Chapter 111
Jiang Yueqin was stunned for a moment, then her face turned red: "Of course... there is my room!"
The upstairs of Jiang Yueqin's family was added. She only built a bungalow with the money she brought home a few years ago. The room layout is a main room in the middle, and the main rooms on both sides. The main room on the left is reserved for her brother's wedding, so it is naturally her brother's room. The main room on the right is her parents' room, where she and her brother sleep, and there is a small kitchen next to it.
Thinking that they are going to add another floor upstairs, there will definitely be her room then, and her voice became louder: "My house is a upstairs! There are so many rooms, how can there not be my room!"
Jiang Xi smiled when he heard it, but said nothing.
Her family also has a large building. Jiang's father likes to be lively and hopes that his children can live together. He specially built it very big, with three floors and more than ten rooms. On the day she returned to her parents' home on the third day, she opened the door of her bedroom and found her sister-in-law and nephews and nieces sleeping on the bed. She said that this would be her niece's room in the future.
She couldn't even wait for her return to her parents' home on the third day.
Jiang Yueqin was upset by what Jiang Qi said and left angrily. When she got home, she asked her parents directly: "Which room upstairs is mine?"
Her parents were stunned and silent.
Jiang Yueqin's father said: "What room? There must be a place for you to live after the house is built!"
Jiang Yueqin argued today: "I don't care, I want the room on the right!"
Two rooms were added upstairs, and the left one must be reserved for her brother to marry in the future, so she wants the room on the right!
Her parents waved their hands and said, "Okay, okay, the room on the right is yours."
In her parents' view, their daughter worked away from home and would only come back during the Chinese New Year. She was already 19 years old and would get married in two years. What was the difference between a room and a room?
Jiang Xi took the clams that had been cleaned and brought
them home to keep in a wooden basin. The family only had one bathtub, and when Jiang's mother came back at night, she would have to use the basin to wash. If Jiang's mother didn't have a basin to use, she would definitely throw away the clams that she had worked so hard to get back.
In order to save time, she put a spoonful
of oil in the wooden basin and scooped a large spoonful of coarse salt into it. While the clams and snails were spitting out the mud and sand, she went to deal with the dying small fish.
It is not easy to clean the small fish. The main thing is to clean the dirt out of each one. Since the small fish are small, there are many of them, which is very time-consuming. She can only wash the rice first, put the rice in a big pot to cook, pick out the small fish to be roasted at noon, marinate them with cooking wine, green onions, ginger and garlic, and then continue to deal with the remaining small fish.
After the fish are cleaned, the fish that have been marinated for half an hour can be put into the pot for red stew. To prevent the fish from sticking to the pot, some salt grains must be sprinkled along the edge of the pot before putting the fish in.
There is no fine salt in the pottery, only coarse salt sold in bulk. After frying the fish on both sides until golden brown, add ginger, garlic and dried chili peppers, then add soybean paste and stir-fry until fragrant. Add boiling water and cook until done. Finally, add green and red peppers and garlic leaves when serving.
There is no Pixian bean paste, only soybean paste dried by my aunt.
Jiang's mother's cooking skills are not good. Every year when my aunt wants to dry the sauce, Jiang's mother asks her to help dry some. She used the sauce dried by my aunt to cook lobster before.
Braised mixed fish, cold lotus stems, and fried garlic eggplant. I ate some first, changed the water for the clams, added oil and salt, and let them spit out the mud and sand. After finishing all this, I sent rice to Grandpa Jiang and Jiang's father and mother.
Because we passed by the rice field, I sent rice to Grandpa Jiang first. When we arrived at the river beach, Jiang's father and mother, who had been fishing for the whole morning, pushed a small basin of water chestnuts with fish to the shore, washed their hands in the ditch, picked up the rice and started to eat.
There was water in the water chestnut basin, and the fish were still alive.
Although they live near a river, they can only go to the riverbed to catch some fish and shrimp when they pump water for the rice seedlings. They cannot go to the big river. So every time the riverbed is exposed, the whole village goes together. It is a rare opportunity to catch a lot of fish and improve the family's food.
The women in the family will also take this opportunity to send some fish to their parents' home.
Jiang's mother is the same.
She wants to catch more fish and send them to her brothers, sisters and brothers. Her parents' home is
in the mountains. If she wants to eat fish, she either buys it at the foot of the mountain or catches one or two small fish in the mountain stream.
