Chapter 668. Zhao Youcai came home with good food again
When the car approached Zhao Jun's house, he saw a puff of black smoke rising in the wind, accompanied by the smell of burnt hair.
Then the car turned a corner, and not far ahead was Zhao Jun's house.
At this time, in front of Zhao's house, Wang Qiang and Zhang Yuanmin were chatting with Wang Meilan, Yang Yufeng, and Xie Zhong.
Last time, Jie Zhong arrived in a hurry and did not interact with Wang Qiang and Zhang Yuanmin. Today, Jie Zhong, who was burning a bear's paw in front of Zhao Jun's house, happened to meet Wang Qiang and Zhang Yuanmin who were returning from fishing for shrimps. The three of them had a good chat after being introduced by Wang Meilan. Hearing the sound of a car, five people followed the sound and saw a Jiefang car slowly approaching. At the same time, the laughter of women and children could be heard from the rear compartment.
The car stopped in front of Zhao's house. Some of the children in the car were called mom, some were called aunt...
"Take a look!" Wang Meilan reached out and took Li Xiaoqiao first, turned to Yang Yufeng next to her and said with a smile: "How's it going? I'll just tell you, I brought the whole car back!"
As soon as Wang Meilan finished speaking, she heard a rush of footsteps. She looked towards the direction of the car and saw a person jumping out from the west path. It was Li Ruhai who had disappeared after lunch.
"What's wrong with Ruhai?" Seeing this, Wang Meilan hurriedly took two steps toward Li Ruhai and asked, "Who kicked you out?"
This Li Ruhai is just like his own child. His parents are not at home today. If someone wants to bully him, Wang Meilan will definitely not agree.
"Aha...Aha..." Li Ruhai took a few deep breaths, waved to Wang Meilan and said: "No aunt, I came back to see what's going on at home?"
"It's okay." Wang Qiang said with a smile on the side: "Everything is fine at home, just prepare to sit down."
At Zhao Jun's house, eating at banquets and banquets is called sitting at the table. Wang Meilan heard this and patted Wang Qiang on the shoulder.
"Daughter." At this time, with the support of Zhang Yuanmin, Mrs. Lao Jiang got out of the car and reached out to Wang Meilan.
"Hey!" Wang Meilan put little Zhao Na on the ground, hurriedly went over to hold the old lady's hand stretched out to her, and said: "Auntie."
"Haha." The old lady held Wang Meilan's hand, smiled, and asked Wang Meilan: "What delicious food has our family made? You also asked the child to pick me up."
"Today we will eat fish and Heixiazi meat." Wang Meilan helped the old lady walk into the courtyard, and said with a smile as she walked: "In a few minutes, I will bake a big pancake for you."
When the old lady heard this, she couldn't help but pursed her lips, and her eyes almost disappeared from her smile.
Outside the hospital, a group of children got out of the car. Not one of them discovered the shrimp caught by Wang Qiang and Zhang Yuanmin first. The other children gathered around the shrimp feeder and looked at the green river shrimp inside. Wang Tian
He shouted that he would be arrested.
Zhao Jun saw this, grabbed Wang Tian, and said to the children: "There is a lot of smoke outside, hurry into the hospital, go back to the house and arrest them."
With that said, Zhao Jun held Wang Tian in one hand and carried the shrimp-packing feed Luo in the other, and trotted toward the courtyard. Behind him, a group of children chased him happily.
Such a huge battle shocked the dogs in the yard and barked.
Zhao Jun came to the house and carried the fed lot into the house. There were pots and fires set up in and outside the courtyard, so children could not be allowed to play outside.
The children all came in and crowded into Zhao Jun's room. Wang Tian and Wang Xue heard from Zhao Hong that her family had picked up another cat, and they needed to be petted.
They squeezed in like a swarm, and hurriedly opened the blanket covering the pine box. They slept in a daze, and the warm little lynx looked up at the box, and saw people surrounding it.
A circle of little heads.
