The bacon and spareribs were marinated at home overnight. They were strung together with bamboo strips and hung on cut bamboo poles. Underneath was a layer of pine needles picked by the father and daughter from the mountains. The pine needles were moist and did not catch fire after being lit, but the smoke was very strong. . When the villagers saw the smoke in the Su family's yard, they thought the Su family was on fire. When they came over and took a look, they realized that the Su family was smoking bacon. When they saw the rows of bacon hanging, they were jealous and couldn't help it. They belonged to other people.
The father and daughter smoked in the yard for a long time before extinguishing the fire underneath and looking at the smoked bacon. Su Yu went up and smelled it. Although the smell was not strong, it still smelled like bacon. The next step was to wait slowly for the bacon to dry naturally.
After observing for two days, I determined that there was nothing wrong with the bacon. I took off a very small piece from the bamboo pole and tried it. I took it to the stove and cut it into a pot and stir-fried it. What I ate this morning was fried bacon.
"Mom and dad, try it and see how it tastes?"
Now that the couple is eating the food cooked by their daughter, they are no longer as frightened as they were the first time. Each of them picked up a piece of bacon and put it in their mouths. It tasted really good, but the flavor of bacon was not strong enough. It would be better if it was left for a while.
"This meat is well smoked and tastes better than what we have made before."
"Then can the bacon I make be sold?"
"It's necessary. My daughter's craftsmanship is nothing to say."
Su Yu held the bowl and smiled and narrowed his eyes.
"Dad, you can go find Uncle Gao later and make an order with his family to deliver three pigs every day."
"Why do you do so much?"
"If it weren't for the fact that our house hasn't been built yet and we don't have a place to put it, I'd still think it's too little. The shop has to be open for a whole year, and the time to make bacon is winter. If you make less, you won't be able to sell it for a whole year. That shop How can we keep it open? Besides, this bacon can be stored for several years. If we can’t sell out, we will sell it next year, so we don’t have to worry about it spoiling.”
Hearing what his daughter said, Su Laoer thought it made sense.
"I'll go find your Uncle Gao after dinner. I just don't know if he has that many pigs in his hands."
"Dad, don't worry about it. Uncle Gao will find his own way to get it."
When Butcher Gao brought three white pigs to the Su family, everyone in the village was shocked. What kind of fortune did the Su family make?
When people in the village asked Su Laoer, they didn't hide anything. They just said that his family planned to do bacon business, and they would sell all the bacon. If the villagers wanted to buy, they could also buy from his family.
When they heard that the Su family was making bacon for sale, everyone in the village shook their heads. If any family in the village didn't make bacon themselves, I didn't hear of anyone who bought it. Do the Su family know? Don't get a bunch of meat on your hands. inside.
No matter what the people in the village say, the Su family's supply of three pigs a day has never been exhausted. As time went by, the people in the village got used to it. The Su family's place is not big, so the smoked bacon is hung directly in the yard. Within a few days, half the yard's worth of bacon has been hung.
With so much bacon, naturally some people are greedy, and this evening someone came to the Su family and wanted to take a few pieces of bacon. At this time, the importance of the two tigers came into play. Under Su Yu's unremitting training, the two tigers finally looked like a police dog. When they heard the noise, they started howling wildly. The person who climbed over the wall was so frightened that his feet slipped and he immediately fell to the ground. I fell down, but I didn’t dare to cry out even though I was in pain. As soon as I got up, I ran away. It was impossible not to run, because the dog was chasing me.
The two tigers chased each other for half the village, just like teasing mice.
The villagers who heard the noise got up in the middle of the night and saw that the person who was being chased by the two tigers crying for their father and mother was not Mrs. Liu or someone else. Mrs. Liu actually went to steal the Su family's bacon in the middle of the night. She had just gone to someone else's house to cause trouble a few days ago, and now she went to steal it again. She couldn't even touch a sheep.
Seeing that the two tigers were just chasing her and not biting her, and Mrs. Liu's vigorous exertion did not look like she was injured, the villagers ignored her and went back to their houses to sleep after watching for a while.
Later, Mrs. Liu became famous in Yujia Village. If something was lost at home before, Mrs. Liu was suspected of stealing it. This time the village chief couldn't bear it and went directly to Mrs. Liu's house to ask for two hundred coins and sent it to the Su family. Although the Su family had no loss, as the head of a village, he still had to show his attitude. By the way, Mrs. Liu should also learn a lesson. Two hundred coins, not too much or too little, can make Mrs. Liu feel distressed for several days.
Mrs. Liu didn't go out for a long time after that, she was so embarrassed, but she didn't miss out on the family tree at all.
After that, everyone in the village knew that the Su family's dogs were powerful, and those who were thinking about the Su family's bacon stopped thinking about it.
Xu Zhushan's business has been very good since he went to sell braised meat. At first, he thought that no one would buy it for ten cents a pound, but he didn't expect that after tasting it, people would buy it by several kilograms. He heard that there were almost no people competing to buy the brine, and they almost got into a fight. He didn't even dare to think about such a good business.
The Su family kills three pigs a day, and the Xu family is happiest. From these pigs, his family can earn more than a hundred cents a day, which is more than four taels of silver a month. If the Su family can kill like this every day It would be nice to have more pigs, but the Xu family also knows that this is impossible. The Su family will not kill any more pigs when the weather gets hot.
Today is the twenty-eighth day of the twelfth lunar month. There is a holiday in the clan school. Two tigers are left at home to look after the house. The whole family drives the bullock cart to the town market. I plan to do some New Year shopping. The market in the town will not reopen until after the third day of the Lunar New Year. I will buy a lot of things today.
A few people went to visit the cloth shop first. Su Yu came to this cloth shop to buy cloth more than once or twice. The shopkeepers of the cloth shop all remembered Su Yu and greeted them immediately when they saw them.
"The store just received a new batch of fabrics two days ago. Some of you came over to see if you like them."
"Shopkeeper Li, I haven't seen you for a few days, and you are getting richer and richer."
"Thanks to the girl."
In ancient times, people would not be angry but would be happy if they said someone else was fat. In ancient times, gaining weight was a good thing. Only when one's own family lived a good life would they gain weight. Those who eat one meal but not the next will not be able to gain weight even if they want to.
When they arrived at the shelves, the family was dazzled by the wide variety of fabrics. The three of them didn't know how to choose, so Su Yu had to choose according to his family's preferences.
She is an eleven-year-old girl now, so of course she has to wear brighter colors, pink and yellow. Considering that her mother usually works, she wears dark green and dark blue, and dad wears gray and black. , the eldest brother is navy blue and moon white.
In a short while, I sorted out the clothing materials for the whole family.
"Miss Su has good taste, and the clothes she chooses from the materials are also good-looking."
"The shopkeeper is polite."
While talking here, the clerk over there has already cut the cloth according to the color Su Yu picked out. One piece of cloth can make two clothes for an adult, and more than three clothes according to Su Yu's stature. Ordinary people buy cloth according to the color. When it comes to buying materials for a whole set of clothes, few people would buy them piece by piece. Only wealthy families would do this.
After coming out of Cloth Shop, Su Yu took her mother to a jewelry store. She planned to buy some jewelry for herself and her mother. She was not short of money now.
"Mom, see which ones you like, and my daughter will buy them for you today."
"Madam, you are so lucky. My daughter knows how to be filial to you at such an old age. If I had such a filial daughter, I would wake up from my dreams with a smile."
Mrs. Lian was happy to hear this, but she didn't want to buy the jewelry.
"Yu'er can buy whatever he likes. Mom doesn't need these."
