Chapter 91 Crispy Meat
In my previous life, Xiaoxi, when he was in college, the school offered a massage course, so he learned two tricks. After all, he had to take the exam, so his technique was more professional.
In addition, she had some strength on her hands, so Mr. Chen felt that most of the fatigue was removed by the honey water, and the remaining half was also kneaded by the stream.
It was so comfortable, and I fell asleep while my head was shaking.
"Shh~" Xiaoxi let go of his hand, pointed at Mr. Chen, signaling Chen Yubin to fall asleep, get up slowly, and let him move lightly when he goes to bed.
Because of winter, the mosquito nets were picked and the two beds were lined up side by side, so the stream did not get out of the bed and turned over directly from the bed.
Grandma Chen hasn't slept yet, she hasn't even taken off her clothes, and she is sitting at the head of the bed with her quilt on her back.
"Why is it so fast?" She warmed up the bed and was about to take off her clothes when she saw her granddaughter turning over and asked in surprise.
Xiaoxi leaned over to Grandma Chen, stretched out her index finger and stood up in front of her mouth, "Shh~ Grandma, whisper, grandpa is asleep." He pulled the quilt and crawled in, "Mom-in-law, take off her clothes, I'll pinch it for you for a while, you're tired today."
"Hehe...right." What's wrong with hearing that my granddaughter wants to squeeze my shoulders and get rid of my fatigue?
I quickly took off my coat and didn't let the sweater take off. After all, my upper body was exposed to the air. It was too cold and the temperature was a little low, let alone it was late at night.
Because I learned a little acupoints and added some strength, "Mother-in-law, are you comfortable?"
"Ah~ Comfortable...ah, yes, yes, that's there, use some more effort...ah, yes, go down a little further...ah~" Grandma Chen lay comfortably on the bed. Although she was tired at that time today and kept standing, for her, she still had a sore waist and back pain!
I pinched my neck, the acupoints on the back of my head, then pinched my shoulders, arms, moved down, then back, and finally came to my waist.
The most tiring thing on this day was this waist. After being pinched by Xiaoxi, Grandma Chen felt extremely comfortable and her whole body was happy and comfortable.
Helped pulling the quilt on, "Okay, mom."
"Well, baby, go to bed, you're tired today." After being served and being relieved, Grandma Chen said to Xiaoxi with a kind look.
"Yeah." Get up, smoothed the corner of the raised quilt, and the stream climbed to Grandma Chen's feet, lifted the quilt, took off her clothes and went to bed.
The head of the feet refers to the side where the feet are stretched.
Seeing that he was asleep, Chen Yubin raised his arm and the switch of the light bulb was pulled on the head of the bed where Mr. Chen was sleeping. He leaned his body, reached out and turned off the light. It was pitch black around him. In a short while, snoring and a few shallow breathing sounds.
I slept until dawn. When Xiaoxi woke up, she found that she was the only one in the house. She got dressed and got out of bed.
I passed by the big table outside the house, and the large iron basin containing hawthorn cake was gone. I guess I had cut it, so I didn't take it seriously and entered the house.
Mr. Chen was not here, so he probably went to the ox to add grass. Grandma Chen sat in front of the stove and cooked the pot, and the pot was cooked "bang bang bang". Because she was just getting up, Chen Yubin was sitting by the fire in a daze.
Xiaoxi sat over, pushed him, and then slowly began to comb his hair.
"Ah? Sister, you're up." Chen Yubin, who came to his senses, said listlessly, "I have left you with a washbasin."
After combing her hair, Xiaoxi got up to wash her face.
Their house has a wooden shelf made of wooden strips and is supported in a triangle. There are three layers in total, all of which are used to store basins. A wooden stick is extended from the top, and a wooden box that is the size of a palm without a cover is used to hold soap or soap. There is a wooden strip on the top to make a towel and something like that. This thing is called a face wash stand, which is basically available to every household. In the past, it was a must-have dowry for girls to get married.
The basin containing the wash water is placed on the top layer to facilitate washing face and hands. A few idle basins are placed on the two layers below, so that things are not randomly placed and easy to find, and also save space.
After washing his face, he returned to the fire to sit down. Now someone has come to accompany him, so he is not so listless.
"Sister..." Chen Yubin mysteriously approached Xiaoxi, carried a little stove on his back, took out a basin and handed it to her, "This is what my grandfather cut when he woke up in the morning, gave half to her mother-in-law, and gave the rest to me, and told me to wait for you to get up and give it to you. Hehe... It's so delicious. I tasted it, sour and sweet, and I left half of it." Looking at her flatteringly, I looked at her with a look, and I had already put it away, and I would not return it.
This hawthorn cake is rose-red and has a pleasant color. It looks delicious and wants to drool, not to mention the taste. It is smooth and firmer than tofu, but it is more delicate than tofu, not sticky to teeth and is cold.
Xiaoxi stretched out his index finger and pointed at his forehead with a funny look, "You, it's delicious. Sneak~" reached out to take the basin and put it into the warehouse.
The hawthorn cake is so sour and sweet, and it is very appetizing. Grandma Chen likes it very much after getting up in the morning. But Mr. Chen doesn’t care about these. It’s sour and sweet, and it’s so soft. After tasting it, he doesn’t feel the mood to eat it again, so he doesn’t leave any slice.
