Dreaming of Lion Rock: Recipe in Hand

Chunni finally had time to rest during the Chinese New Year. This time, she planned to give Li Shuhua and Yang Qianjin a generous gift, including 50 yuan, a bag of walnut cakes, a piece of pork, a cold rabbit, etc. This was a recognition of their hard work over the past six months. This year, Chunni's savings finally exceeded 10,000 yuan. In the 1980s, Chunni was considered a wealthy woman.

She first went to give a holiday gift to Yang Qianjin, who lived in the center of the village. Yang Ersao accepted the gift with a smile as bright as a flower, and brought her some homemade rice candies and meatballs. Chunni asked Ersao to help advertise that she wanted to collect red tangerine peels. She peeled an tangerine and demonstrated, "Second sister-in-law, peel it like this, dry the tangerine peel, I want to collect it."

One ounce of dried tangerine peel is worth one ounce of gold, and a hundred-year-old dried tangerine peel is worth more than gold. This is why dried tangerine peel is so valuable. Sichuan red tangerines are a good material for making dried tangerine peels. It is always a good idea to stock up on some tangerine peels during the Chinese New Year, when red tangerines are the best to eat.

Mrs. Yang didn't expect that someone would buy the unwanted red tangerine peels. She was very happy, but she was afraid that Chunni was joking, so she asked two or three times before confirming the truth of the matter.

After hearing the satisfactory answer, Yang Ersao smiled brightly and agreed readily.

Chunni turned to look for Li Shuhua. On the way, she saw Wenhua, who was extremely thin and her slightly bulging belly showed that she was six months pregnant. She didn't say hello to Chunni and walked past with a numb face.

Chunni also mentioned her to Li Shuhua: "Hey, I haven't seen Wenhua for a long time. She is so thin."

Li Shufen looked around and found no one, then said to Chunni: "Hey, she doesn't go out often, so I don't see her very often. I heard that she is not doing well. Her husband has developed a habit of beating people. He likes to beat people when he is drunk. He doesn't hit the stomach, but the arms, legs, and face. They are often covered with bruises. The last time she was pregnant, she was full-term, but the baby was beaten out. However, Sun Dacai learned a lesson, and this time he didn't hit the stomach."

Li Shufang is 18 years old now and sensible. She was puzzled and asked: "Why didn't she beat the baby?"

Li Shufen knew more. She said, "Doesn't she want to? It just didn't work out. Alas."

"Just get a divorce."

"Where can I go after divorce? My parents' family won't take care of me." Several unmarried girls suddenly fell silent.

Chinese New Year

Xiazhi still hasn't come back, but Qiuguo has already had his holiday and is helping out at the hotel.

The Spring Festival for the three of them was extremely boring, so Chunni discussed with the uncle's family and decided that they would celebrate the New Year on the 29th and invite both families to get together, and spend New Year's Eve at the uncle's house.

Unexpectedly, He Yanqing brought He Yanning to Chunni's house on the 29th.

When they arrived, Dong Lin was proudly showing his treasure to Chun Ni!

"Sister, look at what I have accomplished today." As he spoke, he opened the cloth bag in his hand.

Chunni looked inside and saw a bag full of red orange peels. She couldn't help but exclaimed: "Hey, where did they come from?"

This hit Dong Lin's heart, and he smiled and replied: "Sister, didn't you buy orange peels from the villagers a few days ago? Oh my God, you don't know, when those people heard that the orange peels could be sold, every household picked their own oranges, fearing that you would buy them and not buy them. I smell the sour smell of red oranges all over Lion Mountain!" Dong Lin was so happy! What his sister wanted to buy belonged to his family. He would not let the villagers fool his sister, so he went to inspect.

"I found that many families had their orange peels drying on the ground. Oh my goodness, the chickens and ducks were even chewing on them! Not to mention pooping in the orange peels! I was so angry because my sister wanted to buy them to eat, and I couldn't let them be wasted like this. I thought that since you charge 50 cents per pound for dried orange peels, I would buy the fresh orange peels from that family at 20 cents per pound. The children in that family were so happy."

Chunni touched her little brother's furry hair and felt very happy.

Her younger brother has grown up and knows how to share his sister's worries!

At this moment, there was a knock on the door.

"It must be someone from the village who comes to sell fresh orange peels." Dong Lin ran over excitedly to open the door.

Unexpectedly, when the door was opened, the people who came were He Yanqing and his sister.

"Oh, why didn't you go home for the New Year?" Chunni was also surprised.

He Yanning's eyes darkened when he heard this, and he said solemnly: "We have no home anymore."

Chunni saw that He Yanning was in a low mood and realized that she had said something wrong, so she quickly smiled and pulled He Yanning into the house.

"Sister's house is your home, come in."

He Yanqing was smiling and said, "We are not planning to go back to Chengdu for the New Year, but we don't know many people in the county, so we want to go back to Lion Mountain to take a look. How come you won't reject us?"

Chunni said she didn't dare. She called Qiuguo out and asked her to ask He Yanning to go play.

He Yanning put on a smiling face and said, "Hey, Sister Chunni, I'm here to eat for free. Let me help you guys so that I can eat more later."

Chunni said with a smile: "Okay, then come and help me pick the vegetables." Then she took a group of people to the kitchen.

Saliva chicken

In his poem “The Song of the Poet” written by Guo Moruo, there is a line: “When I was a teenager, I ate white-cut chicken in my hometown Sichuan. The white meat and the red chili oil made my mouth water just thinking about it…” “The word ‘saliva’ was given to cooking, and the famous ‘saliva chicken’ was created.

原料

Chicken, peanuts, onion, ginger, garlic, coriander, chili pepper

seasoning

Chili oil, pepper, salt, sugar, MSG, vinegar, sesame oil, soy sauce

Production Method

1. Put the little rooster in cold water, add ginger and green onion, cook until done and let cool;

2. Chop the coriander and chili pepper into sections. Chop the ginger and garlic and set aside.

3. Add a little oil to the pan and add peanuts. Cook until crispy. Remove the peanuts and set aside.

4. Cut the cooled rooster into pieces;

5. Put appropriate amount of red oil, salt, MSG, soy sauce, sesame oil, sugar and vinegar into the pot and mix into saliva sauce;

6. Pour the chopped chicken pieces and peanuts into a bowl and serve.

At this year's New Year's Eve dinner, the mouth-watering chicken that even Guo Moruo missed so much became the star on the table and everyone praised it.

Other dishes, such as shredded pork with fish flavor, twice-cooked pork, and spicy and sour shredded potatoes, also whet people's appetites.

I will not go into details here.

After dinner, He Yanqing returned to the county town as he had to be on duty the next day.

He Yanning stayed, but she was not sad to see her brother leave. She happily took Qiuguo's arm and went back to Qiuguo's room. She slept with Qiuguo for the past few days.