Siheyuan: I live next door to Xu Damao, my last name is Cao

Afterwards, Cao Wei restrained his expression, said hello to a few middle-aged women, and left.

There are still many things to do after I return.

It takes time to process such a big fish, and it will probably take more than an hour before we can eat it.

After Cao Wei left, he left everyone with envious looks.

Soon, Yan Jiecheng also came back with some tofu.

The three uncles and aunts happily began to process the fish.

Scrape fish scales, pierce fish, and process fish gills.

Soon, the yard was filled with the smell of fish.

The third uncle was reluctant to throw away the internal organs, so he just washed them and put them in the stew pot.

It's still a piece of meat, more or less.

As soon as Cao Wei left, Jia Zhang hurried back home.

"Qin Huairu, Cao Wei has caught a big fish. Go and help him prepare the fish. After you finish cooking, bring back some fish meat. I'll give you this bowl."

As she spoke, Jia Zhang took out the largest bowl in their house from the cupboard.

It’s called a large bowl, but in fact it’s almost as big as their pot.

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Qin Huairu was stunned for a moment. Cao Wei caught a big fish?

How big can it be? Why do we have to carry this big bowl over?

"Mom, what a big fish it is, it actually took this bowl."

This is used by their whole family. When they make some soup, they use this and it is enough for the whole family to drink.

Jia Zhang stretched out her arms and gestured.

"It's pretty big anyway, just go and bring back more meat."

Qin Huairu nodded, "I understand."

Thinking of going to Cao Wei's house again, Qin Huairu suddenly had an inexplicable look on her face, and her body couldn't help but soften.

During this period, Qin Huai often thought about the scene at Cao Wei's house from time to time. Why did he agree to such conditions so crazily at that time?

Last time, Cao Wei took such a big advantage over us, who knows what will happen this time.

However, Qin Huairu did not feel that she was at a disadvantage. After all, she was not the one who worked hard, and she could eat the meat without spending a penny.

On the contrary, she got a great advantage.

Since the birth of Huaihua, Qin Huairu and Jia Dongxu have not had a nightlife. Suddenly, they felt a little empty. What's going on?

After Qin Huairu took the large bowl, she took the bowl to Cao Wei's house.

Cao Wei had just arrived home and had just taken the fish out of the net bag and put it into the water when Qin Huairu followed in.

Cao Wei was not surprised at all to see Qin Huairu, as if he had expected it.

However, when he saw the large bowl in Qin Huairu's hand, he was completely stunned.

Which good person would keep such a big bowl at home?

And even took it out to beg for food.

This Jia Zhang is really a bit shameless.

It's called a bowl, but it's actually the same as a basin.

Oh no, it’s bigger than the basin.

How outrageous.

Cao Wei felt it was extremely absurd.

"Qin Huairu, you..."

Qin Huairu smiled helplessly, "My mother-in-law told you to fill this up."

"My goodness, your mother-in-law is really asking for too much."

This Jia Zhang is really bold to ask for it.

"Since you are here, help me kill the fish."

It just so happens that I haven't started to kill the fish yet, so I'll let Qin Huairu do it. She's here to eat for free anyway, so let her earn the meal with her labor.

It’s not that Cao Wei doesn’t know how to kill fish, but he doesn’t have much experience. He’s afraid that if he doesn’t handle it properly or cleanly, the fish will be wasted.

Let Qin Huairu come so I can take it easy.

"Okay, leave it to me."

Qin Huairu agreed immediately.

She was originally ordered by Jia Zhang to help Cao Wei process the fish.

When Qin Huairu saw the big fish that Cao Wei caught, she was also a little confused.

Although she asked her mother-in-law when she came, when she actually saw the fish, she still felt it was really exaggerated.

The last time I saw such a big fish was in the countryside, which is many years ago.

Qin Huairu remembered that at that time his father went to the river to fish and caught a fish similar to this one, maybe even bigger than this one.

But that was what you got by fishing in the river, which is completely different from what you catch by fishing.

Thinking of this, Qin Huairu suddenly admired Cao Wei a little. It was really amazing that he could catch such a big fish.

Qin Huairu was quite experienced in handling fish, but she had never handled one this big.

She very decisively took a kitchen knife and hit the fish's head several times to prevent it from jumping around and struggling violently.

Qin Huairu then took the fish to the pool outside and scraped off all the scales on the fish with the back of a knife.

This process is relatively slow because the entire fish is over 70 centimeters long and very large, so it is very difficult.

Rinse the fish briefly and then clean the gills.

Fish gills are easier to deal with. Just open the gill cover and then pick out the gills inside.

This stuff needs to be cleaned up, nothing can be left.

After deducting it, I washed it again.

Finally, cut open the fish belly and take out the miscellaneous items inside.

There are a lot of good things in the fish belly, such as fish roe, fish intestines, fish bladder, and fish milt. For such a big fish, there will be almost one kilogram in the belly alone.

However, these things have a very strong fishy smell and need to be handled properly.

Qin Huairu cleaned them all up quickly.

After doing all this, Qin Huairu wiped the sweat from her forehead.

It can be seen that killing this fish is indeed quite difficult.

"Cao Wei, how are you going to eat this fish?"

Qin Huairu asked curiously.

"Let's make a fish feast. All the dishes are fish. It should be delicious."

Of course, the whole fish banquet that Cao Wei mentioned is completely different from a real whole fish banquet.

He simply divided the big carp into several portions and then made several different dishes.

For example, braised carp, steamed carp, fish head tofu soup, sweet and sour carp, etc.

Stir-frying fish roe, fish maw, and fish white is also a dish, as well as fish intestines.

Qin Huairu took out more than one meter of fish intestines from the body of this big carp that was more than 70 centimeters long.

Fried eggs with fish intestines is also a very good dish.

Cao Wei stated his demands.

Qin Huairu seemed very surprised, "Such a big fish, you plan to eat it all."

Cao Wei nodded and said with a smile: "Yes, it is more enjoyable to eat this way. Why, don't you want to eat more?"

Although she didn't understand, Qin Huairu still nodded. After all, this was Cao Wei's fish, and Cao Wei said she could eat it however she wanted.

Besides, steaming, braising and stewing them all sound delicious.

Thinking of this, Qin Huairu started to make a fire and began to cook using the ingredients available at home.

Cao Wei went out to buy tofu. After all, in order to make fish head tofu soup, he still needed to buy some tofu.

Soon, Cao Wei came back with a piece of tofu.

Just stew a fish head and buy a piece of tofu. It's just him and Qin Huairu, and maybe they'll send some to Lou Xiaoe later. There will be three people at most, so they don't need too much.

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