Chapter 107 Handover of the Spicy Fish Noodles
Yu Zhile noticed the puzzled expressions of several people and did not pause for too long before continuing to talk about his arrangements.
"Ge Tai will go to the kelp farming group and be responsible for forming a team to build a kelp farming raft. Select the right people first, and then Mr. Chen will come over to guide the work."
He is tall and strong, and he is also the deputy captain of the village. He is the least afraid of people who cheat and it is most appropriate to put him in charge of the rafting team.
"Wenxin needs to select six apprentices for the state-owned restaurants within a week. I will train them in batches."
Zhang Wenxin is the granddaughter of the old branch secretary. She has natural connections, is cheerful and talkative, and is very suitable for work related to personnel management.
"Jaime, pick three people to form a team. From now on, you and your teammates will be responsible for supplying fresh vegetables and pickled vegetables to the state-owned restaurant."
Zhang Haimei was originally in charge of the vegetable garden of the stall and was very experienced in growing vegetables, so she was no problem managing a larger piece of land.
The three people named answered in unison that the new positions would be challenging for them but not impossible.
Then, Yu Zhile's gaze fell on Zhang Haizhu.
Zhang Haizhu was so nervous that he rubbed his hands under the table, unconsciously hunching his back and chest.
"Haizhu, from now on, all matters related to the stall will be handed over to you." Yu Zhile listed the main matters, "selecting new people, balancing costs and profits, and coordinating work processes."
After setting up the stall for the first time, she kept observing Zhang Haizhu and found that she was worth training. She was not only smart and had a good memory, but also very studious.
"Can you?" Yu Zhile looked at her directly.
Zhang Haizhu swallowed and touched the red birthmark on the side of his eye unconsciously, recalling the various scenes when he was setting up the stall.
"Third sister." Zhang Haimei saw that she was dazed and hesitant, and looked nervous, and was afraid that she would let the opportunity slip away.
The next second, Zhang Haizhu straightened his back and said firmly: "I can do it. I will definitely take care of all the affairs of the stall."
"We all believe in you." Yu Zhile smiled.
Afterwards, she continued to talk about the adjustments to positions within the stall and future development plans.
After the meeting, Yu Zhile informed everyone that she would go to the provincial capital the day after tomorrow and stay for two or three days. If there was anything during that time, they could discuss it after she came back.
After everyone left, Zhang Haizhu and Zhang Ling stayed in the Yu family courtyard to learn how to make spicy fish noodles.
Ge Xiaoju became the head of the delivery team. She was nervous but excited at the same time. When she left, she even asked Zhang Haimei and Ge Tai for advice.
Those who were leaving ran into Hu Qulian and Chen Zhao who were returning from the cowshed, and greeted them one after another, their faces filled with passion.
Hu Qulian responded with a smile.
After walking for a while, she shook her head and sighed: "The future belongs to the young."
"There's a share for me." Chen Zhao took her arm and said with a smile.
In the kitchen, Zhang Haizhu set up a clay pot on the small stove, prepared to boil water, and sat down to light a fire.
Zhang Ling was working on another small stove, adding cold water to the noodles and cooking them at the same time.
Yu Zhile put the blood-soaked bones and chicken racks into an iron pot, filled it with water, and used the fire to light the firewood at the bottom of the stove.
"If you want the noodles to taste good, the first step is to make a broth. Adding chicken broth will make it more fragrant." She explained, "Now you need to squeeze out the blood from the bones, add some white wine to remove the fishy smell, and then skim off the foam and wash it with warm water."
Zhang Haizhu and Zhang Ling nodded in unison, indicating that they had noted this key point.
Soon, the water began to boil and foam appeared on the surface.
Yu Zhile skimmed off the foam, while one of them held a basin of warm water and the other fished out the bones.
Next, she poured the cleaned bones into the clay pot, added a few slices of ginger, and then covered it with a lid.
"Turning the bones from time to time will make the soup whiter." Yu Zhile imparts a little trick.
Zhang Ling was participating in the process of boiling soup stock for the first time, and was surprised: "I thought I could just throw it into the pot and boil it."
“Details determine success or failure.”
"It's these little details that make our fans so popular."
Yu Zhile and Zhang Haizhu's voices sounded at the same time, and the two smiled at each other.
The broth needs to be boiled for more than an hour. During the waiting time, Yu Zhile explained the stall's work flow from beginning to end to Zhang Haizhu.
During this time, Zhang Haizhu took out an old newspaper and picked up a thin, unburned wooden root from the stove. While listening, he left symbols similar to hieroglyphs on the paper.
"Haizhu, what are you doing?" Zhang Ling asked curiously.
Zhang Haizhu looked up and found Yu Zhile staring at her notes. She quickly explained, "I'm not doodling. I'm taking notes because I'm afraid I'll forget."
"When did you start doing this?" Yu Zhile asked.
"After my first stall, I wrote down all the mistakes I made to remind myself not to make the same mistakes before setting up the stall again." Zhang Haizhu smiled shyly, "I took the newspaper off the wall. It's very useful."
Yu Zhile smiled and said: "This is a good habit. Persisting in reviewing will help us do better next time."
Hearing this, Zhang Haizhu and Zhang Ling looked thoughtful.
Yu Zhile stood up and turned the bones, and then continued to tell her some small details, such as the inspection of raw materials and the skills to determine whether to add kitchen utensils.
When the broth was ready, Zhang Haizhu's newspapers were filled with vivid and interesting pictographic symbols.
"The fish is here." Yu Haiguang brought in a large basin of fish fillets.
