"What about the two of them?"

"He was the fattest in his life, he was born with seven pounds and five taels, thanks to your mother giving birth to his fourth child."

Haizhu turned his head to look at the second uncle, and he said clearly: "Chaoping was born with his feet first, he is not fat, he will weigh six catties." ”

As she was talking, Haizhu noticed that her hand was hot, and she was about to shout that Xingzhu was urinating on her hand, when the girl in her arms wailed, and her throat and eyes were exposed.

"Awake? Pee, right? Qi Laosan patted the ashes on his body and ran in, "I hugged it to change diapers, I guess I'm hungry." ”

Haizhu hurriedly handed it over, the magic sound was in the ears, and the person was small and big.

The child was taken away, Haizhu hurriedly scooped water and washed her hands, scrubbed it with oil and soap, she picked up the blue-brown moray eel from the water tank and hung it on the scale hook, as she expected, fifteen catties and three taels.

"How do I do this?" Grandma Qi asked.

"Braised stew, it should be stewed softly, raked and glutinous."

Chapter 163: Eel Rice

This moray eel has a lot of mucus on its body, Haizhu boils a pot of water and scoops it into a wooden basin, the moray eel rolls and puts it in boiling water to scald, and when the water becomes warm, she lifts the eel and puts it on the ground and scrapes it with a knife, the tip of the knife scrapes on the skin of the fish, and a layer of white thick fat sticks to the blade.

"This eel is fat." Second Uncle Qi said.

"Ten pounds, I'm carrying the pendant." After scraping around, Haizhu carried the moray eel into a basin of warm water to wash, washed it, and she went into the house with a cutting board and came out to cut off the eel's head.

"Sister, you sit." Shiohei moved his small bench.

"Where did you go?" Haizhu stretched out her arm and said, "Roll up your sleeves for me." ”

"I went to see my little sister, she drank milk and gurgled."

After Xingzhu was born, Chaoping was the most interested in her among the Haizhu siblings, and when Xingzhu slept, he played in the alley, and when he woke up, he ran back to watch.

"Stay away from me, don't cut you with a knife." Haizhu said.

The tip of the knife cut open the belly of the eel, and a lump of paste like lard came out, Haizhu asked Chaoping to come into the kitchen to get a plate, she held the fish paste and asked, "Is this fish oil or fish paste?" How to eat this? Steamed and dipped in soy sauce? ”

The other three people in the courtyard didn't know, and Second Uncle Qi said: "There doesn't seem to be this thing in the eel caught before, it should be fish paste, this moray eel is in estrus." ”

The fish paste was put on a plate, Haizhu let Chaoping bring it in and put it on the stove, she dragged off the other internal organs in the fish's belly and threw them to the cat, the black membrane on the abdomen was torn off, the fins on the back were cut off, and the fish meat was spread out to be half an arm long.

"Chaoping, bring me a clean basin." Haizhu shouted, she washed the knife and cut the eel meat into palm-wide pieces, it was still early, she didn't hurry to cut the fish pieces evenly.

Three fat cats were guarding her hand, and the minced fish went into their mouths before they hit the ground.

"Eldest sister, the basin is here." Shiohei came out with a wooden basin.

"Don't you have many green onions at home?"

Chaoping ran in again to look, grabbed the door frame and said, "There are five left." ”

"Take it out and peel it off."

"Oh."

Grandma Hong glanced at her from time to time, the relationship between this family is really good, there are real feelings, if she didn't know, she would believe that Haizhu and Chaoping are sisters and brothers.

"Chaoping is very diligent, and it's annoying to change to other children." She said to Grandma Qi.

"Several of my children are diligent and active." Speaking of a few grandchildren, Grandma Qi smiled with a smile on her face.

Green onion and ginger smash the pickled eel meat, Haizhu scoops water to wash hands, Chaoping sweeps the floor with a broom, and the cat's uneaten fins sweep into the ditch so as not to step on it.

"I'm going to pluck a bunch of shallots and come back." Haizhu took the basket and walked out.

Chaoping put down the broom and hurriedly ran out, "Eldest sister wait for me, I'll go too." ”

Walking next door, Qi Laosan walked out with the last table, and he said loudly: "Pull onions, right?" I'll pull it out, and you go and get busy with the rest. ”

"Then I'll buy a chicken." Haizhu put down the bamboo basket, put one hand around Chaoping's neck and led him to the street.

"Chaoping, come and play, it's up to you." Erwang shouted.

"I don't play, I'm going to help my eldest sister cook."

The neighbor sitting under the tree asked, "The restaurant is open for business tonight?" ”

"Hey, I went to sea today and caught something good, and I made it for everyone to taste." Haizhu said.

"I see that your third uncle moved the table into the door of the young general's house, and ate at his house at night?" Granny Hongshan asked.

Haizhu nodded.

"It's good, the old woman touches your light and goes in and opens her eyes."

When he got to the street, Haizhu first went to the Jiubei restaurant to ask the shopkeeper Li how to make the fish paste in the belly of the conger eel, and after coming out, he went to the poultry shop to buy a three-yellow chicken, and when he went home, he went to weigh three catties of bean sprouts and five catties of pea seedlings, and the tofu was also cut in half.

