Scene 176: Rice Cake(1/2)
When he returned to the store, Liu Ziru took out the pork belly from his pocket and washed it, and threw it into a boiling pot of water to fly.
After the meat changes color, take it out, and then cut it into squares of similar size when it is not hot.
Continue to put the meat into the pot with water, add cooking wine, ginger slices, and shallots to the water.
Let Christina catch the water and froth, while Liu Ziru cut the onion and ginger himself.
After the meat is cooked, let Christina take it out and drain it.
Liu Ziru poured a thin layer of oil into another pot and heated it over low heat.
After a little while, the temperature will rise. Pour in rock sugar. The rock sugar melts and turns into caramel color. Continue to heat until only a few small pieces of rock sugar are left, and turn off the heat immediately.
Next, you need to wait patiently for the pot to cool down. If you are anxious to pour the meat into the pot, you will be splashed with hot rock sugar liquid on your face.
Pour in the meat cubes, heat them up again, stir-fry the pork belly, and let the caramel color slowly wrap on the meat cubes.
After the meat is completely colored, pour in the prepared star anise, ginger slices, dried hawthorn slices, and scallion slices, and stir-fry again.
After stir-frying, pour in boiling water and the meat has just gone. At this time, add cooking wine, soy sauce, and light soy sauce to boil over high heat.
Taste the taste and make sure there is no problem. Then put the braised pork in a casserole and pour the soup together.
Boil over high heat and turn to low heat for about half an hour, until the soup is thick and you can eat.
However, as a professional chef, Liu Ziru certainly had to serve the plate. He blanched some small vegetables and placed them on the bottom of the plate as a cucumber. Then he used chopsticks to pick the braised pork out of the skin and put it on the plate.
The braised pork skin is burgundy and looks particularly appetizing with the green greens.
Put the braised pork in the middle, then place two bowls of white rice, and then serve a large bowl of kelp soup. This is supper.
"Try it." Liu Ziru said to Cristina.
Christina picked up a piece of braised pork and put it in her mouth, chewing it carefully.
The reason why pork belly is used in braised pork is because of the fat and lean nature of pork belly.
It was indeed delicious. After Christina finished eating, she came to this conclusion. However, she dared to eat it only when she saw Liu Ziru making it. Otherwise, no matter how delicious the braised pork was, she would not dare to taste it.
Because this method covers off almost all the ingredients themselves, and even the texture is decorated with seasonings.
Who knows what this ingredient itself looks like? If it were here, someone might make it with meat that is about to deteriorate to reduce costs.
In the wasteland, it is possible that someone can use human flesh to make it. After all, after doing this, you can't see what the meat itself looks like.
Christina asked Liu Ziru like this.
Liu Ziru nodded and said, "You are right. This is true that some shops outside do this. Perhaps there is less pork, and it is more appropriate to make buns if they are about to break. On the contrary, braised fish should be careful. If it is live fish, the store must be slaughtered in person.
If they weighed it and got it to the kitchen, they would likely be replaced with dead fish. Braised braised can cover up the taste of the ingredients themselves. After they were cooked, no one could taste the taste of the fish itself.
As for the human flesh you mentioned, maybe there is one on your side, but I have never heard of it here. I remember there is a lizard skewers selling ginseng and human flesh in the lizard skewers.
In the end, he died of illness because he ate too much human flesh."
"How do you know?" Christina asked with another piece of braised pork.
"What you can play in the game is the predecessor of the "Fallout 4" you are playing now." Liu Ziru took a sip of soup and said.
"Oh..." Christina stopped talking for a moment, not knowing what she was thinking.
She might be thinking that what she had experienced almost was just a game plot in the eyes of others.
However, she didn't feel bored for long, and soon cheered up again and ate the braised pork in front of her.
"Another bowl," said Christina.
Liu Ziru gave Christina another bowl and finished his meal in a few bites.
"Whoever finishes eating the last one will wash the dishes?" Liu Ziru finished speaking, then sat aside and continued to write novels on his mobile phone.
Logically speaking, a small device like a mobile phone is not very suitable for entering a large amount of text. But for some reason, Liu Ziru is just good at this, and can write things with a mobile phone.
When he sat upright in front of the computer, he felt uncomfortable all over. Not to mention continuing to write novels, even opening the text editing software is enough to make him feel uncomfortable.
After finishing the meal, Christina sat next to Liu Ziru, and asked, "Shopkeeper, you teach me how to cook, let me study, and there are such delicious foods for me to eat. Don't you feel that you have lost money?"
"What's the loss?" Liu Ziru put down his phone and looked at Christina.
"That's..." Christina couldn't think of a good idea for the moment.
Liu Ziru looked at her entangled appearance and said with a smile, "Don't think about it. Just think that I use your salary to let you eat, live and study. Nowadays, cat food and dog food are more expensive than human food, so don't think about it."
Christina felt that Liu Ziru's words were a little problem, but she didn't know what was wrong. She said, "I will definitely work hard, study hard, and repay you!"
Liu Ziru laughed and said with a smile, "Okay, you can do whatever you want, I don't mind."
Christina was about to continue saying something, but suddenly she yawned
Only then did Liu Ziru remember that the master opposite him had played games all night last night and probably hadn't been asleep for two days and night. He said, "Okay, go to bed quickly."
"I...I'm not sleepy..." Christina kept yawning, and she said, "Shop...master...I...got to sleep first..."
