Chapter 14: The Trap of Chopped Pepper Barracuda
Patches of dark green seaweed float in the water.
Yu Zhile stared at the screen in the air, his eyes out of focus.
"These? These are seaweeds and cannot be eaten. We eat seaweed." She blinked and scanned the seaweed pile.
The orange scalloped shell caught her eye.
"Its shape is very similar to a fan, so it's called a scallop." Yu Zhile pulled away the seaweed covering the surface of the scallop, which was the size of a palm. "Garlic vermicelli scallop, delicious."
After looking around, she saw several scallops of similar size.
Seeing this, Zhang Caihong pinched her palms, forced a smile, and walked closer.
"Le Le, the scallops you picked up are so big, do you have any tricks?" Her eyes rolled around and she scanned the surroundings, but didn't see even a snail.
Yu Zhile smiled brightly: "I have good character, so I have good luck."
Zhang Caihong understood her subtext and almost broke her back teeth.
"Yu Zhile, go home." Zhou Yuesheng suddenly appeared.
Zhang Caihong looked at him and her breathing stagnated. Zhou Yuesheng, with a cold face, did not hide his aura at all, like a demon.
"You also caught a pike?" The smile on Yu Zhile's face became more genuine.
Zhang Caihong felt a pang of pain in her heart again, and she did not reveal a ferocious expression until the two men turned around and left.
"I'll be in the cooking live broadcast room later." Yu Zhile said goodbye to the audience.
Now, Zhou Yuesheng remained calm when he heard her strange words.
In the small courtyard, Yu Yue and Chen Zhao were reading, while Yu Chi was squatting in the corner in a daze.
Zhou Yuesheng poured the seafood into a wooden basin and sprinkled salt on it to let the sand spit out, while Yu Zhile took out the candied March plums and green plums from the previous few days.
In March, the flesh turns yellow, the skin becomes slightly wrinkled, and it emits a unique fermented sour smell that makes people drool.
The candied green plums are separated from the core, crispy and tender, with a sweet and sour taste.
Chen Zhao was like a bottomless black hole, biting one thing after another, making Yu Zhile's teeth ache.
"It's good for whetting my appetite. I can eat three bowls of rice now." With a crunch, Chen Zhao ate another green plum.
Yu Yue glanced at the almost empty bowl and said, "Eat less. It hurts your stomach."
His words reminded Chen Zhao of the time when he vomited after eating preserved fruits in Beijing, and the topic thus changed to another place.
When the time comes, the show will start on time.
The Yu family will have rice with two kinds of filling tonight. Yu Chi will wash the rice clean and Chen Zhao will stew it.
Zhou Yuesheng scraped the scales, cut open the fish, removed the internal organs, cleaned the belly, and finally made a few cuts on the back of the fish before handing it to Yu Zhile.
"Today we're making chopped pepper pike, so add the oil first." Yu Zhile took the oil bottle and turned it over the casserole a few times.
Chen Zhao was amazed by this generous move.
When the oil is hot, add scallions, ginger and garlic and stir-fry until fragrant. Place the bok choy on the bottom of the pot, then place the fish on one side and add the side dishes on the other side.
When the jar of chopped pepper sauce was opened, the rich spicy flavor rushed straight to the face, making many viewers exclaim.
"One spoon of soy sauce and one spoon of chopped pepper sauce."
"Pour half a bowl of water along the edge of the pot, cover it with a lid, and simmer on low heat for ten minutes."
Chen Zhao was present, and Yu Zhile explained the steps in a serious manner without looking at the comments.
The second dish was scallops with vermicelli in garlic sauce.
Brush the surface of the scallops clean, pry them open, remove the stomach and digestive tract, and wash them clean to take out the meat.
Yu Zhile prepared the sauce, and Chen Zhao was responsible for adding the soaked sweet potato vermicelli and garlic sauce.
Everything is ready, the water is boiling, and you can steam it directly for a few minutes.
The last dish was stir-fried razor clams and moon shells with sauce.
Zhou Yuesheng cleaned the clams and moon clams in advance and blanched them with cooking wine.
“The steps for stir-frying with sauce are basically the same. Add scallions, ginger and garlic in hot oil and fry until fragrant. Add bean paste and stir-fry until the oil turns red. Then pour in the seafood and stir-fry.” Yu Zhile followed the steps in an orderly manner.
The strong fire makes the aroma of the sauce spread faster and quickly blend into the surrounding air.
In less than a minute, the clam meat becomes firm and is ready to be served.
