National teacher, your man ran away

The rest of the old house has been cleaned up, and finally there is only the small river in the backyard that connects to the mountain spring.

Yao Yixin's father liked to drink tea, and used mountain springs for tea cooking. Because he didn't want to go to the mountains to fetch water every day, he simply laid a canal with stone slabs and led a mountain spring down from the mountain, which happened to land in the backyard. Later, a mountain pond with flowing water gradually formed in the backyard. The spring water flows in from the ditch, and then flows along the gap in the mountain pond to a pond in the village outside. Yao Yixin's father planted some aquatic plants such as lotus root, water chestnut, chicken head rice, etc. near the mountain pond, and also stocked some fish fry into it. .

It's a pity that the mountain pond has been abandoned in the past two years, no one takes care of it, weeds are overgrown, and mosquitoes are infested. If Yao Yixin wants to live at home for a long time, he must clean up the mountain pond at home.

Fortunately, Niu Erlang had great strength, so the job of digging the pond mud was entrusted to him.

Before digging the pond mud, the water in the mountain pond must be drained first.Yao Yixin borrowed a few fishing nets from Granny Huang and other people in the village, and laid a few fishing nets along the ditches outside the mountain pond, with meshes ranging from large to small. The fish fry can be stopped in the ditch, the big fish can be fished up for additional meals, and the small fish fry can be picked up and kept. When the silt in the mountain pond is cleared out and the water accumulates again, they can be put back, so that there will be fresh fish at home in the future. The fish ate.

As the water in the mountain pond gradually dries up, the fish and shrimp hidden in the water gradually come out of the water, such as grass carp as long as an adult's arm, fat head fish, fat red carp, grass shrimp as long as a finger, and river carp the size of a dinner plate. Clams, as well as rice field eels and loaches trying to escape in the mud, the huge catches simply surprised everyone.

"I didn't expect this mountain pond to look so small, and there are so many fish and shrimps! Fortunately, I stopped a few fishing nets..." Yao Yixin happily picked up the big fish caught by Uncle Niu in the bucket.

"Haha, your daddy always likes to eat fish. These fish and shrimps are probably raised by your father for your daddy to eat." Grandma Huang said with a smile, "If there are too many big fish and you can't finish them all at once, grandma will help you cook them." Dried fish, keep it and eat slowly."

"Then the three of us can't finish eating so much, grandma, why don't you go to the village and say, if anyone wants to eat fish, come to my house and get a few. Collecting fish fry, you can’t go away for a while, if anyone wants to eat fresh fish, please come and get it yourself.”

"Hey! Master Xin is still so kind, so the old lady went to the village to spread a word and asked them to get it themselves." Grandma Huang went out happily.

After a while, other people from the village came over one after another. Everyone was ashamed to beg for fish empty-handed. When they came, they all carried a bamboo basket with home-raised eggs, fresh corn grown by themselves, or Smoked chicken made from pheasants hunted in the mountains can be regarded as reciprocity.

Yao Yixin knew the customs of the village, and immediately accepted the food brought by the villagers. Each family shared five or six fat fresh fish, and grass shrimp and loach. The large tank is raised, and it can be eaten for a few days if it is kept. The big fish that can't be kept can only be killed and dried.

The mountain pond looks small, and it will take at least three or four days to clean up the silt inside. Yao Yixin is not willing to throw away the silt that has been cleaned up, so he piles it up next to the vegetable patch in the backyard. Fertilize the vegetable plot.

I have to say that the environment in ancient times was really good, especially the fish and shrimps raised with mountain spring water, they don’t taste like those fish and shrimps that grew up on feed and various medicines in the previous life. It is delicious grilled with salt.

Of course, Yao Yixin, who traveled from a big foodie country, is not satisfied with just eating simple grilled fish.

I dug out some dried chilies, star anise, pepper lamp seasonings from the luggage I brought, and borrowed some green onion, ginger, garlic, and miso from Grandma Huang’s house. Yao Yixin made a braised fish piece, a spicy fish section, A fish head with chopped peppers, shredded fresh eel, stir-fried a shredded eel with onions and green peppers, cut up half a catty of loach, and made a braised loach. Unfortunately, there are no tofu sellers in the village, otherwise you can make one Loach roasted tofu is also excellent.

Fresh grass prawns are the best, Yao Yixin put them last, put green onion and ginger in boiling water, without cooking wine, scoop a small spoonful of sorghum wine in, boil the grass prawns, take it out and dip it in the prepared Eat with dipping sauce, tender and delicious.

Because of being greedy for a while, they made too much food, and the three of them couldn't finish it. Yao Yixin asked Mao Mao to call Huang Granny and Hua Niangzi to eat together. Huang Granny also brought some dried noodles that she made herself. They didn't even cook the rice, just ordered some vermicelli, and made a few big bowls of noodles with braised fish slices. With the feast of fish and shrimp on the table, the five people almost got full.

