The fish fillet has a rich flavor, is golden in color and soft in texture, and there is no sign of being mushy at all. It is far different from the dark grilled dried fish in my memory.
"It's delicious!" Tan Shuangxi praised, "I have eaten fish fillets before, and most of them were dry, not so loose..."
"This is an Australian method, using a machine to bake fish." The village chief said, "The Chen family built a factory themselves and bought several machines specifically for baking fish fillets."
"Machine? The Chen family is so rich?!" Tan Shuangxi was very surprised. Buying a new fishing boat is a considerable amount of money, let alone a machine.
"Relying on a loan. One penny of interest per year." The village chief said with a red face, "Heaven and Earth will provide a guarantee, otherwise his family would not even be able to pay off the loan for the fishing boat!"
"This Heaven and Earth Society is simply closer than his father."
"What are you talking about? Does his father have so much money?!" said the village chief. "The fish fillets sell well, and the profit is more than ten times higher than selling fish. Dozens of boxes of grilled fish fillets are delivered every day.
High, and then repackaged and sold to the mainland and Southeast Asia... It is said that the red-haired and Japanese emperors could not even eat without grilled fish fillets..."
Everyone laughed with an expression of "Just brag." The village accountant laughed and said: "This is a big deal. The Chen family's goods are processed for Tiandihui, and we don't know who they will sell them to after packaging."
But this processing business is already big enough. More than half of the women in the village are now doing odd jobs in his factory. Just paying wages every day costs a lot of money, tsk tsk..."
The resident police officer also joined in with a taste of Shandong news: "When I first came to Qiongzhou, I also ate the fish fillet in the village, and it is not the same thing as what it is now. I think this taste is actually more like the taste of my hometown.
, My hometown is called Jiaoao, which is a small place. We also have grilled fish there, which tastes more like this. Maybe the leader who made this machine is also from Shandong."
Tan Shuangxi read a report in Lingao Times, which seemed to be called "The Great Grilled Fish Fillets". It also said that Lingao's grilled fish fillets were sold in a big market, so it seems that it is Daya Village. Thinking of the Chen family
An inconspicuous fisherman family is now doing such a big business. He originally thought that the Ma Shi family's industry was big enough, but seeing that there are mountains beyond the mountains, there are people beyond the mountains. The Chen family does not want their children to go out to be fishermen.
The soldiers were excusable.
Looking at the young people who were eating and drinking around the main table, the more he thought about it, the more uncomfortable he became. Taking the opportunity of toasting, he sat down next to the young man who had replaced Chen Kecai as a soldier, and chatted casually.
Then I realized that this young man had just come from the mainland in the past year. After being assigned to live in Daya Village, he worked as a fisherman on the Chen family's fishing boat.
"You are not a fisherman?" Tan Shuangxi was a little surprised, "Are you able to do it?"
"I always got seasick at first, but then I got used to it," the young man said nonchalantly. "Working on a fishing boat is hard, but the money you make is several times more than working as a long-term laborer. After a few years of hard work, you can earn enough to buy land and build a house.
Already."
"Where is your hometown?"
"Renqiu County, Hejian Prefecture, North Zhili Province."
Tan Shuangxi didn't know where Renqiu County in Hejian Prefecture was at all, but he benefited from the education of the army and knew that Beizhili was where the capital of the Ming Dynasty was located.
"Beizhili, isn't that where we are in the capital..."
"We still have a long way to go before the capital." The young man said and poured a full bottle of wine for Tan Shuangxi. "Squad leader, please drink..."
Tan Shuangxi saw that he was quite good at talking, and he was not the honest person he expected from Rimuna, so he asked: "Looking at your appearance, your hometown is not farming, right? How did you come to Lingao?"
"It's not because of the military disaster!" The young man said helplessly, "To be honest, our hometown is better than here. The terrain is flat and there are not as many hills as here. There is a lot of land for farming and there are many rivers. There is a drought.
As long as there is no drought in the year, we can make do by carrying water and farming. The cucumbers and radishes over there are very delicious, especially the cucumbers with prickly top flowers, which taste sweet and crispy when you bite them. Although my family is a tenant farmer,
My father is good at pickling vegetables. During his spare time, he would go to Baoding Prefecture to help people pickle vegetables. The money he earned could help him pay the rent. The boss also liked my father’s pickled vegetables and had to send hundreds of kilograms of vegetables to his family every year.
Although I don't have a penny for pickles, my boss can take care of me when something happens, so my life is pretty good.
"It didn't work out later. In the seventh year of Chongzhen's reign, the Tatars entered the customs, which shocked the whole province. Before the Tatars arrived, we suffered a military disaster. The county magistrate and his servants first asked each family to "donate food" and said they would invite officers and soldiers.
After the officers and soldiers arrived, they immediately started to rob us, saying that we could not leave it to the Tatars. My father found out the news when he was delivering food to his employer, and it was too late to come back to take us into the city. Fortunately, he knew that there was a stolen house outside the village.
