Chapter 36: The Joy of Fish and Wine (1)
The quality of life changes with changes in economic strength.
It is a sentiment to eat steamed buns when you have money, but it is not the norm, unless the person is rich and has illness.
In countless bloody plots, the domineering president sits at a street stall and eats stinky tofu, but he is just forcibly adding a character to the domineering president and lays the groundwork for his next show of pretending to be slapped in the face. It would be too stupid to think that the domineering president eats stinky tofu every day, unless the domineering president runs a bag fraud company.
It is natural for humans to eat what kind of delicacies you have.
Gu Qing has money recently, and he doesn't count the specific amount. He is not interested in money, he has never touched money, and he misses the days when he was fishing fish in the river when he had no money.
Gu Qing’s happiest thing today was that he finally bought an iron pot from the peddler.
The iron pot was specially made by blacksmiths in the city. Most of the pots these days are used for boiling and steaming, and there are also iron pots, but they are in the shape of a "die", which is far from what Gu Qing needs.
Gu Qing's custom-made iron pot is the same as modern ones. When the peddler delivered the iron pot to his home, Gu Qing was more happy than earning his usual money.
The curious peddler stayed and planned to see how Gu Qing used this strange pot, but Gu Qing sent him away without hesitation.
If you are free to eat, you should be careful not to happen. If you wait until the food is put into the pot before driving people, it would be a bit impolite, so you should drive them away in advance.
First make a fire on the stove, put the iron pot on and heat it. When it is almost red, add a little soybean oil, use a spoon to cover the soybean oil over the noodles, continue to burn, and then take the pot off the stove after a while, cool it down and wash it again, add some vinegar, continue to heat it over the heat, and finally wash it.
This pot is tamed.
Iron pots are very useful. They are omnipotent for frying, frying, braising, and stewing. They are much better than ordinary clay pots.
Prepare the ginger and green onions and a fish that has just been caught from the river. After the oil boils, put the fish in the pot and fry them on both sides until golden brown. Cut the ginger into slices and put them in the pot to remove the fishy smell. Then add an appropriate amount of sauce, sprinkle the green onions after the pot, and complete the braised fish.
Gu Qing expressed his satisfaction with his masterpiece and lowered his voice and said deeply: "High-end ingredients often only require the simplest way of cooking..."
A fat head came over and exclaimed: "It smells so good! Young man is very skilled and cooked before."
Gu Qing was startled and sighed in disappointment when he saw that the fat head owner was Hao Donglai.
I thought someone was so polite to send a pig's head, so I was so happy.
"What's wrong with the shopkeeper Hao here today?" Gu Qing deliberately avoided the topic of food and moved the braised fish a little further.
"Yes, yesterday I asked someone to find a head of the official in the Zhenguan Office of Shuzhou. The matter of porcelain clay is probably settled, but the head of the head is rude and asked for a lot of filial piety before agreeing."
Gu Qing frowned: "Will the porcelain we burn still make money when the cost is high?"
Hao Donglai smiled and said, "Compared with the profits of porcelain, the little bit of filial piety from Zhenguan Office is just a drop in the bucket. Shuzhou has always been prosperous. There are many Tubo merchants and Hu merchants in the Western Regions. They highly value our Tang Dynasty porcelain. As long as we burn it fine, we can sell it at any higher price, please don't worry."
Gu Qing nodded and said, "Everything is left to the two shopkeepers. I am only responsible for burning porcelain. If there is a problem with the porcelain, please contact me. If there is a problem with the account..."
With his eyes glanced at Hao Donglai, Hao Donglai hurriedly said, "I have a guarantee on the head of the title, and there will be no problem with the accounts, but... I don't know about Shi Daxing. He has always been deceitful and greedy, and he may even move the accounts behind his back..."
Gu Qing smiled: "What a coincidence, Shi Daxing called me aside last time and told me that you might be tampering with the account."
Hao Donglai was stunned, then his fat face was so angry that he trembled with anger, and the flesh on his face rolled, wave after wave.
"Framed! Slander! I am so conscientious! I, Hao Donglai, have always been a man and a man of good deeds in doing things, and I have never been despised as villains. Shi Daxing slandered me behind me, a despicable villain, a shameless person! Ha--Spit!"
Gu Qing smiled and sighed, why do businessmen have the same moral character? It seems that they have joined a certain training center before doing business, and they specially teach them how to frame and fight in a despicable way, fan the flames, and be cleverly... These are all the professional skills of businessmen.
The braised fish on the table was steaming, and Gu Qing stood up and waved to Hao Donglai, looking mysterious. Hao Donglai was stunned, thinking that Gu Qing had a secret news, so he hurriedly followed Gu Qing to the yard excitedly.
Gu Qing kept walking, Hao Donglai kept walking, and he followed Gu Qing to the door stupidly. Then Gu Qing patted his shoulder and smiled, "There is something big that I must tell you..."
Hao Donglai cheered up: "You said."
"The sky is big and the earth is big, and the meal is the biggest. It's noon, go back and have a meal soon. I won't keep you."
After saying that, Gu Qing turned around and closed the door.
Hao Donglai stood outside the door blankly, and then gently slapped himself. Why did he forget that this guy is a food-protecting person and humiliating himself?
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Gu Qing sat in the front room and served himself a bowl of rice. The bamboo chopsticks first reached to the fish's abdomen. This is Gu Qing's habit of eating fish. He first chose the tenderest part. The fish's abdomen was less tender and tender, which was his favorite part.
As the fish meat entered his mouth, he suddenly felt his whole body floating up. Gu Qing showed a satisfied expression, the corners of his mouth slightly curled up, and a hint of happiness was filled.
This is life.
After digging a few bites of rice, only half of a fish was left. Gu Qing was planning to have another bowl of rice. A snow-white figure fell silently in the yard, quietly watching Gu Qing eating fish.
Gu Qing suddenly felt itchy in his ears. He turned his head and saw a girl in white standing in the yard.
She is not very old, at the age of sixteen or seventeen, with picturesque eyebrows and eyes, cold and lonely. She is holding a small wine jar in one hand and a short sword in the other, like a fairy walking out of the painting, untainted by the mortal world.
After looking at it, Gu Qing pointed at the door and said, "How did you come in?"
The girl didn't say anything and pointed to the wall behind her.
Gu Qing suddenly realized: "Who came in climbing the wall? Wouldn't you knock on the door?"
The girl couldn't help but say, "I flew in."
Gu Qing twitched his lips: "This is my home, can you please fly out again?"
The girl skipped his words, pointed to the fish on the table and said, "What are you eating? It's very fragrant."
"Braised fish, too little portion, I won't invite you, I'll invite you next time." Protecting food has become his instinct.
The girl raised the wine jar in her hand and said, "I'll exchange it for you."
Gu Qing hesitated. The fish is delicious, but the wine is better. He often had nightmares in his previous life and had to rely on alcohol to hypnotize. Over time, he became addicted to alcohol and had no addiction in this life. But after drinking half a jar of inappropriate fruit wine that night on the Mid-Autumn Festival, Gu Qing found that he had become addicted to alcohol again.
The wine jar in the girl's hands is indeed very attractive.
Chapter completed!