Chapter 95 Before dinner
Taking advantage of the time of ice watermelon, Chen Ling went to kill the eel.
Han Chuang and Jiang Xiaoqing were embarrassed to be idle next to him, so they came over to help. But by getting started, you can see that Han Chuang has never done any work. He is clumsy and can't even catch the eel. However, Jiang Xiaoqing was very neat and started Chen Ling and quickly killed the eel.
Then she squatted by the well to help Chen Ling pick up crayfish. Jiang Xiaoqing is now a technician at the Agricultural Bureau. Although she has just entered, she has also heard of the name of crayfish. She has never thought that this thing can still be eaten.
However, Wang Susu told her that Chen Ling could make it, and it was delicious, so she helped the two of them clean up half-believingly.
Rinse a large basin of crayfish several times, wash away the sludge, and then use a brush to brush back and forth a few times. After thoroughly rinsing, cut off the shrimp head, pull off the black stomach sac, and remove both cheeks.
The plump shrimp meat was exposed, which really made people feel appetizing.
The crayfish is very dirty, so it still needs to be washed twice at this step, but it cannot be rinsed at this step. It has to be rinsed, otherwise it will be easy to rinse the shrimp meat.
After rinsing, Jiang Xiaoqing asked again: "Brother Ling, do you need to pump the shrimp thread?"
"You can't smoke now. After the shrimp thread is pulled out, the shrimp meat will become very loose and not delicious. When you eat it, it will taste much better."
After packing the crayfish, the rice dumplings in the kitchen were out of the pot, but Wang Susu knew that she would eat watermelon later, so she didn't bring them out.
I just steamed the rice dumplings without watermelon.
Now that the watermelon has been put on ice in the well, if you want to bring the rice dumplings out for people to eat, it is not hospitality, but forcing people to have a stomachache.
Chen Ling accompanied Han Chuang and the others to sit in the yard, eating melon seeds and talking, while Wang Susu went to get some dried peppers and cut them. Last time Chen Ling was making crayfish, she watched from the side, and naturally knew that chili peppers were indispensable to make this dish, and chili peppers could not be placed in the whole, so they had to be cut open, otherwise the chili would not be dispersed and the crayfish would not be savory.
After Wang Susu cut a large bowl of pepper segments, the watermelon was also frozen, and Chen Ling pulled up the two big watermelons in the well.
Han Chuang couldn't help killing fish and washing shrimps, and he could still do the job of cutting watermelon, so he took it out of the bucket and cut it with a kitchen knife, and brought it over for them to eat.
The watermelons are just ripe for a few days and are not sandy, but they taste very sweet. After being iced by the well water, they are cool and refreshing. The only bad thing is that the skin of the melon is particularly thick.
"Well, this melon is delicious, it's so sweet." Han Chuang held a piece of watermelon and ate it in big mouth. After a few seconds, he only had skin left. He reached out to pick it up and continued to chew it.
Seeing Han Chuang's voracious eating look, Jiang Xiaoqing was so angry that he could not help but endure it, and twisted his waist hard.
Han Chuang picked up another piece of watermelon and was feeling happy when he suddenly felt pain in his back pain. He couldn't help but scream. He turned around and saw Jiang Xiaoqing glaring at him.
He was so scared that he shrank his neck: "What, what, what, what Xiaoqing?"
Jiang Xiaoqing didn't expect him to scream so loudly, so he smiled at Chen Ling and his wife embarrassedly, turned around and glared at Han Chuang again: "I can't help with some work, and I don't have any food to eat. Are there any customers like you? I'm not afraid that Brother Ling will laugh at you with his sister-in-law."
Han Chuang suddenly turned red and hesitated and couldn't speak.
"It's okay, what's the matter? It's right to come to my house and not get along with me. It's just like at my own house. You can eat whatever you should do, come and eat another piece."
Seeing this, Chen Ling hurriedly handed Han Chuang a piece of watermelon and comforted him.
Wang Susu also spoke out and smoothed out the situation.
"Brother Ling, sister-in-law, Chuangzi is fine, you don't need to persuade him at all. He just stuttered and couldn't say anything in his mouth..."
Seeing that Chen Ling and his wife were uncomfortable, Jiang Xiaoqing spoke out and explained.
As soon as he said this, Han Chuang's face suddenly turned redder, and then I, I, didn't say anything after a long time.
Seeing this situation, Chen Ling couldn't help it for a moment and burst into laughter.
Wang Susu and Jiang Xiaoqing couldn't help but laugh.
The more they laughed, the more anxious Han Chuang became, the less he could not speak.
In the end, Han Chuang gave up and started to chew hard with the watermelon in his head.
After a while, I recovered before saying the complete words: "I, I can't help with cooking, can't I do my work? I'll help Lingzi harvest wheat in two days."
Chen Ling laughed when she heard this: "What kind of wheat is harvested? My family hasn't grown this year."
"Ah? Then why are you doing at home all day? I don't run to the county town when I see you, and I think you're always busy with the fields."
Han Chuang was immediately confused.
Last time, when I met Chen Ling, I told him that he would go to his own canning factory if he really couldn't do it. As a result, he said that he would farm at home from now on. Han Chuang really thought he went to work all day long.
