Girlfriend's Fortune

Chapter 13 No.13: The Craft of Cooking
The sun was high, and Song Qiu and Zhang Lihua went down to the foot of the mountain and went back to their yard.

Old Yuan Shi just came back from Ping'an Daji, put down his things, and was drinking water in the kitchen.

Song Qiu and Zhang Lihua shook their eyebrows and went to their own kitchen.

"Grandma, you are back, how is the sale of the mountain fungus today?"

"A total of [-] catties of mountain mushrooms were sold out. The eggplants and courgettes I brought were only sold for two catties. There were fish sellers in the big market today. I saw that grass carp was very fresh and not too big. I bought one, and it cost less than two catties, and it cost me nine Wen."

Old Yuan Shi poured a bowl of water for Song Qiuye, took out the money bag, and settled the bill with Song Qiu.

They only have grandparents and grandchildren, they are the closest in the world, so the old Yuan will never hide these things from Song Qiu's family.

The old Yuan also told Song Qiu where the money is usually kept at home, because he was afraid that something would happen one day and he would not be able to cope.

"Nineteen catties of mushrooms sold for 57 renminbi. The eggplants and courgettes were sold for 61 renminbi. The total is [-] renminbi. I used [-] renminbi, and the rest is here."

As he spoke, he counted for Song Qiu.

Song Qiu didn't need to count, just listened to the report and calculated it in his heart, "There are 52 Wen left, plus the previous 54 Wen, the uncle's [-] coins can be repaid! We have six left. Wen!"

It was time to catch up with Shanjun, otherwise the money would not be repaid so quickly.

If it were winter, there would not be much income.

"I guess it's almost the same, so I bought fish! You like fish the most, and I will cook fish for you later." Old Yuan couldn't help but smile, put the copper coins together, and counted out six. Put the money aside, put the rest in the money bag, and put it away neatly.

"I only ate fish at the banquet yesterday! But I bought the milk, and I feel sorry for me. The milk has worked hard today, and I will cook later!" Song Qiu hurriedly said.

It's time for her to gradually reveal her skills, her cooking skills, um... how should I put it, let's not talk about it.

It's not easy for a fish and nine coins, don't waste it.

"Okay, you do it! Grandma will light the fire for you." The granddaughter is so old, she hasn't cooked a few times, and now that she is older, it's time to say kiss, and she still needs to learn the cooking skills, otherwise it's hard to say marriage.

Song Qiu giggled, turned around and took out the things carefully wrapped with big leaves in the basket, and opened them for old Yuan Shi to see, "Look, baby, do you know this kind of bacteria?"

When the old Yuan was a girl, she often went to the mountains to collect mushrooms. Naturally, she knew almost all the mushrooms. When Song Qiu asked, she looked carefully and frowned.

"Is this a fungus? Where did you pick it up? It doesn't look like a fungus. It's not poisonous. It's not easy to sell it. It doesn't matter how much you sell it for. If it poisons someone else, we can't afford it." Yo."

Hearing her grandma's serious tone, Song Qiu couldn't help laughing, "I see this fungus is a bit rare, I'll go to the town tomorrow and ask, if anyone knows it? If you can sell it, sell it, if you don't know it Let’s not sell those, poisonous bacteria usually grow beautifully, but this one is so ugly, I guess it’s not poisonous.”

Unexpectedly, her grandma didn't know this morel, and Song Qiu would suspect this empty-handed one. If no one here knew the goods, it would be bad.

But it doesn't matter, try it tomorrow, if it works, if it doesn't work, it's a big deal to take it back and eat it yourself, it's also a good nourishing food!

She was lucky enough to eat it twice in her previous life, and the taste is absolutely delicious.

After hearing what she said, old Yuan Shi looked at the morel mushroom again, and it was indeed a bit ugly, so she agreed, "All right, let's go to town again tomorrow, I see that the vine in the corner of the courtyard The winter melon is just the right size, and I’ll pick some tender loofahs and tender pumpkins to sell.”

Song Qiu nodded, "Okay, I'll pick up some more mushrooms in the afternoon."

Right now, cooking and eating are the most important thing, Song Qiu put away the morel fungus, picked up the grass carp, took the cutting board and knife, and went outside to press the well to kill the fish.

The old Yuan hurriedly followed, worried that she would not kill the fish and would kill the fish herself first, so she saw her granddaughter scraped off the scales on both sides of the fish with a few croaks with a kitchen knife, and then took out the gills of the fish. , The knife rose and fell, and directly broke the fish's belly.

That technique is skillful, neat and beautiful, better than her who has killed fish before.

"Aqiu, when will you kill fish? Are you still so neat?" Old Yuan couldn't help asking.

In the previous life, the family opened a restaurant, not to mention killing fish, she was still in charge of the pot, if it wasn't for the accident of grandma's death, she would have taken over their family's restaurant.

There is no way, I can't study, I can only inherit my father's career.

But this Song Qiu has never killed a fish.

Song Qiu panicked in his heart, but his face was very calm, and he said without shame: "Maybe I have a good talent? I feel like I will kill this fish if I hold it down."

Sure enough, old Yuan Shi laughed immediately, "How can I praise myself? But my Aqiu has always been smart and capable, even if he kills a fish, your father killed a chicken beautifully for the first time. You are just like your father." .”

Song Qiu pursed his lips and smiled, cleaned the belly of the fish in a smooth manner, and then chopped the fish into pieces on the cutting board.

In fact, she wanted to boil fish fillets, that is her specialty in fish cooking.

But now dried chili is not available, so I can only make fish nuggets.

Old Yuan's eyes widened when he looked at it, "Aqiu, why did you chop up the fish? How can you still burn it?"

Nowadays, fish is cooked whole, but almost no one takes the fish apart for cooking.

"It can be boiled, you will know after eating milk." After chopping the pieces, Song Qiu pressed water to rinse the fish pieces, and then brought them back to the stove.

Old Yuan hurriedly followed, wanting to see how she cooked the fish.

There were a few eggs on the chopping board, Song Qiu beat two, separated the egg white and yolk, put only the egg white in the fish block, mixed it with his hands, and added a little salt to taste.

I don’t have soy sauce or anything else, there are some shops selling it, but for ordinary people at home, at most they have the essentials like oil and salt, and they usually don’t buy anything else.

As a person who likes to cook, the kitchen is empty and there are not many seasonings, which is really sad.

There were unsold hot pepper strips on the chopping board. Song Qiu picked a handful, cleaned them, cut them into tubes, patted garlic and ginger, and went to the vegetable garden to grab a handful of young green onions and cut them into sections.

Old Yuan Shi had already lit the fire, cleaned the cauldron and heated it up.

Song Qiu took the oil jar out of the cabinet, saw that there was only half a can of soybean oil in it, and glanced at her grandmother with some guilt, seeing that her grandmother was gathering firewood into the stove hole, without looking up, she quickly spooned it into the pot Two generous tablespoons of soybean oil.

After putting it away, Song Qiu hurriedly put the oil jar back into the cabinet to put it away.

The oil in the pot was crackling, and old Yuan stretched his neck to take a look. When he saw the oil in the pot, his eyelids twitched.

This prodigal child.

She opened her mouth to say something, but hesitated, and still didn't say anything.

(End of this chapter)