Traveling through time and space to become a child, supporting the family by catching fish and shrim

Chen Lang first came to Pingzhilin and bought a lot of medicinal herbs.

Just as they were about to leave, Xu Fei came back panting, carrying Sun Sizhen on his back.

Seeing this, Chen Lang hurried over to help and asked, "What happened to Doctor Sun?"

After carefully placing the teacher on the chair, Xu Fei wiped the sweat from his forehead: "It's nothing serious, just tired."

"As you know, plagues are prone to break out after major disasters. Mr. Fan entrusted Mr. Teacher to go from village to village to deal with the plague. He hasn't slept for several days. I was worried that something might happen to Mr. Teacher if he continued like this, so I gave him some tranquilizers and forcibly brought him back to rest."

Chen Lang sighed, "Dr. Sun's medical ethics are truly noble."

Xu Fei took the warm handkerchief from his young apprentice and wiped his teacher's face while asking, "Brother Chen, you bought so many herbs. Is someone in your family sick?"

Chen Lang shook his head: "No, everyone in my family is healthy."

"These herbs are used to make brine."

Xu Fei: "Brine? What is that?"

"Food." Chen Lang said with a smile.

Xu Fei became interested and said, "Come to think of it, I haven't tasted Brother Chen's cooking for a long time."

"You must let me try the new thing you made this time."

Chen Lang said, "No problem. I'll send someone to deliver it to you when it's done."

Xu Fei said, "Then I'll wait and eat."

Chen Lang walked to the door, then turned back and asked, "By the way, how is the plague under control?"

Xu Fei shook his head and said, "It's not easy to control. Although we haven't suffered many casualties here, we've suffered heavy losses in poultry and livestock. The rotting bodies have attracted mosquitoes that are really hard to deal with. Dozens of people in Xiahe Village have already contracted malaria. I need to go to the county government office to find Lord Fan and ask him to send people to other counties to collect medicinal herbs."

Chen Lang frowned. "Other counties have been hit harder by the disaster than us. They probably don't even have enough medicinal herbs. How could they possibly give them to us?"

Xu Fei said, "Then we can only arrange for people to go and collect herbs. We can't just watch those people who have contracted the disease die."

"They survived the flood, but ended up dying from the disease. What a shame."

Chen Lang pondered for a moment and said, "Maybe I have a way."

Xu Fei was stunned for a moment: "Brother Chen, this kind of thing is not something to be joked about."

Chen Lang said, "I'll think about it when I get back. Whether it succeeds or not, I'll tell you."

Xu Fei nodded: "Then I'll wait for you, but at most two days, my teacher and I will leave the county."

Chen Lang said: "I understand. I'll leave first."

After returning home, Chen Lang started making brine.

The preparation of braising liquid is not complicated, it can even be described as simple. Even a novice who has never cooked can make a pot of braising liquid by following the tutorial.

When Chen Lang was processing beef before, he once made a pot of brine, but due to the lack of a refrigerator, the brine could not be preserved for a long time and went bad after a few days.

When Manager Hong came to ask for the recipe, Chen Lang remembered that he still had the trick of making braising sauce.

While the brine was being boiled, Chen Lang asked Xiao Qi to go to the big market to buy pig offal, including pig lungs, pig livers, and pig intestines.

Ordinary people in the Great Yan Dynasty rarely used sewage. The reason was simple: it was too troublesome to deal with.

Especially things like pig intestines, it takes a lot of time to clean them, and they may not be cleaned thoroughly. In addition, there is a lack of relevant skills when cooking, which leads to a fishy smell when the internal organs such as offal are cooked. Except for those who really can't afford to buy them to eat, most people just throw them away.

Although pork vendors will hang the offal out for sale, they often throw it away when they close their stalls.

Xiao Qi spent a few cents and bought a lot of pig offal.

Chen Lang got a bowl of soybean powder and taught them how to clean pig intestines.

As for the principle behind using soybean powder to wash pig intestines, Chen Lang didn't know. Anyway, the elders in his family had washed them this way in his previous life, and they could wash them very cleanly.

After cleaning the pig offal and preparing the marinade, Chen Lang took out some of the pig liver and large intestine and threw the rest into the pot to marinate.

Taking advantage of this time, Chen Lang asked Li Xiuzhi to knead the dough and make sesame cakes.

The so-called shaobing is actually unleavened bread, which is hard to chew, but if it is put together with braised food, it becomes a very classic dish.

Braised pork and steamed buns!

When the sesame cakes and braised pork were almost ready, Chen Lang asked Xiao Qi to go to Tianshangju to invite Manager Hong to come for dinner.

When Shopkeeper Hong learned that Chen Lang wanted to treat him to a meal, he didn't even have time to change his clothes and followed Xiao Qi jogging all the way to the tofu shop.

"Mr. Chen, have you finished researching the new menu?" Manager Hong asked excitedly.

Chen Lang smiled and replied, "Manager Hong, please wait a moment. The new dishes will be ready soon."

After saying that, he put the chopped pork liver and pig intestines into a clean pot and stirred it slowly until the soup in the pot became thick and finally turned into a paste.

Shopkeeper Hong discovered that what Chen Lang had just thrown into the pot was pig offal, so he sniffed hard, but did not smell any bad smell.

There was only a rich aroma that kept drilling into my nose.

"Manager Hong, try it."

Chen Lang placed two bowls in front of Manager Hong.

"This one is called Braised Pork and this one is called Fried Liver."

Shopkeeper Hong swallowed his saliva, but didn't pick up his chopsticks in a hurry. He asked, "Master Chen, are these pig offal?"

Chen Lang nodded: "Yes, pig liver, pig lungs, pig intestines, and pork belly."

Shopkeeper Hong said, "The pig offal wasn't cleaned properly, so it smells really strong."

Chen Lang said, "Manager Hong, just try it and you'll know."

"Why are there chopsticks? Bring me a spoon."

Xiao Qimei hurriedly took out a small spoon and handed it to Manager Hong.

Shopkeeper Hong scooped up a spoonful and put it in his mouth. Chen Lang hurriedly said, "Shopkeeper Hong, be careful, it's hot."

Fortunately, Chen Lang spoke in time, otherwise, after taking that spoonful, Shopkeeper Hong’s mouth would have been burned and full of blisters.

After letting it cool for a while and making sure it was no longer hot, Shopkeeper Hong put the spoon to his mouth.

Needless to say, this tastes pretty good.

There is no fishy smell of sewage.

In addition to the pig offal, the noodles in the bowl are also soaked up with the soup, leaving a lingering fragrance on your lips and teeth when you take a bite.

After eating half a bowl of braised steamed buns, Manager Hong tried the fried liver.

The taste is somewhat similar to luzhu huoshao, but there are fewer types of ingredients in the bowl, only pork liver and pig intestines.

Shopkeeper Hong stood up contentedly and said, "Mr. Chen, please name a price for these two recipes."

Chen Lang smiled and said, "Manager Hong, we've worked together so many times, you should be familiar with my style."

"I can provide you with the recipe for free, but you have to buy the raw materials from me."

Shopkeeper Hong said, "No problem, this price..."

Chen Lang said, "Manager Hong, please wait a moment."

"Chunhua, come here."

Zhao Chunhua came forward and asked, "Brother-in-law, what's wrong?"

Chen Lang said, "You are the chief manager, so I'll leave this matter to you."

"What you can achieve depends on your ability."