Life in a small village with quiet mountains and quiet waters

Chapter 262 Eat fish for breakfast
"Brother, did you eat braised fish this morning?"

Seeing the big herring in Gu Siwei's hand, Sicui asked with a smile.

Gu Siwei happily raised the fish in his hand: "How is it?"

"It's big, but this kind of fish is a bit old," Sicui replied.

After staying with Gu Siwei for a long time, Si Cui began to be a little picky. Of course, the words of fish and meat are also learned from Gu Siwei.

"Braised braised food is naturally a bit old, but it is quite good to cook porridge," Gu Siwei explained loudly to his sister with a smile.

After a while, Hu Yanqiu came out of the house, listened to the conversation between the brothers and sisters, looked at the big fish in Gu Siwei's hand, and asked, "Did you go fishing early in the morning?"

Gu Siwei nodded with a smile: "Didn't you say you want to eat fish? I happened to have nothing to do when I woke up in the morning, so I went to the river to catch one. Look, it's fresh."

In the morning Hu Yanqiu said casually, if only there was a fish.The small fish Hu Yanqiu mentioned is a small salted fish, which is a must with rice porridge.

But for a while, Gu Siwei couldn't get out the little salted fish, so he had to let his wife try something else.

The fish is indeed still alive. If you look carefully, you can see that the mouth of the fish is still slightly opened from time to time. Although the straw rope has passed through the mouth from the gills, the vitality of this fish is still very strong, and it has not died yet. .

When Sicui heard Gu Siwei say that fish was used to cook porridge, Si Cui immediately said: "Brother, it's not good to have fish alone. There is no wild ginger in this season, and the taste of fish porridge will be much worse without wild ginger."

The two old men standing next to them had their brains a little bit down at the moment. They really couldn't understand why the brother and sister in front of them were so picky about what they ate?
Gu Siwei didn't take into account what the two of them were thinking. When he heard his sister say that there was no wild ginger, he touched it from his pocket with a smile, and took out a piece of wild ginger that was only the size of a palm and shook it.

"Did you see this?"

Gu Siwei asked with a smile.

Seeing this thing, Sicui's eyes lit up, and after a pause, he asked, "Is there still wild ginger at this time?"

As he said, he ran out of the vegetable garden, ran to Gu Siwei's side and reached out to take the wild ginger, put it in front of his eyes and looked again, and finally confirmed that it was wild ginger.

"At this time, there is tender wild ginger!"

Si Cui is a bit strange.

Ginger is harvested in almost three seasons a year, not because they are easy to grow, but because ginger adapts to the climate in the south. As long as it is sown on time, it will be harvested after more than 200 days. Because the time of planting is different in different places, it is almost the same in the south. New ginger is off the market every year.

But the wild ginger here is different. Wild ginger is wild ginger. It is relatively small, and the stems are naturally relatively small, usually only the size of a finger, and usually have two or three knots.

Using this thing to cook fish porridge was really not created by Gu Siwei, but taught by Tao Yisheng. Since eating it, whenever Gu Siwei and his sister eat fish porridge, they must add wild ginger.

I haven't eaten it for a few days, mainly because the wild ginger is a bit old at this time, and the taste is a bit bitter, so it is really not suitable for cooking porridge.

Then why is there today?Needless to say the reason, does Gu Siwei want to eat something out of season?

"It happened to me too. When I saw this ginger plant that had just emerged, I wanted to dig it out, but I didn't expect to dig it out. Well, don't look at it, go wash it , I pack the fish."

Gu Siwei didn't have time to talk about the wild ginger with his sister. He asked the girl to wash the wild ginger, and he came to the side of the pot and stove, took out the chopping board and kitchen knife, and carried them up to the side of the ditch together with the fish.

He directly put the chopping board on the ground, hit the head of the fish twice with the back of the knife, the fish stopped moving immediately, and then began to scale the fish with the knife.

Lin's side hadn't been laid yet, Hu Yanqiu came over with a wink, and squatted down beside Gu Siwei.

"Get out of the way, don't let the fish blood splash on you."

While busy working, Gu Siwei said to Hu Yanqiu who was squatting beside him.

Hu Yanqiu said with a smile: "You are not afraid of what I am afraid of. Also, can you let me have a try?"

"What? Kill fish?"

Gu Siwei was a little uncertain for a while, so he asked Hu Yanqiu.

Hu Yanqiu nodded: "Well, I want to learn how to cook, otherwise I will let you cook in the future, then others will look at me like a waste snack, and I will learn how to cook from you in the future."

"Hey! What am I talking about? I like cooking because I really like this job, and it's not forcing you to be able to cook. Let others say what they want. Let's live our own lives to hinder them. It's over..." When Gu Siwei heard it, he felt that he had to enlighten Hu Yanqiu, how tiring it would be to live in other people's mouths.

Hu Yanqiu said: "I also want to learn."

"Do you really want to learn?"

Seeing Hu Yanqiu nodded solemnly, Gu Siwei handed the knife in Hu Yanqiu's hand.