Xiaoxi does these not to understand greed, but to digest food and relieve greasiness.
So prepare some for yourself, just enough for the New Year. Anyway, there is extra, so they can eat it if they want to eat it.
When Mr. Chen returned to the house, he brought the meal to the table.
One bowl of porridge for each person is soy milk porridge. It is not boiled with fresh soy milk, but dried the soybeans and beat them into powder with a machine. When cooking, scoop half a spoonful, mix the soybean powder with cold or hot water to mix it into soybean milk, and pour it into the pot. The soybean milk porridge cooked is somewhat deficient in taste and taste than those cooked with fresh soy milk, but this is very convenient.
It's good now. The porridge is usually soy milk porridge, and at most, there are pumpkin, red potato or corn kernels, and pickled cabbage. Unlike before, when mung beans and peanuts were placed in the pot, the most unbearable thing was to cook the rice thinly, then break the noodles into small pieces and put them into the pot, so that the porridge is thicker. Basically, there are eight meals in ten meals, and noodles are cooked in them. Xiaoxi really can't accept these.
A bowl of sauerkraut cooked jelly on the table, and a bowl of food made yesterday was a little cold. It was placed on the grid and heated, but it was not as crisp as it was just out of the pot.
After dinner, it was Xiaoxi's turn to wash the dishes. Generally, she washed the dishes after these two meals during the day, and basically it was Grandma Chen who washed them at night.
I still have to continue working today, but I am not as tired as yesterday.
After having dinner, sitting by the fire to rest for a while, everyone started to get busy again.
"Master, this knife is thicker. Cut one lean meat and fry it into all lean meat." Xiaoxi said, pointing to the fresh meat on the chopping board with three or four kilograms of fresh meat.
One knife is just one piece of meat.
Thinking of his granddaughter not eating fatty meat and likes lean meat. It is best to be the one that is completely thin, he nodded, "That's fine." Just as the knife was fatter and thinner, Old Master Chen used a knife to raise a strand of pork that was completely thin, and then cut the meat into slices about half a centimeter thick. It was too thick and fry it.
Sprinkle the sliced pork with salt, pepper noodles, soy sauce, chicken essence, and chili sauce, beat in two eggs, grab evenly with your hands, marinate for a few minutes and make it taste good.
I cut the bacon soaked last night into strips and marinated them in seasoning for more than ten minutes. Because the bacon is made of dry, it is a bit hard and chewy than fresh meat. But it is not as good as fresh meat, so I cut it into small strips, and the marination time is longer than the marination time of fresh meat.
Xiaoxi sat in front of the stove door to cook the pot, and Mr. Chen poured the pot of oil used yesterday on the chopping board into the pot.
Because this basin of oil was used yesterday and there were few frying today, I didn’t change the oil.
In order to save space, they put the chopping board and the cupboard together. There are uncovered cupboards underneath, covered with chopping boards and chopping vegetables, and put seasonings and so on.
The chopping board is a thick solid wood board, two meters long, one meter, two meter wide, and seven or eight centimeters thick. The cupboard below is a two-layer upper and lower cabinet with a length of about one meter, five meters wide, and seven or eighty centimeters high. There is a single-open small door outside and a small door bolt next to it, so you can lock it tightly if you leave it. Put leftovers in the cupboard, and you don’t have to worry about the cat and dog getting dirty.
Scoop the flour, add water and mix the flour into a fine paste without any gnocchi.
Mr. Chen brought the prepared batter and the pickled pork to the chopping board and said to Grandma Chen on the side of the fire: "I've done it, you can fry it."
Grandma Chen saw the oil pan slightly smoke, and reached out to check the oil temperature. It was almost done. Fry the fresh meat first, and it was already tasty.
Use the bamboo chopsticks in your hand to pick up a piece of marinated pork, put it in a batter basin, turn your wrist slightly, wrap the slices of meat on top, put them in a pan, and continue with the next slice.
The meat slices float on the oily surface, with small bubbles around it. Turn them with bamboo chopsticks to fry both sides of the batter wrapped around the meat slices to make golden brown. Use a colander to pick them up and filter out the excess oil in the baking basket.
Because Grandma Chen fried crispy pork, when Mr. Chen saw that nothing happened, he took over the cooking work and asked Xiaoxi and Chen Yubin to play.
In the past two days, every household has been busy, and Zhao Juan’s family is only three of them. Moreover, her grandfather doesn’t know how to make these things, so she helps her grandfather prepare things at home and has no time to come to Xiaoxi to play.
At this moment, the sun had not yet come out and it was so wet and cold outside, so the two of them had no desire to go out to play, so they sat by the fire and peeled peanuts and roasted the fire.
"Oh, by the way." Xiaoxi remembered something, got up and walked to Mr. Chen, without suppressing his voice. Grandma Chen could also hear, "Master, aren't there pork ribs? Let's chop some pork ribs and fry them into crispy meat, which is delicious."
Hearing this, he was staring at Grandma Chen in the pot and raised his head. "Okay, OK, stewed pork ribs are delicious, fried into crispy meat, it should be even better." As for the food, Chen Yubin stood up from Xiaoxi and went to Mr. Chen, and Chen Yubin leaned his body and listened with his ears. Of course, he supported him unconditionally.
Chapter completed!