Chapter 252 Exactly the same
Gu Huai returned home with his two children, rolled up his sleeves and cleaned the fish.
Before long, the aroma wafted from the kitchen.
Today is a festival, and everyone in the compound is cooking early. The aroma of food from each family is mixed together in the air, and it is hard to tell whose food is more fragrant. It is full of the flavor of life.
At around eleven o'clock, Gu He and Gu Qiuyan brought Gu Dong back.
Gu Qiuyan caught a bucket of crayfish, and Gu He caught half a bucket of small crucian carp.
The crayfish will be eaten in the evening, so soak them in water with rapeseed oil to let them spit out the dirt.
At around 11:50, a sumptuous Mid-Autumn Festival lunch was ready.
Gu He looked at the table full of dishes, swallowed his saliva and said, "This is really sumptuous. We don't have such a good meal during the Chinese New Year."
Gu Huai said, "People's lives are getting better and better these days. In the future, we will eat even more sumptuous meals during the New Year."
"Right, right, right." Gu He clapped his hands and nodded repeatedly. "It would be nice if we had a pot of wine. Today is a holiday, we should drink some."
"I'll go buy it." Gu Qiuyan, who had just sat down, stood up.
Yu Hui shuddered and reached out to stop him, "Don't go. There are a lot of people buying wine today because it's a festival, and most of the wine in the grocery store is sold out."
She didn't dare let Gu Huai drink anymore. If he got drunk, he might mistake her for someone else and act crazy.
So, Gu Qiuyan sat back down.
Gu Hongmei said: "We can still celebrate the festival without alcohol."
Gu He smiled and nodded, "Yes, we celebrate the festival just the same."
As the head of the family, Gu Huai picked up his chopsticks, and everyone else started eating as well.
"This braised pork is amazing." Gu He gave Yu Hui a thumbs up, with a drop of oil still on the corner of his mouth.
Yu Hui smiled and picked up a piece of fish for Beibei with chopsticks. She peeled off the meat and skin on the fish belly so that the taste would not be strong and the child could eat some.
Braised pork is Gu He and Gu Huai’s favorite, and they never get tired of eating one bite at a time.
Gu Qiuyan and Gu Hongmei prefer braised fish and mapo tofu, while the other three children prefer green pepper tiger skin eggs and fish-flavored eggplant.
The fried eggs have a layer of tiger skin on the surface, which looks good and tastes good.
When the meal is almost finished, have a bowl of delicious milky white crucian carp and tofu soup, and a sense of happiness will arise naturally.
Yu Hui and Gu Hongmei worked hard to cook, and the dishes were washed by Gu Huai and Gu Qiuyan.
After they finished washing the dishes, Yu Hui took a short break and went to the kitchen to knead the dough to prepare for making fried dough twists.
When kneading the dough, not only white sugar but also brown sugar water is added. This way the fried dough twists are not only sweet but also have beautiful colors.
Knead the dough and let it rise for a while.
Gu Hongmei and Gu Qiuyan washed the dining table with water and a brush. The chopping board in the kitchen was too small, so they couldn't make dough twists together, so they just used the table.
This fried dough twist should be rolled together by everyone to create a festive atmosphere.
Gu Huai and Gu He were also busy, killing all the small crucian carp they caught.
The dough was ready to rise, and Gu Huai and Gu He had finished killing the fish.
Yu Hui marinated the small crucian carps first, and then after frying the twisted dough sticks and preparing the batter, she could fry the fish directly.
Gu Huai brought out the flour, kneaded it on the table for a while, then rolled the noodles into long strips, and then cut them into small pieces. Yu Hui, Gu Hongmei, and Gu Qiuyan, the three main forces, started to make twisted dough sticks.
Four children were standing by the table, and Yu Hui gave each of them a small dough, asking them to make whatever they liked and fry them together later.
Beibei took the dough and stuffed it into his mouth. Before he could take a bite, the dough was snatched away by his mother, and he lost the dough sadly.
Hmm, Beibei pouted.
Gu Hongmei and Gu Qiuyan both know how to make twisted dough sticks, the only difference is that some can make them look good while others don't.
The twists made by Gu Hongmei are similar to those made by Yu Hui. Each of the long and thin twists has four strands.
The ones made by Gu Qiuyan were not as good, a bit rough, and the thickness of each strand was not very uniform. When they were placed on the table together with those made by my aunt and my aunt, there was a big difference.
"Qiuyan, look at the fried dough twists made by your aunt and aunt, and then look at what you make. You still need to practice your technique." Gu He didn't try yet, but pointed at the fried dough twists on the table.
Gu Qiuyan twisted the fried dough twist in her hand and placed it on the table. "Don't think my cooking is ugly. The taste of fried dough twist will be the same as the ones made by my mother and aunt."
Gu He: "That's right. After all, your mother made the noodles and adjusted the taste."
This taste is definitely not going to change.
"Mom, look." Gu Xixi showed her mother the thing in her palm as if she were presenting a treasure.
Yu Hui looked down and said thoughtfully, "Is it a piglet?"
Gu Xixi pouted and said, "It's a puppy~"
Xixi looks so much like a puppy, how come mom can’t tell?
"Oh~" Yu Hui dragged out the sound, "So it's a puppy, it's exactly the same."
Gu Xixi stared at her mother with wide eyes, and there was a gleam of light in her dark pupils.
Gu Qiuyan gave Yu Hui a thumbs up. She was really good at coaxing children. She would tell any nonsense to coax her children.
If Xixi hadn't said it was a puppy, she would never have recognized what that thing in his hand was.
"Look, Mom." Gu Nan, not wanting to be left behind, showed his mother what he had made.
Yu Hui recognized it immediately and said, "It's a bicycle."
"Yeah." Gu Nan was very happy to be recognized and nodded vigorously, "It's a bicycle."
Gu Dong: "Mom, look at me."
Yu Hui: "Car."
"Yes." Gu Dong nodded, "Brother Li drove the car to pick up Dad."
It turns out that boys love cars no matter what era.
Speaking of cars, Yu Hui felt that she should also buy a bicycle.
It is convenient to go to the market to buy vegetables, or go into the city to do something, and buy anything.
Ask Gu Huai to get her a bicycle ticket some other day.
Buying a bicycle these days is not something you can do just by having money. You need a ticket, and it’s not cheap either, costing around 150 or 160 yuan. Not many families have bicycles.
After rolling two-thirds of the dough, Yu Hui and Gu Qiuyan went to the kitchen to fry them, while Gu Hongmei continued to roll them in the yard.
As soon as the first batch of fried dough twists were fried, Qian Lan's family came back, and the two brothers Yu Jianshe ran directly into the Gu family's yard.
"Gu Dong, look, these are the Huili shoes my mother bought for me." As soon as Yu Lixin entered the yard, he showed off his new shoes to Gu Dong and his two brothers.
After Yu Lixin tried on the new shoes, he put them on without taking them off.
"My brother has one too." Yu Lixin pointed at the paper-wrapped shoes in Yu Jianshe's hand.
"Wow, it looks really good." Gu Xixi, the king of support, supported the show as always.
Gu Dong stretched his foot forward and said, "It's the same one my mom bought me."
Yu Lixin smiled and said, "I chose them based on the style of your shoes."
"New shoes are so comfortable to wear. Look how easy it is to jump in new shoes. I can jump higher than before." Yu Lixin said as he jumped up.
The three Gu Dong brothers: "..."
I really didn't notice that.
Yu Jianshe: “…”
It's unbearable to watch.
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