"If you can't bite the meat, you can eat the seeds, and there are so many in the tank." Haizhu put the seedless octopus on the plate and said, "Leave it for my third uncle to eat." ”

She took another squid in her hand and said, "I won't go to sea in the afternoon, I'll see if I can marinate some octopus, the marinated shredded meat should be glutinous." ”

The squid meat is more elastic, and the squid leg can be dragged far away, and it is torn off and rebounded to splash people's faces. Haizhu later went to pour a dish of vinegar and ate it, but he didn't eat much rice, and he ate half a pot of boiled octopus.

When Qi Laosan came back to pick up the leftovers, the steamed fish and boiled octopus had already become cold, Haizhu said to give him a hot one, and he said with a big grin that it was just right to eat cold rice on a hot day, and he didn't let her waste that firewood.

"It's a little fishy." He bites off the head of an octopus and spits out the seeds, and eats octopus meat and tentacles.

Haizhu looked at him suspiciously and said, "Could it be because it's cold?" We eat it with our tongues fresh. ”

"This thing is delicious when it first comes out of the pot, you pinch it back for me." Grandma Qi was busy picking at the octopus teeth in her hands, not delaying her in training her son at all, "In order to earn more money to carry goods, I will break my stomach again, and you will suffer when you are old." Later, when you come back, I'll cook over the fire. ”

"You eat yours, and leave me alone."

"If you don't believe it, just try." Grandma Qi snorted coldly.

Haizhu sat aside to watch the excitement, she chose a little grass fruit and cinnamon, bay leaves, fennel bark wrapped in a white cloth, followed the knife and said: "Dongzhu and Fengping are going to private school in the afternoon, if it is because you are delayed, they are trained by the master, and you will beat my third uncle hard." ”

Chaoping understood the last sentence, took the stick in his hand and whipped it on Qi Laosan's buttocks, and said with a smile: "Hit!" ”

Qi Laosan raised his slap to scare him, "It's against you." ”

Haizhu pointed at her second uncle, Chaoping reacted very quickly and ran over to hide behind him, poked his head out and said, "Let my father beat you." ”

Second Uncle Qi smiled, touched his son's little bald head and said, "If you beat your third uncle again, I'll beat you." ”

Chaoping's face was full of doubts, Haizhu laughed out loud, she took a bucket from the kitchen to catch some octopus and abalone, and said, "I'll go to see my mother, do you want to go to Chaoping?" ”

Chaoping immediately threw away the stick and ran out of the door with her.

The sun was scorching, Haizhu was used to the sun on the sea, and she didn't deliberately walk in the shade, and she saw a person holding an umbrella to cover her face, and she and Chaoping were curious about the people behind the umbrella.

The person holding the umbrella heard the footsteps and moved the umbrella slightly, she wiped her sweat with a handkerchief, and saw Haizhu tilting her head to look at her, she was stunned for a moment and said, "You ghost girl, don't you recognize me?" ”

"You cover your face, how can I recognize it? Second sister-in-law, are you going to find me? ”

"I heard Dongzhu say that you are back, your aunt asked me to come to you to ask about her youngest son, I was afraid that you would go to sea, so I came over in the big sun." Shen's second sister-in-law was full of complaints, "Tell me quickly, and I'll go back on a business too." ”

"I have made meritorious service and been promoted to a general, and he is still walking around with Han Ji in Fucheng, I will come back first." Haizhu covered up Shen Sui's injury, the wound had healed, and he might not mention it at all when he came back.

The promotion was a happy event, and Shen's second sister-in-law showed joy on her face, but she couldn't bear the sun, and she didn't care about greeting Haizhu, so she hurriedly turned around and went home.

Haizhu led Chaoping to continue walking, and the things were sent to Hongshi Village, she clicked and left, and Chaoping stayed to play with Pingsheng.

She went to the street to find a pork guy to buy twelve pig's trotters, and went to buy four chickens, and four ducks.

The dead octopus is mixed with the marinade packet and thrown into the pot, soy sauce is used instead of salt, two spoonfuls of sweet wine are poured over, and finally ginger is added, the pot is covered and the fire is started.

