Siheyuan: Traveling through Cai Quanwu, pretending to be Uncle Shazhu

When He Yushui heard Cai Quanwu's instructions, he ran directly to the kitchen and took out another enamel basin.

Fortunately, Shazhu has a lot of pots and jars at home.

After taking them out, Cai Quanwu and Sha Zhu started picking them up.

"Zhu Zi, let's pick out the loaches and catfish first."

When choosing, Cai Quanwu said something to Sha Zhu.

Loach and catfish have few bones and taste good, so I will definitely eat the better ones first.

"okay."

Sha Zhu agreed and started rummaging around inside with his hands.

"Here's one."

"There's another one here."

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While Cai Quanwu and Sha Zhu were picking, He Yushui was standing by, pointing at the loaches and catfish inside and calling out.

After a while, under the sharp eyes of several people, all the loaches and catfish in the winnowing basket were picked out.

Cai Quanwu took a look and felt that it was not enough, so he picked out some big crucian carp and some miscellaneous fish that he thought were good and put them together.

After taking a final look, I saw that it weighed about four pounds, so I stopped.

"Okay, Zhuzi, kill these fish and eat them for lunch." After Cai Quanwu felt that it was about time, he instructed Sha Zhu.

"Okay." After hearing this, Sha Zhu took the enamel basin and went to the kitchen.

He had to go to the kitchen to get a kitchen knife.

As soon as Sha Zhu left, Cai Quanwu said to Xiao Wu who was sitting there:

"Xiaoqing, go get two baskets and pick some out. You and Jiaqi will take them back later."

"What do you want to send back?" Guan Jiaqi came back from washing the clothes, and Cai Quanwu had just finished speaking. She didn't hear it all and asked curiously.

After Guan Jiaqi finished asking, before Cai Quanwu answered, Xiao Wu spoke first:

"Uncle said to pick out some fish for us to take home."

"He also said to bring my parents and your mom over for dinner."

As soon as Xiao Wu said this, Guan Jiaqi immediately understood what was going on and nodded:

"That's fine."

When Xiao Wu saw Guan Jiaqi agreed, he immediately said, "I'll go get the basket."

She was really afraid that Guan Jiaqi would say no.

That would be embarrassing for her.

"Why did you want mom and the others to come over for dinner?" Guan Jiaqi asked as Xiao Wu left.

"Haha, the turtle is so big, plus a pheasant, not to mention so many small fish, how can we eat so much."

"We haven't seen each other for a long time. It's a good time to have some fun today."

Cai Quanwu explained to Guan Jiaqi with a smile.

In fact, Cai Quanwu mainly considered his mother-in-law. He was the only one in his mother-in-law's family, and you can imagine how their life was.

He just wanted to find an excuse to invite his mother-in-law over for a meal.

But we can't just pick up his mother-in-law and ignore Xiao Wu's parents. That would be a bit unreasonable.

After hearing the explanation, Guan Jiaqi didn't say anything. She was very happy that Cai Quanwu could think of these things.

After Xiao Wu brought the basket over, everyone started picking up the fish together.

If this is a gift to someone, I would definitely pick a bigger one.

There were two baskets, one contained about two kilograms, which was prepared for Guan Jiaqi to give to her mother, and the other basket had a little more, about four or five kilograms, which was prepared for Xiao Wu's parents.

After picking them out, Cai Quanwu looked at the remaining small fish and shrimps and said:

"Let's pick out the shrimps here and braise them tonight."

"For the remaining fish, you and Xiaoqing will go to the pond later and remove the internal organs from their stomachs."

"Wash them clean, coat them with flour, and deep-fry them. Have them as a side dish tonight, and you can eat the rest as snacks."

Xiao Wu and Guan Jiaqi were both a little surprised when they heard Cai Quanwu's arrangement.

Guan Jiaqi glanced at Cai Quanwu and frowned.

"How much oil do you need to fry so many?"

She didn't expect Cai Quanwu to be so extravagant that he actually wanted to fry all these small fish in oil.

