Dreaming of Lion Rock: Recipe in Hand

The braised offal sold by her elder sister was so much more expensive than the raw food, and Chunni suddenly had an inspiration.

Why doesn't she process the rabbit and sell it? As long as it tastes good, the rabbit should be able to sell for a good price.

Chunni did what she said and walked towards the supply and marketing cooperative. She had to buy some spices like star anise and galangal first.

The last purchase has already been used up!

After returning home, Chunni started thinking about what to sell. As a foodie, she quickly remembered the cold-cooked rabbit, spicy rabbit head, double pepper rabbit, dry pot rabbit, hot pot rabbit... just thinking about it made her drool.

Under the current conditions, only cold-eaten rabbits are suitable for selling in the county town. Although Chunni has eaten cold-eaten rabbits twice, she still dares not kill the rabbits.

Chunni thought about it and decided that it would be better to wait until midnight when everyone was asleep before cooking, so as to prevent the smell from attracting the villagers.

There was no rush anyway, so Chunni decided to wait until Xiazhi came back. She was the eldest sister, so what was wrong with asking her younger brother to kill a rabbit!

Chunni decided to do other preparations first, such as cutting the dried chilies into sections with scissors and grinding the spices into powder...

Fortunately, we went back to Sichuan, where people love spicy food. Almost every household grows chili peppers, and Chunni's family also has a lot of dried chili peppers. Otherwise, where can she buy chili peppers?

Chunni cut about a pound of peppers, washed them in clean water, and then boiled them again to prevent the peppers from getting burnt when frying the rabbit meat later. Grind the aniseed into powder and wait for the summer solstice to come home.

Today is the first day of school. The main tasks are to register and clean the campus. After that, school is over. Xia Zhi, who is just in the second year of junior high school, came back early. He is diligent. He killed the rabbit as soon as he came back and cleaned the internal organs. There is not much food, so the rabbit's internal organs cannot be thrown away. Chunni plans to stew it with pickled cabbage, which can also be regarded as a meat dish.

Chunni cut the rabbit into small pieces and soaked them in clean water. When He Yanqing and Yunshu came back from school, they saw the rabbit meat in the basin and didn't ask anything.

In her previous life, Chunni could not fall asleep until the early morning. After arriving at Lion Rock, she followed the local customs and went to bed early after dinner.

After all, there are no entertainment activities during the day, let alone at night.

If you don’t sleep, you can only give birth to babies. That’s why so many babies were born in the past!

Of course, Chunni was unable to have children now. She tried hard to keep her eyes open, enduring the fight between her upper and lower eyelids. She finally waited until everything around her was quiet, and Chunni decisively got out of bed.

If she couldn't get up, she could only sleep according to her body's instinct.

Lao Ma is a portable app, but it doesn’t have an alarm function. Chunni gets angry when she thinks about it.

There was no electric light installed in Lion Mountain, so Chunni could only get up in the dark and light the kerosene lamp, then slowly walked to the kitchen. She passed by the living room and woke up Xiazhi. He didn't say anything, but quietly got dressed and got out of bed, and followed Chunni to the kitchen.

All the preliminary preparations were done. Chunni asked Xiazhi to light the fire while she washed the pot.

The fire was burning very vigorously, and the pot was hot in a short while. Chunni poured in the last half pound of rapeseed oil. When the oil was hot, Chunni put the rabbit meat in and stir-fried it until it turned golden brown. Then she added star anise, salt, soybean oil, rock sugar, chili segments, etc. At this time, the aroma was so fragrant that it almost made Chunni drool.

When Chunni's hands become numb, the rabbit meat is ready. Add some roasted sesame seeds and remove from the pan.

"Sister, it's the middle of the night and I'm so hungry." Xia Zhi said, his Adam's apple sliding up and down, obviously he was very hungry.

"Haha, try it and see if it tastes good." Chunni asked him to try it. Xiazhi didn't hesitate and quickly reached out to pick up a piece of rabbit meat and started eating.

"Wow, it's delicious, it's still the same flavor, numb and spicy." Xia Zhi kept saying it was spicy but he didn't stop and took another piece.

He Yanqing stood behind the brother and sister without knowing when, and said with a slightly dissatisfied tone: "Well, what delicious food did you two eat secretly? You woke me up."

The brother and sister looked at each other and laughed, like two cats that had stolen some meat.

Chunni picked up a piece of rabbit meat with chopsticks and fed it to He Yanqing's mouth, saying, "Even eating can't shut your mouth?"

He Yanqing's ears were visibly red, but under the kerosene lamp, no one noticed.

"Wow, so spicy, so fragrant, how can it be so delicious."

Chunni laughed heartily. It seemed that the dish was quite in line with the local people's taste. She became more confident in selling cold-cooked rabbit.

