Chapter Twenty-Three: Arrival
Early the next morning, Zhao Ming woke up at five o'clock, and then began to deal with the fish he caught yesterday.
This morning, Zhao Ming needs to break all the fish, then salt, and wait for tomorrow to dry the water on the surface under the sun, and then it can be hung on the roof of the fire pit to smoke, about half a month to a month, the preserved fish is ready, and it can be vacuum-packed.
Mom also got up very early, but today Mom didn't go to wash clothes, but scraped the scales and broke the fish with Zhao Ming, the third sister didn't get up until seven o'clock, and Zhao Ming and Mom had already broken half of the fish.
After getting up, the third sister also came over to help, and Zhao Ming took the time to make breakfast.
Because the fish had to be broken, Zhao Ming simply cooked a white rice porridge, and then fried a few leek egg cakes, and then served them with a little pickles, and the breakfast was freshly cooked.
After breakfast, the three of them went into battle together, and the progress was much faster.
"Mom, let's keep the rest of the crucian carp!" Zhao Ming said as he looked at the crucian carp that still had a dozen catties left.
"Okay, keep it for fresh!" Mom stopped.
"What about grass carp and carp?" asked Zhao Ming.
"Keep two grass carp, five or six carp, and break all the carp crutches that are more than a pound!" Zhao Ming said after looking at the grass carp and carp and carp crutches that have not yet been broken.
Now there are still six grass carp in the pool, almost twenty carp, and the rest are all carp crutches, about forty or fifty.
In the pool, in addition to a few small grass carp and carp left, the large grass carp and carp of more than ten catties were all broken, and there was no carp crutch left.
Then, Zhao Ming threw the remaining crucian carp in the tank into the pool, and then cleaned the tank.
The cleaned large water tank, Zhao Ming planned to use it to marinate the broken fish, and after marinating it in the water tank for one night, the fish meat would be salted.
The next morning, rinse the marinated fish with clean water to wash off the salt particles on the surface so that the fish is not too salty, dry the surface water in the sun, and then the fish can be smoked in the house.
At about half past ten, as soon as the water tank was cleaned, Zhao Ming's mobile phone rang, Zhao Ming put down the work in his hand and answered the phone.
"Hey, who's that?"
"Ming Shao is good, I am the Immortal Sword Ancestor of the water friend in your live broadcast room, I and another water friend with my name are dark and have come to your town, can Ming Shao come and pick it up?" A mellow male voice came from the phone.
"Are you the Immortal Sword Ancestor brother?Welcome, welcome!I'll pick you up in town right away!" Zhao Ming heard that the other party said that it was a friend from the live broadcast room who came to play, and immediately welcomed him happily.
"Did you come here by yourself?" Zhao Ming asked again, after all, it is easier to find a car than to find someone.
"I came with the other guy by car, I drove a black Volkswagen, and he was a silver-white Lexus. ”
"Okay, I'll come and pick you up right away, I'm driving a red Volkswagen!" Zhao Ming immediately got up.
"Mom, I'm going to pick up two friends in town. Zhao Ming said to his mother, who was cleaning tools.
"By the way, Mom, who has sauerkraut at home, if I don't go to the town to buy some, it's good to make sauerkraut fish at noon!" Zhao Ming thought of sauerkraut fish, and the saliva at the corner of his mouth was about to flow out.
"Your grandmother Zhang may have it at home, I'll wait and ask!"
"Okay, I'll go to the town to pick up people first!" said Zhao Ming into the house.
"Girl, are you going to the town?" drove the car out, Zhao Ming saw the third sister who was basking in the sun and asked.
"If you don't go, it's not a market, it's not fun, it's better to be comfortable in the sun at home!"
Looking at the lazy third sister, Zhao Ming rolled his eyes.
"If I don't go, I'll go!"
"Hurry up! It's so comfortable in the sun, don't bother me, I'm going to lie down for a while!" After speaking, the third sister ignored Zhao Ming.
Looking at the third sister who was already lying in the recliner basking in the sun, Zhao Ming had nothing to say and drove away.
After driving the car several times in a row, Zhao Ming became more and more imposing as an old driver, and his driving speed gradually increased.
Ten minutes by car, Zhao Ming came to the town. As soon as he arrived in the town, he saw a black Volkswagen and a silver-white Lexus in the distance, and Zhao Ming drove closer.
"Are the two brothers of the Immortal Sword Ancestor and my name Darkness?" Zhao Ming parked the car, approached the car and asked the two men who were standing next to the two cars.
"Hello Ming Shao! My name in the live broadcast room is Immortal Sword Ancestor, my name is Li Huaizu!" The taller man took the lead in introducing himself.
Li Huaizu is about 1.8 meters tall, with a typical Chinese face, shaved a spiritual head, about 30 years old, and his voice is very thick.
