90s master of metaphysics

Sitting in the co-pilot position, I closed my eyes and swayed slightly with the movement of the truck, and I had been sitting in the car for most of the day.

The day before yesterday, the paddy field at home had been fully organized. This time, Yu Tao went directly to County H with two trucks, hoping to bring back the shrimp that he had agreed with the Liu family to keep for him.

I opened my eyes and saw that the truck in front of me had stopped, and it was about time.When the driver also stopped, I asked: "Master Li, have you got off the bus? Have you arrived in County H after driving for so long?"

"It's here! I've been sitting in this car for several hours, and I'm stiff." Master Li opened the car door, jumped down and stretched himself.

After Yu Tao got off the car in front, he took us to Liu's house after we rested for 2 minutes.Boss Liu was weaving bamboo baskets in the yard, his fingers kept moving, and he was almost reaching the edge of the basket.After seeing us, he put down the bamboo stick in his hand, stood up and held Yu Tao's hand enthusiastically and said, "Oh, brother Yu, you are finally here. The kiss you asked me to leave for you is already ready Okay, are you here to take it away now?"

"That's right, brother Liu. I'm here to raise the shrimps. Look, my truck is ready." Yu Tao pointed to the two cars on the road outside.

"That would be great! Let's go, let's go to the pond. If you don't come here, these brood shrimps should be laying eggs. Kunzi, call your two younger brothers and let's go to the pond." Boss Liu raised his voice behind Roared into the house.

"Here we come!" Following the voice, three men in their twenties walked out of the room, with similar faces.

"Look at this crayfish. It's big and healthy. I've prepared it for you according to your requirements." Boss Liu took us to the pond, touched the thread next to it and pulled it hard, and put it on the bottom of the water in advance. The net was pulled up, and only groups of mature and lively lobsters were seen rolling and struggling inside.

Yu Tao stepped forward to check it carefully, nodded and said, "Okay, I believe in what Brother Liu does. I brought a lot of baskets this time. It's not because the road is too far and I called an extra car. .Let them live on the road more loosely, so they don't get squeezed to death."

"Hahaha, brother Yu, you really like to joke, but lobsters are a bit delicate, the basket is on the car parked by the roadside, right? Come on, let's load the goods for you first." Boss Liu As he said that, he went directly to the side of the road and took the basket to the pond.

Yu Tao hurriedly followed, he couldn't just stand and watch after everyone else helped, right?Then the wife lost face, and thanked as she walked: "That's a good relationship, thank you, Brother Liu."

"Hey, there's nothing to be thankful for. I'm doing myself a favor. Let's hurry, the lobster can't be delayed."

"okay!"

Each basket was filled with only a quarter of the lobsters, and they were put back on the car. Seeing that everyone else was doing it, I hurried forward to help carry it. The lobsters in a basket were only about [-] kilograms, so they could be easily carried. It's just that the container is too big to handle.

After the installation was complete, I was amazed to see Mr. Liu and the others pumping water from the pond into the baskets with pipes, and then went to the pond to pick up some loaches and put a few in each basket, as well as some water hyacinths.

"What are you using this for?" I curiously grabbed a loach in a basket and said, the loach in my hand was slippery, and I pinched it just below the head so that only the tail could bounce with.

Hearing this, Yu Tao said proudly: "You don't understand that, do you? The water hyacinth can make the shrimp hold it without sinking, and the oxygen on it will be more. As for the loach that is active, it can keep rolling in it to increase the water content. dissolved oxygen in the

"Brother, it seems that you have learned a lot for this matter and have made perfect preparations." I admired, as expected, Yu Tao was able to rely on the background of graduating from a junior high school in the countryside and working as a farmer at home for several years in his previous life. The little rich family with three children is not difficult at all, and he has some skills himself.

"Where, where, doesn't it depend on you to support me to do these things?" Hearing my praise, Yu Tao said a little embarrassedly: "The things are almost ready, I'll go find Boss Liu."

