It is difficult for the farmer's sister

Chapter 36 Dividing melons and fishing (December 21 of the lunar calendar)

"You and Chen Rui are good friends, sister thank you for your usual help to Chen Rui."

Su Qiang said embarrassingly: "Sister Rui, you are too polite, we and Chen Rui are good brothers."

Su Rui smiled, and gave each of them a watermelon and a catty of leeks, and an extra portion for Su Qiang.

"Su Qiang, your house is close to Lin Lijun's house, can you help me send my sister there?"

Su Qiang nodded, "Okay, Sister Rui, thank you for the melons you gave us"

"Thank you, Sister Rui"

"You're welcome, you guys go back quickly, it's getting dark soon, and you'll have nothing to do tomorrow, so come and play with Chen Rui."

After saying goodbye to Su Rui, they put on their baskets and walked back.

Su Qiang went to Lin Lijun's house first: "Grandpa Lin, I'm coming in."

Mr. Lin's voice came from the room, "Ah Qiang is here, come in quickly."

Lin Lijun saw Su Qiang coming in: "Brother Su Qiang."

"Hello, sister Lijun."

Mr. Lin asked, "Why are you here so late? What's the matter?"

Su Qiang took out a watermelon and a catty of leeks from the basket.

"Today, Sister Su Rui gave each of us a watermelon and leek. Sister Su Rui asked me to bring this to you."

Mr. Lin was surprised, not surprised that Su Rui gave them something, she is a kind girl, but surprised that she was able to buy watermelon and leeks at this time.

Yes, he knew watermelons. Before fleeing famine, every household in the south had them.

"Here, thank Su Yatou for us."

Su Qiang put the basket on his back again, "Grandpa Lin, I remember, it's too late and I have to go home."

"Okay, be careful on the road."

"Um"

When Su Qiang got home, his grandmother saw the things in Su Qiang's back basket, and was surprised, "Qiangzi, what is this? And why do you have leeks?"

Su Qiang's parents heard the voice and came out, Mao said, "Qiangzi, where did you get this?"

Su Qiang's father, Su Dehou, thought Su Qiang had stolen something when he heard it, so he picked up a stick and wanted to beat him, "Tell me, did you steal something from someone else?"

Su Qiang became anxious, "Father and mother, why are you doing this? Su Chenrui's sister gave it to me, and Su Chenrui asked me to get it earlier."

Su Dehou hesitated: "Really?"

"Really, really! Than real gold."

Grandma Su Qiang touched Su Qiang's head, "I believe what Qiang Zi said, although he is skinny, he never lies."

Mao pointed to the watermelon and asked, "Then what is this thing that is the same as a wax gourd?"

Su Qiang took out the watermelon and put it on the table and said to his parents and grandma, "This is called watermelon. It is usually ripe before the autumn harvest. I ate it at Chen Rui's house before. It is delicious and sweet."

"By the way, sister Su Rui said, it's too cold to freeze now, or it will freeze to death."

Mrs. Mao was about to put the melon in the stove, but when she heard this, she stopped and turned and went into the bedroom.

"This melon, wait until your eldest aunt, younger aunt, eldest sister, and your second sister return to your natal home in the second year of junior high school to eat."

Su Qiang kicked his foot, "Oh, good."

Su Changle's family saw the melons and leeks that Chen Wei had brought back, and said to Mrs. Hua, "Hey... Miss Rui really misses everything about us."

Hua nodded, "Miss Rui is a good girl."

In Su Changying's house, the whole family huddled in the main room, looking at the watermelons on the table.

Su Lu was smoking a pipe beside him.

Mrs. Liu said slowly, "Chen Yuan, you said this is watermelon? Can it be eaten?"

Su Chenyuan nodded, "Yes, grandma, it's delicious and sweet. My mother and younger siblings have also eaten it."

Lin Shi, Chen Li, and Su Min all nodded.

At the same time, the woman in the big house thought, "I'm so envious, I really want to eat..."

Mr. Su Lu said at this time, "Then thirty nights, kill and eat."

The women in the big house cheered...

After breakfast the next day, Su Chenwei's voice came from outside the courtyard.

"Chen Rui, Chen Rui come out quickly, my father said to take us to catch fish."