The heat in the stove was mixed with the dryness in the wind, and the sea beads burned the fire and sweated all over her body after a while, and she wiped her sweat and thought that the moisture soaked in the sea water in the morning was probably emitted.

Afraid of boiling the octopus head, the water boiled on a low fire, and when the marinade simmered out of the flavor, the marinated octopus was also raked, Haizhu took one up and gently poked it with the tip of the chopsticks, and the seeds in the cavity came out along the chopsticks.

The octopus was put into a basin to dry, and she lifted the clean chickens, ducks, and trotters and pressed them into the marinade, and added wood to the stove to boil and stew.

"The octopus is not hot, you can taste it." Haizhu took one in his hand, and the octopus meat had been marinated into a reddish-brown color, and the white seeds inside had turned yellow. The tender and springy seeds have become glutinous, and the octopus meat has become firm, and you can even pull out the silk when you bite into it.

It has a different texture and taste from boiled octopus.

Chapter 93: A Delicious Night

"Milk, is the flag you sewn before I leave?" Haizhu walked out with sweat on her face, squatting on the edge of the basin to wash her face.

"It's done, I'll get it for you."

A piece of red cloth was folded, and threads were sewn on the bamboo pole, and Haizhu carried the bamboo pole out of the house, and went to the next door to step on the stool and stick the bamboo pole on the wall. In order to secure it, she found a rope and wrapped it around the ridge of the gate.

The red cloth flags on the bamboo poles are high above the rooftops, dancing in the sea breeze, and people living in the surrounding alleys can see it when they go out and look up.

"Sister Haizhu, what are you selling today?" The little girl in the alley asked.

Haizhu saw that the marks she drew on the ground with stones were a few words, she pointed and asked, "You are also learning to read?" ”

"Dongzhu taught me." Hong Shan raised her head proudly, "Dongzhu said that I am very smart and can read the fastest. ”

"It's really smart, study hard, and grow up to be a female shopkeeper." Haizhu encouraged her and beckoned the little girl to come in with her, "I marinated the octopus, you can help me taste it."

"Really? I don't have any money. ”

"I don't want your money, you can help me taste it."

Hong Shan happily followed her into the door, and when she saw someone in the yard, she obediently called: "Grandma Qi, Second Uncle Qi." ”

Grandma Qi heard the sound of talking outside in the courtyard, and she brought a stool for Hongshan to sit on.

The marinated octopus has been cooled, Haizhu took one and smelled it, the fishy smell is very light, and the reddish-brown octopus meat exudes the fragrance of marinade. Worried that the seeds were fishy, Haizhu took a bite, and the smell wrapped in the cavity burst out in an instant, and the fragrant fish roe was firm and full, and you could eat the particles when you chewed it.

She took two of them into a bowl and brought them out to Hong Shan, "Taste it." ”

"Like a boiled egg." Hong Shan pinched the octopus head and smiled, she took a small bite, pulled out the silk of the extremely elastic flesh, and twisted it twice with her hand before biting into her mouth. She looked at the octopus in her hand in surprise and took another bite, this time taking off most of the seeds, the oily seeds were soft and glutinous, not dry like sea fish roe.

Haizhu saw that she was eating happily, she smiled and took a big pu fan into the kitchen to light the fire.

The marinated meat in the pot has already been marinated with fragrance, and the marinade is mixed with fat, and the taste of the two is not simply meat or marinade flavor after the two are fused together. Haizhu knocked on her legs and pondered that after marinating the meat, she would scoop up the marinade and put it in a bucket and soak it in the water tank, and pour it into the pot tomorrow morning to cook it, so that the marinade would not be bad, and she would go to the sea tomorrow to catch two buckets of octopus and come back to marinate.

The smoke from the kitchen gathered on the roof, rolling out along the top of the door, and the red mountain was so short that he couldn't touch the smoke when he walked into the kitchen. She put down the bowl and sat next to Haizhu, looking up at the white smoke hanging on the roof, pouting and exhaling vigorously, blowing the white smoke out of shape, she held her face and giggled.

