Pig Killer

"Oh!" Li Nu gestured with his hands and said confidently, "It doesn't look too difficult."

"Seeing and knowing are two different things." Shen Hui'e looked at her warmly with her jade-like eyes and said, "You will know when you are older and try it."

"Not now?" Li Nu said with shining eyes, eager to try.

"No!" Shen Hui'e refused flatly, "You are still young, this knife is very sharp! You will cut yourself." After thinking for a while, she said, "I will make you a small knife later. This big knife is too big and heavy for you."

Shen Hui'e smiled and said, "Little fool, are you afraid that you won't have the opportunity to work? I'm afraid there will be endless work in the future. I'm afraid that you won't want to work by then!"

"Don't be afraid, don't be afraid." The raccoon slave looked at her with innocent eyes and said, "How can I not want to do it if I like it!"

Shen Hui'e raised her eyebrows and looked at her silly girl and said, "I hope you will still say that when the time comes." She carried the slaughtered fish into the house, put it on the chopping board and began to pull out the fishy line.

"What is this?" asked the raccoon, looking at her curiously.

Shen Hui'e explained the fish smell line and then removed the fish bones completely.

"Wow..." The brother and sister looked at their mother in amazement.

"You've never done this before?" Da Chong asked her with pure eyes, just out of curiosity.

"When your father was around, we had plenty of meat." Shen Hui'e removed the fish head and tail, "We don't need to eat fish, it's very troublesome." Then she picked at the fish meat and said, "You see, I'm mainly removing the main bones. Look at the small bones in the fish meat." She pulled out the small fish bones and showed them, "Did you see it?"

"I see, I see." Li Nu nodded heavily, looking at her with bright eyes full of little stars.

"In the past, when we ate fish, at the end, wouldn't all that's left be the fish head with the bones attached?" Shen Hui'e touched the fish meat and picked out as many small fish bones as she could.

"Yes, yes, yes!" the big tiger said after hearing it.

"So! Knowing the general appearance of fish bones, you can cut them out directly." Shen Hui'e slightly raised her eyebrows, smiled at them with her bright eyes.

"Mother just said that practice makes perfect, but I've never seen you kill a fish." The big tiger looked at her with his innocent eyes and asked.

These two little brats are really digging deep into the matter.

Shen Hui'e thought for a moment and looked at them seriously and said, "I am thinking with my brain! I have been practicing in my mind and in my dreams. Now I am just putting it into practice." She smiled and said, "I am thinking about how to eat and how to feed us all every day."

"I dream of eating delicious food, but I don't know what to eat?" The raccoon slave looked at her foolishly with his watery eyes.

"Hehe..." Shen Hui'e laughed softly as she lowered her head to process another fish. "You'll be able to dream about it when you've eaten more."

"Really?" asked the raccoon in disbelief.

"What you think about during the day, you dream about at night!" After Shen Hui'e processed the two big grass carps, she began to mince the meat.

"Mother, what should we do with this fish head? Throw it away?" asked the big insect, looking at the big fish head.

"No, no, no! Let's make soup with the fish head." Shen Hui'e said immediately after hearing this, "We can't waste it. We can eat the yellow ear as well!"

"Yes!" Da Chong turned his head to look outside the door and heard Huang Er's whimpering voice, "Mother, can you let Huang Er in?"

"Come in!" Shen Hui'e smiled and said, "Watch it and don't flutter around."

"I know, I know, Huang Er is very well behaved!" The big tiger ran to the door, opened it, and let Huang Er in.

Huang Er came in, staring at the chopping board with his black eyes, his tongue hanging out, with a greedy look on his face.

"Just lie down obediently. When it's done, you'll be indispensable." Shen Hui'e said to Huang Er with her eyes like black jade.

As soon as he finished speaking, Huang Er lay on the ground, very well-behaved.

Shen Hui'e chopped the fish meat into meat paste.

"Chop it up like this, and the fish bones will be chopped up as well." The big tiger chuckled.

"It's safe to eat fish this way, and you won't get pricked." Shen Hui'e looked at them with her jade-like eyes and said, she found the Sichuan peppercorns, washed them, and placed them next to the stove to dry.

When I saw the salt in the clay jar, my temples started throbbing. The salt was coarse and black, really coarse and black.

It looks unappetizing, but people have to eat salt, otherwise they will have no strength. At this time, salt is medicine!

Hurry up and find a way to at least filter out the impurities from the salt to make it cleaner.

Shen Hui'e ground the coarse salt into powder with a small rolling pin, sprinkled it on the white meat paste, and stirred it evenly in a clockwise direction with chopsticks.

Prepare the dried Sichuan peppercorns, crush them with a small rolling pin, and sprinkle them on the minced meat.

Unfortunately, these are the only seasonings that the natives remember. Star anise, fennel, amomum, nutmeg, cinnamon, cloves... none of them.

Not to mention the difficulty of transportation in that era, many spices were produced in the south, and it is not known whether they were incorporated into the territory.

"The meat paste has turned black." The cat slave said regretfully, it didn't look as good as before.

"This will remove the fishy smell." Shen Hui'e looked up at her and said in a soft voice, "It will taste much better." She thought about the dried ginger hanging on the door, picked a few slices, washed them, chopped them into small pieces, and prepared the stuffing.

"Is the water boiled?" Shen Hui'e looked up at the couch and saw the earthenware jar emitting white smoke.

"It's open, it's open." the big insect shouted happily.

"Then let's start making fish balls." Shen Hui'e sat down beside the couch holding a clay basin. She held the meat paste that was sticking out of her fist. She picked up the round meat balls and put them into the clay pot.

The speed was getting faster and faster, and in the blink of an eye the fish ball floated on the earthen jar.

Shen Hui'e was afraid that the fish balls would fall apart and turn into meat soup.

As a result, we were lucky enough that they didn't fall apart and were all formed.

"When will it be cooked?" Li Nu lowered his head and looked at the fish balls in the earthenware jar bobbing up and down with the water.

"Bring the bowls, chopsticks and wooden spoons. We need to try it." Shen Hui'e looked up at the table and said.

"I'll do it, I'll do it." The big tiger turned around and ran away. When he came back, he was holding a bowl, chopsticks and a wooden spoon in his hands and placed them on the small wooden table on the couch.

"Can you scoop it out yourself?" Shen Hui'e asked the big insect with her gentle eyes.

"Yes!" Da Chong took a wooden spoon and scooped out a fish ball and put it in a coarse earthenware bowl and placed it on the wooden table.

"Cat slave, go taste it and see if it's cooked." The big insect tapped the cat slave with his chin and reminded him, "Be careful of the heat."

Li Nu sat cross-legged in front of the small wooden table, picked up a fish ball with chopsticks and took a bite, puffing his lips, "Good, good."

"Let me let you taste it and see if it's cooked." Shen Hui'e smiled amusedly at the raccoon with puffed cheeks.

Li Nu swallowed the fish ball in his mouth and said, "It's delicious."

"Is it cooked?" Shen Hui'e shook her head and laughed when she heard that.