The chopped pepper pike is spicy and fresh, the stir-fried shellfish with sauce is tender and juicy, and the garlic vermicelli scallops are delicious.
The three dishes were delicious and tasty, which whetted everyone's appetite and made them full.
Yu Zhile boiled a pot of hawthorn water, and a faint natural fruity acidity floated in the courtyard.
As night fell and the candlelight flickered, everyone chatted casually, feeling very comfortable.
On the other side, Zhang Caihong was not so happy. She helped her sister-in-law take care of the children for the whole day, and her back was straightened. She finally managed to get away.
She walked towards the center of the village in the dark, pounding her waist as she walked.
That night, Yu Zhile checked the live broadcast data of recent days.
After participating in the PK competition, her live broadcast room firmly occupied the top position, thus gaining higher exposure.
The popularity accumulates quickly, and the gifts received can be converted into 2,000 cloud coins.
"Host, your data is very impressive. Following this trend, it will not be a problem to take first place." Xiaoyun called up the data analysis chart of the participating anchors displayed on the platform.
The data in Yu Zhile’s live broadcast room for sea-hunting has almost been rising in a straight line.
"Come on!" She saw the possibility of achieving freedom in daily necessities on the cloud platform.
Unexpectedly, the next morning, Yu Zhile received a message from the official cloud platform.
[Hello, anchor, the platform has received reports from many people and suspects that your live broadcast room uses prohibited items. For the next three live broadcasts, the platform supervisor will monitor the content of your live broadcast room. Please do not make any rebellious behavior. ]
"Prohibited items?" Yu Zhile was confused.
Xiaoyun appeared with a serious expression: "Host, someone suspected that you used improper means to win the PK competition. The other party submitted evidence that you used a new type of hallucinogen, and the platform is currently verifying it."
"Oh." Yu Zhile responded. She didn't take this matter to heart.
With today's level of drug research, let alone hallucinogens that can affect cloud live broadcasts, even simple anthelmintics can only be independently produced in the 1980s.
After breakfast, Yu Zhile and Zhou Yuesheng went to their second grandfather’s house to borrow a bullock cart. They were going to take Yu Wanqin to the town hospital for a check-up today.
The results were virtually unchanged—the patient was in a coma, with normal but declining bodily functions.
The doctor prescribed a glucose drip, which will take some time to infuse.
Zhou Yuesheng stayed in the hospital, and Yu Zhile went to the supply and marketing cooperative to buy things.
The oil, salt and sugar in the house are consumed faster than expected and need to be replenished.
"Le Ni." Someone called Yu Zhile.
Yu Zhile turned and looked towards the source of the sound.
The owner of the voice had thick eyebrows that made the distance between his eyebrows and eyes very small. His face was broad, but his facial features were squeezed together.
At this time, the woman was glaring at Yu Zhile.
Yu Taohong - the youngest daughter of Old Lady Yu, has no blood relationship with Yu Zhile.
Yu Zhile glanced at her and continued to walk out.
"Le Ni!" Yu Taohong couldn't leave her post, and said angrily, "You little girl! Why are you running away the more you shout? Yu Peilan has made you wild, and you don't even recognize your aunt."
After Yu Zhile left the supply and marketing cooperative, he felt like there was a tail hanging behind him.
She suddenly turned around and found that the girl who sold flowers to her last time was following her.
The girl looked at her with gratitude, mustered up the courage to step forward and said, "Thank you for buying my flowers last time. If it weren't for you, my sister might not have survived."
"That's the result of your labor." Yu Zhile replied.
The girl shook her head, she knew very well that those flowers could not be sold for more than 50 cents.
"This is the shrimp paste I made. I'm giving it to you." As she said that, she stuffed the bamboo basket into Yu Zhile's hands and ran away.
Yu Zhile walked to the town hospital just as the infusion was finished.
When we got back to the village entrance, it was already noon. A group of people were chatting under a big locust tree with their bowls in hand.
An oxcart swayed as it passed by, heading west.
Before I walked a meter, the gossiping voices of the villagers came from behind me.
"I heard that Leni is into feudal superstition."
"Who told you that? Aren't those intellectuals the most disgusted with this? Take Xinni from the old Party Secretary's family, who scolds me every time she sees me."
"Haiyao's mother said that when she went to work today, she sat at the door of her house and cried and yelled, saying that Le Ni sucked away the blessings of the old Yu family."
Someone slapped his thigh and asked excitedly: "Do you remember the last time you went to the west to catch fish?"
"Why don't you remember?" everyone echoed.
