Chapter 443: Heartbroken
When Jiang Xia came back from lunch at the main house at noon, he heard Zhou Bingqiang's wife next door scolding Wen Wan.
They scolded her for not knowing how to cook at home and for coming home so late to cook. If she hadn't caused Zhou Guohua to be injured, they wouldn't have to go to the city to pick him up.
Wen Wan was able to endure it and didn't hear a word she said.
In the end, Zhou Guohua couldn't help but speak up for Wen Wan, and Zhou Bingqiang also got angry, and only then did the neighbors quiet down.
Jiang Xia washed his face, changed his clothes, and lay down on the bed for a nap, feeling that the days ahead would be lively.
In the evening, Zhou Chenglei came back carrying a bucket of fish.
Li Xiuxian saw three big bass in the bucket and said, "Alei, you caught so many bass? Can you give me one? Yingying loves it the most!"
Today her parents' family slaughtered the New Year pig, and the boat did not go out to sea. There was no fresh fish or shrimp at home to eat, so only she and Yingying were eating, and she was too lazy to go to the dock to buy some.
Zhou Chenglei: "Second sister-in-law, did you kill all the fish? Didn't you say that we'd have dinner at the old house next time? Let's do it tonight! Pan-fry one of these three fish, braise one, and steam one. We can also make a fish stew with some other fish! By the way, remember not to put too much salt. It was too salty last time, and if it's too salty this time too, people who don't know would think Second sister-in-law did it on purpose."
Li Xiuxian: “…”
She was the only one at home, cooking for so many people? "Well, I'm a little uncomfortable this afternoon. Let's come over for dinner another day! On the twenty-ninth day of the lunar year! Your second brother will be back that day. I'm a little uncomfortable today, so it's really inconvenient."
"Okay!" Zhou Chenglei took all the fish home.
Yingying was playing with Zhou Zhou, and most likely she was eating and sleeping at his house.
Why did he leave the fish for her?
Li Xiuxian: “…”
*The next day, at six o'clock in the morning, the two brothers Zhou Chenglei and Zhou Chengxin went to the city with Aunt Dong's family.
Jiang Xia did not go, today is already the 28th day of the lunar year.
On the 28th day of the lunar year, she cleaned the house with Zhou's mother and Zhou Zhou.
I have only lived in the new house for a short time, so cleaning is easy. I just need to wipe the windows and furniture, mop the floor, wash the quilt covers and sheets, and dry the quilt in the sun.
Zhou Chenglei said he would wash the quilt covers and sheets when he came back in the afternoon, and asked Jiang Xia not to touch them.
Anyway, there is more than one set of quilt covers and sheets at home, so there is no need to worry about washing them too late and not being able to dry them, so Jiang Xia will leave them for him to wash when he comes back.
In Jiangxia, Zhou's mother and Zhou Zhou were doing it in the new house, while Zhou's father went to the old house.
The old house also needed work, so Zhou's father climbed onto the roof to check for leaks.
Repairing leaking tiles is something that almost every household does at the end of the year.
Li Xiuxian was washing the stove and Yingying was wiping the cupboard in the kitchen.
Li Xiuxian was a little annoyed because she hadn’t even bought the house in town yet!
It’s all Zhou Chengsen’s fault. He didn’t want to live in the new house and insisted on living in the old house, and now he has to help others clean it.
She hated cleaning the stove the most. "I am really impressed. I have never seen such a dirty person. The stove is covered with a layer of oil smoke and ash, and they don't clean it. Are the fish they cook here edible? The firewood is also piled in a mess."
Zhou Ying listened and thought about it, something was wrong: "Mom, the putty and ash on the stove are from your cooking these days, right? I saw that day that Grandma and Grandma Fen cleaned up the kitchen after cooking the small fish. The firewood was piled neatly and the floor was swept clean! I also saw that when Grandma and the others came to make dried fish, they cleaned the kitchen that you had made dirty and cleaned it up before they started cooking."
