Golden Fishing Village

After sending the children to school, Ao Muyang went back to process the clearwater fish and prepared to make the dish of iron pot baked fish.

This dish is very common and is a fisherman's home-cooked dish that has been passed down for a long time. In the past, it was a dish for poor people to stew miscellaneous fish in a small iron pot.

But in Ao Muyang's hands, this dish is naturally not that simple. He uses it to make hard dishes.

Since it is a hard dish, it is naturally not easy to make.

This job requires patience. He sat at the door and cut open the belly of the small fish with a knife, squeezed his fingers to remove the internal organs, and then put it in the water to wash it again. A little cooking wine should be poured into the water to remove the fishy smell.

The small fish were cleaned one by one and dried one by one.

After drying, the next step is baking, which is also the origin of the name of the iron pot "baked" fish.

He took the small fish and strung them together with iron wire and hung them at the door, then mixed the peanut shells, melon seed shells, husks, dry orange peels, and sawdust that he had collected earlier, ignited them, and covered them, and began to smoke and bake these small fish.

This method is similar to roasted fish. This Xiangxi side dish was one of ***'s favorite dishes during his lifetime. It was famous in the 1960s and 1970s and was popular among working people all over the country.

However, this dish is quite difficult to make, and small fish and shrimp are suitable for drinking. For the people of that era, it is obviously more important to solve the problem of food and clothing.

So later, the craze for roasted fish gradually subsided.

Ao Muyang learned the method of this dish by coincidence, and then he figured it out by himself and used it to make iron pan roasted fish, and found that it tasted better.

After baking for several hours, the small fish turned into dried fish. Ao Muyang then added peanut oil to the pot, just a little oil, and when the oil was hot, he put the dried fish in and fried it quickly into golden brown.

The general who was rolling in the mud at the door ran over, squatted beside him, twitched his nose, squinted his eyes, drooped his tongue, and drooled.

Ao Muyang smiled and took a piece of chopped chili and rubbed it on its mouth.

The general was too spicy. Dogs habitually lick their lips with their tongues. They like to lick their lips more when stimulated. They will do so even if their mouths are very spicy, because it is a subconscious behavior and they cannot control it.

So the more they licked, the spicier it got. The spicier it got, the more they licked. The general wailed and ran out to roll in the mud again. After rolling around a few times, the spicy taste on his mouth was lighter, which made him like the mud environment more.

Ao Muyang succeeded in the trick and laughed.

After the dried fish was fried, he took it out and started to stir-fry with onions, ginger and garlic. When the fragrance started, he added a handful of peppercorns, Sichuan peppercorns, and star anise to stir-fry.

Later, he added spicy sauce, green and red peppers, etc., and kept stir-frying until the red oil came out. He also added chopped cucumbers to season it, and finally poured clear water to heat it and boil the soup.

The drizzle was falling, and the clear water in the pot was quickly stained with a layer of red oil. With the sound of "gurgling", a spicy aroma came out of the iron pot.

This time the general will not come back.

In the evening, Lu Zhizi led the way in with an umbrella. The sea breeze was blowing and the rain was drizzling. She held a small flower umbrella in her hand. Her sleeves fell down, revealing half of her white arms. The crystal raindrops fell on the umbrella, making a dripping sound and splashing, like big and small pearls falling on a jade plate.

Behind her graceful figure, teachers Ao Zhisheng and Zhu Chunhong and a rough man were talking and laughing.

The rough man was the contractor of the town's engineering team. His name was Sun Fuhua. His family was from Qiantan Town. They were all fellow villagers.

After entering the door, Ao Muyang first put melon seeds, peanuts and snacks on the table. He prepared fruit tea, which was made of fruit juice and green tea. Drinking it in summer makes you feel comfortable.

Lu Zhizi poured tea for the three people, and he went to put the cold dishes on the table first, including salted duck eggs, stir-fried potato shreds, pickled pepper fish skin, stir-fried snails with sauce, scallion oil kelp shreds, and jellyfish heads with Chinese cabbage.

