Chapter 317 Braised Beef
Zhang An put a piece of beef about ten kilograms aside and said to Wang Fang.
"Mom, this piece will be braised later. Let's eat braised beef tonight."
When I used to watch TV, I always listened to those heroes who spoke like waiters and cut two pounds. Braised beef.
Although it is nonsense, in ancient times, cows were more valuable than people, and killing cows was illegal. Where did you get so much beef?
But this does not affect Zhang An being so greedy for him that he will let his family cook him today.
When the meat is marinated, slice it into slices and dip it in the chili pepper water to experience the feeling of eating meat.
There are still about thirty or forty pounds left, so let’s put it in the freezer first.
In fact, this kind of fresh beef that is still beating can be used to make beef balls, but Zhang An is not used to eating that stuff.
Stir-fried yellow beef or stewed beef brisket is delicious, or you can cut beef skewers and grill them.
After spending more than two hours, Zhang Ansu finally finished the trap door.
Although it looks like a big board, it is very strong at first glance.
Ring doors are different from the doors used in rooms at home. They don’t need to be fine in workmanship, as long as they are strong.
Replacing a door is not difficult. No hinges or nails are needed. As long as the door is well made, one person can do it.
Anyone who has lived in an old house knows that in the past, there were protruding cylindrical door heads up and down on the door shaft against the wall.
In the old houses at that time, hinges were basically not used, and the doors were all supported by stone pillows.
Door pillows are usually made of stone, or they may be made of wood, and are fixed at the threshold and corner of the wall.
Generally, the upper and lower door pillows are directly built into the wall after finding a good position to play a fixed role.
Two circular stone holes will be carved out on the door pillow stone, which are used to support the door leaf and place the door shaft.
The tile-roofed houses of Zhang An’s family are not too young, so they all adopt this structure.
When he arrived at the door of the circle, Zhang An took a chisel and dug out the broken old door shaft inside the door opening.
Replacing the door is very simple. Remove the stone plug of the upper door pillow, then lift the circle door, and first put the door shaft of the upper door into the upper stone hole.
Then insert the lower door shaft into the lower door pillow, and finally put the top stone plug in.
As long as it cannot be loosened up or down, the door is considered installed.
Zhang An did not change the door lock because the original old door lock was very safe.
Otherwise, those guys like Li Laifu wouldn’t have smashed the gate into pieces.
After installing the gate, Zhang Ancai walked to the wall next to him and checked the beehive to see what was going on with these hardworking little bees.
Every year when winter comes, Zhang An takes some measures to keep out the cold for his beehives.
So the bumble bees at home have nothing to do in the winter. At most, they freeze to death and fly out even in heavy snow.
It is precisely because of this that Zhang An habitually ignores them.
But this year is different. The snow this time is heavier than before, and it lasts for a long time.
Zhang Jianguo remembered the boxes in the backyard and put them in the utility room, so there was no loss.
But the two remaining boxes in the old yard were forgotten by everyone.
Zhang An only remembered it when he came to install the door today.
Open the beehive cover, and the wasps inside are so densely packed together that they are almost squeezed into a ball.
It seems that they also know the importance of hugging together for warmth.
But the appearance of the bottom of the beehive told Zhang An that they had not had an easy time during the snowy days.
Because there were many dead wasps lying at the bottom of the beehive, one-fifth of the number, the loss was really heavy.
However, judging from their appearance, most of the ones that were frozen to death were older worker bees with larger bodies and dark colors.
Most of the bee balls still tightly packed together are golden young bees.
It seems that in their swarm, they also know how to preserve fresh troops and surround the young lads inside.
And those old worker bees who had little time left made their final contribution to the entire bee colony.
Thinking about the past when they worked hard and collected honey everywhere, just to provide such high-quality honey for the family.
So Zhang An dug a hole in the ground and arranged a funeral for these hardworking and selfless little guys.
Thinking that there was still a month before the flowers bloomed, Zhang An put the beehive into the space first.
This small group of them has had enough hard times, and it’s time for them to go and enjoy themselves in space.
In the space, the blood rice planted by Zhang An has matured.
After spending some time harvesting, Zhang An selected blood rice suitable for seeds and planted it again.
