Chapter 81 Fishing

Tang Yue looked at the pile of seafood she had picked up. It was too much to eat, so she could only dry them later. The sun was at its highest point, so she thought it was time for lunch. She was indeed a little hungry, so she quickly called her mother-in-law.

"Mom, you are hungry. I am a little hungry too. Let's eat first and then pick up the food."

Zhao's mother looked up at the sky. It was indeed time to eat, but she couldn't let her daughter-in-law starve. "Okay, let's eat at the foot of the mountain and come back to collect things. Put what you picked up in the backpack. You also picked up a few sea cucumbers. I'll make steamed eggs with them for you when we get back. Xin said that this is very nutritious. I know it's true. People are lacking in nutrition nowadays. You should eat more."

Tang Yue didn't have any objections. She just waited for the food to be ready. We ate whatever she cooked. No one had so many opinions. It was all wrong for someone to do it.

"Mom, you cook well, I'll eat whatever you cook." Tang Yue felt that she was very obedient and cooperative.

Mother Zhao also likes her daughter-in-law the way she is. She is pretty and well-behaved, a good girl that is hard to find even with a lantern. "Okay, okay, I'll make it for you when we get home. I learned this from the chef at home some time ago. The chef's cooking skills are second to none. I guarantee you'll want to eat it again after having it."

"Mom, since it's so delicious, I'll pick up some more sea cucumbers later so I can have more meals. I'll bring some sea water back. I guess it shouldn't be that easy to die." Tang Yue was drooling when she heard about the taste of eating. She wanted to pick up a few pounds of it so she could eat it slowly and have enough when the time came.

"Okay, let's finish our meal first, and then we can pick them up. I just picked up some small abalone, and I'll roast them for you when we get home. I may not be so good at other things, but I'm very good at eating." Mother Zhao brought the steamed buns and side dishes for the two of them to eat.

Tang Yue felt that the steamed bun was a bit cold, so she chewed it slowly and ate it. Fortunately, she only ate it to fill herself up, and she wanted to eat it again when she got home.

After Zhao's mother and daughter-in-law finished lunch, she was really bored. "Yueyue, Mom will go over there to take a look. You haven't walked too far. I won't be gone for long here. The tide should start to rise in two hours. I will be back before the tide rises. You wait for me here."

Mother Zhao gave her daughter-in-law many warnings, fearing that she would run around if she was told to do so.

"Let it go. I just brought the fishing line and hook here. I'm going to chop a small stick at the foot of the mountain and try to catch some fish." Tang Yue felt that she had a plan and a purpose. She wanted to try to catch some fish. If she could, she would have a place to kill time later.

Tang Yue watched her mother-in-law slowly walk away, and prepared to find a suitable stick at the foot of the mountain. It couldn't be too soft or too hard. After searching for a long time, she finally found a suitable one. She tied the fishing line to it, tied the fish hook, and cut a small piece of fish meat with a dagger, ready to use it as bait and hang it on the fish hook.

Tang Yue found a good place to sit, where the water below was submerged, sat down first, threw the fishing line out, and the rest was just waiting. It was her first time fishing, so she knew she would be able to catch something, but she had heard that novices would have better luck, and she knew it was true.

Tang Yue was too impatient to wait, so she found a big rock nearby, put it on the fishing rod, and ran to the side to look around. Unexpectedly, she felt the line moving just after she left. She quickly ran back to grab the rod, waited for the fish to bite the rod tightly, and then swung it out, took the hook out of the fish's mouth, cut a vine nearby, threaded the fish through it, and hung it on a tree. It seems that there is really such a saying as beginner's luck, or it is possible that there are too many fish in the sea now, and it seems that they have overfished in the past and there are no big fish.

Seeing that a fish was caught so quickly, Tang Yue became interested. She cut a little more meat with a dagger to use as bait, hung the line again, threw it into the sea, and sat by the side waiting slowly.

After that, a fish was caught almost every minute, and all of them were hung on the tree. There were seven or eight of them, each weighing three kilograms at most, and the largest one weighed six kilograms. Seeing so many, Tang Yue was ready to go fishing. Judging from the time, her mother-in-law should be back soon, and by the time she came back, the tide would have risen.

Fortunately, Tang Yue didn't have to wait long before her mother-in-law came back. When she saw so many fish hanging on the tree, she was surprised and asked, "Yueyue, where did so many fish come from?"

"Mom, didn't I just tell you that I wanted to go fishing? This is the fish I just caught."

"Oh, my daughter-in-law is so capable. There are so many fish. Mom will cook for you whatever you want to eat." Mother Zhao now feels very accomplished. Her daughter-in-law is so capable.

"Mom, it's all up to you. You can pickle it after eating, and then mail it to my brother and sister-in-law. Fish is the most needed here. If people in Beijing want to eat fish, they need to have supply. But it will be hard for those eight nephews, otherwise they will be hungry and thin when you go back next time." Tang Yue really felt that it was too difficult for people nowadays to eat something, especially those nephews who were still young and had difficulty eating something good.

Listening to her daughter-in-law talking about her other sisters-in-law and nephews, Zhao's mother was very moved. "You sisters-in-law have such a good relationship. When the time comes, ask your nephews to thank you as their aunt. It's amazing that you are still thinking about them now."

Tang Yue heard her mother-in-law say that the sisters-in-law had a good relationship. She said that it was also because she was generous as a mother-in-law. As a betrothal gift, each of them received a house, and after the marriage, they all moved in. It was not so easy for them to have conflicts when living together. It was also not like those who lived together and were too familiar with each other and would lose their sense of propriety. She was quite satisfied with the current situation. Although they were far away, they would be very grateful to you for giving you some gifts occasionally.

"Mom, I'm thinking about them, and it's you as their grandmother who's thinking about them. I'm afraid you'll abandon them, so I'm helping you share your worries." Tang Yue is still good at saying nice things, and you can see that her mother-in-law is very happy because of her coaxing.

"Okay, okay, you are all good children. The tide is about to rise. Let's go back first," said Zhao's mother, and took down all the fish hanging on the tree. Fortunately, she caught them one by one when she had nothing to do. Now the weight is lighter when carrying them home. She feels more and more that she is really a smart person.

Tang Yue originally wanted to carry it herself, after all, it wasn't very heavy for her, but her mother-in-law insisted. Fortunately, people in this era were not as delicate as those in modern times, so this little thing was no problem for them. Even though her mother-in-law looked like she had never done any heavy work, she still had a lot of energy.

When walking back, Tang Yue looked back at the sea, thinking how nice it would be to have a big ship and drift on the sea.