"Erwa, what did you gain today?"
"Brother Erwa, my eldest brother also caught a fish!"
Ye Zhiqiu greeted her and squatted down to let Ye Bailu get on. This little girl, even at this age, just loved being carried. If she refused, she would act like a spoiled child and throw a tantrum, forcing Ye Zhiqiu to carry her back.
Erwa smiled innocently and said, "Sister Bailu, Brother Ye, I saved up enough money yesterday and bought a trap. I put it out overnight and had a small harvest, so I quickly brought it over while the fish and shrimp were still alive."
Ye Zhiqiu leaned over to take a look. He had quite a harvest! He used his key to open the door, took the things back to the yard, and took out the scale to weigh the fish and shrimp separately.
"Er Wa, the shrimp are 4 taels, and these small fish are 1.6 taels. But let me be clear, the small fish are only 30 cents. They have no meat and use too much oil, so they're really not popular!"
Erwa nodded repeatedly and said, "Alright, alright, this price is because I'm taking advantage of Big Brother Ye. Others won't accept these small fry!"
"Well, there's no such thing as taking advantage. I do have a restaurant to sell, and other buyers are buying for the factory, so they really don't want small-time scum."
Pan-fried small fish is time-consuming to prepare and cannot be sold at a high price, so few people make this dish and sell it.
So Ye Zhiqiu said that he had collected and sold them, but in fact, he collected these small fish and kept them in the fish pond in the space. He said this just to comfort Erwa and prevent him from thinking too much.
After paying Erwa seventy cents and sending him off, Ye Zhiqiu suddenly realized something was amiss. He quickly asked Ye Bailu, who was playing with the shrimp, "Little sister, where's our Xiao Hei? Why haven't we seen him since this morning?"
Ye Bailu was stunned for a moment, then she remembered that when she came out in the morning, she closed the door and locked Xiao Hei in the room!
Seeing that Ye Bailu didn't say anything, he ran to open the door of the room where she and Lao Er slept. Xiao Hei almost broke his tail by shaking it, and ran out humming and whining like he was trying to please someone!
But it circled around the two of them for a bit, then ran to the toilet! It seems the training has paid off, as it has learned that if it doesn't go to the toilet, it will be beaten with a stick!
The dog was at its most active now, and after being locked in the room for so long, it must have been really scared. So after going to the toilet and coming out, it followed Ye Bailu closely.
Ye Zhiqiu carried the things into the kitchen, put the things that needed space in the kitchen, and then started to knead the dough. After kneading the dough, he put it aside to let it rise, and then he started to make the filling.
He took out a few pounds of pork from the space and planned to make two kinds of buns: one with pork, vermicelli and tofu filling, and the other with pork, vermicelli and leek filling.
After soaking the vermicelli in warm water on the stove and taking out a scallion and carrot from the space, Ye Zhiqiu started to prepare the filling.
Unlike before, now after systematic learning from his master, he can make buns quite well.
At half past eleven, he put three trays of thirty buns into the pot, lit the fire and started steaming them.
He lit a cigarette and was about to go out to the yard to get some fresh air. The kitchen was still quite hot because of the fire. But when he reached the door, he sighed and stepped back. It was better not to go out!
Because Ye Bailu was holding a small stick and teaching Xiao Hei, who was squatting in front of her...
"1 plus 1 equals 2, so you have to shout twice, understand? Xiao Hei, you are not a good boy for not paying attention in class, so you have to be punished by slapping your hands!"
By the way, you screamed twice when I hit you, which proves that you answered correctly! But you answered too slowly, so you should also be punished by a slap on the hand, just like grandpa, I will also slap you on the hand..."
Anyway, Ye Zhiqiu was too embarrassed to watch it, and Xiao Hei probably would never understand why he was beaten in his lifetime!
It is really a dog, but its little master is also really a dog...
Fortunately, the girl's teacher came and went quickly. After Ye Zhiqiu finished smoking, Xiao Hei didn't understand why he was beaten, so he ran back to the living room to hide from Ye Bailu!
So when Ye Bailu returned to the living room, she saw that Xiao Hei was far away from her and she lost interest in teaching it. She picked up the picture book and started reading.
"We're back! Hey, brother, why are you at home today?"
"Hello, brother. We are back from school."
Ye Zhiqiu smiled and waved, saying, "Grandpa and Mom are out today, so I stayed home to cook. Go wash your hands quickly, the buns are already steamed."
Ye Wubing said happily: "Big brother is really good. He even made buns for me. I haven't eaten buns for a long time!"
"Stop talking nonsense and go wash your hands! Little sister, go wash your hands and eat!"
"Okay, big brother, I'll be right there."
Ye Zhiqiu carried two trays of steamed buns back to the living room. There was still rice porridge in the basin next to it. He poured a bowl of cold porridge for everyone to eat with the hot steamed buns.
Qian Xiaofang said happily: "The buns made by my elder brother are really delicious. They are fragrant and much better than those made by my mother..."
Qian Yuanjun also nodded in agreement, causing Ye Zhiqiu to laugh out loud. "You two better stop saying such nonsense! If your mother hears you saying this behind your back, I won't make you any buns or corn porridge anymore!"
Qian Yuanjun said with a smile: "I'm not afraid! Big Brother is here, at worst we can just come and have dinner with him!"
Ye Wubing sighed and said, "Speaking of eating, many of my classmates only brought a sweet potato for lunch and had no rice to eat!"
Qian Yuanjun also echoed: "Second brother, I have many classmates who are the same! It seems that they are also like us before, without rations and living far away, so they all eat two meals a day."
"I heard that food prices have gone up. If it weren't for Big Brother's help, we would probably be in the same situation as them..."
This news surprised Ye Zhiqiu a little. He quickly asked, "Do you have many classmates like this?"
"There are 56 students in our class, and I think there are seven or eight like this. We used to bring lunch boxes for lunch, but I think we switched to bringing sweet potatoes after food prices went up."
"I haven't noticed that, but there must be five or six..."
Ye Zhiqiu really didn't know about the increase in food prices because he hadn't been to Pigeon City recently.
If prices really start to rise, it means that difficult times are about to come!
I don’t know why my cheap old lady and the others haven’t come back yet, otherwise I could ask her! If there is anyone in Sanlitun who has the most up-to-date information, it must be my cheap old lady!
After the establishment of the street office, many regulations were introduced, including that the communes here could no longer sell things, but could only sell things to the street office at a prescribed price, and then the office would sell them at a unified price.
The villagers in Sanlitun were very fortunate that they had sold their extra poultry and livestock in advance at a good price!
The other two villages regretted their decision very much. All their excess poultry and livestock were recorded in the registers of the street office, and they could only sell them to the street office at the unified purchase and sale prices.
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