Chapter 239: Ordinary Life Is Real
When she walked to the kitchen door, Ning Xiyue smelled the tempting spicy aroma coming from the kitchen next door, which made her very hungry.
Ning Xiyue sniffed and quickened the pace of opening the door. She also wanted to eat the delicious and spicy fish as soon as possible.
Opening the kitchen door, Ning Xiyue took out a large wooden basin and asked her second brother to pour all the fish into it.
It is impossible to keep fish in today's weather. If you leave them in water overnight, all you will see tomorrow is a large mass of frozen ice and you will have to dispose of them all.
Most of the fish caught this time were crucian carp. They looked heavy, but there were actually not many of them. It didn't take much time to process them all just by cutting open their bellies.
Only those few big fish take some time to fillet, and cooking the fish takes time.
But Ning Xiyue doesn’t have to worry about these things, because she has a good brother.
Ning Qingyuan took the initiative to take over all the tasks of processing the fish.
"Sister, just light the fire and cook, I'll prepare the fish. Tell me what you want to eat and I'll prepare it."
Ning Xiyue stroked her chin and looked down at the crucian carp swimming slowly in the basin, as well as the black fish with its belly turned up, thinking.
"Well, brother, let's have dry-fried black fish fillets for lunch today, and use the fish head and bones to make soup."
Ning Xiyue squatted down and pointed at the dying black fish, then looked at a group of crucian carps and said:
"Pick the smaller crucian carps, coat them with flour and make fried fish. Use the remaining large crucian carps in the afternoon. Use half to make salted fish and the other half to make sour fish. In the evening, use the carp to make spicy fish fillets. How do you do?"
Ning Xiyue looked at him expectantly, waiting for his opinion.
"Well, why not? Let's do it this way. You go ahead and get busy. I'll get started." Ning Qingyuan rolled up his sleeves, took a kitchen knife and a small stool, and started sitting at the kitchen door to work.
Ning Xiyue brought a basin over for him to put the cooked fish in. Seeing that her second brother had killed a fish with a few strokes of the knife, she hurried to wash the rice and cook.
While Ning Xiyue was draining the rice soup and preparing to steam the rice, Ning Qingyuan had also processed the fish in his hands and coated the crucian carp with powder.
Ning Xiyue lit the fire under the big iron pot, and Ning Qingyuan started frying the fish.
At this time, Chen Yetu from next door came over with two bowls of fish, one bowl was bright red and the other bowl was green.
"Xiyue, I'll bring some fish over for you and put it on the table." Chen Yetu put down the two bowls of fish and turned around to leave without stopping.
"Ye Chu..." Ning Xiyue stood up and shouted in a high voice. Looking at her hurriedly leaving figure, she smiled helplessly, "Oh, this guy left so fast."
Ning Xiyue walked to the table and looked at the two bowls of fish on it. The red bowl was spicy fish fillets, and the green bowl was pickled cabbage and pepper fish fillets.
Just looking at the color makes it look delicious and tasty.
The fish here should be the big grass carp that they pulled up together.
Ning Xiyue went to the cupboard and took out two bowls to free up the fish and put them on the hot stove to keep them warm. Then she washed Chen Yechu's two bowls and placed them on the stove next to her second brother.
"Brother, when the fried fish and dry-fried black fish are ready, please put a portion in these two bowls for me."
"Okay, let's fry two now." Ning Qingyuan took a bowl to drain the water and put the two fried fish in the pot into the bowl.
The rice was already cooked. Ning Xiyue put some long-lasting firewood into the stove for frying fish and helped her second brother dry the ingredients needed for roasting black fish.
Ning Qingyuan was the chef and Ning Xiyue was helping him. They worked much faster and soon finished frying the fish and making the braised black fish.
Ning Qingyuan continued to stew the fish head soup, and Ning Xiyue walked towards her holding the bowl that Chen Yetu brought over.
When he passed by, Chen Yechu was eating.
"Ye Chu, I'm here to return your bowl." Ning Xiyue also imitated Chen Ye Chu's behavior at that time, rushed over, put the bowl on the table and left, without giving her a chance to react.
Chen Yetu swallowed the food in his mouth, looked at the fish on the table and the receding figure, and smiled with his hand on his forehead.
Are they exchanging lunch? So funny.
She was so happy to eat four dishes and a soup by herself. Chen Yetu happily picked up a piece of dry-fried black fish and ate it, nodding while eating. She also took a crispy fried fish and ate it. The more she ate, the better her mood became.
It’s really nice to have such a friend. We don’t bother each other when we have things to do, but he can give me some help at critical moments. It’s very comfortable to get along with him because we have give and take.
It was worth it for her to meet such a comfortable friend in this life of rebirth.
It is no better to make one or two good friends and learn something from living in the countryside than to bring back a scumbag.
