Grandma Liu had been standing at the door for who knows how long. When the third son noticed her, he quickly went to meet her and took back the cleaned mint.
After Ruan Meng accepted the money, she put it into a clean bucket and asked her third brother to give it to Granny Liu.
After the third brother took it, he also took the empty wooden bucket from Granny Liu's house and fetched two buckets of spring water.
While checking her second brother's wound, her sister-in-law had already helped by cleaning the wild vegetables.
The oysters around them had been mostly picked clean, so the eldest and second eldest sons of the Song and Fan families went to a more distant reef to continue picking oysters.
Ruan Meng asked her sister-in-law to help cook oyster sauce while she started preparing lunch.
The Song and Fan family wives were very discreet, only helping outside by prying open and cleaning the oysters, without paying attention to how the Ruan family sisters-in-law processed the oyster meat.
Ruan Meng did not deliberately avoid them; if they wanted to see, they could see it as soon as they entered the door.
Anyway, Ruan Meng's plan is to start a seafood dipping sauce business, and oyster sauce is just one of the seasonings. Even if it is copied, it will not matter.
After all, the ingredients and proportions of the broth are the soul of the dish!
Before dealing with the sea shark, Ruan dreamed of the three children from the Song and Fan families. She waved to Song Ke'er, asking her to bring the three children over.
Although Song Ke'er didn't understand Ruan Meng's plan, she still set off immediately.
The three little ones were immediately led over.
Fan's second sister-in-law and Song Ke'er watched together.
"Wow!"
Upon seeing the mountain of oyster meat, the three little ones exclaimed in unison.
The three of them were herded to Ruan Meng's side by Song Ke'er, like little chicks.
"How about I turn this into shampoo, okay?"
The three little ones stared wide-eyed, looking incredibly cute.
"Really? Sister, let me see, let me see!"
"Really? I want to see, sister, I want to see!"
"I want to see it too!"
Fan Ze, the eldest son of the Fan family, who was a little older, gently shushed his younger siblings, signaling them to wait patiently.
Ruan Meng nodded in satisfaction and scooped the dog shark out of the bucket.
The dog shark struggled violently, its tail knocking over three tiny creatures, their faces covered in water.
Fan Ze wiped his face speechlessly, while the other two little ones rubbed their eyes and faces with both hands. Ruan Meng was simply charmed by their cuteness.
But seeing a dog shark for the first time, the children were both curious and afraid of its agile movements.
Fan Ze acted like an older brother, with his arms around his younger siblings.
Ruan Meng reassured them, "I caught it, don't worry, it can't hurt you."
Ruan Meng showed the three little ones the dogfish's belly, explaining it to them:
"This is called a dog shark, a type of shark that can be eaten. It's called a dog shark because it can make a sound like a dog barking."
"Now, sister is going to start her magic trick!"
Ruan Meng pressed the blowhole under the dogfish's mouth, and the dogfish immediately barked. (Image from the internet) The three little ones approached, their eyes widening even more.
Even Song Ke'er and Fan's second sister-in-law squatted down to look.
Ruan Meng pressed the button a few more times, and Song Ke'er became suspicious. "Little Meng, are you faking it, or does it really make a barking sound?"
Ruan Meng laughed and said, "Do you see any dogs around? How could I fake it? What I just said is true."
"It is indeed called a dog shark, and it can make a dog-like bark!"
The three little ones clapped their hands, "Wow! Great job!"
"Sister is amazing! She knows so much!"
"Thank you, sister! You let us hear the roar of a dogfish!"
Ruan Meng cautioned, "Although the dog shark's call is cute, its teeth are very sharp and it can easily bite."
"So, you can't touch dogfish yourself, and you can't go out into the sea to catch them, understand?"
"knew!"
The three little ones nodded in unison.
Satisfied, Ruan Meng tossed the dog shark back into the bucket and mouthed to Fan's second sister-in-law and Song Ke'er, telling them to take the three little ones back.
Because if they stayed any longer, they would cry.
Fan's second sister-in-law and Song Ke'er, worried that the children would disturb Ruan Meng's work, coaxed the children to leave.
Before leaving, seeing the children so happy, he was very grateful to Ruan Meng.
Ruan Meng looked up and saw Song Ke'er turn around and smile gratefully at her.
After the children had gone far away, Ruan Meng swiftly cleaned the dogfish with a knife, heated the oil in a wok, and said to her sister-in-law with a smile, "Sister-in-law, we'll have fish soup later!"
However, soon after, the cheers of children could be heard again outside the house.
While the soup was simmering, Ruan Meng went outside to watch the commotion. When she saw what Song Shiyuan, the second son of the Song family, was holding, she immediately rushed over!
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