59 years after its opening, people are still in Nanluoguxiang.

On the way back, Chen Feng separated from them on the pretext of going for a walk.

"Brother, wait for me."

Chen Hao followed shamelessly.

"What are you doing with me? Go back."

Chen Feng drove him away rudely.

"Brother, I'm going to play with you."

Chen Hao felt a little aggrieved.

Big brother doesn’t love himself anymore!

"I'm going to go to the upper part of the creek to see the wild ducks. What are you going to do? Go back and play."

Chen Hao went back very disappointed.

Walking up along Zhoujiagou, Chen Feng found a deserted place and took out the twenty-six duck eggs from the two mallard ducks in the space.

The mallard duck placed in the space is a female duck, and it lays an egg almost every hour.

After laying eggs, the two ducks either go to the field to drink well water, or eat rice straw powder, bran, etc. in the fish pond, and then lie down in the nest to lay eggs.

Chen Feng felt a little guilty.

Fortunately, they were two ducks, and they were female.

If we put a male duck in here, in just a few days, the duck eggs would probably pile up into a mountain.

Can’t finish it!

There are also mallards in Zhoujiagou, but not near the entrance of the village. They are always upstream of the stream, far away from human habitation.

Just on the bank of the stream, a few villagers were trying to hunt wild ducks, holding a handful of bran and sprinkling it on the shore, using sticks to prop up a bamboo coop.

This kind of chicken cage is generally used to raise chicks. It is made entirely of thinly sliced ​​bamboo strips that are as wide as fingernails and one or two meters long.

The shape of the semi-sphere is similar to an inverted bowl.

The bottom is a hollow circle with a diameter of more than one meter. The top is hollowed out, revealing a palm-sized round hole at the top, which is specially designed for chicken farmers to spread rice to the chicks and to watch their condition.

If necessary, you can also reach in with your hand and grab the chick out.

The chicken coop covers the chicks inside, so they cannot run around and can only live obediently in the cage.

It is very difficult to catch wild ducks using this kind of chicken cage.

The ducks could easily knock the cages over, so they tied rocks around the cages with ropes.

Once the sticks holding up the cage were pulled away, the stones pressed down on the cage, increasing the gravity.

When I came back, I saw a group of skinny, malnourished children squatting at the entrance of the village playing in the mud.

They were all little puddings of two or three years old. The older ones were basically looking for food on the beach and in the fields.

When Chen Feng saw them, he shared one of the duck eggs that he had originally intended to leave for his grandparents.

I can’t finish it anyway!

"Come here, one for each of you."

Seeing the wild duck eggs in his hand, a group of children immediately surrounded him.

Pairs of little eyes stared at the duck eggs in his hand.

"Take it, go back and ask your father to cook it for you."

"This is a wild duck egg. Take it back and eat it."

"Thank you, brother."

Several elderly people watched this scene and were somewhat shocked when they saw Chen Feng taking out duck eggs from his pocket.

Duck eggs are not cheap, even wild duck eggs.

Someone asked, "Whose child is this? Where did all these eggs come from?"

"You are getting old and confused. Didn't you hear that they were wild duck eggs? They should be mallard eggs. A lot of mallards came to the fields the day before yesterday. Xiaowu and his friends set up a trap and caught a few."

"This child doesn't seem to be from our village."

"It must be Zhou Qing's son. He came yesterday."

"The child is kind."

There were twenty-four wild duck eggs, eighteen were distributed, and only six were left.

Just after the distribution, I saw several adults pulling children out.

"Tell me, who gave you the duck eggs?"

"Big brother, mother, I didn't steal the eggs."

The child felt very aggrieved and was about to cry.

Chen Feng walked over and said, "Auntie, I'm Chen Feng, my mother is Zhou Qing, I picked up wild duck eggs in the wild, and I saw that my brothers were lacking in nutrition, so I wanted to supplement them. I gave them these duck eggs."

"How can this be possible?" the visitor asked with some difficulty.

"It doesn't matter. I am half Zhoujiagou. What's a wild duck egg? It's not laid by a chicken. I picked it up from outside. It's a business with no capital in the first place."

