That evening, Zhao Jun, Li Baoyu, and Jie Chen went to Zhang Yuanmin's house for dinner.
Because they were braising a Bear's Paw, the inside of Zhang Yuanmin's house was as hot as a steamer.
So, Zhang Yuanmin set up a table in the courtyard, and they all ate there together.
There were three meat dishes: braised Bear's Paw, stir-fried bear meat with peppers, and miscellaneous fish stewed in soybean paste.
Zhang Yuanmin had set the nets for these fish the day before yesterday and had gone to the river specifically to retrieve them this afternoon.
The nets brought in all sorts of small, miscellaneous fish, which Yang Yufeng gutted and scaled. After a quick fry, she stewed them in a thick soybean paste.
This cooking method made the small fish so tender that even the heads and bones could be eaten.
There's an old saying: radishes in the first heat, cabbage in the second.
The cabbage in the fields hadn't formed heads yet; they were all crisp, watery, large leaves.
