Volume 6 [The tiger is also strong when it goes to sea] NO.64 Fireworks are bursting
It's a characteristic of men to throw themselves around the table and scold their mothers, but it's just that women can't move when they cry, and there's also a certain evil spirit. Jiang Luzhu is considered a lady, and marrying into the Zhang family is like a phoenix that has fallen on a beast.
The feel of the shed.
Looking at her younger siblings who were glaring angrily, Jiang Luzhu did not dare to look at her.
This comparison made Xia Zhen's expression change again and again.
What if this is the future mother-in-law? The old man seems to be able to coax her, but for such a mother-in-law, it is totally useless to resort to deception.
The hostess was talking inside, and people outside didn't want to talk too much. They just passed by occasionally, and their ears perked up a little to hear what was going on.
Zhang Mingtang was scraping the fish scales there, and he was playing very fast with the fish-killing knife in his hand. He cleaned up a big herring cleanly, and the fish intestines were also placed in the bowl. Several pot-bellied cooks beside him laughed and looked at
He smiled and said: "You are a scholar, Mingtang, but you didn't expect that your fish-killing skills are quite impressive."
The pot-bellied cook is an uncle who lives next to the river bank in the west. His name is Zhang Heliang. He has a beard and wears a leather apron. He has been a soup pot head for a long time. He is a first-rate expert in killing pigs and sheep. Everyone who raises pigs in this area can count on him.
He came to collect pigs, and he was also a moderately wealthy man.
Our family feeds hundreds of people every year, and he does it himself. He selects all the meat and fish with a first-class eye. He throws them on the sandbank, a total of thirty-five soup pot heads. If he
If you say you are second, no one dares to say you are first.
If you specialize in a skill, you will be the best in your profession.
"He Liang still likes to joke. I can just help you. Compared with your two sharp knives, no matter how many books you read, it's useless."
Zhang Mingtang said to him with a smile.
A group of people grew up together. Zhang Mingtang had the best grades when he was a child, and everyone around him was envious of him. Most of the Changgong family would use him as the target of conversation. Looking back, it was really interesting.
They all took off their pants and jumped into the river together. No one is nobler than the other, and no one is inferior to the other.
"There will be two boxes of swordfish tomorrow. Hey, this is a good thing that can't be found anywhere. In this weather, I am the only one who can still find a way." Zhang Heliang smiled, and Zhang Mingtang's eyes lit up. In this cold weather, I can
It's hard to say how much of the dazzling swordfish there is, but the umami and aroma, looking back, make it all worth it.
"Haha, you are slandering me. Don't worry, I have two jars of good wine to steam, which are indispensable for the banquet. Today, I will use other fish to make a tooth sacrifice."
Zhang Heliang had a round belly, a body full of fat, a round head and a round body. He looked like a diesel barrel. He shouted loudly: "Has the boat turned around after passing by? Go two people and tell the little coffins to hurry up and be busy."
Too bad, you won’t be able to eat good food at night!”
Next to them, Zhang Bi and Zhang Xiaoqi put a leather pipe on the faucet and began to wash the fish scales and gills on the ground. Zhang Heliang said with regret: "The scales taste good when fried, but they have no nutrition."
Saying this, it reminded a group of gentlemen around them of the difficult times when they were young. In the 1960s, it was really not easy to eat something tasty. Thanks to their status as the third grandpa of the family, they lived a good life.
It’s not too hard, and in retrospect, it’s also a kind of experience.
After a while, Zhang Heliang called Zhang Mingtang: "Mingtang, let's go, I will take you to see some good things."
Zhang Bi and Zhang Xiaoqi also followed, and a wooden diesel boat drove over there, slowly passed the bridge under Pingtou, and stopped at the water station in front of Dachang.
There was a roaring sound in the cabin, that movement, no
It was snowing, the boat came over, and it broke through the ice. It really felt like going nowhere.
"What is it?" Zhang Xiaoqi hasn't been here for a long time, and he doesn't know what other good stuff there is.
Zhang Ben said with a smile: "Uncle Heliang likes to catch black fish the most. I'm not sure it will just be a few big oolongs. If I get two old turtles, I will be lucky today."
"Hey! Xiao Jianhu, you actually got through the window paper. Tsk, tsk, you guessed it!"
Zhang Heliang still shouted happily. On the boat were his two sons. They were wearing leather water jackets, with the cuffs tightly tightened to their necks and their heads exposed, like divers.
"Dad, guess what, when we turned around, we caught something."
