Xiaoxi makes fish balls with stuffing in his memory, holds a handful of fish paste in his left hand, pinches it a few times to increase elasticity, wipes his thumb, flattens the fish paste in the palm of his hand, pinches a small piece of the stuffed stuffing with his right hand and kneads it into a ball, puts it under the index finger and middle finger, covers the fish paste with his thumb, squeezes it out from the tiger's mouth, and scrapes it with a spoon.

Well~ It's still like that, it's just a little exposed, and then wrap it manually, rub it, and a round white and fat fish ball will come out. In my previous life, I had never made fish balls with filling, and I had only watched the video, so I didn't do it well, and I had no experience, so it would be nice to make it a few more times.

Because Xiaoxi and Chen Yubin were still young, they sat on the side close to the fire, while Old Man Chen and Granny Chen sat on both sides, and they could bake the fire.

Because it takes a lot of time to make fish balls with filling, the family sits by the fire and makes them. There are two basins of warm water on the table, which have just been boiled, and the prepared fish balls are thrown in and boiled later.

Xiaoxi put the finished fish balls in the palm of his hand and showed them to the other three people at the table, because they were filled, so they were much larger than the pure fish balls just now, so it was also good, and it would be easy to distinguish them later.

"You see, this is how to do it, grandpa and mother-in-law are used to making buns, dumplings, and glutinous rice balls, it should be simple to make this, just try a few times. After speaking, he put the fish balls in his hand into the basin.

"Well, let's try it then. So saying, the two old men did it. Xiaoxi was not in such a hurry to do it again, and only stared at Old Man Chen and Granny Chen to see if they had done it correctly. After all, it is much faster for four people to do it than for one person, and they have all learned, so Xiaoxi does not have to do it all, saving time.

Old man Chen is used to doing work, so his movements are a little more skillful than Xiaoxi, and he doesn't need to make up for Xiaoxi after the fact, just a white fat ball comes out, and Granny Chen is a little worse, but she doesn't show her stuffing, but it's not very round.

"It's ok, it's easy. Old Man Chen looked at the fish balls in his hand and smiled with satisfaction. He glanced at the creek and threw it into the basin.

"Hmm~ I'm okay with this, it's just not round, I'll just make a few more. "Actually, Granny Chen is already doing very well, eating at home, not taking out, it's okay if she doesn't do it so well.

Nothing means not much, not very much.

Now Xiaoxi was relieved, and he didn't stare at them.

"Binbin, come, I'll teach you how to do it. ”

In fact, Chen Yubin had already been watching from the sidelines, looking eager to try, and when he heard Xiaoxi's order, he followed his left hand to dig a ball of fish paste.

"Come, pinch a few times like I did to increase the elasticity of the fish balls...... Yes, again, spread the fish puree evenly, you can slow down now...... Dig a little more stuffing, you have too much, the fish paste in your hand can't be wrapped at all, and it's a little smaller...... If you cover it again, it will come out as soon as you squeeze it. "This time the creek is doing okay, at least it doesn't show its filling, and it is thrown directly into the basin.

After looking at the half-remnants in Chen Yubin's hand, Xiaoxi took it and mended it again. "You've got it now, just make a few more, you try again. ”

Xiaoxi began to be busy with himself, and no longer supervised the process of his work, but only helped to make up one or two afterwards, but after four or five, Chen Yubin also did a good job, and the family was busy sitting by the fire with words.

Both roasting fire and working and talking, everyone also from time to time to compare their own fish balls that they think are good, or laugh at the ugly ones made by others, although the cold wind outside the house, but the spring flowers in the house are blooming, and they are happy.

Because I divided half of it and made fish tofu later, there was not much fish mud left at the bottom of the pot after a while, Xiaoxi stopped and said to Old Man Chen: "Master, this is not much, you guys, I'll go and see how the red dates are soaked." ”

There is indeed not much left, one person will do more than ten or twenty is almost done, Old Man Chen did not raise his head, waved his hand, "You go, this little work, we will finish it in a while." ”

Xiaoxi didn't say anything more, got up and washed his hands with soap, and then lifted the lid of the pot on the porcelain basin on the board.

As the lid of the pot was lifted, the water droplets hanging on it slid down the lid to the cutting board under the action of gravity, forming a circle of water stains. At this time, the water has already been cold, and the dried red dates have been thrown away, Xiaoxi reached out and picked one up, pinched his thumb and forefinger, and sucked enough water to squeeze out the water.

Putting the lid down again, the brook scooped water to wash the pot, scooped up a few more scoops of water, covered the pot, bypassed the stove, and sat down on the small bench in front of the stove.

In their place, when they make a stove, they will dig a small pit five or six centimeters wide and three centimeters deep next to the pot door for placing matches. At that time, matches were still packed in cardboard boxes, and they couldn't be used when they were wet, so they were placed here, which was convenient and suitable for storage.

I took a handful of firewood, took out a match and lit it, stuffed it into the hole of the pot, and stuffed a few more large firewood.

Patting the firewood slag on his body, Xiaoxi walked to Old Man Chen's side, played with his collar, and said coquettishly: "Grandpa, you can help me." ”

Old Man Chen felt a little funny, and did him a favor, why did he still lie to himself, "What are you helping?"

