novelaction Chapter 216 Fresh and Sweet Fish
Chapter 216 Fresh and Sweet Fish
After doing all this, she called to the old man who still hadn't caught a single fish, "Master, I've prepared everything. You can grill it now."
The old man sighed, stuck his fishing rod into the ground, and walked over to string fish while saying, "I don't know if it's good or bad to have you around. Before you came, I could catch one fish after a long time, but after you came, I couldn't catch any fish at all, and you just kept throwing them up."
Zhou Guo was stunned and said quickly, "It's none of my business. I didn't block you. I was far away from you. We were not on the same water surface. You blame me for this? Besides, it took so long to catch two fish. I have only been here for a short time. How can you put the blame on me?"
"How come it's none of your business? You made such a big noise that you scared away all my fish."
"Master, you are making up excuses. I have never been to your body of water. I am on the steps below and the water will not flow back. You can't even make excuses for yourself."
The two of them were arguing and it didn't stop them from grilling the fish. The old man laid out the seasoning bottles in a row: oil, salt, dried shrimp powder, soy sauce, vinegar, and honey. All six bottles were used.
The two of them were guarding two fires, and Zhou Guo kept turning the fish. "Master, if these fish of mine get burnt, then only yours will be left. Will they be enough for the two of us?"
The old man didn't even raise his head and started to sprinkle salt, "Can't you be more careful? How can you burn it if you keep an eye on it?"
Zhou Guo said, "That's not necessarily true. I've never roasted mushrooms before. How about you come and I'll get a stone slab to fry mushroom slices for you? I picked up a basket of pine mushrooms."
When the old man heard this, he immediately moved over here and said, "Go quickly."
I haven’t eaten fried pine mushrooms, which are so fragrant and fresh, for a long time.
Just like at home, she went to the river to find a thin, large slab of stone, washed it, built a platform, and stuffed wood underneath.
He used a dagger to cut a piece of wood, and scraped the pine mushrooms while guarding the basket. As he scraped, he said, "It hasn't rained for several days, and the mushrooms in the forest are almost extinct. I don't know when it will rain again. If it rains for a few more days, the mushrooms in the mountains will grow again. I was thinking of picking a few days of free time, and the whole family will go into the mountains to pick mushrooms. It doesn't matter what kind of mushrooms, as long as they are edible."
She was really afraid that she would have no vegetables to eat in the winter. If she ran out of grain, she could still buy some, but what if she ran out of vegetables? Would she have to rely on buying them for the entire winter?
The old man was concentrating on spreading the seasoning, and listened to her words with some helplessness, "You are only eight years old. If you don't know, you would think you are the same age as me. You worry about everything. If you worry too much, you might not grow taller in the future."
Zhou Guo pretended not to hear and looked up at the sky. It felt like the clouds were getting thicker day by day. Was it going to rain soon?
Brush a layer of oil on the stone, place the sliced pine mushrooms on it, roast them until the slices are bent, roll them up, sprinkle a few grains of salt on them, and it will be the most delicious.
Zhou Guo handed the first baked slice to the old man, "Here, Master, it's ready."
The old man was already drooling at the aroma. He picked it up and put it in his mouth regardless of the heat. He nodded repeatedly, "Mmm, delicious, delicious, this is the taste, so fragrant!"
She took another large leaf, cleaned it, picked up a few pieces, and placed it next to him, "Master, I'll put it here for you."
After roasting seven or eight pots in one go, she felt that it was too monotonous to just roast mushroom slices on such a large stone slab, so she picked out a small fish from the pit. This fish looked different from the other fish and she had never seen one before. She only caught two in total and didn't know if they would taste good.
Processed and cut into thin slices.
Brush with oil, sprinkle with salt, dried shrimp and pine mushroom powder, and then brush with a layer of soy sauce. The aroma of the grilled fish is overflowing. Eat a piece, it is salty and delicious, and slightly chewy, much more flavorful than a whole grilled fish.
The fish fillets sprinkled only with salt and dried shrimp powder taste sweet and fresh.
The old man's eyes lit up after eating a piece. "This is good. It doesn't have any fishy smell. What kind of fish is this? Roast more of it. Roast the whole one. Or you can have another one."
Zhou Guo simply set up another board, one for grilling mushrooms and one for grilling fish, grilling them while the old man ate while turning around.
Before I knew it, the whole basket of mushrooms was gone, and the two fish were all eaten.
Several whole grilled fish were also devoured.
Zhou Guo touched his stomach, looked at the four fish left in the pit, rolled up his trouser legs, rolled up his sleeves, and went back into the water. "Master, I'll go get a few more. We can grill fish tonight. This fish has no fishy smell and is very tender. I'm afraid it can only be raised in the water of this deep mountain forest."
The old man nodded and sat back on the shore. After such a long time, no fish had been caught. Why didn't the fish in the mountains like to take the bait?
Zhou Guo caught five or six fish in one breath, each weighing seven or eight kilograms, but they were all grass carp.
That kind of fish is delicious, but it is really rare and it is not easy to catch it.
Bending over, he searched inch by inch on the water surface. Suddenly, a black shadow passed by in front of him. Zhou Guo was delighted. This was it!
She had seen this ghostly fish twice, and she had grabbed it both times. Fortunately, she insisted on not letting it go, otherwise she would not have known that this fish was so delicious.
She kept her eyes focused and walked lightly, trying not to disturb the water. After a while, the fish that appeared like a ghost came out from under a rock and was caught by her. She reached out quickly and grabbed the fish's gills and lifted it up. Out of the water, the fish swung around in her hand.
It weighs about five or six pounds. This one is bigger than the other two. If you fill it up and roast it, you can make several large plates of it.
I threw the fish into the pit and continued to wander around in the water for about two incense sticks of time, but I didn't even see the shadow of a fish. It turns out that good things are rare.
It was getting late, so she had to go collect firewood and look for pine mushrooms on the other two hills. Just in case there were some. It would be great if she could find even half a basket of this stuff.
"Master, let's stop fishing and go pick mushrooms."
The old man stuck the fishing rod into the ground again, turned around and left. The fish in the mountains are not easy to fool.
As soon as they entered the forest, the old man left, leaving Zhou Guo alone to look for pine mushrooms all over the mountain. He was very relieved. With the little girl's current abilities, it would be no problem for her to protect herself in this forest.
Zhou Guo didn't ask him where he was going. He knew he was going to catch prey without asking.
With a tap of the toes, he used his lightness skills to leap into the forest. Mine mushrooms usually grow on top of mountains and are rarely found at the bottom of a mountain or halfway up a mountain.
Having never been to this forest before, she took a stick and dug around. After more than half an hour, she only found about twenty flowers, many of which had already grown open and rotted, which was a pity.
After searching on one hill, she moved to another hill and found another twenty or thirty flowers on this hill. No wonder the master said that this fungus was only found on a few hills. There were really not many of them. She had been searching for so long and only found these few flowers. It was no different from having nothing.
It seems that this thing doesn't grow in piles.