Zhang Chen parked the motorcycle and took two large bags of seafood from the car. Then he heard Jin Lili shouting upstairs: "Zhang Chen, don't take it up, it's too fishy, ​​just wash it downstairs."

Zhang Chen looked up and saw that Jin Lili and Liu Ligan were both standing in the corridor. Liu Ligan also said, "Let's come down."

Zhang Chen put the seafood on the washboard beside the pool, and looked at the two bags of seafood, but was helpless.

When buying these things, I didn't think about what to do next, especially squid. Zhang Chen had only seen dried squid before, so how could I wash fresh squid? There was also a lobster. The boss was the last one. Zhang Chen bought a lot of other things at his stall, so the boss sold the lobster half and gave it to him.

Yilin's mother and Yilin were each leaning against the gate of their home for dinner. Seeing this, Yilin's mother turned around and put the bowl on the table in front of the hall, walked to the pool, and gently pushed Zhang Chen with her hands, meaning to let him walk away a little.

Zhang Chen moved two steps away. There, Yilin's mother turned on the faucet and cleaned it up. She didn't even need scissors to go, keep what should be left, and the fish's internal organs. She used her nails to pinch a small hole in the fish's belly. She put her fingers in and took out the entire internal organs.

She was so skillful and fast that she was so dazzled by Zhang Chen. After Jin Lili and Liu Ligan came down, they stood beside Zhang Chen and were stunned. Jin Lili shouted: "Yilin Mom, you are so fast, you are simply a quick shot in the movie!"

I don’t know if Yilin’s mother understood it, so she turned around and smiled at them.

In just a few minutes, two large bags of seafood were washed. Zhang Chen and Jin Lili were thinking about how to cut it next, and Yilin's mother shouted "Yaah."

Yilin understood and trotted over a chopping board and a knife. Yilin's mother threw the cleaned out of the internal organs and squid bones into the trash can by the pool. She turned around and danced the kitchen knife in her hand to ask them, "What are the seafood being prepared for?"

"Play the side stove." Liu Ligan said to her, pointing at the utility room with his fingers.

Yilin's mother understood and turned around and sliced ​​the slices and chopped pieces. After a while, she processed the two bags of seafood. She cleared them again under the faucet, and still put two bags of them and returned them. The three of them hurriedly thanked him, thanked him for going upstairs.

They returned to the upper floor, and soon Yilin came up and brought them a can of the yellow, sticky and mixed sauce they had eaten at the mutton hotpot restaurant and a bowl of small green oranges. Jin Lili was overjoyed when she saw it.

Zhang Chen asked Yilin to eat with him. Yilin shook his head and told them that he had just had supper. Yilin leaned against the railings of the corridor and did not leave until Liu Ligan put the gas tank into the cardboard stove and lit it. He left.

The three of them prepared their own sauce in the bowl according to their needs, and then stared at the pot on the cartridge, waiting urgently for the water to boil.

Yilin and his mother came up. It turned out that Yilin had just gone down by himself and talked to his mother for a long time, but he didn't explain what the stove was useful and how to make the side stove. Yilin's mother decided to come up and take a look by herself. After she understood that she could demonstrate to the customers when she sold it tomorrow.

Liu Ligan and Zhang Chen quickly got up. Liu Ligan turned off the fire of the cassette furnace. Zhang Chen took the pot on the furnace. The stove was a little hot. Liu Ligan padded it with a napkin. From beginning to end, he taught Yilin's mother how to fill the can and how to light the fire. Yilin's mother did it herself, learned it, and smiled happily.

Jin Lili asked Yilin's mother to sit down and eat together. Yilin's mother said she would not eat anymore, so she led Yilin downstairs. Before leaving, she picked up the bottle of soy sauce on their table and looked at it.

After a while, Yilin came up again, brought a bottle of soy sauce, and told them, "My mother told me that your dipping sauce is not delicious, use this one."

Yilin turned around and went downstairs again. The three of them were skeptical. Jin Lili took action first, and re-made a bowl of dipping sauce with the soy sauce that Yilin took. After mixing, dipped it in her mouth and put it in her mouth to taste it. She waved the chopsticks and shouted, "Change it quickly, it's too much different!"

They ate too much this meal and know why Hainanese people like to make side stoves so much. Fresh seafood makes the side stoves taste so delicious, especially with dipping sauce and small green jujubes. Jin Lili said, I don’t want to eat at a big hotel anymore, I don’t want to eat outside anymore.

Zhang Chen smiled and said, then we often use side stoves at home from now on.

