Chapter 24: Mushrooms Open Up Sales Channel

Chapter 24: Mushrooms Open Up Sales Channel

Grandma smiled while leaning on her cane: "These are the fish fry your uncle Jin Yu gave me. There weren't many, so I released 18. I had leg pain a few months ago, so I haven't come to see them for a long time, so I don't know how many survived."

Li Xiang said: "There must be more than a dozen."

At the same time, I was glad that I was back.

In my previous life, I worked in a big city, and my grandmother never mentioned the pain in her legs to me. As for this life, my grandmother often eats soup made from first-level spiritual herbs, and her leg pain has disappeared. Today, she walked such a long way and was still energetic without frowning.

Everyone in the village said that the pain in his legs went away as soon as his grandson came back. It was truly miraculous.

Some people said that this was understandable, as it showed that Li Xiang took good care of his grandmother. Since Li Xiang came back, his grandmother had never done any heavy work, and most of the time she didn't even have to cook.

"Grandma, you take a rest on the side. I'll drain the water and catch the fish first."

Li Xiang placed the mobile phone stand on the roadside, adjusted the angle, and started the recording mode. He then picked up a shovel, chose a slightly low-lying location, and dug a small hole in the ridge of the field. Immediately, water began to flow.

Then, he connected the bamboo basket to the gap.

The water flows through the bamboo basket and into the canal nearby, but the fish will be intercepted.

He carried this bamboo basket with the original intention of going up the mountain to pick some mushrooms after visiting the rice fields. Since there were fish, he could also use it to catch them first.

“Here it comes, here it comes!”

After a while, even my grandmother started shouting. She saw a shiny black rice fish, jumping around, swimming towards the gap along the "turbulent" water.

This fish is very smart. It seemed to see someone in front of it, or sense danger. It swung its tail, splashed a large amount of water, and turned around and ran away.

However, the water flow slowed down its speed, and it struggled upstream to go back.

"Oh, now that I have caught the fish, how can I let you run away?" Li Xiang raised his eyebrows, immediately took off his shoes and socks, rolled up his trouser legs, and went down to the paddy field swiftly.

Soon, Li Xiang caught this plump fish that was more than 30 centimeters long and was black and translucent. Since he only brought a bamboo basket, he temporarily held it with his hands.

Li Xiang came ashore and waited for the water to clear.

The other fish were not as smart as the previous one. Look, two of them swam into the bamboo basket successfully without having to be caught.

When the water in the paddy field was almost dry, there were five rice fish in the bamboo basket. Together with the one in Li Xiang's hand, there were six in total.

Li Xiang threw the smartest fish in his hand into the bamboo basket and placed the basket in the canal outside.

"Grandma, please help me watch the fish here and make sure the bamboo basket doesn't fall over. I'm going to go to the field to catch fish."

"Okay, be careful and don't fall." Grandma looked after this makeshift "fish guard" while Li Xiang went to the field.

Oh my god, there are still a lot of fish in this field. The water has almost dried up, and there are occasional puddles, and the fish are jumping in the mud, which is very conspicuous. Li Xiang is a first-level extraordinary person, and his moves are fast, accurate and ruthless. Almost every time he leans over, he can catch a fish, then return and throw it into the bamboo basket.

The rice field was not big. In less than twenty minutes, Li Xiang inspected the entire field two or three times. In the end, he caught a total of sixteen rice fish. In addition, he caught a big black fish weighing several kilograms and a dozen small loaches.

Grandma took a deep breath and asked in surprise: "I didn't put any black fish fry in there."

Li Xiang thought for a moment and said, "Maybe it jumped in from the creek outside."

This black fish has a strong ability to survive and can survive in a variety of waters, including rivers, lakes and swamps. It can not only swim in the water, but also glide on land, and can even live out of water for up to 3 days.

The meat is tender and has few bones, making it suitable for making sauerkraut fish and boiled fish fillets.

Thinking of the pickled fish he hadn't eaten for a long time, Li Xiang's mouth was watering.

