"Where's the big boss?" The familiar diner asked, "Why did you send shrimp and crabs out to work today?"

"The big boss is not at home today, and the little shrimp and crab sneaked out by themselves." Afraid of breaking the signboard, Dongzhu endured the shame and explained. When she turned over, a piece of fish meat was sticky, she couldn't hold it, and she was embarrassed to fool people with this thing, she said to the diner who gave the money: "Uncle and aunt, I will ask my sister to come out tomorrow night to set up a stall to sell grilled fish, you can come again tomorrow, I can't make it on the table." ”

Haizhu and Shen Sui came over and heard this, she thought it was funny, this girl was a money scorpion, and she didn't want to give it when she entered the copper plate in her pocket, and would rather say good things to make people come back tomorrow than mention returning the money.

"Don't wait for tomorrow, I'll come." Haizhu walked over and patted Dongzhu, and thanked the familiar faces sitting at the long table, they were all kind people, and they didn't have a black face to scold the child because they lost their appetite after being delayed.

She glanced into the bucket of fish, and first saw three sticky fish thrown on the ground, and there was not much left in the bucket.

"Only the fish were brought." Dongzhu was about to cry, pinching the corner of Haizhu's clothes and hurriedly said: "There are twenty in total, and there are still ten left in the bucket, and the iron plate is pasty again." ”

"Third uncle, if there are any more guests who will not be entertained, you go to other stalls to see if you can buy some abalone or squid, and I will invite my uncle and aunt to have supper."

"Hey, I'll go." Qi Lao Sanying was loud, and when Haizhu came, he had the backbone.

"Fengping continues to burn the fire, Dongzhu goes to clean up the table, sixth brother, you also sit, and eat some later." Haizhu sat in front of the iron plate, shoveled up the half-baked fish and put it aside, "The wind is flat, the flames are moving here." She struck the iron plate with a shovel.

Feng Ping immediately understood the meaning, added firewood to burn the fire, the flames licked the iron plate sticking to the fish skin and meat, and the scab was scabbed after a few breaths, and the shovel was clean after a few strokes.

Haizhu washed it again with oil, scraped off the turbid oil and put it on the grilled fish, the paste edge had been processed by her, and the yellowish fish was brushed with a layer of garlic oil without garlic.

Dongzhu held her face and looked at it dejectedly, muttering, "I did the same." ”

"Is there less oil brush?" Haizhu pointed out the problem, the fish she took over were dry, and the fish meat was also roasted, and the oil was not enough at first glance, and it was specified that Dongzhu was reluctant to brush more oil.

"There are a lot of brushes."

"It's still less, and the other one is that your hands are slow and your movements are not skilled, just practice more in the future." Haizhu twists the green onion and sprinkles it on the fish, and when the green onion flavor comes out, shovel it onto a plate and let her serve it.

"The little boss still needs to practice more." The aunt who had been waiting quipped.

Dongzhu nodded, "Yes, the light eye practice is useless." ”

Five fish were served, Haizhu picked up the fish from the bucket and placed them on the iron plate one by one, and at this time, Qi Laosan also came back with things, ten snails, ten squid, and a piece of pork belly.

"The pork guy still has a piece of meat left that hasn't been sold, I bought it, Haizhu, you make fried pork belly again, we haven't eaten yet."

Haizhu didn't eat either, she took the things and asked him to find a restaurant to buy bowl green vegetable porridge or noodles.

The pork was soaked in the water first, and she was busy turning the fish one by one, brushing the oil, and brushing the sauce.

"The fire was stopped, covered with ashes, and roasted at the remaining temperature, and I went to the tavern to cut the meat." Haizhu confessed to the wind.

It was a lively time in the tavern, with fists and persuasions, and the wine was full of wine. Haizhu went to the back kitchen, borrowed a knife to cut the pork belly, and marinated it with rice wine and ginger slices by the way, and saw a bundle of green onions on the ground, and the green onion leaves pinched only the remaining green onions, she said to the cook, and broke seven or eight roots.

