No way, when they hear the words braised pork, they can't help but think of the twice-cooked pork they have eaten at home. It is bright and golden in color, has a rich and mellow taste, is fat but not greasy, and melts in the mouth...
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This is simply not something they can resist.
In fact, even Fang Xiaoyue couldn't help but swallow a mouthful of saliva.
However, Huang Xiangdong is a more rigorous person, and then he broke Zhou's dream: "Society, we can't make braised pork. You see, we have no soy sauce, no Douban, no oil..."
"Brother! Brother Xiangdong! Stop talking! Can't you just let me have a sweet dream? When you say that, the beauty in my mind is shattered."
Society Zhou begged with a mournful face, which caused everyone to burst into laughter.
No matter how much they played and joked with each other, when they returned to the warehouse, everyone remembered that it was time to eat.
But the rice vat in the warehouse has long been empty.
At this time, Fang Xiaoyue consciously took out the potatoes.
As usual, boiled potatoes are served at noon.
Eating boiled potatoes with just a little salt, Fang Xiaoyue's mind was filled with lamentations.
When can I have a good meal?
Now I should try to make some money and buy some soy sauce, vinegar and other seasonings. After all, these things are not produced in the mountains.
You can't make delicious dishes with spices like star anise and cumin alone.
Besides, even if it's salt, there isn't much left in the warehouse.
This thing is a necessity. If you eat without salt for a long time, people will suffer from muscle weakness, mental deterioration and other sequelae. In severe cases, it may even lead to electrolyte imbalance in the human body, seriously affecting health.
After lunch, everyone lay down on Datongpu and took a nap for a while.
In the afternoon, we gathered at the head of the village as usual, and everyone set out with tools to repair the ditch.
At this time, even the laziest villagers cheered up.
No way, unlike weeding and catching insects in the fields where you can be lazy, whether the ditch can be used determines the direct yield of food.
If rice is short of water, it will lead to a large yield loss.
However, repairing ditches is also a very interesting job for everyone.
The ditches that have not been cleaned for a long time have become overgrown with aquatic plants and other plants. Together with the silt, the water flow rate in the ditches has been seriously blocked.
When everyone used hoes to hook aquatic plants and other plants out of the ditch, they were surprised to see loaches and river shrimps sliding down the water.
This undoubtedly greatly stimulated everyone's enthusiasm for work.
In the process of clearing aquatic plants and mud, it is understandable to catch loaches, river shrimps, etc., and prepare to add a meat dish to dinner.
At least Tian Fugui, the scorer, and Huang Laoyao, the militia company commander in charge of security work, did not object to this. In fact, they couldn't help but join in the activity of catching shrimps and loaches.
The biggest surprise came from a few children who were playing tricks and messing around.
A child named Zhou Xuefeng actually caught a grass carp weighing more than three kilograms!
Of course, this is not too strange. This ditch originally connected directly to the Huaigui River that flows through Kuixing Village. It is normal for some grass carp, silver carp and the like to rush into the ditch along the river water occasionally.
These days, there are no fish guards in rural areas, and net bags are available.
Fang Xiaoyue, together with several villagers who were good at weaving, selected some suitable ones from the collected aquatic plants, weaved some temporary net bags, and distributed them to the villagers for them to use to hold fish and shrimps.
After cleaning up the water plants and mud for most of the afternoon, by five o'clock in the afternoon, the villagers and educated youths had gained quite a lot. As they gathered together and walked towards the village committee, everyone was whispering to each other, thinking about when to start.
Go to the ditch to catch a wave, so as not to be taken over by others, etc.
The fish and shrimps ordered by the educated youth had already been reformed by Liu, and several members of the Zhou community took two female educated youths back to the warehouse.
Fang Xiaoyue and Huang Xiangdong followed the crowd and came to the village committee.
The village chief Wang Defu has returned and is standing in front of the village committee. There is a dead wild boar on the table behind him. A black and strong man is disemboweling the wild boar with a horn-sharp knife and performing a deft dissection.
Someone knew the dark, muscular man: "Didn't he kill pigs before? The village chief was right to invite him."
Zeng was a pig-slaughterer from Dayu Village, a neighboring village. Because of his pig-killing skills passed down from generation to generation, he was recruited into the forest and pasture set up by the county near Juxing Township, where he was specifically responsible for slaughtering the goats raised in the forest and pasture.
Unexpectedly, Wang Degui invited him back.
There was a lot of discussion below. Wang Degui coughed a few times to suppress the situation and said loudly: "Everyone, please be quiet. Tian Fugui has already reported to me what happened in the morning. All villagers who participated in killing wild boars can be allocated 2
For the remaining pork, each villager can exchange half a catty of pork for 10 work points."
As soon as these words came out, the discussion below became louder and louder.
No way, the conflict between the majority of villagers' desire to eat pork and the exchange of expensive work points is so obvious.
Everyone wants to eat pork, but when they think that it takes 10 work points to exchange for half a pound of pork, many people are reluctant to part with it.
But having said that, there are more than 500 villagers in Kuixing Village. If we don't do this, this wild boar will not be enough.
After some hesitation, some villagers came forward to exchange for pork and left with long strips of pork. Some villagers left directly. They suppressed the saliva coming out of their mouths and spent ten work points on the summer harvest.
Time should be more valuable to comfort yourself and your family.
The educated youths were not as hesitant as the villagers. Following Fang Xiaoyue's decision, they immediately made the decision to exchange for pork.
Fang Xiaoyue and Wang Sixin participated in the beating of wild boars and received two kilograms of pork directly. Then the educated youth ordered eight people to give out 80 work points in exchange for four kilograms of pork.
After some exchanges, there was not much left of the wild boar.
The pig head and intestines were taken away by the butcher as a reward for killing the pig, and the remaining internal organs and ribs were distributed to several elderly five-guarantee households in the village at the discretion of the village chief.
The educated youths ignored this at all. They carried the pork on straw ropes and returned to the warehouse with excitement on their faces.
For them at this time, nothing is as important as the pork in front of them.
"Shall we make braised pork?"
Society Zhou looked at the pork in front of him and came up with an idea.
"Forget it, be honest and just make potatoes and pork stew."
Fang Xiaoyue was now the boss of the educated youth group, so she directly rejected Zhou's unrealistic proposal. After cleaning the pork, she put it in a pot and boiled it to remove the blood, then cut it into small pieces and mixed it with the last bit of salt.
After the spices are marinated and flavored, add them to the pot.