The turtle swam left and right with Haizhu, and when she saw the jellyfish that had fallen behind, it floated on her head and hit her, and turned the corner.

Chapter 19

"What's that up front? How does it look like a human head? The man standing at the bow leaned over to take a closer look.

Hearing this, another person on the boat also looked over, and under the surging waves, a swarthy head floated on the surface of the water and moved, and he was frightened for a moment and his legs weakened, thinking that the village doll had been swept away by the water at the ebb and flow.

When the boat got closer, it was clear that it was Haizhu swimming in the water, only one arm was paddling, no wonder the exposed head on the water was scurrying one after another.

"Brother Hong, come and pull a hand." Haizhu lifted the half-net of seafood to the side of the boat, and then reached out for the people on the boat to drag her up, "I wanted to swim back, but I saw the sails coming from a distance, so I was too lazy to wait here." ”

People sat on the board, and after a while, there was a pool of water on the board, Ah Hong threw an old dress for her to wipe her hair, and scolded with a straight face: "You dead girl is very bold, you almost didn't scare my guts." ”

The boat turned into the inland river, Ah Hong and his father took the sail and walked to the middle of the boat to look at the fishing net pocket brought up by Haizhu, looked at her seriously and asked, "This is what you caught with your bare hands in the sea?" ”

Haizhu nodded, put the salty clothes on the side of the boat, and said, "I am good at swimming in the water, and I have good water quality, so I directly held my breath and swam to the bottom of the sea to find it in the reef and seagrass." ”

Ah Hong and his father were so shocked by her words that they didn't know how to react, and they were stunned for a while before asking incredulously, "Swim to the bottom of the sea?" Holding your breath all the time? ”

In order to make their seeing believing, Haizhu turned over the boat and jumped into the river, the river water was clear, and the movement of people in half a meter was clearly visible, she kicked her feet and jumped to the bottom of the river, and counted three hundred in her heart before carrying a flat fish to the surface.

"You girl is much better than your father." Ah Hong's father looked at Haizhu with a complicated face, "It's a pity, if you are a kid, you can mix hundreds of households in the water division." ”

"I'm not uncommon, what's wrong with me being free now?" When the boat entered the village, Haizhu put on her shoes, braided her wet hair with her backhand, and when the boat docked, she carried a flat fish in her left hand and a net pocket in her right hand, jumped ashore in a big stride, and swaggered home.

"Sister, there is still hot water boiling in the clay pot, you should wash your hair and take a shower first." Dongzhu sat by the wall plucking chicken feathers, she said to the eldest brother who was helping him: "Fengping will go out first, if someone comes, don't let him in." ”

Feng Ping responded crisply, ran out of the door quickly, and pulled the door with his backhand to close the door.

Haizhu poured the lobster, abalone and kelp in the net pocket into the basin, threw the flat fish into the bucket, took out the bath tub and mixed it with hot and cold water, picked up his clothes and began to take a shower, and poured three or five scoops of water on his hair to wash away the seawater.

When she was dressing, she asked Dongzhu, "You slaughtered the chicken?" ”

"No, I took it to the second sister-in-law's house next door and asked her to help slaughter it, and I gave her the chicken blood."

"Has the roof of her house been repaired?"

Dongzhu nodded, and heard a voice outside the door, she glanced at her sister, and when she saw that she was dressed, she shouted out of the door: "Fengping, who is coming?" Let people in. ”

It was the person who came to return the boat, he called Haizhu to come out to check the boat, "When I arrived at the dock, I didn't see anyone and thought I remembered the wrong day, but I had to ask about the people, and a few porters said that there were three sisters and brothers who hired a boat back at noon, and I thought it was you." ”

The boat was washed and scrubbed, and it looked clean, and Haizhu stepped on the board of the boat, raised the sails and lowered them again, there was no problem. She got off the boat and said, "Uncle, I heard my grandmother say that you filled the water tank at home early in the morning?" ”

"Hey, it's a good thing, lest you come all the way back and have no water." The man walked back with a bucket on his back, "I heard from the villagers that you are holding your breath a lot underwater?" ”

"Got it all?" To achieve the goal, Haizhu said proudly: "There is such a thing." ”

"The ancestors are eccentric, they are all surnamed Qi, why don't I have this ability."

Haizhu laughed twice, and when she saw that the people had turned a corner and walked away, she entered the house and began to chop chicken and cook.

In autumn, the chicken is fat, the chicken fat is dragged in a small half bowl, Haizhu uses the chicken fat to refine the oil and fry the chicken, the chicken skin is fried and burnt, pour boiling water over the chicken, and the seasoning is dried ginger and wild garlic. Because she wanted to stew with abalone and kelp, she didn't even mix soy sauce so as not to cover up the natural umami.

Flatfish scrape scales and steam, lobster peel the shell and take the meat and chop it into mince, knead a small ball of noodles with eggs and flour, and pour fried shrimp and egg dumplings in a hot pan when the fish is steamed.

It was already dark, and after a period of commotion, there was only silence, and the adults with sharp hands and feet all went to the sea by boat, and the old men guarded by the river that the naughty children in the village did not fall into the water, and from time to time drove away the cheeky skin who smelled the smell of meat and wanted to eat it.

