To Your Island

Chapter 43: seafood flavor

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It was only later that Wang Jiexiang realized how eloquent Yin Xian was.

He is selling insurance. Once he puts on that "professional" mask, he is a typical person talking nonsense.

Yin Xian is best at playing both soft and hard ways, slapping someone with a slap; and he is bold, even if he has no ability to cash, he still dares to write empty promises to others. If he deliberately wants to deceive people, few people can escape.

As for why he entered this industry, there is another source.

After graduating from university, Yin Xian worked in an auto repair factory. After resigning from there, he started his own business, failed to get the business off the ground, and lost all his savings. The lessons of failure let him discover his own shortcomings. He doesn't understand the market, has no connections, and most importantly, he doesn't know how to deal with people at all.

Regarding this point, no one can lead him on the road, Yin Xian can only rely on work experience to explore.

He entered the sales industry through the job of selling insurance. Through this job, he began to learn sales skills, learn how to do business, and exercise his ability to deal with people.

In terms of career choice, the choices of Wang Jiexiang and Yin Xian are in opposite directions.

The two part-time job experiences made Wang Jiexiang yearn for the kind of work that does not rely on interpersonal communication, but can earn income through hard work.

After being unemployed for a while, she found a job and worked in a small seafood factory.

Trucks will deliver seafood to the factory from time to time, and those freshly caught seafood must be divided into categories according to size and type. Stale seafood will be eliminated. After picking out, some of them will be processed cheaply, and some will be thrown away directly. When the customer's order arrives, Wang Jiexiang is also responsible for calling to notify, helping to pack and move the goods.

It's a pretty physical job. At first, the factory manager saw that Wang Jiexiang was thin and small, and suspected that she could not handle the shovel for shoveling seafood. Wang Jiexiang said that he had done farm work in the countryside, and his strength was no less than that of other migrant men.

The factory manager no longer finds excuses to shirk, anyway, the workload is fixed, she said it can be done, he has no reason not to let her do it.

Since then, Wang Jiexiang has lived a life of getting up earlier than Yin Xian and returning home later than him.

She promised herself before that she would do housework when she stayed, and Wang Jiexiang kept her word. Except for dinner, she came back too late, and Yin Xian had to do it by herself, and she took care of the rest of the daily chores by herself.

When Yin Xian got up, Wang Jiexiang was already drying his clothes outside.

Urban villages are not like ordinary residential buildings. There are no balconies here, and you have to pull a rope to dry clothes.

A short thick rope was tied between the two houses, and the person who first tied the rope and dried his clothes occupied that space, and the neighbors knew it. However, the houses on the left and right sides are close together, the aisles are narrow, and the place where clothes can be dried is pitifully small, so the most convenient place in front of the door must be fought for every day.

Wang Jiexiang was holding the clothes pole, trying to hang several clothes on it at once, but the pole was dangling.

Yin Xian opened the door and came out, took the clothes she hadn't hung up, stretched his arms, and hooked the hanger firmly to the clothesline.

After drying the clothes, they brushed their teeth and washed their faces at the same time.

The two squatted side by side and took turns using the faucet. Wang Jiexiang washed her face faster than Yin Xian did. When the towel was soaked in water, she wiped her face back and forth twice, and it was over.

He helped her twist the towel, and she went back to the house to cook breakfast first.

Generally, they eat porridge for breakfast, with mustard, white radish, and occasionally add some colored beans to the rice: mung beans, red beans, black beans, three kinds of beans together.

Wang Jiexiang doesn't like black beans the least. With black beans, the whole pot of porridge is dyed black. The cooking time in the morning was short, and she couldn't cook it well every time. The black beans were raw in the mouth, and Yin Xian often chewed them with a look of sullen expression.

At noon and evening, the Seafood Factory has box lunches.

After get off work in the evening, Yin Xian eats first by himself.

As long as he smelled a strong smell of seafood in the air, it must be that Wang Jiexiang, who had returned home, was nearby.

Not only does she smell of seafood, but occasionally she actually brings back some seafood, such as fish, snails, oysters... most often, she brings crabs.

Among the crabs eliminated in the factory, those crabs that are not good in appearance or are too small can be eaten after being boiled. Wang Jiexiang will pick up some and take them home every now and then.

The first time she brought something back, she did so secretly.

That night, Wang Jiexiang was the last one to get off work in the factory. When cleaning up the garbage, she saw some of the unwanted swimming crabs moving, and felt that throwing them away was a waste, so she packed one in a plastic bag and took it away.

When Wang Jiexiang arrived home, Yin Xian was up. She excitedly showed him the crab she "stolen".

After hearing her explain the origin of this crab, Yin Xian resolutely refused to touch it.

"You eat by yourself."

