The two of them worked together and prepared the meal in a short while. An Ning looked at the sky and found that it was getting late, so she guessed that An Dashan and the others should be back by now.
Just as she was thinking about it, a group of people from An Dashan came back noisily. An Ning quickly asked Gensheng's mother to help serve the rice. Everyone held a full bowl of vegetables in one hand and chopsticks and steamed buns in the other hand. They found a place to sit down and started eating. After lunch, everyone rested for a while and went back to farming. They repeated the process over and over again for about ten days before they finished planting the wheat.
As An Ning expected, many villagers came to ask about the wheat seeds, and An Dashan did what An Ning said. Since An Ning said that he couldn't give the villagers as much as they wanted, An Dashan limited the supply and sold nearly 1,000 kilograms of wheat seeds in total.
After the spring ploughing, An Ning felt relieved. An Dashan and An Ning rested for two days, and An Ning told An Dashan about planting lotus roots. With the precedent of wheat planting, An Ning's explanation was much simpler. An Ning and An Dashan first tidied up the pond, and An Dashan used a rake to fish out all the dead branches and leaves at the bottom of the lake.
After cleaning the pond, An Ning and An Dashan began to plant lotus roots. Although it was already early April, the water in the pond was still cold. An Dashan was afraid that his daughter would suffer, so he did not let An Ning enter the pond. An Dashan said, "Ning Ning, teach me how to plant. The water is too cold. Girls cannot get cold."
An Ning didn't pretend to be hypocritical. She taught An Dashan the planting method and then helped him out. Because the pond was not very big and the seeds were limited, the father and daughter finished the planting in almost a day.
An Ning said to An Dashan, "Dad, I see there are only a few small fish in this pond. Why don't we find a place to buy some fish fry and throw them in there? This way it will be convenient for us to eat fish in the future. And if there are more fish, we can also sell them to restaurants."
After listening to An Ning's words, An Dashan nodded and said, "Well, what you said makes sense. Dad will go and look around tomorrow to see if there is anyone selling fish fry."
An Ning was very confident in An Dashan's work, so she didn't say anything else. The father and daughter went home talking and laughing.
After returning home, An Ning washed her hands and started to cook dinner. As it was getting late, An Ning did not make a complicated meal. She kneaded some dough and planned to make noodles to eat, and then used the lotus root in the space to make a cold lotus root slices.
An Ning rolled out the noodles first, then cut the lotus root into thin slices, washed it twice in clean water to remove the starch, and then soaked it in clean water. An Ning lit the fire, added two scoops of water to the pot, and after the water boiled, put the lotus root slices into the pot to blanch, and added a little white vinegar to the pot to prevent the lotus root from turning black. After blanching, take it out and soak it in cold water. Then brush the pot clean, add lard to the pot, and then add water.
While waiting for the water to boil, An Ning prepared a sauce, minced garlic and chili peppers, put them in a bowl, added sesame oil, soy sauce, vinegar and sugar, and mixed them with lotus root. At this time, the water in the pot also boiled, An Ning put the noodles into the pot, cut some vegetable leaves and put them in the pot, and added salt to taste after the noodles were cooked. In this way, a simple dinner was ready.
Because they were located in the north, it was the first time for An Dashan and Gao to eat lotus roots, and they all praised An Ning's cooking skills. An Dashan was really efficient, and within a few days, An Dashan brought back fish fry.
An Ning and An Dashan first fished out the big fish in the pond to prevent the big fish from eating the fry, then dumped the fry back into the pond, and then carried the fish home. The fish included carp, grass carp, and crucian carp, but except for the grass carp, the others were not big. An Ning asked An Dashan to help prepare the fish, and they would have a fish feast tonight. When An Dashan heard that An Ning was going to make something delicious, he was very excited, and quickly put down his work and went to prepare the fish.
An Ning decided to slice the grass carp and make boiled fish slices, crucian carp into crucian carp tofu soup, and carp into braised carp, and then steam a pot of rice. An Ning first washed the rice and steamed it, then sliced the grass carp prepared by An Dashan into thin slices, marinated it with salt, cooking wine, starch and an egg white, and marinated the fish slices, and then An Ning went to make the other two dishes.
An Dashan started the fire, An Ning cleaned the pot, then put a little lard in the pot, put the crucian carp when the oil was 80% hot, and added ginger slices when the crucian carp was fried until both sides were golden brown. Then add boiling water to cover the fish, boil over high heat, and add tofu cut into small pieces after boiling. The tofu was brought back by An Dashan today. Originally, I wanted to fry some tofu balls to eat, but I didn't expect that there was crucian carp today, so An Ning thought of using it to make crucian carp tofu soup.
Continue to stew the crucian carp and tofu soup in the casserole. An Ning cleans the pot and starts to make the braised fish.
An Ning cut the fish into small pieces, then marinated it with scallions and ginger. Then, she put oil in the pan, put the fish in when the oil was hot, and fried it until both sides were golden brown. Then, she added slices of ginger and garlic to sauté until fragrant, and then added hot water. While waiting for the water to boil, she prepared a braised sauce. She put a spoonful of soy sauce, a spoonful of sugar, and an appropriate amount of salt in a bowl and stirred them evenly for later use. After the water in the pot boiled, she put the sauce in and simmered it for 25 minutes.
After making braised fish, An Ning started to prepare boiled fish fillet. An Ning had grown mung bean sprouts at home, so she used mung bean sprouts as the base when she prepared boiled fish. An Ning washed the mung bean sprouts, drained the water and set them aside for later use.
Two quarters of an hour later, An Ning served the braised fish, cleaned the pot, and then added hot water. After the water boiled, she blanched the bean sprouts first, and after they were cooked, she took them out and drained them, and put them in a large bowl for later use. She added a small spoonful of lard to the pot, added ginger and garlic slices and fried them until fragrant, then added hot water. After the water boiled, she slowly put the fish fillets in. After the fish fillets were cooked, they were poured into the large bowl with bean sprouts. Then she put lard in the pot, and after the oil was hot, she put the dried chili and peppercorns in, fried them until fragrant, and poured them on the fish fillets. An Dashan saw that the dishes were ready, turned off the fire in the stove, and helped An Ning bring the food to the table.
An Ning first served everyone a bowl of crucian carp and tofu soup. Gao's appetite was aroused when she saw the milky white soup, and she ate two bowls of crucian carp and tofu soup. An Dashan and An Ning both liked the boiled fish slices, and ate two bowls of rice with them, but only ate half of the braised fish, which was usually popular.
Time passed uneventfully. Two months later, the An family received a letter. The content of the letter was like a bolt of thunder that shocked the three of them.
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