"I only know that with Qinglian going to the kitchen for guidance, our family's food level will rise a little in the future." Chu Yanyu said complacently.

"Auntie, I'll help you." Qinglian entered the kitchen and said to the busy Chu clan with a smile.

"Where you need to be busy, we have been good for a long time." Chu said in a bit of a panic.

"Mother, there is a lot of game today, I made the decision to buy hares, pheasants, and a grass carp, which was caught by Uncle Liangtian, and I also asked for it, just to be able to ......" Hu Ruixue led a basket in her left hand and a pot of tofu in her right hand into the kitchen, and when she saw Qinglian in the kitchen, she broke off.

"This grass carp is really big, it's five or six pounds, it's rare." Qinglian stepped forward to pick up the grass carp that still opened its mouth from time to time, and showed appreciation on her face, she had already seen the ingredients in the kitchen before, and she knew the bottom of her heart.

"I see a lot of mushrooms, and the cucumbers are fresh, by the way, auntie, can you eat spicy?" Qinglian asked.

"Ah, yes, yes." Chu nodded honestly.

"Then I'll make boiling fish, and stew the remaining fish head, bones, and tail with tofu into a soup." Qinglian had already knocked the grass carp the board, and the fish was quiet.

Shave the scales, disembowel, scrape the inner wall, then cut it with a knife along the head of the fish, separate the ropes, and then start cutting the fish along the skeleton, wash the fish on both sides and cut it into thin fillets.

Chu and his two daughters-in-law were already stunned, this little girl was young and her knife skills were too good.

"What do you call a little girl?" Chu came back to his senses, handed a plate of fish and meat to Qinglian, and talked to Qinglian with a smile.

"It's good for my aunt to call me Qinglian." Qinglian put the fish on the plate, "Auntie, where is the seasoning?" By the way, is cornstarch available? ”

"Yes, yes." Hu Ruixue took out a small jar from the cupboard.

"Thank you, sister-in-law." Qinglian took it with a smile, scooped it and put it into the fish, and then knocked an egg, quickly transferred the egg yolk back and forth with the eggshell, added all the egg whites to the fish, added some salt, put some minced ginger and grasped it with her hands.

"What is this for? Why do you need to add eggs? Fang Lancao looked at the fish on the plate with some distress.

"With the addition of egg whites, the fish meat is more tender, and I will know the taste when my sister-in-law tastes it." Qinglian smiled and said, "By the way, auntie, what dishes are you going to cook, you prepare the ingredients, I am in charge, I am a very good cook." ”

No matter what Qinglian's cooking skills are, Chu Shi has already thought about it according to her meaning, after all, it is the maid next to Miss Everyone, and she should be the most familiar with the master's taste, "With hares and pheasants, I want to stir-fry rabbit meat, and then pheasants stew mushrooms, eh, there is already soup, then the pheasant will stew a pot with artichoke, fried beans with bacon, and then the whole vegetables, plus the two dishes you said, it should be about the same." ”

"The staple food is dumplings filled with white rice and leek eggs, Qinglian, do you think it can be?" Chu asked in a low voice.

"Well, it's very rich, auntie, then I'll cook." Qinglian put the fish head in a crockpot, added ginger slices and green onions, put it on the stove and stewed, and then started to boil the oil.

The hare was directly skinned and bought, there was no rabbit skin, the price was a lot cheaper, Hu Ruixue had already cleaned the feeling, and it was neatly chopped into small pieces.

Fang Lancao used hot water to remove the chicken feathers and cleaned the internal organs, and Hu Ruixue ended up chopping into pieces and filling half a basin.

The Chu family was responsible for lighting the fire, even cooking dry rice, and the four of them were busy in the kitchen in an orderly manner.

A few people in the hall had already come out, Chu Yanyu told the Chu family, and took Hua Qinghe and a few people to the village to wander around, and deliberately went to a place where there were no people at the end of the village, otherwise it would be really uncomfortable to be stared at along the way.

"Look, that's my cherry grove." Chu Yanyu pointed to the small hill not far away and said with a smile, "There are a lot of cherries, it is the harvest season recently, and today my father and they are picking them for the people who have agreed to take the goods before." ”

"Yanyu, the mountains are all yours?" Qi Xiashui exclaimed.

"That's right." Chu Yanyu nodded, their family has the most valuable land, her family has no paddy fields, the whole family relies on planting cherries and selling cherries for food, but most people in Chujiagou are like this, they don't farm land, they grow cherries to live, they used to be fine, but now they are getting more and more sluggish, there are more cherries, and they are worthless.

"So many cherries have to be picked, and it will take a lot of people." Hua Qinghe said.

"In the past, when it sold well, my father would hire someone to help pick it, but now they all pick it themselves, and there are not many people who come to buy it, so they can pick it themselves." Chu Yanyu said, "When the relatives came, they all led them to pick them by themselves, and if they didn't pick them anyway, they would rot in the ground." ”

Hua Qinghe looked at the mountains of cherries, thought of cherry pie, cherry jam, cherry preserves, and thought of so many cherries that had rotted in the ground before, and her heart was tight and distressed.

"Haven't you ever thought about making fresh cherries into preserves, which are easy to store and sell." Hua Qinghe looked at Chu Yanyu with a heartache and said.

"Preserves are so easy to make." Chu Yanyu said, "What's more, can you still use cherries to make candied fruits, I see that the candied fruits sold in the shops outside don't have cherries." ”

"You can't do it first." Hua Qinghe said.

"Qinghe, can you make cherry preserves?" Shi Xiaoxin asked in a low voice, to be honest, she had never eaten candied fruit made of cherries.

"I can't try it more than once." Hua Qinghe said to do it, "Sister Yanyu, let's go to the mountains to pick some cherries and go back, I'll study it with Qinglian and see if we can make it." ”

"If it is done, your cherries will not be sold in the future, and they will not rot in the ground." Hua Qinghe said, "By the way, I still have to buy some fresh cherries with you, and the quantity will be not small." ”

"Ah, Qinghe, you don't have to buy it, just go to our house and pick it, how much do you want." Chu Yanyu was stunned for a while, but when he heard Hua Qinghe say that he wanted to buy it, he instinctively refused, "You sent so many good things today, if you say to buy it, it will hurt your feelings, and if you say that I don't agree, my father and mother will know about it, and it may break my legs." ”

"Let's talk about it then, anyway, let's go pick some first, and after lunch, see if we can make candied fruit." Hua Qinghe said.

Chu Yanyu was a little excited, looking at Hua Qinghe, who was younger than herself, and was surprised by her thoughts, "I'll go and bring some back, you guys will wait for me here for a while." ”

Chu Yanyu ran up, and when he came down, he was fast, and in a quarter of an hour, he came back panting with a basket of cherries, "I, we, first, go back first, my father and they are about to come down for lunch." ”

"By the way, Qinghe, I told my father what you think, if it is really done, the production method is yours, we can't take advantage of it, and ......"

"Sister Yanyu, we'll talk about it when it's done."