18 Chapter 18
At the banquet on September 25, on the morning of September 24, Li Xiandong's family got up early and was busy.
Wang and Li Xiaohan have been washing and scrubbing since the morning, there are stools and tables, Li Xiandong has borrowed them, but no one has used them for a long time, so they need to be cleaned.
When it was almost time, Li Guiqian's daughter-in-law, Zhao, brought her two daughters-in-law over to help.
For going to the next room to help, Zhao was puzzled. The Wang family is not without relatives, Li Xiandong has two brothers, although they are not the same mother, but they have the same father.
In the face of Zhao's incomprehension, Li Guiqian explained like this, "Dad ordered it." ”
After thinking about it, Li Guiqian added, "The steamed pork and fried fish made by Xiandong's family are very delicious, I like it, you take your daughters-in-law to help and see if you can learn it." ”
Zhao was not convinced, he was in charge of the family's food, and the family never said no, what does it mean to suddenly say that other people's dishes are good? Is it bad to do it yourself?
But Zhao and Li Gui have been married for the first half of their lives, Li Guiqian will not tell lies, delicious is really delicious. So Zhao came with doubts and disbelief.
Although he said that he was not convinced and doubtful, Zhao's face did not show any light, and when he came, he smiled and groaned, "Brother and sister, I heard that you have a hand in food, and we are in charge, so we urged me to come to help in the morning, and learn by the way." ”
The Wang family rarely deals with people on weekdays, and was praised by the Zhao family with joy and disbelief, holding the water scoop for a while, and was speechless.
Or Li Xiaohan said, "Your former aunt, it must be my noble uncle who praised it." When the house was built, Uncle Guiqian kept saying that Auntie, you have a hand in baking pies, and I was greedy. Today, you have to communicate with my mother, I really want to taste it. ”
Baking pies is indeed a craft that Zhao is proud of, and the money and food in this house are calculated and spent, and the most economical ingredients are used to make the most delicious pies, and Zhao is quite researched.
Li Xiaohan only occasionally heard Li Guiqian and them say something casually, but Tete said it, as if Li Guiqian had really praised it in front of people, and Zhao smiled a little more sincerely, "Xiaohan's niece is like honey in her mouth, it seems that I am going to catch a spatula today." ”
"I'm looking forward to your aunt's hand."
"Oh, brother and sister Xiandong, I really like Xiaohan's niece who is generous and refreshing."
The Zhao family is really impressed by Li Xiaohan, it is not the Zhao family, she has always felt that the Wang family and Li Xiandong have a feeling that they can't beat a fart with three sticks, and they won't say anything if they suffer a loss.
Unexpectedly, the two stuffy geese actually gave birth to Li Xiaohan's temperament that does not suffer losses: Li Xiaohan said that if he wants to learn his own fried small fish and steamed sauce meat, he must exchange the skill of baking pies.
And people say a lot of people, it's all about communication skills.
That's the reason, no matter how close to the family, this woman's craftsmanship on the stove is her own reputation, how can she let people learn it in such a vain.
Zhao felt that Li Xiaohan's temperament was like himself. That is, the Zhao family has no daughter, and if there is a daughter, the Zhao family thinks that it should be like Li Xiaohan.
After this gag, the atmosphere between several people is getting better and better, and Wang is also relaxed: praising her daughter makes her happier than praising her.
Zhao and his two daughters-in-law, Ma and Hanshi, are both Shuangli people, and several women, with sharp hands and feet, first washed the bowls, plates, tables and stools borrowed from the clan.
Then the fish and meat were delivered on time.
Thirteen Fushou fish, more than forty catties of small miscellaneous fish, cleaned up and wasted old kung fu, Li Xiaohan smacked his tongue in his heart, fortunately your former aunt brought someone over, otherwise they would be too busy to rely on their family of three.
At noon, everyone casually fooled around their stomachs and stayed until around noon.
The oil pot was burned, the bright and clear lard was refined, and the lard residue was filled with a large plate.
The marinated pork belly is fried until golden in color and full of oily aroma.
Drain the water, smear the small fish with salt and sugar, and put it in the flour and fry it until it is crispy.
"Sister-in-law, you give it a try. This fish should be fried until the bones are crispy, and the most important thing is to fry it twice. Wang picked up a bowl, filled a bowl with small miscellaneous fish, and asked Zhao's mother-in-law and daughter-in-law to taste it.
In the past half a month, although I went to look for Sanqi in the middle, I didn't find it in the near distance, and a woman from the Wang family didn't dare to enter the dense forest alone, so she simply came back and took charge of the stove again.
If Wang herself wants to say that she thinks her kung fu on the stove is still visible.
When Zhao looked at Wang's approach, he knew that this dish was unpalatable - with so much oil, salt and sugar, it was unpalatable and couldn't taste anywhere.
Sure enough, Zhao knew it as soon as he entered his mouth, this fragrant, this crispy, it was really fried twice, and the bones could be chewed and eaten.
"Brother and sister, your hand is absolutely amazing." Zhao said.
