Even though Gu Ye was still very skinny
right now, she wasn’t freakishly scary like she used to be. In the past, she
was just skin over bones and looked like someone who was end-stage anorexic.
Anyone who ran into her at night would be frightened.
Now, on her small and pointy face was a
pair of eyes that were full of spirit, her eyelashes were long and thick, like
two brushes that flickers. Her normally dried and yellow skin had lightened up
a lot and also has a healthy red glow to them. Whenever she smiled, her dimples
were slightly visible, making her all the cuter.
Ge Ye frowned slightly and started
reciting what she had memorized, “5 kg of radishes, 0.5 g of chili powder, 0.75
kg of vinegar, 125 g of sugar, 125 g salt, 3 g of pepper and aniseed, MSG…
cough, cough, special spice, 2 kg of water….”
“Wait, wait! The rest are alright, but
0.75 kg of vinegar? Isn’t that a bit much? And this sugar…. We are villagers,
we can’t afford that stuff. I know pepper, but what is aniseed?” Ninth Aunty
was baffled and she also worried whether the pickled vegetable would be edible
following this recipe.
“Ninth Aunty, I have already brought with
me sugar, aniseed and M…. this kind of spice. If you don’t like it too sour, we
can reduce the amount of vinegar. Ninth Aunty, let’s give it a try. My master
won’t lie to me, I am sure this pickled radish would be yummy!” And, again, Gu
Ye used her master as her excuse.
Soon as Ninth Aunty heard it, she almost
bought into it instantly. The Old Sacred Doctor was so worldly, an odd recipe
like this from him would probably be okay. So, under Gu Ye’s instructions, she
retrieved several kg of sun-fried radishes from her storage.
Her heart ached when she was frying chili
pepper in hot oil. Little Ye-zi brought the oil with her too. She was
certain that Fifth Uncle Gu wasn’t good with money, he must have bought these
from town during his last trip. Aye, there was no woman in their house, who
could help them with managing the household budget?
They mixed the fried chili oil in with
the dried radishes before they mixed the salt, sugar, pepper, and aniseed into
a pot of water and mixed them up and waited till the water started boiling.
Then they added the MSG, and poured the entire content into the jar after the
mixture had cooled.
(T/N: What happened to the vinegar???)
“All done! Now we just need to flip them
once a day and they will be ready in 2 weeks or so!” Seeing that Ninth Aunty
had completed the last step, Gu Ye clapped her hands together happily – Done!
Ninth Aunty prayed that this spicy picked
radish would be successfully. She didn’t want al those good spices going to
waste. The sugar that little Ye-zi brought with her was white like snow
and amazingly sweet. Sugar of that quality must cost at least 100 ren
for 0.5 kg, that’s half a month of groceries for a regular family. That Fifth
Uncle Gu was so wasteful!
After they have completed the spicy
pickled radish, even though the process of the spicy cabbage was more
complicated, but they completed it much faster, while Ninth Aunty continued to
grumbled to herself how wasteful that Fifth Uncle Gu was.
Altogether they have made 5 KG of spicy
pickled radish and 2.5 KG of spicy cabbage. All they needed to do now was wait
two weeks and check the outcome. Gu Li-er, who was helping out, mumbled, “With
all these ingredients, it won’t make sense if they don’t taste good!”
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T/N: The title of
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