Chapter 5: The Lost Child

At present, it is more than half a month of May, and there is still half a month before June, and the fields are green and yellow, and there is nothing to eat.

Here's how?

Originally, the person who was in charge of a large family, the Li family was very busy on weekdays, but fortunately, she had three daughters-in-law by her side to help, so she would not be in a hurry.

But today is special, the three daughters-in-law are not around, and the men in the family are working hard in the town.

Li sighed, thinking that otherwise, she would spend a penny to buy two pieces of white tender tofu at Lao Shi's house in the east of the village, and eat a refreshing taste with her own raw bean sauce.

However, only this one dish is not enough, two pieces of white tender tofu are only a lot, and there are more than ten people in the family, and one person is gone, not enough to eat.

Why don't you have a boiled vegetable soup?

It just so happens that there are still a few eggs left at home, so when the time comes, throw one in, add more water, and it will be considered a meat dish.

By the way, there are pickles at home that she pickles in her winter leisure, and they can taste after being left for almost half a year.

When she pickled it, she put a lot of salt and soybean paste, which can also be added to the soup to enhance the flavor.

When the time comes, counting this pickle, plus the leftovers from this morning, I will make a mess, and there will be almost four or five dishes, which will be enough to eat.

After thinking about it, I can understand tonight's food.

After putting down most of his heart, Li then lowered his head and was busy with the work of drying fish in his hands.

The fingers are flying, and between the back and forth movements, it is much lighter.

It's not that the Li family can't make any good food tricks, it's really that the people who live here are restricted by the whole era.

In this era of widespread poverty, the most that every household can eat is to boil and steam.

Stir-fried, boiled, simmered, stewed, stewed, grilled, smoked, stewed, boiled...... I haven't even heard of advanced words.

I can still hear about frying, cooking, and frying, but I don't stop listening, and I don't have the opportunity to see it at all.

The reason is simple, because it costs oil!

Here we have to focus on the problem of cooking oil of the ancients.

As we all know, the source of edible oil of the ancients is very narrow, in addition to animal fat, the oil can be directly extracted, and the remaining vegetable oil is mainly sesame oil, hemp seed oil, Suzi oil, Manqing seed oil, etc.

And these oil extraction plants are not famous for their high oil yield, and there was no good oil extraction machine in ancient times, so the final oil yield can be imagined, and the numbers are simply touching.

As for the rapeseed with a high oil yield, I don't know where it grows wildly.

Soybean oil yield is also high, and as the main planting crop, it is also very common, but unfortunately the soybean here is used as edible food, people as food is not enough, no one has developed other functions of soybean.

As for the fatty-fatted peanuts, there is not even a trace, so I can't remember them at all.

What was the real life of an ancient peasant family like?

It is the kind of edible oil that can be eaten, and the lard made from pork plate meat is eaten for more than half a year if it belongs to a small half bowl of oil.

In such a situation, is the word fried appropriate?

In this kind of era, everyone is trying to survive, and there is no time to think about other issues.

Even if you are really talented, in the context of this feudal era, you can't display any kind of craft, not to mention, you don't have this kind of craft.

………

Zhao Yu walked over with his little short legs.

"Milk, I heard Siya say, there are a lot of fish in our village, and they will all be pulled to the county seat when the time comes, they will definitely not be able to sell it, even if they can sell out, they will definitely be tired, let's make up for them at night."

Zhao Yu smashed his mouth, his little eyes lit up, obviously he thought of something.

Don't forget to throw away the fish in his hand, Li Shi rolled his eyelids and hummed in his heart, "Little girl, seeing that the sky is very greedy, the bag on her head is ready?" ”

Li Shixin said, I don't know who these two girls look like, so they have a heart-eating eye, and they want to eat when they see the sky, and they don't stop when they knock their heads.

She didn't have to think about it to know that this girl must be hungry for what she wanted to eat, so she said it there under the guise of her family.

Zhao Yu: .........

Zhao Yu was dumbfounded, her milk's reaction was different from what she expected.

Bite?

Hearing this kind of words, shouldn't her grandmother praise her for being obedient and sensible?

Why are you still scared?

So what if she's ready? It's not made up for nothing.

Zhao Yu deliberately summarized the reasons for the failure of her previous cause of chopping pepper fish heads, thinking that it was because Siya was young, and it was too normal for the little child to know the names of the vegetables in the vegetable garden, and an adult would definitely know.

"No, milk, I want to ......"

"What do you think, go back to the house and lie down, don't run around like a monkey every day when your head hurts." Li waved his hand and pushed Zhao Yu, who had come over, back a few steps.

Zhao Yu was speechless, but she didn't finish her words, so she had to continue.

"Milk, no, I just want to ......"

