In a blink of an eye, it was noon, in order to avoid wasting time back and forth, Xiaoru deliberately brought a few handfuls of rice, enamel jars and salt jars when he went out, and planned to have a picnic outside at noon.

I washed the rice by the stream, added an appropriate amount of water, dug a small earthen stove in a shady place, and boiled it on the fire in a large enamel jar with rice.

After the rice was cooked, the sister and brother ate the little salty white rice, and then slept in the shade of the tree for a while and continued to pick peanuts, until the sunset, only a little afterglow sprinkled to the earth before returning, but the harvest was okay, there were about ten catties of peanuts.

Because when harvesting rice, the water in the rice field must be drained before harvesting, and the eels and loaches in the rice field are struggling in the mud.

On the way back, Xiaoru saw an eel writhing in a rice field that had been pumped and stopped.

The eel meat is very delicious, and the spines are less and cool, suitable for the elderly and children, she wants to catch a few eels and go back to make fried eels for Xiao Jian and Aunt Jiang to eat.

Aunt Jiang is old, so it doesn't matter if she eats less meat, but Xiao Jian is still a child of a few years old, and she doesn't eat well and her body is not good.

If you are reluctant to spend money to buy meat and eggs, you can only use the river fresh food that does not cost money to make delicious and nutritious dishes for Xiao Jian to eat.

She is afraid of eels, because she looks like snakes, but she has to catch them if she is afraid, so she can't let Xiao Jian jump into the paddy field to catch the eel, he is so small, his hands are weak, where can he catch the slippery eel?

Xiao Ru cautiously went down to the paddy field, and immediately felt something slippery past his calf, and was so frightened that he couldn't get up and run, but he still tried to restrain his fear and muster up the courage to catch the eel.

The eels are much more dexterous than Xiao Ru imagined, Xiao Ru went to catch them, and they would burrow into the mud, and they had seen so many eels just now, but now they can't see any of them.

Xiaoru was standing in the mud and didn't know what to do, when an old man came over with a hoe and asked kindly, "Girl, what are you doing standing in my field?" ”

Xiao Ru blushed and said, "I'm catching eels, but I haven't caught any of them." ”

The old man laughed: "How can you catch eels for a girl, I'll help you catch them." ”

He put down his hoe and went down to the field, and within a quarter of an hour he helped Xiaoru catch four big and fat yellow eels and put them in her enamel jar, saying, "You bring a bucket tomorrow, and I will help you catch a little more." ”

Xiaoru replied: "Okay." ”

The countrymen are very simple, and they are willing to help with the little help.

The old man got up from the field and shook his feet full of mud and said: "Girl, although there is a lot of eel meat, but it is really not delicious, not to mention a fishy smell, there is also a fishy smell, it is better to catch crucian carp to eat, crucian carp is just a lot of spines, but it tastes very good to cook soup or braised with ginger and garlic, otherwise it is okay to catch silver carp, and there are few silver carp bones." ”

Xiao Ru knew that this old man was kind, so he nodded obediently: "Well, I'll try all of those." After thanking the old man, he went back with his small opinion.

She lost her family at a young age, grew up in an orphanage and began to live independently at the age of sixteen, and she was quite good at cooking, and she knew how to make eel delicious.

When she got home, Xiaoru was worried again, in her previous life, everyone who bought eels in the vegetable market was killed, so she wouldn't kill eels.

However, Aunt Jiang heard Xiaoru say that she was going to make eels for Xiaojian to eat, and helped her kill the eels, so she felt very sorry for Xiaoru's sisters and brothers, who couldn't afford to eat meat and eggs, so they could only catch eels that rural people didn't eat much to satisfy their hunger.

In fact, it is very easy to remove the smell of the eel, as long as it is marinated in cooking wine, but the condiments of the people in this mountain are very simple when cooking dishes, only oil, salt, sauce, vinegar, garlic, chili pepper, and pepper, and even monosodium glutamate is not used, let alone cooking wine, so the eel will taste fishy and smelly and not delicious.

It doesn't matter if you don't have cooking wine, you can use liquor instead, but Liu Dayong doesn't drink alcohol, so Aunt Jiang's family doesn't even have liquor.

To make river fresh, you often need to use wine, Xiaoru paid five cents and asked Aunt Jiang to take Xiaojian to someone else's house to buy half a catty of self-brewed liquor.

Use white wine and a little salt to marinate the cleaned eel segments for a while, then cut the dried chili peppers, peppercorns, garlic and ginger into the pot and stir-fry them with a little hot oil until fragrant, then pour in the already marinated eel segments and stir-fry, give a little white wine halfway, and then pour the green pepper shreds into it and stir-fry together.

The eel exudes an attractive aroma in the process of stir-frying, and Xiao Jian is salivating on the stove to see that it is as small as a roasted eel, and he can't get out.

The four eels were fat and big, and they were fried on a large plate, like a hill.

Aunt Jiang had already made dinner for three people, steamed white rice with sweet potatoes, plus a few green vegetables, and the small stir-fried eel was ready to eat.

Xiao Ru sandwiched a few pieces of steaming fried eel for Xiao Jian, and also sandwiched a piece for Aunt Jiang: "Aunt Jiang, you taste it, it's delicious." ”

Aunt Jiang smiled happily and said, "When you fry it, it smells weird, it must be delicious." Saying that, he took a bite carefully, and was immediately amazed, and his round eyes were full of praise, "I really didn't expect your eel to be so delicious!" ”

Xiaoru sandwiched a few more pieces for her: "If it's delicious, Aunt Jiang will eat more, this thing won't catch fire." ”

"You eat too." Aunt Jiang said with a smile.

Such a large plate of eel is enough for the three of them to eat with their bellies open, and this dinner is very enjoyable, a plate of stir-fried eel is eaten without even a drop of soup, and Aunt Jiang still has a plate of fried vegetables.

Although it is still a little hot during the day in September, it is as cold as water at night, and Aunt Jiang heats and sterilizes the bowl of vegetables that has not been eaten and puts it in a ventilated place, which can ensure that it will not deteriorate overnight, and it will not be wasted if you eat it tomorrow morning.

After a hard day outside, I had dinner, cleaned up the dishes and chopsticks, boiled water, took a shower, washed the dirty clothes that I had changed, and all three of them slept.

Xiao Ru fanned Xiao Jian without a match, and it was still a little hot when he just lay down, and it was not hot when he fell asleep late at night.

Xiao Jian snuggled up next to Xiao Ru and smashed his mouth and said, "Sister, the eel is so delicious, I will eat it tomorrow." ”

Xiaoru replied gently, "Well, I'll do it tomorrow." ”

Aunt Jiang, who was in the other bed, heard it and said, "Now that the autumn harvest is now, as long as there are eels in the paddy fields that are drained, I will find someone to help you catch a bucket tomorrow." ”

Xiaoru refused: "No need, there is an old man who said that he would help me catch eels tomorrow, and said that good things are not good to regret, so as not to make that old man angry." ”

The people in the mountains are stubborn, and if they take the initiative to help you and you refuse, they will feel embarrassed and angry.

Aunt Jiang naturally didn't insist.