Four Foods in the Mountains

Three days later, Cen Ning opened the jar in the kitchen.

Once the lid is opened, there is a strong aroma, the bacon has been marinated, and the spices on the surface can be washed away.

The washed meat is strung together with straw ropes, and placed under the eaves of the granary to dry. After half a month, it is taken to the yard, smoked with tea shells, cypress branches, and orange peels for two days, and the smoked bacon is made. alright.

The smoked bacon can be fried with spicy cabbage. The hot and sour taste of the cabbage relieves the saltiness of the bacon, and the taste is softer when fried.

It takes more effort to make sausage than bacon, and Cen Ning had already blown and dried the pig's small intestines the day before to use them as casings.

Put the marinated meat into the wooden tool and slowly fill the sausage into the casing. After the sausage is full, tie it up one by one with cotton thread, and drill some holes in the sausage with a needle.

Aunt Cen Ning also taught him that the stuffed sausages should be scalded with boiling water to make the casings tighter. Such sausages taste better, chewy and not soft.

The stuffed sausages are also placed under the eaves to air-dry, waiting to be smoked with pine branches and orange peels together with the bacon.

Once the bacon and sausages are ready, the most important Chinese New Year meal will be ready, and Cen Ning feels more relaxed.

The bacon sausage can be eaten for a long time, and people who are not willing to cut fresh meat will use the bacon cooked in the New Year to make stir-fried dishes delicious.

Lying on the kang at night, Cen Ning was relaxed, and the corners of his mouth never let go.

"So happy to make bacon sausage?" Lu Yunchuan asked him.

"Of course." Cen Ning lay down under the quilt, his feet were a little cold, and he subconsciously moved closer to Lu Yunchuan.

"I should have done it long ago, but I was delayed until now because I had to go to the town to sell sugar. After winter, the weather is uncertain, and I don't know when it will snow. , other things can come slowly next year."

Lu Yunchuan was half-sitting leaning on a box at the end of the kang. He was very angry, and he didn't feel cold on the kang wearing his underwear. He covered Cen Ning's dishonest feet with his big palms and stuffed them into his underwear: "Don't eat if it's too late. , nothing."

"How can I do that?" Cen Ning kicked him lightly, "Who doesn't make bacon and sausages for Chinese New Year, it doesn't have any taste of the New Year. Besides, it's the first time I celebrate Chinese New Year with you, so I didn't do anything, so I don't want to do that. "

Lu Yunchuan smiled: "I mean it's not worth your worrying about this."

"But worrying about this, I'm also worrying happily." Cen Ning said, shaking his feet.

He lives a simple life. The biggest place he has been to since he was a child is the town, and a town is already very big for him.

He also heard from his father that there is a Fucheng outside the town, and a capital city outside the Fucheng.

The capital city is the biggest, where the emperor lives, and the dignitaries live, and their clothes can cover the food and clothing of ordinary people for a year, and what they worry about all day long is also related to the important affairs of the people in the world.

But I'm just a farmer, Cen Ning thought in his heart, he was born and grew up in the mountains.

Every day, I only think about what my mother will eat today, whether my father can catch prey for money, and if my brother pulls his hair again, should I complain to my mother.

Married and became Lu Yunchuan's husband, he moved from one village to another, still on the mountain, feeding chickens, embroidering and washing clothes every day, cooking three meals a day for himself and Lu Yunchuan in different ways.

Before going to bed, lie down with Lu Yunchuan and talk about the work at home.In my free time, I went to the back mountain to pick wild fruits with baskets on my back with my brother Zhu, and went to fish in the river.Seeing aunts gathering under the big tree at the entrance of the village to eat melon seeds and chat, the first reaction is always to hide quickly.

What he sees every day are the rolling green hills in the distance and misty clouds and mists between the mountains. He has never seen the tall and majestic city walls in the capital that his father mentioned, and he has no intention of seeing them. He feels like staying here like this It's good in the mountains.

There are a few acres of land that can grow food to feed our stomachs, a clean room to sleep in, and a considerate and reliable husband like Lu Yunchuan.

So he worried about the bacon and sausage, but he was also happy to worry about it. This was what he and Lu Yunchuan would eat for the new year and even next year, and it was what he worried about most every day.

Besides these, what else could he worry about?

"Lie down and sleep, I'm a little sleepy." Cen Ning tapped Lu Yunchuan's firm belly with his warm feet.

Lu Yunchuan lay down as he said, and blew out the oil lamp.

The room fell into darkness, Cen Ning buried himself in Lu Yunchuan's arms, and stretched out his arms to hug Lu Yunchuan's shoulders.

After lying down for a while with his eyes closed, he suddenly remembered something, and his fingertips gradually tightened, wrinkling the clothes on Lu Yunchuan's back.

"What's wrong? Your feet are still cold?"

Lu Yunchuan said that he wanted to hold Cen Ning's feet, but Cen Ning ducked by bending his legs and shook his head.

"What's the matter?"

Cen Ning didn't say anything, his mouth turned red from his bite.

Feeling strange, Lu Yunchuan went to light the oil lamp with one hand, pulled Cen Ning out of his arms with the other, and looked down at his face.

The palm-sized face was flushed, Cen Ning lowered his eyes, his eyelashes trembled under the candlelight, his voice was no different from humming: "Do you want...tonight?"

Since selling the firewood, Lu Yunchuan could easily rest for a period of time throughout the year. The young man had nowhere to use his strength, so he could only use it on Fu Lang at night.This period of time was extremely fierce, Cen Ning couldn't stand it several times, and cried out in embarrassment before he was able to stop, curled up under the blanket for a while, his legs were still shaking.

But in the past few days, he was thinking about the holidays, and every time Lu Yunchuan reached out and touched his underwear belt, Cen Ning would always turn around and hide: "No, tomorrow morning... you have to get up early tomorrow morning, why don't you do it tonight. "

Lu Yunchuan is an honest person, if Fu Lang wants it, if Fu Lang doesn't give it, then naturally he can't force Fu Lang, so he nodded and held back.

After two or three times, Cen Ning felt a little nervous, afraid that Lu Yunchuan would be angry.

The elder sister-in-law at home is also a brother. Before he got married, the elder sister-in-law told him about this matter.It is said that the man in the first two years of marriage is the most unpromising, and he pretends not to talk about it every day with a small brain, and he will be annoyed if you don't give it to him.

So after cooking the meat today, Cen Ning held back his embarrassment and asked.

Having been married for so long, he has always relied on Lu Yunchuan in this matter, as long as he gets on the kang, Lu Yunchuan will do whatever he says, and he never resists until he really can't stand it.

He didn't want it to be the end of the year, because this matter made Lu Yunchuan annoyed him.

As soon as Cen Ning finished speaking, Lu Yunchuan's breathing became heavier, his Adam's apple rolled twice, and he asked softly, "Didn't you say... sleepy?"

Cen Ning grabbed the quilt and hummed softly: "That's all I said, and the meat is smoked, so it's okay to get up later tomorrow."

Pulling on Lu Yunchuan's belt with his fingers, Cen Ning softened his voice: "A few days ago... I did it because I was afraid that I would get up late the next day and delay things. Don't annoy me."