Last time, because there was not enough rice, we only planted half an acre of land.
But this time there was no such problem. Zhang An picked out two full pockets, which were all suitable for use as seeds.
When the rice seeds are planted, soaked in the spring water, the grains of millet begin to sprout and gradually grow.
When they finally grew to over a foot tall, Zhang An also transplanted them.
In fact, there is no need to transplant them in the space, but Zhang An is used to it and spent time to transplant them all.
It only takes a few days for this batch of rice to mature again.
Zhang An was not busy making wine, because according to the proportion mentioned by Mr. Huang last time, this amount of millet would not produce much wine.
We have to plant two more crops. Then we can save more and brew them all at once.
Beside the paddy fields, the corn and sorghum are also mature.
The big corn cobs and the sorghum ears that have been bent from the sorghum pole are really gratifying to look at.
After all the harvest was completed, Zhang An planted corn and sorghum again.
It’s just that compared to blood rice, Zhang An doesn’t pay so much attention to them.
In the lake in space, Zhang An discovered that some sea fish had begun to lay eggs, and some had already hatched into small fry.
It’s just that Zhang An is not very sure whether they are sea bass fry or Eastern star grouper fry.
Because they are too small, Zhang An can't see them, but it doesn't matter. When they grow up for a while, they will be able to distinguish them.
When Zhang An returned home, Wang Fang had already cooked the beef. More than ten kilograms of beef was cooked in a large pot.
"Mom, how long do you have to cook this beef before you can eat it?"
Just smelling the brine, Zhang An already felt that his saliva was about to flow out.
“It’s still early, it has only been cooked for half an hour, and it will take another hour to finish.”
For beef, we pay attention to three minutes of stewing and seven minutes of soaking. Just cooking it will take one and a half minutes. Hours later, I will have to soak for a long time.
Zhang An’s idea of appeasing his greed was in vain, and he could only wait until the evening.
When Zhang An mentioned the phone, he called Chen Ze and Ding Yi.
Mainly I wanted to ask when these two people would come over. It was impossible for the two deer to wait until New Year's Eve before taking action.
As a result, we called and they all agreed that there were still three days before the Chinese New Year, so they would not come over until the day after tomorrow.
After setting the time, Zhang An plans to go to the city tomorrow and find a place that sells wine jars to buy some jars. Otherwise, the matter would be delayed again and again, and he would not be able to remember it after a while.
When I buy the jar, I will be able to brew some fruit wine in the space in the next two days.
In this way, you can take it out and try it during the Chinese New Year. After all, after drinking grain wine for so many years, you can change the taste occasionally.
“Hey, how did our young mistress get started with needlework?”
After Zhang An finished the phone call, when he returned to the stove, he saw Su Ying studying with her old mother needlework.
“I don’t know how to do this, so I’ll learn from my mother.”
“Why should I learn this? Now I don’t have to make my own clothes and shoes.”
Su Ying had never touched needlework before, and she would definitely get pricked if she tried to learn.
“Everyone else in the village can do it, but I can’t. People will laugh at me then.”
In rural areas, needlework is a necessary skill for older girls and younger wives. .
They are all from rural areas. When the girls were young, their mothers began to teach them how to do needlework.
This way, you won’t be looked down upon when you go to your husband’s house, and when you become the head of the house, you can do many sewing and mending tasks by yourself.
After all, in the countryside now, every family has several brothers.
After you get married, you will basically separate the family within a year or two and live your own life alone.
Not everyone is like the Zhang An family, which only has one son, and the relationship between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law is very good, so the family still lives together.
Although some families only have one son, they still live separately after they get married.
So you still have to master many daily skills by yourself, otherwise you will have to ask your mother-in-law or other sisters-in-law for help after the family is separated.
It would be fine if those mother-in-laws and sisters-in-law were nicer, but now there is really nothing I can do if I encounter someone who is harsher.
Especially in this era, the relationship between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law is particularly bad.
For a small part, the main reason is the incompetence of the person involved.
It may be that the mother-in-law is more evil and harsh, or it may be the daughter-in-law’s personality or other reasons.
Anyway, it is often seen that mother-in-law and daughter-in-law are arguing with each other, and it is difficult for the man in the family to be a good man standing in the middle.
