The next day, the young couple spent another morning shopping in Xinhai, had lunch, and then boarded the bus back to Dongyang.
The future father-in-law and mother-in-law are still very polite, offering tea and desserts, and are so enthusiastic that even my biological daughter is a little jealous.
After a short rest, Qin Fangyuan took Zhou Yan for a spin in the newly opened "dungeon" Daqin Hotpot and BBQ restaurant.
It was only around three o'clock in the afternoon, and people attending the nightclub had already begun to gather and take seats; in the transparent window, the knife master seconded from Ruiyang was leading his apprentices to shave meat, cut into cubes, and skewer them; and the barbecue master
, is carrying charcoal and cleaning the barbecue grill.
"Xiao Zhou, don't tell me," Qin Fangyuan said with a smile on his face, "the profits from barbecue and hot pot are pretty good, especially the drinks..."
Zhou Yan glanced at the kitchen's operating room and thought for a moment: "Uncle Qin, have you ever thought about crayfish, snails or something like that?"
"I think," Qin Fangyuan said with a sad face, "after passing through Northern Jiangsu, there are very few people who raise crayfish, and this thing is very expensive..."
"Well..." Zhou Yan smiled coquettishly and took a small step back, "My dad told me a while ago that the crayfish at home were overrun. When it rained, all the crayfish in the rice fields crawled onto the road.
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"Xiao Zhou, why didn't you tell me earlier?"
After leaving Daqin BBQ, Zhou Yan rushed to his uncle's house carrying large and small bags of things.
The little cousin can already walk, although it is still a little crooked, but he can finally stand. Fortunately, the little cousin's "four-legged gold-eating beast" mode has not been fully activated, and Grandma Zhou Yan was lucky enough to be able to watch it.
The little girl was finally liberated and became the boss's wife again. Her cousin was on vacation again. Although she was about to enter her senior year of high school, she could still help her.
Zhou Yan's advanced cooking skills finally had no use. Although his uncle repeatedly saved him, Zhou Yan still got on the bus home...
When we arrived at the village head, Dad's e-donkey was already waiting there: "You brat, why did you stay out so long for nothing?"
"I spent two days wandering around Xinhai with your daughter-in-law!"
As soon as his daughter-in-law was involved, the old man's tone immediately changed: "The summer vacation is so long, why don't you have more fun?"
When he got home, Zhou Yan opened the door and discovered an unexpected surprise: his cousin Zhao Zixuan and his cousin Zhou Xiaohui were holding big chicken legs and chewing on them, with their mouths full of chicken fat...
"Brother, are you back?"
"Son, sit down quickly, your two brothers have left two chicken drumsticks for you!"
The number of roosters to be sacrificed at home changed from one expected by Zhou Yan to two.
After chewing the chicken legs with tears in his eyes, Zhou Yan stuffed two more chicken wings into his stomach before washing his sticky hands and mouth.
"Dad..." Zhou Yan howled in the yard, "Do you still have six thick steel bars at home?"
"Why do you ask?"
"Make a ground cage," Zhou Yan chuckled, "Before I came back, Lao Qin said he wanted to catch crayfish and asked me to catch a few dozen kilograms to test the water..."
"There should be more!"
In the morning, the two men welded four or five frames with the steel bars left over from building the house, tied them with fine mesh cages for raising chickens, and made a ground cage. After putting bait, they threw it into the reservoir to the west of the village.
During the rest of the time, the two men were not idle. They found the fishing rod, randomly made some bait, and fished together.
The two younger brothers, who were originally a little afraid of taking extra classes during the summer vacation, all breathed a sigh of relief: This summer vacation should not be too difficult.
The Xishan Reservoir where Zhou Yan and his son fished is the largest reservoir near Zhoujialing, with a water surface of thousands of hectares. Although there are many fish and shrimps in the reservoir, it has always been a treasure trove for the village and has never been contracted out.
