The whole mountain is my hunting ground

There is a famous dish in the Black Province called Demoly Fish Stew. Demoly was once a small local fishing village.

It is said that one year during the war, some victims fled here, and the kind-hearted people in the fishing village fished to help the victims.

After catching a lot of fish, the villagers will throw their home vegetables such as tofu, vermicelli, cabbage, mushrooms, potatoes and so on into the pot to stew with the fish.

Although this is not a delicacy, for the victims, it is like Zhu Yuanzhang's pearl emerald and white jade soup, which they will have endless aftertaste and miss for a lifetime.

Later, as the victims returned home, they mentioned the fish stew they had eaten in Demoli Fishing Village, and the name Moli Fish Stew spread.

It was already evening when Jie Chen brought the fish back, and he couldn't buy soybean tofu, but the Li family happened to have some dry tofu left over from the morning, so Jin Xiaomei cut the dry tofu into finger-wide strips and cooked it when the water in the fish stew pot boiled. Put the dry tofu into it.

In the Northeast, soybean tofu and dry tofu are not delicious, so the tofu shops should close down as soon as possible. This kind of hand-made dry tofu is thick, thin and meaty in texture, and the more it is stewed, the more fragrant it becomes.

When the soup is reduced to less than half, add the vermicelli soaked in hot water and the cabbage hearts that have been scooped out in advance into the pot.

The vermicelli eats the soup. Once the vermicelli is pressed, the soup will be gone faster.

After the fish was stewed, Xu Chunyan and Zhao Ling put the fish and vegetables into the basin and asked Jin Xiaomei if they wanted to save some for Li Ruhai who was making noises in the room. But no matter who asked, the answer they got was "He can starve to death." .

As the stewed fish was served, Wang Meilan also invited the guests. Both Wang Cuihua and Han Dachun's wife had prepared the meals at home, but when Wang Meilan came home to invite her, no one could let her go in vain.

Therefore, the Zhao family's dinner party was even more lively today.

There are two rooms, there are more than ten men in the west room, and there are more than 20 people including girls and children in the east room.

With so many people gathering together, the noise frightened the little lynx into the little black bear's den.

The little black bear has grown rapidly since he opened his eyes. He drank two bowls of malted milk in one meal, and his body expanded rapidly like an inflated balloon.

Nowadays, the little black bear is bigger than the little lynx. The little lynx lets Zhao Hong and the other children hold them in their arms like cats and teach them. They are a bit bullying and afraid of the strong. Seeing that the little black bear is bigger than it, plus Zhao Jun is not Let it bite the little black bear, and gradually they can coexist peacefully.

No wonder the little animals were hiding, the west room of the Zhao family was like a goblin cave at the moment. As Zhao Youcai opened the packs of Shilin smoke, the room was filled with smoke. Coupled with the men talking, laughing and shouting, it was really like the goblins celebrating after catching Tang Monk in "Journey to the West".

At this table, Zhao Jun and Ma Yang were the only ones who didn't drink. They squeezed together next to the door. They were both in the same posture, grabbing a rice bag and chewing on it.

It stands to reason that you should use large lettuce leaves or loose, flat Chinese cabbage leaves to wrap your meals.

But in this year and season, small mountain villages do not have such conditions in winter. The cabbage leaves that can be stored in rice bags are only as big as a palm.

After Zhao Jun finished a rice bag, he took a leaf of cabbage and spread it in his hand. He then used his chopsticks to pick out a chopstick-head of rice from the bowl, which was about as much as a normal bite.

Zhao Jun spread the rice on the cabbage leaves with his chopsticks, then picked up the fish sauce on the head of the chopstick and spread it on the rice.

When this fish sauce was fried, many small fish were broken into pieces, but they couldn't be thinly divided. There were many pieces of fish meat mixed in.

Then, Zhao Jun placed four pieces of fried peanuts in succession and garnished them on the rice with fish sauce.

Immediately afterwards, Zhao Jun picked up the scallions and herbs that had been chopped in advance from the small pot of vegetables and placed them on top.

Finally, just pinch the four corners of the cabbage leaves, open your mouth wide and put the rice bag into your mouth.

When you take a bite and chew it, you can feel the fragrance of cabbage, the fragrance of black soil rice flower, the fragrance of fish sauce, the spiciness and spiciness of green onions and coriander, mixed together, creating a distinct sense of layering.

The more you chew, the more fragrant it becomes. When other flavors fade away, the aroma of fried peanuts spreads in your mouth. When eaten with the remaining rice, a sense of satisfaction arises spontaneously.

