The leisurely life of farmers in mountain villages

Chapter 45 Stewed Eggplant with Silver Carp

In the vegetable garden soaked by the heavy rain, the soil was soft, and the shoes sank after stepping on it.Wang Shaodong picked two eggplants, and when he came out of the vegetable garden, his shoes were covered with mud.

Stewed eggplant with silver carp, this is the lunch that the Wang family will eat today.

The sky cleared up for about an hour in the morning, but now it was noon, it became gloomy again.

And looking at the shape of the clouds in the sky, the next rain will not be any less than yesterday's rain.

Today, the big fish rushed down from the mountain torrents and was caught by Wang Fumin, which made him feel good. After returning home, he ordered Wang Shaodong to pick the eggplants, and then he busied himself with disemboweling the fish, scraping the scales and picking the gills.

Uncle Wang Shaodong is a master at cooking fish, and Wang Fumin learned a little bit from it.

Thousands of stewed tofu and ten thousand stewed fish, fish and tofu are stewed together.The cloudy days continued, and Aunt Cao, who grinds tofu in the village, did not move for two days.Fish stew with eggplant is also good without tofu.

Home-grown pure green and pollution-free eggplants are served with pure wild silver carp, sprinkled with a handful of peppercorns, poured with soy sauce, vinegar and salt, and then stewed in an iron pot on top of the clay pot head.

After packing up the fish, put them in the pot. The eggplants are broken into pieces by hand without cutting them with a knife, and thrown into the iron pot, then pour half a pot of mountain spring water, add seasonings, etc. Fire controls the heat.

When stewing fish, the fire should not be too high. It is best to stew slowly on low heat, so that the aroma of eggplant and fish can be soaked together, and all the ingredients can be boiled into the ingredients, so that the stewed silver carp eggplant has the best taste. OK

Wang Shaodong was trained by his mother Zhao Shiling to cook with fire since he was a child, so the iron pot was cleaned up, and after the ingredients were put in, Zhao Shiling and Wang Fumin told Wang Shaodong to watch the fire, and then Zhao Shiling went to the chicken coop to drink water for the chickens, and Wang Fumin , Seeing that the sky was gloomy again, he hurriedly transported the feed from the warehouse to the greenhouse.

The kitchen of the Wang family is very simple. There are two small open sheds located on the east side of the main hall. In the sheds are stacked branches for firewood.Inside the shed are two pots and stoves made of mud, and there is also a pancake griddle.

Pancake griddles are not commonly used, because Zhao Shiling is busy raising chickens, and sometimes Zhao Shiling does not touch the pancake griddle for several months.

While Wang Shaodong was lighting the fire and looking at the stove, outside the shed and inside the courtyard, a gust of cool wind blew, and the bean-sized raindrops fell down with a patter.

Seeing this, Wang Shaodong hurriedly got up to close all the windows that had just been opened, and then hurried back to the simple kitchen.

It was raining heavily, and it was getting harder and harder.

The wind picked up, and a lot of rain was blown into the shed.A gust of wind even blew the rainwater to the side of the stove where Wang Shaodong was, and the raindrops hitting the stove made a squeaking sound.

The whole air was filled with a salty smell. Seeing this, Wang Shaodong quickly blocked it with his body to protect the stove.

At this moment, Wang Shaodong was already shirtless, and the air humidity was very high. Whenever he moved, his clothes would stick to his body, which made people feel uncomfortable.

Fortunately, the strong wind was only a gust, and then the wind subsided. In the courtyard outside, Wang Shaodong, who was sitting in the shed, saw the rain line slanted, as if it was drawn.

While Wang Shaodong was taking care of the stove, Wang Shaodong's mother, Zhao Shiling, hurried into the shed with an umbrella.

Zhao Shiling wiped the rain from her forehead, smiled, and looked at her son: "How is it? Are you getting ready?"

"Mom, I haven't watched it yet, it's been stewed for half an hour."

Zhao Shiling leaned over to the stove, and carefully lifted the lid of the pot, a puff of white air rose out, and the whole shed was filled with a strong fragrance of fish and eggplant.

Zhao Shiling took out a pair of chopsticks from the chopstick cage on the stove, then inserted them with the chopsticks, nodded and said, "Okay, it's almost done, don't add more firewood. It can be filled in another 5 minutes. "

When Wang Shaodong heard his mother say that the stewed eggplant with silver carp was almost ready to be cooked, he took the big plate that he had brought over to hold the fish, looked at his mother with a smile and said, "Mother, what's the temperature and humidity inside the chicken coop?" Sample?"

"Let's make it, the humidity is a bit high, and I heard the sound of chickens panting inside the large group."

Chicken farmers should always pay attention to the sound of the chickens in the large group. If the sound is too loud, it means that the temperature of the chicken house is too high and needs to be cooled down. If there is a sound of chicken panting, it means that the temperature drops too fast, which may cause A little chick caught a cold and got a respiratory infection.

Wang Shaodong frowned, and then Zhao Shiling continued: "But I added a handful of oxytetracycline to the drinking water just now, and the situation in Daqun is better now."

On cloudy and rainy days in summer, when the air humidity is high, if the humidity in the chicken coop cannot be controlled, it is easy to cause chicken diseases.

Wang Shaodong decided to wait for the day after tomorrow to clear up, and then seize the time to get some honeysuckle leaves and red sage seeds, and use these pure natural things to prevent epidemic diseases of chickens, so that he can rest assured.

If it is said that those who are engaged in the breeding industry dare not eat the food they raise, is such a person still a human being?
The two of them chatted for a while, and at this time the fire in the stove was extinguished, and then Wang Shaodong lifted the lid of the pot, and filled a large plate of stewed eggplant with silver carp into the plate that had been prepared earlier.

The dining room of the Wang family is actually the main hall, and the people in the countryside are not as particular about it as the people in the city.

A small square table, the food is ready, the three horses are set, the chopsticks are set, and the lunch begins.

It was raining heavily outside, and the family in the house enjoyed themselves happily.

Although Wang Fumin felt a little sorry for his son's not going to school, he also felt a little embarrassed when he saw that his son was doing things neatly.

After lunch, Wang Shaodong offered to take care of the chicks in the chicken coop, then he took a book about raising chickens and ran to the chicken coop under an umbrella.

At this time, Wang Fumin, who was still in the main hall, suddenly frowned, and then said to his wife Zhao Shiling, "Dongzi, his mother, have you told the daughter of the Zhentang family?"

"Say what?" Zhao Shiling forgot what her man said to her yesterday.

When Wang Fumin heard this, he said angrily, "Why did you forget about the child?"

"Oh, I remembered. However, it has been raining for the past two days, so I don't have time."

"Hey, I heard that the retake class of No. [-] Middle School will start registration soon..."

At this moment, the Wang family's phone rang suddenly, and Zhao Shiling hurried over to answer the phone.

"Oh, it's Teacher Ma, oh, Shaodong can take the repeating class for free, okay, let me tell him, I really need to trouble Teacher Ma."

After hanging up the phone, Zhao Shiling frowned and said to Wang Fumin: "It was the teacher in charge of Shaodong who called, saying that our Dongzi can go to the school to repeat his studies for free, and if he is admitted to Tsinghua University and Peking University, the school will reward him with 1 yuan. Woolen cloth."

Hearing the latter sentence, Wang Fumin immediately pointed to his wife and said, "Now you go to Lili with an umbrella and ask her to persuade Dongzi."

When Zhao Shiling heard this, she had no choice but to nod, holding an umbrella, and went to Ma Zhentang's house.

(End of this chapter)