Volume 1: Reborn in the 80s, selling lunch boxes with my mother Chapter 63 This is not shrimp, this is money
Grandpa Hu supported his daughter to move out of the village. When he heard that she had asked someone to find someone to build a house, he nodded and told his two sons:
"Anyway, the work in the fields is almost done. Your mother and I will do the rest slowly."
"Jianguo, go find someone to borrow a tractor and bring back the red bricks, tiles, cement and other things for Fangfang to build her house."
"Jianjun, you and your wife should go and help for a few days, cook for the workers, and keep an eye on them to make sure no one destroys anything."
Hu Jianjun nodded and said, "There are a lot of petty thieves on the provincial road. When I build the wall later, I will put some broken glass on it."
The adults were discussing business, and the third generation of the Hu family was also warmly entertaining their cousins whom they met for the first time.
Brothers Hu Changming and Hu Changsheng took slingshots for shooting birds from home and wanted to take Jiang Cheng to the poplar forest to shoot sparrows.
Hu Changmei took his cousin Jiang Tian aside and asked her what she usually did at home.
Jiang Tian smiled shyly: "Fishing for eels, digging for loaches, picking up snails?"
Hu Changmei: “…”
These words made it impossible for Hu Changmei, who was trying to pretend to be a lady, to succeed.
To be honest, cousin Jiang Tian's appearance is so deceptive. She doesn't look like a wild girl who likes to dig loaches and catch snails.
After Jiang Tian was reborn, she was busy helping her mother make money to support the family and never cared about whether she looked good or not.
But Hu Changmei was amazed by her little cousin.
She has a pair of clear, bright big eyes and deep double eyelids, and it is obvious that she inherited them from her aunt Hu Qiongfang.
Her nose bridge is not very high and the tip of her nose is fleshy, which makes Jiang Tian look very harmless.
Children in rural areas often play outside and are basically tanned. Very few have fair skin like Jiang Tian.
Looking at her aunt's honey-colored skin that had been tanned, Hu Changmei guessed that her cousin Jiang Tian's physique, which never gets tanned no matter how much she tans, was probably inherited from the Jiang family.
Thinking of how his parents often cursed the two Jiang brothers as "pretty boys" at home, Hu Changmei secretly laughed and felt that his parents were quite honest. Although they hated his uncle-in-law, they also admitted that he was good-looking.
Since the little cousin usually played similar , Hu Changmei had an idea in mind. He ran to his own firewood pile, selected a few sticks of appropriate length and thickness, and took two pieces of chicken intestines from the kitchen, ready to take Jiang Tian to fish for shrimps.
There are a lot of big river shrimps in Yangshuling. They are different from the small grass shrimps that Jiang Tian and his friends often eat. This kind of shrimp has very long claws and likes to eat by clamping things. Many children in the village like to fish for shrimps.
Seeing that her cousin caught several large river shrimps effortlessly, Jiang Tian exclaimed in her heart, “Oh my God!”
Why didn't she think of it earlier?
Grass shrimps are small and difficult to handle. How can they be as convenient as these big river shrimps?
Moreover, my cousin told me that they were fishing for shrimps just for fun. If they really wanted to eat them, they could tell the adults at home and ask them to bring the push net over and push it back and forth along the ditch a few times. In a short while, they could catch half a basin of river shrimps.
Looking at a huge river shrimp as long as her finger, Jiang Tian was so happy that she almost jumped up.
How can this be a river shrimp?
This is clearly money!
etc!
"Sister Xiaomei, these river shrimps are so big and easy to catch, why don't my uncle and his family go sell them?" Jiang Tian asked puzzledly.
Hu Changmei pouted and said, "People in the city don't like to eat dead shrimps. My dad said that we need oxygen to sell these shrimps. We don't have oxygen in the countryside, so we have to go to the county to get oxygen. It's quite troublesome. We can't sell the shrimps at a high price, and the money we earn is not enough to cover the cost of this."
Jiang Tian thought about it and realized that indeed, she had never seen this kind of river shrimp being sold at the morning market on the provincial road.
However, other restaurants don’t have it. If they can make river shrimp noodles, wouldn’t it be the only one on the provincial road?
Hu Changmei was right. These big river shrimps were indeed easy to catch. They brought six fishing rods and tied chicken intestines with cotton thread and placed them on the edge of the ditch. They would collect one fish every now and then. Soon, the small plastic bucket they brought was half full.
Looking at the lively river shrimps in the plastic bucket, Jiang Tian patted his chest and said that he would cook himself today and make something delicious for everyone.
Unexpectedly, when the two sisters returned home, the kitchen had already been occupied by the women in the house.
Grandma Hu was in charge of making the fire, the eldest aunt was in charge of cutting the vegetables, the second aunt was in charge of cooking, and even the younger sister-in-law Hu Qiongfang had nothing to do and could only help by passing plates or something.
Upon hearing that his niece wanted to cook a dish for her family to taste, second uncle Hu Jianjun put down his work, gave the key to his youngest daughter Hu Changmei, and asked her to take Jiang Tian to his home to cook.
The Hu family has already split up, and usually the three families eat their own food. Occasionally, when they make something delicious, they will serve two bowls and give them to their parents and brothers to try.
Today is the reunion dinner. The whole family is cooking at Grandma Hu's place. No one is using the kitchen at my second uncle's house, so it's a good opportunity for Jiang Tian to go over and show off her cooking skills.
Hu Changmei was quite curious.
On the way back just now, my cousin told me that the river shrimps are ready and she can sell them in her own noodle shop in the future.
This thing is just shells, what’s so delicious about it?
She didn't know that the reason why river shrimp noodles are delicious is not just because of the shrimp meat, but mainly because of the freshness of the river shrimp.
The second uncle's kitchen has everything. Jiang Tian washed the river shrimps, drained the water, and asked her cousin to help light the fire. She heated the oil pan, put the chopped ginger, garlic cloves, and green onions in, stir-fried for a while, then poured in the river shrimps and added balsamic vinegar and a little soy sauce while stir-frying quickly.
When the surface of the river shrimp turns into a beautiful orange-red color, pour in a bucket of cold water. You will hear a "sizzling" sound in the pot, and a strange and delicious smell will spread in the air.
Hu Changmei couldn't help swallowing.
Over there, Jiang Tian also encountered a problem: there was no noodles at his second uncle's house.
But it was not a big problem. She asked her cousin to help find a dough jar. Jiang Tian scooped out some flour, added water and stirred it into a batter. After the river shrimp soup boiled, she took a small iron spoon and made half a pot of dough dumplings.
After the light yellow coarse flour paste is put into the pot, it quickly turns into dough balls. When the dough balls are cooked and shaped, add salt and chopped green onions for seasoning, and serve them in a large bowl. A portion of river shrimp dough balls is ready.
Hu Changmei couldn't help but exclaimed: "Tiantian, your cooking skills are almost as good as my mom's!"
Grandma Hu’s main course wasn’t ready yet, so Jiang Tian’s river shrimp noodle dumplings were served first.
We are all family, so there is no need to be so polite. Hu Changmei went to the kitchen to get bowls and chopsticks, and helped Jiang Tian put the noodles into bowls. One bowl for each person, just enough.
Grandpa Hu was originally worried whether his daughter’s cooking skills could support a noodle shop.
After he tasted his granddaughter's cooking, he felt completely relieved.
Whether a daughter is good or not is all taught by her mother.
Jiang Tian’s cooking skills are so good, so I guess her daughter won’t be bad either now.
