Chapter 50: Speculative Arguments
They were all hairy creatures, so Qiao Mo killed them first, scalded them with boiling water, removed the hair, cut them open, removed the internal organs, and washed them clean. After draining the moisture, she packed them in a fresh-keeping box and put them in the bungalow. As for the internal organs, she kept the heart, liver and gizzards, and threw away the rest.
In order to make it easier for her to put her things away, she cleared out an area in the bungalow, used a screen to separate an independent space, and put a few shelves in it so that she could put her things away according to their categories.
After packing up these things, she was still not sleepy, so she thought about going to the fields. The paddy fields she planned to cultivate had not yet been opened, and now that the wheat had been harvested, it was a good time to open the fields.
She still went to the bungalow to move some large pots to fill them with soil, shoveled the excess soil into the large pots, and then moved the pots to the edge of the flat land, and then used them to build the field ridges. Because she had experience and more strength than before, this time she was much faster than last time, and she finished most of the work in one night.
It started raining before dawn the next day, making it difficult to go out. Qiao Mo had breakfast and went back into the space to build ridges. She tried her best and finally built all the ridges before eleven o'clock. Then she turned on the electric pump to pump water from the pond and soak the soil until it softened before planting.
The paddy field was ready and rice could be planted soon. Qiao Mo was happier than ever before at the thought of being able to eat the rice he had grown himself. He even had a smile on his face when he left the space and went to the kitchen to cook.
"Qiao Mo, what good news makes you so happy?" Chen Ran couldn't help but ask when he saw her smiling face.
"Nothing, it's raining. Every autumn rain brings a chill, and the weather is getting cooler and cooler."
"Well, it won't be hot this year." Chen Ran nodded. "You haven't gone out this morning. What are you doing in the house?"
"I didn't do anything, just slept in. I've worked so hard for so long and finally got two days of rest, so of course I have to get enough sleep." Qiao Mo said with a smile.
"That makes sense. We should conserve our energy to face greater challenges." Chen Ran had also been staying in bed for most of the day, so he took Qiao Mo's words seriously.
Just because they didn't go out doesn't mean the men will stay at home. The rice fields are all empty, and it's a good time to dig loaches and eels. Today is a day off, and it's drizzling, so it's not easy to go up the mountain. After breakfast, the male compatriots at the educated youth site put on their hats, covered themselves with plastic sheets, and went out with buckets of water.
Their destination was the muddy fields of the brigade. Experienced people knew that the muddy fields soaked in water all year round were the most fertile and had the most loaches and eels. Naturally, everyone had a good harvest. Even Chu Maoshen, who did this for the first time, harvested two or three kilograms of loaches and eels.
Kang Mingyuan and Han Yimo had the biggest harvest, each of them harvested half a bucket. Qiao Mo asked them to separate the loaches and eels, keep the loaches in a broken tank, and cut the eels open and fry them.
"Qiao Mo, can you teach me how to cut an eel?" Qiao Mo was cutting an eel with scissors on the corridor, and Liu Ruoling came over and asked in a delicate voice.
"Just watch." Qiao Mo stepped on the scissors, grabbed the eel's head with one hand and the tail with the other hand. After straightening the eel, he pressed the eel's belly against the tip of the scissors. The sharp scissors pierced into the eel's belly. Then he pulled the eel back and let the scissors pull open the eel's belly. Then he removed the internal organs, cut the eel into sections and washed it.
"It looks easy." Liu Ruoling watched her cut open two eels, and only left when she felt she understood.
It's just that it looks easier said than done. When she tried, she couldn't even catch the eel, let alone cut it open.
"What's wrong?" Chu Maoshen came back after taking a shower and saw Liu Ruoling doing nothing but staring at the loaches and eels in a daze, so he asked.
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