Go back to the valley to farm

Chapter 15 Huoxiang Salad Crucian Carp
Chapter 15 Huoxiang Salted Crucian Carp
Throwing the grass carp into the fish guard, the first thing Li Junge did was to wipe the "soul into the soul" with a soft cloth, and then the two began to check the pole.

"Into the Soul" is still so tall and straight. After experiencing a strong pulling force, it is still straight as a whole, without bending, chipping, or paint bursting.

Under the sun, "Into the Soul" is like a proud swordsman, rebellious and outstanding, calm on the outside, but full of strength inside, as if ready to unsheath his long sword at any time and release a thrilling blow.

Li Junge looked at Uncle Bamboo Carpenter and said, "It's too strong, we don't need to test it anymore? It's far beyond our imagination."

Uncle Bamboo Carpenter said: "I'm scared to death, my back is soaked."

Li Junge said with concern: "Yeah, my legs are a little weak now, and I thought about breaking the thread, but I didn't expect this pole to protect the thread so much. Let a big fish weighing more than ten kilograms be broken."

Uncle Bamboo Carpenter said, "Then shall we continue?"

Li Junge said: "No need, we gave 120 points for the test questions, and 'Into the Soul' gave us [-] points for the answer, which is perfect! Oops, I haven't turned off the phone yet, so I quickly turned it off."

The two began to pack their things and count the fish.

There were six or seven catties of crucian carp on the stripper's side, and nearly thirty catties on Li Junge's side.

Li Junge couldn't help admiring: "This calabash stream is almost becoming a fish's nest."

The two got into the boat, and Li Junge put the fish in the fish cabin to raise them, and started to return to the voyage.

Uncle Bamboo Carpenter said: "Yes, we in Lijiagou have only used nets and fishing for generations. Everyone knows to catch the big and keep the small. We cherish the Wuxi River. Look outside now, there are poisonous fish and fried fish. , Electric fish, any conscientious work is done in the river."

Li Junge said: "That's right, after the river ditch is electrified once, the small fish and shrimps, including the fish eggs, will all die.

Uncle Bamboo Carpenter said: "That's right, we don't care about other places. If people from other villages dare to come to our place to make trouble, the villagers will not beat him to death! The main thing is to guard against the people in the village. How has Pan'ao Creek been ruined!"

At that time, Panao River was rich in products, and both sides were red sandy land, especially rich in wild turtles. This is also the origin of the place names of Panao River and Panao Township. However, due to unfavorable protection, not only wild turtles disappeared, but even small fish and shrimps were rare. As soon as I saw it, a group of them would gather together every year when the water rose, and they would be cleaned up by the locals soon.

The two returned to Lijiagou while chatting, and Li Junge said to Uncle Bale Carpenter, "Uncle Bale Carpenter, why don't you go back to my house together, and I'll make you your favorite cold crucian carp."

Uncle Bamboo Carpenter was not polite either, and said: "Pi Wa still remembers me eating this, but I haven't eaten this for a long time."

People in Lijiagou generally cook crucian carp in dry roast, watercress fish, fish soup, and rarely cold salad. This dish was learned by Li Junge in Yuzhou, so if he doesn’t come back, the bamboo stick craftsman can’t eat it.

The two went back to the village and passed the tea shop of Li Ermao's house. Everyone saw them carrying fishing tackle and big fish. They all knew it was wild river fish, so they came to ask if they could sell it.

Li Junge said to Uncle Bale Carpenter: "Our family and you can't eat this big grass carp, and there are a lot of crucian carp, why don't we sell some."

Uncle Bamboo Carpenter said: "Most of them are caught by you, you have the final say, just keep a few crucian carp for wine."

Li Junge began to sell fish there, and Uncle Bamboo Carpenter said he might as well take advantage of this time to go back and put away his own things. Li Junge nodded and let him go.

