From selling box lunches to becoming a famous Chinese chef

Chapter 28 Being watched by the children in the village (seeking for further reading)
  The stove has been set up, and Mr. Liu even asked the villagers to put up a roof over the stove.

When everything was ready, Li Huidong first asked his two apprentices to kill the fish.

Fish cannot be used directly after being slaughtered. It needs to be stored for a period of time and requires some processing before it can be used.

Zhang Lei and Yang Peng didn't know where they learned how to kill fish, and they were in a panic as soon as they started doing it.

Let the children in the village laugh at them.

Seeing this, Feng Zhengming could only take action again.

He walked over, reached out and grabbed a fish from the bucket.

"Look at you two. When catching a fish, you must grasp the area below the gills. In this way, you can pinch the fish at once, then lift it out, press the fish on the chopping board, and slap it with the back of the knife. Take a look. Are you still moving?"

Feng Zhengming did it very neatly. Zhang Lei, Yang Peng and the children watching were all surprised when the fish stopped moving in his hands.

Then the children in the village immediately started cheering one by one.

"It's so amazing, the fish stopped moving all of a sudden."

"Awesome, uncle, you are so awesome."

"Uncle, you are awesome. You are better at killing fish than my mother."

"Yeah, my dad can't be as powerful as uncle."

Feng Zhengming smiled at the children and said, "Thank you, but actually the fish are just knocked unconscious now, and then they will start killing the fish. It's very scary. You'd better not look at it and go play elsewhere."

Hearing what Feng Zhengming said, a group of children naturally didn't want to be so powerful.

"Uncle, we are not afraid."

"Yes, we are not afraid."

"I'm an older kid. I'm already in elementary school, so I'm not afraid."

"I'm already in junior high school, and I often watch my mother kill fish at home. I'm not afraid."

Seeing that a group of children were unwilling to leave, Feng Zhengming had no choice but to continue killing fish.

He held the fish down on the chopping board and asked Zhang Lei and Yang Peng to come over and watch.

Feng Zhengming demonstrated to the two of them that he first cut the fish under the gills, so that the fish basically stopped struggling and was considered to have been killed.

Then quickly clean the fish scales.

And he cut off the fins of the fish, and cut the tail part with two knives, cutting it into the shape of a swallow's tail.

After doing this, Feng Zhengming used a knife to cut open the belly of the fish near the tail, and clean out all the fish intestines, fish bubbles, etc. in the belly of the fish.

The fish was finally killed, and Feng Zhengming threw it into a basin.

"Okay, this fish is considered a good kill. You kill the fish and put it in the basin first. Remember not to move it. It will need to be handled later."

After watching Feng Zhengming's demonstration, Zhang Lei and Yang Peng understood some of the details of fish killing.

Basically, Zhang Lei and Yang Peng were responsible for killing and cleaning the next fish one by one.

And the group of village children who had watched Feng Zhengming kill fish neatly.

Watching Zhang Lei and Yang Peng kill fish, he would point out from time to time that they were not as good as Feng Zhengming.

"Uncle, this is wrong. That's not what uncle did just now."

"Uncle, why can't you cut it with a knife? Is your knife not good enough? Uncle just cut it in one go."

"Uncle, you need to use a knife to scrape here."

"It should be like this. You are different from your previous uncle."

Zhang Lei and Yang Peng never thought that they would be stared at and pointed at by a group of children.

The key point is that each of these children is just like the master, and they have to give lessons to both of them.

Finally, Yang Peng couldn't help but said: "Go, go, go somewhere else, don't stare at us here."

Yang Peng couldn't help but speak, but Zhang Lei smiled.

"Hahaha, I thought I would be able to hold it back first, but I didn't expect you, Pengzi, to be able to hold it back first."

Yang Peng turned to look at Zhang Lei, especially when he saw his laughing face, he couldn't help but throw the water in his hand directly towards Zhang Lei.

Zhang Lei was slapped with water on his face and stopped laughing immediately: "Hey, hey, hey, Pengzi, are you going too far?"

Yang Peng said: "I want you to laugh? You're laughing your ass off." Zhang Lei immediately refused to be outdone and also slapped Yang Peng in the face.

The two people swung around like this, which amused the children who were watching.

"Hahaha, it's a fight, it's a fight."

I don’t know which naughty child shouted this, and a group of children immediately started cheering and shouting.

"It's a fight. The cooking uncles are fighting."

"There was a fight."

"Two cooking uncles are going to fight."

When these children shouted, they naturally alerted Li Huidong and Feng Zhengming who were busy over there.

Li Huidong took one look and immediately shouted: "What are you two doing? In front of so many children, do you feel very proud?"

After being reprimanded by their master, the two of them naturally did not dare to continue making trouble.

Feng Zhengming smiled and said: "Brother, it doesn't matter. Making trouble like this can also relieve the pressure."

Then, Feng Zhengming asked: "Are all your fish ready?"

Zhang Lei and Yang Peng looked at each other, looked down at the fish in their hands, and could only quickly lower their heads and continue working.

At this time, the children who were watching the two men killing fish suddenly ran over to Feng Zhengming.

"Uncle, what those two uncles do is different from you."

"That's right, little uncle and the others are so stupid. Even if you teach them, they won't know how to do it."

"Yes, everything you did was wrong."

Feng Zhengming was amused by these children, and even Li Huidong was amused when he heard it.

Feng Zhengming had no choice but to say to the children: "Okay, thank you for coming to complain to me. When I get back from my work, I will definitely educate them well so that they can learn well in the future."

The children all agreed immediately.

Then Feng Zhengming walked over to the two of them.

"Okay, you two don't act like children. The children in the village must be bolder. Have you finished killing the fish?"

Zhang Lei and Yang Peng also calmed down at this time. They cleaned the fish on their hands and threw them into the basin.

"Uncle Junior, they have all been slaughtered."

Feng Zhengming glanced at the fish in the big basin, then nodded and said, "Okay, you two, bring those fish over."

Zhang Lei and Yang Peng obeyed and lifted up a large basin of fish and followed Feng Zhengming to the desk.

Then I saw Feng Zhengming bringing out a large pot of hot water.

Feng Zhengming poured a large pot of hot water into the fish basin.

This scene surprised both Zhang Lei and Yang Peng.

Feng Zhengming carefully turned the fish in the basin and explained to the two of them: "There is a black film on the fish. If it is not cleaned off, it will be very fishy, ​​so scald it with water of about 80 degrees."

As he spoke, Feng Zhengming brought up a fish and gently scraped the fish skin with a knife in front of the two of them.

Sure enough, the black film on the fish was easily scraped off.

Feng Zhengming said: "See? Once it's hot, you can clean it off by gently scraping it."

Zhang Lei and Yang Peng then followed the method taught by Feng Zhengming.

Soon all the fish in the basin were completely cleaned.

Li Huidong watched his junior brother teach two apprentices, and he did not forget to remind them.

"Remember every step of your little uncle's steps. You may not be able to understand many of the details now, but keep them in mind and you will slowly understand them in the future."

After listening to their master's words, Zhang Lei and Yang Peng immediately nodded seriously together.

The two of them knew in their hearts that they had really earned something by going out to have this birthday banquet with their master and junior uncle.

　Two updates sent today. Thank you for your collection, reading, voting and tipping support. Let’s talk about the price of box lunches. Maybe this is also a problem encountered by the author who is partial to realism. Because there are some regional differences, people in the same era may have different prices when exposed to them. The author can only write based on his own experience in his hometown. If you are concerned about this, the author will try to downplay the price issue in the future.

　　
  　
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