Before the joint production contract, the reservoir had always been the village's private land for the New Year. After that, the living conditions of every household in the village improved, and the fish-rich reservoir gradually became useless because of the spiny freshwater fish.
Zhou Yan was leaning in the grass under the willow tree by the reservoir, with his old coir raincoat from home as a pillow under his body, a straw hat on his head, and he closed his eyes to meditate...
"Brother, you are so cute!"
Zhou Yan quickly sat up, held on to the bamboo fishing rod, and looked at the seven-star float made of goose feathers in the water...
The fish under the water are eating the bait, causing the seven stars on the water surface to jump up and down.
Suddenly, Qixing Piao suddenly sank into the water...
Zhou Yan quickly straightened the fishing line.
"A big fish!" Zhou Yan shouted excitedly to his father on the side, "It should weigh seven or eight pounds. Be prepared for a protracted battle!"
If he uses an aluminum alloy or carbon fiber fishing rod, Zhou Yan is sure to pull the fish out of the water in ten minutes.
It's a pity that Zhou Yan used a homemade bamboo pole. He didn't use any skills, so he had no choice but to "slip away" the big fish. On the premise of ensuring that the bamboo pole was continuous, he kept sawing and sawing, which consumed the big fish's physical strength.
Zhou Yan stayed up from three o'clock in the afternoon until dark, and finally he paralyzed the fish in the water and pulled it out of the water...
"It's a silver carp!"
Here in Dongyang, bighead carp is generally called silver carp, because the appearance of this thing is similar to that of silver carp, except that the scales are a bit more colorful.
The most classic way to prepare bighead carp is to chop the fish head with pepper.
Chop the body into pieces, stew in white soup, split the fish head in half to make minced pepper fish head...
The plump and tender fish head paired with spicy chopped peppers goes very well with rice. Although Zhou Yan repeatedly emphasized that fish heads are rich in heavy metals and that adolescent boys cannot eat spicy food because they will cause acne, most of the fish head meat is still delicious.
I was given to two younger brothers by my mother...
The next day, the Zhou family and his son got up early and went to collect the net in the reservoir. However, after they pulled up the ground cage, they were all shocked...
The net of the ground cage is filled with densely packed red crayfish. If someone with trypophobia saw it, they would probably faint from fear.
"Gu..." Father Zhou swallowed subconsciously and thought for a moment, "Son, is the mesh we use too small? Let's pick it out later and put the smaller one back again!"
It only took ten seconds to lift the cage and two hours to pick it up.
When the father and son returned home each carrying a woven bag, Zhou Yan's wife was shocked: "Lao Zhou, at the beginning of the year, didn't you just put one bucket in? Why did you take out so many?"
"That's quite a lot," Zhou Lao curled his lips, "Let's just pick out the big ones and put back all the small ones!"
Mrs. Zhou Yan nodded and thought for a while: "Call Lao Qin's people to come and pick it up!"
An hour later, Ruiyang's purchasing manager drove over in a pickup truck and took away the crayfish...
The attentive Zhou Yan noticed that the father who gave it away looked at the taillights of the car with a strange look in his eyes.
"Dad, how about we buy a car too?"
Before putting it away, Zhou Yan's father would definitely glare at his son and then complain: "I bought it and let it rust?"
But now, Zhou Zhenghai sighed a little depressedly: "I don't have a driver's license. What should I do if my car breaks down?"
"Then let's learn?" Zhou Yan chuckled, "Anyway, there is no difference between a tractor and a car. The clutch gears are the same, which means the speed is just a little slower..."
Moreover, even my mother, who has always opposed buying a car, uncharacteristically did not express her opinion.
On the third day after returning home, it was time to go to the canteen to buy things. Zhou Yan learned that Zhou Chuangang from the village bought a Wuling for his son.
In the afternoon of that day, Zhou Yan encouraged his father to register and received the textbooks for subject one.
After that, Zhou Yan had one more "student": while tutoring his two younger brothers with their homework, he also had to popularize traffic knowledge for his father...
