A tragic journey through ancient times, trying to make money

At the beginning of the afternoon (around 13:),

Zhang Yunyue was still in a dream when she heard Zhang Xingfeng knocking on the door "bang, bang, bang".

"Sister, hurry up and get up. Goudan and the others are here to call us to go fishing. You should get up quickly."

Zhang Yunyue heard the sound coming from outside the door, took a deep breath in bed, and then slowly got up.

"I'm coming"

I pushed open the door and saw a group of children in the yard, holding fishing nets and buckets.

"Wait for me first. I'll wash my face. Xiaoxue, you stay home this afternoon to look after Grandma, Sister, and the others while they go fishing. I'll come back and make fish soup for you."

Zhang Yunxue: "Okay, sister, I'll stay at home to take care of grandma, you guys go ahead."

Zhang Yunxue washed her face, her mind became clear and her sleepiness went away. Seeing the fishing nets and buckets in the hands of Zhang Xinghao and Zhang Xingfeng, she said.

"Let's go, I'm ready now."

A group of people walked towards the river in a mighty procession.

A group of people arrived at the river.

Zhang Xingfeng pointed at the shallow river and said, "Second brother, you see the river here is not deep, only up to my thighs, can I follow you into the river?"

Zhang Xinghao saw that the creek was indeed not deep. It was probably because the weather was quite hot in the past two days and some paddy fields were a little dry. The adults had brought water to the fields for irrigation. So he nodded and agreed to let Zhang Xingfeng go into the water.

Zhang Yunyue was still watching them by the river. After all, in ancient times, only boys went into the water. There were also girls from other families, but everyone stayed by the river.

So a group of boys stood in the river with fishing nets to catch fish. The water in the river was not deep, so the fish in it could be seen clearly, and there were quite a lot of small fish.

It may be because the water level has been a little low these days, so more of them can be seen coming out.

"Yeah, I caught a crucian carp."

"Wow, I caught a grass carp."

"Hahaha, I caught a fish too."

"Yueyue, I caught a fish, look."

Zhang Xinghao took the fish out of the fishing net and showed it to Zhang Yunyue who was by the river.

The other girls by the river were a little excited. When they heard that other brothers had caught fish, they all looked at their own older brothers.

"Brother, did you get it?"

"Brother, look, there's a fish over there."

"Brother, then, then"

"Brother, come on, come on!"

The sounds from the riverside came one after another, and a group of young boys in the river also had the idea of competing, hoping that they could catch the most fish and win the final victory.

After more than half an hour, everyone had found some fish.

Zhang Yunyue looked at the fish in other people's buckets. Most of them were crucian carp and small fish. Some older children were quicker and caught some grass carp.

Zhang Xinghao and Zhang Xingfeng also caught some crucian carp and small fish, and a grass carp weighing four or five kilograms.

Zhang Yunyue looked at the fish in the bucket and already had ideas in her mind about how to cook these fish.

Goudan's brother:

"Let's go, it's almost time, everyone come up, we won't fish anymore."

So the group of people returned to the river, shook off the water on their feet and hands, and prepared to go back.

Zhang Yunyue found a wooden stick from the roadside, put it on the rope of the barrel, and carried the barrel home with Zhang Xinghao.

"Xiaoxue, we are back, come and see the fish your second and third brothers caught."

Zhang Yunxue came out of her grandmother's room and looked at the fish in the bucket.

"Wow, you caught so many fish, second brother, third brother, you are really amazing."

Zhang Yunxue: "I'll cook fish for you later. When mom and the others come back and kill the fish, I'll cook it for you."

"Sister, you can also cook fish. The cold noodles you made yesterday were so delicious, so you must be delicious when you cook fish too."

"You trust me so much, sister?"

"Of course, my sister is the best."

"Okay, sister will definitely cook the most delicious fish for us Xiaoxue later. You go into the house first to accompany grandma."

Zhang Yunyue went back to the room and changed her clothes.

