Hard times have room

Chapter 108 Friends?

As soon as she got home, Pauline led Li Ting to the kitchen and showed her what she had picked earlier.

"How's it going? This fish is good enough. It took me a long time to pick it."

"These oysters are also quite big. I picked them out one by one. My intuition is that the meat in these oysters will not be small."

"And this clam, it looks good. I was still sticking my tongue out when I bought it. It must be fresh. I will make the soup with the clam meat later."

"The things are good. This fish is braised at noon, and it should taste good."

"I'll cook this fish. How about handing over these shelled things to you? Let me taste your craftsmanship too."

Li Ting slid the big fish and plucked its gills. It was bright red and very fresh.

Then he pointed to the things with shells that were piled up on the ground and looked at them, and said.

She had never eaten this shelled thing before, she had only been in Tongmao Village for two months, and she still couldn't recognize the strange-shaped sea objects in the market, how could she know how to do it!

I can only pin my hopes on Pauline.

"Okay, you make the fish. Let me make the shelled ones." Bao Lin thought about it and knew that Li Ting might not be very good at making these seafood.

"I'll boil the water first. I don't have the heart to pry them one by one. I'd better use hot water to scald them in a pot!"

"Okay, you boil the water first, and I'll deal with the fish." After Li Ting finished speaking, she took the fish to the side with a knife and began to scrape the fish's scales, opening the belly. .

She threw all the intestines that were too heavy and hard to handle to the chicken at home, and the chicken would take care of these things.

After waiting for the water to boil, Pauline first scalded the clams for ten seconds. As soon as the clams opened their mouths, Pauline directly fished out the clams and put them in the basin.

Then, when the water boils again, the oysters are also put into the large iron pot in two portions, and they are taken out after opening.

The oysters don't need to be dealt with, just take the meat out and put it in the bowl, and the clams are a lot of trouble. Pauline needs to check whether there is any sand in the clams one by one. .

When she bought it and brought it back to Qin's house, Paulin thought it was too troublesome to soak these things in salt water, but now the retribution is coming.

It took Pauline more than half an hour to finally get the half bowl of clams.

The oyster Baolin is going to be stewed with minced garlic. If the clams are clams, the soup is good. After they are cooked, you can add some shepherd's purse in. At that time, one bowl per person should be very good.

Bao Lin and Li Ting worked hard for more than two hours before they finally brought the food to the table. The rice was sweet potato porridge, the dishes were braised fish, braised oysters with minced garlic, clam and shepherd's purse soup, and potato ribs. They were all hard vegetables. The five people who ate the meal were very satisfied. In the end, only half a bowl of braised fish was left, and nothing else was left.

Wang Jiandang finally came back with a back basket when Paulin was cooking the last dish of stewed oysters with minced garlic.

Because Pauline was going to cook, she couldn't bear to see what her dad bought. She would have eaten all of it, and she couldn't bear her curiosity.

After helping Li Ting clean up the tableware, Paulin went directly to the corner where the basket was standing.

The one she brought back earlier, Pauline already knew what was in it, so she just skipped it.

"Anything, there must be dried fish, after all, this is the most common thing." Pauline rummaged through it by herself.

"Uh, small shrimp." The top oiled paper is wrapped in shrimp, which is very small and light to hold, but it does look like a big package.

"I don't know if there is a pound in this big bag."

At this moment, a faint voice came from the side: "Yes, you are holding two kilograms in your hand."

"Dad, haha, didn't you go out to eat? Why did you come back so soon?"

"This, I'm just curious, take a look."

Pauline sneered and pointed to the small shrimp in her hand.

She really didn't mean anything else, she was just curious. She hadn't seen what her dad brought back. Now, while her dad was out, she just looked through the market to see what he bought in the end. .

Not knowing what was inside, she felt that there was always a little cat scratching in her heart, scratching her heart and liver.

Of course, this situation is only limited to the things that my family buys, and Pauline has a copy of the things that my family buys. Maybe Pauline will cook and make the things later. It is not surprising that I am curious to know what is in it.

As for other things, it's none of my business, I'm just lazy to look at them.

"Then let me get it for you. By the way, I will introduce the results of my morning."

"The small shrimp in your hand, two pounds, this is the dried snail, the snail meat from the sea is picked out, dried, and this is it."

"There are many kinds of snail meat in this dried snail. There are conch, fragrant... fragrant snail, chicken shit, yes, chicken shit snail."

"These snails are very valuable when they are fresh. They are also nutritious. You can eat them when you go home and fry them. You can also eat them dry. All you can eat is meat."

Wang Jiandang proudly introduced this thing to Paulin, saying that it was one by one, and as soon as he heard it, he knew that he had worked hard to remember these things.

"Dad, wait a minute, this snail is good, nutritious, and cheap. Who told you this?" Paulin asked with a smile.

"It goes without saying, that stall owner, Pauline, let me tell you, he's here to chat with me. I chatted with him for half an hour. These dried shrimps and snails are all under his watch. On the face of it, sell it to me cheaply."

"He also told me that next time I buy things, I can find him, and I will definitely give us a cheap price."

"Usually he sells it for [-] cents a pound. For my sake, today he sold it to me for only [-] cents a pound, which is a lot cheaper."

"These things, don't even look at a penny, think about it, these things have been exposed to the sun, how many kilograms does it take to get a pound of it!"

"Daughter, let me tell you, as a human being, you still have to be able to make friends, talk, and listen to Dad. You can't go wrong."

Wang Jiandang held the two large packets of dried snails and dried shrimp in his hand, and shared his life experience with Paulin with a smile.

"Dad, have you really understood what this snail is?" Pauline pointed at the big bag of snails and said with a smile.

"I know, isn't it the conch incense.. the conch snails? Just the ones sold in the market, didn't you say it before?" Wang Jiandang replied in confusion.

"Dad, although I can't tell what kind of snail meat this dried snail is, it's all the meat of a small snail. It may be the most common, most valuable, and most valuable snail meat at the seaside. After cooking, it was picked out for drying."

"Although I don't know if a pound of snail meat is worth a pound, three cents a pound is definitely impossible, and no one will buy it at that price."

"Dad, are you sure your friend didn't lie to you?" Pauline looked at Wang Jiandang with a fascinated smile.

(End of this chapter)