Chapter 153 Grilled Squid

Jiang Wan ate while carefully observing everyone's reactions.

Lychee flesh is very sweet and only Baozhu and my cousin like it. Red fermented rice fish is sweet and sour, and only my uncle doesn't like it.

The chicken in fragrant sauce is salty and everyone likes it.

As for the soup, it is called Yipinxian, but it is actually a mixed stew, with oysters, clams, squid, octopus and so on.

It smelled nice, but it lacked the soul of pepper. Jiang Wan wasn't interested and only drank a small bowl.

My aunt and uncle like it very much.

These dishes are very popular in Fengwei Restaurant. It can be seen that the locals prefer sweet taste, but they can also eat strong taste, such as those made with oyster sauce and minced garlic.

Jiang Wan thought that spicy flavors might not be sold locally, so she decided to keep them for home. For now, she only made sweet and sour and garlic barbecue sauces.

She spent the whole afternoon making sauces and collecting oyster meat to make oyster sauce. When the fishing boats returned in the evening, she was so hot that she felt like she was dripping with oil.

I quickly took some time to take a shower.

As soon as I came out, I caught up with Xiaoman and her mother who came to deliver the squid.

"Xiao Wan, there should be twelve pounds of squid here, take a look."

"Twelve pounds?"

Jiang Wan looked at Xiao Manniang with some confusion.

"Aren't there a lot of squids at the dock today?"

As Xiaoman opened her mouth to speak, her mother immediately pulled at the corner of her clothes.

"Maybe we didn't encounter any squid today, so we caught less."

"Yes, yes, I caught less."

Honest people are less likely to lie, and Jiang Wan could immediately see the awkwardness between the mother and daughter.

Why did they lie?

Jiang Wan didn't understand, but she still understood the principle of handing over money and receiving goods. She took out a basket and picked up the squid to weigh. In the end, it weighed about 13 pounds.

The market price of squid is five cents per pound. Jiang Wan counted out seventy cents, and the extra five cents was considered as the errand fee.

Xiaoman's family was originally going to sell fish, so bringing back ten pounds of squid for five cents is not too little, right?

Anyway, the mother and daughter didn't look unhappy.

After Jiang Wan sent the people away, she suddenly remembered that the squid for tomorrow had not been decided yet.

Thirteen pounds of squid will eventually yield about four pounds of squid shreds, which is not enough for our own consumption, let alone enough to try to sell. We still have to buy more squid.

Jiang Wan quickly caught up, and when she got closer she just happened to hear Xiaoman talking about what to do with the seven or eight kilograms of dead squid.

It turned out that we didn't just catch 13 kilograms, but we bought 20 kilograms but 7 or 8 kilograms died.

Xiaoman and the others are really...

He actually hid the dead fish and took the loss himself!

Jiang Wan was really at a loss for words. She couldn't repay the favor like this. She quickly caught up with the mother and daughter.

"Aunt Qiufang, I heard what you said just now. You still have seven or eight kilograms of dead squids at home. Please bring them to me when you go back."

"But they are all dead."

"It's okay. As long as they didn't die yesterday, they can be eaten even if they died today. Aunt Qiufang, go back and get them. I have a use for them."

Xiao Manniang was sure that Jiang Wan was serious, then she nodded and left.

well……

Jiang Wan sighed. It seemed that she could no longer go to Xiaoman's house to buy fish in the future. In other words, she could not go to any family in the village that had been cured by her mother.

Most of the people in this village are simple and honest. If they receive a favor, they would like to repay it with gratitude and are willing to suffer losses.

Jiang Wan is not used to this; she still prefers transactions that are clearly calculated.

Soon, Xiao Man's mother brought all the dead squids over. Jiang Wan looked at them one by one and found that the squids were still fresh. As long as they were killed today, it would not have any impact.

After sending Xiao Manniang away, she began to clean up the dead squids.

There is a fish bone in the squid's body that looks very much like plastic, which needs to be removed. The outer membrane also needs to be torn off, and the internal organs of the squid need to be rinsed clean.

Jiang Wan spread out the cleaned squids one by one in a basin. They only needed to be rinsed with clean water for a while and then put directly into the oven.

The sky gradually darkened. Yin Ning put down her embroidery, stretched her waist, and went out.

"It smells so good! What are you doing, cousin?"

"I'm making something delicious. Cousin, come over and help me."

Jiang Wan waved to her cousin, and when she came over, she gave her a piece of loofah.

To be honest, the loofah is a very practical treasure and can only be taken out from old loofah.

Villagers usually use it to wash pots and dishes, or to take a bath and scrub their backs.

Jiang Wan couldn't make a brush, so she went to the village and bought two pieces of clean loofahs, and used them to spread the sauce on the squid slices.

The two large ovens had already started operating. Jiang Wan hurried to spread sauce on the squid slices in the oven next to it and handed this oven to her cousin.

"Cousin, just dip the sauce in it and apply a light layer on each slice. Then push the plate in and close the door."

After saying that, Jiang Wan took another can of barbecue sauce and went to the stove next door.

That pot is making garlic squid shreds, which have been coated with sauce once before, and now it is coated on the other side.

The two sisters worked diligently, turning the squid fillets over and over four times before finally finishing grilling them.

"It's so hot, so hot, so hot!"

Jiang Wan couldn't resist trying to eat a fresh piece, but her paw was scalded away on the spot. Yin Ning was so scared that he quickly got water to soak her paw.

"It's all done, why are you in such a hurry? Look, your fingers are all red from the heat."

Yin Ning pinched Jiang Wan's face, turned around and went into the house to get a fan.

This fan is neither the folding fan used by scholars nor the round fan used by young ladies, but the palm-leaf fan used by villagers.

It is grey and inconspicuous, but it is really useful. A light fan can produce much more wind than a folding fan or a round fan.

Yin Ning fanned the plate back and forth for a while.

"It's getting cold now, eat."

Jiang Wan happily took a piece of squid.

Squid shreds are roasted squid slices torn into shreds. Jiang Wan didn't tear them too thin, but just divided them into two halves, giving one piece to herself and her cousin.

"Cousin, try it. You will definitely like the taste."

Yin Ning opened his mouth and took the squid meat from his cousin's hand.

The aroma that wafted into her nose made her drool silently. She took a bite and found that the charred skin wrapped in the soft and tender meat was slightly springy and very chewy.

The sweet and sour sauce has seeped into the shredded pork. The more you chew it, the more fragrant and delicious it becomes!

"It smells so good! We've been eating squid these past two days, and it didn't taste like this before!"

"Of course the taste of fried and roasted food is different."

The squids we ate at home these two days were all fried. Fried squids have a crispier texture.

Jiang Wan narrowed her eyes happily. She still preferred grilled food.

These two ovens are so well built that she has already started thinking about all kinds of delicious food that require an oven.

You can never let down your stomach.

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(Good night, my little cuties~)