"It's those soaked red dates, you help me rot. Xiaoxi pointed to the half-pot of soaked red dates on the board.

Looking at it along his fingers, such a big pot, it is true that Xiaoxi has to work alone for a long time, so Old Man Chen got up and clapped his hands, "That's it, just make a dozen or so more, I'll help Xiaoxi rot the red dates." After that, I went to wash my hands.

The brook excitedly turned around and went outside to carry water, pots, tools, etc.

Their stone mortar is called the opposite nest (read it that way anyway), and the nest of Xiaoxi's house is in the shape of a round table, and it rests upside down on the wall outside the door of the stove room.

Old Man Chen turned the nest over, "Xiaoxi, hand me the water and pot brush on the big table." ”

Xiaoxi handed over the water and pot brush as he said, and Old Man Chen took it and began to clean the nest. Although it is upside down, it is not very dirty, but it still needs to be cleaned twice to rest assured.

After cleaning, Xiaoxi brought a small bench to Old Man Chen, let him sit, brought red dates, scooped a few spoonfuls and poured them into the nest, and Old Man Chen picked up the stout rolling pin at home and began to scoop red dates.

After licking a few times, it doesn't feel right, with such a big force, why are these red dates still fine. picked up a red date from the nest and looked at it repeatedly, Old Man Chen shook his head, "Xiaoxi, you can't soak it yet, it's not rotten." ”

"Huh?" Xiaoxi took the red dates from Old Man Chen's hand in disbelief, and looked at it, indeed, it was still relatively cotton at this time, although it was soaked, but it was still strong, and after thinking about it, he said, "Master, I'll go back and cook it in the pot for a while." ”

So he scooped up the red dates in the nest with a spoon, and took the basin back to the house.

"Huh~ Xiaoxi, why are you back again. Granny Chen looked up and saw Xiaoxi coming back with a jujube pot, so she asked curiously.

"Mother, this red date is not easy to rot, I'll cook it in the pot for a while. Eh, Po ...... "scoop up the water in the pot, leave only about one scoop, pour all the red dates in the pot into it, cover the pot, turn around and sit in front of the stove, and add firewood to the pot hole."

"You've got all the fish balls, you've got them, I'll cook the red dates later, and you'll cook the fish balls later." ”

"Ahh Granny Chen was very surprised that Xiaoxi let herself do it, but she had never done it before, so it was broken, and the family sat here and was busy for a long time.

"It's okay, didn't you watch me do it in the morning, you just do what I did. He turned his head to Chen Yubin and said, "Binbin, when my mother-in-law cooks fish balls, you will boil the pot, and when the water in the pot is smoking, you will return the big firewood and stuff the firewood residue." ”

Chen Yubin saw that he was finally put to use, so he nodded excitedly in agreement. Granny Chen saw that Chen Yubin nodded, and she didn't seem to have any reason to refuse, and the family was busy, so she nodded and agreed, but ......

"I'm ugly in front of me, if it's boiled, don't blame me. ”

"Mother, don't worry, it's very simple, you put the fish balls in with a colander, put cold water in the basin next to it, wait for the fish balls to boil and float, and then turn and cook for about a minute, and then you can fish them into the cold water basin. Seeing that Granny Chen was still a little unconfident, Xiaoxi persuaded, "If you still don't feel at ease, call me to help you take a look later." Actually, it's really simple, you'll know it later. ”

"Oh, I know, don't be verbose. Seeing that Xiaoxi still wanted to speak, Granny Chen interrupted a little impatiently.

Xiaoxi choked on these words, and said, don't say anything. Get up, uncover the lid of the pot, pick up a red date, pinch it, it can be crushed, that's about it, just scoop it up with a pot and spoon.

After washing the pot again, he poured the hot water he had scooped up into the pot again, and then said to the two mothers-in-law and grandson beside the fire: "The temperature of this water is almost the same, you can get it quickly." And he went out with a basin.

When I went out and saw that Mr. Chen was not there, Xiaoxi shouted, listening to it coming from the bedroom, Xiaoxi rushed to find the sound, and saw Mr. Chen sitting at the head of the bed, resting on the writing desk with one hand, putting the cigarette bottle in a smoky and happy fairy.

After a while, he couldn't bear it anymore and lit his hookah again.

Xiaoxi had no choice but to step forward and say, "Master, I cooked the red dates." ”

Old Man Chen nodded, "Well, yes, I'll go when I'm done smoking this bag of cigarettes." As he spoke, he fiddled with the tobacco again.

Alas, that's what he did. In his previous life, when Mr. Chen was not sick at that time, he always said that it was impossible for him to quit smoking in this life, but in the end, when the illness was serious, he naturally quit.

In addition to cigarettes, he also brewed medicinal wine, and would drink a small glass every few days. Speaking of medicinal wine, Xiaoxi remembered Old Man Chen's medicinal wine jar, which was a cylindrical glass bottle forty centimeters high and thick as a sea bowl, containing most of the bottles of medicinal materials. It seems that he can plant some better medicinal herbs in the space, Granny Chen is rheumatoid legs, when the time comes, drink a small cup every day, it is estimated that when it rains and clouds, the pain will be reduced.