Seeing Mr. Yang mending the fishing net, he asked, "Where is dad?"
"I haven't woken up yet."
"Dad didn't say there was going to be a night hunt today, right?"
Yang smiled and said, "I said I would rest for two days. I was busy until this morning. After delivering the whitebait, I came back and slept until now."
Huo Xi breathed a sigh of relief immediately, fearing that her father would turn into a desperate man.
"I stayed up all night. Sister, please mend my brother-in-law's fishing net." Yang Fu poked his head into the cabin, but did not go in. He sat down at the stern of the boat to help his sister mend the fishing net.
"I know." Yang responded.
Huo Nian ate with a small bowl of food. He had not eaten since Huo Xi and Yang Fu got on the boat. He sat quietly on the deck and listened to their conversation.
Huo Xi glanced at the bowl he was holding: "What are you eating?" There were lumps in them.
"It's whitebait. My sister will eat one, and uncle will eat it too." He grabbed a fried brown thing and stuffed it into the mouths of Huo Xi and Yang Fu.
"Is this whitebait?" Huo Xi tilted her head back, not letting him put it into his mouth, and took it with his hand.
"Yes, it's whitebait. Mom wrapped it in batter and fried it in oil. It's delicious! Sister, you can eat it."
Huo Xi looked at the dough in his hand and stuffed it into his mouth. It was charred, crispy and tasted very good.
"Is it delicious? I've already eaten half a bowl. This is reserved for my sister and uncle."
"It's delicious. Our Nian'er is so sensible." Yang Fu praised him while chewing.
Pi Xiaozi immediately became proud after receiving the compliment: "I also caught it last night." The whitebait in this bowl may be the ones he caught.
"Tomorrow I will let my mother fry it and eat it." He pinched one with his little hands and fed it to Yang Fu, and then pinched another to feed Huo Xi. Seeing that they all ate, he also pinched one and put it into his mouth. His little mouth was bulging, and he was so full of food.
With relish.
Huo Xi glanced at Mrs. Yang and saw that her mother looked at Huo Nian with a doting look on her face. She looked at Huo Nian again and saw that he was eating each piece happily. His little hands were all oily.
I couldn't help but laugh.
Even if the family had extra money, my mother was reluctant to use oil. She was quite willing to cook fried food like this for Huo Nian.
"This whitebait, the most delicious thing is not fried." Huo Xi saw that he ate a lot and didn't find it greasy, so she was afraid that it would damage his throat.
"Then what's the most delicious thing?" Pi Xiaozi was indeed fooled and came up.
Huo Xi lit it into his bowl: "Look, if you wrap it in batter, you can't see the whitebait anymore?"
Pi Xiaozi took a look and nodded.
Huo Xi added: "The small whitebait is pretty and cute, and the meat is tender. The fried or deep-fried meat shrinks and becomes unpalatable. Use it to stew eggs, scramble eggs, make soup, and the fish meat is smooth."
It tastes best when it’s smooth and tender.”
Pi Xiaozi looked at her straight in the eyes, swallowed hard, turned around and threw himself on Yang: "Mom, make whitebait stewed eggs for Nian'er, and also scramble eggs and make soup."
Yang hugged him and smiled so hard that she couldn't even see her eyes. "Okay, mother will cook some delicious whitebait dishes for us, Nian'er."
"Mom, Nian'er likes you the most." He kissed Yang on the face and hugged Yang like a baby.
Yang felt so sweet in her heart that she narrowed her eyes with laughter.
I picked up Huo Xi a few years ago, and I thought I finally had a caring little cotton-padded jacket. Little did I know that Huo Xiren had big ideas, and he couldn't wait to act coquettishly and whisper in her arms once a year.
Who would have thought that Nian'er's fur coat would eventually become a caring little cotton-padded jacket.
She really loved him so much that she and Erhuai were willing to set up a ladder to pick the stars in the sky for him.
Before dinner, Huo Erhuai woke up.
Seeing that the whole family was here, he was very happy, "Today our family has received thirty-five taels, and each of the other three families has received twenty taels. They are all very happy. Their enthusiasm has not diminished, and they say they will continue."
"Dad, you can't work too hard. Our family is rich in money now, but maintaining good health is the most important thing."
"Dad understands. Dad told them to rest for a few days."
Huo Xi nodded and glanced at him.
Over the years, neither Yang nor Huo Erhuai asked for anything she and Yang Fu earned. The rent on the land was also given to Huo Xi to open a shop. She only took what she earned from selling goods on her boat, and
Obtained from fishing.
But the household needs were all ready, so they didn't need to spend anything. The couple also saved a lot of money. When they saved a certain amount of money, they looked around for land and wanted to buy it. They also bought bits and pieces.
Better.
Yang pulled Huo Xi: "Your father got the money and said he would buy you fabrics to make spring clothes. Your spring clothes last year were probably short again. Tomorrow you and Fu'er will take the money to buy some fabrics and mother will make them for you.
"
"Sister, I have a lot of clothes. You can make them for Xi'er and Nian'er."
Huo Xi smiled and said: "We can do it all. Each person in our family can make two clothes. The cloth we sell home is cheap. We can make as many clothes as we want."
Huo Erhuai glanced at Mrs. Yang. If the mother wanted to do it, even her children wouldn't do it, so she decided, "Do it, do it all."
"Okay, I have new clothes to wear." Huo Nian clapped her little hands happily.
Huo Xi couldn't help but poke him: "Does our family lack clothes for you, or do we want you to wear patched clothes? Are you so happy to be a clothes man?"
Pi Xiaozi blinked: "Aren't you happy making clothes?"
Well, it made Huo Xi choke. Seeing the two siblings staring at each other, everyone laughed.
After dinner, Huo Xi suddenly thought of the prices of the goods she had checked in the shop today. After thinking about it, she asked Huo Erhuai and Yang: "Mom, dad, are you going to the countryside these two days?"
"Collecting rent? Nian'er is going too!" Pi Xiaozi shouted excitedly, for fear of forgetting him.
"Mom doesn't collect rent."
"Don't you charge rent? Then why do you want to go to the countryside?"
Yang hugged him and said, "The weather is getting warmer. Farmers are going to plow the land for spring plowing. My parents are going over to sign contracts with the new tenants and see how well they are preparing to grow grain."
"Then Nian'er will go too."
"Okay, mom and dad, bring Nian'er with you." Pi Xiaozi immediately became happy when he heard this, and started shaking his head. He was glared at by Huo Xi, who even made a face.
"Dad, when you go to the countryside this time, ask everyone if they would like to plant glutinous rice. Also ask if they would like to use their fields to plant mulberry trees."
Huo Xi wanted to plant mulberry trees. Huo Erhuai and Yang knew about it. The couple had also contacted the fishermen who had fields. But glutinous rice?
"The yield of glutinous rice is low, so farmers may not be willing to do it."
Ms. Yang didn't know what the child was planning, but one acre of glutinous rice would not yield two to three hundred catties. The farmers might not be willing to do so.
Seeing everyone looking at her, Huo Xi explained to them.
"I checked the shop's account book today and found that the purchase price of glutinous rice has been getting higher and higher this year. Originally, a stone of shelled glutinous rice only cost about one, two, two, three yuan, but in the past two months, the purchase price has been one, two, five yuan.
It’s going up. I don’t know why. Besides, our store doesn’t have much stock of glutinous rice, whether shelled or not.”