After weighing, he bought 100 kilograms of cheap small fish and 20 kilograms of shrimps from Acai, all of which he intended to use as bait. He still had more than ten kilograms of food from today's traps in his bucket.
I think we can catch a little more when we go out to trawling at night, which should be enough. I can just put these goods in the account and deduct them when the time comes.
After Ah Cai finished recording the bill, he gave him two cigarettes and chatted with him for a while, "Brother, I haven't seen you for a few days. Everything was quiet these two days. Why didn't you go? Why did you only buy so little?"
"My father-in-law broke his leg, so I accompanied my wife to visit him and helped him with work for two days. I just came back this morning. The traps had been in the sea for a few days and the fish had gone bad and had to be thrown away, so there wasn't much left."
"Oh, I see. Then we should go back and take a look. Recently, there are a lot more people doing longline fishing in the village. My small fish and shrimp are selling very well. It's only because you came early today. If you come later, they will be gone. If you want them next time, let me know in advance and I will save some for you. Otherwise, it will be difficult to get your bait."
"Okay, thank you very much."
This thank you was quite sincere, not as casual as usual.
It would be a problem if there is no bait. His 1,000 hooks require a lot of bait. It would be best if you could give him a heads up and leave some for him in advance.
Otherwise, if he goes to buy it somewhere else, the price might be a little higher, and it might be hard to buy. Most people keep the small fish and shrimps to dry themselves, and few people sell them.
I heard that some people in the village couldn't get enough bait, so most people used sardines and herrings as bait. These are the cheapest fish, but if they could use small fish and shrimps to make up the number, they could save a little more.
Although this guy is cunning, he seems to be quite courageous at the moment!
Ye Yaodong chatted with him for a while, and after smoking a cigarette, he saw another fishing boat coming in. He had to be busy collecting the catch, so he said goodbye and left.
There seemed to be more than ten pounds of sea cicadas in the bucket, and his family certainly couldn't finish them all. After returning home, he poured a bowl for his eldest and second sisters-in-law next door, which seemed to be a pound of food for each of them.
Two kilograms were sent to the old house, and two kilograms were also sent to Linji. A Guang had a small family, so he only poured one bowl.
He kept about one kilogram for himself, and seeing that there were more than two kilograms left, he sent it to Uncle Lin Jingye's house, and asked him to come back after dinner to move the rolling wheels.
Lin Xiuqing didn't feel bad when she saw him giving away all the food. She would have felt bad if he had kept all the food at home.
If you want to make this thing delicious, it will consume a lot of oil, so it’s better to give it away.
"Honey, shall we fry a bowl of cicadas tonight? That's all. Frying them is perfect to go with wine."
"Well, how about this prawn, boiled?"
Ye Yaodong smiled flatteringly, "Cut it in half and add some scallion oil? I blanch shrimps every day, but this shrimp is so big, how about some scallion oil?"
Lin Xiuqing rolled her eyes at him and said, "You are the only one who knows how to eat. You save all the good things for yourself to eat, and you don't feel bad about it."
"Food is the most important thing for people. Am I not thinking about improving the food at home?"
"What's wrong with the food at home?"
"Just tell me whether you will do it or not!"
Lin Xiuqing glanced at him without saying anything. He took the shrimps and cicadas in and rinsed them. Then, following his instructions, he cut the shrimps from top to bottom into two halves. He kept four and cut them in the same way.
There was rice cooking in the pot, so I put a few sticks on it to steam it.
Ye Yaodong stretched his head and looked behind her with some pride, then took his little son who was hugging her thigh away and said, "Go play with your turtle, or I'll stew it tonight."
The eldest son was playing with his cousins at the door. When he heard this, he rushed in and took the basin of turtle in his arms. He looked at him warily and said with his neck stiff, "You said you wouldn't eat it. Feed it to me."
Ye Yaodong rolled his eyes and only half listened to the instructions. He was too lazy to pay attention to this idiot and went to the back door with the bucket.
In addition to small fish and shrimps, there are also two large fish, which can be killed and pickled as salted fish to go with rice. You can also take some and cook hot and sour fish soup in the evening.
He felt that he was becoming more and more like a good family man. After returning from the sea, he would help kill the fish. Other men would sit with their feet up and wait to be served after work.
For example, his eldest brother and second brother, although they did not wait to be served as soon as they came back, they rarely helped to kill fish when they came back. They would quickly take a bath, then sit at the table and drink a few cups, and then go back to the room to lie down and rest after eating.
I only help with housework when I'm not out at sea, and that's the best I can do.
