Yoshida Mii

Chapter 64 Hospitality
Shuan Zi's father came to the house to dig a well, and Lin Fu's family also helped a lot during the separation process.It can be said that without Lin Fu's family, it would be basically impossible for Dong Bao to break away from the Song family relying on her and Li's family alone.

Dong Bao is a person who respects her a foot, and she pays back the respect of others, and feels uneasy when she owes others a favor.For the Lin family and Hong family who spared no effort to help her, Dongbao really wanted to thank them well, but she knew what was going on now, the money was only so little, not enough for three hangings, and the food was only one hundred catties of sorghum noodles.How to use this stuff to make a meal economically and well has become a problem.

"Brother Dashi, let's go catch fish." Dongbao suggested that there are many fish in the river in the village. During the heavy rain season in summer, when the rain stops, the river will swell and many fish will be washed onto the road. In the farmland, many people have picked up big fish weighing four to five catties.

Lin Shi actually didn't plan to eat at Dong Bao's house. On the contrary, he wanted to take Dong Bao to eat at his house, and then bring food back to Mrs. Li, so that they could save some rations for them.

However, seeing Dongbao pull the corner of his clothes, looking up at him expectantly, a pair of bright black eyes are round, very much like the eyes of the cat he raised when he was a child, bright and pure, He couldn't say anything of refusal.

"Okay, let's go catch fish." Lin Shi couldn't hold back again, and reached out to touch Dong Bao's soft head, catching fish can also be used as rations for Dong Bao and Li Shi.

When Quanzi and Shuanzi heard that they were going to catch fish in the river at the head of the village, the two children were naturally overjoyed. They were afraid that Lin Shi and Dongbao would not take them to play together, so they ran home quickly and took their baskets. .

When Aunt Qiuxia heard about it, she just told Lin Shi to take good care of her three younger brothers and sisters and not to fall into the river.

It had just rained for a few days, and the water in the river at the head of the village had risen a lot. Lin Shi found a place where the water was shallow and the flow was slow, and set up a basket. In the shallow water, I bent down to touch the water, and after a while, I threw a palm-sized small fish or a small green shrimp on the shore. Dongbao quickly picked it up and put it in the basket, and put the rest of the basket Also put it in the water to keep the caught fish and shrimp fresh.

Quanzi and Shuanzi felt itchy in their hearts. The ten-year-old boy was just being naughty and active. When Lin Shi was not paying attention, he took off his shoes and ran to Lin Shi's side, and followed suit. Lin Shi was helpless. Smiling, he told them not to go into the deep water again, and acquiesced to let the two little boys play in the water.

Lin Shi is already a strong young man, he can calm down, and his hands are strong. As long as he feels the small fish swimming past his hand, he can touch the fish most of the time, but Quanzi and Shuanzi are not so Great, imitating Lin Shi’s way to catch fish, usually just seeing the fish swimming, either screaming and screaming to scare the fish away, or holding the slippery fish with small hands, causing the fish to run away Lost.

After an hour, the harvest of the few people was quite rich. The small fish and shrimp filled half of the basket, Shuanzi and Quanzi also played happily, and they kept yelling for Lin Shi to bring them to fish next time. Lin Shi rewarded a chestnut alone.

Two fish weighing more than one catty were put into the basket in the river, and when they left the water for a while, they tossed and jumped in the basket non-stop.Dong Bao was pleasantly surprised and took a look. One was carp and the other was grass carp, both of which are common fish in the river.Now is not the best season for catching fish. Dong Bao was very pleasantly surprised to be able to catch such a big fish, thanks to the fact that Lin Shi found a good place to put the basket.

When the group arrived home, they were just in time for Aunt Qiuxia to send an old man out, "Dongbao is back, this is the doctor your aunt invited."

Dong Bao and Lin Shi quickly stopped, and asked the doctor respectfully: "Doctor, how is my mother?"

The old man was about fifty, wearing a gray cloth short jacket, blue coarse cloth trousers, and a black cloth belt around his waist. His face was sun-tanned purple and black. They are not like those thin-skinned and tender-looking doctors in the medical center in the town.

Then this doctor should not be a doctor sitting in a clinic, but a "barefoot doctor" in the countryside. Their main business is farming, and most of them are self-taught. They are not qualified to practice medicine in a medical clinic. Very effective and fairly cheap.

If there is such a doctor in a village, he is the first person to go to when someone is sick. If the barefoot doctor in the village can't see him, he will go to the town or Anzhou City to see a doctor.

The old man stroked his beard, but he didn't look down on Dongbao because she was a child, and said, "Your mother just caught a cold, and she's almost recovered. If you're worried, go to the town clinic and ask a doctor to take a look." Just grab two medicines and take them."

"Oh, thank you doctor!" Dong Bao hurriedly thanked her. She already knew that Mrs. Li was not seriously ill. Seeing what the doctor said now, she felt more relieved. "This consultation fee..."

The old man shook his head, "Your aunt gave me the consultation fee before I came."

"Then doctor, why don't you stay and have a meal." Dong Bao greeted.

"No, no, no. I have to go home quickly, and I have to plant peanuts in the field in the afternoon." After finishing speaking, the old man strode away with his hands behind his back.