Part of the reason is that many people who became mothers-in-law were treated harshly by their mothers-in-law after entering the family.
So after I got a daughter-in-law, I also wanted to establish rules.
Because of this, many families have to teach their daughters before they get married.
After all, if you can do something yourself, you don’t have to ask others, and your life will be much quieter.
Su Ying has been here for several months and has become familiar with the women in the village.
But many times, she couldn't talk to the women in the village and couldn't integrate in.
Because when others get together, the topics of chatting are trivial matters in life, money, rice, oil and salt.
If nothing else, when we were killing pigs a few days ago, many women gathered around to do things.
We are talking about knitting sweaters and making cloth shoes for the children at home.
Su Ying knew nothing about these, so she couldn’t speak.
But Chen Wenwen, who had just married into the village recently, got involved with the aunts.
And when educating girls at home, many people say that if you don’t learn this and don’t know that, you will be laughed at by others when you get married.
No one would hide this kind of thing behind anyone's back, so Su Ying naturally heard some of it.
So Su Ying felt that as a daughter-in-law, everyone else could do it, but she couldn't, and someone would definitely laugh at her.
So when I saw Wang Fang doing some work, I followed him to learn.
"What's the joke? Why do you care about the garrulous person? If you have the time, you might as well prepare two more classes and correct two more homeworks."
What kind of society will it be in the future? Zhang Ann knew very well that these things would not be important at all in the future.
In fact, most people in the village would not laugh at her at all, because she is a college graduate and a teacher, and she is an out-and-out city dweller.
Teachers are already very popular in rural areas, let alone teachers like Su Ying.
It’s too late to be envious of others, so how can you gossip.
Not to mention many old ladies in the village, if only they had a daughter-in-law who graduated from a university in the city and was so good-looking.
I will definitely worship her as a Bodhisattva and show off to my old friends every day. How can I be willing to let her do the work?
Of course, there are more people in rural areas, so there must be some people who don’t look down on the good things of others.
I don’t have it at home, so I can only use other people’s weaknesses to attack others.
However, such a person would definitely not dare to speak in front of his face, and could only gossip behind his back.
This kind of thing is normal, just ignore it.
"It's okay. I'm just idle now. Just take it as a leisurely activity and learn as you go."
"Okay, just don't make it your main job anyway. Pay attention. Hands, don’t prick yourself, it hurts.”
As soon as Zhang An finished speaking, the man gave himself a shot.
It hurt so much that little pearls appeared in his eyes, and he thought Zhang An had a crow's mouth.
But after blowing off, she started to do something again. She is really a strong woman in her life.
"Xiao An, why don't you go to town to buy a big jar tomorrow? We made too much sweet wine this year and the jar couldn't hold it before."
Zhang An hasn't decided yet. I went to the ceramics factory to buy a wine vat. Now the old mother said, I must go tomorrow.
"Hmm, I'll go there tomorrow and find out what size I want to buy."
"Our family used to use a 20-pound one, so let's buy a thirty-fifty-pound one. ”
"That's it. I'll buy a few more tomorrow. I'll put them at home for easy use later."
Wang Fang wanted to say not to waste money, but then she thought about it. This kind of thing is ready when needed. Also convenient.
When we ate in the evening, the beef braised in the afternoon was finally soaked.
Zhang An didn't even hold back, he just fished out a piece and sliced it himself.
"Tian Bodhisattva, why don't you cut it a little thicker and sell it? You can cut it so that people can see it."
Zhang An worked hard to practice knife skills. At that time, he worked too hard, causing him to subconsciously cut everything very thin.
Today's braised beef was the same. When Wang Fang saw that it was transparent in the light, he immediately snatched the knife away.
"Forget it, let me cut it. You can't do this until you're tired."
Zhang An grabbed it and saw that it was indeed a bit too thin. There's not enough food in your mouth to fit between your teeth.
“Oh, my name is Dengying Beef. It’s not thin enough so you can see it.”
Zhang An scratched his head and made an excuse for himself. It was also a mistake to be too good at cutting.
In the past, he often criticized someone else's beef ramen because the beef was cut as thin as paper and a piece of beef lasted half a year.
Unexpectedly, he would end up living the life he hates most.
(End of this chapter)