Chapter 26 Seafood Dinner

After everyone went out.

Li Duoyu found several comic books in the house to kill time, including "The Sword of Blood and Jade" and "Seven Swordsmen from Tianshan".

In this era, many young people have a martial arts dream of traveling the world with swords, and they all want to venture into the outside world.

I remember that at that time, although he also loved to read Jin Yong's comic books, he liked Liang Yusheng's "The White-haired Witch" more.

When Li Duoyu was reading comic books.

Li Haoran also squatted aside and took a copy of "The Return of the Condor Heroes" to read. When he saw the excitement, he anxiously asked his uncle:

"Uncle, where is the next one?"

"If there is, it's here. If not, it should have been taken away by Agui and others."

"Ah, uncle, have you read what happened to the woman in the ancient tomb after Ouyang Feng acupunctured her."

Hearing this, Li Duoyu's mouth twitched, and he finally remembered why he hated Jin Yong.

As long as Li Duoyu was willing, he could even tell the whole story to Li Haoran.

But telling stories is easy to dry up.

Just think about it.

Li Duoyu lay in the rocking chair, continuing to enjoy the leisurely afternoon.

In this era, the wind is light, the clouds are slow, and everything is leisurely, as if nothing is so urgent.

Unlike the later generations.

Either on the way to roll others, or on the way to be rolled by others.

The housing prices are still so high, the competition is so fierce, and raising children is very expensive. Unlike today's students, there is almost no homework pressure. When they are on vacation, they are really on vacation.

Li Duoyu remembered that when he came back from the island country, he went to the city with Zhou Xiaoying to help his son and daughter-in-law take care of the children.

It's not this cram school all day.

It's that cram school.

After making up for the class content, you have to sign up for swimming and basketball classes.

His daughter-in-law almost spent most of the life savings of two generations for the school district house, saying that everything is for the good of the children.

But everyone's face is exhausted.

They are all exhausted.

To put it bluntly, the days are going backwards. During the planned economy, although the material was not as abundant as it is now, at least there was light in everyone's eyes and faith in their hearts.

It was during that time that Xiaoying found that she was unwell, but it was too late. Li Duoyu accompanied her back to Dandan Island and spent the last days of her life there.

Now that I'm back.

Li Duoyu just wanted time to go slower and spend more time with her family.

Around two o'clock in the afternoon.

Zhou Xiaoying woke up from her nap, wiped her face, sat by the window, and began to prepare for next week's class.

After reading the comic book, Li Haoran was depressed for a while, but he was instantly full of blood when he smelled the fragrance from the iron pot.

He kept guarding the iron pot and secretly opened the lid from time to time, but he didn't dare to eat secretly.

It was steamed for almost three hours.

Li Duoyu checked the chicken soup. The moment he opened the lid, the meat aroma came to his nose, and the soup was golden and clear, very delicious.

I don't know if it's an illusion.

Li Duoyu felt that the chickens of this era seemed to be much more fragrant than those of later generations. Just smelling them made him very hungry, and he wanted to eat two bowls of rice.

Li Duoyu took the meat out of the pot.

He planned to make hand-shredded chicken with garlic and soy sauce later, which would be very delicious.

The pork was used to make meat floss.

It could be eaten for Zhou Xiaoying's breakfast.

After making the chicken soup, Li Duoyu boiled another pot of water and placed the wooden rack used for water separation in the iron pot.

He grabbed a swimming crab.

He held down its back and pointed the bamboo chopsticks at the bubbling crab's mouth.

He slipped in when it wasn't paying attention.

The swimming crab resisted violently at first and wanted to clamp him with its claws, but Li Duoyu didn't give it a chance and thrust it twice quickly.

The swimming crab stiffened on the spot.

Then the eight crab legs softened and fell there limply.

If the crab was not killed and steamed,

In the end, you will only get a crab shell and a pile of crab legs. For female crabs like this, the "yellow" will also flow away from the broken legs, which greatly reduces the taste of the crab.

