The fierce peasant woman is busy farming

It turns out that in the river here, apart from a small fish called whitefish, there is only crucian carp.

Crucian carp has many bones. In the past, a villager died from having his throat choked by bones while eating crucian carp.

However, Zhou Yue knew that the crucian carp could be fried until crispy, boiled into soup, or added with vinegar to make soft, crispy and fragrant crispy fish.

Looking at so many fish in the basin, Zhou Yue thought, Lord Song and his people had given him such a large piece of meat and very expensive salt, so just treating them to a meal of dumplings would definitely not be enough.

Seeing that this class will only last for a few days, I might as well cook the fish and share it with everyone while there are still many people around.

Having made up her mind, Zhou Yue asked several children to come over and she taught them how to clean the fish.

The children in the countryside have all played with fish. After Zhou Yue demonstrated a few, everyone learned how to do it.

The fish were not big, so the internal organs and the head were thrown away to feed the chickens, and the remaining small piece was just a lump of meat.

Seeing that they had all gotten the hang of it, Zhou Yue went to prepare other condiments.

Slice the ginger and cut the green onions. Although the fish is not big, there are many of them, so cut a whole plate of green onions and ginger, which will be used to marinate the crucian carp later.

Song Yuan found it interesting to see them fiddling with the little fish, so he followed a group of yamen runners to watch.

They had never eaten such small fish and found it very fresh.

Song Yuan saw Qing Mo holding a stone chip as a tool, which was not very easy to use and had a hard time cutting into the fish's belly.

So he pulled out a sharp dagger from his leggings and handed it to the eldest daughter of the Ning family.

Ning Qingmo hesitated for a moment, looked at the other party's sincere eyes, said thank you, and took it.

When Xu Junmo saw the dagger, his eyes lit up.

He also held the dog's head and squatted beside to watch his brothers and sisters process the fish.

No one paid special attention to Jun Mo these days. He only played with Brother Dao.

Because Brother Dao likes Xuan Mo the most, slowly, Jun Mo also starts to follow Xuan Mo.

That dagger was given to Song Yuan by the late emperor. I wonder if the late emperor’s spirit in heaven would be angry if he saw such a precious dagger being used to deal with small fish.

I don’t care about that anymore, Song Yuan also wants to eat fish.

The food at the Ning family is delicious. If possible, he would like to stay a few more days.

But it is estimated that they will leave tomorrow, or the day after tomorrow at the latest.

Not to mention that you have finished your studies, it is not good to keep relying on others for free food and drinks.

He also had other important things to do, such as tracking down human traffickers and finding fresh ginseng for the emperor.

With more people, things can be done faster, and the fish was quickly processed.

After removing the heads and internal organs, there was half a basin of small fish.

Zhou Yue sprinkled ginger and green onions in it, and then sprinkled some salt on it to marinate.

It's late today, so she will get up early tomorrow morning to stew the crispy fish and make the fish soup.

Then she told Yuan Mo to get up early and follow her to the village mill to grind the Panax notoginseng into powder tomorrow morning.

Today they received a message from Doctor Yang, asking them to go to the town's pharmacy to find him next market day.

That bag of Panax notoginseng hasn't been ground into powder yet, and we'll be taking it to town the day after tomorrow.

You have to grind the Panax notoginseng into powder in the morning before the mill is occupied.

The next morning, Zhou Yue followed Yuan Mo to the village's public mill, and was dumbfounded.

This millstone was huge, bigger than any millstone she had seen before.

Looking at the small bag of Panax notoginseng in my hand, all of it is stuck to the millstone, and it is still not enough.

No, you can't use this mill to crush medicinal materials.

Zhou Yue shared this concern with Yuan Mo.

Yuan Mo was speechless. His mother pulled him out of bed early in the morning and asked him to crush something. It turned out to be just a small tree root.

He said, "Mom, we have a small stone mill at home. Did you forget it again? Why don't you try using that stone mill?"

"Really? I've forgotten a lot of things. Let's go home."

Zhou Yue gathered his hair awkwardly.

