Sun Xiangfu's big water tank has become a yellow eel tank, and even the empty rice tank is temporarily used to hold loaches, Sun Xiangfu has more than ten catties of yellow eel, seven or eight catties of loaches, as for the palm-sized crucian carp, carp, and other scale fish that are not easy to feed, there are also more than ten catties.

Sun Dali insisted on refusing to throw away the internal organs of the fish, so when a large pot of fish was scaled and gills removed, Sun Xiangfu used a big bamboo basket by the river to clean the fish intestines and fish bubbles.

These fish offal can indeed be eaten, but because the entrance of the fish cage is not large, it is impossible to make up for the large scale fish, and the internal organs of these largest scale fish that are no more than chopsticks long want to clean up, it is not something that can be done in a while, so by the time he is busy with his work, the fish soup is already boiling in the iron pot at home.

"Second brother, third girl, get up and eat."

Maybe Sun Xiangfu's words are too unfamiliar, the two little guys who just woke up couldn't believe it, the last time they woke up and ate, it should have been when they were in their hometown in the north.

The fish soup was cooked by the old lady Dali, the reason is that his family has a big iron pot, half of the ten catties of white meat fish are cooked, and the rest is salted by Sun Xiangfu, and he has to eat a meal at night.

No one in the village has a vegetable field, and naturally there is no onion, ginger and garlic, so Sun Xiangfu picked some chrysanthemum leaves by the river and added them to the fish soup, which can be more or less fishy, as for the taste, for these people who have not eaten a full meal for a long time, the salt is delicious.

The family eats exquisitely, each person has a big pottery bowl, three or five palm-sized crucian carp or other fish in the bowl, and a lot of white river shrimp and shrimp, after eating, it can be served, five or six catties of miscellaneous fish are boiled in a big pot, and so Sun Dali's fish offal is washed, six people will gather around the stove and snort to eat, the faint fishy smell mixed with the salty taste makes them enjoy eating very much.

"Even the fish meat is so fishy, those fish offals are estimated to be fishy and difficult to swallow, and I will find some reed leaves to wrap in after a while, and I will take it to the village chief's house to forget it."

Sun Xiangfu is the only picky eater present, and he is still in the mood to talk when he eats, as for the other people, they are now gagged by food, hearing Sun Xiangfu call his name, Sun Erli just responded with a hmm, and after a large pot of fish soup was drunk by several people, Sun Xiangfu could talk to everyone well.

"Dali, you will take Erli to make a fish cage at home today, just according to what I taught you yesterday, you can make it a little bigger, you can catch big fish, and my aunt will take our two little guys to wash and dry the locusts caught last night, and then dig some earthworms and feed the loach eels in my tank."

Sun Dali's old lady Li Cuihua also ate roasted locusts last night, so naturally she knew that this thing was a ration when she was critical, so she told Sun Xiangfu to rest assured.

"Why, do you want to give these fish offals to Hu Cai? His family is not short of food. ”

Sun Dali took his younger brother and Sun Xiangfu out together, he was full of food, and he had strength, he had to drag some more big bamboo back to weave fish cages today.

"Hu is the village head, in charge of some public objects in the village, we still have a lot of things to ask him in the future, give some benefits, in order to do things more smoothly, remember our goal, so that the whole village can live a good life, if you want to achieve this goal, you need to use your brains and be flexible."

After a while, Sun Xiangfu carried a fish wrapped in reed leaves like a big dumpling into the fence courtyard of Hu Cai's house, in fact, the whole village lived in a shack-like house, and only Hu Cai's house was built of wooden planks, and bamboo fences were erected before and after, which was regarded as a courtyard.

"Come on, sit down and talk."

Hu Cai's family is also short of food, but it is no problem to drink porridge for three meals a day, and he knows a few words, and he can go to the chief every once in a while to cry and cry poor, begging for some food and farm tools, in comparison, the chance of starvation is very small.

The villages in Guanzhong are not as poor as this village, the old villages that have lived here for generations can basically solve the problem of food and clothing by themselves, and then there are the fiefs of those noble families, the tenants are not worried about food and clothing, only this kind of newly relocated village is more bitter, but as long as it survives this year, plus there will be a year of tax holiday next year, as long as there is no major natural disaster, the days are still very promising.

"Village Chief Hu, I brought you some fish offal and put it in the millet to cook porridge, which can be regarded as a meat."

