Fight the Giants

  Chapter 47 Complementary Food

   After eating breakfast, Yang refused to let Huo Xi follow him into the city to sell fish. He only said that he wanted Huo Xi to help plant the garlic, onion and beans he got yesterday.

  Yang Fu also wanted to stay when he heard it. But he was afraid that Huo Erhuai would be too busy alone, so he followed into the city every three steps.

  After Yang Fu and Huo Erhuai left, Yang rowed the boat out of the outer city ferry, arrived at an uninhabited water area, first got off the shrimp pot and crab pot, and then blocked the net at the mouth of the river. That's when the boat stopped.

  The bamboo baskets collected from the countryside yesterday were filled with soil on the shore, and three baskets were loaded in a row, and the mother and daughter carried them back to the stern.

   Start to bury garlic and onion seeds in the basket. After burying it, spread the soybeans, mung beans, and peas soaked last night on the bamboo grate covered with gauze, pour water again, cover the gauze, and move the bamboo grate to Yang Fu's cabin to cover it away from light.

   After finishing these, Yang moved the shrimps that had just been removed from the shrimp pots to the fishing baskets to the bow of the boat. The mother and daughter sat on the ground in the bow and began to pick the shrimp lines.

  If you ask Mrs. Yang to say, ordinary people don’t pay much attention to what kind of shrimp to choose. But Huo Xi persisted.

   It will be profitable in the future, and someone must imitate it. If her house is cleaned up, it can be sold into a big family, and it will always have a market than others.

   After convincing Mrs. Yang, the two each took a bamboo skewer and began to pick the shrimp thread.

  After picking, divide it into three large pots, mix the ingredients in one pot, and prepare to be grilled on the baking tray to become grilled shrimp. One pot is used to make choked shrimp, and the other pot is steamed on a steamer. After steaming, it is directly dried in the shade to make dried shrimp. There are many varieties in order to stabilize the market.

  Huo Xi mixed the ingredients, and Yang moved the clay stove.

  Yesterday Huo Xi bought another small clay stove, connected to the one at home, put firewood in the heart of the old clay stove, put a steamer on it, and prepared to steam shrimps in the pot.

  The newly bought tandoor put a few pieces of charcoal in the heart of the stove, and after it was ready to be lit, put it on the grill to make grilled shrimp.

  Boil the white porcelain pot before setting up the steamer, and while waiting for it to cool, start to heat up the oil to make the seasoning for the shrimp. Then pack the shrimp and seal it.

   Then steam the shrimp on the steamer.

  During the waiting time, Yang Shi and Huo Xi grilled the grilled shrimp mixed with seasoning on the baking tray. While roasting and turning over, the sauce fell straight into the charcoal fire, sizzling and oily, and the aroma was tight.

  Huo Xi and Yang Shi sniffed it from time to time.

   "It smells so good. You won't have to worry about selling it. Mother wants to buy it herself."

  Huo Xi smiled, took out two baked dishes, put them on a plate, and laughed, one with Yang: "Mother, let's try it first."

  Mr. Yang was reluctant to eat and declined.

   "Mom, how do you know the taste if you don't eat it? We have to try the taste and constantly adjust it before we can make delicious grilled shrimp and sell it."

   Upon hearing this, Mrs. Yang quickly took one and put it in her mouth without peeling the shell.

   Chewed twice, nodded again and again: "Sweet! But will it be a little dry? Do you want to bake it a little more tender?"

  Huo Xi also put it in his mouth to chew, savoring carefully.

  After eating, he said: "Mother, I think this is just right. This is mixed with ingredients, and it is not dry after baking, so it is not easy to preserve. The shrimp we steamed later can be dried in the shade to make it softer."

  Mr. Yang nodded: "Okay. Mommy listens to you." After speaking, Mrs. Yang licked her lips, it was so delicious! Xi'er is capable, the sauce is delicious.

  When the prawns in the steamer were cooked, Yang poured them out, spread them out in a dustpan, and moved them to the stern of the boat to dry. I set up a steamer to steam crabs again, and prepare to disassemble the crab meat to make bald butter.

  Although the mother and daughter are busy, they are very happy.

  The fresh and sweet smell of river fresh food was so fragrant that Huo Nian, who was sleeping in the cabin, woke up crying.

  Mr. Yang hurriedly wiped her hands and went in to coax him. When she was fed and carried out, Nian'er was full of energy, and stretched out her little hand to grab into the baking pan.

