Chapter 140 Festival
The whole family breathed a sigh of relief and happily cooked dinner.
In the afternoon, Qiao Xuan, Shao Yunduan and others went to catch big fish, so Shao Xiaoqi took them to a more remote section of the river with deeper water.
There was a section with a lot of long aquatic plants. Shao Taotao and Shao Xiaoqi were using a scoop net to catch river shrimps, while Qiao Xuan and Shao Yunduan were fishing on the shore.
Qiao Xuan looked calm on the surface, but in fact she was powerless.
Through her special powers, she could clearly see the countless fish in the water plants. Unfortunately, it was useless to see them because she couldn't catch them.
However, there were already a lot of fish and shrimp in the river, so they still had a good harvest.
I caught half a basket of small river shrimps, half a bucket of small miscellaneous fish, and more than thirty thumb-sized large prawns by turning over rocks.
We caught several carps and crucian carps that were about the size of a palm, two grass carps that were over a foot long, and five long eels.
What made Qiao Xuan happiest was that she caught a wild mandarin fish the size of a palm.
Kill a duck in the evening, cut young ginger into pieces, stir-fry chili peppers and garlic cloves, add rice wine, soy sauce and other seasonings, add water and boil over high heat, and the spicy and fragrant aroma soon fills the entire kitchen.
Mandarin fish is steamed, prawns are fried, two grass carps are used to make pickled fish, and small fish the size of a finger are coated with egg batter and fried
A few dishes plus a bowl of braised pork, stir-fried yam, and shredded cabbage, and the festive feast is complete.
The leftover fish were kept in a large water tank in the backyard. Qiao Xuan put some water plants in the tank. She could transfer wood-type abilities into the water through the water plants, so it would be fine to keep these fish for half a year.
Small river shrimps are not easy to raise, so just dry them all and stir-fry them with fresh leeks or peppers tomorrow, or make shrimp cakes with eggs.
When cooking, mandarin fish is steamed on the stove, small miscellaneous fish are fried first, and then two stoves are used together to roast duck and pickled fish. After that, the braised pork that was prepared earlier is quickly heated up in the wok, shrimps are fried, and then two vegetarian dishes are quickly stir-fried. All the dishes are still steaming hot when they are served.
A table full of delicious food whetted the appetite of the whole family, and they enjoyed the meal with great joy.
Especially the pickled fish and young ginger duck are the most popular, everyone praised them, saying that they didn't expect fish and pickled cabbage to be so delicious together! The duck meat is fresh, fragrant, spicy, and has no fishy smell. I can't wait to praise my fifth sister-in-law and my fifth brother's wife like a flower!
Everyone looked at Shao Yunduan with envy. The luckiest one had to be the fifth brother (fifth elder brother), after all, he was the only one who could enjoy the cooking skills of his fifth brother's wife (fifth sister-in-law) for the rest of his life.
Everyone was rather disgusted with steamed mandarin fish at first, as they thought it looked fishy and bland.
Qiao Xuan smiled and invited everyone to try it. After everyone picked up their chopsticks out of courtesy, they were immediately amazed by the extremely fresh and tender taste!
Over at the second house, as soon as Uncle Shao arrived, Second Uncle Shao and Mrs. Niu greeted him with warm smiles and invited him in.
Uncle Shao was very pleased, but also a little guilty, thinking that his second brother and his wife were really sincere, but Fang Shi was unwilling to forgive him.
Little did they know that Uncle Shao and Mrs. Niu looked at each other and made faces, looking very proud.
Look! Look! They said, "Apologize and make amends, isn't that all that matters?" We'll talk about the future later.
I knew that big brother would be soft-hearted.
So Niu went to call Ma, Uncle Shao and their family over. Ma cooked with her, while Uncle Shao and his family chatted with Uncle Shao.
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It's the last day, please beg for tickets, sisters, go for it~~~
(End of this chapter)
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