Chapter 188: Great opening

Chapter 188: Big Sales

 Lao Qin tugged on his clothes from behind, telling him not to stare at the horse meat and pretending not to recognize it.

Qin Sanlang had already looked away the moment Mr. Qin grabbed his clothes.

Gu Qingliang, who was next to him, was marveling at how much beef and mutton Mr. Lei Wu and the others had sent: "Grandpa Wu, they are so generous. They gave away so much beef and mutton. I have never eaten beef and mutton in my whole life, nor have I ever eaten it. Do you know if beef and mutton are delicious?”

Qin Sanlang took the opportunity to chime in: "When I was in my hometown in the northwest, my family would eat mutton soup for the winter. It tastes good and makes my whole body warm after eating it."

Gu Qingliang was very envious: "Sanlang, your family's life is really good. They can still eat mutton soup in winter. My family can only eat pork stewed with cabbage."

“My family is also poor, but my father and uncles are soldiers and have military pay.” Qin Sanlang replied, and after he finished his reply, he stopped answering.

 But Aji still glanced at him.

This is the second time Aji has seen Qin Sanlang.

Qin Sanlang noticed his gaze, turned around and grinned at him, revealing a shallow dimple, looking like a sunny boy.

 Ah Ji smiled back at him and nodded.

 Not long after, Kunzi and Ah Chuan moved the cattle, sheep and rabbits into the workshop yard.

Brothers Gu Qingliang and Gu Qingtian had never eaten beef and mutton, and they wanted to eat it very much. When they saw Kunzi coming in with half a cow on his shoulders, they immediately ran into the main room and moved the table out.

With a bang, Kunzi put the half of the beef on the table, took out a boning knife from his waist, and began to split the beef, saying: "These beef bones are good things, we can use them to make beef bone soup. It tastes good."

“I’m going to boil water.” Gu Jinli said and ran into the kitchen.

In the kitchen, the third grandmother, Mrs. Cui, Mrs. Gu Jinxiu, Mrs. Yan, and Mrs. Chu are already preparing meals, and the whole kitchen is filled with the smell of fried meat.

“Mom, I want to use an iron pot to make beef bone soup.”

Ms. Cui pointed to the innermost iron pot and said, "Use this pot."

Gu Jinli immediately washed the pot, poured half of the water into the pot, put a piece of ginger, two anise, and a piece of cinnamon, started to heat the fire and waited for the beef bones.

Gu Jinxiu said: "Xiaoyu, I will light the fire. You can go and play."

Gu Jinxiu doesn't like crowds and bustle, and she is already fifteen, a big girl. She needs to avoid people, so she has been helping in the kitchen.

"Okay, sister, you light the fire, and I'll get the cow bones." Gu Jinli said, running out of the kitchen, and when he was about to go out, he saw Luo Wu coming with a bucket of cow bones.

He smiled at Gu Jinli and said, "Xiaoyu, Uncle Kunzi has picked out the beef bones and I'll bring them to you."

 Speaking, he did not let Gu Jinli take the bucket. He carried the bucket into the kitchen and saw Gu Jinxiu as he wished. Seeing her sitting in front of the stove quietly lighting the fire, he felt extremely soft in his heart.

"Brother Wu, give me the cow bones." Mrs. Chu saw Luo Wu staring at Gu Jinxiu as soon as he entered the kitchen. She immediately came over, took the wooden bucket in his hand, raised it to the last stove, and put the cow bones Put the bones into the pot piece by piece.

After a while, he handed the barrel to Luo Wu: "The kitchen is busy and chaotic. If you have nothing to do, don't come here to squeeze in. We still have to work."

Luo Wu didn't say anything, glanced at Mrs. Chu, turned around and left.

 Gu Jinli frowned, seeing Mrs. Chu like this... Could it be that the Luo family never came to her house to propose marriage because Mrs. Chu was dissatisfied with Gu Jinxiu?

Gu Jinli looked at Gu Jinxiu and saw that her face was as usual, not blushing, shy or sad, so he was relieved. No matter what the Luo family thinks, as long as her sister is not tempted, there is nothing to worry about. It is Luo Wu who likes her sister, and her sister has not done anything to provoke Luo Wu.

