"It's not cold."
Xu Jiang sighed and asked again, "What book should I send?"
"'The Cicada-Holding Face Reading'."
Xu Jiang remembered that it was the book by Li Tongxue.
The two returned to the bookstore. Xu Jiang led the donkey into the backyard, and Lou Yunchun followed to help unload the goods. Lin Hongchu heard the noise and came over to help. The three of them were quick and finished the work in a short while.
Xu Jiang led the donkey back to the shed to give it water and food. After comforting it, she turned around and saw Lou Yunchun wandering around her yard. She smiled and asked, "Is it still pleasing to the eye?"
"very good."
Although the yard was small, it was very tidy and full of traces of Xu Jiang's life, so he felt good about it.
After being accustomed to the tall pavilions and large terraces of mansions, how could he still think her small courtyard was better? Xu Jiang suspected that he was just being polite.
Perhaps she heard the sound, Yue Nu came out from somewhere and went straight to Lou Yunchun.
Lou Yunchun picked him up and finally asked, "Why is it called Yue Nu?"
Xu Jiang tilted his head and asked, "Isn't that a bad name?"
Lou Yunchun looked at her with helplessness in his eyes.
Xu Jiang narrowed her eyes and smiled, "Because it also burned its tongue while eating."
After hearing this, Lou Yunchun turned around and left with Yue Nu in his arms.
Xu Jiang laughed loudly behind him.
After a busy day, Xu Jiang was already hungry. After finishing her work, she prepared to make a fire and cook.
Lin Hongchu did not eat in the restaurant. According to the rules of her family, she had to eat breakfast and dinner with her father and mother.
Xu Jiang didn't want to keep her, so she just asked Lou Yunchun, who was more than happy to do so.
When the gate opened early in the morning, a fisherman passed by. Xu Jiang bought him a carp and a few crucian carp. She had originally intended to keep them for Yue Nu as food, but she had no idea that they would end up in Yue Nu's stomach today.
Seeing that she was about to fillet the fish, Lou Yunchun took her knife and said he would do it himself. Xu Jiang thought he could do it, so she handed the fish to him. But just as she turned around to prepare the ingredients, he fished out a crucian carp and then, with a sharp movement of his knife, cut it in half.
Crucian carp dies with its eyes open.
Seeing that he was about to catch a second fish, Xu Jiang hurried forward to stop him, then snatched the knife, drove him aside, and stuffed a handful of garlic for him to peel.
While peeling garlic, he watched Xu Jiang cut up the fish.
Xu Jiang caught the carp, knocked it unconscious with the back of a knife, then deftly removed the scales, removed the gills, and cut open the belly. He also scraped off the black film inside the belly bit by bit, and finally pulled out the tendons and rinsed it clean.
Crucian carp is processed in the same way, the only difference is that it does not need to be scaled.
Lou Yunchun memorized the steps and prepared to try again next time.
Xu Jiang fried the crucian carp with scales in lard until both sides were golden brown, then put it into the pot with light tea water brewed on the stove and boiled it until the soup turned snow-white. Then he added finely chopped radish, chopped green onion and salt and served.
The carp also needs to be fried, but only until both sides are slightly charred. Then add a bowl of rice wine, a bowl of water, soy sauce, shredded ginger, garlic cloves and salt, and slowly simmer until cooked. Finally, take out the fish, add chopped green onions to the soup to thicken it, and then pour it over the fish.
In addition to fish, Xu Jiang also made a dish of shredded winter bamboo shoots.
The two sat facing each other around the stove. Xu Jiang first served Lou Yunchun a bowl of soup. "You've been in the wind for so long. Have some soup to warm your stomach first."
Beside the dim fire, Lou Yunchun stared at the fish soup in front of him for a while, then looked up and stared at Xu Jiang who was serving fish soup and rice to Yue Nu.
Feeling his gaze, Xu Jiang looked up and smiled at him, "Eat, why are you looking at me?"
He immediately felt that there was no better place to be than this beautiful scenery.
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