Quick Transmigration: When Can I Just Lay Down and Wait to Die?

Chapter 168 The Rural Girl in "Metamorphosis" 11

Early Sunday morning, Liu Yuxi went to collect eels in baskets, but only managed to collect a little over 6 jin (3 catties) from 18 baskets.

She knew she couldn't sell these eels anymore; she couldn't just let them disappear completely. Would she sell them again next year? She took the baskets home with her.

I bought another 20-plus jin from the stock, so I only have about 6-70 jin left at home. I'll save it for later.

I took the eels to town, used the extra 50 jin from my spatial storage to sell them, bought a black-boned chicken to stew with a turtle. I also have an old turtle at home, which I fed this week. I also bought two jin of shrimp and a jin of meat, and brought meat buns home.

Today is Saturday, so her grandma cooked porridge and waited for her to eat breakfast together. After breakfast, her grandma went to feed the chickens, while she washed the eel basket and hung it in the yard to dry, so it could be used again later.

After cleaning the eel basket, it was almost noon. I cooked braised pork with potatoes, braised prawns, stir-fried two vegetarian dishes, and made a "Farewell My Concubine" dish with medicinal herbs. It was very good. Lin Ziye ate too much at noon again.

Liu Yuxi's cooking skills are already quite impressive. I believe that even after Lin Ziye returns to the city, he will still miss her cooking.

After dinner, Liu Yuxi went up the mountain to collect firewood several times. When the original owner was still alive, her grandmother would collect small, dry branches from the foot of the mountain to make firewood for the family.

After she arrived, she stopped letting her grandmother collect firewood. She would just go up the mountain a few times and that would be enough for the grandmother and granddaughter for a long time. However, they would have to collect more firewood during the summer vacation because they would need it in the winter.

While on the mountain, she also used her mental power to gather a lot of medicinal herbs and wild fruits. She was used to storing these in her space, and it wasn't much trouble, so she did it casually.

In the evening, Lin Ziye asked if he wanted to go and set off the lobster traps. Liu Yuxi said he would get up early the next morning. Lin Ziye was a little disappointed, knowing that he couldn't get up and that Liu Yuxi wouldn't wake him.

After a listless dinner, they returned to Widow Sun's house. Liu Yuxi also went to bed early, anticipating a bumper harvest of lobsters the next day.

The next morning, Liu Yuxi brought a bucket and a dead eel from a vat to the fishpond, untied the rope from the tree by the pond, and began to retrieve the shrimp traps.

The shrimp trap was too heavy, and she wouldn't go into the water. She could have pulled it up by brute force, but she was afraid of breaking it, so she used her mental power to help her.

She bought a 9-meter-long shrimp trap. When she pulled it up, there were probably more than 100 kilograms of lobsters inside. Wow, that's too many! I'll have to store them in my storage space first, because I don't have enough room at home.

Throw the small and lobsters with roe back into the pond, and put the rest into an empty swimming pool in the space, also removing some water from the pond.

Arrange the shrimp traps, put in half a chopped eel as bait, and place them in another empty fishpond.

The two shrimp traps yielded a total of about 260 catties of lobsters. About 20 catties were left in the outer bucket, which was filled when she arrived in town. To make it easier to handle, she put a lid on the bucket.

It was the same seafood vendor. He bought it for 8 yuan per kilogram, as he had previously said. The bucket weighed nearly 50 kilograms, and he sold it for 380 yuan.

I saw some mandarin fish at the fish market today, so I bought a few to cook with tofu. I also bought a pound of beef brisket before going home.

When I was almost home, I put about ten pounds of crayfish in a bucket. Tonight, I must have crayfish to my heart's content.

When I got home, I gave my grandma 350 yuan: "Grandma, there are so many crayfish in that pond. I reckon they can be sold much longer than eels."

The old lady has been earning a considerable income every day lately, and she's always cheerful, no longer showing any of her former worries.

She took the money and said, "Okay, I'll save all this money for you to use when you go to college. You earned 3500 yuan a week from eels, and with the crayfish, if you can earn this much every year, I won't have to worry about anything in the future."

"Grandma, don't worry. When I caught the eels, I put the small ones back in. I'm sure I'll have about the same income next year. The same goes for the crayfish; I put the small ones and the ones with roe back in."

"That's the way to do it. We can't just catch them all at once. How about we take the remaining eels to town and sell them? They'll fetch a thousand or so yuan!"

Seeing that her mother really couldn't bear to eat it, she said, "Okay, I'll take it to town to sell later. If you want to eat it again, I'll go and make some more!"

"Row."

After talking to her grandmother, she rinsed the lobster several times, adding some salt to the last rinse water to help remove a lot of dirt from the lobster's body and gills.

Lin Ziye was very excited when he saw the crayfish in the bucket at noon. He also loves to eat crayfish. Unfortunately, there was no beer for him. Don't say that he is underage or anything like that. Can beer be called alcohol?

"Can we eat tonight?"

"Sure, you eat spicy food, right? I'll make one garlic and one spicy for tonight."

"Haha, okay, just let me know if there's anything I can help you with, but I don't know how to clean this thing."

"It's okay, I'll take care of it later. Just come over this afternoon when you're done with your work and peel and mince the garlic for me."

"Okay, I'll work faster this afternoon and try to come earlier."

"Great!" Foodies have endless potential when it comes to food.

As expected, Lin Ziye returned more than half an hour earlier than usual in the evening. When he arrived, he was asked to peel the raw garlic cloves one by one, and Liu Yuxi gave him a demonstration.

I took a few raw garlic cloves and placed them on the cutting board. I flattened them with the flat of a knife, then picked out the garlic skins. I pushed the flattened garlic cloves aside with the knife, intending to mince them later.

Liu Yuxi then went to process the crayfish. First, he changed the water twice, then he used a clean shoe brush to scrub the crayfish, and changed the water twice more.

Grab a lobster, first pinch the middle shell of the tail, pinch and pull to pull out the intestinal tract, then pinch the lobster's eight small claws with one hand and pull downwards to pull out the claws and gills. Those gills filter dirt every day, so they're not healthy.

Next, use scissors to cut off the head along the triangular mark on the shrimp's head, and shake out the contents of the head. These are not good, so discard them all. That's how you process a shrimp.

With the aid of her mental powers, Liu Yuxi processed the items relatively quickly. She didn't throw away the unwanted parts; they could be used to feed the chickens, and the shrimp shells were even a good source of calcium.

However, ten pounds is too much. Even if Liu Yuxi is fast, it will be dark by the time he finishes processing it. Grandma's sweet potato porridge has been cooked for a long time, and now she is just waiting for Liu Yuxi's lobster.

Once the lobster was cooked, it was served directly in a small bowl; it wouldn't fit on a plate, and it wasn't satisfying enough.

Without disposable gloves, the group used their hands. Grandma ate the garlic flavor, Lin Ziye ate the spicy flavor, and Liu Yuxi, being young and with a weaker stomach, was not allowed to be spoiled because she was too strong.

She mostly ate garlic with her grandmother, and occasionally tried a spicy one to satisfy her craving. She had basically never eaten spicy food before. It was made for Liu Yuxi, and she had to drink two mouthfuls of porridge after eating a spicy one to relieve the spiciness.