Chapter 17, Cooking by the Pool
The dog baby is also wilted and looks very unenergetic.
If you keep walking, you're going to get heat stroke.
It's just that, if you want to hurry, you can't reach it, and you still have to rest.
"Let's rest for a while, wait for the sun to get a little lighter, and then hurry."
The post road is spacious, but there is no place to block the sun, and you can't find a place to rest.
Liu Ruyue simply copied the trail, and the trail was at least shaded by trees, but the weather was hot and sultry, and it was useless to go anywhere.
In order to find a good place, Liu Ruyue listened while walking, and she could be regarded as hearing the sound of gurgling water.
Passing through the weeds and trees, walking forward, it was a narrow stream, the stream was not big, it was arm-thick, winding forward, listening attentively, it seemed that you could still hear the sound of the waterfall.
Liu Ruyue was overjoyed in her heart, walked along the stream, and went down the cliff, which was a different scene.
Fangcai's stream turned into a waterfall with white waves, and fell into a pool of clear water about 20 feet wide, and the blue water reflected the blue sky and white clouds are beautiful.
It's cool to look at, get closer, and the cold breeze makes Liu Ruyue, who has been tortured by the scorching heat and stuffiness, can't help but breathe a sigh of relief.
The dog baby also came out curiously to take a look.
Liu Ruyue resisted the desire to take off her clothes and wash herself, took out a knife, chopped some dry firewood and piled it on the edge of the pool.
Then he cut down a branch, and after cutting off the small branches around the branch, he went to the head and the tail and sharpened the thin end, and made a stick that was two thick and tall for one man.
Gently poked at the nose of the dog baby who was staring at him with big watery eyes, "Curious to see what I do, aren't you curious about what my mother is going to do?" ”
"Our mother and son have eaten roasted naan for three days, you didn't even shout, what a good boy, my mother has to treat you, God let us meet fish in this pool, this meal, my mother will make fish porridge for you."
"Actually, my mother wants to eat grilled fish too."
Along the way, I didn't have the opportunity to cook grilled fish to eat.
Pinching the dog's face, "Don't you babble for a while, scare away the fish, we can only continue to gnaw on the roasted naan." ”
The dog baby laughed, he didn't understand the warning or anything, just when Liu Ruyue was playing with him.
Liu Ruyue let go of her hands in frustration, grabbed a small handful of rice, put it in a clay pot, cleaned it with water, and put it aside for later use.
He took off his shoes and rolled up his trouser legs, revealing a white and tender calf, which was still normal at the moment, not broken by the board because he was framed for stealing, nor distorted.
Liu Ruyue went into the water with joy in her heart.
For a while, a burst of sand and gravel rolled up, and the water sank, scaring away the fish swimming around.
She was not in a hurry, and held the stick in her hand very patiently.
Gradually, the sand and dust in the water that had just been stirred up sank to the bottom again, and the water surface returned to clarity again.
At first, the fish didn't dare to come, but Liu Ruyue didn't move, and the fish quickly forgot about the danger and treated her as a stone in the water, swimming over with their tails.
swish
said that it was too late, and the wooden stick in Liu Ruyue's hand stabbed out like a sharp sword, and the dog baby screamed excitedly.
A blood flower bloomed on the surface of the water, and a wooden stick was drawn, and a large carp was pierced at the end of the spike.
People don't come here often, the water is beautiful and the fish are fat, and the fish are stupid, which is cheap Liu Ruyue.
Back on the shore, Liu Ruyue picked the fish and put it on the mat, "This carp is about eight catties, and we can eat two meals." ”
patted vigorously on the stones on the shore to completely stun the fish, Liu Ruyue took out the dagger she bought before, scraped the scales, cut the fins, cut the back, threw away the contents of the fish's stomach, and cut off the gills of the fish that could not be eaten.
Wash and care for the fish in the pool, Liu Ruyue cut off the meat with more meat and fewer spines in the middle of one side, which is three fingers wide.
Then put the three-finger-wide piece of fish on top of the washed plantain leaves.
Liu Ruyue cut the whole fish a few more times, then took out the salt in the package and smeared it on the whole fish.
The unripe green oranges picked halfway through it are cut through it, and the sour green orange juice is squeezed out, poured on the flesh of the fish, and smeared all over the fish.
It would take a quarter of an hour to marinate the fish, so Liu Ruyue washed her hands and picked out the fish bones in the three-finger-wide slices of meat one by one.
Pick out the bones and cut the meat into minced pieces.
Take out the old ginger, cut it into slices, and cut it into thin strips for later use.
Liu Ruyue set up a shelf, gathered firewood, lit it with flint, hung the clay pot on the fire, and began to cook porridge.
However, the clay pot with a large bowl mouth does not contain much water, and the pot is constantly stirred with a wooden spoon so that the rice does not stick to the bottom of the pot, and it boils after a while.
The wooden shelves were raised a little higher, and the rice in the clay pot was tumbling much slower, and now it was necessary to boil it slowly on low heat, and it was appropriate to boil it for two quarters of an hour before putting the fish.
Liu Ruyue inserted the marinated fish with a thinner wooden stick, inserted two horizontally and two vertically, completely stretched out the carp that was missing a gap, and then put it on a wooden rack to roast.
The fish gradually browned, and during the roasting process, Liu Ruyue continued to sprinkle chili noodles, pepper noodles, pepper noodles, and a drop of lard.
In fact, she was reluctant to brush the lard, but if the grilled fish was not brushed with oil, it would have a less flavor, so she still couldn't help but pry the lard the size of her fingernail and melt it on the grilled fish.
Sure enough, it's hard to go from luxury to frugality.
Sighing is a sigh, the movements of her hands did not stop, she squeezed the other half of the green orange juice on the fish, and for a while, the sizzling straight bubbled, and the smell of grilled fish gradually diffused.
The dog baby, who had been quiet for a long time, drooled a lot, and Liu Ruyue had to take out her hand to help him wipe her saliva, "The grilled fish made by my mother is delicious, but you are still too young to eat such a heavy taste of grilled fish, and you will eat fish porridge in a while, which is also delicious." ”
In the gap between the grilled fish, Liu Ruyue put the minced fish into the white rice porridge, stirred it up, put in the ginger shreds, boiled for half an hour, put in a few grains of salt, moved the clay pot from the fire, and hung the grilled fish on the banana leaves on the shelf.
The dog baby smelled the fish porridge brought to his mouth, and put his eyes on the grilled fish on the grill with great remembrance, Liu Ruyue scooped the fish porridge, blew a few mouthfuls and fed it to his mouth, "Eat the meat." ”
The dog baby opened her mouth and stared at the grilled fish for dinner.
After all, the taste of grilled fish is heavier and more attractive, and Liu Ruyue did not force him to turn back.
After eating a mouthful of porridge, the dog baby was shocked, looked back at the white porridge in the clay pot, and frowned suspiciously, as if he didn't understand why this porridge that didn't smell like the roasted fish over there tasted so delicious.
"Ahh......hh
Liu Ruyue helped him cool off one bite at a time and fed him food.