After the people left, Cai Shi couldn't hold back his curiosity and asked Li Yuqing what was in her basket.

Li Yuqing saw Cai's entangled face looking at the black mussels in his basket, and had no choice but to explain, "Grandma, this is a mussel, and the meat in it is edible." ”

Cai's face was surprised, "What, I haven't seen anyone eat this ghost thing after living for so long, Yuqing, is there no silver at home, I still have some private money, you can use it first" After speaking, he was about to enter the house.

Li Yuqing hurriedly grabbed her, "Grandma, I don't lack money, I'm serious, why don't you believe me, otherwise I'll make it for you to eat at night, and you'll know." ”

After speaking, he didn't care about Cai's who was still entangled, picked up the basket and went to the well to clean the mussels.

Find a basin for laundry, put the mussels in the basin and put water in them to wash the skin of the mussels. After cleaning, Li Yuqing got up and went into the kitchen to find a smaller knife (a new set of knives, which I kept for peeling and scraping vegetables later)

Cai had been watching Li Yuqing busy from the sidelines, not knowing whether to help her or stop her.

Li Yuqing didn't have time to care about her, and followed her by her gaze. When it was time to make dinner, He came out of the room after doing needlework, and Li Yuqing saw that He thought of the fish in the basin, so he asked He to come over to help kill the fish and cook fish at night.

He ran over and walked over with a kitchen knife in the kitchen. Looking at the big fish jumping in the pot, although I have eaten very well in the past few days, it is the best few days of my life, and now I can't help but sigh that once upon a time I could eat this kind of big fish. I've eaten fish before, but it's all small, small trash fish, and I can afford to buy it because it's cheap. A big fish like this is not only expensive, but also very heavy, which is not affordable for ordinary people.

Ho bent down and picked up a fish that was not very large compared to the pot and placed it on the ground. The fish struggled desperately, He took a kitchen knife in his hand, and in turn struck the fish head with the back of the knife, and the fish that was still struggling suddenly stopped moving.

Li Yuqing looked at He's action of raising and falling with the knife, goosebumps all over her body, secretly touched her head, and mourned for three seconds for the fish that was estimated to have ascended to the sky.

He Shi inadvertently saw Li Yuqing's action of touching his head, and his hand was stiff, and he said embarrassedly: "I have never made such a big fish, but it is moving around, I want it not to move, and I did it subconsciously, I didn't scare you." ”

Seeing her like this, Li Yuqing laughed twice, "Aunt is fine, you continue." After saying that, he ran back to the place where he washed the mussels with oil on the soles of his feet, and obediently continued to clean.

Aimed at the opening of the river mussel with a kitchen knife and broke it left and right, seeing that Cai was still there watching Li Yuqing do a series of actions, Li Yuqing was completely speechless, and had no choice but to find something for her to do, and shouted at Cai, "Grandma, I need hot water, can you help me boil it, I don't have time to get it now." ”

Cai's heard that Li Yuqing asked her to help boil water, and immediately forgot about the work of monitoring her, and ran over to ask Li Yuqing how much water to boil, and whether it was warm or open. After getting the answer, he quickly went into the kitchen to help Li Yuqing boil water, Li Yuqing looked at Cai's disappearing figure in the kitchen before he breathed, and hurriedly took advantage of Cai's absence to get the river mussel right.

When Li Yuqing pried the mussels, Cai's also boiled the water. Li Yuqing carried the bucket, scooped the hot water out of the bucket and poured it into the basin, and then poured all the river mussels into it.

Cai's was very puzzled when he saw that the hot water he had worked so hard to boil was used up by Li Yuqing like this, "Yuqing, why are you pouring water here." ”

"Grandma, don't worry, you'll find out later. After saying that, he found a stick and stacked the mussels together, separated them, and soaked them evenly in the water.

After a while, the river mussels slowly opened their mouths, Cai Shi was dumbfounded, Li Yuqing looked at the river mussels that opened their mouths to reveal red mussel meat, and their saliva was about to stay, and they vaguely found that there was a circle of white things around the river mussels.