Everyone was deeply impressed by this incident. In the past, people in the south could pick up some clams to make soup, but that time many people didn't even see the shadow of clams.
When she heard the name Xiao Xihai, Tang Guihua shrank her neck, afraid that others would notice her.
"Isn't that right?" the man said mysteriously, "There was a fortune teller in my mother's family who was seduced away by the underworld because she was helping someone change their fortune."
Everyone suddenly realized.
Tang Guihua suddenly slapped Zhang Caihong on the back and said, "Cai Ni, tell us, is this the case?"
"Tsk, what does Cai Ni know?" a squinting-eyed man sneered.
Tang Guihua was unhappy and retorted: "Why don't you understand? Our Cai Ni went to junior high school in town, and she is the one who gets along best with Le Ni in the village."
Everyone's eyes were focused on Zhang Caihong.
"Besides, our Cai Ni's boyfriend is a college student engineer from the shipyard." Tang Guihua said proudly.
Zhang Caihong tidied up her hair and whispered, "I've heard from classmates before that it does seem like borrowing luck, but."
She paused, and continued under everyone's urging: "Leni's blessing is so good that it doesn't seem like she borrowed the luck of her family, but rather-"
As she spoke, she looked around and looked at everyone one by one.
Many people knew what she had not finished saying, and when they thought of the strangeness of Xiao Xihai, everyone had different expressions.
Seeing this, Zhang Caihong lowered her head and smiled secretly.
When Yu Zhile heard a few words, she knew that Zhang Caihong had fallen into the trap.
The next step is to catch the turtle in the jar, and the key person is Zhang Wenxin, who is full of justice.
"Don't take it to heart." Zhou Yuesheng had sensitive hearing and didn't miss a word.
Yu Zhile joked: "The little housekeeper can also comfort people."
Hearing the teasing tone in her voice, Zhou Yuesheng remained silent.
He had forgotten her normal mental state.
Yu Zhile stared at his back. The washed-out green military uniform concealed his muscular lines, but he could still feel the breadth of his back muscles.
"Don't follow me anymore! I don't want your dirty money!" Zhang Wenxin's voice sounded in front.
Yu Zhile looked up and saw her brushing away the hand of a little old lady with neatly combed hair.
The little old lady insisted on giving her some money: "Nannan, take the money."
"Are you annoying?" Zhang Wen was annoyed and pushed the old lady with a little more force, causing her body to sway and she almost fell backwards.
She realized this and subconsciously reached out her hand, then suddenly stopped and raised her voice: "I will never accept money from a landlord's wife in my life! Your money is the flesh and blood of my poor brothers!"
After saying that, she walked angrily in the direction of Yu's house, and said viciously: "Don't follow me anymore!"
The little old lady had a sad expression on her face, and her thin body was like a fallen leaf swaying in the wind.
Yu Zhile knew that the old lady with bound feet was Zhang Wenxin’s grandmother, who was the concubine of a wealthy landlord in a neighboring county before liberation.
The ox cart stopped in front of the house. Chen Zhao carried Yu Wanqin into the house, and Zhou Yuesheng went to return the ox cart.
"You're back!" Zhang Wenxin's eyes lit up. "Here's the schedule I wrote. Let me show you."
Yu Zhile didn't answer and asked, "Why do you treat your family like this?"
"You, you saw everything?" Zhang Wenxin was stunned for a few seconds.
Yu Zhile nodded.
"She used to be a landlord who oppressed the peasants." Zhang Wenxin explained anxiously, "She is very good at pretending to be pitiful. My grandfather was deceived by her. Don't be deceived by her. She doesn't deserve sympathy at all."
"Go away, I won't get involved in any of your plans." Yu Zhile said.
Zhang Wenxin reacted fiercely: "Why? Do you know how meaningful what we are doing now is? She is not worth it at all."
No matter how harshly she spoke, Yu Zhile remained expressionless.
"Yu Zhile, you must know that Grandma Nianci is a role model for all the girls in Haiyu Village. You have a heroic grandma, but you have no idea how painful I am." Zhang Wenxin threw down a sentence and turned around angrily.
Zhou Yuesheng witnessed this scene and looked at Yu Zhile deeply.
He knew about Yu Zhile's plan, and also knew that Zhang Wenxin was a key link in it.
Now that rumors are spreading in the village, she must be aware that this is not the right time to fall out with Zhang Wenxin, but she pushes herself to the edge of the cliff for a stranger.
Zhou Yuesheng was curious about how she would deal with the situation she had created.
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