There was a faint glimmer of light in the sky, Shui Qing got dressed and came out to wash his face, and came over with a knife to pit and plow fish.

After a night of steaming and drying, the broken fish can be used as stones, and there is a fragrance of leaves before taking it closer.

"Mother, have we succeeded in making fish?" The rocks rolled and crawled and ran over to see the fish.

"Of course it worked! This fish is the only one I can smoke, and this small boat is what I have been doing for several years to smoke.

Zhou Xingping also came to see the fish, the arm-long fish was steamed and shrunk by half, the whole fish meat was crimson, and there was a faint fragrance of leaves, he reached out and picked it up to see it, the tentacles were hard and heavy, and the shrinkage was shrinking but the weight was still there.

"Can this fish really be sold?"

"Of course you can't sell it if you stay in Yuehuzhuang, even if you go to Furong Town, you can't sell it, you have to go to the fish shop in Fenyang City to sell it."

"This is the best way to preserve smoked dried fish, which can be transported to various places in Dayong Country to sell, even the shopkeepers who monopolize fish goods in various fish shops will not refuse this smoked fish,"

"There are large freshwater lakes like ours in the whole Yongguo, in fact, there are not very many, and there is a large area of sea lakes, you can't find the ground to bury the water if you drink a sip of salt, and there is no end to the mountains, and there are only fields without water, which is commonly known as the place of poor mountains and bad water, so we have done a good job of this fish, and the weather is cold and sent to the fish shop in Fenyang City to sell it is much more valuable than selling fresh fish now!"

"Then we won't sell fresh fish, mother."

"How is that possible? What do you eat if you don't sell fish? What to drink? Two or three catties of fish can't be sold at a price, and you have to make big fish. ”

"In other prosperous places, this fish is used to pickle osmanthus, make smoked grains, make wine steaming, make oil explosion, soak and stew, etc., it must be such a big fish."

Shi swallowed his saliva when he heard it, "Mother, you know so much!" ”

Shui Qing lowered his head and fished out, "You are a fisherman who specializes in fishing, and you don't know your own job about your fart fish?" Do you know that it is not in vain to cast nets and catch fish and be fooled? Hard work is worth a little bit of hard work, it's really rare to see a hard-working family disciple like your third master! ”

Both father and son lowered their heads at the same time and didn't dare to speak, so they worked hard to take the fish out of the pit and put it in the basket.

The three pits were quickly busy, and breakfast was also available.

"I'll say it again, it's going to cost five cents back and forth by boat, and let me know that you two don't come back if you two have bad rules."

"Got it," Stone hurriedly reassured.

Zhou Xingping took his son to the entrance of the village again, there were still several people gathered here, in fact, there was not much money, but they couldn't hold them down! On the boat were a father and son who had a boat at home, and they were going to the town to run errands on the boat this time, and it was inconvenient to hold the boat by themselves.

The boat rocked to the center of the lake, and the young man couldn't help but speak, "Brother Xingping owes to your mother, if only my mother was also powerful!" ”

Zhou Xingping looked up at him and was puzzled.

"Your mother is so powerful, you have to listen to her! Xingping's daughter-in-law's rules are set well! Has anyone in the village asked you to borrow a boat? ”

"Without Grandpa Xiao, someone in your family borrowed a boat?" Stone asked curiously.

"How not! Farts big things go to my house to borrow a boat, obviously you can take a detour to the town, you have to grind hard to borrow, but the wind on the lake he won't hold the boat down, my boat also capsized and asked my family to pay him money! What a man! ”

"Isn't there a bamboo raft at the intersection over there? It's only three dollars for one sit," Zhou Xingping frowned and said.

"It's okay to sit on that bamboo raft for one or two, but if you sit too much, you will turn it over, and Old Man Chen will definitely not lose money to them!" Unless it is absolutely necessary, almost no one sits on a bamboo raft. ”

"My father and I heard them talk about your boat at the entrance of the village, and they also said that you are not a family or a man, I think Brother Xingping, you are very good, if you are in charge, many people will borrow your boat, and the money you sell fish will not be enough to compensate."

Zhou Xingping looked at the angry father and son and smiled, "I am a person with bad legs and feet, what kind of family can I be?" The heavy work of fishing at home has fallen on her and the two children, and I have no face to be disobedient and go against her will to be a good person. ”

"You can't help outside with inconvenient legs and feet, but you can help at home, don't you have to be alone at home and outside the house? The two of them work together to make it stronger than anything else, and the most important thing is that the family can have a hot meal! Have you paid your fish tax? Xiao Laohan came out of the smoking pole, inadvertently touched the purse in his arms, and asked more.

"This time the fish is sold to pay taxes......

"Then you have to pay it quickly, don't let the yacha come to the door and see your boat, otherwise he will go to your house twice in three days to ask for tax money, they collect the money and put it in their own pockets, you still have to pay the tax when you really have to pay it, that group of things that eat people and don't spit out bones, you will only ask for money with your eyes closed, and you don't care about our hard work in the wind and rain," Xiao Laohan suffered unspeakably from it.

"Does everyone have a boat?" Zhou Xingping asked nervously.

"Whatever they see is all kinds of taxes, so you should be careful."

"I went back and sold the fish...... So I went and paid the fish tax. ”

Shui Qing took the smoked fish to the pot house for ventilation, and after she ate, she took the grass foam and dragged the fish in the net up to clean and dry.

