There are really a lot of these kinds of meats, especially those freshwater fish and shrimps, which are a bit more troublesome to handle.
Su Qingluan taught Yang how to fillet sashimi before, and the snakehead fish I bought today is one that has been processed by a vendor. The fish bones are relatively few, and it is already cool. There is no need to worry about suddenly getting up and slapping people, so Yang sliced it. The difficulty level of the fish fillet is much lower than usual.
Even so, when she finished processing most of the ingredients, she felt sore in her waist and back. She couldn't help but get up and move her sore waist, shoulders and neck.
At this time, Su Qingluan had turned all the rice noodles into rice paste, and added a lot of water to dilute it into "rice noodle soup".
Yang asked, "Are you going to get the shabu-shabu pot?"
Su Qingluan shook his head: "I want to use our porridge pot to boil the rice porridge until it becomes thick."
Yang had endured rice porridge before and knew that this was a laborious and patient task, so she looked at the raised stove, lowered the fire to a minimum, and then turned to look at the stove that was being heated. Su Qingluan, who was putting the earthen pot on top: "Da Ya, if you feel the fire is too big later, just pull out one or two of the thickest firewood. If the fire is too small at the beginning, I'm afraid I won't be able to turn it on." .”
Su Qingluan lowered his head and looked at the flames in the furnace - after working with the simple stoves of this era for a while, Su Qingluan was able to figure out the corresponding heat based on the approximate conditions of the furnace fire.
So she took stock and nodded: "It's just right now." Just as Yang said, although the fire should not be too strong when making rice soup, it cannot be turned off completely.
When making the soup base for rice soup hot pot, you need to constantly stir the rice paste inside the container, otherwise the bottom will be scorched by accident.
And this kind of stirring is skillful. It is not the horizontal stirring like ordinary mixing of mixtures. Instead, the long-handled wooden spoon is deep into the bottom of the container, stirring the rice paste from below, and exploring the bottom of the pot anytime and anywhere. This situation will not be alleviated until the rice cereal is completely cooked and the pot is opened.
However, Su Qingluan cooked a large rice soup hot pot for five people, and in order to prevent everyone from running out of soup base halfway through the meal, Su Qingluan specially added more rice noodles and water.
In other words, compared to the ordinary rice soup hot pot base, this pot has almost three times the weight - both in terms of volume and weight!
"Hey, aren't you asking for trouble for yourself?" Su Qingluan stared at a large pot of rice soup in front of him with a wry smile. The water level was very quiet, not even a small bubble, and it seemed that it was a long way from starting the pot. No time limit.
Touching her already shriveled belly, Su Qingluan stirred the rice soup as if to vent her anger - Come on, let's hurt each other!
Mi Tang:...This woman is so scary!
Perhaps feeling Su Qingluan's endless resentment due to hunger and fatigue, Su Qingluan turned on the violent mode and stirred wildly. Within a few breaths, small bubbles slowly appeared in the rice soup.
Immediately afterwards, the individual bubbles became more dense, slowly connecting into a string of small white pearls, and then gathered into a small piece of milky white foam.
Su Qingluan knew that it was almost time, so he added the shredded ginger, pepper and a little sesame oil that had been set aside, and continued to stir.
After keeping it boiling for a while, the spicy taste of the added ginger and pepper has been completely integrated with the rice paste, and the added sesame oil has also been perfectly integrated into the rice soup, and the reddish brown color at the beginning is completely invisible. Rich in color, only the rich aroma of sesame wafts out from the rice soup.
"Auntie, I'm back - wow, what smells so good?!" Su Xuanhe's voice sounded outside, and at the same time, there was a slightly hoarse voice belonging to an older man, "Hey, I said the old Su family Wife, what kind of delicacies do you make? It tastes so delicious!"
Then Yang's voice sounded: "Uncle, our family is about to have dinner. My eldest girl made the food. Would you like to come in and eat something together?"
But the older man smiled and said, "I'll just send your two sons back. My mother-in-law has cooked food for me when I get back, so I won't stay and eat!" As he said that, the voice gradually faded away.
But it turns out that since Su Xuanhe resumed going to school again, because Su Qingluan asked Yang to rush to make winter clothes, Su Guangfu spent all day repairing the house and repairing the walls. The three people who could pick up Su Xuanhe were as busy as spinning tops every day, and Su Xuanhe's Picking up and dropping off naturally becomes a problem.
Although Su Qingluan was also on the way, the most important thing was that she could not guarantee to pick up Su Xuanhe on time every day.
Fortunately, there are many villagers in Huaxi Village who go to the town to do small business every day, so the Su family asked an uncle from the same village. It happened that the uncle sold some home-grown vegetables and occasionally a few pots of flowers, and it happened to be in Zhou Dynasty. Near the Master's school.
Originally, the Su family wanted to pay, but they were unwilling because of their cheerful personality. In the words of the uncle: "It's just a casual thing, where can I use the money?" The Su family had to give up for the time being.
Seeing that the bottom of the rice soup pot was boiling, Su Qingluan asked everyone to light a fire and set up the pot outside. And she herself extinguished the fire in the stove below and prepared to transfer the pot of soup base to the hot pot outside.
This pot of soup base was really too bulky, and just in case, she brought out the largest earthenware pot in the house.
I didn’t expect that when I was adding water little by little, I didn’t realize that the whole jar was so heavy when I carried it! With her current small and dry body, she can't even carry it!
Su Qingluan tried it twice and did not make a third unnecessary effort - at such a young age, she could not afford to suffer from a herniated disc in her waist.
Although the technology of "bone setting" was also available in this era, and it was said to be very good, it was also said to be very painful - Su Qingluan didn't want to suffer that more.
Su Qingluan decided to hand over the glorious and great task of moving the pot to her biological father.
In fact, the strength of adult men—especially those whose physical functions are well developed after years of hard work—is not comparable to that of a thirteen- or fourteen-year-old girl. In Su Qingluan's opinion, Su Guangfu picked up the jar as heavy as a rock without any effort.
Su Qingluan followed Su Guangfu, and when she came out, she was happy: she finally understood why Mr. Yang was not afraid of eating hot pot in the yard in the cold weather just now.
In the middle of the yard, where the stove was set up, there was a huge screen, roughly two meters high by visual inspection.
This screen has been around for some time, and the patterns drawn on it have faded quite a bit, but you can still vaguely see the cranes and looming clouds.
But this is not the point. The point is that the screen has a total of 70 folds and can be bent back and forth at any angle, so Yang bent the screen into a semi-enclosed structure, almost enclosing the stove in the middle. .
Although the wind is not light today, the direction is relatively fixed. It is always northwest wind, so as long as the angle is found correctly, the cold wind will not be blown in.