OK, I agree! Jin Lili raised her hand.

Before they ate, they said they would go to the movie after eating. After eating, no one of the three wanted to move. The neighbors on both sides were not at home. Yilin and his son went to bed early again. The whole yard, except for their room, was pitch black and quiet.

Zhang Chen turned off the lights in the room, and the three of them sat in the corridor and chatted.

In December, the wind was already cool. For Hainan locals, it was winter now and they all wore dual-purpose shirts, but for mainlanders, who have experienced the biting coldness of the south of the Yangtze River, in this weather, wearing this long-sleeved shirt and some cool winds would be just right.

They thought that Yongcheng was about to wear a coat and a cotton coat and a cotton pants. In our ghost room, the wind swayed in through the cracks of the door and windows. The two of them were hiding in the quilt, but it was still cold.

Jin Lili said.

The same is true for us. Tan Shuzhen covered everything that could be covered on the quilt. I laughed at her, but the pot and toilet lids didn't cover it. She hit me and it took her a little warmer.

Liu Ligan smiled.

All three of them were glad that they had come to Haicheng now, and they all expressed deep sympathy for Tan Shuzhen, Xu Jianmei and Feng Laogui.

Liu Ligan said: "Do you feel that although it is very hard and tiring to come to Hainan, there is much more money than Yongcheng, but compared with the price, I don't actually make much more money. But people seem to be more fulfilling than in Yongcheng. Now I'm asking me to go back, I will never go back."

"Neither," said Jin Lili. "I feel like I'm going to be suffocated when I think about my days in the bearing factory."

"Zhang Chen, what about you, do you want to go back?" Liu Ligan asked Zhang Chen.

Zhang Chen did not answer whether he wanted to go back or not, but said:

"Do you remember that in the theater troupe, we blame people every day, scold the group, the bureau, and the county, it seems that the whole world owe you, but when we get here, it's okay, there's no complaints, it's your own business. You're good, it's your own ability, it's not good, that's the one you don't have. People walking all over the streets, and no one in the office owe you."

"Yes, that's what it feels like." Liu Ligan said, "In the past, if someone told me, Liu Ligan, you bastard, you have to wash the house every day, look at others' eyes all day, beggars, and be rushed over, I would never believe it, but now, haha, you see that I am happy, no one is ridiculing me every day, and I'm not used to it when I look at me coldly."

"Yes, you're just a bitch!" Jin Lili cursed.

Zhang Chen remembered it, he stood up, returned to the room, turned on the light, and said to Jin Lili, Lili, come and see.

"What are you doing?" Jin Lili walked in.

Zhang Chen took out the painting from the picture folder the day before yesterday and gave it to Jin Lili: "Give it to you and hang it in the room."

Jin Lili held the painting and looked at Zhang Chen and asked, "Where did it come from?"

Zhang Chen smiled and said, "Of course I drew it."

"Drawn here?" Jin Liliqi said.

"Of course." Zhang Chen said proudly.

"When you arrived in Hainan, do you still have the intention to draw these things?" Jin Lili asked.

"What's wrong with going to Hainan? I'm also a painter wherever I go." Zhang Chen said.

"Painter, huh, do you know that painters are not worthwhile here?" Jin Lili said, and then she immediately realized that her words were heavy and changed her mouth: "I mean, how can you have time and energy?"

"I'm just a fish, and I'm going to surface and take a breath," said Zhang Chen.

"But you are not a fish, you don't have to run to Hainan, just go to Qiantang River." Jin Lili said, put the painting on the table, walked out, and Zhang Chen was stunned.

After Jin Lili sat down, she continued, "Kanzi, what kind of teacher did you say last time? You are still a well-known writer. It's useless. You don't even have an office. I tell you that Hainan is so realistic."

Zhang Chen looked at the painting on the table, turned off the lights, and walked out. In the darkness, he leaned against the railing and looked outside, ignoring Jin Lili.

Jin Lili asked Liu Ligan: "Kanzi, is there any reason for what you said to me?"

"Don't ask me, I no longer have any thoughts every day," said Liu Ligan.

"Look at the other person who set sail, Peking University is so tanned." Jin Lili said.

Liu Ligan shouted: "We Zhejiang University and Zhejiang Meili are not bad, we work very hard."

Jin Lili sneered: "But you are fakes, they are real Peking University. I heard from Lin Yiyan that Chen Qihang is about to be the vice president of their company."

Liu Ligan and Zhang Chen stopped ringing. In the distance, the ghost was singing again. This time, he probably wasn't playing billiards, but was watching and singing:
Chapter completed!