Chen Qi couldn't understand. He felt like he had traveled to a different world. Could it be that the tastes of the humans here were different from those in his previous life?

The eel is such a thick and big wild eel, why doesn’t it taste good?

Foodies are not convinced! Neither are the wild fishing enthusiasts at the market!

Chen Shu was a little disdainful: "Hey, brother, if you want to eat, let's grab one and try it, and you will know."

As a result, when Chen Qi ate the steamed eel in the bowl at noon, he became a little suspicious of life. He just sprinkled a little salt and ate it in his mouth. It was indeed full of fishy taste and had a distinct earthy taste.

Chen Qi looked at the empty stove at home and finally understood what the problem was.

Eel was considered a home-cooked dish in his previous life, and the most common cooking methods were "stir-fried shredded eel" or "braised eel slices".

There are many seasonings here, such as garlic moss, green pepper slices, shredded ginger, green onions, pepper, salt, ginger, sugar, soy sauce, oyster sauce, cooking wine, monosodium glutamate, dried Sichuan peppercorns, dried chilies, Pixian bean paste, etc.

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Then fry it with heavy fire and oil, and even the soles of leather shoes will be fragrant.

But in today's rural areas, there are no seasonings of any kind, and the only vegetable oil and soy sauce at home were ruined by him.

Just a little salt can't remove the earthy smell of eel, so farmers don't like to eat it.

If you have time to catch eels, why not go to the mountains and get some wild boar, pheasant, and hare meat? Wouldn’t that be more delicious?

Originally, the eels could be sold to people in the city after being caught, but as the old saying goes, there is no way to transport them out, even if the cost of transporting them out is too high, it is easy for speculators to imprison them for "study".

Now it's better, not to mention there are too many eels, no one wants to eat the same loaches, snails, and the huge frogs are jumping around in the fields, they are powerful and fearless.

The most popular delicacies of this kind of late-night snack stall in later generations are really "If you ignore me now, you will not be able to reach me in the future."

This afternoon, Chen Qi held the textbook in his hand, but his mind had long been far away.

The so-called people rely on the mountains to eat the mountains, and rely on the water to eat the water. If he wants to make money, he can only rely on the output of the mountains.

Although God allowed him to be reborn in this remote mountain village, and his family was extremely poor, he was fortunate enough to have a golden finger.

People from Haidong Province are full of business genes. What should they do if they are so poor now?

Rely on the dead salary in the future?

Besides, even if you get paid, it will only be next year. Do you still have to eat bran-pharynx vegetables now?

Unknowingly, Chen Qi thought of his "predecessor" again.

The young man studies very hard and is cheerful. Unfortunately, he never has enough to eat at school and is often hungry.

Although there is no tuition fee for studying in technical secondary schools these days, you still have to pay for the textbooks yourself, which is not much, just a few yuan. This is not a big burden for the poor Chen family.

Another burden is that the subsidies for technical secondary schools are too small.

When I study in college, I get a subsidy of about 19 yuan a month. This money is enough to save a little, and I can occasionally spend a few cents to buy a movie ticket.

However, the subsidy for technical secondary school students was halved to only 10 yuan a month. All the money was exchanged for school-specific "money tickets", so they could barely make ends meet.

When the original owner was in the canteen, he usually ordered 4 taels of rice, a vegetarian dish, and some free vegetable soup, which only cost 17 cents in total.

Breakfast is even cheaper, usually two white flour buns cost 80 cents, but sometimes I just skip it because I feel hungry.

When he was seventeen or eighteen years old, it was the time when he was living in poverty. He had not bought meat for a long time and his stomach was short of oil and water. If Chen Qi really wanted to eat, he would probably be able to eat one or two kilograms of rice in one breath.

This is the standard of living. Compressed and compressed, 10 yuan is really barely enough to eat. If it weren't for the support of sweet potatoes at home, I wouldn't be able to survive.

The original owner was a scholar and never thought about making money. There is no place for work-study programs these days.

Now Chen Qi believes that reading is still necessary, because it is related to having a stable job in the future. But money also needs to be earned, so that the eldest sister does not have to carry bricks and the younger siblings can eat a lot of fat.

In order to avoid being too hungry during my student career, I always have to think of ways to work hard.

The 1980s were a time when the bold were exhausted and the timid were starved to death.

Then starting a small business is the most ready way.

Xiaze Village’s peach, bayberry, eel, loach, snail, and frog, aren’t they the best no-cost business?

Having made up his mind, Chen Qi deceived Chen Shu and Chen Hua: "Do you two want to eat meat again? Eat popsicles?"

The boys and girls nodded like they were pounding garlic: "Think, think, think."

"If you want, do me a favor. Brother, go to the fields and streams to catch eels and loaches these days. Sister, go touch the snails and catch frogs. The more the better, and you can catch as many as you want. Then you can mobilize your friends.

Catch them together."

Chen Shu became discouraged when he heard this: "Brother, why are you so stupid? Didn't I tell you that this thing can't be sold?"

Chen Hua also nodded.

Chen Qi crossed his arms and leaned back on the chair: "Who said you want me to sell it in Xingtang? Brother, I can go to the city to sell it."

"But, how are you going to transport these things out? Don't let them all die halfway."

"You don't need to worry about this. The immortal has his own clever plan. If you want to eat meat, just listen to my brother. I can even pass the technical secondary school entrance examination. What is this little difficulty?"

Both Chen Shu and Chen Hua were a little doubtful, but thinking that their brother had always been reliable in doing things, maybe he really had some solution.

So the three brothers and sisters were busy in the fields every day. In order to avoid being scolded as three fools, they were very cautious.

Touching snails is the easiest. In the paddy fields in summer, they are the most abundant. You can touch a sack in one day.

Catching frogs is also simple. Just hang a pumpkin stamen on a stick with cotton thread, and then go fishing in the field.

It's easier to get loaches. Just find a muddy area to plow through the mud, or find a ditch. After draining the water, there will be piles of loaches.

Catching eels is a little more troublesome, as they are all hidden in holes, but a country boy like Chen Shu had the best idea. He found a piece of wire from a bicycle wheel, sharpened one end and put it on a small stick.

Then dig some earthworms to use as bait, and you can go fishing for eels. The ones you catch are thicker than the others, which means the efficiency is a bit low.

In fact, the best way to catch eels is to put a hook in the field, put it down in the evening, and pull it up in the middle of the night. The number of fish caught in one night is definitely considerable. Unfortunately, Chen Qi has no money and cannot afford to buy a small fishhook, so he can only give up.

The eels, loaches, snails, and frogs harvested every day were all taken away by Chen Qi, and no one knew where they were put.
Chapter completed!