Chapter 9 Farmers don't like to eat eel
Chen Qi couldn't understand it anymore and thought he was wearing a different world? Is the humans here different from the humans in his previous life?
Eels, and they are such thick and large wild eels, why are they not delicious?
The foodies expressed dissatisfaction! The wild fishing enthusiasts in the vegetable market were not convinced either!
Chen Shu was a little disdainful: "Hehe, brother, if you want to eat, we will grab one and try it, you will know."
As a result, Chen Qi was a little suspicious about his life when eating the steamed eel in the bowl at noon. He just sprinkled a little salt and ate it in his mouth. It turned out to be fishy and had a clear earthy smell.
Chen Qi looked at the empty stove at home and understood what the problem was.
In his previous life, eels were considered a home-cooked dish. The most common cooking method was "fried eel shreds" or "braised eel slices".
There are more seasonings here, including garlic cloves, green pepper flakes, shredded ginger, green onion slices, pepper powder, salt, ginger, sugar, soy sauce, oyster sauce, cooking wine, MSG, dried pepper, dried pepper, Pixian bean paste, etc.
Then stir-fry it with heavy oil over high heat, even if it is made from the leather soles, it will be fragrant.
But in the countryside now, there is no such seasoning, and he has suffered all the vegetable oil and soy sauce in his home.
Just a little bit of salt can't remove the rustic smell of eels, so farmers no longer like to eat it.
If you have time to catch eels, it is better to go to the mountains to get some wild boars, pheasants, and rabbit meat. Wouldn't that be even more delicious?
Originally, eels could be sold to people in the city if they caught them, but the same saying is still the same. They cannot be transported out. Even if the cost of transporting out is too high, they are easily trapped in by speculation and "study".
Now, let alone too many eels, no one wants to eat the same loaches and snails. The huge frogs are jumping around in the fields, without fear.
This is the most popular dish for late-night snack stalls in later generations. It is really "You ignore me now, and you can't afford to go to the next day."
That afternoon, Chen Qi was holding a textbook in his hand, but his mind had already drifted far away.
The so-called "living the mountains and relying on water" to make money, he can only make the output from the mountains.
Although God made him reborn in this remote mountain village, his family was so poor that it was jingling, but fortunately, he gave him another golden finger that defied the heavens.
Haidong Province is full of business genes. What should I do if I am so poor now?
Depend on the future of the dead wages?
Besides, even if you have a salary, it will be next year. Do you still have to continue eating braised vegetables now?
Before he knew it, Chen Qi thought of his "predecessor".
The young man worked very hard and was cheerful in his studies. Unfortunately, he would never be full at school and often growled with hunger.
Although you don’t have to pay for the tuition fee for studying in a technical secondary school these days, you still have to pay the textbook fee yourself, not much or a few dollars. This is a big and small burden for the poor Chen family.
Another burden is that the subsidies for technical secondary school are too small.
When I go to college, I have a subsidy of about 19 yuan a month. It’s enough to save a little money. I can also spend a few cents to buy a movie ticket occasionally.
However, the subsidy for technical secondary school students was reduced by half, only 10 yuan a month. All the money was exchanged for "money tickets" dedicated to the school, so it was barely enough to eat.
The original owner usually cooks 4 taels of rice in the canteen, asks for a vegetarian dish, and then prepares some free dried vegetable soup, which adds up to 17 cents.
Breakfast is even more costly. Generally, two white flour steamed buns cost 80 cents, and sometimes they don’t eat them directly and they go hungry.
At the age of seventeen or eighteen, it was the time when half a young man was poor. He had not bought meat dishes for a long time and lacked oil and water in his stomach. If Chen Qichang really wanted to eat it, he would probably eat one or two kilograms of rice in one breath.
It’s just such a living standard. If you compress it or compress it, 10 yuan is really barely enough to eat. If you didn’t have the support of sweet potatoes at home, you wouldn’t be able to hold on.
The original owner was a study seed, and he never thought about making money. He had no place to work and study these days.
Now Chen Qi believes that books still need to be read, which is related to a stable job in the future. But money is also something to be earned. In order to prevent the elder sister from carrying bricks, she let her younger brother and sister eat big fat meat.
To prevent your student life from being too hungry, you always have to think of ways to work hard.
The 1980s were just an era where people were brave and timid.
Then doing some small business is the most ready-made method.
Isn’t the peaches, bayberry, eel, loach, snails, and frogs in Xiaze Village the best deal without money?
After making up his mind, Chen Qi fooled Chen Shu and Chen Hua and said, "Do you two want to eat meat again? Eat popsicles?"
The boy and girl lit their heads like pounding garlic: "Think about it."
"If you want to, just do me a favor. You have to go to the fields and streams to catch eels and loaches these days. My sister, you can touch the snails and catch frogs. The more you have, the better. You can catch as much as you have. You can mobilize your friends to catch them together."
Chen Shu was discouraged when he heard this: "Brother, why are you stupid? You didn't tell you that this thing can't be sold."
Chen Hua nodded too.
Chen Qi put his hands on his chest and leaned back on the back of the chair: "Who said I wanted me to sell it in Xingtang? Brother, I can go to the city to sell it."
"But, how do you transport these things out? Don't die halfway."
"You don't have to worry about this. Immortals have their own tricks. If you want to eat meat, you will listen to me. I can even pass the technical secondary school entrance exam. What is this small difficulty?"
Chen Shu and Chen Hua were both a little skeptical, but thinking that his brother has always been reliable in doing things, maybe he really didn't have any solutions.
So the brother and sister were busy in the fields every day. In order to avoid being scolded as three fools, they were all careful.
Touching a snail is the easiest thing. In summer, there are the most things in the paddy fields. You can touch a sack every day.
It is also easy to catch frogs. Just use cotton thread to hang a pumpkin stamen on the stick, and then go to the fields to fish.
Loaches are simpler. Find a muddy field to turn over the mud, or find a ditch. After putting the water, the loaches are piled up.
It’s a little more troublesome to catch eels. This thing is hidden in the hole. However, rural children like Chen Shu have the best way to find a wire on the bicycle wheel and polish it to a small stick.
Dig some earthworms as bait and you can go fishing for eels. The ones you catch are thicker than the other, which means that the efficiency is a bit low.
In fact, the best way to catch eels is to go to the fields to put hooks, put them down in the evening, and pull them up in the middle of the night. The number of them is absolutely considerable in one night. Unfortunately, Chen Qi has no money and can't afford a small fish hook, so he has to give up.
The eels, loaches, snails and frogs harvested every day were taken away by Chen Qi, and no one knew where they were placed.
13-year-old Chen Shu and Chen Hua didn't care where these things went. They only care about when they could sell money to the supply and marketing cooperative to buy popsicles and pork.
Chapter completed!