Chapter 519 Welcoming the God of Wealth on the fifth day of the Lunar New Year
After dinner, it was not dark yet, so Ding Yi was not in a hurry to go back. He was chatting with Zhang An in the backyard to eat.
"Speaking of Zhang An, you have made so many stone pounds, so you are planning to let Fatty take them away."
I just saw that the separated pond was full of densely packed stone pounds. From now on, Ding Yi felt that Zhang An would not raise so many animals for no reason.
But he felt that this thing was indeed promising, because after he tasted it himself, he found that the stone pound was no worse than the fish from Zhang An's family.
The fish raised by Zhang An’s family have always been sold to Fatty Lu, and this time he will definitely not go to anyone else, because everyone knows him, and Fatty Lu is willing to give a price, which is definitely more convenient than going to someone he doesn’t know. .
“Actually, I didn’t have this idea before. At that time, I just thought about going to the mountains to catch a few and try them myself. But in the end, there were a few left that I didn’t finish, so I raised them. After that, I kept them for a long time. Ignore them, I didn’t expect them to multiply so much. If Lao Chen had this idea, it’s not impossible.”
When Zhang An went to catch stone pounds in the mountains, he really didn’t think of using them. Making money is just to satisfy your own appetite.
But now that they have developed a large scale, Zhang An will not insist that he does not want to buy it. After all, this is making money. No one will think that his family has too much money. As long as they are not mentally ill, they will definitely not so.
"I think Fatty will definitely have some ideas. This stuff is really delicious. Just tell him. It's just a phone call away."
Ding Yi felt that if Fatty Lu had eaten this stuff, he would definitely have the idea of purchasing it, because even he wanted to buy some to sell in the supermarket.
“Don’t worry now, they seem to be entering the spawning season. Let’s wait until some time later. Anyway, just mention it to the fat man next time he comes.”
Zhang An There is no rush, the stone pound that will lay eggs must not be sold, and the stone pound he caught just now are almost all male.
Because after all, there is a saying that advises you not to eat fish in March.
Many fish in March contain fish roe, so it is not recommended for everyone to eat, and the same is true for stone pounds.
“Since we are about to lay eggs, we must wait for a while. After the eggs are hatched, your fenced-in area may not be enough.”
Not yet. I wonder if the taste of the stone pound with eggs will be affected. If you start selling it now, it is simply an undesirable behavior to catch all the benefits.
“This is not a big problem. When we really can’t support it in the future, we will expand it wider. Anyway, our fields are nearby.”
Zhang An is not worried about this. , almost all the fields next to the fish pond belong to their family, so he doesn't have to worry about having no place to raise them.
“Okay, I have to go back, otherwise I will be nagged for a long time if I go back late.”
I looked at the sky and saw that it was already getting a little dim. It was indeed getting late.
“But you, that stone pounder, get me a few more, I’ll take them back and let the old man and the others have a taste.”
Just before leaving, Ding Yi stared at him again Zhang An's stone pound.
He cannot be the only one to eat such delicious food. He must bring some back for his family to try.
"Hey, you were keeping a distance just now, but now you are thinking about it."
Zhang An still remembered that when he asked this man if he wanted to have a taste, he said His face was full of hesitation and confusion.
"Hey, I didn't know this thing before. Now that I know it's such a delicious thing, I definitely won't be the same as before."
Ding Yi chuckled, not at all He didn't care about Zhang An's teasing.
"Sure, then you can go catch it with me."
As soon as Ding opened his mouth, Zhang An would not refuse. Anyway, he has plenty of stone pounds here, and there are not enough. Move out of space.
After returning to the house and finding a plastic bag, Zhang An and Ding Yi went to the fish pond again to grab stone pounds.
“Here, do you want to try again? This thing is really nothing.”
Zhang An opened the mesh and grabbed a fat stone pound from inside. He handed it to Ding Yi and asked him to catch it himself and give it a try, because this person just didn't dare to try it, and he was not even as good as a three-year-old child in the village.
"Just catch them, I'm not afraid of them now."
In ancient times, wine strengthened the courage of bears. Now after eating such delicious stone pounds, Ding Yi The previous fear of this stone pound has been completely eliminated. After all, the desire for food can really make people overcome many fears.
“These things are really fat, but they are really strong. You can feel their hind legs exerting force when you hold them in your hands.”
“Of course, It is difficult for a normal stone pound to grow to such a big size, especially the one in your hand, which weighs almost one and a half pounds. It is naturally very fat and strong.”
In fact, the one Zhang An just caught is not Zhang Anyang. The ones in the backyard.
After all, it has only been raised for a year. There is no way for it to grow so big if there is no space and spring water outside.
