Chapter 132 What's in the fish belly?

"A bowl of spicy fish fillet? I'll make it." Cheng Yunxiao raised his hand to express his opinion.

"Yeah, that's fine." Liu Xinghe nodded in support. His cooking skills were still very good, and the others agreed.

"Then I'll make a fish soup, and I'll get some pea tips to cook in it." Liu Sanchuan thought for a while and said.

Liu Xinghe tapped his chin and thought about the dish he wanted to eat: "What should I make? I'll make a dry grilled fish fillet and put some potatoes in it. It must be very delicious."

"Okay, you all go and prepare, and leave the matter of killing the fish and filleting the fish to me." Liu Dahai sat by the wooden basin where the fish was placed with a kitchen knife and a cutting board, ready to go.

"Then what should I do? Xinghe, let me help you." Qin Shuyan went over and took Liu Xinghe's arm and said.

"Just watch us act, cheer for big brother here, flush the water, pass the basin, but it's up to you, treat it as your own home." Liu Xinghe replied with a smile: "But if you want to go with me, I won't be polite, let's go, I'll go get the potatoes."

"Okay, I'll go with you." Qin Shuyan happily followed Liu Xinghe, and it was very comfortable to follow her.

With Liu Xinghe taking care of Qin Shuyan, Liu Dahai was very happy. As long as he had a good relationship with the little sister in this family and had the little sister's protection, his partner would be like a fish in water in this family and would not feel uncomfortable.

"Let's get started, let's get moving." Liu Sanchuan shouted: "Big brother, leave the fish tail for me, I want to stick it on the door."

"Okay."

As soon as this was shouted out, everyone was busy and started to act for the sumptuous dinner.

Liu Sanchuan and Cheng Yunxiao ran to the kitchen to prepare.

Liu Dahai retracted his gaze, found a bucket to keep the lively crucian carp, then sat down and began to use the back of a knife to hit the head of the big fish to process the fish.

When he cut open the fish's belly to take out the fishing hook, he found a hard white object stuck in the meat. Liu Dahai dug it out with force and dug out a round bloody bead as big as a quail egg. Then he dug out a flat stone from the fish's throat.

"What is this?"

"Fish stones." Liu Xinghe, who was peeling potatoes nearby, heard it and glanced at it and answered casually.

"What? Stones? Kidney stones? Little sister, you are making me laugh, how can this thing have stones?" Liu Sanchuan had never heard of this before. This was the first time he heard that fish had stones. He was very surprised by this answer. "

Third brother, I told you to read more books. You are uneducated and ignorant now, right?" Liu Xinghe joked with a laugh.

"Fish do have stones, and they are a kind of medicinal material. Our big grass carp is very likely to have stones, and it is very likely that it has something called black fish stone, which can help fish digest food better." "

There really is such a thing." Liu Sanchuan touched his nose embarrassedly: "Then are these two stones in your hand, brother?"

"I've seen black fish stones. Let me see." Cheng Yunxiao walked over and took the three stones to look at them: "The flat one is, but this stone that is a bit too round doesn't look like it."

Liu Xinghe stretched out his hand: "Let me see."

Liu Sanchuan leaned over and looked at them together: "How do you tell if this is a black fish stone?"

"This one, I can't tell the difference if you show it to me alone, but if it is a stone that has just been taken out from near the fish's throat, it must be a black fish stone."

Liu Xinghe smiled and said righteously.

"Just ask big brother where he found it and you'll know."

"The flat piece was indeed picked out from the throat, and the round piece was found in the belly." Liu Dahai replied, without raising his head, he continued to fillet the fish, busying himself.

Qin Shuyan guessed, "Could it be that the fish ate something and didn't poop it out, and it stayed in the body, causing indigestion."

"That makes sense." Liu Sanchuan clapped his hands and nodded, and the garlic in his hand flew away, turning around to pick up the garlic.

Liu Xinghe was playing with the beads, and who knew that the beads were crushed by her: "I didn't use enough force, it's so fragile."

Looking down, the color inside the crack was different, and there was only a layer of white calcium compound wrapped outside.

Liu Xinghe used a little force to squeeze away all the white calcium on the surface, revealing an oval green bead shaped like a water drop inside.

"Jade bead?"

It looked like an antique, with a small hole in the middle.

Several people gathered around curiously and passed it down one by one. When it was passed to Cheng Yunxiao, he nodded and said affirmatively:

"It's a jade bead, imperial green. It looks like one of the beads on a bracelet, or used to decorate some jewelry. It should be quite old."

Liu Sanchuan heard this and whispered:

"This kind of good thing can only be owned by the former landlord here. I guess someone must have dropped it into the river, and this fish accidentally swallowed it when looking for something to eat. The thing is too big and can't be digested, so it has been stored in its stomach for a long time. Hehe, this shows that we are lucky. This thing belongs to you, little sister, you keep it well and don't let anyone see it."

Liu Sanchuan put away the jade beads and the bluefish stone and stuffed them all at once to Liu Xinghe:

"Little sister, you like to stir the herbs, so this stone is yours too. Go to work, work hard, I'm starving."

The others had no objections at all, and they dispersed and worked hard.

"Thank you, Third Brother." Liu Xinghe accepted it happily and concentrated on cutting potato strips.

The temptation of delicious food is huge. Everyone worked very quickly and neatly, and it didn't take long to finish.

Especially Liu Dahai's knife skills are amazing. He can handle such a big fish in a very short time. The fish slices are as thin as cicada wings, and they look crystal clear in the light. Just looking at the meat, you can tell how delicious it will be when cooked.

Liu Sanchuan went to the house to light up all the stoves and stoves in the house. Who would do what where and who would do it first were discussed and arranged perfectly.

Anyway, Liu Xinghe's dried grilled fish was applied to be cooked last on the stove, so when others were cooking, Liu Xinghe and Qin Shuyan waited by the side to wait for the first bite, to help taste the flavor, to taste whether the salt was right, whether it was cooked, etc.

This was a job she enjoyed the most, and she and Qin Shuyan had a lot of fun doing it, eating until their mouths were full of oil. Among them, the fish balls fried by the mother were so delicious that after eating one, they wanted to eat the next one.

Thanks to the third brother, their family felt more like the Chinese New Year today than the Chinese New Year.

After eating a lot, it was finally time for Liu Xinghe to make dried grilled fish slices.

This is easy to do. It won't take long to make. The oil is ready. It's the rapeseed oil left over from her mother's frying of fish balls.

Just as she finished, the grandfather and son who had gone up the mountain came back exhausted. They didn't smile or say hello when they saw them. They didn't stop at all when they got to the yard. They continued to walk in a hurry.

Liu Erjiang walked into the kitchen with a heavy sack in his hand, and Liu Qingshan carried a backpack full of firewood. The grandfather and son went into the house, closed the door, put the things on the ground, and sat on the bench, panting.