Ming Shaohao! I'm a water friend, my name is dark, and my name is Hu Yu!" Then the man on the side of Li Huaizu introduced.
Hu Yu is about 1.7 meters tall, and his body looks very thin, but he has clear eyebrows and beautiful eyes, and he looks smaller than Zhao Ming.
"Hello! Hello! My name is Zhao Ming, I'm glad you can come here to play!" Zhao Ming hurriedly welcomed.
"Ming Shao, I have a question I want to ask you! Why is your town called Dongyueguan Town, but have you seen the Taoist Temple?" Wu Yu was very strange to Zhao Ming about the name of their town, and couldn't help but ask Zhao Ming.
"You turn around, do you see the hillside behind you? That's the ruins of the Taoist temple!" Zhao Ming said, pointing to the hillside behind Wu Yu.
"It's full of weeds, not even a brick, where are the Taoist ruins!" Wu Yu said as he looked at the overgrown hillside behind him.
"Ming Shao, you are deceiving people!" Li Huaizu also said with a smile.
"Really! Now the whole street in our town is the ruins of the Taoist temple, and the hillside is the ruins of the former Taoist temple! During the Republic of China, this was probably one of the few large Taoist temples in HN Province. I heard my grandfather say that during the Japanese invasion of China, our Taoist temple was burned down by the devils, and the Taoist priests in the Taoist temple also died, and finally all the bricks of the ruins were used by the villagers who escaped to build houses. Now, this Taoist temple is left with this barren soil slope, and later I heard that this soil slope will be dug up and then a house will be built. However, I heard that there were several supernatural events, and finally it was said that digging up the dirt slope would be over. Zhao Ming slowly explained the origin of their town's name.
"It's so hateful!" Li Huaizu gritted his teeth when he heard the story Zhao Ming said.
"That's it, so many ancient buildings have burned down!" Hu Yu on the side also said.
"Who said it wasn't!What was left by the ancestors, the little devil burned it all out in one fell swoop!" Zhao Ming also sighed.
"Okay, let's go! It's almost twelve o'clock, go home and have lunch, and let's go to the fish pond to dig loaches together!" Zhao Ming said to the two.
Then, Zhao Ming avoided this heavy topic and talked about the afternoon.
"Okay, let's go! Ming Shao didn't drive over, hurry up and get in the car!" Wu Yu didn't see Zhao Ming stop, thinking that Zhao Ming didn't drive over.
"I'm driving here, my car is over there!" Then Zhao Ming walked towards the car he was driving.
As soon as he walked to the side of the car, an old man carried two hares past Zhao Ming, and Zhao Ming quickly stopped the uncle when he saw it.
"Uncle, do you buy this rabbit?"
"Buy, why don't you buy it, young man, you want to buy it?" the uncle heard Zhao Ming ask, and hurriedly said.
"Uncle, how do you sell this rabbit?" Zhao Ming continued to ask.
"You give a hundred yuan for two!" said the uncle, very cheerfully.
"Okay!" Zhao Ming took out his wallet, took a hundred and handed it to the uncle.
The uncle took a hundred yuan, took a picture under the sun, rubbed it again to see if the money was true or false, and then handed the two hares in his hand to Zhao Ming, and then said thank you to Zhao Ming and turned around and left.
"Ming Shao, what's a good thing!" Driving to Zhao Ming's side, Wu Yu stuck his head out of the car window and asked.
"It's nothing, I just bought two hares and went back to make them and eat them!"
Zhao Ming carried the hare in his hand, it was really not light! Before it snowed, the hare was fat at this time, and the two hares were about ten catties.
"What do you eat, how much do these two hares cost?" Li Huaizu, who was behind Wu Yu's car, also stretched out his head and said to Zhao Ming.
"Two hundred yuan, what's wrong?" Zhao Ming's words to Li Huaizu were inexplicable.
"Two hundred yuan, I want these two hares! You eat them a lot, I guess you're tired of eating them now!" Li Huaizu continued.
"It's immoral for you to monopolize like this! At least one of us will have one!" Hearing Li Huaizu's words, Wu Yu hurriedly argued.
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"I've been out all the time, where I'm tired of eating. Zhao Ming couldn't cry or laugh when he heard Li Huaizu's words.
In the end, Li Huaizu and Wu Yu had an argument and reached an agreed goal. The two got out of the car together, one snatched a rabbit from Zhao Ming's hand, and then each stuffed Zhao Ming with a hundred yuan. Then, with a grin, the two of them grinned and threw the rabbit that was still alive into the trunk of their car.
Seeing the money that the two stuffed into him, Zhao Ming was speechless.
"Who are these people, bandits buy and sell!"
There was no way, Zhao Ming got into his car depressedly and led the way in front of the two bandit cars.