For farmers, autumn is the harvest season, the corn and peanuts in the field should be cleaned up, the autumn rice can be harvested, and the melons and fruits in the orchard are fragrant.

For fishermen, autumn is even busier.

In addition to cleaning up the farm work in the fields, the fishermen also have some work to do in the sea and the lake.

For example, since Ao Muyang brought back a boatload of mackerel, the salty smell wafted in the fishing village, and the drying field in the village was used, and the courtyards of every household were full, and all the dried fish were put aside.

On the day he brought back the mackerel, Ao Muyang first chopped his head, removed the internal organs, and bled the fish, and then he cut the fish from the middle of the fish belly to the big bone, leaving the skin of the fish on the back and could not move, so that the fish was very symmetrical and in the best condition after opening.

He carefully smeared the cooking wine to remove the smell, and then prepared a water material with chicken essence, salt, sugar, and pepper, and smeared it again, and after cleaning it evenly, it was marinated overnight.

The next morning he did not go out to sea, but stayed at home to collect all the pickled fish, and put them in the yard to dry them while the north wind was blowing.

Ao Fugui sent him a drying net, which was homemade, tied to a wooden frame with an eliminated broken fishing net, and the fish were spread out to the net.

After cleaning up, Ao Qianying came to him: "Brother Xiaoyang, aren't you going to clean up your peanut field?"

Because of his hard fists, righteousness, and strong fishing skills, Ao Muyang has a very high prestige in the village, and his peers and peers have changed their names to Brother Yang, and some elders also call him Brother Yang, but in order to save face, they will add a 'small' word and call him 'Brother Yang'.

Ao Muyang clapped his hands and smiled: "Uncle Ying is here, sit down, there is no need to clean up my peanut field, it is full of dogs." ”

"Don't sit down. Ao Qianying waved her hand and said, "You go and take a look, maybe you can get some peanuts, and it's good to make peanut oil." ”

Hearing him say this, Ao Muyang decided to take a look.

This acre of peanut land has not been wasted, and a lot of dogs have been produced in recent months, feeding loaches, eels and lobsters to their heart's content.

Before going out, Ao Muyang first went to check the lobster.

After being fed by gold drops, these splendid lobsters have risen in size, and they all have to be about 20 centimeters long, solid, and have a small weight of two catties, and they can be slaughtered.

This batch of lobsters will be Ao Muyang's fishing boats, he wants to buy a big fishing boat, he has been paying attention to this news for a while now, the price of modern big fishing boats is not low, and he can see that he has to start with four or five million.

With the general, he went around the fields.

Because of the large number of dogs, the peanut field was crazy to reduce the yield, and found a peanut field that was quite lush, he shoveled it down with an iron shovel, grabbed the peanut vines and shook the soil and carried it out.

Under the green peanut vine were a few lonely peanuts, not bad, he picked two and stuffed them into his mouth, well, the taste was sweet.

Shoveling some peanuts at random, it turned out that as he estimated, there were not many peanuts to harvest in the field, and there were dogs everywhere.

Ao Muyi in the orchard next to him threw him an apple and pear, and said with a smile: "Brother Xiaoyang, how about it, can you get a hundred catties of peanuts?"

Ao Muyang took the apple and pear and wiped it and took a bite, then shook his head and said, "One hundred catties? Don't even think about it, but a hundred catties of dogs are no problem." ”

Hearing this, Ao Muyi and his wife, who were harvesting fruits, suddenly burst out laughing.

Ao Muyi patted the fruit tree and said, "There is a harvest in your orchard here, well, the fruit grows very well this year, and there will be a dealer coming over in two days, why don't you sell it together?"

Ao Muyang said: "Sell yours first, mine will pick it and send it to the old people in the village to help them save some money to buy fruits." ”

He doesn't have time to pick fruit by himself, and picking fruit is also a hard work and technical work.

Ao Muyi gave him an idea: "You ask Qianlai for help, Qianlai has the strength of two arms, and when the time comes, if you give him a basket of pears, he will definitely be willing." ”

After having lunch like this, Ao Muyang went to find Ao Qianlai.

Ao Qianlai, like him, is also fatherless and motherless, he lives with a grandmother, the eldest has no daughter-in-law at his age, but he also knows that he has reached the age of marrying a daughter-in-law, and he just cleaned up the house two years ago.

Don't look at him stupid, but he has lived a very tasteful life, the house is clean, and the neighbors are decent.

However, because he is poor and stupid, there is still no one to call him a daughter-in-law.

When Ao Muyang came to the door, Ao Qianlai was packing up his things in the cart, and his grandmother was helping to put the rubber water cushion and bamboo raft on the cart.

Seeing him come to the door, Ao Qianlai smiled happily: "Ah, Yoko, are you here?" But I'm going out, you can come back later." ”

His grandmother patted him and said, "What are you talking about?" Come, Brother Xiaoyang, come and sit in the house." ”

Ao Muyang waved his hand and said: "Grandma, it's good if you call Xiaoyang, don't scream with the people in the village, they call me a squeeze on me." ”

Grandma Qianlai is over 80 years old, with a stiff back, and her body is full of traces left by a miserable life, with white hair, a wrinkled face, and rough skin on her face and hands like old bark.

She took Ao Muyang into the house and asked to make tea.

Ao Muyang stopped her and said, "No, no, grandma, I'm just going to send you something." I remember you loved cake, and you kept this box for you. ”

Grandma Qianlai laughed and said, "You baby bothered, remember this, come, sit down." ”

After sitting down, she looked at Ao Muyang carefully and sighed: "Qianzhengwa has raised a good cub, you are a good cub, the old lady doesn't go out much, but I have heard about you, you are a promising!"

Ao Muyang smiled and waved his hand: "What do I have to offer? I didn't go to college, I didn't have a good job, and I couldn't go home in the city." ”

Grandma Qianlai shook her head vigorously: "It's not right for you to say this, your baby is promising, unlike my Qianlai." ”

As she spoke, she shook her head harder, and her face was full of melancholy.

Ao Muyang said: "Grandma, don't say that, people, wealth is a lifetime, stability is also a lifetime, we don't seek to be rich and expensive, it would be good if we could be healthy like Uncle Qianlai." ”

Ao Qianlai smiled: "My grandmother is healthy. ”

Ao Muyang said: "Yes, let's talk about the old lady, Uncle Qianlai is very good, I came to ask him for help." Didn't my family's land grow fruit for Brother Mu Yi? I asked Uncle Qianlai to help me pick the fruit. ”

Ao Qianlai said: "Oh, that's not good, Yangzi, I'm going to fish for lotus roots in the next two days, and if I don't go to fish, the weather will be cold." ”

Grandma Qianlai slapped him: "You stupid baby, listen to Brother Xiaoyang, you will do whatever Brother Xiaoyang tells you to do." ”

Ao Qianlai was a little reluctant: "That's okay, it's just that the lotus root has to be fished out quickly and sold in the county, and we can sell it for five yuan a catty here." ”

Ao Muyang said with a smile: "Okay, don't be in a hurry to pick fruits, go to fish for lotus roots first, and I will also go to fish for some." ”