Several of them chatted around the cake, and the old woman walked out happily.

The old lady's smiling eyes couldn't see it today, and after she saw Ao Muyang and his party, she came over to take their hands one by one, and asked with a smile: "How many of you babies are here?"

Ao Mudong said: "You have to come, the grandmother's ninetieth birthday, this is the top priority in the village, right?"

Ao Muyang nodded and said, "That's right. ”

The old woman smiled and said: "Oh, I'm old and immortal, what's the big deal?" It's that Huizi loves to toss, so he must do it well, otherwise according to my old wife's meaning, the three of us grandparents and grandchildren can eat a bowl of noodles at home." ”

Ao Muyang said: "This is not good, grandma, this is really a big event in the village, you are the old birthday star in our village, Huizi did the right thing, you have to handle this birthday banquet well." ”

At the mention of her daughter-in-law, the old lady smiled even more: "Huizi is a good child, she is in charge of the family, I will listen to her, and Qianlai and I will listen to her." ”

As she spoke, her eyes looked at the wing, where Jin Huizi and Song Qiumin were pounding fish noodles.

In the early years, the Hongyang fishermen did not eat cakes on their birthdays, and they did not have the money to eat cakes, and in the local tradition, the fishermen ate fish noodles on their birthdays.

Fish noodles are also called fish cakes because they are made from fish cakes.

However, making fish noodles is not a simple matter, and later, with the improvement of fishermen's living standards, they can afford to buy cakes, and most people change to eating cakes for birthdays instead of making fish noodles and fish cakes.

The old lady is a traditional fisherwoman, she is not used to eating cakes that are too sweet and sweet, and she is reluctant to eat them, so she pounds fish noodles and eats them every year.

After a long time, habit has become a tradition, so she still wants to eat fish noodles for her birthday this year, and Jin Huizi is filial, so she deliberately went to Song Qiumin to learn to make fish noodles. After Song Qiumin understood what she meant, he decided to come to help her make fish noodles on her birthday, after all, according to custom, this should be made on the same day.

Ao Muyang hasn't seen the scene of pounding fish noodles for a while, when he was a child, his mother would give him pounding fish noodles to eat on his birthday, in fact, the taste is just like that, so when he was in junior high school, the family conditions began to improve, and then on his birthday, he changed to eating cakes.

But now I think back to it, the scene of those mothers pounding fish noodles when she was a child is really rare, at that time, because of the busy housework during the day and a lot of fishing work at sea, she chose to help her son make fish noodles the night before, and then because according to the tradition of making noodles on his birthday, she worked in the middle of the night until the early morning of the next day.

Ao Muyang walked to the wing, Song Qiumin and Jin Huizi were beating the fish with wooden sticks.

There was a small panel beside each of them, on which was some flour, which was sweet potato flour, and the two of them pinched pieces of fish meat and put them in a stone mortar, and then beat them with wooden sticks.

'Bang bang bang', the sound is as familiar as ever.

Seeing Ao Muyang coming, Song Qiumin smiled and said, "Village Chief, why are you here to help?"

Jin Huizi also smiled, shyly smiled, she quickly took a small stool and handed it to him after she saw Ao Muyang arrive.

Ao Muyang waved his hand and thanked him, and said, "Auntie, you don't have to worry about me, you can continue to work." ”

Jin Huizi is young, but she is Ao Qianlai's wife, and she is higher than Ao Muyang and Song Qiumin in terms of seniority.

Song Qiumin skillfully hammered the fish into a dough, during which she evenly sprinkled sweet potato flour on the board, so that the stone mortar could be smooth to avoid sticking to the fish, and secondly, the fish could become tenacious and tough.

When the fish and sweet potato flour were beaten into a dough in a stone mortar, she took it out and put it on a board to crush it into a pancake and set it aside.

Ao Muyang looked at this round fish cake and exclaimed: "Sister-in-law is very skilled, except for my mother, I rarely see someone who can make fish cakes so round." ”

Song Qiumin smiled: "I just learned the craft from your mother." ”

Before her husband and Ao Muyang's parents had no accident, the relationship between the two families was very good, in fact, her husband had been working with Ao Muyang's father, and after Song Qiumin got married, he did learn a lot of housework with Ao Muyang's mother.

But speaking of this now, it is inevitably a little sad.

When it comes to the past, the two of them fell silent together, Jin Huizi probably knows these things, she is a clever girl, her personality is very sensitive, and she has a feeling as soon as the atmosphere changes.

So, she skillfully cut the topic and said: "Sister Qiu Min, do you see that I put a little too much sweet potato flour? How much do you have to put in it? I can't grasp it well." ”

In terms of generation, Song Qiumin should call her aunt, but she is much younger than Song Qiumin, so it is quite embarrassing to call her so, so the two of them are together in their own ways, anyway, Song Qiumin usually does not call Ao Qianlai an uncle.

Listening to her words, Song Qiumin cheered up and looked at it: "It's indeed a bit too much, but it's okay, this is a job where practice makes perfect, you can knock a few more fish cakes and count." ”

In the process of knocking fish cakes, the amount of sweet potato flour is the key to the quality of fish noodles, less potato flour, fresh fish, knock out of fish noodles taste high, soft and fresh, but the noodles are not tough enough, can not make fish noodles. If there is too much potato flour, although the fish cake is tough enough, it will affect the taste and will also cause the fish noodles to not be so fresh.

After the fish cake is knocked out, it should be quickly put in the yard to dry, after the wind and sun, the fish cake will dry up, then it should be put in a pan and burned into seven medium cooks, and then cut into thin strips to make noodles, which is the longevity of fish noodles.

Jin Huizi and Song Qiumin are both veterans in cooking, and the two are ingenious and quickly knock out fish cakes one by one.

Ao Muyang helped, he put the fish cake on the bamboo curtain and put it in the yard, in order to dry it better, he asked Ao Mudong to find a ladder to come over, and put the bamboo curtain on the roof to dry.

He was busy in the kitchen for a while, and there were more people who came to Ao Qianlai's house.

Grandma Qianlai took him away, and said with a smile: "I'll clean up the fish cakes, village chief, you go to the house to drink tea, Qianlai can't take care of it, you go and help take care of it." ”

Ao Muyang said: "Grandma, you can just rest today, can you not let you work, as for the matter of taking care of it, I don't need to do it, I am all from my own village, what should I take care of?"

Song Qiumin also said: "That's it, grandma, you've been tired all your life, and it's been ninety years, so you should have a good rest." ”

The old lady said, "What's the rest, it's much lighter now than it was a few years ago, hehe, and I'm in good hands now, and I can move as much as I can." ”

"Yes, grandmother, exercise more, exercise is good for health!" Lu Wuyi, who was strolling around the yard with big melon seeds, came over and interjected, and then he asked, "Brother-in-law, don't you eat melon seeds?" ”

Ao Muyang said: "Okay, you give me the melon seeds, and then stay here to help my sister-in-law and aunt." ”

Lu Wuyi was stunned for a moment, and said, "What, brother-in-law, what do you mean by this? I'll give you melon seeds to eat, and you can find me a job?"

Ao Muyang said: "This is called exercise, exercise is good for health, okay, do it well, brother-in-law go drink tea and eat melon seeds." ”