Beginning Backpack [Farming]

There is a mist of rain in the sky, covering the distant mountains and trees near the trees with a layer of light smoke and mist, which is difficult to distinguish. In the silent valley, only the sound of drizzle beating the green leaves can be heard, like the softest lullaby.

The sky is not as gloomy as yesterday, but with a rare ray of sunshine.Shen Huaijin leaned against the railing of the work shed, lazily instructing Li to wash the glutinous rice and soak it in cold water.

Although this glutinous rice is not eaten by them as a staple food, it is occasionally used for wine making and food. In fact, it is consumed very quickly. Fortunately, once the rainy season is over, the harvest day will not be too far away. Just wait for the next harvest. .

Seeing that the rain was gradually slowing down, Shen Huaijin put on a bamboo hat, and lightly jumped down from the railing, stepping on the wet greenery.

Li looked up at him, only to see Shen Huaijin waving happily, "I'm going to pick peaches!"

The pink-white peaches have been completely soaked by the rain, and they fell half-naked on the branches. Shen Huaijin tiptoed to reach them, and when they were picked off, clear drops of water rolled down, leaving a water mark on his bare arm .

He simply scrubbed it off with water.The peaches are already ripe, and the skin can be easily peeled off to reveal the soft, white and tender peach flesh inside. One bite, the juice is plentiful, which is very refreshing.

"Give me two too." Sitting in the shed, Li Xian shouted.

"Okay." Shen Huaijin simply picked eight or nine in a row, took a bag of cloth, and trotted back to the work shed. After taking off the bamboo hat, her hair was sweating profusely, and her face was pinkish white from the hot and humid air. no difference.

Shen Huaijin brushed back all the wet hair, revealing her plump and fair forehead, gathered all the peaches together and washed them, rubbed off the fluff and dust, separated out one of the clear peaches, and brought the rest. Stew with peach jam.

Under the neat knife work, the white and tender peach flesh was quickly cut into small pieces, and they were stir-fried in the pot. After the sugar cubes were added to melt, the mixture of peach flesh and peach juice in the pot gradually became thicker, bursting Gudong gudong small bubbles were formed, and the peach fragrance was overflowing.

"It tastes so fresh." Shen Huaijin sighed, quickly turned off the fire, poured the viscous jam into the jar scalded with boiling water little by little, and sealed it carefully with the lid.

Li San finished eating the peach in his hand, threw the peach pit away, washed the handles and sat back on the bamboo chair.

The rain had stopped, and Shen Huaijin couldn't understand his lazy appearance, so she kicked him lightly, "Don't be idle, while the rain stops, you go to the stream to catch some fish and come back to make fish soup tonight. Let’s mix some fish skin with cold and eat.”

It is not easy to go out to collect and hunt during the rainy season, so fish has become a rare fresh food.

"Fish...why is it called such a name?" Li Bianqi muttered to his side, stretched out his long arms, got the harpoon by the wall, weighed it casually twice, and set off.

Shen Huaijin looked at his back and shook her head helplessly, then turned her gaze to the peach tree branch.

A large number of peaches have been ripened, and they have been frequently rained in the past two days, so they are easy to rot if they are kept.Thinking of this, he quickly got up to pick some more, and continued to cook them into peach jam. Even if he couldn't finish it, he could give some to his friends when the time came.

Li came back quickly, holding three fat fishes hanging by straw ropes in his hands. The edges of the scales shone with a slight polarized light, which was very eye-catching.

Shen Huaijin recognized this kind of fish. Its meat is extremely tender, but it is usually very rare.No matter how careless the members are, if they are lucky enough to catch it, they will pay special attention. Once they encounter a female fish with roe, they must be released back to the stream, for fear that they will not be able to eat such delicious and tender fish in the future.

"Lucky today, I caught the best aquatic fish!" Li lifted the fish in his hand and smiled at Shen Huaijin.

"Since it's it, it's a pity to just use it to stew fish soup." Shen Huaijin rubbed his chin, "Or one can be steamed, and the other two can be boiled fish. Let's eat it differently."

"Okay." Li didn't have the slightest objection, "Then I'll kill the fish first, do I want the skin?"

Shen Huaijin nodded, and took out a slender knife specially, "You need to use this knife to get the fish skin, it's easy."

Since there was no shortage of iron tools in the tribe, Shen Huaijin also slowly collected a whole set of knives of different sizes, each with its own purpose, and it is very ritualistic to cook in daily life.

Li raised his eyebrows, with a look of complacency, "It's all the same to me."

Having said that, he took the knife obediently, cleaned up the back of the fish neatly, cut a small slit at the tail of the fish with the tip of the knife, pressed the cold blade upward against the spine of the fish, and peeled off the skin in one go. Then cut it into shreds, and peeled two big fish in a row.

A set of movements is like flowing clouds and flowing water, which is very pleasing to the eye.

Shen Huaijin turned on the fire, boiled the onion and ginger water, poured it into the fish skin and scalded it twice to remove the fishy smell, the fish skin rolled in hot water immediately shrank, and he put all the fish skin into the ice water.