They sold the big grass carp and carp, and sold some of the crucian carp as extras, and only kept the four largest ones, which weighed more than three catties, and kept them for Uncle Bamboo Carpenter.The folks in the village didn't say much about the price, but after all, they were all wild river fish, and they sold them for as little as 300 yuan.

At this time, Uncle Bamboo Carpenter came back with a long cloth bag. Li Junge divided the money into two and handed him more than 100 yuan.

Uncle Bamboo Carpenter hurriedly waved his hand and said no, and said, "You caught it all. How dare I take this money. You should keep it."

Li Junge asked him to accept it, but he didn't dare to give more. According to the rules of partnership fishing, the two shared equally.

When I got home, I was just starting to make lunch. Grandma saw the two of them and said, "Why did you come back so early today? Didn't it usually take midnight?"

The bamboo craftsman hurriedly greeted grandma, then took out a bamboo stick from the long cloth bag and handed it to grandma, saying, "Hey, the two of us just went to try out the new pole, and we didn't go fishing, that's why we came back so early. Auntie, I can't come up with anything good as a bamboo strip maker, that's what it means, don't dislike it."

Grandma took it over and said, "Oh, why are you so polite, bamboo craftsman? Your craftsmanship is getting better and better. Tsk tsk, look at this beautiful lacquer!"

Li Junge took a look and said, "Uncle Bale Carpenter, this is not a small thing, this is a great gift, hahaha."

The bamboo craftsman said embarrassingly: "This is the waste material used to make the pole. I think it's a pity, so I made this stick for my aunt."

Li Junge carefully looked at the cane. The head of the stick is made of old cypress wood burls. The wood grains on the burls are like swirls stacked one by one, and they are like the texture of tiger skin. It has been raised once, and then rubbed with leather to give it a luster, which looks simple and thick.

The rod head is connected to the rod body through a white copper ring. The rod body is made of rod-making materials and lacquerwork. It is golden and yellow, and it feels transparent like flowing honey.Underneath is a three-inch-long cupronickel rod nail.

Although the bamboo stick was only as thick as a thumb, Li Junge tried it, but there was no problem with its strength at all.

Grandma tried the handle and was overjoyed. She said, "It's been a long time since I went to the market, but I thought it was inconvenient to walk. Now that I have it, I can gain strength. It's so beautiful that I don't want to use it as a walking stick."

Uncle Bamboo Carpenter smiled and said, "It's fine if you like it all the time, but if you work hard, I'll make another one for you if it fails!"

It was Dad who also came out of the kitchen and said, "Oh, this stick is so beautiful! You are so caring!"

Li Junge said: "Father, it's just in time for you to come. You and Uncle Bamboo Carpenter first chat, and I'll get him cold crucian carp!"

Dad said: "Hurry up, hurry up, the flavor of the condiments should be bigger, your uncle likes the thick ones."

After Li Junge arrived at the house, he cut and washed the crucian carp, cut a few knives on each fish, chopped some ginger and garlic, and poured cooking wine and salt into a basin to taste.

Covering the pot with a bamboo dustpan, Li Junge went to the field to pick some green Erchatia peppers, some millet hot peppers, a large handful of young Huoxiang leaves, and a few chives.

When I came back, I took out a piece of ginger and a few cloves of garlic, threw them into a stone mortar, and added some water to mash them into ginger and garlic paste.

He took out a small bowl and poured a bowl of steamed fish soy sauce.

Chop the two vitex peppers together with the millet peppers.

Then chop the Huoxiang and mix them with a little salt.

Half an hour later, the fish tasted delicious, and at this time, my mother had prepared all the other dishes and vacated the pot for him.

Li Junge added boiling water into the cauldron, put the crucian carp in it and started steaming, and at the same time put the soy sauce bowl in it to steam together.

Seven or eight minutes later, a plate of crucian carp was just cooked. Li Junge took out the crucian carp and put it aside to cool, then put it into another plate. The three-jin fish was steamed in two plates to prevent the top one from being cooked and the bottom one still raw.

