Chapter 9 Farmers don't like to eat eels

Chen Qi couldn't understand, did he think he was in a different world? Could it be that the human beings here have different tastes from the human beings in his previous life?

Eel, and it is such a thick and big wild eel, why is it not delicious?

Foodies expressed dissatisfaction! Wild fishing enthusiasts in the vegetable market are also not convinced!

Chen Shu was a little disdainful: "Hey, brother, if you want to eat, let's grab one and try it, and you will know."

As a result, at noon, Chen Qi was a little skeptical when he ate the steamed rice field eel in the bowl. He just sprinkled a little salt and tasted it in his mouth.

Chen Qi looked at the empty stove at home, and understood where the problem was.

Eel was considered a home-cooked dish in his previous life, and the most common cooking method was "stir-fried shredded eel" or "sliced eel in braised sauce".

There are a lot of seasonings here, such as garlic moss, green pepper slices, shredded ginger, green onion, pepper, salt, ginger, sugar, soy sauce, oyster sauce, cooking wine, monosodium glutamate, dried peppercorns, dried peppers, Pixian watercress, etc. .

Then stir-fry it with heavy fire and heavy oil, even if it is copied from the leather soles, it will be delicious.

But now in the countryside, there are no seasonings of any kind, and the only kind of vegetable oil and soy sauce at home have been ruined by him.

Just a little salt can't get rid of the earthy smell of ricefield eels, so farmers don't like to eat them.

If you have time to catch eels, why not go to the mountains to get some wild boar, pheasant, and hare meat, isn't that more delicious.

Original eels could be sold to urban residents if they were caught, but as the old saying goes, there is no way to transport them out, even if the cost of transporting them out is too high, they are easy to be locked up for "study" by speculation.

Now it's all right, not to mention that there are too many rice field eels, no one wants to eat the same loach and snails, and those huge frogs are jumping around in the field with nothing to worry about.

This kind of the most popular food for drinking at late-night snack stalls in later generations is really "you don't care about me now, but you can't afford it in the future."

This afternoon, Chen Qi held the textbook in his hand, but his mind had already drifted far, far away.

The so-called relying on mountains to eat mountains, relying on water to eat water, if he wants to make money, he can only use the output of this mountain.

Although God reborn him in this remote mountain village, and his family was terribly poor, luckily in the misfortune, he was given another golden finger against the sky.

People from Haidong Province are full of genes for doing business, so what should they do if they are so poor now?

Relying on the few dead wages in the future?

Besides, even if there is a salary, it will be a matter of next year. Do you still have to continue to eat bran swallowing vegetables now?

Unknowingly, Chen Qi thought of his "predecessor".

The young man studies very hard and is cheerful, but unfortunately he can never get enough to eat at school, and his stomach often growls with hunger.

Although there is no tuition fee for technical secondary school these days, the textbook fee is still paid by oneself. It is not much, just a few yuan. This is not a big burden for the poor Chen family.

Another burden is that there are too few subsidies for technical secondary schools.

When I go to university, I get a subsidy of almost 19 yuan a month. This money is enough to save a little, and I can occasionally spend a few cents to buy a movie ticket.

However, the subsidy for technical secondary school students is halved, only 10 yuan a month, and all this money is exchanged for the special "money ticket" for the school, so they can barely eat.

The original owner was in the cafeteria. He usually ordered 4 taels of rice, one vegetarian dish, and some free dried vegetable soup. The total cost was only 17 cents.

Breakfast is more economical. Generally, two white flour steamed buns cost 8 cents.

Seventeen or eighteen years old, it was the time when middle-aged and middle-aged people ate poor old people. If they didn't buy meat for a long time, their stomachs were short of oil and water. If Chen Qichang really wanted to open his stomach to eat, he might be able to eat a catty or two of rice in one sitting.

This is the standard of living, compressed and compressed, 10 yuan is really barely enough to eat, if it is not for the support of sweet potatoes at home, it will not be able to survive at all.

The original owner is a seed for studying, and he never thought about making money. There is no place for work-study programs these days.

Now Chen Qi thinks that books should be read, which is related to having a stable job in the future. But money is also to be earned, so that the eldest sister does not have to carry bricks, and the younger siblings can eat big fat.

To keep my student life from being too hungry, I always have to find ways to work hard.

The 1980s was an era in which the bold and the timid were starved to death.

Then starting a small business is the most ready-made way.

The peaches, red bayberries, eels, loaches, snails, and frogs in Xiaze Village are the best no-cost deals?

Having made up his mind, Chen Qi fooled Chen Shu and Chen Hua and said, "Do you two want to eat meat again? Eat popsicles?"

Boys and girls nodded like pounding garlic: "Think about it."

"If you want to, do me a favor. Brother, go to the field and stream to catch eels and loaches these few days. Girl, you can touch snails and catch frogs. The more the better, you can catch as many as you have, and you can mobilize your friends Catch together."

Chen Shu became discouraged when he heard it: "Brother, why are you so stubborn, it's not that I told you that this thing can't be sold."

Chen Hua also nodded.

Chen Qi crossed his arms and leaned back on the back of the chair: "Who told me to sell it in Xingtang? Brother, I can sell it in the city."

"But, how do you transport these things? Don't go halfway and die."

"You don't need to worry about this. Immortals have their own tricks. If you want to eat meat, you can listen to my brother. My brother can even pass the technical secondary school. What is this small difficulty?"

Both Chen Shu and Chen Hua were a little skeptical, but considering that his brother has always been reliable in doing things, maybe he really has something to do.

So the three brothers and sisters were busy in the fields every day, and they were all cautious in order to avoid people knowing that they would be called three fools.

Touching snails is the easiest thing to do. In the paddy fields in summer, there are the most of them, and you can touch a sack a day.

Catching frogs is also simple, just hang a pumpkin stamen with cotton thread on a stick, and then go fishing in the fields.

Loach is easier. Find a muddy place to turn over the mud, or find a ditch. After the water is drained, there will be piles of loaches.

Catching rice field eels is a bit more troublesome, as they are all hidden in the holes, but a country boy like Chen Shu has the best way. He found a wire from a bicycle wheel, sharpened one end of it, and attached it to a small stick.

Dig some earthworms as bait, and then you can go fishing for eels. The ones caught are thicker than one, but the efficiency is a bit low.

Actually, the best way to catch ricefield eels is to put hooks in the field, put them down in the evening, and pull them up in the middle of the night. There will definitely be a considerable number of hooks in one night. Unfortunately, Chen Qi has no money and cannot afford a small hook, so he can only give up.

The eels, loach, snails, and frogs harvested every day were all taken away by Chen Qi, and no one knew where they were put.

The 13-year-old Chen Shu and Chen Hua don't care where these things go. They only care about when they can sell them to buy popsicles and pork at the supply and marketing cooperative.

(end of this chapter)