The fried dumplings were cooked, Haizhu scooped a scoop of water and poured it into the crockpot, the afterglow of the fire illuminated Fengping's oily mouth, she cut the kelp and said, "Eat less, don't stew the chicken and you're full." ”

Feng Ping smiled shyly, retracted his hand to twist the fried dumplings, and after a while he reached out to take it again, muttering, "Sister, the fried dumplings you made are delicious, more fragrant than chicken." ”

"I also think it's delicious, it's more fragrant than the meat dumplings I ate at Brother Shen's house." Dongzhu said, "By the way, sister, the book you brought back is still wet, I put it on the table, do you want to use it to dry?" ”

Haizhu was stunned, no wonder she always felt that she still had things in her heart.

Books soaked in water are stuffy for a day and a night and still exude the fragrance of ink, unlike clothes that have been stained with water and thrown into a ball, and when left for a night, they emit the smell of earthworms in the mud. Haizhu took the book to the oil candle, the handwriting on the book was not scattered, and she thought to herself that she didn't know what kind of ink it was, I was afraid that it was more expensive than the ingot of gold she had gotten.

"Sister, what kind of book is it?" Dongzhu asked.

Haizhu shook her head, "I'm illiterate." ”

"And what are you doing with this book?"

"What if I'm literate again?" Haizhu baked a page and looked at a page, the words were traditional characters, she could barely recognize seven, seven, eight, eight, and the person who wrote the book was also surnamed Han, it was estimated that he was from Han Ji's family, and the funny thing was that this book was a food list.

"In the twenty-third year of Yuanqing, I ate fried tofu with Hu Wanquan at the master of Chengguan in Qianzhang Mountain, and the essence was unparallel......ed."

"Eel noodles, boil the eels into a halo, add noodles and roll again."

“……”

The author of this book wrote down all the recipes he had eaten, and even how to handle the ingredients, and also marked when, where, and where he ate at whom's house, what a strange person.

"Sister, Aunt Wei and Uncle Zheng have come back from the sea." Dongzhu said.

Haizhu came back to her senses, put the book by the stove and baked it at residual temperature, and she asked Dongzhu to go to Zheng's house to call someone.

The table was set, the dishes were served, and the four members of the Zheng family also came.

"Haizhu, haven't you eaten yet?" Wei Jinhua entered the door and said, "Why are you still calling us over?" ”

"Tomorrow, I want my Uncle Zheng to help me palm my eyes, and tonight I will make a good meal to please him." Haizhu joked, "Sit down and try my craft." ”

"It's not right for him to help you, you're still here, you girl."

"Shh Haizhu scooped a bowl of chicken soup and handed it over, "Aunt Wei, don't be verbose, you are stained with my uncle's light today, you are responsible for eating and drinking more, don't talk about it." ”

Zheng Haishun almost laughed when he heard this, and his heart was extremely comfortable.

The three Haizhu sisters and brothers have already filled their stomachs, and they eat slowly on the table. The two boys of the Zheng family have long been out of food in their stomachs, and they are making trouble in their stomachs when they smell the smell, picking up chopsticks to eat vegetables, it is like a wolf pounced, frying dumplings one by one, the chicken is even chewed to the bones, and when eating abalone, the thick chicken juice flows out along the corners of the mouth, and I can't swallow it.

"Eat me slowly, shame on the dead." Wei Jinhua slapped each of his two sons.

"Sister Haizhu's cooking is too fragrant, mother, you will do the same if you stew chicken in the future." Zheng Erlang said.

"Fresh abalone is better for stewed chicken than dried abalone, and the freshness of abalone is better for seasoning than any condiment." Haizhu said.

"Then I'll try next time."

The moon disappeared into the clouds, and the people who ate dispersed, and all three dishes and one soup were eaten cleanly except for steamed fish.

*

The fishing boats are much the same, with Zheng Haishun on the side to grind the price, Haizhu didn't bother much, and when the two parties agreed, she paid 145 taels of silver to receive a fishing boat that still exuded the fragrance of lacquer oil and wood.

The new boat is two feet shorter than the old boat at home, and Haizhu is suitable for one person.

The next day, she carried Dongzhu to the Red Willow Forest with the newly arrived fishing boat, and Wei Jinhua and three other women in the village walked ahead with the old boat to lead the way.

A few people didn't eat breakfast, but arrived at the tidal flat flooded by the tide before the low tide, and the verdant trees were submerged in the sea, and only a dozen or so trees sprouted in the sea as far as the eye could see.

"Walk out of the trees, don't go up the trees." Wei Jinhua advised, "Otherwise, when the tide recedes, the boat frame will not be able to get up and down the branches." ”

Haizhu said "hey", she looked at the underwater scenery with novelty, the trees were soaked in the water and swayed by the waves, and the leaves fell off one by one.

Almost as soon as he looked down and looked up, the tide receded a great part, and the trees immersed in the sea were revealed, first the crown, then the trunk, and the water on the treetops had not yet been ticked clean, and the roots of the trees with teeth and claws were exposed.

