Traveling through troubled times to escape famine and cultivate crops as a grain merchant

"This, this, this wine..."

Zhou Guo smiled and said, "How about it, Master? I bought this especially for you. Drink it slowly. You can drink it until next year."

The old man couldn't suppress the smile on his face, and couldn't move his eyes away. "Very good, very good. You are really filial."

Zhou Guo laughed and said, "Don't drink too much. Just a little bit a day."

The old man said without even turning his head: "You bought so much, but you are only allowed to drink so little? I want to drink a few more cups. If you want to be filial, then be filial to the end. What's wrong with letting me, an old man, drink to my heart's content?"

Everyone tried to hold back their laughter and began to carry things down: wine jars, large vats, meat, oil, and food.

All the wine was moved into the cellar, the large vats were placed in the yard, and the meat was carried into the house.

Li was carrying a basket full of things and said to Zhou Guo, "Why did you buy so much food? The family is still short of food. How much does it cost?"

Zhou Guo was holding a basket with the remaining food in it. It had already gone cold. Hearing this, he said, "Most of them were from small stalls. They didn't cost much. I bought them here so that everyone can try them."

Li sighed, "You have the same personality as your father. Whenever you have some money, you buy delicious food for you. You can't save a penny."

Zhou Guo smiled and said, "Mom, don't worry. I know how much these food will cost. I can't spend nothing, otherwise I'd be a miser. I'll go to the mountains and catch a wild boar and earn the money back for you."

Li was helpless. "You treat wild boars as melons in the field. You can pick them whenever you want. If a group of wild boars rush towards you, you can't kill them all at once even if you are as strong as a mountain."

Zhou Gu laughed and said, "Second Aunt, when the wild boars saw Guo Guo, they turned around and ran away. How could they dare to rush forward? They also cherish their lives very much."

The old man was holding a jar of wine and nodded when he heard it, "Yes, that's right."

Zhou Su held his stomach, having eaten the cold wind for so long, he was already hungry, "Mom, I'm hungry."

Zhou Guo nodded, "I'm hungry too, what are we having for dinner?"

Zhou Xing sighed and said, "You guys haven't come back yet, so we don't have the mood to cook. We just boiled some hot water in the pot. You guys wash up first. I'll hurry up and make some dishes. The steamed buns are ready. What do you want to eat?"

Zhou Guo found the beef tripe she bought and asked, "Shall we eat this tonight?"

Ok?

Zhou Mai and Zhou Mi didn't recognize it, so they came closer to take a closer look and asked, "What is this?"

"It looks like a stomach of some kind, a pig's stomach!"

"A pig's belly doesn't look like this. You've seen it before, but it doesn't look like that to me."

Li smiled and said, "This is beef tripe. We don't often eat beef at home, so it's normal that you don't recognize it."

Zhou Guo smiled and nodded, "It's the cow's stomach."

Zhou Xing took a closer sniff and took two steps back because of the fishy smell. "It smells so bad, how can I eat it?"

Zhou Gu didn't care and said, "What's the big deal? It's just like pig intestines. Just wash it and you can eat it. Although it smells a bit strong, it's still meat after all. It's much more delicious than wild vegetables and roots."

That's right. When people think about it, they have all eaten the smelly pig intestines that were filled with shit in previous years, so there is nothing wrong with eating cow stomach? It has never been filled with shit.

The old man said calmly: "Let's fry another plate of radish."

Zhou Guo said: "Master, if I clean my stomach, it won't stink anymore."

The old man waved his hands, obviously not believing that these stinky things could be washed clean.

She said nothing more, and went to the well with her food and a full stomach.

Li followed and saw the salt and vinegar. She shook her head and thought the price was too high. It would be more cost-effective to eat meat.

Zhou Guo carefully scrubbed it seven or eight times, and only stopped when he was sure there was no odor. His hands were red from rubbing and freezing. "It's better to eat less of this. It's cheap, but it's too laborious."

Slice the washed beef stomach and put it into the pot. Add water, aniseed, and soy sauce and braise for more than half an hour.

Cut the braised beef stomach in half and cut it into strips. Add ginger and garlic to the pot and stir-fry until fragrant. Add the stomach and stir-fry.

Take out the soaked and cut pickled radish from the jar and pour it in to stir-fry together. Sprinkle it with white wine, soy sauce, salt, vinegar, and matsutake powder. A sour and fragrant aroma comes up. It would be so delicious if there was a little sour chili!

The roast chicken, roast duck, dim sum and pancakes we bought were heated up and placed all over the table.

Zhou Gu and the others couldn't even take their eyes off. "There are so many delicious foods, why are you still preparing a meal? We could have eaten them a long time ago. What are we waiting for?"

"That's right. Actually, it's better to save the belly for tomorrow's meal. It's better to wash it and smoke it until it becomes a bacon belly."

Everyone just glanced at the big bowl of beef tripe and fried pickled radish in the middle and turned their heads away. With so many delicious foods, who would want to eat that stinky thing?

Zhou Guo sighed that they had no taste. He took a steamed bun, broke it open, stuffed some radish and beef stomach inside, and took a big bite with relish.

The beef tripe is crispy and chewy, and the radish is sour and refreshing. The only thing missing is the spiciness, otherwise it would be more satisfying with the sour and spicy taste.

Zhou Su saw that no one wanted to eat it except his sister. After all, the beef tripe was bought by them and it was meat.

He stood up and picked up a big handful of beef with chopsticks, and the first thing he ate was the beef tripe.

After eating one, his eyes lit up and he exclaimed, "It's delicious, not smelly at all."

Zhou Guo smiled and said, "Yeah, eat more. I think it tastes much better than roast chicken. Let them eat the roast chicken, and we will eat the tripe."

Zhou Su nodded happily. He thought roast chicken was delicious, but beef tripe was even more delicious.

The others were skeptical when they heard this.

Li had no doubts about it. After eating one, he found that the salt and vinegar were not used in vain. The fishy smell and stinky taste were gone. It was delicious, but it was too wasteful and he didn't like it very much.

Zhou Gu adjusted the direction of his chopsticks as soon as he heard it, and nodded repeatedly after taking a bite. "It's not stinky, it's really not stinky, it's delicious, much better than pig intestines, which are so smelly after being washed!"

Zhou Mai thought about what was in his stomach, so he ate one and paused, then couldn't help but eat some more.

Zhou Mi ate it and nodded.

Seeing that everyone was eating so happily and the response was so good, the old man thought that his young apprentice was always reliable, so he picked up a sour radish first. It was really sour, worthy of being called a sour radish, but it was sour in a flavor and tasted good.

After eating a few pickled radishes, he tentatively picked up a piece of belly. His brows jumped and he picked up another one. It was indeed not smelly and tasted quite good. It was indeed better than the roast chicken which tasted not very good.

Seeing that everyone had started to eat the dish, Zhou Guo smiled and said, "How is it? It's delicious, isn't it? This beef tripe is very cheap. It's only 16 cents for such a big one. I kept half of it and soaked it in brine. It will taste better tomorrow after soaking overnight."

Li shook her head and said, "The stomach is cheap, but the salt and vinegar are not cheap at all."