Back to 90s small fishing village

As soon as Xu Caimei left, Xu Ping'an started to work.

After a while, the little general who was wagging his tail after him suddenly raised his head as if he felt something, and then twisted his fat body and ran towards the door, jumping and jumping on the door, and kept barking.

Xu Pingan raised his arm and wiped the sweat from his head.

"Caimei and the others are back, right?"

He stood up, walked to the door, and opened the courtyard door.

The young general rushed out like an arrow.

After a while, Xu Caimei and the Dahuang family came back.

As soon as they entered the yard, Dahuang and several puppies except the little general barked excitedly, rushed to the fish offal and meat skin piled on the ground, and started eating.

"Look at you, you're hungry, as if you haven't eaten in years." Xu Ping'an said with a smile, "If I hadn't been on duty, I would have thought that Pingcai would have abused you."

"Pingcai said they haven't had lunch yet, and they just happened to come back to eat meat." Xu Caimei said, washed her hands, put on her apron, and stood in front of the stove.

"What to do first?" Xu Ping'an came over and asked, "I'll help you."

"Let's make some lard first. You can fry things or keep it for cooking."

Xu Caimei washed and cut the eight pounds of pork suet she bought into pieces, boiled them in cold water, and then carefully washed them with warm water two or three times.

Xu Ping'an followed Xu Caimei's instructions and cut the onions and ginger in advance. While she was washing the pork suet, she brushed the pot and boiled another pot of water.

Xu Caimei put the washed pork suet into the half-boiled water and stirred it constantly.

"From now on, we just have to keep turning, right?"

"Ah."

Xu Pingan took the spatula from Xu Caimei's hand.

"Leave this kind of hard work to me. Chef, what do you want to do next? Just continue."

Xu Caimei looked at the washed and cut fish, meat, and ingredients, and shook her head.

"You cooks are quite diligent and have taken away all the work. Then I will make the stuffing and wrap the fish in bread. When the oil is ready, we can fry it."

"Okay, you go ahead." Xu Pingan said respectfully, his funny tone successfully amused Xu Caimei.

Xu Caimei also deliberately said in a tone of voice: "Okay, I'll leave this to you, do your best, young man."

"Yes!" Xu Ping'an raised his shovel and saluted.

Xu Caimei turned around and took a big bowl, put Xu Ping'an's minced meat into the bowl, picked up the salt bag, poured some salt into the palm of her hand, and then poured it into the bowl.

Then he opened a plastic bag with its mouth closed, scooped out a spoonful of slightly pungent white pepper, and added it to the bowl.

Two spoons of old wine, one spoon of dark soy sauce, one spoon of five-spice powder, one spoon of vegetable oil, and some minced onion and ginger.

After adding these, Xu Caimei's eyes wandered around the bottles and cans on the table, then took out some dried Sichuan peppercorns, placed them on the chopping board, crushed the Sichuan peppercorns as much as possible with a flat-bottomed water cup on the side, and finally crushed them. These crushed peppercorns were also added.

After adding all the ingredients, Xu Caimei put her hand into the bowl and stirred all the seasonings and meat filling together.

When the mixture was almost mixed, Xu Caimei beat in a few more eggs. After mixing until the meat filling was filled with sticky juice, she added the starch on the side and continued to mix vigorously.

After preparing the meatball filling, she continued to mix a dough and "put it on" for the fish.

When Xu Ping'an's oil is boiled, remove the oil residue and pour out the cooking oil left on the upper layer. The remaining oil will continue to roll in the pot.

Xu Caimei grabbed a handful of meat filling with her left hand, adjusted the amount of meat filling with her fingers, squeezed it with her tiger's mouth, used a spoon with her right hand to remove the squeezed meat filling, and pushed it into the boiling oil along the edge of the pot.

Xu Ping'an looked left and right, picked up a fish from the basin on the side, and wanted to throw it into the pot, but Xu Caimei stopped him.

"Ping'an! No!" "What's wrong?" Xu Ping'an stopped and asked in confusion, "You fry the meatballs, and I'll fry the fish for you."

"You can't fry them together. The fish has a fishy smell. If you fry them together, the smell will change."

Xu Ping'an said "Oh" and put the basin back.

"Then what should I do now?"

Xu Caimei thought for a moment, pursed her lips, and motioned for him to take away the blanched pork.

"Your pot is relatively big. You take away the meat and the plate of ingredients on the table and put them into the pot. Then pour half a bottle of light soy sauce and two spoons of dark soy sauce into the pot and simmer over low heat."

"Stewed pork, right?" Xu Ping'an asked.

"Yes, bring it to a boil over high heat first, then turn to low heat and simmer slowly so that the flavor can be absorbed more evenly." Xu Caimei instructed.

"Okay, I get it. I still know how to order braised pork - my favorite when I was a kid, I often watched my mother make it." Xu Ping'an agreed and left with the meat.

Xu Caimei was frying meatballs and memorizing an English composition.

After going through this exam preparation, she was deeply troubled by her shortcomings in English. Considering that if she wanted to continue studying, there would be more and more difficult English exams waiting for her in the future, so she did not relax even after the exam was over. study.

Xu Ping'an braised the meat, loosened the firewood, and simmered it slowly over low heat.

As soon as the meatballs are fried, it’s time to fry the fish.Speaking of fried fish, I thought of Xu Caimei who was scalded by hot oil splash last time. I was worried and hurried back to Xu Caimei's kitchen in two steps.

As soon as she entered the door, she heard Xu Caimei talking about something.

He listened secretly for a while, but didn't understand anything.

Perhaps realizing that what he was doing was wrong, he coughed heavily and then walked in.

"Peace, is the meat marinated?"

"Well, where have you been with your work? Let me help you fry the fish."

"it is good."

"Caimei, what were you mumbling about just now?" Xu Pingan asked, "Are you worried about anything? If you have anything, don't hold it back. Tell me and I will help you."

Xu Caimei burst into laughter, "I was reciting English just now, so I didn't mutter anything."

"English? Didn't you finish the test?"

Xu Caimei told Xu Pingan her thoughts.

"This is a good idea. Since you have the opportunity, then go ahead and work hard, and I will fully support you." Xu Ping'an smiled, "By the way, when will your results be released this time?"

"February 24th, I calculated, is the sixth day of the Lunar New Year." Xu Caimei said, "The results will be released at the designated place. I want to go there early, while there are few people, to see if I have passed."

"Okay, I'll take you there then."

The two of them had prepared all the food, and it was already evening.

For dinner, Xu Caimei heated some meatballs, cut some braised meat, stewed some rice, fried vegetables, and ate them with Xu Pingan.

"It's a good time to celebrate the New Year. Although we haven't reached thirty yet, the food is already much better than usual." Xu Ping'an touched his belly and felt that it was not bad enough, so he handed the bowl to Xu Caimei again.

"After a year of hard work, of course I have to take a good rest these days, eat something good, and take some supplements, so that I can work energetically in the coming year." Xu Caimei said with a smile while helping him add food.

When he got up the next day, Xu Ping'an moved the ladder, pasted the couplets bought by Xu Caimei, and pasted the bright red word "Fu" on the door.

The preparations for the New Year are almost complete.

(End of this chapter)