The book begins with the waste of all the members

For the next few days, Wei Yu cooked, Yinsheng helped in the kitchen, and Yinlan washed dishes.

The imperial kitchen would still deliver meals every day, but they were all rotten meals collected from somewhere unknown. The rotten steamed buns and white porridge that Yinsheng ate in the small kitchen that day were delivered by the imperial kitchen.

It was impossible to eat it, but Wei Yu felt a little sad every time she threw it away. She hated to waste food the most.

"It would be nice if I could raise some chickens, ducks, geese and pigs." Wei Yu said to himself.

Yinlan, who had sharp ears, heard this and thought Wei Yu wanted to eat chicken and duck. She said a little embarrassedly: "There are no chickens and ducks in the ice cellar, but we still have pork, beef and a little mutton."

Isn’t the ice cellar the large ice storage they used in ancient times?

"Let's go to the ice cellar and take a look." Wei Yu became interested again.

"Miss, how can you go to that kind of place? It's dark and cold in there. You might get sick if you go in or out. Tell me what you want and I'll get it." Yin Lan refused to let Wei Yu in no matter what.

"How can I be so weak? I'll go in and see if there are any ingredients left so I can make you something delicious tonight."

Yinlan was extremely excited. Ever since she had eaten the food cooked by her young lady, she no longer wanted to eat the food that she had thought was delicious before.

Seeing this, Wei Yu directly pulled the man away. Yin Lan reluctantly led Wei Yu to the door of the ice cellar.

It is called an ice cellar, but it is actually a basement. It is indeed very cold inside, but it is far from being freezing.

"Is there any ice?"

"Yes." Yinlan pointed at a few wet quilts. "That's all the ice left. A lot of it has melted in the past few days. In this situation, it's impossible for the people from the Ice Bureau to send us ice."

Wei Yu looked around and saw that there was quite a lot of pork and beef, and there was also mutton in the corner. Although it was early autumn, the weather was still very hot. If he didn't finish eating it, it would go bad.

"Move all the pork and beef out."

Wei Yu planned to make these meats into jerky. The pork belly could be made into smoked bacon, and the beef could be made directly into beef jerky, so that it could at least be preserved for a longer time.

For mutton, try to eat it within a few days.

Vegetables and fruits can be kept for a longer time, so there is no need to eat them in a hurry.

However, once this batch of food is eaten, there will be no more, which means that she must find a way to get food before the remaining food is exhausted.

In other words, she had to start farming, otherwise she would starve to death.

Wei Yu was a city kid, and his only experience of farming was during the summer vacation when he went to a farm with his parents. However, later when he was working, he often saw videos of farming, and he had a lot of theoretical experience.

My brain can do it, but I don’t know if my hands can do it.

Forget it, bite the bullet.

But I never expected that after working for ten years, I would still have to struggle for survival after returning.

Tired.

She only had a few minutes to be depressed because Yinsheng came and asked very actively how to eat the meat.

Since the food has been better these days, Yinshengren has gained a few pounds and looks much more plump.

Wei Yu finally felt a little comforted when he saw how energetic he was.

Just live the life of college student Dehua.

She thought back to how to make pork and beef jerky.

Jerky is indeed a good thing. It can be used as a dish or as a snack.

Wei Yu asked them to move the kitchen preparation table directly to the yard outside the small kitchen, and asked them to find spices for making these dry goods. He picked up a large kitchen knife and separated the pork belly and lean meat.

With a flick of the knife, she easily separated the lean meat from the pork belly.

"How can you do this kind of work, young lady?" Yinlan put down the salt and came over to grab the knife.

Wei Yu wanted to take the kitchen knife back, but snatching the knife was too dangerous, so she gave up after thinking about it.

At this time, Yinsheng, who was carrying a large basin, also came over. He easily took the big knife from Yinlan's hand. He was familiar with this job.

"Let me do it, miss, just tell me what to do." Yinsheng said.

Wei Yu instructed Yinsheng to cut the pork belly into long strips about five centimeters thick, and to cut the beef and lean meat into pieces as thick as a thumb.

