Little wealth

The sun in the east is slowly rising, and the light sunlight shines on the small courtyard.

Just when the sun was shining on the small wooden house in the backyard, three chubby little dumplings were poking their heads at the door of the wooden house, with pairs of black and slippery eyes looking out curiously.

A small ball in the front rolled out when squeezed by the brother behind, and the two hair balls in the back saw the brother fell out, not only did not help, but also flew over, and instantly the three balls rolled into one lump.

The white wolf lying at the door raised his eyelids and glanced at the three furry children who ran out, but didn't get up.

At this time, the big yellow dog basking in the sun not far away came over and kicked the child with its head, trying to push the child back into the nest, but accidentally turned the child over, and the short-legged hairball was on its back. The four short legs were thrashing about, and it took a while to turn over.

After a while, the white wolf, who couldn't see clearly, got up, took the furry children back to the den, and followed him in...

The pork that had been marinated overnight came out of water. Zhao Amu poured out the water in several buckets, turned over the pork inside, and continued to marinate with the lid on.

Several people moved out the radishes and cabbages pulled back yesterday, and piled up the whole table.Looking at these radishes and cabbage, Josh said to his mother: "Mum, part of our radishes should be dried into big radishes, and part of them should be dried into spiced radishes." In fact, what he wanted to do was spicy dried radishes, but Who told them that there is no such thing as chili here, so they can only take a step back and make dried spiced radishes.

"Dried radish?" Zhao Amu asked a little confused: "Aren't they all the same? Is there any difference?"

"It's different." Josh told Emma the difference between the two kinds of radishes. To put it simply, the simple way to make dried radishes is to cut them open, marinate them with salt, and dry them in the sun. Dried spiced radishes are fine. The process is a little more troublesome, so he told Eminem the general process, "but it's basically the same."

Zhao Amu was a little dizzy when he heard that, he only made the kind that was pickled with salt and then dried. As for dried spiced radishes, he had never heard of them before, "All right, all right, you can do whatever you want Do it. I'll get you as many radishes as you want, and I'll cut up the rest."

"Just leave a few for me. I'll try to make some delicious first. If it tastes good, let's make more." Josh wasn't sure if the five-spice dried radish he made was delicious, Make a little taste first, and then continue to make it if it tastes good. Don't worry about it if you fail.

Chinese cabbage needs to be washed before it can be marinated, and dried radishes for small radishes also need to be washed before they can be cooked, because these can be eaten directly without washing. It may have sand in it.

Sun-dried radishes need to be washed before they are eaten, so cut a radish into several large pieces, put it in a basin, sprinkle salt on it, marinate it for a while, put it directly in a basket, and spread it on top Put a layer of straw on top of it with two big stones, put it outside to let the water out, and take it out to dry tomorrow.

Cut the washed radish into small strips, sprinkle a layer of salt on top, and sprinkle the salt to make the water in the radish precipitate out faster.

Then they processed the cabbage together. Making pickled cabbage is easier. Cut a cabbage into two or three pieces, spread them layer by layer in a small tank, and sprinkle salt on top layer by layer... so much It took two small jars of cabbage to fill them up.

After waiting for an hour, a lot of water came out of the wooden basin containing the radishes. Josh asked someone to pour out the water inside, and spread out the dried radishes with a dustpan to dry outside. After drying it, soak it in the boiled spiced spice, and after soaking, take it out and dry it for a day or two before putting it in a jar, and then you can just open the jar and take it out to eat when you eat it later.”

Zhao Amu felt that it was too troublesome to make this five-spice dried radish. His big basket of radishes had been put into the basket to remove the water. This dried radish would have to be dried for two days before being soaked, then dried, and then marinated?

Looking at his mother's expression, Josh knew that his mother disliked the fact that the spiced radish he made was too troublesome, so he could only touch his nose to explain the spiced radish he made, "Maybe I made it Dried five-spice radishes are more delicious?"...Is that so?

"It's fine if you don't find it troublesome." Although Zhao Amu felt that making this thing was too much trouble, she didn't say anything offensive.

Making bacon and pickled radish and cabbage requires a process, and it cannot be done in a day or two, so these pickled radish and cabbage are temporarily put aside, and they will continue to be processed the next day.

