Chapter 49: Zhang Ze has a partner?
In the afternoon, after eating and resting for a while, I should have left.
However, Tong Yuanhang took him directly to the warehouse next door and took out two bundles of brand new fishing lines and a bag of fish hooks.
"Aze, I bought the fishing line and hooks yesterday. Since you are here, how many rows of hooks should we get?"
"How many fish hooks did you buy?" Zhang Ze was also surprised to see this. He didn't expect him to act so quickly.
"One hundred, should that be enough?" Tong Yuanhang opened the paper wrapping the fish hooks, revealing the densely packed small fish hooks inside.
Seeing these fish hooks that can normally only catch two or three pounds of fish, Zhang Ze nodded with satisfaction.
Fish weighing one to three pounds are currently the most popular in the market, unless they are particularly top-notch fish.
Even though the radio factory didn't say anything, Zhang Ze knew that they preferred fish weighing between one and three pounds. It was okay to mix in a few larger ones, but too many would not be okay.
Tong Yuanhang had specifically instructed the size of the fishhook, and the other party did not take the initiative to buy a bigger one, which made him very satisfied.
"There are one hundred hooks, and each of us four has twenty-five hooks. How much we each harvest will depend on our luck."
Tong Yuanhang was a little surprised when he heard this. He originally thought that the two groups would have fifty hooks each, and the fish caught would be divided equally between the two groups. He didn't expect Zhang Ze to arrange it this way.
But after thinking about it, he felt that this arrangement was better. Maybe he would be lucky and catch more fish?
Not only he thought so, Zhang Ze also thought so.
There is a fishing space, and I don’t know what functions will appear in the future. However, the functions that appear in the space can only work on oneself and cannot affect others.
What if some fishing BUFF appears, you will be the one who suffers in the end.
Even if Tong Yuanhang is his brother-in-law, he cannot afford to lose this.
Then, he separated his twenty-five main lines, sub-lines and fish hooks in the warehouse, found a small wooden stick, and borrowed a bamboo basket.
The main line, sub-line and fish hooks are tied and the fish hooks are hooked on the small wooden stick.
A piece of foam is tied to the tail of the main line. Tong Yuanhang naturally has some foam at home. Some discarded floating foam is cut into small pieces. Each piece is about the size of a basketball, but it is an irregular square.
There is also a 1.5-meter-long sub-line below the fish hook. When you go out to sea to cast the hook, find some stones to tie it to the line. It can be used as a lead sinker. If the fish hook does not sink to the bottom and floats on the water, you cannot catch fish.
At that time, Zhang Ze won’t need to worry about the bait, as the thing that is most in short supply on the island is bait.
After tying the fish and putting them in the bamboo basket, it was getting late, so Zhang Ze gave Tong Yuanhang the money for the fishing line and hooks, and then went home with Zhang Huihong.
The Tong family was very welcoming and wanted to invite them to have dinner, but this was obviously inappropriate as there were several young children at home.
Tong Yuanhang personally rowed the boat to take them to the county town. After saying goodbye, Zhang Ze thought that since they were already in the county town, they might as well buy some things to take back.
He first bought two kilograms of eggs. There was an old hen at home, but the egg production was too low. Zhang Huihong was afraid that the children would not get enough nutrition, so the eggs could not be kept at home.
This is also the reason why he wanted to make a steamed egg with sea urchin yesterday, but had no eggs.
If it weren't for his mother's behavior, Zhang Ze might not have grown to be nearly 1.8 meters tall.
Yesterday’s fish soup tasted very good. The whole pot of fish soup was drunk by my family without any left.
So he bought some tofu today, but he hasn't bought any seafood mushrooms yet. It will take a few years before they are introduced into the country.
Zhang Ze also didn't find the pepper powder, but he found pepper.
Pepper was already popular in the Ming Dynasty. It changed from an exclusive spice for the nobility to a popular condiment. If you didn't have pepper powder, you could just have pepper.
