Chapter 12 Selling bean sprouts, Mrs. Shen smashed the jar
Mu Chenglin moved very quickly, and the delicious lunch was already prepared. Shen Yunxi was already hungry, so she couldn't wait to come out of the room.
Mu's mother did not dislike Shen Yunxi's rudeness at all. Instead, she felt that Shen Yunxi was down-to-earth, not pretentious, and a good girl who lived a good life.
She is not a pedantic parent. The most important thing is that her children are happy.
Wild boar meat is relatively spicy, but with the seasonings such as chili, Sichuan pepper, onion, ginger, garlic, constant simmering in an iron pot, and Mu Chenglin’s good skills, the meat is still very fragrant!
The whole family ate with their mouths full of oil and were extremely happy!
After dinner, Mu Mu and Mu Chengjin were driven back to the room to sleep by Mu Chenglin and Shen Yunxi. Mu Chenglin planned to start cooking the bacon quickly.
"Brother Mu, aren't you tired? You've been busy all morning, why don't you take a rest?" Shen Yunxi asked. Mu Chenglin was his son and brother, so he placed a heavy burden on him.
But he is only a sixteen-year-old boy!
"I'm not tired, so what does this little bit of physical work mean? Didn't you say you still have to make vinegar? The vegetables dried outside also have to be made into sauerkraut. Finish it early and rest early!"
Shen Yunxi looked at the vegetables that had been dried in the yard and the meat on the ground. She was so jealous that she shut her mouth!
Yes! There is still so much work to do!
It’s just that she feels sorry for Mu Chenglin, like a big sister feels sorry for her younger brother. When she was sixteen years old, she was only in the first year of high school, and she didn’t have to worry about anything except studying!
However, I feel distressed, and I still have to continue to do things.
Shen Yunxi briefly described the steps for making bacon to Mu Chenglin. First, divide the meat and sterilize it with wine, then fry the salt and pepper. When the salt turns yellow, take it out and let it cool. Then apply the salt and pepper on the On the meat.
Put the meat in a basin, cover it, and marinate it for three or four days. Then take it out, wash it, dry it in the sun, and finally find an open space and burn fruit wood or tea tree leaves to smoke it.
Mu Chenglin didn't expect that a recipe for bacon would be so complicated, and it would take so long together. However, it was impossible to preserve fresh meat without spending some effort.
Just do it as you say. The meat has been divided in advance. Shen Yunxi disinfected the meat with wine, and Mu Chenglin fried salt and pepper. After doing this, the two of them looked at the dried vegetables and peppers. There were still some water and need to dry for a while.
Shen Yunxi simply started making vinegar. She took out two kilograms of rice, rinsed it out, and drained the water. Then Mu Chenglin boiled water, and she started frying it. When the rice turned brown, she took it out and set it aside. cold.
"Why do all the things I made today need to be cooled?" Mu Chenglin asked.
The rice needs to be cooled for vinegar, the bacon needs to be cooled with salt, and the sauerkraut should not contain any raw water at all.
Shen Yunxi didn't know how to explain it. She followed the steps on the app, but she guessed that the fermentation process of vinegar would produce bacteria, which would be affected by the temperature.
As for sauerkraut, raw water contains bacteria, which can easily cause the pickled sauerkraut to rot!
But how to explain bacteria to the ancients?
"If it is not allowed to cool, it will easily break and deteriorate!" Shen Yunxi summed it up.
Mu Chenglin felt that this explanation was equivalent to no explanation. He raised his eyebrows and did not continue to ask further.
Everything to be made had to wait. Shen Yunxi and Mu Chenglin took out two jars and began to wipe them with the last bit of white wine. In Shen Yunxi's words, they were sterilized.
When Mu Mu and Mu Chengjin woke up, everything had cooled down and the raw water on the vegetables had dried.
So, the two people also joined the production team.
Mu Chenglin went to salt the meat. Shen Yunxi, Mu Mu and Mu Chengjin began to fill the jar with cold boiled water, salt, pepper, garlic, ginger, and green vegetables in proportion. Finally, they sealed the jar and let it sit for fifteen days. .
Shen Yunxi's side had just finished, and Mu Chenglin's side had also rubbed salt on the meat.
The last step was to make vinegar. The vinegar jar that Shen Yunxi chose was a small jar originally owned by the Mu family. It had just been disinfected with wine. She put the cooled rice into the jar, poured in cold boiled water, and added a certain proportion of white sugar. , stir it with clean chopsticks, and finally seal the mouth of the jar.
"What is this vinegar? Is it that simple?" Mother Mu asked curiously.
"It's very sour, but it's a very good seasoning!" Shen Yunxi explained.
"When the vinegar is ready, I will make a delicious meal for everyone!" Because it was sour, everyone had a strange expression on their faces, and they were very doubtful that vinegar could be used as a seasoning.
"Sister-in-law, you should instruct my brother to do it!" Mu Chengjin joked.
"My brain, his hands, that's it!" Shen Yunxi happily said to Mu Chengjin.
After finishing all this, it was still a little early, but today was a very tiring day. Mu Chenglin boiled water in advance for everyone to wash up, and made white rice porridge for dinner with leftovers from lunch. After eating these, the whole family rested Already.
