12dz Chapter 133 Cooking
Chapter 133 Cooking
Mother Yan's eyes were a little evasive. "We have been taking care of you in the hospital. We don't know about those things. Just lie down first. I will tell the attending doctor that you are awake."
Coming out of the single room, Yan's mother sighed helplessly.
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On the morning of the first day of spring ploughing, everyone stood in the threshing yard, waiting for Captain Qian to assign tasks. Captain Qian first gave an impassioned speech to mobilize everyone's enthusiasm, and then assigned the work to everyone.
Then the crowd on the threshing ground dispersed and followed the team leaders to the fields, where they began to work busily. Everyone's busy figures could be seen in every paddy field.
Wenxi and the other two had breakfast at home, and then went up the mountain together. Shen Jiaojiao and Jiang Yue went to pick bamboo shoots, while Wenxi went to dig wild vegetables.
Although pig grass has not grown yet in this season, pig grass does not refer to a specific type of grass. It is a general term. As long as it is grass that pigs can eat, it can be called pig grass.
Since the beginning of the Chinese New Year, Wenxi applied to collect grass for pigs. Although she did not go to collect grass for pigs every day, she delivered two baskets of wild vegetables to the pig shed every day in exchange for two work points.
Because she had already dug a lot of wild vegetables in advance and put them in the system warehouse, when she was not free, she would directly use the wild vegetables she had stored to exchange for work points.
At nine o'clock, Wenxi and the other two came to the cafeteria. The food and vegetables were already there, and the five of them only needed to process them.
"Aunt Xiaoju, why are you so happy? Did something good happen?" Seeing the smiles on Wang Xiaoju and Sun Mei's faces, Wen Xi asked curiously.
Wang Xiaoju lifted the sack covering the bamboo basket, revealing a basket of bones. She smiled and said, "Captain Qian sent someone to the pork stall to buy a basket of bones. We can have bone soup at noon."
The bones at this time are real bones, and the meat on them has been picked cleanly. When stewed into soup, you can taste the flavor of meat!
Wen Xi smiled and said, "Aunt Xiaoju, today is the first time the three of us have cooked together. Let me cook the bones and show you my skills. How about that?"
Wang Xiaoju looked at Wen Xi with embarrassment, because she felt that these city girls were spoiled and had never done any housework. If the bone soup was ruined, everyone would definitely blame them.
"Aunt Xiaoju, Xiaoxi is a good cook. She is the one who cooks for our family, and Xiaoyue and I are responsible for odd jobs!" Shen Jiaojiao said when she saw that Wang Xiaoju didn't believe Wenxi.
Jiang Yue pointed to the basket hanging on her wrist and said, "To show our sincerity, we brought all the oil, salt, sauce and vinegar we use!"
"Aunt Xiaoju, just let me try. If the bone soup I make doesn't taste good, I'll buy bones tomorrow to compensate everyone. How about that?" Wen Xi shook Wang Xiaoju's arm.
Wang Xiaoju hesitated for a moment and then nodded in agreement.
Afterwards, Wenxi and the other two carried the bones to the river bend to wash them. Wenxi poured the bones on the grass next to her and threw the bamboo basket into the water. The bamboo basket was stained with a slight fishy smell, which should attract some small fish, so that tomorrow's meat dish would be solved.
During the busy farming season, we must ensure that everyone has enough food to eat so that they have the strength to work.
While Shen Jiaojiao and Jiang Yue went back to the cafeteria to get the vegetables to wash, Wen Xi took out some wild fish as long as fingers from the system warehouse and put them in a wooden basin with river water.
When she went to the waterfall to plant the fruit and vegetable seedlings, she used some fish anesthetic and spent an hour catching fish. There were silver carps weighing more than one kilogram or half a kilogram, as well as wild small fish the size of a finger. But it was difficult to explain with the silver carps now, so she just took out the wild small fish and said that she caught them with a cage.
When Shen Jiaojiao and Jiang Yue carried the washed vegetables to the river, they were surprised to see the dark and densely packed fish in the wooden basin. "Xiaoxi, you caught so many fish?"
Jiang Yue also exclaimed, "Look, there are fish in the cage."
There were fish in the frame, but there were too few of them, not enough to eat. This meant that Wenxi still needed to take some out from the system warehouse to make up for a meal.
"Hurry up and wash the vegetables. Don't delay things or get scolded by Aunt Xiaoju and Aunt Mei." The two of them were always by her side, and she couldn't cheat, so she had to urge them to go away.
Shen Jiaojiao and Jiang Yue went to wash the vegetables on the stones nearby, while Wen Xi started to wash the ribs. When the fish were put into the bamboo basket, she lifted the basket out of the water, poured the fish into the wooden basin, and then quietly transferred some small fish from the system warehouse. With so many people eating, at least two basins of small fish were needed.
Wenxi had to go back to cook, so she didn't keep catching small fish here. Instead, she took the time to clean the ribs. While cleaning, she quietly counted them and found that there was not enough for each person, so she took some bones from the bones she bought and added them to make up the number to ensure that everyone could get a bone.
After the ribs were washed, the three people carried them back. With so many ribs, Wen Xi stewed them in three iron pots and cut the white radish into dice. He left Shen Jiaojiao here to watch the rib pot. When the pot was boiling, he put the white radish in.
Wenxi took Jiangyue to the river bend and asked Jiangyue to remove the internal organs of the fish. Although they could eat the fish without removing the internal organs, it would be a bit bitter. Besides, they would eat the fish themselves, so they had to take it seriously.
Wenxi continued to catch fish with a bamboo basket. The two of them cooperated with each other and brought back a basin of processed and cleaned fish.
Wang Xiaoju and Sun Mei were surprised to see the two of them carrying so many small fish back. "Xiaoxi, why did you catch so many small fish? These small fish consume too much oil, and we don't have that much oil to cook!"
"Aunt Xiaoju, don't worry, I know a way to cook it that doesn't require too much oil." Wen Xi said with a smile, then poured the small fish into a dustpan and took it outside the cafeteria to dry.
If this kind of small fish is not fried but cooked directly in a pan, it will become a paste and will not be edible at all. But now there is not so much oil, so we can only choose to dry it.
Although Wenxi has oil, it is signed for and will be gone once it is used up, so it is natural to use it sparingly.
There are a total of ten pots in the cafeteria. One is used to boil tea for everyone, which cannot be greasy. Four are used to cook rice and steam steamed buns. The remaining five are used for stir-frying. Now two pots are used to stew soup, so there are only three pots left for cooking.