In the evening make sauerkraut fish, use the kimchi of the old jar at home. According to Sister Zhang, the old jar has a history of more than seventy or eighty years, and it is still the kimchi water that her ancestors gave when they were there, and they are turned and filtered once a year, and then they eat old vegetables and pickle new vegetables.

This is also inconvenient, otherwise she would have wanted to get a bottle of sauerkraut water and go back to the new altar.

The vermicelli here are all made of sweet potatoes at home, Chen Xin pulled a handful and soaked it in clean water, and when the fish and meat were finished, the vegetables and vermicelli were boiled in, and they could still eat.

Sauerkraut fish is a dish that can be elegant, or it can be a table dish for ordinary people, delicate and exquisite, and the farmer has the flavor of the farmer.

The big iron pot burned the hot oil, stir-fried the ginger and garlic slices, and then added the shredded sauerkraut and sour chili sour ginger into the stir-fry, after the fragrance came out, sprinkled more than a dozen peppercorns to taste, put a little sugar, and then pour in water to boil. After boiling for about ten minutes, the aroma of sauerkraut wafts out, then add the fish head and the fish bones with the fish meat removed into the boil.

When the soup starts to turn white, reduce the heat and let the water temperature drop a little. At this time, the fish slices that were removed before are cut into a centimeter thick fish fillet, marinated for a while with pepper, cooking wine, salt and cornstarch, and when it is ready to be cooked, use chopsticks to quickly put the fish fillets into the soup piece by piece, and wait until all the fish fillets are in the pot, the fire is slightly larger, do not let it tumble, and keep it slightly open, the purpose of this is to keep the fish fillet in shape as intact as possible.

After the pot, sprinkle two spoonfuls of chopped garlic and peppercorns on top, then pour a spoonful of hot oil on top to make the garlic fragrant and slightly yellow, and then add coriander and chopped green onions on the soup.

In addition to the sauerkraut fish in a large pot, I also fried shredded sour radish and pork, roasted pork trotters in sauce, made a cold salad of red rape, and the dishes brought by the aunt next door filled a large table.

This time, Chen Xin specially used a small pot and filled it with a pot, and asked the eldest brother to send it to the third grandfather's house in the village.

The third grandfather is the elder with the highest seniority, and it is inconvenient to divide the dishes at noon, but it is also suitable for the old man to eat this sauerkraut fish at night. Moreover, Chen Xin used a pot to cook soft and glutinous vegetarian vegetables such as vermicelli and green cabbage slices in advance, and the top was a fragrant sauerkraut fish. This pot is almost enough for a family of four.

Brother Zhang went to the third grandfather's house with the dishes, and many people along the way asked him what he was serving, why was it so fragrant. Knowing that it was cooked by his family's distinguished guests, several mothers-in-law had an idea in their hearts at that time.

Chen Xin didn't know what they were thinking, but the aunt next door told Second Sister Zhang about it in private.

"Auntie, you're thinking too much, it's impossible. Second Sister Zhang chatted with her aunt while washing the dishes, "Chen Xin is a college student or a city person, and it is impossible for people to agree to marry us." ”

"You don't try, how do you know? You see that she is also like a living person, if you can be with your eldest brother, your nephew will not have to worry about how he will live after his aunt gets married. ”

Auntie's idea is very good, but Second Sister Zhang has seen more with her husband outside, and knows that Chen Xin is willing to take Zhang Zhang back because she is kind-hearted, if her family is no longer satisfied, why should people come to you to suffer and suffer? Besides, looking at Chen Xin like that, although she does things very neatly, she speaks and acts in the style of city people, and it is okay to stay here for a few days for a short time, but she will definitely not be able to stay here for a long time.

And more importantly, the eldest brother has a physical disability, and his education has only graduated from junior high school, and Chen Xin is completely a person from two worlds.

Seeing that Second Sister Zhang kept shaking her head, her aunt didn't continue. She just came up with this idea out of nowhere, if her family has a suitable one, she will not let the boss of the Zhang family take advantage of this.

In the middle of the night, the second sister was lying in bed with her husband, and she didn't know what her aunt meant.

"It's better not to be like this. "The second brother-in-law is a person who understands, and the concept of working in a unit is completely different from that of begging for a living in the countryside," I chatted with Chen Xin for a while this afternoon, the girl has a very good plan for her future, and she is afraid that she will continue to study in the future, the gap is too big, there is not even a common topic, and women are strong and men are weak, so I can't live this day. ”

"That's what I think, but looking at what my aunt meant, I probably think I don't want to plan for my eldest brother. Second Sister Zhang sighed, "My family's situation is quite good in the village, at least there is a little money left by the third brother before, although this day is not unbearable, but even so, because my brother's legs and feet are not good, other girls can't look down on me, and those who are willing to talk to my brother are widows, and my mother is not happy." ”

"Actually, the eldest brother's age is not too old, wait for two years to be more relaxed, you prepare more for the family, sooner or later there will be a girl willing. ”

When the second brother-in-law said this, he didn't say it out of thin air to comfort his wife, their unit had a logistics contract worker, who was widowed, very good, and had no children. I came back this time to persuade my wife to persuade my mother-in-law, not to have too much resistance to the widowed, and to look at the score situation.

If he can, he also wants to talk to Chen Xin, and if Chen Xin is asked to talk to his mother-in-law, the success may be higher.

But this is not a topic that can be talked about just after meeting, at least we have to wait two more days, and it is not too late to get acquainted with it.

At half past four the next morning, the second sister gently woke up Chen Xin and carried Zhang Zhang to her room to sleep. The second brother-in-law and aunt had already packed up, and they waited for Chen Xin to get up and have breakfast before leaving.

They have to go to the market early, and it will take some time on the road, and when they get to the town, it will be at least half past six and almost seven o'clock, and at that time the stalls have arrived, and there are more options to buy things. I went late and a lot of things were bought out, which is equivalent to a trip for nothing.

There are a lot of people in the village who go to the market, and some people even want to occupy a place to set out a stall, so they get up at three o'clock and set off, and buy a steamed bun for breakfast when they arrive in the town.

Chen Xin followed behind her aunt with the light of the flashlight, and behind her was the eldest brother and second brother-in-law, and the two men were the main force.

Because Chen Xin is not as fast as the people in the countryside, it is already seven o'clock in the town, the sky is getting brighter, and there are stalls and people everywhere, selling everything. This is the only two markets in the past year, and the day after tomorrow there is another time in Shiqiao Town next door, and then it is a cold market, and there are no people who set up stalls to sell things on the second street of the Lunar New Year, so basically everything you need has to be prepared in these two days.

In the first two years, the second sister and the second brother-in-law both went to her mother-in-law's house for the New Year, and there were only three people in the Zhang family, and it was the New Year if they got some meat and vegetables, but this year there were many people, and Aunt Zhang stuffed money for her son and asked him to buy more things.

After arriving in the town, the aunt next door wanted to buy clothes, shoes and socks for the family, so they went separately. Chen Xin had already bought all these things of the Zhang family before, and only needed to buy fresh vegetables and meat dishes such as meat and eggs. In addition, she also wants to come over while the market is in time to see if there are any business opportunities to take advantage of.

However, after arriving, I found that the mountain town here is still a little dilapidated, not as good as the places near the big cities of the plains, there are shops here, all of which are big pots and stoves that only do business in a hurry, and most of them are shops made out of their own self-built houses, and there are no outsiders who rent a place to open a store.

After looking around, Chen Xin dispelled the idea of letting Brother Zhang open a shop in the town, feeling that bamboo rat breeding was more suitable for him.