V1.Chapter 8

In the old house, the eldest aunt and second son Yu Song also planned to go out, while Yu Feng stayed at home to take care of his lame father and three-year-old sister.

They brought a basket of sweet potatoes and Chinese cabbage grown in their own fields, and a few wild crucian carp.

After eating the crucian carp that Awan gave yesterday, the family couldn't stop. The brothers brought fishing rods and went to the reservoir in the village to catch five fresh crucian carp. They used one for the little girl to make fish soup, and they planned to sell the rest.

But when Yu Song opened the door, he accidentally found Yu Wan standing at the door.

Yu Wan made some words from Xiao Tie Dan's mouth and knew that there were five members of the uncle's family - the uncle with inconvenient legs, the aunt with a wide heart and a fat body, the diligent Yu brothers, and the little girl who was under three years old.

She had already met Yu Feng, and this young man who was three or five similar to Yu Feng thought it was his younger brother Yu Song.

After all, Yu Song is only three days older than her.

"Second brother."

Yu Wan greeted with a smile.

Yu Song was shocked.

"Who, so early..." The aunt came over with a basket.

"Auntie." Yu Wan called out with a smile.

This time, the eldest aunt was stunned.

This great aunt, she probably hasn't heard it for seven or eight years...

"Is the second brother going out? Who's at home today? I'm going to take my little iron egg to the market. Can I ask my aunt to take care of my mother?"

Her voice was soft, her eyes were clean and clear, and there was a hint of girlish softness in her innocent smile.

The aunt was in a trance for a moment, as if she saw the little dumpling in her arms, she almost subconsciously agreed, but reason pulled her back, and she turned a cold face and was about to say no.

At this moment, a deep voice came from the room: "Don't worry, your aunt will watch over your grandmother for you."

Yu Wan looked in the direction of the back room, said "Thank you uncle, thank you aunt", turned and left the old house.

After the Yu brothers also left, the eldest aunt entered the house with a sullen face, glanced at the crutches beside the bed, and said angrily, "What are you doing to promise her? You forget who made you like this?"

Uncle was silent.

After a long while, he said in a low voice, "I said it before, my leg injury... has nothing to do with Awan."

The aunt slammed the door!

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There were a lot of people going to the market. The Yu brothers walked at the front of the line, and Yu Wan walked beside the ox cart. She had no money, so she used a live wild crucian carp to mix the small iron eggs and her own bucket of fish. Point the location, winter bamboo shoots she carries on her back.

It was the first time for Little Tie Dan to go to the market, and he was so excited that he couldn't sit still.

Before it was dawn, he pointed to the night sky above his head and said, "Sister, look! There are ten stars in the sky!"

He pointed to the villagers before and after and said, "Sister, there are ten of us in total!"

He also pointed to the village that was left behind: "We have walked ten miles!"

Yu Wan regretted taking him out.

In the chattering voice of Little Tie Dan, a faint grayish blue appeared in the sky, and they also arrived at one end of the market.

They were not the first group to arrive. In the center of the market, there were already several hawkers selling dry goods at Zhangluo stalls.

Everyone was busy splitting their lanes and occupying their respective booths.

The market stall fees here are very low. If there is no copper plate, you can exchange it with something. Yu Wan used two winter bamboo shoots to exchange for a good position from the clerk.

On her left is a white radish seller, and on her right is an egg seller. The Yu brothers grabbed the seat closest to the entrance of Lotus Town. When customers came out of the town, they could see their stalls at a glance.

Yu Song noticed that Yu Wan was looking this way, and whispered to her brother, "Did she want to come here?"

Yu Feng said indifferently: "Don't worry about her, go back when it's sold out."

"Yeah!" Yu Song took it seriously, and placed the wooden barrel with four crucian carp in front of the booth.

Yu Wan didn't care about the stalls. What she thought was that the eldest brother and the second brother seemed to have caught fish, should she help them sell it together...

Soon, the first wave of guests in the town came, and Yu Wan couldn't think of anything else and started to do her own thing.

