Chapter 8 Cooking for the First Time

Zhao Jin followed Liu to the kitchen to prepare dinner, looked at the ingredients in the kitchen, and said to her mother: "Mother, why don't I come." Since she was a child, she has been independent since she was a child, and these life skills are not difficult for her, and she is a foodie, she has eaten all over the country, she is also worried that her mother will not have the opportunity to deal with fish, wasting this rare game, you must know that you have not eaten fish for a long time, it has always been Chinese cabbage, light and unpalatable. After speaking, she picked up the knife and quickly removed the fish scales, Liu Shi looked at her thin hand holding the kitchen knife worriedly, afraid that she would suddenly not hold Siya's hand and chop it, but she still came out: "Siya, or I'll come!" You haven't ever cooked, what if you get hurt? Zhao Jin thought about it, after all, being so skilled for the first time would arouse Liu's suspicions, and he thought that he had hit the evil spirit.

"Mother, many of us usually eat less fish, and this fish is not big, so let's use it to cook fish soup!" Zhao Jin remembered the sauerkraut fish, boiled fish, saliva fish, sweet and sour fish he had eaten before...... The saliva is going to flow out, and when will I have the chance to taste these delicacies again. In this era when even firewood, rice, oil and salt are rare, let alone any sweet and sour condiments, it seems that I have never even heard of them. This may be another business opportunity in the future. The advantage of crossing women is only to rely on novelty to reach the peak of life.

Liu skillfully handled the fish, Zhao Jin helped to find seasoning on the side, it was really pitiful, there was no ginger, only a few shallots, how to get rid of the fishy smell of fish without ginger? She thought about it and asked Liu: "At home, you should still have sauerkraut!" "Generally, the countryside will pickle several large vats of sauerkraut for the winter, after all, there is no fresh vegetable in winter." Yes, do you want it? Go to the vat in the corner and take two of them and wash them. Liu thought she wanted to eat it, so she added a dish. Zhao Jin turned around and dug out two sauerkraut made of mustard greens in the corner, this is the most suitable for sauerkraut fish, thinking of the taste of sauerkraut fish, it is really good to eat with rice, although he can't eat pure rice, but Zhao Jin, who has tasted enough brown rice and thin rice and wild vegetables, is going to drool. Quickly processed the sauerkraut, cut it well, and asked Liu to cut the fish into slices, put them in the pot and boil them together, and after a while, the fragrance filled the entire courtyard, provoking the pillar who had just come back from outside to look at it, and Erya smelled the fragrance and came to the kitchen to help.

After cooking the sauerkraut fish, Zhao Jin fried a large cabbage with his hands, put a little more oil, the dish looked green and oily, and he had a lot of appetite, put it on the plate, and beckoned everyone to eat together. Everyone ate around the dinner table with relish, just buried in hard work, and didn't want to quarrel, although there were no chili peppers and other condiments, but it was meat anyway. Countryside people can only eat meat on Chinese New Year's Eve.

Everyone ate very cheerfully, a seemingly harmonious dinner was over, and several aunts were not born to sneer, so they quickly washed up and went to bed while it was almost dark.

Lying on the bed, Zhao Jin couldn't sleep, feeling that he had been here for a while, and he couldn't go back depending on the situation, so he only thought about how to make a fortune. Listening to the snoring sound from next door, Zhao Jin suddenly had an idea in his heart, and then fell asleep peacefully.

The next day, Zhao Jin woke up and found that he had a sore back and exercised too much yesterday when he went to the town. After thinking about it, I still got up with a toss.

Liu was already working, probably too tired and sleeping too heavily to be woken up. She cleaned up and appeared in the yard, her mother and the second aunt were preparing breakfast, the eldest aunt was drying clothes, the second aunt was preparing pig food, the third aunt went to the garden to water the vegetables, and the lobby sister estimated that she hadn't gotten up yet, she was really a lazy. She went up to help dry the clothes, and Zhang saw Siya who was helping her dry the clothes, and then she wiped her hands and kept them for Zhao Jin to dry. Zhao Jin is angry, I'm really cheap. She still obediently hung her clothes.

Then the people who went to work in the field early in the morning also came back for breakfast, Liu and Erya had already set up breakfast, looking at the sweet potato porridge as always, and felt that they were about to vomit. Zhao Jin only took a hard steamed bun and swallowed it carelessly. No wonder they all look like refugees.

"Dad, the work in the field is almost done, I plan to go to the town with the brothers in the village to find something to do, and by the way, see how the fifth brother is doing in the academy." Zhao Jin and his father also made his own plans, there are many people to eat, and when they are free, they still have to do odd jobs to earn some family.

"Okay, you brothers go together. I'm looking at the house, and I'm too old to do it. "Lao Zhao Tou thinks about it and thinks that there are so many mouths to eat, the fifth child wants to study, and his daughter wants to prepare a dowry, and the family's savings are still not enough, so he can't sit and eat.

After breakfast, the family took their hoes and walked into the field, and along the road there were also some people who went to work in the field, and after greeting each other, they all went to the field.

The village is so poor that it can only rely on the sky for food, so the land is all for a year. Zhao Jin also came with her today, mainly because she also wanted to come and see, and his father was also full of worries, thinking that his daughter had never done farm work, and he was afraid that he couldn't stand it. Zhao Jin assured her father with a confident look that I could do it.