The Siheyuan of the Young Educated Youth

When Qi Feifei entered the house to get the meat,

I saw some big bones and meat cooking in a big pot, and pig hearts, livers, blood sausage and other things cooking in another pot.

In a while, the brigade cadres, people from the sideline factories, and those who worked on slaughtering pigs today will all have a drink here.

Widow Gong was cutting cucumbers to make a cold dish.

There are a lot of people and cadres here today. Lao Qin is a labor reform personnel. Although no one in the valley pays attention to him, he still stays away today and goes to the nearby mountains to chop firewood.

Qi Feifei said a few words to Widow Gong and Uncle Zheng, then left carrying the sack.

There were still quite a lot of people near the pig farm today, so Qi Feifei went into the woods and wanted to go inside. When there was no one around, he put his things in the courtyard.

I never expected to see Lao Qin sitting on a tree stump not far away, eating a steamed bun, which was almost the same as the one given to me at the beginning.

Lao Qin was much darker and had longer hair than when I saw him on the train. One side of his glasses had a crack.

Qi Feifei looked a little sad.

Old Qin was also a little surprised to see her. What was she doing carrying a sack into the mountains?

Qi Feifei walked over with a smile, "Old Qin, are you busy?"

Lao Qin actually has nothing to do. He can chop firewood or not.

Every year, when Uncle Zheng was alone at the pig farm, the team leader would send someone to bring him a large cart of firewood, enough for the fuel.

Lao Qin, "I'm not busy, what's the matter?"

Qi Feifei, "I'm dividing the pig's trotters and pig's head. I need to burn them and split them. Can you help me?"

Lao Qin was a little embarrassed. "Okay, but, isn't it inconvenient for me to go to your collective household?"

Lao Qin hardly interacts with others. He only spoke to Lao Zheng and Qi Feifei here.

And then there was Huo Sheng, who was staying the night. He didn't even say a word to Widow Gong.

He kept in mind that he was a labor reformer.

Others don't like to talk to him, so he tries to avoid them.

Qi Feifei, "Instead of going to the collective household, we can go to the riverside. After we're done burning, we can just use the water to wash it."

Lao Qin stood up and said, "Okay."

The two men quietly went around to the river, and Lao Qin carried two bundles of firewood he had just chopped over.

Qi Feifei cut the grass in an area to prevent a fire from burning the entire camp.

The two men moved a few large stones and placed them around, cut the firewood into short pieces, and placed them in the middle and lit them.

Lao Qin held the pig's head with a wooden stick, turning it over from time to time.

The pig's head had a strong smell of burnt protein.

Soon, it became dark outside.

Qi Feifei scraped it with some wood and continued burning.

Lao Qin had never seen this before, and he would never buy pig heads when buying meat before.

"Xiao Qi, this is burnt. Can we still eat it?"

Qi Feifei laughed, "Lao Qin, you've never eaten pig head meat, right? This is how it's cooked in the Northeast. You have to burn it harder to get rid of the pig hair smell."

When it was almost cooked, Qi Feifei cut off the pig's ears.

The pig ears and trotters were roasted carefully until they were charred black on the outside.

The two men took the pig's head, trotters, and ears to the river and washed them with water. When there was no hair anywhere, they knew they were done roasting.

Qi Feifei asked Lao Qin to help split the pig's head into two halves, and put the pig's head, pig ears and pig bones into a sack.

"Thank you, Lao Qin. When the pig's head is ready, I'll send you some so you can taste my cooking skills."

Lao Qin: "No, no, keep it for yourself."

Qi Feifei carried the sack on his back and said, "I will definitely deliver it to you tomorrow."

Lao Qin watched her walk away.

A man sat on a big rock in a daze.

Wait until it's completely dark before going back.

Qi Feifei put all the things into the courtyard, leaving only a few bones in a sack and took it back to the collective household.

When she returned, their meat had already been stewed.

Pan Xiaowen and his friends made a dish, stewed meat with potatoes.

Cut the meat into small cubes, put oil, chopped green onions and meat in the pot, stir-fry until the oil comes out, then add soy sauce, salt, and more hot water and stew.

When it is almost cooked, add potato cubes and continue stewing. When the potatoes are cooked and there is still some soup in them, add MSG and it is ready to serve.

You can eat two bowls of rice with the stewed potatoes and meat sauce.

Pan Xiaowen and the other two had been smelling the meat and were waiting for Qi Feifei, so they anxiously went to look outside the gate.

Zhu Li and Liu Yumei cooked a stir-fry, with the fatty meat using a little oil and the lean meat fried with leeks.

They didn't put all of it in at once, but left some to fry and added more salt so that it wouldn't spoil easily.

They didn't wait for Qi Feifei and left a bowl of food for her in a small bowl.

The others pooled together to buy meat and cooked it directly, using the broth to make cabbage and potato soup, which was served with large pancakes.

They definitely won’t give it to Qi Feifei.

When Qi Feifei came back, they had already finished eating.

I saw Qi Feifei coming back with a sack on his back, with nothing in his hands.

Li Danni poked Su Fangting and said, "Look, look." She signaled her with her eyes.

Su Fangting and Zhang Chunxiang both looked towards the gate of the courtyard and saw Qi Feifei carrying a sack on his back.

Su Fangting couldn't help but walk out of the house, "Qi Feifei, you are so amazing? Others buy meat and bring it back with hemp ropes, how much did you buy? You put it in a sack?"

Qi Feifei ignored her and went straight into the house.

Zhu Li, "Liu Yumei and I left a bowl of food for you, stir-fried leeks and meat."

He also explained, "We didn't want to put all the meat in, so we left some for other dishes tomorrow."

Qi Feifei, "Thank you. I'll take it over and eat with Pan Xiaowen and the others later."

Qi Feifei took out the big bone and put it in the basin.

"Are you still using the pot? No, I'll boil the big bones later."

Su Fangting, "The meal has already been cooked. If you heat it again, how can people sleep on the kang?

Besides, there is not a speck of meat on this big bone, is there any need to cook it?"

Pan Xiaowen had been waiting for Qi Feifei to come over for dinner, and he became unhappy when he heard Su Fangting say that.

"Sister, use our pot to cook. Who doesn't have a pot?"

Then he said to Su Fangting, "You don't have to bully others like this. You will regret it sooner or later."

He picked up the pelvis and walked away, "Sister, I'll give you room for a while, let's eat first."

Qi Feifei followed over and found that Wang Bin had already prepared water, soap and a new towel.

"Qi Feifei, you wash first."

Qi Feifei herself knew that she now smelled like burnt pig hair.

"Thank you, but no need for fresh towels. I have towels in my room."

Pan Xiaowen, "Sister, I'll go get it."

Xu Zhiqiang had already set the table and served the food.

Julie also brought over the bowl of fried leeks and pork.

Pan Xiaowen and his friends’ cooking skills are average, but the stew is definitely soft and tender, and still very fragrant.

Qi Feifei had a delicious meal.

Several people had no food left.

After dinner, Qi Feifei went back to the house, took out a bag of snacks and gave them to the three of them.

"It's a little crumbly. Keep it for when you're hungry."

Several people felt embarrassed and wanted to decline.

Qi Feifei put down the things, turned around and walked out.