A small breakfast shop in the street market, supporting the family and making money

After Leng Yan simply listened to what her mother said, she turned to look at Mrs. Wang and Mrs. Xia, but saw that they both looked embarrassed and happy. She immediately understood the reason.

It was estimated that those women formed cliques and factions, and in their circle of doing laundry, they must have bullied these two honest sisters-in-law a lot.

"Hey, boss, we will definitely do a good job."

Perhaps seeing them looking over, the two sisters-in-law waved their hands and said, "We will never cut corners. We will do whatever you ask us to do. It's just that our children are young, so we have to bring them with us when we go out to work."

"That's not what I meant. That's not what I meant."

Seeing that they had misunderstood, Leng Yan quickly waved her hand, and then asked her mother and Sister Wang to help clean the mutton offal.

Leng Yan called her father to the kitchen and asked her father to help clean the mutton fat and cut it into pieces.

"My daughter, will this sheep fat taste good if it is used to make sheep fat?"

Leng Xun asked as he cut the mutton fat with a knife.

"It's OK, but I want to use the mutton fat to make mutton fat chili!"

"Mutton oil and chili, what is this delicious food?" Leng Xun asked curiously.

"It's similar to chili oil, but this chili oil will go really well with the mutton soup, mutton stewed noodles, or even mutton steamed buns that we're going to make later!"

Leng Yan couldn't help swallowing as he spoke, "On a cold winter day, if you can drink a bowl of warm mutton soup or mutton noodles, don't mention how comfortable it is!"

Mutton soup is available in this era, but mutton oil, chili peppers and mutton noodles are unheard of. Therefore, when Leng Xun heard his daughter say this, he was very greedy and immediately quickened his hands' movements.

When making mutton fat chili, the most important thing is of course mutton fat and spices like chili peppers.

Fortunately, they often cook hot pot and malatang base in their shop, so they have a full range of spices such as chili powder.

While Leng Yan first put the chopped mutton fat and water into the pot to boil, he then prepared the chili peppers, peppercorns, bay leaves, onions, ginger, cooking wine, sesame seeds, etc.

Mutton fat is not like lard which has a purely fragrant smell. As the water vapor evaporates, the smell of mutton fat becomes stronger and stronger.

So when the mutton fat in the pot is almost dried up and starts to produce oil, add large pieces of scallion and ginger. The amount should be large, so as to remove some of the mutton smell.

Later, seeing that the oil yield in the pot was getting higher and higher and the mutton fat residue was getting smaller and smaller, Leng Yan took out the fried golden green onion and ginger, and then took out the fat residue.

Leng Yan controlled the heat and added some onions, ginger, peppercorns, bay leaves and other spices into the oil pan, frying them until golden brown and then taking them out.

The chili powder and cold coriander prepared in advance were placed in bowls. Because a lot of kerosene was needed, she prepared two large bowls.

Afterwards, she evenly added cooking wine and vinegar to the chili noodles in the pot. This not only removes the smell and enhances the flavor, but also makes the fried lamb and chili more shiny and rosy.

After mixing the chili powder, Leng Yan turned off the fire in the stove. After the oil temperature dropped slightly, she took a large iron spoon in one hand and chopsticks in the other.

Her chopsticks were specially made and much longer than ordinary ones, so Leng Yan used one hand to hold a large spoon to pour oil on the chili powder, and used the other hand to stir the chili powder with chopsticks to make it evenly heated.

With a sizzling sound, the aroma of chili and mutton fat mixed together, and the fragrant and pungent chili filled the kitchen.

Leng Yan suppressed his cough, evenly mixed two bowls of chili powder and mutton fat, poured in white sesame seeds, and instantly rushed out of the kitchen, sneezed loudly, and suddenly felt refreshed.

Zhang Cuiniang, Aunt Wang and others who were washing sheep offal in the yard had already smelled the fragrant and spicy aroma wafting from the kitchen.

Zhang Cui Niang couldn't help but laugh when she saw this. "My daughter, what are you cooking? It smells so delicious!"

"Lamb oil and chili, you'll know when you try it."

Leng Yan rubbed her nose as she spoke, then sniffed uncomfortably, but heard another childish voice.

"Sister has a runny nose, please wipe it."

She looked down and saw that it was a little girl, one of the two children brought by Sister Wang and Sister Xia.

The little girl was about three years old, with a skinny face but big eyes. She held a handkerchief in her small hands and stretched it high to hand it to her.

This well-behaved appearance made her feel warm. Leng Yan had two younger sisters, Leng He and Leng Jiaren.

Leng He is like a firecracker that goes off at the slightest touch, with exceptionally sharp teeth. Leng Jiaren, on the other hand, had not yet developed her talents, but now that she is being led by Leng He, she is as quiet as a virgin and as active as a mad rabbit.

Fortunately, the great aunt didn't restrict the child too much and didn't ask the child to be raised so that he could never go out of the house, otherwise Leng Jiaren would probably go crazy looking at her now.

But the little girl in front of me is well-behaved and sensible. She even knows how to take care of others at a young age. She is particularly pitiful and lovable.

Later Leng Yan learned that the little girl was called Xingzi, and was Mrs. Xia’s eldest daughter, and that she also had a son who was less than one year old.

Sister Xia and another sister Wang were also miserable people. After their husbands died in accidents, they relied on washing clothes for others and barely raised their children independently.