"Thank you for your hard work. Let's smoke a cigarette for a while." Yu Tao wiped the sweat from carrying things on his face, and before he had time to rest, he took out a pack of cigarettes, opened them, and handed them one by one to the helpers. people.

Boss Liu put down the water hyacinth in his hand, wiped off the dirt on his hands, took the cigarette and lit it, and said: "Brother Yu, I can only sell these two thousand catties of lobsters to you at the original price of one yuan per catty. You, these are the best ones I picked for you to keep as broods."

"No problem, I prepared it earlier, Brother Liu, wait for me." Yu Tao ran back to the truck and opened the passenger seat, took out the money he had prepared in advance, and counted it again before giving it to Boss Liu.

After watching Boss Liu confirm that the number was correct, Yu Tao looked at the sky and said, "Brother, since everything is installed and the money has been paid, then I'll go back first?"

"Go slowly, these shrimps can't stay in the basket for too long, I won't keep you guys." Mr. Liu laughed and collected the money, and let us leave very readily.

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In the middle of the night, two beams of lights broke the night in the village illuminated only by the moonlight. There was a sudden sound of brakes, and then there was a heavy bang of the door closing.

"It's finally here, it's already two o'clock in the morning."

"Yeah, but even though it's so late, this living thing can't be delayed. I can only work overtime to pick out the lobsters for me." Yu Tao turned on the flashlight, climbed onto the truck and looked at the lobsters. lobster.I saw that the lobsters in the basket were sticking out of the water, and most of them were still alive, but they were very deprived of oxygen.

"Yu Ze, come here with a flashlight. Let's pick out the dead ones first, and wait for the remaining live shrimps to be in. We'll pour half of the water in this basket and fill it with water from the field. Then put the baskets directly in the water to let them get used to the water temperature." Yu Tao picked up the plastic gloves and put them on with the two drivers to pick them up. For this trip to County H that was agreed at the beginning, it would take a day to rent a truck and even bring people along. Help with things, and then each person will give two hundred.

While sorting, the light of a flashlight in the distance flashed.Taking a closer look, it was the few people who hadn't fallen asleep at home and had been waiting all this time. They were worried that I would go out to buy shrimps this time, and they were afraid that something would go wrong.

Just after hearing the screeching sound of the truck, several people hurriedly went out to see where there were lights in the field.

Yu Jianjun took the lead and walked in front, Deng Ying supported Yang Hongmei and walked slowly and tentatively.

"Mom, sister-in-law, this dead lobster can't be put away. Let's cook it before it dies, shall we?" I glanced at the dead lobsters that were sorted out on the ground and said, it was a coincidence , After a while, the shrimp will not be edible.

"How many died?" Yu Jianjun said worriedly, throwing ten or twenty thousand yuan into it to support this thing.Wouldn't it be a loss if too much was lost?

"About a few hundred catties." I looked at the sorted lobsters again and silently calculated the ratio, and said, it is estimated to be about two hundred catties.

"Why are there so many! Your sister-in-law and I can't do this. I'll call your uncle and aunt to help together, and you are too slow to share. Some may have died at this moment, you guys Why didn't you know not to call for someone earlier?" Yang Hongmei said angrily when she heard it, she took a look at us and ran to call for someone, not at all just because she couldn't see the way, she moved over slowly look.

I touched my nose and looked at the movements of my elder brother's hands, because I was afraid that the two big pincers of the lobster would be timid, and it was indeed a bit slow.After giving the flashlight to Deng Ying to let her light it up, I also took out a pair of gloves and started working.

The difference from them is that I don't have to worry about being caught by the lobster's powerful pincers at my speed, and the number of lobsters in the basket is rapidly decreasing.

After a while, the relative families in the village all got up.

Yu Hui, a former injured patient, also ran over to join in the fun when he heard the news. At first, the final exam started more than a week after his injury, but in the end he couldn't cancel the exam as he wished, so he had to enter the exam with his injury. Exam room.

"Don't move!" Out of the corner of my eye, I caught sight of Yu Huiguang's movement of stretching his claws in to touch the lobster.

