Chapter 47: Teaching Shopkeeper Jia a Lesson

Jiang Wei took out the pork ribs bought a few days ago from the space, put them in a cold pot, added green onion, ginger, garlic, and cooking wine to remove the blood foam.

Then gradually add cooking wine, light soy sauce, dark soy sauce, vinegar, and white sugar, and finally put in rock sugar to color, and collect the juice over medium heat.

Jiang Xiaoxiao was responsible for burning the fire by the stove, and couldn't help but swallow her saliva after smelling the fragrance.

But in an instant, a hot, fragrant sweet and sour pork rib was stuffed into her mouth.

"Is it delicious?" Jiang Wei's voice sounded in her ear.

Jiang Xiaoxiao bit the pork ribs and nodded heavily.

Too delicious!

It's even more delicious than what she ate in the modern era!

Thinking this, her gaze couldn't help but fall on the seasonings on the stove.

These seasonings were all specially taken out by her mother from the space, specially packed in ancient porcelain, and others couldn't tell what was inside when they came.

Materials in ancient times are scarce, especially people in rural villages. There is no rice in the pot at home, usually eating paste made of millet, with some pickles, or using wild vegetables to knead some vegetable balls to make do.

No family is like their mother and daughter eating meat for every meal.

But Jiang Wei, who made sweet and sour pork ribs, still felt it was not enough, so she stir-fried a vegetable and made a few sauce-flavored cakes.

The method of sauce-flavored cakes is very simple. Add white sesame, soybean paste, bean paste, pour all these seasonings into the pot, then add half a bowl of water, boil until bubbling, and stir evenly, then pour on the cake.

Finally, sprinkle some green onions on the outside, and it's fragrant when you take a bite!

When it was time to eat, the mother and daughter moved the table outside to eat. It was blowing outside, and it was cool to eat.

Before eating a few bites, the courtyard gate was knocked.

"Xiaoxiao, is your mother at home?"

It was Auntie Qiulian's voice.

Jiang Xiaoxiao hurriedly ran to open the door and smiled: "Yes, yes, we are eating, Auntie Qiulian, have you eaten? Come in and eat with us."

"Ah, are you eating?" Auntie Qiulian didn't even dare to glance inside upon hearing this, and hurriedly turned to leave, "Then I'll come again later."

Villagers are most taboo about others coming to the house at mealtime. After all, they don't have enough to eat, so where is there extra food to give to outsiders.

Jiang Xiaoxiao hurriedly grabbed Auntie Qiulian and pulled her straight into her courtyard, "Don't, Auntie Qiulian, you finally came here from far away, don't be polite, come in quickly."

Auntie Qiulian couldn't refuse, so she could only be pulled into the courtyard by Jiang Xiaoxiao. At this time, Jiang Wei had already taken out a new set of bowls and chopsticks from the kitchen and greeted her: "Don't be polite, come and eat together!"

"No, no, no, you eat, don't worry about me." Auntie Qiulian sat on the small stool moved by Jiang Xiaoxiao and didn't move, "I came today because I want to thank you."

"Thank me?" Jiang Wei was stunned.

"Hey, don't you remember?" Auntie Qiulian said: "Do you remember that you told me to take the opportunity to hoard more grain a few days ago? I happened to have some money in my hand, so I bought some rice and hoarded it. My mother-in-law scolded me for being wasteful. I didn't expect that the grain price in town now has risen more expensive than pork. I sold a part of it, not only exchanged for dozens of jin of millet, but also had a lot of money left."

Now, her mother-in-law is obedient to her at home.

Jiang Wei recalled it, and there was indeed such a thing, so she smiled: "My daughter was shouting that the weather was hot a few days ago, saying she was afraid of drought and water shortage, and asked me to buy some grain to hoard. Look, I also earned a little money, so I bought some pork ribs to improve the food for my daughter."

Jiang Wei pointed to the sweet and sour pork ribs on the table, and explained the source of the pork ribs in three or two sentences.