  Huo Xi patted his little paw lightly, and wiped his saliva, "It's only a little bit big, but I'm hungry."

  Mr. Yang saw his pouty expression and coaxed him coaxingly: "We are not greedy for Nian'er, it's because my sister's grilled shrimp is so delicious."

  Huo Nian echoed, amused Huo Xi and Yang Shi.

   Seeing him drooling all the time, keeping his eyes on the baking pan, Huo Xi was very distressed. If the mother was still there, how could her younger brother become a fisherman.

   touched his face, "Mother, my brother is four months old, do you want to feed him some supplementary food?"

   "Complementary food?"

  Yang has never heard of this word. If a child from a poor family has milk from his mother, there are some who keep breastfeeding the child until they are two or three years old. I have never heard of any complementary food for a four-month-old baby.

   "Mother's milk is enough for my son to eat."

   "Just feeding milk is not enough. You can feed some fruit puree, egg yolk and the like, and you can also feed some fish puree without seasoning."

   Yang's eyes widened. Is this how big families raise their children?

   No wonder they are better raised than children from poor families.

  Huo Xi didn't know about Yang's mental activities, she just followed the modern concept of parenting and thought that Nian'er could eat some complementary food at this time. She didn't want to wrong Nian'er, she wanted to raise her brother to be healthy and healthy.

   "That's fine, then let's give Nian'er some supplementary food. There is no fruit puree now, but we don't lack eggs and fish. Mom, go and steam an egg and a piece of fish for Nian'er..."

   After a pause, he realized that all the fish in the water tank were picked up by Huo Erhuai and sold in the city.

   "Let's eat the eggs for Nian'er first, and then Mom will steam the fish for Nian'er after she catches the fish."

  Nian'er clapped her little hands and yelled, not sure if she was responding. He also happily put his face on Yang's face. She was overjoyed with Yang, kissed him twice, and carried him into the cabin to get the eggs.

   "Mother, will you steam two eggs for Nian'er?"

   "Mom, just take one. He can't eat that much."

   "That's fine. Let's eat one first."

  After Huo Xi finished roasting a pot of shrimp, Nian'er's eggs were also steamed and cooled, and the yolks were scooped out.

   "Xi'er, how can I feed you?"

   "Mother, crush it, try to feed it, and see if Nian'er eats it."

   "Hey." While hugging him, Yang crushed the egg yolk, scooped up the tip of a spoon, and tentatively put it into Nian'er's mouth.

  Yang Er and Huo Xi stared nervously.

  Seeing that Nian'er opened her small mouth, she actually swallowed the egg yolk with her tongue, which made Yang very happy: "Oh, we Nian'er like to eat it! Don't worry, mother will feed it later."

  Seeing that Nian'er really likes to eat, Huo Xi is also very happy, holding up the bowl, Yang Shi scoops up some to feed him from time to time. In less than a while, Nian'er finished eating an egg yolk.

  Huo Xi poured some warm water into the bowl again, Yang Shi fed him a few more spoonfuls, and he finished drinking it too, clapping his hands happily.

   Seeing that he was happy, the mother and daughter played with him for a while.

  When he fell asleep, the two of them dismantled the crabs, collected the shrimp pots, crab pots, and fishing nets, and went to the city to pick up Huo Erhuai and Yang Fu.

The two were very happy when they heard that Huo Nian ate an egg yolk today, Huo Erhuai said: "Then let's save some more eggs for Nian'er to eat every day. Next time I go to the city, I will find out where there is fruit and give it to you." Nian'er bought it to eat fruit puree."

  Children are willing to eat, healthy, better than anything else.

  It was still the beginning of the year, so Huo Erhuai went into the village by boat to collect vegetables and cloth. I also asked where there was a vinegar workshop and wine shop, and searched all the way there.

  Tomorrow, I will go to Qianjin Village to collect recruitment, so the family will not go to Qianjin Village. I also want to go to other villages to search more and find more channels for purchasing goods.

  Getting advice from the villagers, the family went to Tangquan Town.

  I heard that Tangquan Town has not only hot springs but also cold springs. The water is good and there are many breweries. The rice wine rice wine and all kinds of fruit wine produced by the company taste very good.

  Huo Xi was very interested and asked Huo Erhuai to row the boat over.

   What I said earlier suddenly disappeared. It seems impossible to say. Don't talk, don't talk, code words

  (end of this chapter)