"My biggest headache is the New Year. Every New Year, my family will arrange for heroes from all walks of life to meet. As a result, in the past two years, I have to disappear when the New Year comes." Xiao Yalin said with a frown.
"Isn't that because I care about you?" Li Yueji smiled.
"I wish they didn't care about me." Xiao Yalin looked outside the door.
Outside the door, red lanterns began to be hung on the street, and there was an endless stream of pedestrians. Qiantang City is slowly filled with a New Year atmosphere.
Yan Yuan was sitting at the entrance of a very elegantly decorated clothing store, sometimes looking at the dressing room, sometimes looking at the various beauties passing by the store entrance.
After a while, a tall, fashionably dressed young woman walked out of the locker room. The woman walked straight in front of Yan Yuan, and then stopped.
"Yan Yuan, what do you think of this outfit?" This woman is none other than Liu Ruxuan, who is passionately in love with Yan Yuan.
"Well, it's not bad. It looks much better than the one just now." Yan Yuan quickly praised.
"In other words, it's not very ideal. Then I have to try it on. Waiter, help me bring that beige suit." Liu Ruxuan turned around and walked towards the dressing room.
"Snapped!"
Yan Yuan slapped himself on the mouth.
"Call you a bitch!"
"Yan Yuan, are you tired of waiting?" Liu Ruxuan suddenly turned around.
"No, absolutely not. As long as I can be with you, no matter how hard or tiring it is, I'm happy." Yan Yuan accompanied him with a smile.
"So you still think it's hard to go out with me to buy clothes? How about you go back first and I'll be here alone." Liu Ruxuan made a suggestion.
Yan Yuan thought to himself, "Marrying a smart woman is indeed a very painful thing, but marrying such a woman who doesn't become stupid even after falling in love is simply purgatory."
But Yan Yuan naturally did not dare to say it out loud, "It's not hard, not hard. I'm happy. Seeing my wife changing her appearance and style. It feels like a beauty pageant."
Yan Yuan was so manipulated by Liu Ruxuan that he lost his temper at all.
Liu Ruxuan smiled when she saw Yan Yuan's obedient look, "That's pretty much it."
Yan Yuan watched Liu Ruxuan enter the locker room with a smile, without daring to move.
Sure enough, Liu Ruxuan quickly poked her head out of the locker room again. Seeing that Yan Yuan's expression remained unchanged, she smiled slightly and closed the door to the locker room.
¡°Small, you always do this.¡± Yan Yuan laughed in his heart.
But then he thought, "Oh my god, this is just the beginning. If I get married in the future, that day oh!" Yan Yuan really didn't dare to think about it further.
Yan Yuan did not expect that Liu Ruxuan, the captain of the special brigade, was as passionate about clothes as any female walking back and forth on the road, or even more.
It¡¯s almost the Chinese New Year, and Yan Yuan has a lot less worries today. He doesn¡¯t have to be bombarded by his family members like in previous years. The Yan family is extremely satisfied with Liu Ruxuan. Yan Yuan feels that his mother treats Liu Ruxuan much better than she treats him. It was as if Liu Ruxuan was her biological child.
"Yan Yuan, today is the Chinese New Year, how should we spend it? Going to your house or mine?" Liu Ruxuan hasn't taken a vacation in several years. This time, she made up for all the vacations she had taken in several years. I was just able to happily spend a honeymoon with Yan Yuan in advance.
"Sigh." Yan Yuan still had a headache when he thought about the New Year. No matter whose house he was in, when the New Year came, he would definitely be running around at relatives' houses. I was so exhausted that I didn't really have much time left for the two of us to spend time together.
"What? Aren't you happy to celebrate the New Year with me?" Liu Ruxuan raised her eyebrows.
"No, no. I'm absolutely happy! I just think it's so easy for the two of us to stay together. If we run around during the Chinese New Year, we won't have much time together, and we'll be almost exhausted."
"That's true. Then what do you want to do?" Liu Ruxuan frowned. She had not thought of this level.
"How about we go traveling together! Then we can be free. No one will disturb us. How comfortable."
"Well, that's a good idea. But when my family asks me in the future, you have to say it was your idea."
"No problem. Let's travel somewhere."
¡°Don¡¯t ask me about this, I don¡¯t go to many places.¡±
"Well, let's discuss this issue again. It's still early anyway. But don't let your family know. Whether it's my mother or your mother, once they know, we will definitely not be able to go out." Yan Yuan warned.
