novelhk Chapter 137 Isn’t the spicy hotpot delicious?
Chapter 137 Isn’t the spicy hotpot delicious?
Jiang Yuwei and Aunt Zhou exchanged a few words at Aunt Zhang's house and then left together.
"Aunt Zhou, you know a lot of people. Please help me keep an eye out for any puppies that have been born. I want to raise a guard dog in the yard."
Aunt Zhou thought for a moment and then said:
"Okay, I see that Mr. Ning has a powerful dog at home. It's pregnant recently and walks around the village with a big belly all day. I'll ask for you later. When the puppies are born, you can pick one."
Jiang Yuwei said happily:
"Okay, thank you Aunt Zhou first."
Aunt Zhou arrived at her door, opened it, and waved her hand:
"Why are you saying thank you to me? You've been tired all day, go back!"
Jiang Yuwei said goodbye to Aunt Zhou and walked towards her own courtyard. From a distance, she saw a group of people gathered at the gate of the courtyard. She quickly walked a few steps forward and saw that a wild boar had fallen into the pit she had dug a few days ago.
At this time, the fool was killing a pig in the pit. Ning Huaizhi saw Jiang Yuwei coming over and said with a smile:
"Just now, when the fool pushed me back, I saw a wild boar coming down the mountain to destroy the crops. Then the fool drove the wild boar into a pit."
Jiang Yuwei nodded. It must be said that this idiot was quite useful. Having such a helper at home really saved her a lot of trouble. Now that there were more people in the family and a wild boar had come, it was just right to kill the pig and eat the meat.
Seeing that the idiot was killing pigs enthusiastically, Jiang Yuwei ignored him. She had been busy all day and was really tired and had a sore back. She needed to take a good bath in the spiritual spring water, so Jiang Yuwei said to Ning Huaizhi:
"Huaizhi, I'm tired. I'm going back to my room to have a good sleep. No one should disturb me. I won't have dinner yet. No need to call me."
Ning Huaizhi looked at Jiang Yuwei worriedly:
"Okay, go inside and rest quickly. I'm here outside."
Jiang Yuwei nodded and went back to the house, closed the doors and windows, and entered the space. At this time, the vegetables planted in the space were much more mature. Jiang Yuwei looked at the vegetables in the yard and felt anxious. The peanuts were also ripe. As expected, the crops in the space were not seasonal. With the irrigation of spiritual spring water, they were ripe earlier than the vegetables and fruits outside. This was the off-season vegetables and fruits...
While taking a bath to restore her strength, Jiang Yuwei was thinking about how to deal with the vegetables grown in the space. She could not eat all of them by herself, and it would not be a rare thing if she went out to deliver vegetables to neighbors and fellow villagers. Nowadays, the vegetables in each family's vegetable garden are not eaten up and have to be taken to the market to sell.
Jiang Yuwei thought for a while and suddenly thought of making Malatang! A wild boar happened to come outside. She could use the pig bones to make soup, and then use the pig fat to make lard. Then the pig's internal organs and meat could be sliced as a side dish for Malatang. Add the vegetables she grew with the spiritual spring water, and it will definitely sell well. Oh, and peanuts can be ground with a stone mill to make peanut butter. Wouldn't this sticky Malatang be ready?
Jiang Yuwei did what she said. She first picked a lot of vegetables in the space, pulled out a lot of peanuts, and took out some of the chili sauce she made. Then she prepared chili powder and chili oil.
Jiang Yuwei handed the peanuts to Ning Huaizhi and asked him to peel the peanuts so that he could grind the peanut butter later.
He gave all the garlic to Ning Wan, and asked her to peel it and chop it into garlic cloves to be used as a condiment for malatang.
Ning Daya had already prepared the crayfish for tomorrow's market without waiting for Jiang Yuwei's instructions, and then soaked the beans to make the tofu pudding grand slam. Jiang Yuwei also taught Ning Daya the ingredients and methods of making the tofu pudding grand slam, so she felt very relieved to leave these things to her.
Jiang Yuwei was busy processing the pork with the idiot. They removed the pork bones and used them to make bone soup, then cut the pork belly into thin slices. They also cleaned and processed the pig's internal organs, then sliced and packed them together. Then they processed the vegetables they brought out from the space, washing them all and drying them.
Seeing that the bone soup was almost cooked, Jiang Yuwei put the prepared small ingredients into bowls and fried a large pot of spicy hot pot base. Ning Huaizhi had also peeled the peanuts, so Jiang Yuwei asked Ning Daya to grind the peanut butter.
Soon all the ingredients were prepared, and Jiang Yuwei asked Ning Wan, Ning Huaizhi, Shazi and others to choose their favorite food and put it in a small bamboo basket. She also asked Ning Daya and Ning Huaizhi to watch her cook the spicy hot pot.
Jiang Yuwei first put the side dishes selected by several people into the pot in order and cooked them. After they were cooked, she seasoned them on the condiment table. Soon, several large bowls of fragrant spicy hot pot were out of the pot. The main thing about this spicy hot pot is that the ingredients are prepared in the early stage so that it is still in time to cook them at the market.
Jiang Yuwei prepared a sweet and sour flavor for Ning Wan, a slightly spicy one for Ning Huaizhi, a medium spicy one for Ning Daya, and an extra spicy one for Shazi. Everyone sitting around the stone table couldn't help drooling at the spicy hot pot in their bowls. Even Shazi, who was particularly picky about food, had nothing to say this time and directly picked up the chopsticks and put the food in his mouth.
Jiang Yuwei was about to remind him to be careful of the burns, but she saw him grimacing and panting from the burns. Helplessly, Jiang Yuwei hurriedly got up and took out the gourd root and sugarcane she had picked from the space, preparing to make some gourd root and sugarcane juice to sell at the market tomorrow. The sweet herbal tea was a perfect match with the spicy hot pot.
Jiang Yuwei first cut all the sugarcanes into small pieces and then poured them into the large stone mortar in the yard together with the cleaned gooseberry root and pounded them hard with a hammer to get the juice out. Halfway through, she was so tired that she called a fool to help her pounding, and soon she made a large basin of gooseberry root and sugarcane juice.
Jiang Yuwei found a piece of gauze to filter all the juice and then she could drink it. Because it is paired with sugarcane, the Gotu Kola is very sweet without adding honey. Drinking it in the summer can whiten the skin, remove acne and reduce heat, so it is very suitable to be used as a herbal tea.
Jiang Yuwei thought that if some customers didn't like herbal tea, they could order a bowl of tofu pudding chilled with spiritual spring water and pair it with spicy hot pot.
Jiang Yuwei thought about preparing a few more stools and tables when setting up the stall tomorrow, so that if customers don’t like to take away, they can eat directly on the street.
Thinking of this, Jiang Yuwei asked Ning Daya to find all the small bamboo stools that had been made at home before, and then directed Ning Huaizhi and the fool to work together to make a few small foldable bamboo tables according to her memories of the previous life.
By the time everything was done, it was almost midnight. Jiang Yuwei closed the gate and told everyone to go back to their rooms and sleep.
They have to get up early tomorrow morning to go to the market. There are a lot of things to sell tomorrow. She is afraid that these people are too busy to take the fool to the market, but she is also afraid that the man looking for the fool has not left yet. If they run into him, her family will also suffer. It would be safer to let the fool stay at home and work with Ning Wu and Tie Zhu tomorrow.
We can only wait until this period of hype is over before considering the work arrangements for the fool. After all, Jiang Yuwei adheres to the idea of not keeping idle people at home, and a fool also has to work.
Thinking of this, Jiang Yuwei fell into a deep sleep.