Generally speaking, no matter whether men in the village can earn money or not, they are the bosses at home and the water for washing feet must be brought to them.
After Ye Yaodong finished processing the fish, he gave it to Lin Xiuqing to cook it, and then he went into the house to take a shower.
While taking a shower, he heard a commotion in the next room again. All he heard was his second sister-in-law's loud voice, but not his second brother's voice. He didn't know what was going on. Although his second sister-in-law used to be a bit fussy, she was generally okay with it and would never yell at his second brother.
When he came out of the shower, he could still hear some banging and banging next door. He looked at his wife with a questioning look.
Lin Xiuqing took the fried cicadas out of the pot and whispered, "My second sister-in-law went back to her parents' home this afternoon and seemed to have heard that cousin Meiying's family owed a lot of money, so she went to her house to ask for the money. It seems that she didn't get it, and she was unhappy and had a stinky face. As soon as my second brother came back, she started to scold him."
"Oh, why did I only hear her scolding? I didn't hear my second brother's voice."
As Ye Yaodong spoke, he took the big bowl from her hand, grabbed a cicada and put it in his mouth. As a result, the hot cicada rolled around in his mouth. It took a while for it to no longer be hot before he chewed it and swallowed it.
"It's very hot right out of the pot, be careful not to burn your lips. The noise next door should be gone soon, let's eat first."
"Well, don't worry about them. You won't get the money back for sure."
Ye Yaodong used the tip of his tongue to push against the roof of his mouth, which was a bit uncomfortable, as if the skin had been burned. "Blow it for me, it seems to have been burned."
As he spoke, he squatted down, his mouth open...
Lin Xiuqing rolled her eyes at him, ignored him, took the bowl from his hand, walked to the table, and called her two sons who were playing with turtles to eat.
"When your son's mouth is burned by rice, you can blow it for him."
He followed her, and when she ignored him, he continued, "Then why don't you blow it at night when the child is asleep?"
"Dad, can I help you blow it?"
Ye Yaodong gave him a look of disdain, "What does this have to do with you? Sit down and eat!"
"Yangyang, blow on your father. He burned his mouth." Lin Xiuqing stuffed her youngest son directly into his arms.
Ye Yaodong was forced to take it. He watched his son come close to him with his mouth open, opening and closing it to blow air, and his saliva spraying on his face. He was immediately disgusted and quickly carried him away.
"Ah, stop blowing, stop blowing~ That's enough, that's enough~ Sit back next to your mother..."
As soon as he put his youngest son down, he quickly wiped the saliva off his face.
Lin Xiuqing glanced at him with a smile in her eyes, and pretended nothing had happened as she invited the two children to eat.
She seasoned the sea cicadas, marinated them for a while, then coated them with sweet potato starch and fried them after the oil in the pan was hot. The fried sea cicadas were light yellow, crispy and had a fragrant aroma. As soon as the two children sat down, they immediately reached out to grab the sea cicadas.
The crispy and crunchy taste immediately won their love. They grabbed several and laid them in front of each other, fearing that they would be gone if they were late. This was a bad habit left over from the time when they used to eat at the old house. As long as there was something delicious, the children would rush to grab some and put it in front of them.
"Go slowly, it's hot. No one's going to snatch it from you. There's a big bowl over there."
After hearing this, the two children also thought it was right. Now that it was just their family eating together, no one would fight over the food.
Ye Yaodong felt as if the skin on his upper jaw was really burned. He reached out to touch it and tore it off. A small piece of white skin was torn off.
"Look, I didn't lie to you. I really got burned."
"Who made you so anxious? It will be fine in two days."
"Then blow it?"
Lin Xiuqing glanced at him and gave him a look, telling him to figure it out for himself!
Ye Yaodong felt there was hope.
You can't blame him for being shameless, it's because he has been eating a lot of nutritious food at his mother-in-law's house these days!
After the two children fell asleep at night, he skillfully moved a nest for them...
Lin Xiuqing looked at the person approaching, pushed his shoulder, and whispered, "Can't you just be quiet?"
"It's that turtle that's a bit nutritious..."
"Don't touch..."
"Blow it and it will fly away, wipe it and it will cost you 180,000 yuan..."
Lin Xiuqing blushed instantly, "What did you say..."
"Nothing, just what you thought. There's one more sentence..."
"What?"
"Shake yourself, live to be ninety-nine..."
"???"
She came to her senses instantly and blushed, "You're going out to sea at night..."
"It doesn't matter, I'll be there soon..."