"You're overrated, it's just that children like to eat, I'll think about it more." Wang laughed.
This fried small fish, Wang's is made by Li Xiaohan's imagination, for example, at first, Li Xiaohan said, mother, you fry it slowly, so as not to fry it, and then it developed to, mother, you fry it again, I don't think it's crispy enough.
Li Xiaohan put forward the theoretical guidance, but later, he was able to really master the heat well, and he could fry the small fish crispy but not burnt, fragrant and crispy, and the practical operation was still up to Wang's.
Even Li Xiaohan was not as good as Wang's, and Li Xiaohan couldn't control the firewood stove well. This Wang's boiled pig food has been cooked a lot, and it can be said that it is easy to cook.
Li Xiaohan saw that the Wang family and the Zhao family exchanged experiences in fried small fish, and quietly retreated---This kitchen is really hot."
Moreover, the people her mother didn't talk to in the village, the three Zhao family, were the beginning of their own family's communication.
According to her understanding of Gui Qianbo's many days, she feels that Zhao, as Gui Qianbo's wife, is also a person worth dating.
Sure enough, after Li Xiaohan withdrew from the fight, the Wang family and the Zhao family communicated more and more harmoniously.
At dinner, the staple dish is Zhao's pancakes.
"Auntie, your pie is really amazing, no wonder my ex-uncle can't forget it." Li Xiaohan admired while eating.
This pie is really good, it is obviously a coarse grain cake, but it is rare, it does not have the roughness of the dead dough cake, but the strength and crispiness layer by layer.
"This pie is just a lot of effort when kneading the dough, and you can cook it a few times." Zhao said happily that today she took her two daughters-in-law to learn the kung fu of frying small fish from Wang, so the kung fu of baking pies will be taught to Wang and Li Xiaohan.
"I'm not as good as you, aunt, I saw you rubbing that bread, and it took a lot of effort. I don't have your hands. ”
Li Xiaohan is telling the truth, women in this era really spare no effort, in order to save the filling and make it delicious, Zhao forced the dough to artificially rub out the feeling of a mille-feuille.
Li Xiaohan himself really doesn't have the strength and perseverance.
"Hahaha, when you're older, you'll have it." Zhao laughed, what he didn't say was that especially after getting married and having a baby, he held the child and had the strength to do it.
This time, the Zhao family was like getting acquainted with Li Xiandong's family again. I used to hear that Li Xiaohan's mother and daughter were so stupid that they couldn't even weave cloth, so they could only cook pig food.
But now that I get in touch, although Li Xiandong and Wang don't talk much, looking at the Li family's firewood room, the firewood is full, the water in the water tank is clean, and the kitchen is neat.
Not to mention the eating and eating skills, this craft of making wine can't be used, which is very inconsistent with the rumors in the village before.
Moreover, Zhao believes that Wang, who can settle down and fry cheap small trash fish to make a good taste, and himself, who spares no effort to knead the pie into a thin layer, are all the way.
Under the deliberate promotion of both sides, Zhao and Wang got along very happily today, before leaving, Wang also made the decision and filled a bowl of small trash fish for Zhao, "Sister-in-law, you have worked hard today, this little trash fish, bring some back to the children to taste." You also know that this little trash fish didn't cost much, the most expensive is oil money, and the rest is effortless, don't shirk. ”
People's kung fu is not valuable. This is the consensus of all people in Pingshan Village.
"Okay, sister-in-law won't shirk you more, let's come back tomorrow morning." Zhao said briskly.
From Li Xiandong's house to Li Guiqian's house, there is a long distance, and the nearest copy is a small road.
On weekdays, Zhao and the others would not take this path, but this time there were not three people, and they were not at home all day, and they didn't know what the boys and children in the family and the pigs fed the chickens were.
"Mother, let's go back and fry the small fish." When he lowered his head and hurried quietly, Zhao's eldest daughter-in-law, Ma Shi, suddenly said, "Brother Dou'er definitely likes to eat." ”
Brother Dou, Ma's son, is four years old, long and thin, and shouts hunger all day long. Half-sized, eating poor old man, Ma's mother, naturally always cares.
"Okay." Zhao replied cheerfully.
They are all family members, and they have their own scales in their hearts, this small trash fish is cheap and delicious, and after it is fried, it can be put away for several days without being bad. They have many families, and they can even catch their own fish, and the money for buying fish is saved, which is cost-effective.
"Mother, Aunt Wang has a hand in cooking, which is not like the rumors." This sentence began, and it was casual, Ma said.
"This is a mess under the stepmother-in-law, how can it be so easy to shine." Zhao said that if you have that good reputation, you can't give it to your own child. This is not his own daughter-in-law, so it is better to be the stepping stone. Zhao had already figured out the trick.
"That's true." Zhao's two daughters-in-law, Ma and Han nodded frequently, although they were a little tired under their mother-in-law Zhao, but who didn't have a lot of work, at least they didn't have to work hard and have a bad reputation.
People's happiness is compared, and in comparison, Ma and Han feel that their mother-in-law is very good.