After seeing off the doctor, Shuanzi's father also finished his work and bid farewell to Dongbao. Dongbao wanted to keep him for dinner, but Shuanzi's father refused at first. Dongbao enthusiastically persuaded him to stay with Uncle Lin Fu for a long time. It happened that Shuanzi didn't want to leave, so Shuanzi's father stayed behind.

Mrs. Li couldn't lie on the bed anymore, she wanted to help Dongbao cook the pot when she got up, and was invited out by a few children jokingly, claiming that they would cook the meal, and it would be fine for the adults to rest aside.

Aunt Qiuxia was worried, fearing that Quanzi would be too skinny and burn the pot in the new house. She wanted to go to help, but was pulled back by Lin Fu, and said with a smile: "The child will respect us when he grows up What are you stopping for?"

Dongbao took out ten Wen from his family's "savings", sent Quanzi and Shuanzi as errands, went to the grocery store in the village to buy soybean oil for twenty yuan, which was estimated to be about a catty, and then I took the onion, ginger and garlic from the Lin family.She and Lin Shi were busy cleaning up the caught fish. The big fish was cut into sections and wrapped in sorghum batter with the small fish and shrimp.

After the oil was beaten back, Lin Shi burned the pot, and Dong Bao poured the oil into the pot, and heated it to five or six minutes, then put the wrapped small fish and shrimps in and fried them slowly, until both sides were fried golden and crispy. fished out.The aroma of fried fish and shrimp permeated the courtyard, and the gluttonous Quanzi and Shuanzi drool aside.

There were quite a lot of small fish and shrimp, and there were two bowls in total. Dongbao asked Quanzi and Shuanzi to take it to the main room, and asked them to eat it with the adults chatting in the main room. It was an appetizer before meals. The two fish that came down were the highlight.

Dongbao scooped out the remaining oil in the pot, leaving only a little bit. The two fish were cut into thick sections, put into the pot and fried thoroughly, put a few ladles of water, and boiled over high heat.The soup is battered with flour, seasoned with soy sauce, ginger and garlic sprouts are added to remove the fishy smell. When it comes out of the pot, green onion is sprinkled on the soup. Not to mention the aroma, just looking at it is called The man moved his index finger.

After cleaning the pot, Dongbao put sorghum flour pancakes on the edge of the pot. The kang pancakes are much faster than stewing fish. In less than a quarter of an hour, Dongbao peeled off the pancakes one by one, along with the stewed fish. They were sent to the hall together.

Most of the fried small fish and shrimps were killed by Quanzi and Shuanzi, and the two of them were still unsatisfied. They secretly agreed to touch the small fish so that Dongbao would fry them for them.

"Smell, it's really fragrant!" Father Shuanzi smiled as he smelled the aroma of fish soup, "Dongbao is so smart, I didn't know that fish could do this. I used to touch fish and bring them home, either boil them in water or deep fry them." In order to eat fish nuggets, the ones made by Dongbao are not as fragrant as those made by Dongbao!"

Dong Bao laughed and said, "Uncle loves to eat, so if you catch fish, you'll bring it over. I'll share it with you when I make it!"

"That's no problem!" Father Shuan laughed loudly.

Everyone shared a bowl of fragrant fish soup, followed Dongbao's example and broke the pancakes into pieces and soaked them in the fish soup.Dongbao also filled fish soup and pancakes, and brought them to Mrs. Li in the back room.

Quanzi on the side finished his soup and peeked into his brother's bowl secretly. Lin Shi turned his back to him calmly, and Quanzi angrily muttered that his brother was stingy.

Lin Shi looked at Dong Bao with a smile, this little girl is so smart, she always surprises him.

There are a lot of wild game in the countryside, but not many people know how to cook it.Even in Dongbao’s previous life, when material communication was so developed, there were still many housewives in the countryside who cooked their whole lives, and the food they made was still average. Most people didn’t have the chance to experience and taste it. How to burn.

In Dong Bao’s memory, when I was a child, during the New Year’s Eve, every family in the village bought fish and chicken, and most of them just cut the fish and chicken into pieces and fried them in a frying pan. There is no taste, but in the era of lack of food and clothing, meat is considered delicious.

After dinner, Shuanzi's father took Shuanzi back home, and only the Lin family was left, so Mrs. Li came out of the house, and the two families sat down to talk.

"Hongzhen, what are you planning to do in the future?" Aunt Qiuxia asked. It is a good thing that the family has separated, but the next thing to consider is the future life of the two of them. If there is no land, there will be no food. The one hundred catties given to them Sorghum noodles are not enough to eat.

Mrs. Li thought about it, and before she could speak, Dongbao said first: "My mother and I are going to make tofu for sale." When she was packing up yesterday, she found two well-preserved small millstones in the west room, just in time to save The money to buy the millstone.

"Make tofu?" Lin Fu was very surprised, then shook his head and said, "Tofu is not easy to sell here, our water is not good, and the tofu made is not good."

Dong Bao laughed, but it was hard to explain to them, so he just blinked and said with a smile: "Our well water is good, maybe we can make good tofu!"

(End of this chapter)