It was still early, before it was time to cook, Zhong Ziqi greeted Zhao Zhengan: "Let's go to the mountain and put the chicken away."
Zhao Zhengan immediately obediently put the chick on the chair, and happily followed his wife out.
Zhong Ziqi wanted to go up the mountain and cut some branches to fix the fence for raising chickens, so as not to be too busy one day to forget. The branches in the mountains were not easy to cut due to the dampness. Zhong Ziqi tried a few times, but her hand was so painful that it was finally picked up by Zhao Zhengan, who loved his wife dearly.
Looking at someone who is so majestic, Zhong Ziqi comforted herself, she is a little brother's body, it's normal to have no strength, as long as we have a man's heart, that's enough.
Zhong Ziqi didn't want Zhao Zhengan to work too hard, so she simply went around the surrounding trees and began to pick up branches, but the speed slowed down after picking up, Zhong Ziqi's attention was attracted by the fruit trees all over the mountain, and the ripe fruits were scattered everywhere. From time to time, birds landed there to take a bite.
Zhong Ziqi is very jealous of the resources in the mountains, if they are used well, they will be a waste of money. So what can fruit do
1. It can be used as canned fruit.
2. Make dried fruit or jam.
The third is wine making.
The first two Zhong Ziqis are not optimistic. The market is too small. It’s okay to make snacks and earn a small amount of money in your spare time. If you want to make a lot of money, the latter is more reliable. There is no fruit wine in Daze Country. They are all high-strength liquors. The lowest alcohol is rice wine. So Zhong Ziqi is still more optimistic about this market.
It's just that this wine is not a short-term job, it takes at least one month from brewing to maturity, not to mention that if you want to make the wine more mellow, it will take a longer time, so he still has to think of another job in the middle interval.
The two got enough branches, and each carried a large bundle and walked home with difficulty. Before it is dark, quickly surround the fence. Considering that the chickens will grow up in the future, the fence should be wider and higher to prevent the chickens from flying out.
After finishing the work in a hurry, the sun had already set, and the sky turned from bright to gray.
"Okay, you go to rest, are you hungry? I'll cook." Zhong Ziqi wiped the sweat from his forehead and let Zhao Zhengan go to rest.
Zhao Zhengan also wiped the sweat off his face, and obediently went to rest.
Zhong Ziqi went into the kitchen to wash his face before starting to make dinner. Today he bought a crucian carp in the town. It seems that he has never eaten fish since he came here, because he is not keen on seafood and such things. If he hadn't met today, he might have forgotten like this forever.
After filling the basin with water, Zhong Ziqizai washed the fish carefully. What he hates most about making fish is to scrape the scales and clean up the internal organs inside. The uncle in the house packed it up.
Wash the fish, cut a few times on both sides with a knife and set aside, wash the onion, ginger and red pepper and cut into shreds.
Put firewood in the stove and light it.
Pour a tablespoon of oil into the pan and heat it up. Fry the crucian carp in the pan until both sides are golden brown. Serve it out.
Add another spoonful of oil to the pan, sauté shallots, ginger, garlic, and red pepper. Then add two tablespoons of bone broth, refined salt, sugar, pepper rice, soy sauce, rice vinegar, and rice wine to boil, add water starch and rice and mix thoroughly. The last step is to take out the pot and pour the juice on the fish. A plate of hot and sour fish is ready. .
There is still a lot of rice left in the morning, so I put it in the pot while it is hot and stuffy, and it is good to eat it cold when the weather is hot or cold.
Taking advantage of this moment, Zhong Ziqi tripped over a cucumber and a persimmon mixed with sugar. The business of cold noodles could no longer be done, and there were only vegetables left over. It happened that his family had no food, and he didn't want to go to Wang Cuihua's house to pick it up, so he stayed at home to eat.
When the meal was served, Zhao Zhengan obviously had a special liking for hot and sour fish. Fish is more expensive than meat. Although Qingshui Town is close to water and has a lot of seafood, the price is still high. This fish is not expensive. Money can't buy it. Ordinary people will not be willing to spend money to buy a fish, and the fish is not easy to cook. Most people can’t taste it, so they give up. It’s better to buy two catties of meat, and if there is a river on the mountain, They can fish if they want to eat.
