After Zhang An chatted with him for a few words, he hung up the phone.
Zhang An doesn't have the habit of talking on the phone with grown men. It's scary to think that two grown men are still talking on the phone even though they have nothing to do.
My teacher Su is still waiting for me to call.
After leaving the room, I told my mother that Ding Yi was coming to the house tomorrow.
In the past six months, Wang Fang has received more people, and it is common for such things to happen.
He left Zhang An with the words "I understand" and then went about his own business.
Zhang An returned to his room and talked on the phone with his teacher Xiao Su.
The phone in Su Ying's home was always placed in the living room, so Su Ying usually found it inconvenient to call Zhang An.
Later, Zhang An asked her to go to the telecommunications bureau to buy a phone and find someone to come and get it.
This way you can have one number and two phones at home.
Su Ying can also call Zhang An in her room.
This is how Zhang An's house works. There is a landline phone downstairs and a landline phone in Zhang An's room upstairs, which is very convenient.
In this way, even if Zhang An is not at home and someone calls, Wang Fang and Zhang Jianguo can hear the sound.
The next morning, Zhang An came up and sprinkled water on the seeds sown yesterday.
This is the best time to water while the sun is out.
At around ten o'clock, Ding Yi drove his car to Zhang An's yard.
This guy came as soon as he said he would. Zhang An thought he would come later, but who knew that this guy came early in the morning.
And this time Ding Yi actually brought someone with him.
"Uncle and aunt, I haven't seen you for a long time, and I'm here again for a meal."
Ding Yi greeted Zhang An's parents with a smile as usual.
He handed over what he had brought.
Every time this guy comes, he has to bring something to Zhang Jianguo and Wang Fang.
"Uncle and aunt, Zhang An, this fat guy is my friend Lu Jun. You can just call him Fatty."
Then Ding Yi introduced the friends he brought to Zhang An's family.
"Hello, uncle and aunt, and brother Zhang An, please come over today. Please excuse me for disturbing you."
Lu Jun also smiled and greeted Zhang An's family.
"Why bother? It's not too late to welcome them. Xiao An, please take them to sit in the house."
Among the friends Zhang An knew, Wang Fang except his future daughter-in-law Su Ying.
The one who is most satisfied is Ding Yi, because Ding Yi is the biggest financial sponsor of Zhang An's family.
Ding Yi gave Zhang An a total of 100,000 yuan for the ginseng root.
Later, Zhang An was able to contract Huangtupo entirely because of this money.
Such a friend should be very popular no matter where he is placed.
Zhang An took the two of them to sit aside, and Ding Yi began to introduce Zhang An to the friends next to him.
Although Lu Jun is not as tall as Zhang An, he is considered a tall person locally.
Especially considering its tonnage, it is really powerful.
"I've always wanted to meet brother Zhang An, but this guy always says he's busy and won't bring me over if he has something delicious to eat."
Lu Jun said, stood up and shook hands with Zhang An.
"Hahaha, from now on, fat brother can come whenever he wants. Come, have some tea."
Zhang An poured the newly brewed Yunwu tea for the two of them.
"This tea is the one you guys have been showing off to me. I asked you where you bought it for a long time and you still didn't tell me. It turns out that it was bought from Zhang An."
It can be seen that Lu Jun and Ding Yi have a very good relationship.
You can feel it just from the joking words.
"Zhang An, let me tell you, this Fatty Lu is an old foodie. Every time I have something good at home, it can't escape his mouth. The tea I brought back last time was ruined by him."
"Come on, you old bastard, you still have the nerve to criticize others. Don't let Zhang An laugh."
During the subsequent chat, Zhang An learned about the relationship between the two.
It turns out that Fatty Lu is Ding Yi’s college roommate and a close friend.
As the saying goes, birds of a feather flock together, and people flock together.
Ding Yi himself is a big foodie, and Lu Jun, who gets along well with him, is also another big foodie.
When they were in college, the two of them would go out to find delicious places every day.
A profound and indescribable friendship was formed.
After Lu Jun graduated, because of the delicious food and the support of his family, he started aquatic products business in the provincial capital.
"Xiao An, you go to the pond and catch some fish, and I'll cook them together."
The few of them were chatting happily, and it was time to cook.
Wang Fang washed the rice, put it in the pot and put it on the fire, then filtered out the cooked rice and put it into a steamer to start steaming the rice.
Then he asked Zhang An to go to the pond to catch some fish so that he could cook for lunch.
If Wang Fang usually eats with his family, he won't waste too much time.
