After walking two steps, Zhou Yan discovered that there was a fish market selling Wuchang fish. He rushed over and picked out five or six fish that weighed about a pound.
"Is this a freshwater pomfret?" Qin Ruoshu was curious when she saw Wuchang, which looked very similar to the sea pomfret.
"It's almost the same. Tuantou bream, also called Wuchang fish, has less spines, tender meat, and tastes good..." Zhou Yan picked up the two bags of live fish in his hand and shook them, "I'll ask the old man to raise some later..."
To be precise, there are already yellow catfish in the reservoir near Zhou Yan's home. Zhou Yan and Qin Ruoshu bought them when they went to the market last time. They just entered the natural trusteeship mode after being released. They don't know how they will reproduce.
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"If the meat is of good quality, you can ask Ruiyang Restaurant to add another dish..." Qin Ruoshu looked at Zhou Yan with a smile, "It's better to have fun alone than to have fun together..."
In addition to some common carp, silver carp, and bighead carp, the fish market only has marine fish, such as hairtail and Spanish mackerel.
As for the "king of supplements" turtle, "water ginseng" loach and the like, which have "abnormally" high nutritional value, it may be because the temperature is low and they are not easy to catch, so they are not seen at all.
There is nothing interesting to see in the fish market.
Next to the fish market are dry goods and seasoning stalls, and further ahead are snack stalls.
There was no shortage of snacks at home, but Qin Ruoshu was still curious about the "lower ingredient for cutting cakes" - sugar rice.
"The yellow one..."
"It should be made from millet," Zhou Yan was a little unsure, "we haven't grown it here for many years."
"Why?" Qin Ruoshu was confused.
"The output is low!" Zhou Yan glanced at the rice cake in Qin Ruoshu's hand, "The rice cake is also made of millet, and paired with black rice, glutinous rice, etc., it looks much better than the rice cake made only with glutinous rice and red dates!"
"oh……"
"How do you sell this..."
"Brother, what is this?"
"Gualouzi!"
Zhou Yan is familiar with the patterned melon seeds.
"Gualou?"
Zhou Yan conveniently searched for a picture of Trichosanthes melon: "The melon looks like this..."
After strolling around the market, the two of them returned to the car carrying bags of various sizes.
First, he packed the Wuchang fish and yellow catfish that had not yet died in the rear compartment. As soon as he put them away, he returned to the car and found Qin Ruoshu looking at him with an unkind expression.
"What's wrong?"
Qin Ruoshu raised his head and glanced at a pair of figures walking this way in the distance. He quietly reached out his right hand to Zhou Yan's waist and asked in a low voice: "Is she Zhao Xiaoyu?"
"Hey, long time no see, old classmate!"
Looking at Zhao Xiaoyu's performance, Qin Ruoshu knew that this Zhao Xiaoyu was different from Zhou Yan's other junior high school classmates. He was elegant and generous.
"Long time no see!" Zhou Yan turned around and hugged Qin Ruoshu's waist, "Old classmate, let me introduce to you, this is my lover, who just got married in the summer."
"Hey, hello, sister-in-law!"
"This..." Qin Ruoshu looked at the young man next to Zhao Xiaoyu critically.
"This is my boyfriend!"
"Nice to meet you..."
"By the way," Zhao Xiaoyu looked at Zhou Yan with a smile, "Why didn't I see our other classmates?"
"Those who have worked since graduating from college are still working now. Those who have not gone to school are probably staying at home. It is not time to buy new year's goods yet..."
After saying hello, Zhao Xiaoyu seemed to feel that the atmosphere was a bit awkward and pulled her boyfriend away.
"What are you looking at?" Zhou Yan took Qin Ruoshu into his arms, "Get in the car and wait for them..."
After getting on the car, Qin Ruoshu walked closer to Zhou Yan and stared at Zhou Yan with a gossipy face: "Brother, there was something wrong with the way Zhao Xiaoyu looked at you just now?"
