I Was Called a Poor Widow, But I Relied on My Supernatural Powers To Fight Back In Ancient Times

The reason is simple. To catch fish during this period, one is to use a cast net, and the other is to fish. There is no other way.

Casting a net is a technical job that most people don't know how to do. Even if they know how to do it, the harvest will be limited after a busy day. If you use this as a career, you won't be able to support your family.

Fishing is worse than casting a net. Farmers are busy and have no time to sit around for a day. Even if they catch a few fish, they won't be enough to eat. The main reason is that the fish are not hungry enough. If they are unlucky, sometimes none of them will be hooked.

With a whole family waiting to eat, who wants to waste this time?

There is a lot of farm work in the fields, and if you have time to go to the dock to carry big bags, you can earn fifty cash a day, so you can count on a day's rations.

In Baiyunxi's memory, fish is bitter... Even if the villagers guard the river, they don't eat fish. In addition to the risk of going down the river, they also don't know how to kill fish.

In short, it is not worthwhile for the poor to eat fish.

Carrying the basket, I led Yaya home, poured the river shrimps into a basin, kept them in clean water, and put the two crucian carp in a separate basin.

"Mom, how did you catch the fish?"

Mrs. Du came in with a basket and saw the fish flapping in the basin. Her eyes widened in surprise. When she saw her mother-in-law's wet trousers, she panicked.

"Mom, did you go into the river?"

‘My mother-in-law worked hard enough to stutter. ’

Bai Yunxi glanced at Du Shi,

"I didn't go into deep water, just by the river. I found shrimps when I was picking water celery, so I caught some."

Du Shi nodded, naturally not daring to refute her mother-in-law.

"Mom, it will take a few days for the third wife's chicks to hatch. She said she would leave five of them for us by then. The third wife also gave us a ladle of black noodles."

Black flour during this period was the worst ration. It was also a mixture of sorghum flour, sweet potato flour and wheat bran. It also contained impurities, which made it taste bad and scratch your throat.

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But it is also the most common staple food on farmers’ tables.

"Remember this love, we will have to pay it back later."

Bai Yunxi looked at a piece of tofu and a scoop of brown noodles in the basket and explained softly.

"It's just right. You mix the black noodles with vegetable leaves and bake them into cakes. Then stew the crucian carp tofu soup. First fry the crucian carp in lard to make it more fragrant. If there is no lard, dry bake it. There are also small river shrimps, which are also baked into dried shrimps. Slice it, leave some for Yaya to use as snacks, grind the rest into powder, put it in a jar, and add some to improve the flavor when making soups and dishes."

"Okay mother,"

Du Shi looked at the shrimps in the basin and realized that they would be more fragrant if stir-fried with lard, but she didn't have the conditions at home.

Thinking that Du would not be able to clean up the fish, Baiyunxi picked up a fish and showed her how to scrape off the scales, throw away the internal organs and remove the gills, then cut open the side of the fish's spine and pull out the two white tendons. It is also the key to removing the fishy smell, and the fish is ready.

Du Shi looked at her mother-in-law's operation in surprise and clicked her tongue,

"It turns out that it's so troublesome to clean up the fish. No wonder the fish in the past didn't taste good."

In the past, I didn’t even have to remove the gills from fish, let alone remove the tendons.

"There is gall in the belly of the fish. Be careful when handling it. If you break it, the fish will become bitter. Once you learn how to do it, just do it. All fish are basically the same."

There are few fish species during this period, such as carp, crucian carp, grass carp, and catfish are very rare.

"Thank you, mother, for your advice. My wife will definitely learn from it." Du Shi nodded in surprise, her eyes filled with joy.

‘I just don’t know if my mother-in-law is willing to teach her because she is the eldest daughter-in-law or because she trusts her? ’

Listening to Du Shi's voice, Baiyun Xi was stunned. Yes, being able to collect fish during this period is also a technical job.