More than two kilograms of crabs are all dead.

Li Duoyu sorted the crabs and piled them on one end of the iron pot water-proof rack. Although the best ingredients only require the simplest cooking methods.

But there are still tricks to eating seafood.

Just like shabu-shabu beef, the steaming time of each seafood is different. Swimming crabs need to be steamed longer so that the "yellow" inside will be cooked.

Small seafood such as clams and pen holders are not suitable for steaming for too long. If they are steamed for too long, the moisture in the meat will be lost, and the taste will be very dry when bitten.

After steaming for more than ten minutes.

Li Duoyu put the pen holders and clams on the other side of the water-proof wooden rack and filled the seven-print iron pot.

When Li Duoyu finished doing all this.

It was already dark outside, and there were clanging sounds in the yard. It was obvious that Dad and Mom had returned.

But Li Duoyu never expected that Old Li, who usually wore several holes in his Liberation shoes but was reluctant to replace them, would buy two bottles of Danfeng Kaoliang Liquor for the first time.

This stuff is not as expensive as Maotai.

But it is not cheap either.

One bottle can be exchanged for a pound of pork. The money earned from helping the boss to extort oysters for an afternoon was probably spent on these two bottles of wine.

When Old Li returned home, he was covered in mud, so he took off his clothes in the yard and went to the well to take a shower in his shorts.

Chen Huiying said with a smile:

"Duoyu, your dad is in a good mood today and just bought two bottles of wine. You and he can have a good drink tonight."

Li Duoyu didn't understand what his mother meant.

Lao Li is a very tough-talking person, and he obviously wants to have a seafood dinner together, but he just can't bring himself to open his mouth. I guess buying wine is a trick that my mother-in-law made.

"Okay, let's have a few drinks with Dad tonight."

Wait until meal time.

Li Duoyu felt that the kitchen was too small, so he simply moved out the Eight Immortals table for worship and placed it in the courtyard.

Then, a large iron basin was filled with fish balls, crabs, pen holders, and clams, filling the Eight Immortals table.

Fish balls are the main dish tonight.

And these seafood are dishes.

As dusk fell, the lights in the courtyard were turned on, and many moths flew around the lights. Lao Li and Chen Huiying also took a bath and changed into clean clothes.

Little Fatty is the most positive.

He had already been sitting on the Eight Immortals table.

Chen Huiying placed a bottle of sorghum wine on the Eight Immortals table, while Zhou Xiaoying also came out of the bedroom and stood at the Eight Immortals table, waiting for her father and mother to sit down first.

Just at this time.

The second brother and the second sister-in-law also came back and saw an Eight Immortals table set up in the courtyard, which was full of seafood. They both thought it was Li Duoyu celebrating the report.

The second sister-in-law, Zhu Xiuhua, looked at the pot of fish balls but felt very unconvinced.

It was obviously my uncle who helped me, and he made it look like he was very capable.

Zhu Xiuhua wanted to say a few words.

Unexpectedly, the chubby little guy in the family grinned at her and said, "Mom, the fish balls made by my uncle today are super delicious. Do you want to eat them together?"

Seeing that Li Haoran was drooling, Zhu Xiuhua took back all the words that came to her mouth.

"No need, I've already eaten at my employer's place."

After saying that, he returned to his home and closed the door.

Li Yaoguo, the second eldest son who came back with Zhu Xiuhua, didn't know that his boss didn't provide food at all. He lowered his head and sighed.

Looks like I have to cook for myself again tonight.

At this moment, Chen Huiying stopped him.

"Xiuhua is already full. If you still want to eat, would you like to come over and have a drink together?"

"No need." Li Yaoguo hadn't even finished speaking.

Lao Li snorted coldly: "Your nagging character is just like that of a woman, who comes over to eat without cooking."

Seeing his father, who hadn't spoken to him for a long time, suddenly scolded him.

Li Yaoguo's eyes suddenly lit up, and after looking at Li Duoyu who was smiling all over his face, he bravely sat down next to his son.