Chapter 106: Rare Rice
Shen Shuang had never eaten white rice at home since she came to the Shen family, so she naturally knew how rare rice was, and when she saw her mother so nervous, she couldn't help but feel a little weak, but Jiang Zitong on the side didn't see anything wrong with the Xu family, "Aunt Shen, Sister Shen is cooking duck soup and rice, which is very fragrant." ”
Xu had never heard the word duck soup rice, so he couldn't help but wonder, "Miss Jiang, what is duck soup rice?" ”
"Mother, we caught a wild duck, and Miss Jiang said she wanted to eat duck soup and rice, so I cooked it." Shen Shuang swore that she didn't deliberately push Jiang Zitong out as a shield, but this would save a lot of trouble.
Jiang Zitong, who didn't know what duck soup rice was before, looked at Shen Shuang in disbelief and pointed at herself, Shen Shuang gave her a look suddenly, she naturally couldn't pierce it, "Yes, duck soup rice is delicious, especially delicious, Aunt Shen, you must eat two more bowls of rice in a while." ”
Xu, who was a little at a loss, nodded hurriedly, "Okay Miss Jiang, then I'll go cut the pigweed first, and Xiaoshan will come over and wash the wild vegetables picked by my mother and serve them to your sister." ”
Xiaoshan followed Xu out, Shen Shuang breathed a sigh of relief, gave Jiang Zitong a complimenting look before saying, "I'll do it here, you go and help Xiaoshan wash the vegetables, wash them and bring them to me." ”
Jiang Zitong was a little bored after staying in the kitchen for so long, so he naturally wanted to go out to breathe, "Okay." ”
Shen Shuang saw that after she went out, she opened the wooden lid covering the cauldron, picked up the chopsticks and poked the duck's belly, knowing that it was fully cooked, she quickly took out something and put it in the wooden basin on the side, and the pork cooked together was also sandwiched and put together.
There was still a big pot of soup left in the cauldron, Shen Shuang scooped out two large bowls of boiling duck soup with a big spoon and put it aside to cook wild vegetables for a while, and then poured a scoop of water into it, and then poured it into the dumplings that were set aside.
After the dumplings were cooked, she served them in a large basin that usually holds food, and covered them with a lid on a wooden table beside her.
At this time, the duck soup and rice in the cooking pot were almost dry, and Shen Shuang hurriedly took out the unburned firewood and stuffed it into another stove.
Shen Shuang saw that the sun had set on the top of the mountain outside, so she also began to prepare stir-frying, but after all the cooking ingredients were ready, she found that there seemed to be no soy sauce at home!
Shen Shuang remembered that the white-cut duck and hard dishes had to be added with soy sauce for a while, but in the Shen family's kitchen, not to mention soy sauce, there was not much salt in the salt jar, and peanut oil was also a rare thing locked in that dilapidated cupboard every day.
When cooking before, Shen Shuang tried to save money, but today's white-cut duck would have a great discount if there was no soy sauce, and the braised carp she wanted to make, if there was no soy sauce, it could be said that it was soulless.
She hurriedly walked out of the kitchen and asked Xu, who was chopping pigweed and preparing to feed the pigs, "Mother, does anyone in our village know how to make soy sauce?" ”
Xu Shi stopped his movements, "What's wrong?" ”
"I boiled duck and ate it with soy sauce."
Xu didn't understand this method, but the girl said that she thought it would be delicious when it was dipped and eaten, so she nodded hurriedly, "Yes, Huang Pozi in our village can make soy sauce, but the people in the village don't like this, she often takes it to the town to sell, if you want it, I'll take a bowl and ask Huang Pozi to pour a bowl." ”
"Don't you need money?"
Xu put down the kitchen knife in his hand, "What kind of money do you want, it's just a bowl of soy sauce, your mother-in-law Huang is a good person, and she used to send her own soy sauce to our family, but your grandmother said that she didn't want that thing, and she was afraid of eating it and having diarrhea." She has bad legs and feet, and after her son left, your father and I often helped her chop wood, and the relationship is not bad. ”
Shen Shuang sighed, but it was not easy to think about others, so she still stuffed her mother with a few pennies, "Mother, it's not easy for Granny Huang, and it's not easy for us to take advantage of others, so you can take a few pennies and buy it from her, otherwise you can send her two duck eggs, this is what we picked up outside today, you take the jar and buy a small jar back." ”
Xu Shi hurriedly wiped his hands clean, and forgot to ask Shen Shuang where he got the copper coin, "Okay, if she refuses to ask for the copper coin, I will give her duck eggs." ”
Jiang Zitong had already cleaned up with Xiaoshan at this time, and the wild amaranth picked by the Xu family had some bracken, Shen Shuang cut the bracken, and directly planned to add chili oil to mix it cold, as for the wild amaranth, it was poured directly into the pot and boiled with the remaining duck soup.
After making the chili oil cold salad bracken and wild amaranth soup, Shen Shuang picked up a big bowl of pork fried by Jiang Zitong yesterday, which had condensed into a white creamy form, she generously dug a spoonful and threw it into the pot, and at the same time poured in the butter that was cleaned up from the stomach of the wild duck, and after the duck fat oil was squeezed out, she poured in the green onion and ginger that had been cut and the pepper to stir-fry until fragrant, and then poured the duck blood clot that had been carefully cut into thick slices and the duck blood clot that had been coagulated into a lump and stir-fried carefully for a while. Add water, cover with a lid, simmer over low heat for a few minutes, then add salt to taste.
Just made the tofu stewed duck blood, the taste has already attracted Jiang Zitong who was sitting outside, seeing this dish, smelling fragrant, looking delicious, Jiang Zitong smiled wryly, and ran out without speaking.
