1952: Walking through Nantongluo Alley

Seeing Qin Huaiguo eating so happily, Chen Xiao picked up a dumpling and put it in his mouth to taste it.

The dumplings made with pork with three fingers of fat are particularly fragrant. Although they are all fat, the fragrance lingers in your mouth after one bite, making you unable to stop and want to eat a second one.

Today's pigs are not fed with feed. Although pigs fed with feed also have fat, that kind of fat will make you want to vomit after eating one bite. It is completely incomparable to native domestic pigs.

After eating a bowl of dumplings, Chen Xiao was very satisfied.

"Huairu, quickly serve Chen Xiao another bowl." Zhang Cuilan said to Qin Huairu when she saw that Chen Xiao had finished eating the dumplings in his bowl.

Qin Huairu was just about to stand up when Chen Xiao grabbed her.

"No need, Auntie. I'm full with just one bowl."

Then Chen Xiao told his plan.

"Uncle and aunt, I plan to take Huaiguo to the city. This must not be known to outsiders."

"I can't say how much more it is, but I can make Huaiguo at least fifteen dollars a month. If business is good, twenty or thirty dollars a month is not impossible!"

After he finished speaking, everyone in the Qin family was stunned.

Qin Huaiguo opened his mouth wide.

"Brother-in-law, how much did you say?"

"At least fifteen dollars a month?"

“One month’s salary is more than what I earn from mining for half a year?”

Qin Tieniu was sitting aside, and his eyes began to moisten slightly.

God really blessed the Qin family, allowing Huairu to marry such a good man.

Chen Xiao is not only rich, but also generous. Most importantly, he is also prepared to help his family.

Qin Tieniu cleared his throat and spoke seriously to Qin Huaiguo.

"Huaiguo, when you go to the city, it's not like being at home. You can't act out with your brother-in-law. You have to do whatever he asks you to do. Don't do anything to let him down."

"Otherwise, if I find out, I'll beat you to death when I get back!"

"I understand, Dad." Qin Huaiguo lowered his head and did not dare to look at Qin Tieniu.

He has been afraid of Qin Tieniu since he was a child, and was often beaten by him when he did something wrong as a child.

"Uncle, it's not as serious as you say. Since I plan to bring Huaiguo to the city, it means that I believe in Huaiguo's character!" Chen Xiao said as he sat aside.

Qin Huaiguo cast a grateful look at Chen Xiao.

My brother-in-law still understands me.

"Chen Xiao, the business you are talking about is not the pot of stinky konjac in the kitchen, right?" Zhang Cuilan asked.

As soon as Chen Xiao came back today, he took Huairu to the back mountain to dig konjac, and he even took great pains to turn the konjac into paste.

So she guessed that the trade was probably related to konjac.

"Aunt, you guessed it right. I was planning to let Huaiguo go to the city to sell konjac!"

"It's almost time now, the konjac should be formed, I'll go to the kitchen to steam it!"

As he spoke, Chen Xiao stood up and walked towards the kitchen.

Qin Tieniu and the others looked at each other, then stood up and followed Chen Xiao. They wanted to see what kind of delicious food could be made from the poisonous konjac!

I went to the kitchen, opened the wooden board covering the basin, reached out and tapped it gently a few times, and sure enough, the konjac was already formed.

It feels like a piece of silicone now.

Turn the bowl upside down, take out the konjac from the bowl, and cut it into ten-centimeter pieces with a kitchen knife.

"Huai Ru, go add water to the pot and bring it to a boil."

"Okay! I'll boil some water right away." Qin Huairu sat next to the stove and started to light the fire.

At this point, the konjac has already formed blocks. All you need to do is cook it, cut it into horizontal and vertical patterns, and then cut it into long strips. Then mix it with the sauce, and the konjac delicacy will be ready.

"Aunt, do we have chili peppers and soybean paste at home?" Chen Xiao asked.

"There are plenty of dried chilies outside the door, and Dajiang has some at home too. Wait a minute, I'll get them for you." After saying that, Zhang Cuilan came outside and picked up the chilies hanging on the wall.

While her aunt was bringing the soybean paste and chili peppers, Qin Huairu was boiling the water in the pot.

After checking the time on his watch, Chen Xiao threw a few pieces of chopped konjac into the pot.

It takes an hour to boil konjac to completely remove the alkaline smell. If it takes too long, the resulting konjac may not be crisp and refreshing enough.

Then Chen Xiao chopped the chili peppers on the chopping board, chopped the chili peppers into powder, and found a small pot and poured half a bowl of lard into it.

"Huai Ru, have you made chili oil? I'll make chili oil from these peppers later."

Chen Xiao handed the small pot to Qin Huairu, and she nodded and put it under the stove to boil.

The chili oil is ready in a short while.

Chen Xiao took the chili oil from the pot, and then put in all the seasonings such as soybean paste, salt, soy sauce, etc.

Then he handed it to Qin Huairu and put it on the stove to boil.

"Chen Xiao, why don't we go out first? This is a secret recipe, it wouldn't be good if we saw it." Qin Tieniu said.

"Uncle is fine, you just watch in the kitchen. We are all family, there is nothing we can't see."

Hearing this, Qin Tieniu was moved again.

Chen Xiao is such a good son-in-law!

After an hour, the konjac in the pot was almost cooked. Chen Xiao took it out of the pot and put it in cold water to cool it down.

Taking out a piece of cooled konjac, Chen Xiao cut it into 8 mm thick strips, cut it into flower-shaped patterns, and then cut it into long strips like konjac cake.

Pour the freshly prepared sauce into the bowl and stir it. Chen Xiao swallowed unconsciously as he smelled the spicy aroma.

Before he traveled through time, he particularly liked to eat konjac, but he didn't expect that he would be able to reproduce it after traveling through time.

The aroma is very similar to konjac, but I don’t know what it tastes like.

Then Chen Xiao picked up a piece of konjac and put it in his mouth to chew. The next moment he frowned.

"What's going on... Why isn't it chewy at all? What went wrong?"

Chen Xiao murmured, constantly recalling in his mind which step had gone wrong.

"What's wrong? Is it not tasty?" Qin Huairu got up from the stove and walked to Chen Xiao.

"Yes, it's completely different from what I ate before, it's not even on the same level!"

"Let me try it!" Qin Huairu picked up a piece of konjac and put it in her mouth to taste it.

After swallowing one, she didn't say anything and put one after another into her mouth.

"Chen Xiao, this is so delicious! It's obviously delicious, how can you say it tastes bad?"

"Dad, Mom, Huaiguo, you guys come and try it too."

Qin Huairu invited others to taste it.

Several people came to the prepared konjac noodles, each pinched out a piece and put it in their mouth to taste.

The eyes of the three of them sparkled.

Just as Qin Huairu said, it is indeed very delicious.

This delicious food is indeed better than pork.

Chen Xiao didn't say anything, but walked out of the yard silently.

I'm still wondering which link went wrong.

Although the konjac cake I just made is delicious, it lacks the chewy and refreshing texture of the konjac cake.

Without this, it is impossible to make others unable to stop.