It was almost noon when Butcher Chen went home to cook the pig food and fed the pigs to Zhao's house. Others' radish and cabbage had already been pickled, and he even had a lunch.

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After lunch at noon, seeing that there was nothing to help, Chen Butcher went out from Zhao's house with a machete and a rope, and when he came back, he carried two heavy loads of firewood.In the next few days, he ran to the Zhao's yard every day. Looking at the piles of firewood in the Zhao's yard, he knew how diligent Chen Butcher was running to the Zhao's.

Every afternoon when Chen Yan came back from the store, he felt a little strange seeing his father eating at their house every day. Didn't his father refuse to eat at their house a while ago?Why did it come again suddenly?

But even though he felt that his father had eaten at their house a little too many times recently, he saw that the family members and E-Mum had no objection to this, and he seemed to welcome his father to eat at their house, so He was relieved.

Josh and Zhao Amu didn't think there was any problem with their relatives coming to their house to eat every day. Anyway, so many people and two dogs eat together in their family every day, and they have to cook a lot of rice and vegetables every day. One more person The rice for one person and the rice for one less person are nothing more than half a spoonful of rice.

It just so happened that the family was quite busy during this time, the two men in the family and Chen Yan went to the store to do things every morning, and they were the only ones at home, so it would be easier for them to have one more person to help them.

Only when Aqiu saw that big bald head coming again, he avoided it far away.

After seeing the little brother running away a few times when he saw him coming, Chen Tuhu realized that the little brother was avoiding him, but he didn't feel annoyed by it, he just stretched out his hand and touched it. Touching his big bald head, he smiled in his heart.

The two are like a cat and a mouse, one comes every day and the other runs away from anyone.

No one in the family knew about these two people, only Caixia, who was at home every day, had noticed a little bit recently, but knowing Ah Qiu's temperament, she probably didn't want to tell her these things, so she didn't ask anything, just Every day, I help my master make lotus root candy and do housework at home.

Although it snowed at night during this period, the weather during the day was pretty good, and the sun came out every day, which was just right for them to bask in things.

The radishes that have been in the sun for two days have dried out the water, and then put them in the boiled non-perfume water for half a day, took them out and continued to dry them for two days, and put them in jars after drying them on the third day. Pour a little white wine into it. You don't need too much white wine, just half a spoon is enough.Then cover the lid and seal it tightly. After a month or two, you can open the altar and eat it.

The dried radishes have also been dried in the sun, and they are taken out to dry outside early in the morning, and taken back when the sun is gone in the afternoon, and then taken out to dry again the next day.

After their dried radish is dried, the bacon that has been dried for a few days is also ready to be smoked.

"Where do you put this?" Hearing from Brother Qiao that he wanted pine leaves to smoke bacon early in the morning, Chen Butcher went up the mountain and chopped down two loads of pine branches and came back.

"Just put it here."

Yesterday, Master Zhao and his brother-in-law helped to build a simple wooden shelf. It happened to be used to smoke bacon today, and the bacon was hung on it. Qiao Xu asked Chen Butcher to help him stack the pine branches on the ground, and he lit it. When the fire was on, he covered his head with two or three grapefruit peels, and called for someone to help pull the oilcloth over his head.

The branches inside lit up, and a puff of smoke came out.

Josh hurriedly took their children away, and called him E'mu and Uncle Chen, "Em, please move away, don't stand in that position, the wind is blowing that way, be careful of the smoke getting to you gone."

"Oh." Zhao Amu hastily moved a position, looked at the smoked bacon inside, and asked, "How long do we need to smoke this meat?"

"Smoke for a while every day. It takes about half a month. I heard people say that the longer the bacon is smoked, the better it tastes. Let's not rush to eat it. Just smoke it for a few more days." Josh remembers smoking bacon The longer the time, the better the taste. He remembered that in some places, people hung bacon on the stove, let the smoke from the fire smoke every day, and took it off when eating, and some people smoked it for three or two years before taking it out. There are all that come down.

It's just that he thinks it's too obstructive to hang the meat in the kitchen, and the smoke from their stove is exhausted outside through the chimney, so the bacon can't be smoked, so it's better to put it outside and smoke it. Ten days and a half months is almost the same.