He picked and chose among the lean meat strips, and picked out some lean meat strips with a little fat, and asked Yinsheng to chop them into meat paste, preparing to use them to make some pork jerky.

Yinlan took on the task of giving the pork belly a salt bath massage.

Seeing that there was no more work for Wei Yu here, he decided to go back to the kitchen and stir-fry the marinade for the beef and pork jerky.

She first fried the salt and crushed peppercorns, then added the chili powder she made herself, and the aroma came out in no time.

Yinlan and Yinsheng also came over following Xiang.

"It smells so good, cough cough...it's a little pungent." Yinsheng is extremely passionate about everything related to cooking. Even if he chokes to tears, he will still put his head in the pot.

Wei Yu quickly pulled his head back. She was really afraid that Yin Sheng’s tears and snot would drip into it.

"I'll tell you the recipe later. Have you prepared the pork belly outside?"

"There's still half left. Can we finish all of it?" Yinlan asked worriedly.

"If we can't finish it, we can eat it slowly. First, help me bring in the chopped pork and make some snacks for you."

As soon as they heard that there was something delicious to eat, they all rushed out to get the meat.

It really feels like I'm taking care of a child.

They brought back a large soup bowl filled with minced meat.

Wei Yu added sugar, a little salt, soy sauce, oyster sauce and pepper to the meat paste and stirred it in one direction evenly.

She found a few wooden trays, covered them with kraft paper, and put the marinated meat paste into the trays. Everything was perfect up to this point, except that as a southern child, she didn't know how to use a rolling pin, and couldn't roll the meat paste into a thin slice of uniform thickness.

She looked at Yinsheng who was watching from the side as if she was trying to save him.

I have to say, Yinsheng is really very professional. The meat patties he rolls out are as thin as paper, square and neat, and the thickness of each inch is very consistent, comparable to modern machines.

Because there was no oven, Wei Yu decided to use the wok directly.

When the meat patties are almost fried, brush them with honey water and sprinkle with white sesame seeds.

out of the pot.

"It looks really authentic." Wei Yu tore off a small piece and put it in his mouth. The taste was no less than the pork jerky he had eaten before. This one didn't have as much seasoning, so the pork tasted more solid.

Wei Yu cut the pork jerky into small pieces before letting them taste it.

Yinlan and Yinsheng couldn't wait any longer. They picked up the pork jerky and tasted it carefully, looking intoxicated.

"The meat of this jerky is firm and chewy. Your mouth is filled with the fresh aroma of the meat jerky and the fragrance of sesame. It is also sweet. It is so delicious." Yinlan said with emotion.

He knows how to eat.

If it were Wei Yu himself, he would probably give the same comment as Yin Sheng, that it was delicious and that was it.

After eating the pork jerky and taking a short rest, they started their next work.

Wei Yu took out the marinade to make jerky pork and beef.

Yinlan and the others also rubbed the pork belly with Lilu salt.

"Let's move all this to the ice cellar. We'll set up the racks this afternoon, and then hang the meat up to dry tomorrow."

Wei Yu went back to the kitchen to make pork jerky. The meat paste could make six more. She looked at the gate of Chengming Palace, and an idea suddenly came to her mind.

She could bribe the guards at the door to bring some seeds or something into the palace so that she could grow vegetables, right?

I just don’t know if the pork jerky in her hand is that attractive.

If that doesn't work, add some pickled beef jerky and pork jerky.

If that doesn't work, you can only use your money, but it's difficult to buy the server.

"How much silver do we have left in the palace?" Wei Yu asked Yin Lan.

"Less than ten taels."

Wei Yu: “…”

No, she was a queen, with an annual salary of one thousand taels, and rewards from the emperor and the empress dowager on festivals. It had only been less than a week since she was deposed, so how could she only have less than ten taels left?

Where did all the money go?

Where are you going?

Wei Yu shouted silently.

"With ten taels, how many vegetable seeds can we buy?" Wei Yu asked.

Yinlan and Yinsheng both shook their heads. They had no idea what the prices were like outside the palace.

Life is not easy, Wei Yu sighed.

She also wanted to bribe the guards to buy her some vegetable seeds.

I don’t know if this money is enough to cover the errands.

Difficult, too difficult.