She sat down to rest with her son in her arms, saying, "Little Bao, it's a good thing I brought you on the boat today, otherwise Mommy would never have found these big fish. All the fish we caught are thanks to you!"

Yu Yang was overjoyed to be able to help his mother, feeling that he was of immense value. He took the opportunity to make a request: "Mom, take me with you next time. I'll help you find fish again. I'm really good at finding fish."

Seeing her son playing a little trick on her, Chen Hong laughed heartily, "Yes, son, you're the best. Next time, if it's just a short trip and we're just strolling around the beach, Mom will take you with me. But if it's a long trip and we're going far away, Mom can't take you on the boat. You're too small, and you'll get seasick if you're too far from the shore."

“If you get seasick, you won’t feel well, and then Mom won’t be able to go fishing, and we’ll have to go home. If you want to help Mom, there will be plenty of opportunities in the future. When you grow up, Mom will wait for you to earn money to support me, and then I won’t go out to sea anymore, okay?”

"Mom, wait for me, I'll grow up soon and be able to take care of you."

Chen Hong hugged Yu Yang and kept kissing him: "Good son, so good. I'll wait for you to grow up and take care of me. Come here and give me a kiss, Mom's baby!"

Yu Yang accepted all of his mother's kisses without hesitation, squinting his eyes and enjoying it. He also hugged his mother's face and kissed her a few times, saying, "Mommy, Xiao Bao wants to kiss you too. Xiao Bao loves Mommy!"

After spending some time being affectionate with her daughter, Chen Hong packed her things, weighed anchor, and set sail back to the dock.

Halfway there, Chen Hong called Liu Laohu to arrange to sell fish at the dock. When she arrived at the dock, she anchored and tied the mooring rope. After waiting for 10 minutes, Liu Laohu arrived with his son.

Upon boarding the boat and opening the live water tank, Liu Laohu's eyes widened in disbelief: "You're incredibly lucky! You caught so many fish, and they're all valuable ones. I don't think everyone in the village could catch as much as you today. You're rich today!"

As they talked, they set up the scale with their son, prepared the water tank, and started scooping and weighing the fish. "Uncle Tiger, scoop all the yellowfin tuna into this bucket, and scoop out two red snapper. I'll take them home for my kids, and sell the rest."

"Alright, whatever you say!" Liu Laohu happily scooped up the fish and told Chen Hong about the prices: "Black sea bream is still 35 yuan per jin, sea bream is 60 yuan per jin, sea bass is 30 yuan per jin, red sea bream is 45 yuan per jin, bigeye sea bream is 70 yuan, and red snapper is 80 yuan per jin. Is the price okay with you, Chen Hong?"

“Why not? You decide the price. I trust you, Uncle Tiger.” Chen Hong thought to herself: The villagers probably know about her divorce now; they’ve changed how they address Uncle Tiger.

In the end, Liu Laohu settled the bill with Chen Hong: 9 bigeye snapper totaling 20.3 jin × 70 = 1421 yuan; 52 red snapper totaling 163 jin × 80 = yuan; 6 black snapper totaling 18.7 jin × 35 = 654.5 yuan; 6 red snapper totaling 15.2 jin × 45 = 684 yuan; 2 sea bream totaling 9 jin × 60 = 540 yuan; 4 sea bass totaling 11 jin × 30 = 330 yuan.

1421++654.5+684+540+330, totaling 0.5 yuan. Liu Laohu took out his phone: "Chen Hong, is it still the same account as last time?"

"Yes, I've always used this account." Then, her phone notified her of a deposit notification; Chen Hong saw that 100 yuan had been deposited. Chen Hong put away her phone and helped divide the fish into two tanks. Liu Laohu and his son carried the fish, put away the scale, and drove off.

Chen Hong helped her son unbuckle his seatbelt, then began cleaning up, putting away the fishing gear, loading everything onto the tricycle, and draining the seawater from the live water tank. After filling the boat with clean seawater and washing it thoroughly inside and out, she took her son off the boat and drove home in the tricycle.

The mother and son sat in the car, chatting happily about their day's haul. They had bought several pounds of pork and two braised pig ears at the village supermarket, and also a case of milk for their son. The two had a very satisfying shopping trip.

Upon arriving home, they first took the fish and meat into the kitchen, Yu Yang helped carry the milk back to the main room, Chen Hong tidied up the fishing gear and put it in the storage room, then turned on the water pump and washed the tricycle.

After washing up and changing into comfortable clothes and shoes, the mother and son turned on the TV and fan, rested for a while, and Chen Hong brewed herself a cup of tea and made a cup of honeysuckle and honey tea for her son. Sipping fragrant tea, enjoying the breeze from the fan, and watching TV, the mother and son were very happy.

After drinking three infusions of tea and resting enough, Chen Hong went up to the roof to collect all the mountain produce and brought it down. Once it cooled down, it could be bagged and sealed.

I cut a bunch of chives in the backyard, went back to the kitchen to pick, wash and drain them, chopped a piece of pork, added minced scallions and ginger, cooking wine and thirteen-spice powder, mixed it and slightly marinated it with the meat filling, chopped chives into small sections, added them to the meat filling, poured in peanut oil, sprinkled some salt, mixed it well and set it aside for later use.

Seeing that the dough had risen to fill the basin, I scooped it out and kneaded it on the work surface to release the air. I then rolled it into strips, cut them into sections, and set them aside to rest. I added water to the large pot on the wood-fired stove, placed a steaming rack inside, and lined the steamer with cheesecloth.

While rolling out the dough, she also wrapped the buns. Once all the buns were wrapped, she placed them in a steamer and steamed them in a pot with firewood burning at the bottom. While watching the fire, Chen Hong cleaned the yellowfin tuna she had brought back, fried it in oil, and then put it in a pot of hot water with only scallions and ginger to make fish soup.

Once the fish soup is ready, pour it into a bowl. Check the time; the steamed buns will be cooked in 20 minutes after the water boils. Turn off the heat and remove the buns from the pot. The plump, white buns are ready!