Flowers in full bloom

Chapter 532: Nourishing Yang

However, Hualei always felt uneasy when sleeping, and the slightest noise would wake her up. In addition, Rong Jin always liked to hold her in his arms when sleeping, although he was very satisfied emotionally.

But I was really uncomfortable physically. It was so hot, and I was pressed against a chest that felt like a furnace. How could I sleep well?

Hua Lei also mentioned it to Rong Jin in a tactful way, but Rong Jin looked hurt, so Hua Lei swallowed back the rest of her words involuntarily.

Forget it, let's just sleep in each other's arms. The other person is really considerate. During this journey, knowing that she was tired, he rarely bothered her at night. He should also be considerate of others.

The guard drove the carriage to the farmer's house at the end of the village. There were five thatched houses in total, and a small kitchen and utility room on the side. Compared with other villagers' houses, it seemed to be relatively poor. However, the yard was very large.

There were only a few women and children in the family, including a woman in her fifties named Aunt Song, two daughters-in-law, and five children. The oldest was a boy of about eleven or twelve years old, and the youngest was a thin girl of three or four years old.

After Qingqi asked, he found out that the father and his two sons had all gone to Mobei to earn money.

It turned out that this village was called Songjia Village, which belonged to Leyang Prefecture. The prefecture government recruited people to go to Mobei to help build the prefecture government, providing food and accommodation, and 800 coins per month.

The three of them worked out that they could earn 2,400 coins a month. So, they stopped hunting and let their wife and mother farm the few acres of thin land at home.

Together with some young and middle-aged people in the village, we went to Mobei more than a month ago.

When Aunt Song saw Hua Lei take out a five-liang silver ingot and give it to her, she immediately said that she could vacate a room for her so that she could live with her daughter-in-law, granddaughter and others, and the storage room could also be cleaned up.

Hua Lei looked around the room. Although it was shabby and the walls were covered with peeling dirt, it was very clean and quite large.

Looking at the servants behind him, especially the maids and servants, they all had dark circles under their eyes. Hualei was not pretentious and said that it would be best to have three rooms. One room could be given to the maids and servants, and the grooms could sleep in the utility room.

After settling down, Hualei left the room and saw Sister Hehua and her friends setting up a stove in the yard to cook. The old woman's kitchen was too small and there was no room for them to move around.

A boy of about eleven or twelve years old came over cautiously, carrying a wooden barrel. He placed the barrel in front of Hualei and said that he was giving it to her for free.

Hualei bent down to take a look and squinted her eyes in joy. The dark and dirty wooden barrel was filled with half a bucket of water, in which there were several eels, loaches, and some small fish and shrimps.

This was caught by the boy and his brothers and sisters in the village ditch. In the previous life, Hualei and her friends had done the same thing.

One person took a larger dustpan, placed it in the ditch and pressed it down tightly. Then another person went to the other end, about 20 to 30 feet away, and waded through the water barefoot.

If there are loaches or eels in the ditch, they will be frightened and escape into the semicircular dustpan. The person holding the dustpan will quickly lift it up, and the loaches and eels will be in his pocket.

After arriving here, Hualei seemed to rarely see eels, loaches, etc., so she hadn't eaten the delicious eel soup for a long time.

Hualei took out a bunch of copper coins from her sleeve and gave them to the boy. This was the prize she had just won from Zhenzhu. The boy shook his head and refused, then turned around and walked away quickly.

Hualei handed the wooden barrel to Sister Hehua and the others, and asked Qingqi to wrap two packets of salt and two packets of yellow and white sugar in oil paper and send them over. She also sent a small packet of pine nut candy as a snack for the little kids.

While making the eldest daughter-in-law who was cooking happy, she shouted loudly and urged her son to go to the ditch to catch loaches. She also handed over the cooking to her younger brother and sister-in-law, and took the second brother and sister-in-law, holding a broken fishing net, to the river ahead.

There are eels of different sizes, about eight or nine in total. If you braise the eel carcass, the amount is a bit small. So Hualei decided to make eel carcass soup.

Remove the internal organs of the eel, scrub the surface of the eel with wood ash to remove the mucus, and clean it. Cut the cleaned eel into equal-sized pieces.

Put oil in the pan, first put the chopped ginger, scallion and garlic into the pan and stir-fry until fragrant, then add the eel segments when the ginger turns golden brown.

Stir-fry for a while, then pour in the bacon slices, add cooking wine, and stir-fry together. The eel needs to be stir-fried for a long time after it is put into the pot, so that the ginger slices can better remove the fishy smell, and the soup will also appear milky white.

Then add a small amount of soaked black fungus, continue to stir-fry, pour in appropriate amount of water and pepper to remove the fishy smell, cover the pot and cook for about a quarter of an hour.

When the soup turns milky white, add an appropriate amount of MSG and chopped green onions, and it is ready to be served. Eel carcass soup is nutritious, delicious, fragrant and fresh, and tastes particularly good.

After stewing the eel soup in the pot, Sister Hehua began to cook the loaches. There were quite a lot of loaches, so after Sister Caoya and the others helped to clean them up, they were put into two large ceramic basins.

Loach, known as the ginseng in water, is very nutritious, but it also has a strong earthy smell. Hualei was afraid that Zhenzhu would not be used to it, so she asked Sister Hehua to use a more homely method, braised loach.

To cover up the earthy smell, a little bit of chili was added to enhance the flavor and remove the fishy smell. The finished braised loach not only has no earthy smell, but is also very delicious and goes well with rice.

There are a lot of fish and shrimp, but they are relatively small. The fish are only about the size of an adult's index finger, and the shrimp are even smaller.

Ask Sister Hehua to scrape the scales and gills of the small fish, squeeze out the internal organs, clean them, put them together with the shrimps in a bowl, add sweet potato wine, ginger, onion, a little soy sauce, and spice powder, mix well, and marinate for a quarter of an hour.

Then beat in eggs, chopped green onions, add appropriate amount of flour and water, and stir so that each fish and shrimp is coated with flour paste.

Heat the oil in the pan to 70%, put the small fish and shrimp into the pan, fry until golden brown, take them out, sprinkle some pepper on them, stir a few times, and give them to Rong Jin and Jiang Yunqi as a side dish for drinking.

Of course, a small bowl was also given to the little girl who was standing in the yard, watching eagerly, so that she could take it back and share it with her brothers and sisters.

I cooked a few more vegetables, and everyone enjoyed the delicious dinner. After dinner, we took a walk to digest the food, and then went back to our rooms to rest.

That night, I don’t know if it was because I ate too many eels and loaches, which were too nutritious and aphrodisiac, or because I felt so comfortable sleeping on the kang.

Rong Jin kept moving around with Hua Lei for a very long time, until he had completely released all the desire in his body, then he hugged Hua Lei with satisfaction and fell into a deep sleep.