fish street dad

"This birthday peach is so beautiful! It looks like the real thing!" Aunt Zhou and her daughter Zhou Youqing were amazed when they saw a pair of pink birthday peaches sitting on the table. Never seen such a delicate one.

The two longevity peaches made by Bai Chunsheng are about the size of footballs, with beautiful shapes. The peaches are painted from the tip to the body with prepared pigments in different shades. Below are the green peach tree branches and leaves that Bai Chunsheng dyed with fermented dough. At the bottom is the base dyed the color of the bark, which looks exactly like a real peach.However, there is no such a big peach in the world.

After being dissected and cleaned by Bai Chunsheng, the half-caught small fish were marinated for a while, wrapped in egg white and batter and deep-fried until they were crispy. They were arranged one by one in the shape of a pagoda, implying that they would rise step by step.It used to be a custom in their family that children must eat rice cakes on their birthdays, but unfortunately there are no rice cakes sold here, so they can only use fried fish instead.

The river prawns are made into one shrimp and three meals, deep-fried salt and pepper river prawns, river prawn tofu soup, river prawn boiled eggs, the staple food is a stuffed bag made of river grass, fresh shrimp meat, pork belly, and fish meat. Yuanbao dumplings, which symbolize a happy reunion.

Just before dinner started, Bai Chunsheng finally cooked a table of dishes. The little chubby cat across the door sneaked onto their roof at some point, lying on the eaves, staring at the table that exuded the delicious smell of fish and meat. birthday peaches.

This is food he has never eaten.

"Sanlang, go back and wash your paws, and tell your elder brother that the banquet is ready." As soon as the words fell, the room where Mrs. Zeng lived next to her was opened from the inside with a creak, and the pale-faced Mrs. Zeng was holding a pair of exquisitely embroidered cloth Mouse, please ask Aunt Zhou to send it on her behalf as Wang Jiasaburo's birthday congratulations.

"I don't have any good things to sell, but this embroidery work is still worth looking at." Mrs. Zeng showed a smile on her pale face, and looked up at the fluffy kitten. Have fun, don't stay in the house all the time, you kids, go out and move around more to be healthy."

Unlike her, walking out of this courtyard now is a matter of right and wrong.

Looking at it, Bai Chunsheng felt uncomfortable in his heart. In the era he used to live in, it was not a big deal for a woman to get divorced and lose her husband. For someone as gentle, beautiful and family-loving as Mrs. Zeng, not to mention losing her husband, there are serious problems even in divorce. Chasing after a man like this, Mrs. Zeng hardly stays at home, and she is often gossiped about. Fortunately, this yard was introduced by a middleman. Most people who are taboo are not willing to rent a house to such a widow. , let alone not considered a serious wife, but a concubine!

Bai Chunsheng didn't expect Mrs. Zeng not to go to the Wang's house for a banquet with them, and was a little at a loss for a while, because he didn't prepare something for Mrs. Zeng alone.It was Aunt Zhou who had thought this would happen a long time ago, and said with a smile that when the banquet started, Aunt Wang would definitely come to deliver meals to Mrs. Zeng, so everyone went to the opposite Wang's house with the prepared food.

There are four members of Wang Dalang's family, namely mother Wang Auntie, Wang Dalang and a pair of younger siblings. The protagonist of today's birthday banquet is Wang Jiasaburo.Although everyone was very curious about where Erlang, the second-ranked member of the Wang family, had gone, they were not familiar with the Wang family enough to inquire about his family's privacy, so they could only pretend that they were not curious at all, and automatically ignored "Erlang" "The presence.

Aunt Wang seems to have been injured with one arm, and it hangs down unnaturally. She is sitting in the yard coaxing a seven or eight-year-old girl doll. It has fluffy cat ears with tabby stripes, one pair of eyes is pure black, and the other is a tourmaline-like color, which looks very strange.

Bai Chunsheng paused, as if he had stepped into the scene of the cos conference in a second.

The eyes of the others also deliberately avoided the girl's eyes, and they all took out the birthday presents they had prepared.Aunt Wang also stood up hurriedly, anxiously going to pour tea and snacks for everyone.

"Sister of the Wang family, please take a rest, let me come." Aunt Zhou hurriedly held her down, took Zhou Youqing, and found the teapot and teacup in the cabinet of the Wang family familiarly, and according to Aunt Wang's instructions, in another In the basket, I found the dessert melons and fruits that Wang Dalang had just bought this morning, put them on a plate and brought them out, and put them on a wooden table in the yard.

"Da Lang was supposed to entertain everyone at home. Just now, someone came from the pier and said that there was something wrong with a cargo ship. He went to help and came back soon." Aunt Wang explained apologetically, and immediately Looking at Bai Chunsheng gratefully, "This is Bai Xiaolang who just moved in, right? Erlang's birthday banquet this time is really troublesome for you, and so is Dalang. How can you bother a distinguished guest to help with the banquet?"

