Big businessman and little fisherman

Chapter 19
Lu Yange picked up Lu Quan who came back from collecting the fishing nets and boarded the boat. Qiu Shi had already cooked the pig intestines.

The trotters and pig bones were also put into the pot together, blanched in water, and left for a while.

Lu Yange and Lu Xiaoyu squatted side by side by the stove, watching Qiu Shi turn the pig's trotters and big bones in the boiling water, skimming off the foam.

"Do you want to make meat today?" Lu Quan carried the bucket and placed it at Qiu's feet, "Fish is not so easy to catch recently, so it's not worth buying if you only have these. Let Xiaoli clean up and dry the fish in the sun." .”

"Ah."

Qiu looked at the wooden barrel at his feet and sighed.The small half bucket of fish is very fresh, even if it is not big, if it is sold in the town, even if it can be sold, it is estimated that it will not sell for a few pennies.

"Xiao Li, go and clean up the fish."

Lu Xiaoli responded, carrying a bucket to go to the river to kill fish, Lu Yange followed: "Second Sister, this miscellaneous fish can be used as small fish pot stickers."

Jiangba is near the water, and the fish balls are well made, as are the small fish pot stickers.

Delicious miscellaneous fish, put in the pot with onion, ginger and garlic, and put a circle of corn tortillas or noodle cakes on the side of the pot, which is the small fish pot stickers that locals often eat.

The Lu family has boats and eats more fish than rice.

Lu Yange especially loves the small fish pot stickers made by Qiu's. Even the pancakes pasted on the side of the pot, she thinks are better than the pancakes steamed in ordinary times.

"Eat, eat, eat, you will know how to eat."

Lu Xiaoli glared at Lu Yange: "Eating pig intestines and fish at night, why don't you go to heaven?"

After finishing speaking, regardless of whether Lu Yange was angry or not, he flicked his braids and went to the stone steps by the river to kill fish with a wooden bucket.

Lu Yangge watched Lu Xiaoli angrily go to kill the fish, but he was not angry, and turned to look for Qiu Shi.

"Mom, let's make stewed fat sausage later, I'll teach you how to do it."

Thinking of the stewed sausage, Lu Yange wanted to salivate. When she was in the orphanage, she liked it.Because the orphanage has its own braised meat stall, and the vegetables and meat can't be sold out, so they bring them back to make tooth sacrifices for them.

Among them, her favorite is the stewed fat sausage. When she bites it down, the rich sauce flavor mixed with rich fat suddenly overflows in the mouth, and the soft and chewy taste is like dancing on the tip of the tongue, which is addictive.

It's a pity that she only bought two or three kinds of aniseed ingredients, and the ingredients are not complete, so she doesn't know whether the taste will be affected.

"Okay, listen to Xiao Si, just make those braised sausages, if Xiao Si says to do it, mother will do it."

As long as it was mentioned by Lu Yange, Qiu would not refuse. She quickly poured the pig's feet and pig bones that had been boiled in boiling water into a pot aside to cool.

I ate pig intestines at noon, so save the pig feet and bones for the day after tomorrow.

I ate pig intestines today, and I just ate pig feet and pig bones at the Dragon Boat Festival the day after tomorrow...

It's rare to eat meat at home, and we can't live without it. If we eat today and tomorrow, it's just right to stay in the day after tomorrow.

There is a meat dish, which can be regarded as a holiday.

Just thinking about Qiu's heart palpitations, when did their life go so well?
You can eat meat every day!
Lu Xiaoli squatted on the stone beside the boat to kill the fish, she glanced at Lu Yange, and then at the steaming clay stove emerging from it.

She wanted to be angry, but the corners of her mouth curled up uncontrollably.

Lu Xiaoli was annoyed that Xiaosi had spent so much copper without even asking, and was also happy that the family could eat meat.

I can finally eat meat!

Between these two complex emotions, Lu Xiaoli was at a loss for a moment, not knowing whether to be angry with Xiaosi or to praise Xiaosi.

Just, very sad!
According to Lu Yange's instructions, Qiu Shi blanch the pig's large intestine, then put salt, onion, ginger, garlic, spices, pepper, and stew in the pot.

