1983 Small Island, Starting From a Large Farmer

Chapter 23 Buying Big Fish

Looking at the iron bucket full of fresh food, since we even have things like sea clams, we might as well show off our cooking skills.

　　He was too much of a **** in his previous life. When Xiaoying was pregnant, he was often away from home. Whenever he finished selling goods, he would fool around outside with Agui.

 Eat and drink well in Shangfeng Town.

Zhou Xiaoying often cooks alone, and almost all three meals are inseparable from dried salted fish.

 Sometimes a meal lasts for a day or two.

When he was working illegally in the island country, he made no money in the past few years. In order to repay the loan sharks, she didn't even have money to buy rice. She often ate sweet potato noodles with dried salted fish.

Thinking of this, Li Duoyu felt guilty. Looking at the thin Zhou Xiaoying in front of her, Li Duoyu decided to give her a good supplement:

“Let’s go and take you to buy delicious food. Chef Li will show you his skills today.”

“Uncle, is it true? Can you buy me two candies later? I haven’t eaten them for a long time?”

“You’ve almost lost all your teeth and you still eat candy. If you really want it, I’ll buy you some pagoda candy.”

Li Haoran's face turned green when he heard the name of this candy. After eating this candy last time, he pulled out a lot of terrible things.

 There was a long one that was still stuck and couldn't come out. Finally, his mother used tongs to forcefully pinch it out. It hurt.

 Before going home, Li Duoyu went to the pier first.

To make fish balls, the ingredients in his bucket will definitely not be enough, and he will have to buy two big fish.

On the way to the dock, many fishermen greeted him and praised him for taking a photo with the leader.

But the fishermen said that he was successful, but in the next sentence, they attributed all the credit to Chen Dongqing.

 The reason is that when Zhu Xiuhua went to weave fishing nets early this morning, he always heard someone begging for Li Duoyu.

 Just explain it to the folks right away.

 It was said that it was all arranged by Chen Dongqing. If Li Yaoguo had gone there that day, it would have been her husband who reported it.

As word spread, the villagers began to have the illusion that if they were the ones who went there that day, they could also take photos with the leaders and submit them to the newspaper.

 Due to the dispatch of anti-smuggling ships a few days ago.

 The "big ships" have not dared to come these days.

 Some fishermen who were selling goods saw that they had nothing to do, so they started fishing again, and the amount of seafood at the pier also increased.

 Maybe the fishing season hasn’t arrived yet.

Li Duoyu did not see any large yellow croaker, but he did see a lot of skinned fish, hairtail fish, and baskets of swimming crabs.

Now is the time when swimming crabs are on the market, and the price is very cheap. Here on Dandan Island, you can buy a pound for 20 cents.

And these crabs are almost not tied with ropes. They are all placed in large buckets. As many as you want, they will be fished out directly for you.

However, in September, the female swimming crabs are more delicious, and in October, the male swimming crabs are more delicious. Li Duoyu spent 50 cents to pick out two kilograms of female crabs.

 Following that, I bought a big owl from the stall next door. The local fishermen called it rice fish.

 In this day and age, the bigger the fish, the more expensive it is. At this pier, the unit price of this rice fish should be the highest, selling for 50 cents per pound.

 The rice fish that Li Duoyu bought weighed fifteen kilograms and cost more than seven yuan.

 After hearing this price.

Zhou Xiaoying kept tugging on Li Duoyu's clothes. She couldn't bear to spend the money. This fish was more than her salary for the previous week's class.

Li Duoyu saw her anxious look, so he secretly whispered something to her in her ear.

 After hearing that Li Duoyu had so much private money.

Zhou Xiaoying was stunned for a few seconds, and then said seriously: "Then let's buy these, and don't buy the others. You will spend a lot of money raising kelp in the future."

Li Duoyu nodded in agreement, turned around and entered the pork shop near the pier.

Zhou Xiaoying was angry and helpless, but there was nothing she could do about it. He earned the money and it was his business to spend it how he wanted to.    Due to the shipment of goods.

 Many people on Dandan Island have become rich. People on the island prefer pork to seafood.

 The meat stalls are doing very good business every day. One pig a day is often not enough to feed the fishermen on the island, and at least five pigs must be prepared during holidays.

Little Fatty stood in front of the meat stall, staring at the pork belly and drooling. Pork belly was the most expensive in the meat stall. It costs two pieces per pound, lean meat one piece per pound, ribs 9 cents, and thigh bones 7 cents.

 Pork belly is the most expensive, and everyone likes this fat but not greasy meat. Braised pork tastes best when cooked with soy sauce.

Pork offal is the cheapest, and sometimes pork liver and lungs are given for free.

Over the years, Zhu Xiuhua’s money from Li Haoran’s family has been used to buy imported cloth and make clothes. The food has always been poor. If there was too little oil and water, he would go to his grandparents’ house to get food.

 But my grandparents are also very economical. They don’t necessarily buy meat once every ten days and a half.

 After seeing my uncle buy two kilograms of meat.

Li Haoran swallowed his saliva and followed Li Duoyu closely, even more afraid that his uncle would disappear later.

Also, he plans to hang out with his uncle in the future, although he is a little afraid that it is his class teacher's aunt, Zhou Xiaoying.

 But in order to eat delicious food.

 Li Haoran feels that some difficulties can still be overcome.

 After Li Duoyu and his party returned home.

My father and mother-in-law have also come back from the tidal flat. My father is lying on the rocking chair to rest, with a cattail leaf fan covering his face, taking a nap.

While Chen Huiying was feeding broken mud snails to the chickens, she saw Li Duoyu carrying a bucket of small seafood, a large sea fish, crabs and pork, but she didn't say anything.

 But when she saw that the corners of Zhou Xiaoying's skirt were wet, her face suddenly lost its beauty and she gave her a cold look.

Zhou Xiaoying realized something was wrong and ran away. She was different from the second sister-in-law.

No matter how fierce my mother-in-law is, she would never scold her second sister-in-law in front of her, but she is different.

Zhou Xiaoying also grew up in this family since she was a child. Just like her daughter, she never shows mercy when it comes to beatings. How could she be polite to you when she scolds you?

Seeing that my mother was angry, Li Duoyu hurried up and said with a playful smile: "Mom, where are the things we used to make fish balls?"

 “What are you doing with that thing?”

 “Of course it’s fish balls.”

"You know how to make fish balls? It's very difficult to make fish balls. I may not even be able to do it well."

“Don’t underestimate your son, okay? Maybe your son is born to be a cook. In the future, TV stations may come to invite me to cook.”

“You’re like you. For the three years of junior high school, you had to rely on Xiaoying to cook for you and be the chef.”

Although Chen Huiying was thinking about it, she still went back to the house and took out all the things for making fish balls.

I also stopped by a nearby well and fetched a bucket of water to clean myself.

Unexpectedly, after she handed the things to Li Duoyu, the prodigal boy shouted again: "Mom, kill another chicken for me."

Chen Huiying was really angry. She bought so much food and even killed chickens. If the neighbors saw it, they would think they were celebrating the New Year early.

“No, these chickens I raised are for Xiaoying’s confinement period.”

 After hearing this sentence.

Lao Li, who was taking a nap while lying on the rocking chair, suddenly looked towards the room in the middle and breathed a sigh of relief when he heard that there was no movement.

Li Duoyu and Li Haoran couldn't help laughing when they saw this scene.

“Grandpa, don’t be afraid, my mother is going to weave fishing nets and will come back at night.”

 (End of this chapter)