Jiang's mother is the second child in the family. She has a brother who is three years older than her. She raised all her brothers and sisters and has a deep relationship with them.
This is also a point that Jiang often doubted herself.
It is natural for a child to admire his mother, but her mother was very good to her brothers and sisters, but not to her. Was it because she was not good enough?
So she became more obedient and suppressed her nature to please Jiang's mother.
At that time, she had no clear understanding of herself, Jiang's mother, and the complexity of human nature.
Seeing Jiang Wu standing on the shore watching, Jiang Ma didn’t want to let her, a laborer, go and ask her, “Have you eaten?”
Jiang Wu, who had already eaten, said, “No.” Jiang Ma
wanted Jiang Wu to go fishing: …
Without a watch, Jiang Ma didn’t know what time it was. All the adults and children in the village came to fish. Some families were later than Jiang Wu, so she had no reason to scold her for this, so she said, “You are so lazy. Others can catch a basin of fish in the morning, but you, just waste time!”
Jiang Wu didn’t want to listen to her nagging, so she turned around and left.
Jiang Ma thought she was in a hurry to go back for lunch, and Jiang Wu’s cooking skills were really good. She was really hungry, so she ate her rice quickly.
Jiang Xi did not rush to deal with the clams when he returned home, but first prepared the ingredients for making chili sauce for field
snails and river clams. Since it is called chili sauce, in addition to the main ingredients of snail meat and river clam meat, chili peppers are of course indispensable.
The locals love spicy food, and there are all kinds of chili peppers and chili peppers. Even the vegetable peppers used to make tiger skin green peppers are very spicy. Even in daily diet, people who are too lazy to cook directly use chili sauce to mix rice.
The Jiang family also loves spicy food. In the yard and vegetable garden, there are all kinds of chili peppers planted by Grandpa Jiang and Dad Jiang. There are also strings of sun-dried red peppers hanging at the door.
Jiang Xi picked a bunch directly, cut it and crushed it into chili powder. He also cut a lot of chili peppers and chili peppers for later use. Then there are minced ginger and garlic, white sesame seeds, peanuts, various spices, etc.
Some spices are not available. If you want to find more sources, you can consult the group. The number is 522752. She picked some medicinal celery and brought it back.
Medicinal celery is a kind of celery produced locally. It is everywhere in the ditches, but no one eats it because the fragrance of celery is too strong, as strong as the smell of Chinese medicine, so it is called medicinal celery by the locals.
By the time all these were ready, the clams and snails had been spitting out sand for almost four hours.
In fact, it would be better to keep them for two more days, so that the clams and snails would be cleaner, but she simply did not have that much time. She had to get everything done before Jiang's mother came back in the evening.
She used a basket to bring the clams and snails to the edge of the pond, cut open the clams one by one with a knife, picked out the meat, and threw it into an enamel basin. She
touched quite a lot of clams this time, filling up most of the enamel basin. After washing them clean, she poured in the rice wine, white vinegar, salt grains, and starch brewed by Jiang's father himself, rubbed and washed them repeatedly, and washed off the mucus on them. This step can remove the fishy smell.
Starch is sweet potato starch washed at home. Every year, the starch cannot be eaten up after washing. Jiang Qiang takes advantage of Jiang's mother's absence to make her son use it.
While washing, Jiang Xi's mind was already popping up with eighteen ways to cook river clams.
In fact, river clams can be used to make a lot of delicious food, such as river clams with salted meat and tofu, river clams with winter melon, river clams with pickled fresh soup, river clams with fresh bamboo shoots, stir-fried river clams, hot and sour river clams, dry-pot river clams and snails, river clams with garlic vermicelli, etc. The more she thought about it, the more she wanted to eat it, and she was drooling.
She was in her teens and really lacked meat. She was so thin that she was just skin and bones.
She quickly made a few river clams with garlic vermicelli to relieve the gluttony, and then started to process the river clam meat.
Using river clam meat to make meat sauce is actually not a good choice for roasting river clams, because the meat is easy to get tough.
But there was no way, she lacked meat.
Blanch the clam meat quickly, remove it, pour in cooking wine, green onion, ginger, garlic, and pepper to marinate, and then start processing the snails.
Unlike clams, snails must be washed and cooked first. The thin shell on the mouth of the snail falls off, and then the snail meat is picked out one by one, which is very time-consuming.
