Chapter 53: Pull a water pipe to build a shelf and talk about planting fruits
The sun sets.
The sky is filled with glow.
Zhao Dahai walked to the corner, opened the lid of a large bucket, and fished out a few three-spot crabs and stone crabs. Yesterday, before pulling mussels, I took advantage of the low tide to catch nearly 30 kilograms of crabs on the waterline. As soon as I came back yesterday, I sold orchid crabs to Liu Gang's restaurant in the town. The total weighed 27 kilograms and 2 taels. Regardless of the currency price of 60 yuan per catty, I sold it for 1,632 yuan. I woke up two hours early and made a fortune and also left a delicious meal. It was really satisfying.
Zhao Dahai walked into the kitchen with a three-point crab and a stone crab. The three-point crab is a crab with three black spots on its shell. Needless to say, the stone crab is a common crab in reef areas. The common feature is that the price is not high, and you can’t sell it for a few bucks, so you can just keep it and eat it at home.
Zhao Dahai washed the rice and put it in the pot to cook. There are many ways to cook crabs, including steaming or frying. One method is to put a little oil in the pot without adding water, which is a bit like half-steaming and half-frying. Wash the three-point crabs and stone crabs and put them in the pot, and cover the pot. Within a few minutes, a stream of water steamed up, and the fragrance was overwhelming. I immediately opened the lid, took the plate, picked up the crab and put it on top.
Zhao Dahai set the table in the courtyard, loaded the rice and served the dishes, and called his grandma Zhong Cuihua to sit down and eat.
“Grandma!”
“The three-point crab is pretty big.”
“It’s fat!”
Zhao Dahai took the largest three-point crab, which weighed half a catty. He weighed it a little, pressed it with his hand, and it was definitely fat. He broke off the pliers, grabbed the four claws at one end with one hand and pressed the sharp corners with the other, and opened it with a little force. Remove the crab lid, clean the crab gills and put them into Zhong Cuihua's bowl.
“Wouldn’t it be better to sell it?”
“When will we be guarding the beach without food?”
Zhong Cuihua shook her head.
“Grandma!”
"All the valuable orchid crabs have been sold!"
"Keep these for yourself!"
Zhao Dahai picked up a stone crab and opened the lid. It was really fat. , despite its small size, it is not as good as the three-point crab and even less than the orchid crab. The shell is hard and not pleasing to the eye, but the taste is definitely not bad. In the middle is a piece of salted egg yolk-like paste as big as a thumb, which is as big as three fingers. It's amazing that the crabs have such a paste. I took the chopsticks, picked out the paste and put it in Zhong Cuihua's bowl. This is a good thing.
After Zhao Dahai finished his dinner, he rested for a few minutes and started carrying buckets of water to the back of the house. He had been busy with mussels for the past two days, and his grandma did not care about helping him. The vegetable plot needs to be watered well now that I have time. The sea breeze is strong and strong and it is dry, so the vegetable plot needs to be watered well.
The moon is at the zenith.
Zhao Dahai sat on the edge of the ground, sweating profusely. All the vegetable seedlings that had been moved in the ground came alive. When water was poured, the water was bright and green. Beans and loofahs grew very fast. In a few days, they were more than ten centimeters tall. It was twenty centimeters. After thinking about it for a while, I decided to cut bamboo to build a frame since I didn’t have much to do tomorrow.
Zhao Dahai took a rest and checked the fence that he had put up a few days ago. It was not loose or falling down. The bamboo was dense enough and there were no holes. He was relieved. He saw that the fastest-growing vegetables were almost edible. , if a chicken comes in, it will definitely be wiped out, which will be extremely depressing.
Zhao Dahai carried the bucket home and took all the mussel meat drying on the cement floor in front of the yard back home. At night at the beach, there is sometimes heavy dew, which affects the quality when it gets wet, making it difficult to sell well. price.
The next day.
Zhao Dahai got up early and cooked breakfast at around five o'clock. After finishing the breakfast, he took out the remaining porridge to dry and left it in the pot to heat up. After a while, grandma Zhong Cuihua woke up and could eat it. I went out on the motorcycle and rushed to the town in half an hour. I bought some meat and vegetables. Then I went to a hardware store to buy water pipes, glue, wire, nails, etc. When I got home, the sun had just risen and was less than a bamboo pole high.
