Chapter 485: Are you treating me like a real person?
"I'm so sorry, Sister Huang. Taotao is just so stubborn sometimes. Please don't take it to heart."
Mother Liu had an awkward smile on her face and immediately said, "I'm going back to eat first. We'll talk later."
After saying that, she quickly turned around and hurried back to the house.
Aunt Huang was still holding the chopsticks in her hand, and only now did she come back to her senses as if she had just woken up from a dream.
She stared blankly at the tightly closed security door of the Liu family across the street, still savoring the wonderful taste of the piece of meat she had just eaten. Suddenly, she felt a strong urge to eat for free.
"This pork is so delicious! How is it made?"
She muttered to herself.
On this side, as soon as Liu Ma entered the room, she closed the door with a "bang" and then turned around in a hurry to look for a feather duster.
Liu Taotao's behavior just now almost made her angry to death. It was so embarrassing.
"See if I don't deal with you today!"
As a result, Liu Taotao was as smart as a monkey. When he brought the dishes back home, he quickly stuffed the feather duster behind the shoe cabinet.
Mother Liu searched for a long time but couldn't find the feather duster, so she sat down at the dining table angrily.
"What were you guys yelling at the door?"
Dad Liu was sitting at the dining table. He was attracted by the movement at the door and couldn't help but look at Mom Liu in confusion.
"Ask your great son!"
Mother Liu replied angrily, her eyes almost reaching the ceiling: "Ask your son about the good things he has done!"
"Why did you provoke your mother again? Are you really itching for trouble?"
When Liu's father heard this, he looked at Liu Taotao with a fierce face.
"No, Dad, it's mainly Aunt Huang next door. You don't know, she actually said that Boss Su's cooking is not as good as hers!"
"Do you think I can tolerate this?"
"I was thinking, I should let her taste Boss Su's cooking so I can correct her poor understanding!"
Liu Taotao was very confident and acted as if it was a matter of course, not feeling that he had done anything wrong at all.
As he spoke, he couldn't help laughing again, his face beaming with joy as he continued, "You didn't see Aunt Huang's expression after she took a bite. She was so intoxicated that she wanted to take a second bite with her chopsticks. I was quick to take the bowl back."
"Humph, she wishes!"
"You're crazy!"
When Liu Mengmeng heard this, she burst into laughter and almost cried.
My best friend Xiaolin couldn't help laughing and her shoulders were shaking.
"How dare you say that! How can I be neighbors with Aunt Huang in the future? Puff~"
The first half of Liu Ma's sentence was full of blame, but in the second half, she seemed to think of Aunt Huang's greedy look just now, and she couldn't help but laugh too.
Suddenly, there was laughter at the table.
Only Aunt Huang's injured world was achieved.
In the kitchen.
After taking a bath in salt water, the loach felt so "comfortable" that it didn't want to move.
Su Chen picked up a pair of scissors and quickly picked out the internal organs from the loach's belly, then cleaned the loach with water.
The method to remove the white mucous membrane on the loach is actually very simple.
You just need to blanch the loach in boiling water and then fish it out.
The drained loach is poured into the hot oil pan and fried slowly over low heat.
The loach's skin and flesh gradually tightened, and the edges turned golden. Su Chen held the spatula and pressed down gently. The loach's spine made a subtle cracking sound under the spatula, and the flat fish body pressed against the bottom of the pan, frying it more thoroughly.
Dried chili segments and chili rings had already been prepared on the side, bright red and mixed with ginger slices.
Su Chen flicked his wrist and sprinkled them into the pot, and the hot oil immediately burst out with a pungent aroma.
Cooking wine is poured along the edge of the pot. With a "hiss", white mist rises, and light soy sauce and salt are added. After stir-frying for a few times, the loach is covered with the sauce, and the spicy flavor seeps into the crispy fish bones.
When the dish was out of the pot, Su Chen grabbed a handful of chopped green onions and coriander and sprinkled them on top. Before it was served on the table, the spicy aroma had already filled the entire kitchen.
The kitchen door opened again, and looking at the dishes in Su Chen's hands, Liu's father became excited without saying a word.
This is the good thing he has been longing for and specially got.
A plate of freshly fried dry loach was placed on a porcelain plate. The loach was fried until golden and crispy, and the fish body was slightly bent, as if it was still rolling in the oil pan.
Dried chili segments and ginger slices are scattered among them. The bright red chili peppers are coated with oil, while the ginger slices are stir-fried until they are slightly wrinkled and have a burnt aroma.
A handful of emerald green onions and chopped coriander were sprinkled on top. The green and white onions were still moist, and the chopped coriander leaves were stained with a few drops of hot oil. The aroma was stimulated by the heat, mixed with the crispy fragrance of loach and the pungent taste of chili, and went straight into people's noses.
The whole dish is oily and bright, with red, gold and green colors mixed together. Just looking at it makes your tongue numb and you can't help but want to pick up your chopsticks.
"ah!!!"
"It smells so good, it must be delicious!"
Liu Taotao stretched out his chopsticks, and in the blink of an eye, a loach appeared on the tip of the chopsticks.
Before he could blow on it to cool down, the loach flew into Liu Taotao's mouth with a "whoosh" as if it had wings.
Unexpectedly, he frowned and supported his forehead with his hand, looking as if in pain.
Liu Mengmeng noticed his abnormality at the first moment and immediately started to express her condolences.
"W-What happened?"
Liu Taotao said nothing, but just kept putting on the mask of pain.
I saw that his hand holding the chopsticks was shaking more and more, and his body was becoming more and more hunched.
"Did you get burned again like last time when you ate that hamburger?"
"If it burns your mouth, just spit it back into the bowl. We are all family, and we don't mind you being dirty."
Liu Taotao didn't spit it out in the end.
Instead, he made an exaggerated sound after making a big, difficult swallowing motion.
"Hiss—ha—hiss—ha—"
“So… spicy! So… sizzling… spicy!”
Liu Taotao felt like he had turned into a fire-breathing dragon. His mouth was burning hot, and it seemed as if fire was coming out every time he exhaled.
Dad Liu was happily picking up the second piece of food with chopsticks. Seeing this, his neck shrank and he glanced at his son guiltily.
"Hey, if it's spicy, just eat more!"
Liu Taotao raised his eyes and stared at his father's face, which seemed to be pretending to be innocent but was actually hurt from trying so hard to hold back his laughter. Suddenly, an idea came to him.
Haha, case solved!
"Dad," he gritted his teeth, "did you tell Boss Su to make it spicy?"
Father Liu paused with his chopsticks, his eyes wandering.
"No way! I just casually said 'a little spicy'."
a little?!
Liu Taotao pointed at his smoking throat and said, "This spiciness, are you treating me like a real person?! If you like spicy food yourself, don't make me suffer with it!"
Liu's mother chuckled beside her: "You know what? When your dad was young, he went on a business trip to Sichuan and competed with the locals in chili peppers. He even used three tubes of hemorrhoid cream when he came back."
"Why bring up such an old thing?" Father Liu's face turned red and he turned to his son seriously.
"You're a real man, but you can't handle this little bit of spice. I think you're such a loser."
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(End of this chapter)
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