good old days

Chapter 137 Small River Shrimp

Wu Xiulian didn't stay at Jiang Xinyu's house for long and left. The mother and daughter took a nap and went to work in the private plot.

Today I started digging the ground to plant carrots and cabbage. The cabbage planted in this wave is early cabbage, and the amount of planting is not much. I will plant another wave of cabbage and radish in September and October. When it matures, I will stockpile it and store it in winter. eat slowly.

Jiang Xinyu wore a straw hat and picked off all the red peppers, and Comrade Chen Xiuyun was ready to boil chili sauce.

The sun was too high, and she was sweating before she could work. She grabbed a reddish-green tomato, wiped it clean, and put it in her mouth.

The tomatoes were warmed by the sun. She ate the tomatoes and counted the watermelons in the ground.

As long as she comes from the reserved land, she will definitely be able to count watermelons. She basically knows every watermelon in the reserved land, and she remembers all its characteristics.

She counted three times in a row, and said loudly, "Mom, I lost two big watermelons."

Chen Xiuyun didn't take it seriously. The melons were planted in the field, and people couldn't watch them every day. Not every household had melons planted in their private plots. It was normal to throw a few melons, but it was not so happy after all.

After Jiang Xinyu finished eating the tomatoes, she began to bury the seed pit.

She has fertilized the private plot a lot, and the pig manure and chicken manure at home have made the land a lot fatter.

After planting the seeds, the two of them weeded again. Chen Xiuyun was so hot that she grabbed a tomato and sat on a stalk to eat it.

"What kind of food to eat at night, I dragged it back now. The peanuts that were dried before are almost ready. When I go back, I fry some salted peanuts to eat."

Now there are only two mothers and daughters in the family. Compared with other families who do not have enough food and are struggling to eat, the two people do not consume much food every day. Since the vegetables in the private plot have matured, the expenses for the two have not been large.

What Jiang Xinyu ate the most in the past two months was frogs. There were endless catches of this stuff, and she couldn't get tired of eating it every few days.But the taste is different from pork.

She wants to eat a lot, seafood, beef, all kinds of fish, stewed, soup noodles, etc. She wants to eat all kinds of delicacies decades later.

She wiped off her sweat and asked, "When will I buy some ribs? Without ribs, pigs are fine!"

She still remembers the pork belly noodles made by Comrade Chen Xiuyun!
Chen Xiuyun was convinced, "I think you just want to eat. When you go to other people's homes, can you be so greedy? When they return you, I can't afford it."

Any family that can eat meat twice a month is a family with good conditions in the village.

Chen Xiuyun felt that with the temperament of a little girl, it would be difficult for her to save money in the future. Some money might have gone into her belly, and Chen Yi would get used to her. Before the two got married, Chen Xiuyun began to worry about the future of the two of them. The family is worried.

Just when Jiang Xinyu was about to reply, she saw a group of children with muddy trouser legs coming from a distance, and when she saw the basins in their hands, she waved.

Jiang Xinyu would occasionally give sugar to the children and ask them to help catch frogs. Seeing her waving, the group of children came over with a sense of face.

"What's in your basin?"

The children's faces were covered with sweat, and they handed her the basin, "This is the loach and shrimp we caught over there."

The loach in the basin was still rolling vigorously in the shallow layer of water, which made Jiang Xinyu's goosebumps rise. It was hard for her to like this slippery strip.

As for the small river prawns, their transparent bodies and vibrating whiskers look very pleasing.

This is all food, Jiang Xinyu's eyes are bright, the loach is also very delicious when it is cooked, as for these pure natural small river shrimp, whether it is fried or fried, it should taste good.

"If Sister Xinyu wants it, you can give us candy, and we'll grab a pot for you."

When the child mentioned the candy, his eyes sparkled.

Jiang Xinyu nodded hurriedly, "One pot is exchanged for two candies, and you share it among yourself."

With the children's happy faces, she asked again: "Is the ditch over there deep?"

The child shook his head and made a gesture. There was a small ditch over there, and the water only reached their knees, so there would be no accident at all.

From the children's narration, there are a lot of shrimps in the small river ditch.

After the children left, Chen Xiuyun said speechlessly: "What's so delicious about the loach? It's really fishy. Do you think there is too much sugar at home?"

Chen Xiuyun knew that Chen Yi would give sweets to her little girl from time to time, and she really felt that Chen Yi didn't know how to save money at all, but he was doing her best to her daughter.

The earthy smell of loach is simply unpalatable, as are river prawns and crabs. There is no meat at all, and the taste is so-so.People in the village catch frogs because the fried frogs are delicious and can quench their thirst. Loach, small river shrimp and small river crabs are not so popular, otherwise the small river ditches would not be flooded.

Jiang Xinyu said confidently: "I'll tell you how to make fried loach when I go back."

She doesn't know how to fry, but she knows how to cook loach.

Thinking of the delicious fried loach that she had eaten in the past, she already started to salivate.

Chen Xiuyun didn't want her to trouble her, so which one of her troubles was unexpected?
If someone else's house eats oil for a month and asks her to cook, she can finish it all at once.If she lives like this, no one can stand it.

If Jiang Xinyu knew what she was complaining about, she would have to defend herself a few words.Nowadays, people cook with an oil cloth to wipe the bottom of the pot, and they won't need two taels of oil this year!
After Jiang Xinyu returned home, she soaked some mushrooms that Chen Yi had given her before, and then waited eagerly for the children to bring her something back.

There are really a lot of shrimps in the small river ditch, and the children are considered experienced. They dug a small hole next to the ditch, and after a while, many shrimps swam through the hole. They can be hugged directly in a straw bag. A large pot full of loach and small river prawns came.

Because there were too many things and there was no water in the basin, Jiang Xinyu saw that there were really a lot of them, so she took out an extra candy for the children.

The children were very excited, and said that they would be needed to help with things in the future, just ask them.

Jiang Xinyu separated the loach from the small river shrimp, and filled the loach basin with water. These loach were not slippery, and Jiang Xinyu felt a shock in her heart, but she could bear it very much for a bite.

The loach vomited sand for a day or two. She scoured the small river shrimp many times. After cleaning, she cleaned the head of the shrimp, trimmed the whiskers slightly, and pulled off a part of the tail. The prawns came out.

Seeing her quick hands, Chen Xiuyun also learned to do it, and gave up before finding a shrimp thread, "How did you pull it so smoothly? Who did you learn from? This thread is still useful?"

Jiang Xinyu said boldly, "I read it in the book, and I can learn it without a teacher. This thread is the excrement of the shrimp, of course it must be removed, and the taste will be better after cleaning." She couldn't swallow it without cleaning it.

Chen Xiuyun didn't care how she arranged these things anymore, she lit the fire and started to fry peanuts.

Chen Yi's mother and son will come tomorrow, and she always wants to get some treats.

Jiang Xinyu cleaned up the prawns very quickly. She wanted to make some of these prawns into shrimp paste and fry the other part.

"Mom, get some sorghum noodles, and I'll treat you to noodles covered with shrimp paste later."

When Jiang Xinyu was chopping shrimp paste with great interest, the bicycle bell rang at the door.

Yesterday, Chen Yi went to another village to show a movie. He left the Wuliqiao brigade a little late, and rested in the village at night. He went to the county again in the morning, and went to the police station when he came back in the afternoon. just came back.

(End of this chapter)