The Zhao family probably eats fish no more than three times a year. Zhao Zhengan doesn't say before, he just said that he will not be able to eat enough after he is stupid, and it is even more difficult to eat a piece of meat, let alone fish. I love to eat.
Seeing this, Zhong Ziqi had to think about buying one every now and then to satisfy his cravings, but this picky eater was something he couldn't get used to. Since the family often ate meat, Zhong Ziqi found that Zhao Zhengan only picked meat and ignored vegetarian dishes. He had no choice but to supervise him. Eating meat alone is not nutritionally balanced.
Picking up a chopstick of cucumber for Zhao Zhengan, Zhong Ziqi warned: "Be careful, don't get stuck."
"Yeah." Zhao Zhengan nodded indiscriminately.
In Fengyang City, in a luxurious big house, a thin, gray-haired man sent a middle-aged man out respectfully. Then he returned to the room with a gloomy face, and swept all the steaming teacups on the table to the ground.
The foot that stepped in from the door paused, and then a long and slightly seductive brother came in with a smile: "Master, who is it that made you so angry?"
The man who was always attentive in the past didn't come over this time, but looked at him with a gloomy face: "Tell your brother, restrain yourself, or you won't know how you died. Don't give me some color and start a dyeing workshop. What! Don't come to me if anything happens."
The seductive brother's face froze, and a trace of fear flashed through his eyes.
The man didn't bother to talk to him. He turned a blind eye to what his little aunt usually did. It was rumored that he liked this aunt very much. He sneered, if it wasn't for his good-looking face, he would have already He gave up, because he had always felt self-aware, but now it seems like a vase, but that brother from the Zhang family is quite nice, gentle, lovable, and understanding, and he will pick a good day to bring him back quickly.
The next day, Zhong Ziqi packed the two recipes written by Tanhei last night, and went into town with Zhao Zhengan. Jin Sheng had already been waiting for a long time, and it was still yesterday's private room. Zhong Ziqi didn't talk nonsense, and took out the two recipes and pushed them to Jin Sheng.
A three-cup chicken, a crispy crab claw, the following dish was written by Zhong Ziqi based on the restaurant's situation, half of the restaurant's food is seafood, and he wrote a seafood founder that is just right.
Seeing that shopkeeper Jin was watching carefully, Zhong Ziqi was still a little nervous. He didn't know what dishes were in the restaurant, so he didn't know if he had rewritten.
"Qin Zi!" Shopkeeper Jin shouted.
After a while, the shop waiter opened the door and came in: "The shopkeeper."
"Give these two recipes to the chef and let them make them." The waiter took the recipes and went out.
Zhong Ziqi knew that this was a food inspection, so he smiled: "I don't know if I have overwritten it."
Shopkeeper Jin shook his head: "Brother Qi is smart, I have never seen this prescription before."
"It's all my own foolishness." Zhong Ziqi smiled embarrassedly.
"By the way, I've already taken care of Changshun's affairs. I believe that as long as he's not out of his mind, he won't bother you again." Jin Sheng said.
"Really? Thank you so much, Shopkeeper Jin." Zhong Ziqi said in surprise. She didn't expect the efficiency to be quite fast. Sure enough, the rumors were true.
The two sat in the room listening to the noise outside, chatting back and forth. As time passed by, there was a sudden knock on the door of the room.
"Come in." It was still the shop waiter named Qin Zi who pushed the door and entered. At this time, there were two steaming dishes on the tray in his hand, full of aroma, and he smelled it as soon as he entered the door.
Jin Sheng picked up the chopsticks and tasted one by one, and couldn't help giving a thumbs up.
Zhong Ziqi was very calm, and he handed Zhao Zhengan a pair of chopsticks, indicating that he could eat. He also tasted it himself, and said for a long time: "The chef in the expensive restaurant is very good, I didn't expect to make it so delicious for the first time."
Shopkeeper Jin smiled triumphantly, his cook is not comparable to this small place, he is from the same family.
Zhong Ziqi and Zhao Zhengan had a meal in a restaurant and took twelve taels of silver with them. Before leaving, shopkeeper Jin told them that they could come to him again if they had any good things, and he would not treat him badly.