Well, staying away from scumbags will bring you happiness. This is true.
Chen Yetu continued to eat the food in the bowl happily.
On the other side, the fish soup was ready. Ning Xiyue brought the food to the table, and the two siblings sat down to eat happily.
"We can say that we have a full fish feast, with everything from fried to boiled to roasted."
Ning Qingyuan picked up his chopsticks and looked at the food in front of him, ready to start: "The only thing missing is a steamed one. We can save two crucian carps for steaming in the evening, one for each of us. Let's eat now."
"You can have this, eat it."
Ning Xiyue’s first chopsticks went to the Sichuan pepper and pickled fish that Chen Yechu brought over, just to whet her appetite.
"Mmm, delicious."
The fish meat is smooth and tender. Although it looks light, it is actually very flavorful and spicy, with a bit of sourness from the old-style pickled cabbage. It is very satisfying to eat.
Only Chen Yechu has this Sichuan pepper oil package with unique spicy flavor, and I can only taste it through her once, it is so delicious.
"Brother, try this bowl of fish, it tastes delicious." Ning Xiyue pointed at the pickled fish with Sichuan pepper and quickly shared it with her second brother who had never tasted the Sichuan pepper flavor.
"Okay, let me try." Ning Qingyuan listened to her and stretched his chopsticks towards the bowl of fish.
Ning Xiyue ate the spicy fish fillets brought by Chen Yechu. It must be said that Chen Yechu's cooking skills are quite good. He cooked it quite well. The taste was both spicy and numbing, which suited her taste very well.
It seems that their tastes are very similar. They both like to eat spicy food and cannot live without it. They are people with strong tastes.
This lunch was quite enjoyable. The brother and sister didn't finish the four dishes and one soup on the table, and even left a small portion for dinner.
The brother and sister did not go fishing in the afternoon, and Chen Yetu stayed in the Youth League Courtyard and did not go.
Ning Xiyue and Ning Qingyuan were dealing with the leftover fish in the kitchen. She looked for a jar to make sour fish while Ning Qingyuan was making salted fish.
After seeing this, Chen Yechu also brought her remaining crucian carp over to help them, and joined them in making sour fish and salted fish.
Time flies by while we are working and chatting.
It was cold in winter, and Brother Ning had to go back home, so dinner was cooked very early and they started eating at five o'clock. The three of them sat together to eat dinner, with each person contributing a dish to make up a table of food.
After dinner, Ning Qingyuan helped clean up the kitchen and then slowly walked back home carrying a box of fried fish.
Ning Xiyue and Chen Yechu came early in the morning with hot water containing the Chinese herbal medicine bags provided by Ning Xiyue for removing dampness and cold, and sat on the kang, soaking their feet comfortably and reading.
Lying on the kang, closing my eyes and studying in my space, I sigh that another ordinary and fulfilling day has passed.
Life is real only when it is plain and simple.
In the modern society of her previous life, the happy nightlife would not have started after seven o'clock in the evening. But here, her unique nightlife (studying) has already begun.
She reviewed her high school textbooks, read the medical books given to her by Comrade Ji, learned new medicinal herbs, researched prescriptions for tendon and bone setting, and made eye cream to remove dark circles. She proceeded in an orderly manner, and when she was tired of studying, she would knit some items to relax.
Tongzi next to him was waving a small notebook and holding a pen, not knowing how to write.
"Host, why do I feel like there's no difference between you being in a relationship and not being in a relationship? I've only written a few entries in my love observation notes so far."
"What do you know? The greatest meaning of life for independent women in the new era lies in their constant exploration and learning of new things. Love is just the icing on the cake. Now it is not popular to have a single-minded love mindset. Only love that progresses together can last long."
Ning Xiyue tapped the turtle shell and said narcissistically:
"Student Tongzi, if I were like Wu Xiuli, who only has love in her head, would our comrade Ji be interested in me? Excellent people are attracted to equally excellent people. We have to focus on our careers."
“……” I’ve never seen anyone praise himself in such a roundabout way. Our host is really thick-skinned.
"You wouldn't understand even if I told you. I'm going to continue to work on the prescription. Comrade Bie Ji has been promoted to deputy battalion commander, but I'm still standing still."
Ning Xiyue forced herself to end the conversation with Tongzi and continued to study the prescription. It seemed that the earthworm and safflower were very effective in setting bones and tendons, so she tried these two first.
This time, Ning Xiyue was tinkering with the prescription for bone and tendon healing based on the Chinese herbal medicine knowledge she had learned. After learning so much knowledge, she decided to slowly put it into practice and not rely on the existing prescriptions provided by the system for everything.
The system will leave one day, but the knowledge she has learned will not leave, and it is necessary to use it flexibly.
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