In the morning, when we get up, breakfast is put on the table, and the family gathers together for breakfast.

There are a lot of things to be busy in the past two days, so Mr. Chen doesn't go to herd the cattle anymore, so he just holds two bundles of corn stalks or two handfuls of grain grass to feed the cattle, adds some from time to time, and then rushes to feed the water in the evening.

Breakfast is red porridge with a pot of sauerkraut jelly. The jelly cooked with sauerkraut is completely different from the jelly that just came out of the pot yesterday. This one is smoother than hot jelly, and it is more resistant to bites.

After sandwiching the chopsticks and sauerkraut, and eating a big mouthful of porridge together, Xiaoxi looked at Old Man Chen and said cautiously, "Grandpa, I thought, we have so many ingredients, like fish, shrimp or something, and there is a lot of oil anyway, why don't we get more tricks this year?"

Old Man Chen thought about it, too, so many things are still being put away, and besides, the space of the creek is still being produced, and it is true that he can't treat himself badly, so he nodded and said with a smile: "It's okay, get more." ”

"Hehe, why do you say that this year has been a year of hard work, and you have to treat yourself well at the end of the day, right?" Xiaoxi said jokingly as she looked at Old Man Chen and Granny Chen.

"Hahaha, right. Granny Chen also agreed.

Speaking of eating, Chen Yubin was energetic, blinked, looked at Xiaoxi and said, "Sister, then what are we going to get?"

Xiaoxi put down his chopsticks, rubbed his chin, and said very seriously: "Hmm~ The ones we got in previous years still have to be obtained, we have no shortage of fish meat, we can get some fish balls, fish tofu and the like, as well as fried shrimp, fried red balls, and we haven't dried a lot of jujubes, you can make some jujube cakes, and the rest, let's look at the ingredients and think about it, anyway, there are still two days." ”

Twenty-eight is to go to the market to buy things, this year there is no twenty-nine, directly on Chinese New Year's Eve.

Old Man Chen nodded, "Okay, let's do these first, there is still time left, and I will do it again when I think of something." But, Xiaoxi, what are these fish balls and fish tofu? We haven't seen them before, and we don't know how to make them. ”

Xiaoxi patted his chest and said, "Grandpa, don't worry, I've seen how others do it, I will, I'll tell you later." ”

"That's okay. Old Man Chen nodded, and seeing that everyone had almost eaten, he said to Granny Chen, "You clean up, go wash the dishes, and let's go and cut the fish." ”

Granny Chen didn't say much, and just put away the dishes and chopsticks. These two days are busy times, and everyone has no time to spare.

With a basin and scissors, the grandfather went out, squatted by the wall and began to cut the fish.

As for what live fish and shrimp are always in the family, this is how Granny Chen explained. The jade pendant on Chen Yubin's body is a little different from their role, he can be a living thing, and he is still alive when he takes it out. Although Granny Chen was very envious, she didn't have anything to say about her beloved grandson, even if she asked her to give the bracelet to her beloved grandson, then she was willing.

The creek took out five large grass carp and threw them into the basin, and the grandfather began to work. Xiaoxi and Chen Yubin scraped the fish scales and removed the gills, and Old Man Chen took out the fish internal organs.

After seeing it for a while, he finished hanging up the fish scales and removing the gills, just waiting for Old Man Chen to open his stomach. Thinking that these fish balls and fish tofu are delicious, the fish balls are used to cook hot pot, and the fish tofu is sliced and boiled into soup or something is also very delicious, Xiaoxi said to Old Man Chen: "Grandpa, if we don't get more at one time, it won't be bad in the space anyway, and when my aunt and they come back, you can also pick up some for them to take back to taste." ”

Old Man Chen didn't let go of his hands, carefully cut the fish belly with scissors, and said nonchalantly: "Okay, anyway, one is also a deal, and two are also a deal, so let's get more, so as not to waste our time." ”

"Huh!" Xiaoxi smiled, and pulled out a dozen more grass carp in one go.

After making these more than ten or twenty grass carp, filling a large pot full of them, Mr. Chen took them back to the house, carried the hoe out, dug a big pit on the edge of the vegetable garden, and buried the scales, gills, and internal organs of the fish.

After packing up and going back to the house, these fish have been washed by Granny Chen, and the fish head and tail have also been chopped off, and a small half pot has been filled, which can be slowly stewed in soup or made into sauerkraut fish to eat.

"Grandpa, I'm waiting for you, hehe......" Seeing Old Man Chen enter the house, Xiaoxi hurriedly gave way and let Old Man Chen to the center of the board.

Old Man Chen washed his hands with soap, stood over, picked up the kitchen knife, looked at the stream, and motioned for her to start.

Xiaoxi hurriedly pointed to the fish in the basin and said, "Grandpa, you take a fish out first." Seeing that Old Man Chen did so, she continued: "Hmm~ Cut the fish in half first...... Yes, you have to remove the big bones of the fish, grandpa, your knife is slightly flattened, be careful, the fish bones must be cleaned...... Master, I have to go to the fish skin too, I don't need to ...... That's right, you're like this, specializing in the big bones and skins of fish. ”

Seeing that Old Man Chen didn't say anything, he picked up another fish and began to remove the fish bones, Xiaoxi turned his head to find a cutting board and a slightly focused kitchen knife, and handed it to Granny Chen.

