Zhang Yun's ancient life

On the 24th of the twelfth lunar month, the whole house is cleaned.Zhang Yun had already forgotten this day. He didn’t feel any trouble when he rode away, but when he came back, he felt that the house was brighter and the yard was cleaner, but the people in the house had become dirty. Xixi, one by one, all with disheveled faces, are waiting in line to go into the bathroom to take a shower.

Seeing Zhang Yun came back, Guan Jing's eyes lit up, and she handed him the child she was holding in her hand and said, "Mother and Aunt Ma are going to cook in a while, and Daddy can't take care of two of them by himself. I wanted to wait to eat." I'll go wash up after dinner, just as you're back, I'll take care of the child for a while, and I'll go in and take a bath."

Zhang Yun took the child, Guan Jing kissed her daughter's little cheek, and went into the bathroom carrying things for washing.

In the evening, the whole family had dinner together. Zhang Yun had been busy all day in the barracks, and his stomach was already too hungry. He handed the empty bowl to Aunt Guan who was sitting next to the rice bowl and asked her to add another bowl for him.

Aunt Guan took the bowl, and asked Zhang Yun as she refilled the rice: "Brother Yun, it's the end of the year, how do you arrange the holidays for the Chinese New Year in your military camp this year?" past.

Zhang Yun took the bowl and returned: "It's already arranged. I will rest from the 29th of the twelfth lunar month until the fifth day of the first lunar month. I will go out to practice normally on the sixth day of the first month."

Upon hearing this, Aunt Guan said happily, "That's great, you can celebrate the New Year with us."

Zhang Yun was also very satisfied with the shift schedule this time and returned with a smile: "It's because everyone is taking care of me that I'm allowed to take such time off."

Uncle Guan heard the words and said: "If you know that you are being taken care of, then you have to work hard, and don't let others down."

Zhang Yun nodded repeatedly when he heard the words, and Aunt Guan picked up a chopstick of vegetables and said to Uncle Guan: "Eat your meal, we Yun brother is a person who knows how to behave, and we need you to tell."

Uncle Guan looked at his wife helplessly. Since he came to his son-in-law's house, he felt that his status in his wife's heart had plummeted.

Zhang Yun didn't answer, he was still eating quickly, took time to sneak a glance at Guan Jing, just in time he also looked over, the two of them saw the smile in each other's eyes, and quietly looked away, both of them looked away. Pretending not to notice what was happening on the opposite table, he continued to eat his own dinner.

On the second day, Guan Jing came to the butcher shop in the town early in the morning to pick up the New Year's meat that their family ordered.When he arrived at the shop, quite a few people had already arrived, and Guan Jing didn't compete with them. He sat in the shop for a while, and waited for the other customers to finish their purchases before he got up and walked over to the shopkeeper and said: : "Da Shuang, are all the things I ordered ready?"

Hearing this, the shopkeeper looked up and saw Guan Jing, and said, "When did you come in? I didn't notice how busy people were just now."

Guan Jing heard the words and replied: "I have been in for a while, but I didn't come when I saw that you were busy. Anyway, if there is something I want, you will definitely keep it for me."

The shopkeeper of the butcher's shop is Guan Jing's friend, who is also a couple. His husband is the owner of the butcher's shop, and the couple run the butcher's shop together.

The acquaintance of the two had to start with Zhang Yun's eating.Zhang Yun was never picky about food, Guan Jing would eat whatever Guan Jing did, but Guan Jing could still guess what Zhang Yun liked to eat from the number of chopsticks he used and the speed at which he eliminated the food.So after a few days of marriage, Guan Jing knew the general tastes of her husband. For example, he liked to eat stews, not fried vegetables, but mushrooms and various bean products, as well as chicken and ribs.

Originally, these were nothing. He could cook whatever he liked, but after a few days, Guan Jing discovered that when Zhang Yun ate pork ribs, he didn’t eat the smooth ones very much, but picked the corner ones instead. , the bones are fleshy and hard to pick.

In fact, Zhang Yun can’t be blamed for eating strangely. He has been used to it for many years. When he was a child, when he stewed pork ribs at home, adults were never willing to eat them. Leave the smooth ones to the younger sisters, and it will take time to eat those bones with more meat and less meat.

It's the same here, Zhang Yun left the smooth ones to Guan Jing, and went to eat the ones that were not easy to chew, but Guan Jing didn't know, and thought Zhang Yun liked to eat such ribs, so every time he went to the butcher shop, He even asked the shopkeeper to give him more places close to the spine.

The shopkeeper of the butcher shop is also strange, people buy ribs because they are afraid of buying those corners, this one is more famous, so every time Guan Jing comes to buy meat, the shopkeeper will ask curiously With a few words, the two of them will get to know each other once they come and go, and the shopkeeper will also know Zhang Yun's strange hobby, so every time he wants to buy ribs, Guan Jing will let the shopkeeper prepare it in advance, and the shopkeeper Some people bought the spare ribs in the corner of Dele, and they would give Guan Jing less money every time.

