After a lively meal, the whole village entered the atmosphere of a busy New Year.
Tang Shiyue also asked Qiao Sangyu to ask. If Yuefang wanted to go home, he could take leave in advance, but if nothing unexpected happened, all the young ladies were unwilling to go back.
I still have to do this and that at home, and have some idle moments. How relaxed is it here? How comfortable is it? After making money, I feel confident to speak at home!
Tang Shiyue actually didn't want to take a holiday so early. After all, work in Yuefang was slow and winter was the peak season. Besides, she was planning a sale a year ago. So she told them that Yuefang would have a holiday on the 22nd day of the twelfth lunar month and the first lunar month.
Construction starts on the 16th.
However, those who come to work from the 24th to the 28th of the twelfth lunar month, and from the sixth to the fourteenth of the first lunar month, will receive an extra one hundred cents a day.
In addition, in order to stimulate enthusiasm, year-end bonuses were also given out. Because Yuefang came to learn a craft, it was said that there was no need to pay wages, so each person was given two golden peanuts, tied with a red rope, like a small decoration.
Altogether it is worth approximately twelve or thirty taels of silver.
The girls in Yuefang are even more enthusiastic.
After all, if she found such a small thing, even a moderately tolerant family would give it to the girls as dowries, so she really had good intentions.
After finishing the official business, Tang Shiyue and Mrs. Ye prepared to take care of the meat distributed to her family.
The wild boars she and Qi Jing were given were the two largest ones, weighing more than 200 kilograms each. The butcher had already helped to kill them, and Tang Shiyue had someone buy a jar and materials to make Dongpo pork.
Dongpo Pork is also a super famous dish.
Choose thick and wide pork belly, wash it with warm water and tie it up with string.
This is mainly to prevent it from losing shape during the cooking process. For Tang Shiyue, this step is essential, because only the criss-cross buns feel like authentic Dongpo pork!
Heat the oil in a pan until it is about 80% hot. Do not wait until it starts to smoke. At this time, put the meat pieces into the pan with the skin facing up.
Use a spatula to slightly press the meat, and slowly fry the fat in the meat over medium-low heat until it turns golden brown. Then scoop the meat out to control the fat.
Then put dried lotus leaves or bamboo strips in the pot, ginger slices, green onion segments, and then place the tied pork belly one by one.
In addition, take another pot and put a bowl of water and rock sugar in the pot. However, Dayan does not have rock sugar yet, so it can only be replaced by icing sugar.
Bring to a boil over high heat and simmer slowly until it becomes slightly thick. Reduce the heat to low and use a spoon to stir evenly until the syrup becomes thick and changes color and can be drawn.
Mix the syrup and soy sauce, pour it carefully onto each piece of pork, add water, the water should reach two-thirds of the pork piece, bring to a boil over high heat, add red dates, lotus seeds, etc., turn to low heat, and simmer for about half an hour
, until the meat is tender and you can poke it in with chopsticks.
Flip over, simmer over low heat, remove the sauce, and serve.
Mrs. Ye baked flour cakes and steamed millet rice, and everyone had a delicious meal. Then, Tang Shiyue left a few jars, two jars for Sifang Restaurant to taste, and two jars for Magistrate Lin.
After getting on the carriage, she was still reading her storybook.
What she was watching was called "The Ancient Mirror", which was quite scary. As she was watching it, she suddenly heard a woman's voice and let out a long, shrill cry.
Tang Shiyue was so engrossed in what he was watching that he was startled. He dropped the book and stroked his chest to calm down. Then Chen Jiu stopped his horse hastily. There was already a commotion outside. An old man said loudly: "This man in the blue sky and white sun is going to kill
People are being driven to death!”
This is a typical opening statement for making trouble. The meaning of this sentence is: "Everyone, come quickly! I'm going to cause trouble!"
Sure enough, everyone quickly gathered around and asked questions. The woman was still crying loudly. The husband said angrily: "My good girl, I asked you to soil your innocence for nothing, but you still want to deny it."
!You still want to kill people! Is there any justice in this world?"
A young man's voice said angrily: "You are trying to incriminate me! You are framing me! My uncle didn't do anything! It was the little lady who suddenly ran in and pulled off her clothes!"
"What a joke! What a joke!" cried the father-in-law: "Everyone is making comments, not to mention that my daughter is very timid and very well-behaved. She would never do such a thing... Just take a look, take a look
My girl's clothes are torn and stained, could she have done this herself?"
The young man was so angry: "You...you must have done this on purpose! Who is my uncle? How could he fall in love with her!"
The father-in-law said: "This husband, you have a lovely wife and concubines at home, why do you treat my Yu'er like this? You have no conscience!"
Another voice said: "You went out and didn't take care of your dick!"
Several people burst into laughter, and even the aunt who was supporting the little girl couldn't help it, and said loudly: "There is nothing else to deny! Look at the little lady's face and neck, could it be that she bit herself?"
"
He said this, and everyone went to watch it. The little lady was crying and covering her face in panic, but she revealed several obvious hickeys on her neck.
Everyone immediately let out a cry, and looked at the two people's eyes, and they all looked wrong.
The father-in-law cried: "These two people came to stay yesterday. I didn't think they were bad people, so I took them in for one night. Unexpectedly, they harmed my daughter..."
Tang Shiyue originally just listened to the excitement, but the more he listened, the more wrong he became. He couldn't help but push the car door and go out to take a look.
A large circle has been formed over there, with two figures, one tall and one short, standing with their backs to her. In front of them stood an old man who looked like he was leaning on his back. Two sisters-in-law behind him were supporting a thin girl.
, disheveled.
At this time, the shorter boy was obviously very angry, but his polite way of arguing couldn't stop them at all.
Tang Shiyue listened quietly for a while, and then, using her superiority, she carefully observed the people in the crowd who interrupted from time to time... In the end, she determined that these people were in the same group.
These people must be Nian Yang. The two men were dressed simply but of good quality. They were spotted by someone at some point and set up a trap to extort some money.
She was hesitating whether to mind this nosy business when she heard someone sigh. When Tang Shiyue turned around and saw it was Han Yi, she smiled and said, "Here, I'll give you a way to get rich." She knelt down and whispered in his ear.
He whispered a few words.
Han Yi was happy, nodded and went to make arrangements.
By this time, most of what had been said was already being said. As soon as the two people opened their mouths, they were scolded so horrendously that the young man was so angry that he almost trembled.
At this moment, someone suddenly shouted: "Here! Here! Catch them quickly!"
The sound is like a loud bell.
When everyone turned around, they saw a dozen men rushing over with sticks and swords. Everyone shouted and ran away. Even the old man in the middle was shocked and hurriedly straightened his walking stick.
Then the person in charge rushed over, pointed at my father-in-law's nose and cursed loudly: "God has eyes! So you came here! You cheated me out of hundreds of taels of silver by playing immortals, and you even beat me to death. Now,
You actually came to my territory! I won’t be done with you until I kill you today!” (To be continued)