"It's not troublesome. They're all ordinary home-cooked dishes. Besides, it's Saburo's birthday once a year. He also likes the fish and shrimp I cook. Brother Wang loves his younger brother. It's too late for me to envy him. How can I blame him?" Bai Chunsheng smiled and held out the pair of birthday peaches, "This is the birthday peach I made with my own hands. It is mixed with fish and meat balls. It can be used as an offering today. After the birthday is over, it can be cut into slices tomorrow and steamed for a while. Take it out and eat it, or slice it and bake it.”

"Oh, how can someone be willing to eat such delicate birthday peaches?" Aunt Wang looked at the pair of brightly colored birthday peaches with curiosity, and the younger sister of the Wang family beside her was eager to touch them.

"Ah, good boy, this is the third brother's birthday peach, let the third brother eat it first." Aunt Wang gently grabbed the girl's chubby hand.

Bai Chunsheng felt a little weird for a moment.

It stands to reason that Wang Dalang looks like a normal person. According to genetics, it doesn't make sense that his third brother is a cat, while the youngest sister is a half-demon with cat ears and a cat pupil?

Are these three half-brothers?

Secretly shaking off the romantic drama in his head, Bai Chunsheng went over to help Aunt Zhou put away the prepared dishes. While she was busy, Wang Dalang came back with half a fan of steaming fresh pork on his shoulder.

"Mother, this is the meat rewarded by the big boss, and the big boss also rewarded our Sanlang with two taels of silver." The big boss Wang Dalang was talking about was naturally the black fish spirit. I didn't expect it to be quite humane, and it was a congratulatory gift. Also decent and functional.

"I was thinking about how to return the gift. Dalang, go find some straw rope and cut up the meat. When the banquet is over, each family will return a gift of two catties of pork." Aunt Wang whispered.

"Understood mother, you put away the money and save it to buy fish for the third brother." Wang Dalang took out the money in his sleeve and handed it to his mother, and went to divide the meat with the pork on his shoulders.Both Xie Huang and Shang Qiulu went over to help twist the straw ropes. Wang Dalang glanced at Shang Qiulu and said nothing. He took the straw ropes in his hand, and quickly tied the cut pork one by one and hung them in the yard. It's easy to take it away when everyone leaves.

At this time, in the restaurant in the town, Wang Dalang also brought over the feast that Wang Dalang had ordered. It was a very simple set of eight dishes and eight bowls, with more meat and less food. Although it was not exquisite, it was already a very rich table for ordinary people who ate less meat. Banquet.

"My mother is not feeling well, so I had to go outside and order a banquet." Wang Dalang explained that he himself is not used to getting along with neighbors like this, but because his mother likes to see them get along with neighbors in harmony, and feels that this is how they live like Personally, he barely maintains a close relationship with his neighbors, just like an awkward big boy. He obviously doesn't know his relatives well, and he has to pretend to be familiar with each other during the New Year's Eve.

"It's already costly." Aunt Zhou looked at the table full of all kinds of dishes in disapproval, "How much money does it cost? Chunsheng cooked a lot of dishes today, and you bought so many more. How can you finish your meal? Dalang, it’s not easy for you to make money, and everyone in the family has to spend money, so why spend so much?”

"I can't finish a meal, everyone come over to eat at night. This year is different. Our Sanlang's 16th birthday, maybe after tonight, he will be able to transform." Wang Dalang said with a cold face. , showing a warm smile, this day, he has been waiting for 16 years.

If he wasn't afraid of being too conspicuous and causing trouble to the family, he would never have hosted the third brother's birthday banquet in such a shabby way.

Thinking of the "second younger brother" of the eldest son of the family, the nominal eldest son of the royal family, it was only his first birthday, and there were exquisite and precious congratulatory gifts from His Majesty, Queen, and concubines in the palace, not to mention the many palaces in the imperial city. The congratulatory gifts from people from the faction of the royal palace and countless people who want to curry favor with the prince, that is truly an unparalleled honor...

Aunt Zhou just said casually, in fact, people living near here are very afraid of Wang Dalang, not only because Wang Dalang is a subordinate of Heiyujing, but mainly because this guy never smiles, no, he doesn’t smile Well, because laughing is scarier than not laughing, and it can stop children from crying at night!

Everyone sat down one after another, Wang Dalang took out the Zhuangyuanhong bought in the restaurant, and poured a cup for everyone. The conditions in the house were poor, and there was no way for the men and women to sit separately like a rich family. The women simply crowded together, and the men sat On the other side, the protagonist of today's banquet, Wang Jiasanlang, was held in his arms by his elder brother. Wang Dalang scooped up a spoonful of milky white fish soup with his own hands, treating it as wine, and shared a glass with everyone. With a twist in his arms, he smiled and took the shallow plate that he had prepared earlier, and put a plate of fish meat and fish soup for him to eat slowly on the side.

After eating with everyone for a while, Bai Chunsheng stood up: "I also prepared longevity noodles for the little birthday star today. This noodles are delicious if you eat them right now. Brother Wang, lend me your stove and I'll cook the noodles."

"I'll cook with you." Wang Dalang stood up, took Bai Chunsheng to his stove, and quickly said in a low voice, "Thank you!"