Quick Transmigration: When Can I Just Lay Down and Wait to Die?

Chapter 167 The Rural Girl in "Metamorphosis" 10

Back home, Liu Yuxi set aside the eels for the evening, and found an abandoned small jar. After cleaning it, he put the eels and an old turtle into the jar to keep them.

I found a thin wooden board, nailed a long nail into it, leaving half of the nail head sticking out of the board, and then started processing the eel, preparing to braise a section of eel for eel noodles that night.

After processing the eel, it's time for the turtle. You need to chop off its head first. Find a chopstick and slowly move it in front of the turtle. When the turtle bites the end of the chopstick, pull on the chopstick so that the turtle's head can't retract. Then chop off the turtle's head.

Then drain some of the blood, pour in boiling water, and pour the boiling water over the turtle to submerge it and let it soak for two or three minutes.

Remove the outer layer of skin from the turtle while it's still hot. This layer of skin is on the belly, limbs, head, neck, and shell. It's actually very easy to peel off; you can rub it with your hands and it will come off. You can also twist off the toenails.

Cut open the turtle along the edge of its shell. This process requires a lot of strength. Luckily, it was Liu Yuxi who was doing it. When removing the internal organs, you have to be careful not to break the gallbladder.

Then comes the crucial step: the turtle's fat is mostly distributed around its limbs, and it can be yellow or white, but it all smells fishy and must be thoroughly cleaned. This process is very troublesome, and there can be no residue.

Cut open between the legs along the vent, remove the surrounding skin and reproductive organs. Once you have only the pure meat left, the turtle is ready.

Liu Yuxi chopped the turtle into small pieces, added ginger, scallions and wine to boiling water, put in the turtle meat, took it out after boiling, rinsed it with boiling water, and then added some dried medicinal herbs to stew the soup.

Once the soup is simmering, start kneading the dough and rolling out the noodles. Set the noodles aside after they're done. The eel segments are braised. Braised eel segments must have garlic leaves added to make them fragrant. Hehe, that's Liu Yuxi's own preference.

Cook the noodles and vegetables until they are done, then put them in a bowl. Pour the eel pieces and broth over the noodles, and a bowl of delicious eel noodles is ready. Grandma's bowl will be a little smaller because the turtle soup contains a lot of nourishing herbs, so Liu Yuxi plans to let Grandma drink more turtle soup.

Each person gets a bowl of turtle soup. The remaining turtle soup is boiled with water, poured into a clay pot, covered, and kept warm by the stove. It will be given to Grandma to drink tomorrow.

After dinner, Liu Yuxi sent Lin Ziye back home, filled the water tank, boiled water for her grandmother to wash up, and told her to go to bed.

Liu Yuxi worked overtime to weave four more eel baskets, then quietly went out and down to the second fishpond.

The next morning, before anyone in the village got up, Liu Yuxi carried his schoolbag and two buckets to collect eels. He decided to keep the eels at home for himself. After deducting the eels weighing less than two ounces from the three ponds, he collected about 50 jin (25 catties) in total.

There are now 18 eel baskets, and 6 of them can be placed in each fishpond. After scanning the location with my mental energy, I placed the baskets and put one bucket into my space in the grass. I left about 20 pounds of eels in the outer bucket and headed towards the town.

When we were almost at the seafood market, I used my mental energy to move the eels from the bucket in my spatial storage to an outer bucket. When I weighed them at the seafood shop, they were exactly 50 jin (25 catties), and I sold them for 900 yuan. After having breakfast in town, I went straight to school.

The buckets are placed inside the school gate. Since it's in a village, no one would steal anything from the school, so there's no need to worry about them getting lost. You can just take them home after school.

When Liu Yuxi got home at noon, after lunch and Lin Ziye left, she gave her grandmother 500 yuan. She didn't dare to give her 900 yuan at once. It was a bit exaggerated for a nine-year-old girl to carry a 50-jin bucket of water. Although she usually showed that her strength was getting bigger and bigger, it hadn't reached the level of 50 jin yet. She would give her the money slowly in the future.

