The advantage of having fewer cars in Sijiucheng is that a journey that would have taken more than an hour in traffic jams can now be reached in half an hour. When Xiao Yu slowly arrived home, the people who had just finished get off work had not yet returned.
While walking on the road, Xiao Yu thought that he was too lazy to cook in the evening, so he took out three black fish weighing seven or eight kilograms while passing by an empty alley.
When they were catching this thing, he and Zhou Yan didn't catch any that weighed less than five or six kilograms. The largest one they caught weighed about twenty or thirty kilograms.
However, this stuff is nourishing!
Xiao Yu decided to use them to stew tofu and sauerkraut in the evening!
"First, stew the fish and serve it to our baby in a bowl of thick white fish soup, then add the sauerkraut." Xiao Yu spoke to the two girls in the frame.
The two girls are now over seven months old and are very enthusiastic about the food they draw. Upon hearing this, they both babbled in their frames.
Xiao Yu was amused by them and quickened his pace to go home.
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"Young man!" As soon as he entered the alley, he was bumped into a man who was hurrying out of the first yard. The man was originally pushing a bicycle to go out, but when he saw the black fish Xiao Yu was holding, his eyes widened, and he threw the bicycle aside and stopped Xiao Yu.
Xiao Yu stared at the pitiful bicycle that the man had thrown on the ground. Isn't it said that men these days treat their bicycles like their wives? He whispered to himself, "So every time I come back, no matter if it's morning or night, I have to clean the bicycle."
"Excuse me, young man! I'm just asking if you could share one of your fish with me so I don't lose out. I work in a textile factory. How about I trade you two pieces of defective cloth?"
Defective cloth? It seems like that's a good thing these days.
"To be honest, my wife just gave birth to a child. It was difficult to give birth, so she needs nourishment. But it's hard to get these meat coupons."
Xiao Yu thought for a moment and nodded, then pointed to his own yard.
"You mean, go to your house to change it?"
Xiao Yu nodded.
"Well, I'm going home to get my things. You mustn't give the fish to anyone else."
Xiao Yu shook his head and gestured to reassure the other party.
The man noticed the two dolls in the frame on his chest, and his eyes lit up again: "Oh, are these yours?"
Xiao Yu nodded, indicating that he would go first.
"Okay, you go back first." The man quickly stepped aside. After Xiao Yu passed by, he quickly turned around, picked up his bicycle, and ran home. A snakehead that big would be enough for his wife to eat for a week. He had to get it.
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When Xiao Yu returned home, he asked the monkey who opened the door to help him carry the child in. He turned around and took out a large glazed basin that looked a little deformed, put the three fish in the basin, and went to Gangzi's yard to fetch water and poured it in.
The man before him didn't let him wait any longer. Almost as soon as he finished pouring the water, he rushed over with two pieces of cloth.
"Young man, take a look." The man looked at the three fish in the big basin at the gate and felt very comfortable. The other party did not hide two of them, but gave him the opportunity to choose. This was a manifestation of honesty no matter how you looked at it.
Xiao Yu took the cloth handed to him. One piece was military green, but it was dyed with a lot of old blue. The color was not good anyway, but the material of the cloth was good and felt like cotton.
The second batch was blue, white and grey plaid cloth, but unfortunately the plaid was crooked, which was obviously a big problem.
Xiao Yu was not interested in the patterns of that era, so he only looked at the material of the cloth. Although the pattern of this plaid cloth was very wrong and complicated, it was thick. He thought it would be a good choice for giving single coats to a few maids.
He nodded and signaled the man to choose for himself.
Of course, the man would pick the biggest one. Xiao Yu didn't care. Since it was placed here, he was ready. In this era, it was difficult to eat meat, and the other party's wife needed nourishment. The older family could also eat more meals.
"Thank you, young man!" The man felt more relieved when he saw that Xiao Yu's expression did not change.
Xiao Yu waved his hand and sent the person out with a smile.
When the man reached the door, he heard a young man's voice: "Brother Xiao, are you going to replace the fish that the old man gave to his great-granddaughter?"
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"Our clothes are wearable, but you are like this..."
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The man didn't know what the young man said next, but fearing he'd regret it, he ran home. In those days, many places didn't hold secrets.
This courtyard belongs to a big leader. Everyone in the nearby slums knows it. The people living there now are the big leader's grandsons, godchildren and a group of orphans of martyrs.
The man thought he was lucky today. The NPC leaders must have put a lot of thought into getting the snakehead fish for his great-granddaughter. And he just saw that the snakehead fish seemed to be still alive. He guessed that they originally intended to keep it and eat it later.
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After closing the door, Xiao Yu gave the monkey a thumbs up and thought to himself: This kid is really good at handling things!
Monkey has been a smart kid since he was a child. Of course he could see that Brother Xiao just wanted to do business, but he couldn't let others see it, so he deliberately put on this show.
Xiao Yu looked at the fish in the basin, patted the fish in front of the monkey, and made a "big, big, big" change. As a result, the fish, which originally weighed seven or eight kilograms, became more than ten kilograms.
The monkey rubbed his eyes and looked at it in disbelief.
Xiao Yu gestured for him to take it in quickly.
"Is this what we're having tonight?"
Xiao Yu nodded and quickly took out his notebook and pen: "Sour cabbage tofu fish!"
"Wow!" Monkey was surprised! He quickly covered his mouth. They had eaten pickled fish once before, and the taste was so delicious that it made people want to swallow their tongues.
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Two big fish weighing twelve or thirteen pounds were stewed in a large pot. Of course, in order to make it more delicious, a whole plate of tofu and a lot of pickled vegetables were put in it.
When Zhou Yan, Gangzi and others came back, in order to keep everyone's food warm, Monkey and Big Tree had already set up a rack in the yard, placed the big pot on it, and put a few pieces of firewood underneath.
"There's not much staple food today! Everyone should eat carefully." The monkey served as Xiao Yu's mouthpiece.
Before the others came back, Xiao Yu, Xiao Lian and Que'er fed the four little ones. Now the four little ones are playing with toys and they can't pay attention to them.
He also held a bowl, waiting for everyone to start eating.
The golden fish soup cooked with pickled cabbage was so delicious that it made everyone's mouth water. When they were almost done eating, Xiao Yu took out the instant noodles and put them in. It was ready to eat at about the same time as the newly added cabbage leaves.
"Wow!" exclaimed the other teenagers who had scooped up the noodles. "Delicious!"
Zhou Yan also scooped up half a bowl. It was obvious that these noodles were specially brought to him by his son Xiaoyu, so he couldn't give them all to others.
"Good! This is mainly convenient." Zhou Yan concluded. In his heart: Xiaoyu, you care too much about this old man!
Xiao Yu's eyes lit up. He made instant noodles today and immediately thought that the Japanese might also export this stuff.
Since Zhou Yan’s rice cooker is going to be exported, let’s take the instant noodles with him!
He needed to discuss the matter with the other party about the machine for making instant noodles. He believed that with his ability to deceive people and Mr. Zhou's intelligence, he could definitely make an instant noodle machine.
Mr. Zhou-_-||: ...Comrade Xiaoyu, thank you for your trust!
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