Haizhu glanced at her, this is probably a child who grew up in a family with complete parents and the love of her elders, she is only one year younger than Dongzhu, she is still full of innocence, Dongzhu is already half an adult. Even Fengping was no more innocent than her, Fengping had burned the stove countless times, and he didn't care about the smoke billowing from the roof.

"It's a cloud above me." Hong Shan pulled Haizhu and cheered, "Do you think that piece at the door looks like a cat?" Pointy are cat ears. ”

Haizhu nodded, and when she heard the voice of the baby shouting outside, she said, "Go out and see if your grandmother is looking for you." ”

"It's my milk." Hong Shan rubbed her cheeks and ran out of the door, "Sister Haizhu, I'll come to play with you tomorrow." ”

Grandma Qi pouted, children are gluttonous cats and dogs, and whoever gives them food likes to play with whomever they want.

"I went to pick up Chaoping and came back, he didn't sleep in the afternoon, and he probably had to sleep after eating at night." She went into the house and took out a piece of oiled paper, took two marinated octopuses and took them away, in the past she wanted to bring a snack to her life, a two-year-old child likes to treat him well to give him food and drink, what kind of grandmother and step-grandmother are blind, he doesn't understand.

The weather was getting cooler, and the people in the alley came out to blow the wind and chatter, and when they saw Grandma Qi coming out, someone asked, "Old lady, is the restaurant open tonight?" ”

"Open the door, Haizhu is already braised meat at home."

"Hongshan's girl said that she ate delicious marinated octopus at your house, and the meat can be drawn, is there such a dish at night?"

"There should be, but there are not many of them, only twenty or thirty."

The greedy children were clamoring to go to the queue earlier, they smelled the smell of meat and played at the door of the restaurant, passing by the door of Haizhu from time to time, twisting their necks and staring at the yard, looking straight into the kitchen.

Second Uncle Qi was sitting in the courtyard, he heard the words outside clearly, and he told Haizhu that he was not afraid of no guests tonight.

The meat in the pot is stewed, the chicken skin and duck skin are stewed brightly, the pig's trotters are soft and raked, and the meat is dyed with the color of marinades and sauces, and it turns amber in the sun, and the bright light passes through, and the meat becomes clear under the skin.

There was a sound of swallowing saliva outside the door, and Haizhu looked up, and the child with pigtails ran away like a mouse.

The braised pork and braised chicken and braised duck were still soaked in the marinade, Haizhu untied his apron and rubbed the oil soap to wash his face and hands, and said: "Second uncle, I'll go out to buy some vegetarian dishes, you help me watch the pot, don't let Uncle Yang's black cat come and steal the meat." ”

"Okay."

There are people selling vegetables on the street, and some people have set up stalls early to prepare for night food, steamed rice cakes have already begun to be sold, and firewood sellers are shouting in the streets and alleys.

"Haizhu, is the meat stewed?" The lady who bought the water asked.

"yes, I'm going to buy some vegetarian food, and I'll open my doors for business when the sun goes down."

A child ran out after the cat, and Haizhu saw the cat's bulging belly and asked the child if the cat was going to give birth.

"My grandmother said that my Mimi will give birth at the end of the month."

"I invite you to eat braised octopus, and your cat has left two for me." Haizhu said.

The child nodded immediately, and the cat stopped chasing her, and followed Haizhu to her house. When he got two marinated octopus, he deliberately showed off, and took small bites in the pile of standing children, showing them the brushed meat and plump seeds.

As soon as Haizhu walked out of the alley, the children in the alley started fighting, and the child who exchanged the cat cub for the marinated octopus cried and took out the octopus and divided it, one person took a bite, and the rest was his.

"Girl, do you want to buy tofu?" The vendor with the burden asked.

"Tofu costs six pieces, I'll take a look, there are not many tofu skins, I want them." Haizhu took out her purse and said, "Calculate how much it will cost me." ”

The grandmother who sold sea vegetables recognized Haizhu, she asked her to show her the basket, and trotted over to ask Haizhu if she still wanted to buy sea vegetables.

