Zhao Dahai walked to the corner, opened the lid of a large bucket, and fished out a few three-point crabs and stone crabs. Yesterday, before picking up mussels, he took advantage of the low tide and stepped on the waterline to catch nearly thirty kilograms of crabs and orchids.
As soon as I came back yesterday, I went to the town and sold the crabs to Liu Gang's restaurant. They weighed a total of twenty-seven kilograms and twenty taels, regardless of size. The currency price was sixty yuan a kilogram. I sold them for one thousand six hundred and thirty-two yuan. I got up two hours early and made a profit.
It’s really a pleasure to spend a small sum of money and still leave a delicious meal.
Zhao Dahai walked into the kitchen with a three-point crab and a stone crab. The three-point crab is a crab with three black spots on its shell. Needless to say, the stone crab is a common crab in reef areas. The common feature is that the price is not high.
, I can’t sell it for a lot of money, so I might as well keep it and eat it at home.
Zhao Dahai washed the rice and put it in the pot for cooking. There are many ways to cook crabs, including steaming or frying. One method is to put a little oil in the pot without adding water, which means half steaming and half frying. Wash three-point crabs and stone crabs.
Put it clean into the pot, cover the pot, and within a few minutes a steam will rise, and the fragrance will be overwhelming. I immediately opened the lid, took the plate, picked up the crab and put it on top.
Zhao Dahai set up the table in the courtyard, loaded up the rice and served the dishes, and called Grandma Zhong Cuihua to sit down and eat.
"Grandma!"
"The three-point crab is pretty good."
"You're so fat!"
Zhao Dahai took the largest three-point crab, which was half a catty. He weighed it a little, pressed it with his hand, and it was definitely fat. He broke off the pliers, grabbed the four claws at one end with one hand and pressed the sharp corners with the other, and opened it with a little force.
Remove the crab lid, clean the crab gills, and put them into Zhong Cuihua’s bowl.
"Wouldn't it be better to sell it?"
"When are we waiting at the beach without food?"
Zhong Cuihua shook her head.
"Grandma!"
"All the valuable orchid crabs are sold!"
"Keep these for yourself!"
Zhao Dahai picked up a stone crab and opened the lid. It was really fat. Despite its small size, it was not as good as a three-point crab and even worse than an orchid crab. The shell was hard and not pleasing to the eye, but the taste was absolutely delicious.
Not bad, there is a thumb-sized piece of salted egg yolk-like paste in the middle. It’s amazing for a crab with three fingers to have such paste. I took the chopsticks, picked out the paste and put it in Zhong Cuihua’s bowl. This is a good thing.
After Zhao Dahai finished his dinner, he rested for a few minutes and started carrying buckets of water to the back of the house. He had been busy with mussels for the past two days. Grandma helped him and did not care about the vegetable patch. Now there is
Time, you need to water it well. The sea breeze is strong and strong and it is dry, so the vegetable field needs to be watered well.
The moon is at the zenith.
Zhao Dahai sat on the edge of the ground, sweating profusely. All the vegetable seedlings that had been moved in the ground came alive. When water was poured, the water was bright and green. The beans and loofah grew very fast. In a few days, they were more than ten centimeters tall.
It's twenty centimeters long. After thinking about it for a while, I decided to cut bamboo to build a frame since I didn't have much to do tomorrow.
Zhao Dahai took a rest and checked the fence that he had put up a few days ago. It was not loose or falling down. The bamboo was dense enough and there were no holes. He was relieved. He saw that the fastest-growing vegetables were almost edible. In case of a chicken.
Come in, everything will be wiped out, and I will be extremely depressed.
Zhao Dahai carried the bucket home and took back all the mussel meat that was drying on the concrete floor in front of the yard. At night at the beach, there is sometimes heavy dew, which affects the quality when it gets wet, making it difficult to sell at a good price.
The next day.
Zhao Dahai got up early and cooked breakfast at around five o'clock. After finishing the breakfast, he took out the remaining porridge to dry and left it in the pot to heat up. Grandma Zhong Cuihua could eat it after a while when she woke up. She pushed her motorcycle out and half
I rushed to the town when I was young, bought some meat and vegetables, and then went to a hardware store to buy water pipes, glue, wire, nails, etc. When I got home, the sun had just risen and was less than a bamboo pole high.