"Ouch! Ouch!" As soon as the little lynx screamed twice, Zhao Hong took it out of the box. As soon as she held the little lynx in her arms, a group of children gathered around, touching this one and stroking that one.
A handful.
The little lynx didn't dare to say anything and could only accept it.
Soon, these children felt that being touched was not enough, and they kept clamoring for hugs.
Zhao Hong first handed the little lynx to her cousin Wang Xue, and the little girl held the little lynx in her arms very rarely.
Then, Zhao Hong caught a glimpse of the enamel basin sandwiched between the table and the south wall. She ran over and pulled the basin out, carrying it out to the outhouse. She saw Zhao Ling pouring water into the big pot. Zhao Hong hurriedly gave way.
My aunt gave her a scoop so that she could catch some shrimps and raise them.
"Xiao Hong!" Zhao Ling stared at the basin in Zhao Hong's hand with wide eyes, and asked, "Is this the basin where your brother washes his feet?"
"Ah?" Zhao Hong glanced at the basin and then at Zhao Ling, only to hear Zhao Ling say: "You put it to hold shrimps, what does your brother use to wash his feet at night?"
After saying that, Zhao Ling gently turned Zhao Hong back and said: "Quickly, send me to the house. If you want to catch shrimps, I will find something for you."
At this time, the old lady who heard the noise came out of the east room, looked at Zhao Ling and asked, "What's going on?"
"Auntie!" Zhao Ling was afraid that the old man wouldn't hear, so she put her head over and said to her: "Why don't you go up to that room and keep an eye on them? I'm afraid that these kids will cause harm to others."
"Okay!" When the old lady heard this, she happily went to the west room. Zhao Ling went to the dish rack, took out a porcelain basin, filled it with a little water, and sent it to the west room to feed the children.
Shrimp.
As soon as they saw that they could catch shrimps, several children went over and hurriedly grabbed shrimps from the feeder.
Amidst the noise of the children, the voice of the old lady came out: "Don't kick that away!"
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It’s lively inside, and it’s not bad outside either.
With help, Wang Meilan felt heroic. She ordered Zhao Jun to chop wood, Xie Chen to fetch water, and Li Ruhai to collect fire.
Then, Wang Meilan personally took the remaining people to cut up the black bear meat and remove all the bones that should be removed.
Separate the fat and lean meat, cut the fat meat into pieces and put them on one side, and cut the lean meat into pieces and put them on the other side.
Then, before the water in the big pot boiled, Wang Qiang put the chopped bear thigh meat into the pot.
After putting the lid on the pot, Jie Chen carried two more buckets of water to the stove, while Jie Zhong was also shouting outside the courtyard that the bear's paw was healed.
Zhang Yuanmin went out with a big basin, and he and Xie Zhong used sticks to push the burnt bear paws into the basin.
Xie Zhong entered the courtyard with a basin containing bear paws. Zhang Yuanmin poured water into the basin. Wang Meilan handed them a brush. Zhang Yuanmin and Xie Zhong each dipped their brushes in water and scrubbed the big bear paw.
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On the other side, Yang Yufeng peeled potatoes and Xu Chunyan peeled radish. Next to them were seven or eight green onions and two heads of garlic that needed to be peeled.
After the bear's paws were cleaned, they were brought into the house and boiled in the large pot outside Zhao Jun's house.
There is no way, the big pot outside is cooking more than 30 kilograms of bear meat, and there is no room for another bear paw.
As for the thirty kilograms of bear meat, in addition to the twenty kilograms of bear leg meat that Wang Meilan asked Yang Yufeng to pick off, there are about ten kilograms of lean meat picked from the bear.
Although these are all lean meat, in the season when bears are fattening, the shredded meat is filled with oil. When cooked in a large pot, a layer of oil will appear on the surface of the water.
Wang Meilan went into the house and put the bear's paws into the big pot, while Zhao Ling was responsible for blanching them.
As Zhao Jun said, whether it is bear paws or bear meat, it must be blanched four or five times.
"Jie Chen!" Suddenly, Wang Meilan pushed the door open and shouted outside.
