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Chapter 9 Farmers Don’t Like Eels

Chen Qi couldn't understand, did he think he was in a different world? Could it be that the human beings here have different tastes from the human beings in his previous life?

Rice field eel, and it is such a thick and big wild rice field eel, why is it not delicious?

The foodies expressed their dissatisfaction! Wild fishing enthusiasts in the vegetable market are also not convinced!

Chen Shu was a little disdainful: "Hey, brother, if you want to eat, let's grab one and try it, and you'll know."

As a result, Chen Qi was a little suspicious of life when he ate the steamed rice field eel in the bowl at noon. He just sprinkled a little salt and tasted it in his mouth.

Looking at the empty stove at home, Chen Qi understood where the problem was.

In his previous life, rice field eel was regarded as a home-cooked dish, and the most common cooking method was "stir-fried shredded eel", or "sliced ​​eel in braised sauce".

There are a lot of seasonings here, such as garlic moss, green pepper slices, shredded ginger, green onion, pepper, salt, ginger, sugar, soy sauce, oyster sauce, cooking wine, monosodium glutamate, dried peppercorns, dried peppers, Pixian watercress, etc. .

Then fry it with heavy fire and heavy oil, even if it is copied from the leather soles, it will be delicious.

But now in the countryside, there are no seasonings of any kind, and the only kind of vegetable oil and soy sauce at home have been ruined by him.

Just a little salt can't get rid of the earthy smell of eels, so farmers don't like to eat them.

If you have time to catch eels, why not go to the mountains to get some wild boar, pheasant, and hare meat, isn't that more delicious.

Originally, rice field eels could be sold to urban residents if they were caught, but as the old saying goes, there is no way to transport them out, even if the cost of transporting them out is too high, it is easy to be locked up for "study" by speculation.

Now it's all right, not to mention there are too many rice field eels, no one wants to eat the same loach and snails, and those huge frogs are jumping around in the fields without any fear.

This kind of food that is most popular with drinks at late-night snack stalls is really "now you love me and ignore me, but in the future you can't afford it."

This afternoon, Chen Qi held the textbook in his hand, but his mind had already drifted far, far away.

The so-called relying on mountains to eat mountains, relying on water to eat water, if he wants to make money, he can only make money from the output of this mountain.

Although God reborn him in this remote mountain village, and his family was terribly poor, luckily in the misfortune, he was given another golden finger against the heavens.

People from Haidong Province are full of genes for doing business, what should they do if they are so poor now?

Rely on the few dead wages in the future?

Besides, even if there is a salary, it will be a matter of next year. Do you still have to continue to eat chaff?

Before he knew it, Chen Qi thought of his "predecessor".

The young man studies very hard and is cheerful. Unfortunately, he can never get enough to eat at school, and his stomach often growls with hunger.

Although there is no tuition fee for technical secondary school these days, the textbook fee is still paid by oneself. It is not much, just a few yuan. This is not a big burden for the poor Chen family.

Another burden is that there are too few subsidies for technical secondary schools.

When I go to university, I get a subsidy of about 19 yuan a month. This money is enough to save a little, and I can occasionally spend a few cents to buy a movie ticket.

However, the subsidy for technical secondary school students is halved, only 10 yuan a month, and all the money is exchanged for the school's special "money ticket", so they can barely eat.

In the cafeteria, the original owner usually paid 4 taels of rice, ordered a vegetarian dish, and ordered free dried vegetable soup. The total cost was only 17 cents.

Breakfast is more economical, usually two white flour steamed buns cost 8 cents, sometimes you don’t eat it, you’re hungry.

At the age of seventeen or eighteen, it was the time when the middle-aged and the middle-aged were eating poor old men. If he didn't buy meat for a long time, his stomach was short of oil and water. If Chen Qichang really wanted to open his stomach to eat, he might be able to eat a catty or two of rice in one sitting.

This is the standard of living, compressed and compressed, 10 yuan is really barely enough to eat, if it is not for the support of sweet potatoes at home, it will not be able to survive at all.

The original owner was a student who didn't want to make money at all, and there was no place for work-study programs these days.

Now Chen Qi thinks that books should be read, which is related to having a stable job in the future. But money is also to be earned, so that the eldest sister does not have to carry bricks, and the younger siblings can eat big fat.

To make my student life not too hungry, I always have to find a way to work hard.

The 1980s was an era in which the bold and the timid were starved to death.

Then starting a small business is the most ready-made way.

Isn’t the peaches, bayberries, eels, loach, snails, and frogs in Xiaze Village the best no-cost business?

Having made up his mind, Chen Qi fooled Chen Shu and Chen Hua and said, "Do you two want to eat meat again? Popsicles?"

The boys and girls nodded their heads like pounding garlic: "Think about it."

"If you want to, do me a favor. Brother, go to the field and stream to catch eels and loaches these few days. Little sister, you can touch snails and catch frogs. The more the better, you can catch as many as you have, and you can mobilize your friends Catch together."

Chen Shu became discouraged when he heard it: "Brother, why are you so stubborn, it's not that I told you that this thing can't be sold."

Chen Hua also nodded.

Chen Qi crossed his arms and leaned back on the chair back: "Who told me to sell it in Xingtang? Brother, I can sell it in the city."

"But, how do you transport these things out? Don't go halfway and die."

"You don't need to worry about this. Immortals have their own tricks. If you want to eat meat, you can listen to my brother. My brother can even pass the entrance examination of a technical secondary school. What is this small difficulty?"

Both Chen Shu and Chen Hua were a little skeptical, but considering that his brother had always been reliable in his work, maybe there was something he could do.

So the three brothers and sisters got busy in the fields every day, and they were all cautious in order to avoid people knowing that they would be called three fools.

Touching snails is the easiest. In the paddy fields in summer, there are the most of them. You can touch a sack in a day.

Catching frogs is also simple, just hang a pumpkin stamen on a stick with cotton thread, and then go fishing in the fields.

Loach is easier. Find a muddy place to turn over the mud, or find a ditch. After the water is drained, there will be piles of loaches.

Catching ricefield eels is a bit more troublesome, as they are all hidden in the holes, but a country boy like Chen Shu has the best way. He found a piece of wire from a bicycle wheel, sharpened one end of it, and attached it to a small stick.

Then dig some earthworms to make bait, and then you can go fishing for eels. The ones caught are thicker than one, but the efficiency is a bit low.

In fact, the best way to catch rice field eels is to put hooks in the field, put them down in the evening, and pull them up in the middle of the night. There will definitely be a considerable number of hooks in one night. Unfortunately, Chen Qi has no money and cannot afford small fishhooks, so he can only give up.

Chen Qi took away the eels, loach, snails, and frogs that were harvested every day, and no one knew where they were put.

The 13-year-old Chen Shu and Chen Hua don't care where these things go. They only care about when they can sell them to buy popsicles and pork at the supply and marketing cooperative.

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