Chapter 113: Before Dinner
When he came to the small yard of his parents' house, Bian Rui found that his grandfather and father had returned, so he asked, "Haven't you eaten yet?" A few of my friends have caught some fish, and there are too many of them."
"Hello uncle, hello grandpa" Hu Shuo smiled and said hello first.
Wu Xi and Zhou Zheng were naturally not far behind, and both of them greeted Bian Rui's elders with a straight face.
Bian Rui's grandfather happily answered, and then said to his grandson: "If you are in a hurry to catch it, you can make it for the guests to eat, and we will have a lot of this mouthful of fish."
As an old man, although there is nothing taboo, but there are not many meat dishes to eat, each meal is three or two chopsticks to satisfy the hunger, and the village is close to the lake, where will there be fish to go.
Bian Rui said: "Look at it, we have fished most of the baskets, and we can't finish this meal anyway."
Saying that, Bian Rui turned around and went to the kitchen to get a porcelain basin, poured about two catties of small miscellaneous fish, and then gave most of the loaches to the elders, and waited for the basin to be divided and brought to the kitchen.
After putting down the fish, he took a soaked wind chicken from home, and then said goodbye to the elders.
As soon as he walked out of the door, he met Erchong's mother, carrying a basket containing six pieces of tofu.
"Yo, what a coincidence, it just so happens that sister-in-law and I won't go to your house, just bring this basket of tofu back, half of it is for you, and half of it is the ...... of the fifth grandfather and the tenth uncle" Er Chongniang said and handed the basket in her hand to Bian Rui's hand.
Bian Rui said: "Don't mind, sister-in-law, it's all at the door, come in and sit for a while."
Er Chongniang said: "No need, there are still vegetables stir-fried in the pot at home, and it was supposed to be sent to Uncle Shi's house first, but it doesn't take much time for me to be there."
Bian Rui listened and trotted back to the yard, and when the tofu was put down, Bian Rui's wife put a plate of freshly steamed wind chicken in the basket, which was regarded as a courtesy.
Bian Rui went out with the basket, asked Zhou Zheng and the others to wait on the side of the road, and he trotted to send the basket to Er Chongniang.
When he was waiting to come back, Bian Rui sent the dishes back to the kitchen, and then went to his place with Zhou Zheng and others.
When he was on the road, Zhou Zheng said to Bian Rui: "Your human touch here is really strong, which reminds me of when I was young, when my family was not rich, and my grandfather was a ...... who had just come out to do business."
Along the way, Bian Rui and others listened to Zhou Zheng talk about their family's family history, of course, this was not uncommon in China at that time, the first batch of people who made money, and in the end, there were almost no left, such as Mr. Zhou, who is still active in the first-line business world, is also a strange person.
Bian Rui didn't take it seriously, of course, there is a beautification part of his own family history, and even the official history is not reliable, not to mention the history of a businessman, anyway, Bian Rui doesn't believe that Old Man Zhou belongs to the kind of person who is righteous and thin, and he doesn't manage money and is not in charge of the army, this is not a joke.
It was Hu Shuo and Wu Xi who listened to it with relish.
Back at his house, Bian Rui took a look at today's dishes, and then asked Zhou Zheng and the others, "Do you want to call Yan Lan over?"
"Okay, I have no opinion," Zhou Zheng said.
Wu Xi said: "Then you will call it."
Bian Rui listened and took out his mobile phone and dialed Yan Lan directly.
"Come here to eat, there are no outsiders ...... anyway" Bian Rui reported tonight's dishes and invited Yan Lan to come over and continue eating.
Yan Lan said, "I'm planning to cook with Teacher Li."
"Call Teacher Li to come over, anyway, there will be enough food to eat tonight," Bian Rui said.
Yan Lan asked Teacher Li about it, and the two of them persuaded one to excuse themselves, but in the end, Teacher Li couldn't resist the temptation of Bian Rui's craftsmanship, and nodded in agreement.
Putting down the phone, Bian Rui poured the fish into the basin, then moved to the courtyard, divided a small bench for each person, and then began to teach everyone to squeeze the fish's intestines.
"Why don't you use a knife?" Zhou Zheng was a little confused, why he didn't use a knife to take care of the fish, but squeezed it with his hands.
Hu Shuo said: "Are you stupid, such a small fish knife is not as fast as this."
Bian Rui explained: "It is too troublesome to use a knife for such a small fish, and the old man said that this kind of knife is a little worse when it is stained with iron, and it is only more delicious when you squeeze it out by hand."
"And what about this little crucian carp, and it doesn't scale?"
"That's naturally going to go, but you don't need a knife to directly fingernails," said Bian Rui while picking up a small crucian carp in the basin, first pushing the scales off the fish with his fingernails, and then pinching the belly of the fish with both hands, squeezing out the internal organs of the fish from the broken anal opening of the fish.
The four of them worked together, and in less than ten minutes, a pot of fish with loaches was broken, and the ones who should be scaled were also scaled.
Bian Rui picked up the bamboo basket, picked up the fish intestines with the other hand, threw the fish intestines and other miscellaneous things into the grove on the other side of the river, returned to the stream and began to wash the fish.
At this time, the fish does not need to be washed more, just float a few times in the water and remove the blood and gas on the fish.
