Chapter 40
"But madam, I can't do it!" Pomegranate looked at Qi Yaoyao embarrassedly and said, afraid of her disappointed face.
"Ga?" Qi Yaoyao's face suddenly collapsed, and she suddenly came to her senses and looked at her and said, "I will teach you! You can chop meat paste! You can kill fish!"
"This slave will do it." Pomegranate nodded and looked at her like pounding garlic.
"Without ginger, do you need ginger to cook?" Qi Yaoyao looked at her with bright eyes and asked, "Use it to remove the fishy smell."
"Yes, it's just slices of dried ginger, and it needs to be bubbled." Pomegranate said hurriedly.
"Okay, there are slices of ginger and peppercorns! Is there any water starch needed for fried meatballs?" Qi Yaoyao asked with bright eyes looking at her.
"Madam, we have never fried meatballs, so there is no water starch, and there is peppercorn." Pomegranate thought for a while and looked at her and said.
"Okay! What's the use." Qi Yaoyao had to settle for the second best, "I'm still waiting for it now."
Pomegranate originally wanted to say that it had just had lunch and it was still early before dinner! But looking at her eagerly looking, "It will take time to kill fish and chop fillings."
"Yeah!" Qi Yaoyao nodded hurriedly.
"I first soak the dried ginger slices, and then go and kill the fish." The pomegranate said simply.
"Okay!" Qi Yaoyao nodded happily. She was so fed up. She looked in the kitchen again, "Garlic?"
"It's just that they all sprouted." The pomegranate soaked with dried ginger slices and said to her.
"It doesn't matter that garlic seedlings can be eaten, and they can be used to remove the fishy smell." Qi Yaoyao said actively, not being polite at all.
"You can't use too much. Madam should say that I am a loser." Pomegranate looked at her with green eyes and reminded her quickly.
"Uh... if you use it, just use it, just as little as you want!" Qi Yaoyao had to say for a long time. The kitchen was empty and sad.
The pomegranate placed a large knife in a wooden basin, and then easily carried the wooden basin and walked out of the kitchen.
The wooden basin is not light, and with water and two fish, she took it away so easily. Qi Yaoyao asked worriedly, "Pomegranate, where are you going?"
"Go to the well in the backyard, it's easy to kill fish there." Pomegranate glanced at her and replied.
"Oh!" Qi Yaoyao nodded and chased after him.
The two walked to the well and put the pomegranate down the wooden basin.
"We are drinking this well water!" Qi Yaoyao stood beside the well and said with his head protruding.
"Yes!" The pomegranate took off the bucket hanging on the wheel, threw it down with a thud, shook the rope, filled the wooden bucket with water, and then shook the bucket with the wheel and shook it up.
The quality of this well water is good, sweet and clear.
Qi Yaoyao complained in her heart that if she could drink water and fill her up, she would definitely not get tired of drinking water every day.
The pomegranate came up to the water, washed the bluestone slab near the outlet, and then grabbed the fish in the wooden basin. The fish jumped and struggled desperately, and was stunned by the large knife in her hand.
"Brush..." The pomegranate began to scrape the fish scales slowly, with a clean and neat technique.
"You are so awesome." Qi Yaoyao praised without hesitation.
The pomegranate was embarrassed to be praised, and her cheeks were red as if she had touched rouge. "This is nothing? It's better if you do too much."
"No, she said the fishy smell was very good and not delicious. I thought you wouldn't eat it?" Qi Yaoyao said to her with long eyelashes trembling and looking at her.
"It has to be eaten even if it smells big! No matter how you say it is, it is also meat!" Pomegranate said without raising his head, "I'm not picky about it when I'm hungry." The speed on his hand was so fast that only afterimages were left.
"Oh!" Qi Yaoyao nodded clearly. She could eat grass roots and tree bark when she was hungry. If there was fish, it would be a delicacy.
Qi Yaoyao watched her skillfully scraping the fish scales, opening the fish, and cleaning them up.
The bluestone slabs that had killed the fish were washed clean again, and the pomegranate took the wooden basin fish and the washed fish to the kitchen.
The pomegranate placed the fish on the vegetable trough and chopped the fish head, tail and fins neatly.
Qi Yaoyao watched her start to start fish fillets, "Hey! Wait a minute."
"What's wrong?" Pomegranate said looking up at her.
"The fishy line, not taken out." Qi Yaoyao pointed to the black line in the middle of the fish's sideways.
"Can this be taken out?" Pomegranate looked at her, and his eyes fell on the fish again and said.
"Yes!" Qi Yaoyao pointed at the fish with her fingers, then guided her to take out the fishing line, cut it open at the position of the fish gills, then slapped the fish's belly with a knife, and found a white dot, and then pulled out the white dot with her hands.
Pomegranate looked at the long white line in his hand, "This is the fishy line!" He looked at her curiously and asked, "Will the fish have no fishy smell without this?"
"I can only say that the reduction is not possible at all." Qi Yaoyao looked at her with distinct black and white eyes and said, "If you want to get rid of the fishy smell, you have to have various seasonings, and you can also have white wine."
"Young master doesn't drink, so there is no alcohol at home." Pomegranate said quickly.
Qi Yaoyao raised her eyebrows and looked at her. If she didn't drink, she probably thought it was too expensive! But she didn't like alcohol either. She was unethical after drinking, and drinking was too misleading!
"Is there any jealousy?" Qi Yaoyao suddenly remembered and looked at her and asked.
"There are vinegar and soy sauce, and these basic seasonings are still available." Pomegranate said with a smile when she heard this, "But do you need to put vinegar in the fish balls?"
"No, no, steam it, add some when marinating before braising it to remove the fishy smell." Qi Yaoyao said to her with a lively and innocent apricot eyes.
The pomegranate removed the two fishing lines and put them in the fish fillet. "The thorns are endless, some are too small."
"Chop it, chop it up." Qi Yaoyao said straightforwardly.
"Okay." Pomegranate nodded and responded, but then he heard Dangdang... chopped the fish into meat paste, "The fish bones were chopped away."
"What are you doing next?" Pomegranate asked, putting down the large knife in his hand and looking at her.
"Chop the soaked ginger slices and put them in together." Qi Yaoyao's round apricot eyes looked at her without thinking.
The ginger slices were easy to cut and chopped into pieces. The pomegranate searched for a while, took out the obvious gray particles and placed them on the chopping board.
"What is this?" Qi Yaoyao asked curiously, pointing to the thing on the chopping board.
"Salt!" Pomegranate looked at her with big eyes and said, "You have never seen it. This is salt, which we often use."
"So dark." Qi Yaoyao said in surprise and asked humbly, "Isn't it white?"
"It's white?" Pomegranate raised his eyebrows and looked at her with confusion.
"It's as white as snow." Qi Yaoyao said with round eyes looking at her hopefully.
"No, you may have seen it, but I have never seen it." Pomegranate looked at her with shiny eyes and shook her head slightly.
Chapter completed!