"Since this is the case, let's smoke it for a few more days." Hearing that the meat would taste better if it was smoked for a few more days, Zhao Amu still blindly believed what their daughter-in-law said There is certainly nothing wrong with doing so.Their bacon this year is made according to the method told by their daughter-in-law, and the bacon that comes out in the sun is more beautiful than what they made in previous years.

The bacon covered in the oil cloth outside the yard was being smoked, and later Zhao Amu went to get a few sausages and hung them in for smoking, saying that it might taste better if they tried it.

Josh expressed his embarrassment to his mother's self-teaching, but he didn't stop it, thinking that maybe it would taste good if it was smoked?

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While Zhao's yard was busy smoking bacon, Mr. Xu, who had just left Anyang not long ago, brought people to Anyang again. This time he was ordered by their master to help investigate something.

When he learned that Mr. Xu brought someone here again, Mr. Fu felt a little strange in his heart. Didn't that one just return to Beijing?Why are you back again?

Knowing that Mr. Xu must have come here to help their master, Mr. Fu is not a curious person, but when people come to his territory, he is still the parent officer here, so naturally he has to ask.

"To be honest, I came here this time on the emperor's order to help the queen to investigate the two people." Anyway, this matter will be known to Fu Wenqing sooner or later, and Xu Ren has not concealed his purpose of coming to Anyang this time. Tell Master Fu.

Fu Wenqing frowned and thought for a while, before he suddenly realized, "No wonder, I just said that brother looks a bit kind, and I didn't think much about it at the time. It turns out that he might have such a relationship with the Empress."

Back then when he was in Kyoto, he had seen the Empress a few times from a distance, but after leaving the capital for a few years, the faces of some people he was not so familiar with were a bit forgotten, but now that he said it this way, he really felt that brother The son looks very similar to their queen.

If that brother really has such a relationship with their queen...he will help investigate this matter.

"Yes. So this time the emperor sent me here to help investigate this matter." Xu Ren responded.

"I have an idea here." Fu Wenqing asked Mr. Xu to pay for it, and said a few words in Mr. Xu's ear.

Master Xu nodded, but felt that the idea was good, so he didn't object.

That night, a black shadow landed in the yard of Qiao's house. He took out a bamboo pipe from his arms and inserted it through a window, and blew a stream of white smoke into it. After a while, the black shadow entered the house, holding a The man came out and flew back to the Yamen.

"Oh!"

With the sound of the gavel, the person who was thrown on the ground opened his eyes in a daze, and when he looked up, he was shocked to see Master Qingtian sitting on a high seat.

"Boom... Caomin Qiao Chun, you are guilty!" The elder sitting on the high hall patted the gavel again and asked.

"Caomin...Caomin has seen the elder." The man kneeling on the ground only thought that he was in a dream, dreaming that he was kneeling in the yamen, and the elder was sitting on top of him to interrogate him.

The old man's face was mighty, and he was asked if he was guilty.

"Grass, grass people guilty." The kneeling man trembled, and he said what he did like shaking beans, "Caomin... Caomin shouldn't have taken Fulang's property and refused to give it to his brother... He also sold his elder brother for six taels of silver..."

The old man caught the grammatical error of this sentence and asked: "Why is the child born to your husband not your child?"

"No, no... Caomin's husband, Fulang is not Caomin's husband, no... Fulang's child belongs to Fulang, not Caomin's... The two sons of Caomin's family are Caomin's own children." The man kneeling down was incoherent, but what he said was enough for the two adults above to understand.

Master Fu continued to ask: "Oh, then do you have evidence to prove it?"

"Yes, yes, there is a jade pendant hidden in the cabinet in the bedroom of Cao Min's house... That jade pendant was left by Cao Min's husband, and there is also a silver note of 500 taels..."

Mr. Fu and Mr. Xu exchanged a look, and then asked a few more questions, which probably clarified the matter.

As soon as Mr. Xu waved his hand, someone immediately stepped forward to knock out the man kneeling on the ground, and carried him back to the room just now. By the way, he found a jade pendant from the place the man just mentioned, and after thinking about it, he took it away The 500 taels of bank notes were taken away.