Chapter 52: Fish Selling Partner

The reason there are so many fish is that they are difficult to catch, and clothes are so expensive. Woven items like fishing nets are incredibly expensive, and you also need a boat. Many fishermen have accumulated their wealth through generations.

However, Su You's method of catching fish is very clever. The reed tube becomes soft after being soaked in water and is in a critical state of collapse. When the fish swallows it, it is crushed at the throat, and the bamboo card springs up and traps the fish.

Very stable.

After collecting a few fish, Su You started to let the older children try. One person tried to collect the fish, and the other tried to reel in the line. He gave gentle instructions on the side.

After collecting one, switch to the next group and collect another.

It was already broad daylight before the two groups finished collecting the fish.

Holding the bamboo raft and rowing towards the shore, the third child Zhang San shook his arms: "Why are my hands so sore?"

Su You felt strange: "Mine too."

After parking the bamboo raft, several older children jumped into the water and prepared to lift the fish basket to the shore.

Zhang San picked up the fish basket: "Oh my God! How many fish are there? Why can't I lift them up?"

Then a few more children jumped down and shouted: "We come, we come!"

Su You quickly stopped: "Don't, don't, don't, this fish basket is not strong. Don't lift it and your hard work will be in vain. Go get two people and get ropes and bamboo pieces. Let's strengthen the bottom of the basket first."

After saying that, he added: "Don't be anxious, everyone. The fish are all in the basket anyway. It doesn't matter if you watch it sooner or later!"

Soon ropes and bamboo pieces were brought. Su You jumped into the water, placed bamboo pieces underneath, and wrapped a few strands of rope around both sides of the fish basket to secure it.

There were four big fish baskets. Su You reinforced one, and Zhang San and the others carried one to the shore. The big fish jumped in the basket, splashing water all over their heads and faces.

All the children were alarmed, and even the tied iron sand group ran over: "Oh my god! Why did we get so many big fish?! Lord Dragon Lord showed up?"

Su You let the children watch it, and after feeling the joy of the harvest, he said: "Third brother, tie the fish baskets to the bamboo raft again, fourth brother, carry a few large wooden basins over, and the people from the chore team will help

Brother Qi is making honeycomb briquettes. The fishery team will go back and tie up the fish in the forest. They will install reed tubes and fill them with bait according to yesterday's method. When we come back in the afternoon, we will put in fish cards again. Do you dare to sit on the raft? Dare you?

If so, let’s sell the fish!”

The little girl clapped her hands: "Let's sell fish! We want to sell fish!"

There are people coming and going on the pier, it is the time when merchants come ashore to discuss business.

Zhang San, Liu Si, Su Xiaomei and Su You each had a large basin in front of them, filled with clear water. There were several big fish swimming in each basin.

The fish was not unusual, but it was strange for a child to catch so many fish at once. People on the pier gathered around and talked about it.

An aunt said: "Are you children from the Earth Temple? It's so pitiful, where did you get so many fish?"

Su Xiaomei was very proud: "Brother Xiaoyou led us to arrest him."

The aunt said: "Young master Su, where are you? Let me take a look at you quickly."

Su You was squatting to catch fish from the fish basket into the basin. At this time, he had to stand up and said, "Young man, Su You, I have met my aunt."

The aunt said to another aunt next to her: "Look, this is the kid I told you about yesterday. He can sit down and talk with the little heavenly master. He has made recipes for beef with legs and braised water.

This is truly impossible.”

Another lady looked up and down: "How old are you, my child?"

Su You smiled and said: "Almost six years old, aunt, this fish is newly caught. Look at the water in my body, which is just for the fish. How fresh it is!"

The lady asked: "How do you sell this fish?"

Su You said: "It depends on what kind of fish you want to buy, ma'am. Catfish and Guizhou fish are more expensive, so we'll calculate them at sixty cents per catty. As for carp and grass carp, they're cheaper, forty-five cents per catty."

The aunt said: "Actually, the price is fair, but the fish is my hobby, so it's not easy to cook."

Su You uncovered a basin covered with gauze. Half of it was golden pickled cabbage and half was pickled ginger. He said, "Auntie, if you want to buy our fish, we will give you two kinds of seasonings, a handful of pickled cabbage and a piece of pickled cabbage."

