Chapter 340 I don’t want to get rich, I just want to live a leisurely life
"The best? What's the best thing?"

Now Chen Hui became interested.

He had eaten skate a few times, and each time it was cooked by others, but he simply didn't think it tasted good.

It is not tasty and not very valuable, and he has never learned much about it, so he is not familiar with stingrays.

"Fish liver!"

"The liver of a small stingray is not big, so generally people don't go out of their way to eat it. But it's different when it's this big."

"Cut it open and see, there's a surprise inside!" He Juanjuan kept the suspense.

Chen Hui took the knife, touched it hard, and inserted the tip of the knife into the softest edge to make a small cut.

With this breakthrough, we can see what's going on inside.

Chen Hui held the fish skin with one hand and controlled the knife to move forward with the other.

The whole piece of fish skin was cut open, revealing two pieces of fish liver as big as a washbasin.

"Wow!" Chen Hui was shocked!
"Wow! Is this the liver a fish should have?"

"This is bigger than pig liver! No! It's bigger than pig lung!" Huang Xiu Lian, who was helping to process vegetables, was stunned.

"This is so delicious when you cut it into slices and fry it in oil!"

"Don't be fooled by its softness, it's delicious when fried and you won't get tired of it!" said He Juanjuan.

"Is it so delicious?"

"Cut a piece for me to take back later, and let Fangfang try it too!" said Huang Xiu Lian.

"Sure! Fangfang should be able to eat now!"

"If it's during the confinement period, I wouldn't dare give it to her, for fear that the heavy oil content would cause milk clogging."

He Juanjuan said this and reached out to pat the fish liver.

The shiny, oversized fish liver trembled slightly, which naturally made Chen Hui think of fatty liver.

He lowered his head and continued with his work, then naturally added: "You should eat less greasy food, it's not good for your health!"

"Nonsense! Oil is a good thing!"

"If I don't eat meat for two days, I feel like I don't even have the strength to hug my grandchildren!" Huang Xiu Lian immediately retorted.

"He's just a kid, what does he know? He'll understand when he becomes a father."

"When rural women don't have the strength to give birth, they feed them a big bowl of lard and sugar water to continue giving birth." He Juanjuan also joked.

Well.
Chen Hui came back to his senses.

Huang Xiulian and He Juanjuan are both in their forties or fifties.

Compared to myself, people of their generation could not even get enough food in the first half of their lives, let alone fat.

He smiled and said, "That's what I read in a book. It turns out that reading a book should be combined with reality!"

"Some books are just made up and written randomly, and the authors don't have much professional knowledge!"

He Juanjuan made a casual complaint, reminding Chen Hui to be careful not to cut the fish gallbladder.

I went into the kitchen and took out a large basin for washing vegetables to put the cod liver in.

After the fish liver was processed, Chen Hui washed his hands, wiped the sweat off his head and asked, "Sister Juanjuan, what should we do next?"

He Juanjuan squatted down, drew another circle on the area above the fish liver and said:

"This whole piece is fish gills. Cut them all off and chop the rest into pieces."

"The bones of such a big fish are very hard. I'll get you a knife that's good at cutting it."

After He Juanjuan finished speaking, she ran upstairs to find tools for Chen Hui.

Chen Hui waited for a while, and seeing that no one came down, he squatted down and continued to process the stingray.

By the time He Juanjuan found a small axe from somewhere, Chen Hui had already processed the stingrays and asked the nanny to find another basin to put them in.

"Hey? Are you done chopping it now?"

"Don't you think this knife for chopping bones is not powerful enough?" He Juanjuan asked, holding a small axe in her hand.

"That's you and Xiao Zhang. He's a young and strong man. Isn't it easy for him to kill a fish?" Huang Xiu Lian joked.

"Young and strong, but not small!"

Chen Hui muttered to himself, and together with He Juanjuan, he moved the processed stingray into the kitchen. He Juanjuan cut off a piece of fish liver, cut it into thick slices, and placed it on a plate for later use.

Ask the babysitter to get some lees from the big wine vat where wine is brewed.

I picked out a piece of stingray meat and cut it into strips of appropriate size.

“Auntie, the lees are coming!”

Nanny Xiao Zhang filled a small bowl with wine lees and returned to the kitchen.

They worked in unison and took out a bag of flour from the cupboard on the other side.

He Juanjuan added water, distiller's grains, salt and some soy sauce to the flour.

After making a thick paste, put the chopped skate meat into it and marinate it.

"Are we going to fry this later?" Chen Hui asked.

"It seems like you really don't understand, so I won't tell you for now."

"Aren't we going to deal with that grouper?" He Juanjuan asked, leaving the question unanswered.

"Wait until the guests arrive before processing it. The fresher it is, the better it tastes!" said Chen Hui.

"Then go have a cup of tea and watch some TV. Qianqian should be watching TV outside!"

As He Juanjuan spoke, she asked Xiao Zhang to make tea for Chen Hui.

Chen Hui enthusiastically offered to help with other work, but was rejected by He Juanjuan.

Including the nanny, there are more than enough people to work in the kitchen with three people.

Huang Wenqian was watching TV alone in the living room, and Chen Hui didn't want to provoke this young lady.

Holding a teacup, he squatted beside the water tank and looked at the Neptune grouper inside.

The reason is to keep an eye on the status of high-end ingredients at all times, in case they suddenly fail without being discovered in time, affecting the texture and taste of the food.

I squatted and watched the fish for a while.

I finished the tea in my hand and my feet started to feel numb.

Chen Hui stood up and stretched his body, then went into the kitchen to prepare the soy sauce for the sashimi.

Due to the constraints of the environment, even a wealthy woman like He Juanjuan only has simple salt, cooking wine, soy sauce and vinegar on the countertop at home.

Chen Hui poured out some soy sauce and added sugar and water in small amounts.

Slowly blend it until it has a hint of sweetness and saltiness, but neither flavor is too overpowering.

Then divide the seasoning into two parts.

Cover half of it with something to prevent dust from falling in.

Cut some chili peppers in the other half and soak them in it. Wait for five or six minutes, then use chopsticks to dip it in water to taste the spiciness.

After repeating this several times, take out the chili peppers.

Only a small circle of chili is left to distinguish the two seasonings with different tastes.

"Chen Hui, are you doing an experiment?" He Juanjuan saw it and asked in confusion.

"Well, that's about right!"

“Raw fish has no taste and needs seasoning to enhance its flavor.”

"If the seasoning is too light, it will taste bland and lack depth, but if it is too strong, it will overpower the flavor of the fish."

"This difficulty is not much easier than doing an experiment!"

Chen Hui sighed and covered it with the spicy seasoning.

"I feel like you're more of a gourmet than a fisherman!"

"Why don't you open a restaurant? You will definitely make more money than fishing!" Huang Xiu Lian said with a smile.

Chen Hui smiled and shook his head

"Running a restaurant is too tiring! I don't want to get rich, I just want to live a life where I can go to bed early and get up late, have a wife and kids, and occasionally work hard when I feel like it."

What he thought in his heart, but did not say out loud, was that it was really impossible to make a fortune by relying on labor.

(End of this chapter)