January 13th, it’s now 2:49am the next day.
I woke up very early today, the first time I woke up was probably around five or six in the morning, but I don’t remember much. It was past seven o'clock in the morning when I woke up for the second time. I lingered for a while, watched videos and read novels, and then prepared to go out to buy breakfast.
Tie on your scarf, put on your headphones, and put on your favorite music. Speaking of which, I have made more than twenty playlists over the years, and most of them are boring to me, which means I need to make new playlists.
It’s time to do it. The main reason for making a playlist is to live broadcast every night and listen to songs every day. It’s really easy to get tired of listening to dozens of songs repeatedly. It’s not that the song is not good, but that I am tired of repeating it. That would be too boring, even if it is really good music.
After I got dressed, I was ready to go out, ride my small battery car, and go to the street to buy breakfast. As soon as I opened the door, I remembered that I hadn’t picked up the porridge bucket yet. Normally, I use the thermos at home to make porridge. This time the three thermoses at home were filled with water, but I had no choice but to choose one with a lower water temperature. I poured most of it into the basin to use for washing my hands and face, and poured the less into my tea cup.
My mouth feels dry when I wake up in the morning, so I just need to drink two sips of water. There is still tea I brewed yesterday in the cup. Speaking of tea, I really like to drink tea with strong fragrance.
But my favorite drink is the tea made from bamboo leaves. I like the bamboo leaf tea that my grandma made for me. At that time, there were many bamboos in my grandma’s yard. Although my grandma is no longer here, the bamboos in the yard are still there. It is still growing, and one crop after another is cut every year, but it will always emerge stubbornly from various corners.
Put the picked young bamboo leaves into a tea cup, add rock sugar, soak in boiling water, cover it, and stir it a little with chopsticks after a while. This sweet and refreshing feeling is really delicious. I like it very much. a feeling.
Let's not talk about it for now. The water has been poured out and the hands have been washed, but the face has not been washed. Because I had already put on the scarf and didn’t want to take it off again, I took the thermos and put it on the backrest of the electric car. I turned the switch all the way and rushed forward.
The weather forecast said there would be heavy fog this morning. When I went out, I found that the fog was quite different from what I imagined.
Today is the market day. I don’t know who planned this day. Almost every year, whenever I go to the market, the weather is basically good. The ancients were really clever in their calculations. By the way, we still have an annual gathering, which is held on March 21st of the lunar calendar every year.
On this day, the market was packed with people. There were all kinds of vendors coming from all over the world, and the crowds were full. There used to be circus performances, but there have been no circuses in the past two years. There are also various sellers of literature, calligraphy and painting, which are difficult to see at the big fairs on weekdays.
Last year at the convention, there were about five or six stalls selling stinky tofu on that street, and it was so stinky.
Let’s talk about going to the market first, after all, it’s the market. The old street we went to first was the breakfast shop next to the dog market in the east of Jizui. Since there were many people during the fair, there were also many people buying breakfast.
I originally planned to buy steamed buns first, but the boss was very busy with business. He said to wait a moment. I said that's fine, so I went to the house to make porridge first. I asked my aunt if she still had white porridge, and she agreed. I was busy, cracking eggs into a bowl to make soup. It is a kind of delicacy and soup unique to our area.
Because the previous customer didn't want coriander, but he didn't say it in advance, and the next person sprinkled coriander on it, so he said he didn't want coriander.
I have no choice but to make another bowl for him. In fact, I really want to drink this. I haven’t drank it for a long time. After much deliberation, I decided to drink porridge. I haven’t had a good appetite in the past two days, and the soup tastes fresh in my mouth. Salty and heavy soup, not as light and stomach-nourishing as white porridge.
I made three bowls of white porridge and came out and continued to wait for the steamed buns. The steamed buns I wanted were chicken stuffing and pork and green onion stuffing. I didn’t want either of the steamer stuffings I took out from the front. I liked the stuffing of leek, tofu and small melon and egg in the past. Eat, I like to eat meat fillings more recently.
After waiting for two or three minutes, the boss came to his senses and asked me if I wanted meat? I said yes, three meat buns and two filled with chicken. He said yes and quickly packed the bags and handed them to me.
I then walked to Jixi, preparing to go to the fish market. There were three fish sellers in the fish market. The carp sold in that fish market were relatively small, not very lively, and lacked oxygen. The latter two are quite lively, but they look like they have been raised with medicine, so they are not as good as the first one.