With this bite, it doesn't matter what kind of fish or meat it is.

In the east and west rooms of the Zhao family, several families, men, women, old and young, gathered together to enjoy good wine and delicious food.

Yongshengtun, Zhou family.

Zhou Chunming sat cross-legged on the kang, holding the hazel mushrooms in the basin with his chopsticks to eat.

While eating mushrooms and drinking wine, Zhou Chunming secretly glanced at Hu Sanmei sitting next to him.

On the table were chicken stewed with mushrooms and pickled cabbage fried vermicelli, but Hu Sanmei sat there angrily without moving her chopsticks.

"Okay." Zhou Chunming gave Hu Sanmei a piece of chicken leg and said, "Let's eat. Chun'er finally went back and her mother-in-law couldn't bear to leave. Just stay for two more days. Don't take it personally. went."

"Am I angry with my daughter?" Hu Sanmei slapped her hand on the table and shouted loudly.

When she shouted, Zhou Chunming, who was trying to persuade him, was completely confused.

Then I saw Hu Sanmei angrily picking up the chopsticks, and when she was holding the bowl, she said as if to vent her anger: "I raised a useless son, who can I rely on?"

Zhou Chunming was busy at work tomorrow and only stayed at home for one and two nights this week. He didn't know what was going on and just kept picking up food for his wife.

The old couple finally finished the meal. Hu Sanmei put away the dishes and Zhou Chunming put on his cotton-padded jacket and went out to the latrine.

After going to the hut, Zhou Chunming walked to the small shop to buy a pack of cigarettes.

In fact, Zhou Chunming still smokes at home, but he ate late today and because Hu Sanmei was angry, most of the remaining uneaten bowl of rice was given to Zhou Chunming.

Zhou Chunming ate too much and went out for a walk.

By the time he arrived at the small shop in Tunli, it was almost eight o'clock. Usually the family doesn't eat so late, but today in order to wait for Zhou Jianjun and his wife, the old couple waited until after seven o'clock before eating.

The man who opened the small shop in Yongshengtun was named Song, Song Xiaoshan. After getting cigarettes for Zhou Chunming, Song Xiaoshan said with a smile when sending Zhou Chunming out: "Brother Zhou, when you go home, I will close the door too."

As soon as Song Xiaoshan finished speaking, someone shouted: "Is this a store? Don't close the door!"

"Huh?" Zhou and Song looked around. By the moonlight and the door light outside the store, they saw two people pushing bicycles running this way. The front rim of one of them's bicycle was crooked. .

When the two people pushing the cart approached, Zhou Chunming saw that their faces were dark and asked quickly: "Who are you?"

"Master!" Zheng Xuekun shouted with a cry: "We are collecting skins and mountain products."

"Who collects skins?" Zhou Chunming and Boss Song looked at each other, and Song Xiaoshan said in surprise: "What time is it? You can't come here to collect anything?"

Mountain villages are different from cities. Many people are asleep at this time.

"No, no." Zheng Xuekun said, "We are walking through Madan Mountain."

A native of Hebei, he went to the northeast to collect mountain goods and learned the dialect here.

Zhou Chunming and Song Xiaoshan were stunned for a moment, and then heard Zheng Xuekun continue: "Master, we are starving. This is a store, right? Can we give you a whole mouthful of food?"

"Then come in." When Song Xiaoshan greeted the two of them into the house, he turned back to Zhou Chunming and said, "Brother Zhou, would you like to come in and sit for a while?"

Song Xiaoshan kept Zhou Chunming because he was afraid that these two people would cause problems if they came from unknown backgrounds. He and his wife were the only ones in his house, so keeping Zhou Chunming could act as a deterrent to those two people.

Zhou Chunming followed Song Xiaoshan into the house without saying a word.

After entering the house, Zhou Chunming and Song Xiaoshan looked at the father and son devouring rice cakes and couldn't help but think of 1959, 1960 and 1961.

"Slow down, slow down." The woman relented, and Song Xiaoshan's wife refilled the hot water for the two of them.

"Master Song." Zheng Xuekun took a sip from the bowl, swallowed the dry food that was choking in his throat, and then said to Song Xiaoshan, "Please bring me a pack of cigarettes."

Song Xiaoshan, who was behind the counter, heard this and asked hurriedly: "What cigarettes do you want?"

