"Hey, Brother Xiaobai, I've only been gone a short time and you've already caught so many fish. You're really lucky."
There are so many pufferfish! This one is huge, it must weigh almost a pound. Hey, Little White, I have a question for you.
Looking at the fish in the bucket, and then at the largest pufferfish, an idea suddenly popped into Li Xue's mind.
"I know what you want to ask, but my answer is I don't know. I've never seen my dad cook it, let alone eat it."
As someone who grew up with Li Xue, Bai Yu knew her very well. Before Li Xue even asked her question, Bai Yu had already given her answer.
Seeing that Bai Yu had guessed her thoughts, Li Xue wasn't embarrassed at all. Instead, she looked at the pufferfish in the bucket with a regretful expression.
Pufferfish: Don't come any closer...
"Alas, what a pity. I've heard that pufferfish tastes delicious and was once only something that the very wealthy could afford. I wonder what it actually tastes like."
"Xue'er, you should let them go. I'm planning to keep these guys in an aquarium and take them out to play with them when I have free time."
We've already prepared a good amount of food today. I've already called my dad; he'll be home around 7 PM to cook. Just tell him what you'd like to eat.
When it comes to diverting a foodie's attention, Bai Yu says he has a great way of doing it: he finds her some other food.
For example, asking her to think about what to eat tonight, how to cook these seafood dishes—that alone would be enough for Li Xue to think about.
The three fishermen spent more than three hours on the rocky beach, during which time they changed their fishing spots three times.
It's not that they couldn't catch fish at their previous spots, but rather that as the tide receded, the previous spots became unsuitable for them, forcing them to switch spots out of necessity.
Bai Yu and his two companions hadn't wasted those three hours; their harvest was excellent.
Although there weren't many large fish of decent size, the three of them caught a lot of them.
Three grouper were caught, the largest of which was the one that had already been sold. The other two weighed less than 10 pounds each, around 7 or 8 pounds.
However, these three grouper alone are already quite valuable. Li Xue took all three fish to the purchasing station to sell as soon as they were caught.
My third uncle offered 120 yuan per jin (500 grams). The three green spots weighed a total of 26.6 jin, and the green spots alone sold for more than 3,000 yuan.
There are many other species, such as golden pomfret and silver pomfret, as well as various types of sea bream. The only drawback is that they are all small, with few large fish.
Before the tide came in, Bai Yu and his two companions spent some more time beachcombing on the rocky shore, collecting some sea snails and crabs before heading home.
It was almost six o'clock, so they needed to go home and get ready so they could start cooking as soon as their dad got home from get off work.
When Bai Yu and his two companions returned home, Bai Yu's mother had already come home from get off work and was watching TV in the living room.
Compared to Bai Yu's father's job as a chef, Bai Yu's mother's job was much easier. She was a Chinese language teacher at the town's primary school, and she wasn't even a homeroom teacher.
Bai Yu's mother's only regret in her life was that her son's admission to higher education was based on his special talents, not his grades. This made her, as a teacher, both very unhappy and extremely happy.
After all, no matter what, Bai Yu has never caused her any trouble, and now that she's attending a top-tier university in China, what could she possibly be unhappy about?
"Mom, did you buy the groceries I asked you to buy?"
When Bai Yu saw his mother return, he walked into the living room and asked her a question.
Although Bai Yu and his friends caught quite a lot of fish today, they couldn't just eat seafood for dinner; they needed some other dishes to go with it.
"I've already bought everything, including ribs and pork belly. I'm just waiting for your dad to come home and cook."
Xiaoxue, come watch TV with me. Let Xiaoyu do the cleaning of the fish, so you don't get covered in fishy smells.
When Bai Yu and the other two returned, while Bai Yu went to the kitchen to get a knife to prepare to kill the fish, Mom called Li Xue to her side and they ate fruit and watched TV together.
"Mom, I'm still your son, why are you so biased? You didn't even invite me to eat fruit! Ah Hai, come and eat some watermelon, we'll get more later."
Bai Yu heard every word his mother said. After grabbing the kitchen knife, he came to the living room and complained to his mother with a helpless expression.
Compared to Bai Yu's complaints, Wang Hai was much quieter. When Bai Yu invited him to come in and eat watermelon, he didn't stand on ceremony and went into the living room to pick up two slices of watermelon and started eating them with both hands.
Of course, Bai Yu was just making a complaint. After eating the watermelon, he took Wang Hai to the yard to start cleaning the fish.
Tonight's dinner was quite sumptuous. In addition to lobsters and baby lobsters, there was also a golden pomfret and six large crabs, two varieties: orchid crabs and mud crabs.
There were also some conch and scallops, as well as meat. Bai Yu asked her mother to buy some ribs, beef, and pork belly after get off work.
The reason why dinner was prepared so lavishly was not only because it was for Li Xue, but also for his sister.
As is widely known, the high school entrance examination (Zhongkao) is the next major exam to be held shortly after the college entrance examination (Gaokao).
Bai Yu's younger sister, Bai Yue, is in her final year of junior high school. She has only one week left before her high school entrance exam. Tonight, Bai Yue will have a day off, and tomorrow she will rest for another day before starting her exam review.
For those who have taken the middle school and college entrance exams, the period of review before the exams is extremely painful. Of course, this pain is for those who want to achieve good results; those who have given up don't experience this.
Even those with excellent grades won't relax during this period, after all, this is a time for students to work hard for their future.
Take Bai Yue for example. Her grades are among the best in her school. Basically, as long as she performs normally in the high school entrance exam, she can choose any high school in the city.
Even so, Bai Yue has been attending evening self-study sessions at school until 9 p.m. every night for the past two weeks, without any relaxation.
At 7 p.m., Bai's father brought Bai Yue home.
"Dad, you're finally back! We've been waiting for you to cook. We've prepared everything for you, except for the lobsters and baby lobsters. Is there anything else you need us to prepare?"
Upon seeing that Bai's father and Bai Yue had returned, Bai Yu immediately came over and explained the current situation to them.
Bai Yu and the others didn't do nothing; they left the main dishes for Bai's father to prepare, such as spare ribs, pork belly, and beef.
Tonight they have sweet and sour pork ribs, braised pork belly, tomato beef brisket, boiled crab, scallops, sea snails, and the like.
All that was left for Dad to cook was lobster and two sea fish. They didn't know how to prepare them, so it was best to leave it to the professional chef.
As Bai's father had initially told Bai Yu and the others, he planned to prepare these three lobsters in a three-way cooking method, whereas originally it was supposed to be done with just one lobster.
Although the lobster Bai Yu left behind weighed over five pounds, there were quite a few people eating tonight, and the meat from just one lobster might not be enough.
So I used two small lobsters to make a dish of three ways to eat a shrimp.
This time, Dad Bai prepared three ways to cook shrimp: first, lobster sashimi; second, stir-fried shrimp balls; and third, shrimp brain stewed with tofu.
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