"I'm fine at home. I just changed to about 30 acres of land with someone this year. After planting fruit seedlings, I basically just grow vegetables, put cattle, and then go up the mountain to collect herbs. There is nothing else to do."
"Since that's the case, then you can come to my canning factory. It's at least 300 yuan a month. Then let my father arrange a more relaxed job for you."
Han Chuang mentioned this again.
Chen Ling didn't say anything else after hearing this, but just told him not to worry about himself. He said that he didn't plan to do anything else this year, so he wanted to spend time with his wife at home.
Then he got up and cut half a watermelon, changed the topic and talked about his marriage to Jiang Xiaoqing.
Han Chuang knew that Chen Ling was not at home every day before, and there was nothing wrong with thinking like this now, so he followed Chen Ling's words and talked about his pre-marital preparations with great enthusiasm.
"Xiaoqing and I will go to the city to pick up a TV in a while. Hehe, when you buy it, you can go to my house to watch it. The color machine is always exciting."
"Come on, where can you buy the TV you used for marriage and let people watch it? But you two finally went to the city, so just buy a TV?"
"I bought motorcycles, bicycles, radios, and jewelry. I went back to the city to buy a TV and take photos. My father said that he would split me up and give me the tractor."
Several people were gnawing watermelons and chatting. After eating this big watermelon, Han Chuang stood up and volunteered to throw the watermelon peel.
"It's okay. You don't have to throw the watermelon peel out, just put it in the stone trough outside the chicken coop. When the chickens and ducks come back, they will eat it themselves."
Wang Susu spoke and reminded.
When Han Chuang heard this, he walked to the chicken coop with a pot of melon peel, poured it into the stone trough, and saw a hatchet beside him leaning against the wall, and asked, "Sister-in-law, can this chicken with such a big melon peel be eaten? Do you need to chop it and feed it before you feed it?"
"No, don't, wash your hands and rest. They can finish eating by pecking their mouths."
Wang Susu explained, then walked to the door and called the flock of chickens with a soft voice.
After a while, the chickens, ducks and quails ran back in a swarm. They also knew that they were going to feed them, so they entered the yard and headed straight to the direction of the chicken coop.
When I saw the watermelon peel in the stone trough, I immediately surrounded it. In the blink of an eye, the stone trough was filled with it. You squeezed me and I squeezed you, and my head quickly moved to peck at the watermelon peel, and each of them ate very happily.
Jiang Xiaoqing washed his hands and came over to see him. Seeing a few quails mixed in the chickens and ducks, he became interested.
However, these quails obviously cannot rob chickens and ducks, especially ducks. They are not only strong, but also eat like hoeing the ground. Every time they put their mouths, they can eat a large piece of melon peel, and their fat butts can squeeze out the quails.
He forced a few quails to no avail, and chuckled anxiously, then jumped up and stepped on the chickens and ducks, and went into the stone trough to compete with them.
The cries of chickens, ducks, and quails were mixed together, and a strong pastoral atmosphere immediately emerged.
Han Chuang and Jiang Xiaoqing watched with relish until the melon peel in the stone trough was eaten up, and they returned to the stone table with unfulfilled satisfaction, helped Wang Susu peel garlic and prepare the seasonings.
While chatting, seeing that it was almost noon, Chen Ling got up and brought the seasonings into the kitchen to prepare lunch.
Today's first dish is braised eel section. Chen Ling first heats the wok, pours peanut oil, then adds pepper stock, and stir-frys the aroma. When the pot is hot, puts the eel section, puts the slices of ginger into the pot and stir-fry, then pours dark soy sauce, cooking wine, soybean paste and water for a few minutes, finally adds salt, adds some chopped green onion and garlic cloves, and simmer for a short time.
The lid of the pot was lifted and the aroma was filled with meat. When the guests came from home, Heiwa and Xiaojin were called by Chen Ling to lie under the eaves. At this time, they couldn't help but run over with their own rice bowls in their mouths, squatted behind him, looking at him with a drooling flowing.
"What are you doing? The guests want to eat without eating. Do I not feed you usually? Go there quickly."
Chen Ling scolded, and the two dogs immediately picked up the rice bowl and ran away with grievance.
These two little things never fall behind when eating. They never missed their portions of big fish and meat, but now they are pretending to be pitiful to him.
The next dish was Chen Ling's specialty and re-cooked pork. He was tired of eating it, but it was still a good dish to entertain guests.
After the refrying meat was done, it was today's highlight of spicy crayfish. Han Chuang and Jiang Xiaoqing had never eaten this thing before. When they saw Chen Ling, they ran over to watch it.
At this time, Chen Ling had just washed the large iron pot on the stove twice. Today there were many people and there were a lot of crayfish, so he could not stir-fry it in the usual iron pot.
Add firewood and light it. After the pot is heated, pour oil. After the oil is hot, Chen Ling pours the prepared crayfish into the pot.
"Sheep..."
In the crackling oil pan, the crayfish quickly turned from its original blue-gray color to an attractive red color.
This color alone made Han Chuang and Jiang Xiaoqing drool.
At this time, Jiang Xiaoqing no longer questioned whether crayfish could be eaten, but just muttered in his heart whether these crayfish would be a little less.
Chapter completed!