 And her family is getting better and better now, and her sister has no worries about getting married.

Gu Jinli put Luo Wu and Gu Jinxiu aside and stayed in the kitchen to help cook.

 In the yard, the children from several families also went home and brought the tables, stools, bowls and chopsticks from home to prepare for dinner at Gu Jinli's house.

 “Bah—baah—!”

Several sheep cries were heard, and Achuan slaughtered two sheep neatly, peeled off the skin and removed the internal organs. He did it in one go, and in just a quarter of an hour, the two sheep were properly handled.

He then lit two fires with dry firewood in the yard, built two racks, tied the lamb to the racks with wires, and began to roast the whole lamb.

Kunzi was better than Achuan. He built three fires, one for roasting beef, one for roasting rabbit, and one for roasting horse meat.

Horse meat is dried in the sun and needs to be soaked in hot water and washed before roasting. Luo Huiniang loved to eat it and volunteered: "Uncle Kunzi, let me wash that piece of meat for you."

 “Okay.” Kunzi handed the piece of horse meat to Luo Huiniang.

Luo Huiniang held the horse meat in her hands and ran to the kitchen happily.

Gu Yumei next to her was very disdainful, hehe, he behaved like someone who has never eaten meat, it really embarrassed their family.

Gu Yumei's mood was mixed. She was happy that her family's workshop had opened and a big shot like Jiang Xianwei had come, but she was angry that Mr. Jiang didn't come. She dressed up so beautifully today, but she did it to greet the scholar lady, but Mrs. Jiang didn't come, which made her very unhappy.

Gu Dexing, on the other hand, was in a nervous mood. He kept looking at Shang Xiucai who was sitting in the yard talking to Third Grandpa and the others, and wanted to go over and talk to him, but Shang Xiucai made it clear that he would not accept him as a student. He really couldn't lose his face and went to talk to Shang Xiucai again. Set is close.

Gu Dewang pulled Gu Defa, and while eating bean dregs cakes and watching Kunzi and the others roasting beef and mutton, when Gu Dexing wasn't paying attention, he made faces at his back: "Lulu~ You are a coward like Gu De, you will bully us at home. Why don’t you dare to talk to Shang Xiucai?”

 Gu Dexing heard a murmur and turned to look at Gu Dewang. He saw that he and other children were watching roast beef and mutton around the fire. He couldn't help but frown. Did he hear it wrong?

Kunzi and Achuan were very busy, constantly turning over the beef, sheep and rabbit meat.

Gu Jinli poured three kinds of seasoning spices into three wooden bowls, then poured in meat oil and boiled, then put the wooden bowls on the stool at the feet of Kunzi Achuan, and said to them: "Uncle Kunzi, Uncle Achuan, seasoning The spices are here, you just brush them on."

 “Okay.” Kunzi and Ah Chuan responded and continued grilling the meat.

Kunzi and Achuan are both masters at roasting beef and mutton. After half an hour, they had roasted the beef, mutton, ten rabbit meat, and the piece of horse meat.

Third Grandma, Mrs. Cui and other women also prepared the food and brought it out on wooden trays.

"It's time to eat, it's time to eat." The third grandma shouted, and the women from several families put the prepared dishes on the table. Men and women ate separately. The men ate in the yard, and the women ate in the courtyard. Eat in the main room.

The food is very rich, including fried crispy pork, fried meatballs, crystal sweet and sour pork, stir-fried pork, and braised chicken. These are must-have dishes.

 Gu Jinli knew that Shang Xiucai would come, so he also made stir-fried bean sprouts in chicken soup, rice noodles with gravy, grilled fish on a sizzling iron plate, spring rolls with tofu skin and other dishes that Shang Xiucai liked to eat.

 The staple food is white rice porridge and bean dregs cake.

Bean dregs cake is a new food for Jiang Xianwei and others, and the Jiang family and his son all ate a lot.

Lei Wuye and Ah Ji also ate, but they were thinking about the roasted beef, mutton. As soon as it was on the table, they asked Kunzi and Ah Chuan to bring the roasted beef, mutton and rabbit, cut it up with a knife and started eating.

 (End of this chapter)