Chapter 007: Bake fish for you
Mo Huaijin couldn't help but smile when she saw Hua Qing's half-worried and half-angry face.
"I said, I didn't steal it, the shopkeeper, it's really an acquaintance, believe it or not."
Sister Yang couldn't stand it anymore, and she poked Hua Qing's head with her finger.
"Oh, Huaqing, are you stupid? If he really stole the silver, how dare he spend it so blatantly! And what kind of person can the shopkeeper deign to hire a carriage for him, and wait for us to come out to prove that his identity is not ordinary! Not to mention, I've never seen a man as good-looking and so extravagant as him when I'm so old! ”
If it weren't for the marriage, she really wanted to fall into Mo Huaijin's arms.
Mo Huaijin's smile became even stronger.
"Did you hear that? I look like a decent man and a gentleman, Hua Qing, don't frame a good person anymore. ”
Hua Qing was depressed, thinking that I believe you are a ghost, a light-spoken disciple of Meng Langden all day long.
When they arrived in the village, Mo Huaijin got out of the car first, and then reached out to pick up Hua Qing to get off the car. But Hua Qing saw how his hand looked like a salty pig hand, but he didn't hand it to him, and jumped off the car directly, bluffing Mo Huaijin very lightly.
Mo Huaijin pointed to the creek under the bridge:
"Go wash your hands! I owe you chicken legs yesterday, and I can pay them back today. ”
Who did Hua Qing want to say? But his stomach was so hungry that he gurgled so much that he had to be cheeky enough to wash his hands, and cheekily took the chicken leg he handed him and sat down under the tree and gnawed it.
"How much did you buy?"
Hua Qing saw that Sister Yang had already eaten three, and she was already the fourth, and saw that there were still a lot of chicken legs wrapped in the wide plantain leaves, and couldn't help but ask Mo Huaijin.
"You forgot? I asked the store to pack it for me, but there weren't many, forty or fifty. ”
"Four, forty or fifty?"
Hua Qing was shocked, for a person like her, who can eat so many four or five chicken legs a year, buying forty or fifty chicken legs at a time is too luxurious!
Mo Huaijin nodded seriously.
"That's right! Forty or fifty. So you eat slowly, enough for you to eat. ”
The thought of what she had gobled up made her face red again. She poked Sister Yang with her hand.
"Sister, you will bring ten home and give them to the people in the family to eat. I'll send a little more to Aunt Wang and Aunt Li. ”
Sister Yang nodded approvingly, and after dividing it, Sister Yang left with the chicken legs, and Hua Qingqing didn't stay long, turned around and carried the chicken legs to the rest of the houses.
When the Wang family and the Li family saw such a good thing, they were very grateful, and said a few kind words in front of her, and then returned her with some vegetables and freshly dried peanuts for her to take home.
By the time she went home in a good mood, Mo Huaijin was already sitting at the table waiting for her.
Seeing her come in, his face was full of resentment.
"Hua Qing, you have to give away the chicken leg, so you can leave me a chicken leg! I ran with you for a day today, but I didn't eat anything, not to mention, I'm still injured, cough cough ......"
Hua Qing reacted at this time, oh, yes, since I forgot to leave him a copy. She couldn't help but blush again.
"Forget it, let you be a good person for once. But I'm hungry, and if I have any ingredients at home, I'll make something to eat. ”
Hua Qing remembered the dishes her neighbor gave her and replied:
"Aunt Wang gave me a fish and some greens. Aunt Li gave peanuts and some greens. It's all in the kitchen, you can check it out. ”
Mo Huaijin stood up and turned to the kitchen, and Hua Qing followed with some embarrassment.
In the bucket in the kitchen, there are indeed two live herrings, and there are some green vegetables on the board that Mo Huaijin has never seen, ask Hua Qing, only to know that this is a native of southern Xinjiang, Mo Huaijin only thinks that people in southern Xinjiang are very good at naming green vegetables, such as this kind of soft-looking green vegetables, how nice it is to call "green wattle"!
When Hua Qing took the green vegetables aside and began to wash them, he knew why this green leafy vegetable was called "Tongcai" instead of "Green Waterleaf", because it was indeed empty inside, that is, Tong.
"It's called water spinach! Don't call it a dish in the future, it's too vulgar. ”
Mo Huaijin proposed, Hua Qing heard this, and replied directly:
"Indeed, some people call it water spinach!"
All right! The name that I thought of for a while was also thought of by others.
"How about that herring roasted over the fire?"
Hua Qing blinked and asked:
"How do you eat it when you bake it over a fire? I've only eaten braised and steamed, and I don't know what kind of burning method you are talking about. ”
Mo Huaijin didn't say more, just took out the two herring fish from the bucket in turn, and when the live fish were jumping around on the board, Hua Qing couldn't bear to look at it, she thought that the scene would be bloody. Fishy, but no.
Mo Huaijin's skillful knife skills make him kill fish to the point that the fish is not stained with butcher steam, and the whole process is smooth, which makes people look pleasing to the eye, this man is poisonous! is usually a ruffian, but when it comes to cooking, it always gives people a visual enjoyment, even if he is killing fish.
"Get me some salt."
He began to empress her, and she hurriedly brought the salt shaker to him, and he grabbed the coarse salt in his hand and waved his arm handsomely, and after spreading it evenly, he took out the fish and placed it evenly on a cleaning cloth to dry.
He seemed to be familiar with their kitchen, she had never known that there was an iron grate in her kitchen, and when he turned it out and washed it, she remembered that her mother had used it to roast oysters bigger than clams for her.
After washing and drying the grate, he applied another layer of oil to the grate, and then took out the dried fish on the cloth and put it on the yard.
She couldn't understand what happened next, but he put burning sesame straw into the cauldron, sprinkled a layer of pine sawdust evenly on it, and used two thin iron rods to stand on the cauldron, and put the iron grate on which the fish was placed on the iron pot, covered it with a canopy, and smoked it.
She didn't know how long it had taken him, only to see him smoke it for a while and then turn the fish over and smoke it again in the same way.
When he opened the lid again, the kitchen was already full of fish, and she thought the fish was ready, but Mo Huaijin just took out the smoked fish pieces and put them in the cauldron. Then put in the spare green onion knots, ginger pieces, star anise, add a spoonful of sugar sugar, a spoonful of vinegar, and scrape in a small piece of soy paste, and finally pour water into the pot, cover the lid, and start to make a fire.
When she saw Mo Huaijin withdraw the firewood from the stove, she thought the fish was all right again. But she waited until all the firewood was withdrawn, and waited for a while, Mo Huaijin was still calmly guarding in front of the stove, without the slightest intention of opening the lid, she didn't know that he was slowly simmering with the remaining charcoal fire, only knowing that such a fire to bake fish was really enough to hang the stomach.
"Why isn't it okay?"
Obviously, the taste has already come out.
Mo Huaijin just smiled slightly.
"Don't worry, you haven't heard of it, you can't eat hot tofu in a hurry! This fire-baked fish is the same as the pursuit of beauty, too anxious, but the result will not be beautiful! ”
"What does this have to do with beauty chasers? Lecher! ”
She didn't listen to him, and turned and went out of the kitchen, which was already dusk. When she was guessing which tree had more sparrows hidden, Mo Huaijin had already brought out the cooked vegetables.
"Huaqing, wash your hands and eat."
The worms in her stomach were fully aroused by the smell of vegetables wafting over, and she said no, but her legs were honestly walking towards the kitchen, she hurriedly washed her hands, turned and went back to the house.