Like the claws of a crab, a tree is supported by seven or eight roots, which are taller than winter pearls.

The water retreats from the tidal flats, and the fishing boats sink into the mud, and only when the tide rises can the boats float into the sea.

The overwhelming number of seabirds landed on the tidal flats, and they walked gracefully in the mud with their tall long legs, and their sharp eyes and sharp beaks ate delicate small fish from the tidal flats.

A flock of quacking sea ducks came from nowhere, pecking in the mud, and with a lift of their necks, the finger-long fish entered their stomachs. The flat mouth shell is also a good hand to eat shrimp and peel crabs, remove the shrimp head and only eat the shrimp tail, and the crab with a large garlic head is puffed open from the abdomen, and the crab meat is removed and only the crab shell is left.

Haizhu and countless birds and ducks grab tidal flat fish, from time to time also pay attention to their buttocks, ducks are sloppy and not elegant, the mother duck is about to lay eggs into the mud, and with the hot eggs in the mud it turns its head and continues to eat.

Dongzhu waited for the mother duck to leave and picked up the muddy duck eggs, and Yu Guang saw the seabirds flying into the canopy to make nests and lay eggs, she dug up the mud and pasted it on the tree to make a mark, and when the seabirds were gone, she came back to steal them.

Small fish, small shrimps, small crabs, starfish trapped under the roots of trees, clams and clams in mud pits, sea pearls pick up what they see. The shoes have long been unable to see the color, and she threw a leg of mud on her legs, and when her hands were dirty, she wiped them on the sea duck, which caused a quack, and she also laughed and learned to cry.

The sun was setting overhead, the baskets and barrels were full, and two winged ducks were thrown on the board.

Dongzhu followed the duck's ass farther and farther, and Haizhu called her back, "It's almost high tide, come back to the boat." ”

"Okay."

With her mouth in order, she turned out two more eggs from the mud before turning back, and hurriedly stepped on the duck eggs buried in the mud, her feet slipped, and she sat in the mud with her buttocks, and the duck eggs in her hands were also broken.

"Hahaha." Haizhu leaned on the boat and laughed.

A few other people also laughed, "Hurry up, wait for the tide to rise and wash in the water." ”

The first wave hit, the boat stuck in the mud shook, waves of tide surged, the fishing boat swayed back and forth, and saw the boat rise to the height of his thigh, Haizhu quickly dragged Dongzhu out of the water and onto the boat.

The tree that had been basking in the sun for a long time was flooded by the tide again, and when Haizhu rocked the boat and left, he thought to himself that the tree that grew on the tidal flat seemed to have violated the rules of heaven and was tortured in the water.

Chapter 20: Sail with the Ship

When the fishing boat returned to the shore, Feng Ping led Chaoping, who was not very stable in walking, hurriedly walked towards the river, and the Zheng brothers and children from several other families also came to help carry things.

Wei Jinhua stepped on the stones by the river and went into the water, took off her mud shoes and soaked in the water, and pulled two handfuls of aquatic plants to wash away the sludge rubbed on the bottom of the boat.

"Aunt Wei, don't be so careful, run into the sea two more times and the mud rubbed on the boat will be clean." Haizhu said.

"It's a good thing, Haizhu, don't cook, come to my house to eat, I'll explain to your two brothers when I leave in the morning, how much food you cook."

After being tired for a long time, Haizhu just didn't want to bother cooking, she stretched and said, "Cheng, I'll send a basket of duck eggs to my milk first, and I'll go when I come back." ”

When Haizhu arrived at Qi's second uncle's house, her milk was scrubbing the sheets, and her second uncle was sitting in a wheelchair leaning against the wall to bask in the sun, because of the weakness of the waist and abdomen, the waist was still wrapped with a sheet and tied to the back of the chair.

"Haizhu is back, there is still rice in the pot, your milk left it for you and Dongzhu, you are hot."

The spirit of this speech is quite different from the past, seeing that it is really figured out, Haizhu is happy for Chaoping, she put things on the ground, and said: "My Aunt Wei'er's house also cooks, she will keep the food first, I will go to her house to eat." ”

"Then you go quickly, I haven't eaten in the morning." Grandma Qi said.

When the people left, she said to her second son: "Thanks to Haizhu's temperament with your eldest brother, she can do things, if she follows her mother, how can she be in the current situation." ”

"Okay, it's not our family's people anymore, don't talk about people's strengths behind your back." Second Uncle Qi didn't like to hear this.

"I'll just talk about it in front of you, and I won't say it when I go out."

"Don't say it in front of me, it's going to rain and my mother wants to get married, it's a common thing, and my sister-in-law is not stealing people behind my eldest brother's back, and you don't have any opinions about her. Just because she gave birth to four children to my eldest brother, one day she will set foot on our door again, and we will still eat and drink well. ”

After being trained, Grandma Qi stopped squeaking.

She washed the sheets and hung them on a rope, and the sheets covered a shade, just to block the dazzling sunlight for Second Uncle Qi. Grandma Qi turned over to rub his back and pinched his legs, put down the back of the chair to form a bed, and said, "You sleep for a while, I'll go to Haizhu's place to have a look, and give her a hand to do something." ”