Chapter 42: The Rainy Season

As the rainy season approaches, the turquoise Qingjiang River once again ushers in the peak shipping season. In Changle Town in the middle reaches of the Qingjiang River, Changle Street is still bustling, and the most lively area is naturally Su Ji.

During the lunch rush hour, many small benches were set up around Su Kee's food stall as usual, a group of shirtless men were eating while eating with rice bowls, and the simple tables were packed all around, and some people even sat on the ground.

The little man Defu cat shuttled back and forth to serve food and rice, Brother Qian came over from time to time to deliver wine, Su Miao stood behind the cart and focused on making fish skin wontons, Su Yan stood beside her, while wrapping wontons, peeking at Su Miao's dough making, peeling, washing and cutting into fine dices of black fish meat on the sweet potato starch, while beating with a wooden stick while sprinkling dry starch, until it was beaten into a dough shape, and then made into a rectangular wonton skin. Mix the minced shrimp, salt, pepper, egg white, starch, monosodium glutamate, and pork to make a filling, wrap them into wontons and cook them in a pot. The soup base of the wontons is made of clear chicken broth, which is seasoned with salt and pepper after boiling, poured with cooked lard and poured into the wontons, sprinkled with chopped chives.

At the turn of spring and summer in Changle Town, although the clouds are often thick but never rain, the weather is unusually hot, and because of the humid climate near Qingjiang, the sweat is all blocked in the pores by the moisture, although it is so hot that it can't flow out, the men who lead the dry body to complain and complain non-stop, and even the temper has become more irritable than before, at this time, you should eat a bowl of hot and delicious wontons to let the sweat come out, and then go to Qingjiang to take a bath happily, and wait for the body to be comfortable from the inside out. Su Miao's ears were also quiet.

"Brother Yan, the water is rolling!" Wu Adaa sat at the table drinking a little wine, and when he saw that the water was boiling, Su Yan was still staring at Su Miao's hand, and reminded him loudly.

Su Yan came back to his senses, and saw that everyone at the table was looking at him, even Su Miao looked at him suspiciously, his face flushed, he replied hastily, and hung his head to stir the wontons.

"Brother Yan plans to follow the little sister to learn to cook all the time, and then open his own shop?" Wu Ah asked with a laugh.

Su Yan laughed, obviously liked this topic very much, his eyes were shining, and before he was about to answer, Su Miao smiled first and said:

"No matter what he does in the future, Yan'er is still young, and he still has to read books, and when I have saved enough savings, I will send him to school."

Su Yan's face changed slightly, he looked at Su Miao, his lips moved, and he lowered his head timidly, as if his whole person was gray.

"That's right, the kid is no better than the girl, so he should study more so that it won't be too difficult in the future." Wu Ah Dashen nodded approvingly.

In the past, Changle Town was full of illiterate fishermen and boatmen, and to Su Yan's generation, probably because the economic conditions have reached the level, Changle Town began to believe that "knowledge is power", and those who are not too poor will send their children to school, not all for fame, but also hope that their children will not be like they are blind, and two of the four children of Wu A's family have entered the town's school.

β€œβ€¦β€¦ I don't think it's hard to be a chef at all. Su Yan hung his head and squeezed out a sentence from between his teeth, others didn't hear Su Miao clearly, but they heard it, smiled slightly, and didn't say anything.

Su Chan came back listlessly, put the takeaway food box on the table, because the weather was bad, and her temper was also very explosive recently, she turned her head and saw Su Xian sitting on a stool humming a little song holding the mirror and plucking her eyebrows, and walked over and said very unhappily:

"Are you here to help or to sit?"

Su Xian was engrossed in trimming her eyebrows, and when she heard the sound, she was startled and frowned:

"You're annoyed, I washed all the dishes in the morning, now just take a break and what are you screaming, I'm tired all morning!"

"Who is not tired all morning, those bowls are obviously washed by me for you!"

"You're so calculating, I didn't say I washed it alone." Su Xian arranged her long hair in the mirror and said casually.

"The second sister is so busy that you don't go to help, sit here and be lazy, are you worthy of the salary that the second sister gave you?" Su Chan asked in a big way.

Su Xian put down the mirror and looked at her: "How can I be lazy, I just take a break, and besides, I don't know how to make fish skin wontons, going to help will only add to the chaos." ”

"Don't you know how to learn, how long have you been following the stall, and you can't even help with cooking soup!"

"If it were so easy to learn, I would be able to open a restaurant, you have been longer than me, you are not as stupid as a pig, I can finally do it, you can't even cut pork slices!"

β€œβ€¦β€¦ You're a strong word! "Su Chan, who is under too much mental and environmental pressure, has already smoked in seven senses.

Su Yan sighed speechlessly, hung his head and said tiredly: "It's noisy again!" ”

Since Su Xian and Su Chan no longer ignore each other, the number of quarrels has increased day by day, and it has approached the frequency of quarrels between Mrs. Su and Hu.

Wu Adachi smiled and said, "The sisters of the little eldest sister are really lively!" ”

"Eldest sister, please wash the dishes, Chan'er, deliver food at the West Pier." Su Miao lowered her eyes and said word by word, "People who only quarrel and don't work to make the guests feel unpleasant, their wages will be halved at the end of the month." ”

After a period of silence, Su Chan picked up the takeaway box and turned around to leave, Su Xian picked up the mirror and lifted the bucket full of dishes and chopsticks to the river, only took two steps, Wang Leopard walked towards him with a figure-eight step, since he met Su Xian here, he came almost every day, looked Su Xian up and down, smiled and accosted:

"The little lady is so smart today!"

Su Xian spat disdainfully: "You look ugly without silver, don't come to talk to the old lady!" I didn't clip my eyelids and walked away.

"Big brother, are you okay?" Zhang Hu looked at Wang Leopard, who was obviously hit, with infinite sympathy.

"I'm poor?" Wang Bao, who turned white as a whole, looked at Su Miao and asked unwillingly.

Su Miao handed over a glass of sugar water to comfort: "My eldest sister is the type who likes to live in dreams, Brother Wang should find a little lady who can live a down-to-earth life." ”

"I'm ugly?" Wang Bao asked unrelentingly.

Su Miao looked at him for a while, turned her head and said to herself, "I'm so busy today!" "Keep making ravioli.

"Big brother, calm down!" Zhang Hu tried hard to persuade him, but was slapped heavily by Wang Bao.

At this moment, Man Fu and Kuroko walked side by side, with a wound on their head wrapped in bandages, Su Miao was startled and hurriedly asked:

"Brother Manfu, Brother Heizi, what's wrong with the injury on your head?"

"The night before yesterday, I just walked to the side of Flying Fish Island and encountered a strong wind, and the boat was overhanged, and I almost couldn't come back!" Man Fu squeezed two empty seats and sat down, and said with palpitations.

"Ah, I've also heard about this, the day before yesterday, it began to blow and rain around Feiyu Island, and the old waves on the river set off high, and the fierce ghost gorge on the east side of Feiyu Island also sent a flash flood that overturned many boats passing by, you didn't go to the east, I heard that none of the ships in the east channel survived!" Wang Bao Yan sΓΉ authentic.