Start as a farmer from an ordinary world

Chapter 75 Eating fish soup is not easy

In a blink of an eye, half of February has passed.

After several yellow winds, the weather finally gradually warmed up.There are only dots of snow left on the edge of the cliff, and the willow trees beside the ditch at the head of the village are also tender green.

In the Dongla River, the ice layer that had been condensed for the whole winter began to melt, forming a large-scale spring news.

In three or two days, the river surface more than doubled in width than usual.

It was turbulent and turbid.

When Wang Manyin was fetching water from the well by the river, he quietly put hundreds of fish into the river, weighing almost a hundred catties.

Of course, he was not so stupid as to enlarge the carp directly, but chose the more common crucian carp, loach, wheat ears, freshwater shrimp, etc...

For the time being, let's take a look at the effect first.

Now that the space pond is overcrowded with fish, Wang Manyin will not be distressed if a hundred catties of miscellaneous fish are released at a time.

It works surprisingly well!

When he went to work the next day, he heard someone from the second team talking about it.

Yesterday, Wang Xiugang's mother-in-law and aunt went to the river to wash clothes, and accidentally found many rare things in the water.Out of curiosity, the other party caught a few with a water basin and brought them back.

Many idlers in the village inquired and came to see the excitement, but they immediately recognized the fish growing in the river.

What kind of fish, but no one knows.

It wasn't until Wang Shouchang saw it that he said in a very certain tone that it was crucian carp, which was a good thing and could be fried or stewed.

Before Liberation, he had helped cook in a restaurant in the county seat, and he was considered a well-informed and capable person. The villagers naturally believed what he said.

In just one day, almost everyone knew that crucian carp was found in the Dongla River.They came to Wang Xiugang's house one after another, and gathered around the bucket to look at the strange things.

Even Lanhua was no exception. When she got the news, she locked the door and ran to the village.

She had seen pictures of fish in textbooks, but this was the first time she had seen real live fish.

When Wang Manyin came home from work at noon, Lan Hua rarely talked about it... It seemed that he had seen something extraordinary.

As for the male educated youths who got the news, they didn't even bother to eat lunch.

After confirming that there were fish in the Dongla River, they were not afraid of the low water temperature, so they rolled up their trousers and went down to the river with twig baskets to search for them.

Although the water surface of the Dongla River is more than twice as wide as before, most of the places are not deep, barely reaching the knees.Coupled with the turbidity of the river, most fish are constantly floating on the surface to breathe, so it is easy to catch.

The results are quite good.

In one noon, the educated youths caught seven or eight crucian carp, and took more than a dozen loaches and many small miscellaneous fish.

In order to catch more fish, several people simply asked for leave in the afternoon.

When it was getting dark, Liu Xiangyang and others returned to the village with most of the bucket of fish.

Now, the whole Guanzi Village was in a commotion.

Many villagers knew for the first time that there are so many fish in the Dongla River.

It has been confirmed in the previous discussion that many people have indeed seen fish swimming in the river.However, those fish are generally small in size and rarely seen.

Therefore, no one thought of catching and eating them.

Seeing that the educated youths have gained so much, many villagers were of course moved.

At night, a seductive aroma wafts from the cave dwelling where Liu Xiangyang and others live.Following the night wind, it almost spread to the entire village.

More than ten catties of fish were deep-fried on the top, which filled a large basin.Associated with it, they almost used up their cooking oil for a month.

The pungent aroma almost made the children in the village cry.

The educated youths were very generous and gave each child a piece of fried fish.

It's just that Liu Xiangyang and others didn't expect it, and they did something bad with good intentions... Almost all the broken babies were eating fish for the first time, and they didn't know there were thorns at all.

In addition, the educated youths didn't explain it, so they devoured the fish pieces after they received them, and got fishbone stuck in their throats one after another.

Everyone was so frightened that they cried wildly, and soon alarmed several adults living around the brigade headquarters.

In a few minutes, the whole village knew about it.

The villagers who had never seen the world were equally frightened and panicked, not knowing what to do.

Some people whispered that fish is poisonous, and that it was the educated youths who wanted to harm the poor children in the village.

In the end, a group of excited villagers rushed to the brigade headquarters and asked Liu Xiangyang and others for an explanation.

For a while, there was chaos in the brigade headquarters, and even Wang Mandun was alarmed.

The educated youths never expected such a result.

Even Wang Manyin, the instigator, was almost fooled... After all, he didn't think carefully, made the mistake of relying on experience (not a typo), and completely ignored that most people in the village had never eaten fish.

In later generations, if the throat is stuck by a fishbone, most of them will go to the hospital for the doctor to remove.The safest way now, of course, is to drive the donkey carts and send the broken babies to the commune health center.

