Chapter 003. Making Shrimp Paste
Baiyu Village is close to the sea, and although there is no way to form a fishing port, the seafood is still quite diverse. Xia Yuquan remembers that there is also a special production of translucent shrimp here, which has a very fresh taste and is very suitable for cooking or making soup.
She was often hungry in her previous life, and it was absolutely not feasible to steal steamed buns. Later, an old lady in the village couldn't stand it and taught her to avoid making small things, then she symbolically took them away, and then sent money and food to her back, so that she could fill her and Liu Yutong's stomach.
The most famous one among the old ladies is shrimp paste.
People in Yunsheng are fond of sweet and spicy food, and they are so fresh. People in Yuncheng who are loved by people in the north are not used to eating Douban sauce, so they prefer a bowl of rice with shrimp sauce. They don’t feel sweaty when they eat it in hot weather. They only recognize this kind of taste when they go out for thousands of miles.
Xia Yuquan inherited her mother's skill. Not only did she know how to make clothes, but she was extremely capable of cooking shrimp paste. However, now she is so thin, and I don't know if she can bring out the same skills in her previous life?
She kept thinking about the method of making shrimp paste, and she didn't forget to find a way to pick up firewood and find some stones of the right shape. She couldn't lose salt when making shrimp paste. Just now, she just kept trying to sneak out first and didn't get the salt. She had to think about how to make some more.
Xia Yuquan often does something like cooking salt. Anyway, their village is remote, and although their general economic capacity should have increased, there is no such thing as Baiyu Village. In order to save so much money, people often come to the beach to boil salt.
"Koizumi, aren't you sick? Why are you bringing Tongtong to the beach alone?!" At this time, a familiar old voice sounded from the edge of Xia Yuquan, almost scaring her to the ground.
Fortunately, the person who came was quick to react and had enough strength, so he grabbed her, otherwise the consequences would be unimaginable.
"Grandma Lai..." Xia Yuquan looked at the face in front of him that was deeply eroded by the sea breeze, and couldn't help but his eyes turned red and he couldn't speak with sobs.
What came was the old lady who taught her many of her previous lives - Grandma Lai.
"Hey, hey, don't cry!" Grandma Lai looked at the little girl in front of her who should be like a flower. At this time, she couldn't help but feel distressed and anxious. She threw the things in her hand directly on the ground, and held the thin-skinned her in her arms, constantly comforting her, "It's good to be alive, don't accept it too much. Life is all achieved. You can learn more with me in the future, and at least you can work when you go out, rely on your skills to make a living..."
Xia Yuquan almost burst into tears when he heard the familiar and gentle tone. However, Grandma Lai was right, life was achieved through fighting for it, and just crying was useless!
"Mother-in-law, don't worry, I will definitely find a way to win a good life for myself!" She turned around and looked at the small ditches she dug out, looking at the shrimps that gathered in the small ditches at some point, and didn't care that there were tears on her face. She turned around and smiled at Grandma Lai, "Let's go and sell shrimp paste?"
In fact, in her previous life, Grandma Lai started to persuade Xia Yuquan very early, asking her to find a way to stand up and fight for her rights with the people of the Liu family. This is the case in the countryside. The victim himself has no intention. Their neighbors are anxious, so they can't help at all.
Whenever Xia Yuquan showed a little signal of asking for help, they could become famous. Unfortunately, she was thinking about marrying Liu Guotai, and was afraid that she would not be able to survive if she left the Liu family. She had to endure all kinds of torture every day, bathed in the sympathetic eyes of others, occasionally accepting some alms, and living in a breathless life.
But this time, she won't.
Even if she seeks help, as long as she can repay her in the future, she doesn't mind showing weakness at this time.
"Okay, okay, okay!" Although Grandma Lai was a little surprised by the changes in Xia Yuquan, it was good after all, which meant that the little girl wanted to make a change. She was too happy. " Grandma Lai knew you would definitely figure it out! Your Aunt Li and I were boiling salt in front. Today, the salt was boiling well, so don't make it. Use it first, right?"
Xia Yuquan knew that this was what Grandma Lai made up with her heart, and she didn't care about it. Instead, she carefully used a bamboo tube to hold the shrimps she had just caught and two small fish barely caught in the broken fishing net, and followed Grandma Lai to another small bay.
A clean dressed but thick and strong woman was squatting in front of a pot and carefully adding firewood. Aunt Li is very famous in Baiyu Village. Her family is a pig slaughtering and her financial ability has always been very good. However, because she only has one daughter at home, she finally chose to take a husband. The man was Lai's nephew, and the couple lived a very loving life.
A few years ago, Aunt Li's village was demolished, so her husband simply took her eldest son to the city to build a pig-killing stall. She brought her younger son back to Baiyu Village alone, reorganized the house and settled the settlement to cultivate things.
This is a woman who is quite good at living. Even if her husband is married, she has not made the two of them have too much difference in their family status. Even if she is stronger than Kong Wu and is more aggressive, she has a generous personality and doesn't like to care about it. She is still very popular in the village.
"Oh, isn't this Koizumi?" Aunt Li saw Xia Yuquan, although a trace of obvious surprise flashed across her face, she quickly showed a sincere smile, "I said, come out to bask in the sun, so that people will not be depressed!"
After she stood up, her figure became taller. In the eyes of those lingering women in the village, she was a fight and could not be messed with. However, in the eyes of Grandma Lai and Xia Yuquan of the "same country", she was an alliance that was most reassuring.
"Aunt Li, I haven't figured it out. I'm sorry that I'll change it in the future!" Xia Yuquan knew that this woman who looked a little vicious was actually very soft-hearted. She pulled her a few times before, but was deeply injured. She quickly smiled at the other party, "I'm just about to learn how to make shrimp paste with you!"
Aunt Li herself suffered a loss, but she felt that God helped the helper. With her reputation as virtuous, she finally found a good home for herself. So she looked at the cowardly and gloomy Xia Yuquan before, but although she had the idea of helping, she would not really take action.
Now I saw the little girl finally having the style of Xia’s father and mother at that time. She was in a good mood and directly pulled her thin arm over her, carrying Liu Yutong, who was still a bit heavy for her age, onto her back, as relaxed as if she was swinging a simple cloth bag.
"Come on! I just boiled all the salt! Let's make shrimp paste now!"
Grandma Lai and Aunt Li are both experienced people. There is a stream next to this bay. The water is not very deep, but it doesn’t work all year round. People from Baiyu Village sometimes come to wash laundry and wash rice.
The shrimps they caught were now in the basin. Seeing that Xia Yuquan had prepared the shrimps, the three of them squatted directly by the stream to wash and drain the shrimps. Then they carefully mixed them at about 5 to 1 ratio of shrimps to salt, and then took a large bowl and began to grind them carefully after initially mashing them.
Chapter completed!