After traveling through time, I led the whole village to become rich!

Chapter 94 Making Sausages and Salt-baked Pork Liver

Zhang Hulan asked the old butcher to divide the meat of four pigs into pieces, each weighing about one pound, and the rest was cut normally.

The butcher and his son were busy all afternoon with more than a dozen pigs. They had seven or eight other people helping them, otherwise they wouldn't have been able to butcher a whole pig.

Killing a pig costs twenty cents. This afternoon, the father and son earned three hundred cents, and Zhang Hulan also gave them a piece of meat.

Today should be the busiest day. After the pig blood solidifies, use a knife to cut it into tofu-like cubes, then put it into a pot of warm water and cook it over low heat.

It takes a long time to cook more than a dozen pots of pig blood.

Pig offal also needs to be cleaned. The offal of the pigs you kill yourself is not like the offal of the pigs you buy, which are simply cleaned.

Today's pig stomachs and intestines are full of pig shit, there's something to be done.

Zhang Hulan deliberately made trouble for Zhang Hubing by assigning this job to him, which made him very disgusted.

Wang looked at the dozen or so pig livers and lungs with some worry, "What should I do with these?"

Zhang Hulan said, "Mom, don't worry. These are all good things. I'll see what happens tomorrow."

After dinner, Zhang Hulan went to Zhao Guoliang's house with a large piece of pork. She went to Zhao Guoliang to ask for the work of the villagers who had been working on the wasteland. They had already worked for a month and it was time to pay them.

Wang and the others were still busy, so Zhang Hulan kept Zhang Hujun and Zhang Hubing to help her count the copper coins for a while.

She received both small change and copper coins in her account every day. The copper coins were easier, she could just count out a hundred coins and string them together with a hemp rope.

But small change is more troublesome, as it has to be weighed one by one with a scale, and those of the same weight are put together.

Zhang Hulan poured a box of copper coins and silver coins onto the table. Zhang Xinyue lay on the table, holding the silver coins and copper coins in her hands and laughing, "Money...money...so much money..."

Wang smiled and asked, "Yueyue, can you give some money to grandma?"

Zhang Xinyue held a handful of copper coins and silver coins in both hands and gave them to Wang, "For grandma!"

Wang smiled and said, "Oh, my Yueyue is so good!"

Wang put the copper coins back on the table, then carried Zhang Xinyue down, "Okay, you guys go play over there, we'll help your mother count the money."

Zhang Xinyue said loudly, "I want to count too."

Wang smiled and asked, "Yueyue can count now?"

Zhang Xinyue nodded her head, "Yes! I can count to ten. Mom teaches me to count every night."

Zhang Xinyue now sleeps with Zhang Hulan almost every night. When Zhang Hulan has nothing to do, she teaches her to count and simple addition and subtraction.

She also taught several other children, and they all learned well. Zhang Xiaojun was older and learned the best.

Zhang Xiaobing joined in the fun, "I can count too."

Zhang Hulan simply gave a small pile of copper coins to the children and asked them to count them.

But a few children began to doze off while counting.

Zhang Hulan asked Zhang Xinyao to take Zhang Xinyi and Zhang Xinyue to sleep, and Zhang Xiaobing also went to sleep on Shanzi's bed.

Zhang Hulan didn't let Li stay up late and asked her to go back to sleep first.

The others worked until late at night. Zhang Hulan and the others sorted out the broken silver and copper coins. They also boiled all the pig's blood, then put it back into the wooden basin and filled it with cold water to soak.

Xiang Chunhua pounded her waist and cried, "I'm so tired. I'm so sleepy."

Zhang Hulan said, "Today I'll get double pay."

Xiang Chunhua suddenly stopped feeling tired and woke up from her doze. "Really? Sister?"

Zhang Hulan smiled and said, "Really? Go back to sleep. We'll be busy tomorrow and the day after tomorrow."

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The next day, Zhang Hulan and her colleagues started working early in the morning.

