The black-bellied prince: the little princess of the chef

Chapter 125 Dried Fish

Ye Junbei's net is enough for others to cast a few nets.

Although most of the fish are small fish with the length of the middle finger, they are more numerous, and most of the fish baskets are filled in one net.

Ye Junbei felt that too many small fish were meat, so he wanted to call it a day and go home.But Ye Qing didn't agree, she wished that there would be more small fishes!

"Qingqing, why do you want small fish? Except for the belly, there is no meat, and there are many fish bones."

"Brother, trust me, have I ever lied to you? I'm really useful, keep casting more nets, the more the better."

Ye Qing resorted to his trump card—acting coquettishly, but Ye Junbei couldn't resist, then thinking of Ye Qing's cooking skills, he carried the wet fishing net on his shoulders, and continued to cast the net in another place.

When the fish basket was full, Ye Qing "slaved" Wu Yan to help her carry it back, and then sent the fish basket to continue to fill the fish.

Wu Yan is willing to serve the queen in his heart, so why would he find it troublesome?After Ye Qing finished speaking, he didn't say anything else, he carried the fish basket with one hand and walked back together with Ye Qing.

All the people on the riverside envied the fish in the basket full, and some of them made dumb jokes and asked him to share it with everyone.

But all of them were jokes, and they were all rejected by Wuyan "Silence" - he didn't even shake his head.

As soon as he got home, Wu Yan poured the fish into two large earthen pots and pushed the earthen pots under the sweet-scented osmanthus tree.

Ye Qing rolled up his sleeves, took a small stool and sat down, and hurried away.

"Wu Yan, you send the fish basket to brother, and bring a wooden barrel, I want a lot of these small fish, you know?"

Ye Qing was afraid that Wu Yan would not know what kind of small fish, so he specially picked up one and handed it to him.

"Okay, lots and lots of little fish."

Wu Yan repeated Ye Qing's words, carried the fish basket and wooden bucket, and went back to the river.

He will definitely "supervise" Ye Jun's northern fishing.

Zhang Xiu heard noises in the yard, opened the window to look, and saw two large basins of fish in front of Ye Qing, which shocked her.

At this time, Ye Qing has already picked out the big fish and put it in the wooden bucket beside him.

"Qingqing, these little fish have so many bones that they can easily get stuck in their throats. What are you doing here?"

Ye Qing raised his head, smiled mysteriously at Zhang Xiu, lowered his voice and said: "Sister-in-law, this is a delicious dish, you will know it in the future."

Mrs. Zhang saw that she was mysterious, didn't know what she was going to do, and couldn't help herself, so she lifted a stool and took a cattail fan and sat beside her, fanning the mosquitoes (a little bit bigger) Mosquitoes that bite very badly).

Mrs. Xu came back with a basket from outside, and frowned slightly when she smelled the smell of fish all over the yard.

She pushed open the courtyard door and saw Ye Qing's hands covered with fish scales and blood, as well as fish bellies and small fish all over the ground, she frowned again.

"Qingqing, what are you doing?"

"It's mysterious," Zhang Xiu joked with a smile, then looked at Xu's basket and said, "Mother, where have you been on such a hot day?"

Xu raised the basket in his hand, and heard a "meow" sound from the basket.

Mrs. Xu put down the basket, uncovered the cloth on the basket, and said with a smile, "I bought a kitten from your third wife's house. The family collected food. It's impossible not to have a cat. It just so happens that your third wife's cat is two months old." , I went to catch one."

In the basket, a snow-white kitten held its head high, and their shadows were reflected in the blue eyes of the basket.It shrank its neck cautiously, a little afraid of strangers, and then "meowed" twice.

"What a cute cat."

Seeing the kitten, Zhang Xiu was deeply attracted by the kitten, and praised it repeatedly.

However, Ye Qing just casually glanced at the basket, didn't even see what the cat was like, then lowered her head to clean the fish's stomach - she really hates cats.

In Ye Qing's memory, cats are unlucky creatures.Although she is a little superstitious, the meowing of cats always makes her scalp tingle, and she can't like it from the bottom of her heart.

But what Niang said was the truth, the family had harvested so much rice, and they were going to break corn soon, so they must have a cat.

But, to be honest, she didn't like it.

"Mom, can you help me wash two plaques and get them out? These small fish have to be salted and dried."

"Okay, okay, isn't it just washing the plaque, what's wrong?"

Xu understood that her daughter didn't like cats very much, so she didn't ask why, so she carried the cat into the house.After a while, he took two round plaques and came out to wash them.

The round plaque has been cleaned, and the small fish that Ye Qing cleaned up is only half.Mrs. Xu didn't know what she was going to do, so she simply asked her to dump the small fish that had been cleaned, and let her dissect the stomach and clean the internal organs.

Ye Qing brought the little fish to the well, brought up a bucket of water, went into the kitchen and took a clay basin, and started cleaning.

Drying fish in the sun is not an easy task, and requires techniques and skills.

When rubbing salt on small fish, be sure to spread it evenly, otherwise some places are too salty, and some places are already smelly before drying.

In order to effectively remove the fishy smell, before applying salt, mix white wine and ginger slices, marinate, and then apply salt evenly.

Ye Qing originally wanted to mix a little Chinese prickly ash and pepper powder in the salt, but when she thought about the role of most of the dried fish in the future, she stopped the idea.

"Qingqing, how can our family eat up so many small fish?"

"How much?" Hearing Xu's words, Ye Qing seemed to be talking to himself, and then said: "I also asked my brother and Wu Yan to get more, as much as I want."

Xu: ".."

Zhang Xiu: ".."

Ye Qing made sure to coat each small fish with salt before placing them one by one in the round plaque.If these fish are bigger, they cannot be dried in a round plaque, but must be hung with bamboo strips to dry fully.

The mother and daughter were busy all afternoon, and the small fish filled two round plaques.

Seeing that it was getting late, Mrs. Xu wanted to go to the kitchen to cook.As soon as she stood up, she heard a "click" in her waist and felt a pain in her lower back.

"Mother, are you alright?"

When Zhang Xiu heard the voice, her face turned pale with fright, and she quickly supported her with both hands.

Mrs. Xu tried to move, but then she felt nothing at all. She was afraid that her daughter-in-law would be worried, so she shook her head and said, "I guess I've been sitting for a long time, so I'm fine." Seeing that Zhang Xiu didn't believe it, she twisted her waist, "Look, it's really all right."

Seeing that she was fine, Zhang Xiu slowly let go of her hanging heart.

"Mother, take a break. I added some firewood and heated up the leftovers from lunch. I made another pot of flour and steamed fish buns for later."

Ye Qing didn't know what happened just now, he walked out of the kitchen and said with a smile on his face.

Zhang Xiu and Xu Shi were taken aback when they heard "fish meat buns". Can this fish meat be used as stuffing for buns?

The mother-in-law and daughter-in-law haven't digested the news of the "fish buns", but Ye Junbei and Wu Yan have already returned with fish baskets and wooden barrels - there are really a lot of fish!
(End of this chapter)