In the blink of an eye, it was the next morning. She asked Xia Zhi to go to the lotus pond to pick some lotus leaves while she went to ask Yang Anzhang for leave.

There is no way. Although it is not the busy farming season now, the production team still has some work to do, such as weeding.

Absenteeism without reason would result in work points being deducted, and Chunni couldn't bear that.

Chunni handed the crying Donglin to her aunt, and went to the county town with Qiuguo. However, one went to school, and the other went to the black market.

It was also the bearded man who opened the door. He looked at the backpack behind Chunni, smiled, and told Chunni to go in quickly.

The bearded man looks mysteriously handsome when he smiles.

Chunni went out early today and thought there would be few people in the black market so she could find a better stall.

She never expected that there would be more people than ever before. She quickly found a seat and sat down.

Yes, the black market provides stools.

It was impossible to sell the food in this place, so Chunni had to take out a little bit of cold rabbit and put it on the lotus leaf, ready for tasting.

Her cold-cooked rabbit stood out among the various gray agricultural products. It was spicy and bright in color, and soon attracted two customers to stop.

"Little brother, what is this?" asked a slightly plump middle-aged man.

Chunni is still dressed in men's clothes today.

There is no way, it is still risky for the little girl to mix in the black market.

"This is the cold-eaten rabbit my grandma made. My dad asked me to sell it on the black market."

Chunni was helpless. She couldn't say that there were no adults in her family and that she had to do it herself to support her family.

“I don’t know if it tastes good or not?” The middle-aged man’s saliva was secreted rapidly, he really wanted to have a bite.

"You'll know if it tastes good after you try it." Chunni saw through the uncle's thoughts at a glance, and she picked up a piece with chopsticks and gave it to the uncle. She also picked up a piece for another bystander.

The uncle's surname is Yuan. He is an office worker in a government agency. He has no other hobbies except eating.

Uncle Yuan chewed the rabbit meat carefully, feeling it was numb, spicy, fragrant and crispy. The spicy taste made his mouth water and he wanted to eat more.

He asked Chunni embarrassedly for another piece.

He felt that he had been eating pig food before, and now he had opened the door to a new world of delicious food.

"You want this cold-cooked rabbit, right? How much is it?" Uncle Yuan licked his lips.

"Three yuan per pound." Chunni had already thought of the price.

"You are robbing me, selling it at such a high price." The other person who tasted the rabbit meat thought it tasted good, but thought it was too expensive, and it seemed he wanted to bargain.

"It's not expensive. Meat is scarce now. In order to stir-fry the rabbit meat, my grandmother added more than ten kinds of spices and a lot of oil. The cost is not small." Chunni will not lower the price.

Uncle Yuan was very straightforward and asked Chunni to weigh two kilograms directly, as he had no shortage of money.

The other man saw Chunni's determined face and knew that she would not lower the price. After hesitating for a while, he still bought half a catty.

Today his daughter's boyfriend came home for the first time, so he bought some rabbit meat to entertain his future son-in-law.

Chunni didn't expect it to be so smooth, and it was a great start. More and more people came to the black market, and her cold-cooked rabbit was sold out.

Some people even asked her when she would come again, which made Chunni very happy.

Chunni sold a total of five pounds of cold-cooked rabbit today, earning fifteen yuan. After deducting the three yuan spent on oil, aniseed, and chili peppers, her net income was twelve yuan.

This was Chunni's first pot of gold after coming here. She was so happy that she bought a pound of brine and went home happily!

The weather was hot, and Chunni was afraid that the offal would go bad, so she put the offal in a basin and hung it in the well.

The cauliflower in the field was almost ready to eat, so Chunni went to get two. She fed the leaves to the rabbits. Seeing the dozen rabbits in the pigpen, Chunni fell into deep thought. Although rabbits have amazing reproductive capacity, if she sells two a day, they won't last long!

Chunni thought about expanding her breeding, but due to the disaster this year, it was hard to find edible grass. How could she feed the rabbits?

Buy rabbits from others? Forget it. Many villagers even eat the breeding rabbits. When they are starving, they don’t care whether they grow rabbits or not.

Yang Anzhang is worried now. As agreed, every household should hand over five rabbits by the end of the year, but this task may not be completed.

In order to ensure that everyone had enough food, Yang Anzhang arranged for people to plant numerous soybeans and red beans, and also found potatoes, cut them into slices and planted them in the soil. He hoped that there would be a good harvest so that the elderly and children could have enough food.

Not to mention that Yang Anzhang's hair turned white due to worrying about the entire production team, let's talk about Chunni. She decided to sell cold rabbit once every ten days.

In this way, she can earn more than 30 yuan a month, which is equivalent to the monthly salary of workers of the same period. Having a fixed source of income has solved the urgent needs of Chunni's family.

It’s just that the oil problem needs to be solved.