pasture leisure

Chapter 93 Fish Stew and Drink
Herod!
The two horses stopped one after another.

White air was constantly spouting from the nostrils. It was obvious that the two horses had been running for a long time, and it could be said that they had reached the limit of their physical fitness.

Melika waited for Zhang Chi to catch up, and said with a smile: "Your riding skills are good, I can't even get rid of you."

Zhang Chi replied with a smile: "Don't put gold on my face, if you want to get rid of me, I will get rid of it, and your horse is not suitable for riding, after all, it is not your own horse, and my Chiyanshan Not only is it my daily ride, but Cannon also made me a saddle during this time.

Otherwise, I wouldn't even have the ability to follow you and eat ashes."

Zhang Chi is telling the truth. At the beginning, Zhang Chi could keep up with Melika, but the level difference between the two is really big. You can’t expect to catch up with Mei Lika after studying for a year. Lika received strict equestrian training since she was a child, then you have no respect for the profession.

Melika heard what Zhang Chi said, so she said, "I didn't expect you to be quite caring."

"Fuck me, I know my level is better than a few months ago, but it's far behind the cowboys. My efforts this year will catch up with others' level in more than ten years. I think too highly of myself.

Alright, this horse is almost running, we are also sweating for a year, let's go back early," Zhang Chi said.

Melika had run enough and nodded, so the two rode to the direction of the stables.

It was originally the way back, so the two of them didn't walk for long before they came to the door of the stable.

Leading two horses in, first remove the sweat pad from the saddle, and then wipe the sweat off the horses with a warm towel. Ma Yizhun has a cold.

After the two of them wiped the horse's hair with a warm towel, they wiped it again with a dry towel, touched the horse's hair with their hands, and found that it didn't feel too much moisture, and tried it on the armpit or something. Wrap the two horses with horse clothes, and finally put the horses in the stalls of the stables.

"Do you want Big Bull and Two Tigers?"

"Don't worry about them, just take care of yourself, go back to the house, take a hot bath, and change into dry clothes."

After speaking, Zhang Chi took the lead out of the stable, and after watching Melika come out, he closed the door of the stable, and then trotted all the way in the direction of the house.

Zhang Chi ran ahead, and Melika followed closely behind.

Running into the house and closing the door, Zhang Chi saw that the firewood in the fireplace was almost burned, so he went outside to get a bundle of firewood in his hands and returned to the house to refill the fire in the fireplace.

The two have been crazy in the snow for a long time, but don't underestimate riding a horse, especially this kind of sudden turn and stop. It is really exhausting. Anyway, Melika doesn't know what to do. When it arrived, it was very uncomfortable.

No matter how uncomfortable Zhang Chi was, he knew to let the lady come first, so he told Melika to let her take a bath first.

Melika was not too polite, she put the clothes with her in the car, after taking the clothes, she went into the bathroom, and after looking at them, Melika knew how Zhang Chi's things were used.

After taking a shower and changing into dry clothes, Melika saw Zhang Chi squatting in the living room picking beans, so she put the changed clothes back on the car, turned and went into the house.

"I'll pick the beans, you go in and wash them."

"Ok!"

Zhang Chi couldn't stand the sticky feeling anymore, so he threw down the beans in his hand and went into the bathroom happily.

If a big man takes a bath for more than ten minutes, it is equivalent to a marathon. People like Zhang Chi usually soak in water for [-] seconds, soap for [-] seconds, and wait for ten seconds to rinse with water. It always takes two to three minutes to finish.

When Zhang Chi came out of the bathroom, he found that Melika had already picked a large pot of beans. Seeing this situation, Zhang Chi thought: It's broken!

When I got closer, I saw Melika picking beans by the handful.

"Hey, sister! Don't you choose beans without looking at worms?" Zhang Chi said with a wry smile.

"Will there be worms?"

Melika did not expect that the beans had worms.

"These beans have not been sprayed with medicine, and they have not been treated. Of course, there are insects when they grow naturally." Zhang Chi said to Melika, threw the towel in his hand, squatted down and started to pick it up in the basin.

"Don't choose, this much is enough, there are only two of us in total, and the fish alone weighs [-] catties, just use less of these side dishes," Zhang Chi said.

"If you eat it today, you can still eat fish jelly tomorrow," Melika said.

"Hey, you are really a Chinese hand, you can eat fish jelly if you eat fish," Zhang Chi laughed.

Melika said: "Of course I know. Is there any other dishes to choose?"

"It's gone, it's gone, you can rest." How dare Zhang Chi let him choose vegetables again, and now Zhang Chi has to rework the pile of beans to pick out the worms in the beans.

Melika walked around the room, didn't even watch a TV, and felt that there was nothing to play for a while, so she turned to Zhang Chi's side again.

"What pot are you going to cook in tonight?"

This is nothing to talk about. There is such a large iron pot under the porch, so I can’t use the big pot and use the small pots in the kitchen. With that thing, three pots can’t cook what Melika brought. fish.

"There are iron pots on the corridor," Zhang Chi replied.