The fish bloomed under the scorching heat of the sparks, and the oil stars mixed with green onion pepper oil and sesame paste splashed into it, and when it was served on the plate, the diners shaking the flask took a breath and sighed, "It's still delicious for you, it's not in vain." ”

Haizhu left three strips to put on a separate table, and called Dongzhu to come over and eat, "I don't need your help, eat first, I'll come right away." ”

The conch shell is directly placed on the iron plate, the squid is brushed with oil first, she skimmed a spoonful of garlic oil and poured it into the pork belly, and said to Fengping: "I look at the fire, you go and eat it too, this is the last plate." ”

Qi Laosan came back from buying porridge, the porridge is green vegetable porridge, and it is suitable to eat some light and clear mouth after eating charcoal-grilled meat, otherwise you will have a dry mouth at night.

"Third uncle, you also go over to eat, I don't want anyone to help me now." Haizhu took out a bowl of porridge, ate porridge while burning the fire, and when she had food in her stomach, she used chopsticks to pick up the pork belly and spread it on the iron plate, and the oily white and greasy meat slices were rolled on the iron plate until browned.

"Haizhu, can we eat some meat later?" The diner on the side asked.

"Okay, let's eat it separately, so that you don't eat too much meat at night and eat bad stomachs."

The conch and squid are cooked, Haizhu picks out the snail meat with a shovel and chopsticks, throws it dirty, and chops the rest of the squid and serves it on three plates.

The pork belly is also cooked, brushed with fried peanuts and sesame soybean paste with green onions and peppers, fried for a few breaths, put on a plate and served on the table, and the green onion with the skin torn off is served together.

"Huh? What do you do on a plate? Leave it for me? Haizhu sat down with a bowl and ate a squid leg first.

"You're busy, how can you eat leftovers." Shen Sui said.

"It's very particular......" Yu Guang glanced at a figure coming, Haizhu looked up, it was a guest at the long table next door.

"Drink more herbal tea, fry and roast more and eat more on fire." The other party got a lot of delicious food, and invited Haizhu to drink herbal tea, and ate with her a bowl for one person.

The three men drinking at the other table picked up the wine bowl and raised it to Haizhu, took a sip of wine and a mouthful of meat, and said, "The girl is a good cook." ”

Haizhu smiled, picked up the herbal tea, and said, "The moonlight is good tonight, cheers." ”

"Cheers." Others also held herbal teas, and the tea bowls touched each other.

"Green onions are wrapped in barbecue to get tired, you can try it." Haizhu put down the tea bowl and twisted the meat and onions to demonstrate.

"This way of eating is not bad, but I am afraid that it will taste in my mouth after eating."

"The little sixth master doesn't have a daughter-in-law to kiss the little mouth, what are you afraid of?" People who are dizzy from drinking nonsense.

Scattered laughter rang out around them, and Dongzhu and Fengping also snickered.

The plate was emptied, Qi Laosan pushed out the wooden cart from the alley to pack up his things, and Shen Sui was there, so he asked the Haizhu sisters and brothers to go back first.

"Leave you until dark and don't come back, Han Ji didn't leave you to eat?" On the way, Shen Sui asked.

"It's a shame that I didn't stay, otherwise Dongzhu would have cried at night."

She didn't answer, and Shen Sui understood that the matter of private conversation could not be passed on, so he stopped inquiring, sent the person back and left.

However, after sleeping and waking up, he heard that Haizhu had been accepted as a righteous daughter by Admiral Han, and he looked at the sky with a puzzled face, was this a dream?

"What happened after we left?" Father Shen asked.

Shen Sui didn't know, thinking about it carefully, it should be related to what Haizhu avoided talking about, he thought for a moment and said: "It should be Han Ji's love for her, Han Ji values her ability very much, if Haizhu is taken away by people who want to be greedy, it will be a troublesome thing, she now has this identity, and those who want to move her have to weigh it." ”

"You go and inquire."

"Inquire about what? Don't ask, you wait a few more days to see the news, if Admiral Han didn't hold a feast to introduce his righteous daughter to everyone, my guess is right. Shen Sui didn't bother to deal with these eyebrows and eyes, and walked out of the door with long legs.

