He prepared himself and pushed forward with his palm. But before he even touched the watermelon, with a "hum-ha" sound, the watermelon burst open with a "quack-quack" sound, leaving a big crack and leaking out a stream of red and fragrant watermelon juice.
The five children were stunned.
The two little tigers' minds were full of "Brother is so awesome!" The six little tigers were drooling at the watermelon with red flesh exposed.
Am I really that powerful? Yi Tiao looked at his hands in disbelief. He waved his hands twice again, and the watermelon cracked again.
"Awesome!" Er Tiao gave his elder brother two thumbs up.
Cheng Zhenzhu was just heading back to the house, intending to tell the kids to cool the watermelon with well water, when she saw a split watermelon and a fish surrounded by kids, who were shouting, "What happened?"
Liu Tiao stepped forward with his eyes wide open and told his mother how powerful his brother Yi Tiao was. "Guo Guo~Gua Gua~Awesome!"
Er Tiao thought Liu Tiao couldn't explain it clearly, so he told his mother the story of his brother breaking a watermelon with a palm through the air in vivid detail. Of course, the word that appeared most frequently in his description was "awesome."
"Auntie, Brother Yitiao is so awesome!" Little Tiger came to summarize.
Cheng Zhenzhu listened, almost laughing herself to death. Little Tiger and those other little ones were just too funny. She couldn't bear to tell them the truth. If she told them the watermelon was just overripe, and not the result of hitting someone in the middle of the field, wouldn't their beautiful fantasy be shattered?
Let them figure it out on their own...
"Ahem, it's really bad." Cheng Zhenzhu cleared her throat and said seriously, "Since the watermelon is broken, let's cut it up and eat it."
The word "eat" successfully diverted the attention of several children. Six eyes suddenly brightened, "Guagua, eat!"
So Cheng Zhenzhu cut the watermelon, surrounded by the children. It was already split in two and couldn't be cut into shape, so she told them to each pick a piece to eat first, since there was always enough...
The others immediately lined up and took a piece each. Six of them took the largest piece, and three of them got the piece with the highest pile of flesh. They were all very satisfied.
The one who was always praised as "awesome" was also very satisfied and almost floated in the air, but was finally brought back to reality by his grandmother's words: "Overripe watermelons tend to crack easily"...
Cheng Zhenzhu ate a piece of melon, then changed the water for the loaches to a fresh one, quietly sprinkled some seaweed mud in, and the bucket of loaches suddenly became so agitated that they seemed about to overturn the bucket. Around ten o'clock, Cheng Zhenzhu began to gut the loaches with salt, cut off their heads, and remove the bitter black bile.
Four or five pounds was really too much. In the end, with the help of Zhao Fangrui, Wang Xiaomei and a few children, it took almost an hour and a half to finish it, and we didn't start cooking until twelve o'clock.
While cooking, Zhao Fangrui, who was helping light the fire, was stunned. A little bit of oil, she thought, was nothing to be ashamed of. But her daughter seemed to be planning on using more than just a little bit of oil to fry! It was just a few cents worth of food that looked ugly and tasted terrible. How could it be worth frying it in oil?
Fortunately, I didn't use deep frying...
But soon, Zhao Fangrui swallowed back the words that were on the tip of her tongue. With a few sizzling sounds, the aroma of loach wafted out, like a hook, tantalizing her, making her stomach growl.
"What a nice smell!" Little Tiger and the others sniffed the air and waited eagerly at the kitchen door...
Take out the fried loach, then add a spoonful of hot oil to stir-fry the onion, ginger, garlic and chili pepper, then put the loach in and stir-fry, add some wine sauce.
"Mom, what's that sweet smell? I could smell it outside the yard. Did Dad cook something delicious again?" Cheng Zhenyu walked into the yard and saw several nephews. "Yes, come and help your aunt carry the things. I got some delicious food for you. I must be so tired carrying it all the way..."
A few people saw Cheng Zhenyu, called out one by one, and then slowly moved over.
Zhao Fangrui heard her eldest daughter's voice outside and went out to check. Cheng Zhenzhu took the opportunity to add some cooking oil to the oil basin on the stove.
She had originally wanted to deep-fry them, but then she noticed Zhao Fangrui's hesitant expression and remembered they weren't at home anymore, so she quickly switched to frying the loach. But this thing really uses a lot of oil, so she had to quickly replenish it...
"Your sister is making loaches." Zhao Fangrui saw her daughter carrying so many bags and asked curiously, "What did you buy?"
"Nothing much, I just got two big watermelons and a jar of honey, and some snacks for the kids. Mom, let me tell you, this honey is expensive. Just these two kilograms of honey cost me three yuan! But now Jiawang got a raise, and he left all the money with me, so three yuan is nothing..."
Zhao Fangrui heard her eldest daughter showing off again and decided to put a stop to her pride. "Your eldest sister brought two cans of honey this time, about six or seven kilograms, and she also said she would bring one can for you..."
Hearing this, Cheng Zhenyu was speechless for a moment. After a long silence, she invited a few boys to eat watermelon, a big, sweet watermelon!
"Aunt, second aunt bought us one that's even bigger than this one. I just finished eating it and it's so sweet!" Little Tiger said, shaking his head.
"It's super delicious." Peng Yitiao said loudly.
"Sweet~" San Tiao also said with a smile, and then shook his head at the two watermelons in Cheng Zhenyu's hand, "No mother~"
"Enough!" Liu Tiao thought his mother's words were very nice. Because he took the second piece today and his mother didn't say anything to him, he remembered these two words very well. Seeing that his brothers were talking about watermelon, he immediately jumped out, put his hands on his waist, and spoke in a very arrogant tone.
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