Four Foods in the Mountains

Sister Lan steamed a pot of steamed buns, boiled a pot of rice porridge, and fried a plate of vegetables from home. Lu Yunrui and Wang Fengyu had to eat some meat every day, but today Wang Fengyu didn't give her money to cut the meat.

Sister Lan quietly glanced at the main room, but she didn't dare to ask for money at this time.

I had no choice but to get two eggs out of the egg basket at home and scrambled a plate of eggs.

Only Lu Yunrui in the family can eat two fried eggs every morning, or Wang Fengyu makes salt-baked eggs for him as a snack when he is hungry.

When cooking, I seldom scrambled eggs. Wang Fengyu said that it was for Lu Yunrui to replenish his brain.

Picking up the steamed buns in the steamer into a basket and filling a pot of rice porridge, Sister Lan walked lightly to the main room with her lunch, and carefully put the dishes on the table: "Father, mother, let's eat, I'll go... call Third brother."

Wang Fengyu was already angry at the moment, and when she heard Sister Lan's words, she scolded her head and face: "How many times have I said that you are only one brother, why are you the third brother and the third brother? Where did you get the eldest brother and the second brother?" Adults can't grow memory, can they?"

Sister Lan lowered her head and shrugged her shoulders, not daring to speak.

Wang Fengyu finally let out some anger all morning, walked to the table with a sullen face and sat down, but when she saw the plate of eggs on the table, her anger rekindled: "Who asked you to scramble eggs? What you said, are you capable now? You don’t even take what your mother said seriously!"

Sister Lan shrank and said, "No, mother, it's... It's because there is no meat in the house, so I just scrambled two eggs."

"If you don't have meat, don't you know how to buy it? Meat is dead and you are dead too? They said that the eggs at home are to be saved for your brother's brains. Are you a fool who can't understand?"

"Okay——" Lu Dexing, who had been sitting by the side, suddenly opened his mouth and said in a deep voice, "Isn't it just a plate of eggs, and it's worth it for you? It's not too bad luck to die if you open your mouth. Besides, a basket of eggs at home Eggs, Yunrui has a few mouths to eat so much, and I will eat more eggs at home in the future to save some money on cutting meat."

Wang Fengyu slammed her chopsticks, "Lu Dexing, what do you mean? Yunrui has been eating eggs for so many years and I haven't seen what you said. Don't think that I don't know what you're thinking when you say this now."

Lu Dexing glanced at his mother-in-law, picked up a steamed bun and started eating without saying a word.

Wang Fengyu couldn't get angry: "Your old Lu family ancestors didn't know a single word, and Lu Yunlang and Lu Yunchuan were just two peasants who knew how to work hard. If someone like us Yunrui who can read, that's your ancestral grave." It’s smoked! Most of them are people who have failed in the talent examination for a few years, who are you showing your face now?”

"Then how did that kid from the Shen family pass the exam? I see that he stays at home all day, and he doesn't go to the town every three days to meet his classmates to spend money like Yunrui. How can our family be ashamed?"

Wang Fengyu was also troubled by this matter in her heart. She said that her family Yunrui would be able to enter high school this time.

And the one on the other side... Wang Fengyu clenched her teeth in anger, she was cursed by that bitch Yao Chunling's rotten mouth, otherwise her family, Yunrui, would not have passed the exam.

Wang Fengyu and Lu Dexing were arguing in the main room, while Lu Yunrui was sullen in his own room, almost breaking the pen in his hand.

It's fine if I failed the list, but that boy from the Shen family was admitted to the scholar in one go, that kid is obviously extremely stupid, and he will be admitted to the scholar before him...how could it be.

Originally, I thought that if I was in high school this year, I would be able to stand proudly and be sought after by others in the village, and maybe I could fall into the favor of some master in the town, find a good marriage, marry a prominent lady in the family, and then rise to the top.

From then on, not to mention the ordinary brothers and sisters in Fengyuelou, even the top card in Fengyuelou will have to laugh in front of him.

But now, all his plans were in vain.

The quarrel in the main room could be faintly heard, Lu Yunrui's face became more serious, this year he failed the ranking, how can he ask his family for money to go to town in the future.

After lunch, Lu Yunrui excused himself to be unwell and did not leave the house. Lu Dexing and Wang Fengyu also had no appetite. Now Wang Fengyu didn't have the heart to take care of Sister Lan. Sister Lan ate a good meal for the first time.

After the meal, Lu Dexing went back to sleep with a sullen face, but Wang Fengyu was still worried and knocked on the door of Lu Yunrui's room.

There was a kang burning in Lu Yunrui's room, and it was very warm. He was lying on the kang, thinking about how to get money so that he could go to see his brothers and sisters in Fengyue Tower, when he heard the knock on the door, he rubbed his eyes and changed Gave a look.

As soon as the door opened, Lu Yunrui stood in the room, his eyes were red, his hair was messy, and he looked disheartened.

Wang Fengyu also felt a little resentful towards Lu Yunrui in her heart, after all, the family spent a lot of money for him to become a scholar, and just now she argued with Lu Dexing, she just wanted to save some face for herself and her son in front of Lu Dexing.

But now seeing her son's depressed appearance, the indisputable complaints in her heart disappeared in an instant, and only her heartache was left.

"Son, it's just that you failed the ranking this year. You don't eat and don't leave the house. What can you do if you burn yourself out?"