But today we have guests coming, so we must be more prepared.
Lu Jun has been running a fishery company for several years, and he eats all kinds of fish.
When Zhang An heard his mother calling him, he answered.
"Then you guys sit down for a while and I'll go to the next cage and come back."
"No need to be so polite, we just happened to go to your pond to have a look."
Lu Jun works in an aquatic products company and happened to follow Zhang An to the edge of the pond to take a look.
After he tasted the fish raised by Zhang An's family for the first time at Ding's family, his eyes were opened.
Because Fatty Lu not only sells aquatic products, he is also a famous foodie.
Every time something good arrives, he must try it first.
Over the years, Lu Jun has eaten a lot, whether good or bad.
So after tasting Zhang An's fish, I made up my mind not to let go of such a good product.
With such a good source of goods in hand, it's not just about making money.
And with such fish, he can develop more customers in provincial capitals.
You must know that the provincial capital is developing at a rapid pace now, and everyone has boarded this express train.
The aquatic products market is only so small. If you want to have more customers, you need to have low prices or good products.
But in today’s environment, everyone has almost the same stuff.
So we can only engage in a price war, but this is not a wise move.
Small companies that are not large in size are not worthy of engaging in such tactics.
Maybe if you don’t get customers, the company will disappear first.
So when Lu Jun meets a source like Zhang An's family, he won't miss anything unless there is something wrong with his brain.
"Okay, let's go to the edge of the pond and have a look."
Ever since he knew that Lu Jun was working in a fishery company, Zhang An knew that Ding Yi brought him here this time, not just for fun.
Therefore, he did not reject Lu Jun's proposal and led them through the back door of the hall to the pond.
Now on the surface of the fish pond, there is still grass that Zhang An cut back from the nearby forest in the morning.
Originally, Lu Jun felt a little disappointed when he looked at the fish pond, which was less than an acre.
A pond of this size certainly doesn't have much production.
But after getting closer, I found that the fish pond was actually full of fish.
Seeing so many fish heads was a bit beyond Lu Jun's understanding.
In the fish ponds he had seen in the past, with such a dense population, the fish were all wilted and not active at all.
But in Zhang An's fish pond, the opposite is true. Although there are many fish, they seem to be in good spirits.
Zhang An took out a ground cage from the nearby compartment, added some materials to it, and put it into the pond.
"What you can eat at noon today depends on what you can catch in this cage."
"This is boring. Let's order some fried eel."
Ding Yi shook his head, how many fish could he catch with the cage alone?
"Okay, let's get some more eels."
When Zhang An's farmhouse opened, the most popular items sold were spicy rabbit and spicy chicken.
The stir-fried meal section is the best-selling one, not only because the eel is so good, but also because Zhang An’s spicy peppers are particularly fragrant when stir-fried.
Zhang An found a basin and came over. While talking to Ding and Yi, he reached into the fish pond.
Zhang An waved his palm back and forth in the water, and an invisible spring water flowed into the fish pond.
Soon, fish came around and passed through Zhang An's hand.
After a few fish swam in my hand, the eel took over.
Seeing Zhang An catch one so easily, Lu Jun even rubbed his eyes, a little disbelieving.
Then he made the same move as Huang Ming and put his hand into the water, but he couldn't touch any hair for a long time.
"Zhang An, how can you catch me? I didn't touch anything."
"Well, maybe they're not familiar with you, they're unfamiliar with them, and they won't let you catch them."
Lu Jun doesn't believe this statement.
But Zhang An didn't say anything, and he didn't ask further questions.
Soon, Zhang An caught four or five eels and put them in the basin.
The thick ones are as thick as a baby's arms, and the smaller ones weigh more than half a catty.
The largest one weighed at least a pound or two, and its color had begun to change from yellow to green, and even a little bit blue and black.
Nowadays, not many people eat eel in rural areas, but there are quite a few in cities.
There is eel in Lu Junmen, so I am no stranger to eel.
But when I saw the eels in Zhang An's basin, my eyes fell into the basin.
"Why is your eel so big? What did you feed it to grow it?"
There are a lot of wild eels out there now, and you can get them as long as you spend money to collect them.
But Lu Jun had never seen this eel weighing nearly two pounds a piece.
"Well, I didn't feed him anything, I just raised him like this."
Zhang An pointed to the green grass on the water, but this grass was the grass in Zhang An's space.
Or the leaves on the vegetables in the backyard, or some insects falling into the water.
"High-quality fish often only require primitive feeding methods."