Looking at Guan Jiaqi who frowned, Cai Quanwu said with a smile:

"Okay, don't worry about it."

"We have plenty of oil."

Cai Quanwu spoke so arrogantly that Xiao Wu and Guan Jiaqi didn't know how to refute him.

Since there is no way to refute it, I can only follow Cai Quanwu's instructions.

First, they asked He Yushui to get something to pick out all the shrimps, and then the two of them carried the dustpan to the pool.

Cai Quanwu and He Yushui followed the two and prepared to wash their hands.

I was picking fish just now and my hands got fishy.

"Now that you're here, I'll be done soon." Sha Zhu was killing fish. When he saw everyone coming, he quickened his pace.

"It's okay, you do your thing and we'll do ours."

Seeing that Sha Zhu was getting anxious, Xiao Wu said that she didn't want Sha Zhu to accidentally cut his hand.

Guan Jiaqi and I put down the dustpan and started to pick up the small fish.

He Yushui saw Xiao Wu and Guan Jiaqi cleaning the fish, and out of curiosity, she squatted down and started working with them.

Cai Quanwu washed his hands under the faucet, shook the water off his hands, took out a cigarette and started smoking.

While smoking, I watched Xiao Wu and the others clean up the small fish.

After a while, Sha Zhu killed the fish, cleaned it, and said to everyone, "You guys do it, I'm going to go back and cook."

After saying that, he took the basin and went to the kitchen.

Not long after Sha Zhu left, Qin Huairu came towards the pool with a basket.

"Uncle Cai." Qin Huairu saw Cai Quanwu and greeted him from a distance.

"Are you preparing to wash vegetables and cook?" Cai Quanwu asked with a smile as he looked at Qin Huairu who was walking over.

"Yeah." Qin Huairu nodded.

When Qin Huairu came closer and saw the small fish in the dustpan, he asked curiously, "Uncle Cai, where did you get so many small fish?"

Qin Huairu had seen so many small fish in the countryside before she married into the city.

At that time, there was a shortage of water in the village, and when the ditches dried up or when the fish ponds were dug, a lot of small fish would be caught.

After marrying and moving to the city, I have never seen so many small fish.

"I went outside the city to pick reed leaves today. I caught them in the reed marsh." Cai Quanwu replied with a smile when he heard Qin Huairu asking him.

There is nothing that cannot be said.

"Oh."

Qin Huairu grew up in the countryside, and when she heard Cai Quanwu say this, she understood.

Without asking any more questions, Qin Huairu took the basket and went to the sink to wash the vegetables.

Cai Quanwu was bored, took a puff of cigarette, and asked casually: "Daughter-in-law Dongxu, where is your mother-in-law?"

"He went out." Qin Huairu hesitated when she heard Cai Quanwu's question. She glanced at Cai Quanwu and then said it cryptically.

With so many people around, it was difficult for her to tell them directly where Jia Zhang had gone.

As soon as Cai Quanwu saw Qin Huairu's expression, he knew what was going on and did not ask any more questions.

I thought to myself, I didn't expect that Jia Zhang was so proactive.

It seems that I have been going to that master's house quite often during this period.

What he didn't know was that if he hadn't been full and had nothing to do and had talked nonsense with Qin Huairu, Jia Zhang would not have been so enthusiastic.

Qin Huairu was very efficient and washed the vegetables in no time. She said goodbye to them and went home.

Cai Quanwu was not too generous and asked Qin Huairu to take some fish back.

At the same time, at the third uncle's house.

The third aunt stood at the door and watched the third uncle walk into the yard carrying a bucket and a fishing rod.

When the third uncle reached the door of his house, the third aunt stuck her head out and saw, as she expected, there were only two small fish the size of a palm in the bucket.

Third Aunt was used to it. When she saw Third Uncle coming back so early, she knew that he didn't gain much today.

If the harvest was big, Uncle Three wouldn't have come back so early.

The third uncle leaned his fishing rod against the wall, put the bucket on the ground, and complained:

"The weather is so good, but the fish won't take the bait."

"It was a complete waste of the morning."