Chapter 10 The fried meat with fungus is also very fragrant

Spring has returned to the earth, and everything has revived. It started to rain lightly today, and the weather is still colder now. Zhao Yunlan is counting the time, and Li Mingren should be back.

The second and third brothers visited Li Mingren on the day they came back and said they would be back in two days. In the past few days, the second and third brothers were also encouraged by Li Mingzhi to teach Zhao Yunlan and Li Mingmei how to read. Now it is Zhao Yunlan who can't do it.

Li Mingmei asked Li Mingzhi, and Li Mingzhi asked his second brother and third brother. The news came back again, and a learning atmosphere suddenly arose in the Li family.

During this time, Zhao Yunlan was cooking and thinking of ways to change the dishes for everyone. The Li family became more and more fond of eating Zhao Yunlan's cooking.

On the day when the second and third children came back from working part-time, Zhao Yunlan took the last meat and cooked radishes to eat. Everyone praised Zhao Yunlan's cooking. The original owner's cooking skills were very average. In modern times, Zhao Yunlan's own cooking still tastes good.

Yes, of course that is when the seasonings are complete, and the reason why the cooking here is delicious may be because I am less willing to put in oil compared to other people in the Li family.

Mrs. Wang came out of the house: "Lanniang, the boss will be back in the next two days. You go to your Uncle Li's house at the entrance of the village to buy a catty of pork."

Uncle Li's name is Li Shitou, and he is a relative who came out of the fifth server. According to Old Man Li's seniority, Zhao Yunlan and the others should be called his second uncle.

When he was young, Li Shitou followed the owner of a pork shop in the town to catch pigs in the mountains and countryside. Later, he found some jobs and returned to the village to work on his own. Li Shitou has two sons, and now there are two pork shops in the town.

One of the stalls is owned by Li Shitou's eldest son. Li Shitou's second son follows Li Shitou at home, selling meat in the village and tending the family's fields. Li Shitou has always been considered a kind family, and the money given to catch pigs never lowers the price.

There is never a shortage of pork when selling pork. Sometimes people from poor families come to Li Shitou to buy meat, and Li Shitou always buys more.

Zhao Yunlan has already arrived at the door of Li Shitou's house. Looking at the blue brick house, he is extremely envious. "Uncle Li, I'm here to buy a pound of meat."

The price of fatty pork here is 15 cents per pound, pork belly is 12 cents, and lean meat is 10 cents.

Li Shitou: "We have almost sold out the meat in the past two days. We haven't harvested the new pork yet. There are only a few kilograms of meat left. Let's see if it works."

Zhao Yunlan looked at the small pieces of meat on the meat board. There was very little fat and mostly lean meat. He glanced at a small piece of pork belly and said, "Uncle Li, weigh this piece of meat for me."

"Okay," Zhao Yunlan pointed at the piece of pork belly, and Li Shitou weighed it, "It weighs half a catty."

Zhao Yunlan thought about the money Wang gave her for a pound of fat meat, weighed another piece of fat meat, and weighed it with a piece of lean meat, weighing half a pound. Li Shitou also knew the situation of the Li family in recent years.

A village can't hide anything. Remembering that Zhao Yunlan had fallen off his head before, looking at the meat Zhao Yunlan got, he decided to pay the price for lean meat.

Zhao Yunlan said, "Second Uncle Li, how can this be done? My mother-in-law has given enough money for the meat. Uncle Li does not have to be like this. It's time for my mother-in-law to talk to me when I get back."

Li Shitou insisted, but Zhao Yunlan had no choice but to spend only ten cents in the end. On the way home, Zhao Yunlan was thinking about what gift to give to Uncle Li's family in return.

When Mrs. Wang received the five cents returned from Zhao Yunlan, she took a look at the meat and knew that Li Shitou was taking care of her family again. "Fourth, I still have a few winter bamboo shoots that I dug at home. Let's take them to your second uncle's house."

After hearing this, Zhao Yunlan once again affirmed Wang's character, and only then did she know that there were winter bamboo shoots at home, which she had not noticed before. Zhao Yunlan knew that there were bamboos on the mountain, but he had not seen anyone digging them in the past few days.

Those few winter bamboo shoots were usually placed in an inconspicuous place. Zhao Yunlan had no idea that there was such a thing. If she had known, those few winter bamboo shoots would have gone into her stomach long ago.

Zhao Yunlan watched Li Mingzhi take out the winter bamboo shoots from the corner and walked out. He thought about whether he should go to the mountain to dig some bamboo shoots and come back. After thinking about it, he decided to take action. Zhao Yunlan asked Li Mingmei to go with him. Xiaobao wanted to follow.

Zhao Yunlan felt that the mountain road was difficult to walk in the rain, so she coaxed Xiaobao to wait for her at home.

The two of them walked towards the back mountain with their backpacks on their backs. Lijia Village is surrounded by mountains on three sides. Most of the bamboos are concentrated on the slope of the back mountain. In addition to bamboo, there are other trees on the back mountain, but there are relatively few bamboos on other mountains.