Zhou Yan didn't answer, but just smiled: "Before I contacted you in my freshman year, I just planned to make some extra money, get a graduate degree, and buy a few more courtyard houses in the capital..."
"Then what?"
"After I got to know you again, I decided to get Xinghan together," Zhou Yan looked at Qin Ruoshu with a doting look on his face, "just for the so-called good match."
"Mua..." Qin Ruoshu probed her head and took a bite on Zhou Yan's face, "Husband, I am very satisfied with your performance today!"
Zhou Yan asked with a smile: "Then this matter is considered a reversal?"
"How can there be?" Qin Ruoshu gritted his teeth bitterly, "Isn't there another Feng Xueqing..."
"You can go to the hall, you can go to the kitchen, you can fight the mistress, you can beat the gangsters!" Zhou Yan smiled helplessly, "I will teach you Wing Chun later. We have to combine the necessary skills of the top ten housewives.
Done."
"you……"
Qin Ruoshu was just about to punch Zhou Yan when she suddenly noticed three gossip-minded little girls outside the window, holding open the car window.
After opening the door, Zhou Li had a bad smile on her face: "Uncle, did we come at the wrong time?"
"Is everything done?" Zhou Yan rolled his eyes, "If nothing happens, let's get in the car..."
After starting the car, Zhou Yan went to the meat market again and paid to pick up the reserved kid...
After returning home, my mother naturally complained a lot when she saw the goat in the carriage.
In the afternoon, my mother found several aged pork leg bones from the freezer and asked Zhou Yan to make soup so that he could cook hot pot at night.
The mutton for the hot pot is the Yunzhong fat sheep brought back by Zhou Yan and Qin Ruoshu a few days ago. My parents thought it was too fat, so they put it away.
In the evening, Zhou Yan escaped the "drinking robbery" on the pretext of preparing for pregnancy, but he still did not escape the old man's "talking too much after drinking" wine.
There is only one core problem: the profits from pig farming have begun to decline.
Zhou Yan can understand this week. Real estate is starting to take off, which also means that many people with mortgage loans must plan carefully. The first cut will naturally be on their daily meals.
Ordinary people’s demand for meat is actually a barometer that can reflect economic conditions.
Real estate took off, the demand for meat from ordinary people decreased, and the supply of pork was excessive, resulting in a decrease in the number of live pigs.
This is a vicious cycle...
Until real estate reaches its peak and the market is saturated, the first batch of people who want to buy a house start to have deposits, and many people who intend to buy a house start to wait and see.
The demand for pork has expanded, and pork prices have skyrocketed.
History turns around again...
In fact, the country started liberalizing the real estate market as early as 2003, and it took twenty years before the real estate bubble began to burst.
In the past twenty years, home buyers in the first ten years have witnessed the gradual prosperity of the real estate market. After buying a house, they can rely on their wages to enjoy a comfortable life; while home buyers in the next ten years can only live in a comfortable life with the quality of life in the next twenty years.
At the cost, you have to worry about employment, medical treatment, and your children's schooling...
"Dad, the profits from pig farming have declined, that's for sure," Zhou Yan looked at his depressed father, "This is a big environment, and everyone is burdened with debt. Who dares to fish and eat meat every day? Besides, we
We all prepare our own feed, and the cost of raising pigs is already low enough..."
"Is there no other way?" Dad naturally refused to give up. He finally had some oil and water, so who would be willing to let him go again?
"It's not impossible," Zhou Yan smiled gloomily, "Didn't we already apply for a slaughtering license a few years ago?"
"Sell your own meat?"
"Increase the added value of pork," Zhou Yan chuckled, "Pig heads are made into braised meat, pork belly is made into bacon, pig legs are made into ham, and other ways are better than selling live pigs..."
"This is a way..." Zhou Zhenghai frowned and thought for a moment, "It can be further processed, but a health license is required, and we don't make ham or bacon..."
"Okay, I'd better find someone to do it," Zhou Yan was a little speechless, "But, dad, you have to contact those familiar farmers to save the number of pigs for me..."