Being scolded as a poor widow, I relied on supernatural powers to counterattack in ancient times

Chapter 29 People here don't eat fish

The reason is simple. Fishing in this period, one is to cast a net, and the other is to fish, there is no other way.

Casting nets is a technical job. Most people don't know how to do it. Even if they can, they will get limited gains after a busy day. If you use this as a career, you can't afford to support your family.

Fishing is worse than casting nets. Farmers are busy and have no time to sit for a day. Even if they catch a few fish, they are not enough to eat. The main reason is that the fish are not very hungry.

A whole family is waiting to eat, who is willing to waste this effort?

There is a lot of farm work in the fields, and in the spare time, you can earn fifty yuan a day by carrying big bags at the dock, and you can count on your daily rations.

In Baiyunxi's memory, fish is bitter... Even if the villagers guard the river, they eat fish. Apart from the risk of going down the river, they also don't know how to kill fish.

In a word, it is not worthwhile for the poor to eat fish.

Carrying the basket, he led Yaya back home, poured the small river shrimp into the basin, kept them in clean water, and put the two crucian carp in a separate basin.

"Mom, how did you catch the fish?"

Mrs. Du came in with a basket and saw the flopping fish in the basin, her eyes widened in surprise, and when she saw her mother-in-law's wet trousers, she panicked,
"Mom, are you going down the river?"

'My mother-in-law has worked hard enough for her stuttering. '

Bai Yunxi glanced at Du Shi,

"I didn't go into deep water, just by the river. When I was picking celery, I found shrimp, so I caught some."

Du Shi nodded, naturally not daring to refute her mother-in-law.

"Mom, the chicks from Third Wife's natal family won't hatch until a few days later, and she said she would keep five of them for us, and Third Wife will give us a spoonful of black noodles."

The black noodles of this period were the worst rations. They were also a mixture of sorghum noodles, sweet potato noodles, wheat bran, and impurities. They had a bad taste and scratched the throat.

But it is also the most common staple food on the table of farmers.

"Remember this love, we will have to pay it back later."

Bai Yunxi looked at a piece of tofu and a scoop of brown noodles in the basket, and explained softly.

"It's just right. You mix the black noodles with vegetable leaves and bake them into cakes. Then stew crucian carp tofu soup. First fry the crucian carp with lard to make it more fragrant. If there is no lard, dry roast it. There are also small river prawns, which are also baked into dried shrimps." slices, save some for Yaya as snacks, and grind the rest into powder, put them in jars, and add some to make soups and dishes later to enhance the freshness.”

"Good girl,"

Du Shi looked at the prawns in the pot, but it would be more fragrant if they were fried with lard, but there was no such condition at home.

Thinking that Mrs. Du would not clean up the fish, Bai Yunxi picked up a fish and showed her. She scraped off the scales, threw away the internal organs, and removed the gills. It is also the key to getting rid of the fishy smell. One fish will be cleaned up.

Du looked at her mother-in-law's operation in surprise, clicked her tongue and said,
"It turns out that cleaning up the fish is so troublesome, no wonder the fish used to be bad."

I used to eat fish without removing the gills, let alone the tendons.

"There is gall in the belly of the fish. Be careful when cleaning it up. If it is broken, the fish will suffer. After you learn it, do it like this. All fish are basically the same."

There are few fish species in this period, such as carp, crucian carp, grass carp, and catfish are rare.

"Thank you for your advice, my daughter-in-law must study hard." Du Shi nodded in surprise, his eyes hard to hide his joy.

'I just don't know if the mother-in-law is willing to teach her because she is the eldest daughter-in-law or because she trusts her? '

Hearing Du's voice, Baiyunxi was stunned, yes, it is also a technical job to clean up fish in this period.

(End of this chapter)