Xiao Si said that it can be eaten after the stew is tasty. Of course, if the stew is finished, it will be more delicious if it is cut into pieces, then added with sauce and stir-fried with spicy peppers.

Everyone on their fishing boat can eat spicy food, except Lu Xiaowu who is still breastfeeding.

Pig intestines were stewed in the pot, and the smell of the meat had a slight stench, which aroused the envy of several nearby families.

The whole family of Lu couldn't get enough of it, they couldn't even eat, and they still cooked porridge and stewed meat.

Hearing Li Canguan's mother say that the Lu family stewed pig intestines, the envy was not so strong.

Pig large intestine, that thing, no one likes to eat it in a good year.

It really stinks.

It also wastes oil and firewood.

They could smell the scent coming from Lu's house, and they couldn't help feeling greedy again.

In the past two years, when I was hungry, I even gnawed on the bark, let alone pig intestines.If they hadn't lived by Honghu Lake, they might have lost their lives long ago.

No matter how stinky that thing is, it is also meaty!

Some people moved their minds, why don't they buy a pair tomorrow and try it out.

Cheap anyway.

"Father, mother, this is the money for selling reed leaves today."

In the room, Lu Yange took out the money bag in his arms, opened it, and poured out the copper coins inside.

A pile of copper plates clanged and fell on the table, and everyone in the family focused their eyes on it.

Even Lu Xiaowu, who was lying on the bed, stopped moaning and chirping, but listened to the crisp sound of copper coins falling on the table.

"So many copper coins!"

Lu Xiaoli stretched out his hand to touch them lightly one by one, his fingers were slightly cool, feeling like he was dreaming.

"not much."

Lu Yangge looked at Lu Xiaoli's counting of one copper coin and one copper coin, "Today, we only sold 65 Wen of reed leaves."

They picked three baskets of reed leaves in total, gave two handfuls to the grocery shopping lady, and sold the rest for just 65 renminbi.

Lu Xiaoli had already calculated these accounts many times on the way back.

Seeing this pile of copper coins in front of her now, she still couldn't believe it.

65 articles is not much?
Lu Quan and Qiu looked at each other, it was really childish.

It never occurred to them that the reed leaves all over the river bank could be sold for money.

You know, life is bad now, and fish are hard to catch and not easy to sell. When Lu Quan's fishing income is good, his daily income is only ten or twenty renminbi.

If the weather is bad or the network is empty, there will be no income for that day.

It was also difficult to go to the wharf to do the work. Yesterday, Chen Pingan and Chen Pingan were busy for half a day, but the Luojia cloth store only gave them ten cents, and deducted half of it.

It's not that their hands are rough and the fabric is scratched.

The conscience of heaven and earth, the cloth is wrapped in something, they don't dare to look at it, how can it be scratched.

Lu Yangge watched Lu Xiaoli count all the copper coins over and over again, the sunlight outside the house shone on Lu Xiaoli's hands, his dark and thin hands were holding onto the money and he couldn't bear to put it down.

A handful of copper coins in her hand were so overflowing that they were about to leak out between her fingers, so scared that Lu Xiaoli carefully put them back on the table, fearing that if she accidentally dropped one on the ground, she would roll to that corner and never find it again.

"I bought the pig's feet and big bones for twenty yuan, and the piece of cloth, which was sold cheaply in the store. I bought five feet for seventeen yuan. I also bought aniseed ingredients, which cost three yuan..."

17 Wen bought five feet of cloth, which was very cheap.

Everyone was a little surprised and felt that it was a big deal.

Lu Xiaoli wanted to ask why the aniseed ingredients were so expensive, and suddenly remembered the few bark fruits that Xiao Si took out when his mother was cooking pig intestines, and said they were aniseed ingredients.

Just something like that, bark and dried fruit is worth three pennies?
Three pennies, in the past, you can buy two big meat buns, three sesame seed cakes, six chickens...

What a prodigal!
Lu Xiaoli didn't want to talk for a moment, she thought that buying meat and cloth was already too much.

Unexpectedly, Xiao Si could go too far, buying a small handful of aniseed fruits for three pennies, just to stew a pig's large intestine!
(End of this chapter)