Chapter Seventy-Three: Elm Money
When I went out, I found that there were two cars parked at the door, and Zhao Guangming was the first to come down in front, I don't know why this kid came again.
"Liu Junhao, get a few more catties of yellow eels with us." Zhao Guangming shouted as soon as he got out of the car.
At noon, the meal can be said to be enjoyed by the guests and the hosts, and the yellow eel meat has not yet been served on the table, Zhao Guangming smelled the aroma and rubbed it to the kitchen with a chopstick to taste. As a result, as soon as he tasted the chopsticks, he didn't lose his hand, and in the end, Zhao's mother hit him on the head with a spoon before driving him out of the kitchen.
This thing was specially prepared for the guest, and the guest had not eaten it yet, but he started eating it first. Not to mention that this yellow eel meat is delicious, even the bones are crispy and fragrant, and when you eat it, you almost want to chew the bones and swallow them, and when Zhao's mother tasted the salty just now, she couldn't help but eat two more pieces.
After all the big bowl of yellow eel meat was brought to the table, several people quickly stretched out their chopsticks to pick up the vegetables and stuffed them into their mouths, and in less than 20 minutes, most of the big bowl of yellow eel meat had gone down.
Mother Zhao was startled when she came to serve the food, but fortunately this yellow eel had no thorns, otherwise what if it was stuck, and then looked at the other dishes that were fried, there was no sign of moving at all, and even her best fish-flavored shredded meat was only symbolically pinched with a few chopsticks.
"Don't patronize the food, you also respect the old man and a few glasses of wine." She hurriedly shoved her husband.
"Well, let's go for a ......" Zhao Zhennan remembered his business.
"Hehe, don't worry about the wine, we have time, but sister-in-law, your yellow eel is fried well, crispy, fragrant, and crispy, tell me how to do it later, and I'll let my daughter-in-law cook two meals when I go back." This guest's name is Zhou Sen, and like Zhao Zhennan, he is also a contractor. However, Zhao Zhennan is one in the sky and one underground compared to others, and many of Zhao Zhennan's jobs were taken over from Zhou Sen's hands.
"I don't dare to be greedy for this dish, the main reason is that the yellow eel is good ......"
After her explanation, Zhou Sen became interested in the yellow eel and said that he would bring some when he went back. Zhao Zhennan asked his son to get some more, who knew that Zhou Sen also wanted to follow him to see how the yellow eel was raised, so they drove to Liujiagou together.
When several people entered the courtyard and saw the huge fire head in the pool, they were all a little stunned, and they all let out admiration.
Liu Junhao just smiled, almost everyone who came to his yard for the first time would have such feelings.
As soon as Boss Zhou opened his mouth, he asked for ten catties of yellow eel, but this time they came with all the preparations, and they also brought a large plastic bucket with the car.
When Zhou Sen saw the old turtle that was lazily lying on the stone slab to dry his back, his eyes suddenly lit up and said: "This is the old turtle with the word longevity, so big?" Don't say it's really like a longevity word. ”
He's worried that the old man doesn't have anything to give for his birthday, isn't this ready-made? Although it is not appropriate to send the old turtle on the birthday, it is extraordinary to bring a birthday word.
Before he could speak, Liu Junhao had already preemptively said, "This old turtle doesn't sell it no matter how much money it costs."
If you don't sell it, it's not cheap, so Zhou Sen immediately increased the price to 10,000.
"If you don't sell it, you won't sell it, there were still people who paid 15,000 last year," Liu Junhao did not hesitate at all, and shook his head resolutely. Now this old turtle is no longer just measured by price, its intangible value seems to be higher. People who come to Liujiagou for the first time have to come to see a strange thing, and it has now become a signboard.
Seeing that he was so resolute, Zhou Sen had to give up, if it weren't for the fact that this old turtle had a longevity word on his back, he was probably worth one or two thousand yuan, he originally thought that he could buy it for 10,000 yuan, who knew that someone would pay it higher. Of course, he can afford to pay more money, but he doesn't think it's worth it.
The next day was a fair, and Liu Junhao went to the street early to pick up the package. When he went home and opened it, he didn't expect that in addition to a few books on raising snails, Su Nana also mailed Zhang Qian two books, which were specially marked for her to pass the time.
