Chapter Fifty-Seven: The Worm

The fish pond was completed, Liu Meiniang put all the fish fry in, watching the fish fry swimming around actively, Liu Meiniang felt that the hard work was not in vain.

"Let's go home and eat." Liu Meiniang took Zhang Dandan's hand and took her brothers and sisters down the mountain together.

"Mother, we're back." When he was about to get home, Zhang Dandan ran back all at once.

"Coming back? Wash your hands and eat, are you tired? Zhang Li wiped the sweat on Zhang Dandan's head distressedly.

"I'm not tired, mother." Zhang Dandan said with a smile.

"Mother, what did you do? It smells so good. Zhang Jihan asked while washing his hands.

"Noodles, come and eat." Zhang Li said as he brought out the last bowl of noodles.

Today, Zhang Li's made noodle soup, and there was a poached egg in everyone's bowl, which looked very appetizing when put together with the green vegetables.

"Mother, I still want a bowl." Zhang Jihan ate the fastest, and he finished eating a bowl in a while.

"Go Sheng yourself!" Liu Meiniang said with a straight face.

Zhang Li's is a little doting on a few children to be honest, and the family is obviously in this situation, Zhang Li has not allowed a few children to work, especially reluctant Zhang Jihan to work, which is the most unbearable point for Liu Meiniang.

Zhang Jihan is the only man in the Zhang family, and a large part of the reason why he was infected with gambling before was because of Zhang Li's indulgence and doting, and he was reluctant to blame, which made Zhang Jihan like that in the long run.

Since Liu Meiniang woke up, she has been trying to change Zhang Li's thinking, and seeing that Zhang Li really wanted to pick up Zhang Jihan's bowl to serve rice, Liu Meiniang finally couldn't help but speak.

"Oh." Seeing Liu Meiniang's face, Zhang Jihan was like a student meeting a teacher, and quickly jumped up to serve the meal by himself =.

If you don't go, Liu Meiniang can beat him with her eyes.

"Eat more Mei Niang." Zhang Li touched his nose in embarrassment and stopped talking.

"Mother, you haven't lost the silkworm chrysalis and silkworm sand you raised silkworms, right?" After eating, Liu Meiniang asked Zhang Li.

Liu Meiniang found that the people here seem to use grain to raise fish, such as small millet after grinding flour and mixing with wild vegetables, so that the fish fed are not only not fat, but also waste food.

Liu Meiniang also went to Uncle Li's house, who had raised fish before, and found that Uncle Li also raised fish in this way, and Liu Meiniang basically had an understanding of fish farming here.

"Not yet, what's wrong?" Zhang Li asked puzzled.

"Mother, don't lose those silkworm chrysalis and silkworm sand, you and Aunt Li, I want to use them." Liu Meiniang said.

"What's the use of those?" Zhang Jihan asked puzzledly, didn't the silkworm chrysalis and silkworm sand be lost.

"Use them to raise fish." Liu Meiniang said seriously.

"Fish farming?"

"Fish farming?"

Zhang Jihan and Zhang Li said in unison.

"That's right, use silkworm chrysalis and silkworm sand to raise fish." Liu Meiniang remembered that the Pearl River Delta region in her previous life seemed to be like this.

"Mei Niang, I haven't heard of someone using silkworm chrysalis to raise fish....... Zhang Li said with a frown.

"Yes, sister-in-law, this ......," Zhang Jihan said worriedly.

"Mother, silkworm chrysalis can raise fish." Liu Meiniang didn't know how to explain to Zhang Li and Zhang Jihan, and this is all scientifically verified in modern times.

"Sister-in-law, what if it doesn't work, won't all those fish die?" Zhang Jihan raised his objections.

"Ugly people make a lot of mistakes! There are so many fish, if you toss them to death, I'll see what you do. Zhang Tongtong leaned against the doorrail and said loudly.

"Mei Niang......" Although Zhang Li didn't say anything, he obviously agreed with Zhang Tongtong's opinion.

Liu Meiniang has nothing to say, is it really necessary to explain to them the working principle of modern mulberry agriculture, so that they will probably think she is a monster.

The room fell silent, Zhang Li and Zhang Jihan looked at Liu Meiniang worriedly, Liu Meiniang sat on the chair, biting her nails.

Whenever she was caught in thought, she would bite her fingernails, which was a habit she had always had.

"Why don't we catch a few fish and feed them first?" Zhang Dandan's immature voice sounded.

"That's right!" Liu Meiniang slapped her thigh, her thinking just now fell into a dead end, why do you have to sprinkle all the silkworm chrysalis in the pond, you can experiment first.

"We circle a piece of fish by the pond, catch some of the fry, and feed them the silkworm pupae first, do you think that's okay? If this part of the fish is okay after eating the silkworm pupae, we will feed the silkworm pupae to the other fish. Liu Meiniang proposed.

"I'll see it." Zhang Jihan raised his hand in agreement.

"You can decide on this, I'll be in charge of raising silkworms," Zhang Li said with a smile, since her son and daughter-in-law agreed, then she had nothing more to say.

When Liu Meiniang put forward this suggestion just now, she didn't agree because no one had done it, and now that there is a good way, she has nothing to say.

"When the fish are all dead, I'll see where you can cry." Zhang Tongtong said contemptuously, Liu Meiniang didn't care, this girl has always liked to disagree with her.

"My sister-in-law is the most powerful, so the fish won't die." Zhang Dandan crossed his waist and said loudly

Except for Zhang Dandan, no one in the room responded to Zhang Tongtong.

"Just listen to this woman, sooner or later you will regret it."

Zhang Tongtong left such a sentence and ran away.

