Chapter 196 Rice Field Fish

Chapter 196 Rice Field Fish

As soon as the mule cart and RV stopped in the front yard, Lin Hongmei walked in leading Shi Tao.

Lin Hongmei smiled and said, "Mom! Sisters-in-law! You are back!"

Shi Tao shouted in a childish voice: "Hello, grandma, aunt, and sisters!"

"Xiao Taozi is different now that he goes to school. He speaks sweetly." Lin Zisu walked over and pinched her little cousin's face.

"Come if you want, but what are you going to do with this succulent?" Old Mrs. Wang frowned and looked at her little daughter, saying in a reproachful manner.

Lu Zhen: "There are several kilograms of pork here! You also bought eggs! Why did you buy so many vegetables?"

Shen Xianglan: "Just bring the kids here, don't buy so many vegetables!"

Lin Hongmei walked into the main room and put all the 5 jin pork, 3 jin eggs, peppers, loofahs, and white melons she bought on the table. "It's busy these two days, you have to eat enough, otherwise you can't work! These vegetables were specially asked by my father-in-law and Shi Yong to buy. You are busy working, how can you have time to buy vegetables! What's more, we, mother and son, also need to eat!"

Old Man Shi and Shi Yong were carpenters. They left home early and came back late every day. They were not at home during the day and only came back to sleep after dark. The mule cart at home was also left to Lin Hongmei, because they had a car from the Ministry of Construction to pick them up. The car from the Ministry of Construction would pick them up all the way. It was not far from the city, so no matter how busy they were, they would go home and sleep! These carpenters even stopped studying and would go back to school when they were not busy.

With the Lin family, the Shi family and their son were relieved. Now that there was no shortage of food and vegetables, and every family could earn wages, it was difficult to cook for a large and small family, so the mother and son ate with the Lin family. Shi Yong offered money, but the Lin family refused to accept it, so they could only buy some meat dishes from time to time and send them over.

Shi's father and son were carpenters, busy with work every day, leaving only the mother and son at home, this situation was unacceptable. The Shi family did not need to harvest the rice from their 3 mu of land, and for families with less labor, the Ministry of Agriculture and the military would harvest it themselves.

There were many families in this situation. Originally, the soldiers were the ones who harvested the rice. When the new people came, families with more laborers helped to harvest the rice, while families with less laborers had to let the soldiers harvest the rice themselves.

"How much can you two, one big and one small, eat? I'm going to go cook. Let's eat quickly so that everyone can take a nap." Shen Xianglan said as she walked towards the bathroom at the back, washed her face, neck, hands and feet with cold water to cool down before going into the kitchen.

It's a torture to cook in the kitchen in this weather.

Old Lady Wang and Lin Hongmei carried the vegetables into the kitchen, and water splashed out of the large water tank in the kitchen from time to time.

Lin Hongmei put down the dish and looked at her son who was leaning over the big water tank to look at the fish. She also stretched her head to look at the fish. "This rice field fish is delicious. Next year, we will also put fish fry in the paddy field. It will also be a meat dish during the autumn harvest! If we can't finish it, we can sell it!"

Lu Zhen smiled and said, "I heard that the south likes to make spicy pickled fish and dried fish. They can be kept for a long time and taste delicious."

Lu Zhen's real name is Lu Sanniang, or rather she has no name. She is the third child, so she is called Sanniang. Lu Zhen is the name she chose when she applied for a temporary ID card in Qingshui City, because she could not use the name Lu Sanniang. The government of the country strictly prohibits the use of such names, because there are too many such names and they are too casual.

When she heard her fourth brother talking about pearls, she simply named herself "Zhen".

When applying for temporary ID cards, many women gave themselves names. At that time, most people had not yet received any education. After they learned to read, if they were not satisfied with the names they had chosen, they would have the opportunity to rename themselves when applying for resident ID cards. Of course, the old names would be recorded and the personal files would have the former names.

As Old Lady Wang thought about the days ahead, her face wrinkled. "We will definitely raise fish! It's easy to buy some fish fry and throw them in the fields. Rice field fish are delicious! Next autumn, the grain we harvest will be ours, and the fish will be ours too."

Yang Dong was also happy thinking, "I heard from my fourth brother that the tax revenue is not much."

Shi Yong pointed at the fish in the water tank, "Fish! The meat is sweet!"

Listening to the children's words, the women all laughed. Such a day was something they could not have imagined while fleeing.

There were many people, and everyone did the same thing, so lunch was ready in no time.

When Lin Youcai was not around, Shen Xianglan was in charge of the kitchen. It wasn't that she was a good cook, but she was willing to use more oil and seasoning.

There were two dishes in total, one big pot of stir-fried pork with peppers and one big pot of white melon and egg soup. The fried eggs in the white melon soup were specially fried for Shi Tao, because the child was too young and the stir-fried pork with peppers was too spicy for him.

The food was served, and the men returned. Everyone sat down wherever they wanted, ordered more rice and some dishes, and started eating.

When doing farm work, you have to eat dry rice for three meals a day, and the dishes must be oily and juicy. Although you can't have big fish and meat every day in the country, as long as you are willing to work, you will have no problem eating and drinking enough.

After lunch, the boys went to clean up the kitchen. This was Lin Youcai's repeated request that all men in the family do housework.

The women simply took a cold shower or wiped themselves with a towel and went to their rooms to take a nap.

Lin Youcai's 7 rooms are all empty, without furniture. The main reason is that there is no land to buy, and the carpenters are too busy to do it. Fortunately, the weather is hot, and the house is made of solid wood. You can just put the straw mat on the ground, put the pillows in place, and you can sleep. In summer, you don't have to worry about whether the floor is cold or not when you sleep on the solid wood floor.

The room was empty, making one feel like sleeping on a huge wooden bed, but it didn't shake at all and one could roll around without worrying about falling off the bed.

Lin Youfu and his friends simply opened the door to let the natural wind blow into the room, and then they lay on the floor and fell asleep. In the women's room, the door was closed and the window was open, and Lin Zisu's outdoor electric fan was moved into the room to blow for them.

She and my mother went to sleep in the RV. As soon as she came back, she took a shower and changed into clean clothes. She washed them casually and hung them on the clothesline in the yard. In this weather, they were dry in an hour without being used.

When working in the fields, my clothes and pants would get wet and dry, and I had to change them. Anyway, they were easy to wash and dry.

The yard was like a mess, with clothes hanging everywhere. Lin Youcai and his friends washed their clothes in the river, and came back shirtless. When the ox cart stopped, they hung their clothes on the ropes and went to eat.

Lin Zisu was just about to tell her mother that she would make sour and pepper fish with rice paddy fish at night, which would be very delicious. Unfortunately, her mother was already dreaming and got up to work before dawn, which was unbearable for even cows and mules.

Her family didn't have any rice field fish originally, but the two siblings benefited from the help of Teacher Su Ling. The day before yesterday, they went to the outpost for training, which was the last day of training before the autumn harvest holiday. The rice field fish all belonged to the military, and Su Ling gave them 50 kilograms of rice field fish, and let the two siblings pull them home with the fish water dripping all the way.

I sent a few to the Shen family that day, and in the evening the Shen, Lin, and Shi families had a meal together. Two large pots of food, one was fried fish soup, the fish was delicious and sweet, and the other was fish cooked with fresh peppers, with cucumbers, lettuce, potato slices, and some vegetables.

The chili fish and the vegetables inside are so delicious!

Lin Zisu started drooling just thinking about it, wondering if she could eat it tonight.