Is it because Sister Chen Hong's cooking is better than ours, or is it just that leftover food always tastes better?

Guan Tao and Fang Xiaoying blushed with embarrassment. "Yes, yes! Sister Chen Hong's cooking is also excellent. It's the first time I've ever had fishermen's food. It's so fresh and fragrant, and it's especially delicious!"

Yu Yang said, "I see that my older brother and sister both love to eat seafood. The seafood from our seaside is the best!"

Chen Hong also laughed: "The happiest thing for a cook is having people who love to eat and support him."

The fact that everyone finished their meals at noon today shows that they were quite satisfied with my cooking. Isn't that a blatant compliment to my culinary skills?

After everyone laughed and joked for a while, Xiaoyun helped Chen Hong wash the dishes in the kitchen. Despite Chen Hong's objections, Director Jin and Mrs. Guan tidied up the dining room and wiped the tables.

In their words, "We're going to stay at your place for a long time, and we're not allowed to do anything, so we don't feel comfortable."

"We'd better help you with more housework so we can feel comfortable eating and staying here for free!"

Seeing their insistence, Chen Hong let go and told them to treat it as if they were in their own home and do whatever they wanted!

After cleaning the kitchen, the guests from Beijing went back to their rooms to wash up and rest. Chen Hong also asked Xiao Yun to take Nini back to her room for a nap; taking care of a child is no easy task.

From then on, things got lively in Chen Hong's house. Four children, big and small, would run in and out, their daily playful noise making it seem like a row of children had been added to the house.

Xiao Hao and Wang Xin also played with them every day, forming a strange group that was neither a youth group nor a children's group.

Guan Tao and Fang Xiaoying are going to university, Yu Yang, Xiao Hao and Wang Xin are going to start primary school, and there's also a little girl named Nini who is not even two years old.

Surprisingly, the group was not led by college students Guan Tao and Fang Xiaoying, nor by the youngest but priority-holding Nini, but by Yu Yang and two others who were in the middle of the age group.

They are true locals, and they know a lot about the fun, sights, and food in the countryside.

Every day, he would carry Nini on his back and lead Fang Xiaoying and Guan Tao running wildly in and around the village.

Go to the beach to go fishing, go to the dock to watch the women weaving nets and gossiping, go to the orchard to pick tender corn and pull peanuts, and drool over the pears hanging on the branches.

In less than a week, Fang Xiaoying and Guan Tao went from fair-skinned foreign students to dark-skinned little charcoal briquette students.

If you don't look closely, they're no different from the children in the fishing village, haha, they adapt to their environment very quickly!

Director Jin, Madam Guan, and Xiaoyun were also busy, learning to fish, cook, plant vegetables, and tend the vegetable garden from Chen Hong.

She would also follow Chen Hong to the orchard to weed, water, and hoe, doing farm work.

Most of them stay at home helping to dry fish and seafood. They are meticulous and careful, and although they work slowly, the dried goods they produce are very beautiful and of no worse quality than those dried by Chen Hong.

Chen Hong was worried that they would have a hard time because they had never done it before, but she did not expect that the resilience and endurance of middle-aged and elderly women were really amazing.

They didn't complain at all; on the contrary, they worked with great enthusiasm.

They all said they had unlocked several new survival skills, and that even if they were placed on a deserted island, they could grow vegetables and grains and dry fish to support themselves.

Madam Guan, Wenjing, preferred fishing and often went fishing at the sea with the two old men of the Zhou family.

Of course, the results were mediocre, unless Chen Hong occasionally had free time and would prepare her own secret bait for them.

But she doesn't always provide them with bait; she's usually very busy.

At home, I have to cook for eight people, dry fish and seafood, and take care of the fruit trees in the orchard.

The harvest is just around the corner, and everyone in the village is watching the pear yield in her orchard. Although there are better and more pear varieties available elsewhere, she doesn't dare to neglect her own orchard.

Every three or four days, she also has to go out to sea for two or three days to fish, and the Dragon Palace Hotel and Pearl Restaurant are waiting for her to supply them!

It's currently the fishing ban season, and the catch of fish coming ashore is scarce, so several customers are relying more heavily on Chen Hong's catch.

If Chen Hong didn't go out to sea for a few days, Zhang Baiqiang and his men would come to her door urging her to deliver the goods. Chen Hong had no choice but to leave her guests at home and go out to sea to fish as scheduled.

After Director Jin and his group came to Yujia Village, Zhou Yi's mother visited their home less often because she wasn't familiar with the place.

Fortunately, Xiaoyun was there at home. When Chen Hong was away, Xiaoyun was in charge of the household, taking care of the guests and the children.

Chen Hong felt quite at ease going out to sea, and during this time, she had emptied more than half of the fish she had caught in her storage space. Looking at the stacks of empty plastic boxes in her space, she felt a little uneasy.

After school starts, she will be unable to go out to sea to fish for more than four months, and the inventory in her space will not be able to support continuous shipments for too long.

It seems I need to take advantage of this holiday to hurry up and go to Japan to buy some goods.

However, an earthquake struck Niigata Prefecture in Japan last month, which reportedly triggered a tsunami and a nuclear leak.

The waters of the Sea of ​​Japan near the nuclear power plant have been contaminated by nuclear radiation, and the marine resources on the seabed are certainly not safe either.

Going to the Sea of ​​Japan is no longer an option. Not only can the nuclear-contaminated seafood not be brought back to China for sale, but the distance is also too great, and a round trip would take at least ten days.

With a large family of guests at home, Chen Hong couldn't leave her family alone for too long.

Looking at the map, Chen Hong decided to go to the waters near the Five Islands!

Although there aren't many bluefin tuna there this season, there are plenty of common commercial fish.

With minimal time spent diving and fishing, one can quickly fill their catch.