Chapter 139 Door-to-Door Service (tushumi.cc)

After thanking the uncles and elders, Yunxi picked up a small basket and headed back to the brigade headquarters.

After the grain is distributed, meat will be distributed later, and this will be done according to the number of people.

Each person can probably get about three or four pounds, but all the meat is pre-mixed, including good and bad pieces as well as offal, and no one can avoid it.

Yunxi didn't care, since there was plenty of meat in her space anyway. After receiving her share, she headed straight home.

I put the offal into my spatial storage, and left the rest of the meat outside to freeze. There was just too much meat. I hadn't even finished the 30 jin of meat I was given last time, and now I had more.

The meat was distributed today, and everyone's family will probably cook meat for dinner. Yunxi plans to have a good meal today too, so she won't have to sneak around getting meat for herself in the middle of the night.

The two pots of braised meat I made for myself a few months ago, as well as the various braised pork trotters and braised pork I cooked myself, have long been finished in the past few months.

Anyway, the aroma of meat will definitely fill the air today, so I'll just braise a pot of meat for myself.

First, select a large piece of pork belly from the space, clean it, cut it into clumps, add bean flour and mix it, then take out various seasonings for braised pork from the space, collect the hot water in the pot into the space, heat the pot, add oil and spices, and then add the meat.

Although it sounds simple, with so much meat, Yunxi felt that it was not simple at all in terms of preparation.

Perhaps because her nose and tongue are particularly sensitive, Yunxi's cooking is still very delicious. After the meat was cooked, she picked up a piece to taste and found that the braised pork was particularly chewy and not greasy at all.

Sure enough, my skills are getting better and better; it's not just my imagination.

After the braised pork was done, I also braised a large pot of meat with a lot of seasonings, so the aroma of the meat in the air was particularly strong.

Yunxi cooked two dishes, but these two dishes took her several hours to cook. She couldn't continue cooking, because if she did, the amount of meat she was supposed to get wouldn't match her portion.

Yunxi stood at the door and took a sniff. She felt that the fragrance was the strongest in her own yard. She could even see Aunt Li's youngest son standing at the door of the yard next door, coming to smell the fragrance.

Yunxi was willing to use more seasonings, while others might not. After all, not everyone is willing to use rock sugar and various seasonings, so the meat wouldn't be as fragrant.

It seems like time has passed in the blink of an eye, and before we know it, we can already smell the festive atmosphere of the New Year.

The Lunar New Year seems to be just around the corner. The aromas wafting from the village tell you that people are preparing for the holiday.

Yunxi thought that everyone in the village had done it, and if she didn't, she would seem a bit out of place.

I do have memories of my grandmother making New Year's goods. After recalling it several times, I feel that I should be able to make them too.

Fried rice cakes are made directly with wheat flour, but glutinous rice flour would probably be better. Yunxi wanted to try which one tasted better, so she made both.

I also made various fried dough twists using sweet potato starch and yam starch. In addition to these dough twists, I also made a lot of meatballs and fish balls.

Yunxi fried various kinds of fruit for only five days. After five days, she felt nauseous from the smell of oil and could no longer continue, so she stopped.

The villagers stopped making all sorts of fruit after the first day, so as not to waste food. They would only make a little bit so that guests could have a taste.

Yunxi felt that she was probably famous in the village for being a spendthrift.

Fortunately, none of her great-uncle and great-aunt came to chat with her, which relieved Yunxi.

It was also the first time she had celebrated such a big holiday as a human being, so she wanted to do a little bit of everything and was very curious about everything.

Things won't be like this next year. Even if people want to do it, they'll do it secretly, instead of doing it so openly.

Two days before the Lunar New Year, Grandpa came to Yunxi's house and asked if Yunxi would like to spend the New Year at his house.

Yunxi thought about it and declined. Although she was alone, it was not appropriate to go to someone else's house. Her own house was better, as it had some life in it. She would also have to burn incense for them, so they wouldn't be without incense offerings.

Fortunately, her great-grandfather only came to ask and didn't insist that she go to his house. After asking Yunxi and seeing that she was unwilling, he left.

Living alone is really boring; there's no one to talk to.

Unexpectedly, Li Xingtang actually went to Yunxi's house the day before the New Year, carrying pastries, two cans of milk powder and malted milk powder, claiming that he came to wish her an early New Year.

It's quite strange that he himself is so young, yet he's already thinking of coming to my house to wish me a Happy New Year.

However, it must be said that Li Xingtang's appearance made her feel a little less lonely and her mood was a little better.

It was remarkable that he managed to run all the way from town to my home when the roads were blocked by heavy snow. Seeing that his trouser legs were soaked by the wind and snow, I quickly welcomed him into my home.

Find a pair of old pants that belonged to my father, and get him some hot water to soak his feet so his legs wouldn't get frostbite.

Li Xingtang watched Yunxi bustling around for him, a silly grin spreading across his face. They looked like a family, a couple, and it felt so good.

Yunxi simply ignored the silly grin on his face and put his pants on the kang to dry, so that at least they would be dry enough for him to wear back when he returned.

I was relieved to see that his whole body was warm.

In this freezing weather, it must have taken a long time to get here from the town. If we don't warm up, it might be bad for our health.

"Sit here for a while. The village distributed a lot of meat during the New Year. It must be hard for you to get meat in town, right? Take some back with you when you go back."

Li Xingtang quickly declined, "Yunxi, no need. I just haven't seen you in a long time, and with the New Year coming soon, I was worried about you being alone at home, so I wanted to come and see you."

What he dared not say was that he worried Yunxi would feel lonely and isolated in the empty house.

So he couldn't stay at home and came here without hesitation. Even though the roads were dangerous due to heavy snow blocking the mountains, he didn't care and just wanted to see Yunxi.

Once inside the warm house, a sense of lingering fear washed over me. What if we had encountered a pack of hungry wolves on the way?

When he first arrived, he truly left everything behind.

I glanced at the sky outside and decided to head back early so I wouldn't have to worry about the road being dangerous after dark.

Yunxi glanced at Li Xingtang, paused for a moment, and suddenly felt that he was no worse than Liu Chunbai from the other day.

One of them has already achieved something in his career, while the other is still a student in school. Their temperaments are definitely different, but in Yunxi's mind, she immediately equates the two of them with equals.

"It's alright, warm yourself up in this room. I'll be right back. Have lunch here for a bit, then you can go back."

Worried that it was too late and she might not be safe on the road, Yunxi quickly went to the kitchen to prepare two dishes, and then took a basket and wrapped the various fried fruits she had made in oil paper.

He took another piece of meat, two rabbits, a leg of lamb, and two pheasants, cleaned them all, and stuffed them directly into his basket.

I cooked two dishes, and then took out a plate each of braised pork and stewed pork that I had prepared in advance. I set up a small table on the kang (a heated brick bed).

As soon as Yunxi entered the room, she saw Li Xingtang sitting on the edge of the kang (a heated brick bed) looking rather reserved, barely touching the edge of it.

Yunxi pretended not to see it to avoid making him too embarrassed. "The food is ready, let's eat quickly. After eating, go back early, otherwise it will be too dangerous if it gets late."

"Okay, thank you for your hospitality, Yunxi."

Looking at the scene before him, Li Xingtang saw that he and Yunxi were having dinner in her house, just the two of them. It felt so good to be like a family. He really hoped that his dream would come true one day.