Xiao Xiao, Gu Xiaowu and Gu Xiaoliu were asked to stand in line separately. After spending a whole morning, Huang Cuicui returned home with rice, grains, oil and meat.
I asked Xiao Xiao to boil oil, and Huang Cuicui to collect eggs and catch a duck to eat during the New Year.
The old hen had to be kept to lay eggs and couldn't be eaten, so I caught a chicken weighing one and a half pounds, a big fat duck weighing five pounds, bought a carp, fried a few eggs, made a pork belly, and celebrated the New Year like this.
While Huang Cuicui was killing the chicken, Xiao Xiao stared at the fire to boil the oil, and Gu Huai took Gu Xiaowu and Gu Xiaoliu out.
Gu Xiaoliu carried Gu Zhongyi's big galoshes and asked Gu Huai, "Brother, are those shrimps fed to chickens really delicious?"
Gu Huai lured her out by saying he would take her to find delicious food, and also lured Gu Xiaowu out and told them to go to the ditch to catch prawns.
The environment in the village is very good. There are many green shrimps as big as thumbs and blue crabs as big as palms.
This season is not the season for eating crabs, so Gu Huai focused on those small shrimps.
Nowadays, people don’t eat many kinds of food. They don’t eat crabs, loaches, shrimps in the fields. Who would have thought that many years later, these things will be ridiculously expensive?
Several people walked to the edge of the canal that irrigated the farmland. Gu Huai asked Gu Xiaowu to go into the water wearing galoshes and blocked the junction of the creek and the farmland. Then he asked Gu Xiaoliu to carry a bamboo pole and drive the water in from the outside.
The two girls didn't know what Gu Huai wanted to do, but recently because of Gu Huai, the two sisters had saved a huge amount of money, which made them listen to Gu Huai's words very much.
Gu Xiaoliu worked very hard to catch the water, and Gu Xiaowu found many shrimps and small fish jumping into the fishnet she put into the water.
Gu Huai didn't need to say anything, she immediately raised the fence, swung it into the bucket, and then quickly dug it in, repeating this until the bucket was full.
During this period, Gu Huai stared at them for a while and then walked around with confidence. When he came back, the iron bucket was already full.
Gu Xiaowu came out of the water, his hands were red from the cold, but his face was extremely excited:
"Agu, see if this works!"
Gu Huai looked at the lively shrimps in the bucket: "Wash them and take them back. Let's eat some at night and raise some for later."
Gu Xiaowu dragged on his rubber shoes and said confidently: "No need to stay, I will come back tomorrow."
Gu Huai: "Don't do it blindly. Once the water rises, your little body will be gone in a flash."
Gu Xiaowu said nothing and lowered his head slightly, his eyes full of dissatisfaction. With such a small flow of water, even if it rushed, where could it go?
Gu Huai ignored her.
Anyway, he said everything that needed to be said, and he had no control over whether Gu Xiaowu listened or not.
After Gu Xiaowu and Gu Xiaoliu washed the shrimps, they returned to Gu's house.
Xiao Xiao had just finished boiling the lard and was about to put it into the enamel jar. Gu Huai stopped her and said, "Don't worry, fry these shrimps."
Xiao Xiao didn't ask so many questions, and just threw the shrimp into the oil, and then... the oil splashed, and the fried people jumped.
Xiao Xiao, who was the worst hit, immediately had a few watery blisters on his face, grinning as he ate.
Gu Huai: "How about some common sense? Hot oil will explode when it touches water."
Xiao Xiao felt aggrieved: "How did I know? You didn't tell me either."
When can they be so generous and use a pot of oil to fry things? They usually only put in a little bit of oil.
The two of them quarreled, which was better than Gu Xiaoliu's.
She saw several shrimps that were fried red and jumped from the pot to the ground. She quickly picked them up and put them into her mouth in order not to waste them.
...
It’s so delicious!
Gu Xiaoliu smashed her mouth and stood close to the pot, waiting for the shrimps to jump out and then jump into her mouth.
When Huang Cuicui entered the room, she saw several sisters with blisters on their faces. Gu Huai sat aside with a sullen face, as if someone had provoked him.
Huang Cuicui's first reaction was that there was something wrong with Xiao Xiao's fried pork, and she was going to blame her immediately.
But when Xiao Xiao turned around and saw her face was numb, Huang Cuicui couldn't curse anymore.
"How did it end up like this?"
Huang Cuicui thought of Gu Huai telling her to be nicer, so she softened her voice.
Xiao Xiao habitually admits her mistakes: "It's my fault, I didn't cook well."
Huang Cuicui saw that the enamel turned the lard in the vat red, and her heart trembled: "Is the lard gone bad?"
She couldn't care less about Gu Huai's mood or everyone else's faces, all she could think about was the grease from her pound of pork.
"Xiao Xiao? Did you burn out the lard?"
Xiao Xiao couldn't explain it because she didn't know why it was this color.
If she didn't explain, Huang Cuicui would scream again, so Gu Huai had no choice but to say: "No, the shrimps are fried. They are red because of the shrimp oil."
Huang Cuicui breathed a sigh of relief, as long as the oil was fine, there was still hope.
She took out a bottle of medicinal wine from the kitchen cabinet and gave the girls the medicine one by one: "Fortunately, we have burn medicine at home, otherwise your faces will be burned and you will become ugly and unable to marry."
Gu Xiaoliu pursed his lips: "Who wants to get married? I want to be with Big Pig Hoof from now on!"
However, which one is better, crispy pork trotters or braised pork trotters?
Gu Xiaoliu fell into deep thought.
Gu Huai took a spoon, dug out a spoonful of shrimps, took a bite, and felt half better.
He felt that Xiao Xiao and the others should learn something, otherwise they would act like retarded people all day long without knowing any common sense.
And of course the person who teaches them will not be him. Is there a more suitable candidate than Yuan Qi?
Yuan Qi was still writing poetry at home, and suddenly he sneezed while he was writing.
Could it be that someone was praising him?
Hahahaha, indeed, he is a genius and will become a poet in the future!
When he finishes writing this poem, he will submit it, and then he will be selected. The other party will discover his dusty pearl, and then award himself a huge royalties. The whole world will be fascinated by his poems and praise him.
The best poet of this century.
Yuan Qi suddenly felt an endless supply of inspiration and quickly wrote on the paper:
Ah! The grass is so green!
Hey! The leaves are so yellow!
Yeah! The pond is so blue!
Ha! The clouds are so white!
Ha! Labor is the most glorious!
After Yuan Qi finished writing, he couldn't put down his poem.
What a wonderful poem, even the oldest lady in the village knows what he wrote.
Every sentence praises the workers, and only the last sentence points to the point, how good! How great! How outstanding!
Yuan Qi wished he could have his poem framed.
He thought about it and felt that most people couldn't appreciate his poems. He must show off to Gu Huai. He was a knowledgeable person and he would praise himself!
Thinking of this, Yuan Qi couldn't wait to fold his poem, carefully put it into his pocket, and then hurried out of the door, deciding to ask Gu Huai to take a look at his new poem.
He came to Gu's house at just the right time, and Gu Huai originally planned to go find him.
Now that he has delivered it to his door, it shows that he is very suitable and willing to work for free. Very good, very good!