Siheyuan, my new life

Next, Guo Yongping took out the cutting board from his home, then brandished the cleaver and began to cut the pork and mutton into pieces. He then put the fist-sized pieces of meat into enamel basins and poured them into spring water one by one to soak.

Seeing that the six enamel basins of various sizes were already filled with pork and mutton chunks, Guo Yongping sighed softly. These kitchen utensils were still not enough. However, nowadays, everything required receipts. He had already used up most of the receipts left by his original uncle, Dou Dagang, and could only buy these kinds of things. It seemed that he would have to go to the black market to get some relevant receipts in the future. Unfortunately, his system shop currently only offered some technical data, various production equipment, and a small number of high-tech weapons. Daily necessities were pitifully scarce, with only a few items such as pressure cookers, gas stoves, electric fans, and televisions. Compared to the technical data that cost thousands, tens of thousands, or even hundreds of thousands of merit points, the prices of these daily necessities in the system shop were extremely low. Each pressure cooker cost only one merit point, a complete gas stove cost ten merit points, an electric fan cost ten merit points, and a television cost twenty merit points.

There was no time for sentimentality right now. Guo Yongping raised his hand and gently patted his head. He then purchased ten pressure cookers and ten gas stoves from the system shop. As his merit points on the system interface increased from 10,200 to 10,090, the ten pressure cookers and ten gas stoves appeared directly in his storage space.

Guo Yongping quickly took out these pressure cookers. They looked no different from the Shuangxi pressure cookers that his family had used in his younger days, except that they had no trademarks. He opened one and took a look. The structure was exactly the same as those old-fashioned pressure cookers.

First, I carried a bucket and washed each of the pressure cookers one by one. Then I took out a pork hind leg, wielded a sharp cleaver and quickly cut it into fist-sized pieces. I put these pieces into the pressure cooker, poured in spring water to soak them, and then took out a cleaned goat. This time, I chopped it into large pieces, bones and all, and put it into the pressure cooker to soak.

Guo Yongping glanced at his watch; it was already one o'clock in the afternoon. Although his stomach was rumbling, he didn't want to eat right away. Just thinking about the stewed pork and mutton he could enjoy later made his mouth water.

The pork and mutton need to be soaked for at least half an hour, otherwise the blood remaining in the meat won't be completely removed, resulting in a very strong gamey smell when stewed. Nowadays, there aren't as many different seasonings as in later generations. A few days ago, when he was riding his bicycle around, he visited several traditional Chinese medicine shops before finally managing to buy cinnamon, bay leaves, cardamom, fennel seeds, Sichuan peppercorns, nutmeg, and cloves. He also went to three different supply and marketing cooperatives to buy some star anise, soy sauce, vinegar, and salt. There's no way around it; these days, even if you're rich, the supply and marketing cooperatives won't sell you too much stuff at once.

In his later life, Guo Yongping started renting an apartment off-campus from his sophomore year. Of course, he didn't live alone. From his sophomore year until graduation, several senior and junior female students lived with him in that one-bedroom apartment. This was largely thanks to his outstanding looks and eloquence, as well as his family's relatively good living conditions. His parents gave him 3,000 yuan a month for living expenses. However, the daily expenses of pursuing girls were considerable, and the allowance provided by his parents was simply not enough to cover frequent dining out. So, he learned to cook by watching videos on his computer. Nowadays, video bloggers, in order to increase clicks and views, openly display all sorts of previously secret cooking techniques and seasoning recipes, and even carefully explain the entire cooking process in the videos. Perhaps he had some talent in cooking, because just by learning from computer videos, he could quickly cook quite a few dishes that looked decent, gaining the recognition and praise of the senior and junior female students. Just by buying groceries and cooking at home, he saved a lot of money.

After purchasing those seasonings a few days ago, Guo Yongping had already prepared a lot of seasoning packets at home using the knowledge he had learned in his later life, and they were now stored in his storage space.

Guo Yongping walked to the edge of the small pond, squatted down, and stretched out his left hand into the icy water. Instantly, a whirlpool as thick as an adult's waist appeared on the surface of the water, and a large amount of water, along with fish and shrimp, was directly sucked into the pond within the planting and breeding area.

Although the pool water was icy cold, it was bearable for Guo Yongping, whose physical abilities had been greatly improved. However, he was secretly complaining to himself. Compared to the protagonists in Tomato's novels who had breeding spaces and could easily control external objects with their divine sense and will, even huge beasts and mountains of items could be easily stored in their spaces with a thought, he could only squat here miserably, slowly collecting the pool water. There was nothing he could do; he could only collect objects that he could touch.

As time slowly passed, the area of ​​the pool visibly shrank, and Guo Yongping could only stretch out his arm as far as he could, trying to put his left hand into the ever-decreasing water.

Of course, Guo Yongping's efforts have also been very effective. The pond in the planting and breeding area, which was originally empty, now has nearly 20 centimeters of water, and fish can even be seen jumping out of the water from time to time.

Meanwhile, the water from the pond was piped to the breeding area, where the chickens and ducks gathered around the trough to drink happily.

Less than half an hour later, Guo Yongping had to stop collecting water from the pool. The reason was simple: even though he was lying on the edge of the pool, his left hand could no longer touch the water. If he wanted to continue collecting water, he would have to go into the pool. However, it was freezing cold, and Guo Yongping could not possibly brave the cold to go directly into the pool.

Withdrawing his left arm, which was already somewhat frozen, Guo Yongping got up, brushed off the weeds and mud that had gotten on his body, and looked up at the small pool in front of him. He could now clearly see that the water level in the pool had dropped by at least a meter, revealing the rocks that had been submerged in the pool for years and were covered with moss.

Sensing that the ponds in the planting and breeding areas already had 20 to 30 centimeters of water, Guo Yongping estimated that it should be enough to supply the chickens and ducks in the planting area. Next, he would also have to hurry up and stew the pork and mutton.