Wang Jiexiang was obviously disappointed: "Why, are you allergic to crabs? Don't you like crabs?"

He shook his head.

"Then why don't you eat it? I brought it for you." She took out the crab from the bag.

It was held in her hand, looking very docile.

Facing the aggrieved Wang Jiexiang, Yin Xian sighed: "It's not a good habit to be greedy for petty gains. Even if you take away the seafood that is about to be thrown away, it is not in accordance with the company's regulations. Besides, it is something that was lost by others. It is dirty. You pick up the trash and go home…”

"I will apologize to the factory manager tomorrow."

The crab was put back into the plastic bag by Wang Jiexiang.

Pouring her mouth, she couldn't help defending herself a few words.

"It's just that it's actually edible. I didn't think too much about it. I thought it could be a supper, so I brought it back."

"Although it was picked up from the garbage dump, it will be cleaned after a brush... Alas, I understand what you mean, let me raise it."

The second half of Yin Xian's sentence "You pick up the trash and go home, and you will lose face if your colleagues see it" is no longer in line with the time.

Seeing that he had nothing to say, she left despondently with the plastic bag.

Filling water into her bucket, Wang Jiexiang put the crabs in.

After taking a shower in the public bathroom, she washed her clothes again.

Yin Xian never remembers to turn off the lights. The headlights are turned on in the house, which wastes electricity. The advantage is that she can see with her eyes while washing clothes outside the door.

Finally washing off the smell of seafood, when Wang Jiexiang entered the room, Yin Xian who was lying on the bed just turned over.

She hugged the bucket and put it next to her bunk.

Without looking at Yin Xian, Wang Jiexiang turned off the light and fell asleep.

It was cold, her hands and feet were cold, and the floor was cold.

She turned her back to his bed, thinking that he disliked her and her crab.

Let's move out when the salary is paid at the end of the month, Wang Jiexiang thought.

When she went to work the next day, Wang Jiexiang approached the factory manager and confessed to him what happened last night.

"Those sifted seafood, if you want, you can take it home." The factory manager was very generous, and didn't take her mistakes seriously at all.

Before getting off work, he even took the initiative to mention to Wang Jiexiang that all the fish and shrimp thrown away can be taken.

Wang Jiexiang thanked him.

She wanted to go back to Yin Xian's house, and she didn't want to be disliked by him, so she left work empty-handed.

Since the two lived in the same house, Wang Jiexiang could see the road clearly when she turned the downhill alley, and the overhead light at home was always on.

The light is not too bright, just a small one, orange-yellow.

Yin Xian crouched next to the faucet and brushed his teeth.

The strong salty smell of sea water made him notice her instantly.

Their eyes met, and he spoke first.

"I cooked too much porridge at night, drink some to sleep."

Wang Jiexiang should be fine.

Knowing that she smelled bad, she quickly bypassed him, went back to the room to get a change of clothes, and went to take a shower first.

After getting out of the bath, Wang Jiexiang put on a towel and went back to her room first, planning to change the water for her crabs.

The crabs are gone.

The buckets of crabs were washed and left in place.

But the crab, gone.

Probably died and was thrown away by Yin Xian.

It is a dying crab with a broken leg. It is very normal to keep it in tap water, not sea water. After a day, it cannot hold on and dies.

Wang Jiexiang curled her lips, restraining herself from thinking maliciously.

While doing laundry, she glanced slightly at the trash can outside the house.

The bag that was just changed in the bucket, the garbage was dumped.

Unable to describe how she felt in her heart, Wang Jiexiang took a deep breath and brushed her clothes extra vigorously.

Back in the room, before going to bed, she saw the pot on the small table.

— Yin Xian seemed to say that he cooked too much porridge.

When she lifted the lid of the pot, she could smell the fragrant fresh and sweet smell.

Stirring with a spatula, Wang Jiexiang saw the crab legs.

This is a pot of seafood porridge.

Seafood porridge with crab added.

He ate that crab!

Didn't it say that it was picked up from the garbage dump, dirty, and not eaten

She looked back at Yin Xian, his eyes were closed, breathing evenly.

Wang Jiexiang smiled.

She filled a bowl of porridge, chewed softly, and swallowed.

Delicious and fragrant.

And it was very warm.

While drinking porridge, she muttered to herself in a breathy voice.

"Excellent, this person is really excellent..."

"What did you say?"

Hearing her speak, Yin Xian opened his eyes.

"cough."

Wang Jiexiang was choked up.

Wiping her mouth, she replied incoherently.

"I, I'm Kua, seafood porridge! It's really good, and I mean delicious."

"Oh." His eyes closed again.

Wang Jiexiang felt lost in her heart: Are you asleep? Why don't you ask more questions