"Master Xin, you, you must have suffered a lot in that mansion, right?" After eating, Grandma Huang suddenly thought of something, and immediately looked at Yao Yixin with regret, as if he had suffered so much. Seems aggrieved.

is not that right?Yao Yixin has been the treasure of her two fathers since she was a child, let alone cooking, I'm afraid she doesn't even know what the kitchen looks like, but in the short two years since she got married, she has cooked well. I know, I must have suffered a lot in that family's house!

How did Yao Yixin know that she was instantly turned into a little cabbage without parents or mothers?Seeing the sympathetic faces of the two, I thought they were worried that they would not have enough to eat outside, so they ate so fast, so they touched their noses embarrassingly——

"Well, this fish is so delicious, I couldn't hold back for a moment... Hehe!"

It’s okay if he doesn’t say anything, but when he said this, the two sentimental ladies across from him immediately imagined the scene of Yao Yixin being abused in the Imperial Teacher’s Mansion. They couldn’t even eat the most common fish and shrimp. What did the young master do?

To be honest, although Master Guoshi is still the male god of the nation, I have to say that Granny Huang and Lady Hua have already started to become popular... No matter how good the male god is, Yao Yixin is their "one of them".

However, when cooking fish today, Yao Yixin found that the house really lacked a lot of things, such as a stone mill for grinding soybean milk to make tofu, some tools, and some seasonings for cooking. There were not many rice noodles coming back, Yao Yixin thought about it, and decided to take Uncle Niu and Maomao to the market to buy.

Yao Yixin has been to the market near Yaojia Village many times since she was a child, and she knows how to walk by heart. However, thinking that Grandma Huang's legs and feet are not good, and Hua Niangzi is a dead house, Yao Yixin took advantage of the two of them before they went back. , I asked by the way if I would like to help bring some things back.

"Then please, Master Xin, bring back a bag of yellow rice, a bag of rough noodles, and three catties of salt for grandma. I'll send you the booklet for buying salt." Grandma Huang thought for a while and said.

Do I still need a voucher to buy salt?Yao Yixin was dumbfounded, almost thinking that she had time traveled to the era of planned economy.

"Master Xin, you must not have gone shopping by yourself in the past two years, have you?" Hua Niangzi explained with a smile, "This decree was issued by the national teacher himself, but everyone thinks this decree is good! Our salt is still at war with us, and with this decree, those Tatar barbarians will no longer be able to buy salt privately!"

Yao Yixin immediately turned black. Such a sinister idea was really thought up by that narrow-minded national teacher.

is not that right?The nomads in the north have always been short of salt, and all the salt they eat is bought from the south. If they choke off the channels for buying salt, it means killing half their lives.If there is no food to eat, you can make do with meat, but if you often lack salt, you will die.

"I have a lot of things to buy, so I might as well go to town with you tomorrow." Hua Niangzi added after thinking for a while.

Thinking that Hua Niangzi might want to buy some women's things, and it would be inconvenient for them to buy them for her, Yao Yixin didn't ask any more questions, and made an appointment to set off at a quarter o'clock the next morning, and buy some breakfast when she arrived in the town. Yao Yixin missed the town very much. As for the snacks on the street, I remember that there was an old couple at the end of the street who made delicious fresh meat wontons, and their unique crispy sesame cakes, which made my mouth water.

Yaojia Village is about half an hour away from the town by horse-drawn carriage. Because the town is close to the wharf, although it is not a county seat, its business is still prosperous. Niu Er spent three pennies to deposit the car in the town's chariot and horse shop. A group of people went to the end of the street first, and the old couple selling wontons was still there.

Yao Yixin cheerfully invited everyone to find a table to sit down, a group of four people happened to occupy a square table.

"Boss, I want four bowls of wontons, plus eight sesame cakes, and two plates of steamed meat."

"Oh! Isn't this the young master of the Yao family? Or wontons without green onion and chili oil?"

"Hmm! Two tablespoons of chili oil!"

The author has something to say: Regarding the seniority of the National Teacher's family, here is an explanation:

The little emperor's mother is the former emperor, and his father is the cousin of the national teacher. Because he married into the royal family, the seniority is ranked according to the party he married into, so the little emperor is called the national teacher's cousin. There is nothing wrong with it. We all arrange it like this here In terms of seniority, the little emperor disguises himself as a woman, and there will be an episode of him and the little emperor's husband later. (So, guess who is the gong between the emperor's husband and the little emperor?)

According to seniority, the little emperor’s two fathers who are called national teachers should be called uncles. We call them that way here. I don’t know how they are called in other places. It seems that some places are also called uncles and grandpas. Forgive me for not using this, because always It's a dance to the seventh uncle and grandpa o(╥﹏╥)o

Thanks to the baby who pointed this out. At the beginning, I didn’t expect that the names of different places might be different. I can’t draw pictures and my hands are disabled. I can only explain it in words here. Thank you!