Life in a quiet village in Xianshan

"Brother, do you want to eat braised fish this morning?"

Sicui asked with a smile when she saw the big herring in Gu Siwei's hand.

Gu Siwei happily raised the fish in his hand: "How is it?"

"It's big, but this kind of fish is a bit old," Sicui replied.

After staying with Gu Siwei for a long time, Sicui began to be a little picky. Of course, she also learned the saying "Yurou is not old" from Gu Siwei.

"It's a bit old to eat it braised in braised sauce, but it's quite good for cooking porridge," Gu Siwei explained loudly to his sister with a smile.

After a while, Hu Yanqiu walked out of the house, listened to the conversation between the brother and sister, looked at the big fish in Gu Siwei's hand, and asked, "Did you go fishing early in the morning?"

Gu Siwei smiled and nodded: "Didn't you say you wanted to eat fish? I happened to have nothing to do when I got up in the morning, so I went to the river to catch one. Look, it's fresh."

In the morning, Hu Yanqiu said casually, it would be great if there was a fish. The small fish Hu Yanqiu mentioned is small salted fish, which is perfect when paired with rice porridge.

However, Gu Siwei couldn't get the little salted fish for a while, so he had to let his wife try something else.

The fish is indeed still alive. If you look closely, you can see that the fish's mouth is still slightly open from time to time. Although the straw rope is passed through the mouth from the gills to the mouth, the vitality of this fish is still quite strong and it is not dead yet. .

When Sicui heard Gu Siwei talking about using fish to cook porridge, she immediately said: "Brother, fish alone is not good. There is no wild ginger in this season. The taste of fish fillet porridge will be much worse without wild ginger."

The two old men standing next to them were already a little confused at the moment. They really couldn't understand why the brother and sister in front of them were so picky about food.

Gu Siwei didn't care what these two people were thinking. When he heard his sister say that there was no wild ginger, he smiled and took it from his pocket, took out a piece of wild ginger that was only as big as a palm and shook it.

"Did you see this?"

Gu Siwei asked with a smile.

Sicui's eyes lit up when she saw this thing. She paused and asked, "Is there any wild ginger at this time?"

With that said, he ran out of the vegetable garden, ran to Gu Siwei's side and reached out to pick up the wild ginger. He put it in front of his eyes and looked at it again and again, and finally confirmed that it was wild ginger.

"There is actually young wild ginger at this time!"

Sicui is a little strange.

Ginger is harvested almost three seasons a year, not because it is easy to grow, but because ginger adapts to the climate in the south. As long as you sow it on time, you can harvest it in more than two hundred days. Because the planting time is different in different places, almost New ginger comes off the market every year in the south.

But the wild ginger here is different. Wild ginger is wild ginger. It is relatively small, and the stems it produces are naturally smaller. They are usually only the size of a finger, and they usually have two or three nodes.

Using this thing to cook fish porridge was really not invented by Gu Siwei, but taught by Tao Yisheng. After eating it, whenever the Gu Siwei brother and sister eat fish porridge, they must add wild ginger.

I haven’t eaten it for a few days, mainly because the wild ginger is a bit old now and tastes a bit bitter, so it is really not suitable for cooking porridge.

So why is it there today? Needless to say the reason, does Gu Siwei want to eat something out of season?

"It was a coincidence that I saw this ginger that had just emerged. I originally wanted to dig it up, but I didn't expect that I actually dug it up. Okay, stop looking and go wash it. , I pack the fish”.

Gu Siwei didn't have time to talk to his sister about the wild ginger, so he asked the girl to wash the wild ginger. He went to the stove, took out the chopping board and kitchen knife, and carried them up with the fish to the edge of the ditch.

He directly put the chopping board on the ground and hit the fish's head twice with the back of the knife. The fish immediately stopped moving after hitting it, and then he started to scale the fish with the knife.

The scales hadn't been finished yet, and a winking Hu Yanqiu came over with a basin and squatted next to Gu Siwei.

"Get out of the way, don't let the fish blood splash on you."

While busy, Gu Siwei said to Hu Yanqiu who was squatting next to him.

Hu Yanqiu smiled and said: "You are not afraid of me. What are you afraid of? Also, can you let me give it a try?"

"What? Killing fish?"

Gu Siwei was a little unsure for a moment, so he asked Hu Yanqiu.

Hu Yanqiu nodded: "Well, I want to learn to cook. Otherwise, if I have to let you cook in the future, others will see me as a useless snack. I will learn to cook from you."

"Hey! What am I talking about? I cook because I like this job, and I'm not forcing you to know how to cook. Let others say what they want. What does it mean for us to live our own lives and hinder them? "Yeah..." Upon hearing this, Gu Siwei felt that he had to enlighten Hu Yanqiu, how tiring it would be to live in other people's mouths all the time.

Hu Yanqiu said: "I also want to learn."

"Really want to learn?"

When Gu Siwei saw Hu Yanqiu nodding solemnly, he handed the knife in Hu Yanqiu's hand.