Yu Zhile took it, carefully put it into the soup pot, added a drop of sesame oil, and continued to cook over medium-low heat.
The next steps are more complicated than the home version. You need to chop the ginger and garlic, stir-fry them in hot oil, and make garlic oil.
"Pay attention to the oil temperature. If it's too high, the food will burn and become bitter, and the whole pot will be ruined." Yu Zhile reminded, "After frying, add two spoonfuls of it to the soup pot to remove the fishy smell and enhance the flavor."
The stock is not finished after adding the garlic oil.
Yu Zhile asked Zhang Ling to use a small stone mill and add water to grind the ginger, garlic and coriander into juice, stir well and pour into the soup pot.
On the other side, Zhang Haizhu poured chili powder into hot oil to make chili oil.
The last step is to boil the fish. Add the chili oil into the soup pot and continue to boil over low heat.
The perfect blend of spicy flavor and mellow umami gives off a mouth-watering aroma that exudes a tempting aroma that makes everyone's taste buds excited.
Yu Zhile took a white porcelain bowl and performed it smoothly.
Add some soybean oil, sprinkle with coriander and chopped green onion, scoop up the red soup, pick up a piece of noodles that has been soaked in cold boiled water with chopsticks, put the fish meat on it, and then add a few drops of tea oil.
The collision of three extreme colors in the white bowl, red soup and green coriander makes the fish meal more attractive.
"Sister, have you improved the recipe again?" Chen Zhao was so greedy that he leaned over to ask.
Yu Zhile waved at him: "It's time to eat, come in and serve the noodles."
As she spoke, she lined up all the porcelain bowls in a row, quickly completed the first two steps, and then scooped out different amounts of red oil according to each person's appetite for spicy food.
"Are you going to eat at my house or take it back?" Yu Zhile asked, turning his head away.
Both of them chose to take it home, so she took out four earthenware jars, packed the soup and noodles separately, and handed them to them.
"There is still a lot of fish and noodles in the pot. Let everyone come to my house with the clay pots to get them. They have worked hard, so let's reward them." Yu Zhile said.
The girls who proposed to separate lived close to each other, so it was convenient for them to inform each other.
"Okay." The two answered in unison and left.
Yu Zhile sat down and everyone started eating noodles.
Xiao Hu ate with gusto and suddenly sighed, "Oh, after living here for only half a month, my taste has become so picky because of Lele."
"You can't snatch your sister away." Yu Chi's eyes widened when he heard her words.
His reaction made everyone laugh, dispelling the sad atmosphere before parting.
After a while, a burst of laughter came from far away.
Friends came with baskets, bringing not only earthenware jars, but also vegetables, fruits and dried seafood.
"LeLe." The voices of greeting came one after another.
Yu Zhile couldn't talk to more than a dozen mouths, so he had to accept everything and take people into the kitchen in batches to pack fish meal.
After getting the fish meal, her friends said goodbye to her and left together.
Yu Zhile returned to the table and continued eating noodles.
After dinner, everyone chatted in the cool breeze.
Chen Zhao kept talking, expressing his reluctance to leave Hu Qulian and Xiao Hu.
As the night deepened, he reluctantly left the Yu family courtyard.
After washing up, Yu Zhile returned to his room, stared out the window for a long time, then turned around, blew out the candle, and went to bed.
The next day, everyone got up early and did their own things as usual.
Yu Haiguang cooked porridge and made side dishes, Hu Qulian took Yu Wanqin to practice Ba Duan Jin, Yu Yue was reading a book, and Xiao Hu was teasing Yu Chi and Pa Pa.
The difference was that just after breakfast, the sound of a car was heard outside the yard. Ning Tan came to pick up Yu Haiguang and the other two.
After a silent hug, the car started, raising a cloud of dust and quickly disappeared at the end of the path.
"well."
This was the hundredth time Chen Zhao sighed in the three hours after Yu Haiguang and the other two left.
"I'm so bored, what should I do?" he asked Yu Yue.
He would not go to work at the cannery until next Monday. Hu Qulian was afraid that he would get heatstroke again, so she asked for leave for him, so he didn't have to go to work for a few days.
Yu Yue was asked this question dozens of times. He stopped looking up and said, "Read a book."
"Besides reading?" Chen Zhao asked.
Yu Yue didn't answer, and the atmosphere fell into silence again.
This time, it was Zhang Wenxin who broke the silence. She walked quickly towards the courtyard and shouted, "Lele, Lele, our village has published the provincial capital's newspaper!"
"Huh?" Chen Zhao went forward to greet her and wanted to read the newspaper, but she dodged sideways.
Zhang Wenxin ran to Yu Zhile and opened the newspaper. A line of large black characters occupied one-third of the page.
[Women hold up half the sky and should be at the forefront of household division]
Subtitle: A record of the family division of women from Jinbu Village and Haiyu Village in Hai County. Further down is a group photo of Haiyu Village.
"Secretary Liu sent someone to deliver ten newspapers. They plan to mount one and hang it on the wall." Zhang Wenxin raised an eyebrow, "The remaining nine will be placed at the brigade headquarters for everyone to see."
Yu Zhile smiled and said, "That's great. I hope it can help more people."
"Of course I can." Zhang Wenxin said confidently.
Chen Zhao took the opportunity to grab the newspaper, ran away from her and started reading.
"Why are you like this?" Zhang Wenxin ran to grab it.
The two played a game of cat and mouse in the yard until Zhang Haimei appeared on the path.
"Wenxin! Aunt Zhang wants to split up the family, and Grandma Zhang wants you to go home quickly and persuade her."
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