Rebirth in 1993, My Dad is a Returned Youth

Chapter 113 Various Ways to Eat Screws

When the three of them saw how miserably Liu Jun fell, they all laughed out loud in an unkind way.

Meixia was nervous just now, but now, with that smile, she feels much better.

"Uncle Jun, slow down. You scared all the fish and shrimp away."

Liu Jun climbed up from the ground with vegetable leaves still on his head.

Don't mention it, it looks just like a clown.

A middle-aged man with unshaven beard.

"Sorry, I was in a hurry. How many fish and shrimp did you catch?"

Liu Jun walked to the bucket and took a look. "Wow, there are quite a few, including a big crucian carp."

There might be about a pound of shrimps, all still alive and kicking.

"Uncle Jun, you come and pick up the shrimps. Meixia and I will pick up some screws."

“Can you eat that?”

General Liu has lived in Shanghai all his life, so he naturally knows that there are snails in the river.

But they never ate it.

It smells fishy and dirty.

The shells of snails are covered with moss, how can you eat them!
Meixia probably has never eaten it. This thing is almost non-existent in Yunnan.

The way of eating snails may have been invented by people from Sichuan or Jiangxi.

People from other places who came to Shanghai to work found that there were so many snails growing in the ditches in Shanghai, so they filled a basin with them and took them back.

Soak it in clean water for a day to remove the mud and sand, then wash the shell clean.

Cut off the tail of the screw.

Then stir-fry over high heat and add various spices.

Sichuan people would say: It’s so fragrant and spicy!
The snails taste crunchy after being stir-fried.

There aren't many lobsters now, and they haven't become rampant in Shanghai. We probably won't be able to eat them for the next one or two years.

A plate of stir-fried snails is enough for Li Kang.

Moreover, the water quality at this time is quite clean and not much polluted.

Although there are factories under planning or about to be completed in the distance.

But it does not affect this screw.

There just happened to be a basin that Liu Jun brought.

Li Kang took Meixia by the hand and came to a deeper water area downstream.

There are a lot of snails on the river bank.

Grab a bunch.

"Brother Kang, there are so many snails here, but how do we cook them to make them delicious?"

"Meixia, don't worry. Brother Kang has plenty of ways to make a mess."

In addition to stir-frying directly over high heat, you can also pick out the snail meat, remove the intestinal part, and only keep the front part of the snail meat.

Then stir-fry some pickled vegetables, such as pickled radish and pickled beans, which will also be very delicious with rice.

Other ways of eating are probably not suitable.

"Meixia, try to pick bigger snails, with more meat."

For some reason, most of the screws here are only the size of a little finger, and it would be difficult to pick out even an inch of flesh.

The snail should be at least the size of a middle finger, and the snail meat should be big enough to be delicious when you eat it.

"Brother Kang, do you think this size is okay?"

Meixia squatted by the river, rolled up her skirt, picked out a screw the size of her middle finger and showed it to Li Kang.

"It's this size. If it's smaller than this, you can take it. If it's much smaller, don't take it."

It was quite troublesome to achieve the size that Li Kang required.

There are many riverbanks, but most of them are very small, and less than one in ten can meet Li Kang's requirements.

Some screws climbed up Meixia's feet without knowing what was good for them, and were seen by Li Kang.

Smash these bad things right by the river.

"Let you crawl onto Meixia's feet."

Meixia squatted by the river, quietly accompanying Li Kang in picking up screws.

He was very skillful with his hands and picked up about a pound of large screws in half an hour.

Adding the pound of snails that Li Kang picked up, "Brother Kang, are these snails enough for us to eat?"

“It probably won’t be enough.”

The two uncle and nephew over there caught half a bucket of shrimps in half an hour.

There are really a lot.

"We Shanghainese people don't usually eat these. We just pick up some shrimps and eat them occasionally." Li Kang knew that they ate shrimps by simply stir-frying them in water.

Then eat the original flavor of the shrimp.

Alternatively, you can cook edamame with shrimps to preserve the original flavor of the shrimps.

If the original taste of the ingredients is destroyed, they may not like it very much.

After Li Kang and his friends came, Liu Guangqing's family made some changes in their eating habits.

But it still couldn't satisfy Li Kang and the others' appetite.

So he planned to make some dishes himself tonight.

"Brother Kang, Aunt Chen and the others don't know how to cook. What should we do?"

Li Kang scratched her little nose and said, "Brother Kang made this for you. It's just a little spicy, can you eat it?"

"Meixia is not afraid of spicy food. She has loved spicy food since she was a child."

"Meixia also wanted to eat mushrooms. When we were in Yunnan, my mother and I would go to the mountains to pick mushrooms every time it rained."

"Do you miss your mom? Let Brother Kang take you home."

Li Kang felt that it was normal for the little girl to miss her mother after being out for so long.

Maybe he doesn't want to see Lin Weihua anymore.

If this is better, then Meixia won't get hurt.

Meixia suddenly fell silent.

He talked to himself for a long time, but the girl next to him didn't respond at all.

"Girl, why aren't you talking?"

There was a faint sobbing sound, "Meixia, why are you crying?"

The little girl was about to wipe her tears with the hand that had picked up the screws, but Li Kang held her hand back, "Don't wipe with your hands, it's dirty."

Then he wiped her with his clothes.

"I didn't cry," Meixia said stubbornly.

"Brother Kang, how many snails did you pick up? We caught a large bucket of shrimp and fish."

Uncle Liu Jun and his nephew came over carrying a bucket of fish and shrimp.

Full of rewards.

Liu Lang looked very proud, and he did not forget to say to Meixia: "Meixia, look at the shrimps I caught today, come and see."

Meixia just squatted there and said "oh".

There was no other reaction, which made Liu Lang a little disappointed.

"Meixia, what's wrong with you?"

Looking at Li Kang, "Brother Kang, what happened to Meixia?"

"Meixia is fine. You can take her back first." Li Kang said perfunctorily, urging them to leave quickly.

He himself couldn't understand why Meixia suddenly started throwing a tantrum.

After thinking about what I just said, I realized there was nothing wrong with it. I was just thinking about her.

The girl has a sharp mind and can detect many implicit messages that the speaker is unaware of.

Just because she usually seems like a naive person, doesn’t mean that Meixia is really stupid.

Li Kang finally managed to coax the uncle and nephew away.

Looking back, Meixia was still squatting there, playing with stones out of boredom.

There is no intention of getting up.

Li Kang walked over and tried to pick her up.

The little girl flapped her wings like the crucian carp before.

"Meixia, I was just joking. How could Brother Kang be willing to send you back to Yunnan?"

Meixia finally reacted after hearing what he said.

It was just allowing him to hold her.

Allow Li Kang to hold her in his arms.

But she refused to leave, not even a step.

Li Kang thought, "This girl really has a bad temper."

"If you continue like this, Brother Kang will not care about you. I won't take you out to play tomorrow." After saying that, he turned around and was about to leave with the snails in the basin.

Immediately, Meixia grabbed her hand with her head still lowered.

Seeing this, Li Kang curled up the corner of his mouth into a smile, and walked forward without saying a word.

Meixia took his hand and followed behind.

(End of this chapter)