Survival skills maxed out, I feed my wife and daughter by catching fish and shrimp

Chen Changfan sent the fish to Shiweizhai, and Manager Fu was more enthusiastic than usual.

"Brother Chen, your dishes are absolutely amazing. Now all the customers who come to my Shiweizhai ask for pickled fish. I've been looking forward to you delivering the fish for a long time."

Chen Changfan was not surprised at the sudden popularity of pickled fish.

After all, it is a dish that is popular almost all over the country of foodies, and the taste is absolutely amazing.

Pay with one hand and get the goods with the other.

Today's catch was quite good, and Shopkeeper Fu happily paid one or two taels of silver and asked Chen Erlang indirectly if he knew any other new dishes.

New dishes will certainly be introduced.

Teach your apprentice to starve the master. These few dishes are almost enough for now.

……

After searching around in the farm tool store, Chen Erlang still couldn't find the iron fork to his liking. He asked the boss if he had anything better. The boss actually took out a short iron stick, which surprised Chen Changfan.

In fact, steelmaking technology already existed in ancient times, but the skills were not sophisticated enough and the steel was far less hard than that of previous generations.

But compared to the brittle and soft pig iron, wrought iron is already an excellent material.

After bargaining the price down to three taels of silver, Chen Erlang cursed the shop as a scam and got the short iron stick as he wished.

Go back and find Han the blacksmith to change the short stick into a spike, and it will become a magic weapon.

"It's a pity this iron rod is too short, otherwise I'd really like to try fishing for that giant bone fish."

According to the fishing novels in my previous life, you can catch even whales with rebar combined with aircraft carrier arresting cables!

After some shopping in the county town, Chen Changfan took a large bag of seasonings and got on Lao Wei's ox cart.

"Brother Chen, has the price of seasoning also increased now?" Old Wei couldn't help but ask.

"Not really. I'm planning to open a food stall next to the fish stall and sell some rice noodles."

Old Wei seemed to be in a bad mood. He hummed and said, "Brother Chen, I may not go to the county town tomorrow." When Old Wei said this, there was a trace of imperceptible loneliness on his face.

The reason why he went to the county town every day was because he found a job transporting goods in the city.

In this way, he could earn about ten cents a day by transporting goods, plus he could earn some money from the round trip fare, which was a good thing.

But the job of transporting goods suddenly disappeared, and it was no longer worth it for him to run to the county town like this.

To be honest, he was still willing to be Chen Changfan's driver. After all, the other party was efficient and paid generously. Lao Wei felt that he had a good relationship with the other party.

But temper cannot be used to make a living, he still has to consider his livelihood.

When he thought about having to find another job, Lao Wei couldn't help feeling a little melancholy.

"Old Wei, are you willing to work with me?"

In fact, Chen Changfan has been thinking about this for several days.

Seeing that the weather was getting colder day by day and the fish were becoming fewer and fewer, he needed to hurry up and catch fish. However, there happened to be a huge fish like the Arapaima in the river, which made him a little hesitant for a while.

He needs to make time as soon as possible to get rid of the arapaima in order to break the current predicament.

In this case, the fish stall needs someone to run it, and Lao Wei is obviously the most suitable person.

Of course, before recruiting the other party, he still needs to seek Lao Wei's opinion.

"Me? Can I do it?" Lao Wei asked excitedly.

Although he had never asked about Chen Changfan's ability to make money, it was visible to the naked eye.

I still remember the first time I met Chen Changfan, he was only carrying a small fish basket.

But just a few days later, the other party had already opened a fish stall in the market, and the catch could fill five large wooden barrels.

What is a capable person? This is what a capable person is.

Old Wei is not a stubborn person. He naturally knows that it is enough to just follow capable people and let others eat the meat while he drinks the soup.

"You're a steady worker, and I trust you. Since you have nothing else to do, why don't you come and help me look after the fish stall? Including transportation fees, I'll pay you twenty cents a day. Is that okay?"

