Sun Dahai quickly took Sun Yuanyuan and Gao Yi to say hello to the teacher.
"It's good for you too," the teacher replied.
He turned to Sun Weimin and said: "I heard that your family is here, so I came to see you. Tomorrow night, everyone will come to my house, and I will ask your sister-in-law to cook a table of dishes for everyone."
After the teacher left, Sun Weimin said with a wry smile: "Forget it, teacher, this is still the habit. Then let's go and disturb others tomorrow."
"Every year before the Spring Festival, the teacher would treat the person on duty to dinner, and he would bring his family members with him. Because everyone else went home during the Spring Festival, the person on duty would still stay here, so he would treat the person to dinner just before the holiday.
Later, it gradually changed and everyone took turns being the host, which was considered as celebrating the festival in advance.
The day before yesterday, the political commissar and the deputy division commander were going home early and they had already invited guests." Niu Hong explained to everyone.
Sun Da asked: "Uncle, isn't the teacher going away during the Spring Festival this year?"
Sun Weimin replied: "Teacher will leave only in the morning on New Year's Eve. He is from Ji Province, and his family lives in Changchun. It can be reached in a few hours by car."
Sun Dahai did the math, today is the twenty-seventh of the twelfth lunar month, tomorrow the teacher will treat us, and the day after tomorrow...
He said to Sun Weimin: "Uncle, how about I cook the food on the 29th day of the twelfth lunar month? Let's go back and invite people to see them off."
Sun Weimin glanced at him, and he and Niu Hong looked at each other, and then said: "That's good, Dahai, please worry about it and help us cook a meal. But we need to hire one more person. The deputy political commissar will be on duty with me during the Spring Festival.
We need to invite him too. The political commissar and deputy division commander have already left early, so there is no need to worry about them."
Sun Dahai suddenly thought of a question: "Uncle, you are not very good at cooking. ∵八∵八∵Read∵study, ↗▲o Then we used to take turns to treat guests, so what should you do??"
Sun Weimin blushed and said awkwardly: "Well, I spent money to buy ingredients, and then asked the chefs from the Tianlong provincial base to cook for me. Not only me, but also the deputy political commissar. He asked the town
The chef cooks.”
The next day, after breakfast, Sun Dahai took everyone out. Because he wanted a chef tomorrow, he went to the shopping place today to make preparations in advance.
Sun Weimin's family didn't have a restaurant, so he didn't even have condiments, and there weren't enough pots, pans, and bowls and chopsticks. Sun Dahai needed to find a way to buy these or borrow them from the canteen.
Sun Weimin and Niu Hong were relieved. With Sun Dahai here, they didn't have to worry about anything. The couple went to work early in the morning, and it was all up to Sun Dahai to do the cooking.
The two of them left with peace of mind because Hu Cheng was here. Hu Cheng had been here for four years and he couldn't leave everyone behind.
Sun Dahai and the others first went to the Military Service Department in the family area. There were so many kinds of things here, including daily necessities, tobacco, alcohol, sugar and tea, vegetables and fruits, pork and eggs, and it was a large grocery store.
There are many types, but there are few products in each category. Especially vegetables and fruits. The only vegetables are potatoes and Chinese cabbage, and the only fruits are Northeast frozen pears.
Sun Dahai shook his head and asked Hu Cheng to lead the way. Let's go to the town ahead to have a look.
The town is not far away, and the military hospital where Niu Hong works is right next to the town. Several people walked to the town, playing with snow in their hands and slipping on their feet.
It was approaching the end of the year, and it was not a day for a big market. The streets of the town were deserted. There were only a few people in the compound that sold groceries.
There is a special place for selling vegetables here. Because of the cold weather, the vegetables are not placed outside, but are wrapped in thick quilts in baskets.
People who are more particular will write down what dishes they have on paper, while those who are not so particular can only wait for customers to ask. The dishes are not weighed either. The vegetable seller will tell you the price and quantity, and then take it away if you think it suits you. Generally, no one will.
Lie.
Don't expect the dishes here to be very good. They are all home-grown winter vegetables. If they are not frozen, they are considered good.
Someone really put the things for sale outside. It looked like fish caught through the ice. They were frozen hard and hung with a thick layer of ice. There were several fish here, and they seemed to be of different varieties and sizes.
But they are not too small.
The fish had already been frozen solid, so of course it was not afraid of being exposed. Sun Dahai became interested and walked over to take a look.
Among the fish on the ground, the largest one was sixty or seventy centimeters long, and it was estimated to weigh more than ten kilograms after it thawed.
Sun Dahai looked at the fish's mouth, which contained sharp and pointed teeth, and knew that this must be a large carnivorous fish.
Wild carnivorous fish generally have the characteristics of less spines and delicious meat. So Sun Dahai was tempted.
"What kind of fish is this and how to sell it?" Sun Dahai asked, pointing to the fish.
The seller was wrapped in a cotton coat and chatting with someone. When he saw Sun Dahai asking for goods, he came over.
"This is Zheluo. It's very delicious. It weighs about 16 or 7 pounds and costs five yuan."
It's so cheap. Sun Dahai nodded in approval, and Hu Cheng paid for it and bought the fish.
"What a big fish! Brother, can you cook boiled fish for me? I want to eat boiled fish." Sun Yuanyuan was greedy again.
"Of course. The fish is so big, how many dishes can be prepared? I just don't know how it tastes." Sun Dahai replied.
"Young man, you are not from Long Province, are you?" the fish buyer interjected.
"We are not from Long Province, we are here to celebrate the New Year at a relative's house."
"Let me tell you. People from Long Province who are good at making fish should have heard of Zheluo even if they have never seen it. The most famous fish in our Long Province are 'Three Flowers, Five Luo, and Eighteen Zi'. Zheluo
Luo is the first of the five Luo."
Sun Dahai slapped his forehead and thought about it.
Zheluo, also known as Zheluo fish and Zheluo salmon, is the famous big red fish in Northern Xinjiang Province. It is a very rare and precious cold-water fish and is at the top of the food chain in the northern water system ecosystem.
Due to the depletion of natural resources, the salmon became increasingly rare and later became a national second-level protected animal.
Sun Dahai was delicious in his previous life, but he had only heard of the name Zheluo Fish. This time he made a lot of money.
The fish seller pointed to another fish and said to Sun Dahai: "Young man, if you can cook, I suggest you buy another fish like this. Our locals call it Huai Tou and cook it with eggplant. Then
It's called fragrance.
This kind of fish doesn't eat much in winter, so its belly is clean. Now is the best time to eat it.
This one looks like it has lived for three years and weighs seven or eight pounds. If you want it, I'll give you two yuan."
Sun Dahai had eaten the Huatou catfish in his previous life. However, when he ate it, the Huatou catfish was made into fillets on the table, so he had never seen the whole one before.
The whitehead catfish has six whiskers, two more than ordinary catfish, and it can easily grow to more than one meter when it reaches adulthood. It is much larger than ordinary catfish, which is generally no more than half a meter long, and the meat is more tender.
As for catfish stewed with eggplant, it is really a famous Northeastern dish. "Catfish stewed with eggplant will kill the old man" is this dish.
The fish seller became interested and introduced the names and characteristics of the remaining fish to Sun Dahai. These fish were all good, but they were not as famous as the salmon and catfish. 11