"Then let's start with scaling. Be careful not to tilt the knife too much. If it is too tilted, it will lose strength. If the angle of the blade is just right, the scale will be scaled down quickly without wasting strength.

Slow down, don't scratch your hand, the knives at home are still quite sharp."

Gu Siwei taught his daughter-in-law to kill the fish hand in hand, and Sicui washed the ginger and went to wash the rice. The two brothers and sisters cooperated in the cooking process for countless times. No need for Gu Siwei to say, Sicui knows how to do it.

After the rice was cleaned, Sicui poured the rice into the pot. After adding water, he didn't light a fire directly, but covered the pot to let the rice soak in the pot.

After finishing all this, Sicui saw that the fish hadn't been killed yet, so she sat on the small bench with her chin in her hands, and looked at the two loving people not far away with a smile.

Si Cui is very happy, now the girl has begun to think in her heart, when will her little nephew let her hug her.

Although it's a little strange that such an older child wants to hug his little nephew, that's what Sicui thinks.

Others are not embarrassed, but now the two old men are really embarrassed.

It's inappropriate to yell twice at this time, and the two of them are not happy to go back to the house, but they just don't want to disturb others.

In the end, there was really nothing to do, and the two old men came to Sicui's side.

"Si Cui, is there anything we can do?"

Old Man Li asked with a smile.

Sicui scratched his head after hearing this, and let out a huh sound, obviously thinking about what other work at home could be done.

After thinking for a while, Sicui finally said: "Why don't you go to the field to weed the grass after dinner, my brother said that you are here to work, weeding is very good, or how about beating the leaves of the corn cobs?" ?”

As soon as the two old men heard that there was work to do, they immediately smiled and said: "Okay, I can do any kind of work. I have been working all the time, and now I don't have any work to do, so I don't feel at ease."

Gu Siwei heard this. He turned his face and said to the two old men with a smile: "You are really... Hey! Oh, by the way, starting today, let's build another house, and then you will have work It's time to do it."

"Build a house?"

old man Li asked.

Gu Siwei nodded and said: "Well, otherwise, you both live in that house. My house is useful. When the house here is built, you move this house out for me."

Hearing this, the two old men glanced at each other, and they both got the same idea from each other's eyes: You see, just stayed for one night, let us move out the good house.Forget it, this may be the fate of the two of them being the barn after all.

Gu Siwei didn't pay attention to the expressions on the faces of the two old men. He is now focusing on preventing his daughter-in-law from being cut by a knife.

"Have all the materials been prepared?"

Old man Yu looked around when he asked, but he didn't find any bricks or anything around, so he naturally thought that the materials were not ready, so he speculated that the house didn't know whether it could be raised in winter.

Otherwise, it is a mud house, which is quite normal. Now most of the rural houses are mud houses. Wooden houses like the one where Gu Siwei lives are extremely rare, and they are still in this American country style.

As for why Old Man Yu knows the American country style, did Old Man Yu stay there to study? Although he did not go to Europe like most leaders, Old Man Yu still has aesthetics. It was immediately obvious that Gu Siwei’s house was repaired. The style is close to the American country style, a thick log house, and he also lived in it for two years.

"What materials need to be prepared are all ready-made, and there are piles of wood over there. You peel off the bark first, and then flatten the scars. Forget it, I will make breakfast later, and I will teach you "Gu Siwei wanted to explain, but felt that it was too troublesome. After dinner, he would take them there and watch him do it again.

For these two old men, Gu Siwei was not prepared to cause any trouble for them, nor would he treat them like some young people outside, but he did not say that he knew how the development of the future would be, so he had to lick them, Gu Siwei There is no such hobby here.

Come here to work, three meals a day are guaranteed, I will neither beat you nor abuse you, as for any special treatment, don't even think about it.

Gu Siwei's lost life experience told him that no matter what time or occasion, you have to think highly of yourself, and only when you think highly of yourself can others think highly of you, and a person who looks up to you anytime, anywhere At least Gu Siwei looks down on people who put themselves in a low position, so even if they know how to do it for decades, it is impossible for Gu Siwei to just put on a shy face and call something old Li Yu.

Not for anything else, just because of the loss, the loss of the space holder's share!
Under the guidance of Gu Siwei, the fish was cleaned up.

Just when Hu Yanqiu wanted to learn sliced ​​fish, he was stopped by Gu Siwei.

"Let me go first, and leave some fish for you to slice slowly."

If Hu Yanqiu is allowed to continue to operate, Gu Siwei feels that his breakfast will have to be changed to lunch. It is so useless to kill a fish, let alone a piece of fish with higher technical content.

What's more, the novice's slices are thick and thin. The thin ones are boiled to pieces, and the thick ones are still raw in the middle. It is impossible to change the fish fillet porridge into fish fillets.

Hu Yanqiu didn't insist, and continued to look at Gu Siwei.

She looked very carefully and studied very seriously. It seemed that she really wanted to be a qualified housewife.

(End of this chapter)