At this time, Zhang Ze suddenly remembered that in 1982, he went to Wenshui Market and saw a stall selling five-spice powder.
Five-spice powder is the predecessor of thirteen-spice powder. I don’t know whether this powder is available in the supply and marketing cooperatives or in the market in Wenshui City. If available, he can make five-spice blue crab, which is similar to thirteen-spice crayfish.
Zhang Huihong knew that her son would continue to make fish soup in the evening. Although she felt sorry for the little oil at home, her son had given a lot of coupons when he paid money recently, including oil coupons.
Thinking about the taste of last night's fish soup, she didn't say anything else.
I didn't buy much today. The most expensive thing was eggs, which cost one dollar and nine cents per pound.
Finally he bought some exercise books, pencils, and ten pocket knives.
"Hey, what day is today? Why did you buy so many things? I was wondering why I didn't see you today. Did you go to the county town?"
"Today I'm going to meet Aze's blind date at her house. I bought a few eggs to keep as a backup. Maybe one day when Aze's girlfriend comes over, I'll be able to give her something."
The visitor was shocked: "Aze already has a girlfriend? When did it happen?"
Because I didn't bring a bamboo basket today and had to carry everything in my hands, people came over to me as soon as I entered the village.
They were all idle women in the village. When she saw her mother being surrounded, Zhang Ze politely greeted the people who came over, then took her things and went home first.
He knew that his mother would not be able to return home for the time being, and he estimated that by dinner time, most people would know that he had a girlfriend.
Zhang Ze estimated that the matchmakers in the village would be busy from now on. He, a poor child from a single-parent family, already had a partner. How embarrassing it would be for those families who thought they were in good condition and had unmarried men.
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When he returned home, the happiest person was Zhang Wu, who had been at home peacefully for a day.
"Brother, what's delicious tonight? Yesterday's fish soup was delicious, I want to drink more."
"Brother, Xiaohua came to play with me today, but I didn't agree, so I stayed at home obediently."
Seeing Zhang Wu's expression of "Be good, come and praise me", Zhang Ze couldn't help but twitch the corner of his mouth. He is over 40 years old and still single. It seems that it is not entirely because of his family's holding back!
Zhang Qian and Zhang Qing studied on their own for the whole afternoon. Their exercise books were filled with pinyin. The two girls worked very hard and were very self-motivated. Zhang Ze looked at the exercise book and nodded with satisfaction.
Then he took out the exercise books and pencils he had just bought. Unlike later generations, the two sisters were very happy to accept these things.
Although the sun has now moved to the west, it is still high in the sky.
Zhang Ze thought for a moment and said, "Would you like to go to the beach with me to pick up some scallops and pry some oysters? I'll go catch a fish and continue making fish soup today."
"Go, go, go, brother, I want to go!" Zhang Wu was the first to respond.
The two sisters were tired from studying and wanted to go out for a walk, so they said they wanted to go along.
"By the way, where's mom?" Zhang Qian realized belatedly that Zhang Huihong had not come back.
"I'm just chatting with some old ladies in the village. I'll be back soon after the chat."
Seeing that they were all going to go with him, Zhang Ze went to pack up his bamboo basket and took his fishing rod with him.
They closed the door and set off for the beach together.
On the way, the kids were very curious about Zhang Ze's trip to Lumen Island today.
When she heard that he was going to hold a banquet on the 8th of next month, she was even more surprised. Obviously, she didn't expect that her future sister-in-law would marry him so soon.
However, Zhang Qian and Zhang Qing are no longer as nervous as before, and are sincerely happy for their brother.
As for Zhang Wu, he was of course very happy too, but most of it was because of the wedding banquet, which would surely have delicious food.
Zhang Huihong chatted with the old ladies in the village for a while outside. When she returned home and found no one there, she was stunned.
He hurried into Zhang Ze's room and saw that the bamboo basket and fishing rod were gone. He immediately realized that they had all gone to the beach and he breathed a sigh of relief.
(End of this chapter)
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