Melika said: "I'll go and move it back into the house."

"What do you do with it? Let's eat it outside. You won't be afraid of the cold around the pot. Guan Jian just moved it into the house. What if it gets poisoned, I can't guarantee it," Zhang Chi said.

Melika thought for a while, then said: "Then it's up to you, do you want me to help with the following matters, if not, I will take care of my business."

Zhang Chi thought to himself: If I need your help, I might as well be busy myself.

So he said: "You are busy with your work, there is nothing to be busy in the future."

Hearing what Zhang Chi said, Melika went back to the car to get the notebook, and immediately dealt with business at the dining table.

Zhang Chi ran through the beans twice, picked out a dozen or so beans with worms, and then washed the beans in water.

Put the cleaned beans aside, peel the potatoes, cut them into hob pieces, take out the tofu, cut off a small piece, put the remaining tofu directly in the basket and hang it outside to make frozen tofu.

After finding a handful of fresh red peppers, a handful of small green peppers, shallots and garlic, Zhang Chi started to kill the fish.

It is impossible to kill a big carp weighing twelve catties directly. You have to hit it on the forehead with a hammer and knock it unconscious before killing it.

He took the fish out of the box and threw it directly on the snow outside. After allowing the fish to bounce a few times, Zhang Chi walked up to the fish with a hammer in his hand, and hit the head for a while.

Boom!
The fish stopped moving for a moment.

Carrying it back to the shelf, he made a knife on the head and tail of the fish, and lightly patted the flesh of the fish with the blade of the knife, pulling out the tendons on both sides, and then the scales of the fish were cut and the belly of the fish was cut open. .

Zhang Chi found that the fish belly was full of fish roe.

Zhang Chi liked this stuff very much, he immediately took a bowl and packed the fish roe, except for the fish fat, treat everything else as garbage and throw them outside later.

After finishing the fish, Zhang Chi made some flower knives on the fish, rubbed it with salt and a little cooking oil and marinated it for a while. Such a big fish has a strong earthy smell.

While marinating, Zhang Chi patted some garlic, chopped some ginger, and chopped shallots. Of course, coriander is indispensable for cooking fish, and Zhang Chi loves coriander.

"Do you eat cilantro?"

Some people don't like to eat, so Zhang Chi asked Melika.

"I'm fine with everything," Melika said.

After hearing this, Zhang Chi continued to work.

After waiting for ten minutes, the fish was almost marinated. Zhang Chi grabbed the flour and patted the fish to make the fish stick to the flour.

Next comes the fire.

First ignite the alcohol block, and then stack the split firewood on it, leaving a certain gap between the firewood and the firewood, so that the wind can pass and the fire in the stove will be bigger.

Waiting for the fire to start, Zhang Chi first slid the pan with oil, waited for the pan to heat up, scooped out the oil from the pan, put cold oil in the pan, and then grabbed the head and tail of the fish, and put the fish into the pan.

Zi... la!

The combination of the fish body and the oil in the pot made an intoxicating sound.

Because of the flour, the fish skin will not be fried. When the fish is turned over, the fried side has a little burnt yellow, and the flour attached to the fish skin has some small bubbles.

This is at its best, as the small bubbles will absorb the broth and the skin will be delicious.

After the two sides of the fish are fried, Zhang Chi pushes the fish to the side with a spoon, and the fried fish starts to fry the ingredients. You can put ginger and garlic in it at this time.

Waiting for the aroma to come out of frying, then add water, just enough to cover the fish body, then put soy sauce, dark soy sauce, and seasonings such as fermented soybeans into the pot.

The whole fish soup has a sauce color, cover the pot and start to burn.

After the fish had been cooking for a while and the pot gas began to rise, Zhang Chi had already mixed a small pot of noodles. He lifted the lid of the pot and turned the noodles around the edge of the pot. This is the staple food for tonight. up.

At this time, put all the side dishes such as potatoes, beans, tofu and so on into the pot, cover the pot and continue to simmer.

When the pot was gasping again, the aroma of fish came out along the seam of the pot lid, hooking the nose.

At this time, you have to change to a low heat and simmer slowly, so that the flavor can be stewed into the fish. Of course, the umami flavor of the fish will also be stewed into the pancakes along the pot and side dishes.

After the stew is finished, reduce the juice on high heat, so that the fish soup becomes thicker. This is the most essential part of the pot. Pour rice, and Zhang Chi can eat two big bowls.

"Melica! Eat".

Zhang Chi picked up two chairs, put them directly beside the pot, and called Melika to come out for dinner.

As soon as Melika went out, she said, "It smells so good."

When Melika's eyes fell on a bottle of white wine placed on the edge of the pot, she asked Zhang Chi, "Still drinking?"

"It's so cold outside, how can you not drink some wine to drive away the cold, come on, if you don't dislike it, put on this army coat."

Speaking of which, Zhang Chi put on his military coat and sat down on a chair.

"Bring me some wine too." Melika sat down next to the pot, and after thinking about it, she still put on her military coat.

(End of this chapter)