Chapter 110 Borrowing Water
After returning home in the evening, Bi Qiaoan quickly took out a bottle of Happy Fatty Water from the refrigerator, took a big gulp, and was snatched away by Shen Yanming, "It's too cold, let it sit for a while before drinking!"
Bi Qiaoan glanced at Shen Yanming resentfully, and said nothing more. After washing his hands, he took out a grass carp from the space and prepared to boil the fish.
The fish used were the fish that had previously existed in the space and had been cleaned up before being stored.
When storing the supplies, except for the pork and mutton bought from the Chun Province farms which were already slaughtered, only a very small part of the seafood bought from abroad and the fish and shrimp prepared in the country were processed by others.
After Bi Qiaoan drew well water from the space to clean the grass carp, she looked at Shen Yanming resentfully, "Husband, it seems you have to learn how to kill chickens and fish!"
Shen Yanming's body stiffened when he heard this, "Dear, can I not learn?"
Bi Qiaoan didn't stop, slicing the fish and saying, "The little animals in the space grow too fast, we can't let them keep multiplying. Besides, we have too few fish ready. After eating these dozens of fish, even if you don't kill them, you will have to dig out their internal organs and scrape their scales."
Shen Yanming was suddenly struck by lightning. If Bi Qiaoan hadn't mentioned it, he wouldn't have dared to recall that dark history during his college years.
At that time, he had a dinner with several roommates and decided to eat hotpot in the dormitory.
Usually it was the big brother in the dormitory who went to buy the ingredients, but that day Shen Yanming had an idea and took the initiative to buy the ingredients.
He went to the supermarket and picked out some vegetables and fungi that he usually ate. When he passed the seafood area, he took out six pieces of frozen hairtail from the freezer for some unknown reason.
After Shen Yanming returned to the dormitory with large and small bags, his roommates helped him wash the vegetables, but when they took out the hairtail, they were all a little confused.
Because they had never cooked hairtail in hot pot before, and they had only eaten cooked hairtail before, so the boys were worried about the six pieces of frozen hairtail.
“This, is it cooked directly?”
"Let's wait until it melts before cooking..."
"Yanming, do you know how to eat this?"
When Shen Yanming bought it, he just thought about not having eaten hairtail for a long time, and didn't consider how to eat it at all. Shen Yanming took it for granted: "It's OK as long as it's cooked."
After that, Shen Yanming went to the bathroom to clean the fish, and came back to pour it directly into the pot.
But before I put the fish into the pot, my roommate stopped me, saying that I should cook it at the end so that the hairtail could thaw first.
Shen Yanming nodded and started eating with his roommate. Half an hour later, the buddy from the next door dormitory smelled the food and came over to eat.
When Shen Yanming saw that there were not many vegetables left, he took out the hairtail fish and prepared to cook it in the pot, but unexpectedly, he was stopped again.
"Chen Yanming, is this how you plan to cook it?"
Shen Yanming asked stupidly, "What else?"
The guy who was eating for free was shocked, and then told Shen Yanming, "You have to remove the internal organs!"
After that, he taught Shen Yanming how to remove the internal organs.
Uh... when those bloody internal organs were pulled out...
Shen Yanming said that he never wanted to touch this thing again, and his roommates said that it was a good thing that Lao Shen didn't cook the fish...
Shen Yanming thought of his past experiences and felt extremely reluctant to kill chickens and fish.
But there was no other way, he had to master this skill. On the one hand, in order to save time, the seafood he bought was directly stored in the space, and he only asked someone to help process a little bit. After eating all of them, Shen Yanming had to go up.
On the other hand, with so many livestock and poultry filling the space, their reproduction rate must be controlled. Even if their internal organs don't need to be processed, they still have to be killed by cutting their necks and bleeding!
Shen Yanming thought, maybe if I endure it, it won't be so disgusting, right? Maybe if I practice, I'll be braver, right?
After the recollection ended, Shen Yanming nodded. He couldn't let his wife be a butcher!
Bi Qiaoan looked at Shen Yanming's expression of unwillingness but having to do it, and smiled and gave Shen Yanming some advice, "Well, Zhang Heping should be very suitable for the role of the butcher!"
Shen Yanming shook his head, "You should learn it yourself. Don't let him know too much."
Bi Qiaoan didn't care and mentioned Zhang Heping as a joke.
An hour later, Bi Qiaoan finally finished preparing the meal. In addition to rice, there was boiled fish, broccoli in garlic sauce, shrimp with cashews, three fresh vegetables, dry-fried mushrooms, and dry-fried pork tenderloin.
Bi Qiaoan thought, since it was a rare opportunity to use the frying pan, he might as well fry some more eggplant, potatoes, mushrooms, and pork tenderloin, leaving some for tonight, and store the rest in his space.
Shen Yanming and Bi Qiaoan were enjoying the delicious food in the restaurant and felt super satisfied.
But before they finished their meal, they heard a knock on the door, and the voice was obviously not from Zhang Heping.
The two looked at each other and knew what each other meant. Shen Yanming stood up and opened the door, while Bi Qiaoan put the vegetables on the table into the space, leaving only two bowls of rice and a plate of broccoli.
Shen Yanming opened the door and saw a strange woman in her thirties.
Before Shen Yanming could speak, he heard the woman say, “Sir, I am a resident of Room 701 on the 7th floor. I want to ask, do you have any used dirty water in your home?”
Shen Yanming didn't respond, but looked at the lady outside the door, motioning her to continue.
The woman was embarrassed for a moment before she spoke, "My naughty child is disobedient. I just told him yesterday that he couldn't go to the toilet at home because the water supply was cut off, but he took advantage of the fact that no one at home was paying attention and went to the toilet.
The house stinks now, but there is no water in the toilet tank.
I was reluctant to flush the toilet with clean water, and there wasn't much waste water at home today, so I thought about going door to door to ask if I could collect some waste water to flush the toilet first."
Shen Yanming frowned after hearing this, "Madam, even waste water is very precious nowadays. I'm sorry that I can't give you the waste water from my home."
The woman was very disappointed after hearing this, and she forced a smile, "I know, I knocked on every door, but no one lent me water. I understand. If it were me, I probably wouldn't lend it to anyone either."
The woman waved her hand. "Sorry to bother you. Go back. I'll go upstairs and ask. If it doesn't work, we can only save two or three days of waste water and flush the toilet."
Shen Yanming nodded, and after seeing the woman enter the elevator, he closed the door and went into the house.
Seeing Shen Yanming coming back, Bi Qiaoan took out the food from the space, "Eating is like fighting a war, and I have to carry some people behind my back..."
Shen Yanming picked up a piece of shrimp and handed it to Bi Qiaoan's lips, "Aren't you just afraid of being blamed?"
After Bi Qiaoan swallowed the shrimp, he spoke: "When I heard that lady asked for water, I thought about giving her the bucket in the kitchen. Then I thought, what if she comes to borrow waste water again in the future?
I don't want to think that badly of her, but she borrowed books from the 7th floor to the 16th floor. Either no one else was lending them out, or she borrowed them but didn't tell anyone.
But in either case, following the crowd is the safest option.”
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