"Right, okay"?I haven¡¯t seen that boy by the river anymore. What about others? Liu Ruxuan asked.
"That guy went back to his hometown. I don't know what he was thinking. He just wanted to go to the countryside. He said that after celebrating the New Year, he was going to Yuwan Village." Yan Yuan felt a little disappointed when he talked about the riverside. Jiangbian is like a brother.
"Perhaps, people like him are suitable to stay in the countryside. You see, he has good fishing skills, but he can't use them in the city. Besides, the pollution in the city is so serious now and the traffic is congested. On the contrary, it is not as good as staying in the countryside. The air in the countryside is good, and the house can be as big as you want, and it doesn't cost much. The fishing skills on the riverside can also be used. Occasionally, you can come out to participate in competitions. That's a good life." Liu Ruxuan seemed a little bit envious.
¡°His days were called days, so what do I call the days I¡¯m living now?¡±
"The life you live is, at best, just passable."
"If I could be with you, I would be extremely happy no matter what the day." Yan Yuan was very satisfied.
Liu Ruxuan was very happy when Yan Yuan said this.
"I have an idea. How about?" Yan Yuan thought for a while and said.
"How about we go to our hometown by the river to celebrate the New Year together?" Liu Ruxuan said with a smile.
"Yes, that's what I mean. Should we ask someone else to go? It would be embarrassing if we go together as a couple."
"It's a pity that as the New Year approaches, Manqing becomes busier and busier. She definitely won't be able to go."
"Hey, I think of someone who I definitely have plenty of time for. Xiao Yalin, whom Jiangbian calls my sister. I guess she is also looking for a place to hide during the Chinese New Year. If we call her, she will definitely go." Yan Yuan said.
In Banshan Village, several families on the riverside have begun to renovate their houses.
Jiangbian basically became a professional chef.
Someone in the village planted a pond of lotus roots, and they have started digging lotus roots for sale during this period.
This lotus root pond did not use cement to harden the bottom. As a result, the mud layer was extremely thick, and the lotus roots had the habit of drilling deep, so the lotus roots were buried very deep. It is extremely difficult to dig lotus roots, but there is also an advantage, that is, there are some by-products when digging lotus roots.
In one morning, the family digs out a load of lotus roots, and at the same time, they also dig out one or two pounds of loaches and eels.
In the morning, Jiangbian went to weigh more than ten kilograms of lotus roots and came back, and then bought all the loaches and eels along the way.
The loaches and eels in this pond are no better than those in the city market. They are raised with feed, and some even use hormones to promote growth. Their nutrition is quite different from those of pure wild loaches and eels.
This wild eel blood is a great tonic. Therefore, when the eel is processed by the riverside, the eel blood is directly dropped into the wine, and it is prepared to soak for a period of time before drinking.
Although the ordinary eel blood is much different from the golden eel blood by the river, it is still a good thing.
When Banshan Village hires people to do work, they have to take a tea break at noon.
When taking a break, naturally you can¡¯t just drink tea, you have to put some snacks on the table. Some candies, fruits and the like.
When Jiang Fengshi saw Jiang Bian handling it like this, he immediately came to his senses and said, "This is good stuff. Jiang Bian, when the wine is brewed, you have to share some with me. But it would be best if you can add some medicinal materials like yesterday." of."
Jiang Laoliu also took a sip of tea and said, "Yes, Jiangbian, if you hadn't built a house, you wouldn't have needed more than a few days of work here, but you still have a naughty mouth with your craftsmanship." Okay, what do you think we will do next?"
Jiang Bian laughed and said, "I can't live in so many houses by myself. Who can I find to live in when I build another house?"
"That's true. How about you marry a few more wives and live alone in one house." Jiang Laoliu thought about it and came to the conclusion.
Poof!
People on the side spit out the tea in their mouths.
"This is not the old society, where one person marries several wives." Mrs. Jiang Fengshi said.
"Who says you can't marry more than one wife now? How many of the high-ranking officials and rich men in the city have mistresses or mistresses? Some perverts even marry dozens of wives? One month, one day per day My mother-in-law's place has a schedule of just over a month." Jiang Laoliu heard his co-workers talk about some things in the city at the construction site.
Jiangbian has also heard of such a thing, "How can a mother-in-law support so many people survive?"