Su Rui has just chopped the ribs and is going to make sweet and sour pork ribs for lunch.

Su Rui walked out of the far door and saw Su Changle leading Chen Jie, Chen Wei, Su Changying leading Chen Yuan and Su Qiang also following...

"Uncle Chang Le, are you and Uncle Chang Ying going?"

Su Changle replied: "Well, I was fine yesterday afternoon. I went up the mountain for a while, and saw that the water pool from the waterfall on the mountain was frozen solid, and there were many fish in it that were under the ice. It is best to catch fish at this time. It's..."

Su Rui thought, it was caused by the lack of oxygen in the fish...

"Rui girl, don't worry, I will help you look after Chen Rui." Su Changying thought that Su Rui was worried, so she quickly promised.

Su Rui didn't explain either: "Then be careful on the road. Whether you catch fish or not, come back early."

Su Chenjie: "Sister Rui, we may not come back at noon, we caught fish there, we will grill the fish to eat"

"Brother Chenjie, wait a minute, I'll get some steamed buns, you take them with you. While grilling the fish, bake the steamed stuffed buns to eat..."

As he said that, he ran back and took fourteen buns, two of them.

After sending off the fish catching army, Su Rui went back to the kitchen, "Today's lunch is just for us."

Su Qiao stopped washing the pork ribs and said, "Then shall we still eat sweet and sour pork ribs at noon?"

Su Rui is puzzled? "Why not? They eat grilled fish, and we eat ribs, isn't it fair?"

Su Qiao smiled "OK"

Su Qiao likes it very much. She likes the sweet and sour taste of this dish taught by the elder sister...

Wash the ribs and blanch them.Add lard to the pan, and when the oil is hot, stir-fry the ginger and the pork ribs that have been drained.Turn off the heat when small golden shells appear on the surface of the pork ribs, and set aside.

Pour the oil and rock sugar into the pan, stir-fry over medium-low heat.As the temperature rises, the rock sugar slowly melts.Stir constantly with a spatula until it turns brown.Continue to stir until the sugar is brownish red and large bubbles appear.

At this time, you can pour in the ribs that have been dry-stirred before, and stir-fry the sugar color evenly on the ribs.Add water and rice wine and simmer for half an hour.

Now you can make the seasoning sauce, put the sweet and sour sauce in a ratio of three to two, when the soup is almost ready, pour the sweet and sour sauce into the pot, and add some salt.The fire collects the juice...

The sweet and sour pork ribs at this time are bright red and oily in color, moderately sweet and sour, and not greasy or greasy.

Su Qiao fell in love with this taste of meat after eating it twice.

"Sister, do you think it's okay if you only use meat to make sweet and sour pork?"

Su Rui raised her eyebrows and thought, "Isn't it the modern sweet and sour pork?"

"Okay, you can try next time."

"Um"

For lunch, the four sisters Su Rui and Su Chennan ate together.

Sweet and sour pork ribs are not only loved by Su Qiao, but also loved by the whole family.

"Sister, I want more." Su Chennan ate three yuan and wanted to eat more, Su Rui said, no more...

Su Chennan looked around and there was really nothing left, so he obediently ate the egg custard fed by Su Rui.

In the mountains, Su Changle led everyone to the side of the waterfall. These are the footprints of his walking up the mountain yesterday. Otherwise, it would not be very easy to enter with so many boys and such deep snow...

At this time, the waterfall was already frozen, Su Chenrui walked to the middle of the pool, swept off the snow covering it, and found that there were a lot of fish underneath, and shouted: "Brother Chen Yuan, come quickly, there are really fish. "

Su Chenyuan was cautiously walking towards Su Chenrui's side slowly. When he heard that there were fish, he didn't care about being careful anymore. He rushed over and lay down on the ice and said, "Ah, really."

He shouted in surprise, "Father, Chang Lebo, Brother Chen Jie, Brother Chen Wei and Su Qiang, come and see. There are so many fish..."

Su Changle walked over with an ice hammer, "Be careful, don't stand in the place where there are big air bubbles."

Su Changying yelled from a distance: "Chen Yuan, don't jump around! Stand still..."

Su Chenyuan "... I got it."

(End of this chapter)