"Ying..." Zheng Xuekun originally wanted to protect Yingchun, but suddenly thought of Zhao Youcai, gritted his teeth and changed his words: "Stone Forest!"

Song Xiaoshan glanced at Zheng Xuekun, reached out and took out the box of stone forest and handed it to Zheng Xuekun.

Although the Zheng family and his son were embarrassed, Zheng Xuekun slapped ten dollars on the counter as soon as he walked in, so Song Xiaoshan was not afraid that he would not pay.

Zheng Xuekun stood up to take the cigarettes, unpacked them and took out two cigarettes and gave them to Zhou Chunming and Song Xiaoshan who were sitting in front of the counter.

Zhou Chunming couldn't talk to Zheng Xuekun just now because he was having sex. Now that he was smoking, Zhou Chunming took the opportunity to ask Zheng Xuekun, "Master, do you hear your accent is from Hebei?"

"Yes, my family is from Qinhuangdao." Zheng Xuekun replied.

Zhou Chunming took a puff of cigarette and asked with a smile: "Do you have any relatives here? You just ran to the village in vain."

"No." Zheng Xuekun said with a grimace: "We wanted to go to Yongfu Village, but got lost in the mountains. When we asked about this village, we found out it was Yongsheng."

"So do you have relatives in Yongfu?" Zhou Chunming asked again.

Although Zhou Chunming has many questions, there is nothing wrong with him asking. When an outsider comes to this village, he must ask what he is doing.

Zheng Xuekun knew and understood this, and he also saw that Zhou Chunming's status was unusual this time, because Song Xiaoshan and his wife had been respecting Zhou Chunming since they entered the house.

"Master, we don't have any relatives in Yongfu." Zheng Xuekun simply told the truth: "But we know someone there named Xu Baoshan."

"Xu Baoshan?" Upon hearing this name, Zhou Chunming lowered his guard a little.

At this time, Song Xiaoshan asked: "Then you two are still going to that village now?"

"I'm not going today, master." Zheng Xuekun apologized and said in a tearful voice: "We have been coming down the mountain from about three o'clock until now. Halfway through, my son slipped and fell, knocking us over in the car we borrowed. broken."

"Oh!" Zhou Chunming sighed softly when he heard this, stood up and said, "Okay, now that you are done eating, come with me."

"Follow you? Master, that will cause trouble for you." Zheng Xuekun was not polite at all. He stood up from the bench and grabbed Zheng Donghai who was still drinking water.

"Come, come." Song Xiaoshan's wife helped the two men wrap up the leftover dry food, handed it into Zheng Donghai's hands and said, "Here, take a bite if you are hungry at night."

Looking at the kind and kind aunt in front of him, Zheng Donghai suddenly thought of his mother who died of illness, and tears burst out of his eyes instantly.

"This child!" Seeing this, Zheng Xuekun couldn't help but feel a little sorry for his son. At the same time, he also felt a little sorry for himself today.

"Okay, don't rub it, come with me." Zhou Chunming took the Zheng family and his son out and walked towards the home of the village leader Qi Shengli in the dark night.

With only his wife at home during the day, Zhou Chunming would definitely not take someone to his home.

When they arrived at Qi Shengli's house, although Qi Shengli didn't sleep, he took off his clothes and got into bed.

Zhou Chunming called Qi Shengli up, and they took the Zheng family and his son back to the Tunbu.

When they arrived at Tunbu, Qi Shengli asked Zheng Xuekun to come to the Zhushanchang Police Station to issue a certificate.

Then, Qi Shengli used the Tunbu phone to call the Zhushanchang police station and asked the officer on duty about the registration records.

After receiving the confirmation, Qi Shengli directed the Zheng family and his son to take out the camp beds and military quilts in the Tunbu area and arrange for them to stay in the Tunbu area.

It was also late today, so no one asked the Zheng family and his son about their experience of the day from beginning to end.

In this way, Zhou Chunming came out of the Tunbu, separated from Qi Shengli and returned home.

At this time, the banquet at Zhao Jun's family also broke up.

Wang Meilan has never been a stingy person. The women finished eating first, so she led someone to chop off the twenty-pound fat head, and then gave each family a piece of fish. Wang Meilan wanted to share the carp and crucian carp that weighed a pound with everyone, but no one wanted them except Ma Dafu.

Ma Dafu had drunk too much, otherwise he wouldn't have asked for it. But when he took a carp and a crucian carp from Wang Meilan, Wang Cuihua, Ma Ling, and Ma Yang all looked at him with a strange look.

