happy fisherman

Chapter 20 Mackerel Dumplings
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"Mom, it's me, I'm back." Bai Manchuan choked up.

"I'm thinner and darker!" Feng said with distress while touching his son's face.

"It's okay, I'll be back after a few days of rest."

I almost had accidents at sea several times, and it would have been impossible to come back if it wasn't for the support of consciousness.

The Bai Dinghai and Bai Dinglang families hurried over when they heard the news that the full ship was coming back. As soon as they entered the door, they saw the mother and son crying.

Yun's mouth persuaded: "It's good that the child comes back, don't cry."

"That's right, his third aunt, it's a good thing that the ship is back safely, and I should be happy." Mrs. Zhao also helped persuade.

Bai Beibei wiped the corners of his eyes and said, "Auntie, Auntie, my brother has caught a lot of fish and is making mackerel dumplings tonight. You can eat them here tonight."

"Wow, Spanish mackerel dumplings? My mouth is watering." Bo Dinghai's eldest son, Bo Beibei's lobby brother, Bai Manfeng, said with a smile.

Bo Dinghai has two sons and one daughter. His daughter, Bai Meisha, is 18 years old. She married to another fishing village three years ago and rarely comes back. The eldest son, Bai Manfeng, is 16 years old and is talking about marriage. The woman is a girl from Xia Fishing Village. The youngest son, Bai Manshou, is 15 years old and has reached the age of marriage.

"That's right, we haven't eaten mackerel dumplings for many years." Bai Dinglang's only son, Bai Mannian, also laughed.

When Mrs. Zhao gave birth to Bai at the age of one year, she had a difficult labor and hurt her body, so she did not conceive after giving birth to her son. Fortunately, although Bai Dinglang was impatient, he was a conscientious person. Instead of complaining about Mrs. Zhao, he cared even more. up.

"Okay, his second aunt, third aunt, let's make dumplings." Yun said with a smile.

When Yun and the others entered the kitchen, Bai Dinghai looked at Bai Manchuan with a serious face, and reprimanded him in a low voice: "Manchuan, you are too reckless! Your father is no longer here. If anything happens to you, you will let him What will your mother do if you have younger brothers and sisters?"

"Uncle, I know I was too impulsive, but I really didn't believe that my father was gone." Bai Manchuan said sadly. He didn't regret going to sea to find his father, because the only way to give up was to find him.

"Then did you hear about your father after you have been away for so long?" Bai Dinglang asked angrily: "Even people and boats were swept away by the typhoon, even if you have ten lives, you can't survive, you just like this Don't care about running out, and don't care what kind of chaos the butler's house is in?"

The Bo Manfeng brothers disagreed with Bai Manchuan's behavior of leaving for several months, so listening to the Bo Dinghai brothers reprimanding Bai Manchuan did not help.

After a while, Bai Manchuan said sadly: "Uncle, Uncle, I now believe that my father is gone."

"The boat is full, you should be more cautious in your actions in the future, you are the pillar of the family now, you can't mess around anymore." Bo Dinghai said earnestly.

"Uncle, Uncle, I will never do this again."

Hearing Bai Manchuan's assurance, Bo Beibei smiled in relief, and quietly retreated.

Bo Beibei returned to his family's fishing boat, took a wooden barrel from the boat into the space, poured a bucket of water into the fishing barn.

Bo Beibei was thinking that the wound on his foot would heal within a day after being washed with the water in the tank, so raising fish with this water should also improve the survival rate, right?

As soon as Bai Beibei came back to the door, Bai Yuzhu ran over sweating profusely.

"Beibei, is your brother really back?" Bai Yuzhu asked nervously, grabbing Bai Beibei's arm, she was afraid that the news was false.

"Sister Yuzhu, my brother is really back, and he is chatting with my uncle, second uncle, and cousin in the room." Bai Beibei didn't make fun of Yuzhu, because she knew that Yuzhu was having a hard time when her brother lost news.

"Great, I knew he would come back." Hearing this, the usually strong Bai Yuzhu shed tears of joy.

"Sister Yuzhu, come in. Tonight we make mackerel dumplings. You can eat them at my house."

Bai Yuzhu shook her head: "No."

Seeing that Bai Yuzhu was about to leave after finishing speaking, Bai Beibei was stunned: "Sister Yuzhu, why don't you go in and see my brother?"

"Another day." Bai Yuzhu said with a complicated expression, turned and left.

Bai Beibei looked at Bai Yuzhu's back and sighed softly, and went into the kitchen to learn how to make dumplings.

This is the advantage of having a large number of people. They can do everything quickly. After half an hour, a few cages of Spanish mackerel dumplings were brought into the main house.

Bo Beibei had already put away the bed, Feng put a few cages of dumplings on the stone bed, Bai Manfeng and Bai Mannian lit the oil lamps they brought from home, and everyone formed a circle on the stone bed and started eating .

"It's a pity that there are no leeks, otherwise the mackerel would taste better with leeks!" Feng laughed.

"Third aunt, these mackerel dumplings are fresh enough without leeks." Bai Mannian said vaguely with a big dumpling in his mouth.

"Eat slowly." Mrs. Zhao said distressedly as she looked at her wolf-eating son.

"If you want me to say, it would be nice to have a jug of wine and dumplings!" Bai Dinglang said.

Bai Dinghai also nodded with a smile: "I haven't drunk for many years."

"Uncle, Uncle, Mancang grows up and earns money to buy you wine!" Bai Mancang said after swallowing a dumpling, and he will earn a lot of money like his sister in the future.

"Haha~~Okay, we'll wait."

"Hehe, this kid has gotten into money's eyes." Feng smiled helplessly.

Ever since Bo Beibei came back from the county seat last night, Mancang had yelled "I want to make money when I grow up" so many times in one day that Feng's ears were callused.

"Mother, uncle, uncle, I caught a lot of fish this time, and I want to bring some to the town to sell tomorrow." Bai Manchuan said.

Beibei was right to remind, the fish tank is not big enough, and there are so many deep-sea fish, he is afraid that he will not be able to keep them alive, so he wants to sell some of the smaller fish first.

Bai Dinghai thought for a while, then nodded: "Alright, there should be an ox cart bringing firewood and water tomorrow morning, and you can go to town in their ox cart."

The sea is too far away from the mountains, and there is no fresh water available, so someone will send firewood and fresh water every two or three days.

Of course, it costs money.

Since Bai Dingtao's accident, the firewood and fresh water at home were delivered by Bai Dinghai and Bai Dinglang in turn, so Bo Beibei didn't think about it for a while.

The next day, Bai Manchuan boarded the fishing boat with two wooden barrels early, and Bai Beibei followed.

"Brother, can I go to town with you?"

"Tell me what you want, and I will buy it for you." When I went there, there was an ox cart to ride in, but it took me a long time to walk back. Bai Manchuan was worried that his sister would not be able to bear it.

"Brother, I don't know what to buy right now. I'll find out when I visit the town."

Bai Manchuan frowned, and asked, "I'll have to walk when I come back, and you'll be crying when the time comes."

(End of this chapter)