"What do you want? You don't listen to the milk, don't you, let you go back to the house and lie down, I know you don't want to lie down," Li didn't fiddle with the dried fish under her hands, she directly reached out, grabbed Zhao Yu's little wrist, dragged it forward, let me come over, and whispered, "Good, obedient, Milk will leave you a bowl of egg soup tonight, and I will put more sugar on one of you." ”

After saying that, Li quickly let go.

It is estimated that he was afraid that the other children in the family would hear about it, so Li deliberately patted Zhao Yu on the shoulder, and looked at Zhao Yu with a pair of slightly cloudy eyes.

Zhao Yu: ......

What is this talking about, she doesn't like sweet egg soup!

No, that's not what she was trying to say.

Zhao Yu was desperate, this person didn't let her speak.

Li didn't know that Zhao Yu's heart was moving so much, seeing that he was so bright, the little girl didn't react yet, and said that this was not right!

Normally, the kid would have jumped up.

What's wrong now, is it really right? Knocked your head and knocked stupid?

The more Li pondered, the more wrong it became, and he no longer picked up these fish on the ground, they were all dried fish, and where to dry them was not to dry.

With a big hand, Li Shi stood up from the ground with the strength of his hand.

The big hands like a fan reached out to Zhao Yu, grabbed Zhao Yu's little arm, and slipped back to the main house with the people.

Zhao Yu: ......

By the time Zhao Yu came back to his senses, the person had already appeared in the main house.

Sitting on the wooden bench honestly, Zhao Yu listened to her grandmother chattering there, "Okay, you just sit here, and the milk will go buy two pieces of white tender tofu and come back, and you are not allowed to run around." ”

Li said, raising his legs and walking out.

Zhao Yu reacted, hurriedly pounced forward, and hugged Li's thigh directly with his small hand.

Because the Li family was still moving forward, Zhao Yu was taken forward several times by inertia, and most of his whole body was suspended in the air.

Lee: .........

"Erya, what are you doing here? Hurry up and hurry up, oops, did you touch it? Let the milk see, does the head hurt? ”

Li grabbed his hands and propped them under Zhao Yu's shoulders, and directly clamped the person up.

Placing Zhao Yu on the stool, Li patted the freshly stained dust and looked at it.

I really obeyed this little ancestor, and I didn't stop kowtowing my head, and I didn't know who to follow!

Zhao Yu didn't react, mainly because she was confused.

Seeing that the Li family was leaving, Zhao Yu thought about what he hadn't finished speaking, so he couldn't hold back for a while, and pounced directly, who knew that it would end up like this.

After carefully checking it and making sure that Zhao Yu was fine, Li relieved himself.

His eyebrows drooped, "See if you dare." ”

Zhao Yu: Don't dare, don't dare!

"Okay, let's go, what do you want to do?"

Li half-squatted in front of Zhao Yu, frowning.

She can see that this girl's words are not finished, she can't leave anywhere, so she is not in a hurry to leave, just wait and see what this girl can say.

Zhao Yu saw that Li didn't leave, but stayed and waited for her to finish, and then breathed a sigh of relief.

Although she felt that the Li family had a straight face and looked fierce and difficult to approach, however, when she thought of her great cause of chopping pepper and fish heads, Zhao Yu felt that she couldn't be cowardly.

What are you afraid of! Someone has to pay.

She's the one who pays now!

"Milk, look, the family has caught so many fish and come back, why don't we make fish for them at night." Zhao Yu said, couldn't help but smash it and smash it, "Use the fish head as the ingredient, add some chopped peppers, condiments, fry first and then steam, that taste and aroma, think about it......"

Zhao Yu thought of the deliciousness of chopping pepper fish heads, and couldn't help but cry.

It's so delicious!

Lee: ......

Li Shi listened with a puzzled expression.

What? Cook fish to eat? Or fish heads? Do you want to fry before steaming?

Are you sure?

A nameless anger suddenly came up from the bottom of his heart, Li clenched his hands into fists, endured and endured, and finally was not willing to attack this granddaughter who kowtowed.

Whew, forget it! Don't be angry, don't be angry!

The child just kowtowed, it's normal to be stupid!

Lee exhaled and inhaled heavily, constantly enlightening himself in his heart.

After living for decades, the Li family has never heard of such a loser's cooking method, if it is a meat dish, it will be fine, after all, meat is valuable!

But this is to make fish, to make those fish that can't be washed away with the smell of earth, and to fry and fry?

Oh, I'm afraid I haven't woken up yet!

Such a loser child, this is really the first time for the Li family to see what kind of evil their old Zhao family has created!

There is such a thing on the stall!

Stuff Zhao Yu: Meow meow??