Travel back to ancient times and open a Sichuan restaurant

Chapter 129

Xinghua Village has been fishing for two days. Today is the third and last day.

There were many people standing by the river, holding wooden buckets and basins in their hands, waiting for the village chief to distribute the fish according to the number of people.

Zhong Ruyi originally wanted to go home to get the wooden barrel, but Cuicui told her that the fish in their house had been divided up on the first day, and the eldest and second sisters-in-law had made it into pickled dried fish or smoked fish.

She was a little puzzled, "Why can ours be divided on the first day?"

Cuicui said, "Because the village chief said that two people from our family went fishing this year, so our family and several other families in the village who went fishing all got the first prize."

So that's how it is. This year it was the eldest and third brothers who went down, so they were able to share the fish first.

After all, it is still winter, and we have to take off our clothes and go into the freezing cold river. We have to pull the fishing net in the middle of the river and wait until all the fish that are stunned by the fish vine root drug jump into the fishing net before we can pull it.

This means standing in the water for more than half an hour. Many young people, even if they are in good health, cannot endure such exertion and often catch a cold after returning from fishing.

So many people are unwilling to come down, but if they don’t come down, no one will fish.

The village chief could only come up with this solution as a way of making up for it. After all, the fish caught on the first day were much larger than those caught on the next two days.

By the time the village chief had distributed the fish to the last few households, most of the people living by the river had dispersed.

Zhong Ruyi stepped forward and said, "Brother Dongzhi, come to my house quickly. I will make you some ginger water to drink so you don't catch a cold."

This was not the first time that Chen Dongzhi had been shirtless in public. He had taken off his shirt before when it was too hot to work in the fields.

But this was the first time he was shirtless in front of Ruyi, and he felt a little nervous, afraid that he would see disgust in her eyes.

He responded with a low "hmm", and finally couldn't help but look up to see her expression.

But when he looked up, he only saw heartache in Zhong Ruyi's eyes.

He stood there in a daze, not even hearing what she said next, just staring at her blankly.

Zhong Ruyi looked at his dazed expression with some concern, "This is terrible, could it be that he has been frozen stupid?"

She reached out and poked his chest, trying to wake him up.

Huh?

What hard pectoral muscles!

She had seen a video online before which said that the chest muscles are soft when relaxed, and only become hard when exerting force to pose.

So Dongzhi has such a heavy burden? He has to work hard to keep his muscles hard in front of her.

She couldn't help but poke it again, and it was indeed hard!

Chen Dongzhi was suddenly brought back to his senses by the poke. His ears turned a little red and he felt like the place where Ruyi had poked him was on fire.

Zhong Laosan next to him was about to roll his eyes to the sky. He had been standing aside, but when the little sister came, he could only see Chen Dongzhi and was only concerned about Chen Dongzhi.

He felt sick to his heart that his dear brother just ignored him.

He coughed loudly several times before attracting the younger sister's attention.

"Third brother, you're coughing! Go back and drink some ginger water quickly, or you won't pass on the cold to Brother Dongzhi!"

Zhong Laosan was originally feeling very relieved that his younger sister finally cared about him, but he was hurt by the last sentence.

"Let's go, Brother Dongzhi, to my house!"

Zhong Ruyi held Cuicui's hand and tilted her head to look at Chen Dongzhi who was putting on his coat.

Seeing him nodded, I couldn't help but smile.

"Third brother! Stop dawdling. Brother Dongzhi has already put on his clothes, and you are still standing there like an idiot!"

She turned around and saw her third brother still standing there stupidly. She couldn't help but say, "If you keep dawdling, I'll leave with Brother Dongzhi and won't wait for you!"

Zhong Laosan put on his coat with a look of grievance. He felt very cold when he just went into the water, but now that he was out, he felt okay. It might be because it was almost noon and the temperature was slowly rising.

The four of them walked back and met Aunt Wu who was talking to someone under a big tree at the entrance of the village.

Aunt Wu smiled as soon as she saw Chen Dongzhi, and asked when they came closer.

"Dongzhi, your mother asked me a few days ago if I had any leftover black cabbage seeds for her. I just happen to have some leftover. Why don't you come with me to my house and get some?"

