The happy little days of the Ye family

When Ye Qingqing and Tang Xiaojing came to the braised pork shop, there were many people in the shop buying braised pork, and Ye's father was cutting the braised pork for the customers.

Father Ye was very happy to see Ye Qingqing, "It's too late to go back and make lunch now. You can eat here and then go back."

The shop originally sold braised pork rice, and Ye's father wanted Ye Qingqing to have lunch here before going back.

Ye Qingqing thought of the big yellow and small yellow at home and shook her head.

"Da Huang and Xiao Huang are still at home. If we don't go back, Da Huang and Xiao Huang will be hungry."

Ye Qingqing came here to say hello to Father Ye.

Seeing that Ye Qingqing was not eating, Ye's father brought her a piece of pork head meat and two braised pork ribs.

Ye Qingqing felt like he came to the house empty-handed and returned with full hands.

Ye Qingqing planned to send some to the Ye family after the jar of meat was ready.

Jar meat is a test of craftsmanship. It is crispy on the outside and tender on the inside, fragrant but not greasy, and can be stored for more than two to three months.

If it's not done well, it will be burnt and not delicious, and it will go bad if it is left unfried for a few days.

Ye Qingqing learned it after studying with Ye Mu for a long time. The cooked meat can be stored for a long time and is very convenient to eat at any time.

There were only a few people in the Tang Dynasty, and if the meat was not eaten all, it would go bad easily, so it was best to make jar meat.

When the two returned home and opened the courtyard door, Da Huang and Xiao Huang rushed out, wagging their big tails excitedly to greet them.

The young couple unloaded the things from the oxcart one by one. Most of them contained kitchen seasonings and cooking utensils. Ye Qingqing planned to put them away before cooking.

They bought a lot of things today, and after packing them up, their stomachs were already rumbling with hunger.

There are braised pig head meat and braised pork ribs given by Ye's father. Ye Qingqing plans to cook the ribs he bought in the morning.

Tang Xiaojing asked Tang Xiaojing to hang the ribs above the well to keep them fresh.

For lunch, Ye Qingqing cooked a pot of sweet potato rice, fried spring bamboo shoots with pork head meat, and added braised pork ribs. A simple meal was ready.

After lunch, Ye Qingqing did not take a nap, but took out the meat he bought in the morning.

Cut the pork belly into large pieces, then marinate it with salt and a little rice wine. After marinating it for flavor tomorrow, make it into a pot of meat.

Ye Qingqing cut the lard into similar sizes, and then began to boil the lard.

Including the three hens I bought in the morning, I now have five egg-laying hens at home, and keeping them in cages is not enough.

Tang Xiaojing planned to go to the back mountain to cut some bamboo and build a spacious chicken coop.

There is a bamboo forest in the back mountain. The bamboos there are tall and thick. Basically every tree is as thick as Tang Xiaojing's arm.

Usually, people in the village go to the back mountain to cut bamboo and build chicken coops.

As soon as Tang Xiaojing pulled out the ox cart, Da Huang and Xiao Huang ran over excitedly, but they did not jump directly onto the ox cart, but took a look at Tang Xiaojing first.

Seeing Tang Xiaofeng nodded, the two big guys jumped onto the bullock cart excitedly.

One person and two dogs soon arrived at the back mountain. At this time, there were many women and children digging wild vegetables at the foot of the mountain.

Tang Xiaojing tied the ox cart to a big tree at the foot of the mountain, and then took Dahuang and Xiaohuang up the mountain to the bamboo forest.

The bamboos in the bamboo forest were all thick and strong, so there was no need to choose. Tang Xiaojing took an ax and chopped down more than a dozen bamboos as thick as an arm.

Big Yellow and Little Yellow ran away after the small animals on the mountain.

At this time, spring bamboo shoots had already appeared. When Tang Xiaojing was chopping bamboo, he dug up all the spring bamboo shoots he saw.

