rebirth through food

White Radish Bone Soup

Lan'er's pannier was more than half full, but Ye Xiaofeng's was still more than half empty. Even with the two unexpected wild rabbits in it, it was still quite empty.

There was still some clear water in the jar, and the brother and sister drank it separately.It was almost noon at this time, and the two walked all the way, digging wild vegetables, and they were already hungry.Ye Xiaofeng took a look and decided to dig here today, at worst, he would come here more often in the future.

Hearing back, Lan'er was a little excited.She had heard Ye Xiaofeng talk about how delicious the amaranth was last night, and had such a delicious meal in the morning, so she believed in Ye Xiaofeng's words.

Ye Xiaofeng naturally also saw that Lan'er was very yearning for amaranth, but he himself also wanted to eat it very much. The way back this time felt twice as fast as when he came here.

When they went back, the market in the neighboring village had already dispersed. Ye Xiaofeng asked Lan'er about the location of the butcher's house in this village, but Lan'er said that there was no butcher in their village, so they had to go to the neighboring village.

The brothers and sisters went there relatively late, and the good pork had already been sold out. The butcher was afraid of losing his customers, so he offered to give up two cents.But Ye Xiaofeng didn't think there was anything wrong with the leftover pork. This place was very poor, and meat was not something that could be eaten every meal.During the holidays, if you can buy a few catties, you are living a very good life.

Usually, if someone buys it, they will buy it from places with more fat. The more thick fat meat, the better the meat they buy.Therefore, fatty pork is the most expensive in this place, followed by streaky pork.And those fine meats are not willing to buy, because they dislike being too thin.

Ye Xiaofeng is not the case. Fat pork is naturally delicious, but lean pork is also delicious. If lean pork is much cheaper than fat pork, it is better to buy lean pork. You know, in the world he lives in, lean pork But it is more expensive than fat meat.

Ye Xiaofeng took out the small bag that Ye Xingfeng had left him from his arms. Inside were some copper plates. Although there were not many, it was no problem to buy a catty of pork.I counted out eighteen Wen from the purse and was about to hand it over, but found a few stick bones piled on top of the meat case.This is a good thing, countless delicacies flashed through Ye Xiaofeng's mind instantly.

"Uncle, how do you sell this bone?" Ye Xiaofeng asked the butcher, pointing to the bone next to him.

"Bones?" the butcher glanced, "Bones are not for sale."

"Ah..." Ye Xiaofeng was disappointed for a while.

"If you want it, just take it all away, it's useless for me to keep it." The butcher didn't pay attention to Ye Xiaofeng's disappointment, and continued.

"Really?" Ye Xiaofeng didn't expect such a big gift. In the place where he lives, this thing is not much cheaper than meat.

"Of course it's true. It's not edible. I'll have to throw it out later." The butcher didn't think there was anything wrong with what he did. "Not only this, but also these internal organs are useless at all. I kill a few pigs a day. There are a lot of these things. If you want them, I will give them all."

"Thank you, uncle." Ye Xiaofeng was very pleasantly surprised, "If uncle doesn't dislike it, I will give this wild rabbit to him to eat."

"Hey, this..." Although the butcher kills pigs and sells meat every day, and his family is richer than other farmers who depend on the sky for food, they don't eat meat every day.Seeing that he exchanged these things that he didn't need at all for a hare, he was naturally very happy.However, he was still a kind person, and he retracted the hand that had already been stretched out, "Is this... suitable?"

Not for anything else, everyone knows that this is a useless thing to replace a child's hare, if an adult finds it later, there is nowhere to put his face.

Ye Xiaofeng smiled slightly, "Uncle, this is not an exchange, I gave it to you, if you are willing, can you give me all these things in the future?"

"Really?" If so, the wild rabbit can be accepted.

"Of course, and I will give uncle money, and I won't ask you for nothing, but the money will definitely not be as much as meat." Naturally, they can't eat it all at home, Ye Xiaofeng thinks long-term, If you only rely on farming to eat, you will only starve to death.As the saying goes, it is better to bury the pot and cook.If you can open a store and have living money in your account, your life will definitely be much easier.

And this thing needs to be ordered, these things come for nothing, if others come to ask for it, then he won’t be able to receive it, so it’s better to give up some small money to buy it, firstly, to establish a good relationship with the butcher, secondly, others will say Nothing came out.

"Of course. No one wants these things. You can just come and get them in the future. You can give them whatever you want." The butcher was also straightforward and nodded in response to Ye Xiaofeng's suggestion.

The rabbit was divided into one for the butcher, and the remaining mushrooms and wild vegetables were also put in Lan'er's pannier, while Ye Xiaofeng put as many bones and viscera as possible into the pannier and carried them on his back.After paying the money, the siblings headed home.

"Brother, these things... why are you using them?" Lan'er was very puzzled, and to her, she was very reluctant to lose a good rabbit.But she always listened to her brother, so she didn't say anything.

"Hey, this is a good thing." Ye Xiaofeng smiled mysteriously, "I'll cook something delicious for you tomorrow, and I'm sure your mouth will be full of oil!"

"Really, brother?" Lan Er's eyes widened.The mouth full of oily description is really tempting!