After returning home, Yuan Mo went to look for the millstone.

I swept away the dust and washed it with clean water. It turned out to be a small stone mill that was passed down from my ancestors.

Later, the big mill in the village became more useful, so this one was left idle.

When the family split up, Grandpa Ning brought it here.

After the stone mill was dry, Yuan Mo and Yang Mo assembled it, then cut the Panax notoginseng into small pieces and ground them in the stone mill.

This stone mill is pretty good, and the things it grinds out are very fine.

Grind it once, sift it once, and after three or four times, the clear ink was brought to Zhou Yue to see.

"Well, it's almost done, just grind it again and it will be fine.

Very good, very good, grandpa's leg can be healed, you guys have made an indispensable contribution."

Zhou Yue was frying fish while saying those nice words, as if they were free.

Qingmo walked out of the kitchen with a small dustpan and told his younger brothers and sisters what his mother had said.

Everyone's eyes were bright and they were very happy.

Ever since my mother injured her head, she has spoken much more pleasantly and her temper has improved a lot.

To be honest, my mother's injury is actually quite good.

Several children thought about it silently but didn't dare to say it out loud.

Zhou Yue slowly fried a portion of the crucian carp in oil. When both sides turned golden brown, he took it out and placed it on a plate.

Chunniang, who was lighting the fire, said, "Mother, if you fry it like this, the spines will still be hard. You can't eat it. It will get stuck in your throat, which is very dangerous."

"This is just the first step. We need to cook it later. These are used to make fish soup."

While frying the food here slowly, Zhou Yue deftly took out a clay pot and covered the bottom of the pot with thick vegetable leaves.

Then he placed the marinated crucian carp neatly in the pot. When the pot was full, Zhou Yue put in all the seasonings he had at home.

Salt, sugar, soy sauce, a little rice wine, a lot of vinegar, and water.

Seeing that she added vinegar like water, Qian felt so distressed that she sucked her teeth.

Then place the clay pot on another burner, bring to a boil over medium heat, then simmer over low heat.

Don't use too strong a fire, and don't let the fire go out either. Stew for half a day.

The fried fish is done. Zhou Yue pours out some of the oil, puts the fish back into the pot, adds a lot of water, and brings it to a boil over high heat.

Then he told Chunniang to simmer the food over medium heat, be careful not to let the pot overflow, and turn off the heat when the water turns white.

After doing all this, everyone went down to the fields.

When I came back from the fields at noon, the whole yard was filled with the smell of fish.

It attracted all the children.

Zhou Yue washed his hands quickly, opened the lid of the fish soup pot, and found that the soup had turned white.

Use a colander to scoop out the bones, and the remaining soup is the nourishing crucian carp soup.

When the crispy fish pot is opened, the aroma becomes even better.

When I poked it with chopsticks, the fish was soft and rotten.

Zhou Yue picked up one and put it in his mouth. The bones were softened and it tasted fragrant, fresh and delicious.

At this time, there was a knock on the door.

All the kids who went fishing together yesterday came, and Zhou Yue asked Xuan Mo to pick some big leaves from the poplar tree.

Each person was given a piece, and a few crispy fish were clipped on the leaves for each child.

Tell them to take it home and eat it slowly. Although the thorns are soft, they still need to chew them thoroughly before swallowing.

The fish soup was served, wild vegetable corn cakes were taken out of the big pot, and several plates of crispy fish were brought to the table. Zhou Yue smiled as he watched everyone swallowing their saliva.

Start the meal.

I didn't expect these people were such big eaters. They ate so many crucian carps, dozens of kilograms. Except for those that were still pickled in a large wooden basin ready for frying, they also ate up all the crispy fish and fish soup.

After dinner, the children went to wash the dishes, and Zhou Yue prepared to teach Song Yuan and others CPR and artificial respiration.

Actually, this is not difficult. The difficult part is that there is no model.

When she participated in volunteer training and learned about this, the teacher repeatedly warned her not to try it on healthy people.

People will die.

When Zhou Yue saw the wheat straw in the yard, an idea suddenly occurred to him.