Farmer's eldest sister becomes rich

Chapter 441 Preparing to Make Sausages

"If we raise a pig, we will have to do a lot more work every day."

"After the Chinese New Year, Yueyue's family will raise a piglet. Next year's Chinese New Year, Yueyue will give you half of the pig."

"That won't work! Yueyue's family has many people now, and they need to eat a lot."

An Yue smiled playfully and said, "But with a large population, there are naturally many people doing the work!"

"You and Grandpa's health are the most important. Don't get too tired."

"Okay, okay, I'll listen to Yueyue."

The grandparents and grandchildren were cooking and chatting in the kitchen.

Soon, lunch was ready.

The family sat together having lunch, the atmosphere was very warm and harmonious.

It’s just that my uncle Jiang Chenghai seemed to still be thinking about the blind date, and was distracted from time to time.

An Yue saw it and whispered in his ear, "Uncle, don't think too much. If it doesn't work, let me go and help you take a look first."

Uncle Jiang Chenghai's face instantly turned red again. He coughed and said, "Little girl, you are the only one who talks too much."

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After lunch.

The family sat in the yard digesting their food, and everyone was talking about various things.

Grandmother came out of the kitchen carrying a wooden basin.

She placed the basin on the stone slab beside the well and turned the wheel on the well.

He sighed and said, "Thanks to Yueyue's help during the drought, we dug a well in the yard. Now I don't have to go out to fetch water, which really saves me a lot of effort!"

Grandfather: "Yes! Your grandmother often talks about you, but she talks about you most often when she is standing by this well."

After listening to what my grandfather Jiang Wuwen said, everyone burst into laughter.

Afterwards, An Yue explained the steps of composting to her grandfather and uncle one by one.

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Before I knew it, it was already noon.

An Yue realized that it was getting late, so she stood up and said, "Grandpa, grandma, uncle, it's getting late, we have to go back."

Ale and his uncle went to get the mule cart and led it to the gate of the yard.

The family walked to the gate of the courtyard, and the grandmother held An Yue's hand reluctantly.

"Yueyue Niannian, you guys are leaving right after arriving. Why don't you...stay and celebrate the New Year with us!"

An Yue smiled and said, "Now that my uncle is going to visit his relatives, it's not appropriate for us to stay here."

"Besides, the whole An family is waiting for us to return! On the second day of the Lunar New Year, Yueyue will bring Nian Nian to pay New Year's greetings to you two elders, is that okay?"

The second day of the Lunar New Year is the day when every married girl returns to her parents' home with her son-in-law and children to pay New Year's greetings.

However, the original owner's parents had passed away, and the maternal grandfather and his family were the closest relatives to the siblings, so it was reasonable and moral to pay them New Year's greetings.

At this time, the grandmother was very reluctant to let go.

But she also knew that the siblings now had their own lives to live, so she could only nod gently.

An Yue stood next to the mule cart. It had only been a little over a year.

At the same position and the same angle, I suddenly discovered that my grandparents had grown a lot of white hair on their temples and their faces had become older.

Grandfather looked at the siblings lovingly and said, "Be careful on the road and come early on the second day of the New Year."

The brother and sister got on the mule cart. An Yueqiao said with a smile, "Okay! Grandpa, grandma, uncle, take care of yourself. Hehe...see you next year."

They say we’ll see you next year, but actually we’ll see you in a few days.

The grandparents smiled and nodded at An Yue. Uncle Jiang Chenghai walked up to An Nian, pinched An Nian's face, and said, "Go back and listen to your sister."

An Nian smiled and replied, "Okay, okay! Bad uncle."

As Ale waved the whip in his hand, the mule cart began to move towards the entrance of Pingxiang Village.

After walking out of the village for a distance, An Yue looked at the surrounding mountains in the distance, feeling filled with emotion.

I have experienced so much in this past year or so.

Along the way, there was the fear and despair of being kicked out of home.

There are also tears shed when one is wounded by a thorn in the flesh and is helpless and living under someone else's roof.

There is also the laughter and joy of success after hard work.

But all of this is actually happening.

Thanks to the help of my grandparents and uncle, we are in such a good situation today.

The mule cart moved slowly along the road.

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After a long time, the mule cart finally arrived at the road near home.

Since the mule cart was purchased, the path along the main road has been widened.

There was also a side door in the backyard, so the mule cart could be driven directly to the shed in the small backyard.

The brother and sister and A'le returned home and found that only their sister-in-law Meng Xiu'er was at home.

She was carrying Xiaobao on her back and washing his clothes and diapers.

The brother and sister returned to the main hall and quickly poured a bowl of hot water to warm themselves.

An Yue asked Meng Xiu'er: "Sister-in-law, where are they?"

Meng Xiuer rubbed the clothes in her hands and replied, "After lunch, they went to the back mountain to chop firewood."

"That's good. We don't have much time on weekdays, and we don't have much firewood at home. They can go to the back mountain to chop more firewood. Then we don't have to worry about not having firewood in the future."

As she spoke, An Yue walked out of the main hall and went straight to the kitchen.

Looking at the pork in several wooden basins in the kitchen, and the pig intestines and small rice sausages hanging at the door of the kitchen.

When I think about the fact that there were no refrigerators in that era, I started to worry about how much meat I would have to slaughter a pig for the New Year.

An Yue recalled that in the 21st century, many places would make bacon and sausages during the Chinese New Year.

With this in mind, An Yue decided to make part of the meat into salted meat, and part of it into bacon and sausage, and then smoke it with the smoke of pine and cypress leaves.

The bacon and sausage smoked with pine and cypress taste very delicious and can be stored for up to half a year.

An Yue poked her head out of the kitchen and asked Meng Xiuer in the yard, "Sister-in-law, have you ever tried sausage and bacon?"

Meng Xiuer suddenly heard it and asked curiously, "Salmon and sausage?"

"Yes, bacon and sausage can be kept for several months without going rancid."

Meng Xiuer poured out the dirty water in the basin, looked up at An Yue, and asked with a smile: "Oh? It's so magical?"

As she spoke, An Yue prepared to take a look at the pig intestines at the kitchen door.

Then, she said to Ale who was sitting in the main hall, "Ale, go to the back mountain with a basket on your back and cut two baskets of pine and cypress trees."

After listening to the conversation between An Yue and Meng Xiu'er, A'le knew that An Yue was going to make wintersweet sausage.

So he didn't ask any more questions, but just nodded and said, "Okay, Miss."

Then she went back to the kitchen and selected and cut the not-so-good pork from several wooden basins.

For example, the meat on the pig's chin is called "killing meat", and there is also the meat at the base of the pig's four legs.

And all the other miscellaneous meat were cut off and placed in another wooden basin.

In this way, An Yue was busy in the kitchen alone.

She first washed and drained the cut meat one by one.