After the separation, I took my whole family to eat delicious food and drink spicy

"Mom, do we have sauerkraut at home? I just forgot to buy some in town." Li Xiaoxiao asked Bai.

"We don't have any of this at home. Your Aunt Chen sent some over this morning, saying she wanted us to try it. Why are you asking? If you like it, I'll ask Aunt Chen for some mustard seeds this afternoon to plant them, and we'll pickle some at the end of the year."

"Mom, this is good. I like to eat sauerkraut. I will cook a sauerkraut fish with sauerkraut for you to try at noon. Mom, please help me kill the fish first and then cut it into pieces when I come back. I will go to the vegetable garden to pick some vegetables first." After saying that, Li Xiaoxiao took the basket and left.

Li Xiaoxiao picked a large bunch of green and red peppers. Now the peppers are hanging all over the branches. It is estimated that one or two kilograms of peppers can be picked from a pepper tree.

Afterwards, Li Xiaoxiao picked some vegetables, beans and tomatoes, and pulled some garlic sprouts and green onions and put them in the basket. Li Xiaoxiao felt particularly happy when she looked at the garden full of vegetables.

Carrying the vegetable basket back home, Li Xiaoxiao saw that Bai had already processed the fish. She chopped off the fish head, marinated it with onion, ginger, garlic and salt, cut the fish into slices, beat an egg, added a little egg white and stirred it evenly, so that the fish slices would taste more tender and smooth.

Li Xiaoxiao then chopped the cleaned green and red peppers and minced garlic together, put them in a bowl and set them aside. Then she washed and chopped the pickled cabbage, and minced the green onions, ginger and garlic.

Li Xiaoxiao first heats the pan, pours in a proper amount of oil, adds chopped green onion, ginger, garlic, and chili peppers, and stir-fries until fragrant. Then, add the pickled cabbage and stir-fry for a few times. Then, add a proper amount of water, add the fish bones and bring to a boil. Then, add the fish fillets and cook until they change color. Finally, add salt to taste. A delicious pickled fish dish is ready.

Li Xiaoxiao put the fish head in the pot and steamed it for about five minutes. Then she took the fish head out and poured out the water in the plate. She spread chopped green and red peppers on it and steamed it for another five minutes. After taking it out of the pot, she poured hot oil on it. The chopped pepper fish head was ready.

Li Xiaoxiao used the remaining oil in the pot to stir-fry some vegetables and prepared to eat. Li Fang, who was burning the fire next to her, looked at the pickled fish and chopped pepper fish head made by Li Xiaoxiao and couldn't help swallowing his saliva, "Sister, this fish looks delicious."

"Of course, you'll know when you try it." Li Xiaoxiao said with a smile.

Li Xiaoxiao brought the dishes to the table, and the family sat around and started eating. "Mmm, delicious! This pickled fish is so fresh and tasty!" Mrs. Bai praised it highly.

"Yes, sister, your cooking skills are getting better and better!" Li Linlin also praised generously.

Li Fang also gave Li Xiaoxiao a thumbs up, but his mouth was now full of food, and he looked so cute as he wanted to speak but couldn't, which made the whole family laugh.

Li Xiaoxiao felt happy after hearing what her family said. In her previous life, she liked to study all kinds of food. She didn't expect that after coming here, she would have the opportunity to cook delicious food for her family. It was a happy thing to think about it.

Although all her relatives were extremely unreliable, fortunately they had already separated, and she still had her loving mother and younger brothers and sisters by her side. Li Xiaoxiao felt that God had been kind to her.

As he was thinking, Li Xiaoxiao also started to eat attentively. Now that the family conditions were much better, they basically had white rice every day. Thinking about the black-faced steamed buns and other things he had eaten before, Li Xiaoxiao didn't want to eat them anymore. It seemed that he still had to make more money.

After dinner, Li Xiaoxiao and Bai washed the dishes together. Bai then went to Aunt Chen's house and said she wanted to get some mustard seeds for planting.

