Chapter 23 Chapter 23 Speaking of snails...
Speaking of snails, they are a must-have food for midnight snacks. They are also easy to make, provided that the sand in the snails is spitted out cleanly. The snails sold at midnight snack stalls are not only fake apple snails, but the sand in them is never spitted out cleanly, and they don't taste good.
This time, Su Li specially raised the snails for two days so that they could spit out all the sand.
Put the snails into the pot and blanch them. At this time, Su Tao popped out without knowing when.
She had just gone to pick up eggs and was holding three eggs covered in fresh chicken droppings.
"Fifth sister, look, I found a lot of eggs in that bamboo forest." Su Tao said while waving the eggs in her hand, looking very happy.
Su Li was also a little surprised. You know, you can only pick up one chicken from the chicken coop on weekdays, so why are there so many today?
Chen saw this and said, "I was wondering why she hadn't given birth in the past two days. It turns out she gave birth together."
"Okay, put it away quickly and come over to light the fire. I'll go chop some firewood." No one has been chopping firewood at home for the past two days, and the firewood is almost gone.
Seeing this, Su Tao said "oh" and put the eggs in the ceramic pot, then sat down to light the fire.
After Chen left, Su Tao suddenly said slyly, "Fifth sister, how about we boil two eggs?"
After saying that, Su Tao took out two more eggs from her arms, which stunned Su Li. Wow, Su Tao and her fourth sister hid two more.
"I think it's okay!"
To be honest, Su Li hasn't eaten eggs for a long time, especially scrambled eggs with coriander. The fragrance of coriander mixed with the fragrance of eggs is especially delicious.
The Su family planted coriander in the yard, but it was already a little old.
Su Li had been thinking about this for a long time, so she went out to the yard and carefully picked a handful of the tenderest ones before going into the kitchen.
When Su Tao learned that Su Li was planning to fry it and eat it with her mother Chen, she was in a conflicted mood, "Mom will definitely not agree if she knows."
"No, I'll tell Mom when the time comes."
Although Su Li knew that Su Tao did not hide the eggs intentionally to eat them alone, but was afraid that her mother Chen would not be willing to eat them, so she secretly hid two eggs, this behavior was wrong. How could a family member eat alone?
Moreover, Su Li felt that it was just two eggs, and her mother Chen would definitely agree for them to eat them.
After all, the Su family is generally malnourished, and they need to make up for it slowly.
Otherwise, I would feel dizzy if I stood for a while longer, so how could I do my work?
Su Li had already made up her mind that after paying for her grandmother's medical expenses, she would have to ask Chen to use part of the money she earned to buy delicious food.
As Su Li was daydreaming, she felt full of energy and even fried the snails faster.
There was no hot pot base in this era, so Su Li planned to make her own. After blanching the snails, she put them aside and scooped a spoonful of broad bean paste from the sauce jar outside. This sauce was made by Mrs. Wu. I don't know how Mrs. Wu made it, but it tasted pretty good and it's also good for stir-frying snails.
Then add some chili peppers, pickled ginger and pickled peppers, and some perilla leaves, and it will taste absolutely delicious.
The only drawback is that the family is too poor to buy spices. If a few bay leaves and cinnamon can be added to the fried snails, the taste will be better.
I still have to work hard to earn money! Only by earning money can I slowly buy the necessary seasonings. For now, I can only make do with what I have.
"Cough cough..." After a while, the aroma of fried snails came out, and Su Li was choked.
But Su Tao, who was lighting the fire, acted as if nothing had happened and sniffed into the pot like a kitten standing up.
"It smells so good." Su Tao said intoxicatedly.
Su Li had tears in her eyes and it took her a long time to recover. Only then did Su Tao notice Su Li.
"Fifth sister, are you okay?"
Su Li waved her hands, "It's okay..."
Not to mention, the peppers in this season are really pungent, especially when picked in the afternoon sun, which makes them even more pungent and spicy.
"Okay, it will be ready soon." After Su Li said that, she put the washed perilla leaves in. Putting the perilla leaves at the end was just right.
When the snails in the pot were shoveled into the wooden basin that had been prepared in advance, you wouldn’t believe it, there were quite a lot of them, and the basin was quite big including the soup and seasonings.
Su Tao couldn't help swallowing and took the initiative to run to get two pairs of chopsticks.
But how do you eat this snail?
Su Tao looked at the fragrant snails and fell into deep distress.
On the other side, Su Li started to speak skillfully.
That’s the taste!
Su Li first took a sip of the snail soup, her eyes full of satisfaction, and then began to eat the snail meat.
Fortunately, the snails she and Su Tao caught this time were relatively large, so it was not difficult to suck them out. They were sucked out in one go. The snail meat was chewy and firm, and covered with salty and spicy soup, which was simply amazing.
Just with this one bite, Su Li's entire forehead was covered in sweat.
Su Tao saw her fifth sister Su Li eating like this and followed suit. Sure enough, this time she ate the snail meat in one go, but because she ate it so suddenly, she choked without paying attention.
"Ahem, good, delicious..." Su Tao said as she was reluctant to spit out the snail shell.
He didn't spit it out until all the soup was washed away, then quickly scooped out another one and ate it.