"Well, ordinary people definitely can't make a living." Jiang Fengshi said. But before she finished speaking, Mrs. Jiang Fengshi¡¯s hands had already reached her ears.
"I'm telling you, if you dare to make this idea, I'll have to pluck your ears off." Mrs. Jiang Fengshi's eyes widened.There is a cold light coming out.
Jiang Fengshi trembled, "Mother, with our abilities, who can appreciate us?"
"Then you mean that my vision is bad?" Mrs. Jiang Fengshi said sharply immediately.
Ha ha ha ha!
Everyone laughed. In fact, Jiang Fengshi and his wife also deliberately pretended to be cool, just to make everyone laugh.
There are some fruits that Jiangbian got from the space on the table. A big plate of grapes, a big plate of peaches, and some oranges and other fruits. These fruits all have one thing in common, that is, they are particularly fresh.
Everyone was chatting and laughing, and sat down at the table. Their attention was immediately attracted by these fresh fruits.
"Hey! Where did you get the grapes? These grapes are so fresh, as if they were just picked. By the river, these grapes, did you bring them back from Qiantang City?"
"Well, these grapes have been stored well. After being stored for several days, they are still as good as freshly picked. Today's technology is so advanced that we can have fresh grapes to eat this winter."
With a few words by the river, the suspicion was finally resolved.
"Well, not only the grapes, but also the peaches are just like they were picked. Many of today's fruits are grown out of season. Fruit trees planted in greenhouses mature in winter. It's really magical."
"The taste of these grapes is really good. It's really strange. In the past, when I ate out-of-season fruits, they were usually worse than normal fruits, but these grapes taste better than normal ones. You see, there are no disease spots on these grapes at all. The grapes are almost the same size, just like the ones poured out of the same mold. I don¡¯t know how they were grown. Nowadays, being a farmer has to be scientific." Jiang Fengshi sighed.
While killing eels by the river, I listened to their conversation.
¡° Killing eels is a technical job. Eels have mucus on their bodies and are very smooth, so they are difficult to kill. Very difficult to catch. In addition, this wild eel is very wild. Jiang Bian remembers that when he was a child, when he was playing with eels on the plate, he was bitten by a big eel on the back of his hand, which caused blood to flow immediately. The scar is clearly visible now.
Some hot water was boiled by the river. Put the eel into hot water and wash it for a while to remove all the mucus on the eel.
Then he nailed a clean, rust-free nail to the cutting board, nailed the eel to it, and cut the eel meat cleanly.
Jiangbian's technique is extremely skillful. He is as clean as peeling bamboo shoots. He first removes the outer skin of the eel, and then picks out the eel bones from the eel meat. The eel bones are almost clean, with no residue left on them. A trace of flesh.
The eel was cleaned by the riverside and put aside.
Those loaches do not need to be treated. Put it in a basin of clean water and change the water once or twice to let the loach wash out the mud, water and dirt from its body. Loach is not processed. If it is not cooked for a period of time, the loach meat will have an earthy smell.
If it is in other seasons, it is usually necessary to put it in clean water for a day or two to clean out all the dirt in the loach¡¯s stomach. Only then can the unpleasant smell be eliminated to a great extent when eaten. But it's winter now. If you raise it for a morning and then eat it, there won't be much of a problem.
For today¡¯s dishes, Jiangbian bought a few pieces of tofu and a few kilograms of winter bamboo shoots in the morning. There are a lot of winter bamboo shoots in the bamboo forest in Lushan Mountain, but where can I find time to dig them by the river now? Fortunately, there are people in the village who often dig winter bamboo shoots in Lu'ui Mountain these days and bring them to the town to sell and buy new year's goods.
After finishing handling the loaches and eels by the river, everyone had almost rested and went out to work again.
Starting to prepare lunch by the riverside.
Take out the loach that has been left in clean water for a whole morning and place it in a sieve to dry.
In addition, he boiled half a pot of water, opened the lid of the pot, and quickly poured the loach in. Then quickly close the lid.
The only sound of loaches jumping around was heard inside the pot lid.
After a while, there was no movement after the pot was gone.
The riverside opened the lid of the pot, and sure enough, all the loaches that saw the pot were dead. This step is mainly to remove the mucus from the loach.
