When she walked to the kitchen door, Ning Xiyue smelled the tempting spicy aroma coming from the kitchen next door, which made her very hungry.
Ning Xiyue sniffed and quickened the pace of opening the door. She also wanted to eat the delicious and numbing fish as soon as possible.
Opening the kitchen door, Ning Xiyue took out a large wooden basin and asked her second brother to pour all the fish into it.
It's hard to keep fish in today's weather. If you put them in water overnight, you'll definitely see a large lump of frozen ice when you wake up tomorrow. You'll have to throw them all away.
Most of the fish caught this time were crucian carp. They looked heavy, but there were actually not many of them. It didn't take much time to process them all just by opening their bellies.
Only those few large fish take some time to fillet, and cooking the fish takes time.
But Ning Xiyue doesn’t have to worry about these things, because she has a good brother.
Ning Qingyuan took the initiative to take over all the work of processing the fish.
"Sister, just light the fire and cook, I'll take care of the fish. Tell me what you want to eat and I'll make it for you."
Ning Xiyue touched her chin and looked down at the crucian carp swimming slowly in the basin, as well as the black fish with its belly turned up, thinking.
"Here, brother, let's have dry-fried black fish fillets for lunch today, and use the fish head and bones to make soup."
Ning Xiyue squatted down and pointed at the dying black fish, then looked at a group of crucian carp and said:
"Pick some smaller crucian carp, coat them in flour, and make fried fish. In the afternoon, I'll prepare the remaining larger crucian carp. I'll use half to make dried salted fish and the other half to make sour fish. Then, tonight, I'll use the carp to make spicy fish fillets. How do you do that, brother?"
Ning Xiyue looked at him expectantly, waiting for his opinion.
"Well, why not? Let's do it this way. You go ahead and do your work. I'll get started." Ning Qingyuan rolled up his sleeves, took a kitchen knife and a small stool, and started working while sitting at the kitchen door.
Ning Xiyue brought a basin over for him to put the prepared fish in. Seeing that her second brother had killed a fish with a few strokes of the knife, she hurried to wash the rice and cook.
While Ning Xiyue was draining the rice soup and preparing to steam the rice, Ning Qingyuan had also processed the fish in his hands and coated it with crucian carp powder.
Ning Xiyue lit the fire under the big iron pot, and Ning Qingyuan started frying the fish.
At this time, Chen Yetu from next door came over with two bowls of fish, one red and the other green.
"Xiyue, I've brought some fish over to you and put it on the table." Chen Yetu put down the two bowls of fish and turned to leave without stopping.
"Ye Chu..." Ning Xiyue stood up and shouted in a high voice. Looking at her hurriedly leaving figure, she smiled helplessly: "Oh, this guy left so fast."
Ning Xiyue walked to the table and looked at the two bowls of fish on it. The red bowl was spicy fish fillets, and the green bowl was pickled cabbage and pepper fish fillets.
Just looking at the color makes it look delicious and tasty.
The fish here should be the big grass carp that they pulled up together.
Ning Xiyue went to the cupboard and took out two bowls to free up the fish and put them on the hot stove to keep them warm. Then she washed Chen Yechu's two bowls and placed them on the stove next to her second brother.
"Brother, when the fried fish and dry-fried black fish are ready, please put a portion in these two bowls for me."
"Okay, let's fry two now." Ning Qingyuan took a bowl to drain the water and put the two fried fish in the pot into the bowl.
The rice was already cooked. Ning Xiyue put some long-lasting firewood into the stove for frying fish and helped her second brother dry the ingredients needed for roasting black fish.
Ning Qingyuan was in charge of cooking, and Ning Xiyue was helping him. They worked much faster and soon finished frying the fish and making the dry-fried black fish.
Ning Qingyuan continued to stew the fish head soup, and Ning Xiyue walked towards her with the bowl that Chen Yetu brought over.
When he passed by, Chen Yechu was eating.
"Ye Chu, I'm here to return your bowl." Ning Xiyue also imitated Chen Ye Chu's behavior at that time, rushed over, put the bowl on the table and left, without giving her any chance to react.
Chen Yetu swallowed the food in his mouth, looked at the fish on the table and the receding figure, and smiled with his forehead in his hand.
Are they exchanging lunch? How hilarious.
She was so happy to eat four dishes and a soup by herself. Chen Yechu happily picked up a piece of dry-fried black fish and ate it, nodding while eating. She then took a crispy fried fish and ate it. The more she ate, the better her mood became.
It’s really nice to have such a friend. We don’t bother each other when we have things to do, but he can give me some help at critical moments. It’s very comfortable to get along with him because we interact with each other.
It was worth it for her to meet such a comfortable friend in her reborn life.
Living in the countryside and making one or two good friends and learning something is no better than bringing back a scumbag.
Well, it’s true that if you stay away from bad men, you will be happy.
Chen Yetu continued to eat the food in the bowl happily.
On the other side, the fish soup was ready. Ning Xiyue brought the food to the table, and the two siblings sat down to eat happily.
"We can say we're having a full fish feast, fried, boiled and roasted."
Ning Qingyuan picked up his chopsticks and looked at the food in front of him, ready to start: "All we need is a steamed one. We can save two crucian carps for steaming in the evening, one for each of us. Let's eat now."
"You can have this, eat it."
Ning Xiyue's first chopsticks went to the Sichuan pepper and pickled fish that Chen Yechu brought over to whet her appetite.
"Mmm~, delicious."
The fish meat is smooth and tender. Although it looks light, it is actually very tasty and numbing. It has a bit of the sour taste of Lao Tan's pickled cabbage, which is very satisfying to eat.
Only Chen Yechu has this Sichuan peppercorn oil packet with a unique spicy flavor, and I can only taste it through her once. It's so delicious.
"Brother, try this bowl of fish, it tastes delicious." Ning Xiyue pointed at the pickled fish with Sichuan peppercorns and quickly shared it with her second brother who had never tasted the Sichuan peppercorn flavor.
"Okay, let me try." Ning Qingyuan listened to her and stretched his chopsticks towards the bowl of fish.
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