Zhao Dahai saw that some of the mussels had been moved out to dry on the cement floor in front of the yard. He knew that his grandma had already gotten up and was busy with this matter. He quickly set up his motorcycle, put down his things and helped, and the two of them moved them out in a moment.
"Go and do your business!"
"I can do this by myself!"
Zhong Cuihua took a straw hat and put it on her head, and began to dig through the dustpan and grass one by one. Mussel meat on the table.
Zhao Dahai walked to the motorcycle, took the meat and vegetables back to the kitchen, took the water pipes and glue into the yard, and started to work. The vegetable field needed more and more water, and it was time-consuming and laborious to carry water all day long, one after another. It is very convenient to get a faucet after the water pipe reaches the yard. This is not a difficult task. It is just a matter of cutting off the water pipe in the yard, replacing the one-way head and the two-way head with a three-way head, and then reconnecting the water pipe with glue. If you can do these small things yourself, do it yourself. Hire others. No matter how big or small the job is, it will cost you at least two hundred yuan a day. It takes time and saves money to do it yourself.
After Zhao Dahai connected the water pipe, the glue had to wait for a while before he could test the water. He picked up a hatchet and went to the back hill of the village. He chopped a bunch of finger-sized bamboos, cut off the branches and leaves, and tied them with vines. , carried the vegetable patch behind the house, and began to build a frame for the beans and loofahs. I chose a suitable place in the middle of two or three beans or loofahs, and gently inserted the three bamboos into the soil, leaving a third of the top to rest on. Tie them together with the thin wire that I just bought. This tripod is very stable and cannot be blown by the ordinary sea breeze. After setting up all the shelves, the loofah and beans, which were about ten centimeters long, were tied to the bamboo with small wires.
"The sea." "Have a rest."
Zhao Dahai looked up and saw grandma Zhong Cuihua walking over with a kettle and a bowl. It was almost twelve o'clock when the sun rose to the center of the sky.
Zhao Dahai poured a bowl of water and drank it in one gulp. He pointed at the water pipe faucet that had just been opened. Remembering that he had not tested the water yet, he immediately ran back to the yard and turned on the faucet. He checked along the water pipe. Where the water was leaking, I took the soft water pipe I bought together in the morning, walked back to the vegetable field, connected it to the faucet, and pulled it into the vegetable field.
"Grandma!"
"When watering the ground, just hold the water pipe!"
"No need to carry the bucket."
"Make it easier!"< br>
Zhao Dahai pulled the water pipe and poured water over and over again. I am young and strong, so I have no problem carrying water in the yard, but I cannot be at home every day. I always go to the sea to fish to make money or something. My grandma Zhong Cuihua must help me water the vegetable fields, which is convenient and labor-saving.
"This is good!"
"Watering is easier and saves effort!"
Zhong Cuihua walked around the vegetable field, touching the triangular frame and the green vegetables. , and pulled out a few young grasses that had grown up.
“The sea!”
“There is land here. Someday you can get some fruit trees that we can grow and plant them.”
After Zhong Cuihua looked at the vegetable field, she walked back to Zhao Dahai and gestured at the ground behind the house. Many of them were empty.
"Okay!"
"Buy some seedlings and plant bananas. These things are very wild. If you plant them for a year or two, you can have something to eat."
Zhao Dahai He smiled and nodded. The vegetable field was big enough, so there was no need to open it anymore. It would be a waste of space. You had to plant something.
“What kind of bananas should I grow?”
"How much of this stuff can I, an old lady, eat?"
"Get some other fruit-bearing ones."
Zhong Cuihua shook her head.
“Okay!”
“No problem!”
"In a few days, I will go to town and buy some fruit-bearing fruits to plant. I will prepare them for my great-grandchildren!"
Zhao Dahai reacted immediately.
When Zhong Cuihua heard this, she kept nodding her head, and the wrinkles on her face opened with a smile.
Ugh! So awesome! Today’s collection is higher than yesterday’s! What a surprise!
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