My Courtyard Refuge

: Fish Forest

“Mom, we’re back.”

Mama Xu ran out with Xiaobao in her arms, and asked concerned: “Have you bought the fish yet?”

“I bought it back, and I have half a car!” Yang Lina replied with a smile.

“Let me see.”

Xu Dong opened the car door, and Xu Ma couldn’t wait to go forward and look through it a few times, and said with satisfaction:

“That’s right, it’s a small wild fish. In the past, you would have to buy it for ten yuan a catty in the market.”

“Mom, what to do with these fish?” Xu Dong asked with a headache.

Small miscellaneous fish weighing more than a thousand catties, the largest one is no bigger than a palm, if it is handled one by one, it will probably drive people crazy.

Yang Lina suggested: “Why don’t you pick out the big ones and make salted fish, and feed the small hairy fish to the chickens!”

“No, it’s too wasteful.”

Xu’s mother shook her head again and again, how could the fish that cost half a million yuan to buy back be used to feed chickens, what an international joke!

“Then Mom, what do you want to do?” Yang Lina was not angry either, she was in a good mood after buying so many fish today.

Mother Xu thought for a while and said:

“The big ones can be made into salted fish as you said.

Don’t gut the small ones, just dry them into dried fish. Wild fish eat grass and are not dirty at all. That’s what your dad and I ate when we were young.

Uh, finally pick some and put them in the refrigerator to freeze. The fresh taste is better, and it will be fine to eat until the Chinese New Year. ”

“Okay, just do what mom says!” Xu Dong agreed ahead of his wife.

Yang Lina usually likes to be clean, so she may not be able to accept this kind of dried fish.

“Then hurry up. I heard from the weather forecast that there may be rain for a few days, and it will be troublesome if there is no sun.” Mama Xu worried.

Xu Dong comforted: “It’s okay, isn’t there an oven at home, and charcoal grilling is the same.”

“The oven is so big, how can it cook so many fish?” Mama Xu said angrily.

“All right, all right, I will listen to your old man.” Xu Dong immediately “surrendered”.

For the next dinner, there was a large plate of braised crucian carp and crispy river prawns, and the sisters Ke Ke ate happily.

After dinner, except for Yang Lina who had to take care of the triplets, Xu Ma called everyone else together and began to deal with the small miscellaneous fish.

Even the twins have to help.

“Ke Ke, Le Le, you two try to pick out all the big fish, you know?”

“Grandma, how big is a big fish?” Lele asked puzzled. In her eyes, there was no big fish in the plastic bucket at all.Mama Xu asked her little granddaughter to open her palm and gestured, “Anything longer than your palm is considered a big fish. Pick them all out and put them in the red bucket.”

“I see.” Lele nodded, and Ke Ke next to him had already started picking fish.

Xu Ma’s side, including Xu Dong and Xu Dad, are responsible for killing the fish. Since the fish is too small, the tool for killing the fish is simply scissors.

The first step is to simply scrape the fish scales; the second step is to cut off the fish head; the third step is to cut the fish belly; the last step is to tear off the internal organs.

After working continuously for more than an hour, Xu Dong was so tired that he could hardly straighten his waist, and two large blisters were also rubbed on his fingers.

In this way, everyone finally finished processing a large bucket of miscellaneous fish.

And for such barrels, at least five or six barrels will come, which makes one’s scalp tingle just thinking about it.

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“Okay, let’s stop here tonight, Keke, Lele, you two hurry up and take a shower, your body smells like fish,” Mama Xu ordered.

“understood.”

“Don’t spray the flowers, wash with water in the basin.” Mama Xu reminded.

It’s not that the old lady is used to being stingy, it’s just that the tap water supply is tight recently, and there is often no water for a whole day, so the water in the water tank should be used sparingly.

…

When Xu Dong lay on the bed, it was already past ten o’clock in the evening.

“Oh, I’m exhausted!”

Yang Lina was applying a facial mask, and said distressedly: “Husband, do you want me to massage for you?”

“Okay!” Xu Dong immediately turned over and lay down on the bed, pointed to his lower back and said, “Press here, I’m almost sore.”

Yang Lina came over and asked while pressing, “Is this strong enough?”

“Put on harder!”

“how about this?”

“Okay, just this strength, just right.” Xu Dong kept moaning, it was really too comfortable.

Pressing and pressing, Yang Lina suddenly said: “Husband, my mother wants to come to Yanjing to see us?”

“Who do you think is coming?”

Xu Dong immediately turned over, and his back was no longer sore.

“My mother, your mother-in-law.” Yang Lina repeated.

“No, anyone can come, but your natal family can’t.” Xu Dong shook his head and said, it’s really this family who did things too badly.

This thing sounds bloody.

Back then, when he married Yang Lina, the 300,000 gift money agreed by the mother-in-law would be given to his daughter as a dowry.

What people want is to be decent, Xu Dong foolishly believed it.

In the end, let alone 300,000 yuan, there was no dowry for a dime, and the young couple quarreled for half a month because of this.

Although the two finally reconciled.

But after this incident, the two sides fell out completely. Xu Dong didn’t hate the other party for being greedy, but hated them for cheating his own daughter.

Over the years, Yang Lina has also never returned to her natal home.

“My mother has no other intentions. She just wants to come and see Keke, Lele, and Dabao. The children haven’t seen their grandma yet?”

After all, so many years have passed, although Yang Lina is still angry in her heart, she really can’t bear to reject her elderly mother.

“I don’t agree, and I can’t say more.”

Xu Dong unconsciously raised his voice. In the previous life, the mother-in-law never visited the grandchildren at all, and Lu Yang obviously got closer.

“Okay, okay, if you can’t do it, you can’t do it, why are you talking so loudly?” Seeing that her husband was agitated, Yang Lina had to temporarily give up persuading her.

Next, the couple had a good communication.

Xu Dong finally added: “Anyway, I won’t let your mother and the others enter our house. Don’t blame me for being ruthless. I’m also doing it for the good of our family.”

“Okay, let’s go to sleep!”

Yang Lina sighed, and at the same time put away the idea of ​​letting her mother come to Yanjing. It’s hard for her family to come to this day, so it’s not worth fighting over such a trivial matter.

Nothing to say all night.

Early the next morning, Mother Xu secretly called her son aside: “Third brother, did you quarrel with Nana last night?”

“Nothing.” Xu Dong quickly denied.

“You still say no? It was so loud that your dad and I could hear it downstairs.”

Xu Dong had no choice but to tell what happened last night.

Mama Xu exploded immediately after hearing this: “Smelly shameless, dare to come to our house, who will give her face?”

Xu Dong let out a “hush” and told his mother to keep her voice down. If his wife heard it, it would only intensify the relationship between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law.

Mama Xu restrained herself a bit: “Hmph, don’t worry about the third child, I have Mom at home, I want to see if she dares to come in.”

“Mom, don’t worry, Nana promised me that she would not let those people come to our house without my consent.”

“It’s still plausible!”

In the next two days, after the diligent work of the family, more than a thousand catties of small miscellaneous fish were finally finished.

Half of it was made into salted fish, and the other half was directly dried into small dried fish. In a blink of an eye, the yard became a “fish forest”.