Because he has been thinking about raising snails for the past few days, Liu Junhao sat under the poplar tree and couldn't wait to look through the books.
Spring is lacking, spring is lacking, people are easy to get sleepy as soon as spring, and he watched for less than half an hour, so he took a nap with his eyes open.
As soon as he closed his eyes and was about to fall asleep, the dozen or so water ducks came running over and quacked and woke him up. Liu Junhao called Xiaopi a few times, and then pointed at the ducks with his hand, and Xiaopi immediately rushed up with a loud cry and drove them all out of the yard.
There are many small fish, shrimp and snail shells in the ditch outside the door, and it is easy for water ducks to find food. Liu Junhao didn't pay attention before, two days ago he saw the water duck catching fish inside, he curiously stretched out his head to take a look, and found that the long ditch in front of the door almost suddenly became more fish, and the size was obviously much fatter than other ditches.
This reminded Liu Junhao of the heavy rain last year, and it seems that the spring water in the yard should have flowed into the ditch.
As soon as the ducks were driven away, they found that the hares had slipped into the backyard and were gnawing on sea greens in the vegetable patch.
Liu Junhao had no choice but to command Xiaopi to drive the rabbit out of the yard, and when the yard was completely quiet, he couldn't sleep again.
Liu Junhao also stepped forward when he saw it, caught a big green worm on the hemp leaf and put it in his hand, and the turtledove immediately flew over, pecked the worm in his hand away, and then flapped its wings and flew away.
He originally wanted to wait for Zhang Qian to come over and give her the book directly, but he didn't know that he didn't see anyone come after waiting for a long time, and he saw that there was still an hour before noon.
Anyway, I was idle, so I still sent the book over. As soon as he walked to the door of the sixth aunt's house, he heard Zhang Qian's voice shouting overhead: "You take it, don't patronize it, I'm ready to pull the branches."
Liu Junhao hurriedly looked up, but saw Zhang Qian standing on the roof of the gate of the sixth aunt's house, using a bamboo pole hook to pull elm money. The seventh and eight-year-old daughter of the sixth aunt, Ah Qin, looked up at the branches with a little excitement, and kept grabbing a handful of elm money in her hand and stuffing it into her mouth.
This season is the season to eat elm money, and the thick old elm trees are hanging heavy elm money hangers on the branches, and the strings of green and tender elm money make people greedy to see it.
"Brother Xiaohao is here," Ah Qin found Liu Junhao first and hurriedly said hello.
"Ah......" Zhang Qian saw that he was looking at him with a smile, and suddenly blushed, "You...... There you are. ”
Yesterday afternoon, a few students went up to the tree to hook elm money to eat, and she saw it and reprimanded her, but it turned out to be Liu Junhao's begging, but she didn't expect to be arrested by him after only one day, which made Zhang Qian extremely embarrassed.
She was also interested in seeing Ah Qin secretly use a bamboo pole to hook elm money to eat in the morning, and asked for a bunch to taste, and the result felt very good, and it tasted very tasty, so the two discussed hooking some elm money and letting the sixth aunt wrap steamed vegetables to eat at noon.
Although Aqin is a girl, she is not inferior to those bear children when she climbs up the tree, and when she heard her teacher nod, she immediately wanted to climb the tree, but Zhang Qian was afraid that she would have an accident, so she said that she also used a bamboo pole hook to hook, and was busy, but Liu Junhao came over.
"Oh, this is the book that Suna mailed you," Liu Junhao didn't laugh at her, she handed the book over, and then asked, "You want to eat elm money, right?" I'll give you a tree, and the basket will be placed under the tree."
He also slipped up the tree quickly, holding the thick trunk with both hands, and ran to the waist of the tree. Standing on the branch and moving a young branch with his hand, he threw a large string of elm money down, Liu Junhao's eyesight was amazing, and he happened to throw it into the basket every time, so the two of them didn't have to bother at all.
Elm money is delicious whether it is eaten raw or steamed into steamed vegetables, there is a saying that "a tree of elm money and half a month's grain", in the past in the spring and March when there was no green and yellow, people relied on the elm money on the tree to survive the famine.
Although life is better now, there are still many people who eat steamed vegetables, because this thing is really delicious.