The two villages are very close to each other, and soon they arrived at home. From a distance, they could already see Father Ye standing at the door and watching.

"Father!" The siblings looked at each other and smiled, shouting in unison.A smile appeared on Father Ye's face which rarely smiled.

Father Ye helped the brothers and sisters unload the baskets on their bodies, and carried them in one by one.Ye Xiaofeng stuck out his tongue, this grown man was indeed much more useful than their brother and sister.

There are two baskets, one is wild vegetables, and the other is flesh and blood offal. Father Ye looked puzzled and hesitated, "This is..."

"Father. My brother said that I want to make delicious food with this!" Lan'er returned excitedly. Father Ye looked at Ye Xiaofeng, and Ye Xiaofeng nodded slightly from the side.

"Okay, then dad will wait to eat." Father Ye didn't say anything.He wasn't worried about the children spending money indiscriminately, he knew that the children didn't have much money on them, and these things were not wanted by anyone, so if they could be eaten, it would be good.

"Father, you can't just wait to eat." Ye Xiaofeng's face tensed, "Everyone has to help! Come on, dad, help me skin the rabbit."

"Hey, where did the rabbit come from?" Father Ye was startled, "Did you steal someone's prey? No, this rabbit was not caught..." Father Ye looked up and down, but couldn't find the wound.

"Father, go and peel the rabbit!" Ye Xiaofeng was already starving, and urged Ye's father to deal with the rabbit. Lan'er picked wild vegetables, and he himself took out a wooden basin from the house and began to clean the bones and internal organs.

The stick bone is easy to wash and cleans up quickly.Boiling water in the pot, Ye Xiaofeng asked Father Ye to help him split the bone with the ax at home, so that the bone marrow inside could be boiled out.

Blanch the bones with water, skim off the foam, add a few sticks of firewood to heat up the fire, and Ye Xiaofeng started to deal with the internal organs again.

A pig's heart, two pieces of pig's liver, and a large intestine.These are all good things, but pig intestines are not easy to deal with, especially since they don't even have vinegar in their house.

"Lan'er! Go get some vinegar." He didn't have vinegar at home, but in his impression, there was it here, but he didn't see soy sauce, and he didn't search for it in his memory.

Not long after, Lan'er made a small jar of vinegar, but the vinegar was not expensive, it only cost three Wen, but the taste was really not very good.Later, he realized that this vinegar was not specially brewed, but a failure of winemaking in the winery.

It can be seen that the wine here is not very good.

Father Ye's hands were skillful, and the rabbit was cleaned up in a short time. He put the rabbit aside, and Father Ye helped Lan'er choose amaranth while lighting the fire.

There is almost a whole basket of amaranth, but this thing needs to be washed first, and there will not be so many after blanching.

While turning the large intestine over, Ye Xiaofeng ordered Lan'er to boil water and blanch the washed amaranth.

The large intestine is fairly clean, with wheat bran, rice bran and the like mixed with vinegar, it will be scrubbed clean quickly.But Ye Xiaofeng was afraid that Father Ye and Lan'er would have shadows in his heart, so he cleaned it up several times carefully.

Lan'er's hands and feet are very quick, and all the amaranths are blanched and dried, and they are placed in the basin next to them.Ye Xiaofeng washed his hands, went to the vegetable garden to pull out two white radishes, washed and cut into pieces, and poured them into the boiling bone soup.

There was a layer of oil on the bone soup, and it was a little whitish. Although nothing was put in, there was a strong fragrance, and the whole outhouse was full of meaty fragrance.

"Brother, it smells so good!" Lan'er's stomach rumbled, and she blushed in embarrassment.

"It's still delicious." Ye Xiaofeng stirred the pot a few times with a spoon, and all the white radish pieces were soaked in the bone broth. "Daddy cuts the meat, Lan'er mixes the noodles." Ye Xiaofeng cleaned the other pot by himself, added firewood to heat up the pot, and scooped out a spoonful of lard to melt it.

Father Ye's knife skills are good, and he chopped the meat into minced meat according to Ye Xiaofeng's wishes.But Father Ye was not willing to chop it all up, and kept more than half of it.Ye Xiaofeng didn't say a word when he saw it. Ye's father was used to frugality, so it would be difficult for him to change rashly, but it's not a difficult thing to do, and it will naturally change when he lives affluently in the future.

The minced meat was poured into the cauldron, and it soon turned white. Ye Xiaofeng kept stirring it with a shovel, slowly drying the minced meat.Not long after, the fat in the minced meat came out, and the smell of meat that could only be smelled during the Chinese New Year made the father and son swallow their saliva.

Ye Xiaofeng took out the oil and the minced meat, put it into the chopped amaranth, put onion, ginger, garlic, salt and sesame oil, took out a spoonful of bone broth, put it into the stuffing, stirred it evenly, and brought it to the kang.

The noodles have been reconciled, and it's too late to leaven, but Ye Xiaofeng knows that buns without leavening are also delicious.Roll out the dough one by one and wrap it up. Father Ye and Lan'er can only watch from the sidelines at this step. Fortunately, Lan'er is still very smart, and will soon help roll out the dough. ten.