Golden Fishing Village

The two were busy picking up wild rice stems. A tourist was attracted and asked, "Is this bamboo shoot?"

Ao Muyang smiled and said, "No, this is wild rice stem, but it is similar to bamboo shoots and is also a vegetable with many ways to eat it."

A tourist became interested: "How do you eat this? Where did you get it from?"

Ao Muyang pointed to the lake and said, "Wild rice stems grow under these wild rice stems. They are delicious. The key is that they grow naturally and are absolutely pollution-free. You can't eat them in the city. What you eat is also cultivated wild rice stems."

These days, anything that is associated with words such as wild, natural, and pollution-free will immediately double its value.

After hearing what Ao Muyang said, the tourist became interested: "Can you sell me some?"

Ao Fugui said, "Do I need to buy this? You can just go dig it nearby. It's the same."

The tourist said helplessly, "I didn't bring any tools, and I don't want to get my clothes dirty."

Ao Muyang and Ao Fugui were like mud monkeys, with mud spots all over their clothes.

Seeing this, Ao Fugui took a few cut pieces of wild rice and handed them to the tourists. The tourists asked, "How much is it?"

Ao Fugui waved his hand generously and said, "It's for you. Go to a fishing house in the village and pay a processing fee of ten or eight yuan. This is a dish."

Other tourists came up to ask for it after seeing it.

The two dug up a lot of wild rice, which was not valuable, so they were generous and gave a portion to each of the tourists.

The remaining two people divided it, and Ao Muyang put it in his backpack and walked home with the general and the head of state.

It was already evening, and the returning fishing boats were docked at the village pier. He went to take a look and saw that someone had fished some shrimps, so he left twenty yuan and took away some finger-long eagle claw shrimps.

Ao Mudong saw it and laughed: "Brother Yang, you haven't eaten enough shrimp? Tell me earlier, you don't have to spend money. My brother just left, and he got some shrimp today."

Ao Muyang said: "No, I can't eat much, go back and make a dish."

He was going to make a dish that was rare in local fishermen, called wild rice shrimp patties, which was one of the signature dishes of the hotel when he was in Beijing, and was very popular with girls and children.

There are many things to prepare for this dish, in addition to the usual oil, salt, sauce, vinegar, flour, and eggs, you also need bread crumbs.

Bread crumbs are extremely rare in mountain villages, but supermarkets sell bread, and Ao Muyang started to search for them.

Ao Mucheng's son Ao Luhan just got out of school. Seeing him carefully checking the bread, he said mysteriously: "Uncle Yang, you want to find the freshest and most delicious one, right? I'll find it for you. I have experience."

"Where do you get your experience?" Ao Muyang asked with a smile.

Ao Luhan said proudly: "I help my parents clean the shelves every day. I know exactly which ones are delicious and which ones are not."

Ao Mucheng, who was pouring wine for someone, curled his lips and said: "Look at you!"

Ao Muyang stopped Ao Luhan who was about to search and said: "No, I don't want fresh bread, I want the driest bread."

Ao Luhan was dumbfounded: "Ah? The driest? Dry ones are not delicious."

Ao Muyang said: "I have other uses."

Ao Luhan thought for a while and said: "I opened a loaf of bread in the morning and broke off a piece. There was a big piece left that was not packaged. It should be dry by now."

Sure enough, he went to the kitchen to look for it and found a dry bread.

Ao Muyang was about to take the bread away, and Ao Luhan chuckled and said, "A new bread costs ten yuan. I've opened this one, but I only ate a little. Give me five yuan."

"Okay, you really know how to do business."

Ao Mucheng shouted from behind the counter, "You little bastard, this broken bread has no one to eat, and you're still asking your uncle Yang for money? Give it to him for free."

Ao Muyang took the bread and left, saying, "Don't pretend. If you really want to give it to me, why are you shouting in there? Come out and give it to me."

Ao Mucheng chuckled.

After returning home, Ao Muyang rubbed the dry bread and rubbed off a bunch of bread crumbs.

Then he began to clean the eagle claw shrimps, pinching off the shrimp heads and tails, peeling the shrimp shells, washing the remaining shrimp meat and cutting it into meat sauce, adding some salt, cooking wine, ginger powder and five-spice powder to remove the fishy smell.

First, he removed the fishy smell from the shrimp paste, then chopped the wild rice into fine pieces, mixed them with flour and egg white, and mixed the shrimp paste and wild rice together to make small round cakes.

Finally, he dipped the small round cakes in the bread crumbs tray, turned on the oven and put them in, and the rest was waiting to eat.

The rotating needle of the oven ticked, and he went to the yard and lay under the Wanxiang tree to play with his mobile phone.

After a while, the delicious aroma of shrimp meat came out of the oven.

It was almost sunset, and suddenly someone knocked on the door.

Ao Muyang thought it was Ao Fugui, and laughed and scolded: "You bastard, you have a sharp nose. You came before dinner is out of the pot?"

"Uh, Brother Yang, are you ready to eat?" Ao Wenchang's somewhat embarrassed voice sounded.

Ao Muyang looked back and saw that it was him, so he smiled and said, "It's Wenchang, come and sit down, I thought it was Fugui, he always likes to come to my place to eat."

Ao Wenchang rubbed his hands and said, "Brother Yang, you eat first, I'll come over after dinner."

The fishermen eat late, because when the fishing boats come back, the moon is often dim, and every household eats dinner at eight or nine o'clock.

Ao Muyang said, "You can eat with me, you are a rare guest, I can't remember how many times you have come to my door on your own initiative since I was a child."

Ao Wenchang was not sociable since he was a child. He stayed in the classroom at school to study quietly, and when he went home, he stayed at home to study honestly, and never went crazy with them.

After Ao Wenchang was seated, he brought out the baked wild rice and shrimp cakes.

The cakes were only the size of a child's palm, with some bread crumbs on the outside, emitting an attractive fresh aroma.

Ao Muyang brought out a small plate of salt and pepper and a small plate of sugar, saying, "If you want salty food, dip this in it, if you want sweet food, dip that in it."

Ao Wenchang smiled awkwardly and said, "Thank you, Brother Yang, I'm not here to eat, I want to come and talk to you about something, I want to ask you for help."

"Talk while eating." Ao Muyang blew on the cake, and took a bite after it cooled down.

The cakes were made of wild rice and shrimp meat, and were very elastic. They had the freshness of shrimp and the fragrance of wild rice. They were delicious to chew.

Ao Wenchang wanted to eat one out of politeness, but he couldn't stop eating after eating one, and couldn't help but take another one to eat: "Hmm, Brother Yang, it's delicious."

Ao Muyang said: "Delicious, right? Haha, my cooking must be delicious. Tell me, what do you want me to help you with?"

After swallowing the shrimp cake, Ao Wenchang said: "Brother Yang, I want to work with you!"

"What for?" Ao Muyang asked subconsciously.

Ao Wenchang said: "To work on the sea, I persuaded my parents not to take the civil service exam and not to look for a job first. I want to try life on the sea first."

"I don't have a boat myself, and I don't have many acquaintances, but I know you are working with Uncle Daguo and others, so I want to ask you to do me a favor and take me with you."

"I know I'm a novice and don't know anything, so I won't ask for money first, just let me learn how to go to sea, and then I'll talk about salary when I become an old hand."

He said these words in one breath, and then he looked at Ao Muyang eagerly waiting for a reply.