Although the weather is not hot these days, it is the dog days of summer after all, so we still have to eat cold dishes.

In addition, he paired two home-cooked green vegetables, plus spicy fried clams and garlic oysters, two common fishermen's dishes, and finally added an iron pot baked mixed fish as a hard dish, and the dinner was ready.

Ao Muyang offered cigarettes to Sun Fuhua and Ao Zhisheng. Sun Fuhua must have heard of his reputation and was flattered: "Come on, come on, I have a fire, brother Xiaoyang, you are polite, polite."

Ao Zhisheng accepted the cigarette he handed over frankly, and also took his fire, then squinted his eyes and puffed out clouds of smoke.

Next, when the meal started, Ao Muyang said: "Everyone eat this pot of fish first, while it's hot, it's a little spicy, see if you can eat it."

The small fish has been dried and baked crispy. Because no oil is used in this process, the freshness of the small fish is perfectly preserved.

When it is fried later, the small fish is already cooked, so only the surface is oily, and the meat inside is not oily, crispy on the outside and crispy on the inside, fragrant on the outside and fresh on the inside.

In addition, after being stewed in soup, the skin is also covered with pepper oil. The fish has a variety of flavors from the outside to the inside, and the taste is also varied. Several people who eat it are full of praise.

"It's spicy, fresh and fragrant, and the taste is so beautiful." Zhu Chunhong swallowed the fish meat and smiled, "Oh, Yangzi's cooking skills are really good. If a girl marries you in the future, she won't have to worry about food."

Ao Zhisheng is also very satisfied with his students. He squinted his eyes and smiled, "Not only don't worry about food, don't worry about anything in life, Xiaoyang can solve it, absolutely a good boy."

Their words are meant to be said to Lu Zhizi.

Ao Muyang is not stupid. He understands that the two teachers are saying good things to him, but he thinks this is not good. It is equivalent to bullying Lu Zhizi, who is alone.

So he smiled and said, "Cooking a dish is easy. Teacher Zhu's rice is also delicious. I loved eating Teacher Zhu's buns when I was a child."

Sun Fuhua took a sip of wine and said, "Brother Xiaoyang is modest. You can definitely do this. I heard about what happened a few days ago. It is rare to find someone who can make Yang Shuyong lose face. You are the best at making the hooligans in the county obedient."

After a pause, he simply raised his thumb: "I'm not praising you, you are definitely this!"

Ao Muyang laughed. Isn't this praising himself?

Lu Zhizi said in a serious manner: "Then it's my turn to express my opinion? Well, Brother Muyang has many advantages. I will list them one by one?"

Ao Muyang dug a piece of fish scale jelly for her and smiled: "Don't worry, don't worry, eat first, and then praise my advantages after you are full."

Then, he changed the subject lightly: "Brother Sun, I plan to build a small building behind the east village, two or three floors, how much does it cost?"

"It depends on how you want to do it. The minimum is 150,000 and the maximum can be 2 million. It's hard to say." Sun Fuhua chewed the pickled pepper fish skin with a "crunch crunch". The more he chewed, the more delicious it became. With a sip of wine, the taste was even better.

Ao Muyang pondered for a moment and said, "Build it for 500,000 yuan. You can give me a blueprint later and I'll see if it's okay. If it's okay, we can start construction in the next few days."

With delicious food in front of him and business coming in again, Sun Fuhua was very proud: "Hey, no need to wait, I'll call my guy and ask him to get the blueprint tonight, it's a piece of cake..."

In fact, most houses in rural areas don't need blueprints, they just rely on the experience of the engineering team. Anyway, the structure of the house is generally the same, and there are not so many details as in the city.

A simple blueprint was delivered more than an hour later. Ao Muyang licked his chopsticks and added two more dishes. The group discussed around the small building.

Finally, after a good meal and a good drink, the house was roughly settled.