"Oh my god, sis, you are so aweso, you head back first, I will tie this up and co back soon."
"Do you need help?"
"No need, no need, I can manage on my own."
Xiao Yu, seeing this, did not insist, since she still needed to hurry ho to cook, ideally Xiao Ze would co ho to a hot al.
Sea eels taste best when grilled, so she bought grilling tongs from Space Mall.
She nailed the sea eel’s head to a wooden board and then started processing it. After washing it clean, she cut it into sections and placed them in a basin next to her.
Then she started processing the grouper. Grouper sashimi is said to be very delicious, but she was not confident about raw food, so she slaughtered it cleanly, then fried it in edible oil (purchased from Space Mall) until golden brown on both sides. Next, she added garlic cloves, ginger slices, miso, chili sauce, as well as spices like anise and bay leaves, and began a haphazard stew.
While the fish stewed, she kneaded moistened mixed grain flour and spread it around the rim of the large pot. Then she put the cleaned abalone into the pot as well, initiating the haphazard stewing mode. This thod of stewing not only made the fish delicious but even the crusts around the edge tasted crispy and flavorful—a technique adopted from the stove chicken.
Since the fire was fueled by firewood, the stewing was exceptionally fast. When one side was done, she lifted the iron pot onto a rock to cool. anwhile, she hurriedly placed the eel on the glowing red coals.
When Xiao Ze arrived, he saw his sister crouching by the charcoal fire grilling eel, the tantalizing fragrance making him drool.
"Go wash your hands." Now, they had placed a bucket under the mountain rock crevice to collect water, using it for washing faces and other things. Their drinking water ca entirely from her space. It was ti to wash clothes in the afternoon, and since the vessels they could use were limited, even washing clothes felt extraordinarily challenging.
Seawater couldn’t be used for laundry due to its high salt content.
Nor could it be used for bathing. Bathing in it would leave a layer of salt frost on the body, making fresh water even more precious.
Thus, making a large earthen kiln now seed particularly crucial.
She felt they had enough firewood at ho, so she planned with Xiao Ze to make the earthen kiln in the afternoon.
With his mouth greasy from eating, Xiao Ze looked completely content. "Sis, I always listen to you, I’ll do whatever you say. Why do I feel like our life now is even better than at ho? It’s so delicious. When did your cooking get so good? It even tastes better than Mom’s. We rarely had these flatbreads at ho, where did you get them?"
"Of course, mom prepared them. I think we have so much to do next, especially since it’s getting colder every day. We don’t have many clothes for winter, so we might have to keep stocking up on food for the winter."
After the Noon al around two or three in the afternoon, the siblings, who worked a lot, ate a lot, and thus expended a lot of physical energy.
With planned tasks one after another, there was no ti to rest, and they went directly to look for clay.
There were quite a few places with clay on the island. They found a relatively flat spot that could be directly hit by sunlight. First, they shoveled the surrounding bushes, weeds, and leaves to the side to expose the clean soil.
Then, following the mory of what they had seen, they began digging a pit, for the pottery to be burnt had to be large, so the pit also needed to be bigger.
She and Xiao Ze worked all afternoon, just managing to create the basic form of the kiln to be used for firing. According to their needs, it had to be at least two ters long and one and a half ters wide. In the end, with enough firewood underneath, they would be able to fire many bowls and jars.
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