A Farm Girl Traveling Through Time: Raising a Stunning Husband

Chapter 103 Broken Rice Soup, Fried Fish Dinner

The evening meal was simple. While doing laundry in the afternoon, she caught two fish by the river. Although they were not big, they were very fat. She had already processed them and put them in the kitchen.

Shen Wu scalded the stone mortar he had bought with hot water, threw two handfuls of rice into it, and sat in the yard to stir the mortar quickly.

After coaxing his younger brother to sleep and wrapping him up on the bed, Gu Zhou looked at his younger sister who was sleeping soundly on the side and quietly left.

"What is this?" Gu Zhou heard some thumping sounds outside. He came out and saw Jiang Yu smashing something.

"When I was a child, I drank a kind of broken rice porridge. It can be cooked very thick without adding a lot of water. Let me grind it up and try cooking it in the evening." Shen Wu pounded and pressed the broken rice in the mortar hard. He had to get it out early while there was still light outside.

"Are you still going to sell shepherd's purse and tofu tomorrow?" Gu Zhou said as he squatted beside the cattails he had picked in the afternoon.

Shen Wu was stunned for a moment and said: "Let's order shredded bamboo shoots and shepherd's purse together tomorrow. It's not a good idea to just change it."

Thinking of this, Shen Wu asked Gu Zhou again: "Will the uncle sell tofu at night? If it's the same as this morning, then... it might be too rushed."

Gu Zhou stood up and took the things he had packed in the basket, and thought for a while: "Not necessarily. The uncle has just started to sell them again. Sometimes he will make some extra for the villagers to eat. But today I saw that all the things on the truck were sold out. I'm afraid he didn't leave any."

Shen Wu sighed and stopped. The rice grains in the stone mortar had almost been broken into small grains and could not be broken any further. It would be better to eat it with some grains left.

"Then please go again tomorrow morning. We must sell this shepherd's purse tofu. The bamboo shoot season will soon be over, and when they grow into bamboos, they will not taste good anymore."

Gu Zhou put the things in the side room where he used to sleep, and came out: "Okay, I'll get up early tomorrow morning, it won't be too late to blanch the bamboo shoots and roll out the skin first."

"No need to be so early, you can sleep a little longer, I can get up early." Shen Wu took the things to the kitchen and put them on the broken table with a broken leg.

He bent down and blew open the fire stick, then used some dry weeds to light it.

"I'll cook first, and then go dig bamboo shoots later." Shen Wu poked his head out and pushed twigs in with all his strength.

"No need, I've already dug it back." Gu Zhou helped her scoop water in, calculated the amount for several people, and added about the same amount of water.

"Ah? When did you go?" Shen Wu stood up and shook off the hot air on his face.

Gu Zhou closed the wooden lid and put down the bowl of water in his hand: "After you and my sister come back from washing clothes, I will help look after me. I'm going to the back mountain."

"Don't you think you can't go alone?" Shen Wu was stunned for a moment and then asked sternly.

He is still a child, how can he go alone?

Gu Zhou brought a wooden stool over and motioned for her to sit down. He also made a small wooden stool and began to stir the fire to make it burn more vigorously: "You have been there alone too."

Shen Wu was really speechless. How old was she and how old was this little brat? "You are as old as I am! Children can't go into the mountains alone! Don't sneak in in the future! Let me follow! It's too dangerous to go alone!"

Gu Zhou turned around and stared at her without saying anything. His expressionless face made Shen Wu a little nervous: "What...what's wrong?"

"It's okay..., you go kill the fish in the afternoon. I thought it would be better to do it earlier since it's still light. I'll call you next time." Gu Zhou actually wanted to say that he went into the woods alone more often than she did..., and when his mother was sick, she would go into the mountains to find food by herself.

Forget it! forget about it!

Shen Wu stood up and cut the washed ginger into slices.

"Do you want me to help you light another stove?" Gu Zhou saw her cutting ginger and felt that she knew how to use the stove.

"Thank you for your help. I'll cut some ginger and some green onions so I can fry the fish later!" Shen Wu cut the ginger slices and put them aside.

Gu Zhou has been making fire for more than ten years and can light the stove as long as there is fire.

Just as Shen Wu was breaking the onion, fire started coming out of the other stove over there.