Pickling ginger is guaranteed to make it delicious. If you don’t believe it, smell it, it’s different from other people’s methods.”

When the aunt heard the word pickled cabbage, she was about to cover her nose when she smelled a sour aroma. This ginger cabbage was very different from what she usually sees. It was so golden that it looked so pleasing to the eye.

He took the basin and smelled it. The sour aroma was even stronger. He poked it with his finger and said, "Ah, how can the sauerkraut you make be so hard? Our sauerkraut is all rotten."

Su You said to the aunt, "You can tear one off and try it."

The aunt next to me tore one off, pulled it in half, gave one to herself, and fed the other into the mouth of the aunt holding the basin.

Then the two ladies looked at each other and nodded to each other. It was crispy and sour, it was really good!

Su You smiled and pointed to the sky: "This is a secret method. My ancestor Wei Gong got it from the Tang Palace. It can completely remove the fishy smell and leave only the fat. Madam, you don't have to be afraid of cooking fish. As long as the oil is provided

Make it thicker, then use our pickled cabbage and pickled ginger, chop it up and cook it in a pot, and the fish cooked in the soup will be praised by your husband!"

The first aunt said: "I believe this, I have never tasted such crispy, sour and fragrant pickled cabbage! And the food prepared by Young Master Su is considered to be unique in Meishan! Then let's have one each, and we want catfish, but

Got it!"

Su You looked at the market and saw an old man selling onions, ginger, celery and coriander, so he went over and saluted him: "Old man, most of the people who buy fish also want to buy these from you. How about you sell them with us? By the way, could you please help us?"

Palm scale."

The old man said with a smile: "The child of a poor man has long been in charge of his own family, and he has to go out to run a business like this. He is really a good boy."

The aunt next to her smiled and said: "This is the young master of the Su family. He is leading a group of street children in the Tutu Temple."

Su You smiled and said: "Actually, what my father-in-law said is right. Although our Su family is from the Jiangqing family, we can't stand it with so few people and so few people. On average, the income may not be as much as that of my father-in-law's two vegetable fields on the outskirts of the city, let alone the two aunts."

Compared."

The two ladies laughed so hard that they lost their eyes: "This young master is really good at talking! Then I want the two biggest ones!"

This is the opening. Two catfish weighing three to four kilograms, and in a blink of an eye, there are more than half a pound. Even the old man lost thirty cents of green onions and garlic.

Then the sales started. Su Xiaomei was in charge of being cute, Su You was in charge of delivering sauerkraut and ginger, and Zhang San and Liu Si were in charge of catching fish. They were very busy.

There are also those who are stingy and ask for an extra handful of sauerkraut and an extra piece of pickled ginger. Su You doesn't care. Anyway, the salty and sour water has been cooked. From now on, it's just a matter of adding ingredients into different pots. It can't be simpler.

There were many merchants coming and going, and many of them even had kitchens on board. They were all wealthy merchants. The fish was not important, but the golden sauerkraut and pickled ginger were more important.

Seventy or eighty kilograms of fish were brought up basket by basket from the bamboo raft and sold for a total of four coins. Su You kept a coin in change and gave the rest to Zhang Zao, the business team leader who came over, to exchange the money for exchange.

I only left a few at the end.

Suyou saw that Li Ma had not yet arrived at the charity shed, so she was wondering if she had occupied the breakfast market at the pier.

Nowadays, people generally only eat two meals, lunch, which does not exist.

He left a few grass carps for his friends so that everyone could try the pickled fish. Su You planned to ask Zhang Zao to send the remaining few to the Jiangqing family.

While Su You was threading hemp rope on the fish's mouth, he asked Su Xiaomei to give fifty cents to the old vegetable seller and said, "Thank you, my father-in-law, for giving us the scale, so we sold it so fast. This fifty cents is money for soup."

, I drank half a dime of wine and was completely exhausted."

The old man was very happy: "Thanks to you today, my load has been sold very quickly. I will leave the remaining parsley and celery to you. The children can also have a good meal of fish. Will you come tomorrow?"

Su You said: "We should all come here in the future, but I'm afraid there won't be so many fish."

The old man smiled and said: "There are so many every day, I'm afraid the Dragon King is not the reincarnation."
Chapter completed!