"How many?!"

Old Wei was so excited that his voice trembled.

He worked hard all day transporting goods and could only earn ten cents.

Now you can get double the wages just by selling fish!

"I'll give you 20 wen for now. If you do a good job, I can raise it. In one sentence, do you want to do it?"

Chen Changfan didn't dare to ask for too high a salary all at once. What if Old Wei didn't do a good job?

He won't lose too much.

If you do a good job, salary increase will be a natural thing, and it will also give the other party a goal to look forward to.

"Dry!"

Old Wei got so excited that he whipped Old Niu hard.

The old cow couldn't help but moo in pain, then turned around and stared at Lao Wei with its big eyes.

"Okay, then you'll follow me from now on. I'll tell you about the fish stall and we'll start working tomorrow."

……

"Aunt Liu, my husband heard that you can make rice noodles, so he asked me to buy two bowls to take back. Please keep this money."

At Aunt Liu's house, Shen Cuiyun smiled and placed five copper coins on the kang. Aunt Liu quickly picked them up and stuffed them into Shen Cuiyun's hand. "Sister, you are really humiliating me. It's just two bowls of rice noodles. Why are you giving me money?"

When he heard about money, Old Man Liu, who was leaning on the kang smoking a water pipe, got anxious. "You silly woman, just take the money when they give it to you. I heard that Chen Jia Erlang's dried fish stall is making a lot of money. Why are you still pretending to be so high and mighty?"

Aunt Liu glared at her husband. "Money, money, money! That's all you care about! Cuiyun and I are good friends, so what if I gave her two bowls of rice noodles? As a person, you can't just focus on money!" Old man Liu exhaled a puff of smoke. "You're so noble, you're so sentimental, but do you have any rice left at home? I'm almost starving, and you're still trying to curry favor with me!"

"There's no money to buy rice at home, and it's all because you're lazy and indulge in drinking, gambling, whoring, and smoking!"

This is true.

This old man Liu has arms and legs but he doesn't go out to work to earn money. He can be said to have all the five vices.

The family was so poor that they could barely make ends meet, yet he still had to rely on Aunt Liu to make money to supplement the household expenses.

Shen Cuiyun saw this scene. She pressed Aunt Liu's hand and signaled her to accept the money.

Aunt Liu couldn't refuse, so she had to accept the money with a blushing face.

The family is indeed in financial difficulty, otherwise she would never have accepted the money.

Seeing Aunt Liu accept the money, Old Man Liu chuckled, revealing his yellow teeth, "That's right, you make two bowls of rice noodles for Erlang's wife. I'm not exaggerating, this woman of mine is not good at anything else, but she makes delicious rice noodles!"

Aunt Liu ignored Old Man Liu and went straight to the kitchen. After a while, she brought out two bowls of steaming rice noodles. The two bowls of rice noodles looked white, tender and delicate, and they were shaking slightly in the bowl, obviously very elastic.

"Sister, wait for me to make another bowl of topping." Aunt Liu said as she was about to go back into the kitchen.

"No need, my Erlang has already prepared the toppings and is waiting for your rice noodles."

Shen Cuiyun said with a smile.

"What?"

Aunt Liu was stunned. Can your Erlang cook?

"Yeah, the food he cooks is much better than mine."

Aunt Liu expressed her disbelief in Shen Cuiyun's words, so Shen Cuiyun invited her to visit her home.

As Aunt Liu and Shen Cuiyun walked out of the yard, they smelled a strong stench.

She quickly covered her nose and said, "Who is cleaning the pit? It stinks!"

As he said that, he pulled Shen Cuiyun into the yard. Who knew that the stench in the yard was even stronger than outside.

She saw Chen Changfan setting up a big pot in the yard and stirring the contents of the pot vigorously. The stench came from the pot.

"Chen Jia Erlang... Ugh, what are you doing?"

Aunt Liu felt like vomiting as soon as she opened her mouth, and Shen Cuiyun beside her couldn't help but frown and cover her nose.