Hot air escaped from Su Tao's mouth, "Hot..."
Su Li didn't know what to say when she saw this. She even seriously suspected that her fourth sister had never been full before.
But after thinking about it, it was clear that in their memory, the sisters had very few days when they had enough to eat. Most of the time they were hungry, let alone snacks and meat.
Thinking of this, Su Li specially scooped out a whole bowl for Su Tao so that she could eat to her heart's content. Then she filled another big bowl and sent it to the Wang family next door.
On the way back just now, Chen kept thinking about this matter and felt embarrassed. Su Li discussed with Chen and decided to send a bowl of pig intestines to the father and son of the Wang family after making them tomorrow. After all, they helped today and it was a way of expressing their gratitude.
But then Su Li changed her mind and decided that snails might be more to their liking. You know, this is a popular item at barbecue stalls in the future! It's loved by many male consumers!
Especially on this clear and windy afternoon, it is so beautiful to sit in the yard, drink some wine and eat snails in the breeze.
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When Su Li brought a big bowl of snails to Wang's house, the father and son of the Wang family were making arrows. One of them was wrapping the arrow shaft while the other was sharpening sticks. There was a pile of sticks on the ground.
Seeing Su Li coming over with food, they both felt a little embarrassed, "How can this be so embarrassing!"
"Yeah, Su's sister, what are you doing?"
Although the two of them really wanted to eat the food cooked by the Su family, it would be embarrassing to not accept it without doing anything.
Su Li smiled and said, "Thanks to Uncle Wang and Brother Wang today, otherwise we would have cooked all that food for nothing."
Wang Tiezhu touched his head and said, "It's just a piece of cake."
"This isn't anything rare, just some snails. I'll give them to you, Uncle Wang, to enjoy with your wine."
Wang Tiezhu took a look and found that it was indeed just snails. But he had no idea how they were cooked, it smelled so good.
When Wang Tiezhu was hesitating, Su Li said:
"It's a little hot, I don't know where to put it?"
Wang Tiezhu finally came to his senses.
"Oh, give it to me. I'll take it."
After he finished speaking, he had already taken it. When he realized what he had taken it, his old face suddenly turned red. Fortunately, it couldn't be seen because of his dark complexion.
Since he had already taken it, it would be inconvenient to return it again. Wang Tiezhu had no choice but to go into the kitchen to free up the bowl. However, when he came out, Wang Tiezhu had not only the bowl in his hand, but also a gray rabbit.
The rabbit is not big, about 2 or 3 pounds.
"Take this rabbit back and cook it." Wang Tiezhu said as he handed the still living rabbit to Su Li.
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Su Li was stunned as she looked at the rabbit that was still alive and kicking around.
"No, no thanks, Uncle Wang."
Even if Su Li didn't know how much a rabbit cost, she knew it must be more expensive than her snails.
"Take it, it's okay." Wang Tiezhu didn't say much. He thought Su Li was afraid that the rabbit would catch her, so he reached out to pick up a hemp rope from the ground, tied the rabbit's legs and feet, and stuffed it into Su Li's hand.
To be honest, what he and his son Wang Ergou hated eating the most was rabbit. They always felt that rabbit had a smell that they could not get rid of. What's more, rabbit was not filling. For a period of time, he and his son could only hunt rabbits. They ate rabbit meat almost every day, but not only did they not gain weight, they became thinner. From then on, Wang's father and son were unwilling to eat rabbit meat anymore. Pork was better because it could make them fatter!
In addition, the rabbit was relatively small and had little meat. They had sold the ones with more meat today, so Wang Tiezhu was very generous in giving it away and did not feel reluctant at all.
Su Li was holding the rabbit, totally at a loss. Just as she was about to return it, she heard, "If you don't want it, then take back the food you brought."
In the end, Su Li had no choice but to be forced to carry the rabbit back home. Until she got home, she still didn't understand why she owed someone a favor when she clearly went there to repay the favor.
At this time, the Wang family
Seeing Su Li walking away, Wang Ergou hurried to the kitchen and brought out the snails.
He had just smelled the snails, and they smelled delicious. He had an inexplicable intuition that they must be delicious.
So he stopped working, patted his butt and went to the kitchen.
Seeing that this unfilial son had actually left him to work alone, Wang Tiezhu quickly said, "Bring it to the yard and eat together."
"knew."
Wang Ergou muttered something, but still obediently brought the bowl to the stone table in the yard. In addition, he was holding two leftover pancakes from lunch in his hand.
I don’t know what’s wrong with this pancake. It’s dry and tastes bad, so Wang Ergou didn’t have enough to eat at noon.
"Dad, hurry up, I'll eat first." Wang Ergou said to the air, then sat down, reached out and picked up a snail with chopsticks and started eating. At first, Wang Ergou didn't know how to eat it, and he couldn't get started for a long time. He was so anxious that sweat broke out on his head.
After eating two more, he finally found the trick and started to eat a lot.
Wang Tiezhu washed his hands and wiped them on his clothes while asking, "How is it?"
But who knew that his son Wang Ergou was only concerned with eating and didn't even raise his head when he saw his father Wang Tiezhu coming.
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Wang Tiezhu muttered to himself, my biological child.
I sat down too.
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