EBE Chapter 481 Seafood
Chapter 481 Seafood
Zhou Mi casually picked up a pen, a piece of ink, and then the paper, and sighed: "Sure enough, it's better than what we bought. If we go to buy it ourselves, I'm afraid we won't be able to get it without more than a hundred taels of silver!"
Everyone nodded. Everyone in the family had been to the bookstore and had seen Zhou Guo buy things and pay for them, so they naturally knew the value of these things.
Zhou Guo sighed, "Shopkeeper Qin really spent a lot of money. He is really smart. My method is worth it!"
Zhou Gu opened the second box and everyone poked their heads in to look.
He found the second box, which was filled with food. Zhou Gu flipped through it and said, "What are these? I don't know what they are."
Zhou Guo looked through it and found that it was actually some dried goods, salted fish, dried shrimp, abalone, sea cucumber, scallops, even kelp, bird's nest, and dried meat. When he opened the bottom layer, he found tea, cakes, and some fresh fruits!
Dates, apples, oranges!
The old man didn't care about anything else. He first picked up the cake of tea, smelled it, sniffed it, opened it and looked at it. He couldn't help but patted his thigh and said, "Good tea!"
No one else in the family cared. They were not interested in tea and did not recognize things like abalone, sea cucumber and bird's nest. But they picked up all the dried meat, fresh fruits and pastries.
Li brought a plate from the kitchen, and Zhou Xing and the others put all the fruits and pastries on it to prevent them from getting suffocated.
Zhou Gu went to fetch water, washed the dates and apples, cut the big apples into small pieces, and placed them on a plate.
Everyone picked it up and ate it.
Zhou Gu said: "Hmm, delicious, sweet! This fruit is really sweet!"
Zhou Xing chewed the fruit and looked at the remaining things and said, "Right, these fruits are so delicious, so those should taste good too. I just don't know what they are. Sir, do you know what these are and how to eat them?"
The old man took an apple from the plate, looked at it and said, "These are the delicacies from the mountains and seas that we often talk about. This shrimp is so big, it must be caught from the sea. And these two are abalone and sea cucumber, and this white one with black hair is bird's nest. They are all precious and extraordinary things."
Looking at Zhou Guo, "What did you do? The shopkeeper gave you such a big gift. These things are not cheaper than your carts of pine mushrooms."
Everyone looked at her, "Yeah, why would he give you so many benefits for no reason?"
Zhou Guo said, "I didn't do anything. I just told him a way to keep the pine mushrooms fresh longer. The shopkeeper probably wanted to pick out the best ones and give them to the owner. If the owner is happy, the reward he gets will be much more generous than this little money. He knows that he won't get it if he doesn't pay a little. He even said that this method is worth it. I think so too. I'm afraid my method is too cheap."
Zhou Su was chewing some dried meat and nodding his head. After he finished ordering, he said, "The shopkeeper laughed as soon as he saw it and slapped the table. He said it was worth it. I was so happy just watching him."
Only then did the Li family feel relieved. If they had received such a great favor from others for no reason, how would they repay them? From ancient times to the present, favors are the most difficult to repay.
After listening to this, the old man picked up the oil paper bags of tea leaves on the table, opened one happily, and started to brew it. It had been several years since he had tasted such good tea.
Zhou Xing took a pair of prawns and looked at them, smacking her lips and saying, "I didn't know there were prawns this big. They are much bigger than those in the ditch. They are so big that I can eat two bites. I wonder how they taste."
Zhou Mai was also watching, "How about roasting a few and trying them now?"
The old man nodded, "Very good, very good, put the dried meat up as well. There is some meat in the kitchen, skewer it and grill some for us."
Zhou Guo was still sorting things. There were two large boxes with many types and quantities of things in them.
The four treasures of the study were all put into a box. Whoever had finished using them would take them out and put them in the box in Zhou Mai's room.
I moved a small box out of the house and put all the dry food in it. Then I freed up the big box and put cloth in it. I put all the remaining cloth in the house in it, and there was still room for a lot of clothes.
As for the several kilograms of tea, they were put into ceramic jars and placed in the old man's room.
Li smiled and said, "This box is quite big. It looks like it can hold a lot of things. It saves us from buying more boxes."
She went in and out, and she and Zhou Gu packed up all the things and put them into the house one by one, and then they joined in the barbecue.
We didn't even have time to count the money. Everyone wanted to taste the prawns. We had never seen prawns this big before, and they were all meaty when we took a bite.
Soon the fragrance wafted through the yard, and everyone grabbed one and ate it.
Zhou Gu and his friends were the first to eat. They blew on the shrimp and then bit into it, chewing even the head. As they chewed, they frowned and said, "This shrimp is big, and even its shell is hard. It's not like the small shrimp, whose skin is soft."
Zhou Guo blew on it and slowly began to peel the shell. "Who told you to eat it with the shell on? Just peel it off if the shell is hard."
Zhou Gu shook his head and said, "That won't do. It's not that this thing is very expensive, and it comes from far away. It's not easy to get it. We can't waste it. We have to eat the shell too. Although it's a little hard, it's delicious."
Zhou Mi and the others nodded as they ate, and none of them were willing to peel the shells.
No one in the family, except the old man and her, was willing to peel the shells.
Zhou Suli peeled the shell first, then ate the shrimp body bit by bit. For such a small shrimp, Zhou Xing only ate four or five bites. He ate for a long time before he got rid of half of it. After he finished eating the shrimp body, he started to eat the head and then the shell.
Zhou Guo said: "Don't bother with the shell. Why eat the shell?"
Zhou Su said: "I want to eat it. It's so delicious."
Each person grilled a shrimp.
A few people also wanted to eat abalone.
The old man said, "This needs to be soaked, just like dried vegetables. You can only eat it after it has swelled."
Each person gets one abalone.
Zhou Mai smiled and said, "We have benefited from the kindness of Mr. and Guo Guo. Now we have tasted all kinds of delicacies from land and sea. The food that rich families like to eat is now on our table. We can be said to have lived the life of a rich family."
Who says it isn’t? There are also fresh fruits and these exquisite pastries. If they were left to come by themselves, who would be willing to buy these under normal circumstances? Even if they want to buy them, they will only buy the cheapest ones.
The family tossed and turned until midnight, and went to bed without even counting the money.
The next day, after Zhou Guo finished his practice, he started to do the accounting and count the money.
After counting, he let out a long sigh. As expected, his family worked hard in the mountains from morning to night, but it was far less profitable than collecting goods from the villagers.
The old man sat down and poured himself a cup of tea before asking, "Have you figured it out?"
Zhou Guo nodded.
"How much did you make?"