After sending away all the guests, the Zhao family returned to peace. Zhao Youcai, Zhou Jianjun, and Zhao Jun were in the west room. When Zhao Jun went out, Zhao Youcai suddenly pulled Zhou Jianjun over.

Zhou Jianjun drank a lot and his head was dizzy. He lay on the kang and kept thinking about it, because he always felt as if he had forgotten something important.

Being pulled by Zhao Youcai, Zhou Jianjun was startled, but saw his old father-in-law take out a handful of money from his pocket and stuff it into his hand.

"Dad!" Zhou Jianjun's eyes briefly became clear, but as soon as he shouted, he was slapped by Zhao Youcai.

Zhao Youcai took the money from Zhou Jianjun's hand and quickly stuffed it into Zhou Jianjun's pocket. Zhao Youcai leaned in front of Zhou Jianjun, then turned around and said, "Don't make any noise, this is one hundred and fifty."

"One hundred and fifty?" Zhou Jianjun hurriedly reached out and took out the money and said, "Dad..."

"Don't make any noise!" Zhao Youcai took the money again, stuffed it into Zhou Jianjun's pocket again, and said: "Yesterday I left you with fifty, and that day you got fifty for buying a dog. It's over, that time...it was you who got the sheep. money……"

Zhao Youcai remembers all these accounts!

"Dad, how much does it cost to buy a sheep?" Zhou Jianjun lowered his voice and said, "Then I don't want it anymore."

"Take it!" Zhao Youcai said, "If there is more, you can buy something for my grandson."

"Dad!" Zhou Jianjun was moved. He went to the small store to buy things twice before, and when Zhao Youcai stopped him from buying, he made excuses for Zhou Zhou. At that time, Zhou Jianjun only thought that Zhao Youcai said that because he was in a hurry to use money. Only then did he realize that he had misunderstood his old father-in-law.

"Okay." Zhao Youcai frowned, pointed at Zhou Jianjun's pocket and said, "You can't tell others that I gave you money."

"Hey." Zhou Jianjun nodded and said, "Dad, I remember it."

Suddenly, Zhou Jianjun, who was slightly awake, remembered that important thing. He looked up at the wall and immediately slapped his thigh.

"What happened?" Zhao Youcai asked.

Zhou Jianjun knew he couldn't go home today, so he said to Zhao Youcai, "Dad, I want to ask you a favor."

"What's going on?" Zhao Youcai asked, and Zhou Jianjun said, "Let Chuner come home with me tomorrow."

"Hi." Zhao Youcai smiled when he heard this and said, "What's this? I'll go tell her. My eldest daughter listens to me the most."

Maybe he drank too much, maybe he suddenly got rich from a poor man, and suddenly had money to burn for him, or maybe because he had the confidence to have money, Zhao Youcai got up and got off the kang.

But after listening to Zhao Youcai's words, Zhou Jianjun subconsciously gave Zhao Youcai a thumbs up.

This was an agreement between Weng and his son-in-law. Zhao Youcai smiled when he saw this and gave Zhou Jianjun a thumbs up.

Just as Weng and son-in-law were enjoying a warm moment, Zhao Youcai heard Wang Meilan say to Zhao Jun in the east room: "Son, I think I can feed the remaining fish. Get up early tomorrow and send a few to your team leader." "

"Team leader? Xu Baoshan?" Zhao Youcai was shocked when he heard this. He remembered that the Zheng family and his son had said that they were going to stay at Xu Baoshan's house.

Thinking of this, Zhao Youcai hurriedly led him to the east room. As he walked, he said, "Isn't that possible?"

"Huh?" Wang Meilan heard this, looked at the door and asked, "What?"

Whether he should say anything or not, Zhao Youcai reacted really quickly and immediately said: "Xu Baoshan will give your son a holiday and let your son prepare his specimens. After that, your son will go to Dongdagou to catch fish."

"That's right." Wang Meilan clicked her eyes, looked at Zhao Jun and said, "Your dad is right."

"Don't say that, dad." Zhao Chun smiled and said, "You didn't drink too much."

"Dad, what kind of drinker do you have?" Zhao Youcai smiled at Zhao Chun. Just as he was about to persuade Zhao Chun to go home, he suddenly remembered the scene where Wang Meilan and Zhao Chun's mother-in-law had an angry fight with him yesterday.

So Zhao Youcai changed his approach and said to Zhao Jun: "Take those fish and send two to your uncle and aunt Zhou tomorrow."