Chapter 264: Grass-Wrapped Dumplings

Party Chen Shuji finished speaking angrily, then frowned, put down the teacup, stood up, and walked out.

"Walk faster, if it's too late to intercept, I won't care about you then."

Party Chen Shuji glanced at him with drooping eyes, "Can't you be more promising?"

"Promising enough, I've only been out to sea for less than half a year, can't become a fat man in one breath."

Party Chen Shuji shook his head, walked out with his hands behind his back.

Ye Yaodong felt anxious for him just watching his slow movements.

Lin Xiuqing was sitting in front of the stove cooking, heard everything from beginning to end, but didn't say a word. Hearing him say he was impotent, she couldn't even hold the fire tongs steadily, her ears turned red with embarrassment. This guy really has no taboos.

"Left?"

"Hmm, left, even said he had good news for me, made me happy for a while, it was just this?"

"If only we had ten thousand yuan." Lin Xiuqing felt some regret, she also felt it was a rare opportunity.

"Having ten thousand yuan is a good thing, but no need to announce it to everyone, the trouble that follows won't be small, and we don't have the ability and so much free time to deal with it? People fear fame, pigs fear being fat, when we have so much money that we're not afraid of people coming to take advantage, then it doesn't matter."

Lin Xiuqing blinked, feeling it made sense.

Ye Yaodong flicked her head, "Cook quickly, worked all day, starving."

The couple thought this matter Party Chen Shuji mentioned would pass once said, but didn't expect it wasn't over.

The whole family was bustling while eating dinner, Party Chen Shuji actually came over in a hurry again, Ye Yaodong's heart skipped a beat.

If this was intercepted, he wouldn't need to make this trip again, right?

"Adong, really sorry, I just came out to find you to confirm this afternoon, but when I went back and looked, the report had already been submitted, they were afraid it would be too late and submitted it in advance."

"That group of people in the village committee all felt you should be close, maybe a bit short, and the village would help make up a little, borrow it for you to move for a few days, so they acted on their own," Party Chen Shuji apologized sincerely as soon as he walked in.

Ye Yaodong was startled and threw down his chopsticks and stood up, "Damn... you guys are messing around! Didn't I say, I'm a big chunk short? You guys are acting first and reporting later, really think money is so easy to earn?"

"Sigh, I don't know either, I told them this afternoon to ask you, who knew they were afraid of being snatched by other villages, and worried it would be too late, if it was delayed until tomorrow, they just submitted it directly. Who told you to be in the limelight too much recently..."

"Damn, you guys acted on your own and blame me?"

Party Chen Shuji smiled awkwardly, "Look, it's already submitted, why don't you fill in, and when people come, you just tell the story of your fishing experience during this time? The village will borrow a little for the short money?"

"Don't need to return it? I'm short 9,000 yuan!"

He raised his voice, "9,000 yuan? Are you kidding me?"

Party Chen Shuji shook his head like a rattle, "That won't work, that's borrowing, not giving, no matter how much money, after dealing with it, it has to be returned."

"Then why are you talking nonsense, I thought it was given directly, then I would reluctantly fill in."

"Look at what you're saying, how many people squeeze their heads wanting to be a ten-thousand-yuan household without this opportunity, that's public commendation, and getting on the newspaper, this opportunity is right in front of you..."

Ye Yaodong scrunched up his face and waved his hand, "Can't help, can't help. I'm an honest person, can't do this faking thing, you find someone else, when people from the county come, just take them to someone else's house, I really can't. There are quite a few people in the village who made a fortune recently, go ask them, just arrange someone to fill in."

Party Chen Shuji automatically skipped the sentence where he said he was an honest person, and also felt it was a bit difficult to handle now, stuck in the middle, should have known not to think about those empty names at the beginning.

"Really can't?"

"Really can't!"

"I'll see the situation first, why don't you stay at home for the next few days? Stay at home first, maybe people will come at any time?"

Really damn it!

"I don't care," he stared gloomily at Party Chen Shuji, "One day not going to sea is one day's loss, you compensate me? Nothing to do and hard to find trouble for me..."

"I'll go back and discuss, we'll look around again, let's talk like this first, you also have a count in your heart, I'm leaving..." Party Chen Shuji said while retreating.

"What's called having a count in your heart? Won't you still want me to bite the bullet and fill in... hey... speak clearly..."

Ye Yaodong stood at the door and shouted, only to see Party Chen Shuji's footsteps walking faster and faster, and later running, as if afraid he would chase him.

Ye Yaopeng and Ye Yaohua, who had just returned, also heard his voice and walked out of the house one after another, "What's the matter, Third Brother?"

"What's wrong? What did Party Chen Shuji come to find you for? Where are you going?" Ye Yaopeng looked at the receding back and asked puzzledly.

"Damn it, dug a hole for me, and insisted on calling me to jump, nothing to do, want to be pissed off by him..."

"What's the matter?"

"Say it and let's hear?"

Ye Yaodong looked at his two brothers' curious appearance, feeling there was nothing to say. If the two sisters-in-law knew, and then shouted everywhere, it wouldn't be peaceful again, and it might even solidify his reputation as a ten-thousand-yuan household, really damn it.

"Nothing, nothing, the matter hasn't arrived yet, I'm just complaining, everyone go eat first!"

"Really nothing? Just saw your reaction was so big..."

He waved his hand and went straight into the house, "We'll see!"

