A few of them chatted around the cake, and the old lady walked out happily.

The old lady couldn't even see her eyes today. When she saw Ao Muyang and her party, she came over to pull their hands one by one, and asked with a smile: "Are you kids here?"

Ao Mudong said: "You must come. The old lady's 90th birthday is the top priority in the village, right? "

Ao Muyang nodded and said, "It's right at all."

The old lady smiled and said, "Oh, I'm old, what's the big deal? Huizi likes to do it, so she must do it well, otherwise according to the old woman, our grandparents and grandchildren can eat a bowl of noodles at home."

Ao Muyang said: "This is not OK, mama, this is really a big event in the village. You are the old birthday star in our village. Huizi did the right thing, so you have to handle this birthday party well."

When talking about his grandson-in-law, the old lady's smile became even stronger: "Huizi is a good child. She is in front of her home. I just listen to her, and Qianlai and I both listen to her."

As she said that, her eyes looked at the wing room, Jin Huizi and Song Qiumin were pounding the fish surface.

In the early years, the Hongyang fishermen did not eat cakes on their birthdays and had no money to eat cakes. In the local tradition, the fishermen ate fish noodles on their birthdays.

Fish noodles are also called fish cakes because they are made of fish cakes.

However, pounding fish noodles is not a simple task. Later, as the living standards of fishermen improved, they could afford cakes. Most families changed to eating cakes on their birthdays instead of making fish noodles and fish cakes.

The old lady is a traditional fisherman. She can't eat too sweet snacks like cakes and can't bear to eat them. She pounds fish noodles every year during the Chinese New Year.

After a long time, habits became a tradition, so this year she still wanted to eat fish noodles for her birthday. Jin Huizi was filial, so she went to Song Qiumin to learn how to pound fish noodles. After Song Qiumin understood what she meant, she decided to help her pound fish noodles on her birthday. After all, according to custom, this should be done on the same day.

Ao Muyang hasn't seen fish noodles pounding for a while. When he was a child, his mother would pound fish noodles for him on his birthday. In fact, the taste was just that. So when he was in junior high school, his family's conditions improved, and he changed to eating cakes on his birthday.

But now when I recall, the scenes of mothers pounding fish noodles when they were young were really rare. At that time, because of the busy housework during the day and the large number of fishing work at sea, she chose to help her son pound fish noodles the night before, and then, according to tradition, she should make pasta on her birthday, so she worked in the middle of the night until the early morning of the next day.

Ao Muyang walked to the wing room, and Song Qiumin and Jin Huizi were hitting the fishing meat with wooden sticks.

There was a small panel beside each with some flour on it, which was sweet potato flour. The two of them pinched pieces of fish and put them in the stone mortar, and then hit them with a wooden hammer.

‘Bang bang bang’, the sound is as familiar as ever.

Seeing Ao Muyang coming, Song Qiumin smiled and said, "Why are you here, village chief? Are you coming to help?"

Jin Huizi also laughed shyly. When she saw Ao Muyang coming, she quickly took a small stool and handed it to him.

Ao Muyang waved his hand to thank him and said, "Aunt, don't worry about me, you can continue working."

Jin Huizi is young, but she is Ao Qianlai's wife, and she is higher in generations than Ao Muyang and Song Qiumin.

Song Qiumin skillfully beats the fish into dough. During this period, she evenly sprinkles sweet potato flour on the panel, which can smooth the stone mortar to avoid sticking to the fish, and then makes the fish chewy and tough.

When the fish and sweet potato flour mixed with the fish were knocked into dough in the stone mortar, she took it out and put it on the panel and crushed it into a pancake and then put it aside.

Ao Muyang looked at the round fish cake and exclaimed: "Sister-in-law is very skilled. Except for my mother, I rarely see anyone who can make the fish cake so round."

Song Qiumin smiled and said, "I just learned the skills from your mother."

Before something happened between her husband and Ao Muyang's parents, the two families had a very good relationship. In fact, her husband had been working with Ao Muyang's father. After Song Qiumin got married, he did learn a lot of housework with Ao Muyang's mother.

But now speaking of this, it is inevitable that it makes people feel a little sad.

When they mentioned the past, the two of them fell silent at the same time. Jin Huizi probably knew these things. She was a smart girl with a very sensitive personality. When the atmosphere changed, she felt it.

So she cleverly cut the topic and said, "Sister Qiu Min, do you see if I put a lot of sweet potato flour? How much do I have to put? I can't master it well."

In terms of seniority, Song Qiumin should call her aunt, but she is much younger than Song Qiumin, and it is quite embarrassing to call her that, so they all discuss their own things together. Anyway, Song Qiumin usually doesn't call Ao Qianlai the uncle.

After hearing her words, Song Qiumin cheered up and looked at it, "I really put it a little too much, but it's okay. This is a job that can make perfect. You can tell me a few more fish cakes."

During the process of making fish cakes, the amount of sweet potato flour is the key to the quality of the fish noodles. There is less potato flour and fresh fish. The fish noodles knocked out have a great taste and are soft and fresh, but the noodles are not tough enough to make fish noodles. If there is too much potato flour, although the fish cake is tough enough, it will affect the taste and will also cause the fish noodles to be not so fresh.

After the fish cakes are knocked out, they should be placed in the yard to dry. After the wind and sun, the fish cakes will dry up and form. At this time, they should be placed in a pan and baked with low heat to 70% cooked, and then cut into thin strips to make a dough shape. This is the longevity fish noodles.

Jin Huizi and Song Qiumin are both veterans of cooking skills. They are skillful and quickly knock out fish cakes.

Ao Muyang helped to help him. He put the fish cakes on the bamboo cover curtain and put them in the yard. In order to dry them better, he asked Ao Mudong to find a ladder and put the bamboo cover curtain on the roof to dry.

He worked in the kitchen for a while, and there were more people coming to Ao Qianlai's house.

Grandma Qianlai pulled him away and said with a smile: "I'll pack up the fish cakes. Village chief, you go to the house to have tea. Qianlai can't take care of him. You can go and help take care of him."

Ao Muyang said: "My grandma, just take a break today. You can't let you work. As for the things you take care of, I don't need to do it. I'm all from my own village. What are you going to take care of if you take care of me?"

Song Qiumin also said: "That's right, mama, you have been tired all your life, ninety years, and it's time to take a good rest."

The old lady said, "What are you going to rest? It's so much lighter than that in the past few years. Haha, and my legs are better now. I have to move more while I can."

"Yes, mama, exercise more, exercise is good for health!" Lu Wuyi, who was walking around the yard with big melon seeds, came over and inserted it. Then he asked, "Brother-in-law, are you eating melon seeds? It's delicious."

Ao Muyang said: "Okay, give me the melon seeds, and then leave it here to help my sister-in-law and aunt."

Lu Wuyi was stunned and said, "What? Brother-in-law, what do you mean? I will give you the melon seeds and you will find work for me?"
Chapter completed!