She didn't rush to shout, but first went to the opposite tofu stall with a winter bamboo shoot for a piece of white tofu, and then used two fish from the scallion pancake vendor for a spoonful of oil and a piece of salt the size of a fingernail .

Afterwards, Yu Wan took out the prepared cooking utensils, lit a brazier, and put a small kettle on the shelf.

Taking advantage of the heat of the small kettle, Yu Wan swiftly fished out a live fish from the bucket and cleaned it up neatly with a knife.

Seeing her attitude of killing fish, she really doesn't look like a delicate and soft girl, and the vendors on both sides were shocked.

After the bottom of the kettle was hot, Yu Wan poured oil into it, put the crucian carp in, fry it until golden on both sides, and then mixed in the chopped green onion and ginger slices, the aroma of fried onion oil and fish meat collided violently in the air. stand up.

A passerby looked at Yu Wan.

At this time, the fish was almost fried, and Yu Wan poured a large bowl of water into it.

"Iron egg, add some firewood."

"Eh!"

Little Tie Dan excitedly added two sticks of dry wood to the brazier.

Yu Wan washed a winter bamboo shoot, cut it into pieces, and put it into the fish soup together with the tofu.

The fish soup became thicker and thicker as it was boiled, and at the end, it turned into an attractive milky white color.

Yu Wan then crushed the salt and sprinkled a few grains: "Okay, you can eat it."

The little iron egg sat down obediently.

Yu Wan handed him the wooden bowl and spoon, and he scooped and ate it himself.

The fresh and tender tofu melts in the mouth, mixed with milky white fish soup, and the salty fragrance reveals a hint of sweetness of bamboo shoots. Every bite is extremely satisfying... Everyone just looks at it like this, and they can already imagine that Shares of supreme deliciousness.

"This, this fish soup..." Someone couldn't help but speak.

Yu Wan pretended not to understand what he meant, and said with a smile, "I made it with live fish and winter bamboo shoots. My brother didn't eat breakfast."

When I heard it was a child's breakfast, how could the other party be so embarrassed to try a bowl?

The fish Yu Wan sells are big and lively, and they are all wild. The domestic crucian carp is six coppers per pound. She bids fifteen coppers, and she will not return a cent.

Many people were scared off by this price, but they were all greedy for the food.

What this kid eats...they have never seen something so delicious!

One bite after another, spoonful after spoonful, hula la, even tofu and winter bamboo shoots, go in in one sip!

child! This soup is hot!

"Hu~hu~hu~" The little iron egg used a spoon to get a piece of tender meat on the belly of the fish, blowing it a few times at will, mixed with half a spoonful of milky white soup, and stuffed it into his mouth!

There was a sound of swallowing saliva all around...

Children are the least likely to fake things. You can see if the food is delicious or not.

But an expert shook his head and said, "Just now, this girl's fish soup is wrong. After frying the fish, you can't cook it in cold water. It will lock the taste in the fish meat, and the fish soup will not be delicious."

"Then he still eats so deliciously?" the young man on the side asked, pointing at the little iron egg.

The man said, "It's because the ingredients are good, no matter how you do it, it won't be too bad."

Someone recognized this man as the cook of Baiyulou.

Baiyulou is the largest restaurant in Lianhua Town. The cooks there cook for dignitaries in the capital! If even he said that the ingredients are good, then it is really good!

"I want two!" An aunt said decisively!

Yu Wan chose two, stringed them with a straw rope, and handed them to the other party: "Auntie, live fish and winter bamboo shoots are more delicious. Buying winter bamboo shoots alone costs six coppers per pound. If you buy fish, I will count you five. copper plate."

There are no winter bamboo shoots here. She didn't know what the market was, and she set a price compared to domestic crucian carp.

The aunt hesitated for a while, and didn't seem to think it was very expensive, so she bought it together with winter bamboo shoots.

With the first one to take the lead, the subsequent business will be much easier.

Live fish paired with winter bamboo shoots sold out quickly.

The cook in Baiyulou didn't buy Yu Wan's stuff. In his opinion, these ingredients were fresh, but they couldn't catch his eye.

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Note ①: Kettle, a cooker whose function is similar to that of a pot.