"Hahaha, Aunt Liu is here. I have something delicious in this pot, the soul sauce for snail noodles!"

Chen Changfan gave a mysterious smile.

"Soul sauce, auntie, my soul is almost fainted from the smell. Are the snails you are talking about the stinky snails in the river?" Aunt Liu asked while pinching her nose.

"No, no, river snails are just ordinary things, while water snails are a delicacy in the world! The two are similar in appearance, but the taste is very different!" Chen Changfan expressed his disagreement with Aunt Liu's statement that river snails and water snails were confused.

Snails are the key ingredient in making snail noodles, while field snails can only be stir-fried with chili or fed to chickens.

The prices of the two are also several times different. In the past, field snails were only 5 yuan per catty, while water snails were 20 yuan per catty.

Chen Changfan actually had no experience in making snail noodles. He only relied on the feeling of slurping noodles in his previous life and his cooking skills at the great level to restore the soup of snail noodles to the greatest extent. As for whether he could succeed, he was not completely sure.

He stirred the pot for a while, and when the fire was high and the soup became thick, the stench was no longer so obvious, and instead a slightly fragrant smell was emitted.

Then, under the somewhat horrified gazes of Aunt Liu and Shen Cuiyun, Chen Changfan poured a large spoonful of soup on the rice noodles.

Add the purchased sour bamboo shoots, bean curd sheets, and fried peanuts, and a bowl of snail noodles is ready!

Picking up the chopsticks, Chen Changfan stirred the snail noodles evenly, took a big sip, and then closed his eyes comfortably.

Ha! That’s the taste, so sour and refreshing!

He picked up a piece with chopsticks and handed it to Shen Cuiyun's mouth.

Shen Cuiyun initially shook her head to refuse, but she couldn't resist her man, so she gritted her teeth and took a sip of the noodles.

Ok?

This powder smells terrible, but why does it taste so delicious?

"Cuiyun, don't force yourself to eat. If you want to vomit, just vomit it out." Aunt Liu was afraid that Shen Cuiyun would feel wronged, so she couldn't help but persuade her.

But then, Shen Cuiyun actually took the initiative to pick up a pair of chopsticks, picked up a few strands of rice noodles, and ate them in one slurp.

Aunt Liu looked at Shen Cuiyun with horror as she showed an expression of enjoyment, and then watched the young couple finish a bowl of noodles in a few mouthfuls and drink up all the soup!

Aunt Liu's pupils dilated violently, and she felt that her outlook on life had been impacted.

"Aunt Liu, you should try it too, this snail noodle is really delicious!"

Chen Changfan prepared another bowl, and this time he served it directly to Aunt Liu.

Aunt Liu shook her head like a rattle and refused to take the bowl.

"Auntie, this powder smells bad but tastes delicious! Try it, I'm not lying to you!"

Shen Cuiyun wiped her mouth and advised as well.

Aunt Liu was shaken. Since Cuiyun said it was delicious, she couldn't be lying, right?

She took the bowl and picked up the chopsticks, but still smelled a foul smell.

But Aunt Liu was not an ordinary person. She gritted her teeth, closed her eyes, picked up the noodles and took a big gulp.

I thought it would stink, but it tasted so delicious.

After swallowing a mouthful of noodles, my right hand unconsciously picked up more noodles and took a sip. I felt like the top of my head was about to burst open.

"Auntie, I didn't lie to you, isn't this powder fragrant?"

Seeing Aunt Liu's angry expression, Shen Cuiyun asked with a smile on her face.

"Delicious! Just like you said, it smells bad but tastes delicious!"

Aunt Liu couldn't help but give Chen Changfan a thumbs up.

Hearing Aunt Liu's words, Chen Changfan knew that the time was ripe, so he smiled and asked Aunt Liu:

"Aunt Liu, I'm planning to set up a stall in the county town to sell snail noodles, but I'm short of help. Would you like to go?"