Xiao Qiao enters the farm gate

Grandma Li's house is 20 meters away, and it is the closest one to Lin Zheng's house. Lin Zheng pointed it out to him once.As soon as I arrived at the gate of the yard, I saw a handsome young man coming out of the kitchen with two bowls of hot water and walking towards the main room.Judging by his age, he is probably Li Xue, the younger brother of the Li family.

Li Xue also saw him, although she hadn't seen him before, she knew who it was after a little thought.Qiao Mo is easy to recognize, he is definitely the prettiest one in Shanglin Village, he doesn't look like a countryman at all.

"Brother Qiao, right? Come in, grandma is in the room." Li Xue's smile was somewhat similar to Grandma Li, both of whom were kind and kind.

"You are Li Xue, I'm here to help you." Qiao Mo took a bowl of hot water from the other party and asked, "What is Grandma Li doing?"

"Ama and Grandma Sun are making wedding clothes for you." Li Xue welcomed him in.

"I won't go in, I'm going to make bacon at home, and I'll buy the ingredients." Qiao Mo said and handed over five copper coins.

"I'll get it for you." Li Xue refused to accept the money, and turned to go back to the house after giving him the material bag. Qiao Mo followed and put the money on the table in the main room before returning.

Originally, Qiao Mo walked briskly, but thinking about going back to make bacon, it didn't feel too difficult.Unexpectedly, just after he left Aunt Li's house, someone stopped him, turned his head and saw that it was Lin Zheng's step-grandmother, and immediately frowned.

Old Mama Lin walked over quickly, smiling all over her face: "Brother Qiao has also gone out for a walk? Why don't you go to my house? My house is right in the middle of the village. There are three neat big tile-roofed houses, which are easy to recognize. .”

"You are..." Qiao Mo pretended to be puzzled, after all, they had never met formally.

"You can call me Ah Lin. Lin was brought up by me. Isn't my own life better than my own? Who knows that when he grows up, his wings become stiff. He only cares about moving out by himself, and he doesn't show filial piety to me and his father." Grandma Lin was full of anger. Seeing that Qiao Mo was indifferent, she worked harder: "Oh, I didn't lie to you. You are new here, so you don't know that people's hearts are sinister. It's not my successor who speaks ill of him. You ask around in the village, Lin What did you do for five or six years when you were away from home? When you came back with a bruise on your face, who knows what shameful deeds you did, don’t bring the whole Shanglin Village with you.”

"I still have something to do, so I'm leaving first." Qiao Mo didn't bother to listen to him confuse right and wrong, and left with the next sentence indifferently.

"Hey, little brother, little brother, wait, wait." Mother Lin would not let him go. Seeing that he was unmoved, she moved closer, took out a small cloth bag from her arms, and opened it. sent to him.

Qiao Mo saw that it was a pair of gold bracelets.

This gold bracelet can't be compared with the gold bracelet he sold. This bracelet has a thin circle, and it really doesn't weigh much.It's ridiculous to try to tempt him with this!

Madam Lin didn't know what he was thinking, and said with a proud face: "See, I prepared this for my youngest son Ah Fu's daughter-in-law. I'm not boasting. How can the whole village be as blessed as our Ah Fu?" Yes, our Ah Fu loves people again, and we have an older brother who is a scholar. In the future, his elder brother will pass the examination and become an official. Can he not take care of his only younger brother? So, following our Ah Fu will definitely not suffer hardships, then It is a life of happiness."

Qiao Mo's heart became angry when he heard that, he just wanted to punch him in the face, he really didn't know what to say!

"Ah." At this moment, a round object moved over, with a fat face, and a pair of small eyes with a smile, it was not Lin Fu who was it.

Lin Fu stared at Qiao Mo with both eyes, smiling disgustingly.

Qiao Mo suppressed his anger, and glared at Lin Fu coldly.Lin Fu retreated instinctively in fright, but Qiao Mo deliberately bumped his shoulder hard, Lin Fu's round body fell down with a thud, and he rolled in dirty slush screaming.

"Oh, Ah Fu didn't fall, did he? Get up quickly and let Ah Mo take a look." Madam Lin hurried to help him up, but Lin Fu was so fat, he couldn't easily lift him up.

Qiao Mo looked down at the two of them, and sneered at the corner of his mouth, "Did my brother not have enough to eat? My successor is too frugal. Since I love my brother so much, don't save that ration. As the eldest brother, he will still give his younger brother a bite to eat."

"How did you talk, little brother?" Old Mama Lin also realized at this moment that this little brother was deliberately harming Lin Fu.

However, before Old Mama Lin could "teach her a lesson", Qiao Mo had already walked away.

When he got home, Qiao Mo went straight into the kitchen to get busy.

Add water to the cauldron, and out of curiosity before putting the package in, I opened it to take a look, and saw that it contained dried peppercorns, two star anises, and a few pieces of dried ginger.The cured meat here is boiled. After putting it into the bag, you only need to add salt, put the processed meat strips in and boil it, let it cool, then transfer it to the bucket and compact it. After a day and a night, take it out and hang it , can be eaten slowly and can be stored for a long time.

Qiao Mo remembered that he had bought seasonings, and he could make simple five-spice powder by himself, so the taste would not be better.

So I simply turned off the fire in the stove, took out a big pottery basin, and took out the packet of seasonings I bought in the county yesterday.Qiao Mo thought about cooking when he had nothing to do, and he was also curious about the five-spice powder and thirteen spices sold outside, but the thirteen spices were too complicated to make as five-spice powder.

Take star anise, tangerine peel, cumin, peppercorns, and dried ginger and grind them into fine noodles. I don’t have a scale at hand, so I can only estimate the amount of each portion, and simply make a portion of five-spice powder.

The meat that Lin Zheng bought back was three big strips weighing fourteen catties, and he cut them up again with a knife and divided them into five portions.Three of them are used on the mat, and they are simply wiped with some salt. It is no problem to store them for three or four days in winter. The remaining two are wiped with a clean cloth.

First put soy sauce, salt, and sugar in the pottery pot. Because there is no white sugar, brown sugar can only be used instead. Probably the taste is not much different, but the color will change. Finally, add homemade five-spice powder and stir.Remembering that he needed to add some white wine, he took a big bowl to the barn, opened the jar of wedding wine he had prepared, poured out half of the bowl, and sealed the mouth of the jar again.

After the seasoning is done, put the meat in, knead it with your hands, and when it's almost done, find a wooden board to hold it down.

It is the coldest time in winter, and the meat is like being placed in a natural refrigerator for seven or eight days, turning it every day.When the time is up, take it out, put it in the shade to dry, and then dry it for seven or eight days, and you can eat it when the skin is dry.

After finishing the cured meat, Qiao Mo felt a sense of accomplishment, when he suddenly heard movement in the yard, it turned out that Lin Zheng came back with a cart.

As soon as Lin Zheng entered the yard, he smelled the smell of wine mixed with many indescribable aromas. Seeing Qiao Mo in the kitchen, he asked strangely, "Ah Mo, what are you doing?"

"It's about making bacon. This year's bacon must be delicious." Qiao Mo was quite complacent, but didn't elaborate.

Lin Zheng guessed a little bit, and when he saw that he didn't say anything, he didn't ask. Anyway, he was in charge of the family affairs.