Chapter 116 I only regret that I don’t have the chance to tear their mouths apart!

Shen Qing was not polite.

Small wild fish require a lot of oil. Even those families in the village who have plenty of oil can only afford to fry big fish, let alone deep-fry fish. In the past, chickens, ducks and geese could be raised to feed them and lay more eggs, but now they can only be used as fish bait at most.

But I was also thankful that it was a flood. Although the food in the fields was gone, I could still catch fish and eat wild vegetables. As long as I was diligent, filling my stomach was not a problem.

The people of the Hong family are hardworking, and even if they don't exchange food with her, filling their stomachs is not a problem. However, after exchanging food, their quality of life will not be greatly improved in the short term, and the difference will become apparent when the cold winter comes.

Thinking of the big fish, she asked, "What do you want to exchange for this big fish today?"

Hong Ming blurted out: "Replace them all with whole grains!"

Then he thought hesitantly, the old people always say that rice, oil and white flour are nourishing. Our family has been eating cornmeal mixed with corn cobs. It’s okay on normal days, but now we are worried and have to exert too much pressure on the road to escape. Can the children handle it?

That's a big fish weighing over ten pounds. I'd trade a handful for rice and flour to nourish the children and give them a good meal...

Shen Qing saw Hong Ming frown and hesitate after he said it, and then understood.

What she lacked the most right now was rice and flour! Furthermore, rice and flour were half the price of whole grains in the mall. She sincerely hoped they would switch to refined grains.

She suggested: "If there are too many coarse grains at home, you can exchange them for some rice and flour to eat together. For example, in the morning, you can cook a pot of porridge with rice and pair it with corn and wild vegetable cakes. It doesn't cost much rice and it tastes good.

Corn flour is mixed with 20% to 30% white flour, and the resulting dough is delicate, fluffy and delicious.”

In the first few decades of poverty in China, people ate sweet potatoes, potatoes, and corn. At that time, they only wanted to eat rice and steamed buns with white flour for every meal. Later, when life got better, there were still some leftover rice and steamed buns with white flour for every meal, and steamed sweet potatoes and boiled corn appeared on the table again.

Neither single coarse grains nor refined grains are the best. It is best to eat them together, mainly to promote gastrointestinal motility, digestion and absorption!

Hong Ming was madly excited and asked embarrassedly, "So, will your family have enough rice and flour after the change?"

Shen Qing smiled and said, "We prepared everything before we came out. If you change back, it will just reduce the weight of the ox cart.

The flooded areas are all in Xingcheng and the areas to the south. The cities we passed by on our way north were not affected by the floods, so we can replenish them every few days. Besides, if we have fish to eat and fill our stomachs, we will naturally eat less food. It's the same thing."

Hong Ming knew it was different. For a pound of fish, eels, loaches, etc., after removing the internal organs, bones and heads, it would be good if he could eat three ounces of it. But it was different with food. A pound was a real pound, and it was a pound after being dried!

Moreover, with the same weight of three taels, you won’t feel anything when you eat the fish, but three taels of food can fill the stomachs of two people.

Shen Qing was trying to comfort him and tell him not to feel any psychological burden, just like before in the village.

He said gratefully, "Okay, then I'll exchange it for rice or flour. Is that okay with you?"

Shen Qing naturally had no objection, but said: "After weighing the food later, don't take it yet. Wait until nightfall and ask your sister-in-law to come over and take it back quietly to prevent others from seeing it and getting jealous and causing trouble."

Not only did the Hong family attract attention for exchanging food for the return trip, her family was even more so!

If there is meat, you have to eat it in the bowl. Similarly, the mall has to make money quietly.

Hong Ming nodded vigorously, repeating, "Big sister, you're right. You've thought it through very carefully!"

When he and the Zhao family were in the village before, they sent seafood and wild vegetables to Shen Qing, and some people said very unpleasant things about them.

He told the Feng and Qin families that he and the Zhao family were snobbish and that they were trying to establish connections by drilling holes in walls in order to replace their job of polishing pens.

Fortunately, he and the Feng family had been neighbors for more than ten years, and they knew and trusted each other. The Feng family secretly told his wife, and they realized that the income earned through labor could also be slandered. They were so angry that they couldn't sleep well for several days!

He knew who were the ones who were spreading rumors. This was the case even in the village, let alone on the road of escape where they were short of food and clothing. Of course, they had to be even more cautious.

He added, "Big sister, I'll ask your sister-in-law to bring me anything from now on."

Shen Qing responded and the two returned.

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Shen Qing was not very interested in the big fish, but everyone else in the family liked it very much.

We gathered around the ten-pound fish to discuss what to eat in the evening.

In Wang Fugui's eyes, Hong Ming happily gave a big fish to Shen Qing. The two of them said something behind people's backs, and Hong Ming went back with a happy smile and didn't ask for anything.

"Bah! Shameless!" Wang Fugui cursed.

Sun Xiaomai stared at the big fish with his eyes wide open, his mouth watering at the thought of how it would taste.

She lowered her head and stirred the wild vegetable paste in the pot. In the past, she and Shen Qing had a good time. How many eels and loaches had they eaten from her family? How good it would have been in the past.

She will definitely get a share of such a big fish!

"Brother Jiang's grave has turned green, and Jiang Yang, Jiang Tian and other elders of the Jiang family don't care about it." Wang Fugui looked at the big fish and listened to the Jiang family's excited discussion on how to eat it, which made him even angrier.

Sun Xiaomai curled her lips.

Just by saying a few words to Hong Ming, she could get a big catch, and she would be willing to do that too.

She seriously thought, could she really catch a big fish by just saying a few words? Why not give it a try under the cover of night...

On the other side, Zhang Heshun lowered his eyebrows and sighed to his wife, "Mrs. Hong is so pitiful. Her husband gave her such a big fish, but she is probably still in the dark.

Hey, she was saying yesterday that a family of more than ten people depended on her careful budgeting to make ends meet, but she was saving money while her husband turned around and gave away a 10-pound fish to someone else. If she knew, wouldn't she go to Shen Qing and make a scene? "

Zhou Chuncao became excited when he heard this!

"Mr. Hong is going too far! We can't let Mrs. Hong be kept in the dark."

Zhou Tian, ​​who was listening intently on the other side, also became interested and echoed, "Mom, take some time to talk to Aunt Hong. How can good people always suffer losses? We can't let bad people take advantage of us!"

Why did Guan Li get such benefits before she even married into the Jiang family, and why did her husband's family even give her a donkey cart to travel around?

Isn't it all because of Shen Qing, the mother-in-law? Once Shen Qing and Hong Ming's scandal is exposed and Hong's mother-in-law makes a fuss, their village will be really lively.

Then we’ll see how women like Huo Bingguan, Lijiang Yujiangshui and others will be able to face people.

Over there, Hong Ming crossed a large forest and returned to his resting place. He hurriedly told his wife about exchanging food. "This eleven-pound fish is big. How many pounds of rice and flour do you think you can exchange it for?"

Zheng Hui was so shocked when she heard that she could exchange it for rice and flour. She quickly closed her mouth and asked, "Rice and flour are so precious. Are you really willing to exchange them?"

"How could it be fake? I told you to go there quietly at night to avoid attracting the attention of those short-sighted people!"

Zheng Hui nodded repeatedly.

Those people had previously spread rumors in the village about their dirty, despicable and shady methods, and that they were giving gifts to Shen Qing to replace the Feng and Qin families who polished the pen. She only regretted that she didn't have the chance to tear them apart!