Zhang Yun's ancient life

On the second day, when Uncle Guan returned from a trip, he brought back not only four butchered roosters, but also a large section of stuffed blood sausage.

When Aunt Guan helped him get things down, she saw it and asked, "Where did you buy the blood sausage? It looks pretty good."

Uncle Guan had just tied up his mule, and he returned to his wife as he walked: "It didn't cost me money. I went to Lao Yang's house in the county to buy a rooster, just in time for their house to butcher pigs, and they were pouring blood sausage. Lao Yang knew I was good." This one, just give me some."

People in Qingshi Town and some nearby counties, towns, and villages kill pigs, and they will save the pig's blood and intestines to make blood sausage. The method is also quite simple, that is, wash the intestines with clean water, and then use white wine repeatedly Rub it to remove the fishy smell and some unclean things from the intestines.Then crush the garlic into fine powder and add it to the pig's blood in a certain proportion.

If you want to make delicious blood sausage, the proportion of minced garlic is very important. If you add too much, the garlic flavor will overwhelm the taste of the ingredients, and you will not be able to taste the delicious blood sausage itself. If you add too little, you will not be able to suppress it With the fishy smell of pig blood and the smell of pig intestines, the blood sausage made would be uneatable.

The women of Lao Yang’s family in the county are good at making blood sausages, and Uncle Guan likes this one, so every year when it’s time to kill pigs, Uncle Guan will go to their house to buy some. I went to their house to slaughter pigs, thinking that since I caught up with it, I would buy some blood sausage and come back. Who knows that the idea was just put forward, but was rejected by the owner. The Yang family said that he had already bought so many roosters Yes, but I'm just adding some blood sausage, what money is there to ask, and without giving Uncle Guan any time to react, I cut a large section of blood sausage and sent it over.Uncle Guan couldn't hold back them, so he had to accept the blood sausage.

After entering the house, Aunt Guan put away the rooster, took out the blood sausage and cut it into slices about 0.5 cm thick, then poured oil in the pot, and when the oil heated up, shredded ginger and Chopped scallions are finely chopped.

When the oil is about [-]% hot, pour the shredded ginger and green onion into the pot and stir them until they are fragrant, then scoop them out of the pot with a spatula.Then put the cut blood sausage slices into the fragrant oil pan, and fry on both sides repeatedly until the cut surface changes color, and the blood sausage is fried.

When Zhang Yun came back, the dishes were all ready, he followed the scent to the kitchen, and asked as he walked, "Mom, what did you cook, why is it so fragrant?"

Aunt Guan came out with a plate and said, "Fried blood sausage, you can eat it later."

Uncle Guan had a very happy dinner, while Zhang Yun missed it very much. He hadn’t eaten such authentic fried blood sausage for many years. When he was still there, although there were blood sausages in the market, but eating It always tastes bad.

On the 28th of the twelfth lunar month, the last fish market in the port this year, Uncle Guan and Guan Jing got up early in the morning, had a quick bite of food, said hello, and walked away against the moon , The fish market is far away, so you have to travel early to go.

The two of them drove for more than ten miles against the cold wind, and finally arrived at the fish market just as the fishing boats were returning to the port.

The fishing boats that have just returned to Hong Kong are busy unloading their cargo. They are all fresh seafood caught from the sea early in the morning.

Uncle Guan often pulls goods at the port here. Most of the ship bosses know him. When they see him coming to buy goods, the ship boss generously lets him choose whatever he wants, and just go to him to pay the bill after picking.

Uncle Guan thanked the boss of the ship, and brought Guan Jing into the cabin, which was full of all kinds of seafood, all of which were just shipped out this morning, and they were all piled together before they could be sorted.

There were sailors in the cabin sorting the seafood, sorting out the same species and putting them together. Most of the people inside knew Uncle Guan, and when they saw him coming in, they just greeted him and continued with their work.

Uncle Guan didn't disturb their work either, he took a pair of gloves from the side, handed one of them to Guan Jing and said, "Pick what you like to eat, and pick the fat ones that are alive, they are so delicious."

Guan Jing took the gloves, found a place with few people, and began to pick up seafood.

Uncle Guan and Guan Jing mostly picked small yellow flowers and kelp fish, as well as some fresh sea prawns and squid. As for the Spanish mackerel that is abundant here, they would not take it, because Guan Jing was allergic to it, and would be irritated. My whole body is swollen.

After picking and picking for a long time, they finally managed to gather a whole basket of fresh seafood. Together, the two of them lifted the basket out of the cabin, and went to the boss of the boat, waiting for them to estimate the price.

The boat boss looked at the basket of seafood they brought over, and said to Uncle Guan, "Give me a tael of silver."

Uncle Guan heard the words and said: "This basket weighs dozens of catties, so it's cheap, right?"