Seeing that Sun Xiangfu also brought something to himself, Hu Cai looked at him at this time, in his memory, Sun Xiangfu is a relatively wooden person, especially after the death of his parents, with a pair of younger siblings, the family often can't open the pot, but after yesterday's events, he has made some changes to Sun Xiangfu, and he can deceive the official army with half a pot of millet porridge, which is also a remarkable achievement.

"Xiao Wu, pour a bowl of water for Brother Xiangfu."

Hu Cai took the fish miscellaneous handed over by Sun Xiangfu, shouted into the house, and asked him to sit down on the bamboo horse in front of the house.

"Village Chief Hu, I remember that there are a few wheelbarrows in our village, can I borrow them?"

If it was usual, Hu would say, 'Of course not, it's the public property of the village, how can I explain it to the chief if it is damaged.' ’

But today! After receiving some benefits from Sun Xiangfu, Hu Cai nodded and said, "It's okay to borrow it occasionally, but you can't take it back for your own use, these things are the public property distributed by the imperial court when we moved over, and they are all numbered, and they can't be damaged, what's the matter, you want to pull things?" ”

"No, I caught some fish, and I want to go to the market for some money." Sun Xiangfu expected Hu to say this early on, and said honestly.

"Do you know how to fish? I have to go to the market to sell it, it seems that I have caught a lot! No wonder there are fish offals sent to my house, but we northerners are not good at water, didn't there be a few babies a while ago, hungry and went down to the river to catch fish, drowned several, you have to be careful. Hu Cai said this, his eyes rolled, but he thought, 'Since you have caught so many fish, why don't you mention a few fish, but send some fish offal to fool me.'"

"Hey, I know, I'll be careful, and I have to tell you, yesterday the big guys knew that bamboo insects can be eaten, today I'm afraid that there are still many people who will go to the back hillside to cut bamboo, you have to tell them not to cut indiscriminately, the insects are all eaten, there will be no food in the future, there is really no food at home, catch locusts and roast and eat more full, in the afternoon, Dali will go to the stone mill in the village where to grind the dried locusts, you will tell everyone to learn how to turn locusts into food."

Hu Cai is also able to accept the taste of roasted locusts, and the reason why the whole village is so peaceful this morning is precisely because everyone knows that locusts can be eaten, and they are not worried about starving to death.

I heard that locusts can be ground into powder and made into food, Hu Cai frowned, and he didn't know what he was thinking, Sun Xiangfu asked him a lot of things in the village, until the sun rose in the morning, a burst of heat hit, Sun Xiangfu said goodbye and went home, and it was through this chat that Sun Xiangfu knew many things that Sun Xiangfu didn't usually care about in this world.

The village now has 46 households with 157 people, 58 of whom are over 14 years old and under 40 years old, and the rest are all old and weak women and children.

There are a total of 4,000 acres of Yongye land, which is divided according to the original fifty households and one village, but in more than a year, there have been four households, and those fields have not been recovered by the imperial court. In addition, there is a bamboo mountain, two wood mountains, ten official oxen, ten plows, and ten carts.

Datang has a mile within a radius of ten miles, and there is a li chief, who manages all the villages under its jurisdiction, urges farming, collects taxes, and is directly responsible to the county government, as long as it is not in the fief of the nobles, the li chief is the lowest administrative staff of the Tang Dynasty.

And in each of them, most of them will set up a small market, so, what five miles, ten miles of goods are everywhere in Datang, the market is mostly selling some relatively simple goods, iron, wood and other farming tools, salt, fish, meat and food and other necessities for the people's life, as well as the crops produced by farmers in each village, handmade products, etc., and then there is nothing else, no way, Datang's goods are so scarce, there may be tea shops in the market town, but there is absolutely no restaurant, because wine is a controlled commodity, No one is going to take a business license to open a store in a small market.

The reason why Sun Xiangfu inquired about the bazaar with Hu Cai was because he basically did not have the ability to reach the county seat dozens of miles away now, with the ancient road, relying on the strength of his feet, dozens of miles would take two days, not to mention carrying heavy goods, so his fish goods could only be sold in the nearest bazaar at first, and this bazaar was called Xiaohe Market.

The small river is a tributary of Weishui, and it is also the name of the river that flows through Sun Xiangfu's village, although it is not wide, but it has been flowing for I don't know how many years, nurturing hundreds of villages along the coast, and after knowing his location more clearly, Sun Xiangfu pushed a wheelbarrow home.