At ten o'clock in the evening, the storm suddenly changed. Ten minutes later, raindrops as big as broad beans fell from the sky, causing dust to fly on the ground and leaving small mud puddles.
After a while, the spreading of beans turned into pouring water, and then it poured down...
Although the rain eased a lot the next day, it was no longer possible to go to the market.
"What a terrible weather!" It was difficult for the plan to come true, and Qin Ruoshu was naturally full of resentment.
"You can go up the mountain to pick mushrooms with my mother!"
"Going up the mountain?" After taking a glance at the mist-shrouded Fuyun Mountain in the distance through the window, Qin Ruoshu hesitated for a moment and shook his head, "Let's forget it. I knocked several times when I went up the mountain last year!"
Just as the two of them were sitting in the living room enjoying the rain, Zhou Yan's phone on the table suddenly rang.
"Shitou, the crayfish are overflowing in the rice fields. Hurry up and bring buckets and nets over here..."
"Stay at home obediently, and I'll make you mochi tonight!" After some instructions, Zhou Yan took the tools and went out.
Qin Ruoshu was extremely bored. After staying at home for a few minutes, he couldn't sit still anymore and went out with an umbrella.
By the time Qin Ruoshu arrived at the excavation site to the west of the pig house, Zhou Zhenghai and his wife were already busy, and the crayfish that had been in the rice fields like crucian carp had successfully rendered the main green color of the rice fields with a hint of red.
"so much?"
"If there are too many of these things, it will be troublesome..."
When he first started, Zhou Yan grabbed all the small eyebrows and beards, but after grabbing them for a while, he started to "select the fat and thin" and only picked the big ones and threw them into the bucket.
Even so, in just over an hour, the two men had already grabbed four large buckets.
"Daughter-in-law, you go home and find a few plastic buckets, and..." Zhou Yan thought for a while, "Remember to call my father-in-law to come and get the crayfish. We can't finish all the crayfish ourselves!"
"Stone," after working for a while, Father Zhou suddenly straightened up, "Go and take a look at the river over there later. The water in the upstream reservoir has risen. There should be a lot of fish running out of the flood ditch..."
"The crayfish alone is enough to eat!" Zhou Yan replied lazily.
"Crayfish are so meaty!" Father Zhou glared at his son, "You should know how to cook grilled fish, right? Grilled fish, grilled mutton skewers are all good..."
"Is there some official business?"
"Your father, I'm ready to join the party," said Father Zhou with a proud face. "Also, the party secretary is coming over tonight and wants to discuss the renovation of the houses in the village..."
As soon as his father mentioned this, Zhou Yan knew that there was a high probability that the civil servants in the village, town or district were inspired by the Treehouse Hotel.
I just don’t know if the party secretary has his own ideas, or if he has taken over the task from above?
"Shitou, what do you think?" Father Zhou was a little curious when he saw that his son was uncertain.
"Last year, your daughter-in-law took a fancy to the valley on the southern slope of Fuyun Mountain and planned to build a tree house hotel." Zhou Yan smiled helplessly, "The project has been approved and approved by the city, and construction can start in the autumn...
…”
"That's a good thing..."
At this moment, Father Zhou also thought about it: "You mean, the party secretary wants to beg for alms?"
"Probably not," Zhou Yan sighed slightly, "At most, I just want to test my feelings..."
"If you're not short of money and can help, please help," Zhou said with a slight sigh, "I grew up in the village anyway. If I don't help them, I'm afraid some people will gossip..."
Zhou Yan nodded, bent down, and continued to catch crayfish, but before he could catch a few, his father not far away came over.
"Do you have any ideas?"
"not yet……"
With the arrival of more tools, the father and son's harvest field expanded from rice fields to small river valleys.
There were quite a few fish that escaped from the upstream reservoir, but what surprised Zhou Yan was that the largest number of fish in the ditch was the round-headed bream, also known as Wuchang fish.
The two men worked hard with the fishing net for a while, but in the end they only caught two or three grass carp that were not very big, and the rest were all tuantou, white stripes and river shrimp.
"This..." When counting the harvest, Dad looked at the two "underage" grass carp in the bucket, "How about we go to the reservoir to catch two more?"
"That's it," Zhou Yan pointed to the plastic bucket in his hand. The largest Wuchang in it was almost six inches long. "The dumplings can also be roasted, and there are fewer thorns..."
"Okay, I'll go out to the streets later to get some beef and mutton..."
After taking the harvest home, Zhou Yan took Qin Ruoshu to the upstream reservoir, pulled out the ground cage that was put in the day before, picked out the larger crayfish inside, and then put the cage back
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When I got home, my father and mother who went out to buy meat also came back, and there was another person in the living room.
"Lao Niu? Xiao Xu?"
"Mr. Zhou, you are back, it will be dark soon!"
"Just in time, we caught another batch from the reservoir..."
"Okay," Lao Niu stood up with a smile and glanced at Xiao Xu who was nibbling on the watermelon. "Xiao Xu, don't eat it. Load the car and get ready to go home!"
After seeing off Lao Niu and Xiao Xu's cars, Dad placed the meat he bought in front of Zhou Yan: "Son, the rest is up to you!"
"Can you help me?!"
"I still have to help your mother handle the mushrooms!" Dad glanced at my mother who was handling the mushrooms not far away.
"Don't worry about mushrooms, right?"
"Aren't you in a hurry?" I raised my head and rolled my eyes, "If you don't pack it up quickly, let's dry it while it's cloudy. When the sun comes out, let it dry under the sun, and we'll attract insects right away..."
"Okay," Zhou Yan shook his head helplessly, "Mom, pack it up and put it in the electric oven. It will dry after a while!"
"You kid, you didn't tell me earlier..." I glared at Zhou Yan, then looked at Zhou's father, "Okay, Lao Zhou, go help your son!"
With dad's help, the work became much easier. The meat was cut into cubes, the fish was cut open, and the crayfish was decapitated. Qin Ruoshu was preparing the grilled fish with vegetables.
Grilled fish seems to have a lot of ingredients, but it is not that troublesome to make. First fry and then grill, blanch the side dishes, and drizzle the fish with oil.
After cooking the grilled fish, there are also crayfish.
However, crayfish is simpler.
While Zhou Yan was making crayfish, Father Zhou found the barbecue grill, skewers and charcoal, and then went back to skewer the meat.
After finishing the preparations, Mr. Zhou called the party secretary.
Within a few minutes, footsteps sounded outside the door.
"Hey, Mr. Zhou cooks it himself!"
"Third brother, my brother, if you call me that, you're a bit shabby..."
Although they are not brothers of the same family, the branch secretary usually has a good relationship with Mr. Zhou. When Zhou Yan got married, he also went to the city to have a wedding banquet. Zhou Yan and Mr. Zhou's reputation could not be hidden from him.
"Third brother, let's do it. Let's bake and chat at the same time!"
After sitting down, the branch secretary was not polite: "Brother, we are not outsiders, so I'll just tell you!"
Zhou Yan nodded and handed over a skewer of grilled meat: "Brother, what can you hide?"
"That's what happened," the branch secretary thought for a while, "I don't know how the district got to know about your company's project on the southern slope of the mountain. I went to the district for a meeting two days ago and the leader asked me about your company's attitude towards rural culture.
Any ideas for travel projects..."
"To be honest," Zhou Yan smiled bitterly, "I'm not optimistic about our village engaging in rural cultural tourism..."