"Go and go." Liu Ziru said. He was really afraid of Christina, because he hadn't slept for too long and died suddenly.
He even thought about the news title of her sudden death, "What did the black-hearted store manager who is worse than beasts in the sudden death shop of a girl in another world do?"
“Wait!”
Christina fell to the ground all of a sudden.
I can't tell you my own crow's mouth, Liu Ziru hurriedly stepped forward to check, tried his breath, and made sure that Christina was still alive.
After waiting for a while, he even started to snore.
Liu Ziru tried to pick her up and get her back into the house. However, this was difficult. Christina looked quite slim, but she was dead. Liu Ziru tossed for more than ten minutes, and her forehead was covered with sweat, before she could get her to the stairs.
Just as he was thinking about how to get her upstairs, he suddenly heard the doorbell ringing.
"You are indeed a beast!" As the doorbell sounded, it was Zhao Shanghe's voice. He walked to Liu Ziru and said, "What do you want to do if you knocked her down? Real beast! But I like it."
"What are you here to do?" Liu Ziru asked.
Zhao Shanghe has radiated the canteen in the past twenty years, and has not been more than ten times. According to him, he always feels that something is wrong with radiating the canteen. As soon as he comes here, he feels chilly and gloomy.
"It's nothing, I just come and see the female god. But I said Ziru, what are you doing? In my impression, you are an upright person. Let me tell you, you can't do this." Zhao Shanghe said and pulled Liu Ziru away.
Liu Ziru pushed the boy unceremoniously and said, "What are you thinking? She is so sleepy and fall asleep. I want to carry her upstairs."
Zhao Shanghe smiled with a humble smile and said, "I understand, I understand it. When I was in the first grade of junior high school, I took my female classmates home. When my father saw it, I used it. My freedom, you have finally grown up."
"Get out." Liu Ziru kicked Zhao Shanghe, picked up Christina and went upstairs.
Every time the wooden steps are stepped on, they will creak, which will always make the people above feel that it is about to collapse.
However, Liu Ziru can use his past twenty years of life experience to ensure that this place will never collapse, it will definitely be good, and there will be absolutely no problem.
Although the whole house looks like a dangerous house, in fact, the house is very solid. Grandpa even said that it would be fine if the nuclear bomb fell here and exploded. Of course, Liu Ziru didn't believe it. He once wanted to verify it, but even if he really got the nuclear bomb, he probably wouldn't dare to blow it up.
He took Christina back to her room and covered it with a quilt. Liu Ziru came out and closed the door, and found that Zhao Shanghe was lying on the window and looking down at the end of the corridor.
The cigarette fire flashed and shone with his breathing every time.
Liu Ziru walked to Zhao Shanghe and asked, "What are you doing?"
Zhao Shanghe spread his hands and said, "Come to find her. I'm really here to find her. By the way, what's her name? Where is she from?"
"Christina, Californian." Liu Ziru replied.
"No wonder people from Californians." Zhao Shanghe shook his head mysteriously, as if he could calculate a lot of things by mentioning a place name.
"By the way. Are there any mice in your house?" Zhao Shanghe asked.
"Rat? How could there be rats?" Liu Ziru said, "Don't look at this house as old as I am, I have never seen a rat or a cockroach since I was a child. Do you still remember that the first time I saw a cockroach was at your house."
"That's right..." Zhao Shanghe nodded, and he turned around and said meaningfully, "Then look at what's under my feet?"
"Under your feet?" Liu Ziru took out his cell phone, turned on the flashlight, and shone it at the bottom of Zhao Shanghe's feet.
There is indeed something at the foot of Zhao Shanghe, but it is not a living thing, but a stone.
After careful identification, he found that this was not an ordinary stone, with an ugly and cute creature carved on it that looked a bit like a lion, a bit like a cow. Liu Ziru looked at it for a long time but couldn't see it. He straightened his waist and said, "Why are you stepping on this stone?"
"Stone? Impossible!" Zhao Shanghe lowered his head and found that the thing under his feet was indeed a stone. His face turned strange, "Impossible! I just saw it running around on the ground and then stepped on it. How could the stone run around? No, you really have a problem, I'll leave first. If your little girlfriend wakes up, ask her if she would like to come to my part-time job."
Zhao Shanghe let go and walked downstairs quickly.
Liu Ziru also found it strange that he had never seen this stone before. Could it be that Christina was there? No.
Liu Ziru thought about it and took Zhao Shanghe downstairs. When Zhao Shanghe left, he pulled up the rolling gate of the store.
When he handled the first floor and returned to the upper floor to see what was on the stone again, he could not find the stone.
It's strange, can stones fly long legs? He thought of what Zhao Shanghe said just now, something was running around on the ground, and he thought of his grandfather just said yesterday that some small animals would appear in the house.
He decided to contact his grandpa again, and he must know what these things are.
"Do you know what you are like if you look like a cow or a lion or a lion? Over."
"See it? It's faster than I thought. What is that thing? It's a New Year beast. Over."
"Nian Beast? Over." The only thing that matches this word in Liu Ziru's mind is the New Year beast that people drove away during the Chinese New Year.
"Yes, it is the New Year beast. The most familiar divine beast we Chinese people are. It is said that when it meets the old and new years, it comes out to ruin crops and hurt people and animals. Later, someone came up with a way to drive it away with firecrackers, which is "New Year". Over."
To be continued...