Killing chickens and scalding chicken feathers, when pulling chicken feathers, Grandma Qi finished brushing the crab and came over to take over, saying: "I don't know how to get those two snake eels, you go and get them." ”

Qi Laosan pulled the green onion and came back, and he also cut back the leeks that Dongzhu and Fengping wanted to use tomorrow, and now the second uncle Qi also came to live, and the green onion to be used was peeled first, and then the leeks were selected.

Chaoping burned the stove, and his fire-burning skills were already in shape after being pointed out by Fengping, and a puff of green smoke rushed out, and the flames rushed up and there was no smoke.

"Big sister." He shouted out.

"Here we are." Haizhu came in with the head of the eel that had been washed and split in half, and the pan was heated and the fish head was fried in oil, and the tail of the eel was also put in to fry it. Fry on both sides until golden brown and pour water, boil and pour into the crockpot, and at the same time stuff the whole three-yellow chicken into the crockpot, add a scoop of water over the back of the chicken, cover the lid and stand on the stove to start stewing.

The sun was setting in the west, and the shadows cast by the east-facing house in the courtyard had covered the ridge of the gate, and Haizhu felt that she was not busy with anything, and it was already half of the afternoon. She went into the house and selected a handful of angelica, astragalus and red dates from the medicine box, went into the kitchen to open the lid of the crockpot with a wet rag, sprinkled a handful of medicinal herbs into it and covered it again.

"Girl, what else do I need to do?" Grandma Hong asked.

"In half an hour, you can find five bowls of rice and steam, and I will be useful in the evening." Haizhu said, "Milk, you come in and make a fire for me." ”

She brought a pot of sea crabs into the house, the blue crab and the steamed crab were cut open with the shell, one was divided into four petals, and the broken surface was stained with soybean flour, she prepared the sea crab to be fried and then poured into the sauce and braised it, the red oil crab fat is more suitable for steaming, and the pike crab shell has more thorns, which is only suitable for steaming.

The crying was close again, Qi Laosan came over with his crying bag girl, there was the smell of green onions and leeks in the yard, and the smell of oil wafting out, he sneezed as soon as he came in Xingzhu, and he hurriedly went out with the child in his arms.

"Babies sneeze too?" Haizhu was amazed.

"Yes." The oil in the pot was hot, and Grandma Qi pressed the flames with tongs to pick up the ashes, and she wondered, "Why do you look like you are seeing a baby for the first time?" Shocked. ”

"The youngest Chaoping is already three years old, three years have passed, how can I remember such a small thing." Haizhu suppressed her curiosity and stopped asking.

The basin and sieve basket were ready, and Haizhu carried the crab pieces wrapped in soybean flour and threw them into the oil pot, and the crab pieces changed color as soon as they entered the oil pot, and the oil pot was also covered with fine oil bubbles.

The crab shell was fried and completely discolored and then fished out, the golden crab pieces in the dry white sieve basket were piled higher and higher, and the last piece of crab in the oil pot was pulled out, and Haizhu made her milk stop the fire.

"Here, try one first." Haizhu pinched a crab claw and handed it to Chaoping, "Whether the dish tastes good or not, the cook and the guy will taste it first." ”

"No wonder the cooks are fat." Shiohei muttered.

Haizhu laughed a few times, how could a cook lose his mouth, and if he ate too much, he would be fat. She took a bite of a fried crab, and took a bowl to her second uncle to take out, the high-temperature frying completely locked the juice in the crab meat, the crab meat was tender and juicy, mixed with fried soybean flour grains when chewing, and there was a little more fragrance in the mouth.

The two pieces of fried crab were delicious, and the temperature in the oil pot also dropped, and Haizhu carried the eel pieces and threw them into the oil pot to fry them at low temperature, and the snake eel was chopped into small pieces and thrown in.

The fragrance wafted out of the crockpot, Haizhu twisted the wet rag to open the lid, and after the heat dissipated, she poked the chicken with a chopstick, the three yellow chicken was tender, and it was already poked at this time. She scooped half a spoonful of salt into it, stirred it well, and scooped some soup to taste, salty and light.

"Eldest sister, are you still burning the fire?" Chaoping was sweating profusely.

"Don't burn it, you can go out and play."

"I'm going to see my little sister."

The eel meat in the oil pot was fried to a yellowish color, Haizhu picked up the bamboo tongs and put it in a wooden basin, and the fried snake eel was poured into a crockpot, and there were charcoals in the stove, she closed the lid and continued to simmer on the embers.

"This can alone is not enough to sell." Grandma Qi said.

"We eat ourselves, we don't sell them."

The oil in the oil pot was scooped up, and Grandma Qi shoveled two shovels of firewood ash from under the stove and poured it into the pot, and the firewood ash turned into water to remove the oil, and the pot was cleaned after washing it twice. Add water to the pot, and then put on the grate, Haizhu went out to carry a bucket of red oil crabs in, the crabs are still alive, the tongs have been entangled, and they are directly stacked on the grate to burn and steam.