"Jiang Xiaoxiao is really a lucky star." Auntie Qiulian touched Jiang Xiaoxiao's head happily, and took out two exquisitely embroidered pouches from her bosom, "This is the pouch I embroidered, one for you and one for your mother."

Jiang Xiaoxiao looked at the pouch stuffed into her hand. The needlework was dense, and the pattern embroidered was also very exquisite.

Sure enough, as in the original book, Auntie Qiulian had great talent in embroidery, plus she was diligent, and relied on this embroidery skill to get a bite to eat in the years when disasters were frequent.

"Thank you, Auntie Qiulian!"

Jiang Xiaoxiao happily accepted the pouch. This thing is just right for her to hold money when selling snow cakes. The previous money bag was small and broken, and she was always careful when collecting money, fearing that the bag would break and the copper coins would scatter all over the floor.

Taking people's things and eating people's mouths, Jiang Xiaoxiao, who accepted the pouch, took a few pieces of sauce-flavored cake from the table and handed them to Auntie Qiulian without saying a word, "Auntie Qiulian, you taste it, this is made by my mother, it's delicious!"

Seeing that things were stuffed into her hand, it would be impolite to return them, so Auntie Qiulian could only open her mouth and take a small bite, and the next moment she widened her eyes.

"How is this made, it's too delicious!" Auntie Qiulian was surprised, and couldn't help but take another big bite.

Especially the thick sauce poured on the outside of the sauce-flavored cake simply makes people's

Qiulian Niang finished eating a sauce-flavored pancake in a few bites, still feeling unsatisfied. Turning her head, she saw Jiang Wei holding a clean large porcelain bowl filled with five or six sauce-flavored pancakes and handing it over.

She hurriedly waved her hand to refuse: "This won't do! You should leave such delicious pancakes for Xiaoxiao to eat. Xiaoxiao's body is weak, she needs to eat more good things to nourish herself."

"Don't worry, I made plenty, she can't finish them." Jiang Wei forcefully stuffed the bowl into Qiulian Niang's hands.

"Auntie Qiulian, don't be polite, take it home for Brother Tiezhu to eat." Jiang Xiaoxiao sat at the table gnawing on pork ribs and said, "I eat well at home, you don't have to worry."

In the end, Qiulian Niang, who had originally come to deliver a thank-you gift, instead returned home carrying a bowl of fragrant sauce-flavored pancakes.

After the mother and daughter finished eating, Jiang Xiaoxiao took the initiative to start clearing the bowls and chopsticks, preparing to wash them.

Jiang Wei got up and went to the inner room. After a while, she came out wearing dark-colored clothes, "Xiaoxiao, you stay at home, I'm going out for a trip and will be back before dark."

"Ah? Okay..."

Jiang Xiaoxiao originally wanted to ask where she was going, but when she turned her head and saw the bag of snakes her mother was carrying in her hand, her heart couldn't help but tremble.

She probably knew what her mother was going to do...

Well, Shopkeeper Jia, I wish you good luck.

Jiang Wei was very punctual; she said she would be back before dark, so she was back before dark.

Jiang Xiaoxiao had lit an oil lamp in the room. As soon as Jiang Wei entered, she saw that the other person's clothes were stained, and that bag of snakes was not brought back.

The clothes Jiang Wei was wearing were very dark, so she couldn't tell if the stains were blood or something else...

Thinking that her mother was a ruthless person who tore apart zombies with her bare hands in her past life, it was possible she had secretly finished off Shopkeeper Jia.

Jiang Wei changed out of her dirty clothes, and after taking a bath, she felt refreshed and found the "Three Character Classic" she had bought earlier, spread it on the table, and beckoned Jiang Xiaoxiao to come over, "You are not young anymore, from today on, you will learn to read with me."

Jiang Xiaoxiao, who was still pondering what fate Shopkeeper Jia had met, suddenly heard this and her little face wrinkled bitterly, "Mother, it's getting late, why don't we just go to sleep first and learn tomorrow."

(End of chapter)