The two skinned big fish were removed from the heads, bones, and tails, and then sliced ​​into fish fillets. Following Shen Huaijin's usual practice, salt, onion, ginger, licorice powder, and starch were added to the pot and then cooked. Pour in the egg whites, pinch the sizing, and marinate.

His movements are very skillful, Shen Huaijin only needs to take a look from the side occasionally, and pick up the fallen sundries, pile them up and save them for the livestock later.

Li steamed the remaining fish, and then stir-fried the fish bones in the pot, but he was still thinking about the glutinous rice soaked on the side, and asked under the sizzling sound: "Jin, is the glutinous rice soaked well?" how's it going?"

Shen Huaijin looked around for a few moments, "Well... it should be almost there, let me take a look."

He put his hand into the bucket, picked up a small handful of glutinous rice, picked a few with his short nails, and felt their softness, "It really works."

Shen Huaijin drained the water, and the remaining glutinous rice was ground into a paste, then poured into gauze to squeeze out the water, and then put them together in a drawer and steamed in a pan.

"Is that all right?" Li Zheng asked casually when he saw the bottom soup of boiled fish fillets.

"It's a very simple method, and what you eat is a taste." Shen Huaijin picked up the used gauze, shook it twice after cleaning, and hung it aside to dry.

At this time, the aroma of the fish soup has filled the surrounding space. Shen Huaijin took a deep breath, his face full of intoxication, he lifted the lid, saw the bubbling, fiery bottom soup in the pot, and praised: "Look!" Wearing well."

"Of course, it doesn't matter who taught it."

Shen Huaijin glanced at him teasingly, and slid the marinated fish slices into the soup one by one, and the fiery color was embedded in the texture of the tender white fish meat.After boiling over high heat until raw, Shen Huaijin immediately took out the whole pot and sprinkled a handful of emerald green scallions on it.

Take another oil pan, add fresh chili and spices to sauté, then pour the hot oil directly on the thick fish fillets, and it's delicious.

The smoke curled up, and as soon as the overbearing spicy smell came out, Shen Huaijin couldn't help swallowing, and carefully moved the large boiling bowl aside.

The steamed fish at the other end can also be cooked out of the pot. The body of the fish is simply cut a few times, and some green onion and ginger are stuffed in to remove the fishy smell. Equally mouth-watering.The way of steaming is to eat the original taste, Shen Huaijin only poured some soy sauce and fish sauce on top, and that was enough.

Excited by the smell, Shen Huaijin looked at the steaming glutinous rice noodles, saw that it was almost done, quickly turned off the heat, took it out, added peach jam into it, put it on the drawer cloth and kneaded it while it was hot, blending the pink flesh with the peach paste. Press and knead the juice evenly.

Under constant pressing and kneading, the crystal clear glutinous rice cake was dyed pink and white, and he flattened and cut it into pieces, and immersed the plate in ice water.

The shredded fish skin that has been completely frozen is taken out and mixed into cold dishes, and served on the small table in the house together with boiled fish, steamed fish and freshly cooked rice.

Shen Huaijin was greedy for a long time, and was finally able to sit down.He first stuffed a piece of oily red fish into his mouth, and the spicy taste hit him all at once. Shen Huaijin couldn't help hissing, feeling his ears were red, "Is it fresh chili pepper?" , it tastes exciting."

Li looked at him with a funny face, saw that his face was blushing, and quickly handed him a cup of peach fruit tea, "Eat slowly."

Shen Huaijin drank more than half of the cup, blinked his wet eyes, felt his back was a little sweaty, and turned his chopsticks to the steamed fish again.

The fish meat is simple and the seasoning is simple, but it perfectly stimulates the freshness and tenderness of the ingredients themselves. Coupled with the hot and sour and crunchy cold fish skin, it is very delicious.

Both of them ate very quickly, and cleared the food on the table in two or three strokes, but Shen Huaijin specially left some crystal cakes for him.

The pastry soaked in ice water for a long time looks more crystal clear, and the fruit grains can be seen in the pink and white.

Shen Huaijin twisted a piece for herself and Li each.

The crystal cake is not too big or too small, and it's just right for one bite.Because it has been iced, it tastes very cool and relieves heat, and the dryness of the whole body after a full meal is completely dissipated.It tastes soft and glutinous but not sticky to the teeth. It is extremely springy, and occasionally you can chew fresh peach flesh particles.

Shen Huaijin ate four pieces in a row, and felt a little struggling before she was willing to stop.Li on the other side was still stuffing mouthfuls one by one, while he propped his chin up, quietly watching the darkness outside the window gradually.

Time flies, and I look forward to the leisurely and carefree days in the future.

The author has something to say: There will be a second watch today.

前些日子实在太忙了，从今天开始实习请假一小段时间，专心来搞我的崽（握拳）！感谢在2021-04-1000:12:20~2021-04-1218:15:32期间为我投出霸王票或灌溉营养液的小天使哦~

Thanks to the little angel of the irrigation nutrient solution: dcm520, today is also green y, 1 bottle of Jingxi;

Thank you very much for your support, I will continue to work hard!