Shen's mother also felt that her man was making a fuss, "Accepting a righteous girl is also worth your repeated thinking, we haven't neglected that girl, what should we do, Haizhu is a girl's family, and she can't speak in the officialdom, let alone a righteous daughter, even if it's a daughter, you don't have to slap her, as long as you don't offend." ”

This is also what other people think, the people in the officialdom prepared the salute first, and waited for ten days to wait for the news of Admiral Han's departure, and they understood the meaning, and they didn't have to offend when they saw Haizhu.

This news set off a gust of wind on the dock, Haizhu still acted as before, setting up a stall in the morning, going to sea in the afternoon, going out to the night stall in the evening, drying quilts in the afternoon of resting, pushing a wooden cart to send turtles to hunt or chop firewood, slowly, the days returned to calm, the onlookers who heard the news dispersed, and the neighbors and familiar diners also forgot her sudden identity.

When the wind calmed down, Haizhu went to the owner of the yard next door to discuss the purchase of a house. At the beginning of the year, Zheng Haishun and the others moved out, and after they moved out, there were new tenants next door, and she was willing to pay an extra month's rent to ask them to find another place.

The other party agreed, and the next day he found a house in the alley across the street and moved out.

"It's all acquaintances, and I won't shout high about the house price, four hundred and twenty taels, and the things in the house belong to you." The owner of the house is a neighbor who lives in the same alley, and he doesn't see anyone who looks up and looks down, so he gives a conscience price.

Haizhu had no objection, went back and took the gold ingot to transfer the property with the owner, this time the silver in her hand was less than 100 taels, she was not in a hurry, and she also made drastic changes to the courtyard next door.

Seeing that she was going to ask a mason to build a stove and push the wall to change the roof, and she also bought a big pig's head, Grandma Qi was anxious, she grabbed Haizhu and said, "You give me the bottom, where did you get all this money in your hand?" ”

"Recovered a box of silver hairpins and gold hairpins from the sunken ship, have you forgotten? Second Brother Han helped me sell it. Haizhu was full of flickering, she didn't know if the silver hairpin and golden hairpin that Han Ji took away were sold or not, if it wasn't for the money to buy a house suddenly, she would have forgotten about it.

Grandma Qi first breathed a sigh of relief, and then sighed again, "I won't let the neighbors in the future, I didn't know that I would let people in and sit." ”

"If there is money in the family for business, you shouldn't take people into the house." Haizhu said that she put the pork on the iron shelf, lit a fire and began to burn the pig's hair, and the smell of burnt paste wafted in the yard.

Chapter 60: Pig's Head Stewed in Sweet Wine

The pig's head was scraped and washed off the pig's hair, eight catties and two taels, Haizhu washed her hands and went back to the house, took out the food recipe and turned to the page of the burning pig's head, reviewed the ingredients and methods on both sides, and took the silver to push the wooden cart to buy sweet wine.

Ten catties of sweet wine, five catties poured on the pig's head and poured into the pot, and the remaining five catties were placed against the root of the wall for later use.

Grandma Qi sat outside the door to collect the soles of her shoes, and when she saw Fengping and Chaoping following the eldest child in the alley to run to the beach to pick up snails, she shouted: "Fengping, your eldest sister is going to cook pig's head." ”

"I'm going back to the fire." Fengping ran back, and Shiohei followed him in ashes.

A fire has been set up in the stove, the sweet wine in the pot is warm, and the aroma of wine is permeating the kitchen. Haizhu was worried that Feng Ping would get drunk after smelling it for a long time, so she broke two branches and sent two small ones to draw on the sand pile in the yard.

Thirty green onions are washed and thrown into sweet wine, three star anise, five thick ginger slices, after covering the pot, Haizhu sits in front of the stove and adds firewood to the fire.

The scarlet flames baked the pitch-black bottom of the pot, the sweet wine in the pot boiled, and the wine turned into heat from the cracks in the side of the pot, and steamed up to the roof, and the kitchen became a misty wine cellar. Haizhu felt that when she cooked this pot of meat, it was also pickled with the smell of sweet wine.

"Who's making wine? So fragrant. "The first thing I smelled was the bricklayer repairing the chimney in the yard next door, and I looked at it with anticipation.