Lu Yunrui shook his head, and spoke weakly: "Mother, don't worry, it's fine, I just... feel a little uncomfortable."

Wang Fengyu comforted him: "Son, if it doesn't work this time, there will be a next time. You are so smart, you can always pass high school."

"My son just can't figure it out." Lu Yunrui said with red eyes, "On weekdays in school, the teacher always praised me for being smart and said that my essays were good, and my classmates often competed to learn from me, how could I fail the exam? On the contrary, that idiot from the Shen family passed the exam, and in school, he can't compare to me in everything."

Wang Fengyu also couldn't figure it out, why didn't his son pass the exam because he was so smart?

She held Lu Yunrui's hand and cursed: "God has no eyes, that grandma of the Shen family burns incense and worships Buddha at home every day, who knows if she has some evil intentions to take away your luck?"

Lu Yunrui wiped his tears with his sleeve: "Mother, it's fine for my son's years of hard study to be in vain. It's just that my father and mother can't lift their heads together in the village with me. My son is really ashamed. Why don't we just do what the aunts in the village say?" In that case, throw away the scroll and work for the family."

Hearing what Lu Yunrui said, Wang Fengyu hurriedly said: "My good boy, you are still thinking about your parents at this moment. Your father and I didn't love you for nothing. But you must not think too much about it. The fields in the village plan food What do you know? You are going to be a high-ranking official in the future, so don't pay attention to them, you just concentrate on reading your book, and your father and I are involved in family affairs."

Wang Fengyu comforted Lu Yunrui for a while, and felt relieved when he saw that Lu Yunrui was in better condition: "I haven't eaten in the morning and noon, how can I bear it? Mother will break two eggs for you and serve you a bowl of noodles."

Wang Fengyu stepped out of the room and closed the door, Lu Yunrui's frown was loosened, the tears in his eyes disappeared, and he lay back on the kang with his sleeves swayed, and continued to think about the top card of Fengyue Tower in his mind.

The matter of the Lu family was talked about as a joke by the villagers after dinner for a few days.

After all, if Lu Yunrui failed the exam, it was the Lu family's business. The New Year's Eve was coming soon, and the house was very busy with cleaning and buying new year's goods. The most important thing was to live a good life at home.

Cen Ning was extremely busy these two days.

Wu Erhe said that he wanted to help Lu Yunchuan, and he actually brought half a pig for their family, and shared half with his elder brother and sister-in-law. Cen Ning began to pack the meat in a wooden basin without stopping.

Keep some fresh meat for frying on weekdays, and make the rest into bacon and sausages, which can be eaten next year.

Wu Erhe looked like a rough guy, but he was meticulous in his work. Not to mention helping clean up the meat, the pig hair was blanched off in advance.

Cen Ning cut the meat into pork strips, put fresh orange peels in the water to remove the smell of pigs, then cleaned the meat with a brush, dried the washed pork strips, and pork belly was the best for bacon.

Put star anise cinnamon and chili grass fruit in the pot and fry until fragrant, then pour in a lot of salt and chili powder and stir fry.

Thick spices are smeared on the streaky pork strips. The more spices smeared, the better the smoked bacon. Put the pork strips into the jar, put them in the kitchen and wait for them to marinate and taste, and start making sausages again.

Sausage is an essential dish for Chinese New Year. It is oily and sweet. Cut half of it and put it on the rice to steam. The rice has a smell of oil. You can eat two bowls of rice with only half of a sausage. It is not as salty as bacon. hard.

The meat for making sausages has to be cut into small pieces, and it is still put into jars with spices, but more wine is added, so that the sausages produced in this way can have a fragrance.

The spices and pork are kneaded evenly by hand, and put into jars like bacon and wait for it to marinate.

The two jars of bacon and sausages were cleaned up, and the hands of Lu Yunchuan and Cen Ning who wiped the ingredients were also extremely hot, and most of the spices were chili noodles.

After fetching water to wash his hands, Lu Yunchuan laughed as he watched Cen Ning frown and think about things while washing his hands: "How come Maodong is busier than usual at work?"

After rubbing his hands clean, Lu Yunchuan took a cloth towel and dried Cen Ning's hands.

Cen Ning pouted, thinking that a man is a man, Lu Yunchuan is exactly the same as his father and brother, he is a good hand when he puts his head down to work on weekdays, but he doesn't know how to live when he comes home from work, and he doesn't know what to prepare before the New Year .

The bacon, sausage and fried goods are quite enjoyable when eating. I don't know that Cen Ning has been thinking about preparing these all day long, and what he dreams about is cooking by himself.

The sausage and bacon should be smoked while the sun is still before the snow, and they should be eaten in jars on the New Year's Eve.

Before the snow, I have to go to the town to buy some preserved fruits and sugar and salt in the kitchen. There are a lot of things to be marinated at the end of the year. These are used quickly, and most of them are wasted for making jars of bacon.

I have to buy some millet, barley, red dates and all kinds of beans, so that I can cook Laba porridge during the Laba Festival.

There is also the New Year's sacrifice, Lu Yunchuan will definitely go to see his biological mother, and it is the first time he sees his mother-in-law, so he has to think about the things he brings to the place.

It was the first time that Cen Ning had to think about everything, even though Lu Yunchuan was helping him with everything, he still felt that he was very busy.