Zhao Dahai saw that some of the mussels had been moved out to dry on the cement floor in front of the yard. Knowing that his grandma had already gotten up and was busy with this matter, he quickly set up his motorcycle, put down his things and helped, and the two of them moved them out in a moment.
"Go and do your business!"
"I can do this myself!"
Zhong Cuihua put a straw hat on her head and began to turn over the mussel meat on the dustpan and straw mat one by one.
Zhao Dahai walked to the motorcycle, took the meat and vegetables back to the kitchen, took the water pipes and glue into the yard, and started to work. The vegetable field needed more and more water, and carrying water all day long was time-consuming and laborious. He connected a water pipe to the yard and got one.
The faucet is very convenient. It is not a difficult thing. It is just a matter of cutting off the water pipe in the yard, replacing the one-way head and the two-way head with the three-way head, and then reconnecting the water pipe with glue. Those who can do these small things can do it by themselves.
Asking someone else to do the work, no matter how big or small, will cost you at least two hundred yuan a day. Doing it yourself will save you some time and money.
After Zhao Dahai connected the water pipes, the glue had to wait for a while before he could test the water. He picked up a hatchet and went to the back hill of the village, chopped a bunch of finger-sized bamboos, cut off the branches and leaves, and tied them with vines.
, carried the vegetable patch back to the house, and began to build a frame for the beans and loofahs. I chose a suitable place in the middle of two or three beans or loofahs, and gently inserted three bamboos into the soil, leaving a third of the top to rest on.
Tie them together with the thin wire that I just bought. This tripod is very stable and cannot be blown by the ordinary sea breeze. After setting up all the racks, the loofah and beans that are about ten centimeters long are all holding the small wire.
Tied to the bamboo.
"The sea."
"Take a break."
Zhao Dahai looked up and saw his grandma Zhong Cuihua walking over with a kettle and a bowl. Only then did he realize that the sun had risen to the center of the sky before he knew it, and it was almost twelve o'clock.
Zhao Dahai poured a bowl of water and drank it in one gulp. He pointed to the water pipe faucet that had just been connected. Remembering that he had not tested the water yet, he immediately ran back to the yard and turned on the faucet. He checked along the water pipe and took it if there was no leakage.
I bought the soft water pipe together in the morning and walked it back to the vegetable field, connected it to the faucet, and led it into the vegetable field.
"Grandma!"
"When watering the ground, just hold on to this water pipe!"
"No need to carry buckets."
"Make it easier!"
Zhao Dahai pulled the water pipe and watered the ground again. He was young and strong, so he had no problem carrying water in the yard, but he couldn't be at home every day. He always went to sea to fish to make money or something. His grandma Zhong Cuihua must help with watering the vegetable fields, so
It’s convenient and labor-saving.
"This is good!"
"Watering is convenient and labor-saving!"
Zhong Cuihua walked around the vegetable field, touched the triangular frame and the green vegetables, and pulled out a few young grasses that had grown.
"The sea!"
"There is land here. Someday you can get some fruit trees that we can grow and plant them."
After Zhong Cuihua finished looking at the vegetable field, she walked back to Zhao Dahai and gestured at the ground behind the house. Many of them were empty.
"Okay!"
"Buy some seedlings and plant some bananas. These are wild things. If you plant them for a year or two, you can have something to eat."
Zhao Dahai smiled and nodded. The vegetable field is big enough and there is no need to open it. It will be a waste of space. You have to plant something.
"What kind of bananas should I plant?"
"How much of this stuff can I, an old lady, eat?"
"Get some other fruit-bearing ones."
Zhong Cuihua shook her head.
"Okay!"
"No problem!"
"In a few days, I will go to town and buy some fruit-bearing fruits to plant. I will prepare them for your great-grandchildren!"
Zhao Dahai reacted immediately.
When Zhong Cuihua heard this, she kept nodding her head, and the wrinkles on her face opened with a smile.