Li Yuqing was startled and hurriedly squatted down, didn't care about the water, it was still hot, reached out and fished out a river mussel, took it to the front and looked at it, "ah" shouted out, the frightened Cai's body shook, and He's fish-killing knife fell to the ground. Old man Chen and Chen Dazhuang both came out of the house and asked Li Yuqing what was wrong.

Li Yuqing held the river mussel in her hand and was speechless excitedly, Chen Dazhuang was very anxious, "Yuqing, what's wrong with you?"

Hearing Chen Dazhuang's concerned inquiry, Li Yuqing trembled and said, "Uncle, it's cheap."

"What's wrong," Chen Dazhuang looked confused.

"Pearl" said and reacted, pointed to the mussel in his hand and said, "Look at the pearl, there are a lot of pearls in it, there are so many big ones"

Chen Dazhuang was stunned for a long time before he reacted, "What, pearls, it's really fake" said and snatched the river mussel in Li Yuqing's hand, took it to the front and looked at it seriously, sure enough, the river mussel with its mouth open was surrounded by large and small pearls arranged neatly.

"Where did Yuqing come from," Chen Dazhuang asked

"Picked up by the river"

"Picked up?"

"Hmm," Li Yuqing pointed to the fact that there were still a lot of river mussels in the basin and said, "Well, it's all here."

Chen Dazhuang was not calm at all, squatted down and reached out to fish out one, and took it in to see that the guy also had it. Put it down and pick it up again to see it, his heart was pounding with excitement, Chen Dazhuang was really afraid that he would have cardiac arrest if he looked at it any longer. took a deep breath, looked at Li Yuqing who was standing aside, and said, "I can't stand it, you can see the rest for yourself." ”

Li Yuqing nodded in confusion, squatted down and looked at them one by one, and finally carefully took out a little bit along the periphery, and took a cursory look at nearly two hundred large and small pearls, excluding the bad ones and flaws, there were dozens of them, which were very good-looking, large and round.

Looking at the pearls in front of her, like a large amount of silver flying over, Li Yuqing was very excited, afraid of being seen by others, so she quickly picked it up and hugged her in her arms and entered the house. After the final discussion, the pearls were all collected by Li Yuqing, because she had originally brought them to discover, and everyone had no objections.

Solving the pearl turmoil, Li Yuqing re-tinkered with her river mussels. Because there is a lot of river mussel meat, Li Yuqing decided to fry half of the river mussel meat and boil half of it in soup.

Clean the mussel meat and set it aside like a cut. Because Old Man Chen and Chen Dazhuang live here now, men like to come for two minutes when they have nothing to do, so Li Yuqing prepared some wine at home and now it comes in handy.

The fish He made it himself, and the way to eat the mussels was handed over to Li Yuqing. Peel and chop the green onion and ginger, put it together with the mussel meat, put a little salt, and stir well to remove the smell. I went to the old house next door and picked some peppercorns, peppers, and the peppers were cleaned and cut and put aside for later use.

After the clay pot is cleaned, the remaining mussel meat is also chopped, put it in the clay pot and put water in it, and then put the chopped green onion and ginger in it and boil it in a small oven.

Brush the pot, put the oil, put the marinated mussel meat in the pot first, put some water in it when it is half-ripe, and stew it in it, wait until the water in the pot is dry, put the cut peppers in it with a spatula, fry back and forth a few times, put a little salt and get out of the pot.

When Li Yuqing was busy and brought the dishes to the table, the adults didn't dare to put down the chopsticks, and the children scrambled to eat first, which scared Cai's and couldn't stop it.

Compared with Li Yuqing's river mussels, although they were not favored at first, the fish made by He later did not eat as many people as Li Yuqing. In the end, Li Yuqing's river mussel meat was eaten, and even the river mussel soup was drunk, and He's fish was a little more passive, and it was basically eaten by Old Man Chen.

For this reason, Li Yuqing is very happy, not only did she earn a lot of pearls today, but even the dishes she made were also very popular, she looked at the sky and secretly decided to go again tomorrow to see if she could find some more to come back, make a small profit, and satisfy her appetite.