13. Craftsmanship
Ao Xiaoniu's house was about to start a meal, and Song Qiu Min's small rape was not made in the evening, but dried up, and in the evening it was rice and small miscellaneous fish soup.
Seeing Ao Muyang coming back with a pot and a plate, Song Qiumin asked in surprise: "Ahem, what are you doing?"
Ao Muyang said: "Don't you have dinner? I invite you to try my craft, I studied cooking in Kyoto, and I will make two dishes for you to try." ”
He opened the lid of the pressure cooker, and the smell of chicken soup rose into the air and wafted around like the divine power that had broken the seal.
As soon as Ao Xiaoniu smelled this fragrance, his stomach suddenly sounded 'gurgling', and Song Qiumin also subconsciously swallowed his saliva.
When half of the chicken soup is boiled, the soup turns from transparent to golden yellow, the chicken turns white, and the red wolfberries float on the soup noodles, red, white and yellow.
The snow-white chicken is very tender at first glance, Ao Muyang scooped a bowl out, the fragrance is stronger, and the white chicken is shaking with heat, which makes people greedy when they see it.
He handed the bowl to Song Qiumin and said, "Sister-in-law, come, taste it." ”
Song Qiumin hurriedly said, "What are you doing here? You went to stew chicken when you went back just now?"
Ao Muyang nodded and said: "Yes, don't be stunned, don't be stunned, sit down, drink chicken soup, eat chicken, chicken bones for the general, there is cobia sashimi here, try the uncle's craftsmanship." ”
Ao Xiaoniu stared at his mother with wide eyes, his face full of anticipation.
Song Qiumin was embarrassed: "What's so embarrassing about this? cough cough, look at the appearance of this chicken, this is going to the ground? cough, you stew this valuable guy." ”
Ao Muyang said with a smile: "Sister-in-law, you say that there are many outside, how expensive can a chicken be? I see that you don't raise it? It's a big deal to wait for your chicken to grow up and give me one, come, drink it while it's hot." ”
Song Qiumin understood his intentions, rubbed his hands and said, "Okay, sheep, that sister-in-law is not polite, and it would be hypocritical to be polite any more." Maverick, thank you, uncle, eat. ”
Ao Xiaoniu thanked him obediently, took a sip of soup with a bowl, and then shouted with a light eye: "It's so fragrant, Mom, you drink it, you drink it first, you taste it quickly." ”
Song Qiumin took a sip of chicken soup, and then couldn't stop. She took a small sip very frugally, and didn't take a big sip, but a bowl of chicken soup was quickly finished after sipping.
Ao Muyang pushed over the plate and said, "The chicken soup is greasy, you can't drink more, come, eat it with sashimi." ”
The chicken soup is very fragrant, and if you eat light sashimi at this time, you can taste the seafood even more.
The general waited to eat the bones, but the two of them chewed and swallowed the bones, and after waiting for a long time, it waited for a few pieces of bone that could not be chewed.
Ao Muyang was about to get up and leave, but Song Qiumin hurriedly said, "You wait, I'll pour out the pot for you." ”
Ao Xiaoniu immediately rushed to the kitchen, Ao Muyang stopped him, and said with a smile: "No, don't pour the pot, as soon as the fragrance is poured, you will stay inside, and tomorrow morning you will have a soup and rice or chicken noodle soup, it will be delicious." ”
"What's the pot?"
Ao Muyang said: "It's not simple, wait for you to pour it out and then let the calf send it to me, and the calf will eat with me for lunch and dinner in the future." You don't have to do it, sister-in-law, just bring you a bowl back after the calf is finished. ”
Song Qiumin shook his head like a rattle: "This is not good......
Ao Muyang interrupted her and said: "What's not okay? It's not interesting for me to eat alone, it's a matter of more pairs of chopsticks, okay sister-in-law, you guys will rest early after eating, I'll go first." ”
The general lowered his head and sniffed hard, hoping to find some fragrant chicken bones to eat before leaving.
As a result, its efforts were in vain, and after Ao Muyang went out, it could only catch up with its head down, and the disappointed one called a gloomy ecstasy.
It was not too late, he saw that since he had come to the west of the village, he planned to go to the teacher's house to sit, since he came back, he had not visited the teacher, and this time he could learn about Qiu Min's sister-in-law's condition by the way.