Grandma's seaweed was washed clean and there was no sand, and the old leaves and roots were pinched, Haizhu took a look, and even bought the basket, "I live in Bluestone Lane, next time you come to sell seafood, go over and take a look first, if the red cloth flag is raised in the middle of the alley, you will knock on the door." ”

"Okay, girl, you're really kind." Grandma counted the copper plates and nodded repeatedly.

Haizhu went to buy a bundle of rice noodles and weighed more than five catties of peanuts, and the basket was full before going back.

Braised pig's trotters and braised chicken and braised duck, scoop half of the marinade into the basin and continue to soak, add two scoops of water to the remaining marinade in the pot, wash the bean skin and seaweed and throw it in to continue to burn the fire, stop the fire when the marinade boils, open the lid of the pot to dissipate the air, and continue to simmer with the residual temperature by the way.

Haizhu carried rice noodles to open the door of the restaurant, and as soon as the door opened, the children who were guarding the door ran in and grabbed the table noisily. She didn't stop them, and the rice noodles were put in the kitchen and went back to catch conch, crab and abalone.

"Eldest sister, I'm back—" Dongzhu strode through the door, "It's so fragrant, what are you doing to eat?" I'm here to help you. ”

"Come next door with me." Two helpers came back, Haizhu cooked faster, some people lit the fire, some people peeled garlic, she only had to wait for the conch and crab to be steamed and pry the shell.

The rice noodles are boiled and soaked in cold water, and the residual temperature is dissipated, and the water is controlled, the crab butter is fried, poured on and mixed well, the crab meat is taken out and stacked, the snail meat and abalone slices are mixed with autumn oil and poured on the rice noodles together, mixed evenly and divided into plates. The yellow crab butter mixed with the bright autumn oil is wrapped in beige powder, and just looking at this color makes you want to eat three bowls.

The braised pig's trotters were chopped open with a bone chopping knife, and the meat juice and meat scraps burst out with the knife falling from the knife. Haizhu chose two pieces of flesh and bone to feed them, and chewed one himself, the pig's trotters were smooth and greasy, full of meaty aroma, and there was no meat smell at all.

The braised chicken and braised duck are also cut into small pieces, the reddish-brown chicken skin and duck skin are soft and glutinous, and the fat has been stewed out, and it will crack after a little bit.

The neighbors in the alley didn't let people entertain when they came, they carried benches and chose a table to sit on, and if there were new guests, they also helped Haizhu greet them, pointing to the table and asking people to share the table.

"Outside." Haizhu said to Dongzhu and Fengping, "Today's dishes are fixed, braised chicken, braised duck and braised pig's trotters, a plate of 70 Wen, crab butter rice noodles are also a plate of 70 Wen, shallots mixed with tofu are sent for free, and braised bean skin and braised sea vegetables are a plate of 10 Wen." By the way, there is also a marinated octopus, the amount of octopus is small, one per person, and it is also free to give, while supplies last. The third uncle didn't come back today, no one entertained him, and you two have desserts. ”

"Okay." Dongzhu agreed happily, this is not difficult for her, she can name the men, women and children in the alley. She went out first with the braised meat, and said with a smile when she went out: "Thank you uncle and sister-in-law for taking care of our small business, my sister said, the hospitality is not good, I hope you will forgive me, today's braised octopus is not for sale, give it to everyone to eat." ”

"Yo, then we'll take advantage."

"Those who have read books have also spoken in a civilized manner, okay."

Feng Ping came out with the free shallots mixed with tofu, put a plate on each table, and quoted the price of the dish by the way.

Haizhu finished the work of chopping vegetables in the kitchen, and served the dishes out on a tray, and the meals were prepared in advance.

"The marinated sea vegetables are very delicious, crisp to bite, and they are brined." Hong Shanniang was eating sea vegetables and pondering that this dish was cheap, and it was not difficult to cook it at home, so she said: "Haizhu, in the future, you will give me two bowls of soup after you marinate the pork at noon, and I will also marinate some sea vegetables at night." ”

"Okay, I'll call you if it's time for the braised pork at noon."

"No need to shout, if you braised pork, we can smell it in half of the alley." Erwang laughed.

"Give me another plate of braised pig's trotters, do you have any wine?" Sell me a bowl of wine. ”