I went to pick up the basket in the evening, and it weighed over 30 pounds again. When I got home, I found that the small jar was almost full. If I were to catch any more, I probably wouldn't be able to fit them all in. I'll have to take half of them to sell tomorrow.

In the following days, Liu Yuxi took eels to town to sell every day, making eight or nine hundred each day. He didn't dare to take too many at once, and his stock at home kept growing. Liu Yuxi then found a jar to put them in.

Every day at noon, Liu Yuxi would give her grandmother 500 yuan, and her grandmother would be very happy to receive the money.

However, fewer and fewer were caught after that, so they probably won't be able to be sold for many more days.

On Friday, I asked the uncle who buys seafood where I could buy shrimp traps. I bought two and also asked him if he bought lobsters. He said they were 8 yuan per jin (500g), so there was still a profit to be made. I bought a jin of chicken liver to take home and went to set the shrimp traps that night.

After dinner, Liu Yuxi took Lin Ziye to set shrimp traps. Since they didn't have waders, Liu Yuxi put chicken livers in the traps and threw them down by hand to a spot not far from the pond, tying one end to a small tree on the bank.

Liu Yuxi no longer collects eels twice a day; he collects them once every morning. The 500 yuan he gave his grandmother today was all made up by Liu Yuxi taking 100 yuan from the money he had deducted earlier.

The next day, Saturday morning, after collecting the eels, only a dozen or so pounds remained after discarding the smaller ones. I replenished them with a dozen or so pounds from my own stock at home, and then, carrying buckets and baskets on my back, I went to town.

While selling the eels, I transferred another 20 jin (10 catties) from the lake in Space Park into the bucket, making a total of 50 jin (25 kg). I bought two spare ribs, two jin (2 kg) of pork fat, one jin (0.5 kg) of beef brisket, and some other household necessities, then went home.

When I got home, I rendered the lard and made braised pork ribs, beef brisket with tomatoes, and two stir-fried vegetable dishes for lunch. I'll use the pork cracklings to make steamed buns this afternoon.

Lin Ziye is getting more and more used to life in the village. Although he is still not very skilled at the tasks arranged by the program team, he can basically complete them. He looks much stronger in half a month.

However, this is something Liu Yuxi can sense from their daily interactions. In the live stream video, he still looks so thin. Because of his small face, he wears loose clothes, so the changes in his body are not very noticeable.

In the afternoon, Liu Yuxi was going to make steamed buns with pork cracklings, cabbage, and vermicelli, so he helped chop the filling. While Liu Yuxi was making the dough and letting it rise, he went up the mountain and found two thin bamboo poles.

After processing and grilling them, she took out the fishing line, hooks, and floats she had bought when she bought the shrimp traps and made two simple fishing rods. Once there weren't many large eels left in the pond, she took Lin Ziye fishing.

Lin Ziye was also very interested. He had never tried wild fishing before. After the filling was prepared, Liu Yuxi and her grandmother made dumplings together. Lin Ziye was not good at this kind of skill, so he could only busy himself with things like fetching water and gathering firewood.

When the steamed buns were ready, Liu Yuxi picked up six and asked Lin Ziye to give them to Grandma Sun. She also picked up six and gave them to Uncle Niu. In their village, people usually give some of the steamed buns or dumplings they make to their neighbors.

Grandma Sun brought back a few tomatoes and cucumbers. Uncle Niu's family was building a house and it wasn't convenient to eat at home, so she grabbed a handful of candy and gave it to Liu Yuxi. Liu Yuxi accepted it with a smile. She had been here for more than half a month and hadn't eaten any candy at all.

For dinner, sweet potato porridge was cooked. Perhaps because the freshly baked handmade buns smelled so good, Liu Yuxi and her grandmother each ate two buns and drank a bowl of porridge.

Lin Ziye ate five steamed buns and drank a bowl of porridge by himself. If Liu Yuxi hadn't stopped him, he would have wanted to eat more. As a result, after finishing the meal, he held his stomach and kept saying that he was full.

I gave him a digestive tablet and let him walk around the yard to help him digest. Once he felt better, I sent him back to the Sun family's house. I also washed up and rested at home.