Traveling through 1942 with space

Chapter 188 Big Chicken

Watching the "mother and daughter" chatting, Hou Xiaoge said hello to his uncle-in-law and second cousin who were getting food nearby and left the stall.

Walking to the back of a yard, Hou Xiaoge took out eighty kilograms of cornmeal and half a bag of carrots from the space, and then carried them back to the stall.

"Kid, why are you carrying things by yourself? Just tell Hou Xiaoge to go back and buy some at noon." When Zhou Xinmin, the brother-in-law, saw Hou Xiaoge carrying large and small bags in front of the stall, he hurried over to take them.

"Well! It's just something I do on the way." Hou Xiaoge waved his hand indifferently.

"Heiwa, have you eaten? Or you can have a bowl of braised food too." Hou Pandi was concentrating on eating when his aunt Hou Cuiping came over and asked.

"I ate it. I'm not hungry anymore."

While Hou Pandi was eating, Hou Xiaoge went to Erda's stall and put the food on Erda's cart, and went home with his second aunt who was preparing to go home.

"Mom, look who's back!" Hou Xiaoge shouted towards the yard as soon as he entered the door.

"Who's back? Erni!" Wang Maimiao walked out wearing an apron. When she saw her second daughter coming in, she rushed over excitedly.

What followed was naturally a round of heartfelt confessions. Hou Xiaoge didn't like this kind of scene, so he put the food back in the kitchen and started to check the progress of digging the well.

As the well was dug deeper and deeper, the temperature at the bottom of the well rose accordingly. The temperature at the bottom of the well six or seven meters below was already very stuffy, and people working inside had to take off their coats because it was too hot.

"Heiwa, was that girl just now your sister?" The workers asked in confusion when they saw Wang Maimiao and her daughter crying and laughing.

"Uncle, that's my second sister. I just asked someone to redeem her from Central Plains." Hou Xiaoge explained to everyone with a smile.

Everyone was amazed when they heard this, shocked at the Hou family's ability and luck, and at the same time they also congratulated them.

"Haha! Thank you, cousin and all the uncles.

My second sister is back today, which is a happy occasion. I will kill a chicken for lunch and make fried chicken for everyone." Hou Xiaoge said to everyone with a smile.

"Oh! That's great. Thank you, master." Several hired workers outside the village thanked Hou Xiaoge one after another.

Hou Xiaoge saw that the water in the thermos was all gone, so he took the kettle to Wang Maimiao's cave and filled it with another kettle.

It was not a good idea for him to just stand by and do the work while hiring people, so Hou Xiaoge took the opportunity to slip away.

When they arrived at the workshop in the village, Uncle Fifth and Uncle Seventh were sitting on stools facing the sun to warm themselves. When they saw Hou Xiaoge coming over, they greeted him with a smile.

"Fifth Master, Seventh Master, I have already talked to the Yanhuang Alliance this morning. Have they sent anyone over?" Hou Xiaoge moved a stool and chatted while basking in the sun.

"Here he comes. Your uncle has gone to buy packaging stickers." Uncle Wu said happily.

"That's great. Let the villagers work hard to make fruit snowballs. In this weather, fruit snowballs can be preserved for at least ten days.

It's the end of the year, and many people have started to visit relatives and friends and give gifts, so we can take the opportunity to make some extra money." Hou Xiaoge said while basking in the winter sun.

"We're already doing it. At the beginning, we required 500 kilograms per day." The old man replied with a smile.

"what price?"

"Including packaging, it's 30 cents per pound!" Master Qi smiled and pinched his thumb, middle finger and index finger.

"This price is acceptable. The most expensive apples are only a little over 0.1 cent per pound. After deducting expenses, I can get a net profit of 7 to 8 cents." Hou Xiaoge was very satisfied with this price.

"Hehe!" The two old men were also laughing so hard that they couldn't stop.

After basking in the sun for more than an hour, I went to the workshop to see the villagers who were working hard to make fruit snowballs.

Now the workshops in the village no longer teach the technique of making candied haws, and the job of wholesale candied haws has been given to Yangwa's families.

There are five full-time workers in the workshop now. It is no problem to produce 500 kilograms a day. If we work harder, we can add more people if the shortage is not enough.

It was almost time for lunch, and Hou Xiaoge leisurely returned home carrying a ten-pound rooster.

When the people digging a well in the yard saw Hou Xiaoge carrying such a big rooster, they worked harder.