Seeing Guan Jing coming, the shopkeeper took out the prepared spare ribs, Guan Jing bought some pork belly and big bones, and added some odds and ends to a full vegetable basket. It was Khan, who freed his hands to give meat money.

The shopkeeper returned to him while giving him some money: "Your guy's taste is really weird. Everyone likes to eat Shun Liu, but he likes to eat these corners. It's also because of his good teeth, but you bought a lot today. , are you planning to go back and freeze it for a few days?"

Guan Jing smiled and returned: "My natal parents and younger brother are here, buy some more and stew them together for everyone to eat together."

The shopkeeper was also very happy for him and said: "This is great, the family can have a reunion year together. I thought that it would be so boring if there were only three of you in this year. Is this right, all together, the more people are lively."

Guan Jing bid farewell to the shopkeeper of the butcher shop, and returned home with a vegetable basket in both hands. When she got home, Aunt Guan had just put the children to sleep. When she saw him come back with a basket of meat, she signaled him to keep his voice down, and tiptoed away. He came out, closed the door carefully, and the two of them came to the kitchen with their baskets in their hands.

When they came to the kitchen, the two quickly divided the items in the basket. Most of them were taken out and frozen to be eaten during the Chinese New Year, and a small part was reserved for packing and cooking at night, so as to comfort the grandparents at home. .

When Zhang Yun and Uncle Guan came back at night, they were greeted with stewed pork bones, big chunks of meat and big bones, rinsed with running water, marinated in a seasoning basin for an hour, and then cooked with cooking wine. Remove the fishy smell, put some oil in the pot, put in the homemade miso and stir-fry until fragrant, then pick out the big bones from the seasoning pot, put them in the pot and stir-fry with the miso until the meat and bones are Change the color, then put the seasoning in the seasoning pot into the pot, stir fry the fragrance and add half of the water in the pot. After the water in the pot boils, you can fill the stove pit with some The big wooden pieces are stewed from the afternoon to the evening. When the pot comes out, the meat on the bones does not need to be torn, and it will fall off by itself when you gently clamp it with chopsticks.

Uncle Guan and Zhang Yun were obviously very satisfied with this pot of stewed big bones. When they arrived at the table, they ate without eating. The two of them finished most of the pot. In the end, they still felt that it was not enough, and each of them added a bowl of rice. Scoop out the sauce in the bowl and eat with bibimbap.

Seeing them, Aunt Guan was very worried and kept saying: "Slow down, slow down, there is still in the pot, there is not enough to eat, I will cook it for you tomorrow, oops, I said you are the head of the house, you should slow down, Am I short, do you eat and drink? Why do you look like a tiger and wolf?"

After dinner, Guan Jing was afraid that her father and Zhang Yun would accumulate food, so she dug out some hawthorns for them so that they could digest the meat in their stomachs. Aunt Guan made a pot of weak tea and said to them: "Drink some tea when you are thirsty, and relieve the greasy in your stomach."

So Zhang Yun and Uncle Guan sat on the top of the kang eating hawthorn and drinking tea and chatting. Guan Jing and Aunt Guan were taking care of the children and discussing the New Year's Eve dinner at the top of the kang. The meat was available and dried mushrooms were bought. , fish can be bought on the 28th day, that day was the last fish market before the year, there must be a lot of good products, chicken... Eh, Aunt Guan suddenly remembered that every spring she would hug a brood of chicks , When the Chinese New Year comes, the chicks are almost all spread out, and some will be picked out and killed.

And this spring, she and Jing'er were both pregnant, so they didn't care about cooking. Now there are only three old hens left in the house that are raised by the neighbors, and they can't eat at all, so they hurriedly said to Uncle Guan: "The head of the house, you When I go to work in the county tomorrow, buy a few big roosters and bring them back, preferably slaughtered, so we don’t need to clean them up when we come back.”

Uncle Guan was biting his teeth from the soreness of the hawthorn in his mouth, and when he heard his wife's words, he replied vaguely: "Understood, how many do you want?"

Aunt Guan heard her husband's vague answer and said curiously: "Four or five are fine, buy the ones that are fatter. What's wrong with you? Why do you speak so vaguely that people can't hear you clearly."

Uncle Guan replied embarrassingly: "It's not because of those hawthorns. Why are they so sore, the teeth have fallen out."

Aunt Guan laughed loudly when she heard the words and said, "It's what you deserve, who told you to produce so much meat."

Uncle Guan thought for a while and said: "I've never eaten like this before. You see, brother Yun eats the same as I eat, and I haven't seen him doing anything wrong."

Aunt Guan said: "That's different, no matter how old you are, you still compare yourself with other young people."

After hearing this, Uncle Guan touched his cheeks that were still sour and said, "I'm old, I'm really old, my teeth are gone."

Aunt Guan gave him a soft look, and then said to Zhang Yun and the others: "That's about it, take the child back to the house, wash up and go to sleep.