Chapter 17 Thousand Rolling Tofu and Ten Thousand Rolling Fish

Xu Xinger picked up something by herself, didn't look at him, and turned around and left.

"Xing'er, I didn't mean to, I..."

Brother Cheng shouted a few times in the back, but Xu Xinger did not look back.

"Here, Brother Shanzi picked it for you." When I got home, I gave the lantern fruit to Taoer. Seeing that her eyes were full of joy, Xu Xinger couldn't help rubbing her hair and said, "In a few days, I will go to the market to bring you delicious food."

Taoer took a lantern fruit and stuffed it into her mouth. Her eyebrows were so sour that she squeezed into a ball. Hearing this, she shook her head repeatedly and said vaguely, "I don't have money at home. I don't want it." Then he picked up a lantern fruit and stuffed it into Xu Xinger's mouth, "Sister, you can eat it too."

A lantern fruit, sour from her mouth to Xu Xinger's heart, rubbed Taoer's hair and thought about how to make money, but she always couldn't do it. She sighed, "Sister, I'm going to cook. You can go into the house and play by yourself."

She cleaned up the two fish in the yard with a wooden basin, found a small bowl and poured some yellow wine, pinched a pinch of salt and stirred them well, wiped the inside and outside of the fish and put them aside to marinate.

Xu Xinger took more firewood to the stove, lit the stove, cut shredded green onions, shredded ginger and garlic slices, pulled off a few dried mushrooms under the beam of the room, and went to the basket to find a few dry red dates.

After the pot is heated, put less oil, throw the green onion, ginger and garlic into the pot, add water, put the fish down, and throw down the dried mushrooms and dates. Finally, pour less yellow wine into the pot, gently stir it with a spoon, mix the cooking wine in the pot, and then cover the pot.

Tao'er stood at the door of the East House, holding a lantern fruit. She didn't know whether it was sour or greedy. There was a shiny saliva at the corners of her mouth and sucked back from time to time.

Seeing her greedy appearance, Xu Xinger couldn't help smiling and nodded her forehead and said, "You little greedy cat."

"I'm not greedy." Taoer raised her hand to wipe her saliva, turned her head away from the stove, squeezed her lips and said, "Give it to my mother."

Xu Xinger's nose was sore. She hugged Taoer in her arms and said, "The whole family will eat it. In the future, I will go to the river to catch fish and come back to eat." With that, he took out a copper coin and stuffed it for Taoer, patted her buttocks and said, "Don't walk around the pot. Go to Uncle Chen's house to ask if there is any old tofu."

"Hmm!" Tao'er agreed happily and ran away.

Xu Xinger raised her hand to wipe away the moisture from the corners of her eyes. After the soup in the pot rolled, she pressed the fire with grass ash and slowly stewed the fish soup over low heat.

Peaches came back with tofu in a short time. The water in the north is good and the beans are good, so the bean products are very delicious. The big tofu ordered by brine is white and delicate, and it is very resistant to cooking and stewing. It is delicious whether it is mixed, stir-frying, slipping and stewed.

Xu Xinger lifted the lid of the pot, held the tofu in one hand, held a knife in the other, cut a knife in the middle of the tofu, then cut it into thin and similar thick slices, and directly shook it into the pot, stirring up the fragrant heat, causing Taoer to inhale.

"Thousands of tofu and fish are delicious after stewing for a long time. Don't make trouble here when you enter the house." Xu Xinger scooped some corn flour, added water and kneaded it into a dough, covered it with a wet cloth and put it aside to wake up. She went to the ground and pinched some cabbage, chose to wash it and shrug it with hot water, chopped it out the water, and took some sweet potato flour to soften it, chopped it and mixed it together, put her feet on the cabinet to remove the large oil jar, and stirred it in a little. In the filling.

Turn around and take the dough that is almost awake, pinch it into thin slices, put a spoonful of stuffing on it, then slowly turn the dough in the palm of your hand, pinch the dough in the other hand, and finally wrap it into a dough and put it on the drawer cloth of the steamer.

Xu Xinger is very good at cooking, and she is not unfamiliar with these rural dishes. After all, she has learned to cook since she was able to cook on the edge of the pot in her previous life. Over the years, she has been well-made. In a short time, she wrapped a drawer and began to steam vegetable dumplings.

Xu Laosan came back from outside now, holding a hoe in his hand and carrying a large bundle of firewood on his body. When he entered the courtyard, he threw down the firewood first, then put down the hoe, entered the room and asked with a sniffing smile, "What kind of delicious food today? Is it so delicious?"

"Stewed tofu with boiled carp crutches, and just steamed vegetable balls." Xing'er stared at the fire of fish soup and vegetable balls, ground them with small stones in her hand, took some fine rice and ground them. When the vegetable balls were almost ready, she began to cook rice soup.

Ye hasn't milked until now. The two children who are waiting to be fed can only fill their stomachs by eating rice paste. Chestnuts are too small and can only drink some rice soup. Locker can already feed some sticky rice paste.

So Xu Xinger grinds the fine rice every time, which is easier to be soft when boiled. The upper layer of thin rice soup is fed to the chestnuts, and the bottom is given to the lock. Occasionally, the remaining ones are reluctant to let the peaches be fed again in the middle of the night.