These large stone scales were all part of the space that Zhang An moved out of the space after putting the stone scales captured from the old house into them.
Then Zhang An stared at the fish pond, and he caught every fat guy on the shore.
These guys are all blind, and Zhang An's movements are relatively fast and there is no sound. They were caught off guard by Zhang An.
“There are too many, Zhang An, please stop catching them. These ones are all so big. We won’t be able to finish them all if we take them back to our house. You’d better put some back.”
Seeing that Zhang An had caught more than a dozen in a row and still showed no intention of stopping, Ding Yi quickly spoke up and called Zhang An to stop.
The smallest of the stone pounds that Zhang An caught weighed about a kilogram, and a dozen weighed at least a dozen kilograms. If he took them all back, he would definitely not be able to finish them all.
"Okay, if you still want to eat it after you finish eating, come back and grab it."
Zhang An thought about it for a while, this thing is only delicious when it is fresh.
I asked Ding Yi to take back so many. If he couldn’t eat them all, the others probably wouldn’t survive for long, and they wouldn’t taste good by then, so he caught several of them from the bag and put them back into the fish pond. In the end, five or six of the largest ones were left.
"How about you kill it for me by the way? My mother and the others have never seen this thing before, so I'm afraid they won't be able to do it."
Just now Zhang An was handling the stone pound. At that time, Ding Yi was watching from the side. He couldn't bear it. Most people really couldn't do this.
"Why don't I heat up the oil in the pot, and you can take it back when it's done."
Zhang An originally wanted to tease this guy a few words, but when he thought about Li Li and Aunt Ding's family, they didn't even dare to chicken. Kill, let alone stone pound.
As the saying goes, a good man goes to the end and sends Buddha to the West. It only takes a few stone pounds and it doesn't take much effort.
“Speaking of Zhang An, besides frying, are there any other delicious ways to make this thing?”
While Zhang An was handling the stone pound, Ding Yi had been following him. Ask him about some methods of stone pounding.
Although he doesn’t know how to cook, he can tell his mother when he gets home, because since their parents and old man came over, Aunt Ding has been cooking, because in a short time in the small county town Couldn't find a suitable nanny.
“Then there are many things to do. The simplest one is hot pot, which tastes very good. However, it is recommended to add more chili peppers and Sichuan peppercorns to make it more enjoyable. There are also stir-fried, braised, etc. It’s very delicious.”
Zhang An told him what he knew without reservation. The method of making this thing is actually very simple.
“Okay, everything is done. It’s best not to leave any leftovers if you can finish the meal after you go back. If you really can’t eat it, you can put it in the refrigerator for a second meal, but on the third day, Otherwise it really won’t taste good.”
The prepared stone weighings must not be placed in plastic bags, so Zhang An took out a soup bowl from the kitchen and gave Ding a handful of stone weighings to put in. Put it in a bag and hand it to Ding Yi.
Speaking of which, these bowls were all sent by Ding Yi. When he went to purchase them before, whenever there were good-looking porcelain bowls, he would take a copy home and also send a box to Zhang An's family. Then Ding Yi returned to the house and greeted Zhang Jianguo and the others before driving back to the city.
After Zhang An sent Ding Yi away, he returned to the house and chatted with his father-in-law for a long time. After all, in two days, his mother-in-law and his father-in-law will go back. .
Little Siqi is no longer clinging to Zhang An as before, but is being held by his grandma.
This is actually a change in the past few days. A few days ago, this little guy didn't know why, but he suddenly became obsessed with watching cartoons.
Although Zhang An would show it to him, he wouldn't let him watch it for a while because he was still young and watching TV all the time would affect his eyesight. Zhang An didn't want his son to wear it in the future. Big glasses.
But the little guy disagreed. When Zhang An put the TV on for him to watch, he was fine. Once he was not allowed to watch it, he started to make a fuss.
And Wang Fang dotes on her grandson very much. When the little guy loses his temper, she quickly brings little Siqi over and continues to let him watch TV.
From then on, the little guy no longer clung to Zhang An as before, but preferred to be led by Wang Fang.
Even sometimes Zhang An said that Xiao Siqi was still young and could not watch. Staring at the TV all the time would affect his eyesight.
But Wang Fang could always refute, saying that she had always held Xiao Siqi far away from the TV, so it had no impact.
In the end, Zhang An stopped talking. As soon as he opened his mouth, the old man was unhappy and the young man was unhappy, making him look like a sinner.
At nine o'clock, the cartoons were gone and the little guy started to yawn. Wang Fang poured a basin of warm water to wash his grandson's face.
"Mom, since he is so clinging to you, why don't you take him with him tonight."
