Chapter 161 Rain

She felt that people around her didn't seem to like eating fish. There were so many fish in the rivers and reservoirs that were almost dried up by the sun, and no one was catching them. She wanted to let them know how delicious fish are.

In the future, purely wild fish like this will not only be expensive, but also hard to buy whenever you want. Even if you come across one in the market, it is very likely to be farmed fish.

At noon, when the three of them sat down to eat, Hua Xiali picked up a braised crucian carp for Hua's mother and Zhang Yongfeng respectively, and said, "Try it, this fish tastes really good."

Mother Hua used chopsticks to peel off some fish meat and tasted it. She found that the meat was tender and had a faint sweetness. "Did you add sugar?"

"No, I made braised food, not sweet and sour. If you like sweet and sour food, I'll make it for you next time."

Hua Xiali is quite good at eating fish. He just picked up a whole fish and started to suck it. In his previous life, he went out and saw that eating fish was quite popular outside, so he caught fish and cooked them himself. The main reason was that he didn't have that much money, so he thought he should save money wherever he could. Since fish can also supplement nutrition, why bother buying meat?

Later, they were able to save some money, and their living standards gradually improved. However, she still tried not to spend money if possible, for example, when it came to food. Since the children would have holidays on weekends anyway, she would take them back to the village to grow vegetables, and then bring the vegetables back to the city to eat.

But she is not stingy when it comes to the food that the children want to eat, and in most cases she will buy it for them.

Because she always remembered the saying "No matter how poor you are, you must not be poor in education; no matter how hard it is, you must not make your children suffer", and she lived a lifetime to understand one truth, which is "No matter how hard it is, you must not make yourself suffer", because yourself is the most important.

A girl is herself first, and other identities come second.

"Delicious, delicious." Zhang Yongfeng took a bite of the fish and exclaimed, "I didn't expect that the fish would be so delicious. When we were farming, we wouldn't even look at the fish in the fields."

Hua Xiali felt helpless. Alas, how many delicious foods had people in the past missed out on!

But that’s not the case. In the past, there was a lack of oil and salt, so if fish was boiled directly in water without any seasoning, it would not taste good at all. Maybe this is why people are reluctant to eat fish!

After all, there were so many fish in the fields before. You could catch a basket full of them in a short while. With so many fish, there must be a reason why people didn't eat them.

People in later generations love to eat it because conditions have improved and all kinds of seasonings are available.

"There isn't much else in the countryside, but there's plenty of fish. If you like to eat it, I'll teach you how to make it. You can also make it yourself when I'm not at home in the future." She was often not at home, so they couldn't wait for her to come back and do everything.

"Okay! Then you teach me, and I'll cook it for her when Chunli comes back from vacation." Zhang Yongfeng said with a smile. Such delicious fish, he couldn't wait to let Hua Chunli taste it right now, but it was not the weekend yet, and Hua Chunli would not be back.

The three of them ate the two flavors of fish cleanly. Looking at the fish bones piled up like a small hill on the table, Hua Xiali reminded them, "Remember, you must not feed these fish bones to dogs. Just feed them with fish soup and rice."

In the previous life, there was a young man in the village who brought back a pet dog. The dog ran to the garbage dump and ate bones, fish bones and other things thrown away at weddings, and the dog choked to death.

No matter whether it was the little wolfdog raised by Hua Mu or the little native dog raised by her, she didn't want such a thing to happen to her own dogs.

Mother Hua nodded, "I understand. I won't feed them these things in the future. I'll just let them eat sweet potatoes and leftovers."

Dogs in the countryside are all roughly raised, but they are very healthy. In addition, there is spiritual spring water in Hua Xiali's well, which is also very good for dogs. Therefore, the two wolfhounds in her family are tall and strong, with shiny hair. They look very imposing and majestic. They are also very smart and will not bark to scare people casually.

The two little dogs that Hua Qiuli picked up for Hua Xiali have grown up now and can guard the house. When Hua Xiali is in the village, she goes to feed them herself. When she is not at home, she asks her mother to help her feed them.

In the evening, Hua Xiali went to look for Huo Beixi and brought two fish to him. "One is braised, and the other is stewed. But I didn't serve you the soup. I only caught a fish for you. Try it."

"Thank you, thank you for your hard work." Huo Beixi took the bowl from Hua Xiali's hand, closed the gate, and pulled Hua Xiali inside.

Arriving in the kitchen, Huo Beixi put the bowl on the dining table, took out chopsticks from the cupboard, picked up a piece of fish, and was about to feed it to Hua Xiali. Hua Xiali quickly waved his hand to refuse, "I ate a lot tonight, and there are only two of these. You should eat it yourself!"

Huo Beixi nodded and started eating, saying with emotion, "It's really delicious."

Hua Xiali smiled and said, "It tastes good because spiritual spring water is added to it. No one else can make this taste."

"By the way, how's the fungus?" Hua Xiali held his chin with one hand and watched Huo Beixi eat fish with a smile.

"We harvested a crop of wood ear mushrooms before. Although the selling process was quite long, fortunately they were all sold out. By the end of the year, after deducting costs and employee salaries, the profit will be divided equally among each household." Huo Beixi said seriously.

Previously, Hua Xiali bought wasteland in the village, and the income belonged to the village and was used to build the village. The profit from Mu'er can be divided equally among everyone, so that everyone can have a minimum living security, and the poorest families will not have to be as poor as before.

Hua Xiali nodded. This was the village's business and she didn't worry about it. After all, there were so many people in the brigade and it was not her turn to worry about it.

"It's raining every day now, which will affect the growth, harvesting and drying of the fungus. This is our first year of growing fungus, so we can't let it start off badly!" Hua Xiali looked sideways at the dark night outside the window and said, "But let the fungus grow a few more days, even if it grows bigger. After all, few people are willing to buy premium fungus, so for now we'll just have to get ordinary and mid-grade ones."

"You're right." Huo Beixi nodded. "The first batch of fungus picked wasn't very big. It would be a pity to pick them all."

"It can grow a little bigger, as big as a pig's ear." Hua Xiali bought large fungus in his previous life, and one or two were enough for a meal.

The so-called special-grade ones that are particularly small cost hundreds of yuan per pound, which is simply not affordable for ordinary people. However, most of the people in towns and villages nowadays are ordinary people, so they just produce ordinary wood ear mushrooms.

When people's demands for life become higher and higher in the future, we can classify wood ear mushrooms into different grades and sell them to people with different needs.