The red oil crab was steamed in two pots and leftovers, and the last dozen or so were steamed in another pot with the pike crab and orchid crab, and the shrimp and conch shellfish were boiled in water, and the fresh shrimp and crab snails were the most fresh and tender in the steaming, and the most important thing was that it was not troublesome.

"Xingzhu is asleep, Shiohei is watching, I'll come over and see if I can help." Qi Lao walked in three steps.

Seeing that he had changed into a short shirt, Haizhu laughed and asked, "Did Xingzhu pee on you?" ”

"It's more than urine, forget it, don't talk about it."

"The shrimp and crab snails are brought to you, the stove is on the fire, don't let the shrimp, crab and snails be cold, I will start stewing the eel, you shout into the alley, you can find a place to sit first." Haizhu arranged them one by one, and said: "Milk, don't let you burn the fire, you go and clean up the fifteen yellow croaker, and I will burn the charcoal grilled fish when the eel is out of the pot." ”

"Yellow croaker is not steamed? I think steaming is delicious and not bothersome. Grandma Qi felt tired.

"I caught it in the morning, it's not the freshest time now, and it's not delicious to steam."

Pour oil into the pot, add half a scoop of hot water when the oil is hot, then pour autumn oil and vinegar, add a spoonful of peanut sesame paste, stir up the fried eel pieces, the eel more than three feet long is cut into thirty-six pieces, and put them into the pot to stew, enough for half a pot.

Cover the pot, Haizhu sat under the stove to burn the fire, she counted the dishes, and went into the house to take half a bundle of rice noodles to soak.

Dongzhu and Fengping got out of school, and the two ran all the way back, and Dongzhu shouted when he entered the door: "Is it useful for me?" ”

"Yes, it's just waiting for the two of you." Grandma Qi pointed to the warehouse and said, "Your sister wants to grill a small yellow croaker, and it is estimated that she will also fry tofu. ”

The diners have arrived, there are empty tables and chairs, there is no food, they do not urge, the courtyard of the Han family is not small, they are interested in turning inside, the yard of the blue brick paving, there is a rockery in the yard, there are flowers and trees planted around the rockery, the most interesting thing is the hanging flower door, the pattern on the door everyone who sees it has to come to take a closer look, and even some people ponder to remember the style, and go back to their own house to get one.

The eel was stewed, Haizhu came over and asked Grandma Hong to bring the rice over, the rice was first served in a basin, and then divided into plates, the rice was covered with a large piece of thick, soft and glutinous red eel, poured with soup and sprinkled with sesame seeds, and placed on the stove for sixteen plates, and the remaining twenty plates were placed on the dining table.

Haizhu called Dongzhu to come in and burn the fire, she washed the pot and added water, the water boiled the pea seedlings and bean sprouts, the pea seedlings were slightly scalded and discolored, and the eel rice was placed with the bean sprouts.

"Let's bring it over, eat it tightly with the diners first, and we'll eat the rest later." Haizhu said, "There is also tonic soup stewed in the crockpot, this is our dish, don't take it away." ”

Qi Laosan went next door and called a man, the two carried the table over, Dongzhu followed with a bamboo basket, and took away a plate of rice, and she collected one hundred and sixty-six yuan.

Grandma Qi and Grandma Hong brought red oil crab and shrimp snails over, and Haizhu brought the dipping sauce, saying, "I'm still roasting crab pieces in the pot, I'll send them immediately, and if you don't want to eat steamed crab, just wait for that dish." ”

"What else is there?" Someone asked.

"There are also grilled yellow croaker and fried tofu, there are only fifteen yellow croaker, and they are gone when they are sold out, and I will carry the iron rack to roast the roasted crab pieces when they come out of the pot, and you eat them slowly first."

"Okay, you're busy."

"I'll be full after a plate of rice, sister-in-law, let's share a plate?" The red oil crab is big and big, and the shrimp are fresh, and the diners who have just sat down only hate that they don't have two stomachs to fill the rice.

The person who was shouted waved her hand, and she took a fancy to the eel and wanted to eat it for herself. The eel stew was half a finger thick, a palm's length wide, and half an arm, and it was covered with rice and spread all over the plate, and the thick sauce was attached to the fish, and she was mouthful just by looking at it. She took a bite on the side, and sure enough, she was not disappointed, the meat was tender and fresh, a mouthful of soft and glutinous meat, the fish skin was stewed and raked and elastic, and the lips were sticky when biting.

The woman who said before that she wanted to share the food was not afraid to hold it up after tasting it, such a thick eel meat is rare, and if you eat it, you will earn it.

There was no sound of speech in the courtyard, the sound of chopsticks hitting the edge of the plate was in her ears, the sound was crisp, mixed with the sound of chewing and swallowing, Dongzhu was hungry, she left two plates of rice to put aside, planning to share it with her family to eat and taste.

Haizhu came over with a large pot of braised fried crab, and the fried crab pieces were mixed with sweet and sour sauce to warm up, and she brought it to the plate, saying, "Whoever eats it will come and serve it, two crabs on a plate, fifty wen a plate." ”

Qi Laosan and Grandma Qi came over with an iron basin with charcoal, an iron shelf on it, and Grandma Hong followed behind with fish and tofu.