I went back again and picked one from the first one. At first I looked at the fish as if it was dead. The fishmonger said it wasn't, so I dubiously bought it. It weighed more than two kilograms. It’s seven yuan per pound, and it cost fifteen yuan. The stall owner even asked me enthusiastically if I wanted to kill him, and I said no. He looked at me in surprise and muttered, "I didn't expect that the young man didn't need to kill me."
Today's urbanites may rarely deal with these things, but I feel that there are not many rural children who don't know how to do this. They have been able to kill chickens and eat fish since they were young.
But I haven't killed many chickens. I mainly kill fish, because I don't raise chickens very much at home, and we live next to a river. Every summer when the river dries up, I go down to catch fish.
Later, I worked as a water table in the kitchen for more than a year, specializing in killing fish. I estimated that the number of fish I sent away was not 80,000 but 100,000. At that time, I had to kill hundreds of various fish every day. Been working for more than a year.
Every time I go to buy breakfast on the way back, I will take a look at the bridge to see the river to the west and the river to the east.
In the past two years, the environment here has gradually improved. In the past, there were not so many waterbirds under the dam across the bridge. In the past, I would take a photo back, but I didn’t take one today because after taking so many times, there was really nothing to take.
When I get home and prepare to eat, I like to drink porridge with sugar. I bought this sugar from this store last time, and it cost 0.01. I used the no-threshold coupon I got at that time. I bought four kilograms that time, so I bought eight kilograms in total, and spent a total of 0.08.
Now I have about four kilograms left in my family. I like to add two spoons of sugar when I drink porridge. On the one hand, I don’t usually eat fruit snacks. The amount of sugar I consume is indeed smaller than the average person, so I add two more spoons. Sugar, I think it should be fine.
I read a popular science article before, saying that a normal adult should consume about 21 grams of sugar every day. I used my gram scale to weigh how many grams per spoonful I had the next day, but I didn’t even need to buy the gram scale many times.
In the past, I didn’t even think about whether the things I bought were commonly used, so I just bought some random ones and left them gathering dust.
After eating and drinking, I walked around the yard and stopped by the stairs to rest. The black cat ran and squatted on my lap. I held it for a while and looked at my phone. Later, the phone was almost out of battery, so I gave it to it. Spread away.
I went back to the house to play games and shovel, and while playing, I watched this sweet and sour carp-related video. I mainly watched a video about sweet and sour carp from a master on site B. The sweet and sour carp video he made is really detailed, starting from the transformation of the fish. A series of details including marinating and cutting with toppings, battering and frying, etc. are all shown in the video.
However, I still didn't pay enough attention and made many mistakes. I had to be precise and ruthless when cutting. I was hesitant at first and the cuts were not even enough. When frying, the middle part of the fish belly exploded directly. The fish body barely kept a crescent shape and it was difficult to stand up on the plate. I used onions and cut half of an onion to hold it on the plate to make the fish Stand up.
The thickening of the sweet and sour sauce was also thin. At first, I added less water starch to thicken the gravy, but then I added it again, and the sweet and sour flavor became a little bland again. This has a chain effect.
It took more than an hour to prepare the sweet and sour carp. First, I cleaned the pot, the plate, the vegetable pile, and the kitchen knife. Then I removed the scales, dug out the gills, and disemboweled the fish. I fed the gills and internal organs to the cat. At first I thought the cat shouldn't eat gall, so I picked out the gall and put it aside. Unexpectedly, it came over and ate the gall together.
It was really edible, especially when it ate the fish gills. I was really shocked when I saw it, and I swallowed it with a loud slurp.
When the cat was full, he found a place to lie down. There was still a lot of fish offal on the ground. He was afraid that the black raccoon cat next door would come and eat it because our cat did not protect its food.
However, our cat used to beat it a lot, but then it stopped beating it. Occasionally, it would chase it two or three times as if it was playing.
This black civet cat didn't care about eating it secretly and just pretended not to see it. I really doubted whether the two cats were acting like brothers.
In terms of body size, our cat is definitely the eldest, and he is estimated to weigh seven or eight pounds now, maybe nine pounds. And that black raccoon cat, I feel, is not even half as big as our cat. My family has grown to this size in less than a year since we bought it, and our stomachs are bulging every day, either eating or looking for food.
He once found a piece of bread in my room and tried hard to dig into the packaging bag of the bread. Fortunately, I came early, otherwise he would have eaten it secretly. Later I broke some bread for him. , but it still looked at my hand.
Cats can really eat, but I can’t. I’ve been working in the kitchen for so many years and I haven’t gained weight. I weighed over 100 pounds. When I was the fattest, I was less than 130 pounds. I didn’t eat less, right?
All in all, that’s it for today, good night.
