Chapter 29: Pickling Two Eggs

The family is growing rice, ducks, gourds and mushrooms. Everyone is busy, and Xuejian is still the most idle, so she looks at the duck eggs at home.

Of course, the duck eggs belong to the duck commander Qi Niang. Qi Niang originally planned to hatch some ducklings.

Duck eggs raised in rice fields are also the best. Xuejian doesn't like scrambled duck eggs. Thinking about those pickled duck eggs with butter in his previous life, Xuejian's saliva is about to flow down.

If you say you want to do it, you can do it. First, you went to find Qi Niang. "If you make fresh and delicious food, the credit will be counted as Qi Niang."

Qiniang was originally a sensible person, and she saw that she was pitiful and interesting. Although she was reluctant to give up, she still contributed all of her A, but she had to help together, and Xue Jian naturally agreed.

Xuejian and Qi Niang called Zhou's mother and Sanni. With previous experience, they knew that "Xuejian's exit must be delicious". After hearing this, Si Niang and Du's mother also rushed to help.

Poor families occasionally pick up some wild duck eggs and so on, and they will also pickle them. Most of them will be pickled up and salty, which is easy to eat with rice in winter.

I heard that it was a pickled egg, and everyone's interest weakened, but in accordance with their instinctive dependence on Xuejian, they still got busy.

Seeing that everyone was a little disapproving, Xue didn't say anything. She just smiled cunningly, and then first selected a hundred fresh duck eggs and asked Sanni to carefully brush the fresh duck eggs with vinegar with a soft-haired brush, and then wiped them one by one and dried them for later.

Zhou Ma boils a pot of slightly thick salt water. After it cools completely, she adds three or four to star anise and Sichuan pepper, then adds white wine and stirs well. Then pours the boiling salt water into two large jars, and the duck eggs are gently immersed in salt water. Salt water is no more than duck eggs.

Xuejian's job is just to seal the mouth of the altar, then clap his hands and say that after 40 days, it can be cooked and eaten.

Qiniang's job is to write down the closed date of each altar. Although there is only one altar now, Xue Jian said that there will be many pickled eggs after there are more duck eggs, so this is a glorious and great task.

Qiniang said helplessly, "Yes, Xuejian Housekeeper!"

Hearing her cry, Xue Jian still smiled proudly and deliberately said with satisfaction, "Little devil, do it well! There will be bread, everything will."

I thought I was very humorous, but when I saw that everyone didn't understand, Qi Niang asked blankly, "What is bread?"

"Cough." Xuejian was almost choked by her words. After coughing a few times, she said shyly, "A kind of food, Xuejian has only heard of it, but she can't do it."

"It doesn't matter." Si Niang came over to comfort her, "There are a lot of food you can cook."

"Yes, yes, yes!" Xue Jian secretly rolled her eyes and secretly warned herself that she must control her mouth in the future.

It is not enough to have pickled duck eggs. Choose another 100 duck eggs, then let Zhou Ma burn them into ash with winter grass, tea shells, mulberry trees, etc. Add soda, fine stone, tea, salt, five-spice powder and other seasonings, mix well, and then add water to mix them into mud.

Siniang and others put the selected fresh eggs into the mud one by one, so that the eggs are evenly glued to the mud, and then wrap the sticky eggs in a layer of gluten shell or sawdust.

Zhou's mother said, "I know this method. In the past, some people used to pickle duck eggs with salt, lime and tea."

Sanni rushed to say, "I also know this. It's called 'Get out of here'!"

Qiniang smiled and said, "'Get out of here'? The name is really bad! It doesn't sound like it's edible."

"However," Zhou's mother shook her head and smiled: "Xuejian's method is always surprising. It's much more complicated than the salted eggs and gray eggs we used to make. It tastes..."

Siniang and Sanni said together, "It must be delicious!"

The rest is to decorate the altar. Put the disposed eggs into the altar one by one, seal the mouth of the altar with mud, and put them into the room. Xuejian specially asked Du Hai to tell Du Hai to re-burn the kang in this room and put the jar into the kang to keep the temperature.

It is worth noting that three days after installing the altar, the mouth of the altar is opened to dissipate heat and then sealed. Seven days later, the eggs in the altar were finally taken out and dried in the sun.

In this way, a month later, it will be done.

The four women in the family are newly fascinated with all kinds of small baskets made of wicker, and Bai Yitian was also amazed after seeing it.

Xue saw that he stared at these small baskets, and his eyes were dripping.

Zhou Bo asked Xuejian at night, "What are you thinking?"

Snow sees naturally doesn't admit: "Snow doesn't see."

"It's dishonest!" Zhou Bo just twisted her nose and did not continue to ask.

Xue saw a burning face and said, "It's just that it looks beautiful and exquisite, thinking about what it's for, but I don't remember it."

Zhou Bo couldn't help laughing: "Such a small basket is naturally decorated with flowers and grass."

Xue Jianbai glanced at him: "Who stipulates that small baskets can only hold flowers and grass?"