Li Xiuxian: “…”
"Mom, I go fishing every day. How can I have time to clean the stove every day?"
Zhou Ying: "But grandma and my aunt have come back from fishing, and they have time to clean the stove after cooking."
Li Xiuxian: “…”
Give birth to a daughter!
Give birth to a daughter!
It's simply the top of the heart cedar!
It hurts my heart!
Just like her father, her arms are bent outwards! It touches people's hearts!
So she said she wanted to have a son.
But Zhou Chengsen didn't want to have a baby!
Li Xiuxian planned to secretly remove the IUD. When the baby was pregnant, Zhou Chengsen would have no choice but to give birth to the child.
*Zhou Chenglei returned home in the evening, and Jiang Xia and Zhou's mother had just finished cooking.
Zhou Chenglei washed his hands and face, changed his clothes and went downstairs to eat.
Jiang Xia asked, "How did Uncle Dong perform the surgery?"
Zhou Chenglei: "The operation was very successful."
The whole family felt relieved after hearing this.
Father Zhou asked again: "Did the doctor say how long it would take for him to wake up?"
Zhou Chenglei: "It will probably take ten days or half a month for him to wake up. The doctor said it's hard to say, it depends on the patient's recovery. Some patients will wake up earlier, some later. And he's not out of danger yet, he's still in the intensive care unit."
Zhou's mother: "I hope you get better soon!"
Father Zhou: “That’s right.”
The next day, which was the 29th day of the lunar year, Zhou Chengsen returned to the village early in the morning.
He could have come back after get off work last night, but he planned to clean the house for the New Year, so he came back this morning.
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Today is the day when the second house slaughters the New Year pig.
Zhou Chenglei waited for Zhou Chengsen to come back, and the two of them went to the main house together.
Jiang Xia didn't go, she told them to be careful.
Father Zhou: "Don't worry, we will be careful, Dong, that was just an accident."
Zhou's mother: "Be careful anyway, tie it up well."
"Got it." The father and his two sons left.
My great-grandmother fried things like oil cakes, fried dough sticks, egg rolls, and twisted dough sticks today.
Jiang Xia and Zhou's mother brought glutinous rice flour, flour, eggs and other ingredients to fry together.
These days, every household is busy making various snacks.
“Of all festivals, the New Year is the most important.” After a busy year, every household will try their best to have a good New Year regardless of whether they make money or not.
Jiangxia fries fried cakes in the morning, and grinds rice milk to steam rice cakes, steamed cakes, radish cakes and other cakes in the afternoon. They are busy all day.
Then, at twelve o'clock that night, the four members of the Zhou family, father and son, went out to sea.
Zhou Chengsen did not call the Li father and son because he went out to sea mainly to help his brothers catch fish.
When they arrived at the sea area where the fish cages were placed, the father and his sons, as well as Zhou Yongguo and Zhou Kangping, took turns going into the sea to catch all the sellable fish in the fish cages and bring them on board, placing them in the live hold.
It was already around five in the morning when they finished catching all the fish in the cages at Pearl Island. They then sailed to Abalone Island and scooped up all the fish from the cages on the seabed.
After all the fish are caught, they go directly to the city dock to sell.
When fresh grouper, snapper, snapper, yellow croaker and rockfish appeared at the city dock, everyone at the dock was shocked.
"Where do all these expensive fish come from?"
"Could it be that he was raised?"
"They should have been caught and kept alive until today before selling them."
"Hey, comrade, how much is a pound of garoupa?"
"How much is a pound of rat spots?"
"Comrade, I want this red snapper!"
…
Everyone rushed to buy it.
Zhou Chenglei left twenty for Jufulou, twenty for Fumanlou, and twenty for Jin Ye. Those that were left weighed about eight taels to one jin.
There are more than 200 left, and the smallest yellow croaker weighs one and a half kilograms.
They sell them one by one, without weighing them, and just quote the price, and the highest bidder wins.
I've raised it for so long, and have been going into the sea to feed it almost every day, just waiting for today!