The abundance of fish resources in Shangwa Village is all due to their excellent geographical location.

The same is true, almost every year, the villagers of Shangwa Village will actively or passively catch some fish, and then take them to the county seat to earn some money to subsidize their families.

Compared with poultry meat such as chicken, duck and pig, fish meat is soft and smooth, whether it is used for soup or simple steaming, it is a good meat dish.

It stands to reason that the characteristics of fish should make it extremely popular, but why is it still unsellable today?

The main reason is the taste of the fish itself.

It is related to the fish itself, and the river fish caught have a strong earthy smell.

This flavor is attached to the inside of the fish rather than to the superficial surface, and it is difficult to remove it completely by physical means.

Although it is not easy to live a lot of life at present, the wind and rain for many years have not made it difficult for them to be full.

If you can fill your stomach, you will naturally have better pursuits.

Especially for the taste of food, as long as you are not a fool, you will naturally be picky.

At present, there are few ways to deal with the fish, and the spices from the south are easy to use, but the price is expensive, only a small fingernail is enough to discourage ordinary farmers, and only those high-ranking families, the family can use it so luxuriously and without burden.

But the people of the big families are more particular about eating.

People are not short of money, and they spend generously on food, so they naturally have better choices.

You must know that at present, people from high families and big families mostly pursue the style of gentlemen, and their favorite food is naturally cattle, sheep and deer, which are regarded by them as warm and sweet meat.

In addition, chickens, ducks and geese and other poultry also often appear on their tables.

In recent years, because of the rapid spread of the gelding method, the domestic pork has no sandalwood atmosphere, and the pork that was originally regarded as lowly has gradually ascended to the table of the high-ranking families and families, and has become the new favorite of these children.

Today, seriously speaking, there is indeed not much fish on the table of high-ranking families, for two reasons, one is that the sea is not passable, the ocean is too dangerous, and the fish that can be eaten are basically river fish.

The second is that the fish meat of the river fish is spiny, although the meat is tender, but it is too troublesome to eat, and there are many spices to be used to cover up the taste.

If they really have this skill, they might as well eat some meat worthy of their status.

It is also based on this that the fish and meat have fallen into an embarrassing situation that the people at the bottom do not want to eat and the high-ranking families do not look down on.

Under this kind of mistake, the price of fish and meat has been consumed at a very low level, and there has been no obvious fluctuation for a long time.

As an ordinary woman, Li naturally doesn't understand the twists and turns, and now she can think of using fish soup to make some money, but because of her previous words, she moved her mind a little.

A large family has to be fed, and the first thing Li thinks about is to make more money.

At this time, she didn't know that because of her immature idea, a simple and crude operation, it directly led to the rise in the price of fish and meat in the future, thus changing the fate of their family.

At present, the Li family is still thinking about how to sell their river fish through fish soup.

You know, there is still a big difference between the delicious fish soup and the fishy wild river fish.

There is still some time before the fishing moratorium, and there is still a month before the summer harvest, and if she plans well, they can at least sell the fish for a while, and with the money from selling the fish, in exchange for more food, they can be more sure to spend the period before the autumn harvest.

Li thought about it again and again, and finally determined that the biggest reason why the fish soup she made was delicious and not fishy was because of the strange-looking wild vegetables and the method of dealing with river fish that Erya handed her.

Isn't this fish soup so delicious?

Early the next morning, before dawn, Li hurriedly got up from the kang.

After pondering about the fish soup all night, she didn't get a good rest all night.

With two obvious dark circles under his eyes, Li hurriedly went to the well after putting them on.

The fresh fish caught yesterday was not dried in the sun, but was kept in a bucket full of water and kept by the well.

When Lee passed, the fish in the bucket were all alive.

Fished one out casually, Li Shi found out the guy he needed to clean up the fish from the side, tilted his head and thought about how she did it the first two times, and then found a place to sit by the well and deal with it.

The fish scales are not troublesome to deal with, and Li is also a perennial worker, so she scraped the scales of the fish in her hand to remove the fish, disemboweled, and cleaned it up by the way.

Then, she went to the vegetable garden again, and picked up a few wild onions, wild garlic and mint leaves.

Prepare the salt, throw it into the water to melt, and soak it with the fish and vegetables.

………

Take firewood to make a fire and brush the pot to cook.

