The dormitory became lively again. Tian Tian called Li Jiuniang and Li Jiuniang answered the phone. Tian Tian asked Li Jiuniang to send more seafood and the money needed would be paid directly from her earnings.
Li Jiuniang agreed immediately, and the two chatted about some gossip and complained about each other's boyfriends. They talked for ten minutes before hanging up the phone.
Tian Tian paid the phone bill with a painful heart. Phone bills were really too expensive nowadays. The ten-minute call was enough for her to eat for several days.
Although Tian Tian has made a lot of money with the help of Li Jiuniang and can be considered a wealthy woman, she still feels that it is unnecessary to spend so much money on phone calls.
Li Jiuniang was very true to his promise. More than a week later, Li Jiuniang sent Tian Tian a big bag of seafood, such as dried shrimps, dried clams, various dried fish, dried squid, squid shreds, and dried small silverfish. Tian Tian felt that the bag weighed at least five or six kilograms.
Li Jiuniang was also very thoughtful. Knowing that Tian Tian's family rarely had access to these dried fishes, he specially wrote a recipe, explaining in detail how to cook each type of dried fish and how many methods there were.
She kept some of them in the dormitory, such as dried shrimps, dried clams, and shredded squid. These were processed and could be eaten as snacks. She also kept some of the remaining dried squid, dried fish, and small silverfish. When the school started burning coal in a while, she could cook for herself in the dormitory. Anyway, these could be stored, so she was not afraid to keep them for a while longer.
She took out some of the remaining money and delivered it to Gu Zhao's home in her free time.
None of their family had ever eaten dried fish, so Tian Tian gave Gu Shuyun the recipe for dried seafood that Li Jiuniang had copied for her.
Gu Shuyun likes cooking. She was overjoyed to get the recipe and couldn't wait to go into the kitchen to get busy.
If there were any useless seasonings, he would send Gu Zhao to run errands for him to buy them from the supply and marketing cooperative.
Ge Huiyun disliked the smell of fish, so she didn't help in the kitchen, but instead pulled Tian Tian to study how to knit a sweater.
Tian Tian has been here for so many years and has gone through five or six winters. She must have learned how to knit sweaters. It is not an easy thing to do. It is very easy to knit a strip, but it is very complicated to knit it into a piece of clothing.
Although Tian Tian can knit clothes, she doesn't know how to knit patterns. The sweaters she knits have no patterns at all, and the designs are not distinctive at all. However, she stands out in a crowd of people, because most people nowadays know several knitting methods, and the patterns on sweaters are also varied. It is rare to find a straight, bald sweater like Tian Tian.
Ge Huiyun also doesn't know how to knit a sweater. Her family was well-off and her parents loved her very much. They never let her do housework since she was a child, and it was impossible for them to let her learn to knit a sweater.
Later, after she married into the Gu family, her living conditions became better and she no longer had to knit sweaters. By this time, a person's body shape had been fixed so that a sweater could be worn for many years without having to be re-knitted. Ge Huiyun never touched a needle or wool.
Now she suddenly became interested in knitting sweaters, and asked Tian Tian to be her little teacher to learn how to knit sweaters. She learned it very seriously. The last time Tian Tian came, she only knitted a piece the size of a palm.
This time when Tian Tian came over, the scarf knitted by Ge Huiyun could already be used as a scarf.
What Tian Tian is doing now is teaching her how to knit not a scarf but a piece of clothing.
Gu Shuyun was indeed very talented in cooking. Ge Huiyun and Tian Tian were so absorbed in knitting sweaters that they didn't realize how much time had passed before they could smell the fragrance wafting from the kitchen.
Both of them suddenly lost interest in knitting sweaters. They threw their knitted sweaters on the sofa next to them, and ran to the kitchen door in sync, peeking inside.
"Don't be anxious, just wait a moment, dinner will be ready soon!" Gu Shuyun said while cooking, smiling at the two of them.
Tian Tian and Ge Huiyun felt too embarrassed to just stand there waiting for the food, so they went to help clean the table and put all the dishes in place, waiting for the food to be served.
Soon Gu Shuyun and Gu Zhao brought all the food to the table. Gu Xingshu was on a business trip to another province today, so he was the only one not at home.
Tian Tian's fried and stir-fried dried fish, clam and winter melon soup, deep-fried silverfish, and braised eggplant and potatoes in sauce make your mouth water.
"Try this dried fish. I soaked it and fried it in a frying pan, then stir-fried it with chili peppers. I made it according to the recipe. I don't know how it tastes. And this silverfish, I just tasted it, it's very crispy!" Gu Shuyun gestured to Gu Zhao to pick up a piece of fish for Tian Tian with chopsticks, and he also picked up a piece of fish into Ge Huiyun's bowl.
Tian Tian lowered her head and took a bite of the fish. It was a bit tough, but not salty or fishy at all. Some parts of the edges of the fish were fried until they were crispy and charred, and the aroma of the chili peppers in the wok made it spicy and delicious with rice.
Needless to say, the fried whitebait is very crispy when eaten, and is a good match for rice or wine.
The dried clam and winter melon soup has a particularly bright and light taste. After taking a bite of the stir-fried dried fish, it is most comfortable to take a sip of the soup.
"This is delicious!" Ge Huiyun looked at the dried fish in surprise. She originally thought that the dried fish that Tiantian brought back was a bit ugly and the smell was not very good. She did not have any expectations for this dish and did not think it would be delicious. It was completely beyond her expectations. The dried fish after stir-frying was fragrant and spicy, and the small silver fish was crispy and delicious, which was the taste Ge Huiyun liked.
After the dried clams absorb the water in the soup, they are no different from fresh ones.
Every dish on the table was just what Ge Huiyun liked, and she ate a lot especially at today's meal.
"I didn't expect that fish would taste so good cooked like this. Tiantian, where did you get all these dried goods?" Ge Huiyun asked.
"My friend sent it to me. She happens to be studying there. There is a lot of seafood there, and they can't eat it all, so there are many people, and all the seafood is dried." Tian Tian explained.
After listening to this, Ge Huiyun nodded and said nothing more. She originally wanted to ask Tiantian where she got it so that she could get some back later, but since these things were sent to her by her classmate Tian Tian, it was not easy for her to say it.
Everyone enjoyed the meal very much and ate all the food on the table.
Chef Gu Shuyun felt happy when looking at the empty plates.
The chef didn't need to wash the dishes. Tiantian and Ge Huiyun worked together. After washing the dishes, they sat for a while and chatted. Then Tian Tian and Gu Zhao went back to school.
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