When I arrived at Boss Zhang’s small restaurant, I saw that Boss Zhang had just returned with a small cart.
Li Qing and Hou Hou quickly stepped forward to say hello and helped take the things from the trolley down: "Uncle Zhang, what did you buy? There are so many?"
The relationship between the four of them had become much closer last night, so Boss Zhang didn't show any politeness, but was happy that the two of them started working together.
Boss Zhang wiped the sweat from his head: "Hey! They are all pigs that others don't want in the water. I'm used to it. It seemed like a pity to lose them, so I packed them up and brought them back. The butcher shop owner also gave them half for sale and half for free. , In addition, I bought a barrel of soybean oil and chili noodles today. Didn’t I say I would try the oil chili today?”
"Hey, the butcher shop owner won't even bother to deal with such a big pot!" The monkey curled his lips in disgust when he saw the bottom pot of pigs in the water!
"Dispose of it? They just found a place to bury it!" Boss Zhang answered without looking back as he was busy unloading the truck.
Li Qing looked at a pot of pigs entering the water, stretched out his hand and retracted it: "This is too disgusting, it's bloody!"
"Haha, it's ugly, but it's delicious when it's done. Didn't you guys eat hard yesterday?" Boss Zhang was used to it, so he stretched out his hand and took it down.
The monkey looked around: "Aunt Tao hasn't come yet?"
"It's probably going to be soon. She still needs to clean up the house. She usually comes later!"
"Oh, Uncle Zhang, do you think we can help? Just ask!"
"It's okay. How about I teach you how to deal with pig waste?"
"No, I won't do that!" Li Qing looked disgusted.
Instead, the monkey expressed great interest and was a little eager to try!
"Then, Xiao Li, please help light up the stove. It will be needed for making chili peppers later!"
"Okay, I'm familiar with this!"
Watching Monkey Pidianpidian follow Boss Zhang to the hand-pressed water well nearby, the two of them were busy working around the hand-pressed well. Li Qing looked at his hands itching and really wanted to try it. He remembered that every house used to have it, and it was already good. Haven't played it for a long time.
To kill the well, you need to divert water. Cover the water outlet with your hands, pour water over the piston, and then press the handle. The piston will fill with water, empty the air in the water pipe, and use the pressure to pump out the groundwater. The monkey has a great time. Huh.
Li Qing's eyes grew hot when he saw it, but he still refused to admit defeat: "You don't care at all, what's the fun in dealing with internal organs? That thing is less seen on the battlefield? Playing with fire... is the choice of high-end players!"
In front of Li Qing is a small iron stove. The furnace is a little larger than that of a honeycomb briquette stove. At this stage, the stove only burns briquettes, so it is quite convenient to use.
Briquettes are not coal, but coal powder, add loess and water in a certain proportion, mix and stir thoroughly to form a paste or paste, and make briquettes or briquettes of suitable size. After drying, they can be stored for a long time.
Li Qing made briquettes when she was a child, which was quite interesting, but later they were slowly replaced by briquettes.
Making a fire is easy and difficult. It is difficult for people who don’t know how to light a fire to light a fire at once. Stuff the flammable dry grass into the furnace, ignite it and then stuff it into small pieces of firewood. Small pieces first and then small pieces. After confirming that the firewood is ignited, put in the briquettes and wait for the firewood to ignite the briquettes!
As the briquettes were put in, a thick smoke emerged from the furnace. Li Qing quickly took a few steps back, tears streaming down her face.
It seems very simple, but novices who make a fire often find that when all the firewood at the bottom is burned out, the briquettes above are not ignited, so they have no choice but to start over.
When Li Qing was a child, he was naughty with monkeys. He used the useless iron cans at home to build a small stove by himself, and excitedly ran to the village drying field to test it. As a result, not a single haystack on the drying field was spared. The villagers' half-year supply of firewood was completely burned by a fire, and the fire burned for several days...
The fire was half lit, and Aunt Tao came belatedly. When they met, she looked at the dark circles on Li Qing and Hou Hou's faces, and scolded them: "Did you go out to be a thief last night? Why are they both acting like this?" You don’t look like you’re awake!”
The monkey looked like he was guilty of being a thief, he was hesitating!
Li Qing thought: This is not good! It was the monkey who became the big thief in the middle of the night, mainly because of his labor. At best, he was just a little thief who was affected by misfortune, so he worked hard!
"Look at you, you are as skinny as a monkey. No wonder you are nicknamed monkey, why can't you eat more?" Aunt Tao was fine for a while, with one hand on her waist, pointing at the monkey and nagging. !
Li Qing complained secretly: Aunt Tao, are you feeling guilty? If you said this to a monkey when you were a child, no one would have anything to say. After all, at that time, he was as skinny as a stick, and he would be praised as a monkey. Now, this monkey has a tendency to develop horizontally, and he is said to be as skinny as a monkey. Like a monkey, it's a bit...
Fortunately, Monkey almost accepted Aunt Tao as his godmother yesterday. Are all mothers in the world the same? There is a kind of thinness that makes your mother think you are thin, and there is a kind of coldness that makes your mother think you are cold...
Seeing Aunt Tao glance at him several times, Li Qing quickly diverted Aunt Tao's attention and said, "Hey! Aunt Tao, the fire in the stove seems to be rising!"
At this moment, Aunt Tao's attention was diverted, and she walked over and took a look: "Well, it's fine, not bad!"
The monkey couldn't help but wiped his sweat beside him, and finally breathed a sigh of relief. He thanked the stove god for saving his life, and hoped that the stove god would have prosperous fire, good fortune, and good luck...
Seeing Aunt Tao looking at the stove in a daze, Li Qing couldn't help but remind: "Aunt Tao? Aunt Tao!"
"Huh? What's wrong?"
"Uh, let's try?"
When things came to a close, Aunt Tao hesitated: "Then... try it?"
"Let's do it less and give it a try first!" Li Qing made a small suggestion.
"Okay! Just give it a try!" Aunt Tao made up her mind.
The next step was preparation. The stove was moved back a little, but still placed in front of the restaurant.
A large iron pot, a frying spoon, a large bucket of soybean oil, a large bag of chili noodles, raw peanuts, sugar, salt, pepper (if there is no five-spice powder, use pepper instead), onions, ginger, garlic, star anise pepper, etc., all kinds of five-spice Taking whatever aniseed was available, the two of them were busy working together.
At this time, Boss Zhang and Monkey also put down their pigs and went into the water, coming over to watch the fun and fight.
How to make it was discussed yesterday. Aunt Tao has done it in China before, but there are a lot of things missing here, so it is considered a new attempt.
First, the peanuts need to be fried. This is a task that most people cannot do. If the heat is not controlled properly, the peanuts will either become crispy or burnt. Aunt Tao has to do this in person, which is a piece of cake for her.
It would have been better to use black bean sauce. Yingtian’s home-made soya bean in the north is called dry soybean, and there are also dry wax beans. However, it is not as convenient as in China. After the strong suggestions of Li Qing and Monkey, I used fried peanuts instead.
Fry the peanuts and set them aside for later use. This stuff has to be cooled before it tastes good. It tastes soft and soft when it comes out of the pan. After it cools down, it becomes crispy and fragrant.
Aunt Tao spent a while and rolled her eyes at the three people around her several times, but she still couldn't stop the three gluttons from secretly grabbing a small handful, that smells delicious!
