109: Tuna Oil
Now Xu Ying finally knew why Sai Jinhua was angry with her. She finally felt relieved and no longer blamed Sai Jinhua.
Not only did she not blame him, she also felt that Sai Jinhua was a very upright person and hated the act of selling one's daughter just like she did.
Yu Xiaoye also said:
"Yeah, Aunt Jinhua and Uncle Pu have pretty upright values. They couldn't stand the fact that you wanted to marry the old me to a fool, so they got angry. You can't blame them. Look, Aunt Jinhua even gave me glutinous rice noodles to eat."
As she spoke, Yu Xiaoye opened the paper bag of glutinous rice noodles that Lao Pu had given her today, and took one to eat first, chewing it with a crunchy texture.
Xu Ying knew that the couple was so kind to their daughter, and she was very happy, so she also tried one:
"So, Sai Jinhua is a pretty good person. She's worth making friends with."
Yu Jiahui said coldly:
"But now people don't even look at us."
Xu Ying didn't care much:
"It's okay. She just misunderstood me. I can't explain it to her clearly right now. Time will tell. I believe that over time, she will understand what kind of person I am."
Yu Jiahui couldn't help but smile:
"You're quite open-minded."
"What can we do? Our previous behavior was indeed very bad. We sold our daughter to a fool. No one can stand it!"
The family chatted for a while before picking up their chopsticks to eat.
Xu Ying finally felt relieved and felt hungry. She picked up a piece of fish with chopsticks and put it in her mouth. She immediately tasted that the taste of the fish was different. She looked at the pot stickers on the side, picked it up and took a bite.
There is a huge difference in taste between food cooked in a wood-fired pot and food cooked in an electric stove. Xu Ying could tell the difference right away:
"This fish—it tastes familiar."
The father and son standing by laughed when they saw Xu Ying finally tasted the difference in the dish.
"It's my mom, I can tell right away that the taste is familiar."
“???”
"Mom, can you tell that this is the fish stewed in the big iron pot back home?"
"Oh my god, you got the big iron pot back so quickly?!"
Yu Jiahui said with a strange expression:
"It's not just the big iron pots, they even packed up and sold all the spatulas with holes in them."
Xu Ying widened her eyes:
"So, all the belongings from our hometown have been brought here?"
Yu Jiahui didn't know how to answer because he didn't have the original owner's memories and didn't remember how much belongings he brought with him.
Yu Xiaoye replied:
"Except for clothes and bedding, I've brought most of the other things here."
Xu Ying's face suddenly turned into a smile, and he nodded continuously:
"Okay, okay, then those things will be ours again."
Xu Ying also had some feelings for the things in her hometown, so she was very happy when she knew that the things had become hers again.
Yu Jiahui didn't care about those things. What he cared about was that he had learned about the character of the two sons through this little thing. He said coldly:
"What's so good about that? You're the son of someone who sold all his belongings. How glorious do you think you are?"
Xu Ying sneered:
"Your two sons were not glorious to begin with. One is stupid, the other is bad—"
Yu Jiahui: “——” It hurts!
Yu Xiaoye said:
"Okay, okay, let's eat. After dinner, go outside and see if the fish are hooked."
When talking about this, Yu Jiahui also said:
"Yeah, yeah, finish your meal quickly so I can see if there's any tuna."
The three of them each took a hot pot-sticker pancake and started eating it with the stewed fish.
While eating, the father and daughter told Xu Ying that they were going to experiment with tuna to see if they could fry oil from the tuna meat. Xu Ying was also very interested.
After dinner, the family of three didn’t have time to wash the dishes, so they ran to the deck outside to see if the fish had taken the bait.
As a result, all five fishing rods were moving.
The three of them each went to fish, and when they pulled the fishing line in, they actually caught a tuna.
The whole family jumped and cheered on the deck as if they had caught a piece of gold.
Finally, I can do the experiment!
The three of them worked together to catch the tuna.
"Wow, it's quite big, weighing over 20 kilograms!"
"Come, let me carry it back!" Xu Ying carried the tuna weighing more than 20 kilograms back to the kitchen.
The family of three got busy.
Xu Ying was cleaning the frying pan while Yu Jiahui and his daughter were cutting the tuna at the workbench.
"What kind of cuts should be made to make it easier to extract the fat?"
“Try cutting it into small pieces.”
"good."
Yu Xiaoye first cut the fish into slices, and then cut it into small cubes.
Xu Ying cleared the frying pan and Yu Xiaoye poured the diced tuna into the pan.
"Add some water. I've seen people making lard. They add water and fry it slowly." Yu Jiahui instructed.
"Okay, put some water in."
After pouring a bowl of water into it, the three of them stared at the pan almost intently, all expecting a miracle to happen.
"Stir it with a spatula to prevent it from getting stuck in the pot."
"oh."
As the fire at the bottom of the pot slowly rose, the water also boiled.
Before long, the water gradually dried up and it was time for a critical moment.
Xu Ying kept stir-frying the diced fish with a spatula. Slowly, she seemed to hear the sound of sizzling oil, and finally some oil stars appeared in the pan.
"Dad, Mom, there really is oil!" Yu Xiaoye said in a low voice, as if he was afraid of scaring away such a small amount of oil.
The couple remained silent, but both had smiles on their faces.
Xu Ying kept stirring.
There was more and more oil at the bottom of the pot, and the red tuna cubes slowly shrank and turned black.
When a layer of clear and transparent fish oil covered the entire pan, the family finally breathed a sigh of relief.
Yu Jiahui hugged his daughter's shoulders and shook her vigorously:
"Xiao Ye, Xiao Ye, our family will have oil to eat in the future. Our family will never be short of oil in the future. Hahahaha——"
Yu Xiaoye was almost strangled to death by her own father. She pushed her father's hand away:
"Dad, don't move. I'll cut up some more fish. Let's boil a little more oil tonight and cook the whole tuna. We'll use this oil to fry eggs tomorrow morning!"
Yu Jiahui let go of his daughter and pushed Xu Ying again:
"Come on, old woman, give me the shovel. Xiaoye and I will make oil. You should take a shower and go to bed. You still have to work tomorrow."
Xu Ying was happily simmering the oil when she finally couldn't bear to put down the spatula and go to sleep. She pushed Yu Jiahui away with her elbow:
"Go away, I'll endure it myself!"
Yu Xiaoye said:
"Why don't you both go to bed and I'll cut and cook it myself."
In the end, no one wanted to leave and they all stared at the frying pan.
Cut the fish here and simmer it there. Soon, the pot of oil is ready.
Pick out the black fish meat and pour the fish oil into a jar.
The cooked fish meat tastes crispy and has a different flavor when you put it in your mouth. It is a good snack.
After finishing one pot, continue to boil the next one.
After cooking four pots in a row, the family's excitement finally died down. Yu Xiaoye was so sleepy that she couldn't open her eyes, so Xu Ying asked her to go back to sleep.
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