Forcibly throwing a few drops of lard into the warm iron pot in distress, according to the steps when making fish soup yesterday, Li Shi put the things in his hand one by one in a hurry, and finally threw a few washed mint leaves into the fragrant and hot milky white fish soup.

The mint leaves are fresh, and when they are put into the fish soup, they will have a fresh taste, and the fish soup made in the first two times will be so delicious, and there is also the credit of the mint leaves.

Li didn't forget it, and even copied it perfectly.

Soon, the smell of the fish soup she had made in the morning filled the room.

Li took out a round-bellied clay bottle about half an arm's length from the back cupboard, and filled it with the hot fish soup in the iron pot until the garden belly bottle was half filled.

Finally, she took out the prepared oilskin paper to seal the opening, and tied it tightly with hemp rope.

After making sure that the fish soup in the clay jar would not be easily spilled, Li Shi took out the remaining fish soup in the iron pot and put it away.

At this time, Zhao Fuxiang had already dressed and walked out of the room.

He went to the cattle pen with the dried bean cakes and fresh weeds at home, and carefully fed the old cattle at home.

"Old man, eat more, I'm going to have to work hard for you today."

Looking at the fragrant food of the scalper, Zhao Fuxiang smiled with a wrinkled face.

Speaking of which, this scalper has been by his side for some years, and as one of the most valuable treasures in the family, Zhao Fuxiang cherishes this scalper very much.

On weekdays, you don't need to use it, but once you use it or you are tired of it, you will be fed some nutritious bean cakes.

Food is expensive, beans are their daily staple food, a bowl of beans only produces how many bean cakes, Zhao Fuxiang is willing to use bean cakes to feed the cattle at home, which also shows that the cattle are valuable.

An adult scalper can only be bought for about five yuan, and these silver coins are worth the income of a whole year of their busy work, and it is difficult for Zhao Fuxiang not to pay attention to it.

Taking out the shovel on the side, Zhao Fuxiang cleaned up the cow dung in the cowshed by the way, replaced some wet hay, cleaned up inside and out, and then returned to the main entrance hall with satisfaction.

The Li family had already laid out the things for the meal early.

Seeing Zhao Fuxiang coming in, he hurriedly urged him to sit down and eat, "Boss, they haven't come over yet, I'll call someone, you eat first, by the way, I have packed the fish soup and wild vegetables, when you leave, remember to bring a piece ......"

After hurriedly speaking, Li pulled off the apron around his waist and walked out.

Zhao Fuxiang looked up and retracted his gaze.

After a while, the three brothers Zhao Shanlin, Zhao Shanchuan, and Zhao Shanhe yawned and walked in under the urging of the Li family.

The three of them left early last night, only knowing that they needed to get up early to enter the city today, but they didn't know the specifics.

Therefore, when Li knocked on the windows one by one and called people, the three of them were also very confused.

"Mother, are you in a hurry to enter the city?"

Zhao Shanhe rubbed his eyes and looked confused.

"I can't call you if I'm not in a hurry?"

Listening to the unkind tone, Zhao Shanhe's eyes widened in fright, the corners of his mouth were torn apart, and he quickly hit it with a smile, "How can I be, my mother should call me, mother, you can call it casually." ”

After hearing the "hum", Li rolled his eyes and was too lazy to care.

Zhao Shanhe smiled, and hid behind Zhao Shanchuan.

muttered in his heart who is so bold, early in the morning will make his mother unhappy, just what he said just now, if he talks back, he will be scolded by a stinking meal.

Zhao Shanhe covered his mouth secretly, yawned, and lamented in his heart, this day is really unbearable.

Who let Cheng's pregnancy with twins, recently had a big belly, Cheng's rest is getting worse and worse, Zhao Shanhe went back to the house last night, he was tossed a lot, he didn't sleep in the middle of the night, he didn't say anything, he just fell asleep in the morning and was woken up by Li's shouting for a while, it's really difficult.

"Okay, sit down and eat, and after eating, I'll go to the city with your father."

"So early, is there something wrong with Dad?"

Zhao Shanlin said while holding chopsticks and picking up vegetables.

"Well, sell fish, buy grain."

Zhao Fuxiang ate and answered very concisely.

“……”

The three brothers sighed at the same time, looking depressed.

In yesterday's case, they really need to buy food earlier.