On the last day of the National Day holiday, Xu Suizhu went to Deep Bay to fish for a long time.
With her previous experiences, her aunt was fully prepared for this trip - she only carried two buckets.
Unexpectedly, after a while, both buckets were almost full.
"The harvest this time is no worse than yesterday. The two Eastern Star Spots weighed more than three kilograms, and the rice fish was bigger than what was caught in the fishing boat's net. In addition, moray eels, tiger heads and some miscellaneous fish and shrimps were taken to the market. There was less
Said it could sell for seventy or eighty yuan."
"It's not bad."
Xu Suizhu, who wanted to catch another lobster to eat at home, glanced at the only two swimming crabs in the fish bucket with their teeth and claws flexing. Well, I didn't catch any lobsters, so it would be a good substitute to have swimming crabs.
Take it home, steam it and eat it with vinegar to retain the umami flavor of the crab, and you will start salivating immediately.
Xu Xiuyuan was also very satisfied: "If you have such a harvest every time you come here, why do you have to leave early and come back to work late? You can just lie down and count money."
After a pause, he couldn't help but laugh: "Look at me, I'm always thinking of lazy ways to make money. Just listen to me. Fishing is not a stable business after all. It depends on whether God is good or not."
"Yeah! The wind has picked up. Let's go back. I'll make you whatever you want to eat tonight."
Xu Suizhu hugged her aunt's shoulder: "When our area is liberalized in the future, I will catch big seafood for my aunt to eat every day. My aunt and uncle will choose the jobs they like to do. We can't afford to make money in the dark early."
More than now."
"Look! Look! I'll open a dyeing workshop after I give you some color, and you won't have to worry about the strong wind blowing your tongue!" Xu Xiuyuan laughed and cursed, but her heart was tight.
If the children are filial, can the elders be unhappy?
After returning home, Xu Suizhu took out the grouper and asked her aunt to leave it alone. She said it was given to an acquaintance of her uncle and she had to rely on help to buy building materials.
This time the eel is no longer grilled, but is marinated and sun-dried into eel fillet. In the winter, it is steamed with bacon, so fresh that you can bite off your tongue.
In the afternoon, her aunt saw that she had been busy these past few days and didn't get a good rest at all, so she let her take a nap and went out for a walk with Doudou in her arms.
Xu Suizhu squinted for a while, took out the octopus-style cleaning guard, and started cleaning with a bang.
When Xu Xiuyuan came back from the fishing ground with a small bun in one hand and a large basket of fresh hairtail with varying degrees of skin damage in the other hand, the window of her small house was so clear that she thought she had gone to the wrong door.
After exiting and taking a closer look several times, I was convinced that this was really my home.
"You just cleaned the windows? You also made the kitchen so clean that I almost didn't recognize it. You said you, a kid, rarely have a holiday and don't have a good rest. What are you doing all this?"
"Hey, it's a holiday!" Xu Suizhu was afraid that her aunt would look too closely and become suspicious, so she quickly changed the subject, "Doudou yawns, I'll feed him a meal so he can sleep."
Taking the wilted bun, Xu Suizhu asked, "Why did you buy so much hairtail? Are you going to pickle it and fry it?"
"The fishing boats that went out brought back thousands of kilograms of hairtail. These were sold at different prices. The fishery sold half of them and gave them to us as free portions. Tonight we will eat fresh ones, two steamed and two braised. The rest will be marinated overnight. I will give it to you tomorrow.
It exploded. Your brother and the others should be here later. Leave a can for him. You can take the rest and share it with your colleagues if you can’t finish it. You are still breastfeeding, so don’t eat too much of the salty food. Try a few.
Just one block is enough. Sitting in the same office, you need to have a good relationship with your colleagues, so that you can feel happy at work..."
Xu Suizhu always felt that it was a pity that her aunt did not go to high school and was admitted to college.
What a great talent, I will leave it to future generations to be a human resources manager.
In the evening of that day, Lin Jianbing and his family came.
The rural factory only had one day off during the National Day holiday. The couple went to Wu Meili's parents' house to pick up the children during the day, and went to the fishing village for a gathering in the evening.
Xu Suizhu asked her aunt to steam the swimming crabs, and made a hairtail for two meals, rice fish ball soup, stir-fried leek sprouts with dried shrimps and eggs, and stewed a miscellaneous fish pot - tiger head fish, Xiao Mei Tong, tofu fish, Wangchao
, prawns, clams, razor clams, sea melon seeds and other dozen kinds of small seafood stewed in a pot, the family opened their bellies and had an extremely delicious seafood feast.
Although it was not the high-quality seafood that was highly praised by later generations, such as lobsters, rock clams, and sea cucumbers, it was wild and fresh, and it was so fresh that Xu Suizhu couldn't stop eating it.
"Girl, your craftsmanship is so good. You can't handle any ingredient. If you open a restaurant, your business will be prosperous."
Xu Xiuyuan laughed: "Opening a restaurant is not as simple as you think. Rent and costs are free, right? If the business is good, it's okay, but if the business is not good, wouldn't it be a loss to grandma's family?"
Xu Suizhu tilted his head and thought for a while, yes, farmhouses are not popular yet, and in seaside towns, there are no tourists from outside. It is really not profitable to open a restaurant just by relying on a group of locals who are reluctant to eat out.
What's more, seafood relies on the word "fresh". If you can't sell it, you will lose money if it remains stale.
"Don't worry, auntie, when this place is developed, you can sit at home cooking stir-fries and grilling oysters, and there will still be a lot of business coming to your door."
Xu Xiuyuan thought it was her niece's joke, but she didn't take it seriously at all.
Not long after, the fishery was restructured, and her husband and son gradually went to Haibao Fishing Ground.
The offshore area has been developed into a resort by sharp-eyed investors, and the idle wasteland in several villages has been bought by developers to build high-rise buildings and villas...
Not to mention opening a restaurant, you can make money even if you don't work - people come to your door every day and ask: "Auntie, is your home a B&B?"
That's a story for another day.
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As soon as the National Day holiday was over, Xu Suizhu continued to shine in school - devotedly preparing for the upcoming speech competition.
Fast forward to the end of October.
The speech contest is in two days.
Yupu County is less than 200 kilometers away from the provincial capital, and it can be reached in two hours in later generations. However, in this era, the roads are not good, and cars cannot run fast. Occasionally, there will be traffic jams due to road construction. It is not like in later generations when traffic police will arrive immediately.
In some cases, it may take even a day.
Xu Suizhu chose to take the train. Although the green train took a long time to walk slowly, the advantage was that there was no traffic jam. What time it departed and what time it arrived, it was basically on time.
But it’s too late to make a day trip. Not only do you have to leave a day in advance, but you may also have to stay overnight after the game.
There was a young female teacher with three underage students. Even if Xu Suizhu and the others were willing to take the last train back at night, Principal Chi was worried.
As a result, I will be away from home for at least three days.
Xu Suizhu sent the little bun to the fishing village to be looked after by her aunt.
"Okay, don't worry, you can go about your business. I will take you around." Xu Xiuyuan happily took over the fat boy, "There seems to be something going on at the fishing ground recently. There are not many fish stocks, but there are cars coming and going every day. I will tell you the details.
I don’t know about your uncle either. Anyway, we are just working. Even if the leader of the fishery changes, it doesn’t have much to do with us. If nothing happens, we can just go home and spend more time playing with Doudou. That would be great.”
When Xu Suizhu heard this, his heart moved: Could it be that the fishery is preparing to be reformed and transferred from state-owned to private contracting?