"Right away!" She hurried to the stove with green onions, ginger and the cleaned fish.

Fortunately, the stove is wide enough to place the bowl on the edge.

Seeing that the water vapor in the pot had evaporated, Shen walked around Gu Zhou and scooped a piece of lard with a spoon and put it in the pot.

Because there was still oil on the spoon, she used the spoon to lubricate the pot, and when the oil was hot and smoke started to rise, she was ready to put the fish in.

"Step back a little, be careful of oil splashing."

Gu Zhou obediently stepped back.

Shen Wu hurriedly picked up the fish's tail and slid it into the pot along the edge. As soon as the fish went in, a huge sizzling sound came from the pot.

Because he couldn't dodge in time, Shen Wu was hit by the splashing hot oil, and he grimaced for a moment.

She didn't bother to knead it, and quickly put the other fish in, and then quickly moved away.

Just grab a spatula...

Shen Wu thought so, and Gu Zhou silently took a few steps forward. The pot was about to boil, and he had to watch it.

Holding the pot spoon, Shen Wu picked up the chopsticks and felt that it was almost done, so he wanted to turn the fish over.

It wasn't that she was impatient, it was mainly because the firewood heated up very quickly and she was afraid that if she was slow it would get burnt.

Shen Wu picked up a corner with chopsticks and found that it was not yet burnt, so he put the chopsticks down silently.

The pot over there was also boiling. She put down the kitchen utensils in her hands, quickly opened the lid and sprinkled the chopped rice into the pot.

"How should this be cooked?" Gu Zhou had never eaten anything like this before, so naturally he asked her.

"Well... yes, it just needs to be very thick. It's okay, just ignore the fire, let it boil slowly."

After hearing what Gu Zhou said, he no longer cared about the fire and just followed her to watch.

Shen Wu thought it was almost done this time, and quickly turned the fish over with a spoon and chopsticks.

Fortunately, the pan was non-stick and had some oil in it, so I flipped the fish over easily.

The turned side was a perfect brown color, and the melted fish meat was curled up due to the high temperature, revealing the tender white fish meat inside.

"Hey! Put some more water in the pot. I remembered the format!" Shen Wu just spoke and Gu Zhou asked for a bowl of water.

Only after he finished did he ask why.

"I once put most of the rice soup directly into the pan for frying fish to save time. The fish came out very tender and soft. Let's try it!"

When the fish was almost fried, Shen Wu put some rice soup that had been boiling for a long time into the fish. As the fish was poured in spoonfully, it made a sizzling sound, which then turned into a gurgling sound.

As soon as she put the fish in, she quickly covered the lid and let the fish and porridge stew together.

Shen Wu gathered the picked green onions and ginger to the side of the bowl. He planned to use this bowl to hold the fish bones after eating. He would also take them out and find a place to put them so that he could use them as fertilizer in the field tomorrow afternoon.

"This is the first time I've seen fish cooked this way!" Gu Zhou looked at the steaming pot curiously.

“Well, I think I’m the only one who eats like this.”

The firewood-cooked rice cooked quickly, and after a while the fish meat was obviously separated from the stew.

Shen Wu opened the porridge pot again. The broken rice in it had been boiled until it was almost sticky together with the soup.

"Okay, turn off the fire. Leave it alone and don't rush to eat."

Shen Wu asked Gu Zhou to put the dishes and chopsticks on the table first, and she went to the kitchen to clean the bowl that had previously held the raw fish with wood ash.

Shen Wu asked Gu Zhou to put the dishes and chopsticks on the table first, and she went to the kitchen to clean the bowl that had previously held the raw fish with wood ash.

"Xiaowei! Xiaowei, wake up and eat!" Gu Zhou woke up his younger sister and asked her to get out of bed slowly.

"Don't let me sleep any longer, otherwise I will definitely not sleep at night." Shen Wu had just brought the fish over and heard Gu Zhou calling Gu Wei, so he spoke quickly.

"Okay!" Gu Zhou responded from inside and quickly woke up his younger brother.

The child usually doesn’t go to bed so early. He opens his eyes and starts to make noises as soon as he is called.

Xiaowei went out and took a look, and shouted happily: "It's the fish caught in the afternoon!"

"Go wash your hands!" Shen Wu brought over a basin full of porridge and asked the excited child to wash his hands.