Shen Yunxi got up early the next morning. She slept very early and soundly yesterday. She was very energetic now, but the most important thing was that she thought the bean sprouts should be ready to eat.
The soybeans that had grown for two days and three nights had already sprouted. Shen Yunxi looked at them and saw that the sprouts were not very long, but they were edible.
She took out part of it to be fired by Mu Chenglin, and she wanted to bring another part to Xia Yifan.
When Mu Chenglin got up, Shen Yunxi had already washed the bean sprouts and prepared the ingredients for stir-fried bean sprouts.
"This is what you distributed with soybeans two days ago?" Mu Chenglin asked.
Shen Yunxi nodded, "I only used two taels of soybeans. That's not all. The bean sprouts will be longer tomorrow. But I have to take them to Boss Xia today."
Mu Chenglin looked at her thoughtfully, then started to light the fire and stir-fry bean sprouts according to the steps provided by Shen Yunxi.
The texture is crisp and delicious, and most importantly, no one has ever discovered that soybean sprouts can be eaten this way.
Mu Chenglin took a bite and stopped eating. He started to make breakfast. Shen Yunxi didn't bring out much bean sprouts. He left some for his mother and brother.
Shen Yunxi shook her head secretly, bean sprouts would become widespread in the future, and as long as there were soybeans, she could make him vomit.
During breakfast, Mu Mu and Mu Chengjin praised the bean sprouts again.
After dinner, Mu Chenglin was going to pull the vegetables that would be pickled and sauerkraut up the mountain yesterday. The villagers helped pull them up yesterday, so he couldn't trouble others today.
Not long after Mu Chenglin left, an uninvited guest came to the door.
Old Mrs. Shen stood at the door of Mu's house with a grimace, as if someone owed her several hundred taels of silver.
"Chen Yunxi!" Seeing Shen Yunxi open the door, the old lady pointed at Shen Yunxi with an expression that wanted to swallow Shen Yunxi up.
The old lady entered the door without saying much. She looked around in the yard, and finally she saw several jars in the yard.
"Okay! Shen Pingping really didn't lie to me! Did you come up with another recipe? What's in those jars?"
"I heard that Mu Chenglin hunted a wild boar yesterday, and you gave it to several families, but you didn't use it to honor your grandparents!"
"Shen Yunxi, how come we, the Shen family, have such a white-eyed wolf like you!"
After saying that, the old lady was about to lift the lid of the jar, but Shen Yunxi immediately stood in front of it. The lid can't be opened yet, otherwise the things marinated in the air will be damaged!
But the original owner was very thin, so the old lady pushed her to the ground, and Mu Mu immediately went to pull Shen Yunxi away.
No one stopped her, and Mrs. Shen was about to lift the lid. At this time, Mu Chengjin stepped forward and pulled Mrs. Shen. He didn't know what would be pickled in the jar, but it was used by his brother and sister-in-law to make money. , the elder brother is not at home, and as the man of the family, he has to protect them.
But after all, Mu Chengjin was only ten years old, and his previous health was not very good and he was relatively thin, so Mrs. Shen pushed him directly.
There were many stones on the ground, which were used to suppress the jars. When Mu Chengjin was about to be pushed by the old lady and her head was about to hit the stones, Mu Mu was frightened.
Shen Yunxi immediately stood up and hugged him. Mu Chengjin fell on Shen Yunxi. Nothing happened, but Shen Yunxi's arm was wiped off the stone, and blood immediately flowed out.
Seeing Shen Yunxi bleeding, Mrs. Shen not only did not feel guilty, but instead said harshly, "This is the consequence of being unfilial!"
"I asked you to marry a rich man, but if you don't want to, you have to marry a poor hunter. Now that you have a way to make money, you don't want to think about your family. You deserve to be injured and bleed."
Mrs. Shen sighed, and then went to lift the lid.
Mother Mu pulled Mu Chengjin and Shen Yunxi up, and looked at Shen Yunxi's arm, which had a large scratch on it, and her eyes were red with anxiety.
"Yun Xi, don't go. If something is broken, it's broken. Don't get hurt again!"
Shen Yunxi stood there, expressionless as she watched Old Mrs. Shen lift one of the lids. It was a pickled cabbage jar. The old lady looked at it and thought it was pickled pickles.
It was unlucky that no one in the Shen family would eat vegetables like vegetables. However, when she thought that Shen Yunxi had not given the wild boar meat to the Shen family yesterday, she picked up a stone from the ground and smashed a hole in the jar.
The vegetables and water inside flowed out directly.
Just when she was about to lift the lid of the second jar, Mu Chenglin came back.
When he opened the courtyard door, he saw Shen Yunxi with blood on his arms, his mother standing aside with red eyes, and Mu Chengjin who was so frightened that his face was pale.
He quickly walked up and pushed the old lady aside.
The old lady's strength could not compare to Mu Chenglin's. She was so crushed that all the bones in her body were about to fall apart and she screamed.
The villagers who were following him to deliver food saw this scene and quickly pulled Mu Chenglin away. Someone immediately went down the mountain to call the village chief.