Fortunately, the two children did not pick their mouths and had anything to eat. Although they looked thin and weak, they did not see any illness, which reassured Ye and Xu Xinger a lot.

When the rice paste was almost cooked, Xu Xinger removed the heat from the fish soup and simmered it for a while before lifting the lid. A strong smell of fish came to her face, which made her swallow. Since she came here, she really lost a lot. Usually, it is rare to see a meat star and occasionally eats a few bites. Vegetables with oil flowers are not easy.

She first put out a large bowl of clear soup, shoveled a piece of fish belly with few spines, and brought it in and put it in front of Ye.

Then he came out and put a small pot, added some salt, sprinkled chopped green onions and coriander, and brought it to the inner room table. Seeing that Taoer had been waiting at the table early, he first filled her a small bowl of soup and put two slices of tofu in front of him. He told him, "Eat this first. There are many fish bones. When I get it for you, it, it's not stuck in your throat. It's a joke."

Xu Laosan came in with vegetable balls on his back foot, went to the field to pull out a few green onions, put a bowl of soy sauce and put it on the table. Looking at Ye's small sip of fish soup, he couldn't help laughing and said, "Mom still miss you. Although it's unpleasant, I still want to make up for you!"

Xu Xinger was picking fish bones for Taoer. Hearing this, she turned her eyes and said, "Dad, this fish was sent by Brother Shanzi to nourish my mother. Today, I went to the old house to get rice. The milk said that there was no fine rice at home, so she gave me a small handful." She raised her chin and motioned the rice paste hanging on the edge of the kang.

"It's enough to cook five or six or so, which is only enough for two children to eat two meals at a time." Fearing that Xu Laosan didn't know how much her child ate every day, she added, "I have to eat four or five meals a day."

Xu Laosan frowned again, looked at Ye's bowing his head to drink soup, and then looked at Taoer's burning and inhaling, but still put it into his mouth. His expression faded slightly and said in a low voice, "After the Dragon Boat Festival, I'll change more fine rice."

Xu Xinger had a meal, but she didn't say anything. Through the contact in the past few days, she had a good impression of this father. At least he knew that he loved his wife and usually coaxed his daughter. When she saw the family's work, she would do it immediately.

In addition to some filial piety and honestness, Xu Laosan is actually a good man, but after all, he is an ancient man. Many ideas have to be subtly penetrated and slowly wait for the quantity to change qualitatively, and can't be expected to achieve it overnight.

Xu Xinger put the meat of the fish bone into the peach bowl and broke half of the vegetable ball for her and said, "Don't just eat fish. That thing is not hungry."

Xu Laosan thought for himself that it is not cost-effective to run mountains at this time. There is not much to pick on the mountain. Although there is little work in the ground, it is inseparable from people. It is unrealistic to go out to work. He said, "There is nothing to do in the field these days. I will go to the river tomorrow to cover a few to see if I can get some fish for you to eat. . I'll ask again to see if there are any odd jobs nearby. Maybe I can make some money.

Xu Xinger muttered softly when she heard the words, "If you make money, it's not your own, and you have to give it out." Having said that, he still raised his hand to pick up a piece of fish for him. "Dad, don't be reluctant to eat fish."

"..." Xu Laosan had no choice but to complain about Xu Xinger. He also picked up a chopstick of fish and put it in Xu Xinger's bowl and said, "Don't just take care of Taoer, eat more yourself."

"Lao San, I'm here to send you rice dumplings." Li Shi came in with a basket, pushed the door directly, sucked his nose hard, and said exaggeratedly, "Oh, what is this hiding for? Such a fragrance?"

Xu Xinger rolled her eyes when she heard the words. She was reluctant to eat fish. She raised her hand and put the fish head into her bowl and ignored Li.

Ye didn't help make dumplings this year, so she said with some embarrassment, "The second sister-in-law is here. Let's sit on the kang. Have you eaten yet? Let's eat together?"

Li's eyes turned a few times, put down the basket in his hand, sat on the edge of the kang, raised his eyelids and looked at Xu Xing'er and said, "Xing'er, why don't you have the eyesight to see? Why don't you get me a pair of bowls and chopsticks?"

Xu Xinger rubbed down the kang and took a small bowl from the cupboard in the stove. When she came back, she first added some fish soup for Ye Shi, and then picked up a piece of fish for Taoer. She put more than half of the body of the other fish into Xu Laosan's bowl, which gave Li Shi with more than half a fish soup and a fish tail with a little meat.

"The second aunt didn't come here until she ate the rice dumplings. She must not be hungry. If she eats too much, she is afraid that she won't digest. She will have a stomachache at night. Drink some hot soup and go smoothly." Xu Xinger said and put the bowl in front of Li.

Li took a big sip of fish soup before saying, "What kind of rice dumplings do you eat? How can you have such a good life? You have been tired of making rice dumplings all day, and it's so easy to cook them, so I hurriedly brought them to you." With that, he reached into the basin to pick up the fish.

Xu Xinger raised her hand and nodded on her face and said, "Second lady, your face is still stained with Jiang Mi!"

Li's skin was thick-skinned and ignored it. He wiped it down casually and continued to drink fish soup.

"Mom, this year, the aunt and the second aunt are exhausted from steaming together. You used to make it all by yourself. You are really awesome." Xu Xinger turned her head and said to Ye.