"Heiwa, where did you get such a big rooster? Its comb is big and red. It's obviously a good chicken. Its crowing sound will definitely be loud." Wang Maimiao's eyes lit up when he saw the big rooster.

"Why are they crowing? They keep crowing at three or four in the morning. These chickens are for eating. I will cook you a delicious meal that you have never tasted at noon." Hou Xiaoge took out a kitchen knife from the kitchen and prepared to crow.

"You are such a spendthrift. This rooster is so big, it must weigh ten kilograms and is worth two or three dollars!" Wang Maimiao looked distressed.

"Okay, my second sister is back today, it's a happy occasion, let's have something delicious. If you want to raise chickens, I'll get you twenty good chicks after the New Year," Hou Xiaoge waved his hand impatiently.

"Okay, you must not forget that eggs are good things.

Don't rush to kill it, I'll go get the bowl, you kid, why are you so angry, this chicken blood is good stuff." Wang Maimiao said, and saw Hou Xiaoge was about to eat the chicken with the swill bucket, so he quickly stopped him.

"Okay, hurry up."

"Cock-a-doodle-doo!" The big rooster screamed twice before dying under Hou Xiaoge's butcher knife.

This ten-pound rooster had quite a lot of blood, enough to collect half a bowl of blood.

I plucked a few of the most beautiful cockroach feathers and my second sister said she wanted to make a shuttlecock. The remaining feathers were removed cleanly in hot water for ten minutes.

"These chicken feathers are great. I'll make a feather duster out of them when I have time after drying them." Wang Maimiao gathered the chicken feathers and hung them on the windowsill to dry.

"Mom, what is a feather duster?" Little Shuanniu came back from outside after "smelling something" at some point, and looked at the feathers on the windowsill, eager to try it out.

"Haha! Feather dusters are only used to hit children. Let's see if you continue to be naughty in the future." Hou Xiaoge pulled his brother's face hard.

Hou Xiaoge is going to make a big plate of chicken for lunch today. It will have potatoes and mushrooms, but there are no big peppers in this season. Hou Xiaoge does have some space, but it's not easy to get them.

But it doesn’t matter, I can use Qinjiao to make up for it when the time comes.

It is easy to stir-fry big plate chicken. The aniseed and other braised meats are all ready-made. Since the chicken is freshly slaughtered, there is no need to blanch it.

When Hou Xiaoge was making it, he deliberately added more potatoes, and when it was cooked, he also added five slices of sesame seed cakes.

Because the big rooster grows in space, although it is big in size, it has only grown in space for one year at most, so the meat is not very tough.

The slaughtered chicken weighed more than eight pounds, and together with the potatoes and pancakes, it weighed a total of thirteen or fourteen pounds, enough to make half a pot.

At noon, the aroma of big plate chicken filled the yard. Fortunately, the neighbors on both sides were my uncle and aunt, otherwise the aroma would have spread farther.

Hou Xiaoge kept half for himself, and put the remaining half in a basin and took it out, along with a basin of sorghum rice.

"Uncle, uncles, we'll have big plate chicken and sorghum rice for lunch. Everyone can help themselves." Hou Xiaoge, her mother and her eldest sister put the basins and bowls on the table for everyone to scoop.

"This smell is so overpowering, so fragrant." Several people couldn't wait to eat it.

"Heiwa, your chicken is so delicious. Your restaurant business will definitely be a big hit." Hou Xiaoge was accompanying the guests, and they kept praising him while eating.

"These days, the cost of such a dish is too high. We are all refugees. It's ok to set up a stall to make a living, but if we open a store in the city, it will cost hundreds or even thousands of dollars.

We'd better open the braised meat stall honestly. Although we earn less this way, life is better than before. "Hou Xiaoge replied with a smile.

"Ah! That's right. Opening a shop requires a lot of capital and the risk is too high. You also have to deal with people who try to rip you off."

However, this Dapanji cooking skill can indeed be used to open a shop. You can see that Dapanji shops are springing up all over the country in later generations.

It’s just that Hou Xiaoge’s family is living a decent life now, so there’s no need to make any more trouble. Hou Xiaoge also has his own career, so there’s no need for him to worry about this small business.

There were twelve people in total for the meal, including Hou Xiaoge and his family. The whole pot of big plate chicken and ten kilograms of sorghum rice were eaten up, and even the soup from the big plate chicken was used to soak the rice.

If Hou Xiaoge hadn't been there, they would have probably filled the basin again.