All kinds of fried meat, stewed meat, bacon and bacon, mixed with spicy onions, garlic and moss.

Mrs. Sun made a hot pot. The white radish in the hot pot was grown in her own land. It was plump and crispy.

Paired with radish is beef.

Yang Ruoqing picked up the big chopsticks and put the chili sauce into the hot pot, stirring it. The radish and beef in the pot were immediately dyed red.

Under the high temperature, it makes a cheerful sound of gurgling, and the heat and fragrance hit your face.

Yang Ruoqing picked up a piece of beef that was cut into a moderately thick piece and looked at it. This beef was really a very high-end ingredient in this era.

The price of one pound of beef is enough to buy more than ten pounds of pork.

Just because this is the agricultural era, there are no machines, and cattle are the main production tool.

Take Changping Village as an example. There are seventy or eighty households in a village. From the beginning to the end of the village, the number of households that can independently own a cow can be counted on the palm of a hand.

In the past, the old Yang family worked hard to raise a cow, and the cultivation of so many fields relied on that cow.

As for other families, it is common for three or four families to jointly contribute money to buy a cow.

When the farming season is busy, people are tired and cows are even more tired.

Farming is done day and night, without a moment's rest.

There are many more families who cannot even afford the money to buy cattle for a partnership, so they have to plow the fields by themselves.

Therefore, in this era, villagers cannot easily move the animals that kill pigs, chickens, and cows during the New Year and festivals.

Beef is usually not available in Wa City. Of course, it is a different matter for wealthy families and upper class society.

This is a mountain village, in the countryside, so I only speak the language of people in the countryside.

The piece of beef that Yang Ruoqing is holding with the head of her chopsticks is an old scalper that was shared by several families in the village next door years ago. Its aging has been accelerated due to overwork.

It could no longer plow the fields, so the families together sold the old scalper to the butcher in exchange for some money for the New Year.

Originally, Yang Ruoqing had no intention of buying the beef.

Why?

Sometimes she is shrewd, but sometimes she is a bit foolish.

I feel sorry for that old scalper, who spent his last drop of sweat while alive.

Even after death, the meat still has to be sold for money.

It makes me feel uncomfortable to eat this kind of meat.

The butcher who slaughtered cows had always wanted to do business supplying goods to Tianxianglou, so he sent thirty kilograms of beef over.

Yang Ruoqing was the boss and Yang Yongjin was the shopkeeper. The butcher bribed both of them.

Yang Ruoqing's here is twenty kilograms, and Yang Yongjin's is ten kilograms.

Yang Ruoqing didn't want it at first, but seeing how greedy Xiao An and Xiao Jie were, she accepted it.

Eating beef in winter is good for your health.

I can only comfort myself with the spirit of Ah Q. All animals are eaten by humans. As the top of the food chain, humans have the right to eat all other lower creatures under the laws of nature.

To use a more superstitious term, the soul of the old scalper has been registered.

Eating meat is okay, right? Eat it, eat it. In your previous life, you also ate steak like crazy, don’t be pretentious!

"Wow, this beef stewed with radish is so delicious!"

Yang Ruolan also came over and took a deep breath of the aroma.

Yang Ruoqing smiled. Not to mention the large piece of beef and the soft and spicy stewed radish, the thick soup at the bottom of the pot could make her eat two large bowls of rice!

Hey, I suddenly felt how helpless human beings are in the face of food and instinct.

"Qing'er, didn't you ask me to keep that swim bladder? It's all here. What do you want with this swim bladder?"

Sun's voice came over, and Yang Ruoqing put down her chopsticks, closed the lid and walked towards Sun's side.

Mrs. Sun was preparing to cook the fish, and in her hand was a white, long fish bladder.

Yang Ruoqing picked up the fish bladder, looked at it, and nodded: "I'll get it right now."

"Qing'er, why don't you put the swim bladder together with the fish and cook it in the pot?" Yang Ruolan looked at Yang Ruoqing holding three eggs in her hand and couldn't help but ask curiously.

Yang Ruoqing pursed her lips and smiled: "In the past, the swim bladder was cooked together with the fish. Now let's eat it in a different way."

"What do you want to eat?"

"Hey, let's not talk about it for now. Just watch Lan'er."

Yang Ruoqing deliberately gave it a try, and then rinsed the fish bladder with water again.

Gently knock the three eggs on the pot platform, then pour the whole egg liquid into the fish maw according to the entrance, and do the same with the second and third eggs.

Then sprinkle a little salt, a little sugar, a pinch of garlic and ginger foam into it.

Then use the thin red silk thread prepared in advance to tie up the entrance of the fish bladder.

Hold it in your hand and shake it a few times to spread the previous seasonings evenly.

Then she found a bowl, put the tied and bulging fish maw into the bowl, poured some rice vinegar to remove the fishy smell, brushed it with a layer of soy sauce, and put it there.

"Is this the end?" Yang Ruolan asked curiously.

Yang Ruoqing said: "How is that possible? This is still raw. I let it taste first and wait for its little friends."

"What buddy?"

"Dong dong dong dong... look here!"

Yang Ruoqing took out a plate of large red dates from the tableware cabinet.

These big red dates looked like they had been soaked in water. Yang Ruoqing washed her hands and took two toothpicks.

He kept one for himself and handed the other to Yang Ruolan: "Sister Lan'er, if you have nothing to do now, help me pick the date cores."

"Great!" Yang Ruolan took the toothpick, and the two sisters immersed themselves in picking it together, talking and laughing.

Mrs. Sun was serving other dishes on the side, and when she saw the two sisters at the small table, her face was full of joy.

Soon, all the date cores were removed, and Yang Ruoqing brought a small bowl of soaked glutinous rice.

"Sister Lan'er, help me pour these glutinous rice into the dates," she said.

"okay."

Soon, the two ingenious sisters filled every date.

"What's next?" Yang Ruolan asked.

Yang Ruoqing used chopsticks to shape the glutinous rice and dates into a bowl, then poured a spoonful of honey water on top.

"Next, let's put them in the pot and cook them together."

Yang Ruoqing took the multi-layered steamer at home that was specially used for cooking steamed buns, put the fish maw and glutinous rice and dates into it respectively, put them on the water stove, and let them start their journey...

…

The process of waiting is always beautiful and full of expectations.

"Mom, when will Fifth Aunt and the others come over for dinner?" Yang Ruoqing asked Sun suddenly.

Bao Suyun did not have a natal family, so she had already regarded the Sun family as her natal family.

Every year in the first month of the year, I come to Yang Huazhong’s house to pay New Year’s greetings. This kind of New Year’s greetings is deeper than the kind of New Year greetings between brothers.

Hearing Yang Ruoqing's question, Sun thought for a moment and said, "I originally planned to come over this afternoon to catch up with Mei'er and the others."
Chapter completed!