He poured the fish into a wooden basin and added some water to feed the fish. Then he went to the kitchen and took out the dough basin that Zhang's mother had given him before she left. He poured the dough into the chopping board and prepared to knead the dough for steaming buns.

After the steamed buns were kneaded and placed in the steamer, Zhang Yunyue called Zhang Xingfeng to light the fire and poured water into the pot, preparing to boil the drinking water first and then start steaming the buns.

After the water was boiled, Zhang Yunyue started to steam the buns. When the buns were almost done, Zhang's mother and Zhu came back.

The two men put the things in their hands back into the utility room, washed their hands by the well, and walked into the kitchen to prepare dinner, but they saw that the steamed buns in the pot on the stove were almost ready, and then they glanced at the fish in the wooden basin on the ground.

Zhang Yunyue saw Zhang's mother entering the kitchen: "Mother, you are back."

"Yeah, these are the fish you caught this afternoon. There are quite a lot of them."

"Yes, Xiaofeng and Xiaohao caught them. By the way, mother, can you and Second Aunt kill all the fish? I will prepare to cook them later."

"Do you know how to do it? Or let your second aunt and I do it."

"Mother, I had a dream before. I don't know if it was because I was too hungry at night or what, but in the dream, someone made a lot of delicious food for me to eat. I stood next to him and watched him make all kinds of dishes, and then I watched him cook."

"Really? You can still eat in your dreams when you are hungry, but there are so many things in the world. I believe you. In this case, okay, I will let you cook the fish today, and let me taste the taste of the fish cooked by the person in your dream. How do you plan to cook this fish?"

Zhang Yunyue originally wanted to continue explaining, but she didn't expect that her mother and second aunt would accept her statement without any hesitation. If something like this happened next time, she would use this lie to cover it up. After all, it had already happened the first time.

"Well, make crucian carp soup to nourish everyone, make grass carp sauerkraut fish, it's appetizing this summer, and fry the remaining small fish. Then go to the backyard to pick some pumpkins and beans to cook some vegetarian melon beans, and mix them with cucumbers."

"It's hot this time, so we really need to make some vegetarian dishes. Otherwise, we won't have an appetite. Then your second aunt and I will go kill the fish."

Zhang's mother took a knife from the kitchen, and Zhu carried the fish basin to the yard, where they sat under the locust tree and dug the fish.

Zhang Yunyue picked cucumbers, beans, and pumpkins in the backyard, pulled some onions and coriander, and then picked a handful of pepper seeds from the pepper tree.

When he returned to the kitchen, Zhang Xingfeng was still sitting in front of the stove, lighting a fire. The steamed buns had already been steamed, and he boiled water again to cook the beans and pumpkin.

Then he took out the ginger and garlic from the cupboard, picked them and washed them, cut the cucumber into dice and put them aside, ready to mix them before dinner. He also chopped the green onions and coriander, and waited for Zhang's mother and Zhu to kill all the fish.

Mother Zhang walked into the kitchen carrying a basin and said, "Yueyue, the fish has been killed and cleaned. You can use it now."

"Okay, thank you, mother, and thank you, second aunt."

The steps for removing the fishy smell are the same. Put the onion, ginger and garlic into the fish bowl. Then Zhang Yunyue took some of Grandpa Zhang’s wine and poured it in. Marinate the fish for a quarter of an hour.

Then prepare the ingredients for the three kinds of fish, and start cooking as soon as they are marinated.

A quarter of an hour later.

Zhang Yunyue washed the marinated fish twice with clean water and put it aside to drain the surface water.

Zhang's mother and Zhu stood beside Zhang Yunxue and watched her actions, very confused.

Zhang's mother: "Yueyue, why do you put onions, ginger, garlic, and your grandfather's wine? We usually just cook it directly."

"Mother, marinating the fish with onions, ginger, garlic and wine in advance can remove the fishy smell."

Zhu: "No wonder, no matter how I cook it, the fish always smells fishy. I see. I'm going to try this next time."