Li Mingmei said, "Sister-in-law, it's probably hard to find these winter bamboo shoots after the beginning of spring." Zhao Yunlan said, "Well, let's go take a look. If we can't find it, we can pick up shoes and firewood and go back. It's not a wasted trip. It's raining now.

You have to collect firewood to dry, otherwise you have to wait for a while to pull out the bamboo shoots."

Li Mingmei recently followed Zhao Yunlan to learn Chinese characters. She was amazed at Zhao Yunlan's reading speed, so she was very convinced of Zhao Yunlan. Basically, Li Mingmei was the first to support what Zhao Yunlan said.

The two walked to the bamboo forest one after another, looking for winter bamboo shoots left and right. Sure enough, these bamboo shoots had grown a lot taller and were inedible. After searching for almost half an hour, they saw two bamboo shoots.

Even though he was old, Zhao Yunlan thought that he could still find them. The two sisters-in-law walked around for another hour and found six bamboo shoots. Finally, looking at the eight bamboo shoots in the basket, Zhao Yunlan smiled with satisfaction.

Zhao Yunlan followed Li Mingmei out of the bamboo forest. The two of them were going to pick up firewood and go down the mountain. As they were walking, they suddenly looked up and saw that there seemed to be small fungus on the tree over there. Zhao Yunlan was very happy and hurriedly ran over.

Li Mingmei also ran over to pick it, "Sister-in-law, it's the fungus, take it back and cook the radish to eat."

Zhao Yunlan was only thinking about the fungus meat slices at the moment. She looked at Li Mingmei helplessly and turned to pick up the fungus. This piece of fungus had been picked out. Zhao Yunlan looked at the small half of the fungus and was very happy. She didn't plan to look for other fungus.

Okay, the two of them headed home carrying their baskets on their backs.

When they returned to Li's house, they took out the things, including fungus, and Zhao Yunlan took them to the kitchen to wash them, and put the winter bamboo shoots aside for now. Li Mingmei wanted to see how Zhao Yunlan made the fungus.

Zhao Yunlan thought that if Li Mingren couldn't come back today, he would still eat the meat as he should. Otherwise, the fried pork with fungus would be okay without the meat.

Zhao Yunlan planned to use the piece of fat to cook oil. After all, she had taken over all the kitchen work now, so she decided how to handle the ingredients. Wang always felt that she had treated Zhao Yunlan badly after she fell on her head.

I didn't ask much about the kitchen.

Zhao Yunlan used to fry fat meat in oil as usual. This time she bought domestic pork. The fat meat was very thick and could boil a small bowl of oil. She scooped out a large portion of the oil and saved it. She also made a small half of pork belly for cooking.

For stir-frying, the pork belly can also be stir-fried with some oil, so there is less oil left in the pan. Zhao Yunlan asked Li Mingmei to help pick some onions and peel some garlic. Zhao Yunlan also wanted to use ginger, but ginger is expensive at the moment.

Basically, it can only be found in pharmacies, and ginger is rarely sold in vegetable markets.

There are some garlic and onions planted in the yard at home. Thinking of garlic, Zhao Yunlan thought of making fried meat with garlic sprouts. I can still eat garlic sprouts in the past two days, and I should eat garlic moss in a while. These fried meats are good.

.There are no chili peppers, and I don’t know if anyone else grew chili peppers in this era.

Li Mingmei helped clean the garlic and onions. Zhao Yunlan patted the garlic and stir-fried it with the meat. Seeing that the meat was almost cooked, she put the fungus in, stir-fried and added some salt. Finally, before putting it in the pot, she chopped the green onions.

Throw it down. A fragrant fungus meat slices will come out of the pot. Li Mingmei thinks it is very fragrant, and Zhao Yunlan thinks it would be better if there is Douban chili sauce.

Zhao Yunlan then used the fat meat residue that had just been boiled to make radish soup. The vegetables haven't come out these days, so the only food at home is radish and cabbage. People say that radish is eaten in winter and ginger is eaten in summer. Zhao Yunlan still prefers this.

Oily radish soup.

Today’s staple food is cornmeal and brown rice steamed together, of course there is more cornmeal. When the rice was almost ready, I didn’t see Li Mingren. Li Mingren would come back early when he came back before, and now there is no dinner.

I arrived, I guess I won’t be back today.

Li Mingren didn't give the second and third children a definite time before. The Li family looked at the fried pork with fungus on the table and thought to themselves that this was not a waste of meat, but when they saw Zhao Yunlan eating a piece first, they smelled it.

It was so fragrant that everyone couldn't resist the temptation of meat. As a result, the plate of fried pork with fungus was finished in a short time.

The younger ones in the family were still unsatisfied, and even Xiaobao shouted that she still wanted to eat. Li Mingzhi helped Li Mingmei clear the dishes, while the second and third children went to fetch water and prepare to boil hot water for washing in the evening.

Zhao Yunlan took Xiaobao to eat in the yard. Zhao Yunlan thought that under the leadership of the Li family, all boys and girls in the Li family were treated equally, and all the housework they should do would be shared, except for Li Mingren's accident.
Chapter completed!