"Aunt!" Just as Jie Chen responded, Wang Meilan said: "Get a bucket of water into the house!"
After saying that, Wang Meilan went to the dish rack, opened it, and then walked out with a basswood cutting board in one hand.
Each of these large basswood cutting boards weighed more than ten kilograms. Zhao Jun saw Wang Meilan struggling to come out of the house holding one in each hand. He hurriedly went over to catch the big cutting board and asked Wang Meilan: "Mom, what are you doing?"
What are you doing with this?"
At this time, Wang Meilan clamped the cutting board to her side with her right hand, waved her left hand to the side, and said: "We have to go to your Uncle Li's house in a while. Let's just leave it outside and chop the fat!"
After saying that, Wang Meilan looked around and shouted: "It's like the sea!"
Li Ruhai, who was acting dumbly next to him, heard the sound and hurriedly ran in front of Wang Meilan, clasped his fists and bent down and said: "Auntie!"
Looking at Li Ruhai's appearance, Wang Meilan laughed and said, "Go back to your house and light the stove."
"It's your order..." Li Ruhai screamed strangely, jumped up to the partition wall, climbed over the wall nimbly, rushed straight to the firewood pile, picked up a pile of dry branches, pulled two birch barks, and carried them into his house.
Run.
Once birch bark dries, it becomes paper-like and highly flammable, making it the best fire starter.
With a little bit of birch bark, the fire surged forward, and the dry branches as thick as chopsticks burned instantly and crackled.
As soon as the fire burned below, the big pot on the stove made a squeaking sound. Li Ruhai opened the door and shouted: "Auntie, it's on fire... No, the fire is on!"
"Ah!" Wang Meilan replied loudly: "Put less water in the pot, don't let it burn!"
Li Ruhai retracted his head, went to his water tank, opened the curtain tied with sorghum poles, let the gourd scoop half of the water, poured only a little into the pot, and threw the rest of the water back into the tank together with the gourd and scoop.
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Then he casually closed the curtain on the mouth of the jar, and Li Ruhai pushed the door open and ran outside. When he reached the wall and looked into the courtyard next door, he saw Wang Meilan and Zhao Ling cutting fat meat; Yang Yufeng and Xu Chunyan grilling garlic.
Pickling green onions; Xie Zhong and Jie Chen wash the peeled potatoes and radishes; Zhao Jun, Wang Qiang, and Zhang Yuanmin are all chopping firewood.
What a lively "labor" scene!
At this time, Wang Meilan and Zhao Ling pushed a pile of compost meat into a large pot. Then, Wang Meilan carried the pot to the wall, and Li Ruhai hurriedly reached out to take it.
Immediately afterwards, Wang Meilan climbed over the wall and entered the Li family's house to add oil to the pot. The water that Li Ruhai had just poured into the pot was already boiling. There were about two bowls of water. Wang Meilan saw that it was just right and poured fat into the pot.
Block, while telling Li Ruhai: "Go, Ruhai, grab some firewood."
Li Ruhai agreed and ran out to the firewood pile. Different from before, now Li Ruhai picked up the chopped wood and hugged him before running back into the house.
"Don't add more!" Seeing Li Ruhai come back with firewood, Wang Meilan hurriedly warned, "When adding oil, you can't rush the fire, it must be slow and gentle."
Li Ruhai was adding firewood, while Wang Meilan was watching the pot. Green smoke was blowing up in the wind from the three chimneys of both houses.
Whether it’s the bear paws inside the house or the bear meat outside the house, they have all been blanched five times.
At this time, Wang Meilan had also prepared the bear oil. Well, the remaining oil was too mushy. Wang Meilan did not intend to give it to the children. She only found a small basin to put it in and kept it for mixing with the dog's food tomorrow.
There is a lot of money in it.
The dishes were not yet cooked, and Wang Meilan was not in a hurry to make pancakes or fry fish. She came out of the house and asked Zhao Ling to hand over the blanched bear paws.
In this way, Wang Meilan and Zhao Ling were eating bear paws in the Li family, and Yang Yufeng and Xu Chunyan were eating bear meat in the Zhao family courtyard.
