Chapter 20 Fried Loach
Given his son's current situation, Gu Changfeng can only feel at ease if he keeps him by his side. However, he is going to be transferred to the Northwest, where the conditions are too difficult, and he cannot bear to bear his son to suffer with him.
"Shu Yu, I don't know when Uncle Gu will be back from his trip to the Northwest. Communication there is not very convenient. If you can't contact me, don't worry. I'll ask you to help take care of your brother Jiandong..."
"I know Uncle Gu, I will take care of Brother Jiandong as if he were my own brother, and you have to take care of yourself too."
"Well, Uncle Gu has something else to do, so I'll hang up first."
I talked on the phone with Gu Changfeng for more than an hour. Gu Changfeng explained everything I wanted to do and then I hung up.
Shen Shuyu paid the money and bought several stamps before leaving the post office.
Thinking that he often went up the mountain and stayed there for a whole day, Shen Shuyu went to the supply and marketing cooperative to buy some seasonings, including salt, soy sauce, chili powder and pepper.
It was still early at this time, so Shen Qiuyu did not take the ox cart home. Instead, she turned into a small road and went up the mountain along it.
The mountain road is not easy to walk on, but fortunately this body is used to walking on mountain roads, so Shen Shuyu doesn't feel tired even when walking and stopping.
When they reached the mountain, Shen Shuyu went straight into the deep mountains. Although she had a small treasury of more than 500 yuan, Shen Shuyu was still not satisfied. Money is something that the more the better. Only when she has enough money can she be content with being a salted fish.
Just as she arrived near the entrance to the deep mountains, Shen Shuyu saw a silly roe deer. The silly roe deer's ears moved, and it turned its head to see Shen Shuyu, and tilted its head to look at her, completely unaware of the impending danger.
Shen Shuyu took a few steps forward, and the silly roe deer ran away. After running fifty meters, it stopped to see if Shen Shuyu had caught up with it.
Seeing Shen Shuyu standing there and not chasing it, the silly roe deer was very puzzled and turned around and ran back.
Shen Shuyu narrowed his eyes and threw the big stone in his hand like a pitch pot, hitting the silly roe deer on the head accurately, and the silly roe deer fainted on the ground instantly.
After putting the silly roe deer into the space, five rabbits were rustling and running away in the grass. Shen Shuyu threw the stone in his hand, and the five rabbits fell to the ground and were thrown into the space.
Shen Shuyu turned around and didn't find any small animals.
At around 1:00 p.m., Shen Shuyu was hungry, so he took out two rabbits from the space, quickly cleaned the rabbits with a knife, built a rack, started a fire, smeared seasoning on the rabbits, and started roasting them.
After roasting for more than two hours, it was almost done. Shen Shuyu turned off the fire and put a roasted rabbit into the space.
I found a tree, climbed up in no time, sat on the tree, and ate roasted rabbit while looking at the scenery.
The rabbit was roasted by Shen Shuyu until it was crispy on the outside and tender on the inside. Shen Shuyu, who likes spicy food, sprinkled a lot of chili powder on it. After taking a bite, you can't tell how happy you are.
After eating and drinking, Shen Shuyu felt sleepy, so he adjusted his posture and fell asleep directly on the tree with his eyes closed.
After sleeping until about five o'clock, it was getting late, so Shen Shuyu jumped down from the tree.
After circling the entrance to the deep mountains several times, he found no wild animals, but there were quite a lot of wild vegetables. Shen Shuyu dug a basket full of them.
When they got home, Li Caixia was the first to greet them, looking into her backpack, "Shu Yu is back, are you tired? Come, carry the backpack to Second Aunt."
The basket was given to Li Caixia, and Shen Shuyu went to wash her hands and face. Zhang Cuicui smiled and said to her, "Shuyu, your elder brother has brought back a lot of loaches. Your aunt will fry some loaches for you tonight."