Li Xiaoxiao took a machete and a backpack and prepared to go up the mountain to collect some firewood. It was said that the winter here was extremely cold. If more firewood was not prepared now, the winter would be very difficult to endure. So now whenever Li Xiaoxiao had time, he would go to the mountain to collect firewood. Now their yard was filled with firewood half a wall high.

When Li Fang and Li Linlin saw Li Xiaoxiao was going up the mountain, they also said they wanted to go with her. Li Xiaoxiao also followed them and could help if she went.

The three of them arrived at the mountain. The outer edge of the mountain had been almost fully picked up, and the villagers were basically picking up firewood here. Li Xiaoxiao took Li Fang and the other two to the other side of the mountain. Because the vegetation there was more lush, few people in the village came here to pick firewood. Li Xiaoxiao also wanted to try his luck.

She picked up a stick and started beating and banging, gathering the dry branches together. Li Fang and Li Linlin also helped, and soon they had collected most of the basket.

Suddenly, Li Fang shouted, "Sister, sister, come and see what this is, there are so many."

Li Xiaoxiao thought something had happened to Li Fang, so she quickly put down the firewood in her hand and ran over. Li Linlin followed her and when they got to Li Fang, Li Fang pointed at a tree and said, "Sister, look at that tree. There are so many fruits, some of them are still red."

Li Xiaoxiao looked in the direction Li Fang pointed, "Hey, isn't this a red date tree?"

Li Xiaoxiao happily climbed up the tree, picked a few red dates and tasted them. They were very sweet. She also gave two to Li Fang and Li Linlin, asking them to try them too. "Hmm, so sweet! These red dates are really delicious. I didn't expect raw red dates to look like this," Li Fang said as he ate.

It wasn't Li Fang's fault that they didn't know about the red date tree. Red dates were considered precious in ancient times, and most people couldn't afford them, let alone someone like Li Fang and his family in the Li family. They probably hadn't even seen or heard of red dates. Those were things that wealthy ladies used to nourish their bodies.

Li Xiaoxiao invited Li Fang and Li Linlin to help pick the fruits.

In a short while, they picked a full basket of red dates.

"There are so many red dates. I'll take them back and let mom try them." Li Xiaoxiao said happily.

The three of them returned home carrying firewood and red dates. When Mrs. Bai saw the red dates they brought back, she was very surprised.

"Where did so many red dates come from?" asked Bai.

Bai knew about red dates. When she was still at her mother's house, her father was a scholar and the family was relatively well-off, so they could occasionally eat some red dates.

"I found it on the mountain. There is a jujube tree over there with a lot of jujubes on it." Li Xiaoxiao replied.

"Mom, when the red dates on the trees are ripe in a few days, let's go pick them all and dry them in the sun."

Mrs. Bai nodded happily and took the red dates to the kitchen to wash a plate. "Try them quickly. These fresh red dates are so sweet."

The whole family sat around the table enjoying the red dates.

Li Xiaoxiao thought to herself, this trip up the mountain was quite fruitful. Not only did she pick up firewood, she also discovered a red date tree. She thought, "I should pay more attention to other resources on the mountain in the future. Maybe I can find more treasures."

She decided to go to the mountain again in a few days to pick all the ripe red dates and make them into dried red dates for storage. This way, the family would have sweet dried red dates to eat.

At night, Li Xiaoxiao lay in bed, thinking about other ways to make money. Winter was approaching, and his family still lived in a thatched cottage. Considering the money he had, building a new house would probably have to wait until next year. But he could renovate the house first, buy some cotton quilts, and have his mother make them for the winter, so they'd be more bearable. Oh, and he could also sell the recipes for pickled fish and chopped pepper fish head to Xiangmanlou. Opening a restaurant wasn't in his plans anyway, so he might as well use the modern food recipes he had mastered to make some money.

As she was thinking about this, Li Xiaoxiao fell asleep.