Regarding the way to deal with these turtles, the family still followed Xiao Fei's proposal.

This night, everyone didn't sleep, Xiao Fei's family worked together, and boiled the water in the big iron pot for cooking at home, and then put in some coarse salt, and poured the turtles into the pot and scalded them to death.

More than 400 catties of turtles used seven or eight pots of boiling water and more than 30 catties of coarse salt to complete the treatment.

At that time, it was already past three o'clock in the morning.

This is also thanks to Xiao Fei's house's pot is big enough, a pot can hold fifty or sixty catties of turtles, so that it can be carried out so quickly, if the guy is small, it is estimated that it will take longer.

The reason why the soft-shelled turtle is scalded with salt water is that the soft-shelled soft-shelled turtle soaked in concentrated salt water is not easy to rot and deteriorate.

On this hot day, if you don't soak in hot salt water, even if these turtles are dried in time, they are easy to stink and deteriorate.

Second, if you soak it in salt water, the salt will soak into the body of the turtle, and you can also add some weight. A pound of salt is only a few dollars, and a pound of dried turtles can be sold for 18 yuan.

Just like those who sold beef and mutton in later generations, why did they cook meat that was saltier than pickles?

Isn't it just to sell salt at a beef price in disguise?

Well, no matter what era, the tricks of profiteers are so old-fashioned and easy to use.

It was also a loss that Xiao Fei's family had bought a large bag of salt weighing 100 catties from the salt sellers who went to the village to eat at home.

Yes, at this time, the people in Xili Village still eat coarse salt.

The kind of sea salt that is not packaged and has not been processed.

Moreover, most of the salt is bought from smugglers.

After processing these turtles, he cleared a vacant lot between the wild grass in his backyard, and directly spread the turtles, just waiting for today's scorching sun.

If these days are sunny and good, it only takes two or three days to dry the turtles, and they can be directly bagged and sold in the county.

At this time, in Xili Village, the homestead area of every household was very large, and like Xiao Fei's family, there were more than one acre of yards enclosed by fences.

Because of this, the Xiao family has a small backyard that has been deserted, with only a few trees growing in it, and a manure heap, and nothing else.

But it was just cleared out to dry the turtles.

It is relatively hidden here, and it is not easy for the neighbors to find out.

This night, Xiao Fei and his brothers slept for a few hours with these turtles. In addition to the fence in the backyard, there are also a lot of elm, poplar, and plane trees growing around, which are very sheltered from the wind.

Sleeping here, the ventilation is not good, and there are a lot of mosquitoes coming around to suck blood.

There was a buzz around the crowd.

But Xiao Fei was so sleepy that as soon as he lay down, he fell asleep. When I woke up, the sun had already risen high, and my brother was blasting away birds with branches that wanted to fall down to eat the carcass of the turtle.

"Fly, are you awake?" Xiao Yang greeted with a smile.

"What time is it?" Xiao Fei asked.

"It's past 9 o'clock."

"Mom and Dad?"

"I ate and went to work in the fields."

Xiao Fei got up and washed his face and ate some food. It was only then that the mind was fully cleared. He wasn't going to waste the time until noon.

So, on the small square table in the courtyard, I wrote a novella manuscript for the story club.

Writing manuscripts, that's what he's best at.

It's also his basic plate.

Catching turtles is just a small means of making money as a last resort. Just like last night, he and his brother trapped more than 400 catties of turtles in one night, that is, selling wet turtles for 5 yuan a pound can also be sold for more than 2,000 yuan, and after drying, you can get about 180 catties of dry turtles, 36 yuan per kilogram, and you can earn more than 3,200 yuan.

Looks like it's already very powerful.

However, how much sweat and hard work was paid!

Moreover, this is not sustainable at all, and it can last for a few nights at most.

Writing a manuscript is what can last a lifetime, not only to make a profit, but also to become famous.

Just like the novella that Xiao Fei wants to write now, more than 20,000 words, if it is published at the story meeting, he can easily get five or six thousand yuan in manuscript fees, and he can also make a name for himself in the circle of popular literature.

Xiao Fei firmly believes that the story he is writing now will inevitably be highly valued by the story club and will be published as a key manuscript.

The reason why he is so confident is that the story he writes now is called "The Legend of the Kitchen Knife"

The story was published at the 2007 storytelling session.

Its author is called An Chang Ha.

This son can be regarded as a genius in the story world, and has written many popular legendary stories, and the article on kitchen knives is regarded as a model of contemporary Chinese legends in later generations.

The movie "Knife Smile", adapted from the story of "The Legend of the Kitchen Knife", was also released in March 2011, and the word-of-mouth response at home and abroad was not bad.

Xiao Fei wants to copy it, oh! In July 1996, Xiao Fei wrote "The Legend of the Kitchen Knife", which cannot be called plagiarism, it is the originality of Gonggang, and no one can deny it.

From about 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 a.m., for three hours, Xiao Fei barely rested, writing a 10,000-word manuscript.

That's pretty fast.

On this day, my parents and my sister got down very early.

At 11 a.m., they all returned home from the fields.

They saw Xiao Fei sitting in the shade of a tree in the courtyard and writing, and did not come to disturb.

The father caught a rooster raised by the family and killed it, saying that he wanted to reward Xiao Fei and the brothers, plucked the feathers and disemboweled the internal organs, and in half an hour, the chicken turned into half a pot of meat.

The mother went straight to the backyard and began to dry the turtles that were lying on the ground.

At 12 o'clock, the family began to eat, stewed chicken nuggets with potatoes, and ate with white film.

Xiao Fei's family estimated that they hadn't eaten meat for a long time, and when the meat was still stewed in the pot, his brother kept swallowing saliva and staring at the pot.

Although Xiao Yan just lowered her head and burned the fire, Xiao Fei still saw her snorting deeply.

But when eating, everyone is humble to each other, and no one wants to put the best meat on their chopsticks.

My mother said that she didn't like chicken, and that potatoes were better.

The father said that the essence of a chicken is on the head, and it is enough for him to eat a chicken head, well, the chicken feet are also the most flavorful part.

Under Xiao Fei's mandatory request, the family distributed the chicken more evenly.

After eating, my father made a decision, at noon today, everyone went to the post to shovel the ground, so that they could shovel out more, and at night the family also went to pick up turtles.

In Xiao Fei's opinion, this is of course better.

In this way, for three days, the Xiao family went up to the mound at noon every day and shoveled out horizontal roads with shovels and leveled out small pieces of flat land where the fried wheat bran was placed.

In the evening, they went to the mound to pick up turtles.

The next night, they harvested more than 700 catties of turtles.

On the evening of the third day, there were about seven or eight hundred catties of turtles.

On the evening of the fourth day, the harvest was much less, only about two hundred catties.

This is because the section of the hill where they worked that night was too close to the village, and many children went to dig for turtles on the hill, and almost all the topsoil there was turned over.

Such a section of about 400 meters of soil can produce more than 200 catties, which is already good.

By this time, the method used by the Xiao family to catch turtles also began to spread in the village. Everyone is not stupid, every day there are always many people who go up to the mound to do this and that, and see the horizontal roads that have been carved out, and the flat land with fried wheat bran in small patches, and the wise people soon know its principle.

As a result, others began to try to catch turtles in the same way as gourds.

However, at this time, Tugang has been tossed by Xiao Fei's family, what good harvest can there be? However, there are people with flexible brains, who go to the graves in the fields, the roads and ditches at the edge of the village, and the groves to bait, and they can harvest a lot, and they can also pick up two or three hundred catties of turtles in one night.