Tang Xiaojing didn't go looking for bamboo shoots specifically, he just dug them out when he saw them cutting bamboo.

But the bamboo here grows well, and before I knew it, half of the spring bamboo shoots were dug up.

At this time, Rhubarb suddenly jumped out of the grass, holding an ugly rabbit that was so thin that only bones were left in its mouth.

Then Xiao Huang also jumped out with a skinny pheasant in his mouth.

Tang Xiaojing looked at the rabbits and pheasants that had only a few ounces of meat, and felt very disgusted, but they were still meat after all, so he tied them up and threw them into the backpack.

Tang Xiaojing planted more than thirty bamboos in one afternoon. These bamboos were cut by Tang Xiaojing to the height of a person and tied into bundles with straw ropes.

Seeing that there was almost enough bamboo, Tang Xiaojing called Dahuang and Xiaohuang back and prepared to go home.

But in the past few days, Da Huang and Xiao Huang were so depressed at home that they refused to go back, so they turned around and ran deep into the bamboo forest.

Tang Xiaojing saw that Rhubarb and Xiaohuang had disappeared, so he simply dug up spring bamboo shoots in the bamboo forest.

The sun unknowingly set halfway up the mountain, and by this time Tang Xiaojing had already dug a basket full of bamboo shoots.

Tang Xiaojing shouted several times into the bamboo forest, and Dahuang and Xiaohuang ran out dirty, with a fat bamboo rat in their mouths.

In the winter, all the wild animals on the mountain were starved and thin. Only the bamboo rat had grown fat on the bamboo shoots in the bamboo forest, and was just ready to be stewed.

As soon as Tang Xiaojing returned home, he smelled the aroma of lard residue all over the yard and the smell of ribs stewed with dried mushrooms.

Ye Qingqing saw Tang Xiaojing coming back and waved to him with a smile, "Come here and eat lard residue."

"Dahuang and Xiaohuang hunted pheasants, hares, and two large bamboo rats in the mountains. I will put these things away first before coming here."

Ye Qingqing put down the lard residue on his hand and came to help.

By this time the hare could no longer move, but the pheasant was still breathing.

This was a female pheasant. Ye Qingqing saw that there were rabbits and bamboo rats, so he simply kept this skinny pheasant to lay eggs.

"This pheasant is so skinny that it has no meat even after being killed. Why don't we keep it for laying eggs?"

Tang Xiaojing saw that Ye Qingqing wanted to raise this hen, so he simply bandaged the hen and then locked it with the other hens at home.

Tang Xiaojing carried the basket in advance and said to Ye Qingqing: "I just came back with half a basket of bamboo shoots yesterday, and I can't eat so much at home."

"I'll take this newly dug basket of bamboo shoots to Ye's house, and I'll take a bamboo rat with me on the way."

"Okay, I'll go to the backyard to deal with the rabbit first. Mr. Bamboo Rat, you can come back and deal with it. It looks too much like a mouse, so I don't dare to do it."

Tang Xiaojing carried the bamboo rat and bamboo shoots out and told Ye Qingqing, "Please wait until I come back to deal with the rabbit and bamboo rat."

Before Tang Xiaojing came back, Ye Qingqing had already prepared the fragrant lard rice and dried mushroom braised pork ribs.

Ye Qingqing kept half of the lard residue, and mixed the remaining half with salt to prepare for dinner.

Before Tang Xiaojing came back, the greedy Ye Qingqing stole several pieces.

Ye Qingqing originally wanted to raise pheasants to lay eggs, but when he went to feed the chickens, he found that the pheasants could no longer move.

Ye Qingqing originally wanted to let it go, but it didn't live up to its expectations, so he had to let Tang Xiaojing kill the pheasant as well.

Pheasants, bamboo rats and rabbits are all salted and hung in the well.

The weather was still a little cold at this time, and the meat was not so easy to spoil, so Ye Qingqing planned to save it and eat it slowly.