Old Mrs. Shen, who had just come out of the toilet, heard her eldest daughter-in-law say she wanted to fry loaches. She glared at her, but didn't scold her this time.
Shen Shuyu was also craving for fried loach, "Thank you for your hard work, auntie."
Zhang Cuicui smiled happily, "It's not hard, it's not hard. Look how thin you are. Eat more when you have dinner later."
When the eldest son came back from catching loaches, he said he wanted to eat fried ones. His mother-in-law heard it and scolded him for wasting oil.
Now the eldest niece is back, and she said she wanted to fry it for her. The old lady heard it but didn't scold her.
Zhang Cuicui finally discovered that as long as she said she was making something that was consuming a lot of oil and firewood for Shu Yu, the old lady would let her make it even if it hurt.
Liu Pandi, who was applying medicine to her daughter in the house, heard that there would be fried loaches tonight, and said to Shen Xue happily, "Xue'er, fried loaches are so delicious. When we share the food, ask your grandma to give you an extra loach."
After taking the medicine, the pain in Shen Xue's buttocks was reduced a little. She snorted coldly, "It's just eating a loach, what's there to be happy about.
Besides, my grandma is so partial, how could she give me more loaches? Didn’t you hear that my aunt said she would cook them for Shen Shuyu? We don’t know if I will get any.”
Liu Pandi stopped talking. Yes, the old lady was very partial. Shen Shuyu could eat any delicious food.
Shen Shuyu washed her face, and Old Lady Shen said lovingly, "My dear, go back to your room and have a rest. You can have dinner soon."
Shen Shuyu nodded and went back into the house.
Old Lady Shen turned around and saw her second daughter-in-law trying to pull at her granddaughter's backpack. She rolled her eyes at her and said, "Second daughter-in-law, what are you pulling at?"
"Mom, I'm checking the cage to see if there are any pheasants, rabbits or anything like that."
Old Lady Shen took out a bamboo sieve and poured out all the wild vegetables in the basket. "Do you think the pheasants and rabbits in the mountains are like the cabbages in the fields, and you can catch them every time?
It's great that my dear has found so many green wild vegetables, and you picked them up."
Seeing that all that was poured out were wild vegetables, Li Caixia smiled awkwardly and said, "I'm not picky, I'm not picky, wild vegetables are good too."
She was craving for meat and hoped that her eldest niece could catch a pheasant or a rabbit, but even if there was no pheasant or rabbit, she would be happy enough to find so many wild vegetables.
A basket of wild vegetables, fresh and green, much better than the old and yellow ones they found.
There are so many that the family can eat them for a long time.
In the kitchen, Zhang Cuicui cleaned the loach and prepared to pour oil into the pot after heating it up. Then Old Lady Shen came in and said, "Let me pour the oil. You, a spendthrift woman, don't know how to live at all. You're so wasteful. We only have this little oil at home. If you pour it out, what will we eat?"
Zhang Cuicui was not angry at her mother-in-law's words, "Mom, you need to add enough oil to fry the loach to make it fragrant. Shu Yuke just told me to add more oil."
Frying loaches requires a lot of oil, but it tastes good. You have to add oil anyway, so it doesn’t matter a little.
If Zhang Cuicui were the head of the family, she would definitely not be willing to spend so much money on deep-fried loaches, but this does not mean that the family has not been divided.
Her husband and son work hard, so she wants to nourish them, feed them better, fill their stomachs with fat, and have more energy to work.
Old Lady Shen took the oil can and said, "Don't push everything onto my sweetheart. My sweetheart never said that."
When the oil was hot, the loach was poured in. With a sizzling sound, the aroma of the oil filled the entire kitchen. Shen Qiu and his three brothers ran in, smelling the aroma.
"Grandma, you finally decided to fry loaches."
In the past, when her three brothers caught loaches, her grandmother was reluctant to fry them. She even thought that pan-frying would waste too much oil, so she always boiled the loaches in water, which was not tasty at all.