Chen Feng had to explain it several times before he could explain it clearly to the adults who were arriving one after another.

When he returned, he realized that stealing, especially food, in a village like Zhoujiagou where people had the same surname, could easily lead to people holding knives and stones and cursing one's ancestors.

Once discovered, the whole family will be disgraced and feel extremely embarrassed.

Therefore, these parents will take their children to confirm it again.

When I got home, I took out six duck eggs.

The adults were surprised again.

"You just walked around, picked up a dozen duck eggs, and then gave them away at the entrance of the village?"

Chen Jianjun asked again.

"Dad, I'll say it one last time, yes!"

Chen Feng picked up the little girl to prevent her from climbing onto the stool again and again to see the leeks and duck eggs being fried.

"Cauldron, sugar."

The little girl wants to eat something sweet again.

"We'll eat later, no sugar water."

For dinner, we had millet porridge with a variety of dishes, including fried duck eggs with leeks, steamed sea bream, boiled saury and a plate of pork belly.

The pork belly was also bought by Chen Jianjun from the Yingbin Building in the city that morning. It weighed a full three pounds, but he only cut half a pound.

"Dad, is our family so poor because you gave them all the money?"

Chen Hao held the bowl, sat at the table, and ate salted fish porridge.

He didn't quite understand what his own father was doing. It was his own money and he could live as well as other families with it, so why did he give it to others?

"You are still young. You will know when you grow up."

Chen Jianjun added a piece of fish for his son.

The little girl was the happiest. While others ate knife fish, she ate boneless red sea bream.

Fortunately, the little girl was sensible and did not forget the fisherman.

He took the spoon and gave the half-eaten fish to Chen Feng.

"Big pot, eat meat."

Chen Feng pushed it away angrily.

"Eat it yourself."

"Thank you Cauldron!"

The little girl didn't hesitate and ate it all in one bite.

The next day, my aunt continued to work on the fishing boat, and Zhou Jing specialized in fishing in the deep ditch.

The fish caught during work belong to the commune, and the fish caught during fishing belong to your own family.

How to choose? It’s not difficult.

Because it is a collective fishing, and the fish caught must be handed over to the commune to make up for the losses from lavish feasting in previous years, the enthusiasm of the fishermen is very low.

If it weren't for work points, many people wouldn't want to go at all.

My luck was much better today. I caught a lot of red sea bream, black fish and hairtail in the morning. These fish are very popular in restaurants.

Because it tastes good, it is in short supply.

In the afternoon, Chen Jianjun and Zhou Jing took a detour and went to the Yingbin Building in the city from another small bridge to sell more than 100 kilograms of red sea bream, black fish, etc.

The price of live fish is different from that of dead fish. The price of a freshly dead fish and a fish that has been dead for more than an hour is very different.

Fish like red sea bream, which are valuable because of their freshness, must be taken out of school in time to be preserved and sold as soon as possible.

"Master Cao, there won't be any problem selling so much, right?"

Chen Jianjun was a little worried.

The fat chef in the kitchen was very calm.

"Don't worry, we collect hundreds of kilograms of fish from various fishing villages every day. Your contribution is nothing."

"Moreover, not all of these unplanned fish are taken to the restaurant."

Master Cao whispered, "A lot, for some special customers."

He pointed to the sky.

Chen Jianjun understood as soon as he heard it.

Seafood is good, but there is not enough of it. The fish collected by the purchasing station are not only supplied to Tianjin, but also to nearby cities, such as Sijiucheng.

There are policies and measures to counter.

Just because they can’t get a share of the fish at the purchasing stations doesn’t mean they don’t have channels to buy them.

Those who are close to the water get the moon first. Not all fishermen are willing to hand over or sell their fish to the purchasing stations.

"The old rules, 80% in cash and 20% in food?"

The logistics manager of Yingbin Road asked while holding the bag.

"Correct!"

Zhou Jing replied with a smile.

After settling the money and grain receipts, the two men returned carrying two kilograms of third-grade pork ribs, more than ten kilograms of cornmeal, etc.