Although Lu Jun didn't quite believe it, the facts were before his eyes.
Whether feed has been put into the fish pond of Zhang An's family can be seen at a glance.
There were only floating grasses on the water, with a bunch of fish vying to eat them.
There was no trace of the feed at all, and he believed that Zhang An had no need to hide it.
In this era, there is no gimmick about wildness being king.
As long as you raise it well, it will be a success.
When he first looked at the small fish pond, he thought Chen Ze was coaxing him.
At this time, Lu Juncai believed that Zhang An was a person who could raise good fish.
After catching the eel, it has been more than ten minutes since the ground cage was put down. It is time to lift it out.
Zhang An pulled up the lowered floor cage.
"Is this a net? Can fish be caught in it?"
Ding Yi felt that not long after the net was put down, he would definitely not be able to catch anything.
"Hey, trust me, come and try."
Seeing that Ding Yi couldn't do it, Zhang An smiled mysteriously.
Ding Yi walked to the pond and prepared to pull the net, with a look of disbelief on his face.
As he pulled up the net, the disbelief on his face turned into shock.
The ground cage was pulled up, and the three layers of net were filled with fish.
Zhang An poured them all into the bucket and threw some of the smaller ones into the pond.
"These should be enough for us to eat for lunch."
The bucket contained several yellow peppercorns and a mandarin fish that seemed to weigh less than three kilograms or less.
Of course, there are also the thin scales that Zhang An’s family has had since the beginning.
Zhang An is not a person who likes the new and hates the old. He forgets the old when he has new fish.
"Zhang An, your family actually raises this one. How many of them do you raise?"
Ever since Lu Jun saw the mandarin fish in the basin, he couldn't take his eyes away.
It's like a pervert seeing a beautiful girl.
"I have raised a lot of these mandarin fish, there should be hundreds of them."
Zhang An thought about how much he had released before.
"Why, Fatty, have you taken your fancy to this fish?"
As a roommate for many years, Ding Yi knew what Lu Jun was thinking when he saw him like this.
"This is the big-eyed mandarin fish, the best among mandarin fish. We usually don't get many."
Zhang An then lifted the eel and the fish in the bucket to the water pipe and started processing them.
Lu Jun is a fisherman, and his fish killing techniques are much better than Zhang Andu.
When he got to the water pipe, he asked Zhang An for a kitchen knife and designated the big-eyed mandarin fish for him to kill.
Then, while killing fish, Zhang An and Ding Yi learned about the big-eyed mandarin fish.
Zhang An only knew that this fish was mandarin fish, but he didn't know the classification of mandarin fish. He didn't expect that this fish was quite valuable.
Although there were many fish, the three of them worked together at the water pipe.
It was handled quickly, without Zhang Jianguo even taking a step.
After the eels and fish were killed, Wang Fang spent a lot of effort to prepare a table of dishes.
On this table, most of them are fish.
Steamed mandarin fish, spicy boiled fish, stir-fried rice noodles, yellow bone fish stewed with tofu.
This mandarin fish, in particular, is notoriously smelly after pickling.
But Wang Fang used special seasonings to make it, and it didn't smell that bad when it was made. Instead, it smelled particularly fragrant when you got close to it.
Just now, when Zhang An was talking with the two of them, Wang Fang heard it from the side.
I knew that this fat guy was a fishery business owner, so I put a lot of thought into cooking the fish.
Ding Yi has been to Zhang An's house several times, and he no longer knows how to be polite.
On the contrary, it was Lu Jun next to him. Although he was also an old man, it was his first time to be a guest and he still had to be polite. However, this did not last long. Looking at Ding Yi, he also put down his reserve and started talking on the table.
Scan goods.
I just picked up the mandarin fish with my chopsticks and put it in my mouth. I kept saying it was delicious and gave Wang Fang next to me a thumbs up.
"Auntie, your cooking skills are amazing. I've eaten this mandarin fish many times, but what you make is absolutely unique."
This is not an exaggeration at all. Although Wang Fang has not been making this mandarin fish for a long time, he has made it many times.
Because mandarin fish has few spines and is easy to eat, Wang Fang often makes it even if it is eaten at home.
Therefore, Wang Fang's skill in making mandarin fish is entirely based on quantity.
Besides, the meat quality of mandarin fish here at Zhang An’s house is not only better than that outside.
Moreover, these side dishes and seasonings are all grown at home, and the combination is no less than the skill of a great chef.
"It's not that good. Just make it. If you like it, Xiao Lu, just eat more."