Chapter 108 No Comparison, No Harm
Wen Wan felt a "pop" sound under her feet, and something broke under her feet!
She squatted down, dug it up, and found a nest of eggs! But she stepped on two of them and broke them.
She was delighted and quickly picked it up.
Zhou Guohua smiled and said, "Xiao Wan, you are so lucky. You found a nest of turtle eggs as soon as you got off the boat."
Wen Wan smiled and said, "I was afraid that you would think I was causing you trouble, so I'll share these eggs with you in half."
"Need not."
Zhou Bingqiang was about to get off the boat, but when he heard this, he glanced at his silly son and felt a little depressed. He decided not to get off the boat and looked towards Jiang Xia's boat.
Because Jiang Xia and Zhou Chenglei were cooking on the island, which didn't require so many people, Zhou's father and mother simply stayed on the boat to divide the fish.
Zhou Bingqiang looked at the goods on the Zhou family's ship. The baskets had been divided and covered, so he couldn't see what was inside. But the pile that was being divided on the deck contained a lot of good stuff, including two manta rays. Based on his experience, there would be no less than fifty or sixty pieces of goods in this net.
Then he thought about himself and realized that he had worked hard for the whole morning and had lost a fishing net and a fishing rod, which meant he had lost dozens of dollars. Although the net he had just pulled up was good, with more than 100 kilograms of fish, which could be sold for thirty or forty yuan, it only barely made up for the loss.
No comparison, no harm!
He regretted again bringing Wen Wan on board. He had been fishing at sea for decades and had never been as unlucky as he was today.
Picking up a nest of eggs is good luck? Pah!
Father Zhou saw Zhou Bingqiang looking over and asked knowingly with a smile: "Guohua took his girlfriend out to sea today. Did they have a good harvest?"
Zhou Bingqiang felt annoyed when he saw his father's smug look, and said with a smile: "Guohua took his girlfriend out to sea to play. They are just kids who came here to play. After making a fuss, I thought I would let them play. Anyway, we have three boats out to sea and fish every day, so one day is not a big deal. So I brought the children to the island to play for a day. They said they wanted to pry some oysters and find some mussels to eat. They are tired of eating big fish and shrimp every day."
Zhou's father laughed and retorted: "Your family has three fishing boats, so you are indeed rich. It's just a fishing net and a net of fish, plus one or two fishing rods, which only cost a few dozen dollars. You can afford it!"
"Then have fun! You are so lucky that you don't have to work so hard! Our family dares not stop. There are hundreds of kilograms of fish in this net. We have to share the fish until our hands are tired! We work so hard all morning and only make four or five hundred yuan. It's not as good as your family having three fishing boats. You can't afford to have fun!"
Four or five hundred yuan? Zhou Bingqiang looked unhappy, and felt even more depressed: "The two kids said they wanted to pry open the oysters to eat, I'll go down and take a look!"
After saying that, he jumped off the boat.
I hope Wen Wan can really find the pearl shell, otherwise I will suffer a big loss today.
When Zhou's father saw him running away, he was so happy that he almost whistled. Pah, three boats are so great? His family's small fishing boat made as much in one morning as his three boats combined! If he waited for the big boat to come back and go fishing in the open sea, hehe...
He seemed to see the gold coins falling down!
Father Zhou was so fast in dividing the fish! On the beach, Zhou Chenglei found two stones and placed an aluminum pot on top to start a fire.
After the fire was lit, Jiang Xia asked him to pry some oysters back. She had just picked some shrimps and squids off the boat.
She plans to cook seafood noodles.
You’re working so hard, you need to eat better.
Jiang Xia felt that shrimp and squid alone were not fresh enough, so while waiting for the water to boil, she picked up some shellfish from the sand so that the soup would be sweeter.
Not many people usually come to this isolated island, so there are many shellfish on the beach. Jiang Xia quickly picked up half a bucket of white clams.
The water in the aluminum pot also boiled. She first put the shrimps and processed squid rings into the water and blanched them, then took them out, poured in the washed shellfish and blanched them.
Shellfish need to be washed in clear water, otherwise they will taste muddy and sandy.
It was a hot summer noon, and Jiang Xia was cooking on the beach. After the sun came out, she wrapped herself tightly. With the flames burning her, she felt like a steamed dumpling, and was sweating all over.