"Mother-in-law, there are still small thorns on this fish, so you can go to the small thorns. ”

Granny Chen took the cutting board and kitchen knife and turned to the dining table, pulled a stool and sat down casually.

Xiaoxi picked up the small basin with a few pieces of fish on the board and replaced it with a new one for Old Man Chen. Put the basin on the dining table, take out a piece of fish and spread it on the cutting board, "Mother, you can cut the fish with the back of the knife, just like chopping meat." ”

"Oh~ That's simple, I have a way to do it. I heard that it was such a simple job, and I couldn't do fine food by myself, but I still had a lot of strength, so I rolled up my sleeves and began to chop up the fish with a "bang".

Xiaoxi stood by and watched for a while, and saw that her mother-in-law was still working like that, doing a good job, and she was also energetic. Everything is going on in an orderly manner.

Feeling that his sleeves were being pulled, Xiaoxi turned his head, and saw his younger brother pouting, looking at her with an aggrieved expression, "Sister~ Then what am I doing?"

Xiaoxi is funny, others are afraid of having work to do, and they are happy to be idle, but he is good, and he still earns work to do. twisted his nose in a strange way, and said angrily: "Don't worry, with your work to do, how can you be idle." ”

I found two basins and two knives, and pulled Chen Yubin out of the door.

Due to the lack of rain in winter, the flow is cut off, the slag settles, and the water in these two small puddles becomes more and more clean.

"Sister, what are you doing here?" Chen Yubin said dissatisfied. In the winter, it is not good to bake the fire in the house, and it is necessary to come out, although the temperature has risen a little bit in the past two days, it is still cold.

Seeing him pouting, Xiaoxi knew that he was unhappy, and said angrily, "Aren't you going to help?"

"Can you do it in the house?" look at my hands...... Chen Yubin raised his two paws, "It's still red." ”

The two little paws are red, very pitiful, this is the fish just cut to freeze.

"We wash a lot of things, so isn't it a hassle to get water...... Then you get the hawthorn, and I'll wash it. As he spoke, he demonstrated that he had gone to a hawthorn core, and then handed the knife to Chen Yubin and asked him to try it.

Take out a few pieces of ginger, pick up another knife, scrape off the skin carefully, and wash it a little in the puddle, the water is indeed quite cold, so the stream sped up, no, just scrape a few pieces of ginger and clean it.

I took out a large handful of green onions from the space, cleaned them, and put them in a basin with ginger.

The green onions here are shallots, and they only grow shallots in the creek, like Granny Chen, they have never seen green onions, and they have never even heard of them.

After washing the green onions, I took out some red roots and washed them. Because it's produced in space, there's no insect eye or anything, and it's a red lotus with mental power, so there's nothing to dig up, it's all whole, and it's easy to wash, and it won't take long to wash a full basin.

After Xiaoxi stopped, he saw that Chen Yubin had already made a small half pot, and hurriedly picked up a knife to help go to the hawthorn core together. Because it was too cold for their hands, the two of them moved very quickly, and when they saw that they were almost done, Xiaoxi put down the knife and began to clean the hawthorn.

After cleaning the hawthorn, the sister and brother each took a basin and hurried home. After putting down the basin, the two of them gathered around the fire and roasted until their bodies were warm.

In the short time that Xiaoxi and the others went to the puddle to wash things, Grandpa Chen had already cut all the 20 or so big grass carp in half to remove the big fish bones, and now helped Granny Chen chop the fish mud.

The meatballs are called balls in the creek, which are chopped by hand, and the tip of the knife, which is also chopped out with two hands and two knives. In the past, people held banquets, and at that time they all made their own food, and Mr. Chen did not ask him to help chop the meat puree, so this craft is not blown, the knife speed is also fast, the hand is up and down, and a piece of meat crumbs is not taken away, only listening to the "got", which is very rhythmic.

Xiaoxi hurriedly took out the green onion at the bottom of the pot, as long as the green onion was white, and handed it to Grandpa Chen, asking him to chop it into minced pieces. pulled Chen Yubin to sit down at the table and began to help.

Because the two heavy knives at home were in the hands of Mr. Chen, they were used to chop fish puree, and a common kitchen knife was used to chop small fish bones in the hands of Granny Chen, while Chen Yubin and Xiaoxi only had two knives and could not chop them, so they changed their strategy and used knives to scrape the fish.

Because the bones are small and transparent, the scraped flesh is flattened and then pulled with a knife at intervals of one or two centimeters to remove the bones.

Granny Chen found that the fish scraped by their method in the creek was relatively fine, and the fish bones were also clean, but the speed was a bit slow, but it was very convenient to chop the fish puree, so she should use the scraping of the fish, which saved a lot of time.

Chop up the fish puree and fill two small pots.

"Master, put this fish meat like the tip of a knife, like a ball, and put all the seasonings in it. Seeing that the fish paste was ready, Xiaoxi said to Old Man Chen, because the taste he had mixed was delicious.

"Okay, bring all the spices on the board to the table. "Old Man Chen commanded the Xiaoxi sisters and brothers.