Fisherwoman: After my divorce, I became rich by fishing at sea

Seeing their daughter was so insistent, Boss Fu and Ye Xiaocui had no choice.

"Then I'll go prepare things for your journey."

There is only one night train from Longhai City to Beijing, and the train takes a day and a night.

Ye Xiaocui had to prepare food for them along the way.

Fu Wan let her do her work while she went to the backyard to pack all the ambergris into cloth bags.

Good things take time. She is impatient, so since she plans to go to the capital, the sooner she leaves, the better.

It's already evening, so the earliest train we can catch is tomorrow night.

Seeing that Fu Wan had made up her mind, Boss Fu ran out to ask Village Chief Fu for a letter of introduction.

In the 1980s, it was impossible to move without a letter of introduction, especially to Beijing. Without a letter of introduction, you would be arrested by the police as a vagrant.

After Fu Wan packed up the ambergris and clothes, she went into the kitchen.

Ye Xiaocui was instructing Fu Ming how to make pancakes at this time. Fearing that it would be inconvenient to buy things on the train, Ye Xiaocui was particularly generous this time. She asked Fu Ming to put two eggs in the cornmeal, sprinkle some chopped green onions and shredded potatoes and mix them into a paste. Finally, she used a little oil to fry them into fragrant and crispy multi-grain pancakes.

Ye Xiaocui felt that bringing just the pancakes was not enough. After thinking about it, she took out an enamel jar of eggs from the kitchen cabinet, took out more than ten eggs, and prepared to cook them for Fu Wan to take away.

"Mom, don't tell me I have to take all these eggs with me?"

Fu Wan felt her scalp tingle when she saw the bowl full of eggs. She never liked the yolk of boiled eggs because it was choking and dry.

This huge bowl of boiled eggs will make you question your life along the way!

Seeing her look like she didn't want to eat, Ye Xiaocui got angry and said, "I worked so hard to stock up on these eggs, and now I boil them and ask you to take them away, and you're not happy about it?!"

Fu Wan quickly smiled apologetically, "How could that be? I was worried that if I took everything away, there would be nothing left to eat at home. Mom, we can just take one or two. We still have pancakes, right?"

Ye Xiaocui was unwilling, "How many meals can we eat with pancakes? Eggs are more convenient and can be stored longer."

As the mother and daughter were chatting, Fu Wan saw the prawns lying nearby, and an idea came to her mind.

I may be tired of pancakes and eggs, but I’m not tired of these prawns!

Dried prawns can be stored for a long time and are easy to carry. If you occasionally eat some on the train, you will find how delicious they are.

"Mom, what are you going to do with these shrimps?"

These days, there are shrimps for every meal at home, and Ye Xiaocui has almost developed 18 ways to eat shrimps.

"It's better to boil it in plain water for the original flavor."

Since there were a lot of shrimps anyway, Fu Wan simply filled a bowl with a large bowl of prawns and said, "I'll use these to try a new recipe!"

Ye Xiaocui has become accustomed to Fu Wan's new ideas from time to time, and lets her do whatever she wants.

Fu Wan had eaten a lot of dried prawns in her previous life. Generally, people in coastal areas would dry prawns and then sell them.

However, this was only limited to later generations when the aquaculture industry was developed. At that time in the 1980s, in Fujia Village, the villagers usually sold the prawns they caught directly to the purchasing station. After all, they were fresh and convenient. Very few people dried the prawns.

Fu Wan took the shrimps to the well, removed the shrimp threads from the prawns with small bamboo sticks the size of toothpicks, and then trimmed off the unsightly antennae.

After cleaning the shrimps, she went to the backyard vegetable garden to pick some green onions. There was still some ginger left from Fu Ming's cooking, which she also picked up.

Before drying the prawns, they must be cooked first. She threw the prawns, onions, ginger, and garlic into the water, and when the water boiled, she added some salt to season it. Finally, when the shrimp skins were slightly wrinkled, she took out the prawns.

Every household in the village uses homemade winnowing baskets to dry goods. Fu Wan drained the water from the shrimps and then placed them one by one on the winnowing baskets to wait for them to dry.

Unfortunately, it was already night. If it had been exposed to the strong sun all day, it would have been about the same.

But they don't leave until tomorrow night, so there's still time.

……

The next morning, Ye Xiaocui took the shrimps that had been dried in the backyard last night and took them out to dry in the sun.

Fu San met Fu Lao Da last night when he was taking a walk with his wife. When he heard from him that Fu Wan was going to Beijing, he specially asked someone to buy two sleeper tickets for her early in the morning while he was delivering goods.

It is delivered here as soon as possible.

"Awan, be careful when you go on a long journey. There are many human traffickers these days, and Fu Ming is a fool..."

Fu Ming was upset by Fu San's words, "Uncle San, who are you calling stupid?"

Fu San waved his hand and said, "I'm talking to Awan, don't interrupt me, young man!"

"Me, a young man?!"

Fu Wan watched them bickering with amusement, and was extremely grateful to Fu San for buying them sleeper tickets.

"Uncle San, I know all this. You're incredible! You even managed to get a sleeper ticket."

It's not that she hadn't thought about using her connections to get two sleeper tickets, but sleeper tickets were hard to come by these days. If she wanted to use her connections, she could only ask Zhao Gang or Bai Qianzhou, and she felt it was inappropriate to ask either of them.

Fu San was very pleased when he heard this. "Who is your Third Uncle? Not only the county, but now all the bosses in the city know me."

At this point, he praised sincerely, "That's because of your moon fish. You don't know that on that day, Boss Liu's brother opened a restaurant, and a seafood restaurant also opened diagonally.

Boss Liu's brother thought the restaurant was unlucky from the very beginning, but who knew that as soon as the name of the moon fish got out, half the street of customers rushed to the restaurant to watch the fun!

Boss Liu is a wealthy businessman. He immediately decided to purchase all the seafood in the store from Fu San. This is a restaurant in the city. Fu San was so happy that he was in high spirits for several days.

Fu Wan was also happy to hear this. Fu San gave her two thousand yuan for the moon fish, and she made a small fortune again.

After putting away the sleeper tickets and packing up their belongings, Ye Xiaocui sewed two sturdy cloth pockets inside Fu Ming and Fu Wan's clothes and pants.

They even thoughtfully installed a button so that Fu Wan and the others could put their money inside their clothes so that it wouldn't fall out or be stolen.

It was soon evening, and because the train was at 7pm, Fu Wan and Fu Ming planned to go to the station early.

Fu Ling and Qin Mingzhu knew that Fu Wan and Fu Ming were going on a long journey, and were sitting by the door wiping their tears.

"Mom, you have to come back soon!"

"Godmother, you must come back safely!"

Ever since Qin Mingzhu could speak, Fu Wan asked her to call her godmother. She had too many bad memories of the capital, and when she learned that Fu Wan was going to the capital, she repeatedly reminded her to be careful and safe.

Fu Wan didn't know whether to laugh or cry, holding a baby in one hand, "I'm going out to do some work, not to fight. You guys just be good at home, I promise to be back soon."

After comforting the two children, Fu Liang and Jiang Chunlan also came. Fu Wan felt a headache when she saw the eggs in Jiang Chunlan's hand.

After a lot of arguing, Fu Wan and Fu Ming had no choice but to take the bag of eggs and ride on the tractor driven by Uncle Niu to the county railway station.

Until the two of them boarded the train, Fu Ming felt it was a little unreal. He was really going to the capital!