Fish out the loach from the river and put some sesame oil in the pot. When the sesame oil is cooked, put the loach into the pot and fry it in the sesame oil for a while. The loach was fried well, but there was no damage at all. Mrs. Jiang Laoliu, who was lighting the fire at the side, was very impressed.
"Hehe, your skills are really good. After frying it in oil, it turned out to be one piece after another, and not even the tail was damaged."
In fact, this is just a basic skill for chefs. Jiang Bian smiled and shoveled the loach out of the pot and put it into the bowl.
?Put a large bowl of water into the pot, then add sliced ??ginger into it, bring the water to a boil, and then put the loach into the pot.??. Then he covered the pot and simmered it for about ten minutes. When Jiang Bian opened the lid, the soup in the pot had turned milky white. Jiangbian put the cut tofu into the soup.
"Fifth sister-in-law, just lower the fire." Jiangbian warned.
After cooking for a while, Jiangbian added a little more seasoning. This loach tofu soup is complete.
"Jiangbian, actually, we rural people don't pay so much attention to what we eat, so don't make their mouths cunning." Mrs. Jiang Fengshi said.
"It's okay. Everyone works so hard for me and refuses to receive wages. It's only right that I cook them some delicious food." Jiang Bian said with a smile.
This time Jiangbian came back, judging from the attitude of the villagers towards him, Jiangbian also slowly changed his attitude towards the villagers.
?????????? In fact, the villagers may not come here to flatter Jiangbian because Jiangbian is rich. Because everyone knows that flattery has no effect. No matter how rich Jiangbian is, he cannot take out the money in his bag and share it with others. Even if you want to borrow money from Jiangbian, you can't lose face if you are unfamiliar with it.
Therefore, the main reason is that the riverside is no longer like before. It is completely a bad example of a mountain village, a rotten grass that cannot be helped. In addition, Jiangbian is also extremely indifferent to others, so he doesn't have much popularity in the village.
Now that Jiangbian has returned from outside, the family members have given him a peach, and Jiangbian has reciprocated with a plum. Naturally, the relationship has become harmonious.
As Jiangbian said, the other side took the bamboo shoots in his hand, peeled them open, and took out the bamboo shoots as white as jade.
"Jiangbian, are you going to stir-fry these bamboo shoots with meat or clean them?" Mrs. Jiang Fengshi asked.
"I'm going to make a Purple Dragon Undressing Robe." Jiang Bian replied.
"Purple dragon taking off its robe? This name is new." Mrs. Jiang Fengshi has never heard of the name of this dish.
"Wait a minute, you will know what the dish is when you look at it." Jiang Bian said with a smile.
The so-called purple dragon takes off its robe actually means that the eel skin peels off like clothes. That¡¯s why it¡¯s called taking off your robe. The eel meat is cut into shreds by the riverside.
Crack two eggs, pick out the egg yolks, then add the water starch and mix well. Then put the eel meat into the batter.
Jiang Fengshi saw that the dishes prepared by the river were fresh, and he watched them intently.
Wash the pot by the river, then boil it dry, and then pour some sesame oil into it. For cooking fish and the like, sesame oil, namely rapeseed oil, is most suitable. Rapeseed oil has a strong aroma. If it is used to cook other dishes, it will always have a taste that many people don't like. But it is most suitable for making fish. The aroma of rapeseed oil and the smell of fish seem to harmonize with each other. The cooked fish also has a rich flavor.
When rapeseed oil in rural areas is burned, there will always be some foam. But this is not a problem. After frying for a while, the foam will dissipate on its own. When the oil boils, Jiangbian puts the battered eel meat shreds into the oil.
After the shredded eel meat is put into the pot, it is immediately fried like fried rice popcorn. When the shredded eel meat becomes golden, take it out of the pot.
Jiangbian then put shredded bamboo shoots, shredded mushrooms, and red pepper into the pot one by one and pour oil.
"This dish should be delicious, but the procedure is a bit too complicated." Mrs. Jiang Fengshi frowned when she saw it.
In fact, the whole process does not take much time. It¡¯s just that the riverside has been busy.
Jiangbian put part of the oil in the pot out, leaving only a little oil at the bottom of the pot. Fry the chives and shredded ginger in the oil for a while, then put the fried shredded eel meat into the pot together. Add various condiments and condiments, and then pour hot sesame oil on top. Add some coriander. This process of taking off the purple dragon's robe is completed.