Seeing that Xie Xia was still standing, Ling Chunhua was very sensible and helped her move a stool.

Xie Xia sat on the stool and rubbed Ling Chunhua's head in a good mood, "Thank you."

Ling Chunhua smiled shyly, turned around and ran to the kitchen. Xie Xia didn't care too much, she turned her head and continued to watch Yun Mo fry the snowflake crisps.

After a while, there was suddenly a cup of steaming tea in front of her.

Xie Xia turned her head with some surprise, looking into Ling Chunhua's clean and clear eyes, her heart softened.

"Pour me some water?"

Ling Chunhua nodded.

"So good."

Seeing Yun Mo finishing one pot and then continuing to fry the next one, she was so tired that her face turned red but she didn't even take a break. Xie Xia couldn't help but wonder.

"How long are you going to do this? Can't we do it next time after we finish eating?"

Yun Mo wiped the sweat off her forehead with a tissue and said, "We still need three more flavors. Once we're done, we can hand it in."

Xie Xia raised her eyebrows, "Are these all reserved by others?"

"yes."

"I'll help you."

"OK."

After frying seven pots of snowflake crisps in a row, Yun Mo's arms were sore and numb. Xie Xia offered to help, which of course she was more than happy to do.

With Xie Xia's help, the next three pots of snowflake crisps were successfully served one after another.

Although Yun Mo occasionally made snowflake crisps as snacks when she had nothing to do in her previous life, this was the first time she made so many at once.

Ten flavors of snowflake crisps are neatly arranged on ten large round plates. Just looking at them gives her a sense of accomplishment. It’s only because there were no mobile phones in that era, otherwise she would have to take a nine-square grid and post it on WeChat Moments.

After taking a breath, Yun Mo found two paper boxes for snacks, picked out four pieces of each flavor of snowflake crisps, and placed them neatly in the snack boxes.

Xie Xia thought this was prepared for her. There were four people in her family, and one piece of each flavor was just right for each person.

As a result, Yun Mo turned around and asked Ling Chunhua to send the two boxes of snowflake crisps to the next door.

It doesn’t matter, there are still so many on the table.

Xie Xia thought calmly.

"Sister Xia, can you have dinner at my house tonight?"

Thinking that she would be alone when she goes back, Xie Xia agreed without hesitation.

Yun Mo put the snowflake crisps into the house and then took Xie Xia to the market to buy vegetables.

Before entering the vegetable market, I met an old man with black mud on his trouser legs. He was carrying a bamboo basket and approached everyone he met to sell the things in the basket.

The old man quickly sold the product to Yun Mo and Xie Xia.

"Girls, would you like to buy some eels? Big, fat, live eels, just caught from the fields, one yuan per pound."

The water is cold in winter, so the prices of aquatic products are relatively higher. Grass carp is sold for one dollar and fifty cents. Wild eels are rarer than grass carp, so one dollar is really not expensive.

Yun Mo poked her head into the bamboo cage and saw several round and slippery eels entangled together, wriggling constantly. It looked a bit uncomfortable, but when she thought of the delicious taste of wild eels, Yun Mo became tempted again.

"Sister Xia, do you eat eels?"

"I can do anything except snakes."

Yun Mo decisively took the bamboo cage and all the eels inside it.

After buying the eels, Yun Mo began to think about how to cook them.

The weather is so cold, you can have some eel rice in a clay pot, and each person should have their own pot. You can eat the rice crust after the meal, which is so wonderful just thinking about it.

There are about 7 pounds of eels in the bamboo cage. After making the clay pot rice, the remaining ones should be enough for making a dish of braised eels.

After buying the side dishes and ingredients, Yun Mo went to the grocery store and bought ten pairs of small casserole pots and a casserole stove.

The reason I bought so much is because the boss will only deliver the goods to my door if I buy ten pairs.

Now that we have all the tools and materials, we can prepare dinner.

Seeing Yun Mo holding a knife and staring at the eels in the bamboo cage for a long time without moving, Xie Xia couldn't help but raise her eyebrows.

"You don't know how to kill eels?"

Yun Mo raised her eyes to look at her, "Can you?"

Xie Xia: “…No.”

The two of them stared at each other for a while, and Xie Xia couldn't help but ask, "If you can't kill it, then why did you buy it?"

"I didn't think about this problem when I bought it. In the past, others would clean it up and I only had to do the cooking."

Xie Xia rubbed her forehead, turned around and walked out.

Yun Mo quickly stood up and said, "Sister Xia, are you leaving? You're not going to have dinner at my house?"

Xie Xia turned around, looking like she was smiling, "What are you going to treat me to? Raw eel?"

Yun Mo explained guiltily: "Ling Chuan will be back later, and he will kill me."

"Forget it, I'll go find some help."

"oh."

Xie Xia soon came back with a helper, who was Aunt Gao, the nanny of Grandpa Luo next door, and Grandpa Luo also came with her.

"Little Mo, my nanny is working at your place and there's no one to cook for me, so I can only come to your place for a meal."

Yun Mo smiled and said, "No problem. There's nothing else to worry about, but I'm sure there will be enough food."

Aunt Gao was indeed an expert. She cleaned a big eel in just a few moves, which made Yun Mo marvel in amazement.

Seeing her interest, the nanny said with a smile: "Killing eels is very simple as long as you know the method. First, hit its head with a stick to make it unconscious, then use hot salt water to clean the slippery mucus on its body. This will not only remove the muddy smell of the eel, but also make it easier to kill."

It sounds simple, but Yun Mo still doesn't dare to try.

The nanny smiled and sighed, "When I was your age, I was the same. I felt disgusted and disgusted when I saw people killing chickens and pigs. I thought it was dirty. Later, I got married and had children. In order to feed the children, I didn't think much of killing chickens and fish, and even digging for food in the garbage pit."

Yun Mo wrinkled her nose, "It's not that I think it's dirty, I just don't dare to do it."

"Once is new, twice is familiar. Kill a few times and you will get used to it."

Yun Mo shuddered, "Then forget it. I'd rather not eat it."

As he was speaking, there was a noise outside the gate. It was Ling Chuan who came back.

Seeing so many people in the yard, Ling Chuan was stunned for a moment, then quickly parked his bicycle and strode towards Yun Mo.

"Aunt Gao, let me do it."

Aunt Gao glanced at him with a smile and said, "It's okay, that's all. Xiao Ling, go get a bucket of water and rinse the floor to avoid any fishy smell."

"good."

Ling Chuan first went back to the house and changed into old clothes, and then picked up the bucket and went to the well to fetch water.

The eel is killed, and now it is Yun Mo's turn to get busy.

She picked out two eels of even size and prepared to keep them for dry-roasting. She asked Lingchuan to cut the rest into small pieces and tear out the eel bones.

Blanch the eel bones with wine and ginger to remove the fishy smell, then put them into an iron pot and boil the soup over high heat.

While the soup was boiling, Yunmo marinated the eel slices with salt, cooking wine, pepper, ginger, onion, light soy sauce, oyster sauce, starch, etc.

Ling Chuan was also busy. He cut the eels for dry-roasting and washed the newly bought clay pots thoroughly.

When the eel bone soup in the iron pot turned off-white, Yun Mo found a bamboo strainer, filtered out the bone residue from the soup, and poured it into a large basin, preparing to use it to cook clay pot rice later.

Second update~ 　　The eel rice is really delicious, I can only eat three big bowls.

(End of this chapter)