bullyxtreme Chapter 244 Salted Pork Congee
Chapter 244 Salted Pork Congee
Lin Lanshan wrinkled her nose in disgust, and didn't forget to lift the round ball in her hand a little further away.
"Giggle giggle!" Yuan Yuan struggled frantically in her hands, causing another flurry of feathers.
The shedding is so heavy, it looks like it's shedding season!
Aside from Yuanyuan being held hostage and unable to use her full strength, the other three were quite formidable, yelling and tugging at her pants as if they were about to tear them off.
It's clear that Lin Lanshan's disdain made them very angry.
As she was being teased, she pulled up her trouser leg, laughing, "Oh, my pants! Can't I even joke with them? How stingy! Hahaha~"
"You know they can understand, yet you still teased them. Now they're angry! Don't let them get so angry that they secretly go for a bath! The water's freezing cold today, you can't let them go. Hurry up and coax them!"
Lin Chunyi used both hands to pull them apart, finally freeing her sister's pants that were almost worn out.
"Oh dear, how was I supposed to know that pets could be more temperamental and harder to please than their owners?" She has to coax them; she only has a few adorable little ones at home, and if they get hurt or sick, she'll be heartbroken!
This is completely reversing the Heavenly Principles! It's utterly reversing the Heavenly Principles!
So she could only touch their feathers with her left hand and begin performing magic tricks with her right.
"It's okay, no matter how smelly you are, you're still my stinky darlings! My stinky darlings, look what this is, I brought you some yummy treats~"
An oil paper package appeared out of thin air on Lin Lanshan's right hand.
"!"
Lin Chunyi sensed something was wrong as soon as she smelled the oil. She glanced at it and quickly gestured for her sister to look at what was in her hand, reminding her, "Put it back quickly, put it back right now!"
"Oh, what's wrong?" Lin Lanshan looked down.
"!" Holy crap, I grabbed the wrong one, I grabbed a roast goose instead! She quickly put it back into her spatial storage.
Tuanyuan and Ankang, who were waiting to be fed, asked in confusion: ? What happened? Did something just appear and then disappear...?
An'an and Kang'kang, the "distant relatives" wrapped in oil paper, sniffed them again and again with their憨憨 (simple and honest) manner.
It feels familiar, and a little addictive. What's going on? It smells like home! Hehe~
Lin Lanshan produced something else, and this time it was a few winter dates.
There are so few fruits available here in winter, so they only managed to buy some jujubes and pears. They were ridiculously expensive! The price per unit was almost higher than pork.
The tangerines they ate at Jilefang were sweet and sour, a novel treat that wasn't commonly seen. Unfortunately, even after searching every fruit shop in the county, they couldn't find any.
Then, after inquiring with Yu Fangniang, the proprietress of Jilefang, wow! It turns out that these small tangerines are both precious and rare, and are exclusively supplied to customers…
Only those who are extremely wealthy and powerful
Only owners of large businesses like He Shi Wei Lou and Jile Fang, who have large ice cellars, have access to goods and supplies.
Yu Fangniang originally intended to give some to the two sisters, but with oranges being so expensive, how could they be so shameless as to ask for them? They quickly refused.
Yu Fangniang then offered to sell them some cheaper, but they were too embarrassed to agree.
After much haggling, Yu Fangniang finally agreed to sell it to them at the original price. So in the end, they spent a fortune to buy three catties of small tangerines at Jilefang!
Congratulations! Congratulations!
That said, Lin Lanshan fed the winter dates in her hand to Tuanyuan and Ankang.
As expected, this family has a tradition of never learning from mistakes.
They were happy again, even happier than when they first saw their owners return. They had completely forgotten how badly they had just been scolded.
Reunion and Ankang happily ate the fruit: they loved their owner, but slightly less so than the food.
Before long, the two sisters scooped up the reunion and peace after eating the winter dates, and Peach followed behind them as they went home together.
At 1:00 PM, wisps of smoke rose from the only house in the valley.
Lin Lanshan sat in front of the stove, first lighting a bunch of pine branches under the stove opening of the pot used for steaming rice, stuffing it in, and then placing a few thin pieces of firewood on top.
Then he moved the wooden stool under his buttocks and repeated the previous actions under another wok, and a fire was started in the same way.
As usual, one person easily handled both pots.
Lin Chunyi carried a bucket and poured water into the pot with a splash. "You don't need such a big fire to heat the bath water. Just use less firewood and let it heat up slowly."
"Oh~"
Lin Lanshan reached into the stove and pulled out two half-burnt firewood pieces, throwing them into the ashes, leaving three pieces of firewood struggling somewhat to cook in the pot.
Next, Lin Chunyi put the diced cured meat into the hot iron pot, stir-fried it to render some oil, and then poured in two ladles of water.
They plan to cook salted pork porridge for lunch today!
In fact, most of the time they come back from the foot of the mountain after dark, so they can only tidy up quickly and go to sleep.
Today's timing is good; I got home just past lunchtime, much earlier than before.
Now they can leisurely cook a hot and fragrant lunch and boil a big pot of water.
After lunch, the hot water will be ready, so I can take a hot shower and even have time for a nap.
Next, Lin Chunyi put a bowl of washed rice into the still-hot iron pot, rinsed the remaining rice grains in the bowl with clean water, and then poured it in as well.
Stir the bottom of the pot and put the lid on.
Then, cut the soaked dried wild vegetables, dried mushrooms, and dried pumpkin slices into small cubes and add them to the pot.
Lin Lanshan stood up and glanced at it.
The iron pot was filled with all sorts of colors—red, white, green, and yellow—it was incredibly vibrant.
But she felt that something was still missing.
"That's right!" Lin Lanshan exclaimed excitedly.
"Sis, you keep an eye on the fire and let it simmer slowly. I'm going to grab something, I'll be right back~" Then she dashed out of the kitchen.
Lin Chunyi glanced at her sister, who had inexplicably left her post, and had no choice but to stir the rice that was starting to stick to the pot with an iron spoon again before taking over her post.
Not long after she sat down, Lin Lanshan returned with a round, dusty lump in her hand.
There was no need to leave it to her sister to handle; she dutifully peeled it herself, diced it, soaked it in water and washed it twice, and then poured a whole bowl of it into the pot.
Lin Chunyi silently watched her sister's actions, then saw the rice in the pot instantly become secondary, and the water was clearly no longer enough to cover the rice and various ingredients...
She asked, "With so many potatoes and sweet potatoes added, can we still call this porridge?"
Hmm~ Her sister added a whole potato and a sweet potato. It covered it with a thick layer, looking like more than a ton of rice.
"It's normal to add sweet potato to porridge, and potatoes are added because they taste better. But I can't just put half of each, can I? What do I do with the other half?" Lin Lanshan said matter-of-factly.
"Make room in your storage space! You can't even fit half a potato and a sweet potato in your storage space?"
"..." Well, she actually forgot.
They could only silently continue their work.
Lin Chunyi discovered that her sister's bizarre actions weren't over yet. "This pot of yours is sweet, salty, oily... and spicy? You put chili sauce in the porridge???"
A series of thoughts immediately flashed through her mind: Are you alright...? Are you alright...?