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

"Hey, this mullet stewed with tofu tastes great!"

Ye Xiaocui picked up a piece of mullet with chopsticks and put it into her mouth. Mullet is not as expensive as grouper and other fish, so she usually eats it at home.

So she has made mullets many times, but to be honest, the mullets made in this restaurant are much better than hers.

Not only is the fish meat extremely tender, but the tofu inside is also very flavorful.

"Really? Let me try it."

Upon hearing this, Fu Wan also picked up a piece of food with chopsticks. The fish, meat and tofu were both delicious, indeed very good.

Mullet, also known locally as blackhead fish, is a common and affordable marine fish. It resembles a pike, with a broad head. Its back is a bluish-gray, while its belly is a common white.

This fish has relatively small scales and a distinctly forked tail. Mullet fish are generally active in the interface between fresh and salt water and like to appear in groups, so if you are lucky enough to encounter a school of mullet, it will be a rhythm of bursting the net.

Precisely because of its rarity, the price of this fish is not very high. Generally, if Fu San buys it, it costs about fifty cents per pound.

Mullet can be braised or steamed, but locals, including Fu Wanjia, prefer to buy a dime worth of tofu and add it to the stew.

As the old saying goes, it takes at least half an hour to stew fish with tofu, but the meat of mullet is not very firm. If the heat is not controlled well, you may end up with a pot of tofu stewed with fish residue.

Ye Xiaocui never learned how to cook. In the early years, she sometimes stewed fish into scraps, but her family was poor, so a little meat flavor was good enough.

Fu Wan and Fu Ming are not picky eaters. They can eat a big bowl of fish residue soaked in brown rice even after removing the bones.

The bowl of tofu stewed with mullet on the table today is not only beautiful in appearance, but the fish and tofu are a perfect match.

Even the tofu is full of the delicious flavor of the fish soup, and it is juicy when you bite it.

If you scoop some fish soup and mix it into the rice, wow, whoever eats it will know how it tastes!

While they were discussing, the waiter brought the meal.

Fu Ming heard that tofu was delicious, so he picked up a piece with chopsticks and stuffed it directly into his mouth out of habit. You know, the tofu was full of soup, and it was so hot that he grimaced.

This funny look made even Fu Ling and Qin Mingzhu laugh while holding their bowls.

Everyone was full after the meal, and Jiang Chunlan and Fu Liang, mother and son, felt regretful as they touched their stomachs.

Hey, if they had known that the food would be so good in the county town today, they would have said they would not eat breakfast this morning!

No, I shouldn’t have eaten last night’s dinner either!

After eating, it was a good time to go to the supply and marketing cooperative to digest the food. Ye Xiaocui looked at the many dishes left on the table and felt very distressed.

Especially the bowl of braised beef. There were so many dishes that my mouth was too busy to handle it all, so I barely touched the bowl of beef.

She originally thought that the waiters would take the dishes back for her to eat, but when she went out, she happened to see several waiters pouring other people's dishes into a big bucket.

It doesn't look like it's meant to be taken back to eat.

Seeing this, she grabbed Fu Wan and said, "Awan, what are you doing with all these leftovers?"

"Huh? They should be put away to feed the dogs and pigs!"

"What? Feed the dogs and pigs?!"

Ye Xiaocui suddenly lost her composure and immediately went out to buy a lunch box to pack up.

Fu Wan looked at the table and saw that there were indeed quite a few dishes left. She simply asked Ye Xiaocui and the others to leave first, and ran to find the waiter to ask for an aluminum lunch box.

It would be a shame not to pack up such good beef to take home.

Forget about the other dishes, as they all have some soup in them, which makes them inconvenient to hold in your hands.

Their fighting power was actually quite good, and most of them were left with only some vegetable soup.

After packing, Fu Wan thought about it and took out fifty yuan.

This meal should be about the same price. She put the money directly on the table at the service counter and ran away with the packed dishes before the waiter could react.

Are you kidding me? You can’t just eat plain rice!

After running a short distance, she saw Ye Xiaocui and others waiting for her at the intersection ahead.

The supply and marketing cooperative was not far from here. A few people went in and took a look around, and selected three televisions and three rice cookers.

Ye Xiaocui and Jiang Chunlan couldn't walk anymore when they reached the place where fabrics were sold. My God, the patterns of these fabrics are so beautiful!

Fu Wan and Qin An Ning ordered the TV, and just after they signed, they realized that Ye Xiaocui and the others were gone.

Fortunately, there were not many people in the supply and marketing cooperative at that time, and only Fu Wan and her group could ask for three color TVs at once.

When the sales clerks at the supply and marketing cooperative saw Fu Wan and the others, they were as excited as if they had seen the God of Wealth. They immediately pointed out the direction where Ye Xiaocui and the other person were going.

Fu Wan walked over and saw that the two men were trying to fit the cloth on their bodies.

"Mom, aunt, do you want to buy some fabric?"

"Hey, Awan, you guys are here. Come on, show us this fabric. Does it look good?"

Jiang Chunlan was holding a piece of bright red floral cotton cloth in her hand, which looked very festive.

This kind of thing was popular at that time, Fu Wan looked away and nodded.

"Not... not bad, right? But why don't you buy ready-made clothes? You'd have to take the fabric home and make the clothes yourself. How troublesome!"

"Trouble? Not trouble at all!"

Ye Xiaocui glared at her, pulled Fu Wan over and pointed at the ready-made clothes next to her.

"Look, ready-made clothes are so expensive! One piece of ready-made clothes can buy several pieces of cloth for making clothes!"

Fu Wan helplessly spread her hands and tried to persuade him, "Mom, have you forgotten that after you buy the fabric, you still have to use the sewing machine for several days to make a piece of clothing.

And the most important thing is, we don’t have a sewing machine at home!”

Ye Xiaocui was stunned by this. She really didn't have a sewing machine at home. She couldn't afford one before, but now she can. Even her daughters and daughters-in-law wouldn't touch it.

A few days ago, when she bought a three-turn and one-ring lottery ticket for Qin An Ning, the child refused it. She could only stuff the money for the three-turn and one-ring lottery ticket to Qin An Ning and let them decide what to buy.

"Well...if it doesn't work, I can sew it with a needle..."

"Why are you sewing? It's so cold, and your eyes will probably be damaged after you finish sewing that piece of clothing!

Look at that dress, isn't it nice?"

Ye Xiaocui looked at the clothes hanging on the side. "Don't they look good?" She really couldn't say such a shameless thing.

Seeing that she was somewhat interested, Fu Wan directly asked the salesperson to take down the clothes for Ye Xiaocui and Jiang Chunlan to try on.

"Mom, try it on and see if it fits."

"Auntie, you try it too."

Jiang Chunlan was stunned when she heard this and quickly waved her hand to refuse, "I...I don't need it."

"Hey, you don't even have a nice piece of clothing. When my brother and his family get married, are you still going to wear patched clothes from home?"

Fu Ming and Fu Liang nodded in agreement after hearing this, and Qin An Ning even picked out a dark red patterned dress and tried it on Ye Xiaocui.

"This dress looks good and makes me look energetic!"

"Really...really?"

Ye Xiaocui was half-believing and half-doubting, and she didn't dare put the clothes on, for fear that she would damage them.

Fu Wan nodded and helped her put it on.

"It couldn't be more true, Mom, look at how beautiful it is, why not buy this one!"