The boss of the boat replied after hearing the words: "That's right, there are quite a lot of things, but they are all common and nothing special. I will give you the wholesale price, which is the price."

Hearing this, Uncle Guan took out the silver from his pocket and handed it to the boss of the boat. The boss of the boat took the silver and threw it into the money box beside him, and then said to Uncle Guan: "Old Guan, I will ship a batch of goods to Zhouzhou on the eighth day of the lunar new year. Go to the mansion, you can help find some people."

Uncle Guan heard the words and replied: "How many two cars do you want?"

The boss of the ship thought for a while and said: "Whatever, there are more than 20 vehicles. There are a lot of goods."

Uncle Guan said: "No problem, I will come over and let you know when I find it."

Saying goodbye to the boss of the boat, the two of them drove the car and hurried back. The things in the box had to be taken home and frozen. The longer the delay, the harder it would be to store them in the future.

The two returned home before noon. When the family saw what they had brought back, they didn't even eat lunch, so they hurriedly started to clean up, scrape the skin, remove the scales, remove the internal organs, and brine them to put them in the snowdrift. Waiting to be added to ice water to freeze into ice cubes later.

When Zhang Yun came back in the evening, his family fried a dish of squid with chopped green onion. It was the first time Zhang Yun ate this dish.

Zhang Yun heard that Uncle Guan and Guan Jing had bought these seafood from a sea boat after running all morning, so he asked curiously, "Is the coast not frozen yet? You can still go to sea."

Uncle Guan smiled and returned: "It's been on the ice for a long time, but the ice in some inner harbors is thin. Those boat bosses have fished for generations and have their own ways to break the ice, but this is the last time. In a few days, it will be even more difficult." When it gets colder and the ice gets thicker, you won’t be able to go out to sea.”

On the 29th day of the first lunar month, Zhang Yun started his vacation. After getting up early in the morning and having breakfast, Aunt Guan started to boil the paste, while Guan Jing took out the couplets, window grilles, and debts bought a few days ago, and put them in the Waiting for a while on the side table.

After a while, the paste was ready. Aunt Guan took them out and put them in a bowl, took out an old writing brush from the cabinet, brought them to the table and said, "You can start dipping things."

Leave the children to Aunt Ma to take care of them. The rest of them have their own division of labor. Guan Jing is at the table and is responsible for applying paste to the things to be pasted. For the New Year pictures on the wall, Zhang Yun was in charge of the couplets and window grilles on the door.

Everyone started to get busy. Aunt Guan first burned the old tablets of the God of Wealth and Heaven and Earth that were enshrined, and then took out the new tablets, and asked Guan Jing to evenly smear the paste on the back of the cards and stick them on a In the center of the big yellow paper, heaven and earth were pasted first. After pasting the tablet of heaven and earth, Aunt Guan found its couplet and pasted it on the left and right sides of the yellow paper. When it came out, after the paste was applied, a red delinquency was applied, and it was pasted right on top of the yellow paper.

Then the whole piece of rhubarb paper was covered with paste and pasted on the empty hall of the main house.The ensuing God of Wealth tablet was also made according to the law, but the couplet was replaced by the God of Wealth, and the post was replaced by the front wall of the back room.

After Tiandi and God of Wealth had finished posting, Aunt Guan had nothing to do. She walked over to help her husband paste up the New Year pictures in the house.

In the house, Uncle Guan just tore off the old New Year pictures and is pasting the new ones on the wall. The New Year pictures are usually pasted on the top of the wall opposite the window in the bedroom, so that whether it is the host or the guest All guests can see it.

Uncle Guan stepped on a stool and leaned against the wall. Aunt Guan handed him the pasted New Year pictures from below. Uncle Guan carefully pasted the New Year pictures on the wall one by one until the long strip was completely covered. , just got off the stool.

Most of the New Year pictures I bought back were auspicious pictures. Most of the pictures posted in Zhang Yun’s bedroom were pictures of unicorns giving children away, pictures of hundreds of sons and thousands of grandchildren, and so on, while those posted in Uncle Guan’s bedroom were pictures of successive years. There are fish (yu) pictures, or pines and cypresses and longevity pictures.

When Uncle Guan and the others finished posting the New Year pictures, Zhang Yun had already pasted the window grilles on the windows outside the house and the debts on the door frame, and now he was pasting the couplets outside the gate. A few, enough for him to be busy for a while.

Seeing this, Uncle Guan and the others also came to help him. Uncle Guan went to paste the courtyard inside, while Aunt Guan simply took out some small horizontal batches and started pasting them around.

Those small banners are usually pasted in some special places according to the words written on them. For example, if it says that the animals are thriving, they should be pasted at the animal shed; .

After working like this for a whole day, I only glued all the things that need to be pasted. The colors inside and outside the house have also become brighter with these colorful things. The wall flutters with the wind, like banners, showing the world the prosperity of the host family and the happiness of life.