The mother was sweeping the floor in the hall, and saw Zhou An's bare feet, half of his clothes wet with dew, and carrying a paint bucket back from outside the door.

is also a reminder not to catch a cold, just now these words came out of Zhou Taiqing's mouth, Zhou An just wanted to sneer, but when he heard it from his mother's mouth, he felt warm.

Because he knows a false intention, a true heart.

"It's okay! Mom! You can pick out some of these yellow snakes and make them for my dad at noon! I'll take out the rest and sell them for some money! By the way, cut some meat and come back, Dad can't always eat vegetarian food with us!"

Before Zhou An finished speaking, his mother saw the many yellow eels in his bucket and exclaimed.

"Oh! Anzi! You, you're going to release the fisherman? When did you make the fishing? When did you go out last night? How dangerous it is for you to go out alone to release the fishermen at this big night, right? What if you step on a snake at night? You, your father will find out later, and he will definitely scold you!"

The many yellow eels in the bucket did not surprise the mother, but frightened and frightened.

Zhou An smiled on his face, put the bucket in front of his mother, and walked quickly to his room with a sloppy look in his mouth.

"Mom! Don't worry about me! I'm already grown up, it's just the next fisherman, it's okay! My dad can scold him if he wants! But you must tell him to eat more at noon! He needs nutrition now! He can't be a vegetarian all the time!"

"This ...... You kid!

The mother sighed there, and Zhou An had already returned to the room and found a half-worn undershirt from the closet to change into, as for the big pants on his body?

He looked down and decided not to change!

He just had two big pants, the one he changed last night, his mother had washed it in the morning, and before he entered the door just now, he saw it hanging on a bamboo pole outside the door, and he didn't have to change it.

Unless he changes his trousers, but it's too hot to wear them this season, and he doesn't want to wear them.

Four or five catties of yellow eel, Zhou An's own family will definitely not be able to eat it in a day, so on the way back, he thought about it, keep a little at home to eat, and sell the rest for money! By the way, cut some pork and buy some spices to make spiced snails.

Although it is simple to make spiced snails, some old ginger, star anise, bay leaves, dried chili peppers and peppercorns or something, and these things, Zhou An remembers that even if there are them at home, there must only be a little bit, and he picked up so many snails yesterday and came back, and the old ginger, star anise and dried chili peppers at home are definitely not enough!

As for bay leaves and peppercorns, there are definitely no them at home.

He is confident in his cooking skills, but no matter how good his cooking skills are, he can't use them if the seasonings are incomplete.

It's hard for a good woman to cook without rice!

There was a bicycle at home, which originally belonged to Zhou An's third uncle, but later when Zhou An was in junior high school, his third uncle gave him the car and let him ride it to school, because Zhoujia Village was more than ten miles away from the middle school in the township.

Compared with the second uncle Zhou Taiqing, although Zhou An's third uncle Zhou Taiming has always been not good, and now his wife is separated, but when Zhou Taiming was at home in the past, he was still good to Zhou An!

Zhou An's two uncles are in response to the old saying: the richer you are, the poorer you are, the more generous!

In the past few years, Zhou Taiming has been fooling around outside all the year round, and he is not at home recently, otherwise Zhou An will definitely send some to his third uncle to drink if he gets so many yellow eels today.

Speaking of which, his ability to be a yellow eel fisherman was learned from his third uncle before, and his third uncle Zhou Taiming was not good at reading and doing things seriously, but his ability to steal chickens and dogs, catch fish and shrimp, was one of the best in the entire Zhoujia Village.

Coming out of the house again, Zhou An pushed the bicycle that the third uncle gave him, and there was a red plastic bag hanging on the girder of the car, which contained more than a dozen fresh yellow eels.

Mother picked up the yellow eels that were stabbed to death by fishing needles, kept them for lunch, and left them for Zhou An to take out and sell, all of which were fresh.

When she handed these live yellow eels to Zhou An just now, she said: "You can sell these live ones! If you sell them well, you can sell them at a good price! Although they are dead, they are still fresh, and they are the same at home!"

Zhou An knew that what his mother said was reasonable, and although he was not very happy, he still took these live yellow eels according to her wishes.

The family is so poor that it can only be so.

The dirt road in the village, because of yesterday's heavy rain, was a little muddy, and Zhou An could only push the car out, but out of the village, there was a cement road leading to the county seat, and the road to the township was also this one.

There is a vegetable market near the township government, and Zhou An's previous middle school is also nearby.

More than ten miles away, Zhou An rode it not long to arrive, and when he arrived at the vegetable market, it was the time when there were the most people buying vegetables every morning, so the more than three catties of yellow eels he brought were sold quickly, and it didn't take more than half an hour before and after.

Because it is wild and alive, it costs 20 yuan per catty, and it is still easy to sell without bargaining.

More than three catties of yellow eel, Zhou An sold it for a total of 70 yuan, selling so fast, Zhou An was naturally in a good mood, took the money that had just arrived and had not yet covered the heat, went to cut more than a pound of hind leg meat, and went to buy some old ginger, star anise, bay leaves, dried chili, pepper, cooking wine, aged vinegar and other condiments.

When he came out of the vegetable market, the 70 yuan was only one yuan and a half.

In exchange for the plastic bags full of pork and condiments on the bicycle beams, although the money he just earned is gone, Zhou An is still in a good mood.

These are the fruits of his labor!

Moreover, this is just the beginning, go back with these things, make five-spice snails tonight, he still has a chance to make more money!

……

When Zhou An came to the township to sell yellow eels, Zhou An's mother Tian Guifang walked into her and Zhou Taihu's room with yellow eels in a plastic basin, and sighed when she entered the door.

Zhou Taihu, who was leaning on the bed in a daze, heard her sigh, turned his face to look, and saw the yellow eel in her hand, Zhou Taihu's expression was complicated and silent.

"Did you hear that?"

Tian Guifang asked him in a low mood.

Zhou Taihu was silent.

Tian Guifang saw that he didn't speak, and sighed again, "The child is sensible! I know that I am worried about your body, and when he comes back, you won't scold him! You used to look down on him for engaging in fish and shrimp, every time he engaged in those things, you scolded him bloody, but ...... Alas, this time he can only think of this way to get you something to eat, for the sake of the child's filial piety to you, this time you can bear with it, don't scold!"

After hearing this, Zhou Taihu also sighed, "I know! I heard what you two said just now, didn't I make a sound in the room? This dog thing can sometimes really make me angry half to death, but filial piety is still filial!