After the two plates of fish are steamed, start making cold sauce.

Pour the steamed soy sauce into a small pot, decant the fish soup in the steamed fish plate and pour it in, add ginger and garlic water, sugar, vinegar, sesame oil, spicy minced millet of two vitex, and crushed rugosa leaves, mix After evenly pouring it on the two plates of fish, the amount of seasoning is very large, almost covering all the crucian carp below.

Then sprinkle a handful of peppercorns and two spoons of dried chili noodles, boil a spoonful of boiling oil and pour them on.

There was only a "stab" sound, and a spicy and delicious fragrance rushed straight to the nose.

Sprinkle two handfuls of green onion on top, and the crucian carp with Huoxiang salad is done.

Li Junge brought two plates of fish to the main room, and everyone had already started to move their chopsticks. Dad and Uncle Bamboo Carpenter had already had a drink.

When Uncle Bamboo Carpenter saw the crucian carp in cold sauce, he said again and again: "This is good, this is good."

Li Junge sat down and walked with Uncle Bamboo Carpenter, and then began to move his chopsticks, picking out a piece of crucian carp from the thick seasoning and putting it into his mouth.

Because it is a cold salad, it does not have the greasy feeling of other methods at all. The soy sauce is also diluted by steamed fish soup, and the taste is no longer strong. Wild crucian carp is sweet and delicious.

Uncle Bamboo Carpenter couldn't stop eating, and praised repeatedly, saying that he couldn't make this taste, but Li Junge made it delicious.

Grandma thought that the crucian carp bones were too small, so she picked a little bit to taste the taste, and looked at Uncle Bamboo Carpenter eating happily with a smile, and said, "Bamboo Bamboo Carpenter, you have lived alone all these years, so you didn't see which one was suitable? "

The bamboo craftsman said: "Hey, which woman thinks highly of me as a stinky bamboo craftsman, why don't I live like that!"

Grandma sighed and said, "Oh, it's because the old strip maker left you with a poor family background, which delayed you, or you should have been a daughter-in-law long ago."

Uncle Bamboo Carpenter said: "My godfather has been a bachelor all his life, so it doesn't matter if he continues to be naked at my place."

The uncle was adopted by an old bamboo craftsman in the village. I don't know where he came from wandering back then, so he took the old bamboo craftsman's surname Huang, and his nickname was Huang Zhengliang.

The old bamboo craftsman was a bachelor until his death. Uncle bamboo craftsman is now 36 and seven. There is only a bamboo forest at home, and there is not much land. He also has some bamboo weaving skills passed down by the old bamboo craftsman. The income is really not good.After talking about several families, they all thought he was poor, and the negotiation failed in the end. Slowly, Uncle Bamboo Carpenter gave up his mind.

My mother also said: "You are a bamboo craftsman. As the saying goes, 'a craftsman can't starve to death in a famine', it's just too careless to tidy up. In fact, the facial features are still neat. Changing clothes is neat and tidy. I can't believe no one can see it."

Li Junge said: "Mom, if you have a suitable one, you can find it for Uncle Bamboo Carpenter. Let me tell you that Uncle Bamboo Carpenter has accumulated a lot of money and is an absolute potential stock. Which girl can take a fancy to him, and she will definitely enjoy happiness in the future!"

The whole family laughed, and felt that Li Junge's words were a bit too much, and they really couldn't believe it.

But my mother still said: "That's all right, then I will visit with the bamboo craftsman, and if there is a suitable family, I will talk about it. But bamboo craftsman, you are so old, you don't necessarily have to be a big girl with yellow flowers, right?"

Uncle Bamboo Carpenter blushed and said, "Hey, as far as I am at my age, what else can I choose, and I will do the same."

Mom said with a smile: "That's fine, it's easier to handle this way, let me inquire about it for you."

(End of this chapter)