After eating, he still had to attend the literacy class. He now goes as long as he can make it, and if he can't, he stops, anyway, it's always open.

During the day, he originally wanted to find Acai to order bait, but after being intercepted by Party Chen Shuji and going home, it was delayed for a long time. When he went over, there weren't many miscellaneous fish and shrimp left. As soon as it was afternoon, he was loading the car while receiving goods, without prior explanation, generally depending on luck.

Without bait, he still had to go to sea as usual at night, longline fishing couldn't be done, he still had trawls and gillnets. As for the ten-thousand-yuan household matter, where would he have time to sit at home and wait.

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As for whether people from the county will come? Will they still ask him to fill in? Or have they already found someone else? This is not within his consideration, it wasn't his wish in the first place.

Went to sea for four consecutive days, and collected the goods from the ground cages that should be collected.

In winter, fish activity is low, and it's easy to get windy in the afternoon. Recently, it has been windy at two or three o'clock and returned early.

Roughly, the daily income is more than forty, sometimes with the goods from the ground cages it's sixty or seventy, no big goods, but receiving goods is also pretty good, after deducting oil money, a lot can be left, always better than being idle at home.

The weather was sunny for more than ten days, he only went to sea for four days and then it became windy and rainy, turning into cloudy and rainy weather. Good thing he dried everything that should be dried in the previous days, dried fish, sweet potatoes, radishes, all dried and stored.

Although rainy days are a bit uncomfortable, in the dead of winter, the weather is dry and won't be very humid, it's just that the temperature dropped again, and the whole family is wrapped in the quilt after eating every day, reluctant to get up.

It was cloudy and rainy for several days, Lin Xiuqing was idle at home with nothing to do, thinking it was almost winter solstice, and she dried radish strips a few days ago, and Ye's mother brought newly made sweet potato starch, so she planned to make some rice dumplings to eat.

Locally, rice dumplings are also called "Grass-Wrapped Dumplings."

Eating rice dumplings on winter solstice is a local custom, generally they will be made in advance and placed there, and when you want to eat, you can steam a few at any time.

Actually, she also didn't want to get up early to cook breakfast, the weather was too cold, make some rice dumplings and put them there, every morning just get up and steam a few, simple, convenient, and delicious.

After Ye Yaodong knew she wanted to make rice dumplings, he was also excitedly wanting to collect materials for her. Squid must be put in rice dumplings to be delicious. He hadn't been to sea for a few days, and there was no stock at home.

So early in the morning, he aimed at the time and planned to go to the road in the center of the village to wait. Today the wind was very strong, but there was no rain, there should be small carts coming to sell goods. Recently it was winter solstice, there must be squid meat for sale on the small carts.

As soon as he arrived, he saw many women surrounding the small cart buying things, more than half were buying squid, it was almost New Year, generally families were willing to spend some money.

Not to mention winter solstice was coming, for the locals, winter solstice is a very important solar term.

Ye Yaodong waited for those women to finish grabbing, then bought all the remaining squid meat. The squid sold on the small stall wasn't the small squid on the market, but a super large whole piece of squid meat, cut as much as you want.

This size of giant squid is only available in the deep sea, it's large, and the meat on its body is especially thick, spread out it's one or two times larger than a cutting board.

The remaining squid meat was about one jin, enough, the small vendor directly used a knife to poke a hole, used a straw rope to pass through and handed it to him, he also let the vendor cut a strip of three-layer meat, grass-wrapped dumplings also need meat.

Other ingredients were complete at home, no need to buy.

After returning home, Lin Xiuqing called him to wash sweet potatoes and scrape the skin, she went to pull celery and garlic leaves, must stir-fry the filling first, didn't buy meat and squid, she didn't dare to prepare in advance.

Meat diced, squid diced, celery and garlic leaves cut into small sections, then stir-fry with radish strips and season.

They locally like celery very much, like to put some celery in everything they cook.

Good thing it was an earthen stove, large enough, convenient for stir-frying, not long after, a large basin of fragrant filling was out of the pot.

The two children waited on the side and were already drooling from the smell, Lin Xiuqing dished a small bowl for each of them, and sent them away, so as not to be in the way.

Then she immediately put the peeled sweet potatoes into pieces and steamed them in the pot, preparing to mix them into the sweet potato starch later.

The dough made this way is reddish-brown, especially Q-soft, can also not put fresh sweet potatoes, just put it and it tastes better, not putting it and steaming it will be white, or can also put purple sweet potatoes, so the steamed grass-wrapped dumplings will be purple.

Ye Yaodong saw her busy spinning around, thinking there was sweet potato starch not dished out, took an empty canned bottle, went to the sack to scoop the newly made sweet potato starch from a few days ago, poured more than half a basin before starting to add water and mix the dough.

"You can?" Lin Xiuqing questioned looking at his movements, she had never seen him do it.

"Just mixing dough, what can't I do? I have great strength, just right for kneading."

"This bit of sweet potato starch is not enough, need to mix another basin, wrap more, and send some to the old house later."

"Any sugar, wrap some sweet ones, the old lady loves sweet grass-wrapped dumplings."

"I also love sweet ones!" Ye Chenghu was eating the salty filling, not forgetting to order a sweet one.

Lin Xiuqing didn't pay attention to the eldest son, "Then you go to the small shop later and buy some peanuts to crush, there is white sugar at home."

Ye Yaodong nodded. ===== CHAPTER 265 =====