Chapter 40: Rice Dumplings with Bran and Flour
A little over ten yuan. Tong Yuanhang remembered that he only earned this much last time.
The next day he went to the market and bought five taels of meat, which the whole family enjoyed deliciously.
Originally, his second and third brothers also wanted to come along today to go fishing and earn some money, but Tong Yuanhang was afraid that Zhang Ze would have opinions if he came rashly, so he planned to mention it first and then see how the situation would develop.
It would be better if he could make more money, but he was afraid that the buyer would not want that much.
It’s just that Zhang Ze just mentioned about increasing the capture rate, which made him feel that it was an opportunity.
After picking up the three-pound grouper in his hand and putting it into the fish basket, Tong Yuanhang asked tentatively: "Aze, there seem to be more groupers at this fishing spot today. If we catch too many, will they be willing to take them all?"
"How much can two people catch? If we're lucky, we can catch a grouper weighing over 100 kilograms. That's no problem."
This is also the reason why Zhang Ze considered using a row of hooks. The row of hooks can be put down and then pulled up after two or three hours.
If you start setting the hook early in the morning, you can collect it about three times a day.
Even if there are only twenty or thirty hooks at a time, the harvest will be more than just fishing, and they can go to the other end to fish during the two or three hours of waiting, so he is not afraid of having too much.
If the radio factory can’t consume it, then the factory next door can, right?
The factories in Yuewan County were saturated, so he could try his luck in the city! Zhang Ze's experience of selling fish in the radio factory had opened up his mind. The only thing that made him hesitate was that he didn't really like this kind of life of getting up early and going to bed late every day to make money.
If possible, he would still prefer the retirement life when he was old in his previous life.
There was also one thing he also wanted to know: what it felt like to have a biological child of his own.
After all, when he got old, he felt bad seeing his fishing friends enjoying family happiness while he was the only one missing.
Tong Yuanhang was delighted when he heard his answer. After a moment of hesitation, he stated his purpose directly: "Aze, it's like this. I have two brothers at home. They are usually idle, so why don't I let them go fishing and send the fish to you?"
"The price is negotiable. The three of us can all go for a lower price."
Zhang Ze suddenly realized, no wonder the other party asked that. But he did not agree immediately, but pondered for a moment and said: "If there are two more people, there will be too much fish. Let's ask them when we sell fish in the afternoon, and I'll tell you when we get back to the dock!"
"Okay, you can ask then!"
It is not a good thing to agree too easily. You have to make people feel that you have put in a lot of effort to help.
One morning, the sun slowly climbed from the east to directly overhead.
Zhang Ze, who had caught a lot of fish, put down his fishing rod, picked up the bamboo tube and drank a sip of water.
However, the moment he took the bamboo tube, a lunch box suddenly appeared in his bamboo basket.
"Aze, did you bring lunch? I have some food here." Just as Zhang Ze was about to take out the lunch box, Tong Yuanhang opened a piece of cloth first, revealing a few dumplings inside.
At the same time, because the dumplings were lacking moisture, the bran on the surface was falling off.
Zhang Ze was obviously surprised when he saw this: "Why are you eating this? Didn't you just make some money?"
Calling it bran flour ball sounds nice, but actually people here privately call it bran residue ball, because it is a ball made of bran and sweet potato residue.
Sweet potato residue is the residue left after the starch is soaked out, and it is used to feed livestock.
There was nothing to eat before, and Zhang Ze had the chance to eat it once. He could hardly swallow the sweet potato residue alone, let alone combined with bran.
Not to mention dogs, even pigs wouldn’t want to eat this stuff.
"I made some of these convenient bags considering that we won't have anything to eat for lunch when we go out to sea." Tong Yuanhang felt a little embarrassed when he saw that the other party seemed a little disgusted.
"I see, this thing is indeed convenient to carry." Zhang Ze nodded, ignoring his embarrassment, took out the lunch box and opened it, saying, "Then give me two bran balls and I'll give you half of my rice."
"You brought your lunch!" Tong Yuanhang looked at the shiny grains of rice and some unknown things on top, and obviously swallowed his saliva.
Apart from anything else, the shiny black rice alone is very tempting. For some reason, I couldn't say the words to refuse.
Zhang Ze directly took out half of the rice and handed it to him on the lunch box lid, then picked up two bran balls with chopsticks.
Seeing this, Tong Yuanhang didn't hesitate to eat. Without chopsticks, he just used his hands.
Just after taking two bites of rice, his eyes lit up: "Your rice tastes really good. These strands of white meat taste like crab meat, and these pink ones are crab roe?"
"It's the meat and roe of the blue crab. Just cook it and take out the meat and roe. Pour soy sauce and lard into the rice and mix it with the crab meat. It's very convenient."
"If you don't have a lunch box at home, you can also use a bamboo tube. This rice bran ball is really hard to swallow."
Zhang Ze took a bite of the bran flour ball and felt as if he had eaten cement. His saliva was immediately sucked out of his mouth, making it difficult for him to swallow. In the end, he took two big gulps of water before he could swallow it.
He had no desire to eat the remaining bran and flour ball. It was fine when it was just made. Even though it tasted bad, at least it was swallowable. But after it dried, it was really inedible.
He also felt that he hadn't eaten it for a long time, so he tried it. As a result, he found that after experiencing all kinds of delicacies in later generations, he could no longer accept this thing.
"Can blue crab meat be so delicious?" Tong Yuanhang was surprised.
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During the most difficult times, their family survived by eating all kinds of sea fish, crabs and shrimps. He really didn't think these things were delicious.
"What seafood would taste bad if lard and soy sauce are added together?"
".That's right!" Tong Yuanhang was stunned, and then he felt that what he said was right. At the same time, he secretly thought that he would do the same next time.
Zhang Ze felt a little regretful while eating. After one morning, the rice was almost cold. It seemed that the small space could not keep things from spoiling. It seemed that it could only be used as a small warehouse.
After lunch, he got up and rowed the boat to the edge of a cliff near the shore.
The other side of the mountain in front of him should be the place where Zhang Ze was frightened for the first time on the night road.
The temperature is high in the afternoon, so it is easier to catch fish in this shady place.
Tong Yuanhang didn't say anything about it. Instead, he felt that it was quite comfortable here. The cool breeze from the sea water blew away all the heat of the midday.
There are quite a few groupers at this location, but there are also a lot of other types of sea bream and stonefish, so the harvest is not as good as in the morning.
Neither of them was surprised by this, at least the situation was better the afternoon before yesterday.
Estimating that it was almost three o'clock in the afternoon, Zhang Ze stopped fishing and picked up a beam scale to weigh Tong Yuanhang's fish.
They don't have many types of grouper here, most of them are blue grouper, and the prices of the other types are the same.
Tong Yuanhang caught a total of 31.7 jin of grouper, but no other valuable grouper.
The same went for Zhang Ze. He didn't catch any special fish, but he did catch a six-jin yellow croaker.
Unfortunately, there are a lot of yellow croakers now, and the price is only 40 cents per pound, so he doesn't want to sell it even if others want it.
It’s just that there are a lot of fish today, so Zhang Ze’s bamboo basket is very full.
Tong Yuanhang was a little worried when he saw this and said, "How about I go with you and help you get some?"
"It's okay. I can carry anything weighing two or three hundred kilograms. This amount of weight is nothing." Zhang Ze waved his hand and refused. "Someone will pick it up over there. It's not far away."
If I agree, a lot of fish will die on the way to the radio factory, and no one wants dead fish.
(End of this chapter)
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