The old lady came back to her senses and saw Mu Chenglin and a group of villagers, and she immediately burst into tears.
First, he cursed Shen Yunxi for being unfilial, and then said that Mu Chenglin wanted to kill her, that the Mu family was unkind and unjust in running a small business without telling the Shen family, and that Shen Yunxi was shameless and didn't know how to go back if she married the wrong person.
It was not easy for the Shen family to raise her. If she didn't find a rich man, she would be sorry for the Shen family's kindness in raising her.
Everyone was standing in the yard listening to Mrs. Shen's nonsense. Mother Mu had already told Mu Chenglin what had just happened. If Shen Yunxi hadn't stopped him in time, Mu Chengjin's head would have hit a rock.
Mu Chenglin wanted to take Shen Yunxi to apply for medicine, but Shen Yunxi refused.
"The flesh wound is not a problem. It won't be too late to apply the medicine when the village chief arrives." Shen Yunxi said to Mu Chenglin softly.
As soon as the village chief heard that Mrs. Shen went to Mu's house to cause trouble, broke things and injured Shen Yunxi, he immediately ran up the mountain without saying a word.
By the time the village chief arrived, Mrs. Shen was tired from crying and was sitting on the ground. Shen Yunxi's arms were covered in blood, and a lot of vegetables flowed out next to the broken jar in the yard.
When Old Mrs. Shen saw the village chief, she was about to file a complaint. Unexpectedly, the village chief pointed at her nose and cursed, "I said to the Shen family, after you took away the Mu family's one hundred and twenty taels of silver, their lives will be difficult." !”
"I want to eat some pickles in the winter, so I'm going to pickle some pickles to keep for the winter. Don't you even stand looking at other people's pickled pickles? Are you going to destroy them?"
The village chief naturally knows that Mu Chenglin and the others cannot eat so many pickles, but they are running hard and trying to live a good life with their own hands. Why do you want a share of everything?
Isn’t it enough that Shen Yunxi was harmed by you?
"Grandpa Village Chief!" Shen Yunxi spoke, "Grandma thought that if I were betrothed to a rich family as a concubine, I would be sold for more money, so I felt that I had lost one hundred and twenty taels of silver. It had only been three days. The two ends are looking for trouble!"
As soon as Shen Yunxi finished speaking, Mrs. Shen became anxious. How could she tell outsiders about this kind of thing? Shouldn't it be the daughter of the Shen family who took the initiative to fight for the Shen family?
"You're talking nonsense!" Old Mrs. Shen denied it!
"Yun Xi is not talking nonsense!"
"That's right, that's what you said just now!"
The villager who brought the food to the mountain said, this is what the old lady meant when she was sitting on the ground crying just now. Because she felt that she was at a loss, Shen Yunxi had to make up for them, such as prescriptions, wild boar meat, etc., and there were benefits. , it’s right to give it to the Shen family as soon as possible!
"You fart!" Old Mrs. Shen pointed at the group of people and cursed, "She, Shen Yunxi, is the daughter of our Shen family. She has a recipe and a delicious and filial grandma. Isn't it right?"
"According to grandma's opinion, the aunt and stepmother are also other people's daughters. Isn't it right for them to use the Shen family's money to subsidize their parents' family?" Shen Yunxi said.
"Bah! You don't even look in the mirror. If you want to use our Shen family's money to subsidize your natal family, then stay in your natal family and don't come back!"
"Then why does grandma ask me to subsidize my parents' family?"
Old Mrs. Shen was stunned for a moment, knowing that she had been tricked by Shen Yunxi, "This is the principle of our Shen family. The daughters of the Shen family are married to the Shen family, and the daughters-in-law of the Shen family are all to the Shen family. This is My old lady’s rules!”
"Oh! Dear uncles and uncles, you have all heard that in the future, people like the Shen family will be married off to a daughter-in-law, and people like the Shen family cannot form an in-law family. Otherwise, the family's wealth will be emptied, or they will be given a daughter for nothing!"
As soon as Shen Yunxi finished speaking, everyone laughed. Old Mrs. Shen was so angry that she picked up the stone on the ground and prepared to throw it at Shen Yunxi!
Mu Chenglin quickly grabbed the old lady's hand, and Shen Yunxi hid a few steps back, "Grandma, the son of a murderer cannot take part in the imperial examination!"
Sure enough, this trick worked very well. Mrs. Shen looked at Shen Yunxi fiercely and threw the stone on the ground.
Seeing that she didn't get any benefits, Mrs. Shen was about to leave the Mu family. The place was extremely poor. If it wasn't for the benefits, she wouldn't have come!
"Wait!" Shen Yunxi called out to Mrs. Shen.
"What? Have you changed your mind?" Seeing Shen Yunxi stop calling her, Mrs. Shen asked. She wanted to see what a granddaughter who had been suppressed for more than ten years wanted to do!
Shen Yunxi pointed to the broken jar in the courtyard, "We just bought this jar yesterday. It costs 200 yuan a piece. There are more than ten kilograms of vegetables in it. It costs two pennies a kilogram. Grandma deliberately broke it. , you have to pay for it!” This chapter has been completed!