.

Father Ye looked at the oven and muttered: "The roast rabbit tastes average and the meat is old, but the roast chicken still tastes good. Is there any way to get it on the dock and sell it?"

Ye Mu is not optimistic, "This roast chicken needs to be hot to taste. It will not taste good if it is cooled on the dock."

Ye Qingqing, who participated in the whole process of making roasted chicken today, also mentioned, "This roasted chicken needs to be marinated in advance and the charcoal fire needs to be prepared in advance. It takes a lot of effort. I don't have time to prepare it in the morning."

"What about moving the oven directly to the dock?" Ye Xilin suggested while drinking mung bean porridge:

Mother Ye shook her head, "That's even worse. If you move to the dock to roast it, everyone will know. How do you cook this roast chicken?"

"Believe it or not, within three days, there were many stalls selling roast chicken on the pier."

Tang Xiaojing also said: "Unlike pork, pheasants can be bought every day. There is no way to catch pheasants every day."

Father Ye thought about the chickens in the chicken pen in the backyard, "The chickens can be chickens raised at home, not necessarily pheasants."

"Roasted chicken needs to be freshly roasted to be delicious. You can't make roasted chicken freshly at the dock." Mr. Ye pointed out the most difficult point.

Father Ye was immediately discouraged.

Ye Mu came up with an idea: "Chicken is relatively common and not rare. I think we can try making braised rabbit."

"Rabbit meat is firmer and has less fat. It tastes more woody and doesn't taste good when grilled. You can try braised meat. Anyway, there are ready-made braised soups at home."

Father Ye thought this was a good idea and said with a smile: "I heard before that businessmen in Shu like to eat spicy rabbit heads."

"Why don't we use spicy duck marinade to marinate this rabbit? It has a stronger taste, just enough to suppress the fishy smell of rabbit meat."

Mother Ye smiled and said, "There are no rabbits at home. I will braise two rabbits tomorrow, one with spicy flavor and one with plain flavor. Let's have a taste."

When Mr. Ye came back from Xiaohoushan the next day, he brought four fat rabbits back.

Many of the family's long-term workers are skilled hunters, and catching a few rabbits is a piece of cake.

After lunch, Ye Mu killed two rabbits, both of which were quite fat. One was over six pounds and the other was seven pounds.

Before stewing the rabbit, Ye Mu first separated the 4 rabbit legs and heads, so that the stewing would be more delicious.

Ye Mu brought out two pots of old marinade, one pot was spicy and the other pot was original.

Ye Qingqing lit the fire and brought the marinade to a boil. Then Ye Mu put the two rabbits into the two brine pots.

The rabbit meat was tumbling in the marinade, and the smell of the meat was getting stronger and stronger. Fortunately, Rhubarb and Xiaohuang were taken up the mountain by Tang Xiaojing, otherwise they would have howled.

The rabbit meat leaf mother was first stewed over medium heat for an hour, then the remaining firewood was taken out, and the remaining charcoal was used to continue simmering.

By the time we had dinner, the braised rabbit was even marinated in flavor.

Ye Mu divided the braised rabbit into two plates, one with original flavor and one with spicy flavor.

Ye Qingqing likes to eat spicy food, so he ate spicy food. Sichuan peppercorns and dogwood suppressed the original fishy smell of rabbit, making it taste particularly fragrant.

Mother Ye, Ye Qingqing, and the Tang family's father and son, who can eat spicy food, especially like it, but everyone else thinks it's too spicy.

Ye Xilin couldn't eat spicy food the most. Even after rinsing it in water, he still felt it was so spicy that he could burst into flames.

As for the original braised rabbit, ordinary spices cannot completely cover up the fishy smell of rabbit. Everyone thinks it tastes worse than the spicy version.

The spicy rabbit head was broken into four pieces by Ye Mu. There happened to be four people who could eat spicy food, and each of them ate a small piece.

Ye Qingqing finished eating the rabbit head and licked some fingers, "No wonder those local businessmen like to eat spicy rabbit head. It's really delicious."

Ye's mother looked at Ye's father, "There are two rabbits at home. Let's make them spicy."

"Bring it in the evening, soak it for another night to add flavor, and then you can take it to the dock and sell it tomorrow."

What Mrs. Ye is most concerned about is the price, "How should we price this spicy rabbit meat?"

"Live rabbits cost 12 cents per pound. Braised rabbit meat cannot be sold too cheap, otherwise it will be uneconomical."

Father Ye calculated the cost of making braised rabbit, "A rabbit is about six or seven pounds, 12 yuan per pound, and a live rabbit costs more than 70 yuan."

"Coupled with spices and firewood, a rabbit can be considered as his capital of 90 yuan."

Ye Donglin was good at arithmetic and immediately thought of how to sell the braised rabbit.

"The rabbit heads are sold in half pieces, and the rabbit legs are sold separately. The rabbit heads are sold for 15 cents each, and the rabbit legs are sold for 16 cents each."

"After selling these, we will get 93 Wen. The capital has been returned, and the remaining rabbit meat is earned."

Ye Qingqing felt that the rabbit head was too cheap, "Don't you say that people in Shu especially like to eat spicy rabbit heads? Otherwise, the rabbit head and legs would be the same price, and they would both sell for 16 cents."

Father Ye made a decision directly, "Both the rabbit head and legs will be sold at the same price, both 16 cents. I will return the capital after purchasing."

Ye Mu: "After removing the rabbit head and legs, there isn't much meat left in the rabbit body. It's probably more than a pound."

Father Ye thought for a while and said: "The remaining rabbit meat is half a catty and sold for 15 cents each. In this way, one rabbit can earn thirty or forty cents."

Mr. Ye reminded: "People like the new and hate the old. If there are other braised meats at the spicy rabbit meat stall tomorrow, the business will probably be bad. We should make less of the other braised meats tomorrow."

Father Ye was also heartbroken by these customers who liked the new and disliked the old, "Then there will be one less braised duck tomorrow."

After the discussion, everyone dispersed, and Father Ye took his two sons to the backyard to kill rabbits.

After the rabbit was cooked, it was already late at night when Father Ye returned to the house.

Ye’s mother feels very sorry for Ye’s father who wakes up early and stays up late every day making braised pork and working at the stall.

"Are there many plans to build a house with a shop in the front and a house in the back of the old house over at the academy? After it is built, we can just sell braised pork in the shop in the front."

"It takes more than an hour to get to the county. It's too hard for you to get up early and stay up late every day."

Father Ye held Mother Ye's hand and said softly: "I'm not working hard. There are more people at the pier."

"And now that the business of the braised pork stall has stabilized, I don't know what's going on at the academy."

Mother Ye continued to persuade: "Most of the people living nearby are students studying in academies, and they are not short of money. Moreover, these half-year-old boys are the best when they can eat."

"My family doesn't have enough money to build a house. Let's talk about this later."

Ye's mother thought about it in her mind and realized that her family was indeed not enough to build a house.