CH 43.4

Zhang Fangyuan paused when he heard the words, then cleaned his hands and threw the ladle into the water tank. He walked to Xu He: "Why don't you go? Those bastards won’t dare to trouble you anymore, and they lost all their money. I will guard you from now on.”

Xu He laughed: “Who will guard the meat stall if you guard me?”

“Go. Yesterday, I saw that we have already saved nearly 5,000 copper coins, and it won't be long before we earn money together and we can build blue tile houses. "

"You have a good idea, but if you build a blue tile house in the village, who will dare to build one without hundreds of taels of family property. "

"Then there must be some hope."

Seeing that Zhang Fangyuan was holding himself back like a child, Xu He stood up and said, "There are no more wild vegetables to pick. People in the village say that I moved all the wild vegetables around our village to the city. It's not a long-term business, and the profit is not high."

“The weather is getting worse, and the pigs are not sold well, and it’s easy to become bad. How about I make it into lo mei, let me go with you to set up a stall in the city and sell it."

Zhang Fangyuan's eyebrows stretched when he heard the words, he squeezed his hands and raised his eyes and couldn't help but fantasize: "This is good! lo mei can be sold more expensive than pork, why didn't you say it earlier, you should have done it long ago!"

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It's not such a simple thing. It's cold in the first place. How many people can eat lo mei. Only a drunkard like you doesn't mind hot and cold. You can eat cold braised as a side dish whenever you want.”

Zhang Fangyuan wanted to say that he hadn't been like this for a long time, and he didn't have any spare money to eat those things in his pocket at all. Now, when it came to food, he also knew the word "exquisite" that Chen Si used to talk about.

But now Chef Xu wanted to do it himself, so he didn't have to worry about the outside.

He spun around behind Xu He's buttocks: "Then when do we start to open the stall?"

"Tomorrow." Xu He led people into the kitchen, took out a bundled small bag and handed it to Zhang Fang Yuan: "Smell and look at it, okay?"

Zhang Fangyuan was even more happy when he heard that he would go to the stall tomorrow, so he hurriedly lowered his head and sniffed: "It's the seasoning material!"

"The seasoning material I prepared , I’ve tried it to make a soup, but I don’t know if I make it to stew meat the taste will be good or not. So I wait for you to come home and give you a taste first, if it’s not good, I’ll change the seasoning.”

“Okay!”

Zhang Fangyuan agreed, and went to the kitchen, he proposed the first choice was to make braised pork-pig's head.

Put the seasoning material into a pot of water, and the clean water changed the color in a short while, gradually becoming the color of deep gardenia fruit with old sauce.

Xu He's seasoning material contained sage, star anise, cinnamon bark, dried pine, ginger, cardamom, etc... Some of them were collected by himself, and the rest were bought in the city.

Washed the pig's head before putting it into the pot, and cooked it for about an hour.

About the time of touching a stick of incense (15 minutes), you could still smell the stew fragrance in the pot with the lid on, and the more you walked in, the stronger the fragrance would be.

Zhang Fangyuan had only eaten stewed and prepared stewed meat, but he had never seen the process of stewing. He always looked into the pot in the process.

The loger you marinated in the brin, the better. In order to enhance the taste of the braised meat, the sauce and marinated ingredients were heavily flavored, which was much saltier than ordinary meals.

To make stewed meat delicious, the brine was one thing, and the sauce for mixing the meat was even more important.

Chili oil was indispensable. He adjusted two flavors, one was ordinary spicy, and the other was purely numb. Fresh pepper oil was pressed, some peppers and sesame seeds were added. Even if it was not stewed, added it to ordinary dishes also could make the taste became extreme. But it was a pity, you couldn't bear to mix it with meat, let alone with ordinary vegetables.

Xu He spent a lot of money to buy these. When autumn came, he had to go to the mountains to pick peppers and squeeze oil. The materials were really expensive.

Zhang Fangyuan promised to go up the mountain to see some prickly ash trees and dug up all the pepper trees and planted them in his backyard.

After waiting for an hour, Xu He grabbed the pig's head with a hook, and saw that the flesh and blood could be separated, and it was done.

The white pig's head that had been soaked in the brine for an hour and had completely turned into a beautiful maroon color. The moment it was lifted, the pot was filled with mist and steam, and it suddenly dissipated to show its delicious appearance.

Xu He was quite satisfied with the appearance, and the smell was also delicious, but the taste had to be tasted.

Not to mention that he wanted to give it a try, Zhang Fangyuan started rubbing his hands long ago. He came to feed the dog, almost scalding the dog's mouth.

"Success, success! Whoever says it's not good, I'll beat him up!"

Xu He laughed, "It's unreasonable."

The stewed pig's head had a slightly soft and waxy taste after it came out of the pan, with a strong aroma and a little bit of a mild taste, but the meat still needed to be seasoned again, which was just right. After the stewed pig’s head was cold, it wouldn’t smell fragrant, and the taste would become elastic, and it was delicious to eat with wine and rice.

Xu He was very happy that the seasoning was so suitable for the first time, so he went to get the other meat into the water to prepare to marinade again with peace of mind. It was very troublesome to take care of pigs in the water. It was just right to put them in the pot later, and took them to the city when they woke up tomorrow.

"You can cut a piece and send it to the fourth uncle's house, and give it to Xiaomao to taste."

Zhang Fangyuan cut down half of the pig's mouth and entered his own mouth: "Okay!"