Lin Peilan doesn't look outside either. She just works in the kitchen. The hot water is boiled and put in the bucket. Soon they come in to carry the water, and Lin Peiwen comes in with a basin of pig blood.
Today is Sunday. He was at home and joined the school basketball team. After a semester of practice, he grew a lot and was a head higher than Lin Peilan.
"Yes, you can make a fire. I'll do some washing later."
Pig's blood needs cold water to cook. If it's hot, it will become foam.
The pig blood in the wooden basin has been salted, and now it has solidified. Lin Peilan adds water again in the pot, carefully divides the pig blood into suitable blocks and pours it in. When the scarlet blood is not found in the pot, it can be turned into pig blood tofu.
After cooking, the pot is soaked in cold water. Whether it is stewed with pickled cabbage or simply braised with chili and garlic, the taste is excellent.
It's an indispensable dish on the table of the pig slaughterer. As for the taste, it depends on the craftsmanship of the person in charge.
When she told Lin Peiwen to make a fire, she also helped to look at the things in the pot, and she began to prepare the food for breakfast.
The butcher also eats at home. After eating, he has to rush to the town to sell pork. So breakfast should be fast, and the neighbors who help him can be late, even if he has lunch.
All the noise outside was the voices of the men talking and laughing loudly. Lin Peilan only heard that there were 200 Jin or something. She also asked Liu Youcai how to feed the pigs. If they were so fat, they had to teach everyone how to do it.
Then Lin Youcai said that his daughter raised them well. He didn't take care of the housework before except mowing the grass.
That's true.
The men of the Lin family have a good character, but they are all raised by Mrs. Lin. even Lin Youcai, who has a long character, seldom does housework.
In the past, Lin Peilan's mother did housework at home, but part of it was Lin Peilan who was helping, so she didn't need Lin Youcai at all.
If you really start to do housework, after Lin Peilan moved from the Lin family, the housework of the second room can only be done by Lin Youcai himself, and the pig food is not as delicate as before. Lin Youcai also thinks that the two pigs are thin by him, and Lin Peilan has to keep them up until the end of the year.
"Your father is right. If you hadn't been at home recently, you might have been fatter."
The eldest aunt also came to help. Their family didn't cook this morning. They all ate at Lin Peilan's house.
This also sounds like something else. Lin Peilan doesn't want to talk about it and change the subject.
"Aunt, are these dishes enough to eat? Don't wait for everyone to buy food. "
"Some meat will be cut out later. That's enough."
After a while, Lin Peiwen came in with a large piece of bad meat. It was about five or six Jin. It was to be stewed and eaten in the morning. Since he killed pigs at home, he couldn't have no meat or vegetables on the table.
Kelp was soaked at the beginning, pork was cut into pieces, fried in a pot, added water, kelp knot also went down, and soon the smell of meat filled the room.
Breakfast is just a little bit early at six o'clock. The pork outside has been cleaned up, and those who want to buy meat in the village have come to buy it.
Lin Youcai left half a fan of pigs and had to give two catties of meat to each of his brothers and sisters. In previous years, relatives who had given meat to others also had to give it to their families. He told them that they would not raise pigs in the future, and that there was no intention of giving pork back.
If you don't care about return gifts, you will continue to send them. If you are a little distant, you will know how to send them.
Sometimes it's implicit, sometimes it's clear, so as not to cause gossip later.
It's the men who work first. There's frost on the ground in winter. It's hard for the cart to leave early in the morning. Besides the two pigs, there are more than 300 Jin of meat to be sent to the town.
Elder Lin and uncle Lin carry the meat to the town in bamboo baskets, leaving Lin Youcai to weigh the meat given to relatives.
At the dinner table, grandma Lin seldom gave her a piece of meat, which was not as cold as before. It was something that she couldn't exchange for food, clothes and materials.
"It's thanks to you that the pig can grow so big."
"That's what I should do. What's the matter in your own home? Where should I divide it so clearly? " Lin Peilan said in a warm voice.
"You just don't take the credit. Which pig you raised these years was not raised by you. Your mother has done nothing. She shouts every day, "it's not good here, it's not good there..."
Three aunts always talk the end of the topic, she opened the table on the quiet down.
The last thing we can mention in this family is probably Lin Peilan's mother who abandoned her family.
"Well, let's not say that. Perrin is doing well now The eldest aunt said, "after the tea is sold out this time, you don't know when to come back when you go back to the county. Yuzhu's marriage is on the third day of December. You must come back."
"I'll be back for sure."
With the great aunt's help, the atmosphere soon returned to joy. Lin Yuzhu's marriage was also a great joy.
"Is Yuzhu's dowry ready?"
"It's not easy for her mother-in-law's family to go there. As soon as we look at it, we'll see what's convenient. Everything in the cupboard has been sent in advance. Then we'll carry a table for eight immortals, a dining table, a suitcase and other small things."
When it comes to marrying a daughter, the eyes and brows of the eldest uncle and mother are all happy. Although the eldest son-in-law is not as good as Chen Jianguo, he is really diligent, mainly because he can love his daughter.
Lin Peilan listened silently, but she thought about the woman who left home heartlessly. When she knew that she was going to get married, she didn't know if she was as happy as her aunt.
But if you can be so happy, how can you leave home halfway?
It's OK not to think about it. After thinking about it, I found that I was still resentful.
Everything can be put down, but the abandoned things, after all, can not let go.
Lin Peilan did not expect that Lin Youcai left two pig thighs, one for her and the other for her aunt.
It's cold and can last for three or five days. When Lin Youcai hung the pig's leg under the beam, he was still talking.
"When you go back to the county, follow me to your aunt's house. There's nothing the family can't say."
"I won't go to Auntie's house. Pork legs are salted well. You can keep them for the new year. I don't need them. Just send one to your aunt. " Every year, this year is essential.
When Lin Peilan saw that the pig leg Lin Yongcai had left for Aunt Lin was very big, she knew what it meant. It was just a gift for her last promotion.
Obviously, it's not her fault, but in everyone's eyes, it seems that the eldest uncle didn't get promoted because she didn't say a word.
This is Lin Peilan's insistence. If it is right, it is right. If it is imposed on her, she will not recognize it.
Lin Youcai is a little chatty. He wants to take this opportunity to let his daughter and elder sister reconcile the misunderstanding.
I didn't expect that my daughter's temper was still like this. She looked soft on the surface, but was the strongest inside.