She instructed Wang and Xiang Chunhua to remove the pig skin, and then chop the fat and lean meat in a ratio of one to two.

Then chop the ginger, star anise, pepper, cornel, etc. and add them to the meat and stir. Don't forget the salt and soy sauce.

Cornus officinalis is also a traditional Chinese medicine, and it's something Zhang Hulan came up with as a possible substitute for chili peppers. Cornus officinalis has a spicy taste, but the spiciness is different from that of chili peppers.

Clean the small intestine, saw off a bamboo tube that is about the same thickness as the small intestine, smooth both ends of the bamboo tube so that it will not scratch your hands, then put the bamboo tube into the small intestine and stuff the meat inside.

Zhang Hulan found a job for Zhang Xinyao. She asked Zhang Xinyao to tie the small intestines stuffed with meat with a string at intervals of half a foot.

Zhang Xinyi and Zhang Xinyue also have work to do.

The meat of the small intestine was not packed tightly, so there was air inside. Zhang Hulan asked Zhang Xinyi and Zhang Xinyi to use a needle to puncture the bubbles and let the air out.

Zhang Xinyue asked, "Mom, what are you doing?"

Zhang Hulan smiled and replied, "Making sausages."

“Are the sausages good?”

“It’s delicious!”

Zhang Xinyue began to drool, "Mom, let's cook it for lunch."

Zhang Hulan asked with a smile, "Why? You're still craving meat even though you eat meat every day?"

Zhang Xinyue swallowed her saliva and said, "I want to eat meat every day and every meal!"

"Then Mom made you braised pork ribs last night. But you can't eat these sausages now. You have to wait until the New Year."

"Okay!" Although Zhang Xinyue really wanted to try the sausage right now, her mother said that she couldn't eat it now, so she decided to try it later.

Zhang Xiaobing was also drooling and said, "Auntie, please cook some more spare ribs for lunch. I want two bowls."

Wang was annoyed, "You want to eat two bowls? Is your mother's day's wages enough for you?"

Zhang Xiaobing said, "Aunt, please treat me to some spareribs now. From now on, I will treat you to delicious food every day."

Zhang Hulan smiled and said, "Okay, I'll take note of that. I'm looking forward to you treating me to delicious food every day..."

Old Man Zhang was building a bamboo rack to dry sausages. He said, "You're treating your aunt to a delicious meal, but your grandma and I aren't getting any?"

"Yes! Of course." Zhang Xiaobing said, "When I make money in the future, I will buy delicious food for everyone."

Old man Zhang nodded with a smile, "Well, that's about right!"

One set of pig intestines can hold about 30 kilograms of meat, so Zhang Hulan stuffed all 15 sets of pig intestines into sausages, which were made from the meat of several pigs.

After stuffing the sausages, Zhang Hulan began to process the liver. She cut it into large pieces, removed the membrane from the liver, rinsed it with clean water, and wiped the surface of the liver dry.

Put salt in the pot, add star anise, cinnamon, pepper, cumin and dogwood and stir-fry.

Xiang Chunhua watched from the side. Seeing Zhang Hulan pour several kilograms of salt into the pot, she smacked her lips and said, "Sister, why are you putting so much salt in there?"

Zhang Hulan said, "Cooking."

"So much salt in cooking? Is this dish still edible?"

Zhang Xiaobing said from the side, "Mom, don't worry about it. How can the food cooked by Auntie not be delicious?"

Xiang Chunhua poked Zhang Xiaobing's forehead and said, "I see your taste has become spoiled by your aunt's family. Do you think my cooking is not tasty enough?"

Zhang Xiaobing quickly shook his head, "No, no."

After frying the salt until it is boiling, scoop out some salt, place the pork liver flat on the salt at the bottom of the pot, and then cover the pork liver with the scooped salt to wrap the liver completely.

Simmer on low heat for fifty minutes, take out the liver, and clean the salt off the liver. The salt-baked liver is ready.

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