Although little Siqi fell asleep, she still huddled in her grandma's arms. So Zhang An thought about letting his mother take him.
"Then you go to sleep by yourself. I took him to bed after washing him. He was very good last night and slept until dawn."
In this regard, Wang Fang Of course she wished it. In the past, although she could help take care of her grandson during the day, at night, her grandson couldn't live without her son and daughter-in-law. Now of course it is a dream to be able to take care of her grandson, and it was also the case last night. She brought little Siqi with her.
Zhang An returned to the room. Su Ying had already taken a shower and was drying her hair with a towel in front of the large mirror in the wardrobe.
"You came back, didn't you bring your son with you?"
Su Ying asked without seeing her son.
"He has been staying close to our mother. He brought it to her at night, so we don't have to carry it ourselves."
Zhang An walked behind his wife, took a dry towel from her hand, and helped dry her hair.
Actually, Zhang An is quite fond of it. His son used to be so clingy to him, but suddenly he is no longer clingy. He is really not used to it.
For example, now he will wake up habitually because he has to change little Siqi's diaper.
The saying that whoever has breasts is a mother is right. Now he likes to stick to whoever takes him to watch TV.
"But what if he gets up in the middle of the night and makes a fuss? Our mother won't be able to sleep by then."
Su Ying doesn't have any objections, she's just worried that her son will get up in the middle of the night and make a fuss, and that her mother-in-law won't be able to sleep. Not sleeping well.
"What's wrong with this? Even my son and my mother were taking care of him last night, and I didn't see him making any noise."
Wang Fang was taking little Siqi last night, and Zhang An was No sound was heard at night, which proved that the little guy didn't get up to make trouble at night.
“Okay, don’t worry about these things. My son happens to be away, so why don’t we work hard and give our son another younger brother and sister.”
After his hair was dried, Zhang An held his wife in his arms and whispered in Su Ying's ear.
After Su Ying gave birth to her child, her figure became more and more plump, but she did not gain weight. Zhang An always felt as if he was being tickled.
It’s just that since I had Xiao Siqi, it has become inconvenient to do anything.
Now that his son was finally taken away by his mother, Zhang An thought about making up for the homework he had owed before.
"Go, go, go, Qiqi is only half a year old, you are treating me like a pig."
Su Ying rolled her eyes at Zhang An, but did not pull away.
"I don't allow you to talk about yourself like that."
As he said that, Zhang An took Su Ying and started the development plan of the old Zhang family.
When Zhang An woke up the next morning, Su Ying was no longer around. He didn’t know when he got up.
When he got up and went downstairs, he found Teacher Su cleaning up the housework with his mother and mother-in-law.
The whole person looked rosy and full of energy.
Time flies and it’s the fifth day of the Lunar New Year.
At eight or nine o'clock in the morning, three people came to Zhang An's door.
One of them was holding something unknown in his hand, another was holding red paper with patterns on it, and another was taking the lead.
Because Zhang An’s family keeps many big dogs, they did not dare to go in directly after seeing them, and stayed at the entrance of the courtyard.
When he saw someone coming out of Zhang An's house, the leader started singing and singing, speaking in dialect and speaking very fast.
These people are here to send the God of Wealth, because everyone knows that the fifth day of the Lunar New Year is to welcome the God of Wealth.
They were not villagers in the village, and Zhang An didn’t know where they came from.
I only know that they will come to my door every fifth day of the Lunar New Year. This has been the case since childhood, but the number of people who come changes.
Zhang An didn't go over to talk to them because he didn't like these people very much, and he had been like this from his previous life to now.
Even though Zhang An now adheres to the principle of believing in something and not believing in it, he looks at the people who send the God of Wealth and shakes his head. He would rather go to the God of Wealth than believe these people.
In his opinion, these people just came to every house to ask for money in the name of giving gifts to the God of Wealth.
If they can really represent the God of Wealth, why don’t they give it to their own home first? Instead, they have to give it to other people’s homes, and they have to get the money before leaving. After all, how could the God of Wealth allow himself to be poor?
Although Zhang An didn't believe this, Wang Fang did, so when she saw these people coming to her door, she went out to greet the God of Wealth.
After welcoming the people into the main room, the person in the lead sang and sang for a while, and then the person holding the statue of the God of Wealth gave one to Wang Fang.
Then they waited for Wang Fang to give them money. Of course, Wang Fang would also give them some money in the end, but not a lot, just two yuan as quickly as everyone else.
After getting the money, the man who sang and sang gave a few more blessings before going out to the next house.
These days they are quite qualified. No matter how much or how little the host gives them, they will leave as long as they give them.
It’s not like in later generations, if the master gives them less, they just stay with them and won’t leave.
(End of this chapter)