Chapter 6 Crucian carp tofu soup
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Zhou Xingxing picked up the wicker and learned to weave the wicker basket with Daddy Zhou, "Dad, have you ever seen a kind of tree, not very tall, always with strings of bead-like fruits, which are a little bigger than rice grains, some are red, and some are cyan, and when the weather is cold, once this thing is dried and cracked, it has a very strong smell?"
Zhou Xingxing thought that those ingredients should exist in this world, but they have not been excavated and used, or only a few people know how to use this thing, but the usage has not been popularized, he wants to find more ingredients as soon as possible, it is not enough to rely on himself, he only trusts Father Zhou now, and only knows Jiang Caihe, these two people, one is experienced in this big willow village, and the other is well-informed, maybe they have inadvertently encountered the ingredients they need?
Nowadays, there are green onions and ginger, and garlic, which is buried in the ground, is not easy to find, but the taste of garlic is unique, and it cannot be replaced in terms of fragrance, deodorization and unique garlic fragrance, but the ingredient that Zhou Xingxing wants to find most now is Sichuan pepper.
Sichuan pepper can get rid of the fishy smell of all kinds of meat, the taste is spicy, and the fried pepper oil is even more rich and slightly numb, which is the taste that Zhou Xingxing needs most now, at least the taste that is most needed when cooking with lard.
Father Zhou frowned, and put down the work in his hand, "Xingxing, are you looking for something like a 'stinky zygote'?
"I do want to find something that you haven't tapped for yet. Zhou Xingxing thought, before the first person to eat crabs said the taste of crabs, how many people would realize the deliciousness of crabs?
"It's all about the same meaning!" Daddy Zhou hadn't read any books, but he felt that Xingxing's speech was a bit literary, although it was very good, so he didn't understand it very well, "If there may be something that we think is useless, it has to be the big warehouse that I used to go to when I was a child." β
"Big warehouse?" Zhou Xingxing also put down the bamboo strip in his hand, feeling that from the name, he could feel that this was a place with a story!
"If you want to say that our Daliushu Village, although it is poor and backward now, it was also glorious a hundred years ago," Father Zhou looked up at the starry sky, "It is said that the river in front of our Daliushu Village was very wide, and there were merchant ships coming and going on it, and our village also built a wharf on the river, and the remains of the wharf when I was a child are still there, but now there is only a pile of rotten wood, and even there is no water in the river! β
Since ancient times, the urban and rural areas along the river bank are relatively easy to develop, because waterway transportation is very important in the history of thousands of years, and Daliushu Village in Laihu County was once located in the place where the two rivers meet, the transportation is convenient, and the north and south run through, so the wharf and granary were also prosperous, but unfortunately the river was diverted later, and an originally wide river slowly dried up, and now there is only less than two meters of stagnant water deposited.
The warehouse that Daddy Zhou said was on the edge of the river, and it used to be the most prosperous place in Daliushu Village, but unfortunately now it has been buried by weeds more than one person high, and the place where the warehouse was once built can only be seen by the foundation of a circle of mud.
"There are a lot of snakes, insects, rats and ants there now, and few people have passed," Father Zhou said with emotion, "No one goes there, so there are a lot of strange things there! β
"Well, I'll go there tomorrow. "In fact, I faintly want to go to Tai Restaurant in my heart to see the prosperity there, but now I am penniless, and I don't have the money to go by donkey cart......
Zhou Xingxing clenched his fists, "In addition to digging ingredients, making money is also very important!"
In the small county town not far away, Jiang Caihe picked up a handkerchief and wiped the sweat on her forehead, looking at the white soup in the special box, she nodded, these things will become white tofu tomorrow, which is also the source of all her income.
"Brother Zhou, this person seems to be really good!" Jiang Caihe soaked herself in the wooden barrel, her two long white legs grabbed all her sight, she stretched out her hand, and poured out two bowls of goat's milk from the small box next to her, "I don't know how those milk were made before, why it has a fishy smell no matter how it is steamed, and it can't be drunk and can only be used for bathing." β
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As soon as the sky was bright, I heard a rooster at the entrance of the village who didn't know whose house it was, followed by a gentle greeting from outside the fence wall, "Daddy Zhou, I sent some steamed buns and tofu over." β
"Caihe, you girl, why are you busy sending things here early in the morning?" Father Zhou's voice came, and his tone was indescribably cordial, "Are you tired? Come in and sit down." β
"I'm not tired," Jiang Caihe put the food on the table in the courtyard, and saw Zhou Xingxing walk out of the house quickly with a slightly red face, and then hit water in the water tank and wiped his face immediately, "Brother Zhou, I'm here to rub your craft, can you make other ways to eat this tofu today?"
Zhou Xingxing was less embarrassed when he was caught "lying in bed", and when he talked about cooking, he suddenly looked radiant, "With your tofu, there are so many fish guarding behind it, it makes me want to make a soup." β
"What soup?" Jiang Caihe's eyes lit up, she had studied for twenty years, but she could only make tofu, although she had indeed eaten a lot of good things before, but she could only eat and not cook!
"Crucian carp tofu soup," Zhou Xingxing said with a smile on his face, "but it's better if we can find some more accessories, so that it will be more delicious." β
"Where can I find accessories? How about I go with you?" Jiang Caihe's two small fists were propped up on his lips, his face was a little red because of excitement and excitement, and his face was eager to try, which unexpectedly made people think that this ancient person was a little cute!
"Daddy said that in the east of the city next to the river, there is the ruins of an old warehouse, where there may be some strange plants," Zhou Xingxing looked at Jiang Caihe, and then remembered that the person in front of him was just a little girl, if in Huaxia, this girl is now a vibrant college student, "But there will be a lot of snakes and insects there, if you are not afraid......
"I'm not afraid, I'm not afraid, I grew up here, and I went to see the big warehouse you mentioned when I was a child!" Jiang Caihe was full of joy, but remembering his current status as a "fiancΓ©e", he couldn't help but quickly straighten his waist and show a just right smile, "Then we have breakfast, let's go over and have a look!"