Xu Shi carried the soy sauce back to the door and met Wan and Xiao Wan's mother and daughter who came home empty-handed, the three of them did not look very good, they were used to the mode of returning to their parents' house empty-handed, but now they met Wan's rival Wang at the entrance of the village, and the two scolded directly at the entrance of the village.
"Old man, the sun is going down at this time, where are you going to die? What are you holding? Why did you go to that old woman to get soy sauce from Mrs. Huang again? I don't know how much our old Shen family takes advantage of her, that old immortal. ”
Shen Cuini smelled the fragrance before she entered the courtyard gate, she ate some chicken porridge in the morning and went out, but she didn't eat anything at noon, plus after walking for a day, her stomach was already rumbling with hunger at this time, and she hurriedly ran in to find something to eat, and didn't care what they had to say.
Xu knew that his mother-in-law didn't like Huang Pozi, "Mother, this is what I exchanged for duck eggs and Huang Pozi, and I didn't take it in vain." ”
"What? Duck eggs? Do you have duck eggs that you don't keep at home to eat, but give them to the old immortal? It's really right to say that you are a loser, why did our old Shen family marry such a mourning star as you? I ......"
"Grandma Shen, are you back?"
Shen Shuang could hear Wan's sharp voice in the kitchen, and hurriedly asked Jiang Zitong to save her mother, and at the same time took the soy sauce back.
As soon as Jiang Zitong appeared, the expression on Wan's face immediately turned cloudy, "Miss Jiang, yes, I'm back, why didn't you sit in the house, why did you run out?" ”
Jiang Zitong looked at the soy sauce in Xu's hand, "Grandma Shen, I asked Aunt Shen to buy this soy sauce for me, don't be angry." ”
Wan Shi was stunned for a moment, and hurriedly explained, "I'm not angry, I'm not angry, why didn't you say earlier that it was the soy sauce that Miss Jiang wanted?" ”
Hui: "......"
Jiang Zitong reached out and took the soy sauce from Xu's hand, "Then I'll take the soy sauce in first." ”
Xiao Wan, who was watching the excitement on the side, was a little disappointed, she didn't even open her mouth and fell into the well, and let her sister-in-law escape again.
Shen Cuini smelled the fragrance as soon as she entered the yard, and when she ran into the kitchen, she saw a large pot of dumplings and a boiled duck, her eyes were fixed on these foods, and she was about to grab the dumplings to eat, Shen Shuang's eyes were quick to block her with a spatula, "What are you going to do?" ”
Shen Cuini was almost touched by a spatula, and when she looked up, she wanted to scold her, but she quickly remembered that these things were made by Shen Shuang, and she was afraid that she wouldn't be able to eat them, so she naturally raised a smile and flattered her, "Sister Xiaoshuang, I haven't eaten for a day, I'll eat a dumpling." ”
Shen Shuang bent over and directly covered the dumplings with a lid, and refused indifferently, "No." ”
"Why not? I'm dying of hunger. ”
Shen Shuangcai didn't bother to explain so much to her, "I said no, it's not good, I haven't eaten yet." ”
Shen Cuini felt that Shen Shuang was arrogant and unreasonable, but she didn't dare to provoke her, "Don't go too far, you didn't buy dumplings, don't think that you are very good at cooking dumplings." ”
"Shen Cuini, I think your memory is really bad, so quickly you forgot the painful lesson of dislocated hands a few days ago, hurry up and go out, don't get in the way of me stir-frying."
Shen Shuang was really impatient with Shen Cuini, the oil in her pot was already smoking, and she didn't bother to take care of her, she opened her mouth to drive people away, so she walked to the stove and poured the chopped ginger, shallots and Chaotian peppers into it and stir-fried it.
The choking smell of Chaotian pepper suddenly came out of the kitchen, Shen Cuini kept coughing when she smelled it, and she didn't care about salivating those dumplings, so she hurriedly ran out, and almost loaded Jiang Zitong who came back with soy sauce at the door.
"Sister Shen, the soy sauce you want."
"Give it to me, just enough for me to fry the duck offal."
Duck crushed? Jiang Zitong came over with soy sauce and helped Shen Shuang watch the fire by the way, and at the same time watched her stir-fry, Shen Shuang neatly poured the already cut duck offal into it, and fried it almost and poured in celery and fungus, the color looked good, and there was no smell of half a minute, and even the whole kitchen was meaty.
Jiang Zitong simply suspected that there was something wrong with his nose, otherwise how could he think that those duck offal were so fragrant.
Old man Shen, his two sons and grandsons went home with hoes and laughs, and they smelled the fragrance wafting from home, and many villagers passed by Lao Shen's house when they went home, and they were almost reluctant to leave.
After the celery fungus fried duck offal came out of the pot, Shen Shuang braised the carp that Xiao Orion gave her, and the taste was even more tempting to everyone in the yard to rush in to see, especially Shen Cuini, who didn't eat lunch today.
There was still a big table set up in the courtyard, Shi Heshan and Jiang Zitong were responsible for serving the dishes, and Shen Musheng was responsible for cutting down the duck that had been cooked.
The rest of the Shen family was eyeing the food on the table, and they didn't bother to care about anything else at all.
Wan Shi kept swallowing saliva while nagging in Old Man Shen's ear, "Old man, it would be great if our family ate so well every day, but it's a pity that Chun Tao went back to town, otherwise she would be able to eat these good things." ”
Early this morning, Shen Chuntao didn't even eat chicken porridge and took the ox cart in the village to the town, she was afraid of seeing Jiang Zitong, and her face was already good, so she didn't want to delay any longer.
Old man Shen snorted and smoked dry cigarettes, but he didn't refute Wan's words.