After picking it out, you have to wash the snail meat several times until the water is completely clear no matter how much you rub it.
At this point, the preparation work is basically done, and then you just need to heat the oil in the pot.
It is best to use lard to make chili sauce for snails.
But if she used up all the lard, her mother would probably go crazy when she got back, so she had to use rapeseed oil. Fry sesame and peanuts in rapeseed oil, then add celery and spices until they were golden brown and the aroma permeated the rapeseed oil. Then pour in snail meat and fry until the surface was slightly yellow, then add various chili and soybean sauces prepared in advance.
The method of making clam chili sauce is similar to that of field snail chili sauce, except that field snail meat needs to be fried, but river clam meat does not. Clam meat will become tough if it is fried a little, so river clam meat is added last.
When the two large enamel basins of meat sauce are ready, Jiang Xi is full of a sense of accomplishment.
She found a few cans on the shelf in the kitchen, washed them, boiled them, and dried them.
She put the meat sauce into the cans in the sterilizer, sealed them with wax, and put them in the cellar. The entrance to her cellar was under the bed in her room, and she had to crawl under the bed every time she went in and out.
Because their place was next to the river, the air was humid, and they all slept on high beds.
At this time, the sky was gradually getting dark. Jiang Xi estimated that Jiang's father and mother should be back, so she didn't delay any longer. Because she had meat sauce, she didn't cook anymore, but made hand-rolled noodles directly. She rinsed the hot noodles with cold water, poured the cooled meat sauce on them, sprinkled some peanuts, cucumber shreds, chopped green onions, minced garlic... It was delicious.
She couldn't help but eat a big bowl of cold noodles with snail meat sauce, and then served some to Grandpa Jiang.
Before they even reached the rice field, they saw Father Jiang carrying a basin of water chestnuts and Mother Jiang carrying a basket of fish.
Jiang's father and mother were so tired that they kept shouting to Jiang Xi: "Come and help your mother!"
Jiang's mother was also very tired and thought her daughter would come to replace her, but Jiang Xi ran away without looking back: "I'll take the noodles to Grandpa first, they will clump soon. "
Jiang's mother, who was just about to relax, said: ...
Jiang's mother was also a very strong-willed person. Even though she was extremely tired, she still held on and took two large baskets of fish home.
Jiang's father did not dare to delay. He put down the water chestnut basin and quickly went to the pond to fetch water, poured it into the water chestnut basin, and then poured the two baskets of fish into the water chestnut basin, for fear that they would die. .
It's so hot, if the fish dies, they can't be released.
While Jiang's father was fetching water, Jiang's mother drew water from the well, washed her face and arms, and simply cleaned the mud on her body.
After a while, Jiang's father came over.
Jiang's father took off his shirt and washed his hair and bathed by the well in his shorts.
Jiang's mother wanted Jiang Xi to fetch her water for a bath, but Jiang Xi was not at home, so she could only drag her tired body to pour the bath water herself.
After she had done everything herself, Jiang Xi came back.
Jiang's father and mother were both hungry. After Jiang's father washed himself, he couldn't wait to shout: "Xi Xi, what delicious food did you make for dinner? Do you have crayfish?"
"No! No cooking, we'll have hand-rolled noodles for dinner! "
Dad Jiang's impression of hand-rolled noodles was still the lumpy hand-rolled noodles made by Mama Jiang. He was immediately disappointed when he heard the words. His expectations were dashed.
These days, his daughter has spoiled her appetite.
Yes, the focus of Mama Jiang's hand-rolled noodles is not on the rolling or the noodles, but on the lumps.
Dad Jiang affectionately calls it: lump soup. It is a bunch of lumps of noodles, put in clear water, and put a little bit of lard and salt in it, and it is a bowl of hand-rolled noodles made by Mama herself. Such lumps
of noodles are very delicious.
, the outside is cooked, but when you bite it, the inside is still raw, and it will spray flour.
When I grew up, I would see the lines of GG on TV: I miss the hand-rolled noodles made by my mother...
Jiang Xi would make a puzzled expression like "Huh~", how could anyone miss that thing?
At this moment, Jiang Xi picked up the hand-rolled noodles she made from the cold water, put cucumber shreds, tomato slices, peanuts, chopped green onions, and poured the clam meat sauce she made on it, and brought it to Jiang's father.