As for Zhao Jun, Wang Qiang, Zhang Yuanmin, Xie Zhong, Jie Chen, and Li Ruhai, they were chatting and drinking water in the west room of Zhao Jun's house.
When it was nearly six o'clock, it was already dark outside, and the bear meat and bear paws were almost cooked.
The men helped set the tables. Although Jin Xiaomei is missing today, they know more about Zhong and Jie Chen, so two tables are indispensable.
Here, Yang Yufeng and Xu Chunyan cut the cooked bear meat into pieces as big as braised pork. They put more than half of it into the pot and stewed it, and the other half took it to the yard to stew large radish.
Then, the two began to cut the shredded potatoes, which they would prepare for the burritos later. Therefore, the shredded potatoes should not be cut too thin.
At the same time, Wang Meilan heated up the frying pan, sautéed the onions and ginger until fragrant, poured in water and soy sauce, and after the water boiled, put the nine-mature bear paws into the pan.
As soon as the lid of the pot was closed, Wang Meilan came out of the house and went to the wall to ask someone to bring them some noodles.
The bear paws will be cooked immediately, and as soon as the braised bear paws come out of the pan, Wang Meilan will bake the pancakes!
Hearing Wang Meilan shouting, Wang Qiang brought out a basin, placed it on the wall and said to Wang Meilan: "Sister, this is noodles."
Wang Meilan responded, took the basin and walked to the house. Wang Qiang returned to the house and brought out another basin.
After putting the basin on the wall first, Wang Qiang climbed over the wall and came to Li's house. The three of them did not enter the back room, but just sat in front of the stove and chatted.
Wang Meilan pointed at Wang Qiang and boasted to Zhao Ling: "Ask Qiangzi, he has been willing to eat the cakes baked by me since he was a child, even the cakes baked by our mother."
Hearing this, Zhao Ling raised her eyes and looked at Wang Qiang. At this time, Wang Qiang smiled and said: "My sister is willing to put oil in her pancakes. It looks like deep-fried pancakes. How can it not be delicious?"
As soon as these words came out, Wang Meilan and Zhao Ling burst into laughter.
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"Hahaha..."
On the small train from Yong'an Forest Farm to Yong'an Village, Zhao Youcai, Li Dayong, Li Baoyu, and Lin Xiangshun also laughed in unison.
Zhao Youcai had a pile of lunch boxes in his net pocket, three in total.
At this time, Zhao Youcai touched Lin Xiangshun with his elbow and said, "Shunzi, come with me later."
"What are you doing, second uncle?" Lin Xiangshun smiled and said, "Are you still drinking?"
"Drink." Zhao Youcai said, "What are you doing here?"
As he said that, Zhao Youcai took a picture of the lunch box and said: "I will cook for them at noon today. I will save two pieces of silver carp and put them in the canteen while I finish cooking them. When I get home, I will fry them again. There are also some shrimps.
, I’ve finished blanching it, and asked your aunt to put it in the pot, and we’ll just have a drink.”
When Lin Xiangshun heard this, he realized that these were indeed dishes to go with wine, so he agreed without even thinking about it.
At this time, Zhao Youcai took the lunch box again and said to Li Dayong: "I still have some shortbread here. Let's drink it here and let your sister-in-law bake us shortbread over there."
At this point, before Li Dayong could answer, Zhao Youcai suddenly smacked his lips and said, "Oh! I don't have any sugar at home. Let's go to Lao Wang's house to buy some later."
"No need?" Li Dayong said hesitantly: "I seem to have sugar at home."
He hesitated, not because he was reluctant to part with sugar, but because he never cooked and didn't know how much sugar he still had at home.
"Buy some!" Zhao Youcai said: "What if your home is gone? When we come out, we might as well just go back and buy it. It doesn't cost much."
Hearing what Zhao Youcai said, Li Dayong, Li Baoyu and Lin Xiangshun were all a little surprised. The Zhao Youcai they knew could take things from the canteen to home, but he would never buy anything from home.
