A Husband

Chapter 42

Chapter 42 Boiled Fish

The first two novels were extremely popular, which gave Cheng Wei great confidence. In the following time, Cheng Wei wrote more than a dozen novels, such as "The Young Man Who Married on Behalf of Me" and "I Don't Want to Be a Stand-in", "The Domineering Young Master Falls in Love with Me", and "Young Master, Please Let Me Go".

The business of Mengxi Bookstore is getting better and better. Sometimes when a new book comes out, the door of the bookstore is broken by customers who come to buy books. Manager Liu asks everyone to line up so that everyone can buy it, and at the same time he asks the waiter to ask the master to repair the door...

Not only is it famous in Siyuan County, but even other nearby counties have Cheng Wei's novels. Some are bought by people in Siyuan County and given to their good friends, and some are bought and sent by people from other counties.

Cheng Wei has nothing to do at home, so he roughly calculates his monthly income. Mengxi Bookstore alone can earn him 30 taels of silver per month, in addition to the wages of Juxian Pavilion and the money earned by his parents. Everyone else is very satisfied with the current economic level of the family, but Cheng Wei doesn't think so. When his parents get old, they need money for their retirement. Dong'er will get married and need a dowry. It would be best if he could open a shop for Dong'er so that she can have someone to rely on after marriage.

And Xi'er, if Xi'er has a lover... well, his status is special after all, a married boy, I want to give him enough money to make him live happily and no one can bully him...

When he thought that Li Xi might have someone he likes in the future and leave this family and him, Cheng Wei suddenly felt very uncomfortable, depressed, and suffocated...

Forget it, it's still a long time in the future, why think so much. Cheng Wei quickly adjusted himself and went to the kitchen to prepare lunch.

In the past few days, the pepper seedlings at home have grown well. Maybe the temperature is suitable, the small peppers have grown a lot. Cheng Wei checked them one by one, picked the grown peppers, took out the pepper seeds, and then placed the peppers and seeds separately outside the house in the sun at noon. After drying, keep the pepper seeds and wait until next spring to plant and use. The dried peppers were also placed in the kitchen, waiting to cook delicious food for the family when they are free.

Yesterday, Jin An came home and sent a big fish. It was caught by his brother in the creek at the head of the village. Now the weather is cold and the creek is frozen. It must be that Jin Wu broke through the ice to get the fish. Cheng Wei thought that since we already had fish and peppers, it would be inappropriate not to make a boiled fish dish...

He did it right away, and Cheng Wei was busy in the kitchen alone. He killed and cleaned the fish, chopped off the head and tail, and sliced ​​it into fish fillets. He chopped the remaining fish fillets into several pieces, mixed the fish fillets and fish fillets with a little salt, rice wine and an egg white, and marinated them aside.

Boil a small pot of water, blanch the washed bean sprouts and cabbage in the boiling water, and put them into a large basin.

Add half a bowl of lard to the hot pot. When the oil is hot, add soybean paste and stir-fry until fragrant. Pour the ginger, garlic, onion, peppercorns, and dried red peppers prepared in advance into the pot and stir-fry over low heat. After the flavor comes out, add the head, tail and fish fillet, stir well over high heat, add rice wine, pepper and appropriate amount of rock sugar, continue to stir-fry for a while, add some hot water, and season with salt.

Cheng Wei waited for a while, saw that the water had boiled, and kept the fire high again, put the fish fillets in one by one, spread them with chopsticks, and turned off the fire after two quarters of an hour. Pour the cooked fish and all the soup into the large pot that just contained the bean sprouts.