"Sister-in-law, don't worry about her......." Zhang Jihan said with some embarrassment. He didn't know how many times he had said this to Liu Meiniang.

I don't know why, Zhang Tongtong is so insistent on going against Liu Meiniang, in the past few days, he has pressed Zhang Tongtong to go to work in the mountains together, he thought that Zhang Tongtong would let go of Liu Meiniang when he saw the results on the mountain, and he would let go of Liu Meiniang's prejudices, after all, Liu Meiniang did all this they had never heard of, they had never seen it, he threw himself into the five bodies that Liu Meiniang admires now, but Zhang Tongtong .......

What Zhang Jihan doesn't know is that it is very simple to have a good impression of a person, but it is difficult to let go of prejudices against a person.

Zhang Tongtong's prejudice against Liu Meiniang has been deeply rooted, unless something important happens, it is difficult to let go of this prejudice.

"The first person to eat a crab is the bravest person." Liu Meiniang remembered what a philosopher said.

"Crabs?"

"What is a crab?"

Zhang Jihan and Zhang Dandan asked out loud. Looking at Zhang Li again, he also had a puzzled expression. Liu Meiniang was taken aback, is there no crab in this era?

"You don't know crabs?" Liu Meiniang asked tentatively.

"I haven't heard of it."

"Yes, sister-in-law, what is a crab? What for? Zhang Dandan asked with big eyes.

"It's an animal in the river, you can eat it." Liu Meiniang explained.

"Is there anything else you can eat in the river besides fish, shrimp and mussels?" Zhang Jihan asked with a frown.

"I've never heard of this...... Crab. Zhang Li also said.

"When I was also in Liu's house, I once met a Taoist priest who traveled to the party, and he said that this crab is not only edible, but also very delicious."

Liu Meiniang thought of modern hairy crabs, steamed crabs, and boiled crabs, and couldn't help but swallow her saliva.

In modern times, she had to avoid a lot of things because of cancer, but now she thinks about it, it's a waste of life, there is only so much time left, and she knows that she can't live anymore, why don't you do something she wants to do in the last time of her life, go out to travel, eat what she wants to eat, but she has to spend her last time in the hospital bed.

"Sister-in-law, really?" Zhang Dandan swallowed her saliva when she heard Liu Meiniang say this.

"Of course it's true, sister-in-law can't lie to you." Liu Meiniang blinked and said.

"Haven't you seen it in the river?" Liu Meiniang asked suspiciously, shouldn't it, it stands to reason that ancient people ate crabs very early, and there were records of eating crabs in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, Li Bai even said that crabs are comparable to elixirs, and there is no reason why people here don't know what crabs are.

"Sister-in-law, do crabs and fish look the same?" Zhang Dandan looked up at Liu Meiniang and asked.

"No, the crab has eight legs and a pair of large pincers, which hurts if you get caught." Liu Meiniang said with a smile that she remembered that when she was a child in her previous life, her parents once took her to the beach to play.

At that time, it seemed that the tide had just fallen, and there were a lot of red crabs on the beach, holding two large pincers and menacing.

But she was very young at the time, and she didn't know what it was to be afraid, so she reached out to catch the biggest crab of them, and without accident, her fingers were caught, and then the whole beach was filled with her howling and crying.

Who knew that Dad was still smiling and couldn't stand up straight, and took a picture of her with his phone, and that photo is still in her room, so that Dad would laugh at her for a long time after that incident.

"Sister-in-law, are you talking about the worm?" Zhang Dandan shouted.

"Worms?" Hearing this name, Liu Meiniang couldn't help but laugh, the name is quite appropriate, isn't the crab just a trapping worm?

"Yes, sister-in-law, the insect has eight legs, and a pair of big tongs, there are a lot of them in the river, and sometimes it hurts to be accidentally pinched, but that thing can really be eaten?" Zhang Jihan expressed his deep suspicion that the worm was full of hard shells, and how to eat it, most of them were grabbed and played by children in the village.

After Zhang Dandan knew that the crab that Liu Meiniang said was a trapping worm, the tangled expression on her face, the clipping worm looked like a spider, it looked so infiltrating, can you really eat it?

"Really? Is there in the river? Liu Meiniang's eyes lit up, if there was one in the river, wouldn't she be able to eat crabs?

"There's a lot of it in the river." Zhang Jihan said weakly, doesn't the sister-in-law know? However, Zhang Jihan's focus quickly shifted, seeing his sister-in-law's expression of surprise, he rubbed his arm, sister-in-law actually likes to eat that, the insect looks so disgusting, did the sister-in-law have such a hard time in her mother's house before? Even the insects are eaten.

"Sister-in-law, why haven't I heard you say it before......" Zhang Jihan asked the question in his heart.

Liu Meiniang was shocked, she was so carried away just now that she forgot to cover it up.

"Hehe, didn't there be too many things at home before, and I was busy, so I didn't have time to think about this? But after what happened last time, I understand a truth. Liu Meiniang said with a haha.

"What's the truth?"

"Life must be happy." Liu Meiniang said.

"Life is proud......." Zhang Jihan repeated Liu Meiniang's words.

"That's right, a person's life is like this for decades, and you have to do what you want to do as soon as possible, otherwise when you are old and die, you haven't done what you want to do, isn't it a pity?"

"Mei Niang, who are you listening to?" Zhang Li also seemed to be infected by Liu Meiniang's words, and asked out loud.

"Isn't there a private school in our village? Sometimes when I go back from work, I hear what the old gentleman at the private school says, and I think it's very interesting and I write it down. ”

"That's a good old man." Zhang Dandan said with a smile that although she couldn't fully understand the meaning of Liu Meiniang's words, she could still understand the general meaning.