"Hmph~ hum hum hum~"
Xiangchuan, who caught a big fat fish in one shot, was in a good mood now. If the lunch box in her hand wasn't quite heavy, she even wanted to return to her childish innocence and jump around.
"Kagawa? What are you humming?"
When I returned to the tent, I found that Qiu Manman and Liang Gong had returned to the camp at some point, and they were standing by the square chatting.
"I made it up casually, why are you back so soon?" Xiangchuan looked at them in confusion, took the lunch box and bucket to the tent and put them down.
"We forgot to bring the kettle, and we came back before we had gone far." Liang Gong explained, raising the kettle in his hand to signal.
"That's it..." Xiangchuan tilted his head, thinking that he still wanted the two of them to help him, but thinking that they couldn't go around digging ginger for him yesterday, he gave up the idea, "Then have fun. Ah, remember to come back during lunch."
When Kagawa said this, she felt as if she had become an old mother. She heard her mother say this every day until she was in high school in her hometown more than ten years ago. She had no intention of falling in love and getting married in her previous life. She originally thought she would never use this kind of expression in her life. He spoke to the juniors in a tone of voice, but he didn't expect that after tossing and turning, he would be younger thirty thousand years later, so the words came out smoothly.
"Are your words something a sixteen-year-old beautiful girl should say..." Qiu Manman said with shame.
When the two were about to pick up the kettle and leave the camp, suddenly the lunch box next to the tent shook, startling them. Qiu Manman opened his eyes wide, wondering if it was Xiangchuan who played a prank because he was left alone in the camp. When the lunch box jumped again, the look in their eyes changed from frightened to... Horrified.
"Xiang, Xiangchuan...what is that?"
The timid Liang Gong pointed at the lunch box and asked tremblingly.
"Hmm?" Xiangchuan lowered his head in the direction he pointed, suddenly realized, picked up the lunch box, and said with a smile, "I just caught it by the river, it's quite fat."
What does it mean to be fat? Both of them had goosebumps now. When they saw Kagawa preparing to open it, they stepped back three meters in unison.
"Huh? There's nothing to be afraid of." Xiangchuan quickly opened the lunch box and took out a freshwater fish weighing about ten kilograms. "It's just a fish."
fish!
Live fish!
Qiu Manman and Liang Gong, as well as the members of Team 8 nearby who were secretly paying attention to the activities in Xiangchuan's tent, were all stunned, and they all ran over at once.
Xiangchuan, who was focusing all his attention on this fish, seemed to have been cured of the fear of crowds in his previous life. He ignored the crowd of about ten people and calmly put the fish in the lunch box and prepared it for later. I started cooking the fish on the lunch box - I had no choice but to make do with this sturdy lunch box since I didn't have a cutting board.
First, something to use for scraping scales.
Kagawa got into the tent and dug in his bag. The rope loop should not be too thick. The rolled cloth is used to treat wounds, and it is stained with ointment. She is the first person to eat steamed fish in modern times, and she does not want to make it into a medicinal meal. Steel ring... steel ring? Kagawa took out the steel wire rolled into a small ball, pulled it out to a length of about half a meter, and tied a piece of equipment with the small ball. He got a piece of steel wire with excellent toughness, which was at least enough for scraping scales.
As for knives, knives specially designed for outdoor use can still be used, right?
After preparing the tools, go to the transport robot next to you and break off a piece of ginger, then move the lunch box and bucket with water away from the tent, along with the lunch box and tools.
There was no special reason, just because she slept near the entrance of the tent. If she had the surgery there, she would be afraid that the fishy smell would keep her awake.
The first step is to knock the fish out.
At first, Xiangchuan considered picking up a random stone, washing it at the river, and using it directly. However, he thought that the fish head would be smashed if the stone fell on him, so he obediently took a corner of the lid of the lunch box and gave it to his hand. The struggling grass carp came for a moment, frightening everyone so much that they were speechless. However, Xiangchuan saw that the fish was still struggling, so he patted the fish's head a few more times until the fish could only twitch slightly.
Well, so violent...
The second step is to scrape the scales.
Originally, I was supposed to use a kitchen knife to scrape it, but I couldn't use a kitchen knife in the wild, so I had to use a steel wire to do it. However, it was her first time to use the wire, and it was very uncomfortable to scrape. After scraping, the fish skin was wrinkled. Xiangchuan frowned and sighed helplessly: Forget it, just make do with it.
The third step is to remove the internal organs.
The flying scales when she was just scraping off were a bit nice, but the fish skin she accidentally punctured scared the surrounding students so much that they took three steps back. Only Qiu Manman and Liang Gong dared to continue to stand close by. When Qiu Manman was about to laugh at the cowardice of the boys in the class, she almost backed away in fright.
There is no other reason. No matter how little blood the fish has, the sight of cutting open the stomach to reveal the internal organs of a car really scares the pure modern teenagers.
Xiangchuan, who was concentrating on cooking, didn't pay attention to the reactions of the teenagers. She skillfully poured water on the fish, rinsed off some of the scales and internal organs wrapped in the outer layer, and placed the cleaned internal organs on the lid of the lunch box that was removed next to it. to avoid soiling the grass. If it weren't for the lack of seasonings and equipment on hand, Xiangchuan would really like to make a dry pot of fish offal to satisfy his craving, but for now he can only say goodbye to them. When handling the internal organs and fish gills, I cleaned out the fishy threads. Perhaps because the water quality here is better, Xiangchuan felt that the fishy smell was not very strong when cleaning.
But this is not the case for modern people.
What a smell!
It stinks! It makes me want to vomit when I smell it!
This is almost the only thought of nearly ten students in the camp, including Qiu Manman and Liang Gong.
The Third Ship Group has developed animal husbandry and agriculture, but on the other hand, its aquatic products are at a passable level. Modern people who have lost the traditional food processing methods are very disgusted with the fishy smell of river fish, so they are especially fond of the sea fish produced by the Fourth Ship Group. I like it, but the chance of a ship group meeting each other by chance is too low. People can only take advantage of the ship group exchange period to buy as much seafood as possible from the fourth ship group and make it into solid food for storage to survive the next Thousands of years of life without sea fish. However, people still want to eat fresh liquid food more than dry solid food. Therefore, once fresh seafood appears on the market, people will definitely compete for it.
River fresh food, like pork, has become a feed for livestock or a frequent guest on the tables of non-main ship residents. After all, at a time when only processed raw ingredients can be eaten directly, no one likes ingredients with strong flavors.
The fishy smell of raw meat in front of them has once again awakened the students in Class 8's aversion to river food. Even if the person handling the ingredients is Xiangchuan who has brought them steamed buns and fruit milk, they still have doubts about whether Xiangchuan can handle this food well. Fish don’t hold out much hope.
Especially Qiu Manman. She had seen with her own eyes in the live broadcast room the tragic situation where Xiangchuan tried to cook pork and both herself and Xiangxue were silenced. It would be the same this time... but she saw Xiangchuan's happy face. With such a look, Qiu Manman didn't have the courage to stop her, so he could only wait silently from the rear.
Forget it, at worst, I will be the first guinea pig, don't let the number of victims increase! Qiu Manman silently made up his mind.
Xiangchuan, who was taking the ginger cubes and going to the river to wash off the dirt, was now frowning: I wonder if steamed fish without soy sauce tastes good...
(End of chapter)