The 16 rice flower fish are black carp, also known as Hehua fish or Hehua carp, named after the fact that they feed on the fallen Hehua flowers in the rice fields and their meat has the aroma of Hehua flowers. During the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty, they were once tribute to the imperial court. They also have few bones and a lot of meat, tender meat, soft bones and no fishy smell, high protein content, and generally weigh 50-250 grams.

These fish are all truly organic fish, because Li Xiang’s family does not use pesticides in their rice fields. Why would they use pesticides on their own food fields? Besides, grandma doesn’t have the physical strength to do this work.

These rice fish probably also eat insect eggs or fallen insects, which may be the reason why there are few insect pests and the growth is so good.

With a lot of harvest, Li Xiang took his grandmother to walk on the country road, chatting as they walked, and his grandmother laughed happily from time to time. Since Li Xiang came back to accompany her, she laughed more often than in the past few years.

Since the rice fields were still wet after being drained, Li Xiang planned to wait until tomorrow when the rice fields were a little drier before harvesting. He checked the weather forecast and it would be sunny for the next few days.

After returning home, he kept the rice fish and black carp in the water tank in the middle of the "Dishui Waterfall". The first water tank was a source of drinking water and definitely could not be used to raise fish, and the height of the last water tank was slightly lower, and Li Xiang was worried that the black carp would jump out and escape.

A short video was also shot during this process. When he released the fish, his grandmother was filming with her mobile phone. After the previous "training" in the short drama, his grandmother had mastered the basic filming techniques and even took several close-up shots of the fish.

As for the loach, I left it to my grandmother to prepare a loach stew with tofu for lunch. There were still two pieces of tofu in the refrigerator that I hadn't finished eating, which came in handy.

While grandma was cooking, Li Xiang went to work in the vegetable garden in the backyard, watering the plants, weeding, and observing how the vegetables he had planted were growing.

There was a small patch of Chinese kale that had not grown yet. Li Xiang thought about it and planted some garlic there.

There are some tips for planting garlic. The older generation often said that you should plant onions deep and garlic shallowly. The best time is around the time of Cold Dew. When planting garlic, press it into the mud, so that the onions, leeks and garlic do not meet each other. Plant it one inch shallowly, two inches apart. It is safest to plant the garlic in the middle... Use manure ash when planting garlic, and the harvest will increase several times.

Li Xiang's vegetable growing secrets were basically inherited from his grandmother. If he didn't have the skills, he wouldn't dare to return to his hometown to farm.

And after coming back this time, Li Xiang felt much happier than working in a big city, as if a new chapter in his life had begun.

By the time he finished working in the fields, grandma's meal was ready.

Fragrant loach stewed with tofu, spicy rabbit chops, fried spinach, fried pumpkin, and gourd egg soup.

Although there were only two of them, Li Xiang had a big appetite, so his grandmother specially prepared four dishes and a soup, all served in large bowls, for fear that her good grandson would not have enough to eat.

After dinner, Li Xiang sat in the pavilion in the backyard where the WiFi signal was strong. He brewed a pot of wild fragrant tea and began to edit the rice fish video he had taken in the morning. Without much processing, he focused on the authenticity and then posted it.

After a short rest, Li Xiang changed to another bamboo basket, holding a Gaomi knife, and went up the mountain again. Two yellow dogs "wangwang" chased him and wanted to follow him, but were still driven back by Li Xiang.

"Da Huang, Er Huang, hurry back to look after the house and protect grandma."

The two yellow dogs were very smart, so they had to go home reluctantly.

With two dogs at home, Li Xiang feels more at ease.

After he entered the mountain, he started a live broadcast. There were not many people online. From dozens at the beginning, it slowly increased to two or three hundred, and then it could not increase anymore. After all, the fan base was only tens of thousands.

It is worth mentioning that the guy who bought black truffles last time also came online. He is in the capital of Sichuan Province, only two or three hundred kilometers away. He said that he had received the mushrooms and the quality was very good. It felt that it was good value for money.

Oh my god, as soon as this guy said this on the spot, the fans got excited, and several of them clamored to make reservations as well.

Thanks to “书友151218192927985” for the monthly ticket.

(End of this chapter)

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