After the whole network was hacked, she traveled through the small fishing village of Datang

Chapter 13 The new lady is a loser

Su Qingqing doesn't know how to cook rice, but these oysters, blue crabs and shellfish that she caught from the sea in the morning can all be boiled in water.

Seafood itself is salty, so there is no need to add salt, just boil it and eat it.

Filling her stomach was the most important thing. Su Qingqing couldn't bear to be hungry. When she was hungry, she would feel dizzy, break out in cold sweats, and even become bipolar.

This is the shadow of childhood. She is most afraid of hunger.

Fortunately, I had carefully observed Zhang's cooking before, so I had some ideas in my mind.

Zhang's stove is a boat-shaped stove with a heart-shaped smoke hole in the front. The flue leads to the roof. There is a fire wall behind it. There are two cauldrons on it, one made of iron and one made of pottery. Under the fire wall Open a square stove door.

The biggest difference from the stoves of later generations is that there is no big iron pot, only a cauldron.

The cauldron is in the shape of an altar, with a small mouth and a big belly, and two ears on both sides.

Su Qingqing scooped water from the water tank on the side. She couldn't find a brush, so she made do with rubbing the blue crabs, conches and oysters twice with her hands.

It is inconvenient to get firewood here. Going up the mountain to collect and chop firewood consumes a lot of energy.

Su Qingqing naturally couldn't be too particular when she was in someone else's house, so she just let it go.

Steamed oysters have their original flavor and don’t need to be opened raw.After steaming, open the lid of the cauldron and fan it to cool down quickly, making it easier to cook.

After putting the water, oysters, conches, and green crabs into the iron cauldron, Su Qingqing sat by the stove door, found a fire stick and blew sparks like Zhang did, and then poured firewood into the cauldron. On point.

Such a small thing to light a fire is not an easy thing.If you want to burn it in the stove, you need to know some skills.

Su Qingqing lit the fire three times before burning the firewood. Then she quickly picked up the tongs and reached into the stove, fiddling with the firewood from time to time.

There must be enough oxygen between the firewood and the firewood so that the fire can burn vigorously. If they are piled together, it will be extinguished easily.

Perhaps because Su Qingqing's skills were not very good, the smoke produced by burning firewood was not discharged upward according to the flue.

Some of it came out directly from the stove and went into Su Qingqing's nose.

Not long after the fire started, the entire woodshed was filled with smoke, which made Su Qingqing's eyes hurt and her nose choked.

"It's on fire! It's on fire!"

Su Qingqing was lighting a fire with her eyes narrowed when she suddenly heard a commotion in the yard, as if a child was shouting "fire".

Where is the fire?

She was still wondering, and was about to stand up and go out to take a look, when she saw a few heads crawling through the door of the woodshed. They were the daughter-in-law Zhao next door and several children.

The two parties looked at each other for a while, and Ms. Zhao looked around the woodshed and asked, "Why is there so much smoke? Are you...are you cooking seafood?"

Su Qingqing nodded and replied: "Lunch."

"Lunch...lunch?" Mrs. Zhao was speechless. She thought the smoke rising from the third uncle's woodshed was on fire, but it turned out that it was an outsider who was cooking lunch!
Mrs. Zhao has lived from her parents’ home to her husband’s home for 24 years, but she has never seen anyone’s family have lunch!

Even when farming is busy, it’s just a matter of having a dry breakfast!

What kind of family is this, and you still have lunch?I have never heard of such a family in the town!

I have eaten up all the food at home. What should I do when there is no harvest? Do you want to drink the northwest wind?
You must know that neither farmers nor fishermen can just catch fish and grow food to feed their families.Fishing taxes and taxes in winter and summer every year, as well as other exorbitant taxes and miscellaneous taxes, are the largest expenditure and the most harmful to human lives.

Mrs. Zhao felt sorry for her third aunt and her family. What kind of relatives are here? Why are they so ignorant? They are like rice cooks. The owner is not at home, so they burn firewood and cook.She was sure that Su Qingqing must have made her own decision, because if the third aunt and the others were willing to add an extra meal to the guests, Zhang would naturally cook the food. How could an outsider do this?

Mrs. Zhao fanned the smoke in the room with her withered yellow hand, and said with dissatisfaction: "Aunt Su, you may not know that we have two meals a day here, one early and one late. Extra meals are aristocratic style, There is no such family in the village.”

"Ah."

Su Qingqing responded lukewarmly. Facing this woman who came over to talk to her out of nowhere, she felt no fluctuation in her heart.

What she was cooking was what she harvested from going to sea. She also picked up firewood today, so she didn’t think there was anything wrong with it.

Unexpectedly, the unrelated next-door neighbor gave me a lesson and did your business! ?

Seeing Su Qingqing's expression of indifference, Zhao took the child and slammed the door and left.

"A noble man has come to Aunt Santang's house. What's strange is that he even cooks lunch! Big dog, go to the fields to the east and call Aunt Zhang and ask her to come back for lunch!"

Zhao bit the word "lunch" so hard that the neighbors could probably hear it.

There were people nearby who were busy weaving at home. After hearing this, they couldn't help but put down their work and went out of the yard to look around. When they saw smoke coming from Zhang's woodshed, they all opened their mouths.

We are really cooking lunch!
This is really rare!
Yesterday, when the young lady dressed in silk clothes entered the village, everyone guessed that she was not an ordinary person.Now when I look at it, it turns out that he has a wealthy temperament and a habit of eating lunch!Tsk tsk!
Smelling the faint smell of seafood in the air, everyone was hungry.

From ancient times to the present, poor families have had two meals a day, just two meals a day, because food is so scarce.

But those princes and nobles also followed the custom of having two meals a day.But there is an extremely rich variety of food, and every meal is filling and nutritious.

There are also a dazzling variety of snacks, fruits, teas, etc. between meals, so you won't be hungry at all.

The neighbors were all secretly laughing at the fact that there was a loser in the Zhang family, but little Nuonuo happily came over and didn't mind the smoke in the woodshed.

"Aunt Qingqing, what are you cooking?"

"Boil blue crabs, oysters, and conches. We'll call your mother and grandma home later and eat together."

Su Qingqing is also willing to talk to little Nuonuo. Children are much more interesting than adults.

"Yeah!" Little Nono nodded heavily, she was so happy that she blurted out, "Aunt Qingqing, you are so kind, cook lunch for Nono."

By the time Su Qingqing finished cooking the pot of seafood, Mrs. Zhang and Mr. He from the field had not returned yet.

"Little Nono, do you know where your mother and your grandma are working? Let's go call them back to eat."

Little Nono volunteered: "Nono knows! Nono go shout!"

After saying that, he opened his short legs and ran out of the yard "deng deng deng".

On the way, I also ran into the big dog from next door who was ordered by his mother to go to the fields to complain to his aunt and grandma.

The big dog called Noonuo directly: "Are you going to complain to your mother? No need! I have already told you, but your mother said don't worry about it, he is your distinguished guest. After digging the ground for a while, you have to come back to give me a complaint." She's cooking!"

As he spoke, his face was full of envy. It was so cool to be able to eat three meals a day!

Xiao Nuonuo is small, but he has a beginning and an end to his work.If you have agreed to call your mother, you must go and call her in person and never give up halfway.

"Oh, I'm not complaining, I'm just going to call my mother home." He waved his hands to Brother Big Dog and continued running towards his own field.

(End of this chapter)