Splendid peasant girl busy farming

Chapter 1018 The deliciousness of fish soup (one more)
"The hanged ghost is the biggest. I heard that it becomes a ghost after death, and there is a rope around its neck."

Tan said with some horror, subconsciously raised his hand to caress his lower arm, feeling a little cold.

Lao Yang shook his head, picked up the tobacco stick at hand again, stuffed it back into his mouth, and started smoking with a click.

Mrs. Tan groped her way to the Eight Immortals Table, and began to collect gifts from several rooms.

What should be hidden, what should be plugged.

What should be reserved for Mei Er, all of them are reserved, and they are extremely busy.

……

The twelfth lunar month is a busy year.

In the morning, the sun was fine.

Yang Ruoqing helped Mrs. Sun kill and wash the fish by the well in the backyard.

These fish are all grass carp bought by Yang Huazhong from the town early in the morning.

Each one weighs five or six catties, and I bought seven or eight.

"Qing'er, are these grass carp used to make salted fish?" Sun asked while slaughtering.

Yang Ruoqing was also so busy that she couldn't stop, she heard the words and glanced at the fish in the big basin at her feet.

"Save one of the largest grass carp and braise it in braised sauce for noon to eat fresh, and make the rest as dried salted fish," she said.

Sun said: "Okay!"

"Take out all the roe from the fish's belly, and cook them together with the noon fish pieces." Yang Ruoqing instructed again.

Sun nodded with a smile.

The mother and daughter killed the big fish, cleaned it, and then cut a three-dimensional fish into a plan.

Sprinkle salt inside and out, and use the prepared bamboo skewers to support the sides of the fish.

Finally, tie a thick hemp rope to the mouth of the fish and hang it on the horizontal bamboo pole in the yard to dry.

Seeing the big fish being hung up, under the warm sun of the twelfth lunar month, a few unshaven scales glowed with a faint golden light.

Yang Ruoqing was very happy.

Mrs. Sun was even more delighted from ear to ear.

"The life is so easy now, it's like a dream." Sun couldn't help but said.

"In the past, I never dreamed that we could pickle so many salted fish during Chinese New Year."

"I remember one year during the Chinese New Year, before the family was separated, there was a crucian carp with chopsticks on the New Year's Eve dinner."

"Your grandma still doesn't let everyone use chopsticks, saying that she wants to save them for relatives who come to use them on the first and second days of the first lunar month, hey!"

Reminiscing bitterness and sweetness, Mrs. Sun shook her head lightly, with emotion on her face.

Yang Ruoqing raised her head and looked at the big fish, the corners of her lips curled up in joy.

"These fish are salted and dried in the sun. If they are properly stored, they can be eaten until April!" she said.

Sun nodded in agreement.

"By the way, Qing'er, will the sausage still be stuffed this year?" she asked.

Yang Ruoqing said: "Fill it, definitely do it!"

Sun said: "That's good. Last year, our family didn't feed much sausage, and they didn't let your granny taste it. Let's feed more sausages this year."

Yang Ruoqing smiled happily: "Mum, don't worry about this matter."

"I have already said hello to my aunt, and I will take all those pig farms later."

Sausage is a good thing, and all the brothers and sisters in the family love to eat it.

Sending food to several restaurants to make ingredients is another highlight to attract customers.

The mother and daughter went back to the well and chopped the big grass carp that was going to be roasted at noon into small pieces.

All in all, I will burn a pot at noon later, and then send a bowl to Gapo, Lao Yangtou, Luo Blacksmith, Chang Geng and Daniu.

"Mother, sister, many foreigners have come to our village..."

Xiao An jumped and ran to the backyard, shouting excitedly.

Mrs. Sun raised her head and gave Xiao An a loving look: "Come here when you come, look at your sweaty face from running, come here quickly, mother will wipe you off."

Yang Ruoqing raised her head and asked Xiao An: "What kind of foreigners are they? Whose house did they go to?"

Xiao An said: "Boss Gao and an old uncle, they went to Uncle Li Zheng's house."

Boss Gao?There is also an old man?
Yang Ruoqing suddenly remembered the caravan from Daliao that she met in Wanghai County a few days ago.

At that time, the leader, the old man surnamed Yan, was still asking her how to get to Changping Village!
Wanting to ask something more, Xiao An, who had wiped off her sweat, cheered and ran to the front yard.

Forget it, let's take a look when I have time later.

Then wash the fish.

The mother and daughter came to the kitchen, ready to cook fish, when Yang Huazhong came back.

The man just came from the village and knew about it.

"I heard from them that they are a group of merchants from the Northern Liao Kingdom, and they are at home right now."

"Li Zhengbo invited several clan elders in the village to accompany him. By the way, he also invited Master Qing and the little old Yangtou from the south of the village to accompany him."

The man told his wife and daughter in the kitchen exactly what he had heard.

Sun was surprised, "What are those merchants from the Liao Kingdom doing in our village? Could it be something important?"

Women are timid, and there are many things to worry about in the past.

Now that I suddenly heard this, I couldn't help but think about the bad side.

Yang Huazhong hurriedly said: "Miss Qing'er, don't panic."

"Look at those merchants, all of them look friendly. Lizheng even invited a few village elders, maybe they want to build bridges and pave roads for us!"

The man quickly comforted him.

Sun was dubious.

At this moment, Yang Ruoqing, who had been silent all this time, said: "Mother, don't panic, I'm going with Dad too."

Then, she told the couple about her encounter with the old man surnamed Yan a few days ago.

"Maybe they came to our village," she said.

……

Cook fish in a big pot, using the most primitive method of farming.

Salty, spicy, boil out the deliciousness of the fish soup.

Guessing that the fish was about to be cooked, Mrs. Sun found several bowls and filled them with fish pieces and fish roe and soup.

Going to send it to a few relatives and friends.

Old Yang's back house.

When Yang Ruoqing brought the fish over, Mrs. Tan was sitting at the door of the east wing basking in the sun, but Old Yang was not there.

"Grandma, my grandfather is not home yet?" she asked.

Mrs. Tan said angrily: "Who knows, I was called away by Lizheng in the middle of the day, and I knew that I wanted to talk about something, and I didn't let me come back to eat..."

Yang Ruoqing was not interested in chattering with Mrs. Tan, so she told her about the fish, turned around and came back.

The family had a big lunch, a whole fish meal.

At night, Lao Yang sent Yang Yongqing over to deliver a message.

"Third uncle, my master told you to go to the old house quickly. If you have something to say, the sooner the better!"

After saying this, Yang Yongqing ran away.

Yang Huazhong and Mrs. Sun looked at each other in blank dismay.

Yang Huazhong frowned: "Didn't you just hold a family meeting last night? So urgent, what happened?"

Sun's was also at a loss.

Yang Ruoqing said: "Go and have a look and you'll know, let's go daddy, let's go there together."

Mrs. Sun stayed at home to take care of Da'an and Xiao'an, and the father and daughter entered the village with lanterns.

In the east wing of the old house, when Yang Ruoqing and Yang Huazhong arrived, Yang Hua'an, Yang Hualin, Yang Huaming, and Mrs. Liu were all there.

(End of this chapter)