Back in the kitchen, Bian Rui marinated the fish a little with some ingredients, put the fish aside, and began to stir-fry the wind chicken, the phoenix chicken was braised with lamb chops, and stewed until it was almost out of the pot, adding green, red and yellow peppers to adjust the color. When it comes out, it's half a full soup pot.
When the chicken was stewed, Bian Rui put water in another pot and began to cook it over low heat, waiting for the temperature in the pot to rise, first adding tofu, and then then putting in the loach that had already vomited out the sediment.
Generally, to make this dish, the loach has to vomit at least overnight, but where is Bian Rui used here, he threw it in the space, and after a minute, he took out the dirty goods in the belly of the loach and spit it out, plus a little space water, the little loach was raised more fat than when it was in season in autumn.
The loach went into the water, and when he felt that the water temperature was so hot, he naturally found a cooler place to stay, and the tofu next to him was so cold, so he naturally drilled into the tofu, and after seven or eight mud pews got in, he directly covered the pot with a high fire and simmered, waiting for the water to boil, and the loach also died in the tofu, and the beany smell of the tofu was almost removed.
Fish out the tofu drilled into the loach from the pot, restart the pot after passing the cold water, put the oil in the pan, fry it first, fry it until it is golden brown on both sides, and then put the garlic foam and ginger foam and stir-fry, add a spoonful of homemade red pepper sauce after the fragrance, continue to stir-fry the fragrance and then add tofu, soy sauce soy sauce and oil consumption, add water and cover the pot and start simmering.
Wait for the pot to come out, smoke the fire, cover the pot and continue to simmer for a few minutes, and the loach tofu is ready.
Wait for the two dishes to come out, the small fish is almost pickled, remove the spices, raise the oil in the pot, after heating, wrap each small fish in flour, put it in the oil pan and fry, fry it until both sides are golden brown, every fish must be fried in the pot like this, the small trash fish that comes out of this way can be kept intact and fragrant, especially the dough noodles wrapped in the fish, which is delicious in the delicious.
After the small fish is fried, add water to the pot and add various seasonings, after adding, smear the mixed dead batter on the edge of the pot, wipe it around, the batter should not be too thin, because if it is thin, it will all slide into the fish soup. But it can't be too thick, it's not easy to cook in the first place, and it doesn't taste good, so you want the feeling that one-third is in the soup and two-thirds is in the pot.
As soon as these were done, Yan Lan and Teacher Li arrived on Yan Lan's motorcycle, Yan Lan rode a bicycle, and Teacher Li sat on the back of the motorcycle.
As soon as she entered the courtyard, Yan Lan said, "Wow, it's so fragrant!"
"Hey, why are you all sitting here, waiting for dinner?" Yan Lan saw that Hu Shuo and the others were sitting in the courtyard talking nonsense, so she asked curiously.
Wu Xi said: "Bian Rui annoyed us and kicked us out of the kitchen, and he did things like cooking alone." Look at what a good man, if I had known earlier, where would I have talked about others."
Hu Shuo didn't care, he knew his girlfriend too well, he would say whatever he wanted, and you would be angry with her for half a year at most. With her character, she won't like people like Bian Rui, because she will feel bored.
Yan Lan parked the car at the door a little west to prevent her motorcycle from blocking the door and not affecting everyone's entry and exit.
I stopped the car and introduced Mr. Li to everyone.
After being polite, Yan Lan first went into the kitchen and asked Bian Rui if he wanted to help or something, but naturally Bian Rui was also kicked out.
"Wait for dinner, or you go and clean up the small board table in the main room, it's a little cold to eat outside at night, let's eat in the house, forget it, I'll go by myself later, you go outside and talk to them, and you will eat in a few minutes" Bian Rui thought for a while, and felt that this work had to be done by himself, and others were not down-to-earth.
Hearing Bian Rui say this, Yan Lan joked: "I like people like you who do all-inclusive work! Okay, if you want to do any work, call me."
Saying that, Yan Lan returned to the courtyard and chatted with Zhou Zheng and the others.
"Music teacher, I didn't expect that the primary school teachers in the village are quite complete," Hu Shuo couldn't help but feel a little emotional when he heard that Mr. Li was actually a graduate of a professional normal college.
Teacher Li said with a smile: "There are a lot of students here, and there are hundreds of children in several villages combined, waiting for today's September, there will be more students enrolled, and there are more than 100 people who have already signed up."
Now Mr. Li is a little bit like the environment of Bianjia Village Primary School, the model of people here is very simple, the interpersonal relationship is not complicated, the promotion or something depends on the number of years and the level, the most important thing is that the profession of the teacher is very important here The respect of the villagers, and outside, through some media publicity, the teacher has become the murderer of the child in many cases.
"What are the music classes in school?" asked Hu Shuo curiously.
Teacher Li said: "Mainly guqin, guzheng, and erhu or something, the school is going to make a specialty, and the most on it is the guqin, because Bian Rui donated more than 30 beds of qin."
"Oh, this kid is really willing, he sold a piano for one million two days ago, and he bought it as the master of Mingzhu," Wu Xi said.
"Which one?"
"The one who came over this morning is called Fu Qingxu," Zhou Zheng said.