His teacher's name was Ao Zhisheng, who used to be a rural teacher.
Longtou Village is quite large, with a population of more than 1,000 people, more than 300 households, and many children in the early years, the government set up a primary school in the village, and Ao Zhisheng was the principal of the school at that time.
However, due to the decrease in the number of children, after graduating from Ao Muyang Primary School, the village school was abolished and unified into the town.
Ao Zhisheng and other rural teachers did not have an establishment, so the Education Bureau did not arrange jobs for them, and directly let them be discharged and returned to the fields.
In addition to being a former village teacher, Ao Zhisheng is also a barefoot doctor who runs the only clinic in the village, and the villagers will go to him if they have a headache, brain fever, minor illness, or disaster, after all, it is too difficult to go out by boat to the town or anywhere.
As a result, he came to the door to ask, Ao Zhisheng took advantage of the good weather to go up the mountain to collect medicine, he studied under his grandfather and father's traditional Chinese medicine, and many of the herbs used were adapted to local conditions, all from Dalong Mountain.
In this way, he had to go home first.
At noon, Ao Xiaoniu came to return the pressure cooker, Ao Muyang said that it was just right, and after taking the pot, he put the marinated fish scales in it, put it on the fire and stewed.
Ao Xiaoniu asked, "Uncle, do you want to boil fish jelly?"
Ao Muyang covered the lid and said with a smile: "Yes, eat fish jelly at night, and bring a bowl back to your mother when the time comes, this thing nourishes yin and relieves cough." ”
Ao Xiaoniu smiled: "Okay!"
Fish jelly is a fisherman's special small cold dish, boiled with fish scales and then put in the freezer to freeze, there was no refrigerator freezer in the past, but now it can be made all year round, it is a very popular dish in summer.
At noon, he ate fried rice with pickled pepper sauce and meat, and two days ago he bought enough ingredients from Hongyang, pickled pickled peppers and stewed sauce meat, and he was able to eat it today.
The green pickled peppers, the black sauce meat, and the white flowers of rice are fragrant and spicy after being fried in oil, and it is very appetizing to eat a bowl in the hot summer.
Ao Fugui came to rub the rice at a fixed point, he and Ao Xiaoniu were like a game, one person had a big plate of fried rice, Ao Muyang went back to the house and came out again, and he actually ate it all!
He was shocked: "You pour it into your mouth?"
Ao Fugui said with a smile: "The paralyzed calf eats too fast, and I am ...... by him."
"It doesn't matter in private, less swear in front of your children. Ao Muyang frowned and interrupted him.
Ao Fugui still smiled, Ao Xiaoniu wiped his mouth embarrassedly and said, "Uncle Yang, did you make two plates? I ate too much." ”
Ao Muyang said: "No, there is rice, I think you eat too quickly and don't eat vegetables, and the taste is not good." ”
As he spoke, he put down the plate, and inside were some bamboo shoots marinated in pickled pepper soup, crispy and spicy.
So Ao Fugui and Ao Xiaoniu each came with a plate of fried rice......
After eating and drinking, Ao Xiaoniu neatly cleaned up the dishes and chopsticks to wash.
Ao Muyang didn't stop him, he pulled out a recliner under the Guanxiang tree, and enjoyed the sea breeze leisurely.
When Ao Xiaoniu came over to cool off after his busy work, he took out a stack of money and handed it to him, "Take the food and go back to your mother." ”
Looking at this stack of red tickets, Ao Xiaoniu hurriedly took a step back: "Uncle Yang......"
Ao Muyang said: "Don't be as tough as your mother, don't play with me in the future if you are too strong, this is a little money that my uncle sells cobia, not much, take it back." ”
The reason why he didn't give it to Song Qiumin was because he knew that the woman was very stubborn, and he couldn't convince her.
Ao Fugui said that in the past few years, her family has come to the door and persuaded her to remarry, but no one has ever been able to make her heart move a little.
Ao Xiaoniu wiped his hands and took the money slowly.
He wants to play with Uncle Yang, Uncle Yang has not come back from the capital for many years, he is a capable person, and he can catch lobsters and cobia as soon as he comes back, and he is even more capable.
He wants to follow a capable person to get ahead, treat his mother's illness, and give his mother a good life.
In addition, he also wants money, his family is too poor, really too poor, he knows this better than anyone else!