108: Big Fish Stewed in an Iron Pot
Seeing that the oil in the bottle was about to be poured out, Yu Xiaoye simply stood up and snatched the oil bottle from her father's hand, barely able to keep the last bit of oil hanging on the wall of the bottle.
Yu Xiaoye complained in his heart: This prodigal father doesn’t know how to live!
But when I looked at the bottom of the pot, I found that there was very little oil. In my previous life, this amount was only enough to fry two eggs.
In their previous life, they used very little oil when cooking for the sake of health.
But now, that little bit of oil has become a luxury for them, and most people are lucky enough to use a few drops of oil when cooking.
Poor families don’t even use oil, or they buy a piece of pork fat and wipe the bottom of the pot with it every time they cook, just as if it were oil.
A piece of pig fat hung above the stove can be used for one or two months.
Such days were simply unimaginable for the Yu family.
Yu Jiahui poured oil, added onions, ginger and garlic to stir-fry, poured soy sauce, and then put the fish on the bottom of the pan and fried it on both sides. When the fish aroma came out, he added water to stew it and sprinkled a few grains of coarse salt.
Covering the pot, Yu Jiahui sighed:
"Ah, it's easy to go from frugality to luxury, but it's hard to go from luxury to frugality. We are used to eating oily dishes, so it's hard to adapt to this kind of oil-free dishes. I can eat anything, but I'm afraid you two won't be used to it."
"Then let's find a way to get some oil. There's no need to starve ourselves. We work so hard just to make our lives better, don't we?"
"Well, that makes sense. Then let's find a way to get some oil. There's definitely some on the black market. No matter how expensive it is, buy some. We still need to eat well so we have the strength to work."
"Um."
Yu Xiaoye asked her father to watch the pot while she went to mix some cornmeal to prepare the pancakes later.
I scooped some cornmeal into a clay pot, added hot water and kneaded the flour.
While kneading the dough, Yu Xiaoye suddenly had an idea:
"Dad, do you think it's possible to fry fish and get oil out of it?"
Yu Jiahui said thoughtfully:
"You want to fry some oil from the fish?"
"Here's what I was thinking. Some fish are rich in fat, right? How about we try that kind of fish?"
Yu Jiahui suddenly said "Hey":
"Yeah, if there's that kind of oily fish, it should be able to produce oil when fried."
Yu Xiaoye pondered for a moment, and three words immediately popped up in his mind:
"Tuna? Oh right, isn't tuna known for being rich in fat? We can experiment with tuna. Tuna is also big, with large chunks of meat, which makes it easy to cut. I think it's perfect!"
Yu Xiaoye suddenly had an idea.
If tuna can really be fried to produce oil, wouldn’t that solve the problem of having trouble consuming oil?
Not only that, if she could really fry out oil, then wouldn't she be rich?
She owns an entire ocean of fish!
Wouldn't it be more profitable to catch more, fry more in oil, and sell the oil and shrimp paste together?
Yu Xiaoye suddenly became excited:
"Dad, is there any tuna on the yacht?"
"It seems not yet. These past few days we've been eating the fish we caught last time. We haven't fished in a few days."
"Dad, leave this to me. I'll take you back now. See if you can catch any tuna."
"Alright, take me back now and I'll go back and put the fishing rod away!"
Both of these father and son are impetuous and will do anything they say.
Yu Xiaoye sent his father back to the yacht and went back to the kitchen to knead dough and make pancakes.
When the fish is almost cooked, lift the lid of the pot, roll a dozen pancakes with your hands, and stick them along the edge of the pot. Cover the pot again and stew it for ten minutes. When you think it should be cooked, take out the firewood sticks, put them in the ashes at the bottom, and extinguish the flames.
As soon as the fire was put out, the company's loudspeaker sounded, indicating that it was time to go home.
She served out the pot stickers, pancakes and stewed fish.
The power of the wood-fired pot is indeed not to be underestimated. Even the head of a large sea fish weighing seven or eight kilograms was stewed until it was mushy.
Although there were no seasonings, only some soy sauce and vinegar, it smelled delicious. It was different from the fish stewed in the electric stove on the space yacht. It made people drool just by smelling it.
After serving the stewed fish and pot stickers, he brought them back to the space and went to find Yu Jiahui again.
Yu Jiahui had already put all five fishing hooks into the sea and sat by, waiting for the fish to bite.
Yu Xiaoye prayed silently:
I hope I can catch a tuna, just one would be enough for an experiment!
It would be great if she could really fry oil from tuna, but if not, she could just give up the idea.
I hope so!
After Yu Xiaoye brought the meal back to the space, he went out and brought Xu Ying in.
Xu Ying didn't feel very energetic today, perhaps because she was a little tired or in a bad mood.
Both father and daughter expected Xu Ying to find that today's stewed fish and pot stickers were unusual, but her attention was not on dinner at all. Her eyes were wandering and no one knew what she was thinking.
Yu Jiahui noticed that his wife was not feeling well and asked with concern:
"Old lady, are you worried?"
Xu Ying then said in confusion:
"It's strange today..."
"What's strange?" Yu Jiahui asked with concern.
Xu Ying muttered with a depressed look on his face:
"Why did Sai Jinhua keep rolling her eyes at me today? I tried to talk to her several times, but she ignored me. I can't figure out where I offended her. Wasn't she very nice yesterday? She kept calling me Sister Xu and sounded so warm. She even said she would give me some vegetable seeds and teach me how to grow vegetables today. Now the whole day has passed, and she hasn't mentioned the vegetable seeds to me. I took the initiative to talk to her, but she acted as if she didn't hear me. I've been thinking about it all day, but I can't figure out where I've let her down. Can you help me analyze it -"
"Well, what's the big deal about me? You can't even figure out this little thing!"
"What's the problem?"
"Ask Xiaoye how Lao Pu spoke to me today."
Xu Ying looked at her daughter.
Yu
Ono also understood and couldn't help laughing.
Xu Ying was even more confused when she saw her daughter smile, and she looked at Yu Jiahui again:
"What's the problem?"
Yu Jiahui sighed:
"You, you, you, you're stupid, but sometimes you're actually quite smart. You're smart, but you can't figure this out. Sai Jinhua and Lao Pu now think I'm the kind of person who sells their daughter, so they don't like me. Do you understand? It's not for anything else, it's because you and I wanted to marry our own daughter to a fool, and I'm the one taking the blame for the original owner!"
"Oh!" Xu Ying suddenly understood. "I was wondering why she suddenly became cold to me. So this is the reason. Now I understand. It made me feel uncomfortable all day. If you put it this way, then I feel relieved. It turns out I didn't offend her!"
Xu Ying seemed to have thrown away a heavy psychological burden. He felt relaxed and regained his energy.
The relationship between women is so subtle. They may have been doing fine before, but suddenly one person becomes rude to the other. Anyone would feel hurt.
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