The ancient tombs secretly hid food in them, so that we did not starve to death. Those who did not hide the food were starved to death later, and no one dared to help, because helping means that your family is still rich in food, and the whole village
With so many people hungry, they could all be robbed.
"Then the Tatars came. Our whole family hid in the ancient tomb for several days and did not dare to come out. When we came out, we saw that the village was gone, all the houses were burned, and there were many corpses in the village, mostly women, who had been murdered.
The girl from Lao Wang's family next door, who was only ten years old, died in the yard. She was naked and wasted to death. The blood trail was dragged from the main room to the yard. I don't know how long she crawled before she died. Too many people died.
, we didn’t dare to collect the corpses, for fear that the Tatars would come back and find that there were still people alive, so we threw all the nearby corpses into the well and tore down a wall to bury them.
"Later I found out that being killed by the Tatars on the spot was considered a clean death. The people who were captured were even worse. If they couldn't walk, they would be stabbed. A lot of people died of illness on the road without eating or drinking, and they died of exhaustion as coolies working as oxen and horses to transport things.
When a group of people attacked the city, they were rushed to the battlefield by the Tatars. The officers and soldiers defending the city came at them with artillery, bows and arrows, killing them one by one. If you didn't leave, the Tatars would kill them one by one with knives from behind.
The officers and soldiers killed them, and later they were killed by the Tatars. The women who were captured... were even worse! Do you know what the Tatars called them? Shengkou means 'animals'. In fact, they are not even as good as animals.
"My father said that we couldn't stay here any longer. He took the whole family to the south, thinking that it would be peaceful after crossing the Yellow River. The Tatars would never chase them across the Yellow River. But we didn't have to worry about it until we reached the Yellow River.
My mother also died. We had run out of food a long time ago, so we had to beg for food until we reached Kaifeng. There were too many refugees, and the defenders refused to allow them to enter the city. They shot many of them to death with arrows. My father was also shot to death. There was a huge chaos.
I got separated from my family. I followed the crowd and continued walking south in a daze, thinking that I would have a way to survive when I reached Jiangnan. When I got to Jiangnan, I came to Lingao in a daze."
This kind of experience was nothing to Tan Shuangxi - it was so common, nine out of ten people in the platoon had such experiences.
"After finally settling down, why do you want to be a soldier again?" Tan Shuangxi couldn't help but ask, "I think being a fisherman is too hard."
"This little bit of hard work is nothing," the fisherman said. "In terms of the ability to endure hardship, no one is as good at farming as we are. It's nice here, and I'd be happy to live here for the rest of my life. But I can't let go of my younger brothers and sisters..."
"At this point, his voice deepened, "After my father was hit by an arrow, he took my hand and said that I was the eldest son and had to take care of the family affairs, but now I am the only one left..."
He rubbed his eyes: "When I arrived in Lingao, my life was pretty good. But I couldn't let go of my family - I also knew that there was a high probability that they would all die, but I still had a thought: maybe
They are still alive. Even if they work as slaves, maids, or wives, they still have a life left... I was thinking if I could find them all, or if I couldn't find one, I could bring them back as soon as possible.
Living a good life can be regarded as having a family..."
"But I'm alone and weak. I'm lucky enough to escape with my life. How can I dare to go back to the mainland? I heard from people who came later that Henan and Beizhi are even more chaotic now.
So this time the Chen family asked me if I wanted to be a soldier, and I immediately agreed. If I join the army, I can follow the team to find my relatives!"
Tan Shuangxi looked at the slightly excited young man and didn't know what to say for a moment. He had no choice but to pat him on the shoulder.
The drunken village chief here hooked Zhang Laicai's neck and muttered vaguely: "Brothers, you guys are here this time. We have lost a man in the village... In a few days, a team of people will come and send another one."
A few notices, and a few men missing.”
Before Zhang Lai could react, the station policeman who was drinking with him slammed his wine glass on the table, "Fu Laoer, you bitch, you forget about me when your life is over, you damn know you
How did you get the big house you live in and the duck farm you live in? You earned it yourself, but we also shot it down in Chengmai under a hail of bullets. I can't kill you, you idiot." After saying this, he grabbed Cun.
Long skirt.
The village chief was not angry at all. He slapped the policeman on the neck with his backhand and continued to say: "Old Xie! Old Xie! What do you know... Li Haoze, that is the best guy in the village, every time he sees me
They are all extremely polite, educated, and good-looking. I all want to marry my daughter to him - but our daughter is uneducated and feels that she can't reach high places. I wonder if a guy like him goes to a military academy and has a bright future.
He is here. Maybe he will become a high-ranking cadre in the future! Look, you have been a soldier for a year and you have become a police officer. How big a cadre will he be if he becomes an officer? Then, two people came over to tell me today.
, the person is gone...not to mention his sister, I am also sad, right?" As he said, his eyes turned red, "If you say no, he is gone. How many people are you in this village? There is no one in the family who is a bachelor.
That’s all, as long as there are relatives in the village, I don’t dare to look at them! It was me and everyone who beat gongs and drums to send them away..."