Chen Dongzhi stopped walking. He wanted to go to Aunt Wu's house to get some vegetable seeds. He had heard from his mother the day before yesterday that Aunt Wu had some and wanted to give them some.

But he had already promised Ruyi to go to his house to drink ginger juice, so he was a little hesitant.

"Aunt, let my mother get it. I just got into the water and need to go back to change clothes."

Aunt Wu slapped her head a few times and said, "Right, right, right! Look at my memory. You just got in the water, so you should go back and change your clothes. I'll take the vegetable seeds when I'm free!"

After the few people walked away, Aunt Wu was still staring at Chen Dongzhi's back, nodding as she looked at him, and saying "not bad, not bad".

Zhong Ruyi always felt that there was something wrong with the way Aunt Wu looked at Chen Dongzhi, as if she was a little too enthusiastic. It felt weird. She turned her head to look at Aunt Wu who was still talking to someone, and saw that she was still staring at Chen Dongzhi. The feeling of something wrong became even stronger.

But she couldn't tell what was wrong at once. Maybe Aunt Wu was just such a passionate person, otherwise she wouldn't have quarreled with Aunt Tian over a single sentence.

After struggling for a while, she didn't take it too seriously and hurried home.

There is a jujube tree in front of the Zhong family’s door. Shitou, Tiedan and Xiaohe are playing under the tree.

Shitou had sharp eyes and was the first to see them. He dropped the tiles in his hand and ran up.

"Little aunt!"

Zhong Ruyi touched the stone that ran over to him and asked with a smile, "What's wrong? Why are you so happy?"

There were sesame seeds hanging on the corners of his mouth, and he was smiling brightly.

Shitou followed her and whispered to his aunt, "Mom just gave me half a bag of sesame cakes!"

No wonder.

His mouth was pouting just now so much that an oil bottle could be hung on it, but now he is in high spirits. It turns out that he was coaxed into good by his sister-in-law.

It seems that the sister-in-law still loves Shi Tou very much.

Cuicui heard the words "sesame cake" with her sharp ears. She pouted and said unhappily, "Shitou, you actually ate the delicious food and didn't give it to me! I usually save some for you!"

Shitou chuckled, "Sister, I'll keep it and give it to you later!"

Zhong Ruyi asked Chen Dongzhi and her third brother to sit in the main room and wait for a while while she went to the kitchen to cook a few bowls of ginger soup.

But when we got to the kitchen, my sister-in-law was already busy inside.

She asked casually, "Sister-in-law, what are you doing?"

Li Guihua raised her head and smiled, "My mother told me to come in and make some ginger soup for my uncle to drink to warm his body when he comes back from fishing."

It turned out that my mother had already asked my sister-in-law to cook, so she didn't need to do anything.

She looked at the sky and said, "Sister-in-law, let's have pickled fish for lunch. I see there are several big fish in the water tank."

Li Guihua had never heard of sauerkraut fish, but she had eaten fish stewed with sauerkraut, so it should be similar and the cooking method is not much different.

She nodded, "Okay! I'll ask your eldest brother to catch a fish, and we'll have pickled fish for lunch!"

"I'll do it at noon, and my sister-in-law can help me."

The ginger soup in the pot was ready. The sister-in-law scooped out two bowls and asked her to take it out.

Zhong Ruyi was holding two bowls of ginger soup in her hands, and the strong smell of ginger rushed straight into her nose.

Chen Dongzhi quickly took the two bowls of boiling ginger soup. Zhong Laosan was a step slower and cursed him as a flatterer in his heart.

He took the bowl of ginger soup from Chen Dongzhi's hand with a smile, "Thank you for your hard work, sister. I feel like I'm full of energy after drinking this bowl of ginger soup!"

Zhong Ruyi couldn't bear to look at him, "Third brother, mother asked sister-in-law to cook this ginger soup, and it was sister-in-law who worked hard."

"Then mother and sister-in-law have worked hard, and my younger sister has also worked hard to bring it over."

Cuicui, who was eating sesame cake nearby, made a pointed comment, "Uncle, you seem like a flatterer!"

Instead of feeling ashamed, Zhong Laosan felt proud of it, and even gave a smug look to Chen Dongzhi who was drinking ginger soup obediently next to him.