Affection for Sidaogou during the Famine

These seafood products can be sold for at least two or three dollars if sold at the purchasing station. Is this kid compensating for the money he spent on the train ticket?

That's just a few cents? No matter how difficult it is, he can still come up with it. The child is sensible and kind-hearted, so he will do everything he can to prevent him from suffering any loss!

The old captain sighed in his heart, and at the same time felt comforted that his help to this child was not in vain, he was a worthwhile helper, and it was not in vain that he worried too much.

Alas! He can’t interfere in other people’s family affairs. I hope the child can be reunited with his family soon!

After hitchhiking and then taking a bus, Han Zhaozhao arrived at Tianjin Railway Station early.

Tianjin Station is a big station. All trains going to Beijing from the north pass through here. Nowadays, trains stop at almost every station. As soon as Han Zhaozhao entered the waiting room, he found that the train to Beijing was about to arrive at the station and the station attendant had already started checking tickets.

Han Zhaozhao took a few quick steps and set his eyes on an old lady who was carrying several bundles and cloth bags.

He squeezed next to the old lady and reached out to pick up a cloth bag. "Hello, grandma, why do you bring so much luggage? Are you alone? Let me help you with your luggage!"

"Thank you, girl! My daughter is here too. She went to relieve herself. This kid is lazy and has a lot of shit and urine. It's almost time for ticket inspection. Why hasn't she come back yet?"

Just as the old man and the boy finished their conversation, a little girl in a Lenin suit with two brush-handled hairpins came running back in a hurry.

"Mom, I'm back! Fortunately you didn't go to the toilet. The toilet at the train station is so dirty, not even as clean as the toilet in our commune!

Some people are really unhygienic, peeing and defecating everywhere, leaving no place to step on either side of the toilet!"

The old lady stuffed a big bag into her hand and said, "I told you to be patient and relieve yourself on the train, but you didn't listen.

The toilet on the train leaks fire underneath after peeing, it's not dirty at all."

The girl looked regretful, "How could I have thought of that? Besides, I couldn't help it!"

While complaining to each other, the mother and daughter carried Han Zhaozhao through the ticket gate and squeezed onto the platform. The train arrived at the station soon. Without waiting for the people on the train to get off, people rushed forward and scrambled to get on the train.

In this era, there is no such thing as getting off first and getting on later. Trains stop at irregular times, and if they are slow to arrive, people are afraid of missing out on the train.

Only after getting on the train did Han Zhaozhao realize that the old lady did not buy a seat ticket, but two standing tickets.

Come on, just stand here with me!

The old lady was a person who went out frequently. She found one of the cloth bags that had been packed in advance, stood across the aisle, and asked her daughter to sit down.

At this time, the old lady remembered Han Zhaozhao and asked, "Child, where are your family members? Are they separated?"

Han Zhaozhao shook his head. "No, it's in the back carriage! Grandma, please take care of the luggage. I'm going to meet up with my family now."

She was thinking of getting off the bus with the old lady at the station, but unexpectedly the old lady seemed to have reacted.

Han Zhaozhao had no choice but to squeeze through the crowd and head to the back carriage. Alas, he had to find a new target after getting off the train!

Fortunately, Beijing is the largest transit station between the north and the south, and all the passengers on this train got off in Beijing.

Passengers heading south need to buy new tickets and change trains in Beijing.

It was the middle of the night and there were many passengers on the train, so Han Zhaozhao easily squeezed out of the train station.

She was glad that the new railway station in Beijing had not yet been completed and put into use. At this critical juncture, it was very easy to enter and exit the station.

Once the new Beijing Railway Station is put into use and everything is standardized, it will not be easy for her to sneak in and out like she did.

She had to find a way to get a few blank letters of introduction ready, just in case she had another chance someday and wanted to travel out of Beijing.

After leaving the train station, she looked around and saw that no one was paying attention, and continued to follow behind the adults who were walking towards the inner city. She was not too far away, and the people around her did not notice anything unusual. They all thought that it was a child brought by the passengers in front (behind) her.

When the crowd gradually thinned, Han Zhaozhao ran and dived into the alley next to him.

The alley was dark and without any light. She stopped and listened carefully. When she felt that there was no one in front or behind her, she slipped into the space.

It was late at night and she couldn't go home.

When we get back, Aunt Shufen will definitely ask us all kinds of questions, and she will have to burn a lot of brain cells to find excuses to lie.

She decided to wait until Aunt Shufen went to work tomorrow before going back. By then, she could take out more things from the space.

Don't ask, if you ask, it was given to her by someone else. Anyway, she has learned to make "friends" out of nothing, as if none of her parents' comrades-in-arms have ever visited her home.

The young couple's interpersonal relationships are too poor, and they don't even have a comrade-in-arms who often visits them. Han Zhaozhao secretly plans that the next step is to give birth to a good "comrade-in-arms" for his parents out of thin air!

Once she enters the space, it’s her world. It’s just like she hasn’t had dinner yet, so she might as well make dinner first!

Wash the rice and steam it. Han Zhaozhao steamed the rice in the rice cooker and then prepared to cook a fish to reward herself.

By the way, she had not tasted wild yellow croaker of this era, so she went to the live water tank of the fishing boat and caught two medium-sized ones. She first killed them with a flat knife, scraped off the scales, made a small horizontal cut at the anus, and inserted two chopsticks into the fish's mouth.

Use the chopsticks to press down the fish gills on both sides until the chopsticks reach the outside of the anal incision. Pinch the chopsticks tightly and turn them forcefully three times. Pinch the chopsticks tightly and pull them out, and the internal organs and fish gills will be completely removed.

Rinse it clean, make a few cuts, stuff the cuts with ginger slices and scallion segments, and steam it.

It takes eight minutes to steam a two-pound yellow croaker. She steamed two weighing about three pounds, which took ten minutes.

After steaming, take out the ginger slices and scallion segments, sprinkle the fish with shredded scallions, heat lard in a wok, pour the boiling oil over the fish, "sizzle!" The fresh and fragrant aroma hits your nose, hey, it's got that flavor!

Finally, drizzle two spoonfuls of steamed fish soy sauce on it and you can start eating.

Han Zhaozhao learned the skill of steaming large yellow croaker from an aunt in his previous life. Several generations of her aunt’s family were fishermen, and they rarely used seasonings when cooking seafood, so they only wanted to enjoy its original flavor.

She served the rice and picked up a piece of fish belly with chopsticks. The meat at this part was the most tender and had no bones. She was very hungry, so she ate the fish belly first to satisfy her craving.

"Delicious! Fresh! Sweet! It tastes amazing!" Han Zhaozhao couldn't help but give himself a thumbs up.

Even after changing her body, her cooking skills were still as good as ever, and the steamed yellow croaker was still as delicious as ever.

Han Zhaozhao took big bites of the fish. In her previous life, she was concerned about the rules of the fishing village and never turned over the fish at the table.

For fishermen, going out to sea to fish is a life-threatening profession, and what they fear most is capsizing.

The shape of fish is somewhat similar to that of a boat. From ancient times to the present, fishermen have compared turning over a fish to the capsizing of a boat. Therefore, when eating fish, it is taboo to turn over a fish, as it is believed that it will bring bad luck of having the boat capsized when going out to sea to fish.

Although she is no longer a fisherman in this life, this habit has been ingrained in her bones.

She ate the top part first, then after finishing the fish meat, she pulled out the entire fish bone and then ate the fish meat at the bottom.