The man who spoke on the boat was a very thin man, Zhang Xiaoqiang, the son of Zhang Heliang, who was not very tall. He started working on the boat to earn a living as soon as he graduated from junior high school. He worked hard every year and earned 50,000 to 780,000 yuan, which was a lot of hard money.
But I still enjoy it...
"Xiaoqiang, how big a turtle is to make you so happy?" Zhang Concubine said with a smile.
Zhang Xiaoqiang glared at him: "I made you guess again!"
Then he smiled and patted the cabin: "Two old turtles. One is at least two kilograms, and the other is at least one and a half kilograms. Both have neat skirts and no gaps. How about it?"
Zhang Heliang was holding a cigarette butt in his mouth and was surprised: "Son of a bitch, could it be that a domesticated kid ran away!"
Zhang Xiaoqiang smiled and said: "There are no black or white spots in Momo. How can it be domesticated?"
The chef laughed: "What a blessing. It's enough for two tables!"
"Leng Tiantou can still do it, he's really good at it!" Zhang Ben gave a thumbs up. In this weather and temperature, we can still catch old turtles. With this method, we have to give in.
Zhang Xiaoqiang chuckled, carrying a snakeskin bag, and handed it over: "But we have to get it done. This is a valuable thing. I saw a BMW at the harbor earlier and asked me to buy it for 10,000 yuan. It didn't belong to him."
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"That coffin still thinks that we are poor people, we are so fucking stupid, we want to eat expensive food at 13 o'clock, and we don't even urinate and take pictures of ourselves." The man in charge of the back door is Zhang Xiaoqiang's brother Zhang.
Xiao Shi, who was also lean and dark, saw Zhang Mingtang and shouted loudly: "Uncle Mingtang is back too."
Zhang Mingtang smiled and took out a pack of cigarettes from his body. This was a pack of soft Chinese made by Zhang Ben as a favor to him. He smoked a cigarette and threw it away. Zhang Xiaoshi's hands were wet. He actually opened his mouth.
After catching it, a group of people nearby laughed and cursed: "These are all idiots." Everyone laughed, Zhang Heliang placed a candlestick on the bow of the boat, then inserted three sticks of incense and lit it before saying: "It's so cold.
God can still catch this thing, Grandmaster guarantees it. It’s good to come back safely. Bow and come ashore.”
Regardless of the weather, year, month, or environment, if you can catch something rare, you must respect the ancestor. This is also the rule of the people on the ship. There is a swaying sound in the cabin, and when you open it, you will see, oh, the black particles are all silent.
It's a big black fish with a thick head. Please take two of them. The largest one is like a human arm. "Two of them were caught half a month ago and I have been keeping them. I have caught big ones in the past few days. Five or six
It’s good to make rolls with a kilogram. There are also vegetables from Jiangbei, which are refreshing and refreshing. Although they are made in sheds, they are still the most delicious. You can’t eat them in the United States.”
Zhang Heliang laughed and said loudly to Zhang Mingtang.
Zhang Mingtang also nodded: "When it comes to eating, these are the most comfortable and high-end things at home."
There were at least twenty snakeheaded fish thrown onto the shore, all of them were extremely big. They were thrown into the snow and swayed loudly. People around looked at them and exclaimed: "Hey, you are such a good girl, they are so big."
The black fish, don’t make up for it!”
"You son of a bitch, what nonsense are you talking about during the Chinese New Year!"
"Well done!"
There was also a group of old women rubbing peanut paste there. After a group of peanuts were washed with well water, they began to shell them. It was also very tedious, but the peanut kernels were good. Although they were not big, they made a strange-flavored peanut bean.
, that’s more than enough, but today, I must make some snakeheaded fish and peanut soup, which is a great supplement.
Others have to make rollers, and it’s not easy to eat them all on New Year’s Eve.
With so many people, they killed the snakehead fish very quickly. The meat of dozens of kilograms of snakehead fish was all ready. The mustard greens were chopped with more than a dozen knives, and countless eggs were beaten. The ones in the trash can
The eggshells were all piled up, and the scale was quite large.
All the families around wanted to come over for food, and some people who were paralyzed in bed were also sent there. We had already had a reunion dinner with each family before.
On New Year's Eve, the whole family gathers together in the front and back houses, and there are people in the courtyards upstairs and downstairs. It's such a lively atmosphere that even the dogs have ham to eat to their stomachs.
"Don't waste time, be quick and pick up your chopsticks!"
Several cooks were shouting there.
The two old turtles were weighed, and they were classified as one weighing one pound and six taels, and the other two pounds and one tael. They were both big.
How many of these things are there in the wild rivers today? Not even a single gill fish was seen this year. The water shortage was blocked, but I only caught one weighing three to four pounds. Just this thing, twenty years ago, no one would eat it.