In the afternoon, I put a few nets on the bamboo poles to dry for an hour, and took out the shuttle thread to start repairing the damaged places.

"Third sister-in-law, do you need my help for you?"

Shui Qing turned her head to look at the girl who spoke, she was the youngest of the two sisters she saw on the first day she came to the Zhou family, her smiling appearance and eyes were sincere, which was different from the sense of exclusion that the rest of the Zhou family sometimes revealed.

"I can make it up by myself," Shui Qing turned around and continued to mend the net.

"It's okay, I'll help you, third sister-in-law, my name is Lianhua is the youngest in the family, I am fifteen years old this year, and my sister's name is Lianhui is sixteen years old," Lianhua didn't care about Shui Qing's cold attitude, and took the shuttle thread to mend the net on another bamboo pole.

"You come to me to help, won't the two over there squeeze you to show you a look?"

"I'm not afraid of the eldest sister-in-law and the second sister-in-law! I eat my father's food, and I don't eat the food of my eldest brother and second brother," Lotus got busy without care.

Shui Qing raised her head again to look at her, "Sometimes wilted people can't be guarded, you should pay attention, don't be too straight in temper and heart, otherwise you will suffer." ”

Hearing this, Lianhua immediately ran to Shui Qing's net with a smile, "I like the temper of the third sister-in-law." ”

"Don't you all complain behind my back that I am riding on the head of your third brother? Do you still like my temper? ”

Lotus took the shuttle's hand for a moment, "I didn't say it!" I think you are right, they are all blind and say that you bully my third brother, my father and my mother all say hello, as soon as you come, my third brother and the three of them have food to eat and sleep at home, and the eldest brother and the second brother don't bully the three of them, but let them help with the work all day long, and the three of them are not full of food and clothing. ”

"If my future husband is like the third brother, I will be more powerful than the third sister-in-law......"

"Then what if your husband doesn't have the same heart as you? What do you do? ”

"I ...... I hit him ......"

"Can you beat your husband, are your in-laws willing?"

"I want her son's good, but she still doesn't want to?"

Shui Qing looked at this straightforward little girl and laughed, she was jealous and hateful.

"Lotus, why are you picking your third brother like this? You are seventeen or eighteen years old, you should find a steady, down-to-earth and kind person to live a lifetime, you are such a capable girl looking for a person like your third brother and such a home, five days can drive you crazy, do you believe it? ”

Lianhua looked at Shui Qing with some puzzlement, "I think the third sister-in-law is doing well?" ”

"That's because you don't have a pair of eccentric fathers and mothers, although your sister-in-law and sister-in-law are wilted, but I have to go out and fight with my cheeks, and their men are soft-boned and unwilling to protect them, so they are much more honest now."

"If you marry someone like this, you will have a completely different ending with me, first of all, you will be killed by your sister-in-law for one or two silver on the first day, and then your third brother is a disabled person, and he can live by stepping on your head."

"And when you come here, you can't boil it if you want to drink saliva, let alone eat one meal a day, your whole family agrees that the money you bought back is gone, and you shouldn't give her food, as if this family has become like this, it's because your third brother spent a tael of silver! And then everyone blames you for the poor and the undrunk. ”

"Even if you hold out for the first few days, you can't hold it back, they see you all day long and say that money humiliates you, and they say it at their own home, and they will go to the village to see people and say, and it has become that people will point fingers at you wherever you go."

"You still have to go to the back with their grandfather to help people work for free, and then drive you away at dinner, saying that you don't work every day to eat idle food, and you don't even have a place to sleep when you come back home, have you ever tasted the taste of being hungry and vomiting? If your husband doesn't follow you, your in-laws don't care about you, and they still bully you, what about your ability? ”

"So don't look for such a family, and don't easily challenge a parent's heart for their children, you don't know if your in-laws really like your husband, if your father and mother are partial to your eldest brother's family, what can you do if you force your third brother to work? The Xianghu Village I stayed in before was not without a living example. ”

"If you can, keep your eyes open and pick the best person for yourself to live, do you know why I can pull back so many things?"

Lotus looked at Shui Qing in silence.

"Because Wang Changxing pities me, although he is an animal, I don't deny that he has a soft heart, we have lived together for four years, and we know each other's temperament, your third brother's family can force me to go back to him to ask for things regardless of Xiucai's father's face, but I don't dare to come to this poor family for fear of rats!"

"If you marry such a person, can Wang Changxing let you move things? Obviously not, your father and mother here you also see that you are not able to help you anything, your three brothers are not reliable than one another, your final result is either starvation to death, or work day and night to die of exhaustion, or die of hard work, just like your first third sister-in-law, although I have not seen her, I don't know what her situation is, but I know from watching the two children brought by your third brother. ”

"The most incompetent thing for a man is that he can't protect his wife and children, and the saddest thing for a woman is that she thinks she can teach her husband, his parents and brothers have taught him for more than 20 years, and you want to reverse it after only a few years?"

"What's more, you are an enemy of the outside world to their whole family, because you are a woman who does not allow your husband to work in other houses for free, so you are not a good person, and sadly your children think so."

"Third sister-in-law......" Lotus's face changed suddenly, and she looked at Shui Qing in a daze, holding the shuttle with red eyes.