SFS Chapter 151 The Fish That Was Disliked
Chapter 151 The Fish That Was Disliked
"Alright, alright, there are only three left anyway. Losing a couple of dollars isn't a big deal. Thirteen is fine. Take one fish and go."
The village chief took the copper coins and gave Gu Jinniu a fish, which was the biggest of the three.
Gu Jinniu happily took the fish and left. No one else around had bought any fish yet. It was said that the last remaining fish would be sold cheaply, and soon the other two fish were bought by someone else.
Every year at the end of the year, Gujia Village and several other villages would gather together to catch fish from the river.
After being caught, the fish were distributed to the fishermen, and the rest were sold. If they couldn't be sold in the village, they would be sold in the town. All the money from the fish sales was pooled together and used to repair bridges or for other purposes.
Anyway, no one would use it for their own purposes, and as the village chief, he couldn't possibly keep his own money; otherwise, the villagers would never let him off the hook.
Lin Cai bought five or six fish, and with the two Gu brothers, Gu Dachui and Gu Dachui, each having one fish, the Gu family had a total of eight fish.
Scarface frowned when he saw the bucket of fish: "Lin girl, why did you buy so many fish?"
"This stuff tastes fishy and has a lot of thorns, it doesn't taste good at all when cooked, how come you bought so much, can you even finish it?"
Upon hearing this, Lin Cai, who was picking up a basin, stopped and looked at the fish in her bucket.
Does the fish cooked here have a fishy smell?
That must be because there aren't enough ingredients. If all the ingredients were there, how could there be a fishy smell?
She poured the fish into the wooden basin: "What you're eating isn't the same as what I make. Besides, you've never eaten what I make before. If you really don't like it, you don't have to eat it."
She doesn't indulge people's tastes; if someone says it doesn't taste good, she won't try to persuade them to eat it.
Scarface didn't take these words to heart. In his mind, fish was generally considered unpalatable, and if Lin Cai's fish wasn't tasty, he wouldn't even touch it.
When Lin's mother saw the fish in the basin, she felt a pang of heartache again. What had been wrong with her daughter lately?
Before, they bought so much flour, then so much meat, and now, just a few days later, they've bought so much fish.
Did copper coins and silver come from the wind?
How come she doesn't know this at all? She should use it sparingly. What if she spends it all? Who will pay the construction fees when the house is finished?
Of course, Lin's mother wasn't worried that Lin Cai didn't have the money to pay her wages. Even if Lin Cai really didn't have the money, they, as her parents, had the money.
The elderly couple would never allow themselves to see their daughter being forced into this situation.
Lin Cai saw her mother staring intently at the pot of fish and knew that she must be feeling sorry for the fish again.
To avoid a lecture, Lin Cai quietly turned around and tried to leave, but things didn't go as planned. She was called back as soon as she turned around.
"Lin Cai, lunch is almost ready. Where are you going?"
Knowing she couldn't escape, Lin Cai turned to her mother with a smile and said, "Mother, we're running low on firewood. I'll go get some more."
The Gu family's old house has now been demolished because wood was the main material used in its construction, and much of the wood that was removed was unusable.
Lin Cai simply told Scarface to chop all the useless wood into firewood when he had nothing else to do.
“This is your third brother’s business, you don’t need to do it. You come and tell me, what’s the deal with this pot of fish?”
"My goodness, you're exaggerating! There's a basin of fish somewhere, but there are only 8 fish in it, not a whole basin of fish!"
"Only eight? You have the nerve to say that? There are only eight of us in the family. You bought eight fish, are you planning to give one to each of us?"
Upon hearing this, Lin Cai thought for a moment. There were a total of nine people in her family, so eight fish were hardly enough.
He thought this in his heart and said it out loud. When Lin's mother heard this, she almost hit him.
"Eight fish isn't enough? You want one for each of you? Why don't you just buy all the fish in the river?"
"You can eat as many as you want, ten per person is no problem."
Hearing this and hearing this tone, Lin Cai knew that her mother was really angry. She quickly went over and hugged her tightly, rubbing against her mother's body.
"Mom, I bought so many fish to make fish balls, fish soup, and pickled fish. There are only eight, and I still think it's not enough."
As soon as she finished speaking, Lin Cai realized she had said the wrong thing again, and immediately said before her mother could speak, "The pickled fish I'm going to make is something Mother has never seen before, and I want to make it for Mother to eat."
Hearing this, Lin's mother's expression softened a little, but she was still a little angry: "Why are you pickling fish? It's perfectly fine fish, how can you even eat it after pickling it?"
Lin's mother didn't know what pickled fish was, and she had never eaten it before. Upon hearing this, Lin Cai let go of her mother.
"Mom, just wait and see. I promise I'll cook all those fish to be absolutely delicious, and I won't waste a single fish bone."
Before catching fish, Lin Cai had already learned that although this place was in the south, there were no cured meat products here.
To be precise, cured meat products did not exist during the common people's period, because curing a piece of meat required a lot of salt.
In ancient times, salt was always regulated, and ordinary people couldn't even afford salt if they wanted to make cured meat.
Lin Cai didn't care what others thought; she just wanted to make cured meat, not only cured meat but also cured fish, and even cured sausages.
If we don't have these things during the Chinese New Year, how can it be considered the Chinese New Year?
Knowing she shouldn't let her daughter act recklessly, Lin's mother heard what Lin Cai said and saw the determination in Lin Cai's eyes, so she didn't want to stop her anymore.
When Lin's mother saw Lin Cai clean up all the fish scales, bones, and even intestines and cook them into a dish, she was completely speechless.
Lin Bao ate the fish scales, stuffing his mouth full. He had never known before that fish scales could be eaten like this.
In the past, when I ate fish, I would taste a fishy smell, but I still had to eat it to fill my stomach and survive.
Later, when he grew up and had money to eat meat, he never touched fish again. Unexpectedly, many years later, he ate a dish about fish, which turned out to be fish scales.
"Little sister, little sister, how did you make these fish scales? They're so delicious!"
With his mouth stuffed full of fish scales, he couldn't utter a single correct sound. Just as he finished speaking, he was slapped on the back of the head.
"All you do all day is eat, eat, eat! What else can you do besides eat?"
"Your two older brothers are always out and about, they never know how to come home."