【Quick Wear】My Years as a Mother-in-law

After leaving the grocery store, Yun Xi almost lost the mood to go shopping. "I'm almost spending all the money I earned from selling a ginseng plant!"

System: "Normal. The paper, pens, and ironware you bought are all rare items."

"makes sense."

"Let's go see if there's anyone selling eggs. I want to eat eggs." Yun Xi suddenly came to her senses. More and more people were setting up stalls on the street. These were people who lived in the city. People outside the city had to wait until the city gates opened at seven o'clock before they could line up to enter the city.

There was only one stall selling eggs. A chicken egg cost three cents, a duck egg cost four cents, and goose eggs were cheaper, costing three cents each, but there were only a few because they were too fishy.

"System, eggs are so expensive."

"It's not expensive. This stall owner buys eggs for two cents each and sells them for three. He's quite conscientious. In ancient times, chickens were hard to keep alive, so eggs were very precious." The system checked the information. "In the Ming Dynasty, a pound of eggs could buy a lot of rice. In the Qing Dynasty, an egg was three or four cents. This guy is selling them cheaply because the eggs are not fresh."

"Ah? Well, forgive my ignorance."

Yun Xi's mentality instantly calmed down a lot. She didn't understand but respected. She picked twenty chicken eggs, five duck eggs and ten goose eggs. Just these cost one hundred and ten coins. She really couldn't afford it.

Back at the wonton stand, the owner and his wife were busy making wontons. When they saw her coming, they smiled and said, "Please wait a moment, it will be ready soon."

"It's okay, no rush." ​​Yun Xi sat on the stool and waited. The proprietress quickly wrapped the wontons and borrowed dry lotus leaves from the stall owner next to her to wrap the wontons and handed them to her.

After paying the balance, Yun Xi got up and left. She walked to a deserted place, disappeared, and returned to Beishan.

Dragging a heavy pile of things back home, Yun Xi called out at the door: "Meizi, Chunsheng, come and pick me up."

The two of them were warming themselves by the fire in the kitchen when they heard this and hurried out. Li Chunsheng was horrified, "Mom, what are you doing?" Are you going to rob me?

"Oh, don't mention it. I was so unlucky today. I came across a ginseng in the mountains, but a passerby made trouble with me, saying that they saw it first. How could I agree? The other party was a businessman, and he really wanted the ginseng, so he exchanged something with me." Yun Xi chattered nonsense.

Li Meizi envied him, and Li Chunsheng frowned, "Mom, are you okay?"

"No, don't worry, just pack up quickly. I'll leave these jars where they are. I'll be exhausted carrying them a few steps, putting them on the ground, and then going back to move them."

Yun Xi sat on the warm kang and didn't want to move. She was exhausted from carrying the big earthenware jar back from Beishan, so she left it to the children to do.

Li Chunsheng saw so many things that he couldn't figure out whether he had made a profit or a loss. "Two catties of lamp oil, eighty cents."

Li Xiaqing held the small jar of lamp oil and asked, "Brother, where should we put it?"

Li Meizi pointed to the main room and said, "Put it on the table first."

Li Chunsheng muttered, "Ten kilograms of cotton, three strings of five hundred coins. Meizi, take some of the cotton-padded clothes we give you and add some to your quilts."

"Okay, Brother Chunsheng, give me all the coarse cloth. I will make two sets of coarse cloth clothes for everyone to wear when working." Li Meizi said.

"Here." Li Chunsheng handed it to Mei Zi and wrote it down, "A piece of coarse cloth, two hundred coins."

"One box of bath beans is one hundred coins, two boxes are two hundred coins. Yanran, take them and put them in the first bathroom in the east wing."

Li Yanran, "I guarantee that I will complete the task."

"Two large water jars cost one hundred coins. Put them both in the kitchen. Meizi, come and help me." Li Chunsheng carried the water jars into the kitchen. Li Meizi put the things away and ran over to help.

The two water tanks were placed in the kitchen. The two men were already exhausted and sweating. Snowflakes that had grown larger without them noticing were fluttering down.

"Brother! Come quickly, it will snow heavily soon." Li Xiaqing urged.

"Okay, let me see. Five large earthenware jars cost one hundred coins each and put them in the second warehouse in the west wing to store the grain."

It was busy again.

"Two sewing kits for one hundred wen, you take one set of plums and I take one set, four buckets for twenty wen, the second utility room in the landlord's wing, a shoulder pole for fifty wen, three hoes for six hundred wen, two sickles for one hundred wen. As for paper and pen, I don't know the price. Has the price of eggs gone up recently? One catty of brown sugar is one guan, two catties is two guan, how much are the pumpkin seeds and these packaged wontons?" Li Chunsheng put the things away and prepared to cook wontons for lunch.

Li Meizi put her hands on her hips and said anxiously, "Brother Chunsheng, don't worry about the price, just get ready for lunch."

"Okay." Li Chunsheng said aggrievedly. He just wanted to see if he had lost anything.

Yun Xi heard that it was time for lunch, so she put on her coat and came out, saying with a smile, "I'll make lunch. The four of you can learn how to cook wontons from me. We'll have wontons today."

Li Yanran pulled her younger brother and followed her mother like a follower.

Li Chunsheng and Li Meizi had indeed never eaten wontons, and the two younger ones had never even heard of them.

After entering the kitchen, Yun Xi first took out a big bone, washed it and put it in the casserole to boil.

"You can use clear soup to cook wontons, but it's too bland. It's best to use soup made from pork and chicken bones. This soup is delicious, and the bone marrow in the pork bones can be eaten." Yun Xi took out the wontons and placed them on the steamer to prevent them from sticking.

Li Meizi swallowed her saliva and reminisced, "Uncle Li once hunted a wild boar and kept all the big bones. My brother Chunsheng and I ate a lot of the marrow."

"Really? Daddy's fighting skills? So powerful." Li Xiaqing clapped his hands. His impression of his father was almost fading and he could not remember him.

Li Yanran stuck out her tongue and said, "Mom is amazing too."

"You're all amazing." Yun Xi paused, took out two newly bought iron pots and prepared to start cooking. "Follow me and learn how to cook and stew meat."

It's very simple to start cooking. Just smear the inside and outside of the pot with pig skin and lard several times. "Braising meat requires a lot of spices. These spices are also given by those merchants. There are star anise, bay leaves, fragrant fruits, and white angelica..."

Several children took note of it carefully. Li Chunsheng pointed at Baizhi and said, "I've seen this in the mountains."

"Have you seen it? Don't tell anyone. This is actually a medicinal herb. When the snow stops, we will go up the mountain to pick it and process it. We will have a chance to sell it in Chengdu." Yun Xi whispered.

Li Chunsheng was very excited, "Okay!"

Remove the hair from the pig's trotters, blanch the pork, large intestine, small intestine and internal organs separately, then put them together in an iron pot and stew with water, malt sugar and spices.

"Okay, it's that simple. It's best to stew it for about an hour. Add salt when it's almost done. Now start stewing the wontons."

Yun Xi clapped her hands. Although the bones had only been simmered for more than a quarter of an hour, she still put all the wontons in.

"Wonton stew is very easy to make. I'll teach you how to season it."

Yun Xi brought five large bowls, lined them up in a row, put a small spoonful of lard, a handful of seaweed, a handful of dried shrimps and salt into each bowl, then scooped a spoonful of bone broth to dissolve the bone broth, and finally took out the wontons and put them in. A bowl of low-end version of wonton stew was ready, but unfortunately there was no chopped green onion, which felt like something was missing.