Before he could make a suggestion, Wang Shouchang, who came over after hearing the news, had already said to everyone: "It's okay, the educated youths didn't hurt the children. Don't be afraid, everyone, take the children back. Drink some old vinegar, and you can get rid of it." The fishbone has melted. If it doesn’t work, I’ll be able to swallow it if I chew on it again..."

Wang Manyin naturally knew this simple method, but he once read on the Internet that experts said that "drinking vinegar is useless", so he hesitated whether to stop it.

After hearing this, the adults of all families took their children home one after another, as if they had received a panacea.

Needless to say, it really works.

After a lot of tossing, those children started to jump and fight with each other as if nothing happened.He also kept saying that the fish meat was really delicious, but he ate it too fast just now, so he didn't taste the flavor.

Seeing this, the parents were embarrassed to apologize to the educated youths.

No one in Guanzi Village can explain why so many fish suddenly appeared in the Dongla River.

Many old people muttered in private that the weather might be changing.After Wang Mandun found out and reprimanded them severely, they shut up.

Soon, the educated youths gave a "reasonable" explanation based on the map.

"The lower reaches of the Dongla River flow into the Wuding River, and the Wuding River is connected to the Yellow River. Now it is the spring flood of the Yellow River, and these fish should have been swimming along the Wuding River into the Dongla River."

There is nothing wrong with this explanation, which saves Wang Manyin a lot of trouble.

Although it was pierced by a fishbone, the taste of deep-fried fish still makes many children never forget it.

For the next two days, they continued to search by the river, and followed the example of those educated youths who brought their own twig baskets and dung baskets.

There seem to be a lot of fish in the river.

These children were busy for a long time, and they were able to catch a few.

But after they took the fish back, the adults didn't want to fry it at all. Most of them put it directly under the stove when cooking.

With previous experience, these broken babies are a lot more careful when eating fish.Even if it gets stuck occasionally, it can be solved by drinking mature vinegar.

There are fish in the Dongla River, and they are edible... In just one week, news has spread to Shuangshui Village and Shichuan Village.

At first, it was just a group of broken children joining in the fun, and soon villagers joined the ranks of catching fish.

After all, these fish are also considered meat, which is much better than eating wild vegetables and black nests.As for the fish with spines, just be careful when eating it.

Seeing the villagers go to the river to catch fish after work, Wang Manyin also took advantage of the opportunity to "join in the fun".In order to be able to let Lanhua eat a meal of fish in a fair and honest manner, I also worked hard.

Taking advantage of no one, he quietly entered the space.

When he returned home, Wang Manyin caught seven or eight crucian carp and more than ten loaches.

"Man Yin, so much?"

Lan Hua was also very excited to see her man returning with a full load of buckets.

"Well, I didn't notice it before. There are a lot of fish in the Dongla River. I was lucky. I found a shallow puddle, and the fish were all out of the water. Let's make crucian carp soup at night. In the afternoon, you go back to your mother's house and take Shaoping and Lanxiang. Also call to try something new." Wang Manyin urged again.

As for the old father-in-law and his wife...it's useless to shout, they definitely won't come.

Lanhua has never made crucian carp soup, so Wang Manyin will cook it himself at night.

In fact, there is nothing to be particular about.Ordinary crucian carp soup needs to be fishy, ​​and those produced in space have no earthy smell at all.

Remove the scales and viscera directly, fry in a pan until golden, add water, green onion and ginger and simmer slowly.

It happened that there were still jujubes at home, so he threw a few more into the pot, and the dark red floating ups and downs were quite conspicuous.

As for those loach, the method is simpler, deep-fried in a pan, and braised with potherb mustard.

When the meal was ready, Wang Manyin sent a bowl to Wang Qiusheng's family.

There are fish in the Dongla River, and it has been spread to several nearby villages.It doesn't look awkward to send some fish soup by myself.

Next, several people scooped up a large bowl of milky white fish soup.

Fearing that Shaoping Lanxiang would be stabbed in the throat, Wang Manyin warned him repeatedly before eating.

"Man Yin, crucian carp soup is really delicious, and it's the first time I've eaten fish." Lan Hua tasted it and couldn't help but praise.

Hearing what my auntie said, Wang Manyin gave some sad comfort: "Don't worry, I will definitely eat fish often in the future, and I will let you eat enough."

The taste of fish soup is really nothing to say.

On the one hand, his craftsmanship has been practiced, and on the other hand, the quality of the ingredients is naturally good.

With Wang Manyin's explanation in advance, several people were careful when drinking the fish soup, and there were no accidents.

A large pot of fish soup was eaten up by four people.

"Sister, there are too many delicious things in your house, why don't I just stay here." The little girl Lan Xiang hiccupped from eating, and didn't even want to go back to Shuangshui Village.

"There's no place to live at home, I'll ask Miss Ni to call you over in two days..."

Wang Manyin naturally did not agree.

With an extra little girl bothering her, how can she live in a world of two.

(End of this chapter)