"Of course, it's my rule." Zhou Bo pretended to be a master.

"Go--!" Xue saw a long voice.

Seeing the thousands of expressions on her face, Zhou Bo was in a comfortable mood, but he snorted in his nose.

Sure enough, this timid little girl immediately helped him massage his legs routinely, while pretending to be meek.

"Dalang, everything you say is right, and naturally wrong is also right!" Xue Jian muttered to herself.

Zhou Bo pressed her hand and said with a smile, "You have massaged this afternoon. Save it now. Knowing that everything I said is right, that's it!"

"Yes, sir!" Xue saw that the fake model got up and brushed it with full etiquette.

Zhou Bo also did a full play and said seriously, "Why don't you go to bed with me?"

Hearing his ambiguity, Xue saw that his face was burning like fire and said angrily, "You!" But after scolding, she immediately felt guilty. She is originally a girl, and she sleeps with her master every day. Even if she doesn't do anything, in the eyes of outsiders, it's actually the same.

"There are no rules!" Zhou Bo shook his head.

Xue saw that she didn't talk back to him again and had all kinds of slander in her heart, but she still came over obediently. Zhou Bo's legs were not sharp. Xue saw that she helped him enter the inner room and naturally served Master Zhou to change his clothes.

Looking at Xue's pink mouth, she didn't mind to move, but she was actually too small. Let's wait.

The last time Bai Yitian went home and told his father about the Zhou family's rice field to raise ducks. At that time, his father didn't eat well at dinner, so he went back to the study. The next day excitedly called him over and repeatedly told him to pay close attention to this matter.

Bai Yitian called him over again and asked him to talk about the meeting in Pingshan Village in front of Bai Jianran. Bai Zhi County was not very interested in fox immortals, but when he heard that the ducks of the Zhou family really only ate weeds but not seedlings, Bai couldn't help but get excited.

If this method is really feasible, can it be promoted throughout the county? Can we take the life of the whole county to a higher level? However, he was still more rational. On the one hand, he told his son to pay close attention to the matter, and on the other hand, he made up his mind to go and check it in person after autumn.

And your old friend, who lives quietly in the Zhou family? This old guy must be thinking about Zhou Jiaxue's cooking skills and is very happy!

The king carpenter sent a lot of wood chips. Xue remembered that the mushrooms in the cave had been a month. Thanks to Erhu, an obedient child, who made a simple wooden row, he went to water them in three or four days. Fortunately, the Daqing River is not far away, otherwise the irrigation alone would have to kill people.

He told Zhou Bo that he, the king of the mountain, was going to collect mushrooms. Zhou Bo had heard Erhu say that the mushrooms looked good, but when he saw the snow's tail facing the sky, he couldn't help stabbing her first.

Irrelled by Zhou Bo's cynicism, Xuejian and others took the sawdust and rented a boat to go to the cave again. Sure enough, mushrooms had grown out, picked them with big and mature ones, and returned home full of four baskets.

First, send a small basin to the Wang carpenter's house, send two pots to the Zhou family's grandparents, and then dry the rest.

A few days later, the dried mushrooms were put into small baskets made by Si Niang. Around the small basket, they were decorated with various mountain flowers. After finishing these, Xue smiled and said sweetly to Bai Yitian who had been following him: "Brother Yitian,"

Bai Yitian shook off his goose bumps and looked at Xuejian with vigilant eyes and said, "I'm penniless and have the appearance of Pan An. I don't know if this girl wants to rob sex?"

After taking a sip of tea, Xu safely vomited on the table. Zhou Bo didn't say anything, but just glanced at Xuejian.

Xuejian said with a fake smile, "If Brother Yitian's beautiful face is robbed by me, it will definitely cause anger and resentment. How can Xuejian bear it?"

As she patted Xu Cong'an's back to help him breathe, she continued, "I just want to trouble Brother Yitian to sell this beautiful basket, and of course, the delicious and attractive mushrooms inside, to help find a good family in the county."

Bai Yitian trembled. He just put the mushrooms in a delicate basket and let him take advantage of the relationship and sell them at a high price in the county. It was so ambiguous that it made people's scalp tingling.

Xu Cong'an and Zhou Bo were also frostrobed by the cold jokes of these two. These two people are people who can't talk well, which can be said to be half a catty.

Such a small matter, I went back to the county to do it without saying anything, and I still bothered Mr. Bai to go out in person? It's just the work he moves his fingers.

The next day, she came back with one or two coins of silver. Er Niang knew that it was stained with the light of Bai Yitian.

In this way, after a month, mushrooms were picked several times one after another, barely collecting the meat money of the Self-Defense Forces this month.

"Self-Defense Forces? What do you mean? Bai Yitian was puzzled.

Listening to Er Niang talk about the Self-Defense Forces with a little depression, his eyes couldn't help but light up. His family's silence was too much. This week Bo was really silent, but when he did something, he always had to praise his ingenuity.