"Then let's start with scaling. Make sure the knife is a little slanted. Don't slant it too much. If you slant it too much, your strength will be wasted. If the angle of the blade is just right, you can remove the scales quickly and without wasting your strength.

Slow down, don't cut your hands, the knives at home are quite sharp."

Gu Siwei taught his daughter-in-law how to kill fish step by step. After Sicui washed the ginger, she went to wash the rice. The brother and sister had cooperated in the cooking process countless times. Needless to say, Sicui knew how to do it.

After the rice was washed, Sicui poured the rice into the pot. After adding water, she did not light a fire directly. Instead, she covered the pot and let the rice soak in the pot.

After finishing this, Sicui saw that the fish hadn't been killed yet, so she sat on the small bench with her chin in her hands, looking at the two people showing affection not far away with a smile.

Sicui was very happy. Now the girl had begun to wonder when she would be able to hold her little nephew.

Although it was a bit strange for such an older child to want to hold his nephew, that's what Sicui thought.

Others are not embarrassed, but now the two old men are really embarrassed.

It's inappropriate to yell twice at this time, and they wouldn't be happy to go back into the house, but it's not easy to disturb others.

In the end, there was really nothing else to do, and the two old men came to Sicui's side.

"Sicui, is there any work we can do?"

Old Man Li asked with a smile.

After hearing this, Sicui scratched her head and made a humming sound, obviously thinking about what other work she could do at home.

After thinking for a while, Sicui finally said: "Why don't you go to the fields to pull grass after dinner? My brother said that you are here to work. Pulling grass is good, how about you go and beat leaves on the corn cobs? ?”

As soon as the two old men heard that there was work to do, they immediately smiled and said, "Okay, any work is fine. They have been working and now they feel uneasy without work."

This was heard by Gu Siwei. He turned around and smiled at the two old men and said: "You guys are really... ugh! Oh, by the way, from now on, let's build another house, and then you will have a living." It’s time to do it.”

"Build a house?"

Old Man Li asked.

Gu Siwei nodded and said: "Yeah, otherwise, you two will live in that house. My house is useful. When the house here is built, you can move over and move this house out for me."

Hearing this, the two old men looked at each other, and they both got the same idea from each other's eyes: You see, just after staying for one night, we were asked to move out the good house. Forget it, this might be the fate of the two of them to end up in a stable.

Gu Siwei didn't pay attention to the expressions on the faces of the two old men. He was now focused on preventing his wife from getting her hand cut with a knife.

"Have all the materials ready?"

When Old Man Yu asked, he glanced around and found no bricks or anything around. Naturally, he thought that the materials were not ready yet, so he speculated that the house could not be built in winter.

Otherwise, it is a mud house, which is quite normal. Most rural houses now are mud houses. Wooden houses like the one Gu Siwei lives in are extremely rare, and they are still in the American country style.

As for why Old Man Yu knows American country style, Old Man Yu has studied abroad well. Although he did not go to Europe like most leaders, Old Man Yu still has some aesthetics. It was immediately obvious that Gu Siwei built this house. The style is close to the American country style, a thick log house, and he once lived in it for two years.

"Whatever materials we need to prepare are all ready-made. There is wood piled over there. You can peel off the bark first and smooth out the scars later. Forget it, I'll make breakfast later and I'll teach you. "Gu Siwei wanted to explain, but felt it was too much trouble. He could just take them there after dinner and watch him do it again.

For these two old men, Gu Siwei was not prepared to cause any trouble for them, and he would not treat them like some young people outside. However, he did not say that he knew how the development of the times would be in the future, so he insisted on licking them. Gu Siwei There is no such hobby here.

When you come here to work, you are guaranteed three meals a day. I won’t beat you or torture you. As for any special treatment, don’t think about it.

Gu Siwei's life experience told him that no matter what time or occasion, you have to think highly of yourself, and only if you think highly of yourself can others value you, and a person who can think highly of you anytime, anywhere Gu Siwei at least looks down on people who put themselves in a low position, so even if he knows what he is like in decades, Gu Siwei cannot just look shy and shout something like "Lao Li, Lao Yu".

For no other reason than because of the loss of share, the share of the space holders!

Under the guidance of Gu Siwei, the fish was cleaned up.

Just when Hu Yanqiu wanted to learn how to fillet fish, he was stopped by Gu Siwei.

"I'll do it first. I'll leave some fish meat for you to fillet later."

If Hu Yanqiu continues to operate, Gu Siwei feels that his breakfast will have to be changed to lunch. Killing a fish is so exhausting, let alone filleting fish with higher technical content.

Moreover, even if a novice can slice it, one slice will be thick and the other will be thin. The thin ones will be cooked into pieces and the thick ones will still be raw in the middle. You can't change the fish fillet porridge to fish fillets and become mushy.

Hu Yanqiu didn't insist and continued to watch Gu Siwei Pianyu.

She watched carefully and studied very seriously. It seemed that she really wanted to be a qualified housewife.