At this time, Zhou Chenglei came back with a plate of oyster meat.
He came to Jiang Xia and said, "I'll cook. You go to the shade under the boat to avoid the sun."
"It's okay, it'll be ready soon. Pour out the water in the pot." Jiang Xia picked up the opened white clam, rinsed it with clean cold water, and then washed the oyster meat.
Zhou Chenglei poured out the pot of water and added it to boil noodle soup.
Twenty minutes later, a big pot of seafood noodle soup was ready! Zhou Chenglei called his parents off the boat to eat noodles.
Jiang Xia used enamel bowls to serve four large bowls of noodles. In each bowl, there was half a pair of cut eggs, which Zhou's mother had cooked and brought on board in the morning, as well as four shrimps, three plump oysters, a lot of shellfish meat and two green vegetables.
Neatly arranged in the bowl, it looks very appetizing! Zhou's father sighed in his heart, worthy of being cultured, he can cook a bowl of noodles with a bit of poetry and painting.
My young daughter-in-law is really good at managing life. She is exquisite and particular. Most importantly, she has good luck and brings good luck to her husband!
Jiang Xia took out a bottle of spicy and sour bamboo shoots filled with fermented bean curd, which were made by Zhou's mother when she had nothing to do. They were even more appetizing when eaten with seafood noodles.
Zhou Chenglei took it and unscrewed the lid when he saw it. Everyone in the family took a little and put it in the bowl.
The noodles are chewy, the oysters are plump, the meat of various shellfish is sweet and delicious, the shrimp meat is fresh and chewy, the hot and sour bamboo shoots are sour and spicy and refreshing, and even the noodle soup is exceptionally sweet and fresh. Everything is just right.
Father Zhou had never eaten such delicious noodles before, they were so delicious that his tongue fell off.
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In the past, the noodles cooked by the old wife and eldest daughter-in-law were always mushy and there was not much soup. In fact, he hated eating noodles the most.
I didn't expect the noodles to be so delicious! Wen Wan and Zhou Guohua searched the island but didn't find any pearl shells.
Zhou Bingqiang's face became more and more ugly. Wen Wan couldn't stand it anymore, so she came back to see where Zhou Chenglei and Jiang Xia were.
Then she saw a family eating noodles, the food was so delicious that her mouth was watering.
Zhou Guohua was also greedy after seeing this, and he said, "Tomorrow we will go out to sea and bring some food to the island to cook noodles."
Wen Wan hadn't had a good meal since she was reborn, but thinking of Zhou Bingqiang's expression, she shook her head and said, "Forget it."
Zhou Guohua whispered, "My dad won't need to come tomorrow. It will just be you and me. I'll ask my aunt to borrow a boat. They won't go out to sea tomorrow. We can split the money we earn from fishing."
Wen Wan nodded excitedly after hearing this and whispered, "No need to pay. I just think Jiang Xia may have seen our ship following us all the way and deliberately brought us to another island. This island may not be the island where they picked up the pearl shells."
"It's possible. Let's follow quietly tomorrow and see."
Seeing that they were still eating, the two men decided to pry the oysters open.
Zhou's father ate three big bowls, Zhou Chenglei ate four big bowls, Zhou's mother ate three bowls each, and Jiang Xia was full after eating one bowl, mainly because Zhou Chenglei peeled a lot of shrimps for her to eat. The whole family was sweating while eating.
The aluminum pot was spotless, without a drop of soup.
After eating, Zhou's mother went to wash the dishes.
Father Zhou said to Zhou Chenglei, "Let's tug the net later this afternoon. We can pry more oysters and pick up more white clams to cook noodles for us."
He wants to eat this pot of seafood noodles tomorrow morning! It's so delicious! Zhou Chenglei didn't object either. He said to Jiang Xia, "You and mom pick up some white clams on the beach, and dad and I will go pry oysters?"
It is hard work to pry open oysters and it is easy to get injured, but picking up some shellfish on the beach is not that hard.
Jiang Xia responded: "Okay."
Shellfish are not that easy to pick up, you have to dig them up. Just dig wherever there are bubbles.
Jiang Xia dug and dug until he found something hard. A silver corner of it appeared in the yellow-brown sand.
(End of this chapter)