, to be precise, disdain.
I used to take large crabs on the shore and no one would pick them up. Now they are better. Prices have increased like dangbao. They are cheap for tens of yuan per catty, but there are also hundreds and hundreds of yuan.
At this time, three and a half large crabs were already being poured into the basin with net bags, and the net was covered with them. Some kids were teasing the crabs there. If they were accidentally pinched, they started howling, and the surrounding area immediately started to scream.
It’s a scolding and a baby’s voice, it’s so lively..
It was probably after noon, and the big men of each household would come out to light a bunch of firecrackers and set off a firecracker. The sound of bang bang bang was endless, and the snow on the water sweater trees was shaken down, rustling.
The ground fell, and those country dogs were so frightened by the movement that they burrowed under the table and bed, which really made people laugh.
"Grandpa San, come here and light a firecracker."
They all called him "Lao Immortal". Zhang Sanxian had a stick of Lao Yun cigarette in his mouth. Everyone in the surrounding group of old and young was given one. A group of people were secretly enjoying themselves, thinking that the old man was really awesome. This cigarette
The taste is just different. Compared with a pack of Chinese tea foam, what is the difference?
Tsk-tsk-tsk-tsk-tsk-tsk-tsk-tsk-tsk-tsk-tsk-tsk-tsk-tsk-tsk-tsk-tsk out out of secret envy, but little did he know that this old guy was cursing in his heart: You son of a bitch, you just gave me a few packs of cigarettes with just a nice word, what a bastard, I am so merciful and merciless.
He put the cigarette butt close to him, and with a bang, the firecrackers rose into the sky. With a bang, the firecrackers exploded, and some debris fell on the top of his head. After a bang, there was a smell of gunpowder.
The heads of each family lit up the firecrackers and got busy again. Today's New Year's Eve is a gathering of people, which is considered a small reunion. Tomorrow's New Year's Eve will be a serious big reunion.
When I was busy working until the afternoon, the electric steamer made a loud noise and squeaked out steam.
A fragrance wafts out, making people drool. The smell of steamed opium fish, tsk tsk, is just right for country people to eat. The big crabs are thrown into the water and topped with ginger slices and shochu, and then they start cooking.
When the time comes, take them out, stack them neatly, and put them on plates, twelve to a table for twelve people.
There were a few young men there, Zhang Heliang and several great chefs were all treasures. I made a bowl of shrimps for them to eat. The taste was sweet and fresh. Not to mention the tender meat, there was a fragrant aroma.
Between the lips and teeth, a group of adults were so slandered that they quickly drank water to moisten their saliva, otherwise it would be really embarrassing.
"The black fish roll is about to be cooked. Come on, bring it to the table. Sister-in-law, ask someone to wash their hands and quickly bring the plate to the table."
Zhang Heliang was there commanding and cooking. He was the general and his command was determined.
At five or six o'clock, it was getting dark, and the banquet started at six o'clock. The table was filled with dishes, both hot and cold, as well as cold sea-grind skin. The old men sat at a table, and the eldest young master of the family and a group of old men
We were sitting at another table, and the eldest son, Zhang Xiaoqi, was sitting at another table with his peers.
Then the rest of the people found their seats and sat down. Women and children were seated separately. Children and women could not be seen in the hall. They were all in the back. Only men who were in charge of the family could sit in the main hall.
Zhang Bi was not allowed to sit here before, but now Zhang Sanxian allows him to sit in the main hall, which generally means that he recognizes that he can take part in the decision-making of the family.
A group of people around were secretly surprised, but remained calm. At this time, Zhang Dazhi, Zhang Xiaoshan and the others began to place the fireworks at the mouth of the river, inserted them with sticks, and tied them to the sticks.
Because the river is sailed by boats, it is as bright and quiet as water. If fireworks are set off, the sky and water will be colorful, which is very beautiful.
It's like there are twice as many fireworks.
"Come on, hurry up and come in for dinner, it won't stop snowing."
"Big mountains and small hills, speed up."
"Got it, I'll come right away!"
"Brother, hurry up, I'm ordering!"
"I got it! Hurry up, bitch!"
With a bang, the row of fireworks all burst out with brilliant light, like flares rising into the sky. When they reached the top, they all exploded with a pop, like dandelions, bright and colorful.
"Okay! The whole house is full of joy! Come on, we are all men, stand up and have a drink!"
Zhang Sanyao stood up, holding a wine glass in his hand. A group of men from the Zhang family stood up happily and raised their wine glasses as well.