The people sitting in the alley sniffed their noses from time to time, and those who didn't drink were also hooked out of the wine worms, and Hong Shanniang was far away and asked in her throat: "Aunt Qi, what are you doing in Haizhu?" ”

Grandma Qi glanced into the room and said, "It should be a stewed pig's head." ”

"Stewed in mulled wine?"

Grandma Qi smiled and didn't speak, this is Haizhu's recipe for opening a restaurant to sell money in the future, how can she easily tell outsiders.

Feng Ping and Chaoping were absentmindedly playing in the sand, their eyes glanced into the kitchen from time to time, and when they heard the sound of the pot lid being lifted, the brothers quickly bounced up and strode towards the kitchen.

"It's not good yet." Haizhu said with a smile, she picked up two bowls of specially bought autumn oil and poured them into the sweet wine, threw two pieces of sugar cubes, stirred well with a spoon, turned the pig's head, covered the pot and continued to burn the fire.

"Eldest sister, I'll help you light the fire." Feng Ping was reluctant to leave the door frame.

Haizhu refused, the first time she made this dish, she had to do it herself from the fire to the ingredients, "If you are bored, take Chaoping to Pingsheng to play, my mother must miss you too." ”

The wind was calm, he went into the house to get ten copper plates, and pulled Chaoping out of the door, "Milk, I took Chaoping to play with my little brother." ”

Unfamiliar with life, even if there are guards on the dock, Grandma Qi is afraid that someone will steal the children, she puts down the soles of her shoes to send them over, "I'll come back when you go in, and I'll pick you up at noon." ”

Dongzhu pushed Second Uncle Qi to pull weeds in the leek field, and when the three grandparents went out, Haizhu was the only one left in the house, and no one disturbed her quietness.

When the five catties of sweet wine are burned to the bottom, the pig's head is also cooked, the pig's head meat is boiled into honey brown, the wine smell has been boiled, and the pig's head meat has also removed the fishy smell.

Haizhu poked into the pig's head with chopsticks, and the salty autumn oil was boiled in, and the taste was just right. She held a spoon in her left hand and a scoop in her right hand, and with both hands she turned the pig's head into a wooden basin, and when she cleaned the bottom of the pot, she found that the wine was mixed with fine foam, and the broken foam was mixed with pig's nose hair.

No wonder the food recipe said that the pig's head was washed with sweet wine, not the braised pig's head, and when she looked at the food recipe, she thought that the writer had made a mistake.

Wash the bottom of the pot and add water to boil, after the water boils, put the pig's head, move a washed stone and press it on the pig's head, cook a column of incense on high heat, and simmer slowly with the meat aroma.

Haizhu closed the kitchen door and went out of the yard to supervise the work next door. The original kitchen has been opened, and then the yard has been expanded by one foot and two feet wider, and she plans to build a three-stove and five-pot stove, three stoves can be burned at the same time, and stewed soup and stir-fry can be taken into account.

Two of the original four bedrooms were used as warehouses and two as private rooms, and as for the rest of the yard, she had not yet made a decision, not sure whether it would be capped or open-air.

"Master, during the typhoon season, will the brick house be lifted off the roof?" Haizhu asked.

"Yes, so after laying the tiles, we have to pull kelp and seaweed from the sea to wrap around the roof, the seaweed is wet and heavy, and it is sticky, and it can block a small typhoon." The old master standing on the roof looked down and said, "Little girl, you go back and watch the fire, cook with peace of mind, and hand over your house to our old brothers, and I promise to clean it up for you." ”

"Is the pig's head stewed in the pot for us to eat?" The man who cleaned up the beams asked.

"Yes, I'll call you when it's ready." Haizhu walked out, went back and added two pieces of firewood to the stove, and when she saw the old turtle surface, she brought a brush to brush the turtle shell and brush the turtle fins.

……

On the third pole of the day, Dongzhu pushed Second Uncle Qi back first, and when she entered the door and smelled the smell of meat, she ran into the kitchen with a shout, "It's so fragrant, what is stewed in the pot?" ”

"Pig head, you came back just in time, drink saliva and rest for a while, and then go to Hongshi Village to have a look, milk send Fengping and Chaoping to find Pingsheng to play, and I haven't come back since noon." Haizhu shook the fire, got up to wash his hands and scoop rice.

"Second uncle, are you hungry?" She asked.