After hearing this, Yu Hui withdrew his hand that was about to dip into the water, and said: "My hand has been healed for a long time, and it's no problem to touch a shrimp."

"You can't be such a disaster when your hands are well. You want to stretch into the water without gloves, because you are afraid that the lobster claws will be unwieldy, right? Why don't you go to my mother's place to wash the lobsters." Although it is clear water Shrimp raised in ponds can't just be thrown into the pot.

"It looks pretty clean, don't you need to wash it?" Yu Hui looked at the shrimp with no attachments on the surface, and retorted, in fact, he mainly wanted to stay here.

As the saying goes, good people are strong in numbers. A group of people divided up the shrimps in half an hour and put them into the water one by one.

"You've been busy all day, go back and rest first, I'll just stay here." Yu Jianjun saw Yu Tao yawning after sending the driver away.

"Well, good. It will be easy when all the shrimps are put into the water tomorrow." Yu Tao said drowsily, wiping away the moisture overflowing from the corners of his eyes due to being too sleepy.

"Yu Hui, let's go, let's go and see mom and aunt making crayfish." Feeling Yu Jianjun's eyes turning to me, I jumped up and ran home.

Plates of spicy crayfish, garlic crayfish, steamed crayfish, stir-fried shrimp...

I'm suddenly so hungry...

The aunts in the kitchen are chatting while burning the fire in full swing, stirring the pot, seeing that the heat doesn't even show the coldness of winter.

I looked at the pots of crayfish in various ways that they had cooked just based on my previous description.I picked a spicy taste to taste, and the more I ate, the hungrier I became.I simply took Yu Hui and sat down to eat together, thinking with a smile, it won't look like I'm greedy if someone shares the burden.

Fourth Aunt Liu said with a smile: "How, is this lobster delicious?"

I held the prawn in one hand, and gestured with my thumb with the other hand: "It's very delicious! Aunt Si, you did a great job. Have you tried it?"

"Hahaha, right? I also think it's delicious. It's really different from the original cooking, but I can't make it. The spoons on display now are made by your mother and Sister Yu."

"If it's delicious, then you should take some more with you when you go back later. Cooked food can be put away this winter, so you can keep it and eat it slowly." Yang Hongmei said.

"Definitely, definitely!" Fourth Aunt Liu narrowed her eyes with a smile, and her movements of washing the shrimp in her hand became more flexible.

After all the lobsters were cooked, Yang Hongmei asked each of them to take a dozen catties with them, which was considered a reward for their long service in the middle of the night.

Early the next morning, I knocked on the door of Su's house with two big bags of lobster, and brought Su Tong out of Su's house by the way, telling them that I would come back in person in a few days.It's just that we will wait for the specific day to send it back.

The Su family looked at each other and watched us leave. They have known this for more than half a month. Are they still not used to it?Thinking of the faces of the Su family when I left, I sighed helplessly.

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"Brother, the belly of this lobster is full of seeds!" Su Tong poked the lobster that had reached the shore with a stick, and it was exposed by the grass growing in the water.

"Well, you'll be able to see the little crayfish in three weeks." I glanced at him and responded, then poured the rice bran and crushed miscellaneous fish into the water.But after a while, you can see groups of crayfish swimming under the water.

After entering the water, the lobsters need to adapt to the new pond at first, but in recent days, some broodstock have started to lay eggs.

While I was free during the winter vacation, I kept Su Tong at home, even this ghost Su Hua kept whispering to Su Tong and didn't know what he was talking about, big light bulbs, disgusting.

"Let's go home." I held the food container in one hand and pulled up Su Tong who was squatting on the shore with the other.

"Yeah!" Su Tong threw away the stick and obediently followed me home.

"What do you want to eat today?" I asked while holding his hand.

Su Tong's eyes lit up instantly, and he said, "I want to eat soaked bamboo shoots and soaked chicken feet."

"I mean, what do you want to eat at noon, you are all snacks." Ever since I let Su Tong taste them, I have never forgotten them.

"Then I want to eat boiled pork slices and spicy chicken."

"it is good……"